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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/49615 | How to develop TSQL Code
The basic texts for developing SQL code tend to leave unsaid the basic techniques for building routines such as stored procedures in T-SQL. Phil is well-known for his more lengthy and complex stored procedures, so we asked him to explain in more detail how he goes about developing things like that without the comfort of Visual Studio.
You have been asked to write a SQL task: by which I mean a discrete unit of work; possibly it’s just a single routine such as a function, stored procedure, a view or maybe even a trigger. You have a specification and a timescale. What next?
Developers often just plunge in and start cutting SQL. Sure, this often works, but the chances aren’t great: A SQL programming task can blow up in your face, metaphorically speaking. If you feel lucky and expect things to go well, then your time to complete the task increases exponentially as you hit reality. If you prepare first, it tends to be linear, and projects are likely to be more predictable
In this article, I’ll explain the way I do it, in a number of stages I do the same thing for any T-SQL job, but for trivial code, it is just a checklist. Other developers do it different ways: you’ll have to ask them how they do it.. All I can say is that this way works for me!
What I’m about to suggest may seem like a lot of ‘extra’ work. I’d reply that, if I could guarantee code that works, performs and scales if you were to put flowers in your hat and walk round in circles singing ‘Pop goes the weasel’, you’d do that wouldn’t you? My method is more conventional than that, though I’m inclined to play the ukulele whilst thinking, which seems to help.
The stages
Up-front time estimation and planning
Plan your time, and especially the time you allow yourself to do the various stages that I outline below. It is simply a matter of attaching start times and durations to the tasks. After you use a system like this for a while, you get better at estimating a job, and the time each section takes, because you’re thinking consciously about time-management and about recording how long things take and the time you waste. More importantly, you’ll know if you are slipping at almost every stage, or if you have time in hand which you can use to add quality. Planning for a routine that would only take a day to write and test might seem ridiculous, but think what you could pack into a day? Time is precious and it is nice to know if you’re getting bogged down. You could use a tool such as MS Project to do this but a hand-drawn Gantt diagram sketch is just as good.
Produce the test data, and the automated tests
How are you going to test your routine? You need to plan, and implement a test suite and test harness with a dummy version of your routine before you start cutting code. The reason for this is
• It soon becomes apparent if you’ve made the wrong choice for the type of routine and even the main parameters you’ve chosen.
• If you are forced to focus on studying the data hard enough to reproduce a randomised or obfuscated version suitable for testing, you’ll be confronted with awkward facts about it (such as nullability, ‘dirt’, validity or conflicts)
• You will have a better grip on delivering the tested routine in the timescale allowed, since you can do very rapid automated component-tests, if things don’t go quite as one hopes.
You need to be clear about the different types of testing that you’re likely to perform. There is ‘component testing’, which we all do, and is used to verify the functionality of the T-SQL statement you’re working on and ‘unit testing’, to ensure that the routine as a whole is working to specification. We won’t be dealing with regression testing but we may be required to add ‘hooks’ into the routine to support regression testing. I like to build-in ‘Assertion testing’ which allows a database to ‘clear its’ throat’ after a restore, upgrade or some other downtime to check that each major routine does, basically, what it is intended to do, on a small subset of test data. SQL Development adds two important new tests, performance tests and scalability tests, which need plenty of planning.
As I explain elsewhere, it is not good practice to use your live database data as a test-bed. In fact it is awful from both a technical and legal perspective. It is much better to build test data that looks right, and has roughly the same distribution as the real stuff. This isn’t always easy, since things like postcodes/Zipcodes have to be valid, and a skewed distribution will give misleading results.
This stage might seem painful, but there is a lot of opportunity for reuse and plenty of tools that will help you do this. I use reverse-regexes a lot for this because they are easy to modify and it is surprising how often they get reused. I keep a number of SQL statements for doing routine data generation but a third-party tool is the best thing to use where there are lots of dependencies.
With the data and the dummy routine, you can test to make sure it fails all your automated component tests. If it passes, you’re probably in trouble.
As part of the preparation of the data, you will need to create tables that contain the outputs that are the same as what you’d expect from your routine so you can compare quickly with your routine to verify that it produces the right results. These are required for unit testing.
For component testing, you’ll probably be content with an ad-hoc execution of code. Unit tests will need to be scripted: there are plenty of open-source alternatives such as NUnit, some of which are featured on Simple-Talk. These will also drive your regression testing if you want. Many of these are in C# or VB, but I prefer to use a T-SQL script for unit testing. For the most control, I’m beginning to like PowerShell because, with SQLCMD, this provides the most versatile solution. It is a great feeling to fire up the script, lean back in your seat with a ukulele, and watch out for the red text.
Produce a Development harness.
In the course of developing T-SQL code, you will occasionally want to know the values in variables, temporary tables and other awkward places. If you have all the time you want, and like developing at about the speed that small mammals evolve, then use an IDE. Otherwise, develop techniques that basically use a temporary log and our own debug code. The simple version of this used to be called ‘PrintEffing’ (after printf), but here we ‘print’ to a simple log that records the time automatically: From then on simple SQL gives you timings for the various components of your routine.
You’ll also want to know about inefficient code. At this stage, you shouldn’t rely on the profiler, Time statistics, the execution plan or extended events to test the performance of code. You need something far more rapid and reliable. I like to use two different types of harnesses, a development harness and a ‘verbose’ harness to test a stored procedure in actual use. A development-harness is the SQL equivalent of scaffolding, to show how long all the various parts of a long routine are taking. Developers tend not to agree on how to monitor the performance of routines under different data-sizes. I like to know how long a routine took, often every time it is called, and what the parameters were. I also like to be able to pick two points within a routine and know how long it took to run. I like the information immediately, so one can rapidly try out different techniques. I also occasionally like to graph results in Excel. There are subtleties, of course. Do you clear cache before you do a test-run? Do you force a compilation? It is as well to have the T-SQL to hand to twiddle these knobs, commented out when you don’t want them.
At this point, I check the database’s strategies for audit, error-reporting, and performance monitoring, and comply with them in the harness, as it makes sense to design development and production harnesses together, and an audit obligation could affect performance anyway.
Determine the likely best algorithms, assemble the candidates
Don’t just type in-SQL yet!. You need to consider the most effective ways to do what is required from the routine. Sketch, stare out of the window, or discuss with others. Read about what others have done in similar circumstances, and check out the published algorithms. Experiment, by all means, with all that lovely data you’ve just prepared, warm from the oven. However, get rid of the SQL you produce because you are bound to produce something better once you’ve finished the groundwork.
I’ve found, over the years, that there are a couple of good ways of performing a particular T-SQL function, and many lousy ways. The trouble is that what doesn’t work in one routine is magic in another. Also, beware that the best procedural algorithms for the task aren’t necessarily going to be the best for T-SQL. T-SQL differs so much from a procedural language because things that are difficult in one are often trivial in the other.
Sketch out the candidates
Rapidly produce the SQL to implement the most likely performers, without any trick or fancy code. If they start getting hopelessly complicated, then back off and either re-design or reject.
If the routine is of any length, then use plenty of temporary tables and break the process down as much as possible. Don’t try to do a huge amount of work in on SQL Statement, unless you are very keen to impress your colleagues. With temporary tables, you can inspect intermediate workings and very quickly track bugs. Table variables are fine but more volatile.
At this stage, do not be too concerned about the minutiae of performance. The choice of algorithm is always more important for the big picture, and you are concerned about how neat, easy to understand, efficient and maintainable it is.
Do not second-guess or assume what will take a lot of time. With a decent development harness that give you duration timings, and with the execution plans, you never need to.
Select the most likely algorithm.
Run preliminary performance and scalability tests.
Use the development harness to run performance tests using different sizes of data. The Query Optimiser will make decisions on the actual execution strategy and these will be different with various sizes and distributions of data. (this is why the routines that seem to check out well in development sometimes perform like dogs on production data.) Check the execution plans, but don’t let them dominate your thinking to the extent that they force your design choices. SQL Server should be your servant, not your master
At this stage, you will be using batch statements in a test harness rather than wrapping the code up into a stored procedure or function.
Try to improve the efficiency and neatness of your algorithms. At this stage, you’ll get increasingly confident of which algorithm is best, so select it, but remember the other candidates, just in case.
Think at this stage where you really, really, need to wrap things up into transactions. It can pay to clarify your strategy for error handling, and error reporting at this stage.
For building the code, you’ll have a different mindset. You’ll concentrate on creating the most effective implementation of the chosen algorithm. I delete all my preliminary experiments. This works for me but it might be too extreme for you. I discovered by accident that, if I accidentally lose my code and have to rewrite it, the second attempt is always better because I know where I’m heading and have a routemap in my mind. It takes surprisingly little time as long as you don’t forget it all.
Remember that you are still writing everything as a series of batch statements. Your test harness must allow you to be able to switch easily from this to wrapping things up into a routine since once you have a function, you have very little chance of seeing what is happening in its bowels. It has to ‘go on the slab’.
Then I run performance tests on a large dataset. I like to use a slow server: an aging server that was originally of high quality is always the best, since you can feel the delays without having to run all the timings, and home-in more quickly on the performance pain-points. You run the internal timings, inserting extra timing points if necessary in order to drill down to the point where the problems are likely to be. At this stage you’ll appreciate the reason for my advice of doing a series of statements using temporary tables for intermediate results, rather than trying to untie a Gordian knot of entangled SQL to try to get it into one SQL Statement.
Using performance-development techniques like this, backed up when necessary with execution plan information, wait stats and CPU usage info, you’ll soon see that most SQL Statements go too fast to be measurable, and that there will be only a couple of points at which things get bogged down. This surprises beginners who seem to imagine a fixed-performance-cost for every SQL statement.
Unit Test
You’re satisfied with performance and feel sure that scaling is going to be good. At this point you comment out the development harness, format the code to the standard in force, insert the header information and put the code into its routine. As with component testing, you still need to check that the end-product is what it ought to be, by comparing the result with the result that you have already determined to be correct. However, it is quite possible that you can’t produce enough correct data by an independent, possibly semi-manual process. In this case, you’ll be forced to separate your performance and scalability testing from assertion testing.
When I say ‘comment out the development harness’, I must point out that in real life, things don’t always go that well, and you’ll find that you need to put routines ‘back on the slab’. I save the ‘harnessed’ version as a file. Then, the various timing points are turned into comments, simply because most of the code is a description of what the code is about to do, which makes an excellent comment. I use a regex that leaves a marker directly after the line-comment symbol so that the process can be reversed, turning the comment into a timing point.
In this phase, if this routine is a key component in your database, you are likely to want to plot the execution time of a couple of algorithms against a number of data sizes to gauge performance. At this point, I’m generally more interested in complete time rather than CPU time and wait time separately, though this isn’t necessarily the case for a complex routine that is involving other systems.
Check in
Now is the time to check your routine into source control. For the sake of any automatically generated ‘catalogue’ of routines and parameters, you’ll also want to add in the extended properties for the header and the parameters. At this stage, it is useful to complete the filling-in of your timesheet so you have a record of how long each stage took. If you do fixed-price work, your income will benefit from the precision with which you can estimate how long a task takes, and the more you fill-in timesheets, the better you get! If you are paid by the hour, then you know exactly how much to bill! If you are lucky to be a permanent employee, you will make everyone happier by being able to predict accurately how long a T-SQL job will take.
The DBA generally is faced with existing code that has to be healed without any refactoring work. DBAs need different tools from developers in order to support different techniques. They have less opportunity to home in on part of a routine and work on it to reduce its impact on the rest of the server.
The development of database code isn’t really much different from any other form of coding and requires the same disciplines. The challenges of creating code without extensive debugging and single-stepping facilities in your IDE are no different from the sort that you’d meet when writing complex Javascript or F# code. I once wrote embedded code for a living: the same techniques were necessary there too; plan upfront how you’re going to test it, create the test harness, plan how you test each component of your code, work out the best algorithm, build in simple monitoring systems, then start coding!
The method of developing SQL code is as personal as the way of laying it out, or the individual preferences in the use of various language constructs. So much depends on the team you work for, the policies of the department and individual preferences. If you work successfully using a different approach, then fine, and if you were do describe how, in a comment, I’d be fascinated to learn how you do it.
If this article creates any interest, Phil has pledged to continue the theme by lurching back into the practicalities of a development harness: something he was reluctant to do before explaining the context. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/49619 | » News » Varsha Bhosle was a fearless warrior, and I shall miss her fierce, large heart
By Rajeev Srinivasan
Last updated on: October 09, 2012 18:58 IST
Rajeev Srinivasan's personal tribute to his late friend.
Varsha had a distinct, trademark, booming greeting for me: She'd call me on the phone and positively bellow, "Raaaaj!" with that twinkle in her eye that I could almost hear over the phone. Nobody has ever called me that, but I didn't dare tell her to call me by my full name: She was not to be trifled with, and she would do things her own way, come hell or high water.
And so she went the same way, taking her own life with a gun. It is hard to believe that that booming voice, that infectious chuckle, that unshakeable spirit, is gone forever. She swept through life like an irresistible force: I used to call her Typhoon Varsha. She was one of those large, Earth-Mother type women with an infectious laugh, who would brook no argument.
The last time I spoke with her was a few months ago, and she told me she was working on a cookbook, and was almost finished with it. She mentioned nagging health problems, including surgery that had gone awry: She was still in great pain.
I used to call her now and then at her Mumbai residence, on Peddar Road if I remember right. But I was defeated by her Oriya maid, who was zealous in the defence of her mistress's privacy, and treated all callers with suspicion. Between her broken Hindi and my broken Hindi, I could not convey that I was not trying to sell anything and was actually a good friend of Varsha's. So I gave up, and had to wait for Varsha's infrequent calls.
Strangely, for two people who were friends for over 15 years, we never ever met in person. Once, on a visit from San Francisco, I landed up in Mumbai and called her -- but she was busy that day and couldn't meet. And we never managed to meet up later although we kept planning that we would on one of her innumerable trips with her mother, some of whose shows and albums she produced.
As a human being, she was warm and generous; this surprises people because they have been conditioned to believe that right-wing Hindus are mean, noxious people. In fact, Varsha was the very exemplar of what Hindutva is -- an accepting, broad-minded and tolerant point of view; a Hindu fundamentalist is one who accepts that there are many paths to the Truth, although he or she may prefer his/her own.
Those who think Varsha was some kind of religious bigot should know that she was once engaged to be married to a famous musician of another religion. In addition, she used to defend a person of the Communist religion whom I considered a pill of the first order. She knew his absurd political views, but she had a soft corner for him as a person.
Apart from Varsha's humanity, of course, what captivated her many admirers was her lion-hearted defence of Hinduism, and of the idea of India. For years, whenever I happened to mention her on my blog, I have been getting many anxious queries from people about how she was doing. Obviously she touched a chord, and she articulated what a lot of people felt.
And that is what brought Varsha and me together: she, daughter of the soil, and proud of the martial past of the Marathas, and me, a long-term exile who had gradually come to understand what India meant to me, and to the world. We shared a fierce love for India, she with her signature passion, and me with a little more scepticism.
I learned from her about things that have been obscured by malign textbook-writers and a lapdog media. I heard from her about Veer Savarkar, who has been demonised by sarkari, motivated historians. I heard about Kala Pani, the notorious prison in the Andamans. And I told her about the Battle of Colachel, and Marthanda Varma, and little Travancore's great victory in 1741CE over the Dutch.
