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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38347 | Hosting a repository
The section on Flatpak Builder describes how to generate repositories. The resulting repository can be hosted on a web server for consumption by users.
Important details
Flatpak repositories use archive-z2, meaning that they contain a single file for each file in the application. This means that pull operations involve a lot of HTTP requests. Since new requests can be slow, it is important to enable HTTP keep-alive on the web server that is hosting your repository.
Flatpak supports something called static deltas. These are single files that contain all the data needed to go between two revisions (or from nothing to a revision). Creating such deltas will take up more space on the server, but will make downloads much faster. This can be done with the flatpak build-update-repo --generate-static-deltas option.
.flatpakrepo files
.flatpakrepo files are a convenient way to let users add a repository. These are simple description files which contain information about the repository. For example, the Flathub repo file looks like:
[Flatpak Repo]
Comment=Central repository of Flatpak applications
Description=Central repository of Flatpak applications
Here you can see that the repo file contains descriptive metadata, such as the repository name, description, icon and website. The file also contains information that is needed to add the repository, including a download URL and the repository’s GPG key.
.flatpakrepo files can be used to add a repository from the command line. For example, the command to add Flathub using its repo file is:
The command line isn’t the only way to add a repository using a .flatpakrepo file - on desktops that support Flatpak, it is just a matter of clicking the repository file or a download link that points to it.
.flatpakrepo files should include the base64-encoded version of the GPG key that was used to sign the repository. This can be obtained with the following command:
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38365 | The Norwegian Project, Aas Feb. 24-28, 2014
Focus: To retain the local identity of Ås while using innovative ideas for outdoor spaces in a Nordic climate.
Norwegian architect, Petter Butenschøn on city planning and sustainable communities and urban development in Norway. How the Norwegian identity and town characteristics can be retained using innovative solutions with the focus on the “human scale” perspective to increase social interaction.
Associate Professor in Property and Land Management, Håvard Steinsholt giving a lecture on Ås from a historical perspective in order to capture the local identity of the town.
Work on group task with the focus on integrating the characteristics of the local identity of Ås of an outdoor chosen space around Town Hall area in Ås. The work process went from identifying and brainstorming to visualize idea in form of products.
First, to let the students use innovative solutions when visualizing their ideas. Second, to challenge the students to orally defend their idea of product, e.g. through sketches, pictures and models.
Programme (abbreviated, see full program here)
Monday: Presentation of pre-task from each school
Tuesday: Butenschøn and Steinsholt lectures and introduction of main task.
Wednesday: Proceed with task and excursion to Oslo (see separate programme).
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Note: Ian Rain Soulfox and Naros Soulfox are two different people.
Ian Rain Soulfox (Kalvin Taylor) created The Tail Underground, hosted on FurNation. He uses Flash, and has been drawing since 1990, especially fox characters. He considers the fox his totem animal, matching his personality in many ways.
He graduated from the Art Institute of Dallas.
Ian Rain Soulfox is an anime and video game fan.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38379 | Hexagon Skinny
Hexagon Skinny mosaic can be customized to fit your space. It is available in these palettes:
Flat: (G, M, C, P, S)
Jewel: (J, Q)
Dimensional: (G, M, C, S)
Hexagon Skinny is ordered by the square foot. It is assembled into sheets approximately 12″ by 11 3/4″ wide (0.98 square feet per sheet).
Hexagon Skinny mosaic shown here in Cobalt crackle glaze.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38380 | Encyclopedia > Fortified wine
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A fortified wine is a wine to which additional alcohol has been added, most commonly in the form of brandy (a distilled spirit).
Common fortified wines include port, vermouth and sherry. A fortified wine called Muscat is made in Australia.
Fortified wines must be distinguished from spirits made from wine. While both have increased alcohol content, spirits are the result of a process of distillation; while fortified wines have spirits added to them. Fortified wines generally have an alcohol content between that of wines and spirits.
Fortified wines are legally called dessert wines in the U.S. but are called liqueur wines in Europe.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38381 | Encyclopedia > Prisoner of war
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A Prisoner of War (POW) is a combatant who is imprisoned by an enemy power during an armed conflict.
The Geneva Conventions of 1949 provides a framework of protective rights of POWs. The basic principle is that being a soldier is not a punishable act in itself. The laws apply from the moment a prisoner is captured until he is released or repatriated. One of the main provisions of the convention makes it illegal to torture prisoners, and states that a prisoner can only be required to give his name, date of birth, rank and serial number (if applicable).
According to the Article 4 of the Third Geneva Convention, protected combatants includes military personnel, guerrilla fighters and certain civilians.
To be entitled to prisoner of war status, the combatant must conduct operations according to the laws and customs of war, e.g. be part of a chain of command, wear a uniform and bear arms openly. Thus, franc-tireurs, terrorists and spies are excluded. It also does not include unarmed non-combatants who are captured in time of war; they are protected by the Fourth Geneva Convention rather than the Third Geneva Convention.
The United States uses the term enemy prisoner of war (EPW) for hostile forces, reserving the term prisoner of war for its own or Allied forces.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38390 | The History of Freemasonry
first degree trestle boardThe origins of Freemasonry are not quite known to anybody alive. The truth gets lost somewhere in between the details of the historical and legendary stories of the craft. It's legends take us back to the building of King Solomon's temple in Jerusalem circa 1000 BC; history teaches that the first lodges emerged from the stone masons' guilds of the middle ages in Europe; there are stone engravings of the square, compasses, level, plumb, and trowel (the working tools of Freemasonry) excavated from Egyptian archaeological sites that date back to 3000 B.C.
The stone masons of Europe's middle ages organized themselves into guilds (associations, much like today's "lodge") where the elder, or Master Masons, taught Apprentices the valuable knowledge of their craft. After seven years of instruction, the Apprentice then graduated to Fellowcraft status, which permitted them to take on more responsibility and work more independently, but still under the direction and guidance of the Masters.
The secrets transmitted when one associated with a lodge for for long enough, permitted him to travel to foreign countries and be recognized as one who could be trusted to have a proper understanding of his craft, and hence to be entrusted with work wherever he may be. Kind of like a secret handshake, but the recognition had more to do with skill and ability than any external sign which one might pick up in a matter of minutes. Thus were the masons came to be known as "free and accepted" masons -because they were free to travel and be accepted as masons anywhere they went.
The stonemasons practiced what we now call "operative" masonry; today's Freemasons practice "speculative" masonry. Speculative masonry uses the tools and symbols from operative masonry to imprint on the mind serious and solemn truths that can teach a man to be a better employer, employee, husband, father, and brother -irrespective of his social position or status. Operative masons improved themselves in the craft of stonemasonry; speculative masons improve themselves in their craft of upright living. To be better, stronger, and wiser is our aim; and as a result, we become happier. |
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We use a lot of analogies to describe games. Occasionally they are a language, with nouns (player, enemy, block, exit) and verbs (walk, mouse click the following website page kill, push, win). If you liked this write-up and mouse click the following website page you would like to receive additional info regarding mouse click the following website page kindly take a look at the website. Sometimes they are machines - Whiting talks about the interactions of such nouns and verbs as mechanics" even though Hazelden calls these factors tools. Obtaining the initial set of mechanics that will help an whole puzzle game is tricky: they must be rich enough in possibility to be recombined in new and exciting techniques, but they can not be so complex that they produce a chaos from which no singular resolution can be intuited. is?eXWFaMLJ2mf39VNoO4H7BiqNiIg1LZRHvQUTdNWTjFk&height=229 Continue with every single number consecutively. Preserve adding the quantity three, the number 4 and so on to every single row, column and 3x3 box. As you fill in more numbers, the boxes will become less difficult to fill simply because you will have fewer and fewer spaces left.In the beginning stage of the game, early puzzles can be solved with a bit of extra patience and mental jiu-jitsu. Even so, sketching out puzzles on paper can ease your mental burden and aid you perform by means of the more complicated puzzles you are going to encounter later on. Hold a notepad handy for jotting down interesting patterns in the atmosphere, or for untangling a puzzle by hand.There are hundreds of puzzles, generally based on a square grid, which Japanese workers devour on their morning commutes. Tip: Not all players are physically in a position to perform tasks that call for crawling, climbing, or navigating obstacles. Make sure you specify the level of physical activity required in your space description, so buyers can strategy appropriately.Yesterday I posted a list about 5 fun Mac games Right now I have another Mac game you may well be interested in, Rotieer Its a complicated puzzle game exactly where you have to rotate the globe to get the ball to the purpose. Deny the urge to take inventory items away from the player without a genuine explanation. When constructing puzzles that need combining far more than two things, you must allow combination of arbitrary pairs of things even before the complete set has been collected.In 1010, you should fill a blank grid with different-shaped blocks, presented 3 at a time. mouse click the following website page colors are irrelevant, but blocks should match with each other so you comprehensive a row or a column. Every time you comprehensive a line, the line disappears and you get much more space to perform in. 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Appear in the nearby rows (within the very same squares) to see if you can rule out any of these 3 missing numbers.Give your players an opportunity to recognize and combine related things to create messages or clues that are not right away clear. There is comprehensive developer documentation describing the cross-platform interfaces. If you want to write a new puzzle or a new front finish (to make all these games run on one more platform), this is probably the location to begin.WEINTRAUB: Ante up" can be something one particular does, or it can be a request from someone to throw money in the pot. A quote clue supplies much more selection to your puzzle, so that is my preference. Time to play the next hand …". Just don't forget that you can do this only for an entry that can also be said out loud, which is component of our consistency rule: verbalization in the clue, verbalization in the answer.1 (below left). In this instance, row two has a sum of 1, so only the initial square can be shaded and the rest can be crossed out. Its value of 2 should be element of that column's total of 5. This web page contains a collection of modest pc applications which implement one-player puzzle games. All of them run natively on Unix (GTK), on Windows, and on Mac OS X. They can also be played on the net, as Java or Javascript applets.
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A small balding man is carrying a suitcase of vials full of chemicals. He is anxious to keep the vials from breaking or opening. He identifies himself as a government courier, but dodges any questions about what he is carrying. Turn down his passage will make his government angry as he is on a mission to take samples to a government research lab.
He is carrying samples of natural scents to be studied for making a non-lethal crowd conrol agent. All the chemicals smell especially bad. That's why he doesn't want them to break. Once it becomes known what he is carrying, he speaks freely about it; it isn't classified. Too bad the vials break somehow...
1. Enemy agents think it is chemical warfare samples and will try to steal the samples at any cost.
2. An anti-government faction thinks they are for lethal crowd control advocated by big "evil" government and want to stop shipment of them. The government is actually benign and doesn't want to hurt its own citizens, but one of the anti-government agents (amateurs) dies of an asthma attack triggered by bad smelling stuff. This could give the anti-government group good propaganda 'proving' that it's right about lethal chemicals.
3. Vials break by accident and stink up ship; when chemicals mix, there may be odd side effects:
1. One sample is from wild animal musk glands and contains super-power pheromones. Through an unfortunate biochemical coincidence, the pheromones are effective on humans, and the erotic tension aboard the ship is raised enormously, and inhibitions against acting on impulses are dulled. Anything goes; make it humorous and embarrassing once ship is clear of the stuff. Odd romances and love triangles for the whole jump. (when the lion lies down with the lamb?)
2. Two samples, when mixed, form a mild airborne hallucinogen. Everybody is affected; the effects are similar to those of cannabinols... Food stores become depleted. (the referee can pull all kind of weird 'dream-sequences' on players to get a break from a campaign.)
3. Samples when mixed becomes toxic and threatens to kill people over a period of exposure.
4. Use your imagination for other humorous side-effects - don't make them immediately lethal (of course if the samples are in an isolated part of a ship, a NPC extra could die to show how gruesome the mix is.)
4. Rival drug companies compete (violently) for info on mixture side-effects. Some want mood-altering mixes and other want lethal mixes, but won't divulge which one they're after and will try to stop other corporate agents.
5. The small man lied. He is really a suicide 'bomber' and the chemical vials really hold a deadly biological weapon to kill everyone on the ship so others can take it over and crash it into the downport of the government. Too bad he has a change of heart and wants to live after all. (try to sell vials to corporate agents and 'retire' on big money payoff?)
6. The small man lied. He is fleeing his government who wants vials to make lethal crowd control agents. He has a conscience and abhors what his government wants to do. Players who help get into trouble with the government - even if the help was accidental/unintended.
No matter what, the ship smells really bad until it gets decontaminated. Toilet humor about the ship attains urban legend status in sector starports...
...and no nobles mentioned! (maybe one could be embarrassed to be on ship when the s**t hits the deck) Give one player or npc a really bad head cold so he can't smell a thing! Toilet humor should be used freely. |
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In this lesson you will need a formatted, empty, not write protected floppy disk.
File transfer from/to Windows with floppy disks using mtools
mtools is a collection of commands to manage data on floppies (comparable with the MS-DOS commands: COPY, DEL, DIR, etc.)
Insert a formatted, empty and not write protected floppy in the floppy disk drive.
Open a root shell:
k_in_gear Click at the Knoppix-KDE-Desktop at the bottom left with the left mouse button on the symbol with character "K" in a gear (this is comparable with the <Start> icon in Windows 98/NT/XP...).
k_knoppix Click in the menu that opened with the left mouse button at the entry "KNOPPIX".
k_rootshell Click in the sub menu that opened at the entry "Root Shell". A "Root" window opens.
In the root shell window you can give mtool commands with your keyboard.
Some examples:
Explanation of the examples:
mformat a: Format the floppy that is in drive A:
All data at the floppy is lost!
mcopy /bin/date a: Copy the file date from directory /bin onto the floppy in drive A:
mdir a: Show the files that are on the floppy in drive A:
mcopy a:\excursion.jpg /home/knoppix Copy the file excursion.jpg from the floppy in drive A: to the directory /home/knoppix.
mdel a:\excursion.jpg Delete the file excursion.jpg from the floppy in drive A:
mcopy -t a:\readme.txt /tmp/README Copy the file readme.txt from the floppy in drive A: to the file with new name README in the directory /tmp.
Because of the -t option, all CRLF (carriage return / line feed) character pairs that are used in MS-DOS files are transformed into a single LF character as used in Unix (see also the Excursion below).
mcopy -t /etc/motd a:\motd.txt Copies the file motd (message of the day) from the directory /etc onto the floppy in drive A: under the new name motd.txt
Because of the -t option, all single LF character as used in Unix files are transformed into CRLF (carriage return / line feed) character pairs that are used in MS-DOS (see also the Excursion below).
Rules of thumb:
Further information can be found in the manual pages of mtools, that you can call using the commands "man mtools", "man mcopy", "man mdel" in a command window, (e.g. k_in_gear_little --> k_knoppix --> k_rootshell). (Where you can use the space bar to turn a page and the "q" key to quit reading the manual page.)
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Excursion: Files under windows and UNIX: Two worlds collide!
Are you so old that you remember and used the mechanical typewriter? Maybe you still have one on your attic somewhere...
With such a mechanical typewriter, when you are at the end of the line, you had to pull a lever. Two things happened then mechanically. In two to three rattles the paper was transported up one or more lines (the line feed or LF) and then you pulled the lever through from the far right to the left and returned the carriage with the paper (the carriage return or CR).
In your PC and on your hard disk the characters of a text line are stored in ASCI encoded characters in successive bytes. To indicate the end of the line it is necessary to mark this in some way or another.
The first computer "screens" were no more than electromechanical controlled typewriters or TELEX terminals, so they had something like the carriage return / linefeed mechanism of the old typewriters in them. These mechanisms were controlled by the ASCI characters CR and LF. The MS_DOS and later on Windows developers simply used these ASCI characters to indicate the end of text lines in their text files. For instance if you type in Notepad under Windows the string abc <enter> def, then internally in the file the ASCI characters "abcCRLFdef" are stored. And when Notepad reads this it displays:
The editor interprets the CRLF characters as indication that it has to start on the beginning of a new line. That 's the way it should be.
The UNIX developers (at the university of Berkeley) decided that actually only one character would do, as they always come in pairs, and moreover the electronics of the computer screens can handle this command perfectly on their own. So in Unix/Linux only the LF character is used. When vi / gvim reads the ASCI string "abcLFdef" then this shows correctly as:
The big fuzz starts when you directly want to edit Linux text files under Windows or vice versa. When Notepad under Windows read the ASCI string: "abcLFdefLFghi" then it shows as:
It still only does the linefeed and not the carriage return, so the next line does not start at the beginning of the line.
When vi / gvim reads a Windows file with the string: "abcCRLFdefCRLFghi" then it shows this as:
It replaces the (invisible) ASCI control character CR by a pair of visible ASCI characters (^M) and starts due to the LF at the beginning of a new line.
So that's why you need this cumbersome translation between windows text files and unix text files, swapping CRLFs by LFs and vice versa.
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HTML and Future Internet Explorer Compatibility with SharePointAs new versions of Internet Explorer are released, the way HTML is rendered by the browser could change over time. To address the possibility of changes, Microsoft uses the X-UA-Compatible META tag that targets HTML markup to a specific version of Internet Explorer. The default SharePoint 2010 master pages are set to force current and future versions of Internet Explorer to render HTML in Internet Explorer 8 mode like the following markup:<meta ......
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Follow these simple guidelines to make collaboration using SharePoint easier:1. File Name:While it is allowed to use spaces in your filename (and maybe it seems even logical to do so), don’t use them if your file will end up (or is born on) SharePoint. When you use the “download a copy” functionality, SharePoint will replace the spaces with an “_”. This might (will) result in inconsistency when you upload the “same” file again, since SharePoint will see this as a different file (since the filename ......
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38510 | Welcome to Hungerford’s Tavern
The other day, I was driving past the BB&T Bank on Washington Street in Rockville that has the sign marking the presumed location of Hungerford’s Tavern, a key site in the pre-Revolution era and a historical name for the city of Rockville.
Now, at that point I had been agonizing over content for my blog. I originally called it Locally Drunk, but I wanted to add more posts about cooking (which I am good at) and living in Rockville (which I am also good at). So I was feeling a bit limited by the name I had given the site.
But seeing that sign about Hungerford’s Tavern gave me an idea: what if I just called the site Hungerford’s Tavern? Since Owen’s Ordinary, another historical name for Rockville, is already taken?
Later, when I got home, I was surprised to discover that HungerfordsTavern.com was available. So I bought it, got it set up, and rechristened my website.
Welcome to Hungerford’s Tavern! Let’s make old-fashioneds to celebrate. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38522 | ChangeLog for SimGrid-java, before its integration into the main source tree. SimGrid-java (3.9) stable; urgency=low -- 2013-01-30 Da SimGrid team SimGrid-java (3.8.1) stable; urgency=low * New module: org.simgrid.trace.Trace (SimGrid trace bindings) Warning: all methods are visible, but only some of them are implemented so far. Check the source (src/jtrace.c) for further information. * New module: org.simgrid.msg.File (SimGrid File management functions) * New Module: org.simgrid.msg.VM (SimGrid interface to mimick IAAS clouds) * Change the meaning of Process.restart: now restart the process from the begining, like MSG_process_restart in C. * Add Process.setAutoRestart: handling of process restart when failed host comes back. * Add Process.getProperty, Host.getProperty, Host.getProperty: allows you to retrieve the properties of the processes/hosts * Deprecate Msg.clean(): you can just forget about it now. * New function Process.getCount(), that only works when compiling with the not yet released version 3.9 of the C library. * New context factory based on Coroutines. It mandates a modified JVM but then, the simulations run about five times faster, and there is no limit to the amount of processes (beside of the available memory). -- 2012-12-04 Da SimGrid team SimGrid-java (3.7.1) stable; urgency=low The "Java aint got to be bloated and slow" release Major cleanups: * Various internal cleanups and performance improvement Simulations are expected to run up to twice faster or so * Make Process.kill(process) an instance method, not a static one * User processes are not java.lang.Thread subclasses. This breaks the compatibility (sorry), but previous API was brain-dead, making it impossible to have non-trivial initializations in the process constructor. * Require a full constructor per Process sub-class. Kinda breaks the compatibility (sorry), but this allows a much more efficient way to launch the processes at simulation startup. * Do not embeed our version of semaphores, java 1.5 can be considered as sufficiently prevalent for us to not dupplicate its features. * Lot of bug fixes Extend the API: * Add examples for almost every part of the API We spotted and fixed a lot of bugs in the process * New module: asynchronous communication API * New function: Process.sleep() It takes milliseconds as argument, just as java.lang.Thread.sleep() * New module: org.simgrid.msg.Mutex (SimGrid mutexes) * New module: org.simgrid.msg.RngStream (RngStreams random generators) -- 2012-06-12 Da SimGrid team SimGrid-java (1.0 (3.6) unstable; urgency=low * Initial release. * Split of every thing from simgrid v3.5 into a separate package. -- 2011-10-05 Da SimGrid team |
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Heart Attacks and Stroke Linked to GranuFlo and NaturaLyte
The dialysis products GranuFlo and NaturaLyte, both manufactured and distributed by the German-based company Fresenius Medical Care, have been linked to life-threatening side effects including heart attack, arrhythmia, and stroke. On June 27, 2012, the FDA issued a Class 1 recall of NaturaLyte and GranuFlo, indicating that the medications were extremely dangerous. Class 1 is the FDA’s most serious and urgent level of recall, used only when “there is a reasonable probability that the use of or exposure to a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death. “
Role of dialysis for kidney patients
The kidneys clean toxins and waste from the bloodstream. But if the kidneys lose 85 to 90 percent of their function, they cannot adequately clean the blood. At that point, the patient requires dialysis, also referred to as hemodialysis. Concentrates like GranuFlo and NaturaLyte are used in dialysis to prevent a buildup of acid in the blood.
Risk of bicarbonate overdose
However, an internal memo sent by Fresenius in November 2011 to its own network of dialysis centers warned of a risk that had been discovered with GranuFlo and NaturaLyte: that these concentrates could raise the level of bicarbonate in patients’ blood more than other concentrates, which could result in life-threatening consequences including heart attacks, arrhythmias, or strokes. In fact, the memo reported, there were 942 deaths of patients at Fresenius dialysis clinics who had suffered a heart attack after using GranuFlo, and those patients were found to have elevated bicarbonate levels in their blood. The memo cautioned doctors to be careful to properly adjust the dosage when using these products to lessen the risk.
FDA investigation
In March 2012, the FDA learned about the Fresenius memo and questioned the company as to why it had sent this urgent warning only to its own dialysis centers but not to the many other clinics, nursing homes, on-site dialysis providers, and other medical centers that used GranuFlo and NaturaLyte. After the FDA’s questioning, Fresenius did send the warning to those outside centers, and the FDA itself issued a public warning about the products before recalling them entirely. But the FDA is still investigating why Fresenius put dialysis patients at risk for four months by not warning doctors outside its own clinics about the danger of GranuFlo.
Since the recall, many patients who have suffered adverse side effects from using GranuFlo or NaturaLyte have filed lawsuits against Fresenius for failing to warn them of the known danger inherent in using these products.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38541 | Chapter 26 - On the Edge of the Tracks
tl by dan luffey
1: The new year's here.
2: Sorry,
3: I didn't intend to rely on you this much.
4: Nah, I just forced my way in here.
5: You should just go get some rest, Akagi-san.
6: I wouldn't want you to collapse right before the surgery.
Chapter 26 - On the Edge of the Tracks
1: What a waste.
2: Yeah...
3: This was the first big piece of furniture I bought for myself.
4: But I won't be able to take it to my new room.
5: I'll come by for you at 2.
1: I think I told you this on the phone already,
2: but the surgery was approved in the conference.
3-4: rattle
5: Next we'll submit it to the ethics committee.
6: rattle
7: If it's approved there, then we'll move on to the JST examination.
8: The earliest we'll be able to do the surgery is in mid-February.
sign: Sekimachi Apartments #3
1-2: rattle
1: I thought about applying for welfare.
2: Diabetics are categorized as Class 1 Disableds, you know.
3: I'll probably be able to get it.
4: Oh yeah.
5: Are you hungry?
6: Um...no...
7: Well...
8: I made us lunches.
9: This morning, before we packed up the utensils.
10: I can't really eat out,
11: because what I'm allowed to eat is so limited.
1: Doesn't have much flavor, does it?
2: I'm not allowed to use salt.
3: You can only eat a little, huh?
4: But it's fun.
5: 'ello!
6: We've brought your things!
1: Hey, did you hear?
2: About Akagi-san from surgery.
3: Yeah, I did.
4: A transplant? Saitou-sensei, that intern, said he's going to donate his kidney to her.
1: I didn't know,
2: but apparently Akagi-san was going to dialysis.
3: So Saitou-sensei's going to be the donor?
4: How did that happen?
5: Huh?
6: Akagi-san and Saitou-sensei are together?
7: I dunno, but that's all the urology department's been talking about.
8: I heard from my kouhai who just got transferred to urology that there was a big fight.
9: But I thought Saitou-sensei was going out with Minagawa-san from brain surgery?
10: Saitou-sensei certainly gets around.
11: That's why Akagi-san's so scary.
12: I mean, she used her own disease to seduce a doctor!
13: click
1: Ah...
2: Minagawa-san...
3: Umm..er...
4: We didn't mean anything by it.
5: That Akagi-san is such a bitch!
6: We're on your side, you know!
1: Oh, come on.
2: None of that stuff bothers me.
3: It's normal for a doctor to want to help someone in pain.
4: As a medical care provider, I totally understand how he feels.
5: And besides, Akagi-san is a good person.
6: She hasn't done anything wrong.
7: Both of them talked to me about it.
8: I just wish I could do something for them.
9: I feel like I have to work hard too, just like them.
1: Can you carry it?
2: It's all books, so it's heavy.
p3 sign: Station Street Shopping District
3: This seems like a nice town.
4: It's got all the necessary establishments, there's even a park...
1: Wooow.
2: I didn't know you could fish in the city.
3: Look, look.
4: They even have boats.
5: 400 yen?
6: Thirty minutes will be enough, right?
1: That reminds me, I met your girlfriend a while back.
2: Huh?
3: The day you went to my house,
4: I met her by coincidence at the station.
5: She's probably really mad now.
6: I promised her I'd never accept your kidney.
1: Take good care...
2: of her...
3: That's...all I'm worried about.
1: Will I die in this room?
2: Whether or not the transplant goes well,
3: am I gonna live in this room for the rest of my life?
4: My dad's already gone,
5: and I could never imagine myself going home.
1: I don't want to die because of my disease.
2: I'd rather be listening to the sounds of the train...
3: and remembering my childhood in this room when I die.
4-5: rattle
p: rattle
1: What did you want to talk about?
2: I don't have much time today.
3: I have a request.
4: Can you put me in charge of the ICU?
5: The ICU?
1: I learned a great deal thanks you putting me in charge of Sunagawa-san.
2: If possible, I'd like to work with more vegetable patients in order to advance my knowledge and technique.
3: That's a bit difficult.
4: The people there all have heavy cases, like brain damage due to car accidents and such...
5: But...it'd be convenient for me.
6: The ICU's hard work, and normally nurses don't stay there for long.
1: Fine, then.
2: I'll redo your shifts so that you start after this week.
p4: shiver
1-2: rattle
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38555 | Saturday, September 29, 2007
Service Pack 3 available for SharePoint Portal Server 2003
SP3 is basically a roll up of all fixes since the release of SPS - for a complete description of the fixes - see Description of SharePoint Portal Server 2003 SP3
Download SharePoint Portal Server 2003 SP3
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Tafiti with Halo3 skin
Apparently they updated the skin of the Tafiti search experience (built using Silverlight) with a Halo3 theme.
PS Unfortunately I can't see it myself since I have a newer version of Silverlight installed and Tafiti needs the 1.0 version.
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Monday, September 17, 2007
Ten things you should know about SharePoint master pages
Here are some random interesting notes about master pages in SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0:
1. The first thing you should know about how master pages work in SharePoint is how the "default.master" is used. Default.master is found in the 12 Hive underneath TEMPLATE\GLOBAL\default.master. An instance of this file is created everytime a new site is created in SharePoint.
2. Content pages are referring to a master page using 2 different types of tokens: dynamic tokens and static tokens. About dynamic tokens: developers can modify variables in code that change the location of the master page - by changing the MasterUrl (~masterurl/default.master) or CustomMasterurl (~masterurl/custom.master) property. Static tokens point to a certain location where you master page should be found - ~site/custom.master - points to the master page gallery of the current website. ~sitecollection/custom.master - points to the master page gallery of the current site collection. For more info take a look at Customizing master pages in Windows SharePoint Services.
3. Administration pages such as viewlsts.aspx, create.aspx etc ... use a different masterpage called application.master which resides in the _layouts folder and so therefore occurs once per installation of SharePoint. So, you will not be able to modify this one on a per site basis
4. When you need to create a new master page, start off from one of the minimal master pages - remember though that there is a difference between the master pages for publishing sites and collaboration sites (they have different placeholders- use the Minimal or Base Master Pages guide from Heather Solomon or How to: Create a minimal master page)
5. There are a number of ways you can add your own master pages to MOSS - the most modular and flexible approach is by using feature. The nice thing here is that you can create a feature callout event which allows you to change the SPWeb.MasterUrl property from default.master to your custom master page.
6. The master page for a Meeting Workspace is a little different then the one for other WSS sites - it uses 3 special controls which are used to display the tab controls.
7. Did you know that you can link a master page to a specific site definition? You can do this by specify the MasterUrl property of the Configuration node in ONET.XML e.g. <Configuration ID="1" Name="Blank" MasterUrl="_catalogs/masterpage/custom.master">. Remember that you will also need to provision the master page at site creation by using the Modules section in ONET.XML - <Module Name="CustomMasterPage" List="116" Url="_catalogs/masterpage" RootWebOnly="FALSE"> <File Url="custom.master" Type="GhostableInLibrary" IgnoreIfAlreadyExists="TRUE" /> </Module>
8. Be carefull of using inline code blocks in master pages. The code blocks will work fine as long as your masterpage does not get customized. Once it gets customized (e.g. by using SharePoint Designer) it will run in safemode which does not allow inline code. You can override this setting by altering the web.config and adding an extra PageParserPath - <PageParserPath VirtualPath="/sitedirectory/marketing/_catalog/masterpage/*" IncludeSubFolders="true" CompilationMode="Always" AllowServerSideScript="true" />
9. Have you seen the mysterious SharePoint DelegateControl in a lot of master pages? These define regions in your master page for which you can substitute the content with your own controls. You can replace what is shown in a delegate control by define a Control element within a feature for more info take a look at Use your ASP.NET webcontrol in MOSS 2007 with SharePoint delegate control.
10. There is a feature for WSS 3.0 which you can download from CodePlex to manage your Master Page as well - take a look at Stramit SharePoint 2007 Master Picker.
Some extra white papers and reference material
TechNet evening - How to deploy the next generation Office and Windows Client using the Microsoft Solution Accelerator
Arlindo just reminded about this next session - definitely something for IT Pros:
TechNet Evening: How to deploy the next generation Office and Windows Client using the Microsoft Solution Accelerator Tools
When & Where : Wednesday, October 03, 2007 6:00 PM at Utopolis Mechelen
Language(s): English.
Product(s): Office and Windows Vista.
Audience(s): IT Professionals, Partner and Technology Decision Maker.
Event Overview
Are you facing challenges in your desktop deployment planning and deployment projects?
In this session you will learn about the different tools available to help you during the Assesment & Deployment process. Johan Loos will demonstrate the latest Business Desktop Deployment Kit and the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment tools. You will learn all about WIM files, the System Image Manager and answer files.
Click here to register.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
OBA Link love
If you don't know about OBAs (Office Business Applications) take a look at - there's a nice video. Here's the excerpt which describes OBA's.
Office Business Applications are an emerging class of applications that helps business unlock the value of their line-of-business (LOB) systems and turn document-based processes into real applications.
OBACentral groups different solutions which are currently being built by Microsoft partners which are defined as OBAs.
Other posts about OBA:
External Links:
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Microsoft Hotfix request web submission form
Just a mental note - if you need to request a hotfix, this is an easy way -
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BIWUG session about guidelines and best practices for SharePoint deployment
A new year has started for BIWUG and starting from September we are organizing again our monthly meetings. We are happy to announce the first one on September 25th in the U2U offices with the following agenda:
18:00 – 18:30 Registration and Welcome
18:30 – 20:15 Session 1: Guidelines and Best Practices for a Successful SharePoint Deployment within Your Organization
Join this session if you are looking for answers to questions like ‘When is it appropriate to use SharePoint within the organization?’, ‘What are the weak and strong points of SharePoint?’, ‘What are the pitfalls?’, ‘What kind of resources do I need the level of infrastructure but also people (both admins as well as designers and devs)?’, ‘What are the options to make SharePoint do what why business wants it to do? And what effort is that going to take?’. There are of course plenty of other related questions that can be discussed during this session. Patrick Tisseghem and other BIWUG board members will be more than happy to share their experience during an interactive discussion. The session is planned to be high-level and especially interesting for project managers, technical sales, architect and design folks.
20:15 – 20:30 Break
20:30 – 21:15 Session 2: Overview of Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007 - (Speaker: Nico Verheire, Dolmen)
This session will give you an overview of how Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007 can help you in your organization to help improve performance by integrating monitoring, analysis, and planning into a single application (of course based on WSS 3.0 and integrated with MOSS 2007). As with the first session, the level will be 100-200 with plenty of demonstrations of the product capabilities.
Register for this event
Important: I have 5 copies to give away from the book "First Look 2007 Microsoft Office System" by Katherine Murray - if you want one - register for the BIWUG event and add a comment to this blogpost about a topic which you want to talk about at one of the next BIWUG events.
Generating Office 2007 documents in C#
So, you want to start generating Office 2007 documents - I have good news for you - there seems to be an abundance of articles and sample code out there on the web. In this next blogpost I will show you where you need to start (as simple as possible) - for some more complex examples take a look at the links listed at the end of this posting.
Everything starts with the System.IO.Packaging namespace which lives in the WindowsBase.dll. So you will need to add a reference to this assembly. This is already where the fun starts (check out Finding WindowsBase.dll) - if you don't see WindowsBase.dll in the .Net tab - you should browse to c:\program files\reference assemblies\microsoft\framework\v3.0\WindowsBase.dll. If you have Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .Net Framework 3.0 installed, you will probably see it directly on the .Net tab inthe Add Reference dialog box.
Next, you will probably want to install the OpenXML SDK - this will provide you with strongly typed part classes for use with Open XML documents. After installing it, add a reference to "\OpenXMLSDK\1.0.0531\lib\Microsoft.Office.DocumentFormat.OpenXml.dll". Add in the necessary using statements:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.IO.Packaging;
using Microsoft.Office.DocumentFormat.OpenXml;
using Microsoft.Office.DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Packaging;
Even if you want to create an empty Word document, you are required to add in a document element in the start part document.xml as is shown in the next code snippet.
namespace Dolmen.SharePoint.DocGenerator
public class Generator
public void CreateEmptyDoc()
string docname = "demo.docx";
const string docxml = @"<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""UTF-8""
standalone=""yes""?><w:document xmlns:w=""""></w:document>";
using (WordprocessingDocument wordDoc = WordprocessingDocument.Create(docname, WordprocessingDocumentType.Document))
MainDocumentPart mainPart = wordDoc.AddMainDocumentPart();
using (Stream stream = mainPart.GetStream())
byte[] buf = (new UTF8Encoding()).GetBytes(docxml);
stream.Write(buf, 0, buf.Length);
If you are worrying about backwards compatibility - remember that there exists a Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack which will allow Office 2000, XP and 2003 users to open 2007 documents as well.
If you want to have more information - the next articles are definitely a must read:
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Windows Live Mail Beta installed
I just installed Windows Live Mail Beta (free beta) and I like it already - a very clean interface. One integrated place to check my newsgroups, RSS feeds and e-mails on my hotmail account. I already tried out the Outlook Connector - which allows you to connect Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to your Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail or Microsoft Office Live Mail accounts.
But since I can know have one interface for them all (yes, I know Outlook 2007 also supports RSS feeds but I really have a large list of subscriptions and this does not work very well in Outlook 2007 in my opinion), I probably switch to Windows Live Mail for a while...
Update: I already ran into a first issue - I can't seem to be able to import my RSS feeds (I exported them from RSS Bandit). If someone knows, please leave a comment... |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38564 | Free Story!
Originally written for the Quantum Shorts 2013 competition, this story is significant to me for several reasons. First, I found out about the contest four days before the deadline, and am very proud of what I was able to create in that time. Second, my friends and publishers Russell & Morgon Newquist liked this character enough to request another installment for their anthology Make Death Proud To Take Us. I could say more, but then my intro would be longer than the story . . .
The Big Bad Wolf
by K Bethany Sawyer
Sheriff Bell re-read the witness accounts from yesterday’s skirmish. Something didn’t add up; an element was missing. It wasn’t that he didn’t trust the girl, her grandmother, or the hunter. Remarkably, their tales were so consistent that he had no reason to doubt the veracity. Nor was it overly alarming that a shape-shifting wolf-woman had evaded detection and run amok amongst the townsfolk. Strangeness was a common occurrence in his village, and more peculiar things had happened here.
No, it was a matter of size. Even assuming this creature had an expanding stomach that, like snakes, allowed it to devour creatures larger than itself, how could it have swallowed both the grandmother and the child, yet remain small enough to appear as a “slightly larger than normal wolf” to the woodsman? Why was it that the grandmother spoke from the child’s perspective – and vice versa? And what had happened to the little girl’s red shoe?
Once again, the sheriff retraced the child’s route through the woods, paying closer attention to the section of trail through which the hunter had observed the beast stalking her. This time, he found what he was looking for: a tiny trail that paralleled the main road then turned upward into the hills behind town. The path ended at the mouth of a cave.
bigbadwolf-labAfter peering through the entrance to ensure the cavern was empty, Bell entered cautiously. Inside, he discovered a strange laboratory. To his left stood two cylindrical tanks, tall enough for a man to stand in but empty save for clear goo seeping down the sides. In the center, a cardboard box rested on a large table; hand-written in marker were the words “Cat inside. Do not open.” To the right, and of greatest interest to the sheriff, the body of a wolf lay haphazardly on the floor. On examination, the sheriff discovered that this wolf, though robotic, matched the description the hunter had given. Mechanical pets weren’t unusual in these parts; the hole in the wolf’s stomach, however, was. At the far bottom of the stomach – further than Bell could reach – lay a tiny red shoe, covered in clear goo.
Bell considered the puzzle. Clearly, the wolf’s stomach was a portal to some other place. But where? It seemed to be a two-way connection; the hunter had been able to pull the girl and her grandmother out. If he found the place, and the shoe, he would better understand the wolf’s motives. It hadn’t been looking for food.
He investigated the rest of the lab. Inside the box, he discovered the rotting corpse of a dead cat. Horrified, the sheriff took off his coat, wrapped the body inside, and put the parcel under his arm to take to the pet cemetery for proper burial. He then crossed the room to examine the tanks. Inside one of them, on the bottom and partially covered in incandescent goo, he found the red shoe.
Bell glanced back at the body of the wolf, then looked more closely at the tank. As he examined it, a noise came from the other side of the room. Bell stepped behind the tank and watched as a large, grotesque, yellow-haired man in a lab coat walked in, muttering to himself.
The man stumbled around, stubbed his toe on the wolf robot before kicking it to the side, then staggered to the table where the box lay open. His eyes narrowed. “Someone has opened my box,” he growled. He stepped back and scanned the room.bigbadwolf-scientist
Bell saw no reason to delay the inevitable; he came out from behind the tanks. “That would be me,” he said confidently, putting one hand on his stun-gun, just in case.
“You?” The man-monster advanced toward him. “Are you the beast that killed my pet?”
Assuming he meant the wolf, the sheriff replied, “No, that wasn’t me.” He stood still, holding his ground as the mad scientist continued to advance.
“But you know who did?” The man’s eyebrows rose up and down, as if he needed them to help him breathe. “Tell me!”
“That’s classified information, sir,” the sheriff replied calmly, increasing the stun setting on his gun and wondering if he could reach a tranquilizer dart in time. “I can’t tell you.”
“Yes, you can!” the madman growled and, with a fantastic leap that startled Bell, he pushed the sheriff into a tank and sealed the door.
The scientist adjusted some dials that were connected to the tank, muttering to himself. “Good thing I perfected this yesterday, on those women.” He looked over at the sheriff, a malicious grin on his face. “You might not tell me,” he said smugly, “but when I look like you, the townsfolk will.”
A clock next to the dials began a countdown, starting at 60 seconds. The madman stepped into the adjacent tank, and finally Bell understood. The confusion between the grandmother and granddaughter hadn’t been shock. Somehow, this strange scientist had made the younger one look older and the older one look younger! And now, he intended to perform the same procedure on the sheriff.