We discussed the writings of Sita Ram Goel and Dharampal; and we were optimistic that if only that single missing, magic ingredient were to be found -- leadership -- India would once again rise from the ruins.
We looked forward to the day that India became a leading economy and power in the world. Those were heady days, some years ago, when liberalisation was beginning to bear fruit, and Indians were beginning to show that they could be among the world's winners: First in high technology, and then in other areas as Indian-origin CEOs began to lead big global firms.
I used to enjoy discussing my columns with her; once she even played a prank on me, parodying one of mine with one of hers. Together with a few others, we thought we could help provide an alternative point of view, one that celebrated the native genius of the country, which gave the Hindu-Buddhist tradition the position of primus inter pares as we navigated the Huntingtonian clash of civilisations.
But alas, at the height of her popularity, and at around 45, at the height of her intellectual fire-power, Varsha stopped writing. She retreated from the Internet as well -- no more e-mail, and certainly no Facebook or Twitter. In a sense, she was like a shooting star, one that illumined the path, and then disappeared all too quickly. Perhaps it was better that way, that she did not decline, or become senile, or become co-opted, as many others do. We can still remember her the way she was, from the fiery archives of her columns that has preserved.
Varsha's all-too-brief life reminds us that the path of Dharma is difficult. I have written about others who trod the path of Truth, bearing their crown of thorns -- for instance, Professor Eachara Warrier, who for 30 years demanded the truth from the State about his 'disappeared' son, and whom the State stonewalled till he died. Like Warrier, Varsha Bhosle was also a hero of mine.
Godspeed, dear Varsha. There is a place for you in the Great White Space in the Sky reserved for patriots.
Rajeev Srinivasan |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/49629 | What Is the Alcohol Content of Sake?
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The alcohol content of sake generally ranges from 12 to 18 percent. But some types of sake can have an alcohol content as high as 45 percent.
Rice is the base ingredient in sake, and this drink goes through a fermentation process. The flavors range from fruity to woodsy and sweet to dry. The smell and acidity vary greatly among the different brands. Traditionally, sake is a warm beverage, but in modern times, people can find it both warm and cold. Lower quality sake is generally warm, while higher quality sake is generally cold. When sake is cold, it should not be ice cold but slightly chilled. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/49630 | What Is the Symbol for Hercules?
The symbol for Hercules is a wooden club. Even though he was the half-human son of Zeus, Hercules was also the embodiment of truth, heroism and determination. Many of his other attributes are also a significant factor that made this myth so important to people.
Though many of the ancient gods were known to use bows and arrows, spears or swords, this was not the fact with Hercules. This myth, or man as some believe, was well known for his inhuman strength, which was awarded to him because his father Zeus was the "King of the Gods." Hercules used his strength to defeat most of his enemies. However, he also used a wooden club, which most people recognize as his "true" symbol.
This club was carved from the grand Tree of Life, which was the eternal symbol of life. Using a portion of this tree was said to imbue the weapon with strength equal to the man who used the weapon to defeat his enemies. Other attributes that were symbolic to Hercules were his well-defined muscles and the lion skin he wore over one shoulder. Though they were not typical symbols, they were attributes that were unique to this demigod. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/49666 | Information About The NSS Galaxy DS Floor Machine
A good floor machine and should be constructed of quality materials and have plenty of power. A floor machine is used for two simple tasks. The first main purpose of a floor scrubber is to scrub a floor, breaking up any debris on soiled areas. The second major task of a floor machine is to strip old floor finish or wax from a floor so that it may be recoated with new floor finish to bring it back to its original condition. The NSS galaxy DS floor machine goes far beyond this. It’s dual speed system allows the user to not only clean floors but to polish floors in turn performing the same task as a burnisher. Some floor machines can be difficult to use and hard to control, when the brush is spinning at over 180 RPMs the machine can easily get out of control. The galaxy DS floor machine combats this with an ergonomic handle that is easy to hold onto and control.
The main components of a floor machine are the motor and handle-base assembly. A good floor scrubber motor should be at least 1 hp and built with quality materials. On most floor machines the motor is direct drive and is attached directly to the pad driver which is attached to a floor pad. In a direct drive situation like this the motor has to be extremely powerful. If the motor is underpowered it can wear out and malfunction prematurely. The galaxy DS floor machine features a 1.5 hp motor that has more than enough power for this machine. For more protection the electrical system includes a 15 amp circuit breaker that will blow in case the motor overheats or become stuck. The handle base assembly on the DS is made of steel and coated with a chrome layer to protect it from cleaning chemicals such as harsh floor strippers. The handle can be easily adjusted to suit any user’s height making the machine more controllable. Two dead man lever switches are used to turn the machine on and off, if the user looses control of the machine the machine will automatically turn off safely. Most floor scrubbers come with at least a 30 foot cord so that it has more range before is unplugged and moved to different outlet. The NSS model comes with a 50 foot cord which is ample enough to complete any floor cleaning or stripping task.
As with most NSS machines if there is any premature failure of any part it can be easily replaced in under an hour. This is important for commercial cleaners and contractors because it limits down time and allows the worker to perform the task at hand. NSS parts are truly inexpensive and made from durable materials in Germany. These parts can be found at any local dealer or online NSS store.
In summation the NSS galaxy DS floor scrubber by NSS towers over its competitors by using quality components, innovative design and an unheard of three year warranty. Commercial cleaners can scrub up to 2700 square feet per hour with this machine making it extremely cost efficient. The dual speed feature also allows users to polish up to 7000 square feet per hour with the same unit. If you were to buy a burnisher and floor machine it would cost you twice as much as the current retail price of the DS. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/49709 | Reasonable compensation and S Corporations
Reasonable compensation and S Corporations
Article courtesy Lewis & Knopf, CPAs, PC
Unlike a C corporation, which itself pays the tax on its taxable income, an S corporation does not directly pay taxes on its income; instead, its income, losses, deductions, and credits are distributed across its shareholders’ individual tax returns on a pro rata basis. These distributions are not subject to self-employment (Social Security and Medicare) taxes. As a result, many S corporations ignore the requirement that each shareholder-employee must take reasonable compensation in the form of W-2 wages in exchange for services performed for the corporation. These wages are subject to Social Security and Medicare taxes (which the corporation and the employee generally split equally); the corporation is also responsible for paying the Federal Unemployment Tax (as well as any state unemployment taxes).
The Internal Revenue Code establishes that an officer of an S corporation is an employee of that corporation for Federal Unemployment Tax purposes. S corporations should not attempt to avoid paying this tax by treating their officers’ compensation as distributions rather than as wages.
This has been an issue for decades; in 1974, the IRS issued a ruling stating that, when a shareholder-employee fails to take a salary, or if that salary is unreasonable, an auditor should assert that the salary is unreasonable. The officer’s distributions will then be shifted to account for reasonable compensation, and he or she will be assessed the related employment taxes and penalties. At stake here are the employee’s 6.2% Social Security and 1.45% Medicare payroll taxes, the S corporation’s matching amounts, the Federal Unemployment Tax, and whatever state taxes happen to apply.
Who Is an Employee of the Corporation? – Generally, an officer of a corporation is considered an employee of that corporation. The fact that an officer is also a shareholder does not change the requirement that any payments made to that officer must be treated as wages. Courts have consistently held that S corporation shareholders who provide more than minor services to their corporation (and receive payment in return) are employees whose compensation is subject to federal taxes.
Tax regulations do provide an exception for officers who do not perform services or who perform only minor services. These officers are not considered employees.
What’s a Reasonable Salary? – The instructions for Form 1120S (“U.S. Income Tax Return for an S Corporation”) state: “Distributions and other payments by an S corporation to a corporate officer must be treated as wages to the extent the amounts are reasonable compensation for services rendered to the corporation.” There are no specific guidelines in the tax code regarding the definition of reasonable compensation. The various courts that have ruled on this issue have based their determinations on the facts and circumstances of the individual cases. These are some factors that courts have considered when determining reasonable compensation:
• The officer’s training and experience
• The officer’s duties and responsibilities
• The time and effort that the officer devotes to the business
• The corporation’s dividend history
• The corporation’s payments to non-shareholder employees
• The timing and manner of the bonuses paid to key people at the corporation
• The payments that comparable businesses have made for similar services
• The corporation’s compensation agreements
• The formulas that similar corporations have used to determine compensation
The problem here, of course, is that it is easy for the IRS to simply list contributing factors that courts have used when determining reasonable compensation and leave it to each corporation to quantify these factors and determine a reasonable salary—all while retaining the ability to challenge the selected amount later if an auditor decides that the compensation is not reasonable. The IRS has a long history of examining S corporations’ tax returns to ensure that reasonable compensation is being paid, particularly when a corporation pays no compensation to employee-stockholders.
New Issue For 2018 – The late-2017 tax reform added a new flow-through deduction (also referred to as the “199A deduction” after the section of the tax code that describes it). This deduction applies to S corporations (among many other business entities) and adds another level of complexity to the determination of reasonable compensation.
The wages of an S corporation’s employee-stockholder are NOT treated as qualified business income (QBI) that is eligible for the individual’s 199A deduction. However, the corporation deducts these wages as a business expense when it calculates the profit that passes through to the shareholder as QBI on Schedule K-1. Thus, larger wages mean less K-1 flow-through income (QBI) and thus a smaller 199A deduction (as that is equal to 20% of QBI). In this case, S corporations tend to minimize stockholders’ salaries in order to maximize flow-through income; this strategy increases the employee-stockholder’s 199A deduction and lowers the payroll taxes for both the corporation and the employee-stockholder.
If married taxpayers who are filing a joint return have 1040 taxable income that exceeds $315,000 (or $157,500 for those with other filing statuses), the 199A deduction begins to be subject to a wage limitation. Once the 1040 taxable income for married taxpayers filing jointly exceeds $415,000 (or $207,500 for those with other filing statuses), the wage limitation is fully phased in. In that event, the 199A deduction becomes the lesser of the wage limitation or 20% of the QBI; if the wage limitation is zero, there is no 199A deduction.The wage limitation comprises the wages that the corporation paid, including those paid to stockholders, plus the unadjusted cost of the qualified property that the corporation owned and used during the year. To be more specific, the wage limitation is the larger of 50% of the wages that the corporation paid or 25% of the corporation’s paid wages plus 2.5% of the unadjusted cost of its qualified property.
Thus, for those high-income shareholders for whom the wage limitation applies, if the corporation pays no wages and has no qualified property, the shareholder will not have a 199A deduction.
If an S corporation is a specified service trade or business, the 199A deduction phases out; for married taxpayers who are filing a joint return, it phases out at taxable incomes between $315,000 and $415,000 (for those with other filing statuses, it phases out between $157,500 and $207,500). The IRS describes specified service trades or businesses are those in the fields of health, law, accounting, actuarial science, performing arts, athletics, consulting, financial services, and brokerage services, as well as those for which reputation and/or skill are contributing factors (for more details on what constitutes an specified service trade or business, please give this office a call).
Thus, if married taxpayers who are filing jointly have taxable income in excess of $415,000 (or $207,500 for those with other filing statuses), they receive no benefit from the wage limitation; therefore, they also tend to minimize their reasonable compensation in order to minimize their FICA taxes.
Of course, taxpayers cannot pick and choose a particular level of reasonable compensation to minimize their taxes or maximize their deductions; therein lies a trap. Taxpayers instead should consider all the factors related to reasonable compensation. However, pulling all the data together to support such a determination can be difficult and time-consuming. Some commercial firms have the necessary data and resources to properly apply the various factors mentioned in this article so as to determine the proper level of reasonable compensation; this can provide backup in the case of an IRS challenge. |
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The American Bar Association defines Chapter 7 as being a liquidation of debts while Chapter 13 is a repayment plan. Basically, this means in Chapter 13, you repay your debts as outlined in your plan with some being discharged. In Chapter 7, most of your debts will be discharged. In either case, though, some debts will remain, like student loans and taxes owed.
To file either form of bankruptcy, you need to complete credit counseling and file a petition with the court. Bankruptcy can affect the assets you own, like your home or your vehicle. In Chapter 7, you can only keep certain assets that are considered exempt because other assets are used to pay off debts. In Chapter 13, you usually get to keep your assets if you complete the plan.
To be eligible to file a Chapter 7, you have to pass a means test. Most people who have higher incomes will not pass the test and will be ineligible. There are also income limits for filing Chapter 13, but they are much higher. Both forms will remain on your credit report for 10 years, although some Chapter 13 creditors may keep it on there for only seven. To learn more about debt solutions, visit our website. |
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I have been working on a project called C BASIC which is a set of C preprocessor #defines to make C look more like BASIC. The concept has worked out really well and compliments the macro and defines Peter Verhas initiated with the extension module API. I have merged the C BASIC defines into the basext.h (Script BASIC extension module include file) and it's now a standard extension to the Script BASIC API. The Script BASIC GFX and BBC extension modules were created using the C BASIC extension. If you would like to have a peek, the source is located on the C BASIC Bitbucket repository / project site. Creating Script BASIC extensions to the language has never been easier.
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Randomization is a basic procedure in experimental design. Considered the importance of it, it is odd to say, that -- except for a few articles in parapsychological research -- the topic did not receive very much attention.
"Every finite symbol string is random under some nontrivial definitions of randomness. Every finite symbol string is nonrandom under some nontrivial definitions of randomness."
These two paradoxical conclusions in Gilmore (1989, p. 339) underline the fact, that it might be worth the effort to consider the reasons of randomization and the principles of the process. It is the purpose of RQube to provide several criteria to judge the quality of a random stimulus series. According to these criteria RQube generates as many series as you want. These may easily be implemented in your experiment control program.
1. RQube is not constrained to a single purpose of randomization. It randomizes according to various experimental needs.
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solve for any one parameter of the power of a two sample z-test
for z-test the keywords are:
effect_size, nobs1, alpha, power, ratio
exactly one needs to be None, all others need numeric values
standardized effect size, difference between the two means divided by the standard deviation. If ratio=0, then this is the standardized mean in the one sample test.
nobs1int or float
number of observations of sample 1. The number of observations of sample two is ratio times the size of sample 1, i.e. nobs2 = nobs1 * ratio ratio can be set to zero in order to get the power for a one sample test.
alphafloat in interval (0,1)
significance level, e.g. 0.05, is the probability of a type I error, that is wrong rejections if the Null Hypothesis is true.
powerfloat in interval (0,1)
power of the test, e.g. 0.8, is one minus the probability of a type II error. Power is the probability that the test correctly rejects the Null Hypothesis if the Alternative Hypothesis is true.
ratio of the number of observations in sample 2 relative to sample 1. see description of nobs1 The default for ratio is 1; to solve for ration given the other arguments it has to be explicitly set to None.
alternativestr, ‘two-sided’ (default), ‘larger’, ‘smaller’
extra argument to choose whether the power is calculated for a two-sided (default) or one sided test. The one-sided test can be either ‘larger’, ‘smaller’.
The value of the parameter that was set to None in the call. The value solves the power equation given the remaining parameters.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/49840 | Catastrophic Paralysis Caused by Oregon Medical Malpractice
Examples of Catastrophic Personal Injuries Causing Paralysis Due to Oregon Medical Malpractice
Paralysis injuries caused by Oregon medical malpractice can be some of the most frustrating and debilitating types of injuries that a patient can sustain. They will cause a lifetime of disability, motor or sensation loss, and sometimes extreme pain or pins and needles. We trust our healthcare providers to heal us, but unfortunately sometimes they fail to do so and end up causing us these significant and debilitating injuries.