The tank sealed from the outside, but Bell still had his stun-gun. He switched the setting to “rearrange” and pointed it at the bolt. The mechanism disappeared instantly; it would reappear in a few minutes, but was gone long enough for the sheriff to step outside. He quickly bolted the door to the other tank, locking the mad scientist inside. Then, in a moment of inspiration, Bell placed the corpse of the dead cat on the floor of the tank he had just vacated.
The counter had five seconds remaining; the sheriff held his breath through the rest of the countdown. There was a whirring noise and a flash of blue light. Then the body of the mad scientist slumped over and fell to the floor. Bell watched as the cat, tail held high, pushed open the tank door, leapt out, and sauntered out of the cave.
Illustrations by Mia at
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‘Monkey vs. Robot’ CD
‘Monkey vs. Robot’ CD
It’s done! I finally did it. The Monkey vs. Robot covers compilation is done! The CD features seven covers of James Kochalka’s classic. Everyone who participated will get a copy and a special excellent prize. Here is the awesome list of people and bands that went and done good:
1. Bob Dorsey
2. Rudy Charisma
3. John Miner
4. Tha Shewz
5. Mike Watkins
6. Reddy Killsalot
7. Fandangoya
8. James Kochalka Superstar (unofficially)
I made 25 copies of the CD. There are still some left for those of you lucky enough to see this and ask nicely.
Cover illustration by Bob Dorsey.
The backstory, from March 2005:
Back when Gmail was special, and I was special too, I occasionally used GmailSwap to give away invites. Someone posted that they’d sing the song of your choice in exchange for an invite. So I asked him to sing James Kochalka‘s “Monkey Vs. Robot.” I got one taker.
It was so good that I needed more. I wanted to make an entire covers album. But no one bit, and now everyone has Gmail. And I still want to make that album!
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38568 | Directed by Otto Preminger, USA 1944
88 mins. English dialogue
"I shall never forget the weekend Laura died ..." begin's Otto Preminger's masterpiece of erotic obsession, jealousy, deceit and betrayal. Hollywood noir at its best with Gene Tierney as the enigmatic Laura and Clifton Webb as the barbed Waldo Lydecker ("In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.")
What the Critics say:
" 'Laura' almost succeeds in pulling the screen apart at the seams, if only to stitch it together again ... the plot is deliberately perfunctory, the people deliciously perverse and the mise-en-scene radical." (Paul Kerr - Time Out) |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38572 | Let's talk about going back to Corporate America, and what that says about you. Let's talk about your work in the world, why it matters, and whether or not 'getting paid to do what you love' is everything it's cracked up to be.
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"Safaitic graffiti carved by nomads in southern Syria. Found at al-Isawi in the desert of broken up lava-flows known as the harra in southern Syria by the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904-1905 and 1909 and published by E. Littmann, Safaitic Inscriptions, Leiden: Brill, 1943, as numbers 346-351"The Arabian Peninsula lies at the heart of the Middle East. Today, it is of enormous strategic and commercial importance and this was also the case in antiquity. Yet, most of what we know about its ancient history, languages and cultures comes from contemporaries looking at it from outside, such as the Assyrians, Greeks, and Romans, or from much later reports on what was considered the "Age of Ignorance". Excavations and surveys have been undertaken in the rest of the Middle East for more than a century and a half, but the archaeological exploration of Arabia is still in a pioneering stage. For a brief history of Ancient Arabia and a timeline click here.
A similar corpus of the Ancient South Arabian inscriptions is being created by the Digital Archive for the Study of Pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions (DASI) which is based in the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. OCIANA and DASI have strong links and it will be possible to search the data in both corpora through a single portal.
OCIANA is funded by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain and is based at the Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford.
[Banner image: The Ḥismā desert of southern Jordan and north-west Saudi Arabia, seen from Raʾs al-Naqab in southern Jordan. (Photograph by Ann Searight).]
• The Aramaic scripts of North Arabia
A partly damaged inscription from Taymāʾ in the Imperial Aramaic lapidary script. It records the offering of a pedestal (for a statue or altar) to the god Ṣlm (the chief deity of Taymāʾ). Now in the Musée du Louvre (AO 5009) Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum Pars II (Paris 1889-1954), no. 114. (Photograph by Michael Macdonald).Aramaic was probably introduced into North Arabia as an official written language by the last king of Babylon, Nabonidus. In 553 BC, he conquered Taymāʾ, Dadan (modern al-ʿUlā), Yathrib (modern Medina) and three other oases on the frankincense route and stayed at Taymāʾ for 10 years. Since Imperial (or Official) Aramaic was the administrative language of the Neo-Babylonian empire, it would almost certainly have been used by Nabonidus' officials in Taymāʾ, though we know that some of them could also write in Taymanitic, and some fragmentary cuneiform inscriptions from this period have also been found in the excavations. After Nabonidus returned to Babylon in 543 BC, it appears that Imperial Aramaic remained one of the written languages at Taymāʾ and seems gradually to have displaced Taymanitic.
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• Epigraphic Old Arabic
Epigraphic Old Arabic is the name given to those pre-Islamic texts in the Arabic language that — unlike the pre-Islamic Arabic poetry and the Ayyām al-ʿArab — have survived independently, rather than being transmitted through the scholars of the Islamic period. The term 'epigraphic' is used because most of the texts that have survived independently are inscriptions.
The ‘Namārah Inscription’ (Musée du Louvre AO 4083). It is the epitaph of Marʾ l-Qays ‘king of all ʿArab’ (part of the region known today as al-Jazīrah between the Tigris and Euphrates). It was found near a place of permanent water called al-Namārah in the desert of southern Syria and formed the lintel of the king's mausoleum. The text is composed in the Arabic language but written in the Nabataean script.
Before the fifth century AD, Arabic was hardly ever written down and so there was no dedicated 'Arabic script'. Speakers of the various forms of Arabic had to use a different language for writing, such as Nabataean Aramaic or one of the Ancient North Arabian dialects or Greek or, possibly, Sabaic. So, on the rare occasions when someone wanted to write in their spoken language, Arabic, they would generally use the script of their habitual written language, such as Nabataean, Greek, an Ancient North Arabian script, etc.
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• The Ancient North Arabian scripts
Ancient North Arabian is the name given to a group of scripts belonging to the South Semitic script family, which also includes the Ancient South Arabian alphabets (musnad and zabūr) and the vocalized alphabets used in Ethiopia for Geʿez, Amharic, etc.
The Ancient North Arabian scripts were used both in the oases (Dadanitic, Dumaitic, Taymanitic,) and by the nomads (Hismaic, Safaitic, Thamudic B, C, D, and possibly Southern Thamudic). There are tens of thousands of inscriptions and graffiti in these scripts which were used in the period roughly between the sixth century BC and the fourth century AD. See the descriptions of the individual scripts below. You can also see a comparison of the letter forms used in each script in the following table:
A table of the letter forms in the Ancient North Arabian scripts (by Michael Macdonald).
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• Dadanitic
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• Dumaitic
Dumaitic [formerly called 'Jawfian'] is the alphabet which seems to have been used by the inhabitants of the oasis known in antiquity as Dūma and later as Dūmat al-Jandal and al-Jawf. It lies in northern Saudi Arabia at the south-eastern end of the Wādī Sirḥān which leads up to the oasis of Azraq in north-eastern Jordan. According to the Assyrian annals Dūma was the seat of successive queens of the Arabs, some of whom were also priestesses, in the eighth and seventh centuries BC. The Assyrian king Sennacherib carried off images of six of its deities, three of whom (ʿAtar-Samain, Ruḍay, and Nuhay) are mentioned in the ANA inscriptions, including the Dumaitic. At present, only three graffiti are known in the Dumaitic script which has features which clearly distinguish it from the other ANA alphabets.
A Dumaitic graffito with a prayer to the deities Ruḍay, Nuhay and ʿAtar-Samain. F.V. Winnett & W.L. Reed, Ancient Records from North Arabia. Toronto, 1970, p. 80, no. WTI 23.
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• Hasaitic
A gravestone inscribed in Hasaitic found at the site of Thāj, in north-east Saudi Arabia. A. Sima, ‘Die Hasaitischen Inschriften’, pp. 167–200 in N. Nebes (ed.) Neue Beiträge zur Semitistik (Wiesbaden, 2002), no. 10Hasaitic is the name given to the inscriptions — mostly gravestones — which have been found in the huge oasis of al-Ḥasā in north-eastern Saudi Arabia at sites like Thāj and Qatīf, with a few from more distant locations. They are carved in what may be an ANA dialect but expressed in a slightly adapted form of another member of the South Semitic script family, the Ancient South Arabian alphabet. Many of the personal names in these texts are etymologically ANA but there are other names, as well as features of the language of the texts, which are more difficult to explain as ANA. So far, just over 40 Hasaitic inscriptions are known and many of these are badly damaged. It will not be possible to make a more sophisticated linguistic analysis until more texts are discovered. They are thought to date from the first two centuries AD.
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• Hismaic
A Hismaic graffito from south of Tabuk, north-west Saudi Arabia, by a member of the Ḥwlt lineage group. M.C.A. Macdonald, ‘Wheels in a land of camels: another look at the chariot in Arabia’. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 20, 2009, p. 179, no. 15.Hismaic [formerly 'Thamudic E'] is the name given to texts carved largely by nomads in the Ḥismā desert of what is now southern Jordan and north-west Saudi Arabia, though they are occasionally found in other places such as northern Jordan and parts of northern Saudi Arabia outside the Ḥismā. They are thought to date from roughly the same period as the Safaitic, i.e. first century BC to fourth century AD, though there is even less dating evidence in the case of Hismaic. However, some authors of these texts bear Nabataean 'basiliophoric' names — that is personal names formed with the name of a Nabataean king, thus ʿbd-ḥrtt ('the servant of Ḥrtt/Aretas') — which suggests that at least some of them were contemporary with the Nabataean presence in what is now Jordan and north-west Saudi Arabia. The alphabet has 28 characters which are assumed to be similar to the phonemes of Arabic.
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• Safaitic
Two Safaitic graffiti, one in large letters which starts at the bottom left corner and winds backwards and forwards up to the top, says that its author travelled from the inner desert to a place of permanent water, in the year that [the weather god] Baʿal-Shamīn withheld it [rain] from the [Roman] Province [of Syria or Arabia]; and that he stayed at this watering place during the dry season. It ends with curses on anyone who scratches out the inscription. The text in tiny letters above the beginning of the first records that the author mourned for someone. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum Pars V, (Paris, 1950) nos 1240 and 1241. (Photograph by Michael Macdonald).Safaitic is the name given to an alphabet used by tens of thousands of ancient nomads in the deserts of what are now southern Syria, north-eastern Jordan, and northern Saudi Arabia. Occasionally, Safaitic texts are found further afield, in western Iraq, Lebanon, and even at Pompeii. They are thought to have been carved between the first century BC and the fourth century AD, though these limits can be no more than suggestions based on the fact that none of the approximately 35,000 texts known so far seems to mention anything earlier or later than these limits. Safaitic has an alphabet of 28 letters, which are assumed to represent a phonemic repertoire roughly equivalent to that of Arabic. No vowels or diphthongs (if they existed) are represented. The texts can be carved in any direction and there is no division between words. They are all graffiti or grave-markers. There is no indication that the Safaitic alphabet was ever used for writing in ink, which would have encouraged the use of a single direction and word division as aids to the reader. It appears that the nomads who used the ANA scripts lived in oral societies where they had few materials to write on except rocks and thus little use for writing except as a way of passing the time while guarding the flocks or on the look-out for game or enemies, which is exactly what their graffiti say they were doing. Thus, writing was a pastime for them and when they carved their texts they were doing so purely for their own amusement and, since they did not expect anyone to read them, they did nothing to assist a reader.
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A three-line Taymanitic graffito in the desert near Taymāʾ, by one of those who came there from Babylon with king Nabonidus. Kh. Eskoubi, Dirāsah taḥlīliyyah muqāranah li-nuqūš min minṭaqat (rumm) janūb ġarb taymāʾ (Riyadh 1999), no. 169. (Photograph by Michael Macdonald).Taymanitic [formerly called 'Thamudic A'] is the name given to the ANA script used in the oasis of Taymāʾ (in north-west Saudi Arabia). This was an important stopping point on the caravan route from South Arabia to the Levant and Mesopotamia. The Taymanitic alphabet is probably mentioned as early as c. 800 BC when the regent of Carchemish (on what is now the Turkish-Syrian border) claimed to have learned it. About the same time an Assyrian official west of the Euphrates reported that he had ambushed a caravan of the people of Taymāʾ and Sabaʾ (an ancient South Arabian kingdom, Biblical ‘Sheba’) because it had tried to avoid paying tolls. There are two Taymanitic inscriptions dated to the mid-sixth century BC, since they mention the last king of Babylon, Nabonidus (556–539 BC), who spent ten years of his seventeen-year reign in Taymāʾ. One of these texts is illustrated here. At present, Taymanitic appears to have the same phonemic repertoire as Arabic except that it seems to lack letters for [ḏ] and [ẓ]. The majority of the texts are gravestones and graffiti and at present we have no — even indirect — evidence of the alphabet being used to write in ink. Taymanitic inscriptions and graffiti are found both within the oasis and in the surrounding desert.
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• Thamudic
A Thamudic B caption to a drawing of an archer on foot. It says ‘By Shahr son of Maʾdabat, and Shahr is the Awsite foot soldier’. M.C.A. Macdonald, ‘Wheels in a land of camels: another look at the chariot in Arabia’. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 20, 2009, pp. 170–172 and fig. 18.‘Thamudic’ is a name invented by nineteenth-century scholars for large numbers of inscriptions in ANA alphabets which have not yet been properly studied. It does not imply that they were carved by members of the ancient tribe of Thamūd. These texts are found over a huge area from southern Syria to Yemen. In 1937, Fred V. Winnett divided those known at the time into five rough categories A, B, C, D, E. In 1951, some 9000 more inscriptions were recorded in south-west Saudi Arabia which have been given the name 'Southern Thamudic'. Further study by Winnett showed that the texts he had called 'Thamudic A' represent a clearly defined script and language and he therefore removed them from the Thamudic 'pending file' and gave them the name 'Taymanite', which was later changed to 'Taymanitic' (see above). The same was done for 'Thamudic E' by Geraldine M.H. King, and this is now known as 'Hismaic' (see above). However, Thamudic B, C, D and Southern Thamudic still await detailed study. One of the problems is that large numbers of them were recorded only in hand copies by people who could not read them, and so it is difficult to know how accurately they reproduced the texts. Fortunately, in recent years, increasing survey work has rediscovered many of them and they have been photographed. It is hoped that by bringing all these texts together in one fully searchable corpus, with photographs wherever possible, OCIANA will speed up the accurate identification of the script and language of many more of these inscriptions which can then be removed from the 'Thamudic pending file' and given their own names.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38584 | Who we are
On March 7-8, 2008, cognitive and imaging neuroscientists from the Americas held a workshop in Havana, Cuba, to launch the Latin American Brain Mapping Network (LABMAN), currently an official Chapter of the International Organization for Human Brain Mapping established (OHBM) in 1993.
In general, neuroscience and neuroimaging research in Latin America is hindered by a lack of critical mass within any single country. The LABMAN initiative is intended to formalize disparate collaborative threads into a Latin American network through the training of students and postdocs, exchange of software, data, personnel, and ideas through a coordinated network, both organizational and electronic. By organizing these communities at a supra-national level, LABMAN seeks to nurture brain mapping research at the national level, acting as a catalyst for national programs. Since its creation, the community has grown steadily fast, but the Latin American region still has challenges to realize its full potential in human neuroscience. We are inviting research groups and individuals in Latin America not represented currently to join LABMAN.
Current LABMAN Board
Gonzalo Rojas Costa (Chair)
Clínica las Condes, Santiago, Chile.
M.Sc. Jorge Iglesias Fuster (Secretary)
Centro de Neurociencias de Cuba, Cuba
Dr. Fernando Barrios (Treasurer)
UNAM, Mexico
Past Chairs
Pedro Antonio Valdes-Sosa (Chair 2008-2011)
Cuban Neuroscience Center, Havana, Cuba.
Edson Amaro Jr (Chair 2012-2015)
University of São Paulo/Hospital Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil
Valeria Della-Maggiore (Chair 2016-2017)
IFIBIO Houssay, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires.
Maria Antonieta Bobes (Chair 2017-2018)
Centro de Neurociencias de Cuba, Cuba. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38589 | Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Eliminate These Words From Your Vocabulary
MAY 4, 2015, 12:30 PM
Newsprint is on life support, and 300 million people worldwide strive to make their point in 140 or fewer characters.
People don't have the time or the attention span to read any more words than necessary.
You want your readers to hear you out, understand your message, and perhaps be entertained, right? Here's a list of words to eliminate in order to help you write more succinctly.
1. That
It's superfluous most of the time. Open any document you've got drafted on your desktop and find a sentence with that in it. Read it out loud. Now read it again without that. If the sentence works without it, delete it. Also? Don't use that when you refer to people. "I have several friends that live in the neighborhood." No. No, you don't. You have friends who. Not friends that.
2. Went
went to school. Or the store, or to church, or to a conference, to Vegas, wherever it is you're inclined to go. Instead of went, consider drove, skated, walked, ran, and flew. There are any number of ways to move from here to there. Pick one. Don't be lazy and miss the chance to add to your story.
3. Honestly
People use honestly to add emphasis. The problem is, the minute you tell your reader this particular statement is honest, and you’ve implied the rest of your words were not. #Awkward
4. Absolutely
Adding this word to most sentences is redundant. Something is either necessary, or it isn't. Absolutely necessary doesn't make it more necessary. If you recommend an essential course to your new employees, it's essential. Coincidentally, the definition of essential is absolutely necessary. Chicken or egg, eh?
5. Very
Accurate adjectives don't need qualifiers. If you need to qualify it? Replace it. Very is intended to magnify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. What it does is makes your statement less specific. If you're very happy? Be ecstatic. If you're very sad, perhaps you're melancholy or depressed. Woebegone, even. Very sad is a lazy way of making your point. Another pitfall of using very as a modifier? It's subjective. Very cold and very tall mean different things to different people. Be specific. She's 6'3" and it's 13 degrees below freezing? These make your story better while also ensuring the reader understands the point you're making.
6. Really
Unless you're a Valley Girl, visiting from 1985, there's no need to use really to modify an adjective. Or a verb. Or an adverb. Pick a different word to make your point. And never repeat really, or very for that matter. That's really, really bad writing.
7. Amazing
The word means "causing great surprise or sudden wonder." It's synonymous with wonderful, incredible, startling, marvelous, astonishing, astounding, remarkable, miraculous, surprising, mind-blowing, and staggering. You get the point, right? It's everywhere. It's in corporate slogans. It dominated the Academy Awards acceptance speeches. It's all over social media. It's discussed in pregame shows and postgame shows.
Newsflash: If everything is amazing, nothing is.
8. Always
Absolutes lock the writer into a position, sound conceited and close-minded, and often open the door to criticism regarding inaccuracies. Always is rarely true. Unless you're giving written commands or instruction, find another word.
9. Never
See: Always.
10. Literally
Literally means literal. Actually happening as stated. Without exaggeration. More often than not, when the term is used, the writer means figuratively. Whatever is happening is being described metaphorically. No one actually "waits on pins and needles." How uncomfortable would that be?
11. Just
It's a filler word and it makes your sentence weaker, not stronger. Unless you're using it as a synonym for equitable, fair, even-handed, or impartial, don't use it at all.
12. Maybe
This makes you sound uninformed, unsure of the facts you're presenting. Regardless of the topic, do the legwork, be sure, and write an informed piece. The only thing you communicate when you include these words is uncertainty.
13. Stuff
This word is casual, generic even. It serves as a placeholder for something better. If the details of the stuff aren't important enough to be included in the piece? Don't reference it at all. If you tell your reader to take your course because they'll learn a lot of stuff? They're likely to tell you to stuff it.
14. Things
See: Stuff.
15. Irregardless
This doesn't mean what you think it means. It means regardless. It is literally (see what I did there?) defined as: regardless. Don't use it. Save yourself the embarrassment.
Whether you're ghostwriting for your CEO, updating a blog, selling a product, or finishing your master's thesis, you need to keep your reader engaged. These 15 words are a great place to start trimming the fat from your prose. Bonus? You'll sound smarter.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38619 | Hey You Beautiful, I’ve prepared a review of Nanobrow eyebrow serum for you. This is one of my newest beauty products. Are you curious why I needed such cosmetic, how it works and whether it served it purpose? Keep reading. A few introductory words for a start. Why do we need an |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38634 | Sealed with more than a kiss
There are many spirits in the world though only one of them is holy. When Apostle Paul spoke to the Corinthians, he made a point to encourage them that the Holy Spirit is what now unites all of the believers whether Jew or Gentile. Unfortunately, the Corinthians thought that with the benefits from the power of the Holy Spirit, they would no longer have to suffer and would have an easy ride. They did not realize that God’s promises extended far beyond the day-to-day temporal existence and would be fully realized at Christ’s second coming.
What God gives to Christians is not the immediate benefit of these promises but the guarantee, or proof, of them. That guarantee is God’s Holy Spirit, who is working in the life of every Christian. It is by the workings of the Holy Spirit that when we suffer, we lean on the power of the Lord for comfort. Suffering is there to prove God’s mercy in that we can rely on him for all of our needs.
When we sign a check or a contract, there is often nothing immediately seen; however, the law of the transaction and payment is certain. So God’s Holy Spirit proves that a person has the benefit of what God has promised.
Apostle Paul describes the Holy Spirit’s work in four ways: It establishes believers in their relationship with Christ; anoints or covers us; seals us to mark that we belong to him; and is a guarantee of God’s promises. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38638 | Constellations and Asterisms
What are they? Simply put, they are our Earth-based interpretation of star patterns in the sky.
The ancient Greeks attributed mythical characters to many of the constellations we know today, and the brightest stars in a constellation are normally given Greek alphabet letters. The star names, on the other hand, are mainly Arabic.
Every culture around the world has created their own stories and legends about the shapes they saw in the sky. In 1930 the International Astronomical Union set official boundaries on groups of stars and recognised 88 constellations across the north & south hemispheres.
Asterisms are smaller groups of stars that may be part of one or more constellations. They are typically well known groups such as The Plough (part of Ursa Major) or The Summer Triangle (a combination of stars in three different constellations).
Test your knowledge on some of the popular constellations with our Constellation Art download.
Learn to spot the best known constellations in the sky, identifying their shapes with our constellation drawings.
Take a good look at the shape and pattern of the stars and see if you can identify the same shape in the sky at night. Can you see more stars or less stars? The more stars you see in the constellation, the less light pollution you have in your area (and the darker your skies are).
Trace the pattern of the constellation and add your own artwork to develop the mythical character. Why not make your own story about the constellations you see?
For example, when Orion rises over the Ballycroy skies in Winter, we like to think of him as representing our own legendary giant – Daithí Bán. Who knows what stories are ancestors here created when they saw this giant in the night sky?
Let your imagination wander as you learn about the patterns of stars forming constellations and the legends and myths that have been attached to them over thousands of years.
Ursa Major
When can you view? All year round in the northern skies. Ursa Major is Latin for ‘Great Bear’. It also contains the famous asterism known as ‘The Plough’ or ‘Big Dipper’ containing seven stars – two of them (called ‘the Pointers’) point the way to the North Star (Polaris).
Mythology - There are both Greek and Roman myths about Ursa Major. A Roman myth involves Ursa Major and the nearby constellation of Ursa Minor (the ‘Little Bear’).
A beautiful maiden, Callisto, was hunting in the forest, but grew tired and laid down to rest. The god Jupiter noticed her and was smitten with her beauty, which made his wife, Juno, extremely jealous, so she turned Callisto into a bear. Some time later, Callisto’s son, Arcas was also turned into a bear. To protect both mother and son, Jupiter took both bears by their tails and swung them up into the heavens to live there forever – this explains the length of the tails, which are much longer than usual!
When can you view? - All year round and known as a circumpolar constellation (i.e. it circles the North Pole star.)
Mythology - In mythology Cassiopeia is the vain and boastful Queen of Ethiopia and wife of ancient King Cepheus. She insulted the Nereids (sea nymphs) by boasting she was more beautiful than they. To avenge the insulted Nereids, Poseidon, god of the sea, sent Cetus the whale monster. Cassiopeia chained her daughter Andromeda to a rock as a sacrifice for the monster. Fortunately the hero Perseus rescued her on his way home from slaying Medusa.
When can you view? - In spring skies this is a familiar constellation. Look out for the ‘backwards question mark’ to help identify the head of the Lion. The bright star at the bottom of the figure is known as Regulus.
Mythology - Leo is known as a Lion across many cultures. It is also a constellation in the zodiacal calendar as the Sun moves through the constellation in the summer months. The Greeks believed that Leo represented the lion that stalked and devoured the people of Nemea. Its skin was said to be impervious to all weapons and no ordinary man could kill it. Hercules took on the task and was unable to pierce the skin of Leo but eventually used his great strength to choke the beast to death. He then skinned it with the lion’s own claws and donned the pelt.
When can you view? - Cygnus is a major constellation in the northern hemisphere summer skies. It is best viewed from June to November. Cygnus is easy to find as its cruciform shape is also known as the Northern Cross and appears to be flying down the middle of the Milky Way. Cygnus contains one of the brightest stars in the night sky – Deneb (also the corner star of the Summer Triangle asterism).
Mythology - Cygnus (the Swan) has been associated with several myths. A Greek myth is that Cygnus represents the bird into which Zeus (King of the Gods) transforms himself in order to seduce Leda, Queen of Sparta. Another myth is that Cygnus represents tragic Greek hero Orpheus, who was murdered for refusing to honour Dionysus. He was then transformed into a swan and placed in the sky.
When can you view? - Pegasus is best seen from August to October and can be easily identified by its four stars that form the “Giant Square of Pegasus”. The constellation Pegasus was listed by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the second century AD.
Mythology - Pegasus was known as the winged horse in Greek mythology. The Greek word “Pegazo” means “to spring forward” and legend says that Pegasus was created when the winged horse leapt from the neck of Medusa the gorgon when Perseus cut off her head. Other stories say Pegasus originates from Poseidon mixing the blood of Medusa in the sea to create a Pmagical pure white stallion in honour of his love.
When can you view? - During Winter and Spring
Mythology - In Greek mythology, Orion was a mighty giant and hunter who boasted that he could slay any creature on Earth. There are many legends of his special powers such as walking on water, and various stories of how he was killed.
One story is that Diana, the archer-goddess with whom Orion was a favourite, was tricked into firing the arrow that killed Orion. The story goes like this… Apollo, her jealous brother, observed the giant Orion wading through the sea with his head just above water and challenged Diana to hit the black island in the distance. Diana took fatal aim and discharged the arrow, killing her beloved Orion. As recompense, she then placed him among the stars as a giant along with his with sword, and his famous belt of stars.
Other points of interest - The three stars forming Orion’s belt are called “The Three Marys” in Spain, Portugal and South America. Those with good eyesight (or using binoculars), can make out that the middle “star” of Orion’s dagger is fuzzy – this is the famous Orion Nebula, a huge region of star formation, containing over 700 stars, and stretching more than two Moon diameters across the sky.
Where the darkest skies reveal the brightest stars.
Ballycroy National Park Visitor Centre,
National Parks & Wildlife Service,
Ballycroy Village,
Co. Mayo
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38665 | TY - JOUR T1 - The Impact of Functional Vitamin D<sub>3</sub> Receptor Conformations on DNA-Dependent Vitamin D<sub>3</sub> Signaling JF - Molecular Pharmacology JO - Mol Pharmacol SP - 375 LP - 384 VL - 57 IS - 2 AU - Quack, Marcus AU - Carlberg, Carsten Y1 - 2000/02/01 UR - http://molpharm.aspetjournals.org/content/57/2/375.abstract N2 - The vitamin D3 receptor (VDR) is the nuclear receptor for 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (VD) that acts primarily as a heterodimer with the retinoid X receptor (RXR) on different types of VD response elements, i.e., DNA-bound VDR-RXR heterodimers are the molecular switches in nuclear VD signaling pathways. In this study, DNA-dependent limited protease digestion assays and gel shift clipping assays were used for the analysis of VDR conformations and showed the same high ligand sensitivity for VD response element-bound VDR-RXR heterodimers (EC50 of 0.1 nM for VD). In contrast, DNA-independent limited protease digestion assays clearly demonstrated a reduced ligand sensitivity for monomeric VDR in solution. Interestingly, the relative amount of reduction was found to be specific for each VDR agonist. Moreover, complex formation of the VDR on DNA resulted in a shift from the receptor's low-affinity ligand binding conformation (c3LPD) to its high affinity conformation (c1LPD). Finally, the characterization of the conformations of N- and C-terminally truncated VDR proteins defined the high-affinity ligand binding domain of the VDR as being positioned between amino acids 128 and 427. Taken together, the analysis of VDR conformations in solution in comparison to those of DNA-complexed VDR-RXR heterodimers allows a differentiation to be drawn between DNA-dependent and DNA-independent VD signaling pathways that can in turn be used for the identification of pathway selective VDR agonists. The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics ER - |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38669 | Connections and Disconections (1981)
Who's A Funkadelic? (1992)
Jump to complete album lyrics.
Or, go back up to the Funkadelic album list.
Track Listing:
{Clarence Haskins, Billy Mims, Calvin Simon, Grady Thomas, Ben Powers} 5:32
You'll Like It Too
{C Haskins, C Simon, G Thomas, Michael Williams} 4:27
The Witch
{C Haskins, Johnson, C Simon, G Thomas, Betty Jo Drake} 9:29
Shade I: The Proclafunktion
Shade II: The Infunktation
Shade III: The Celefunktion
Connections and Disconnections
{Stanley, Geter, C Haskins, B Mims, C Simon, G Thomas} 5:00
Come Back
{C Haskins, C Simon, G Thomas, B Mims, B Powers} 4:28
Call the Doctor
{BJ Drake, C Haskins, B Mims, C Simon, G Thomas} 5:12
Who's A Funkadelic
{C Haskins, B Mims, C Simon, G Thomas} 5:47
Vocals: Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, Grady Thomas, Michael Williams,
Billy Mims, Ben Powers, Jr; Johnny Quad Riley
Percussion: Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, Grady Thomas
Drums: Ben Powers, Jr
Clavinet: Billy Mims
Guitar: Michael Williams, Billy Mims
Keyboard: Stan Thorn, Michael Williams, Johnny Quad Wiley
Bass: Ken Blackmon; Ben Powers, Jr
Background Vocals: Dede Dickerson, Ngoh Spencer, Vicky Randal,
Betty Jo Drake
Review: GZ: ? RC: * MM: ?
GZ: I suspect this is a contractual obligation album. Clinton disavowed it.
RC: This was the revenge album of Grady Thomas, Fuzzy Haskins, and Calvin Simon. They mostly wrote about how greedy George was, and proceeded to be not very funky themselves. For completists. It was rereleased in 1992 under a different title, possibly to try and cash in on some of the new wave of Parliament popularity. Now there's an original Parliaments reunion album in the works. Grady is actually back singing with the All-Stars, Fuzzy is a preacher who has talked about getting back with George, but no one I've talked to knows what Calvin is up to.
On the cover of the album, it says, "none of the concepts on this album are related to George Clinton", and that may be what kills it. Say what you will about Clinton's actual contribution to the music of Funkadelic, but without his concepts and ideas, none of this would have gotten off the ground. The proof is here, when three important Parliaments try and work without him, and the result is mostly mediocre. Not awful, mind you--it's certainly competent enough, and the band they put together is pretty good-- but the vibe that existed on those P.Funk albums just isn't here. They sound like just another funk group; worse, they sound like one that had used up most of their good ideas already. The trio of ex-Parliaments sound very bitter about being used by George, and perhaps they had every right to be, but it didn't make for a great album. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38672 | Monday, August 5, 2013
[Makeover] Low Arching Bridge: The Makeover
Once again, the task:
What I like:
What I dislike:
Things I'm intrigued by:
Is this a "one way" road?
Here's what I did:
2) Now show your students this picture and ask:
• Bridge height(s)
• Vehicle height(s)
• Width of road
• Width of lanes
Height of the bridge on the left side
Height of the bridge in the center
Height of the bridge on the right side
Where do you fancy the y-axis?
What you did or suggested:
Amy Zimmer emailed:
Everyone else's input can be found here:
Under the bridge,
1. I think giving the students a chance to predict which vehicles will fit under the bridge is a nice way to build number sense. I didn't realize that a semi was any taller than a tour bus.
My take on this problem is here:
2. Andrew, thanks for sharing your work. I plan to makeover some tasks this school year and I appreciate seeing an in depth approach from someone not named Dan (though I'm enjoying his as well).
You said you didn't nail it, but I think you made a significant improvement. In particular, there is purpose behind the things you ask of students (and the order in which you ask them). One of my weaknesses in (re)designing tasks is providing/generating actual motivation/intellectual need for students (aside from their like of good grades or their general compliance with my requests as a teacher).
I do have one question: Is the mixing and matching of measurements (feet measured to the nearest quarter VS feet and inches to the nearest inch VS inches) intentional? If so, what's your goal?
Thanks again for sharing!
1. re: "Is the mixing and matching of measurements (feet measured to the nearest quarter VS feet and inches to the nearest inch VS inches) intentional? If so, what's your goal?"
I'll admit, the measurements I gave seem a little inconsistent. I thought about editing them, but considered the sources:
--The bridge heights are buried somewhere in the accident report. Again, I'll admit I rounded favorably because I was keeping my 8th grade algebra students in mind when making this task over. If I was doing this task at the high school level, I would give them the exact heights (which are extremely close).
--The vehicle heights were found on manufacture websites and some gave all inches and a combination of feet and inches. As you can see, I converted everything to inches (it saved space on the graphic too).
--As for Desmos, everything is in relationship to feet. Yes, this [inconsistency] could be pretty intimidating for students. Seems to me, it might prove prudent to establish a relative unit of measurement when all of the information is initially delivered to the students.
Thanks for the pushback, it helps.
3. Not exactly the right context but reminds me of this: |
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politics is like a competion in a game and does not have a desired outcome as all its goals are by chance
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all politicians are in concubinage with with satan no wonder they lie to poor souls.
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politicians lie because politics is a lying game. if they tell the truth, its obvious they loose your your vote. that does not need a proffessor of robotics to discern, does it?
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well, obviously they lie because politics is a lying game, no doubt. telling you the truth does not benefit them in any way, starting with your vote.
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politics z when A gets to a certain point through steping on B, C, D......s' sholders wth or wtht the consent of these, so saying the truth wll make them refuse to be steped on. Plitcns re greedy pple, wtht luv, liers, nt free n hence the xracter of the kngdm of the dark.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38694 | Memorable Moments
Great Times, Great Memories
Because sometimes a moment or an event is so monumental, so epic that they simply HAVE to be listed here.
The Skeet Shooter
A random mob boss encounter who is faster than just about anyone in the game…even Kaiju. He shows up in a trench coat, says "GIMME DE CASSSSSHHH!" and if you do not proceeds to skeet on you with precise aim and intense amount. Recently he hit Takeshi, the leader of Team Alpha from Deep Six, in the park…only this time, since Takeshi's response of laughing at him made him nervous, Skeet Shooter hit him with his "From The Windows To The Wall" special attack, drenching him in…er…mansauce. Recently he also, for apparently "some reason," saved Matsu from being detained at the Mall of Starbucks by the MilPol until Riff-Raff arrived…but Matsu, not trusting the Skeet Shooter, jammed out as fast and hard as he could, with S.S. bouncing on his own overgrown nutsack after him.
Also, rather recently, Skeet Shooter showed up to help Northboy get Hachiko Masaharu's files from the red-eyed bitch herself. He also accidentally skeeted Northboy after Northboy went to open the safe S.S. was shoved into.
Shortly after he appears to have gotten a lobotomy/magical training in order to suppress his Skeet Shootan side and to once again become a productive member of society.
Or so it seems…
People hit by the Skeet Shooter who get to unlock a special side-mission later:
-Sly, Delilah, and freakin' Puppy AGAIN, all at the same time. LOLOLOLOL.
-Northboy, accidentally but still…
You's Transformation
So, You, the Demon Segway, and Northboy are stuck in his grandfather's old silo at his abandoned farm, right? And the area is crawling with black ops MilPol headed by Riff-Raff hisfuckingself, and some of them are sayin' aloud how they've searched the area except for the Silo.
So Northboy begins to plan his own counter-assault when You begins to bounce and freak out. They both jump…and end up in a secret basement that is wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling with random types of explosives.
They fucking found Yoshida's cache of explosives!
At first Northboy tries to take some of the random explosives to use against the MilPol, but You barely knocks him off to the side as, in doing so, he caused a cave-in of the very narrow hallway between tightly stacked and packed explosives.
Northboy begins to reprimand him when he notices that You just saved his life…and is currently eating the explosives. Getting an idea, Northboy helps the Demon Segway eat more and more of the explosives as the Segway begins to glow…
So, MilPol is forming a ring and is converging upon the silo, having taken over the entire area. All that can be heard from the silo is a demonic growl and Northboy and You suddenly burst out…only You isn't a friggin' Segway, but a full on Harley Davidson chopper.
He causes chaos, havoc, and all kindsa Hell as he batters MilPol this way and that, You belching hellfire and leaving behind a flame trail everywhere he goes, battering bodies and bullets with his whirling tires as Northboy does donuts from the farm to their helicopters, causing a domino-effect of explosions. Finally, to the tune of "Grandmother's Chair" by King Diamond, takes off and flies off with the full moon in the background, the very flames of his takeoff igniting the OTHER hidden cache of explosives under the house, its' septic tank, and its' gas main, thus resulting in yet another humongous explosion.
SURPRISE, it's Mr. Bubbles!
So the New Face Group (Sly, Delilah, Mikki, and Takeshi), Miss Lay, Matsu, and Oni are ALMOST at the Dragon's Guild, right? With Michael Stonefist and Kaegro in tow, both ready for their transmogrification into High Gods and what-not, yah?
When shit outta nowhere (literally), rising up from right smack-dab in front of the gate is Harley Girl…who has freakin' switched sides. Again.
That's not important right now though, what IS important is that after a moment of taunting them, she summons a monster for them to play with, Mr. Bubbles…the Inevitable of Death. A freakin' Marut.
Sly's character turns paler since he knows what I just threw at them. Sure it's one of my modded out-bosses, but still…I threw four level 1's and a few old-skoolers at a freakin' Marut.
Full rundown of the Bachelor Party:
-So yeah, they get to Las Vegas and take an hour or two to enjoy the shows, gambling, and get their grub on, right?
-Then Bahamut proposes a toast after putting an "herb" in their drinks. Oyamatsumi tells Matsu that it's alright, it's just an herb, completely natural, makes the drink tastes better and they themselves will feel awesome tonight. Plus it's healthy. Plus shut up and drink it, I'm your god.
-It's Dragonsbane.
-They immediately lose their minds and start gnawing on each other/themselves, thus fucking up their wristcoms.
-After this, they went to a couple of strip clubs and got lit as fuck. It's around here that they jacked Mike Tyson's Porsche.
-Matsu somehow ended up in a bunny outfit and streaked around the place until the guys caught up and dragged him to the next location of DER PARTY!
-The gang somehow ended up tearing ass to L.A. where he got to be the cardgirl for an underground hobofight that, later, he'd also participate in…while wearing that bunny outfit. Saeto was mainly there one fighting hobos. Also, Matsu gave Chao's number ("her number") to a current worshiper of Kaegro, one Aaron Smitt.
-While one group went to L.A., another group stayed behind, went back to the hotel room and supremely trashed it.
The L.A. Group congratulated Saeto by dressing him up in a bondage outfit while he was passed out, and proceeded to stuff him and Matsu in the trunk. From there they ripped through every light-night stop in California until they were back in Las Vegas.
-The two groups converged and partied hard until Matsu started a gang war with rival "Eastsiders," proclaiming WEST SYYYYDE the entire time. Somehow, Oyamatsumi got the bullet-proof vest here.
-They proceeded to the Westminster Unified Church where Kaegro possessed a priest and proceeded to marry himself to one Kelly Chesterson (the busty blonde who worked there part-time but was going to NYU and was a trustee kid), and also in a fit of divination had Matsu make his own tombstone.
-It was right around here that Sigfried and Roy's clones ended up befriending them at a random bar…and while most of the guys hung out and partied with them, Oyamatsumi, Matsu, and Chao got into the car-chase gunfight with LVPD, including the tearing off and throwing of the Sigfried and Roy's cloned tiger's penis at the cop car, said healing of tiger, Oyamatsumi jumping up in the trunk and spraying said cop car with an uzi, and finally Matsu (still wearing that playboy bunny outfit) throwing the tiger itself through the windshield of the pursuing vehicle at the cop.
-Another back-alley gunfight, and this time the guys think Matsu is dead even though he's right behind them, unharmed (stoneskin > bullets). He proceeds to help them dig a grave on the outskirts of town and for no apparent reason they agree that Bahamut is Matsu and tosses him in the grave. He falls asleep immediately since he was confused and needed to think…which he couldn't anyway. Dragonsbane.
-Around this time Odin's head became separated from his body, apparently believing that only being a head would take him to enlightenment, the guys went to another rave and ended up befriending the mayor of Las Vegas (Mayor Ceaser Arnez, later after the 'bane wears off to be the High Priest of Tordek for Las Vegas) and headed out with him to a boxing match…that they immediately interrupted.
-Dancing around like the goddamned pied piper, Chao got Arnez, Saeto, five backup dancers and Sigfried and Roy's clones to the clones' hotel room in another hotel and proceeded to bang most of them…except Saeto. Saeto was passed over because he had finally passed out and was too cute to raep. It's right around here that Saeto's wristcom got stuck in the wall, and Arnez put up too much of a struggle so Chao duct-taped his mouth shut, his hands and feet together, shoved Odin's head up his ass and left him in the Porsche's trunk to "marinate for later!"
-Along the way, Oyamatsumi ended up hanging from the street sign because he wanted to prove that Japanese could jump as high as black guys…then forgot how to get down. Keagro went back to the church to consummate his relationship with Kelly, only ended up in his own body when he did so.
For the record, the game session itself had Chao (played by IRL Matsu, who did a great fuckin' job) and Saeto Fujiyama going around attempting to find their missing friends and relive the night before with videos saved by their wristcoms. Yes, I know, I know, The Hangover rip…but ya gotta love a night full of WTF, y'know?
Anyway, Saeto and Chao wake up in Siegfried and Roy's room. Saeto is dressed in bondage gear and sleeping on the floor, S and R are currently handcuffed in their own bathroom, and Chao is in the bed with five backup dancers. Yes, he fucked everyone except for Saeto…whom he was GOING to, but Saeto was too cute-lookin' in his sleep to screw. Anyway, they figure out that Saeto's wristcom is stuck in between the walls, and eventually get it out. They collect their Porsche (they didn't have a Porsche the night before, they came to Las Vegas in a van and a Cadillac) and take off after Kaegro calls them up dressed as a priest and with a hugefuck hangover…which leads them to Westhaven Christian Church. They collect him and eventually find out that he got married, though to whom they don't know yet. Before they get to Kaegro though, they get pulled over by the cops and Chao mouths off to the officer, and both he and Saeto end up in jail…where Chao rapes a huge bull rapist in mid "that's my spot, you owe me rent" rant leading up to rape. Saeto calms things down, but things heat up when the "Dead Man Walking" is revealed to be Tordek…who apparently killed a few people the night before. They break out (literally, through a wall) and snag the Porsche and take off. They find Oyamatsumi hanging from his belt on a street lamp, find the chick Kaegro married (Kelly Magefang, soon to be deceased now that Kaegro is "full blown evil" again), at first they think Odin's dead…only to find out that his head was up the ass of the mayor of Las Vegas (Mayor Inez, also a head priest of Tordek), whom they found duct-taped in the trunk of the Porsche after Chao fucked him into submission. By now they have gone from LV to Los Angeles where a particular hobofight vid showed Matsu dressed as a bunnygirl playing card girl, and Saeto getting into various fights there. Eventually they head back to Las Vegas, pick up Odin's body, get the rest of the night's misdeeds down, and the cop who picked them up earlier (who is now on their side, since the Mayor ordered it) points out that Matsu died that morning. He helped them build the freakin' grave for it.
They head over to the grave and begin digging it up when Saeto takes matters into his own hands…and calls Yoko.
They then discover that Matsu was in Neo-Tokyo the entire time, having (for no raisin) jacked their wristcoms, put them in a stolen briefcase, and headed out with a stolen ticket back to Neo-Tokyo.
At that moment they dug up Bahamut, who was in the grave the entire time thinking he was dead.
They take off and head home, intending to never, EVER talk about this again.
-SNIKT- Coup De Grace
So the secret group sent on the secret mission gets confronted by the German Psychiatrist from Hell…who is revealed to be a xeno psychic sent to take over the Space Station MAXIMUM FUCK, right? And she's got Alita hooked up to a Barbarella Machine, attempting to mindfuck her into a zombie. Dabu and Northboy bash in (well, Northboy charges the door…and finds out that it's frosted glass. Dude rolled a 20, so it's all friggin' good, y'know?) and Dabu immediately gets the psionic xeno in a mindlock. Keeping her locked up (even her prehensile and uber-elastic tail wrapped around his arm!), Northboy proceeds to bust down the wall since her true form is fukhueg and is currently blocking the doorway, then (after realizing it's a alien metal and Shredder, inside of his head, proceeds to show him how to improve his forearm blades to cut through such metal) frees a very naked and very pissed-off Alita.
Did I happen to mention that this psychiatrist had mindraped Alita's memories with the Barbarella Machine and had pissed off Alita to a berserk status by asking her about her father?
The MOMENT Alita gets down, even though the psychic psychiatrist xeno had a clear 70 hp, the situation was completely ripe and Alita took the Coup De Grace and simply whipped out her family gunsword and -SNIKT-, all off with the head of the bloody rrrrred queen all over the xeno's neck.
Dabu and Alita get COVERED in hot blood, while Northboy says "DAYUM!"
"Sly's" encounter with the Angry Rastafarian Cab Company
So Sly's on the Prime Material Plane, completely cut off from the Infernals, right? So he makes contact with Undine and has her call up the Angry Rastafarian Cab Company.
His event dice sucked. Period.
So as he walks into this cab, which is basically London Fog on wheels, he begins to fail one will save after another…and the bastard starts to slowly turn into an Angry Rastafarian. A percentile dice and a final will save, and he's FINALLY able to get out of the cab…but not without a startling change to his bald life. Honestly, it was his response that made me put this on the Memorable Moments board. Seriously, I wish you were there to see it!
"I HAVE HAIR!?!?!?"
Ms. Lay's House
Funny thing, you guys actually have a HISTORY of having your homes trashed in this game. Seriously, it started though with Ms. Lay's house.
Now she was very proud of this house, since it was a perk for working for the K.N.H. A house with land in Japan? Fuggetaboutit, y'knowwhatImean? Anyway, so the FIRST time her house gets trashed is during the end sequence of Party In Hell, when Northboy, Alita, You, and Yoshida slam through a dimensional portal right over her bed (the first time it should be noted that Ms. Lay's house was on a ley line between dimensions). You ends up wrecking her bed and her stairs, and as they all escape via the mirror portal Riff-Raff and his black ops team busts in and screws up her interiors. I mean vases smashed, dishes flung about, silverware fucked up…the works.
But the house is still intact…this time.
Anyway, at a later time after the house is redecorated and a new addition is built, Ms. Lay sleeps in it fully functional and formed for ONE FREAKING NIGHT…then the whole "Red House Takeover" begins and she eventually gets Saeto and her familiars back to her house.
They escape in the nick of time…and Riff-Raff, having been thwarted twice, decides to simply destroy her home: engulfing it in Blackfire, destroying sections of it, then sending the whole damn thing to the ninth level of Hell.
The kicker? The real sting of it is when he gets down on his hands and knees (and surgical-scalpel tipped tentacles) and tears her lovely flower garden up with said tentacles and gaping, saw-toothed maw.
Yeah, she only got to sleep in it for ONE FREAKING NIGHT, then all this shit happens.
Suffice it to say, Ms. Lay is now on a bloodhunt for Riff-Raff, shadowmancer or not, boogeyman or not. LOL.
Oni's Coming Out Party
So Oni Kitsune decides to throw a housewarming party…only he says it out loud.
A passing Tordekian heard him.
Pfffft, you kno-ooooow! So the party gets out of hand, Jacob P. Galvatron and Tordek show up, and the party is simply off the goddamned chizzain.
Eventually Northboy, Tordek, and JPG find Oni huddled in a closet, and talk him into losing his virginity after all.
He does so, with the help of five lovely ladies.
Fairly certain they were ladies…it WAS a Tordekian party, after all!
Lady Looks Like A Dude
Miss Lay uses a Polymorph Self spell to become a man in order to get closer to Will Smith's Clone (later to be revealed as an Amalgamation: Will Smith, Chris Tucker, and Michael Jackson), mainly 'cuz he apparently only likes guys…and only likes chicks to watch him do said guys.
Problem is? She won't change back until later on that night.
So yeaaaah…one of the womanliest characters turns into a man, and apparently enjoys it. Like, seriously, no one will shut up about it. >XD
Roaring Rape Riot Rampage of the Bearsharktopi
They are the Bearsharktopi.
Half-bear, half-shark, half-octopus.
Creatures that are bad on their own, but when in groups can turn into a riot of rape and rampage.
And Unit 13 was dispatched to South Tokyo to take care of an army of them.
Lulz ensues, especially what comes next…
Dabu's and Lay's Flaming Junk Punt
So yeah, Dabu nearly gets raped by a Bearsharktopus.
Like, seriously, he almost got raped by a freakin' Bearsharktopus. Several had dogpiled him, but only one almost got it's peeeeniiiiis into him.
In retaliation, he gets all pissed off and Miss Lay gets the idea of casting Heroism, Fire Shield, and Enlarge Person on him.
By now, there were only two Bearsharktopi left…the one that had nearly raped him and a second already wounded one. So they jam their heads into the ground to prepare for their Desperation Attack when he suddenly DOES…it….
Dabu catches the one that nearly raped him on an attack of opportunity and, quite literally, kicks it in the balls with a flaming huge giantfoot.
The Bearsharktopus, with it's head in the ground, can't do anything but flop from side to side, it's neck breaking in multiple places and the damned thing dying several times.
Good times, man, good times…I think he kept it's head, up until his house got firebombed later on. LOL!
"I'M A MONSTER!!!" ::catches self::
Okay, this is kinda a three-parter, starting with this one. The gang have been sent to Neo-Monster Hunter HQ for a certain situation (see "Rape Rampage of the Bearsharktopi"), and afterwards all kindsa bedlam breaks out. One of those is that Alita transforms an annoying group of boys and girls into grown men with a well-timed "ALITA FLASH!"
Above all, though, was the transformation of General Red into a giant. Don't ask.
Anyway, all these annoying brats are trying to catch him when suddenly he realizes "I'M A MONSTER!" and proceeds to catch HIMSELF.
This DOES prove one thing though: anyone can become a monster, if they at least believe they are. So long as this one thing has been met, they can be caught and trained by a Neo Monster Hunter~!
Anyway, this situation is not without repercussions, since Rizer happens to be owed by this guy…
Cutting The Monster's Achilles' Heel
So the gang is helping Sly out with "Rizer's Quest," right? The one that'll let him become a full-fledged Soul Flayer? So anyway, this one was just chock full of memories, but these two definitely take the cake!
Freakin' Matsu has his Hellblades on, figures since it's South Tokyo the Neo Monster Hunter cops aren't gonna care as much (and they don't, btw), so he does his thing…then pours on the gas. He basically goes for a high-speed sword-slashin' drive-by on the Monster, but he didn't realize how BIG General Red is (he's as big as the Colosseum), but afterwards he decides to go for it anyway.
He rolls a freakin' crit, and ends up cutting Giant General Red's Achilles heel! He literally does an assload of damage in one shot!
Tearing The Monster In Half
Shortly after Matsu does his thing with Giant General Red, Puppy gets a "stupid idea." At first Alita's all, "I don't care," but then hears Puppy out…and decides to go for it.
They roll so freakin' awesome, I HAD to go with it!
So they both grab Critterspheres and hit General Red at the same time from both sides with it. Because of their timing though, both Critterspheres activate at the same time and since General Red had caught him-freaking-SELF earlier, both became registered as his monster trainer…and both Critterspheres attempted to catch him at the same time.
This proceeds to tear him in half, with each Crittersphere catching that bloody half. Blood and guts and bile falls EVERYWHERE, and Matsu simply leaves with a, "Oh fuck this shit. I'm done. See ya guys!"
Funny part is, I THINK that either Alita or Puppy (pro'lly Alita) actually tried to release Red by taking both Critterspheres and releasing each half at the same time…only for those two bloody halves of a corpse to flop out.
Well, the good news was Sly got the second soul he needed for Rizer's Quest!
WOEM Woem woem…
Meow. Meow meow. Meow. Meow meow woem. WOEM, Woem, woem…
Sey, Namow! ::Sulk::
woem woem woem woem…woem…woooeeeeem….rrrrrg….
Matsu Versus The Ninjas/Dickvomit
Dude, short but funny!
So Matsu goes to the Hattori Ninja clan to find his god. He does so, and after finding out everything is okay he is forced to spend the night amongst the clan's menfolk (the Hattori Ninja are very sexist, and are segregated by gender), having to recite gee-manly poetry by firelight and getting into drinking contests and stupid contests of manly proportions. (arm wrestling, wrestling-wrestling…though, as their guest all he has to do is watch and make commentary that is properly mansome).
So anyway, he outdrinks EVERYONE in the village. Every manly man, even their manliest man. They are about to think of him as a god when everyone realizes Mongo was also drinking.
Sadly enough, Mongo apparently can't hold his alcohol, and vomits everywhere.
Let's repeat this so you can get the full feel of it: Mongo Chestraper, Matsu's freakin' talkin' penis with muscular arms, is now vomiting.
Strangest thing about the situation is that NO ONE VIEWING THIS IN THE PARTY (Matsu's Solo mission) IS QUESTIONING HOW A PENIS CAN VOMIT oh jesus this freakin' game…
Every Single Time Yoshida Appears
Period. If you want to find more moments about this, yer on yer own.
Facesitting/Squeaky Squeaky
Otherwise known as "I Can't Believe It Ended Like That!"
So they meet Getrude Do'An, right? The leader of the Spellfists. And he's a dirty old man…who apparently has more counters and interrupts then they have people.
So eventually EVENTUALLY it gets to Miss Lay and the short-shit…did I mention Gertrude is only 3 feet tall or so?…is behind her reaching up and grabbing her ass. So she just goes, "Y'know what? Fuck yer couch" and sits on him.
Gertrude is in ass heaven, so I make his pervy disposition roll…and the motherfucker gets a 1. He cannot resist dat ass, so this provides a situation where the combat (scheduled for longer then THIS, this was basically the first round!) can end early if they want.
I check with the whole party to see what they want, and indeed: everyone wants this to end, since they're basically facing a guy who can counter/interrupt everything…and he hasn't even gotten serious about fighting yet!
So Ms. Lay rubs her Bayonetta-suited ass on his face and squeak-squeaky, end of battle.
Baoz's purr
No, seriously, you might have to go visit his NPC profile to hear how he purrs.
When I first unveiled it, the party was like, "Wait…what the fuck is THAT?!" Now they fuckin' love it.
It's hard to describe with words…if you combine the sounds of a failing car, a machine with a wrench jammed in it, and that old Jeep cartoon that was basically a rip-off of Scooby Doo…yeah, that.
Suffice it to say, I really dig Ninja's mode of communication as well…but there's somethin' about Baoz's purr that I just LOVE to do.
Then there's Baoz's meow, which sounds like he's freakin' dyin' or somethin'.
Just, ugh, go check the NPC profiles after I finally get the voice samples up.
Reminder from Ms. Lay: it's also incredibly funny when Baoz tries to meow after he's merged with HERBERT and is in flight mode. Funny as hell, since he can't meow and keep power to his jets at the same time.
Ninja, period
Yeah, much like Yoshida, Ninja is just a bundle of luffs and laughs. He's a cute, dumb brick of cute…and pretty much anything connected to him is well-received by the entire party.
Everything from his habit of hanging around in ghost form, to his OM NOM NOM ability, and his subsequent Infernal Internals and dragonfire belching, the little bastard's just too cute for anyone to hate…and comes in handy when you least expect it.
"Thbbt, thbbt, thbbt!"
Ninja's acquisition of his name
Funny story about how Ninja got his name…y'see Matsu had just acquired the little bastid, and was Hellblading over the tops of trees at Mt. Fuji.
Anyway, he was racing Yoko Fujiyama (before they got married) and he tried to go faster to catch up to her, right? This was before he even knew she had "special" Hellblades, let alone her Otoko Hellblades…
Bad idea, since Ninja was on his shoulders.
In the space between seconds, without losing velocity, Ninja jumped in ninety-degree angles and buried his claws into Matsu's expansive, albino back.
Suffice it to say, he lost the race but he gained a name for his cat!
Oh god, okay…so Takeshi has this ability, right? The Howitzer Kick. Does great as a special attack, but there's one little itty-bitty part that I hadn't noticed…or, at least, planned for.
So he uses it on a mob, right? And he gets a crit. On a mob who's already downed.
Now, situational modifiers are applied to damage (x4 crit for special attacks, x2 for being downed), and then it's revealed "Wait, what about the negative to int ability?"
Long story short: holy fucking shit he just negged this guy for -16 Intelligence!
Suffice it to say, the vegetable is simply drooling and making retarded-pumpkin sounds. LOL!
Flaco Hates Dicey
Party in Hell
Mongo Chestraper
I'm A Bush
H.E.R.B.E.R.T. combining with Baoz/H.E.R.B.E.R.T.'s flight
The Chaos Board (lolobsessions)
Alita Amongst the Monsters
Alita in Wonderland
Ms. Lay Amongst the Monsters/Saeto's Rescue
The Battle Against Deus: I AM/Harkonnen Kraze
"I need to brush my teeth, ese!"
La Heina Has Ten to Twenty Minutes To Kill
Alita's Dress
Car Mating
Octavius Septimus is…a good person?!!!
Lawnmower Nunchucks
Gervais St. Germain
Quentin Joins the Rebel/Resist
Revealing the Griefer
You the Demon Lexus
Tyrone Destroying the Japanese-American Consulate's Shield/NERRRRRRRRRRRDS!
Dicey Hands A Wad To The Skeet Shooter
Return of the Skeet Shooter
Chou-cho versus Ballerd Stern
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38698 | New Parents Network
The following is a list of all the articles we have collected
What to do if your child disappears
Information from the Klaas Kids Foundation
Many Missing Child Websites warehouse flyers of the missing: descriptive text surrounding haunted little faces that stare imploringly into a future that might never arrive. If you seek this kind of information or need to create a missing child flyer log onto our sister website Beyond Missing. The ideas and strategies laid forth in this workbook are for the extreme cases where it is confirmed or highly likely that a predatory abduction has occurred or there is evidence that the child is in immediate danger of serious bodily harm or death.
Help for single mothers
Welcome to our website where you will find helpful tools to help you get started in your search for help. Whether you are looking for housing, education, section 8, food stamps, coupons, or other financial help our website has guides and tools to help you through the process.
Save water at home
Tucson residents are world-class water savers. Our combined average daily residential and non-residential water consumption (known as "per capita" water consumptionŸ??gallons per capita per day, or gpcd) is generally 160 gallons. That's far below the average rates in other parts of Arizona and the western United States.
The Skin Cancer Foundation
Ways to prevent tooth decay in babies - one example, don't "clean" your child's pacifier with your saliva
Tooth decay is actually an infectious disease that is transmitted from caregiver to child between the ages of 6 and 36 months of age. A bacteria called mutans streptococci is mainly responsible. Babies are born without this bacteria but become infected through intimate contact (sharing utensils, etc.) with caregivers (usually mothers). Ways to prevent tooth decay in young children: * Do not share utensils (spoons, straws, etc.) with your child.
Teach your children to NOT use an elevator during a fire, and other tips of safety for tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and flooding
Why can't I use the elevator instead of the stairs during a fire alarm? It isn't appropriate to use an elevator during a fire or similar building emergency. Elevators are designed to be recalled to a floor, usually the lobby, during alarm conditions. In unusual circumstances, an elevator malfunction might cause the elevator to travel to the fire floor, thus exposing the occupants to the fire. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38702 | Today, I replaced the home-cooked CMS (Jivoo CMS), which this blog was running on, with a home-cooked static site generator (with a web-based GUI similar to a CMS) that I'm working on. I also changed the design a bit… Considering it's been around 15 months since my last post, I guess I just find it easier to work on the technical parts of a blog rather than the actual content. I do however have a number of shorter posts planned for the near-future.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38713 | #ifndef LINUX_SPI_FLASH_H #define LINUX_SPI_FLASH_H struct mtd_partition; /** * struct flash_platform_data: board-specific flash data * @name: optional flash device name (eg, as used with mtdparts=) * @parts: optional array of mtd_partitions for static partitioning * @nr_parts: number of mtd_partitions for static partitoning * @type: optional flash device type (e.g. m25p80 vs m25p64), for use * with chips that can't be queried for JEDEC or other IDs * * Board init code (in arch/.../mach-xxx/board-yyy.c files) can * provide information about SPI flash parts (such as DataFlash) to * help set up the device and its appropriate default partitioning. * * Note that for DataFlash, sizes for pages, blocks, and sectors are * rarely powers of two; and partitions should be sector-aligned. */ struct flash_platform_data { char *name; struct mtd_partition *parts; unsigned int nr_parts; char *type; /* we'll likely add more ... use JEDEC IDs, etc */ }; #endif |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38746 | Paula Livingstone - Tech Tips Thu, 23 Jan 2020 08:41:07 +0000 Joomla! - Open Source Content Management en-gb Duplicate element ID's in the DOM
Short post today folks since its Friday :)
I've been developing quite a lot lately using Angular JS and React JS as I'm currently heavily involved with a startup preparing to release a new IoT product. The app is pretty complex with heavy calls to the server side database but that's not what we're going to talk about today.
One of the things that seem very straightforward when you're building small UX is ensuring you have a unique array of element ID's in your DOM at any given time but, as the complexity increases, then so does the difficulty in maintaining a mental map of the DOM you have at any given time, especially if elements of your viewport are loading dynamically via ajax calls or whatever.
The downside to having a duplicate element ID may not always be immediately apparent as it is not something that will always push an error to the console. This can result in confusing erratic behaviour from your application and often hours can be lost trying to work out what on earth is going on.
By the time you eventually get to the bottom of the problem you realise that you've wasted hours searching for something that was ultimately such a basic error.
Engineering Fri, 26 Apr 2019 12:52:13 +0000
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Hardening The Joomla Backend
If like me, you manage one or more Joomla websites, you will no doubt be aware of the sorry lack of user friendly documentation and the appalling lack of a powerful native log facility. This seems to me to be an enormous oversight on the part of the developers however it is possible with a little jiggery pokery to get the information you need.
I noticed recently that there were enormous amounts (1500 per day) of failed login attempts at the default backend URL ( This is to be expected of any installation like this however one cannot help but feel uneasy at the incessant minute by minute brute force dictionary attacks rolling by in the log. If your passwords are secure then you'll almost certainly be fine. If your administrator username is anything but admin, you'll be even better. Still I wasn't satisfied and I decided to call in the big guns.
Network Security Fri, 12 Oct 2018 09:44:48 +0000
Passing Dynamic Arguments to Bash Scripts
It is possible to pass arguments to a bash script when it is called from the command line. This is the technique to use when you need to have your script carry out different actions each time it runs dependent on the input and the context. This is done by passing selected parameters to the file on the command line and these parameters are called arguments.
Lets look at an example, you may have a script called "" that performs a particular operation on an RRD file, such as extracting the data. If you want to be able to use that script on many RRD files in many different user directories, it is best to pass the file path as an argument, so that you can use the same script for all the files to be processed.
Optimisation Tue, 05 Dec 2017 15:05:06 +0000
Understanding Polarisation Tech Tips Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:07:43 +0000 |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38747 | The First Christians Part 2: the Ebionites
The Original Jesus and the Aeons
by Kat Kent, January 1, 2017
Christians living in the last century BCE, or during the time just before Jesus was said to have lived, had a large range of beliefs and deities. There were at least two gods of the universe, sometimes more. While many deities were claimed to have “resurrected”, this was believed to be immaterial to salvation of the masses. There were many “gospels” and writings about different belief systems in distribution throughout the world. Most followers accepted these myths as just that, gleaming from them the lessons meant to impart, but realizing that to teach those concepts, a good story had to be told, albeit highly embellished. But most prevalent was the idea that the expected messenger from God was bringing with him, secret wisdom that was to be imparted to these God/men that would allow them to get back to the heavenly realm from whence they came. These mythical stories would later be taken literally by the proto-orthodox Christian religious groups which came to life during the first century CE.
The only historical information we have about the original Jesus cults comes from their detractors. Competing cults often burnt the doctrine of other groups to discourage its dissemination. During the formation of the Roman Catholic Church, all teachings from the gnostic cults were destroyed or hidden, as was any myth that did not fit in to the Roman political ideology. Early Christian cults were particularly dangerous because of their promotion of free thinking and Gnosticism. Many of the early writings have been rediscovered or are mentioned in depth in historical documents.
The earliest cult of the Jesus “Christos” mentioned by early church fathers was the “Ebionites”, which formed around 30CE. Their name comes from the Hebrew word “ebyonim” meaning “the poor”. Eusebius, an early Greek historian of Christianity and one of the fathers of the Christian Church, tells us this group formed in a village called Choba, near Palestine. Formerly known as “Nazarenes”, this was a group of Jewish Christian Adoptionists. All of the very first Christians, Nazarenes, Ebionites, and Gnostic groups were adoptionists, believing Jesus to be fully human and adopted by god. Their first “Gospel of the Nazarenes” was much like what would become Matthew, minus the first two chapters concerned with the virgin birth. Their second doctrine, “Gospel of the Ebionites” was a conflation of Matthew, Mark and Luke, with some modifications, like vegetarianism, making it clear these later documents used the Ebionite doctrine as one of their models. But the Ebionites more ancient doctrine seems to have originated from “Q” or the “Qumran” sect described in the dead sea scrolls. The teaching of “The Way” coincides with the teachings of Jewish mysticism taught in the Kabbalah today.
Saint James
This would have most likely been the group Jesus actually wandered with if he existed. This group was supposed to have been led by James, Jesus brother,and Peter, a disciple. They were staunch Jews and modeled themselves after Jesus himself…what Jesus did they did. Jesus followed the Jewish law strictly, and the Ebionites were no different. Their beliefs were closer to the Jesus apostles beliefs rather than the proto-Orthodox. They believed in one god. Jesus had not been born to a virgin, and was fully human, with Mary and Joseph being his human parents. Jesus was more like a Jonah or a Solomon. They believed that Jesus was chosen as the “Messiah” (the anointed messenger) of god because he had been the most righteous man living on earth. He was adopted by God during his baptism by John. As God’s “son”, he was required to die to end sacrificial rituals and to usher in a return to the “true Jewish faith”, as prophesied in the Old Testament. This would be the last but “perfect” sacrifice, eliminating the need for all others. Because he courageously fulfilled his mission, God raised him from the dead and he was given a new “human” life and responsibility of saving the Jewish “aeons”, by bringing them the secret knowledge God had presented to him.
It was believed you had to be a Jew to be an aeon, and that one had to remain or convert to Judaism as a believer in the Jesus Messiah. But Jesus was not a mainstream Jew. He denounced the ritual of animal sacrifice, and Ebionites became vegetarians as most of the meat in Rome came from those sacrifices. He taught that one must give up all worldly possessions, and take a vow of poverty. Following the Torah, the basis of the Jewish religion, was extremely important, but the group read it in the spirit of Jesus’ teachings. (In Christianity, this doctrine would become known as the “Pentateuch”.) The Ebionites believed Jesus had restored the teachings of the prophets to a “true Jewish faith,” as compared with the teachings of orthodox Jewish groups of the time such as the Pharisees. In addition, they rejected any alterations made by men to the Torah.
The largely pagan society in Rome rejected these Christian cults, accusing them as well as the Jews, of plagiarism of old ideologies and concepts, which they considered to be superstitious and had long ago denounced. Early Church fathers were constantly being forced to defend what other Christian and pagan groups saw as a preposterous yarns and tales. Gnostic Christians, in turn, saw “orthodox” Christians as “dumb animals”.
The Ebionites seemed to have left Palestine to avoid persecution after the destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem in 70CE. They settled in Transjordan and Syria, and later spread into Asia Minor and Egypt.
Modern Ebionites
Looking at modern Christian beliefs today, there remains almost no influence of the original Jesus Christos cult. A small group of Ebionites have modernized their doctrine and keep a presence on the Internet, as well as meeting in the physical world. You can read about them more here: Modern Ebionites have accepted the Gospel of Thomas and other Gnostic gospels into their belief system, and retain their original belief in the nature of Jesus of Nazarene. Ironic that the cult most likely to have been that of an historical Jesus, is the one modern Christians know little to nothing about, and whose teachings are no longer considered relevant.
The First Christians Part III: the Marcionites
The First Christians Part I: the Gnostics
“The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors”, Kersey Graves, 16th edition, 2001 Adventures Unlimited Press
Lost Christianities: Christian Scriptures and the Battles over Authenticity, the Teaching Company 2002,University of NC at Chapel Hill, Professor Bart D. Ehrman
The Christ Conspiracy, The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Acharya S (DM Murdock), 1999
The Catholica Encyclopedia,
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Commands that are executed in the OSD itself will either return to the Commands Menu after displaying the ‘Running Command’ dialog or present a new dialog box with either one or two choices, depending on the Command. The first choice is always ‘OK’ which confirms the script was executed and returns to the Command Menu. In some cases you may see a second option, called ‘Show output’, which shows a dialog with the ‘shell output’ of the command, providing more information about the action performed and its result.
To abort a command, press the Start/Stop OSD button on the remote control (UMP-R-1XX) or select ‘stop_osd’ from the Helper scripts under Plugins in the Web Interface. You can also choose to refresh the graphical environment entirely by selected the ‘restart_gui’ helper. The OSD will be launched automatically again afterwards.
Note that if you run the ‘cache’ helper from the Web Interface, there will be no notification in the OSD to inform you of this. In some cases, if a ‘moving image’ screensaver (bouncing_ump, bouncing_ump2 and balls) is active, the OSD may be blended into the screensaver for a brief while. This is purely cosmetic, and doesn’t influence the functionality in any way. It is recommended to restart the OSD if the cache was rebuilt from the Web Interface. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38759 | Wednesday Walk Around the Web – 10/24/2018
Author: Glenn Butler
Glenn is not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be. The Glenn that you know, they had some second thoughts. Glenn's come back to reclaim some infinitude of silence, the unspeaking of their name. At PTBN they're most often seen walking the web, covering the Star Trek beat, and podcasting about various manifestations of life and popular culture. Find them elsewhere on the Twitter, the Insta and/or the Tumblr. Tamp 'em up solid. |
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Removing Control M (^M) Characters From Unix File
Hi Friends,
While working on Unix, we generally transfer files from Windows to different Unix platforms. After the file is copied if we open the text file in our most liked Vi Editor, then we see ^M (Control M) character at the end of each line.
UNIX treats the end of line differently than other operating systems. Sometimes when editing files in both Windows and UNIX environments, a CTRL-M character is visibly displayed at the end of each line as ^M in vi.
Two simple ways of removing Control M (^M) Character files are as follows:
1) Using dos2unix utility
Many Unix flavors ship dos2unix utility.
dos2unix filename [newfilename]
e.g. remove control characters from file xyz.txt
dos2unix xyz.txt xyz.txt #this will replace abc.txt and remove control characters
dos2unix xyz.txt abc.txt #a new file xyz.txt will be created after removing control characters
2) Using Vi Editor
Hope this helps..
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38776 | Episode 10: Elena Rubin | From Wall Street to Skin Care
Elena Rubin’s journey began in the unlikeliest of places. On Wall Street.
A hard-driving Harvard graduate with an engineering background and a high-powered career, the long hours ‘rewarded’ her with acne, hair loss, and auto immune disorders. So Elena sought the help of Eastern Medicine. She healed—quickly and radiantly. Awed and changed, she left the corporate world to pursue her calling: holistic skincare. Continue Reading |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38780 | Thursday 23 January 2020
Sunday, 12 May 2019 22:00
Teachings of Padmasambhava
The Teachings of Padmasambhava — by Herbert V. Guenther
The mind of one of the greatest spiritual geniuses in human history - Padamasambhava - wanderer, mystic, and one of the original founders of Tibetan Buddhism.
Published in Dharma
Monday, 06 May 2019 23:05
Philosophy and Psychology in the Abhidharma — by Herbert V. Guenther
Published in Dharma
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Mirror of Wisdom
Mirror of Wisdom - Teachings on Emptiness — by Tsultim Gyeltsen
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Friday, 19 April 2019 01:45
Engaging Buddhism
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Monday, 08 April 2019 01:11
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Wednesday, 06 March 2019 07:30
Five Heaps
These works present the traditional Buddhist analysis of ordinary experience.
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Analytics and Logic
Pointing at the Moon - Buddhism, Logic, Analytic Philosophy — by Mario D'Amato, Jay L. Garfield and Tom J.F. Tillemans
Essays by philosophers and scholars working at the interface of Western philosophy and Buddhist Studies.
Published in Dharma
Sunday, 04 November 2018 01:07
Emptiness and Insight
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Restful Mind
It is with our mind that we create our world.
Here's how to open it up and let the world in.
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Friday, 30 March 2018 22:55
Empty Sky
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38796 | Mike Pence
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—Mike Pence[1]
Michael Richard Pence (1959–) is the 48th Vice President of the United States and formerly the 50th Governor of Indiana and a Representative from the state's 6th District. A Republican, notorious Christian fundamentalist, and supporter of the Tea Party, he was a potential candidate for the Republican nomination for the presidency in 2012 and 2016, but chose not to run. In spite of his previous denouncement of Trump[2] and endorsement of Ted "Vote your Conscience" Cruz, he was later chosen as Trump's Vice President.
The sad part is Pence didn't do much for Indiana; that was all Mitch DanielsWikipedia's W.svg. Pence first came to national prominence when he introduced and subsequently signed a bill into law that would allow private individuals and companies to discriminate against LGBT people on "religious freedom" grounds. However, after hundreds of businesses pointed out the economic impact of such a bill, he quietly backed down, tail tucked between his legs.
Despite bearing an eerie resemblance to a James Bond villainWikipedia's W.svg Pence is incredibly boring ("Born to be Mild"), which is why walking infomercial Donald Trump chose him as his President of Vice VP, in order to make Trump's mad ramblings more palatable to more decent fundie Republicans.[3] However, if he continues to rub the Republican establishment the wrong way, he may eventually come to regret not choosing a VP who's less acceptable to the far right. Pence is also completely crazy and thinks Jesus wanted him to be a politician. He wants the line between religion and politics completely erased. Furthermore, he's an outright Cheney fan, "I frankly hold Dick Cheney in very high regard in his role as vice president."[4]
He was born, raised, and educated in Indiana. Born into an Irish Catholic and Democratic family, Pence and his family idolized the first Irish Catholic president, John F. Kennedy.[5] He converted to Evangelical Protestantism during his college years and became a Republican. [6]
He studied law at Indiana University in Indianapolis and briefly worked in private practice before moving to the more content-free life of a think-tank whore and right-wing talk radio presenter in the 1990s. In the latter capacity, he reportedly styled himself "Rush Limbaugh on decaf", indicating his comparative dullness in comparison to the rabid shock jock, although in retrospect maybe he knew something about Limbaugh's drug problems too.
He unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 1988 and 1990; in the latter race he was widely criticised for finding unusual uses for campaign funding, including mortgage payments on his house and entrance fees for golf tournaments.[7] He finally succeeded in entering the House of Representatives in 2000. In 2006, he lost badly to John Boehner in the election for House minority leader, but he became Republican Conference Chairman in 2009, which is nearly as good.
While in Congress, he served on committees concerned with agriculture, the judiciary, small business, and foreign relations; he introduced 90 bills of which zero became law. He also proposed a constitutionally-enshrined government spending limit and spoke in favor of the gold standard. He voted for the Iraq War and Patriot Act, and supported immigration restrictions, campaign finance liberalisation, every free trade treaty there was, and partial privatisation of Social Security.
He was the only candidate in the 2012 Republican primary for governor of Indiana, and polled 49.6% in the general election to defeat Democratic candidate John Gregg; this was a sharp fall from the vote for his predecessor Mitch Daniels but still enough to keep the Republicans in power.
Although a climate change denier in the past, in a rare episode of sanity Pence said he now supports the scientific consensus on climate change (somewhat).[8]
Trump VP pick
During his first CNN interview with Trump, Pence's initial answer on waterboarding was a pretty creative cop-out, we'll give him that. "I don't think we should ever tell our enemy what our tactics are."[9] Trump rather patronizingly said that Pence was "entitled to a mistake"—voting for the Iraq War, one of the most common sticks he uses to beat Hillary with.[10] That isn't even discussing the frickin' GOLD CHAIRS they were sitting in. Yes GOLD CHAIRS that looked just like Saddam's or Putin's or Assad's or… Just an all-around disaster of an interview.
Religious views
When the conversation turned to gay rights, Trump motioned toward Pence and joked, “Don’t ask that guy—he wants to hang them all!”
—Jane Mayer[11]
My deepest-held conviction, @VP, is USA is being ruined by fake-Christian pharisees like you, who devote lives to ignoring Jesus to further their petty ambitions, by being greedy, judgmental warmongers, who enable adulterous liars like Donald J. Trump. We're awake to that, girl!
Betty Bowers[12]
Pence converted from Catholicism (and from being a Democrat) in the 1990s, and became an evangelical Christian.[13] He is a creationist (pro-"intelligent design") and opposes evolution, and has used the "just one of many theories" gambit.[14][15] Though he doesn't like to talk about his religion,[13] his political career has been marked by the social conservatism characteristic of evangelical Christianity, and he has associated with dominionists. He may also have argued in favor of taxpayer funded conversion therapy, although his wording was a bit ambiguous.[16]
Mulan review
As a radio show host, Pence was known for his range of… interesting opinions on a wide variety of topics, to put it lightly.[1] In 1999, Pence argued in an op-ed that the Disney film Mulan was liberal, feminazi propaganda:
Just spent a memorable Father's Day, like so many other all American Hoosier dads, with my kids at the new Disney film entitled, "Mulan". […] Despite her delicate features and voice, Disney expects us to believe that Mulan's ingenuity and courage were enough to carry her to military success on an equal basis with her cloddish cohorts. Obviously, this is Walt Disney's attempt to add childhood expectation to the cultural debate over the role of women in the military. I suspect that some mischievous liberal at Disney assumes that Mulan's story will cause a quiet change in the next generation's attitude about women in combat and they just might be right. (Just think about how often we think of Bambi every time the subject of deer hunting comes into the mainstream media debate.) […]
The hard truth of our experiment with gender integration is that is has been an almost complete disaster for the military and for many of the individual women involved. […] Housing, in close quarters, young men and women (in some cases married to non-military personnel) at the height of their physical and sexual potential is the height of stupidity. It is instructive that even in the Disney film, young Ms. Mulan falls in love with her superior officer! Me thinks[sic] the politically correct Disney types completely missed the irony of this part of the story. They likely added it because it added realism with which the viewer could identify with the characters. You see, now stay with me on this, many young men find many young women to be attractive sexually. Many young women find many young men to be attractive sexually. Put them together, in close quarters, for long periods of time, and things will get interesting. Just like they eventually did for young Mulan. Moral of story: women in military, bad idea.[17]
If he really hated the movie that much, just sticking to the valid criticism that it was the typically cheesy Disney fakelore would have sufficed. The fact that actual ancient Chinese history had severalWikipedia's W.svg realWikipedia's W.svg famousWikipedia's W.svg femaleWikipedia's W.svg warriors,Wikipedia's W.svg Pence freely ignores. It also doesn't seem to have occurred to him that many young men find each other attractive, with or without openly admitting it, and that this has never brought the army tumbling down. Unless maybe it did occur to him and people were right to call his statements alluding to conversion therapy dog whistles.
Pence recommends abstinence-only sex education.[18] He has falsely claimed that "condoms are a very, very poor protection against sexually transmitted diseases".[19]
Global warming
Pence has claimed that climate change is a myth and part of a "liberal environmentalist agenda" to raise taxes.[20]
Tobacco smoking
Decades after there is any scientific doubt that tobacco smoking kills, and denialists are hard to find, Pence claimed in 2000, "Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn't kill."[21]
Homophobia and Transphobia
Besides already drafting a religious freedom act during his time as the governor of Indiana, he was in favor of the North Carolina HB2 bill that would give the right to discriminate transgender people in North Carolina.[22] He was also the one responsible for Trump signing the transgender ban in the United States military in July 2017.[23]
Views on science
Like most fundamentalists and creationists, Pence is anti-science. He wanted to replace science classes with teaching the bible instead.