Types of Paralysis
There are several different types of paralysis which may be caused by medical malpractice. They include the following types of paralysis:
• Paraplegia – The loss of sensation and functioning for the bottom half of a person’s body, the cause usually being a disease or acute trauma;
• Quadriplegia – The loss of sensation and functioning from the neck down, the cause usually being a disease or acute trauma;
• Hemiplegia – The loss of sensation and functioning to one side of a patient’s body such as the left arm and left leg, the cause usually being a brain injury; and
• Monoplegia – This is the loss of sensation and functioning of one limb, such as just an arm or leg, the cause using being acute trauma.
Causes of Paralysis Due to Oregon Medical Malpractice
All of the above types of paralysis can be caused by medical malpractice when a healthcare provider fails to practice medicine as a reasonably prudent provider would under similar circumstances. Meaning that a healthcare provider acts below the standard of care what a normal provider would have rendered. Some causes of paralysis due to medical malpractice include the following:
Surgical errorsOregon surgical errors can cause any of the four types of paralysis above, because operations on the spine would cause paraplegia or quadriplegia, a brain operation could cause hemiplegia, or a shoulder surgery could damage nerves and cause monoplegia.
Birth Injuries – Birth injuries could also cause all four types of paralysis above, but the most commonly seen example is monoplegia due to a brachial plexus injury. This is when the newborn is tugged, pulled, or trapped in a manner which exerts undo stress and tension on the nerves coming from the spine, traveling through the shoulder, and powering the fingers, hand, and arm. When these nerves are injured, they can result in paralysis, loss of sensation, loss of motor ability, and constant numbness or pain, or a mix.
Medication Errors/Overdoses – Particularly with hemiplegia, medication overdoses can cause paralysis. This can be due to the toxic nature of the drugs which can poison and damage the parts of the brain. The most common types of drugs to do this are painkillers, particularly morphine, which is caustic and can destroy parts of the brain when overdosed.
Misdiagnosis/delay in diagnosis – When a serious health condition like a cancerous tumor is diagnosed, it can allow the tumor to grow uncontrollably and cause damage to various parts of the body. When this is to the brain or spinal cord, the tumor can damage these critical structures which cause paralysis.
Oregon Medical Malpractice Causing Catastrophic Injuries and Paralysis Should be Evaluated by our Bend Oregon Medical Malpractice Lawyer
Victims of serious medical malpractice could be permanently paralyzed. This can cause extreme hardship and the inability to work or carry out daily living activities. Victims may be entitled to compensation for these catastrophic injuries. If you or a loved one were paralyzed due to a doctor’s mistake, please call Kuhlman Law, LLC to learn how we can help you.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/49850 | Further reading
Chism, Christine. Alliterative Revivals. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Duncan, Thomas G., ed. A Companion to the Middle English
Lyric. Cambridge and Rochester, N.Y.: Brewer, 2005. Pearsall, Derek. Old English and Middle English Poetry. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1977.
Michael Modarelli
MIDDLE SCOTS literary language Early academic critics of the makars (Scottish court poets) argued that Middle Scots (a term first used in the Victorian era) was purely a written construction and not a genuine spoken language in Scotland. More recently, however, scholars have argued that the Middle Scots dialect was indeed a living speech, and that the poets' genius was the incorporation of the rhythm and syntax of this local speech into high poetic verse drawing on a Chaucerian, French, and Latin tradition simultaneously. The Middle Scots poets themselves referred to their language as Inglis, or English, mainly to distinguish themselves from Gaelic dialects rather than linking themselves with English. Middle Scots developed directly from Old English and is in effect a northern dialect of Middle English. The vocabulary of the Middle Scots poems reflect a heavy drawing on Latin and French terms, and some poems such as William Dunbar's The Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo reflect the common speech of the Scots people.
Even a casual reader of Middle Scots poetry will immediately notice the orthography as markedly different from the more familiar Middle English spelling. Many of the colloquial terms probably did not have written counterparts at all, so the poets' spelling of some of these terms is arbitrary (such as widow rendered as weido and wiedo). However, the truly distinctive features of the Middle Scots forms are the use of quh for wh (as in quhose and quhat), the use of sch for sh (as in "schowris"), and the plural form is rather than es ("lassis" and "rokkis"). Like nearly all medieval poetry, Middle Scots poems are ultimately meant to be read aloud, and the orthography is secondary to the rhythm and rhyme of the words.
See also Scottish Chaucerians.
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Song of Solomon 8
The affections between Christ and his spouse are as strong and lively here, in this closing chapter of the song, as ever, and rather more so. I. The spouse continues her importunity for a more intimate communion and fellowship with him, Song of Song of Solomon 8:1-3. II. She charges the daughters of Jerusalem not to interrupt her communion with her beloved (Song of Song of Solomon 8:4) and they, thereupon, admire her dependence on him, Song of Song of Solomon 8:5. III. She begs of her beloved, whom she raises up by her prayers (Song of Song of Solomon 8:5), that he would by his grace confirm that blessed union with him to which she was admitted, Song of Song of Solomon 8:6,7. IV. She makes intercession for others also, that care might be taken of them (Song of Song of Solomon 8:8,9), and pleases herself with the thoughts of her own interest in Christ and his affection to her, Song of Song of Solomon 8:10. V. She owns herself his tenant for a vineyard she held of him at Baal-hamon, Song of Song of Solomon 8:11,12. VI. The song concludes with an interchanging of parting requests. Christ charges his spouse that she should often let him hear from her (Song of Song of Solomon 8:13), and she begs of him that he would hasten his return to her, Song of Song of Solomon 8:14).
Verses 1-4
The Love of the Church to Christ.
Here, I. The spouse wishes for a constant intimacy and freedom with the Lord Jesus. She was already betrothed to him, but, the nuptials being yet not solemnized and published (the bride, the Lamb's wife, will not be completely ready till his second coming), she was obliged to be shy and to keep at some distance she therefore wishes she may be taken for his sister, he having called her so (Song of Song of Solomon 5:1), and that she might have the same chaste and innocent familiarity with him that a sister has with a brother, an own brother, that sucked the breasts of the same mother with her, who would therefore be exceedingly tender of her, as Joseph was of his brother Benjamin. Some make this to be the prayer of the Old-Testament saints for the hastening of Christ's incarnation, that the church might be the better acquainted with him, when, forasmuch as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he should also himself likewise take part of the same, and not be ashamed to call them brethren. It is rather the wish of all believers for a more intimate communion with him, that they might receive the Spirit of sanctification, and so Christ must be as their brother, that is, that they might be as his brethren, which then they are when by grace they are made partakers of a divine nature, and he that sanctifies, and those that are sanctified, are both of one, Hebrews 2:11, &c. It becomes brethren and sisters, the children of the same parents, that have been nursed at the same breast, to be very loving to and tender of one another such a love the spouse desires might be between her and her beloved, that she might call him brother. 2. She promises herself then the satisfaction of making a more open profession of her relation to him than at present she could make: "When I should find thee without, any where, even before company, I would kiss thee, as a sister does her own brother, especially her little brother that is now sucking the breasts of her mother" (for so some understand it) "I would use all the decent freedom with thee that could be, and should not be despised for it, as doing any thing unbecoming the modesty of my sex." The church, since Christ's incarnation, can better own him than she could before, when she would have been laughed at for being so much in love with one that was not yet born. Christ has become as our brother wherever we find him, therefore, let us be ready to own our relation to him and affection for him, and not fear being despised for it, nor regard that any more than David did when he danced before the ark. If this be to be vile, I will be yet more vile. Nay, let us hope that we shall not be despised so much as some imagine. Of the maid-servants of whom thou hast spoken I shall be had in honour. Wherever we find the image of Christ, though it be without, among those that do not follow him with us, we must love it, and testify that love, and we shall not be despised for it, but catholic charity will gain us respect. 3. She promises to improve the opportunity she should then have for cultivating an acquaintance with him (Song of Song of Solomon 8:2): "I would lead thee, as my brother, by the arm, and hang upon thee I would show thee all the house of my precious things, would bring thee into my mother's house, into the church, into the solemn assemblies (Song of Song of Solomon 3:4), into my closet" (for there the saints have most familiar communion with Christ), "and there thou wouldst instruct me" (so some read it), as brethren inform their sisters of what they desire to be instructed in. Those that know Christ shall be taught of him and therefore we should desire communion with Christ that we may receive instruction from him. He has come that he might give us an understanding. Or, "My mother would instruct me when I have thee with me." It is the presence of Christ in and with his church that makes the word and ordinances instructive to her children, who shall all be taught of God. 4. She promises him to bid him welcome to the best she had she would cause him to drink of her spiced wine and the juice of her pomegranate, and bid him welcome to it, wishing it better for his sake. The exercise of grace and the performance of duty are spiced wine to the Lord Jesus, very acceptable to him, as expressive of a grateful sense of his favours. Those that are pleased with Christ must study to be pleasing to him and they will not find him hard to be pleased. He reckons hearty welcome his best entertainment and, if he have that, he will bring his entertainment along with him. 5. She doubts not but to experience his tender care of her and affection to her (Song of Song of Solomon 8:3), that she should be supported by his power and kept from fainting in the hardest services and sufferings (His left hand shall be under my head) and that she should be comforted with his love--His right hand should embrace me. Thus Christ laid his right hand upon John when he was ready to die away, Revelation 1:17. See also Daniel 10:10,18. It may be read as it is Song of Song of Solomon 2:6, His left hand is under my head (for the words are the same in the original) and so it expresses an immediate answer to her prayer she was answered with strength in her soul, Psalm 138:3. While we are following hard after Christ his right hand sustains us, Psalm 63:8. Underneath are the everlasting arms. 6. She charges those about her to take heed of doing any thing to interrupt the pleasing communion she now had with her beloved (Song of Song of Solomon 8:4), as she had done before, when he thus strengthened and comforted her with his presence (Song of Song of Solomon 2:7): Let me charge you, O you daughters of Jerusalem, and reason with you, Why should you stir up, and why should you awake, my love, until he will? The church, our common mother, charges all her children that they never do any thing to provoke Christ to withdraw, which we are very prone to do. Why should you put such an affront upon him? Why should you be such enemies to yourselves? We should thus reason with ourselves when we are tempted to do that which will grieve the Spirit. "What! Am I weary of Christ's presence, that I affront him and provoke him to depart from me? Why should I do that which he will take so unkindly and which I shall certainly repent of?"
Verses 5-7
The Church's Dependence on Christ The Love of the Church to Christ.
II. She addresses herself to her beloved.
1. She puts him in mind of the former experience which she and others had had of comfort and success in applying to him. (1.) For her own part: "I raised thee up under the apple tree, that is, I have many a time wrestled with thee by prayer and have prevailed. When I was alone in the acts of devotion, retired in the orchard, under the apple-tree" (which Christ himself was compared to, Song of Song of Solomon 2:3), as Nathanael under the fig-tree (John 1:48), "meditating and praying, then I raised thee up, to help me and comfort me," as the disciples raised him up in the storm, saying, Master, carest thou not that we perish? (Mark 4:38), and the church (Psalm 44:23), Awake, why sleepest thou? Note, The experience we have had of Christ's readiness to yield to the importunities of our faith and prayer should encourage us to continue instant in our addresses to him, to strive more earnestly, and not to faint. I sought the Lord, and he heard me, Psalm 34:4. (2.) Others also had like experience of comfort in Christ, as it follows there (Psalm 34:5), They looked unto him, as well as I, and were lightened. There thy mother brought thee forth, the universal church, or believing souls, in whom Christ was formed, Galatians 4:15. They were in pain for the comfort of an interest in thee, and travailed in pain with great sorrow (so the word here signifies) but they brought thee forth the pangs did not continue always those that had travailed in convictions at last brought forth in consolations, and the pain was forgotten for joy of the Saviour's birth. By this very similitude our Saviour illustrates the joy which his disciples would have in his return to them, after a mournful separation for a time, John 16:21,22. After the bitter pangs of repentance many a one has had the blessed birth of comfort why then may not I?
2. She begs of him that her union with him might be confirmed, and her communion with him continued and made more intimate (Song of Song of Solomon 8:6): Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm. (1.) "Let me have a place in thy heart, an interest in thy love." This is that which all those desire above any thing that know how much their happiness is bound up in the love of Christ. (2.) "Let me never lose the room I have in thy heart let thy love to me be ensured, as that deed which is sealed up not to be robbed. Let nothing ever prevail either to separate me from thy love, or, by suspending the communications of it, to deprive me of the comfortable sense of it." (3.) "Let me be always near and dear to thee, as the signet on thy right hand, not to be parted with (Jeremiah 22:24), engraven upon the palms of thy hands (Isaiah 49:14), be loved with a peculiar love." (4.) "Be thou my high priest let my name be written on thy breast-plate, nearer thy heart, as the names of all the tribes were engraven like the engravings of a signet in twelve precious stones on the breast-plate of Aaron, and also on two precious stones on the two shoulders or arms of the ephod," Exodus 28:11,12,21. (5.) "Let thy power be engaged for me, as an evidence of thy love to me let me be not only a seal upon thy heart, but a seal upon thy arm let me be ever borne up in thy arms, and know it to my comfort." Some make these to be the words of Christ to his spouse, commanding her to be ever mindful of him and of his love to her however, if we desire and expect that Christ should set us as a seal on his heart, surely we cannot do less than set him as a seal on ours.
(2.) Love is a valiant victorious passion. Holy love is so the reigning love of God in the soul is constant and firm, and will not be drawn off from him either by fair means or foul, by life or death, Romans 8:38. [1.] Death, and all its terrors, will not frighten a believer from loving Christ: Many waters, though they will quench fire, cannot quench this love, no, nor the floods drown it, Song of Song of Solomon 8:7. The noise of these waters will strike no terror upon it let them do their worst, Christ shall still be the best beloved. The overflowing of these waters will strike no damp upon it, but it will enable a man to rejoice in tribulation. Though he slay me, I will love him and trust in him. No waters could quench Christ's love to us, nor any floods drown it he waded through the greatest difficulties, even seas of blood. Love sat king upon the floods let nothing then abate our love to him. [2.] Life, and all its comforts, will not entice a believer from loving Christ: If a man could hire him with all the substance of his house, to take his love off from Christ and set it upon the world and the flesh again, he would reject the proposal with the utmost disdain as Christ, when the kingdoms of this world and the glory of them were offered him, to buy him off from his undertaking, said, Get thee hence, Satan. It would utterly be contemned. Offer those things to those that know no better. Love will enable us to repel and triumph over temptations from the smiles of the world, as much as from its frowns. Some give this sense of it: If a man would give all the substance of his house to Christ, as an equivalent instead of love, to excuse it, it would be contemned. He seeks not ours, but us, the heart, not the wealth. If I give all my goods to feed the poor, and have not love, it is nothing, 1 Corinthians 13:1. Thus believers stand affected to Christ: the gifts of his providence cannot satisfy them without the assurances of his love.
Verses 8-12
Concern for the Gentiles Privileges and Duties of the Church.