See also
External links
1. 1.0 1.1 Hogan, Patrick (July 14, 2016). "Here are some of the weirdest columns Mike Pence wrote in the '90s". Fusion.
2. Mike Pence Tweets
3. Spodak, Cassie (August 5, 2016). "11-year-old puts Pence on the spot with Trump question". CNN Politics.
4. Tani, Maxwell (September 18, 2016). "Mike Pence: I'd model my vice presidency after Dick Cheney". Business Insider.
5. Mahler, Johnathan; Johnson, Dirk (July 20, 2016).
6. "Mike Pence's Journey: Catholic Democrat to Evangelical Republican".The New York Times.
7. Mike Pence used campaign funds to pay his mortgage — and it cost him an election By Rosalind S. Helderman et al. (July 15, 2016) The Washington Post.
8. Joyce, Andrew (September 28, 2016). "Mike Pence believes in climate change (don't tell Trump!)". Fusion.
9. Eric Bradner and Tal Kopan, "Trump: I'd declare war on ISIS, send 'very few' troops", CNN (Updated 7/17/16 at 7:59 PM ET).
11. Mayer, "The Dangers of President Pence", New Yorker (16 October 2017, 5:00 AM).
12. My deepest-held conviction, @VP, is USA is being ruined by fake-Christian pharisees like you… @BettyBowers (4:06 AM - 13 May 2018) Twitter.
13. 13.0 13.1 Mike Pence’s religion by Craig Fehrman
14. Mike Pence, creationist
15. ProgressiveChangeNews (August 4, 2016). "Mike Pence Fighting Evolution". YouTube.
16. Pence's support for conversion therapy not a settled matter
17. "The Mike Pence Show" op-ed (1999), unearthed by BuzzFeed on July 17, 2016.
18. Who’s worse for the nation — Trump or Pence? by Richard Cohen (August 7 at 7:35 PM) The Washington Post.
19. Condoms, More Than 10,000 Years Old, Are Too “Modern” for Mike Pence by Nora Caplan-Bricker (July 22 2016 12:49 PM) Slate.
20. In a Trump-free election, Pence might not seem so mainstream: The governor's long career in the public eye contains its share of controversy by Madeline Conway and Brent Griffiths (10/04/2016 01:32 PM EDT) Politico.
21. "Smoking Doesn't Kill" And Other Great Old Op-Eds From Mike Pence by Andrew Kaczynski (March 31, 2015, at 10:38 a.m.) BuzzFeed News.
22. [1] Pence supports North Carolina's right to discriminate, DailyKos
23. [2] Pence secretly drafted Trump's latest transgender military ban, ThinkProgress
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Expositions of Holy Scripture
Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings Chapters I to VII
Part 3
By Alexander Maclaren
Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.'--DEUT. xxxiii. 25.
If He were to deal with us as men often deal with one another, asking us, Well, how much do you want? cannot you do with a little less? there is the exact quantity that you need for your support'--if you got your bread by weight and your water by measure, it would be a very poor affair. See how He actually does--He says, Child, there is Mine own strength for you' and we think that we honour Him when we say, God has given us enough for our necessities!' Rather the old word is always true: So they did eat and were filled; and they took up of the fragments that remained seven baskets-full,' and after they were satisfied and replete with the provision, there was more at the end than when they began.
That sounds strange, and yet it is not strange. Think of that electric light which is made by directing a strong stream upon two small pieces of carbon. As the electricity strikes upon these and turns their blackness into a fiery blaze, it eats away their substance while it changes them into light. But there is an arrangement in the lamp by which a fresh surface is continually being brought into the path of the beam, and so the light continues without wavering and blazes on. The carbon is our human nature, black and dull in itself; the electric beam is the swift energy of God, which makes us light in the Lord.' For the one, decay is the end of effort; for the other, there is none. Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.' Though we belong to the perishing order of nature by our bodily frame, we belong to the undecaying realm of grace by the spirit that lays hold upon God. And if our work weary us, as it must do so long as we continue here, yet in the deepest sanctuary of our being, our strength is greatened by exercise. Thy shoes shall be iron and brass.' Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.' Stand, therefore, having your feet shod with the preparedness of the Gospel of peace.'
But this is not all. There is an advance even upon these great promises in the closing words. That second clause of our text says more than the first one. Thy shoes shall be iron and brass,' that promises us powers and provision adapted to, and unexhausted by, the weary pilgrimage and rough road of life. But as thy days, so shall thy strength be,' says even more than that. The meaning of the word rendered strength' in our version is very doubtful, and most modern translators are inclined to render it rest.' But if we adhere to the translation of our version, we get a forcible and relevant promise, which fits on well to the previous clause, understood as it has been in my previous remarks. The usual understanding of the words is strength proportioned to thy day,' an idea which we have found already suggested by the previous clause. But that explanation rests on, or at any rate derives support from, the common misquotation of the words. They are not, as we generally hear them quoted, As thy day, so shall thy strength be,'--but day' is in the plural, and that makes a great difference. As thy days, so shall thy strength be,' that is to say: the two sums--of thy days' and of thy strength'--keep growing side by side, the one as fast as the other and no faster. The days increase. Well, what then? The strength increases too. As I said, we are allied to two worlds. According to the law of one of them, the outer world of physical life, we soon reach the summit of human strength. For a little while it is true, even in the life of nature, that our power grows with our days. But we soon reach the watershed, and then the opposite comes to be true. Down, steadily down, we go. With diminishing power, with diminishing vitality, with a dimmer eye, with an obtuser ear, with a slower-beating heart, with a feebler frame, we march on and on to our grave. As thy days, so shall thy weakness be,' is the law for all of us mature men and women in regard to our outward life.
So it may be with us if we abide in Him, without whom we are nothing, but partaking of whose strength the weakest shall be as David, and David as an angel of God.'
If for us, drawing nearer to the end is drawing nearer to the light, our faces will be brightened more and more with that light which we approach, and our path will be as the shining light which shines more and more unto the noon-tide of the day,' because we are closer to the very fountain of heavenly radiance, and growingly bathed and flooded with the outgoings of His glory. As thy days, so shall thy strength be.'
The promise ought to be true for us all. It is true for all who use the things that are freely given to them of God. And whilst thus it is the law for the devout life here, its most glorious fulfilment remains for the life beyond. There each new moment shall bring new strength, and growing millenniums but add fresh vigour to our immortal life. Here the unresting beat of the waves of the sea of time gnaws away the bank and shoal whereon we stand, but there each roll of the great ocean of eternity shall but spread new treasures at our feet and add new acres to our immortal heritage. The oldest angels,' says Swedenborg, look the youngest.' When life is immortal, the longer it lasts the stronger it becomes, and so the spirits that have stood for countless days before His throne, when they appear to human eyes, appear as--young men clothed in long white garments,'--full of unaging youth and energy that cannot wane. So, whilst in the flesh we must obey the law of decay, the spirit may be subject to this better law of life, and while the outward man perisheth, the inward man be renewed day by day.' Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall; but they that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength.'
So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord. 6. And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, … but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.'--DEUT. xxxiv. 5, 6.
A fitting end to such a life! The great law-giver and leader had been all his days a lonely man; and now, surrounded by a new generation, and all the old familiar faces vanished, he is more solitary than ever. He had lived alone with God, and it was fitting that alone with God he should die.
How the silent congregation must have watched, as, alone, with natural strength unabated,' he breasted the mountain, and went up to be seen no more! With dignified reticence our chapter tells us no details. He died there,' in that dreary solitude, and in some cleft he was buried, and no man knows where. The lessons of that solitary death and unknown tomb may best be learned by contrast with another death and another grave--those of the Leader of the New Covenant, the Law-giver and Deliverer from a worse bondage, and Guide into a better Canaan, the Son who was faithful over His own house, as Moses was faithful in all his house, as a servant.' That lonely and forgotten grave among the savage cliffs was in keeping with the whole character and work of him who lay there.
Here,--here's his place, where meteors shoot, clouds form, Lightnings are loosened, Stars come and go! Let joy break with the storm, Peace let the dew send! Lofty designs must close in like effects; Loftily lying, Leave him--still loftier than the world suspects, Living and dying.'
Contrast that grave with the sepulchre in the garden where Jesus lay, close by a city wall, guarded by foes, haunted by troops of weeping friends, visited by a great light of angel faces. The one was hidden and solitary, as teaching the loneliness and mystery of death; the other revealed light in the darkness, and companionship in the loneliness. The one faded from men's memory because it was nothing to any man; no impulses, nor hopes, nor gifts, could come from it. The other forever draws hearts and memories, because in it was wrought out the victory in which all our hopes are rooted. An endured cross, an empty grave, an occupied throne, are as the threefold cord on which all our hopes hang. Moses was solitary as God's servant in life and death, and oblivion covered his mountain grave. Christ's delights were with the sons of men.' He lived among them, and all men know his sepulchre to this day.'
I. Note, then, first, as a lesson gathered from this lonely death, the penalty of transgression.
One of the great truths which the old law and ordinances given by Moses were intended to burn in on the conscience of the Jew, and through him on the conscience of the world, was that indissoluble connection between evil done and evil suffered, which reaches its highest exemplification in the death which is the wages of sin.' And just as some men that have invented instruments for capital punishment have themselves had to prove the sharpness of their own axe, so the lawgiver, whose message it had been to declare, the soul that sinneth it shall die,' had himself to go up alone to the mountain-top to receive in his own person the exemplification of the law that had been spoken by his own lips. He sinned when, in a moment of passion (with many palliations and excuses), he smote the rock that he was bidden to address, and forgot therein, and in his angry words to the rebels, that he was only an instrument in the divine hand. It was a momentary wavering in a hundred and twenty years of obedience. It was one failure in a life of self-abnegation and suppression. The stern sentence came.
People say, A heavy penalty for a small offence.' Yes; but an offence of Moses could not be a small offence.' Noblesse oblige! The higher a man rises in communion with God, and the more glorious the message and office which are put into his hands, the more intolerable in him is the slightest deflection from the loftiest level. A splash of mud, that would never be seen on a navy's clothes, stains the white satin of a bride or the embroidered garment of a noble. And so a little sin done by a loftily endowed and inspired man ceases to be small.
Nor are we to regard that momentary lapse only from the outside and the surface. One little mark under the armpit of a plague-sufferer tells the physician that the fatal disease is there. A tiny leaf above ground may tell that, deep below, lurks the root of a poison plant. That little deflection, coming as it did at the beginning of the resumption of his functions by the Lawgiver after seven-and-thirty years of comparative abeyance, and on his first encounter with the new generation that he had to lead, was a very significant indication that his character had begun to yield and suffer from the strain that had been put upon it; and that, in fact, he was scarcely fit for the responsibilities that the new circumstances brought. So the penalty was not so disproportionate to the fault as it may seem.
And was the penalty such a very great one? Do you think that a man who had been toiling for eighty years at a very thankless task would consider it a very severe punishment to be told, Go home and take your wages'? It did not mean the withdrawal of the divine favour. Moses and Aaron among his priests… . Thou wast a God that forgavest them, though Thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.' The penalty of a forgiven sin is never hard to bear, and the penalty of a forgiven sin is very often punctually and mercifully exacted.
But still we are not to ignore the fact that this lonely death, with which we are now concerned, is of the nature of a penal infliction. And so it stands forth in consonance with the whole tone of the Mosaic teaching. I admit, of course, that the mere physical fact of the separation between body and spirit is simply the result of natural law. But that is not the death that you and I know. Death as we know it, the ugly thing that flings its long shadows across all life, and that comes armed with terrors for conscience and spirit, is the wages of sin,' and is only experienced by men who have transgressed the law of God. So far Moses in his life and in his death carries us--that no transgression escapes the appropriate punishment; that the smallest sin has in it the seeds of mortal consequences; that the loftiest saint does not escape the law of retribution.
And no further does Moses with his Law and his death carry us. But we turn to the other death. And there we find the confirmation, in an eminent degree, of that Law, and yet the repeal of it. It is confirmed and exhausted in Jesus Christ. His death was the wages of sin.' Whose? Not His. Mine, yours, every man's. And because He died, surrounded by men, outside the old city wall, pure and sinless in Himself, He therein both said Amen' to the Law of Moses, and swept it away. For all the sins of the world were laid upon His head, He bore the curse for us all, and has emptied the bitter cup which men's transgressions have mingled. Therefore the solitary death in the desert proclaims the wages of sin' that death outside the city wall proclaims the gift of God,' which is eternal life.'
II. Another of the lessons of our incident is the withdrawal, by a hard fate, of the worker on the very eve of the completion of his work.
For all these forty years there had gleamed before the fixed and steadfast spirit of the sorely tried leader one hope that he never abandoned, and that was that he might look upon and enter into the blessed land which God had promised. And now he stands on the heights of Moab. Half a dozen miles onwards, as the crow flies, and his feet would tread its soil. He lifts his eyes, and away up yonder, in the far north, he sees the rolling uplands of Gilead, and across the deep gash where the Jordan runs, he catches a glimpse of the blue hills of Naphtali or of Galilee, and the central mountain masses of Ephraim and Manasseh, where Ebal and Gerizim lift their heads; and then, further south, the stony summits of the Judaean hills, where Jerusalem and Bethlehem lie, and, through some gap in the mountains, a gleam as of sunshine upon armour tells where the ocean is. And then his eye falls upon the waterless plateau of the South, and at his feet the fertile valley of Jordan, with Jericho glittering amongst its palm trees like a diamond set in emeralds, and on some spur of the lower hill bounding the plain, the little Zoar. This was the land which the Lord had promised to the fathers, for which he had been yearning, and to which all his work had been directed all these years; and now he is to die, as my text puts it, with such pathetic emphasis, there in Moab,' and to have no part in the fair inheritance.
It is the lot of all epoch-making men, of all great constructive and reforming geniuses, whether in the Church or in the world, that they should toil at a task, the full issues of which will not be known until their heads are laid low in the dust. But if, on the one hand, that seems hard, on the other hand there is the compensation of the vision of the future and all the wonder that shall be,' which is granted many a time to the faithful worker ere he closes his eyes. But that is not the fate of epoch-making and great men only; it is the law for our little lives. If these are worth anything, they are constructed on a scale too large to bring out all their results here and now. It is easy for a man to secure immediate consequences of an earthly kind; easy enough for him to make certain that he shall have the fruit of his toil. But quick returns mean small profits; and an unfinished life that succeeds in nothing may be far better than a completed one, that has realised all its shabby purposes and accomplished all its petty desires. Do you, my brother, live for the far-off; and seek not for the immediate issues and fruits that the world can give, but be contented to be of those whose toil waits for eternity to disclose its significance. Better a half-finished temple than a finished pigstye or huckster's shop. Better a life, the beginning of much and the completion of nothing, than a life directed to and hitting an earthly aim. He that soweth to the spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting,' and his harvest and garner are beyond the grave.
III. Again, notice here the lesson of the solitude and mystery of death.
Moses dies alone, with no hand to clasp his, none to close his eyes; but God's finger does it. The outward form of his death is but putting into symbol and visibility the awful characteristics of that last moment for us all. However closely we have been twined with others, each of us has to unclasp dear hands, and make that journey through the narrow, dark tunnel by himself. We live alone in a very real sense, but we each have to die as if there were not another human being in the whole universe but only ourselves. But the solitude may be a solitude with God. Up there, alone with the stars and the sky and the everlasting rocks and menacing death, Moses had for companion the supporting God. That awful path is not too desolate and lonely to be trodden if we tread it with Him.
Moses' lonely death leads to a society yonder. If you refer to the thirty-second chapter you will find that, when he was summoned to the mountain, God said to him, Die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered to thy people.' He was to be buried there, up amongst the rocks of Moab, and no man was ever to visit his sepulchre to drop a tear over it. How, then, was he gathered to his people'? Surely only thus, that, dying in the desert alone, he opened his eyes in the City,' surrounded by solemn troops and sweet societies' of those to whom he was kindred. So the solitude of a moment leads on to blessed and eternal companionship.
So far the death of Moses carries us. What does the other death say? Moses had none but God with him when he died. There is a drearier desolation than that, and Jesus Christ proved it when He cried, My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?' That was solitude indeed, and in that hour of mysterious, and to us unfathomable, desertion and misery, the lonely Christ sounded a depth, of which the lawgiver in His death but skimmed the surface. Christ was parted from God in His death, because He bore on Him the sins that separate us from our Father, and in order that none of us may ever need to tread that dark passage alone, but may be able to say, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me'--Thou, who hast trodden every step in its rough and dreary path, uncheered by the presence which cheers us and millions more. Christ died that we might live. He died alone that, when we come to die, we may hold His hand and the solitude may vanish.
Then, again, our incident teaches us the mystery that wrapped death to that ancient world, of which we may regard that unknown and forgotten sepulchre as the visible symbol. Deep darkness lies over the Old Testament in reference to what is beyond the grave, broken by gleams of light, when the religious consciousness asserted its indestructibility, in spite of all appearance to the contrary; but never growing to the brightness of serene and continuous assurance of immortal life and resurrection. We may conceive that mysteriousness as set forth for us by that grave that was hidden away in the defiles of Moab, unvisited and uncared for by any.
We turn to the other grave, and there, as the stone is rolled away, and the rising sunshine of the Easter morning pours into it, we have a visible symbol of the life and immortality which Jesus Christ then brought to light by His Gospel. The buried grave speaks of the inscrutable mystery that wrapped the future: the open sepulchre proclaims the risen Lord of life, and the sunlight certainty of future blessedness which we owe to Him. Death is solitary no more, though it be lonely as far as human companionship is concerned; and a mystery no more, though what is beyond is hidden from our view, and none but Christ has ever returned to tell the tale, and He has told us little but the fact that we shall live with Him.
We rejoice that we have not to turn to a grave hid amongst the hills where our dead Leader lies, but to an open sepulchre by the city wall in the sunshine, from whence has come forth the ever-living Captain of our salvation.'
IV. The last lesson is the uselessness of a dead leader to a generation with new conflicts.
Commentators have spent a great deal of ingenuity in trying to assign reasons why God concealed the grave of Moses. The text does not say that God concealed it at all. The ignorance of the place of his sepulchre does not seem to have been part of the divine design, but simply a consequence of the circumstances of his death, and of the fact that he lay in an enemy's land, and that they had had something else to do than go to look for the grave of a dead commander. They had to conquer the land, and a living Joshua was what they wanted, not a dead Moses.
So we may learn from this how easily the gaps fill. Thirty days' mourning,' and says my text, with almost a bitter touch,' so the days of mourning for Moses were ended.' A month of it, that was all; and then everybody turned to the new man that was appointed for the new work. God has many tools in His tool-chest, and He needs them all before the work is done. Joshua could no more have wielded Moses' rod than Moses could have wielded Joshua's sword. The one did his work, and was laid aside. New circumstances required a new type of character--the smaller man better fitted for the rougher work. And so it always is. Each generation, each period, has its own men that do some little part of the work which has to be done, and then drop it and hand over the task to others. The division of labour is the multiplication of joy at the end, and he that soweth and he that reapeth rejoice together.' But whilst the one grave tells us, This man served his generation by the will of God, and was laid asleep and saw corruption,' the other grave proclaims One whom all generations need, whose work is comprehensive and complete, who dies never. He liveth and was dead, and is alive for evermore.' Christ, and Christ alone, can never be antiquated. This day requires Him, and has in Him as complete an answer to all its necessities as if no other generation had ever possessed Him. He liveth for ever, and for ever is the Shepherd of men.
So Aaron dies and is buried on Hor, and Moses dies and is buried on Pisgah, and Joshua steps into his place, and, in turn, he disappears. The one eternal Word of God worked through them all, and came at last Himself in human flesh to be the Everlasting Deliverer, Redeemer, Founder of the Covenant, Lawgiver, Guide through the wilderness, Captain of the warfare, and all that the world or a single soul can need until the last generation has crossed the flood, and the wandering pilgrims are gathered in the land of their inheritance. The dead Moses pre-supposes and points to the living Christ. Let us take Him for our all-sufficing and eternal Guide.
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Her sweet flowerlike face
In reality everything occurs in a (is) simultaneity: door, smile, and the rest of the elements that make up the pattern appear as facets of links, like a lightning bolt that transforms the glass outside of time. It is impossible to retain this vision, since we don't know how to dis-place ourselves. There remains only an anxiety, a trembling, a vague longing. Something was there, perhaps quite near. And now there is nothing but a rose inside a glass, on this side where a rose is a rose is a rose, and no more. 8:46 pm
I’ll say goodbye using the only language deemed acceptable by the conventions of Society with a big ess. Here, my love, I send my message in the language of flow wafting softly through the evening and that little bat flying around to and fro just to show what a good bat she is had better not tell. Little bats don’t tell. Smell me! Smell me! Wonder if he is too far to? I’m no she-rose. But he’ll forgive me that. He’ll give me a sweet forgiving smile verging on tears. There will be no goodbye. We shall meet again. Then, tomorrow, in good time or outside of time no matter, and we’ll dream together of yester eve. Here, right here! Please, don’t imagine what we will do then, I’m blushing like a girl! Look at the color of me!
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38866 | Larry Caplan has served as the extension horticulture educator in Vanderburgh County, Indiana, for more than 27 years. He has won several national awards for his work with disabled gardeners, teaching about alternatives to pesticides, and for his weekly column with the Evansville Courier and Press. He can be reached at
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The Perils of Beneficial Insects
by Larry Caplan #Humor #Insects #Pests
Earlier one spring a few years ago, I found a couple of praying mantis egg sacs while pruning some shrubs. I figured they would make excellent additions to my insect appreciation lesson I was to give in a few weeks. So, I naively brought the egg sacs to my office, and placed them in an insect collection box.
I eagerly awaited their hatching. And awaited. And awaited some more. After a couple of weeks, I needed the bug box for one of my other critters. I put the mantis egg cases on my desk, and didn't think any more about them. Until the next morning ...
I came into my office, and took a call from a farmer. As I tried to speak intelligently about pasture improvement, I suddenly felt like I was being watched. I glanced down at my notepad, and noticed a tiny praying mantis staring at me. Movement to the left caught my eye, where I saw another baby mantis crawl out from under a pamphlet. Then another one scurried out from behind the phone. My mouth went dry as I noticed two more on my computer, and four or five on the wall. When one dropped off of the ceiling, I knew I had a disaster on my hands. I slammed down the phone, grabbed my bug box, and proceeded to hold my first "mantis roundup."
By the way, if you are ever in a similar situation, take some advice from someone who learned the hard way. Baby praying mantises are too delicate to actually be picked up. You need to slide a piece of paper under them, and then gently carry them to your collection box.
At this point, one of my master gardeners came in. He took one look at me holding a plastic box with dozens of praying mantises crawling in, out and over the container, and sprang into action. That is, after he was through laughing. In about an hour, we had corralled somewhere between 60 or 70 baby praying mantises.
"What are you going to do now?" my volunteer asked. To be truthful, I hadn't thought that far ahead. I supposed I could let them go outside, but it was freezing cold and they’d never survive. Besides, I’d really wanted to raise them for teaching purposes. Then I remembered that I'd seen a company's catalog that sold kits for raising praying mantises in a classroom. I grabbed the phone and dialed frantically.
"I have a praying mantis emergency!" I shouted to the startled sales lady. "I need your praying mantis nursery kit, and I need it today!"
"Of course, sir" she replied after a moment's hesitation. "That kit comes with 30 test tubes to keep the praying mantises separate, a supply of wingless fruit flies to feed them, and two praying mantis egg sacs for you to hatch in your classroom."
"Can you ship that to me without the eggs?" I asked despairingly, as 50 baby mantises glared at me from their plastic prison. Apparently a dozen or so had already been devoured by their elder brothers and sisters.
"I'm not sure," she replied doubtfully. "I'll have to check with my supervisor. I can call you back later today ..."
"Never mind!" I cried. "I can't wait! Just ship me what you've got overnight!"
Saturday morning, my wife took the package from the UPS man. She took one look inside, and pushed it at me. "Most women get flowers from their husbands," she declared with disgust. "I get bugs!"
Following the instructions that came with the kit, it only took me a couple of hours to put one praying mantis and three wingless fruit flies in each of the test tubes. I figured the escaped fruit flies would sooner or later be caught by the escaped praying mantises, making for a balanced ecosystem in my kitchen.
I kept the entire menagerie in my office, on my desk. As long as I remembered to feed them wingless fruit flies every other day, they appeared to do OK. I eventually let the entire colony loose in my garden, and the gardens of about a dozen volunteers. However, a dozen years later, I still get the uncomfortable feeling of being watched.
Photos courtesy of Larry Caplan.
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Threes Research: Valuable or Valueless?
~ The Study of Threes ~
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In using a "threes" tool to analyze different subject matter, we discover that it alone is not enough. We are forced to include other number patterns which may or may not accompany it in a given instance. Likewise, there are numerous instances of other number patterns which occur but there appears to be an absence of the "three". It is therefore necessary to keep an account of these instances as well, in order to develop some idea of frequency. However, patterns of numbers by themselves or in association with other patterns (numerical or otherwise), is not enough.
Anthropologically speaking, if we were an extra=terrestrial explorer gathering information of different planets and came across Earth that provided the remnants of television commercials of a given era such as the 1950s, how very little this would tell us about the many different subjects which the inhabitants studied. While compiling the different number and geometric patterns of television commercials may provide us with a statistic of the material being survey, it wouldn't necessarily give us any information about the state of medical knowledge, mathematics, physics, music, art, philosophy, mechanical engineering, etc... In other words, the information would provide us with patterns, but not a comprehensive list of all things related to humanity. It is like those who attempt to understand the "word of god" or "god's plan" by limiting their research to a given text or even a limited set of artifacts labeled "religious artifacts". If we provide a list of religious texts and influential books such as the following, no matter how many number and geometrical patterns that can be extracted, these patterns alone would not give us information about the state of geology, weather patterns, nuclear warfare, virus research, population density, political affiliations, birth deformities, etc. Regardless of our sincerity and the most modern tools being applied, the following texts are not revelations about chemsitry, physics, mathematics, nutrition, etc...
Scripture(s) Group
New TestamentChristianity
Sunnah (from hadith)Islam: Sunni
Nahjul BalaghaIslam: Shiite
Bhagavad Gita (in the Mahabharata)Hinduism
Tantras (including Kularnava Tantra)Hinduism
sutras, and their commentariesHinduism
VachanasLingayats (Virashaiva)
Adi GranthSikhism
TattvarthasutraJainism (minor differences between Digambara and Shvetambara versions)
Pali TripitakaBuddhism
Jataka stories (semi-cannonical)Buddhism: Theravada
Questions of King Milinda (semi-cannonical)Buddhism: Theravada
Chinese TripitakaBuddhism: Mahayana
Tibetan TripitakaBuddhism: Mahayana
Lotus Sutra (Saddharma-Pundarika)Buddhism: Mahayana
Sukhavativyuha SutrasBuddhism: Mahayana: Pure Land
Lankavatara SutraBuddhism: Mahayana: Zen
Mulamadhyamaka Karika and Precious GarlandBuddhism: Tibetan
Hevajra Tantra; Kalacakra Tantra; Guhyasamaja TantraBuddhism: Tibetan
Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol)Buddhism: Tibetan
Tao Te ChingTaoism
Nihon ShokiShinto
JohreiSekai Kyusei Kyo
Nectarean Shower of Holy DoctrinesSeicho-no-Ie
Song of the AngelSeicho-no-Ie
Holy Sutra for Spiritual HealingSeicho-no-Ie
Divine Teachings of KyososamaShinreikyo
Chun Boo Kyungancient Korean
Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llahBahai Faith
Book of Certitude (Kitab-i-Iqan)Bahai Faith
Hidden Words of Baha'u'llahBahai Faith
Epistle to the Son of the WolfBahai Faith
Science and Health with Key to the ScripturesChristianity: Christian Science
DianeticsScientology Major Scriptures, Religious Texts and Influential Books
Even if we were to include every single text ever written and compile every single number pattern, geometric pattern, etc., this would not tell us, for example, about life on other planets. In other words, the information derived and the questions posed, would be limited... if we limited our appreciation to the texts themselves. For example, if someone studies chemistry to be used only for the study of chemistry as it is presented in the text, and not apply chemstry to circumstances not covered in the text, how very limited would be the use of chemisty unless the text provided instruction that it should be applied elsewhere as a tool... but that it is not the only tool.
Likewise, the "three" pattern is a tool of dissection and comparison, but it is not the only tool. Granted it can provide a lot of information and its usage can lead to the accumulation of many different types of information, if we do not look at the information as a tell-tale sign, a hint, an impression that occurs because of environmental influences upon a biologically-based subtrate, the information can not be interpreted accordingly. Using the "three" as a tool of dissection and comparison must not cause us to created a functional fixedness of its design. While it is a tool, it also provides us with a ladder, a scaffolding, a stepping stone to other information, questions and derived appreciations.
The very fact that different patterns repeat themselves in all subjects and interests, tells us that there is a repetative influence. Understanding the nature of its own design limits provides us with a clue as to how stable, unstable or highly unstable the repetative influence is, and whether or not there are multiple influences that work together or alone. If the repetative influence is (for the most part) stable, but incrementally disentegrating, the patterns we uncover will assist us in determining future conditions related to the particular patterns under investigation. Like wise if we discover that the patterns yield indications of intermittant volatility or extravagaces in design. For example, let us say that a compilation of threes (or whatever pattern being examined) from a single text indicates an undulating pattern on a graph. And that the graph is a compilation of one pattern (whereas other patterns are labeled as extraaneous "noise" that need to be filtered out) over a long period of time. The length of time would be like the counting of tree rings and the pattern(s) would be an indication of social conditions that inturn would be an indication of environmental conditions, if we knew how to interpret the "message" when faced with distortions and information that is incomplete or missing.
If we have a library with a million texts and the texts are only on one subject, or written by a handful of authors, how little this might well reveal about the population. However, even when we have many millions of texts on a variety of subjects written by millions of authors, this information is lacking in information about humanity in that a comprehensive analysis is not taking place by enough of us, or those in positions of authority who might use the information to benefit humanity.
If you have one individual or a group of individuals who have read all the above texts and can recite them verbatim (word for word), and that this was their sole knowledge, they would be very ignorant about multiple subjects. But if you value the information in the texts above all information, you might well consider the group or individual to contain the complete word of God, as revealed in the texts. The person might not be able to tie their own shoes, fixed a stuck toliet, tune up a vehicle, prepare a meal or numerous other practical activities, you might well consider their erudite knowledge to be most important and you would offer yourself as a servant and means of support. Such is the case for many academics who may be at "the top of their game" in their respective field, but are otherwise not much help in many everyday practical matters.
Using a "threes" tool as a means of compiling a diverse array of information is much like collecting any number of items as a hobby. And if you get others who are interested in the same type of behavior, you might well get them to associate together, pay dues, contribute to a magazine and write books, and give lectures on the subject... yet the subject remains as an overall superficiality that is defined as a speciality. An academic institution may or may not make room for including the subject as part of a curriculum, depending on whether or not it will prove to be a money making venture. Yet, even if there is little interest in it if left to the selection of individuals, an institution can force people to pay to attend classes by developing a rationale that makes it a required subject... like Latin used to be because of its former usage in written texts.
In order to keep a Universtity curriculum viable, many subjects have to be made into required studies. And as ideas change, the old ideas have to either adapt or collated as a branch, root, stem, bud, or some other biologically referred to appendage. For example, if we look at the subjects of philosophy, mathematics, physics, geography; sociology, psychology, political science, chemistry, etc., we might well come into contact with one or another representative list:
Wikipedia: Glossary of philosophy
Wikipedia: Index of philosophy
ThoughtCo: Branches of philosphy
Wikipedia: Lists of mathematics topics
Wikipedia: Glossary of physics
ThoughtCo: What are the different fields of physics?
ThoughtCo: Branches of Geography
Outline of Sociology
UTSA: Subfields of Psychology
Wikipedia: Political Science
RACI: Major fields in Chemistry
The point to be made is that we could look at all the major fields and their subfields with the intent of making a collection of threes, twos, etc., including non-number patterns, and still come away with nothing but a very large body of statistics that would require the development of a statistical methodology in order to analyze them. For example, let say that after analyzing all the texts of a given subject we find that the most dominant number occurrence is three, or even some other number. While it is hard to surmise the reasons for number occurrences other than the conventions such as one, two, three, four... up to nine or ten, though instances of 12 and 13 are noted, such an occurrence might be labeled a statistical deviation with or without an accompanying reason. In fact, one might simply make a note of it and all other non-conventional pattern occurrences.
Nonetheless, the recurrences or absent there of are patterns which reflect a causal factor. The explanation that I am presently using to delineate the reason(s) for particular patterns showing up again and again, is that because we can find conceptual models of biological processes that exhibit a relatively small set of numbers, is that this represents an environmentally imposed limitation... a conservation that suits survival needs under current environmental conditions. If we recognize a shift in the patterns, this suggests a shift in the influence(s). For example, if we were to recognize the development of a pattern-of-five or seven or nine or more in the coding of DNA and RNA, we might well say that there is an instability in the triplet pattern, or that the environmental influence of the long-standing pattern is or has undergone change. Interestingly, despite the incremental deteriorations which are taking place with the Sun, Earth and Moon complex, the triplet coding remains stable, but not necessarily all things related to developmental genetics, since we have chromosomal mutations. While the base code remains stable, this may not always be the case in future generations.
The triplet base code may not be a viable prospect on planets that are not in the third poisition of a source of solar energy. An alternative life-form made from an alternative code may be what is required elsewhere. If we say that "threes" do not occur because of the triplet coding influence or because we are on the third planet, then we might want to claim that "threes" are the result of some three-patterned atomic particle organization, or even some unseen three-patterned law such as the three laws of planetary motion or three laws of motion. However, some readers may not want to conclude all three-patterned ideas or notions are the direct result of such fundamental occurrence, but are the result of the many threes occurring in our anatomy, as pointed out by Dr. McNulty whose site is provided through the link above.
If we say that collecting various examples of ideas with a pattern-of-three or some other number pattern is "numerology" and that this is based on superstition and superficiality (numerically rationalized superficial correlations), what does this say about those who create an idea which displays a given number-related pattern? Could be not say they are practing a social, cultural or anthropological form of collective numerology even if they are not consciously putting a list together... yet are contributing to it nonetheless? Just because a person is not aware of the many times and instances that a given pattern is used by others over a long span of time, does not mean they are not part of the linked process by which the pattern (s) is/are perpetuated. In other words, a person who collects and collates various number-relatable patterns might be viewed as someone practicing a form of numerology, yet a person who repetatively uses one or more such enumerated patterns is excused from being viewed as practicing a form of numerology. It is rather hypocritical to indulge is such a definition.
The same goes for those who may never mention a given number at all, yet relies on a physiology that is suffused with repetative patterns which can be enumerated. In effect, the process of physiology are a pratice in numerology, since once they are enumerated, there is an identifiable sequence which can be quantified. Yet, other instances in different ways occur, such as when a cook uses particular measurements of ingredients over and over again. Just because they don't make a mental record of the numerical repetitions they use, does not mean they are not engaging in a form of numerology. The same goes for bankers, muscians, artists, landscapers, etc... Mathematicians are those who engage in various forms of numerology, that may be compounded by additonal layers of numerological content such as how many of what kind of problem(s) they engage in. The same goes for many of us. There is no telling how many times a given writer repeats themselves with respect to a numerological analysis. Yet with this said, it is not that all of us don't engage in some form of numerology, but how we interpret what such a pattern may or may not mean.
Some readers may not like looking for patterns except for those which will help them gain, sustain, or refrain from a given practice... such as in the case of a desired or undesirable form of employment. Cataloguing a given pattern that is not encouraged by an employer or instructor, might well be interpreted in a negative light, unless they can present the idea in a way that coincides with rules, patterns or ideas that are already supported by some rationale. Unless threes research can be incorporated into another's phsychology, philosophy or mathematics of conceptualization... or find some wide-spread public appeal, it will continue to be looked upon as a hobby. By cataloguing the different patterns in different subjects in order to indicate a similarity of human cognition, patterns-of-three expressions of adults might be better understood as an extension of an infant's three-patterned babbling. But if researchers of infant vocalizations are unable to hear enumeratable patterns, comparisons such as the one's I have been pointing out will be overlooked. However, in asmuch as one researcher may well identify three-patterned infant babblings, if their research is not duplicated because researchers who follow them are unable to recognized a given pattern, the idea may well be lost or overlooked, like Gregor Mendel's pea plant research in which he discovered a 3-to-1 ratio law. And yet, even though the law is well-recognized, the "3-to-1" ratio pattern is not seen in DNA or RNA... much less proteins:
Mendel's three-to-one ratio
The Father of Genetics, by Sean D. Pitman M.D.
Item --- Three the same --- --- One is different ---
DNA = Adenosine- Cytosine- Guanine Thymine
RNA = Adenosine- Cytosine- Guanine Uracil
Primary, Secondary, Tertiary and Quaternary protein structures
Principles of Cell Biology
And this series of pages provide additional comments and examples:
1. 321 A Various three "to" one ratio examples
2. 321 B
3. 321 C
4. 321 D
5. 321 E
6. 321 F
7. 321 G
8. 3- 2- 1 FForces Fundamental Forces
Delving into threes research requires alternative thinking. And yes, you make connections between different subjects that are not publicly cited by experts in their respective fields, but who nonetheless speculate very widely in undisclosed ideas of their own. Some of their ideas are no doubt already considered by others who are years beyond their own consideration... even though they are not known or published. Yes, some ideas are very unconventional. Indeed, discoveries are sometimes the result of musing or dreams that might well be condemned or argued against as having any value, if they were known before the dreams or musings took place. To tell someone about a creative process that they might try to apply to themselves may or may not be helpful, just like any number of philosophical approaches to achieve some imagined enlightenment. If a person can not sell the method of how they become creative, then they want to keep it close so that someone else can not use it and stake claim to an idea that both may be in the running for to discover. Intellectuals, creative individuals and even geniuses can be quite selfish. They will take information from others and not give credit to them, and if they are a known figure in their field and someone unrecognized comes up with a good idea for them to use, they might well take it and let others defend them as the originator... all because the other person isn't known, or has not shown any previous prowess of development in a given application. Just becaue a public figure or expert in a field says they are honest (forgetfulness not withstanding), doesn't mean they are. They simply do not want to be caught with a lie... which can be tantamount to a felony, and may well get others to assist them in covering up the truth... that is then buried in the sands of history, and history becomes developed on one lie after another lie after another lie... like so many falsehoods now seeping in the halls of the U.S. Government.
Sometimes you may gather information for years and not realize that the answer to some unasked question sits right before you. Then again, the answer may be so easy that it is disregarded because it doesn't take much effort to comprehend it. Whereas Einstein said to simplify, he had to back up the simplification with complexity in order to satisfy those who don't believe in anything unless they exert a type and amount of effort over a give period of time. Thus, in some instances I simplify, and in other instances I complexify. Everyone seems to have a bit of a different taste.
In answering the question of the title of this page, whether threes research is of value or valueless, one might remark that one person's junk is another person's treasure, or that one person's mountain is another person's molehill, the actual answer for the reader's specific interests may be no, because they don't know how to use it, or that there is not yet enough information to make an honest assessment. Thus, let us hold judgement for the momenet.
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The Book on Bush - observations
I’m about 2/3 of the way through The Book on Bush and have a few observations. It is numbing in its litany of Bush administration miscues. Much of what’s in here you probably have read before — just not all in one place. And certainly not in the detail presented in the book.
To be honest, however, it’s overwhelming. It’s hard to imagine that we’re three years into this administration and only now — as the Democrats have finally started getting their act together with a consistent message — are the press really starting to hammer away at the evasions (link takes you to today’s White House press briefing; thanks to Josh for the find).
As Alterman and Green state their case, they follow a simple pattern. Start with Bush’s claims (culled from the campaign trail, State of the Union speeches, press conferences — all nine of them — or other public pronouncements) about his goals and agenda, then follow it with his actions. Finally, they’ll throw in quotes from any number of sources about the practical impact of these actions, often to add color to the impact and show you that it’s not just Alterman and Green foaming at the mouth over this issue.
What packs the most punch are when those statements or disagreeing with Bush are from Bush supporters. For example:
When Bush, in 2003 announced the easing of the “New Source Review” standards under the EPA (allowing the country’s oldest 17,000 power plants to continue to operate without meeting emissions standards, the New York Daily News reacted: “The rule change is a direct assault on the environment… Let’s at least be honest about it, Mr. President. Admit that the EPA now stands for the Environmental Pollution Agency.” (The NY Daily News endorsed Bush in 2000.)
It’s an election year. Bush’s coat-tails are shrinking (and his poll numbers are dropping). Chandler’s win in Kentucky yesterday is another data point. What do you want to bet there will be plenty of these critiques of the president by those in his own party eager to curry favor with voters?
1. I guess my concern with this is that if we did the same in-depth review of Clinton, we'd have the same result. No politician, esp. a president, has ever done what s/he promised or claimed. Perhaps the difference is that we believe in, and agree with, the fundamental agenda of a democrat, so it's easier to overlook the mis-steps. Further, I seem to recall lots of papers which endorsed Clinton and subsequently called for his head during the height of Whitewater, Lewinsky, etc...
Don't get me wrong, I think Bush & the gang of 3(Cheney, Rumsfeld & Ashcroft) are sending us to hell in a very well-padded, expensive handbasket. I am not sure I could stomach a whole book about it, though. You're a far better man than I.
2. What is the fundamental agenda of a democrat anyway? All I see is hatred towards a great president, and no ideas for the future except the same old claptrap--jobs(ha!), health care(ha ha!) and education(ha ha ha!). All this translates into taxes and big government, socialism, and handouts to the lazy. It's status quo with you libs.
3. It takes a 'real' 'strong' 'macho' man that when down on his luck and seemingly without hope is about to receive a large 'hand-out' but the man refuses it, saying he will earn his keep instead. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38929 | An open letter to Donald Trump
Dear Mr. Trump,
I am writing to you in hopes that this will generate some momentum to force you to step down as president. I actually considered voting for you at one point during your campaign. Your promise to clean out the Washington establishment resonated with me. I am no fan of the lobbying/re-election driven people in the government. In my opinion, the government should support the people and not be influenced by corporations. Without this separation what is to stop companies from exploiting the citizens?
However, the more I thought about you as a person I realized you would be a terrible president. You’ve flaunted the laws for your own personal gain as you have done with bankruptcy law. You seemed to only act to better yourself at the expense of anyone who invested with you. Nevertheless, when you were elected I held on to a glimmer of hope that you would indeed change the government for the better.
Rather than remove the lobbyists and reduce corporate influence in Washington, you have enhanced it. Through your actions you have tied your business interests to the government. You have stepped over the middlemen lobbyists and directly hired other buisiness leaders. You have refused to fully divest yourself from your business interests. Rather than stepping down fully, you’ve given control to your son-in-law. I assume this was the legal miniumum required to become president. By not releasing your tax returns, it will be more difficult to expose you for the fraud you are.
You are the leader of one of the greatest, most powerful countries in the world. You have the power to do so much good in the world. You have the power to push policies to have safe health care, end wars, or protect the Earth. Instead, you are squandering this opportunity and making you and your friends slightly richer. You have shamed what it means to be an American citizen. I am ashamed now to call myself an American and you should be too.
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Paul Walker: A Life in the Fast Lane
Aired December 28, 2013 - 21:30 ET
PAUL WALKER, ACTOR: Into the tunnel. Let's use the tunnel.
NISCHELLE TURNER, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): We knew him as fast and furious, a California surfer.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I remember him, sandy beach hair in surf trunks paddling out into the water.
GRADY SMITH, "ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY": He had the blue eyes, the blond hair, a prototypical California heartthrob.
TURNER: Turned megawatt movie star.
ROB COHEN, DIRECTOR: I thought, this young guy is so full of light. He really can act.
TURNER: But so much of Paul Walker's passion was played off- screen.
SMITH: He always said he was kind of one foot in, one foot out with the whole Hollywood game.
WALKER: That is the fruits of our labor yesterday, making a scramble to Port-au-Prince.
SMITH: He was a philanthropist.
WALKER: One busload of people just came in and needs help.
J.D. DORFMAN, OPERATIONS MANAGER, REACH OUT WORLDWIDE: It was very cool to see someone on the screen who portrays this hero and then to actually work with him and go, whoa, whoa, whoa. You are actually just as big of a big hero in real life.
TURNER: He was a father and friend.
COHEN: He's just such a lovable man.
TURNER: And then the tragic crash that took his life.
DORFMAN: We all lost a friend in this.
COHEN: I can't -- I can't really believe it. It's just not fair. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get away. It's going to blow up. It might blow up.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The car is in half. I can't tell if there's someone in there.
TURNER: Cell phone video captures the horror.
ANTONIO HOLMES, WITNESS: There was nothing. We tried. We went think fire extinguishers.
TURNER: A day that ended in tragedy started with charity, Movie star Paul Walker at an annual event for his foundation, Reach Out WorldWide.
DORFMAN: We were collecting toys and donations so we can distribute them around.
TURNER: J.D. Dorfman runs operations for the charity Walker co- founded.
DORFMAN: He just came out to show his support, to thank everybody. He wasn't there for the pictures, just normal Paul.
TURNER: Just normal Paul pursuing two of his great passions, helping others and showing off fast cars, including this rare Porsche worth nearly $500,000.
RANDY POBST, PROFESSIONAL RACE CAR DRIVER: They only brought about 600 into the U.S. back around 2004 to 2006.
TURNER: There is nothing ordinary about it, a top speed of more than 200 miles per hour, the engine in the middle of the car and oil changes costing $900.
POBST: It's a really finely tuned super high performance super car. Driving one really reminds me a lot of driving a race car. It has that kind of quick, razor-sharp reflexes.
TURNER: But have razor-sharp reflexes leaves a razor-thin margin for error on the road.
POBST: I love the power. You feel it right in the chest pushing you back when you push down the gas, but a car like the Carrera G.T. needs to be driven with great respect because it has so much power and capability.
TURNER: This photo is possibly the last ever taken of Walker, and there's the Porsche, a temptation that would lure him and a close friend, Roger Rodas, away from the charity event, not surprising for two men who were racing competitors and co-owners of a car customization shop.
It was speed, after all, that drove Walker's fame, "Fast and Furious," a cinematic fix for adrenaline junkies. Rob Cohen launched the franchise and pitched it to Walker.
ROB COHEN, DIRECTOR: It was over dinner that I said to him, you know, I'm developing a movie. We just got going on the script, but I'm developing a movie about this, you know, underground street racing world.
TURNER: Paul Walker, obsessed with amateur racing from an early age, didn't skip a beat.
COHEN: He said, I get the girl. I get the gun. I get the car and you're directing. He said, I don't have to wait for the script. I'm in.
TURNER: Explosions, stunts and speed. It was a dream come true for Walker.
WALKER: I really don't see how I could have more fun or making a movie could be more of a thrill than it was making this one.
TURNER: One film would turn into seven, with box office receipts topping $2 billion, theaters filled with moviegoers drawn into the action and to the lead actor for more than a decade.
COHEN: He's just such a lovable man. There's something in that spirit of life and lightness that just kept coming through and people were just very attracted to that.
TURNER: "Fast and Furious" would become a cultural phenomenon, a lucrative franchise of sequels, video games and merchandise.
WALKER: It feels good to be appreciated, especially when you're talking about 10 years, 10 years-plus of your life.
DORFMAN: One of the worst phone calls I have ever gotten. I was shocked. I was speechless. I didn't believe it was real.
TURNER: But it was real, not a scene from a movie.
ANTONIO HOLMES, WITNESS: From our location, it's a little difficult to know what it was. Someone called it in, said there was a vehicle fire.
TURNER: Paul Walker, Roger Rodas and the Porsche had not yet arrived back at the nearby charity event.
HOLMES: We all ran around, jumped in cars, grabbed fire extinguishers, like myself, and immediately went to the vehicle.
TURNER: But time wasn't on their side. Where witnesses had only seen smoke, now there was fire. It was too late.
HOLMES: It was engulfed in flames. There was nothing. They were trapped. And employees, friends of the shop, we tried.
TURNER: The car barely recognizable, two men now dead in an accident still under investigation, the site now transformed into a place to mourn and remember.
WALKER: Scotty and Diane, they're going to be my family.
TURNER: When we return, Paul Walker before he was "Fast and Furious."
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: Pick you up for practice tomorrow, OK?
TURNER (voice-over): Before he raced to fame as a hero cop on the big screen, Paul Walker played adorable on TV.
WALKER: But they want a little boy. And I'm a little boy. And me and Scotty are special.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: Yes, you're special.
SMITH: His mom had him doing a few child modeling little gigs here and there. He was never super passionate about acting as a young guy, but it's something he just kind of fell into very naturally.
TURNER: The son of a model and a sewer contractor, Walker was the oldest of four kids in a working-class Mormon home in Sunland, California.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They were just your pretty typical, normal family, but very loving, very close-knit.
Amber Leah (ph) was a childhood friend of Walker's.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Most of his friends would typically call him pollywog. He had a contagious spirit. He was always smiling. His just effervescent personality was electric.
TURNER: At 13 years old, that electric personality landed Paul a string of roles in popular '90s sitcoms like "Who's the Boss?"
WALKER: High school isn't a picnic either.
TURNER: And "Charles in Charge."
WALKER: She just wanted to carry my books.
TURNER: But for this quintessential California kid, acting took a backseat.
SMITH: Paul Walker grew up in San Fernando Valley, and he loved surfing from a young age. He has always been fascinated by the ocean. Later, he became really into Brazilian jujitsu, and he was an athlete. He was a sportsman and he loved the outdoors, and, yes, he had the blue eyes, the blonde hair and the California surfer accent.
TURNER (on camera): How could you not love surfing looking like he looked?
SMITH: Right, right? I think for a lot of people, he became a prototypical California heartthrob.
TURNER (voice-over): A California heartthrob with a thing for cars.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I remember when I got a Jetta, a Volkswagen Jetta my senior year, and he saw my car, and he said, oh, you know, that -- I'm not one who swears, but he said, oh, that car's bitching, which kind of caught me off guard that he was almost as excited about it as I was, even though I was the one who got to drive it.
DEAN LAGASSE, FORMER COACH OF PAUL WALKER: I don't think there's probably anything he couldn't have done.
TURNER: Walker played junior varsity football at Village Christian High School. Dean Lagasse was his coach.
LAGASSE: I remember him playing junior year, because we weren't particularly good that particular year, but he was playing safety. And looking back, I have coached a lot of games, but I will tell you that he had one of the two best hits I have seen in a J.V. football game.
TURNER (on camera): Really?
LAGASSE: Yes. And we got clocked in the game. I think we got beat like 40-0 or something like that, but he wasn't quitting.
TURNER (voice-over): Off the field, he kept his classmates entertained.
RAY ENDACOTT, FORMER TEACHER OF PAUL WALKER: I would say closer to class clown than laid-back.
TURNER (on camera): Really?
ENDACOTT: He had a great sense of humor and he had the smile, and so that was -- I think people appreciated his sense of humor.
TURNER (voice-over): By the time he graduated from high school, Walker's good looks and charm landed him a role on "The Young and the Restless."
WALKER: I'm telling you, Brian, you better off and leave the kid alone.
TURNER (on camera): Talk a little bit about the Paul Walker of his teenage years, because, I mean, he said, I smoked bowls and kind of panhandled and I kind of lived the transient life for a long time. I didn't really know where I was or what I was doing. SMITH: He might have liked couch-surfing here and there. And he liked traveling and going to surf for a few days and driving out into the wilderness. He spent 16 years basically living out of a suitcase.
TURNER (voice-over): When money got tight, Walker went back to acting on TV's "Touched By an Angel."
WALKER: That's it. That's great.
SMITH: And on the big screen in "Pleasantville."
WALKER: What is all the commotion?
SMITH: He played chip Martin, this all-American, cheeseburger- and Cherry Coke-loving basketball jock. And he was squeaky-clean and a super funny role in this morality satire. He is kind of the boy corrupted or enlightened by Reese Witherspoon. He made a big impression in that movie.
TURNER: The movie was a hit and finally a decent payday for Walker. That same year, some news he wasn't expecting.
SMITH: When Paul found out that his girlfriend at the time was pregnant, I think it rocked him. He went to a Christian school, and he didn't like the idea of having a child out of wedlock, and it scared him, and he also knew that he was a wild guy. He said, "I was sleeping with her friends at the time."
And it did not seem like a good idea to be -- to be married.
TURNER: With Walker focused on his playboy lifestyle, his daughter, Meadow, lived full-time with her mother in Hawaii, but having a daughter, Walker said, was a life-changer. He buckled down and got serious.
WALKER: I had a dream that we were beating Bingville 14-3.
TURNER (on camera): I think everyone started really paying attention to him when he was in "Varsity Blues."
SMITH: He was a supporting character that you really remembered. In "Varsity Blues," he played a football quarterback who's sidelined by a knee injury and it's a role that actually had a lot of heart in a kind of goofy movie.
TURNER (voice-over): But Walker craved a meatier role. He auditioned for the thriller "The Skulls."
COHEN: Paul came in and, you know, at first, he was like a surfer dude.
TURNER: Rob Cohen was directing.
COHEN: The first reading, it was more like he was, hey, man, I got tubed and it was for gnarly, right? And then I said, look, just say the lines, finish the endings on the words, and just do it like a guy with an education, because this kid would have gone to prep school and all that stuff.
So, Paul did it again. And he nailed it. I mean, he was like -- really could do it. And I thought, this young guy is so full of light, light. You know, it just came out of his eyes.
WALKER: How they know everything we do. They know everyplace we go.
COHEN: When we got to work on "The Skulls," then I saw, he really can act, you know? He's not just a presence. He was pushing emotions out and playing conflict.
TURNER: That performance convinced Cohen to develop a movie for Walker. He had Paul at hello.
COHEN: I said, well, well, you are an undercover cop who goes underground to bust up this world.
TURNER: Walker was in, and Cohen never looked back.
COHEN: We shook hands that night, and no matter what other forces tried to dislodge that agreement, I stuck to my guns, and Paul became Brian O'Conner.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: Man, that guy's fast.
TURNER: Coming up: Walker becomes a bona fide movie star, but proves to be much more.
WALKER: That is the fruits of our labor yesterday, making a scramble to Port-au-Prince, and the timing was impeccable.
TURNER (voice-over): It's been 12 years since Paul Walker got the role of a lifetime, going from stud wingman to leading man.
Aging gracefully on screen as an action movie star, Paul Walker was also maturing off-screen.
(on camera): Most of us know Paul Walker as Brian O'Conner from "Fast and the Furious," that kind of gorgeous, ruggedly handsome, speed demon, action star. But you wrote that he was much more than that. How so?
SMITH: Yes. I think people didn't realize that Paul Walker had a full, vibrant life off the screen. He always said he was kind of one foot in, one foot out with the whole Hollywood game. TURNER (voice-over): Outside of the Hollywood game, Walker was deeply involved in the world of fast cars and even raced with a Hollywood club.
WALKER: My name is Paul Walker.
SMITH: He was a total auto head. He actually owned Always Evolving. It was a performance shop that really appealed to the car junkie that Paul Walker was.
TURNER: But Paul was much more than a car junky. He was also deeply committed to humanitarian relief. In 2010, Walker took a team to Haiti, helping in the aftermath of the major earthquake that devastated the small nation.
WALKER: We asked a bunch of people what they thought we should bring.
DORFMAN: He knew that you had to do something. No one knew what to expect, but all he knew was he was bringing medical equipment, water filtration, and he was going to do what he could.
When they got there, they did so much. For the first time, they were able to set up a hospital in an orphanage. And the experience that he came home with after that was, I have the opportunity to do something very special.
TURNER: And Walker wasn't afraid to get his hands dirty.
(on camera): You talked about the fact that he went to Alabama to help with victims of the tornadoes. Lots of people talk about things they care about. He actually did something.
SMITH: Paul Walker didn't just talk the talk. He walked the walk. He cared about other people and he went and helped them.
DORFMAN: We were helping clear a house. It was 100 degrees. The humidity was through the roof. And we're just working with chain saws, just piling through, full gear on, sweating, working hard.
TURNER (voice-over): But then the homeowner realized that a Hollywood star was among those helping out.
DORFMAN: And the emotion that they expressed -- and this was someone who had just lost everything -- that someone, you know, with the name notoriety of Paul would just be there working to make their life a little better without -- you know, there was no camera crew, there was no nothing. It blew their mind.
TURNER (on camera): And that's interesting, because he was very private. He almost remained like a mystery to all of his fans, other than what they saw on screen.
SMITH: Yes. Paul Walker didn't go after a lot of press. He didn't necessarily want to be photographed. You didn't see him coming up in magazines. TURNER (voice-over): Sales woman Irene King recalls a day Paul Walker was in her jewelry star as an Iraq veteran and his fiancee were shopping for rings.
IRENE KING, JEWELRY SALESWOMAN: She saw something she liked. And they were looking at it. And she was trying this them on. And it turns that out they couldn't afford them.
TURNER: Paul Walker could afford a $10,000 ring.
KING: He wanted to help them out. And so he just out and out bought it for them. He went to the manager, and he was very specific about having it anonymous. He didn't want the couple to know that he was buying the ring for them.
TURNER: Walker's father, Paul Sr., says the generosity wasn't only extended the strangers.
PAUL WALKER SR., FATHER OF PAUL WALKER: He was always doing stuff for us, big gestures. He just -- his heart was so big. He'd go and have a family gathering and say, all the little kids, nieces and nephews with uncle Paul, and it was always, don't worry about college. I will take care of college. Just study hard.
TURNER: Walker never finished college himself, but even as his movie career took off his father knew junior was ready to slow down, to become a more present father for his daughter.
WALKER SR.: He was looking so forward to going to -- he wanted to take a hiatus and say, gosh, dad, she's 15. I ain't got much more time to be with her.
TURNER: Walker's words proved to be eerily prophetic, leaving behind those who loved him the most searching to make sense of his sudden death.
COHEN: Action!
TURNER: Friend and director Rob Cohen was devastated by the news.
COHEN: He called me his movie dad, and I feel like I have lost my son. I can't -- I can't really believe it. It's just not fair. That's what I keep thinking. It's just not fair.
TURNER: Walker's death had a similar effect on his Fast and Furious costarred, like Vin Diesel, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Tyrese Gibson.
Diesel visited the crash site to pay his respects.
VIN DIESEL, ACTOR: Thank you for coming down here and showing that angel up in heaven how much you appreciated him.
TURNER: Johnson took to Instagram, simply posting, "Love you, brother."
And Tyrese Gibson, with whom he was particularly close:
SMITH: We have seen him grieving on social media and at the crash site. And it's indicative of the fact they were very, very tight. And he had a good relationship, a very good relationship with his "Fast and Furious" cast mates.
TURNER: Days later, those cast mates released this tribute.
DIESEL: The most important thing in life will always be the people in this room.
TURNER: With his cast mates now grieving, "Fast and Furious 7" has been put on hold and the future of the franchise is uncertain. In the end, Walker left a lasting impression in life and death.
DORFMAN: You forgot that he was an actor. You forgot that he was a name. He was just -- he was a friend. We all lost a friend in this.
WALKER: Focus. It is right here. It's what's important. It's what's of the heart. It's family. It's friends. It's the rest. |
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Is this charismatic?
Cessationists frequently begin with definitions. They then stretch or shrink the data to fit their a priori definitions. Now I don't necessarily object to starting with definitions–although in my experience, cessationists don't really begin with Scripture or get their definitions from Scripture.
That said, it can also be good to start at the other end of the process. Begin with credible reports, then decide the best way to classify the phenomena. I'm going to quote some examples of what I consider some credible reports. I think they have prima facie credulity because the sources are credible. By that I mean, they come from credible witnesses, scholarly sources, or sometimes both.
The reader can decide how he thinks they should be classified. Are they miraculous? Prophetic? Charismatic? If you think they're consistent with cessationism, that's fine. If cessationism can accommodate this kind of phenomena, then cessationism and continuationism bleed into each other.
You can also reject all these reports. If so, you need to explain how your criteria ultimately differ from godless debunkers.
Only once do I remember hearing him [William Nobes] speak and that was truly an occasion to be remembered. It was at the Fellowship Meeting...[when] he told us the story of his conversion.
He said little about his early days...And then, with his youth behind him, when he was well on to middle age, he had a dream. The horror of that dream was real to him yet, and he managed, in the hush of that meeting, to involve us, too, in the horror of it. In his dream he was hanging over a flaming inferno, helpless and frantic. Above him and almost obstructing the opening of the pit was an enormous ball, like a great globe, and he found himself trying to climb up the roundness of this ball to get away from the heat of the flames below, and out into the clean, cool air above. Sometimes he would make two or three feet, sometimes more, at times only two or three inches.
Once he thought he had really got over the widest part of the ball, but in spite of all his efforts and his mounting fear and agony, the result was always the same–he would fail to keep his hold, fail to make another inch, fail to keep what ground he had gained, and in helpless weakness slide and slither back along that fearsome slope, to find himself back where he had started.
This seemed to go on for an eternity, and then at last, all hope gone, and hanging over the open jaws of hell, he looked up once more at the light above him and uttered one great despairing cry and there was a face in that light looking down at him, full of love and pity, and a hand reached down and grasped his, and drew him up out of all the horror below him and stood him on the firm sweet earth and in the pure clear air...From then on he walked before the Lord in love and thankfulness.
Bethan Lloyd-Jones, Memories of Sandfields (Banner of Trust 1983), 61-63.
A gentlewoman [i.e. Cotton Mather's late wife] whom I may do very well to keep alive in my memory, fell into grievous languishments wherein a pain of her breast and an excessive salivation were two circumstances that were become as insupportable unto her as they were incurable. She apprehended (in her sleep, no doubt) that a grave person appearing to her directed her, for the former symptom, to cut the warm wool from a living sheep and apply it warm unto the grieved part; for the latter symptom, to take a tankard of spring water, and therein over the fire dissolve an agreeable quantity of mastic and of gum-isinglass and now and then drink a little of this liquor to strengthen the glands. The experiment was made, and she found much advantage in it.
Selected Letters of Cotton Mather (Louisiana State University 1971), 116.
Even within a fortnight of my writing this, there was a physician who sojourned within a furlong of my own house. This physician, for three nights together, was miserably distressed with dreams of his being drowned. On the third of these nights his dreams were so troublesome, that he was cast into extreme sweats, by struggling under the imaginary water. With the sweats yet upon him, he came down from his chamber, telling the people of the family what it was that so discomposed him. Immediately there came in two friends that asked him to go a little way with them in a boat upon the water. He was at first afraid of gratifying the desire of his friends, because of his late presages. But it being a very calm time, he recollected himself. "Why should I mind my dreams or distrust the Divine Providence?" He went with them, and before night, by a thunderstorm suddenly coming up, they were all three of them drowned. I have just now inquired into the truth of what I have thus related; and I can assert it.
Magnalia Christi Americana (Banner of Truth 1979), 2:468.
John Sanford wrote of a dream his father experienced a week before his death. Sanford's father was dying of kidney failure:
In the dream he awakened in his living room. But then the room changed and he was back in his room in the old house in Vermont as a child. Again the room changed: to Connecticut (where he had his first job), to China (where he worked as a missionary), to Pennsylvania (where he often visited), to New Jersey, and then back to the living room. In each scene after China, his wife was present, in each instance being a different age in accordance with the time represented. Finally he sees himself lying on the couch back in the living room. His wife is descending the stairs and the doctor is in the room. The doctor says, "Oh, he's gone." Then, as the others fade in the dream, he sees the clock on the mantelpiece; the hands have been moving, but now they stop; as they stop, a window opens behind the mantelpiece clock and a bright light shines through. The opening widens into a door and the light becomes a brilliant path. He walks on the path of light and disappears.
K. Bulkeley & P. Bulkley, Dreaming Beyond Death: A Guide to Pre-Death Dreams and Visions (Beacon Press 2005), 64.
The present writer has a personal interest in the subject of religious visions, since he became a Christian as a result of a vision of Jesus. This occurred one winter afternoon when he was sixteen years old, during term time in a residential school. Sitting alone in my study, I saw a figure in white approach me, and I heard in my mind's ear the words, "Follow me." I knew that this was Jesus. How did I know? I have not the slightest idea. I had no knowledge of Christianity whatsoever–it had intentionally been kept from me. My parents were both Jewish–my father was president of his synagogue. I had never been to a church service. I had never read the New Testament. I had never discussed Christianity with my friends. The only manifestation of Christianity that I had witnessed was that a few boys knelt beside their bed to say their prayers at night in the dormitory. (Jews do not kneel to pray.) Apart from at school, all my friends and acquaintances were Jewish. I had been barmitzvahed at my synagogue, and at school I did not attend chapel or religious education lessons. Far from attending them, someone from outside the school came to give me lessons in Judaism. I had not been searching for a faith: indeed, I had even thought of becoming a rabbi. Yet I immediately recognized the figure I saw as Jesus. How I knew this, I have no idea. He was not a person who had crossed my conscious mind. (Naturally I do not know what happens in my unconscious, or it would not be unconscious.) In my vision, Jesus was clothed in white, although I cannot remember the nature of his clothes, nor yet his face, and I doubt if I ever knew them. I feel sure that if anyone had been present with a tape recorder or a camcorder, nothing would have registered.
It was certainly not caused by stress: I was in good health, a happy schoolboy with good friends, leading an enthusiastic life and keen on sport as well as work...Again, I am sure it was not wish fulfillment. I was (and still am) proud to be Jewish.
I cannot account for my vision of Jesus by any of the psychological or neurological explanations on offer. That does not prove that it was of divine origin, but my experience over the last sixty plus years of Christian life confirms my belief that it was.
H. Montefiore, The Paranormal: A Bishop Investigates (Upfront Publishing 2002), 234-35.
Close friends recently told me about Hilda (not her real name), a woman of their acquaintance who recently died of cancer at forty years of age. Hilda's parents have been involved in Christian ministry all of their lives, and her maternal grandparents were, too, while they were alive. Hilda's parents received three unusual telephone calls on the day after her death. One was from a city close to my own, where someone reported a dream in which Hilda's grandparents were seen in heaven with their arms outstretched welcoming someone whose identity they were not given. A second telephone call came from a family friend from Wales, where someone had a dream that was identical to that reported in the first call. Finally, a chaplain who occasionally visited Hilda phoned her parents, saying that he had dreamed that he met her in heaven and began to converse with her about her sufferings. He did not know that Hilda had just died. In the conversation, she dismissed her pain as insignificant in comparison with the joy she was experiencing. Hilda's parents do not think these three individuals had any contact with each other.
P. Wiebe, God and Other Spirits: Intimations of Transcendence in Christian Experience (Oxford 2004), 66-67.
I have had firsthand, incontrovertible experience of extrasensory perception, and a little precognition. But the experience I want to mention here is relevant to the matter of the resurrection.
Many of us who believe in what is technically known as the Communion of Saints, must have experienced the sense of nearness, for a fairly short time, of those whom we love soon after they have died. This has certainly, happened to me several times. But the late C. S. Lewis, whom I did not know very well, and had only seen in the flesh once, but with whom I had corresponded a fair amount, gave me an unusual experience. A few days after his death, while I was watching television, he "appeared" sitting in a chair a within a few feet of me, and spoke a few words which were particularly relevant to the difficult circumstances through which I was passing He was ruddier in complexion than ever, grinning all over his face and, as the old-fashioned saying has it, positively glowing with health. The interesting thing to me was that I had not been thinking about him at all. I was neither alarmed nor surprised nor to satisfy the Bishop of Woolwich, did I look up to see the hole in the ceiling that he might have have made on arrival. He was just there–"large as life and twice as natural"! A week later, this time when I was in bed reading before going to sleep, he appeared again, even more rosily radiant than before, and repeated to me the same message, which was very important to me at the time. I was a little puzzled by this, and I mentioned it to a certain saintly Bishop who was then living in retirement here in Dorset. His reply was, "My dear J..., this sort of thing is happening all the time."
J.B. Phillips, Ring of Truth (Harold Shaw Publishers 1989), 116-17.
Some years ago I got up one morning intending to have my hair cut in preparation for a visit to London, and the first letter I opened made it clear I need not go to London. So I decided to put the haircut off too. But then there began the most unaccountable little nagging in my mind, almost like a voice saying, "Get it cut all the same. Go and get it cut." In the end I could stand it no longer. I went. Now my barber at that time was a fellow Christian and a man of many troubles whom my brother and I had sometimes been able to help. The moment I opened his shop door he said, "Oh, I was praying you might come today." And in fact if I had come a day or so later I should have been of no use to him.
It awed me; it awes me still. But of course one cannot rigorously prove a causal connection between the barber's prayers and my visit. It might be telepathy. It might be accident. I have stood by the bedside of a woman [his wife] whose thighbone was eaten through with cancer and who had thriving colonies of the disease in many other bones, as well. It took three people to move her in bed. The doctors predicted a few months of life; the nurses (who often know better), a few weeks. A good man: laid his hands on her and prayed. A year later the patient was walking (uphill, too, through rough woodland) and the man who took the last X-ray photos was saying, "These bones are as solid as rock. It's miraculous."
C.S. Lewis, The World's Last Night (Mariner Books 2002), 3-4.
While preaching in the hall, on one occasion, I [Spurgeon] deliberately pointed to a man in the midst of the crowd, and said, "There is a man sitting there, who is a shoemaker; he keeps his shop open on Sundays, it was open last Sabbath morning, he took nine pence, and there was four pence profit out of it; his soul is sold to Satan for four pence!" A city missionary, when going his rounds, met with this man, and seeing that he was reading one of my sermons, he asked the question, "Do you know Mr Spurgeon?" "Yes," replied the man "I have every reason to know him, I have been to hear him; and under his preaching, by God's grace I have become a new creature in Christ Jesus. Shall I tell you how it happened? I went to the Music Hall, and took my seat in the middle of the place: Mr Spurgeon looked at me as if he knew me, and in his sermon he pointed to me, and told the congregation that I was a shoemaker, and that I kept my shop open on Sundays; and I did, sir. I should not have minded that; but he also said that I took nine pence the Sunday before, and that there was four pence profit; but how he should know that, I could not tell. Then it struck me that it was God who had spoken to my soul through him, so I shut up my shop the next Sunday. At first, I was afraid to go again to hear him, lest he should tell the people more about me; but afterwards I went, and the Lord met with me, and saved my soul."
The H.J. Harrald, ed. Autobiography of Charles H. Spurgeon (Flemming H. Revell Co., 1899), 2:226-27.
Cessationists are correspondingly susceptible to the sins of the debunker. I am much less likely to get a cessationist to believe in a remarkable response to prayer than I would be able to get a charismatic to believe it.
Ferinstance. A number of years ago a good friend of ours was dying. When she finally passed away, Nancy and I were on the road (in Philadelphia). It was the middle of the night and we both woke up. Are you awake? Yeah, are you awake? How come? Beats me. A few minutes later the phone rang, and it was the news that our friend had gone to be with the Lord. Back home, our grandson Knox had been praying regularly for her, and he was two or thereabouts. But that night while praying for her, he stopped, and said, "She died. She is in Heaven." They found out later that she had in fact died that night.
When I first came to America, thirty-one years ago. I crossed the Atlantic with the captain of a steamer who was one of the most devoted men I ever knew, and when we were off the banks of Newfoundland be said to me:
"Mr. Inglis, the last time I crossed here, five weeks ago, one of the most extraordinary things happened which, has completely revolutionized the whole of my Christian life. Up to that time I was one of your ordinary Christians. We had a man of God on board, George Muller, of Bristol. I had been on that bridge for twenty-two hours and never left it. I was startled by some one tapping me on the shoulder. It was George Muller: "'Captain, he said, 'I have come to tell you that I must be In Quebec on Saturday afternoon.' This was Wednesday.
"'It is impossible,' I said.
"'Very well, if your ship can't take me, God will find some other means of locomotion to take me. I have never broken an engagement in fifty seven years.'
"'I would willingly help you. How can I? I am helpless.'
"'Let us go down to the chart-room and pray.'
"I looked at that man of God, and I thought to myself, what lunatic asylum could that man have come from? I never heard of such a thing.
"'Mr. Muller,' I said, 'do you know how dense the fog is?'
"'No,' he replied, 'my eye is not on the density of the fog, but on the living God who controls every circumstance of my life.'
"He got down on his knees and prayed one of the most simple prayers. I muttered to myself: 'That would suit a children's class where the children were not more than eight or nine years old.' The burden of his prayer was something like this: 'O Lord, if it is consistent with Thy will, please remove this fog in five minutes. You know the engagement you made for me in Quebec Saturday. I believe it is your will.'
"When he finished. I was going to pray, but he put his hand on my shoulder and told me not to pray. "First, you do not believe He will; and second. I believe He has. And there is no need whatever for you to pray about it.' I looked at him, and George Muller said.
"'Captain. I have known my Lord for forty-seven years, and there has never been a single day that I have failed to gain an audience with the King. Get up, captain, and open the door, and you will find the fog is gone.' I got up, and the fog was gone!
"You tell that to some people of a scientific turn of mind, and they will say, 'That is not according to natural laws.' No, it is according to spiritual laws. The God with whom we have to do is omnipotent. Hold on to God's omnipotence. Ask believingly. On Saturday afternoon, I may add, George Muller was there on time."
The Herald of Gospel Liberty (August 25, 1910), 1060.
George Müller: charismatic Calvinist
This is ironic:
One of my favorite accounts from church history in this regard is the testimony of George Müller…That perspective fueled Müller’s evangelistic zeal — from the 10,000 orphans he helped to care for in England to the over 200,000 miles he traveled as an itinerant evangelist, taking the gospel to dozens of foreign nations. Müller’s example is one of many powerful answers, from history, to those who would allege that an affirmation of God’s sovereignty in salvation kills evangelism.
Why ironic? On the one hand, Nathan Busenitz is a MacArthurite cessationist. He teaches theology at The Master's College. And he was one of the speakers at the Strange Fire Conference.
On the other hand, Müller is famous for his chronicle of miraculous answers to prayer:
That's how Müller supported his orphanages. If Müller were alive today, he'd be classified as a charismatic Calvinist.
Busenitz might try to evade this by saying Müller's experience was providential rather than miraculous. However, the way in which God answered his prayers was nothing short of extraordinary. If that's providential, it's providential in the sense of coincidence miracles rather than ordinary providence.
Our guilty silence
Every now and then I run across articles that castigate American Christians or American churches for their (alleged) silence in the face of Christian persecution around the world. Although I share their concern, what, if anything, do the critics have in mind by way of a constructive alternative?
Do they think pastors should denounce from the pulpit the persecution of Christians around the world? If so, what would that accomplish? Would that change anything?
Do they think pastors should educate their parishioners are the phenomenon of Christian persecution around the world. If so, what would that accomplish? Would that change anything?
Do the critics think American Christians ought to take action? If so, what action? Email the White House? Email the State Department? What would that accomplish?
Write their senator or Congressman? If so, what would that accomplish? To begin with, what if you live in a blue state. What if your liberal senator or Congressman doesn't care about the plight of persecuted Christians?
And even if he does, what do you think he should do about it? Hold a Congressional hearing? Write an angry letter to the ambassador of a county that persecutes Christians?
Propose economic sanctions against countries that persecute Christians? Arm Christians in countries that persecute Christians? Offer asylum?
I'm just curious about whether critics of our "silence" have any practical solutions.
Are Biblical miracles "undeniable"?
Part of the MacArthurite schtick is to claim that Biblical miracles are "undeniable," in contrast to reported modern miracles. Yet in the NT we have examples of both outsiders and churchgoers who deny the Resurrection.
and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.” 32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked (Acts 17:31-32).
12 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? (1 Cor 15:12).
So, by MacArthurite standards, does that mean the Resurrection doesn't count as a real miracle?
Excesses of the Wahoo Brethren
Friday, October 25, 2013
How much should a pastor make?
Here's a little anecdote. I once knew a jail chaplain who was interviewed by a church board for an open pastoral position. (This was years before he became a chaplain.) The conversation eventually came around to how much he expected to be paid. He suggested that each of the board members write down their income on a slip of paper, hand it to the chairman (or treasurer), have him average them out, and that would be a fair wage. He didn't get the job.
I think the chaplain had a good rule of thumb.
Thursday, October 24, 2013
In his house are many mansions
Pastor Steven Furtick's newly built $1.7 million, 16,000 square-foot mansion is under the spotlight. A few comments in no particular order of importance:
i) I automatically catalogue stories like these in the "There's a sucker born every minute" file.
ii) One thing you can say about prosperity preachers: they aren't hypocrites. They practice what they preach. Or maybe I should say, they practice what they leech.
Why is anyone shocked, least of all their check-writing parishioners, when a prosperity preacher is…prosperous? Admittedly, it's sometimes hard to balance a wealthy lifestyle with a healthily lifestyle, but Furtick's still young. The arteriosclerosis comes later.
iii) Imagine what a new 16,000 square-foot mansion would cost in California!
iv) Furtick's come a long ways from Moncks Corner. Jerry Falwell had many faults, but he was born, raised, lived, worked, and died in the same place all his life.
v) Furtick's parishioners have no cause for complaint. You get what you pay for. And they have the best pastor that money can buy.
They are to Furtick what Obama voters are to Obama. Just as Obama voters are coming to the rude realization that, where Obamacare is concerned, we are all One Percenters, the members of Elevation Church have more dollars than sense.
vi) If one of his parishioners built a $1.7 million, 16,000 square-foot mansion, would this even be a story? It's not just Christian ministers who are called to a servant lifestyle. All Christians are called to a servant lifestyle. Our life is not our own. We were bought with a price (1 Cor 6:19-20). Furtick deserves to be excoriated, but let's avoid double standards.
I notice that the controversy swirling around Steven Furtick's McMansion has spun off in a new direction. I think we need to draw some rudimentary distinctions.
There's a difference between valuing certain amenities and creature comforts because they make life more pleasant, and spending big bucks on status symbols. There's a difference between valuing something because it's beautiful, and valuing something to impress the neighbors.
Furtick's mansion is ostentatious. That's worldly.
To take a comparison: you can own a big boat because you enjoy boating, or you can own a big boat to make a statement about your bank account. There's a difference.
Apprising Ministries
Pastor Ken Silva is going through a rough patch:
Those of you who can might consider a love offering.
How to Build Noah's Ark
Strike three and counting
Mark Driscoll has been roundly chided for the stunt he recently pulled at the Strange Fire conference. I'd just say that given prior mounting evidence (e.g. pornographic revelations, financial irregularities, 1-2 hrs per week sermon prep), Driscoll probably forfeited any presumption to be taken seriously well before the latest kerfuffle.
Perspectives on Africa
Conrad Mbewe was the only speaker at the Strange Fire conference who had anything worthwhile to contribute to the issue at hand. Mike Riccardi transcribed most of his presentation:
Mbewe highlights the dangers of syncretism, as charismatic theology merges with indigenous religion. I think his warnings should be taken seriously.
That said, there are obvious limitations to his presentation. Africa is a huge, culturally and theologically diverse continent. Imagine an international conference in which one speaker represented the North American perspective, another speaker represented the Latin American perspective, yet another speaker represented the European perspective, still another speaker represented the South Asian perspective. Clearly one man can't speak for all of African Christianity. For instance, Mbewe is Baptist, but Anglicans have a huge footprint in Nigeria.
Indeed, two African left comments on the Mbewe post taking issue with his overview.
Likewise, Craig Keener is married to a native African: Médine Moussounga Keener, who holds a Ph.D. from University of Paris. She's one of his sources in his monograph on miracles. For his part, Craig Keener is coauthoring a book with a Nigerian professor and pastor on charismatic theology. African Christianity has many voices. Just as Mbewe's firsthand observations ought to be taken seriously, so should theirs.
Soul brothers
Ed Dingess
Short-sighted objections
From an avid MacArthurite:
i) I didn't realize that Jesus repeatedly cleaned out cancer wards on camera with verification by medical staff.
ii) As a rule, Jesus didn't seek out sick people to heal. Rather, they sought him out. Is that suggestive?
iii) Jesus only healed a tiny fraction of all the sick people alive during his earthly ministry. Is the fact that he never tried to heal everyone suggestive? Is the fact that that he never attempts to heal everyone today suggestive?
Strange bedfellows
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Rearguard cessationism
I'm going to comment on a few of Tom Pennington's arguments, from his Strange Fire presentation:
I'm going to skip most of his arguments because I've already interacted with the arguments of the most astute cessationists (e.g. Richard Gaffin, O. P. Robertson, Dan Wallace, B. B. Warfield).
Cessationism does not mean, as our critics present it, that God no longer does anything miraculousCessationism also does not mean that the Spirit cannot, if He should choose, to give a miraculous ability to someone today. He’s God, He can do whatever He wants. If He wants to, He could give a language to someone they’ve never studied, it just wouldn’t be the New Testament gift, because it wouldn’t be revelation from God.
Really? That's not how another MacArthurite defines cessationism:
Let me make one more distinction: There are two kinds of miracles noted in Scripture.1. Some are remarkable works of God apart from any human agency.2. The other kind of miracle involves a human agent, who from the human perspective is the instrument through which the miracle comes.
Pennington allows for God to miraculously empower somebody today, whereas Johnson disallows that very thing. Pennington erases the line Johnson draws.