1. The spouse proposes her case with a compassionate concern (Song of Song of Solomon 8:8): We have a little sister and she has no breasts (she has not grown up to maturity) what shall we do for this little sister of ours in the day that she shall be spoken for, so as that we may do well for her? (1.) This may be understood as spoken by the Jewish church concerning the Gentile world. God has espoused the church of the Jews to himself, and she was richly endowed, but what shall become of the poor Gentiles, the barren that has not borne, and the desolate? Isaiah 54:1. Their condition (say the pious Jews) is very deplorable and forlorn they are sisters, children of the same fathers, God and Adam, but they are little, because not dignified with the knowledge of God they have no breasts, no divine revelation, no scriptures, no ministers, no breasts of consolation drawn out to them, when they might suck, being strangers to the covenants of promise, no breasts of instruction themselves to draw out to their children, to nourish them, 1 Peter 2:2. What shall we do for them? We can but pity them, and pray for them. Lord, what wilt thou do for them? The saints, in Solomon's time, might know, from David's psalms, that God had mercy in store for them, and they begged it might be hastened to them. Now the tables are turned the Gentiles are betrothed to Christ, and ought to return the kindness by an equal concern for the bringing in of the Jews again, our eldest sister, that once had breasts, but now has none. If we take it in this sense, the unbelieving posterity of these pious Jews contradicted this prayer of their fathers for, when the day came that the Gentiles should be spoken for and courted to Christ, instead of considering what to do for them they plotted to do all they could against them, which filled up the measure of their iniquity, 1 Thessalonians 2:16. Or, (2.) It may be applied to any other that belong to the election of grace, but are yet uncalled. They are remotely related to Christ and his church, and sisters to them both, other sheep that are not of this fold, John 10:16; Acts 18:10. They have no breasts, none yet fashioned (Ezekiel 16:7), no affection to Christ, no principle of grace. The day will come when they shall be spoken for, when the chosen shall be called, shall be courted for Christ, by the ministers, the friends of the bridegroom. A blessed day it will be, a day of visitation. What shall we do, in that day, to promote the match, to conquer their coyness, and persuade them to consent to Christ and present themselves chaste virgins to him? Note, Those that through grace are brought to Christ themselves should contrive what they may do to help others to him, to carry on the great design of his gospel, which is to espouse souls to Christ and convert sinners to him from whom they have departed.
2. Christ soon determines what to do in this case, and his spouse agrees with him in it (Song of Song of Solomon 8:9): "If she be a wall, if the good work be once begun with the Gentiles, with the souls that are to be called in, if the little sister, when she shall be spoken for by the gospel, will but receive the word, and build herself upon Christ the foundation, and frame her doings to turn to the Lord, as the wall is in order to the house, we will build upon her a palace of silver, or build her up into such a palace we will carry on the good work that is begun, till the wall become a palace, the wall of stone a palace of silver," which goes beyond the boast of Augustus Cæ sar, that what he found brick he left marble. This little sister, when once she is joined to the Lord, shall be made to grow into a holy temple, a habitation of God through the Spirit, Ephesians 2:21,22. If she be a door, when this palace comes to be finished, and the doors of this wall set up, which was the last thing done (Nehemiah 7:1), then we will enclose here with boards of cedar we will carefully and effectually protect her, that she shall receive no damage. We will do it Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, all concur in contriving, carrying on, and crowning, the blessed work when the time comes. Whatever is wanting shall be set in order, and the work of faith shall be fulfilled with power. Though the beginnings of grace be small, the latter end shall greatly increase. The church is in care concerning those that are yet uncalled. "Let me alone," says Christ "I will do all that which is necessary to be done for them. Trust me with it."
II. They are here consulting about a vineyard they had in the country, the church of Christ on earth considered under the notion of a vineyard (Song of Song of Solomon 8:11,12): Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon, had a kingdom in the possession of a multitude, a numerous people. As he was a type of Christ, so his vineyard was a type of the church of Christ. Our Saviour has given us a key to these verses in the parable of the vineyard let out to the unthankful husbandmen, Matthew 21:33. The bargain was that, every one of the tenants having so much of the vineyard assigned him as would contain 1000 vines, he was to pay the annual rent of 1000 pieces of silver for we read (Isaiah 7:23) that in a fruitful soil there were 1000 vines at 1000 silverlings. Observe, 1. Christ's church is his vineyard, a pleasant and peculiar place, privileged with many honours he delights to walk in it, as a man in his vineyard, and is pleased with its fruits. 2. He has entrusted each of us with his vineyard, as keepers of it. The privileges of the church are that good thing which he has committed to us, to be kept as a sacred trust. The service of the church is to be our business, according as our capacity is. Son, go work to-day in my vineyard. Adam, in innocency, was to dress the garden, and to keep it. 3. He expects rent from those that are employed in his vineyard and entrusted with it. He comes, seeking fruit, and requires gospel-duty of all those that enjoy gospel-privileges. Every one, of what rank or degree soever, must bring glory and honour to Christ, and do some service to the interest of his kingdom in the world, in consideration of what benefit and advantage they enjoy by their share of the privileges of the vineyard. 4. Though Christ has let out his vineyard to keepers, yet still it is his, and he has his eye always upon it for good for, if he did not watch over it night and day (Isaiah 27:1,2), the watchmen, to whom he has let it out, would keep it but in vain, Psalm 127:1. Some take these for Christ's words (Song of Song of Solomon 8:12): My vineyard, which is mine, is before me and they observe how he dwells upon his property in it: It is my vineyard, which is mine so dear is his church to him, it is his own in the world (John 13:1), and therefore he will always have it under his protection it is his own, and he will look after it. 5. The church, that enjoys the privileges of the vineyard, must have them always before her. The keeping of the vineyard requires constant care and diligence. They are rather the words of the spouse: My vineyard, which is mine, is before me. She has lamented her fault and folly in not keeping her own vineyard (Song of Song of Solomon 1:6), but now she resolves to reform. Our hearts are our vineyards, which we must keep with all diligence and therefore we must have a watchful jealous eye upon them at all times. 6. Our great care must be to pay our rent for what we hold of Christ's vineyard, and to see that we do not go behind-hand, nor disappoint the messengers he sends to receive the fruits (Matthew 21:34): Thou, O Solomon! must have 1000, and shalt have. The main of the profits belong to Christ to him and his praise all our fruits must be dedicated. 7. If we be careful to give Christ the praise of our church-privileges, we may then take to ourselves the comfort and benefit of them. If the owner of the vineyard have had his due, the keepers of it shall be well paid for their cares and pains they shall have 200, which sum, no doubt, was looked upon as a good profit. Those that work for Christ are working for themselves, and shall be unspeakable gainers by it.
Verse 13-14
Mutual Love of Christ and the Church Expectation of the Glory to Be Revealed.
Christ and his spouse are here parting for a while she must stay below in the gardens on earth, where she has work to do for him he must remove to the mountains of spices in heaven, where he has business to attend for her, as an advocate with the Father. Now observe with what mutual endearments they part.
I. He desires to hear often from her. She is ready at her pen she must be sure to write to him she knows how to direct (Song of Song of Solomon 8:13): "Thou that, for the present, dwellest in the gardens, dressing and keeping them till thou remove from the garden below to the paradise above--thou, O believer! whoever thou art, that dwellest in the gardens of solemn ordinances, in the gardens of church-fellowship and communion, the companions are so happy as to hear thy voice, cause me to hear it too." Observe, 1. Christ's friends should keep a good correspondence one with another, and, as dear companions, speak often to one another (Malachi 3:16) and hearken to one another's voice they should edify, encourage, and respect one another. They are companions in the kingdom and patience of Christ, and therefore, as fellow-travellers, should keep up mutual freedom, and not be shy of, nor strange to, one another. The communion of saints is an article of our covenant, as well as an article of our creed, to exhort one another daily, and be glad to be exhorted by another. Hearken to the voice of the church, as far as it agrees with the voice of Christ his companions will do so. 2. In the midst of our communion with one another we must not neglect our communion with Christ, but let him see our countenance and hear our voice he here bespeaks it: "The companions hearken to thy voice it is a pleasure to them cause me to hear it. Thou makest thy complaints to them when any thing grieves thee why does thou not bring them to me, and let me hear them? Thou art free with them be as free with me pour out thy heart to me." Thus Christ, when he left his disciples, ordered them to send to him upon every occasion. Ask, and you shall receive. Note, Christ not only accepts and answers, but even courts his people's prayers, not reckoning them a trouble to him, but an honour and a delight, Proverbs 15:8. We cause him to hear our prayers when we not only pray, but wrestle and strive in prayer. He loves to be pressingly importuned, which is not the manner of men. Some read it, "Cause me to be heard thou hast often an opportunity of speaking to thy companions, and they hearken to what thou sayest speak of me to them let my name be heard among them let me be the subject of thy discourse." "One word of Christ" (as archbishop Usher used to say) "before you part." No subject is more becoming, or should be more pleasing.
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All The Experimental And Phenomenological Evidence Validating Relativity, From The Michelson-morley Experiment To E=mc², Accounted For Based On Newtonian Physics, Actinemas And The Ubiquitous Occurrence Of Black Holes
October 3, 2011
Summary: This is the third letter in the series of four hypothetical letters Newton would have written to Einstein if they had met and discussed relativity on a previous occasion. In this letter, “Newton” will account for all the evidence that confirms the validity of relativity from the Michelson-Morley Experiment to e=mc² based on Newtonian Physics, black holes and white holes, and the constancy of the velocity of time. In his first letter, “Newton” unified relativity with Newtonian physics using the velocity of time as the unifying commonality. In his second letter, “Newton” accounted for black holes, white holes and wormholes of astronomy based on Newtonian Physics, the experiences of everyday life and the constancy of the velocity of time. In this letter, “Newton” will account for all remaining phenomena considered as evidence of the validity of relativity, based on the Newtonian physics explanation for black holes and white holes and the fact that they are ubiquitous in their occurrence.
Dear Professor Einstein;
In my last letter, I accounted for white holes, black holes and wormholes based on Newtonian Physics and the experiences of everyday life. In that letter, I agreed with Trivikram’s contention that white holes are images of stars dissociated from their sources and “Dopplerized” and enlarged due to blurring, and that black holes are Dopplerized images of dark bodies of stars, dissociated from their images and rendered visible by background illumination provided by white holes of more distant stars. We did what we did in the last letter by taking the first six steps ofACTINEMAS. In this letter, we shall account for all the evidence that supports the validity of special relativity, from the null result of the Michelson-Morley Experiment to e=mc², based on Newtonian Physics, black holes and white holes, by taking the remaining four steps of ACTINEMAS beginning with Step No. 7.
Step No. 7: The seventh step of ACTINEMAS requires us to look at relativity with our minds’ eyes. We must do this by asking and answering the question; “What would we see, if we could see everything that was going on in the phenomena that confirm the validity of relativity that we cannot see at present?”
We shall begin to do this by “looking” at the Michelson-Morley Experiment, its null result and the atomic clock and the “loss of time” by such clocks in motion at high velocities, with our minds’ eyes. These two experiments provide the most conclusive experimental evidence for the Lorentz contraction/transformation and time dilation, two of the fundamental postulates of the theory of relativity. This will also reveal how we could do the same for the rest of relativity.
Towards this end, we must recognize a fundamental difference between instruments that use beams of light as monitoring agents such as interferometers and Atomic clocks, and instruments that do not use beams of light as monitoring agents such as rulers and Swiss movement watches. In the latter, all the components of the instrument including all moving parts remain anchored to the base of the instrument or to one another at least at one point, all the time. This insures that all components of the instrument move as a whole when the instrument moves. In the former, the monitoring components, the beams of light, are free floating. There is no fixation of any kind between them and the base of the instrument and/or its frame. As a result, when such an instrument moves, the solid components move with the base leaving the beams of light behind. This results in a physical disruption of the instrument, a separation or “dissociation” between the “hardware” of the instrument, its solid components, and its “software,” its monitoring components, the beams of light. This phenomenon is identical to the dissociation of the dark bodies of stars from their white holes. Such “dissociation,” transforms the beams of light and the interference fringes in instruments like the Michelson interferometer in the Michelson Morley Experiment, into free-floating “white holes.” The hardware of the interferometer becomes a moving mass of “dark matter.” Since the velocity of the interferometer is small, compared to the velocity of light, the displacement of the body of the interferometer relative to its white hole will be small. Most of the body of the interferometer will continue to share space with its white hole as a relatively large wormhole and deceive the unsuspecting observer into believing that the instrument is still intact and functional. However, the ends of the interferometer pointing in the direction of motion, where the reflecting mirrors are, will “protrude” beyond the white hole into what is functionally an observational black hole and these ends will escape monitoring by the white hole. Any displacements of the reflecting mirrors caused by the motion of the earth and the turning of the instrument will go undetected as they occur within the observational black hole of the moving interferometer.
The set of fringes that the observer sees is 2d/c sec old where d is the length of each limb of the interferometer and c is the velocity of light. These fringes tell the observer what went on 2d/c sec ago in the past, the way things were before the interferometer started moving with the earth’s motion and before the experimenters started turning the instrument, not what is going to happen to the interferometer and its fringes after it has turned which is what the experimenters wanted to know. Mathematically, this is equivalent to the duration 2d/c being fixed as a constant secondarily by the primary constancy of the velocity of time. One could hypothetically accomplish the same end mathematically by considering the velocity of light to be constant, as you did, but then one will have to resort to creatively inventing phenomena as you did when you creatively invented the concepts such as the Lorentz contraction and dilation of time, phenomena for which there are no mechanical explanations. If we consider the velocity of time as the primary constant, we will not have to make any assumptions or creatively invent any concepts except to say that Michelson and Morley should never have expected to see a fringe displacement from their experiment in the first place. If the Michelson interferometer were to be travelling at a very high velocity, it would fly away from its white hole like the supersonic plane that flies away from its sound and what we have just said would become obvious.
Likewise, the loss of time by the atomic clock in motion occurs because motion of the clock causes its “software” the monitoring beam of light, to dissociate from its hardware, the gas chamber containing the vibrating particles of cesium or ammonia. This makes the monitoring beam of light a white hole, and the chamber and its particles of gas, a body of dark matter. The white hole will continue to monitor the part of the black body of the chamber that continues to share space with it but the white hole will not be able to monitor the part of the chamber projecting beyond the white hole in the direction of motion into the observational black hole. It would be as though the chamber had contracted by an amount given by the Lorentz transformation. At the other end of the clock, the white hole will project beyond the confines of the chamber where it will have nothing to monitor, making the white hole act as though it had “dilated.” The monitoring beam of light will interpret these changes to mean that a contraction in the length of the chamber had occurred along with, a reduction in the number of monitored particles. The displacement of the white hole relative to each particle will seem to the monitoring white hole, to be a relative increase in the measured amplitude of the particles and a relative decrease in the frequency of their vibration. The net result of all these changes is that the atomic clock will loose time by the amount correctly predicted by your mathematics.
Hypothetically, if we could make a Swiss movement clock that could measure nanoseconds, it will not loose time no matter how fast it travelled. Likewise, the biological clock of people moving at high velocities, will not loose time and there is no biological reason to assume that their owners will age more slowly with motion as predicted by the mathematics of relativity.
In the Fizeau experiment, the moment the Fizeau made the water flow, he caused a dissociation of his refractometer into its three basic components, a monitoring white hole, a dark body monitored by it, and a black hole into which a part of the dark body of the refractometer protruded. This immediately compromised the ability of the white hole to monitor the part of the dark body that was in the observational black hole thereby reducing the observed fringe displacement by the amount accurately assessed by your mathematical estimation.
The red shift of spectral lines of elements seen in spectra of light from distant stars occurs because light from these stars is pre-Dopplerized, as the Doppler Effect has already altered it and white holes are essentially blurred composite images of stars spread out in the direction of relative motion between the earth and the star. This “Dopplerization” will result in an apparent increase in the amplitude of the vibrations of particles of elements and a corresponding decrease in their frequencies similar to what happens in an atomic clock. Dopplerization of the source of a spectrum will therefore manifest itself as a red shift of its spectral lines.
Step 8: The eighth step of ACTINEMAS requires us to listen to relativity using our mind’s ears. You have already done this using mathematics to listen to what you could not hear with your ears and discovered the relativistic Doppler Effect confirming the fact that relativity is a manifestation of the Doppler Effect as it affects perception of light from distant sources and when there is relative motion between sources, observers and monitors.
Step 9: The ninth step of ACTINEMAS requires us to feel relativity with our minds. We have to do this by asking and answering the question; “What would the things we see, feel like if we were able to feel them? To meet the requirements of this step, we must “feel” white holes, dark matter and black holes with our minds. We have already done this in our last letter when we “felt” white holes, dark matter, and black holes with our minds assisted by using gravity by recognizing the fact that gravity can act like a long stick and function as an extension of our fingers.
To complete the process of feeling relativity with the fingers of our minds, we must “feel” one more entity and that is “a beam of light.” That brings me to the one question of ACTINEMAS that you did not ask and answer that you should have asked and answered. Asking and answering that question is the next thing we must do at this point in the evolution of relativity. I shall deal with that question and its answer in my next letter. In this letter, I shall complete the process of accounting for the remaining phenomena that confirm the validity of relativity based on Newtonian Physics and the ubiquitous occurrence of black holes and white holes.
The Advancement of the Perihelion of Mercury: The observed advancement of the perihelion of Mercury in its orbit is due to fact that the “dark body” of Mercury is always ahead of its white hole. This becomes obvious with the use a more reliable method of detecting the exact location of the dark body of the planet. Such methods consist of using a tactile method involving direct contact via a probing satellite, or by detection of gravity. These methods tell us where the dark body of Mercury is, as opposed to visual methods that tell us where its white hole is located.
The ‘increase in the mass” of particles with motion: The increase in the mass of particles in motion at high velocities observed in linear accelerators is a manifestation of the fact that white holes of the particles in motion will always seem to be larger than the tangible sizes of the particles themselves because of “Dopplerization.” The increase in weight is what this apparent increase in size will apparently feel like.
The visualization of stars behind the sun during solar eclipse occurs because the “Dopplerization” of the white hole of the sun makes it larger than its dark matter and causes it to eclipse the stars behind it. During the solar eclipse, when the white hole disappears, the stars behind it become visible.
The apparent increase in the lifetime of muons in motion could be a manifestation of the fact that the dark bodies of muons are always ahead of where their white holes seem to be. As a result, a muon count using an electromagnetic method of counting white holes from a distance will give a lower count than that given by tangible method of counting their dark bodies, the latter being more reliable and giving a more accurate count that will be larger count than the former. The recent detection of neutrinos travelling at velocities greater than that of light may offer another explanation for this phenomenon. If it is possible for neutrinos to travel faster than light, there is no reason why muons cannot do the same and if muons can travel faster than light, it will explain why more muons make it to the earth in their short lifetimes.
E=mc² represents the maximized Dopplerization of heat and light emitted by subatomic particles travelling at velocities approaching the velocity of light. It is to light and electromagnetic transmission of energy, what the sonic boom is to sound transmission and the sonic boom of the supersonic plane. It is a Dopplerized manifestation of a “photo-thermal flash.”
Step 10: At this point, to take the tenth step of ACTINEMAS requires us to unify all the information we have obtained by taking the last nine steps using one or more commonalities shared by all of them. Those constants are the constant invariant inertial velocity of time or the velocity of time, and the laws of physics and biology. These commonalities are common to everything in existence from relativity to Newtonian Physics and the experiences of everyday life and biology. The velocity of time makes all other constants of Newtonian Physics and relativity constant secondary to it. The constant invariant velocity of time makes the velocity of light (and sound) constant in situations where light (and sound) signals transmit information between inertial frames. It works by fixing as a constant the duration required for signals travelling with inertial velocities between inertial frames of reference and thereby causes disassociation of signals from their sources followed by their “Dopplerization” when the sources of the signals move with their own inertial velocities. This in turn, is responsible for the development of observational white holes, black holes and wormholes when objects that emit light travel at high velocities and/or are at located at great distances from the observer. As all these events occur, they do so in accordance with the laws of physics and biology, laws that are the same everywhere and for everything. Since we have accounted for all of relativity based on these commonalities, we must consider relativity unified with the rest of human knowledge and experience.
That concludes my unification of Relativity with Newtonian Physics and everything else in life.
I shall tell you where I think we must go from here and my thoughts concerning the ninth step of ACTINEMAS in my next letter.
I am in the hypotheses of science and life,
Yours sincerely
“Isaac Newton.”
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1. I often find that I see a problem and I know exactly how it might be fixed, the technology exists, etc etc. But its expensive… lately I’ve been looking at a lot of problems in the tracking domain, and how it might be tracked using RFID technology. Problem is, for the really cool stuff you need active RFID, and that is still too expensive… Eg, getting in a long queue at the supermarket sucks. Wouldn’t it be nice to just push the trolley through a scanner? It can be done, the technology exists. But it needs active RFID with batteries on the tag, and the cheap ones are over R100 a piece…
I find that a little frustrating, because it means you have to wait for either new technology or for prices to come down.
1. Hmm.. I wonder about privacy. UK supermarkets already know more about citizens than their government. It’s the “If I knew how much fat you ate would I give you health insurance?” question.
2. On the insurance note. I’ve often wondered what would happen if a car insurance company offered a package that came with a logging GPS tracker and accelerometer and then basically said “You can pay a lower premium if we can track your position, speed and acceleration… and if we can prove you were breaking the law when you had your accident we simply won’t pay out.”
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People affected by thalidomide can still apply for support from the Contergan Foundation which was set up in 1972 and, to date, has paid around 1.4 billion Euros to those affected. Access to payments from the Contergan Foundation is not restricted to those affected who live in Germany or to German nationals. Individuals from all other countries where Grünenthal directly marketed its thalidomide products - or where those products were marketed through a Grünenthal distributor - are also eligible to apply for payments from the Contergan Foundation. At present, beneficiaries from the Contergan Foundation live in 38 different countries. This, for example, includes persons in Spain and Ireland.
The financial support for those recognised as thalidomide-affected people by the Contergan Foundation has recently been increased by the German Federal Government to life-long pension payments with a highest rate of 8,117 euros monthly for some individuals and additionally annual payments between more than 6,000 Euros to more than 17,000 Euros.
Affected individuals in countries where licensees of Grünenthal tested and marketed thalidomide-containing products (for example in the UK) do not receive any payments from the Contergan Foundation. However, separate financial support systems, which provide similar payments, exist in these countries.
In countries where other companies marketed generic products without a license from Grünenthal (for example in Spain and Italy), those affected are supported by their respective governments.
In 2012, Grünenthal founded the Grünenthal Foundation to support people affected by thalidomide. The objective of the Foundation is to advance and develop projects that go beyond the financial support of the Contergan Foundation. The Grünenthal Foundation provides only benefits in kind. Access to support is not limited to German citizens. The Grünenthal Foundation provides services for all people affected by thalidomide, who are already recognized by the Contergan Foundation or similar institutes that use the same assessment criteria. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/49896 | Bryan Woolston / Reuters
Donald Trump’s big victories in the Mid-Atlantic primaries don’t represent quite the end of the ballgame—but they come damn close.
And now Donald Trump’s many and fierce opponents in the Republican Party and the conservative movement face the hour of decision. Trump looks ever more certain to be the party nominee. Yet not perhaps since George McGovern in 1972 has a presumptive nominee so signally failed to carry the most committed members of his party with him.
So what happens now to those who regard themselves as party thought-leaders? Do they submit? Or do they continue to resist?
Resistance now means something more—and more dangerous—than tapping out #NeverTrump on Twitter. It means working to defeat Trump even knowing that the almost certain beneficiary will be Hillary Clinton.
Oh, a certain kind of pundit may speculate that an Independent candidacy will electrify the country, winning enough of the vote to throw the election into the House of Representatives. There, the Republican majority could—in some apocalyptic remake of Bush v. Gore—defy the popular vote and bestow the presidency this time on the third-place finisher. But this is fantasy, not politics. Theodore Roosevelt was the most successful vote-getter between the Civil War and World War I. Even he could not cast the 1912 election into the House, and if he cannot, some retired Marine general non-uniformed Americans have never heard of will surely not be able to. And if, against all odds, the scenario did unfold, the so-called winner would have no legitimacy.
What can more credibly be imagined, however, is an Independent candidacy that peels away 7-8 percent of the vote from a Trump-led GOP ticket, as John Anderson peeled votes away from Jimmy Carter in 1980, aiding Ronald Reagan.
Independent candidacies like Anderson’s allow political partisans to accept an outcome they cannot endorse. It’s the same thought process President Lincoln described in a favorite joke. A temperance preacher doing his rounds of the hot and dusty roads of Illinois stopped at the house of a more broadminded friend. The preacher asked for a glass of lemonade. The friend offered to put a shot of something stronger into the drink. The preacher refused on principle, but added: “If you could manage to put a drop in unbeknownst to me, I guess it wouldn’t hurt too much.” Lincoln told that joke to Generals Grant and Sherman in March 1865. When they asked whether they should try to catch Jefferson Davis when he fled Richmond. Lincoln added: “I’m bound to oppose the escape of Jeff Davis, but if you could let him slip away unbeknownst to me, I guess it wouldn’t hurt too much.” Some anti-Trump conservatives will feel bound to oppose the election of Hillary Clinton—but they guess it wouldn’t hurt too much compared to the Trump alternative.
So: If an Independent candidacy, what kind?
To date, talk of third-party candidates has been the sport of TV green rooms and conferences in pleasant locations. The old-line parties are too extreme, the complaint goes, and what’s needed is an Independent candidate to bust the corrupt duopoly, disrupt outdated ideologies, and at last represent the great American center. The people who advance this notion imagine the great American as looking very much like themselves: socially liberal, at ease with globalization, committed to sensible moderate problem-solving ideas like reducing entitlements, liberalizing immigration, keeping guns out of the wrong hands, and campaign-finance reforms. These are the people who talk about a Michael Bloomberg candidacy, as before that they talked about a Colin Powell candidacy.
The trouble is: 2016 was the year that the great American center actually did rise up against the extremism of the corrupt two-party duopoly and actually did disrupt outdated ideologies. A secular businessman who backed both parties, who denounced big money in politics, who promised to do deals and bring back jobs—isn’t that what you had in mind? No? And if, like J. Alfred Prufrock, you murmur, “That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all” then it’s time to reckon with the fact that the great American center wasn’t what you imagined it was at all either.
The people who like Michael Bloomberg are the least underrepresented people in American life. They don’t always get their way—who does?—but it’s not for lack of candidates eager to take their money and voice their views. Hillary Clinton is almost as perfect a candidate as the Davos consensus could wish, and to the extent she deviates from that consensus—favoring somewhat higher taxes, expressing rather more skepticism about the benignity of large financial institutions—it can be pardoned as a necessary concession to political reality.
Donald Trump spoke to genuinely underrepresented people. Concerned that the GOP was captured by theocratic Southerners? Where Republicans are most secular and supposedly most moderate—the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic—Trump has done best. By all indications, he’ll do crushingly well in California, too. It’s where Republicans are least moderate that he was most resisted: Texas, Utah, and wherever party activists gather in caucuses and conventions. That’s where an Independent candidacy would be most effectively aimed.
To what end? Those conservatives who like Trump least presumably dislike Hillary Clinton most. Now that he’s the presumptive nominee, why won’t they line up behind him? The larger part of their most trusted sources of information, talk radio and Fox News, are already cheerleading for him. Those who still balk will likely follow eventually: After all, the real enemy is “the Left” ... and Hillary Clinton leads “the Left,” as everyone knows.
Yet here’s something that traditional ideological conservatives will want to consider: Trump rose by shoving them aside. Trump’s rise exposed the weakness of social conservatives in particular. For a third of a century, social conservatives imposed a pro-life litmus test on Republican nominees for both presidency and vice presidency. They pulled the party into confrontations over sexuality and religion that many Republican elected leaders would have preferred to avoid. And then, abruptly, poof: The social conservative veto has vanished. New York values have prevailed, with a mighty assist from Jerry Falwell Jr. and other evangelical leaders. It seems unlikely the religious right will return in anything like its awesome previous form. A visibly conscientious objector to the culture wars easily defeated candidates who elevated the defunding of Planned Parenthood to the top of their agenda. That lesson, once demonstrated, won’t soon be forgotten.
Trump’s almost certain failure in November will likewise drag after him other conservative causes, notably immigration restriction. Republican elites will be quick to blame a Trump loss on his immigration message. The way would then be cleared for a President Clinton and Speaker Ryan to do the immigration deal that congressional leaders wanted to do with President Obama in 2013. And if, by some freak chance, Donald Trump were to win the presidency, immigration restrictionists would discover—as so many have discovered before them—how little a Donald Trump commitment is worth.
The big internal conservative struggle of 2017 will be the fight to write the narrative of how Trump emerged and why he lost. Anti-Trump conservatives will want to say that Trump lost because he wasn’t a “true conservative.” But 2016 to date is proposing that “true conservatives” constitute only a pitiful minority of the Republican Party, never mind the country as a whole. Why should any practical politician care about them ever again? To regain respect after their humiliation by Trump and the pro-Trump talkers on radio and TV, those who regard themselves as “true conservatives” will have to mount a show of force. “Maybe we can’t win on our own … but you can’t win without us.” And that means contributing—and being seen to contribute—to a Trump defeat.
Many of America’s leading conservative writers, thinkers, political thinkers feel alienated, confused, and betrayed by the rise of Donald Trump. They feel cast out of a familiar political home—rejected by longtime allies. Friendships that once seemed stronger than politics have frayed or broken. They eloquently speak and publish their dismay, anguish, and sense of loss. Here is Pete Wehner, a veteran of three Republican administrations, in the New York Times:
I sympathize. I found myself in a similar place a half-dozen years ago. In my case, it was the Tea Party of 2009-2010 that I couldn’t accept. People I had known, trusted, and admired for years lurched toward a dangerous and self-defeating radicalism. When I could not follow the lurch, I would lose a job and friends and find myself consigned to a strange unmentionable unpersonhood by people with whom I’d worked for two decades. I know well the price of the policy I’m recommending. And I also know that—despite the American faith in happy endings—the rewards of politics don’t usually go to those who do the right thing. They’re more often scooped up by those who arrive on the scene just after the right thing is done. Throughout the 2015-2016 season, I’ve often had the déjà experience of being presented with ideas—and even phrases—that I published half a dozen years ago, as if they were brave and new. As Tom Wolfe wisely said, “It’s no good being even ten minutes ahead of the times.”
Donald Trump has done a lot to change the times. A shrewd friend, active in the Republican donor community, described Trump as the political equivalent of a chemical accelerant, hastening events that were likely to happen anyway. The plutocratic cast of Republican politics since 2009 was unsustainable in a country where the rewards of economic growth seem to bypass so many people. It was predictable, too, that the former ethnic majority would resist further demographic changes that reduced its political power and threatened to redistribute public resources to its detriment. If the former Republican leadership had been more responsive to the needs of its voters and less swayed by the demands of its donors, the party might have changed from within. Now it’s the target of a hostile takeover that will stamp the TRUMP brand as indelibly upon it as it was once stamped upon the cityscape of Atlantic City. That branding ended in ruin for Atlantic City, and the GOP is unlikely to fare better.