Of course, MacArthurites are free to disagree with each other. But when Pennington accuses "our critics" of misrepresenting cessationism, even though Johnson confirms what they say, that sends mixed signals.
Because the primary purpose of miracles has always been to confirm the credentials of a divinely appointed messenger—to establish the credibility of one who speaks for God
Yet Pennington just said: the Spirit, if he so chose, could give a miraculous ability to someone today. It just wouldn't be a revelation from God.
How, then, does that square with his claim that "the primary purpose of miracles has always been to confirm the credentials of a divinely appointed messenger—to establish the credibility of one who speaks for God"?
But how were the people to know if a man who claimed to be a prophet was in fact speaking God’s own words? Moses faced this dilemma. [Reads 4:1–5] So understand that God enabled Moses to perform miracles for one purpose only: to validate Moses as God’s prophet and Moses’ message as God’s own words. Moses was universally accepted as God’s prophet, and what he wrote were literally the words of God and came to be accepted as such. Why? Because the power to work miracles validated his claims to speak for God.
I'm sorry, but on the face of it, that claim is exegetically preposterous. In Exodus, the primary reason Moses is a miracle worker is to trounce Egyptian religion, thereby exposing the vanity of the Egyptian deities, in contrast to the omnipotence power of the one true God. See Currid's analysis.
The first was that of Moses and Joshua, from the Exodus through the career of Joshua (1445-1380 BC), about 65 years. The second window was during the ministries of Elijah and Elisha (ca. 860-795 BC), again only about 65 years. Here in Deuteronomy Moses laid down 3 criteria for discerning a true prophet. The true prophet’s predictions must always come true (v. 21). In Deut 13:1–5, God says that if He chose to authenticate a true prophet He would do so by empowering him to work miracles as He did with Moses. Also in Deuteronomy 13, He said, even if He works miracles, the third criterion is that the prophet’s message must be always in complete doctrinal agreement with previous revelation.
If we apply Pennington's criteria to Pennington's examples, Moses, Joshua, Elijah, and Elisha were the only true OT prophets. Hosea, Micah, Jeremiah, Zechariah, Malachi, &c. were false prophets, for they fail to meet the three criteria of a true prophet. Most of of them performed no miracles.
It's also odd that Isaiah doesn't make the cut, since miracles are associated with him. Why doesn't Pennington include him?
Consider the gift of healing. In the New Testament when someone with the New Testament gift of healing used his gifts, the results were complete, immediate, permanent, undeniable, every kind of sickness, and every kind of illness.
i) How does he know that every NT healing was permanent? The NT contains no record of long-term follow-up studies. So what's his evidence for that claim? Is it his assumption that a temporary healing would be defective? If so, he needs to supply a supporting argument for his theological assumption.
ii) By permanent, does he mean that if Christ or an apostle cured someone, that immunized them from the recurrence of the same disease? If so, how does he know that? Suppose St. Peter healed a man of syphilis. Does that mean the man could no longer contract syphilis, even if he continued to indulge in sexual immorality?
To take another example: elderly women are a higher risk of dying from pneumonia. Did they die of pneumonia, or did they die of old age? Both. Age made them more susceptible to pneumonia.
If Christ or an apostle "permanently" healed a younger women of pneumonia, does that mean she could never again catch pneumonia?
Or take Christ's warning to the invalid: "See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you" (Jn 5:14). This insinuates that his particular disability was due to sin, and if he returned to a life of sin, his disability, or worse, would return. A potentially impermanent cure.
iii) What does he mean by "undeniable"? Does he mean a miracle no one would deny? But atheists deny Biblical miracles in toto.
Does he mean a miracle which no reasonable person would deny? But to say no modern miracles are undeniable in that sense begs the question.
Moreover, it comes into conflict with his prior admission that "the Spirit, if he so chose, could give a miraculous ability to someone today." Would that be deniable or undeniable?
The purported healings of today’s faith healers are the antithesis: incomplete, temporary, and unverifiable.
i) What's his evidence that the healings of today's faith healers are "unverifiable"? What's his source of information for that blanket denial?
ii) Suppose an atheist turned tables by demanding verification for Biblical miracles? What is Pennington's comeback?
iii) What's his evidence that all their healings are temporary?
iv) What about temporary healings? To some extent I'm sympathetic to this objection. A "temporary" healing suggests a psychosomatic healing. Put another way, a "temporary" healing suggests a face-saving euphemism for a failed healing. In other words, no healing at all. So I think many temporary healings are suspect. There's a presumption against their authenticity.
v) But our assessment still comes down to the specifics. Take the famous case of Joy Davidman. She had advanced cancer which went into remission in answer to the prayer of an Anglican priest who had a reputation as a healer. Yet she suffered a fatal relapse two years later.
vi) Where does Jas 5:14-16 fit into Pennington's paradigm? Does he think that expired in the 1C AD? If not, does he think that necessarily results in a permanent cure?
What if a dying father or mother is estranged from his or her children? What if God heals the parent long enough to effect a family reconciliation? Does Pennington rule that out?
Pennington's cessationism has a veneer of Scripturality, but the more you scrutinize it, the more a priori it turns out to be.
Does Church Need to Be More Manly?
Meyer contra Marshall 4
"More on Small Shelly Fossils and the Length of the Cambrian Explosion: A Concluding Response to Charles Marshall" by Stephen Meyer.
Luther, Jews, and charismatics
Disambiguating the charismatic debate
There's a good way and a bad way to argue against continuationism. Unfortunately, these are not consistently distinguished in popular debates:
The wrong way:
Point to examples of Pentecostals run amok. Point of Word of Faith hucksters. Point to YouTube clips of "holy barking," &c.
Universalize from these examples to continuationism in toto.
That's a bad argument because it's logically fallacious. A classic inductive fallacy: a hasty generalization.
Moreover, it's a double-edged sword. After all, atheists use that same type of argument to discredit Christianity en masse.
The right way:
Demonstrate from Scripture that continuationism is false.
Point to examples of Pentecostals run amok to illustrate the consequences of a false starting-point.
See the difference? In the first case you are using examples to establish a general principle.
In the second case, you first establish a general principle, then use examples to illustrate that principle.
In the second case, the principle is grounded in arguments independent of the illustrations.
In the first case, the principle is dependent on the examples.
In the second case, the examples are dependent on the principle.
In the second case, this is how the examples are related to the principle: because continuationism is false, so-called excesses and abuses are not isolated incidents. Rather, these are the inevitable, unavoidable consequences of a building on a false foundation.
Hence, it's ultimately irrelevant to distinguish between reputable and disreputable charismatics, for reputable charismatics are reputable in spite of their theology, not because of their theology. Whether they represent the majority or minority of charismatics is a red herring.
One final clarification: what I've said doesn't mean the good way is a good argument. It may be a bad argument. But it's a good way to mount the argument. That's the proper way to frame your objection.
Your objection may still be bad, but that's the kind of argument we should engage.
That would shift the argument to a primarily exegetical argument.
That can also be supplemented by a historical argument, for cessationism and continuationism both have broadly predictable real-world consequences.
One mediator between God and man
In this post I'm going to comment on the difference between Christian and unitarian models of mediation.
i) In the OT, there's a categorical difference between God and the world. Between the Creator and the creature. Time and space originate in God's creative fiat. So God is essentially transcendent.
In theory, this could lead to a deistic concept of divine action, where God acts in the world through intermediate creatures. In theory, God could be so holy, so other, so set apart, that he only speaks or acts through go-betweens. And to some extent, angels function as emissaries between heaven and earth.
However, in the OT, you also have theophanies. And you have an angel who is not a creature, like other angels, but God himself, assuming an angelic similitude.
So, in the OT, angels don't take the place of God, as go-betweens. In the OT, God reserves the freedom to bypass angels and make "direct" contact with humans.
ii) But in Second Temple Judaism, there's a shift. Because Second Temple literature isn't constrained by divine inspiration, it loses the balance, and sometimes becomes deistic. This is seen in the exaltation of Metatron. Because Yahweh is so sacrosanct, so unapproachable, Metatron becomes a cosmic viceregent or prime minister. The acting God.
This illustrates the internal tensions of unitarianism. On the one hand, because God is so untouchable, he must delegate the administration of the universe to a second party. Someone must fill the gap. That exaggerates divine transcendence.
But, conversely, in order for a deputy to act in God's stead, he must be so exalted, so godlike, that this once again blurs the distinction between God and the world. The solution ends up intensifying the original tension.
iii) We see a similar development in Islam and Medieval Judaism. Islam and Medieval Judaism aren't so much monotheistic as they are unitarian. That's because these are post-Christian developments. These exist in conscious, antagonistic reaction to Christianity.
They accentuate the unicity and transcendence of God. But in so doing, they create a void. And they fill the void by the Neoplatonic tactic of introducing intermediaries which bridge the gap. Intermediaries which are higher than man, but just a tad than God. Not quite divine, not quite mundane. They occupy the space (as it were) between God and creation.
One obvious model for bridging a gap is to fill it in with something that occupies the interval and touches both ends. It fills the empty space in-between either side of the gap, like stepping stones.
iv) In the NT, the Incarnate Son is a mediatorial figure, but it's a completely different paradigm. Assuming that Second Temple Judaism has any influence on this conception, the mediatorial role of Christ stands in studied contrast to the Second Temple paradigm. It's not an extension of the Second Temple paradigm, but an antithetical alternative–like green screening, where the background color exists for the sake of contrast.
In the NT, Christ is not an intermediary between God and man in the sense of being in-between God and man, as something less than God but more than man, but as both. Not within the two sides of the gap, but on both sides of the gap. That's a radically different conception. That's not commensurable with the Second Temple model, or its counterpart in Medieval Judaism.
A unitarian might object that this fails to solve the problem. However, the Bible, both the Old and the New Testaments, never viewed the metaphysical distance between God and the world as a problem in the first place. There's nothing to solve in that regard. The real problem is the ethical distance between God and sinners.
v) To take an illustration, and that's all it is, suppose you had two warring factions. Two belligerent ethnic and religious groups. Suppose the two factions were reconciled when one faction's king marries the other faction's queen, and they have a child. The child embodies both factions.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Where did all these Calvinists come from?
I admit, I was shocked that Dever never mentioned James White and his influence of reformed theology proper and his reformed apologetics in Evangelicalism and the world at large (Islam, Mormonism, Roman Catholicism, etc). Rap groups makes Dever's list as one of the most Reformed influences. But no mention of White.
So this blunderous lacuna on Dever's part skews his lecture on Calvinism. Other than that, it was a helpful overview.
Dingos and Darwin
I'm no expert, but it seems to me that Dingos illustrate a methodological problem for Darwinism. In Darwinism, a traditional way to establish common descent is to string fossils together in a presumptive phylogenic tree.
Dingos looks uncannily like domestic dogs. So what are they? Are they domestic dogs that reverted? Are they wild canines (related to dogs, but not dogs). Are they hybrids–the issue of domestic dogs interbreeding with wild canines? From what I've read, scientists are unable to sort that out.
This is despite the fact that since Dingos are a living species, we know more about them than the fossil remains of extinct species. In addition, the white man colonized Australia a few centuries ago, so if they are either hybrids or feral dogs, that should be easier to trace historically.
If scientists can't even sort out the evolutionary sequence for Dingos, how can they hope to sort out the evolutionary sequence extinct species from fossils scattered in time and space?
Revive Us Again
i) Pentecostalism suffers from unrealistic expectations. I think that's due in part to the fact that modern Pentecostalism was birthed in revival. The Azusa Street Revival is the best known, but that came on the heels periodic revivals, clustered close in time. Cf. G. McGree, Miracles, Missions, & American Pentecostalism (Orbis Books 2010), Part 1.
For those who experience a Christian revival or live through that period, that's apt to foster false expectations. In the nature of the case, revivals are exceptional. That makes them a poor paradigm for normality. It's hard to go back to the humdrum of ordinary life after the revival dies down.
It's tempting to think your revival is not exceptional. That Christian history has finally turned a corner. The "latter rain" and all that good stuff. That this is a decisive turning point in Christian history. Your generation is different. You're something special
The letdown is hard to take. Hence, it's tempting to artificially stoke the fire.
ii) Cessationism is the polar opposite. A classically risk-adverse position. If you're expectations are low enough, you'll never be disappointed. Kind of like a misanthrope whose cynicism immunizes him from disillusionment.
iii) Cessationists often frame the issue by saying charismatics judge by experience which cessationists judge by Scripture. There's sometimes a lot of truth to that invidious comparison. And sometimes not.
iv) In my observation, cessationists unconsciously judge by experience. For instance, when they judge Paul Cain by false prophecies or judge Pentecostal worship by "holy barking," that's judging by experience.
And there's nothing wrong with that, as long as you don't fall prey to hasty generalizations. But I find it striking that many cessationists are oblivious to the fact that they, too, are judging by experience.
v) Another example is how some cessationists have a very narrow definition of prophecy. For instance, they typically define prophecy as "an infallible word from God" (or something along those lines). They think that's Biblical. They accuse charismatics of redefining prophecy.
What's ironic is that they didn't get that definition from reading the Bible. In Scripture, prophetic phenomena are much more varied. For instance, visionary revelation originally consists of images rather than words. No divine words at all.
Likewise, there's a potential (and sometimes actual) distinction between revelatory dreams and inspired speech. For instance, Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar were both recipients of revelatory dreams. But when Pharaoh tells Joseph what he saw in his dreams, Pharaoh isn't speaking under divine inspiration. When Nebuchadnezzar tells Daniel what he saw in his dreams, he's not speaking under divine inspiration. The dream is inspired, but his own account of the dream is uninspired. The dream is prophetic, but he recounts the dream from memory.
That stands in contrast to canonical prophets, for whom the vision and the record of the vision are equally inspired. Both visionary and verbal inspiration.
So why do cessationists define prophecy in such unbiblical, reductionistic terms? That's a result of their experience. They've been conditioned to define prophecy that way by cessationist preachers or writers they've heard and read.
The paradoxical thing about conditioning is that operates at a subliminal level. To be conditioned is to be unaware of your conditioning. It takes a conscious effort to reflect on your conditioning.
Catholic miracles
A cessationist objection to modern miracles is that once we allow for modern miracles, we can't screen out Catholic miracles. Since miracles attest doctrine, God won't answer Catholic prayers.
There are several problems with that objection:
i) First of all, it doesn't seem fair to treat all Protestant miracles as suspect just to preempt Catholic miracles.
ii) The objection sounds admirably uncompromising. Seems to erect a thick high wall against Rome.
Unfortunately, the wall has a backdoor. Unintentionally, this is a standing invitation for Protestants to convert to Rome. Practically dares them to convert to Rome. For if miracles attest doctrine, then it only takes one Catholic miracle for the wall to become a portal to Rome.
What starts out like firm opposition to Rome actually poises the Protestant right on the tipping-point of conversion to Rome. A single Catholic miracle will be a wholesale defeater for Protestant theology. You could hardly have a more unstable position.
iii) A cessationist fallback is to allow for the possibility that a Catholic prayer might be miraculously answered, but attribute the source to the dark side. But although that explanation is worth considering in its own right, it succeeds by forfeiting the original premise. The miracle loses its evidentiary value as a witness to doctrine.
iv) Why might God answer a Catholic prayer?
Consider this. Every Protestant of Anglo-European extraction is descended from Roman Catholics, going back to our pre-Reformation forebears–or sooner.
That was an age of high infant mortality. Modern medicine didn't exist. Other than folk remedies, which were often ineffective or positively harmful, prayer was the only recourse. And when a medieval parent prayed for a sick child, that's going to be a prayer to the Virgin Mary or St. Jude.
So the question is, would God ever answer the prayer of a Medieval mother or father, pleading for the life of a sick child? If you say no, then you're taking the position no Protestant of Anglo-European descent was the beneficiary of God answering the prayer of a Catholic ancestor, going back scores of generations.
If, in fact, God answered the prayer, it wasn't to validate Catholic dogma, or attest the cult of the saints . Rather, it's so that hundreds of years down the line, you and I would exist today. God healed your great-great-great forebear with you in view. It was a way of creating Protestants! A delayed reaction.
It's not the Virgin Mary or St. Jude who answered the prayer, even if it was directed at one of them, but God.
And it doesn't stop with medieval Catholicism. Before there were Catholics, there were pagans. Every Christian today is the descendent of pagans. And that includes Christians of every ethnic group.
So the question is whether God ever answered the prayer of a pagan parent, interceding for a sick child. Take Samson Occom, the great Mohegan missionary. He's a direct descendent of heathen Indians. Or take Abraham, a direct descendent of moon-worshipers.
Consider their linear ancestors, many of whom were deathly ill as children. Did God never answer the prayer of their desperate parents? Or were all their lineal descendants preternaturally healthy?
v) Someone might object that if God ever answered a pagan prayer, that would validate paganism in the mind supplicant. To that objection, I'd say two things:
a)Before Christian missionaries began evangelizing the pagan world, pagans were going to practice their pagan faith regardless of God answering or not answering any of their prayers.
b) In addition, cessationists do make allowance for the possibility that witchdoctors have real power. They attribute that power to the dark side.
But if a sick child is healed by a witchdoctor instead of God, that will still be taken to validate paganism. Whether God answers the prayer, or permits a demonic miracle, the pagan parent or heathen onlookers will still credit that to their false gods. If that's a problem, cessationism isn't the solution. It just relocates the problem. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38976 | Finding the Fun in Funerals
writing 101: Finding the Fun in Funerals
Or if not fun, at least rich material for writers.
My most recent blog, Embracing Death, touched on this topic tangentially, but really, given all they can do for a story, funerals need their own focus. So, how can writers use funerals?
Burial rituals reflect culture, socio-economic class, and time period—without having to specify such things in the narrative.
Within those broad parameters, many decisions need to be made. What if the relevant relatives disagree on things? Music, prayers, cost of the casket, who speaks at the service, what happens at the graveside. . . What if there is no grave? (The same could apply to memorial services.) Where will the body be buried or the ashes scattered? And so we have the possibilities of coalitions forming. Maybe these reflect already existing ties or loyalties.
What if the deceased person’s wishes to donate organs—or the whole body to a medical school—horrify the survivors? Who will have the final word? Will s/he just announce, or work for cooperation and consensus? And will that succeed?
Often a funeral will bring together people who haven’t seen and/or talked to each other in years. This makes possible happy reunions, but also the resurgence of past rivalries, jealousies, and grievances.
Heirs may start squabbling over their inheritances before the funeral even happens! And it doesn’t have to be millions at stake. In my novel Nettie’s Books (forthcoming), the hostilities erupt over quilts, stoneware pitchers, and a cake plate!
I often find the fun in funerals. My story “The Red Glove” features a drive-through funeral home in Maine. “Wanted” also features a father lying in state at Herschel Southern Drive-Thru Mortuary, resting peacefully behind plate glass.
What about you? If you’re a writer, have you looked on the light side of funerals, or do you write about their inherent tensions?
As with other aspects of good writing, the stakes need to be high. What’s to be won or lost? And after you write the scene, ramp it up, push it to the extreme.
Aircraft to Drop Flowers on Graves, May 29, 1941
“Aircraft to Drop Flowers on Graves” |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38988 | the joy of searing
There are cooking methods incompatible with my desire to keep the kitchen clean. Deep frying is one and searing, at blisteringly proper temps, is another. They need to step outside. Last night I wanted to sear/blacken some tilapia for fish tacos. My usual prep is to cover both sides of the fish with salt, pepper and paprika.* I let them sit prepped at room temp a while and preheated the pan.
I use my grill most often as a smoker I also use it for a simple hot surface for fast searing (and flatbreads). It's pretty simple and fast enough for a weeknight dinner. I use a small pile (ca. 2 lbs) of Matchlight briquettes; light 'em and stick a cast iron pan on top while they light. Vents on the bottom of the kettle should be full open no cover. One time I place a perforated aluminum sheet on top of this flame, the ones used to cook vegetables, and it disintegrated. Matchlight is intense. If properly lit, there is zero detectable "lighter fluid smell," at this temp, it's impossible.
The ignition and preheating takes about 10 minutes.The surface of the cast iron according to my spiffy infrared thermometer is about 550F +/- 50F. Then I ready my filets, squirt the surface with some oil (I used a low grade olive oil for this case, something that wouldn't flash so quickly) and toss on a couple filets for a minute per side. Cooked at this temperature, the food won't stick, it'll practically leap off the surface. A couple images of the action:
When the flames die down and the coals are red hot, you're ready to cook. No need to measure the surface temp of the pan, I just measured to put a number down for this post.
This is a couple filets after a minute on each side.
*The paprika should not be the pathetic stuff from that little red can. If it's from an Indian grocery store, should be fine. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/38991 | Sunday, July 31, 2016
Row of Flags
It seems like I am seeing more flags these days, waving from porches and from newly installed flagpoles in front yards. After Independence Day, the flags and the patriotic bunting decorating shops and other businesses usually gets packed away, but not this time. My favorite flag sighting so far is this row on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. It reminds me of Childe Hassam's World War I era flag paintings. Any iconic image gains visual power in repetition. And if you can arrange for a nice sunny day when the light is angled perfectly, that helps too. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39003 | title = { {LusSy}: an open Tool for the Analysis of Systems-on-a-Chip at the Transaction Level },
year = {2006},
note = {special issue on {SystemC}-based systems},
journal = {Design Automation for Embedded Systems},
team = {SYNC},
abstract = {We describe a toolbox for the analysis of Systems-on-a-chip written in {SystemC} at the transaction level. The tool is able to extract information from {SystemC} code, and to build a set of parallel automata that capture the semantics of a {SystemC} design, including the transaction-level specific constructs. As far as we know, this provides the first executable formal semantics of {SystemC}. Being implemented as a traditional compiler front-end, it is able to deal with general {SystemC} designs. The intermediate representation is now connected to existing formal verification tools via appropriate encodings. The toolbox is open and other tools will be used in the future.},
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39016 | Kickapoo - Tenacious D
[Jack Black (Narrator)]
A long ass f_ckin' time ago,
In a town called Kickapoo,
There lived a humble family
Religious through and through.
But yay there was a black sheep
And he knew just what to do.
His name was young J.B. and he refused to step in-line.
A vision he did see-eth
F_ckin' rockin' all the time.
He wrote a tasty jam and all the planets did align
[Jack Black (Son)]
Oh the dragons balls were blazin' as I stepped into his cave,
Then I sliced his f_ckin' cockles,
With a long and shiney blade!
'Twas I who f_cked the dragon,
F_ckalize sing-f_ckaloo!
And if you try to f_ck with me,
Then I shall f_ck you too!
Gotta get it on in the party zone!
I gots to shoot a load in the party zone!
Gotta lick a toad in the party zone!
Gotta s_ck a chode in the party zone!
[Meat Loaf (Father)]
You've disobeyed my orders, son,
My way you never (born?).
Your brother's ten times better than you,
Jesus loves him more.
Rock and roll's The Devil's work, he wants you to rebel.
You'll become a mindless puppet;
Beelzebub will pull the strings!
Your heart will lose direction,
And chaos it will bring.
You'd better shut your mouth,
Better watch your tone!
You're going for a week with no telephone!
Don't let me here you cry,
Don't let me hear you moan!
You gotta praise The Lord when you're in my home!
[Jack Black (Son)]
Dio can you hear me?
I am lost and so alone.
I'm askin' for your guidance.
Won't you come down from your throne?
I need a tight compadre who will teach me how to rock.
My father thinks you're evil,
But man, he can s_ck a cock.
Rock is not The Devil's work,
It's magical and rad.
[Ronnie James Dio (Dio poster)]
I hear you brave young Jaybles,
You are hungry for the rock.
But to learn the ancient method,
Sacred doors you must unlock.
Escape your father's clutches,
And this oppressive neighborhood.
On a journey you must go,
To find the land of Hollywood!
In The City of Fallen Angels,
Where the ocean meets the sand,
You will form a strong alliance,
And the world's most awesome band.
To find your fame and fortune,
Through the valley you must walk.
You will face your inner demons.
Now go my son and rock!
[Jack Black (Narrator)]
So he went from f_ckin' Kickapoo With hunger in his heart;
And he journeyed far and wide to find the secrets of his art;
But in the end he knew that he would find his counterpart.
Rooooock. Rah-ha-ha-ha-hock. Raye-yayayayaye-yock
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39023 | tcpdump for Dummies
Table of contents
IntroductionBACK TO TOC
In this article I would like to talk about one of the most useful tools in my networking toolbox and that is tcpdump. Unfortunately mastering this tool completely is not an easy task. Yet stuff you do the most is relatively simple and may become a good springboard when diving into more complex topics.
tcpdump usesBACK TO TOC
tcpdump is a packet sniffer. It is able to capture traffic that passes through a machine. It operates on a packet level, meaning that it captures the actual packets that fly in and out of your computer. It can save the packets into a file. You can save whole packets or only the headers. Later you can “play” recorded file and apply different filters on the packets, telling tcpdump to ignore packets that you are not interested to see.
Under the hood, tcpdump understands protocols and host names. It will do all in its power to see what host sent each packet and will tell you its name instead of the IP address.
It is exceptionally useful tool for debugging what might have caused certain networking related problem. It is an excellent tool to learn new things.
InvocationBACK TO TOC
Invoking tcpdump is easy. First thing that you have to remember is that you should either be logged in as root or be a sudoer on the computer – sudoer is someone who is entitled to gain administrator rights on computer for short period of time using sudo command.
Running tcpdump without any arguments makes it capture packets on first network interface (excluding lo) and print short description of each packet to output. This may cause a bit of a headache in case you are using network to connect to the machine. If you are connected with SSH or telnet (rlogin?), running tcpdump will produce a line of text for each incoming or outgoing packet. This line of text will cause SSH daemon to send a packet with this line, thus causing tcpdump to produce another line of text. And this will not stop until you do something about it.
Simple filteringBACK TO TOC
So first thing that we will learn about tcpdump is how to filter out SSH and telnet packets. We will study the basics of tcpdump filtering later in this guide, but for now just remember this syntax.
# tcpdump not port 22
“not port 22” is a filter specification that tells tcpdump to filter out packets with IP source or destination port 22. As you know port 22 is SSH port. Basically, when you tell tcpdump something like this, it will make tcpdump ignore all SSH packets – exactly what we needed.
Telnet on the other hand, uses port 23. So if you are connecting via telnet, you can filter that out with:
# tcpdump not port 23
Clear and simple!
Reading tcpdump‘s outputBACK TO TOC
By default tcpdump produces one line of text per every packet it intercepts. Each line starts with a time stamp. It tells you very precise time when packet arrived.
Next comes protocol name. Unfortunately, tcpdump understands very limited number of protocols. It won’t tell you the difference between packets belonging to HTTP and for instance FTP stream. Instead, it will mark such packets as IP packets. It does have some limited understanding of TCP. For instance it identifies TCP synchronization packets such as SYN, ACK, FIN and others. This information printed after source and destination IP addresses (if it IP packet).
Source and destination addresses follow protocol name. For IP packets, these are IP addresses. For other protocols, tcpdump does not print any identifiers unless explicitly asked to do so (see -e command line switch below).
Finally, tcpdump prints some information about the packet. For instance, it prints TCP sequence numbers, flags, ARP/ICMP commands, etc.
Here’s an example of typical tcpdump output.
17:50:03.089893 IP > P 1366488174:1366488582
(408) ack 2337505545 win 7240 <nop,nop,timestamp 1491222906 477679143>
This packet is part of HTTP data stream. You can see meaning of each and every field in the packet description in tcpdump’s manual page.
Here’s another example
17:50:00.718266 arp who-has tell
This is ARP packet. It’s slightly more self explanatory than TCP packets. Again, to see exact meaning of each field in the packet description see tcpdump’s manual page.
Invocation continuedBACK TO TOC
Now, when we know how to invoke tcpdump even when connecting to the computer over some net, let’s see what command line switches are available for us.
Choosing an interfaceBACK TO TOC
We’ll start with a simple one. How to dump packets that arrived and sent through a certain network interface. -i command line argument does exactly this.
# tcpdump -i eth1
Will cause tcpdump to capture packets from network interface eth1. Or, considering our SSH/telnet experience:
# tcpdump -i eth1 not port 22
Finally, you can specify any as interface name, to tell tcpdump to listen to all interfaces.
# tcpdump -i any not port 22
Turning off name resolutionBACK TO TOC
As we debug networking issues, we may encounter a problem with how tcpdump works out of the box. The problem is that it tries to resolve every single IP address that it meets. I.e. when it sees an IP packet it asks DNS server for names of the computers behind IP address. It works flawlessly most of the time. However, there are two problems.
First, it slows down packet interception. It’s not a big deal when there are only few packets, but when there are thousands and tens of thousands it introduces a delay into the process. Amount of delay can be different, depending on the traffic.
Another, much more serious problem occurs when there is no DNS server around or when DNS server is not working properly. If this is the case, tcpdump spends few seconds trying to figure out two hostnames for each IP packet. This means virtually stopping intercepting the traffic.
Luckily there is a way around. There is an option that causes tcpdump to stop detecting hostnames and that is -n.
# tcpdump -n
And here are few variations of how you can use this option in conjunction with options that we have learned already.
# tcpdump -n -i eth1
# tcpdump -ni eth1 not port 22
Limiting number of packets to interceptBACK TO TOC
Here are few more useful options. Sometimes amount of traffic that goes in and out of your computer is very high, while all you want to see is just few packets. Often you want to see who sends you the traffic, but when you try to capture anything with tcpdump it dumps so many packets that you cannot understand anything. This is the case when -c command line switch becomes handy.
It tells tcpdump to limit number of packets it intercepts. You specify number of packets you want to see. tcpdump will capture that number of packets and exit. This is how you use it.
# tcpdump -c 10
Or with options that we’ve learned before.
# tcpdump -ni eth1 -c 10 not port 22
This will limit number of packets that tcpdump will receive to 10. Once received 10 packets, tcpdump will exit.
Saving captured dataBACK TO TOC
One of the most useful tcpdump features allows capturing incoming and outgoing packets into a file and then playing this file back. By the way, you can play this file not only with tcpdump, but also with WireShark (former Ethereal), the graphical packet analyzer.
You can do this with -w command line switch. It should be followed by the name of the file that will contain the packets. Like this:
# tcpdump -w file.cap
Or adding options that we’ve already seen
# tcpdump -ni eth1 -w file.cap not port 22
Changing packet size in the capture fileBACK TO TOC
By default, when capturing packets into a file, it will save only 68 bytes of the data from each packet. Rest of the information will be thrown away.
One of the things I do often when capturing traffic into a file, is to change the saved packet size. The thing is that disk space that is required to save the those few bytes is very cheap and available most of the time. Spending few spare megabytes of your disk space on capture isn’t too painful. On the other hand, loosing valuable portion of packets might be very critical.
So, what I usually do when capturing into a file is running tcpdump with -s command line switch. It tells tcpdump how many bytes for each packet to save. Specifying 0 as a packet’s snapshot length tells tcpdump to save whole packet. Here how it works:
# tcpdump -w file.cap -s 0
And with conjunction with options that we already saw:
# tcpdump -ni eth1 -w file.cap -s 0 -c 1000 not port 22
Obviously you can save as much data as you want. Specifying 1000 bytes will do the job for you. Just keep in mind that there are so called jumbo frames those size can be as big as 8Kb.
Reading from capture fileBACK TO TOC
Now, when we have captured some traffic into a file, we would like to play it back. -r command like switch tells tcpdump that it should read the data from a file, instead of capturing packets from interfaces. This is how it works.
# tcpdump -r file.cap
With capture file, we can easily analyze the packets and understand what’s inside. tcpdump introduces several options that will help us with this task. Lets see few of them.
Looking into packetsBACK TO TOC
There are several options that allow one to see more information about the packet. There is a problem though. tcpdump in general isn’t giving you too much information about packets. It doesn’t understand different protocols.
If you want to see packet’s content, it is better to use tools like Wireshark. It does understand protocols, analyzes them and allows you to see different fields, not only in TCP header, but in layer 7 protocols headers.
tcpdump is a command line tool and as most of the command line tools, its ability to present information is quiet limited. Yet, it still has few options that control the way packets presented.
Seeing Ethernet header for each packetBACK TO TOC
-e command line switch, causes tcpdump to present Ethernet (link level protocol) header for each printed packet. Lets see an example.
# tcpdump -e -n not port 22
Controlling time stampBACK TO TOC
There are four command line switches that control the way how tcpdump prints time stamp. First, there is -t option. It makes tcpdump not to print time stamps. Next comes -tt. It causes tcpdump to print time stamp as number of seconds since Jan. 1st 1970 and a fraction of a second. -ttt prints the delta between this line and a previous one. Finally, -tttt causes tcpdump to print time stamp in it’s regular format preceeded by date.
Controlling verbosityBACK TO TOC
-v causes tcpdump to print more information about each packet. With -vv tcpdump prints even more information. As you could guess, -vvv produces even more information. Finally -vvvv will produce an error message telling you there is no such option :D
Printing content of the packetBACK TO TOC
-x command line switch will make tcpdump to print each packet in hexadecimal format. Number of bytes that will be printed remains somewhat a mystery. As is, it will print first 82 bytes of the packet, excluding ethernet header. You can control number of bytes printed using -s command line switch.
In case you want to see ethernet header as well, use -xx. It will cause tcpdump to print extra 14 bytes for ethernet header.
Similarily -X and -XX will print contents of packet in hexadecimal and ASCII formats. The later will cause tcpdump to include ethernet header into printout.
Packet filteringBACK TO TOC
We already saw a simple filter. It causes tcpdump to ignore SSH packets, allowing us to run tcpdump from remote. Now lets try to understand the language that tcpdump uses to evaluate filter expressions.
Packet matchingBACK TO TOC
We should understand that tcpdump applies our filter on every single incoming and outgoing packet. If packet matches the filter, tcpdump aknownledges the packet and depending on command line switches either saves it to file or dumps it to the screen. Otherwise, tcpdump will ignore the packet and account it only when telling how many packets received, dropped and filtered out when it exits.
To demostrate this, lets go back to not port 22 expression. tcpdump ignores packets that either sourced or destined to port 22. When such packet arrives, tcpdump applies filter on it and since the result is false, it will drop the packet.
More qualifiersBACK TO TOC
So, from what we’ve seen so far, we can conclude that tcpdump understands a word port and understands expression negation with not. Actually, negating an expression is part of complex expressions syntax and we will talk about complex expressions a little later. In the meantime, lets see few more packet qualifiers that we can use in tcpdump expressions.
We’ve seen that port qualifier specifies either source or destination port number. In case we want to specify only the source port or only the destination port we can use src port or dst port. For instance, using following expression we can see all outgoing HTTP packets.
# tcpdump -n dst port 80
We can also specify ranges of ports. portrange, src portrange and dst portrange qualifiers do exactly this. For instance, lets see a command that captures all telnet and SSH packets.
# tcpdump -n portrange 22-23
Specifying addressesBACK TO TOC
Using dst host, src host and host qualifiers you can specify source, destination or any of them IP addresses. For example
# tcpdump src host alexandersandler.net
Will print all packets originating from alexandersandler.net computer.
You can also specify Ethernet addresses. You do that with ether src, ether dst and ether host qualifiers. Each should be followed by MAC address of either source, destination or source or destination machines.
You can specify networks as well. The net, src net and dst net qualifiers do exactly this. Their syntax however slighly more complex than those of a single host. This is due to a netmask that has to be specified.
You can use two basic forms of network specifications. One using netmask and the other so called CIDR notation. Here are few examples.
# tcpdump src net mask
Or same command using CIDR notation.
# tcpdump src net
Note the word mask that does the job of specifying the network in first example. Second example is much shorter.
Other qualifiersBACK TO TOC
There are several useful qualifiers that don’t fall under any of the categories I already covered.
For instance, you can specify that you are interested in packets with specific length. length qualifier does this. less and greater qualifiers tell tcpdump that you are interested in packets whose length is less or greater than value you specified.
Here’s an example that demonstrates these qualifiers in use.
# tcpdump -ni eth1 greater 1000
Will capture only packets whose size is greater than 1000 bytes.
Complex filter expressionsBACK TO TOC
As we already saw we can build more complex filter expressions using tcpdump filters language. Actually, tcpdump allows exceptionally complex filtering expressions.
We’ve seen not port 22 expression. Applying this expression on certain packet will produce logical true for packets that are not sourced or destined to port 22. Or in two words, not negates the expression.
In addition to expression negation, we can build more complex expressions combining two smaller expression into one large using and and or keywords. In addition, you can use brackets to group several expressions together.
For example, lets see a tcpdump filter that causes tcpdump to capture packets larger then 100 bytes originating from google.com or from microsoft.com.
# tcpdump -XX greater 100 and \(src host google.com or src host microsoft.com\)
and and or keywords in tcpdump filter language have same precedence and evaluated left to right. This means that without brackets, tcpdump could have captured packets from microsoft.com disregarding packet size. With brackets, tcpdump first makes sure that all packets are greater than 100 bytes and only then checks their origin.
Note the backslash symbol (“\”) before brackets. We have to place them before brackets because of shell. Unix shell has special understanding of what brackets used for. Hence we have to tell shell to leave these particular brackets alone and pass them as they are to tcpdump. Backslash characters do exactly this.
Talking about precedence, we have to keep in mind that in tcpdump’s filter expression language not has higher precedence than and and or. tcpdump’s manual page has very nice example and emphasizes the meaning of this.
not host vs and host ace
not (host vs or host ace)
are two different expressions. Because not has higher precedence over and and or, filter from the first example will capture packets not to/from vs, but to/from ace. Second filter example on the other hand will capture packets that are not to/from vs and to/from ace. I.e. first will capture packet from ace to some other host (but not to vs). Yet second example won’t capture this packet.
Repeating qualifiersBACK TO TOC
To conclude this article, I would like to tell you one more thing that may become handy when writing complex tcpdump filter expressions.
Take a look at the following example.
# tcpdump -XX greater 100 and \(src host google.com or microsoft.com\)
We already saw this example, with one little exception. In previous example we had a src host qualifier before microsoft.com and now its gone. The thing is that if we want to use same qualifier two times in a row, we don’t have to specify it twice. Instead we can just write qualifier’s parameter and tcpdump will know what to do.
This makes tcpdump filter expression language much easier to understand and much more readable.
AfterwordBACK TO TOC
I hope you found this article useful. In case you have questions, suggestions or you would like to share your appreciation to the author ;-) , don’t hesitate to mail me to [email protected]
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1. No I didn’t :-) However I think I may do it in the future. In any case, please visit my web-site again :-)
2. Mohit Singh says:
Hi Alex!
I am coordinator of GLUG-Meerut, India.
This is excellent tutorial for newbies. A slight addition can be the actual outputs obtained by these commands, you can show only one or two lines of output only.
This will be very useful for your readers and they’ll better appreciate the usage of tcpdump.
3. @Mohit Singh
Hi Mohit. Thanks for visiting.
I’ll add output lines as you asked, but it will take some time. In any case please visit my web-site again :-)
4. KT says:
Hi Alex,
An excellent session for newbies. I’ve bookmarked the site for reference and surely will help my soon debugging issue coming up.
Thank you for your works.
5. @KT
You are most welcome. Thanks for a warm comment and for visiting. Please visit again and bring all your friends along ;-)
6. raja says:
Is there a way to capture all oracle sql traffic using tcpdump ? to see what is going on between the server and the oracle server.
7. @raja
I assume communication between the two goes over multiple ports. I think capturing everything and then filtering out unnecessary stuff with wireshark, should do the job for you.
8. Billa says:
Hi Alexander,
Great tutorial :)
9. Cliff Trueman says:
I love the article; best way to learn Linux is by example.
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11. Trinidad says:
Fantastic post! Thanks.
12. Arun says:
Great Work and Great help!
Please clear some doubts and i am newbie.
1.tcpdump is packet sniffer (wireshark) or filter (iptables).
2. meaning for two options – not port 22 and -s 0
3. whether its possible to reader the content of the packets in tcpdump , wireshark its possible.
please help me out in this . thanks in advance
13. @Arun
1. It is a packet sniffer.
2. not port 22 will filter OUT all connections on port 22 (SSH).
-s 0 used when capturing packets. It tells tcpdump to write entire packet contents and not first 60 bytes as it does by default.
3. tcpdump provides some basic abilities to view the traffic. If you want to see details, capture into file (-s0 -w ) and then open in wireshark.
Hope it helps.
14. Johnny says:
Hi Alex,
I’m interested in the statistics of the packets captured by tcpdump e.g. the delays, average lengths, through-puts, number of packets loss… Can I do it with tcpdump?
Thanks a lot for the excellent tutorial.