The job ahead, post-November, is to build a new kind of conservative politics—a politics with a broader social appeal than the entrepreneur worship of the past few years—that offers less toxic and futile answers than those heard from Donald Trump. Yuval Levin writes eloquently about what this new politics should look like in his important new book, The Fractured Republic.
Rather than decrying the collapse of moral order, we must draw people’s eyes and hearts to the alternative: to the vast and beautiful “yes” for the sake of which an occasional narrow and insistent “no” is required. We can do this with arguments up to a point, but ultimately the case for an alternative that might alleviate the loneliness and brokenness evident in our culture requires attractive examples of that alternative in practice …
The Trump campaign is a product of the moral collapse Levin discerns. It is built on some of the worst elements in American public life. It opens the door of American politics to the same kind of sinister influence from Vladimir Putin’s Russia that is being felt in France, Germany, Italy, and many smaller countries of the European Union. It preys upon the feelings of betrayal and loss—some justified, some not—so widespread in the poorer parts of white America. Trump has come so far because of the failings and self-seeking of Republican leaders, but he offers in their place only more glaring self-seeking and the certainty of even worse failures ahead.
When it all ends as it surely must, the reaction will be intense and bitter. The only hope is to build one of those “attractive alternatives” that Levin prescribes, a new potential leadership structure that can truthfully promise post-Trump Republicans:
“I couldn’t follow him. But I was always with you.”
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/49917 | Many people who are new to Apple’s OSX operating system on the Macintosh get confused about the Dock and how it works. One of the most common questions I hear from newbies is “How do I tell if a program is running?”
OSX is a an incredible operating system, and I would go as far to say vastly superior to anything coming out of Redmond. That includes Windows 7. What I find even more interesting is that Windows 7 has in many ways copied the look and feel of the Mac OSX dock. That being the case, I feel like this question will get asked less in the coming months or years as people learn the Windows 7 interface.
Let’s take a look at the Mac OSX Dock
The picture above is a picture of my OSX Dock (yes, I run Mac exclusively, although I do run Windows XP, Vista, and 7 in a VMware Fusion installation to help me with Windows articles and support). In my Dock (the portion showing in the picture) I have Finder, Screen Sharing, Dashboard, TextWrangler, FireFox, iPhoto, Spaces, Expose, and the System Preferences application “pinned” to my dock.
If you’ve been running Windows XP or Vista, you’re likely familiar with the Windows Taskbar. The Taskbar only shows programs that are open and/or active.
With Macintosh OSX (and Windows 7), what is shown on the Dock (or Taskbar in 7) are nor necessarily running, open and/or in use. The Dock is more of a shortcut bar. A list of applications that could be running. One thing to keep in mind on the Mac though is that if an application is running it will always be on the Dock, with few exceptions. However, it also true that just because a program is on the Dock does not mean it is running.
So how do we tell if a program is running on the Mac?
The answer is a lot simpler than you might think. Let’s look at this picture above again, only let’s focus on three applications “pinned” in the dock. TextWrangler, FireFox, and iPhoto. Do you notice anything different about TextWrangler and FireFox, as opposed to iPhoto? I know what you’re thinking. “Mac makes things easy, why isn’t this glaringly obvious?” Well, its a throwback to previous versions of the Mac OS that kept getting “improved” upon with each new release.
I bet the second you looked at that last picture, a huge lightbulb came on in your mind. “OH I GET IT!” You would be correct. The glowing dot below the applications dock icon is how you tell if a an application is actually open and consuming resources.
How do I close an application in Mac OSX?
Good question! You’ve likely noticed when you click the red dot in the top left corner of an application that it disappears from your screen. You’ve likely also noticed that 90% of the applications you close in this manner still have the little glowing dot below them. You would be correct to assume that clicking the red dot in Mac OSX is not the same as clicking the red X on a Windows application. You are only hiding the running application, not closing it, with few exceptions.
To actually close an application and remove it from memory (and stop if from consuming CPU and other resources) you have two options.
Option 1:
First, make sure the application you want to close is in focus and showing on the menubar at the top of the screen. You can either click COMMAND-Q, or click the name of the application on the finder and select Quit. See the following picture for an example of closing FireFox.
Option 2:
Sometimes, you don’t want to bring an application into focus, you simple want it out of memory without changing your screen layout (or the focus of the running application). To do that, simply right click (or long click if you have “secondary click” disabled in the system preferences), or CTRL-click the icon of the application you want to close, and then simply select quit. See the picture below for an example of this.
I hope I was able to give you a little more insight into the uniqueness of Mac OSX and that you come to love and enjoy using the Mac as much as I do. Feel free to leave questions and comments below! |
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Free Ways to Optimize and Defrag Drives in Windows 10
May 16th, 2019 by Admin
As files are created or deleted over time, your disk will become fragmented, causing your system not to run as efficiently as it used to. To improve the performance of your PC, you have to defrag hard drive on a regular basis. Here are some free ways to optimize and defrag drives in Windows 10.
Method 1: Using the Built-in Optimization Drive tool
In File Explorer, right-click on the drive you want to defrag and select Properties from the context menu. When the Properties window appears, select the Tools tab and then click on Optimize.
A new window will appear with details about your hard disk drives. You can click on the Analyze button to tell you how fragmented the drives are, and then click on the Optimize button to begin the defragmentation.
Method 2: Optimize and Defrag Drives with Command Prompt
Open the Command Prompt as administrator, and then run the following command to optimize and defrag a specific drive in Windows 10:
defrag D: /O
Remember to replace D: with the actual drive you want to defrag. If you need to perform a boot-time defragmentation, try boot into Advanced Boot Options and access Command Prompt. From there you can run the above command to defrag your drives.
Method 3: Optimize and Defrag Drives with PowerShell
Open Windows PowerShell as administrator, and type the following command to analyze your drive. Look at the bottom of the output, it will advise whether or not you need to defrag the drive.
Optimize-Volume -DriveLetter D -Analyze -Verbose
If you decide to defrag a drive, execute this command:
Optimize-Volume -DriveLetter D -Defrag -Verbose
For Solid State Drive, defragging can cause performance issues and even reduce the life of the drive. You should use the trim command to erase unused blocks which are no longer in use:
Optimize-Volume -DriveLetter D -ReTrim -Verbose
There are also many free defragging tools (such as Auslogics Disk Defrag Free, Defraggler) that can make disk defragmentation easier and faster, but I think the built-in defrag tool in Windows 10 should be enough. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50006 | Watch Scorpion Online: Season 4 Episode 5
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Who thought it was a good idea to take Team Scorpion hostage?
That was revealed on Scorpion Season 4 Episode 5 when every single member of the team was put in lockdown at a tech convention.
As the big event unfolded, some of the team questioned whether it was a virtual heist to show off some of the latest developments in technology.
Did anyone manage to figure out the puzzle before it was too late?
Get caught up on all of the action right now!
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Scorpion Season 4 Episode 5 Quotes
Cabe: Now I've got a badge that says intern.
Happy: Now that you mention it, I could use a coffee.
Walter: Yes, she's my girlfriend. We've been intimate.
Paige: Unnecessary detail. |
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John A. Nelson
There's at least one recurring theme in churchgrowth essays, from the letter to the Ephesians up to the column that will almost certainly appear today in a ministry blog: you were welcomed in, so make sure you welcome others.
All My Needs, Already Supplied
Kenneth L. Samuel
Sometimes our best growth is not found in acquiring things we don't have, but becoming better managers and cultivators of what we already possess.
Strange Salon
Quinn G. Caldwell
Not Just for Funerals
Emily C. Heath
That Psalm 23 has been relegated mostly to funerals is a tragedy.
Arguing with God
Anthony B. Robinson
Arguing with God only makes sense if God is real, living, active, up to something in the world, present and intervening—the way God is in the Bible.
Is Nothing Sacred?
Christina Villa
Whatever happened to the sacred? People seem suspicious of it.
A Rock That is Higher Than I
Kenneth L. Samuel
When it comes to the contests of life that really matter, we often find ourselves clinging to the plateaus of our own abilities and accomplishments.
Sunday, Sunday
Molly Baskette
Sunday afternoons are a wasteland. Somehow, there is always not enough energy and too much day left at the end of the day on Sunday afternoons.
You Belong
Donna Schaper
The children of Israel knew very little about blogging or social media or populations exploding and tipping. Not one of them had email or a Facebook account. But they did know what it meant to not belong.
I've Got Your Back
Ron Buford
When we pray and even before we pray, God takes time to know us, intimately. Should we not do the same for others? |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50014 | UCL Public Policy
Policy Dialogues Funding
UCL Public Policy is offering funding for EPSRC projects to organise and deliver 'Policy Dialogues': knowledge transfer activities and events designed to foster engagement between research and policy.
A Policy Dialogue can be a meeting/series of meetings to allow for academics, policy makers, and policy practitioners to come together to discuss current priorities and proposals for future work. These activities are meant to be multidisciplinary, wider than the UCL community, and are not just meant for knowledge transfer but to build communities to share best practice, and built on a current policy need and support by a policy partner.
The application process is straightforward, quick and applications are assessed on a rolling basis, but activities will have to be complete by January 2020. Lead applicants have to be associated with an EPSRC project.
Contact Public Policy Engagement Facilitator for BEAMS, Carina Schneider, for more information.
Funding available: up to £2,000
Funding call: Open call with a rolling deadline.
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César Simón Poetry Award
Premio de poesía César Simón. Abierta la convocatoria de presentación de poemarios
Schedule: From 11 september 2019 to 18 october 2019. Monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday and sunday at 00:00 to 23:59.
Place: Centre Cultural La Nau
Deadline for the submission of poems: 18th October 2019
The Office of the Vice-Principal for Culture and Sport, by means of the Literature Society, calls the 16th edition of the Poetry Awards César Simón. It aims to reward the best book of poems in order to promote the creation of poetry in Spanish and the dissemination of the awarded books in the university environment and the society in general.
Organized by:
Vicerectorat de Cultura i Esport. Aula de Literatura.
Contact: [email protected]
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Out-of-Office replies are dropped due to empty MAIL FROM
Today I had an interesting support call. A customer noticed that Out-of-Office replies were not received by recipients, even though the OoO option were enabled for internal and external recipients. Internal recipients got the OoO reply, but none of the external recipients.
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The Message Tracking Log is a good point to start. I quickly discovered that the Exchange server was unable to send the OoO mails. You can use the eventid FAIL to get a list of all failed messages.
Very interesting was the RecipientStatus of a failed mail.
550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable is a pretty interesting error when sending mails over a mail relay of your ISP. Especially when other mails were successfully sent over the same mail relay.
Next stop: Protcol log of the send connector
I enabled the logging on the send connector using the EAC. This option is disabled by default. Depending on the amount of mails sent over the connector, you should make sure to disable the logging after your troubleshooting session. To enable the logging, follow these steps:
• Open the EAC and navigate to
• Mail flow > Send connectors
• Select the connector you want to configure, and then click Edit
• On the General tab in the Protocol logging level section, select the Verbose option
• When you’re finished, click Save
The protocol log can be found under %ExchangeInstallPath%TransportRoles\Logs\Hub\ProtocolLog\SmtpSend.
After enabling the logging and another test mail, the log contained the necessary details to find the root cause. This is the interesting part of the SMTP communication:
The error occured right after the exchange server issued MAIL FROM:<> . But why is the MAIL FROM empty?
RFC 2298 is the key
An Out-of-Office reply is a Delivery Status Notification message. And RFC 2298 clearly states:
The envelope sender address (i.e., SMTP MAIL FROM) of the MDN MUST be
null (<>), specifying that no Delivery Status Notification messages
or other messages indicating successful or unsuccessful delivery are
to be sent in response to an MDN.
So the empty MAIL FROM is something that a mail relay should expect. In case of my customer that mail relay seems to act different. Maybe some kind of spam protection.
Office 365 – Outlook keeps prompting for password
This is only a short blog post to document a solution for a very annoying problem. After the automatic update of my Outlook to the latest Office 365 build (version 1809), it has started to prompting for credentials. I’m using Outlook to access a Microsoft Exchange 2016 server (on-premises), without any hybrid configuration. A pretty simple and plain Exchange 2016 on-prem deployment.
I knew, that it has to be related to Office 365, because the Outlook 2016 on my PC at the office was not affected. Only the two Office 365 deployments on my ThinkPad T480s and ThinkPad X250.
To make this long story short: ExcludeExplicitO365Endpoint is the key! You have to add a DWORD under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\AutoDiscover.
DWORD: ExcludeExplicitO365Endpoint
Value = 1
Restart your computer and the annoying credentials prompts are gone.
Disable Outlook cached mode for shared mailboxes
When you use Microsoft Outlook in cached mode, what I always recommend, and you add additional mailboxes to your outlook profile, you will notice that the OST file will grow. Outlook will download the mailbox items (mails, calendar entries, contacts etc.), and store them in the OST file. This is the default behaviour since Microsoft Outlook 2010. If you want to disable this behaviour, you have two options:
• Edit the registry
• Use a group policy object (GPO)
Edit the Windows registry
The easiest way is to use a reg file. Copy this text into a file and save it as disablecachedmode.reg. Then double click the file and confirm, that you want to import the registry file.
Please note the version number after “Office”.
Outlook 201616.0
Outlook 201315.0
Outlook 201014.0
Make sure that you use the appropriate version number for your Outlook! Otherwise this setting is applied, but not working.
Group Policy
If you want to apply this setting on a bunch of clients, you should use a GPO. Before you can use a GPO, you have to install the necessary template files for Microsoft Office/ Outlook. These ADMX files are part of the “Office 2013 Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML)” or “Office 2016 Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML)” package.
Copy the Outlk16.admx or Outlk15.admx files to the PolicyDefinitions folder (either C:\Windows or Central Store), and the Outlk16.adml or Outlk15.adml to the corresponding language folder.
Then you can create a new GPO. The desired setting can be found under User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Microsoft Outlook 201x >> Outlook Options >> Delegates >> Disable shared mail folder caching. Set this to “enable” and apply the GPO.
Still using Microsoft Outlook 2010?
Please note, that the GPO template for Microsoft Outlook 2010 doesn’t contain the necessary setting that controls this functionality! |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50081 | Brand purpose has, over time, evolved from being an egalitarian concept that brand custodians would play little attention to, to becoming one of the cornerstones of brand strategy. The pay-offs of integrating purpose into brand strategy have started becoming visible in recent years. However, the jury still appears to be out on what makes for effective, engaging, purpose-driven brands. As brands grapple with choosing what purpose to own and how to do so, it is becoming increasingly apparent that we need to look for ways to "activate" a brand's purpose and make a brand truly meaningful in people's lives. However, it is a tall order and the risks of going awry are high. Gillette's toxic masculinity campaign is the latest in a list of purpose-driven campaigns that are increasingly polarising, and not necessarily paying the intended dividends in profit or affinity.
Through much of our work on brands in the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) countries - Levant, North Africa, Turkey and South East Asia - we have been trying to understand how we can possibly develop a new model for brand purpose. The attempts have centered around leveraging learnings from studies across categories and if and/or how brands' purpose conversations are making a difference to consumers. For the most part, consumers continue to engage with brands that have created some form of emotional connection or the other, over and above clear product and value payoffs. At the same time, there are some brands across regions, which appear to be resonating very strongly. Why is it that some brands get it "right" while some others struggle with getting people to connect with their stated purpose? |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50087 | Lights, camera, kiss.