15. @Johnny
Yes you can do it. tcpdump can produce timestamps (-t command line switch) telling when every packet has arrived. But tcpdump itself is not very useful when observing packets, so I suggest you to capture into a file and then review with wireshark – wireshark shows both timestamp and delta between packets.
16. Sanyam Kamat says:
tcpdump is a packet sniffer….
is there a way to make it sniff only HTTP packets???
and does it do any packet reconstruction???
17. @Sanyam Kamat
1. Yes. You can capture port 80.
2. By packet reconstruction you mean constructing stream of data from individual packets, right? If so, then no, tcpdump can’t do that. What you can do is to capture using tcpdump and then “reconstruct” with wireshark.
18. Sanyam Kamat says:
@Alexander Sandler – thanks for replyin … act i wantd to know abt Packet reassembly…lik after capturin the packets how can we reassemble them…and if yes where is the actual code for it…
19. raisa says:
@Alexander Sandler – does tcpdump support packet reassembly?? If yes, then where can i find the code to do the same…
20. @raisa
@Sanyam Kamat
tcpdump cannot reassemble packets. wireshark can. So capture with tcpdump and then week capture file into wireshark.
21. Sanyam Kamat says:
@Alexander Sandler – thanks for ur reply…we used wireshark to reassemble the packs..
wat r ur thoughts on dsniff, libnids and libnets?
22. @Sanyam Kamat
Sorry, but I am afraid I am not familiar with these tools. Will study them though ;-)
23. Vijay says:
Hey alex, thanks for the great document! I was wondering if you have similar document on tethereal ?
24. @Vijay
Thanks for the comment. Sorry, but nothing for tethereal. But come again anyway – there’s other interesting stuff :-)
25. Bernie says:
Hi Alex, is it possible only to grab the “length” field from the tcpdump output?
I become:
00:05:5d:6d:a7:40 > 00:19:dc:e4:bc:7e, ethertype IPv4 (0x0800), length 273: > P 8239:8446(207) ack 794 win 114
but only need:
length 273 – or something similar
Now I do the job with cut and sed commands – but it’s a bit slow.
Sorry for my bad english :-)
26. @Bernie
Unfortunately, tcpdump itself cannot do it. I’d recommend you to use tools like sed and bash, but since you say you already use them and they are slow for you, I think you should move to the next step, that is writing either perl or python script that does the job.
I don’t know perl so I can’t tell you how to do it. Python on the other hand, is rather simple – you can use popen2 module to read tcpdump’s output and then you can parse it and output fields that you need.
27. […] caused certain networking related problem. It is an excellent tool to learn new things. Referensi: TCP Dump For Dummies Contoh-contoh pemakaian tcpdump mulai dari yang simple sampai advanced ada di referensi atas. […]
28. This article is great.
I write advanced tcpdump tutorial:
In first alinea of my writing, I quotes your words and I refer the readers to start reading from this site.
Have a look to my blog, unfortunately it is in bahasa indonesia.
29. Raffy Arnaez says:
the tcpdump filters are important to identify problems between tcp handshake, sync/ack and session-status
30. Arjun Reddy says:
Hey Alex,
Excellent post. My question is:
when you get the report from wireshark and with tcpdump from the same machine, will they be the same? If not, what is misisng in tcpdump compared to wireshark and vice-versa?
31. Patrick says:
Hi Alex, if I only want to capture src, dst, and proto, but do not want to limit to a specific src, dst, and proto, should this work? tcpdump -n -i eth1 src host dst host dst port
32. @Patrick
I am not sure what you mean. When you capture traffic, you always capture source host/port and destination host/port – this is part of packet headers and capture them all.
33. Cho says:
Hi Alex,
Thanks a lot for all the information provided in this site.
I am currently working on a project that requires me to capture and store packet details in file and later perform analysis.I would like to use .net platform for d same.Could you advice me on whether i could use tcpdump or WinPcap??
Thanks in advance:)
34. Maycon Belfort says:
Hello, I need to capture the contents of files that are printed on the network. Does anyone have any idea how I do it? help me please!
I thank you!
35. @Cho
I am afraid I have no idea how you can capture packets in .NET. Otherwise, winpcap is indeed the way to go.
36. @Maycon Belfort
I wish you were more specific about your needs. In general wireshark is what you need. However, how to use it, really depends on your situation.
37. Maycon says:
@Alexander Sandler – First, thanks for listening.
Well what I want is to manage the contents of the files that users of the network to send print, preventing them from making use of company resources to print things unnecessary. If you can help me, I’m grateful.
38. @Maycon
Hmm… I think I can give you a direction that you can take further. First you will need a machine that captures everything that goes to printer.
You will have to direct the traffic from printer to the machine. There are bunch of options how you can do that. For instance if your router supports port mirroring, I’d mirror printer port to the capturing machine. Another option is to use machine with two nics, bridge the nics together. The bridge will make the machine transparent and everything that is directed to the printer will go through.
Capturing is a simple bit. In Linux you can use tcpdump. In windows wireshark will do the capturing.
Next you have to convert TCP streams to actual files. On both Linux and Windows wireshark is what you need. To be honest I don’t know how exactly to do that with printer. There’s a chance that wireshark already knows how to do that. Otherwise try to google for it.
Good luck.
39. VS says:
Hello Alexander,
Thanks for writing such a helpful blog, very informative. I had a question which I wanted to discuss. Here it goes-
I am capturing https network packets using tcpdump and dumping into a pcap file. I want to access and analyze the stored packet data later and do the following things-
a)Enumerate all the IP addresses which are interacting with each other.
b) For how long each of them is interacting.
Both the things could be figured out using simple regular expressions which could be applied in any of the high-level language like Python or C. But the problem is I am unable to understand how to read this pcap file using any of these languages? Could libpcap help in this regard?
Please give your suggestions.
Kind Regards
40. Uri London says:
Thanks for this useful article.
I found that the binary output of tcpdump contains text which suffices for my purposes. Thus I don’t need wireshark.
I use it to find the direct links of those radio streams which make use of the annoying hide-and-seek windows encapsulation:
after running tcpdump … -s 0 -w output
I do for e.g
strings output | grep asx
41. charles says:
this article is very useful and interresting, i have a query, just want to trace ARP packets using tcpdump, actually, i have a machine with eth0 and eth1 interfaces, and every one hour i have this situation:
eth0 is down and eth1 up
after another hour
eth1 is down and th0 up
i guess this is caused by an ARP time out thus i want to see this time out by using the tcpdump, could sommbody help me and describe how this could be done.
42. isaac says:
you could try “tcpdump -i eth0 arp” which will print out arps on eth0 as long as eth0 is up. as soon as eth0 is down, tcpdump will exit.
43. @VS
Yes, you can do it with libpcap. There must be a good libpcap python binding, although I never used libpcap in python myself, so I hardly can recommend you one.
44. @charles
I never heart that ARP can somehow cause an interface to go down. It is some process or service in the system bringing the interface down. Try to see what process this is (see logs, add prints in scripts that bring interfaces down, etc).
45. Pragya says:
hi, i was analysing the output of the tcpdump command.
For eg:
16:45:49.494077 IP > tcp 0
16:45:49.723182 IP > tcp 0
16:45:49.836979 IP > tcp 0
16:45:49.837062 IP > tcp 0
16:45:49.837767 IP > tcp 482
16:45:50.062293 IP > tcp 0
16:45:50.062343 IP > tcp 0
16:45:50.182085 IP > tcp 0
16:45:50.184581 IP > tcp 231
16:45:50.184612 IP > tcp 0
16:45:50.185293 IP > tcp 0
Sometimes, its written tcp 0 and sometimes tcp 52(or some other length). What does this value signify??
Also, I had a doubt about port numbers. The port for http is 80. So, all other IP addresses receive and send data through port 80, but my computer( receives data on random ports like 46097, 46098 etc. Isn’t my computer supposed to use only port 80. And if it uses random ports to receive ports to receive data then how does the computer identify that the data is an http one??
• Well, numbers that you see are indeed packet lengths. These numbers are in bytes.
As for your second question, you have to understand that you need two ports to form a connection. One port number representing server side, is 80. Other port number, representing local side, is an arbitrary number from 1024 to 65,536.
46. sumeet inani says:
What a nice explanation. It is fascinating to see all headers of ethernet packet.
$sudo tcpdump -i eth0 arp
14:27:55.340818 ARP, Request who-has tell, length 46
None of IP address is mine. I am on LAN. Does this mean that every node in network sends broadcast message instead of LAN server routing packet directly to appropriate IP.
47. @sumeet inani
Well, it depends on many different things. For instance, ARP frames are often being broadcasted across the LAN. You may receive packets that were sent to some other computer if your machine and that other computer plugged into same bridge.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39024 | Since American Sniper is making money hand over fist, generating much comment, and giving the talking heads fodder for arguing their political views, we went to see what all the brouhaha is about. I am not rich or famous, so my opinion won’t show up on MSN or make the Evening News, but here is my take on this movie.
It is a war movie; one that seems to me to be a graphic, realistic look at the frustration, futility, and unfairness of war, the defeats and victories of battle, as well as the courage, mental and physical strength, and sacrifice it takes to be a soldier. I didn’t see it as anti- or pro- war, but one man’s story told through battle. I am not a scholar on the life and psyche of Chris Kyle and whether he was correctly or incorrectly depicted in the movie, but it is one heck of a story.
I understand that Chris’s real-life wife approved of the movie, and since she had a first person view of events, this surely gives credibility to what we watch on the screen.
Bradley Cooper gives a compelling performance as her husband who earns the title of The Legend.
I don’t like war. I am not defending or criticizing the war depicted in this movie. I do think the human life given on both sides of a war is a terrible price to pay for politics. Unfortunately, war has been a staple of the human condition since time began, and I’m afraid, like it or not, it is here to stay. Apparently it is the nature of the grizzly side of the human beast.
And the rest of that story is that if fight we must, I want to be on the winning side. And snipers exist to help one side win. As to the opinion that a sniper is a coward, or that this sniper was a coward, well, soldiers kill the enemy. That’s their job. A sniper is a soldier with a specialized skill that is for the purpose of protecting his fellow comrades in arms. As to the idea that a sniper takes advantage by shooting an unsuspecting victim, consider that a sniper is basically a hunter; that this is also what hunters of animals do. My father was a hunter who learned to hunt as a child to help his father keep food on the family table. He certainly wasn’t a coward. But taking down unsuspecting victims, be they wild animals or human animals, is sometimes an unfortunate necessity.
Reality bites. American Sniper is intense, violent, riveting- all those clichéd adjectives reviewers use to describe a harsh movie like this. But it is also poignant, sad, bittersweet, human. I don’t think it is giving anything away to tell you that the story ends with the announcement that Chris Kyle, in tragically ironic fashion, died by the hand of a veteran who suffered from PTSD while Chris was trying to help him deal with his issues, and the end of the movie is a montage of actual footage of Chris’s funeral procession and burial accompanied with very soulful, heartfelt music. Not a person leaves; no one makes a sound. Then as the music fades out to silence and the funeral footage is over, still in silence, the credits roll on a black screen, printed in white, and for a long time, no one moves and no one talks. Gut-wrenching.
We walked out wiping the tears away. I’m sure detractors will scoff and accuse the filmmakers of manipulating the audience with this emotional ending. Well, movie makers attempt to do just that in some form or fashion with any movie they make to reach their audience; that’s their job. In my mind, it was, really, the only way to end it, and was an appropriate thank you to this particular man and a show of respect for all veterans who serve and have served our country. Godspeed to all of them. |
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Photovoltaic Panel converts Light into Electricity
solar panel iconWe have seen previously that photovoltaic cells use light to generate electricity and that there are a number of different types of photovoltaic cell technologies available, including monocrystalline, polycrystalline and thin-film cells which can all be used to produce a Photovoltaic Panel. The electrical power in Watts, generated by these different photovoltaic cells when exposed to direct sunlight is roughly the same for each panel and is given as the product of the voltage times the current, ( P = V x I ).
The amount of electrical power generated by an individual photovoltaic cell at its output terminals depends upon the amount of solar radiation that hits its PN junction as well as the percentage of solar radiation it actually converts into electricity, in other words its efficiency.
Solar Cell Voltage
Photovoltaic Cell Voltage
An individual photovoltaic cell produces an “Open Circuit Voltage” ( VOC ) of about 0.5 to 0.6 volts at 25oC (typically around 0.58V) no matter how large they are. This cell voltage remains fairly constant just as long as there is sufficient irradiance light from dull to bright sunlight. Open circuit voltage means that the PV cell is not connected to any external load and is therefore not producing any current flow.
When connected to an external load, such as a light, the output voltage of the individual cell drops to about 0.46 volts or 460 mV (460 millivolts) as the electrical current begins to flow, and will remain around this voltage level regardless on the sun’s intensity. This decrease in output voltage is caused by resistance and power losses within the cells structure as well as the metallic conductors deposited on the cells surface.
Temperature also affects a photovoltaics output voltage. The higher the temperature is, the lower the cell’s output voltage becomes as the cell degrades under the hot conditions. So in full sun the output voltage reduces by about 5% for every 25°C increase in cell temperature. Then photovoltaic panels with more solar cells are recommended for very hot climates than would be used in colder ones in order to offset power output losses due to high temperatures.
Solar Cell Current
Photovoltaic Cell Current
Unlike a photovoltaic cells voltage, the output DC current ( I ) however, does vary in direct relationship to the amount or intensity of the sunlight (photon energy) falling onto the face of the PV cell. Also the output current is directly proportional to the cells surface area as the larger the cell the more light energy enters the cell. Then the more sunlight entering the cell, the more current it produces. Photovoltaic cells with high current outputs are generally more desirable, but the higher the current output, the more they will cost.
PV Panel Power Output
We have said previously that the power output of a photovoltaic solar cell is given in watts and is equal to the product of voltage times the current ( V x I ) and this is true. The optimum operating voltage of a PV cell under load is about 0.46 volts at the normal operating temperatures, generating a current in full sunlight of about three amperes. Then the power output of a typical photovoltaic solar cell can be calculated as: P = V x I = 0.46 x 3 = 1.38 watts. Now this may be okay to power a calculator, small solar charger or garden light, but this 1.38 watts is not really enough power to do any usable work.
However, individual solar photovoltaic cells can be electrically connected together in series (daisy chained) to achieve the desired voltage as series voltages add, or connected in parallel (side-by-side) to achieve the desired current as parallel currents add. Then any combination of two or more PV cells can be connected together in either a series and/or parallel combination to give any desired voltage, current and power output producing a photovoltaic panel. In practical usage, the photovoltaic cell operates in the linear part of its I-V characteristic curve and supplies approximately the same current as at short circuit. The power delivered by the pv panel to a battery and load connected in parallel with the panel is: P = V x I.
For example, if we connect together in series, ten 0.46 volt PV cells from our last example to produce a solar photovoltaic panel, the new output voltage would be 0.46 x 10 or 4.6 volts, but the current remains the same at 3A (series circuit). Then the total power output has also increased ten fold to 13.8 watts peak power. Individual solar photovoltaic cells can be connected together to produce a larger “solar photovoltaic panel” or solar module as they are also called, with power outputs of 50 to 200 plus watts peak possible. In practice, for improved efficiency and practicality, multiple PV cells are wired together in a series and/or parallel combination to produce the required voltage and peak power output.
How many cells are needed for a Solar Photovoltaic Panel
The number of individual PV cells require to complete a single solar photovoltaic panel really depends on how much power you require and the type of PV cells being used, monocrystalline, polycrystalline or thin film.
solar photovoltaic panel modulePhotovoltaic panels come in all sorts of configurations and sizes to help you meet your energy needs. Most PV panel manufacturers produce standard solar panels with output voltage of 12 volt and 24 volts. The design of these standard solar photovoltaic panels generally consist of 36 crystalline silicon cells which has evolved from the need to charge a 12 volt battery.
A typical 12 volt photovoltaic solar panel gives about 18.5 to 20.8 volts peak output (assuming 0.58V cell voltage) by using 32 or 36 individual cells respectively connected together in a series arrangement which is more than enough to charge a standard 12 volt battery. 24 volt and 36 volt panels are also available to charge large deep cycle battery banks, and as the photovoltaic panels are made of the same basic PV cell, they are all rated at about the same DC current.
If a 24 volts output solar panel is required, then there will be 64 or 72 individual cells within one single solar panel. To obtain the required 24 volt output, two 12 volt panels are effectively wired together in series, usually with a jumper, allowing the solar panel to output the required 24 volts. 24 volt solar panels have a much higher open circuit voltage ( VOC ) in the mid to high 30’s, and have a larger peak wattage value, from 150 watts and upwards.
Series Connected Photovoltaic Panel
Photovoltaic solar cells are said to be connected in “series”, when they are daisy chained together in a single line. Since the current generated by the first cell has no other way to go it must also pass through the second cell and the third and so on. Then, solar cells in series have a Common Current flowing through them as the current that flows through one PV cell must also flow through the others within the panel as it can only take one path. Then the amount of current that flows through a set of photovoltaic cells in series is the same at all points in a series circuit.
Photovoltaic Panels or solar modules are made up of multiple cells which are cascaded together in series and encapsulated in an environmentally friendly casing producing a single solar module with a higher voltage output than with just one single PV cell as shown.
Series Connected Photovoltaic Cells
series connected photovoltaic panel
In our example above, four photovoltaic solar cells are connected together in a series combination. If we assume that the output voltage produced by each individual PV cell in the chain is 0.5 volts, then the combined output voltage will be the sum of the individual cells output voltage and this is calculated as: V1 + V2 + V3 + V4 = 0.5V + 0.5V + 0.5V + 0.5V = 2.0V. For series connected cells, the combined output current is the same as that produced by each cell, then: I1 = I2 = I3 = I4 = Itotal. The combined power is the sum of the individual cells power or the product of the voltage times the current as seen previously.
There is one major disadvantage of series connected solar cells. An undesired effect occurs when one solar cell becomes faulty, damaged or is partly or fully shaded from the sunlight. Even if only one solar cell is (partly) shaded, the effect is the same as if ALL the series connected cells are shaded resulting in a complete loss of power output.
Also there is the risk that full current from the rest of the cells will pass through the shaded cell and cause overheating damage called “hot spot heating”. Then it is important for the operation of a series connected photovoltaic panel to avoid even slight shadows across its cells. To avoid electrical damage to the cells, so-called “bypass diodes” are connected in parallel with each PV cell as shown, one bypass diode for each solar cell.
Bypass Diode Protection
bypass diode protection
The presence of the bypass diode limits the voltage across the bad cell in its reverse bias to pass a certain current. The bypass diode conducts, thereby allowing the current from the good solar cells to flow in the external circuit. The maximum reverse over voltage across the bad cell is reduced to about a single diode drop so that larger voltage differences cannot arise in the reverse-current direction across the cell, thus limiting the current and preventing over heating due to less power being dissipated. Ideally, we would have a bypass diode for each individual PV cell, but in practice there would be one bypass diode for a number of cells.
Parallel Connected Photovoltaic Panel
Photovoltaic solar cells are said to be connected together in “parallel” when both of their terminals are respectively connected to each terminal of the other PV cell or cells. Unlike the previous series configuration, in parallel circuits the current can take more than one path and because there are multiple paths the current is not the same at all points in a parallel circuit. However, the voltage generated across all of the cells in a parallel circuit is the same. Then, Photovoltaic Cells in Parallel have a Common Voltage across them and is true for all parallel elements.
Parallel Connected Photovoltaic Cells
parallel connected photovoltaic panel
In our example above, the four photovoltaic solar cells are connected together in a parallel combination. For parallel connected cells, the combined output voltage is the same as that produced by each cell, then:V1 = V2 = V3 = V4.
If we assume that the output current produced by each individual PV cell in the chain is 1.0 ampere, then the combined output current will be the sum of the individual cells output currents and this is calculated as: I1 + I2 + I3 + I4 = 1.0A + 1.0A + 1.0A + 1.0A = 4.0A. Then we can use parallel connected photovoltaic solar cells to boost current output. The combined power is the sum of the individual cells power or the product of the voltage times the current.
We said previously that we can have a current mismatch for series connected solar cells due to shading or a faulty cell and that the good cells bias the bad cell causing large amounts of power to be dissipated into the bad cell which in turn causes what is generally called “hot spot heating”, severely damaging the solar panel. In a parallel connected solar photovoltaic panel, a mismatch in voltage can be more drastic.
If we use nominally identical solar cells to construct our photovoltaic solar panel then why is there cell voltage mismatch?. In our simple parallel example above, we have assumed that each cell generates 0.5 volts but this is not always the case. At low current outputs (dull days), this mismatch of voltages is generally not a problem.
However as the panel current increases the bad cell stops generating power and now dissipates or consumes power reducing the output voltage of the solar panel. Just like series connected cells, the effects due to cell shading, degradation of cells, damage etc, all mean that in practice we can have mismatches between the PV cells.
A parallel connection is less sensitive to this type of shading mismatch as it is a voltage mismatch that creates a bigger problem. So why not connect cells in photovoltaic panels and modules mainly in parallel, because in reality most cells are connected in series as we need to boost the output voltage.
The preferred solar photovoltaic panel for most solar charging applications is a 36 cell module which delivers about 21 volts open circuit voltage assuming a peak cell voltage of 0.58 volts reducing down to about 16.5 volts under full load conditions. A 36 cell solar panel is better for very hot climates in order to offset power output loss from the higher operating temperatures. Do not forget, that a photovoltaic panel is sat in the sun all day!. Also the extra voltage compensates for voltage drops in the system with long cable runs.
Typical 36 Cell Photovoltaic Panel
Solar Photovoltaic Panel
We have said previously that the individual Photovoltaic Solar Cell is the basic building block of a complete photovoltaic panel or module and one of the great advantages of building solar panels is that they can be built the exact voltage and current requirements needed for your particular project by adjusting the type and quantity of the cells. The photovoltaic cells may be connected in parallel to achieve the desired current or connected in series to achieve the desired voltage and then placed in a glass covered housing and hermetically sealed for protection against corrosion, moisture, pollution and weathering.
The Photovoltaic Panel can be used singly, or connected together in parallel and series with other solar panels and modules to produce a larger solar array with a greater current and voltage output. These arrays can the be arranged as panels on a buildings roof or walls, and can often feed the solar electricity directly into a building. With the latest PV technology, cells can also be integrated into the roof tiles themselves. Groups of solar PV cells can be added together to provide increasing levels of power.
In the next tutorial about “Solar Power”, we will see that to maintain the maximum power output and improve the efficiency of a photovoltaic panel, the PV panel must constantly face the sun. This can be easily achieved by using a simple technique called Solar Panel Orientation to automatically track the movement of the sun across the sky between early morning and late night, or by manually setting the angle of the PV panel towards the sun and then adjusting it each day.
17 Comments » for Photovoltaic Panels
1. Dammy Dammy says:
Pls I have 48volts batteries connection and I av 140watts panel which has 27v for maximum volt and 33volts for open circuit pls how do I connect the panel to get 48 volt
2. SUKHBIR Tomar SUKHBIR Tomar says:
I have 6 kva solar system and 100 h 8 battery and 250 w 30 panels. What shold be pv volt at its peak . Now pv volt is just 115 .
3. aman aman says:
If the efficiency of solar PV module is 15% and its rated power 60 watt, what should be roughly physical size of module? Please answer me before evening..
4. Phillip Phillip says:
I have a 250w panel. The glass shattered. The V=34.6 but the A=0.4. Is this possible?
5. sekhar sekhar says:
I need 50 volts pv output voltage help me?
6. Mayank Mayank says:
If i have a PV cell of 0.6 V and 3.4 A rating, how can i get an array of 40 V annd 13.6 A?
7. André André says:
What happens to the output current when 4 parallel panels are connected but one of them has only half of the radiation.
Thank you!
8. Kumar Kumar says:
Hi, I have PV panels, In that 12 cells are grouped with one bypass diode. Can I add two more cells in series with those 12 cells without diode (12cells with diode +2 cells)? Will it increase voltage?
9. Qaisar Qaisar says:
Well first of all thanks , this article was very helpful for me as i didn’t know about bypass diodes. Now i came to know their importance.
Other thing i want to ask is that what diode values should we use? e.g i have 2 panels (12V each) connected in series so it makes 24 V.should i use diode whose rating must be +24 V?
10. Manoj Behal Manoj Behal says:
I just read 1 chapter “Photovoltaic Panel converts Light into Electricity”, gained a lot about solar cell & panels, I appreciate & subscribe your newsletters.
Good wishes…
• Hello Manoj, Thank you for your kind comments and we are happy you like the site. Currently there is no subscription newsletter available as everything is freely available on the site, sorry. 🙂
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by Olivia Ward, Toronto Star, 31 January 2015
Bill Browder was a Red Diaper baby whose grandfather was a leader of the American Communist Party. But when he rebelled by investing in Russia's capitalist revolution, he found himself in the black - both financially and personally.
A Chicago-born hedge fund manager whose investments made more than $3 billion in chaotic post-Soviet Russian markets, Browder was a poster boy for the legion of Western wannabes who headed east to cash in. But it all went catastrophically wrong when he locked horns with Vladimir Putin's regime over the economic skullduggery that was undermining Russia.
Browder's book Red Notice tells a chilling story of "high finance, murder and one man's fight for justice," a tale that makes the dirty dealings of House of Cards look like Snow White. There's already a Hollywood film in the works.
In 2005, when Browder's struggle with Russia's oligarchs reached the top, he was expelled from the country. It was part of a scheme to steal $230 million in tax money that he had already paid. Browder's savvy young tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky had found evidence of a massive tax fraud that funneled millions into the pockets of Russian officials.
Putin maintained that Magnitsky had died of natural causes, and none of those linked to his death were punished. Outraged, Browder began a worldwide campaign against those responsible - winning a landmark set of sanctions from the U.S. Congress, including visa bans and asset freezes against accused offenders.
Russia retaliated with its own sanctions against American adoptions of Russian children. It also sentenced Browder to nine years for tax fraud in absentia, convicted Magnitsky in a widely derided posthumous "trial" and attempted to put Browder on an Interpol "red notice" that could lead to his arrest and extradition to Moscow - the red notice of the title.
The book, he says, is a grim insurance policy: "There is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed one day," he tells his readers. "If I'm killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will know what you know."
I always thought the worst thing that could happen was to lose the money I'd invested. If I'd even imagined the eventual outcome, that things could go so horribly wrong, I would never have done it in the first place.
At first things went so well. You made huge gains for your fund in the privatization rush. Even when you started your "stealing analysis" that pointed fingers at leading oligarchs you had no problem with Putin or the
Then they became harder to tell apart?
It changed after (Mikhail) Khodorkovsky's arrest. (The oil billionaire who backed the Russian opposition and served 10 years on fraud and corruption charges.) Putin arrests the richest man in Russia, puts him on trial and allows the TV cameras to film him sitting in a cage. The message to others was that if you don't want to end up in a cage better come and make arrangements with Putin. After that, in 2004, everybody changed their behaviour. What Putin's cut was, I don't know.
What was the turning point for you?
It started with the Sidanko story (a big Siberian oil company headed by billionaire and deputy prime minister Vladimir Potanin). I was just a financial analyst, doing simple division. I looked at the market value of the company, how many barrels of oil do they have, etc. and I saw that the company was cheap. I was buying stocks.
Share prices were going up, nothing to do with me. Then suddenly they tried to take two-thirds of our shares away from us. That was Potanin. I thought, "this isn't right. I've not done anything to him. He shouldn't be allowed to do this."
One thing was clear to me: in Russia, the absolute worst thing that can happen to you in any powerful position is to lose face. The moment you do, everyone jumps on top of you. It's a prison culture.
Putin is invested in the invasion of Ukraine. He can't back down now. There's no possibility. Anything he does that looks like compromise is purely short-term and tactical. He's in a terrible position. The worse the economic consequences are in Russia the more he has to escalate to distract from the awful economics.
What's the status of your campaign to widen the Magnitsky sanctions?
The European Parliament called on governments (to adopt them). But it can't prescribe for individual countries, it can only recommend. So we're still trying to get the sanctions implemented in Europe. We're also in detailed discussions with the Canadian government, and there seems to be an appetite there. Irwin Cotler (MP) put together a private member's bill which may be converted to a government bill.
I've given up being a businessman. This mission is my only priority. Personally, there are two ways to react to this bad stuff. You can let it break you, or think of ways of adjusting to it. I don't go around moaning when I'm out to dinner, and my friends think I'm just a regular guy.
I'm heartbroken by what they did to Sergei. It haunts me every day. He died in my service. But I can't go through life with a big weight on my shoulders. I go through life smiling because I'm trying to do something meaningful now. I see the progress we're making and hopefully I can stop them from doing horrible things to other people.
You're looking after Magnitsky's family. How are they faring?
I wouldn't say the wounds have healed but the scar tissue has hardened. They're here in London. Most importantly, Sergei's young son is going to school. He's getting a good education, and he's a serious and self-confident young man. He looks more like his father every day.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39058 | Wednesday, November 30, 2016
This Man is an Impersonator
Here is the more-polished half of my current notes for the assassin skill, Impersonation. I have had a good burst of assassin-related ideas recently.
Impersonation is pretending to be someone you are not, whether subtly (through your speech and your motions) or overtly (through your appearance and your skills).
Core Ideas
The further removed you are from the target, the harder it is to impersonate them.
The further removed an observer is from the target, the more likely they are to take your disguised self as genuine.
If you spend time in proximity to an observer who is suspicious of you, they will periodically make checks to see if they become more suspicious of you. If they fail these checks, their suspicion will lessen, and the periods between checks will grow greater, until eventually they are no longer suspicious.
On the other hand, if someone doesn’t see through you right away, they’re not going to get another chance if you don’t stick around. Move fast, assassin.
Physically disguising the body is only one portion of impersonation. Depending on the scenario, one must also take care to disguise one’s voice, odor, or, most importantly, mannerisms. Here, “mannerisms” is considered to encompass all factors of a person’s personality, even those which are not explicitly described during the course of the game.
The next section discusses those factors which influence the accurate acquisition of a person’s mannerisms.
The amount of time the character spends acquiring target mannerisms, as well as the character’s level of skill in impersonation and the exact talents of impersonation which they have acquired, will determine whether they are able to imitate specific persons or not (the difference between imitating “Jergen the alcoholic, down-on-his-luck timber merchant” and “a timber merchant.”)
Disguising as a specific person will require the assassin to spend more time observing said person.
Factors Related to Acquisition of Mannerisms
Time Spent Observing
One dimension is how long you have observed a person, or a type of person, in order to imitate their characteristics. [What counts as “observing” a person is yet to be detailed.]
• have never observed them
• have observed them for less than a month
• have observed them for 1-6 months
• have observed them for 7-12 months
• have observed them 1-3 years
• have observed them 5 or more years ## How Close You Are to the Person
• have never been in contact with this person
• are from the same area, but at best have met them briefly or just seen them around
• as above, but you are in the same profession or have spent time casually with them
• have spent time with them to conduct professional or official business
• have studied, worked, or fought alongside them
• have done them a non-trivial favor
• are friends with this person
• as above, and have been friends for at least 1/4 of your life
• are in or have been in a romantic relationship with this person
• grew up as part of this person’s family
Additional factors are social class and cultural background.
• are/are not in the same social class as this person
• are/are not from the same or similar cultures
How Close the Observer Is to Who You Are Impersonating
We could use exactly the same factors as detailed above in the section “How Close You Are…”, or we could use the following condensed list. (Heck, we could replace the list above with the below one. Whatever floats your game-boat.)
When compared to the target, the observer:
• is from the same area but a radically different social class, or is from an area distant enough so as to not know them (the exact distance varies based on geography: two mountain villages might only be five miles apart, but their residents mostly wouldn’t know each other.)
• is from the same area
• is from the same area, and might be an acquaintance (moves in the same specific social circles or has the same profession)
• is a coworker, compatriot, or neighbor
• is a family member or lover
Players Paying Attention
Player observational skills are not obviated by the presence of the character’s impersonation talents which deal in counter-recognition of disguised or concealed enemies.
Disguising yourself as bandits coming back from a hunt in order to get into their main encampment will work only if it fits with the facts, i.e. if:
1) some of the bandits went out for a hunt already and haven’t come back, and
2) you are not trying to do anything other than get in
Thus the player will not be successful if they speak thoughtlessly. In general, the principle is that character skill cannot undo pure player error, except in special circumstances which are almost always known ahead of time. (For example, a character with high Wisdom may gain from the background generator a once-a-week ability which allows them to retroactively have bought one item the last time they were at market.)
1. This sounds quite interesting. If you were interested in making things more complicated, might you think about the quality of the observations taken? For example, seeing the target in a stressful or unordinary situation reveals more about them than seeing them in their routine and might help a skilled assassin impersonate them better.
2. Thanks for the suggestion, Dani. That's a bit too gritty when I haven't even gotten to real rules for all of the above, but there's certainly no getting away from how many variables there are for observing someone.
Consider the following: over some period of time the assassin's base % of "observation completed" builds up to to a certain threshold, maybe 50%. We could then treat this as a multiplier applied to the base assassination chance, or for impersonation that could translate to, say, a -2.5 penalty applied to observer's Wisdom checks to penetrate an impersonation of this target.
In addition, over time the assassin builds up a number of leads: scraps of info related to the target's whereabouts, plans, personal relationships, and so on. These are all true, or almost all true; for the false stuff, some will be obvious and some won't. (And of course a higher level/higher-skilled assassin will have a higher percentage, if not a 100% percentage, of true leads.) Then, it's up to the player to follow up on those leads: to go talk to the target's uncle, to watch the target as their rumored business deal goes down, to snoop around the place they were seen two nights ago with a foreign woman ... and so on, and so on. The point is that the player has to intelligently pick and choose what to follow up on, by way of weighing the evidence they already have. Of course, some leads will go cold after a while.
This makes everything entirely player-driven, based on two separate temporal mechanics. The assassin asks himself: "How long do I wait and build up basic knowledge, and in the meantime, what information do I actively follow up on to try and gain those extra scraps of vital info?"
This "investigation" process seems like it could be a core component of the assassin, one on which many of the other assassin skills could rest. You're better at manipulating or provoking someone if you know more about them; you're better at getting close to someone if you know more about them; you're better at imitating them if you know more about them.
3. That sounds fascinating, and I'm excited to see how you quantify that investigative procedure.
1. I don't know, man, I really don't. I need to sit down and circumscribe my sage abilities so I have a framework for relating them together. Getting that big picture overview seems more pressing. And more pressing still is the need to dig in and begin work on a shred of the historical world as my game setting. I'm running into lots of roadblocks using a made up world.
Amd of course all this must necessarily take second fiddle to my thesis and my classes and what have you. And I sure would like to be seeing somebody, but some promising ventures earlier in the semester, have by now fizzled out. I'm keeping my head up though.
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Codex Bernensis 363 and Carolingian-Era Cultural Activity in Northern Italy
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Swans and Amazons: Penthesilea and the Case for Women’s Heraldry in Medieval Culture
Identity and Agency in the Patronage of Bérault Stuart d’Aubigny: The Political Self-Fashioning of a Franco-Scottish Soldier and Diplomat
The Aeneid of the North: William Caxton’s Eneydos and Gavin Douglas’s Eneados
The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages, by Ian Wood
Francesco Borri
Abortion in the Early Middle Ages, c. 500・900, by Zubin Mistry
Kevin Uhalde
The Irish in Early Medieval Europe: Identity, Culture and Religion, ed. by Roy Flechner and Sven Meeder
James T. Palmer
Charlemagne and His Legend in Early Spanish Literature and Historiography, ed. by Matthew Bailey and Ryan D. Giles; and
The Charlemagne Legend in Medieval Latin Texts,ed. by William J. Purkis and Matthew Gabriele
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Order in the Court: Medieval Procedural Treatises in Translation, by Bruce C. Brasington
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The Principality of Antioch and its Frontiers in the Twelfth Century, by Andrew D. Buck
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Mother of Mercy, Bane of the Jews: Devotion to the Virgin Mary in Anglo-Norman England, by Kati Ihnat
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Representing the Dead: Epitaph Fictions in Late-Medieval France, by Helen J. Swift
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Name pronunciation: KAY-nuh Origin of name: Hebrew, Greek Meaning of name: Place of reeds The Story Behind This Biblical Christian Baby Name The name Cana was primarily a name of places (not people) in the Bible. Kanah (English version of the Hebrew word) was a river and a village referenced in the book of Joshua, […]
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39112 | Saturday, 10 March 2012
Traditional Dances of Korea Republic
On April 10, 2008, Korea Post issued stamp set features the traditional dance on 4 postage stamps as promotion stamps to the 24th International Stamp Exhibition – Philakorea 2009. The classic dance depicted are fan dance, solo dance for cleansing, monk’s dance and dance of peace.
Fan dance or Buchaechum is a traditional form of Korean dance, usually performed by groups of female dancers. This dance performs for celebrations. They use fans painted with pink peony blossoms and display a show of dance.
In the dance being performed, the dancers represent images using the fans e.g. flowers, butterflies and waves. They wear hanbok, the Korean traditional dress in bright colors.
Solo dance for spiritual cleansing or the Salpuri Chum (Salpuri dance) is the most popular and the most often performed traditional dance in Korea . There are certain characteristics in Salpuri Chum.
First of these is the three basic components of the Salpuri dance movement : the Maenneun-Hyeong (the concentration of tension), the Eoreuneun -Hyeong (controlled relaxation of tension) and finally the Puneun-Hyeong (emission of emotion to completely resolve tension).
Second, Salpuri Chum has elements of Jeong -Jung -Dong which means that there is an element of activity in a general environment of serenity.
The main Chumsawi (dance movement) is founded on the Meomchuneun Sawi (pausing motion) which then leads to Eoreuneun Sawi and Ppurineun Sawi (similar to the motion of splashing water, using the snap of the arm and the hand).
Seungmu or Monk's dance is a Korean dance performed by Buddhist monks. It is one of the most famous Korean traditional dances and designated as South Korea's important intangible cultural asset number 27 in 1969. It has been developed into a solo dance by professional dancers nowadays.
The dancer wears a robe (jangsam) with long sleeve called gasa and white hood called (gokkal). The drum or bubgo is the most important part of Seungmu.
The seungmu integrates the eight rhythmic cycles: yeombul, dodeuri, taryeong, jajin taryeong, gutgeori, dwit gutgeori, gujeong nori, and saesanjo. Every now and then, when one rhythm shifts to another, the dancer changes the mood by changing his steps.
Taepyeongmu or Dance of Peace is a Korean dance with the function of wishing a great peace for the country. Its exact origin is unknown, but Hahn Seongjun a well known dancer and drummer, rearranged the dance in the early 20th century. The costumes used by the dancers are similar to the gwanbok formerly worn by Korea's kings and queens.
Taepyeongmu is designated as one of the Important Intangible Cultural Properties of South Korea.
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SugarCRM error when searching tasks related to custom modules with underscores within their names
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When we create a custom module in SugarCRM (eg “grt_Providers_Contracts”) and create a link or relationship between that module and one that uses the “Related to” field type such as “Tasks”, we probably will want to search all the tasks related to our new module “grt_Providers_Contracts” from the simple or advanced search form from “Tasks” module.
However, there is a bug in SugarCRM that prevents us to retrieve tasks related to a custom module if that module has underscores (_) within his name, showing the following fatal error:
mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '' (include_path='/var/www/vhosts/') in /var/www/vhosts/ on line 3185, referer:
Cause of the problem
This is because when building the WHERE clause of the SQL statement that SugarCRM generates from the search form, SugarCRM obtains the two interconnected entities or modules from a faulty regular expression when we are dealing with “Related to” field types. That faulty regex appears few lines before line 3185 of file data/SugarBean.php and does not consider underscores that may appear in the name of such related entities:
$match = preg_match('/(^|[\s(])parent_(\w+)_(\w+)\.name/', $where, $matches);
Thus, in the specific case of our module “grt_Providers_Contracts”, we may never get satisfactory search results because the name of the module that SugarCRM takes from the regular expression is “grt_Providers_Contracts_grt” instead of “grt_Providers_Contracts”. This causes failure when the line 3185 from the date/SugarBean.php (“require_once($beanFiles[$beanList [$joinModule]])” script is executed. A fatal error is then displayed because the $joinModule variable does have a wrong value, “grt_Contratos_Proveedores_grt”, a module name wich doesn’t exist in the global module list handled by the SugarCRM instance, which is collected by the $beanList array.
As a disclaimer, the “grt_” prefix is a key I always add to the name of every new custom module, indicating the customer for which I am developing that module, so that it is unique and can not cause interference with other third-party custom modules.
The fix to this flaw is simple once you know what causes the problem, and consists in modifying the erroneous regular expression like this:
if (!strstr($where, 'grt_'))
$match = preg_match('/(^|[\s(])parent_(grt_\w+)_(grt_\w+)\.name/', $where, $matches);
Once this is done the problem is solved and we can perform searches of tasks related to our new module with no problems.
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Outrageous Injustice
Friday, 26 January 2007 3:10 P GMT-05
When he was a senior in high school, he received oral sex from a 10th grader. He was 17. She was 15. Everyone, including the girl and the prosecution, agreed she initiated the act. But because of an archaic Georgia law, it was a misdemeanor for teenagers less than three years apart to have sexual intercourse, but a felony for the same kids to have oral sex.
Paramilitary Assault Teams Terrorizing America
Thursday, 25 January 2007 5:23 P GMT-05
The ultimate goal of the paramilitary assault teams, many of whose numbers across the country will be boosted when troops arrive back from Iraq, is mass gun confiscation on the scale that we saw during Hurricane Katrina, where everyone from 80-year-old grandmothers to rich mansion owners in the dry areas had their weapons seized. Soldiers in Iraq have been trained to carry out door to door raids and have been utilized for this function thousands of times. Alex Jones has attended numerous military urban warfare training drills across the U.S. where role players were used to simulate arresting American citizens, confiscating their weapons, and taking them to internment camps. Actors scream out that they have constitutional rights as they are handcuffed and hauled off to the detainment facility.
MSNBC: New Pentagon detainee manual could lead to executions based on 'hearsay evidence'
Friday, 19 January 2007 3:20 A GMT-05
As required by law, the manual prohibits statements obtained by torture and "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" as prohibited by the Constitution. However, the law does allow statements obtained through coercive interrogation techniques if obtained before Dec. 30, 2005, and deemed reliable by a judge.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39170 | 9 essential gadgets worth the real estate in your kitchen
This December 2019 photo shows an assortment of various kitchen gadgets in New York, including a food processor, back right.
I love a shiny new kitchen object as much as the next cook, and at times my kitchen has resembled a kitchen specialty store. But if you have a small kitchen, counter space and cabinet storage are at a premium.
Here are some of my all-time favorite gadgets to make your cooking life better.
I’m skipping the bigger appliances like slow cookers and air fryers. I’m also skipping knives, cutting boards, pots and pans, measuring cups and the like, because you pretty much know you need those.
This is about great gadgets, both low- and high-tech, that deserve a spot in your kitchen because they work hard and smart.
I use a peeler pretty much every day for something. Potatoes, carrots, apples, winter squash, etc. I am a fan of Kuhn Rikon peelers, which are lightweight and easy to use on peels thick and thin. OXO also make an assortment with different blades, shapes and widths.
Nothing is more important in the kitchen than salt and pepper, and freshly ground pepper is much better than pre-ground. The Peppermate Traditional Pepper Mill is sleek and contemporary looking, made of ceramic with a side crank. It has a removable, clear bottom cup under the grinder to catch the pepper, and an adjustable grinding size, from very fine (for most things) to very coarse (for things like steak au poivre ). For a more classic look, Peugeot makes high-quality mills.
It’s hard to get perfectly thin slices for most of us home cooks, even with a good knife. But with a mandoline, you can get even slices of all sorts of vegetables and other ingredients. One example is the OXO Good Grips Hand-Held version, which comes with settings for three different thin-nesses, and a handle so you can slice safely and quickly into a bowl or over a plate.
I use no appliance more than this one. I use it for pureeing, chopping, slicing and shredding. Cuisinart has long been my go-to brand; I grew up with one and now own half a dozen. Other companies, like KitchenAid and Breville, also make good food processors. Sizes range from quite large (14 or 16-cup bowls) to mini (about 2 cups). I recommend one little one, for things like mincing garlic or making pesto, and one large, for everything else.
One of those products where the brand name has become synonymous with the thing itself, even though other manufacturers make similar items. This is basically a small, handheld grater. The most classic one is long and narrow, with lots of fine blades that turn lemon zest and hard grating cheeses and chocolate into fluffy mounds of delicate tiny shreds. You can also get versions that grate food into larger strands.
There are many versions on the market, from digital to analog to Bluetooth to infrared. When you want to make sure that you are not overcooking a roast beef, or that your bread is cooked through, an instant-read thermometer is indispensable. (You’ll justify the cost quickly when you consider how much you spent on that holiday filet!) In the most user-friendly digital arena, Thermapen instant thermometers are fast and precise with a wide temperature range.
I love my blender and food processor, but if you’ve ever tried to transfer a pot of hot, chunky soup to a blender then you understand why an immersion blender is such an asset. Instead of pouring, just place the immersion blender right into the pot. You can even stick the wand into a can of whole tomatoes and puree them right there. There are loads of good ones on the market, from companies like Breville, All-Clad, Braun and Philips.
If you’re not a wine drinker, then obviously this isn’t a go-to gadget, but if you are, investing in a nice one makes opening a bottle a real pleasure. Williams Sonoma makes a great assortment including classic winged corkscrews and easy-to-use lever corkscrews. Rabbit is an another reliable name in the wine-opener world, and you might splurge on a Pro Electric Corkscrew with an Infrared Thermometer for the true oenophile in your life.
If you’ve been curious about sous vide (and many people are), then now is a good time to try this latest-technology gadget; there are lots of options out there at pretty reasonable prices. Sous vide is a cooking method that entails putting food in a vacuum-sealed bag and cooking it in water at a controlled temperature. It’s basically impossible to overcook it. The Joule Sous Vide is small compared to other sous vide appliances, but powerful, as well as sleek and attractive enough to leave out. It works with phone apps as well for the ultimate in modern cooking.
Katie Workman writes the monthly Kitchen Smarts column for The Associated Press. She has written two cookbooks focused on family-friendly cooking, "Dinner Solved!" and "The Mom 100 Cookbook." She blogs at http://www.themom100.com/about-katie-workman. She can be reached at [email protected].
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39177 | How to prolong your summer with perfume
Photograph: Esperessence Sail 2015 in Amsterdam
Photograph by Esperessence Summer 2015 Amsterdam
Fragrance can help you get through a clouded rainy autumnlike day by inviting summer in and adding a holiday feeling to your day.
1. You can use a fragrance you would normally use on a warm summer day, for example a more calming tropical floral perfume
2. Use an uplifting stimulating scent, a cologne or cologne style fragrance
3. Wear a fragrance which makes you feel like you are on an actual beach
Tropical floral perfumes can contain the tropical tiare flower, frangipane or ylang ylang. Or they might not actually contain tropical flowers but give the impression that they do. According to Jennifer Peace Rhind the scent of frangipane is said to impart inner peace, release tension and bring comfort. Research demonstrated that ylang ylang increases calmness. Examples of perfumes which contain tropical flowers are Ormonde Jayne Frangipane and Guerlain Le Terracotta. Nicolai Juste un Reve evokes containing tropical flowers.
Uplifting fragrances can be a fresh eau de cologne or a fragrance from the citrus family containing for example lemon, bergamot or bitter orange. Eau de cologne or eau de cologne type fragrances are my favorite refreshing Atelier Cologne Trefle Pur or Hermes Eau d’Orange Verte.
Drawing by Rene Gruau
Drawing by Rene Gruau
Another option is a fragrance which makes you feel like you are on an actual beach. Like 4160 Tuesdays Sunshine and Pancakes. With its sweet citrus stimulating opening Sunshine and Pancakes was meant to evoke a British summer beach day in the seventies according to Luckyscent. I find it to be one of the most stimulating and uplifting fragrances I know. Estee Lauder Bronze Goddess is another fragrance which makes you feel like you are on a beach the moment you spray it with its sun tan like coconut scent.
To help you prolong your summer feeling you can use a tropical floral, a citrus/cologne type fragrance or a perfume which evokes the feeling of a beach. This can be opposite to what you might wear normally on a rainy more autumn like day but I find it works to add an uplifting or very calming feeling to a day depending on my needs at that moment.
Do you use fragrance contrary to weather or season ? If so, tell us about it !
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39179 | The Shaping of Piaffe and Passage by Fashion, History and Genetics: Part II
Tue, 11/21/2017 - 10:04
Jean-Philippe Giacomini has contributed an insightful, detailed three-part series on the piaffe and passage by fashion, history and genetics. Piaffe and passage are the two movements that put "Art" in Equestrian Art and epitomize the successful training of the high performance dressage horse. Read all about these two stunning dressage movements in this series.
Part I: The Historical Roots of the High School Movements
Part II
While France was engulfed in the Revolutionary torment of 1789 and the rest of monarchic Europe declared war on her, Portugal survived in a reasonably peaceful mode. In 1806, Napoleon invaded the Iberian Peninsula while the British defended Portugal against the French. Unfortunately, defenders and aggressors destroyed a great part of the equine population in both countries. The Prince Dom Joao was exiled in Brazil and could not protect his cherished Alter horses. As a result of all those political changes, the Baroque tradition disappeared. Piaffe and passage slowly lost their importance as equestrian goals in most of Europe, except in the heart of people in Spain and Portugal who kept on breeding the baroque horse they loved and showcasing his ability at country fairs.
French aristocrats, fleeing the guillotine, established themselves in Germany, Holland and England, taking along their horses, their riding masters, and the practice of high school. The incessant wars during Napoleon’s imperial adventure ushered the start of a simplified form of horsemanship strictly designed for military purposes around few parameters: teaching many recruits rapidly, training an ever-changing remount (both were often killed in incessant wars) and charging the enemy as heavy, rather than light, cavalry. The disappearance of court entertainment announced the end of artistic riding at the School of Versailles. The end of opulence for the Spanish and Portuguese Empires and the ravages of war nearly destroyed the baroque horse at his source. Napoleon sparked a renewed passion for the Arabian horses he brought back from Egypt before his defeat at
Waterloo marked the beginning of England as a new world power that foisted Thoroughbreds, flat racing and steeple-chasing to admiring nations. In France, the Count d’Aure, a classically formed rider and the last chief equerry of the Versailles School (where equitation was an art form), became a proponent of cross-country riding. He later became Saumur chief rider and laid the principles of equitation as a sport.
The Austrian Hapsburg family reigned over the Holy Empire that comprised Spain, Burgundy, Holland, Austria, Hungary and a part of Germany, notwithstanding the American colonies. In 1556, Charles V divided his empire, leaving Austria to Ferdinand and Spain to Philip II. This long-lived Spanish king created one of the greatest breeding projects in history by establishing the Pure Spanish Horse (PRE) in his stud of Cordoba. In 1562, Maximillian II brought the Spanish horse to Austria and founded the court stud at Kladrub (still in existence in the Czech Republic). His brother Archduke Charles established a similar private imperial stud farm with Spanish stock in 1580 at Lippiza near the Adriatic Sea. These establishments and the Spanish Riding School of Vienna served exclusively for the needs of the Imperial family until the establishment of the Austrian Republic in 1916.
At a time when equestrian fashion had completely changed in Europe, Max Ritter von Weyrother was first a rider, then the director of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna between 1814 until his death in 1833. Formed in the French equestrian tradition, this remarkable man’s reputation reached well over the borders of Austria. A famous painting shows his brother Gottlieb teaching the levade in hand by keeping his horse walking near a platform he stood on, maintaining his height advantage without putting any weight on the horse’s back. He also recommended the use of draw reins to his students but later regretted it. Amongst his most prominent students were Louis Seeger, who became the mentor of Gustav Steinbrecht, considered to be the father of modern German horsemanship.
Steinbrecht became a link between the baroque age and the modern era by advocating the development of the gaits as we understand them today in the training of dressage horses. Basing himself on the spirit of La Gueriniere’s shoulder-in, he focused on the lateral flexibility of the spine, which was a biomechanics concept ignored by all authors until then. Weyrother’s strong personality helped the Spanish Riding School persevere as the only formal institution of the baroque tradition in Europe. It later survived both World Wars and the annexation of Austria by Germany. Thanks to the efforts of Alois Phodajsky (and the role of the US Army in saving it), the Spanish Riding School re-emerged in the twentieth century as a beacon of light and a major presence in the modern equestrian landscape, particularly through its influene on German and British horsemanship (through teachers like Watjen, Von Neindorff, Hoyos, Robert Hall, Kottas, Bachinger, Hausberger, Kritsch, etc.).
The etymology of piaffe and passage (and of most other equestrian terms, such as appuyer, courbette, parade, levade, cabriole (or capriole),croupade or ballotade), is truly Italian, just like their historical origin. The words “de piede fermo” mean firming one’s feet and were used in the context of “trotting on the spot.” They were later transformed phonetically and shortened to ‘pie-fer’, which became piaffer in the mouth of the French students traveling to Naples to learn the new art. In the same vein, passegiatta (passegi) became passage and means taking a leisurely and stylish walk. Since the seventeenth century, these movements have been known by their French spelling because at that time France exercised a considerable cultural, political and equestrian influence on the rest of Europe. French was the educated language of most European courts as far away as Prussia and Russia and the official vehicle of diplomacy. As a result, the cream of European aristocracy seriously interested in horses came to study at the Royal Academy at the Palace of Versailles near Paris and took all the French jargon back with them when they returned home. The English later adopted the derivative German spelling: piaffe. The French Passage remained unaltered in all languages, including German, Spanish, Portuguese, and modern Italian.
The social and moral value of collection became the new purpose of horsemanship: Because jousting had been banned in France in 1559 after the accidental death of King Henry II, aristocrats were looking for another way to prove, not just their valor, but also their superior education, through a social pastime that made them appear above the common people. The horsemanship techniques brought back from Italy led to the dominant use of the piaffe, obtained in the double pillars, as the preparation for all the airs-above-the-ground that imitated the myth of the “Flying Pegasus.” It gave aristocrats the opportunity to establish their social and moral superiority over the rest of society. Pluvinel, writing in the same vein as King Duarte of Portugal two centuries earlier, explained in his famous “Instruction of the King in the Exercise of Riding Horses” both the technical improvements made in the way of training horses, as well as the moral precepts derived from the practice of horsemanship that could benefit the education of a prince.
Political Pedestal: From Antiquity until the twentieth century, parades were frequent functions of political and military life. Leaders needed horses capable of gaits that were animated and majestic, slow enough so the chief could stay longer in front of the troops or the public from whom he wanted to impress. Piaffe, passage and terre-a-terre (a very collected and elevated canter in which both front legs and both hind legs move nearly simultaneously) corresponded exactly to the requirement of the parade and were the favorite poses used for official equestrian portraits. These movements also happen to be easy to sit, hence their even greater favor with riders who preferred to maintain their elegant posture rather than appear worried about their balance in the saddle. Roman emperors of Spanish origin, Trajan, Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius are represented on prancing Spanish horses.
In the late 1500s, Philip II of Spain developed his own superior strain of Spanish horses, both active and obedient, mainly for the purpose of serving as his parade mounts. Spanish horses of the better castes became fundamental props used in the whole of Europe to display the majesty of the absolute monarchy that was the political European system of the Baroque period (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries). The effortless domination of a “wild stallion” served as a political metaphore for the domination of subservient populations to a benevolent monarch.
The French master Francois Robichon de la Gueriniere best expressed the equestrian priorities of the times: "Equestrian authors have given unanimous preference to the Spanish horse, and have considered him to be the best for the manege work because of his agility and the strength of his hind legs, combined with their elasticity. His natural cadence and pride make him the first choice for the pomp of the parade where he can display his grace and his nobility. His courage, combined with utmost docility, is the foremost requirement for war on a day of battle.” It must be noticed that Spanish horses were extremely difficult to obtain and may have been ridden in battle by a king, but not by regular cavalrymen involved in the fighting action. As noted by the Duke of Newcastle, High School jumps (reserved to well trained, expensive horses) were never used in battle, because no horse that walked for 3 days on the road is ever going to be willing to do a cabriole.
Each period of history has its own favorite breed of horse for the specific purpose of that time. The style in which that breed moves ends up becoming the model for whichever movement it is genetically predisposed. Iberian horses have defined the collected movement to this day - piaffe, passage, pirouettes - for every other breed that attempts to perform them in their perfection. The sitting piaffe riders seek to achieve, hocks flexed, knees on the horizontal, neck erected, corresponds exactly to the way Iberian horses interpret the movement. It is interesting to notice that leading dressage breeding nations (Germany, Holland, Denmark, Sweden) use to select horses strictly on the basis of the amplitude of the gaits. They are now thinking about collection and piaffe as basic qualities of the dressage stallions. Modern sport horses are now inching ther way towards the breed standard of the Lusitano and PRE (square frame, uphill balance, knee action, quicker tempo in the trot). The leading seller of dressage horses, PSI, shows all young horses in a piaffe in hand presentation that is a fundamental deciding factor for international buyers.
by Jean-Philippe Giacomini
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For the confermation of test execution test engineers are executing the same test or build more than one time . it is also known as retestind or iterative testing
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39304 | Budhism should be regarded as a religion among many.
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“Bhante, there are some ascetics and brahmins who come to Kesaputta. They explain and elucidate their own doctrines, but disparage, denigrate, deride, and denounce the doctrines of others. But then some other ascetics and brahmins come to Kesaputta, [189] and they too explain and elucidate their own doctrines, but disparage, denigrate, deride, and denounce the doctrines of others. We are perplexed and in doubt, Bhante, as to which of these good ascetics speak truth and which speak falsehood.”A:3:65
Whether Buddhism is religion or philosophy is a tiresome question. It constantly reappears again and again, like undying zombies from Game of Throne of Walking Dead. People have different opinions about the question, whether Buddhism is religion or philosophy depending on their ideas and perspectives or attitudes towards religion and philosophy.
For some Buddhists, the names categorizing Buddhism are not that important because they think that what is really important is its contents and teachings, and names have nothing to do with what it is.
However, our daily living and thoughts are much influenced by names and language. Thus, for a majority of people, the answer to the question what is Buddhism still matter and concern them. The answer to the question might be gleaned or found from the passage from A/N that I read at the beginning of this talk.
As we know, the Buddha and monks of his disciples traveled around a village to village in the vast Indian continent except for rainy seasons when they should stay at one place for their spiritual practice.
One day, the Buddha visited a town that is called Kesaputta with a large retinue of his disciples. The news did spread to all the corners of the town that Blessed one who is Arahant and perfectly enlightened came to their village. In ancient India, people seem very eager to visit and meet spiritual leaders who were regarded as enlightened. Likewise, many renowned village people visited the place where the Buddha was staying with the monks.
In the passage, a person is speaking to the Buddha. The person said that many spiritual leaders visited the town and each person claimed that he was the knower of truth, but no others. Some of them even disparaged what others talked about although the Buddha didn’t so so.
In the end, the person confesses that he is in doubt and so much confused with that who speaks false and who really speaks the truth. The person’s honest and candid confession is like a question that was put to the Buddha; the question of how we can distinguish truth from falsehood.
It is interesting to see that what the person said about in the passage is quite similar with what is happening today in regard to religions. As Buddhists we claim that Buddhism is of truth, Christians do so and Muslims do so as well. The followers of each religion tend to claim that their religion is of truth. Further, some religious zealots disparage other religions. Even in the worse case, there can happen violence. We know well about religious conflicts and wars that happened in human history and today. Now, we as Buddhists are not free from using violence, which is sad and shame, since Buddhism had been relatively peaceful before.
Before we look at the Buddha’s response to what the person said in the passage, I would like to more think about the reasons; why the person much felt doubt and confusion. The reasons seem obvious and one thing we can say about the person is that the person did not settle down with one set of religious belief and philosophical ideas when he was speaking to the Buddha.
Doubt is regarded as one of the low defilements that are overcome by right view according to the Buddha’s teaching. In general, confusion and doubt arise in our minds when we don’t know and see exactly what something is. This means that you heard something but you haven’t seen it in person or in your eyes. Religions talk about something transcendental like God, spirits, enlightenment. But these are not what we can see it with our senses.
Also, doubt and confusion arise something is beyond our experience. You heard something, but there is no empirical evidence to support it. Also, religions talk about something beyond our experiences like death, heaven, reincarnation so on. There is no empirical evidence for these ideas. Therefore, as long as human history lasts and goes, doubt and confusion also last and remain.
Whether Buddhism is religion or philosophy is a tiresome and also very tricky question since religion and philosophy was not clearly divided in the ancient time of Greek and India and in the east as well as we know well. In the modern world, people like to categorize and give a name to something unfamiliar. Buddhism was new to the West and should be classified in western thought. The question that Buddhism is religion or philosophy has been controversial and is still ongoing. It seems that it will never stop soon.
Many people, especially in the west, think and claim that Buddhism is philosophy, but not of religion. According to their standard and judgment, Buddhism is not qualified to become a religion. And one of the reasons that Buddhism cannot be categorized as a religion is because there is no God like Christianity, Islam, or Hinduism. They think that God as the creator of the universe is the essential criteria by which a set of ideas can be thought of as a religion or philosophy. They cannot think of religion without the concept of God. But we know that this is some kind of west-centric idea that does not help much to solve the question.
Being asked by the question of whether Buddhism is religion and philosophy ever since that time, many Buddhist thinkers or monks tried to address it. While many scholars and monks tried to designate Buddhism as a religion, there is one group of Buddhist thinkers and monks, whose answers are similar to each other. This group of people said that it does not matter how you call Buddhism or whichever name you attach to Buddhism because name and language cannot change its nature. These people argue that Buddhism is not affected and changed by what people think because Buddhism is about truth and truth is not changed by name and language.
Ironically, each of all religions can use exactly the same argument that their religion is of truth that does not change anyhow.
Years ago, I was taking a class in college. The name of the class is Buddhism and Islam which compare two religion. The professor who made the class thought that Buddhism was a good example of atheistic whereas Islam is a good example of theistic religion. (add Buddhism is not exactly atheism). It was a meaningful class to better know and understand other religion’s doctrine and history and differences due to the importance of religious tolerance in modern society.
One day, a Muslim girl in the class asked the professor how the Buddha could proclaim that he was enlightened to know and see the truth. Who knows that he was deceived by his self-illusion? Who can guarantee his enlightenment? In the end, she finished her question by adding words that Koran that is Islam bible is the truth because it came from God.
I was sitting right next to the girl who always came to the class wearing Hijab and was stunned to hear what she said. I bluntly said, “are you kidding?” Who can guarantee Koran came from God?” I know I should not have said that. Sudden tension raised and the professor, who is a Christian minister, stopped our conversation. The professor was well aware that the conversion had no point since there are fundamental gaps among different religious beliefs although some religions have similarities in their doctrine.
Interestingly, the Muslim girl’s argument about Buddhism is very similar with the argument of the Buddhist people who claim that Buddhism is the truth so it is not important whether Buddhism is called as a religion or philosophy. As a Buddhist monk, I also used to think this way.
But while studying religion in general, I came to the conclusion at a certain point that the attitude that monopolizes truth with her or his religious belief is not much helpful and conducive in this diverse society. Every religion and its followers can say the same argument on and on.
Then, if someone asks the question, I would like to give an answer that Buddhism is ‘a religion’ among many, but not the religion. Giving the answer that Buddhism is religion seems to sound boring and very not interesting.
However, I think that we Buddhist people should regard Buddhism as a religion. Furthermore, we must not monopolize truth by proclaiming it is the truth so that it does not need a name for it: although in our mind Buddhism is the ultimate truth that has to be unshakable faith. Otherwise, the violences that some Buddhists are also wielding like other religious zealots will not stop. I think this is why Buddhism should be regarded as a religion among many, but not as the religion. This attitude not monopolizing truth might be better in diverse society like New York where we live now.
Faith should be unshakable but it also should be flexible to live with others in harmony.
The attitude that allows other possibilities can be applied to our daily life as well. Our conflicts with other people likely occur when we are adamant with our own perspectives, convictions, and beliefs.
You may not agree with what I just said. Then, please allow my opinion as one of the possibilities for the answer to the question.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39320 | Reorganization of Central Office Group in Korea from the Perspective of Politicians and Bureaucrats
정치가와 관료측면에서 한국 중앙부처의 조직재편에 관한 연구 -이명박 정부의 관료조직 재편성 사례를 중심으로-
• 류상일 (동의대학교 소방행정학과) ;
• 이민규 (충북대학교 행정학과)
• Received : 2013.07.31
• Accepted : 2013.08.27
• Published : 2013.09.28
This study reviewed reorganization of bureaucrats in the beginning of Lee Myung bak's government from the perspective of the relationship between politicians and bureaucrats. In other words, it analyzed the reorganization of central office group of Korean government in 2008 as the relationship between calling to account by politicians and avoiding calling to account by bureaucrats. Conclusively, first, separation or abolition of a certain organization was resulted from calling to account by president (the ruling party). Second, merging organizations was done because president wanted strong control on that agency or he wanted to realize presidential election pledge (policy) through the agency. Third, if an organization was not changed even though it was selected as the target of abolition, it meant that the organization succeeded in defense. As seen from the above cases, it was found that politicians and bureaucrats played a kind of game for reorganization of government organizations. First of all, if politicians succeeded in calling to account, the bureaucratic organization was separated or abolished. If bureaucrats succeeded in self defense, the organization became expanded. Finally, if both parties were even, corresponding organizations would not have changes.
Reorganization of Central Office Group;Perspective of Politicians and Bureaucrats
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1. first
2. I think I am having a bad day, I dont get the second one.
3. they put ‘mammogram’, which is a breast exam, rather than…. monogram…? i’m guessing.
4. as alejandrisha (wtf!!) would say:
‘might wanna reward that.’
5. FuckMustard, she said Mammogram, as in brest exam!
6. *mite
7. Letting douchebags come in your ass is it’s own reward, really.
8. Ah thank you guys, I really am having a bad day to not catch that.
9. You might wanna reword that, like, I dunno, put “something came up” in quotemarks like that, so people know that they’re not one sentence, maybe. That’s something you can do, maybe, because you didn’t already.
10. yet again an unfunny thing from alordlsums, using what someone JUST SAID, IN THE FUCKING POST and trying to play it off as his own joke wtf seriously
11. Is it just me…or does that H in the “Mamogram” look like he’s giving it to her from behind?
12. Not bad really, not totally hilarious, but not bad. The second one is dumb. However, I wouldn’t want to be admitting I ate out my dad… that could be construed that he is more like a he/she, but I wouldn’t want to be admitting that anyways….
Disturbing on so many levels…. lol
13. maybe the MOST HIDEOUS mamo-monogram I have ever seen. Is this wedding happening in 1991??
14. oh wait, the date is right there on it. riFUCKINGDICULOUS.
15. Do people not know you can delete your statuses when you make a typo, instead of commenting with a correction? I’m looking at you, Amanda. No one else commented, it’s not like you were going to lose a dozen deep and insightful thoughts from your friends.
16. Ooh. Something Came up my Ass is my favorite horror porn movie.
17. Dammit teo get out of my head!
18. @anon
why can’t we all just get along?!
19. MsBuzzkillington
I was thinking the same thing manybellsdown. I think they do it just to try to be funny. Which is stupid.
Also, she could have said “something came up.” Yeah right….
because not matter how many quotation marks she puts there.. you still read… something came up my ass.
20. Alord, you must have really screwed anon over. He hates you man, hates you real bad. Did you screw the little freak and then dump him like the squirrelly little piece of almost legal ass he is?
Damn them little bitches be hatin’
21. how can you be so myopic, pedantic?
he’s obviously in love with me.
22. I’m so jealous of you alord!
23. Alord I must agree, I think he IS in love with you.
The first one is just comic. Not only for the comming up ass but rewarding part too. I guffawed.
24. I uploaded all kinds of stuff a week ago and still haven’t seem them, but I see this!? They’d better be putting my submissions in this book they keep talking about
25. @ tellmelies I am so glad I am not the only perv. I thought it was a t giving it to the f from behind. I like my funny way more the the bad spelling.
26. Dawn and James are a tasteless pair of fuckwit amoebas with the style and class of a dead squirrels’ hard cock.
I’m going to be his best man, I’ll be dressed in day-glo pink tails with a fucking bucket on my head.
27. I enjoy all your comments, Imamofo. Keep up the good work.
28. Why thank you Word!
That’s dangerously close to a compliment! The last person who praised me was rewarded with ear sex (the nice kind) How are you fixed for ear sex? Fancy some?
29. oh I most definitely took to pervy route with the monogram, tellmelies && wanttomakeout.
in fact I only just joined as to comment on my perversion.
30. Imamofo, as it happens, I adore aural sex.
31. Then prepare to get your laughing takle around my Cochlea.
32. I’m experiencing vertigo at the very thought.
33. I swear I have had more fun tonight reading you guys all goof on each other and the posts. thanks 🙂
34. I want to go to Dawn’s wedding and help her with her mammogram
35. Yo Imamofo, you should wear a KFC bucket and carry a guitar. Then you could say your Buckethead and play music at the wedding..
36. I’m mostly horrified that there is a person in the world named Alejandrisha.
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Employers Without Transgender Policies May Face Increased Potential For Title VII Liability
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Employers who fail to proactively adopt policies and best practices regarding transgender and transitioning employees face growing potential for exposure to Title VII liability, as demonstrated by a recent federal case. In Tudor v. Southeastern Oklahoma State University, a federal court in Oklahoma ruled that a transgender employee presented sufficient evidence of a hostile work environment to go to trial based on her testimony that, for four years following her announcement that she was transitioning from male to female, her employer restricted which restrooms she could use, how she could dress, and what makeup she could wear, and used improper pronouns. The employer asserted an affirmative defense based on the employee’s failure to take advantage of preventative and corrective opportunities. Remarkably, however, although the employee never submitted a complaint or grievance to the employer, the court rejected the employer’s defense because the employer’s policies during the time in question did not specifically address transgender persons. The court also found that the employee’s discrimination and retaliation claims would be submitted to a jury, denying the employer’s argument that transgender status was not protected under Title VII. Thus, despite the uncertain legal landscape surrounding gender identity claims brought under Title VII, the threat of liability remains. Employers should, therefore, revise policies and provide clear guidance regarding appropriate workplace behavior to address issues of gender identity or expression in order to avoid lawsuits and preserve available defenses in the event that lawsuits arise.
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Acadia National Park is a national park located in the U.S. state of Maine. It reserves much of Mount Desert Island, and associated smaller islands, off the Atlantic coast. Initially created as the Sieur de Monts National Monument in 1916, the park was renamed Lafayette National Park in 1919, and was given its current name of Acadia in 1929. The oldest American national park east of the Mississippi River, its landscape is marked by woodland, rocky beaches and glacier-scoured granite peaks such as Cadillac Mountain, the highest point on the United States’ East Coast. The bayside town of Bar Harbor, with restaurants and shops, is a popular gateway.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39342 | Vim code
More obfuscated programming
VI VI VI - Editor of the beast.
Vim can be programmed, just like emacs can. But I'm not talking about the fancy-schmancy .vimrc-style scripting. I'm talking about copying parts of the buffer into registers, and then executing the contents of those registers as if they were macros.
If you don't think it's insane yet, wait till you see the source code:
Note: If you have configured vim to use alternate keyboard mappings, these programs won't work. If this is the case, start vim with the standard mapping, i.e. "vim -u NONE mandelbrot".
So now I'll leave it to someone else to implement an ELisp interpreter. =)
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Fri 25-Sep-2009 23:29
You must have a lot of time on your hands. Fun snippets though, must've been a blast to get working. ;)
Tue 19-Jan-2010 02:18
You really should get out more often.
By the way, I am having fun looking at some of the crazy stuff you are doing
Mon 14-Feb-2011 21:24
Hanoi works, but mandelbrot just keeps writing strange stuff to my console.
Tue 15-Feb-2011 20:19
That's purely insane O_o
If only there was an iovvv (think of ioccc), maybe it's time to setup the chalenge.
I didn't realise at first it was drawing the set but it was on my 170MHz dear host. switching to a 3GHz pc helps rendering it faster :p
congrats anyway
Tue 17-May-2011 23:24
Unbelievable! Congrats for such a genius insight!
Wed 20-Jul-2011 14:54
Very well done!
Fri 19-Aug-2011 12:17
You really should get out more often.
He is just extraordinarily intelligent ;) Great work.
Sat 14-Sep-2013 05:33
Oh god, you just ruined my favorite editor. Well done!
Tue 3-Feb-2015 21:39
I'm just fascinated with how clever these are. I discovered them about a year or so ago, and find myself coming back every few months to play with them again.
Mon 2-Oct-2017 11:32
I feel quite stupid but I can't get these to work. If I open them as regular files and type GY@ I see an @ in the statusline but nothing else happens. If I for example press Enter I get told that '^M' is an invalid register name.
*Hides in embarassment*
Linus Åkesson
Mon 2-Oct-2017 11:35
You need to type the double-quote character as well.
Sun 7-Jan-2018 09:07
These are amazing, especially the mandelbrot renderer.
Sat 12-Jan-2019 21:24
Absolutely amazing!
Sat 19-Jan-2019 16:28
Eh ... I thought you were talking about CPU registers :/
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/39427 | Rumors of War World at Odds China and Russia Against the USA
Source : -to- bring world – war – 3 Registration : …
17 Responses
1. BlackSmith says:
What has US to do in The South China Sea? Stay in The Mexican Gulf and build your bases there.
2. Joindque05 says:
Most strategic Port in Northern Australia, Darwin sold to the Chinese for 506 million dollars , Stupidity or Planned ?
3. Cunt Licker says:
I love your videos
4. I wonder why people assume America has any serious intention of resolving conflict. The U.S. doesn't want resolution anywhere it goes. It goes to these places to destabilize, reduce the population and destroy education, instigate internal strife, and reap the benefits of that manufactured chaos in any way possible.
Consider how long it it took to topple Baghdad: 03/19-04/9, 19 days, for the invasion to end: May 1st, 42 days.
Fourteen years later, dang, still can't pull out of Iraq.
They claim America's incompetent at war but that's sounds to me like a woman saying a man is incompetent at emotion. They want grandiose displays of force and honest politicians, but America is run by thieves and duplicitous people. America poisons the well then takes what it wants because that is the most efficient way.
People who think America doesn't win wars must believe it wants those wars to end, well it doesn't. As long as there is someone in power who will sign the agreements and ship the goal to America safely and successfully, America would have that entire part of the world fighting and killing each other.
China 1949 to early 1960s
Albania 1949-53
East Germany 1950s
Iran 1953 *
Guatemala 1954 *
Costa Rica mid-1950s
Syria 1956-7
Egypt 1957
Indonesia 1957-8
British Guiana 1953-64 *
Iraq 1963 *
North Vietnam 1945-73
Cambodia 1955-70 *
Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
Ecuador 1960-63 *
Congo 1960 *
France 1965
Brazil 1962-64 *
Dominican Republic 1963 *
Cuba 1959 to present
Bolivia 1964 *
Indonesia 1965 *
Ghana 1966 *
Chile 1964-73 *
Greece 1967 *
Costa Rica 1970-71
Bolivia 1971 *
Australia 1973-75 *
Angola 1975, 1980s
Zaire 1975
Portugal 1974-76 *
Jamaica 1976-80 *
Seychelles 1979-81
Chad 1981-82 *
Grenada 1983 *
South Yemen 1982-84
Suriname 1982-84
Fiji 1987 *
Libya 1980s
Nicaragua 1981-90 *
Panama 1989 *
Bulgaria 1990 *
Albania 1991 *
Iraq 1991
Afghanistan 1980s *
Somalia 1993
Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
Ecuador 2000 *
Afghanistan 2001 *
Venezuela 2002 *
Iraq 2003 *
Haiti 2004 *
Somalia 2007 to present
Honduras 2009
Libya 2011 *
Syria 2012
Ukraine 2014 *
Q: Why will there never be a coup d’état in Washington?
A: Because there’s no American embassy there.
5. T190zx says:
look i want to support you and your page im down if i had the money i know you need it to keep the page going but dude im kinda done watching half videos. im sorry.
6. Peace says:
Does usa realize that china's submarines can destroy US ships in minutes with there laser guided missiles that are not detectable……
7. this dude is a tool, and a fear pusher youtube needs to shut this asshole down
8. MJM_0412 M says:
great commentary get over it
9. LONG LIVE THE TIM OSMAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
10. Burn your draft cards….and head to Canada, oh wrong war….
11. dude, links to articles in desorption please…
12. international arrest warrants issued for Soros and Rothschild via Putin…..need I say more!?
13. mbadshah0077 says:
this is not complete world war as most of South America will not be involved
14. wrong title ,its world police /evil Vs russia + china
15. Key People says:
China & Russia becoming 1 Military is Predicted in the Bible.. In Rev…
16. Mary Drueke says:
our president wants us to go to war he hates America
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Working with constraints
When you added new objects or scenarios to your Challenge in the Reframe game, you were basically adding constraints.
Constraints are limitations that affect what you can design. For example, if you want to design a vegetable garden for your backyard, you may be constrained to certain areas (or certain kinds of plants) due to the amount of sun they can get during the day. Or, if you want to design an app for CIA agents, you may be constrained by security procedures.
Constraints may sound like bad things, but they often can be helpful. Starting with a totally blank slate can be difficult - just ask a novelist about starting with a blank screen when she’s beginning a new book!
Sometimes, adding constraints helps you start with a structure that you can work within. It helps you focus on a smaller set of possibilities, and can also help you reframe the question you’re trying to answer.
We’ll talk about how constraints help you simplify when we get to Sculpt. For now, let’s explore how adding (or removing) constraints can help you generate a lot of different variations when you’re trying to Splatter a lot of concepts.
Game: Interior Design Your Life
Understand designing with constraints by rearranging your bedroom furniture to suit different needs.
What You’ll Need
• Ruler
• Pen & paper
• Scissors
Step 1: Measure Up
Using a ruler or measuring tape, measure your bedroom. Then, converting feet to inches, draw your room proportionally on a piece of paper. So, an 10.5 foot by 6 foot room would be 10.5 inches by 6 inches on paper.
Step 2: Doors, Windows, Closets
Now, measure your doorways, closets, windows - and any other openings in the walls of your room. Convert those measurements from feet to inches, too. Then, mark that distance off in your room drawing, being careful to place them correctly.
For example, if you have a three-foot window on your six-foot wall, measure where that window begins (two feet in from the corner) before marking off the proportionate three-inch window space in your drawing.
Helpful Hint: For doors that swing into your room, don’t forget to measure the length of the door along with its opening radius (see the example on the next page) - or else you might “arrange” yourself into your room with no escape!
Step 3: Furniture
Last but not least! Measure all your furniture, again converting feet to inches. Draw your furniture on a separate piece of paper and cut them out. So, if your bed is 6 foot by 4.5 foot, draw a 6 inch by 4.5 inch rectangle, and cut it out. If you want to get fancy, you can “decorate” your paper furniture with photos. If not, you still might want to label each piece so you don’t forget what it represents.
Step 4: Constraints? No Complaints!
Arrange your furniture in your room drawing to mirror the way you currently have it placed in your room. How could you rearrange your room to make it more fun? More convenient? What if you had to add in a second bed for a roommate? What if you wanted to move all the furniture around to have a party? Play with your furniture without breaking a sweat!
What elements in your room take up the most space? How does that constraint affect how you want to rearrange your space for different purposes?
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Understanding Shells and Options
Depending on the particular Unix system you're using, you may have several shells available to you. Table 3.1 describes a few of the more common ones. Each of these shells has slightly different capabilities and features. Keep in mind that the differences in shells do not affect what you can do in Unix; rather, they affect how easily and flexibly you can interact with the system.
Table 3.1. Common Unix Shells
This shell, which is the original Unix shell (often called the Bourne shell), is fine for scripting but lacks a lot of the flexibility and power for interactive use. For example, it doesn't have features like command completion, email checking, history, or aliasing.
csh and tcsh
This family of shells adds great interactive uses but discards the popular scripting support that sh-related shells offer in favor of a C programming-like syntax. Because of the C syntax, this shell is often just called the C shell. Unless you're a C programmer, these are not likely to be your best choices.
ksh, bash, and zsh
These provide a good blend of scripting and interactive capabilities, but they stem from different sources (bash is most similar to sh, hence the Bourne Again SHell name).
You'll likely have bash, ksh, or tcsh (csh)as your shell, but you can change to one of many other shells fairly easily. As Code Listings 3.3 and 3.4 show, you can start by finding out which shells are available to you. Figure 3.1 shows some shells and how they relate to each other.
Figure 3.1
Figure 3.1 Shells fit neatly into a few "families" with the exception of a few stragglers. Each shell in a family shares many characteristics with the others in the same family.
To see which shells are available to you:
• cat /etc/shells
At the shell prompt, type cat /etc/shells to find out which shells are available to you. Code Listings 3.4 and 3.5 show the results of this command on two different systems.
Code Listing 3.3. A minimal listing of available shells on a Unix system, including the basics but not too much in the way of choices.
[ejr@hobbes]$ more /etc/shells
Code Listing 3.4. These shells are available through an ISP. Notice the additional, custom shells that this ISP uses, including shells that provide special features such as not allowing logins.
xmission> cat /etc/shells
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