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Jungkook's POV:
I stood outside the cinema in the chilly air, waiting for Jimin. I put my hands in my pockets as another chilly gust of wind blew past. I shivered, I should have brought a thicker jumper,
I stared at my watch for what felt like the sixth time this minute. 5:47 I was so excited I came 15 minutes earlier. I kept looking around hoping to see a glimpse of the short orange haired boy.
I watched as the minutes ticked away, 5:48, 5:49, 5;50. I looked up from my watch to see Jimin approaching the cinema.
The edges of my mouth curled into a smile as I spotted him, my smile lighting up. "Park Jimin!" I called out. As his eyes met mine he started smiling, he jogged over and pulled me into a hug.
"How long where you waiting out her?" He asks once we pulled away. " since 5:45" I replied. "Aren't you cold?" He asks looking concerned. I nod. He grips my hand tightly engulfing it with warmth, leading me inside. We buy popcorn and some drinks before heading into the cinema.
We find our seats and sit down. Then reality starts setting in. I'm on a date with park Jimin. I look at him, the movie screen illuminating his face in all the right places. He catches me staring and blushes. I look back at the screen but I can concentrate, my hand starts creeping towards Jimin's. I slightly brush it and freeze looking at Jimin for any reaction, his eyes are still at the screen. I gently take his hand in mine intertwining our fingers. He turns to me smiling, looking at the blush settling on my cheeks.
"Your so cute Jungkook." He whispers leaning over to kiss my cheek. I almost melt under the touch, of his lips on my flushed cheeks.
I grip his hand tighter and bring it up to lightly kiss the back of his hand. "I really like you Park Jimin..." I whisper.
"I really like you too, Jeon Jungkook..."
Alright I now this chapter sucked, DONT YELL AT MEH PLEASE.
Idk I ran out of ideas half way through. IM ALMOST AT 1K VIEWS.
Okay I gotta go watch sbs pop Asia now bye!
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Dear Kelly Janssen
I came across your pathway today [1] during my curation round.
It looks very interesting, however I noticed that the lit. refs include some strange characters.
I will fix these for you now, so you can start with a fresh slate.
Please use the local(also called binary) version of PathVisio (iso the webversion), to avoid adding these characters in the future.
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Good luck with the rest of your pathway, and if you have any more questions, feel free to ask me!
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Volume 19, Number 11—November 2013
Subcutaneous Infection with Dirofilaria spp. Nematode in Human, France
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To the Editor: The article by Foissac et al. titled Subcutaneous infection with Dirofilaria immitis nematode in human, France (1) presents an interesting and challenging diagnostic dilemma. The paper described, but did not illustrate, the worm as having a strongly ridged external surface of the cuticle—a feature known not to exist on Dirofilaria immitis, the dog heartworm. However, molecular sequencing of the specimen demonstrated much closer similarity to D. immitis than to D. repens, the most common cause of zoonotic subcutaneous dirofilariasis infection in Europe.
Well-described morphologic features of parasites, including in tissue sections, have long been the standard for diagnosis. More recently, molecular diagnostics have helped in many of these difficult cases. However, in some cases, the morphology and molecular diagnosis are discordant. On the basis of the data in the article, the worm does not seem to represent D. repens. A more likely possibility is some other species for which no sequences are yet available for comparison. In such a worm, the regions sequenced must be similar to D. immitis, and distinct from D. repens, to achieve the observed results.
When one encounters a case such as this, where well-validated morphologic features (Figure) are contradictory to the molecular analysis, one must exercise caution in arriving at a final diagnosis. One disadvantage of morphologic and molecular diagnostics is an absence of information on poorly described and characterized pathogens or new pathogens that have yet to be identified. No good algorithm exists to resolve these conflicts other than to explore all possibilities. The diagnosis in the described case is probably best left as a Dirofilaria species of the Dirofilaria (Nochtiella) type, members of which exhibit marked cuticular ridging, and not D. (Dirofilaria) immitis type, members of which have as a feature an absence of cuticular ridging.
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1. Foissac M, Million M, Mary C, Dales JP, Souraud JB, Piarroux R, Subcutaneous infection with Dirofilaria immitis nematode in human, France. Emerg Infect Dis. 2013;19:1712 . DOIPubMed
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50178 | Class Unlock Level
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This script allows for classes to be unlocked after a class reaches a certain level. Note that this script is made for the Class System script and not using the MAINTAIN_LEVELS feature. Requirements for unlocking a class can be multiple level requirements as well.
These notetags go inside of a class notebox:
<level unlock requirements>
class x: level y
class x: level y
</level unlock requirements>
Sets the requirements for unlocking that particular class. The unlocking of the class will require classes x to be at level y. Insert multiple of the strings in between the two opening and closing notetags to require all of the class levels to be met.
And that’s all, folks!
78 comments on “Class Unlock Level
1. So, there’s no way to make the class level system and this script independent from a character’s experience level? (i.e. like Final Fantasy Tactics)
2. I really don’t know what I’m doing wrong here. For some reason, the locked classes continue to show up in the class menu at all times, no matter the level the character has in any other class. Somebody have an idea of what may be wrong?
3. So I have implemented your code, and found that even with the unlock code on ALL the classes that classes 1, 11, 21, 31, etc will always show up even with the unlock code in the notes. Is there a way to fix that? (Yes I have a lot of classes)
• I am having this same problem but i don’t know how to do what you are saying. Could you be more specific in saying what exactly you have to do? it’s really the only thing i have left to do. Where is the default unlocked classes in the script?
4. Urh…i added classes and when i put the requirements in the notes in the class tab and run the game for testing it just stay the same…it doesen’t put level restriction…what am I doing wrong? Please reply
• I have the same problem ! It’s as the script doesn’t exist. I tried all the combinaitions of characters and anything was good. Please help us (sorry for my english ^^)
• I noticed that, for play-testing, once the call is sent to unlock a class, the class is unlocked without consulting the level restrictions. Once the class shows up in the list, it is unlocked and ready to be equipped. I tried making a common event shop that would allow the players to purchase a class, hoping the class would appear but not be equippable. No such luck. Unfortunately, I have zero scripting knowledge (I just started using RPG Maker VX Ace a week ago and have been learning via trial and error and reading), so I don’t know how to show the class without letting it be equipped. The only thing I can think of for my problem is calling the levels of the classes need for the unlock and only allowing purchase if those requirements are met. Since I have no idea how to actually use code, I thought using a variable for each actor and each class to make restrictions (using vx ace’s command structure for events) but that is a lot of variables.
However, for your issue, playtest the character at a level just below the requirements, then set up a quick event to add enough experience to level up (with an encounter or however) and then see if the class unlocks. This will show you that your restrictions are in place.
• I have this problem too, how to write it? i already copy the script and then i continue to write the note tags at the class bar, then i play it but nothing happen..
• Did you ever figure this out? I have tried every possible way of wording it to make this work but nothing does?
5. Is there any way to insert an OR conditional to the “class x : level y”?
i.e. I have a web-style class system, in which class z (for example, alchemist) could be unlocked by either leveling class x (mage) or class y (priest).
6. another noob. just wondering, i have set a subclass to unlock at a certain level,and it works, but there’s no notification to let the player know that its been unlocked. how do i get something like that to appear?
• the idea is example prim is knight and my story is when they defeat a dragon of fire that they gain a fire crystal key item. and when this item is in your invetory the sub pyromancer should appear in the subclass list.
7. script call:
x is actor id, y is class id
when you give your actor fire crystal key item.
and if someway you will lose it (maybe story plot)
script call:
x is actor id, y is class id
after losing the fire crystal key item
actually it’s not fire crystal is the one making the class unlocked but you can fool the player to think so. and since you made it key item so you can’t sell it. the only way to remove it is by event and you can control it.
trying to find a theme or plugin that might be able
to resolve this issue. If you have any suggestions, please
share. With thanks!
9. Okay, now I love this script and I love this script. I just have one thing I want to do though that I can’t figure out. Say I have a Mage class and I want at Level 30 to unlock a Wizard class that is great, BUT! I am using a Skill Shop and I want the Wizard Class to only know the spells that the Mage class before it previously learned. How would I go about doing this??
• ok this is simple (i think) in the classes tab make the wizard class to have learned the same skills as mage from the starting lvl (lvl 1) well now that you are using a skill shop….just make the mage to only buy some skills so that you will know exactly what skills you will have to put in the skills tab, when creating a class. but you will have an another problem :
Let’s say i am a lvl 20 mage and i have 5 skills (water, fire, wind, earth and light)
i find a skill shop and want to buy something…the dark skill…i buy it.
now that i am lvl 29 i want to buy the summon skill but i don’t have money…so either i gather some or i learn it as a wizard
you need to make a small varity of skills so that when you become a wizard you will have the skills that you have already learned but if you have forgot to buy one or you didn’t have enought money you will learn it by becoming a wizard…(think of it as an upgrade to your magic)
in the case you are thinking of these classes like titles ex: i am a mage and when i will become stronger i will become a wizard…then try using a common event to just change titles…
but if you are thinking like this: Derp “The Herp”
class: Mage
and when y lvl up to lvl 30 it becoms wizard and also don’t want to learn a skill or two by becoming wizard or want to have a big varity of skills try making the mage’s skills a variable and then make a common event which is activated by becoming a wizard that adds the skills of the mage to thewizard!!! but to do that you must have not set any skills for the wizard in the classes tab
i hope i was helpfull.
10. I have a question, when you level up and unlock a class is their a simple way to post something like “you have unlocked a new class!”. I’m sure it’s something simple but I’m having some trouble figuring it out, any info would be helpful thank you!
• You can create an ability called what ever your new class is which has no effect, falls under no skill type (i.e. special, magic etc) and can never be used. Set this to be learned at the same time as you would unlock the new class and when your character levels up at the end of a battle it will come up that it has been learned.
For example, one of my projects has a “Fighter” class. When this class reaches level 5 my character learns the “Beserker” subclass. I set it up so that at level 5 in the fighter class my character learns an ability called “Beserker Subclass”. At the end of a battle I gain experience and level up and on the same screen as it notifies me I have levelled up it also says “Beserker Subclass Learned”. It’s not a perfect system as you couldn’t do it for classes that have a multiple class level requirement but it’s a starting point certainly.
Just make sure you set the ability to “Skill Type: None” and “Occasion: Never” and it won’t show up on any in game menus once your characters have learned it.
11. MAINTAIN_LEVELS = true # Maintain through all classes. Default: false.
i have set this to true because i want all classes to have same level as actor not
level up seperatly.
instead of
class x: level y
class x: level y
anyone know a way to not unlock on class level but unlock with actor level?
• List every class that will be unlocked before the one that will be unlocked. MAke all of them unlock at the same level, that way no matter what, the class will unlock.
12. I want to ask a question.I have imported yanfly class system script v1.10 and yanfly class unlock level script v1.00.The class system works fine.After I enter the class unlock level notetag into class note.there is nothing change on class system,that means the class unlock level system is not working.does anyone know how to fix it?
13. Ive run across an odd issue. I have several locked classes, but 2 classes specifically that are locked until the characters reach levels in multiple classes. From the very start the game these classes are available. Even if I lock down all but the starting classes those 2 appear… I cant find what is unlocking them. Ive tried deleting the texts and starting over and even copying/pasting from a working class.
Here are the notes I have in the character and the classes.
These are the two starting classes. (Soldier and Alchemist)
This is the Ninja class that appears right away
class Geomancer: level 2
class Archer: level 4
class Thief: level 5
Combatant who hides as a means of battle
And here is the one for the dancer that also appears right away.
Warrior who dances in battle in charming costumes
class Geomancer: level 5
class Dragoon: level 5
14. Hey there; does anyone know what the proper Syntax for calling the Class Scene up would be? I cannot find anything inside the script to help me with that–I’m trying to implement a way to use this script mid-combat, but I need to find a way to call the Class Change Menu up first XD
15. Hi!
Being a fan of RPGs with a job/class system, this script is perfect for me. However, I was wondering if there was a way to make a certain unlockable class exclusive to a gender. For example, if you want a character to become a witch, that character must be a level 10 black mage AND female.
Thank you!
16. When i press “Download Link” the page says:
“Error (509)
Do not exist other Download link?
Sorry for my bad english….
17. yah i’ve been getting that error to. if someone could post the script that would get awesome. or does anyone know when it will be back up?
• Is that the one titled Class System Script? If so Ill post that one right away. Im also working on posting all of Yanfly’s scripts to there as long as there isnt a problem with me doing that.
• yes thats the one also when i try to run the class unlock script i get a error:
line 83: Syntax Error occrued
class/ module name must be CONSTANT
class self;alias load_database_cul load-database; end
do you know what causes this error?
18. Not off the top of my head. I dont know much coding at all, but it looks like it thinks the class module is changing or that is is having issues loading the database.
You might make sure that you have the following script in the classes note box?
class x: level y
class x: level y
• I was getting error in line 83 as well, for whatever reason the text was auto-formatted. The character in front of self should actually be << or two less than symbols.
19. ok i got the script working but im having trouble with the note still if I want monk to be a subclass of soilder and for it to be unlocked at lv2 i would put this
class Soldier: level 2
into the Monk class note box right?
• nm I got it to work thanks for the help Jhaedin. does anyone happen to have the Class Specifics script that i can get a copy of the link isnt working
20. hey im having trouble with the system and the add-ons for some reason when i set a subclass to unlock at lv 2 it is unlocked right away. and the second character and on all have access to the first class and first subclass even though they shouldn’t
21. so wondering, how can i give the exp to the primary and subclass at the same time. like so you can lvl both at once. is this possible?
22. I want some of my classes to unlock after reaching a certain level AND filling out other prerequisites such as finishing and/or not finishing side quests, having a certain weapon or item, or after defeating a boss, reaching a certain point in the main story, etc. Would this script allow me to do that? If so, how would I go about doing that? Should I create an event within my game with switches to toggle those prereqs whilst having this system involved? Or is there another way or no way this can be done? I really want to implement this intricacy into my game so badly as it promotes side travel and exploring to obtain a higher powered character. Thanks to anyone in advanced.
23. I’m wanting to use an equipable item as a prerequisite for a class, what would be the best way to accomplish this? I’ve put some thought in to it but couldn’t come up with a good way to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
24. This is the perfect site for everyone who wishes to find out about
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HaHa). You certainly put a new spin on a subject
25. Is there a way to set this up so that this only unlocks the ability to learn the class with JP? As in, reaching the designated level reveals the new class, but the player then has to buy it using their hard earned JP before they can equip the class.
26. Could someone help me out and tell me where in either the class system script or the class unlock script i can setup the default unlocked classes? 1,11,21,31 is currently always unlocked regardless of class requirements. I seen a previous post above having this same problem, but the problem was fixed without sharing how to do so. Then again, it seems most of the good rpg maker scripts have been abandoned leaving little feedback anymore forcing players to use new ones or to deal with/abandon the program entirely. So I hope someone proves me wrong.
• May have figured this out by now, but if not:
In the script around line 100, there is “DEFAULT_UNLOCKS = [ 1, 11, 21, 31 ]
Classes that correspond to those numbers in your database will be unlocked. You can delete those numbers and they will no longer be available. If you remove the 11, 21, and 31 (so only “1” is there), then only the first class you have is available (001 in the database).
I hope I was able to clear that up a bit.
27. Quick question, is there any way you could disable the old classes? So like when you change class you can’t just go back? I’m trying to make like a class tree so I don’t want them to just go back and pick a different path, you must commit! lol
28. Is there anyway to notify the player when a new class is unlocked when there is a couple class requirement strings in the notebox?
Ex: player starts as a warrior then learns to be a mage later on. Once both reach lvl.5 Battlemage unlocks as a new class.
I know the script allows that which is awesome, but how can i call an event to pop up notifying the player that says something like, “Unlocked Battlemage” after the requirements were met?
29. Hi! Great work!
I was looking for an add-on like this one, but instead of unlocking by level, i need it to be: unlocking by stat.
instead of being:
class x: level y
class x: level y
it could be something like
class 3: Str 85
class 5: Def 90
Can this be possible?
Thanks for your help.
• And maybe if it`s possible, a unlock by item.
The thing is that there are some scripts that make “evolve” the actor. But if an add-on like the one i need is made, the class system could have three types of class unlock:
By Level
By Stat
By Item
Thanks for your help.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50181 | Deacon Reflection
The Archdeacon asked me to reflect on my service as a deacon, both in the last six months, and in the specific areas enumerated. Interestingly, once my head cleared from last Saturday’s marathon of activities, it was fairly easy to sum up what being a deacon means to me. As baptized Christians, we are all called on to love God and love one another. As an ordained Deacon, I choose to make that an outward sign to the community, to identify myself as one of the hands God chooses to use to help others. This can be as simple as pitching in where I see a need, to lifting a suitcase for a fellow traveler having difficulty, listening with a discerning ear and cup of tea to a new widow, or as complex as reminding fellow Christians of their own baptismal/confirmation vows, and encouraging them to find creative ways to live out their beliefs.
I have always felt that my call is to serve. I never had a particular call to ministry, but I’ve discovered that by choosing to accept the responsibility of the collar, I find myself gifted with guidance as needed, words that surely don’t come from me but always seem timely to others, and ideas that are well outside the realm of most boxes generally accepted.
I rarely have confidence in what I prepare to write in a sermon, and yet, every time I sit down with one idea, it changes to what the community needs or what specific people need to hear at that point in time. I’m unsure whether to pray He’s always watching over me so closely to ensure the messages are timely, or whether to hope I’ll learn more so that eventually I won’t need such close supervision. But I’m rather enjoying it now, as I watch the process of my words becoming something I never even thought of. I learn a lot!
The specific areas I was asked to comment on are:
Reading the Gospel: It’s humbling to realize that it’s my responsibility to carry the Word into the center of the people. Obviously, I don’t just mean carrying the Gospel book there, but literally bringing the Word into the daily life of others. Both take practice in order to do a good job.
Prayers of the People: I’ve taken to keeping a daily list of people I’ve been asked to pray for, as people realize that even if they don’t have time to come to church, I’ll be there every day, and remembering their loved ones. Prayers obviously don’t need to be said in church, but for some reason, it brings comfort to others that their names will be mentioned before God in His house. Each of the forms provided to us bring different things to mind, but the categories are ever the same, going from praying for the world to the person and everything in between.
Bidding Confession as a deacon is a reminder, particularly in the use of the words “us” and “our”, that my responsibility is to lead by example, to know that confession and absolution is one of the sacraments and one that we should take seriously. It’s not just a bunch of words to say by rote, but a list of categories which should bring to mind the sins each of us have committed by action or inaction that remain between the individual and God.
Setting the Table, as I described in one of my reports, has taken on a new reverence since discussing the living spiritual nature of the elements with my sister. While I am still setting the table for the participation of the people, I am also setting the table to host the living presence of Christ Himself. That is a completely mind-blowing concept, but one which changes the energy surrounding the elements, and myself, as I handle the linens, chalice and paten which will be holding the Eucharist. It is a privilege to set the table, and I hope that the energy I feel will be transmitted to each guest at the table.
Dismissal is more than ending the church service. It’s a reminder to each person in the pews that the service is for us, but the work begins as we leave and takes place outside the four walls of the church. Absolutely everything we learn in church can be incorporated into our interactions with others outside the church. Our baptismal vow to share the good news can easily be fulfilled, if we rely on the Holy Spirit to inspire us, speak through us, act through us – we just have to be willing to allow that to happen. My voice, since the dismissal happens behind everyone facing forward, has to convey the sense of responsibility every person has once the service ends.
I will always be a deacon, no matter my title, because I am here to serve. I choose to serve.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50198 | I Hate this word and so I Let a Man Write It on My Face
I want to write Schvartze on your face and then take a picture.
I was stunned and not stunned. This is what I was here for. It had to come down to this. I was sitting with photographer Steve Rosenfield, creator of the What I be Project. Steve offers people the opportunity to express their insecurities, by writing them on their faces. After a discussion about myself, Steve and I decided we would write Shvartze (yiddish/german for black) on my face.
Shvartze isn’t Yiddish for Black. Shvartze is Yiddish for Nigger
Being a Jew with a black father, living in Crown Heights is a strange experience. There is always a strong undercurrent of racism. Jews and Blacks (the shvartzes to use the unfortunate local parlance) have always had tension between them.
Since moving to Crown Heights, I’ve heard the word flow like blessings. It drips out of the mouths of young and old alike. It can be stunning sometimes. You’ll be moving along just fine and then the “S-bomb” will come along and just ruin your day, or at the very least your hour and minute. It’s never nice when it’s said. No one ever says “I had a man do my taxes. He’s shvartze.” Nor do they say “my son is playing with the boys next door, they’re shvartze.” It’s always “a shvartze stole my bike;” or “if the shvartzes welfare why shouldn’t we.” So, this common excuse that shvartze merely means black doesn’t play well with me.
It’s hard to feel like as strong person when it seems like one word can bring your whole world crashing around you. The hardest part is I’ve lost the ability to feel anger about it. The prejudice is so systemic that I can’t fault anybody. It’s a part of who they are. And at the end of the day, I can only feel anger at myself. It’s a hell of an Achilles heel, this simple two-syllable word.
And I would be lying if I said the prejudice only came from the Jewish side. As a matter of fact, I’ve experienced public anti-Semitism from total strangers like I never even thought existed anymore. Just as I was working up the nerve to write this post, I went to the store. There was a middle-aged man there complaining about the price of a bottle of whatever. As he left the store, he looked back and said to the clerk (who was Asian) “we aren’t ALL Jewish.”
There have been a few more incidents like this over my tenure in Brooklyn, but I won’t bore you with them. I have no interest in being an ambassador or a bridge between the two peoples. I am not my race. I am who I want to be. I am a chossid. I ride my bike. I take pictures. I am also black and Jewish; and I’m proud of both of those things, but I am not defined by these external qualities.
So, when Steve Rosenfield asked me to do this. It took a few minutes for me to reconcile myself with it, but I did it and now you know why.
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1. A M says:
I hate this word too. It drives em nuts when I hear people using it. The funny thing is when I saw the picture at first glance, I was very confused. You looked Mizrachi or Arab to me and I was wondering, why does this Middle Eastern looking guy have that awful word written on his forehead?!? It wasn’t until I was reading the article and scrutinized closely that I was even able to see someone half black.
2. Moe Ginsburg says:
“Shvartze isn’t Yiddish for Black. Shvartze is Yiddish for Nigger”.
Really? How else do you say “black” in Yiddish? There is no other way. “Shvartze” is literally the Yiddish word for the color black. If you want to say your car is black in Yiddish, there’s no other way to say it than to say a shvartze car. If you want to say “I love all blacks and whites equally” in Yiddish, there’s no way to say it without calling blacks shvartzes. It is the word for the color. Just like “vas” is white and “roit” is red.
• avi says:
you are trying to sound smart but you missed the point!!
• Arielle says:
It’s not the word, it’s how it’s used!
I could say the same thing about “nigger” – it’s just a slang form of “negro” which is just Spanish for “black”! What’s wrong with that?
As long as Shvartze is used as a term to dehumanize anyone with dark skin, it will continue to be offensive to dark skinned people, Jew and non-Jew alike.
• John Salter says:
Kudos to the commenters. Any Jew who’s been in that milieu knows that when people say that they are NOT referring to a color.
• Milhouse says:
“Nigger” in the USA has been an offensive term for well over a century. It was not used as a synonym for “negro”, but only as a term of offense. However in the rest of the English-speaking world it was a synonym for “negro”, and there was nothing wrong with using it. When Agatha Christie wrote Ten Little Niggers she was not being racist, and nor was Joseph Conrad when he wrote The Nigger of the Narcissus. Only in the last 30 years or so has the term fallen out of favor outside the USA, probably under the influence of American TV and movies.
Shvartzer is and remains a straight translation of “black”, with all the connotations that “black” has in English. It can mean the color, it can mean a person whose skin is that color, it can mean illegal, it can mean melancholy, it can mean secret, and probably a few other things. One of the things it can be used for is to give offense, but the only way to tell that usage from all others is context and tone of voice.
• matt says:
Just like “kike” is just a word that means “circle,” and has never been used to hurt anybody, right?
• Milhouse says:
“Kike” does not and had never meant “circle”, or anything but “Jew”. It doesn’t mean anything at all in Yiddish, Hebrew, or any other language I know. The Yiddish word for “circle” is “kykle”, not “kike”. And calling a person “circle” is not offensive, it’s just weird. Unless it’s a reference to the person’s weight…
• Milhouse says:
PS: In English, calling someone a “square” is mildly insulting, but calling someone “well-rounded” is complimentary! In Yiddish people are not called by shapes; it’s neither insulting nor complimentary but meaningless. However, if you decide, as a personal quirk, to call people shapes in Yiddish, and you happen to live in an English-speaking country, do not ever call a woman “square” 🙂
• Elizabeth says:
Actually, “kaykl” means circle and the perjorative for Jew came from that word.
• Milhouse says:
Elizabeth, what difference does it make where it came from? The fact is that “kike” does not mean circle, “kykle” does. Calling someone a circle is not offensive, just weird.
• Elizabeth says:
I think you’ve been so busy defending using this word to many posters here that you might be getting us mixed up – I KNOW kaykl means circle, I speak Yiddish. The k-word comes from kaykl. I say yidn for Jews and might call you a yid (I call myself a yidne) BUT when a non-Jew uses the word, it’s meant as a slur. Shvarts is an adjective for black. ShvartsE is a noun and is also used as a slur.
BUT HERE IS THE REAL ISSUE: If you learn that something you do hurts people, why would you continue to do it?
• Yoni says:
This applies to anyone saying shvartze is just “black one” in Yiddish: You are correct. You are also correct in saying that Shvartze is the only way to refer to a black person in Yiddish (or German). Leaving aside the discussion of context completely, what you’re saying can only apply if the rest of the sentence is said in Yiddish. if Shvartze is the only yiddish word in a sentence then you are being disingenuous by proclaiming it’s not used in a pejorative manner.
• Tom says:
You apparently didn’t read the whole thing: “So, this common excuse that shvartze merely means black doesn’t play well with me.”
You only had time to skim, but enough time to leave a long reply? Dunce.
3. Chaim Shmuly says:
I really hate to burst anyones bubble, but “shvartze” does NOT mean the N word, at all! “Shvart” = black, “Shvartze” = the black one. That goes on the color of my pants, my friendly black neighbor or the color of my dirty hands after painting a wall black. I think that YOU are bringing up unnecessary racism with this post.
• Sruly. says:
Nice try. His point that the word has deeply racist connotations in its contemporary Yiddish usage stands. I certainly encountered the word dropped daily in almost exclusively racist contexts growing up in Boro Park and receiving a Chasidish and Yeshivish education. Props to author of this post for reclaiming the dignity he deserves as a person and a Tzelem Elokim, and spreading the knowledge of the destructive power of this insidious term.
• Nigger just means black says:
Nigger is a noun in the English language. The word originated as a neutral term referring to black people, as a variation of the Spanish/Portuguese noun negro, a descendant of the Latin adjective niger (“color black”).[1] Often used disparagingly, by the mid 20th century, particularly in the United States, it suggested that its target is extremely unsophisticated. Its usage had become unambiguously pejorative, a common ethnic slur usually directed at blacks of Sub-Saharan African descent.
• miriam says:
yeah it does but who uses words correctly when referring to a person.It has always had negative connotations in the community.Are you excusing calling someone a shvartze? Did I miss something or is it common for us all to be referred to by our color? In America Ive also never heard someone called a nigger and it meant something neutral or positive.Stop fooling yourself.
• A. Nuran says:
Not just towards Africans. In the UK South Asians are often called niggers. In the US the term has been expanded. In parts of the upper Midwest Native Americans are “timber niggers”. During the first Persian Gulf Live Fire Exercise Arabs were “sand niggers”. And for much of the 19th century Irish Americans were “white niggers”.
And yidden shouldn’t be so quick with the smug. I am White because of WHEN I was born, not the color of my skin. When my parents were growing up they weren’t White precisely because they were Jews.
• Rotti says:
That makes no sense. He was referring to the intent of the word. I would say you are the most guilty of all for thinking that when you or anyone says the word “Shvartze” his or her intent means the color of your pants.
• chaim says:
You obviously do not speak Yiddish, or at least not fluently, since when we use the word shvartze we certainly do use it in reffernce to the color of pants, cars or anything else. I would NEVER use the N word or any other deragetory word about ANY people, yet shvartze is in my venaculour as is vays, roit, broin, green etc.
• Rotti says:
Did you take from my comment that I thought Shvartze was only meant toward black people? I do speak a good amount of Yiddish and know i have heard the word thrown out in a discriminatory way. I do not think he would have an issue if you used it to talk about your fucking pants.
4. Lib says:
words that come out of people’s mouths
are more a reflection of who they are
than of who you are.
you don’t need a mirror to see your true reflection.
• orthorim says:
It helps to see that having a strong reaction to this perceived insult is only perpetuating the insult. You buy into the story that you are ……. (whatever somebody is putting on you).
It’s the most powerful realization that not only are you not that, the emotions that come up in you when you hear it are not yours either; they’re given to you from the outside world. Watch those emotions rise and fall; don’t resist them. Once you are able to do that you will find that this huge problem that you had before has dissolved into nothingness.
5. Matty says:
You’re missing the point, Mr. Ginsburg. It’s not the word itself that is the problem, but the way it’s used in the author’s community as an expression of the racism that is endemic there. It may literally mean black, but it’s used to mean the n-word. As someone who grew up in an ultra-Orthodox community in Brooklyn as well, my experience mirrors his.
• Yona Avraham says:
Yes!This is the problem,but it seems that many refuse to see it like it is in reality!I am an African American Jew who has lived in Israel 15 years.All Blacks in Israel have to fight against the word Cushi.It’s a Biblical word that refers to the Black people of Cush,which is modern day Ethiopia.The people are called Cushim,but for as long as I’ve been in Israel,it has the connotation of the n-word.When children holler it to you,you never feel like they are simply saying you are Black.Hebrew has another word for the color Black and that is what we prefer to be called.
• Milhouse says:
There is nothing wrong with Cushi and you have no right to prevent anyone from using it. If you feel offended by a normal word, then fine, feel offended. The language cannot change because of your feelings.
• A. Nuran says:
And “kike” just means “little circle”. But try calling someone who refers to Black people as “Shvarzes” that and see how he takes it.
• Milhouse says:
No, “kike” does not mean “little circle”, in any language. It doesn’t mean anything at all in Yiddish or Hebrew; in English it has no meaning except an insulting synonym for “Jew”.
• walterwart says:
According to the etymology dictionaries it “comes from” kykle or little circle. Or did you think Jews were special and had a slur made up for them with no antecedents?
6. Shua says:
….and yet another dummy with a guilty conscious who likes to spread the notion that the word shvartze is racist. Not only are you incredibly stupid, YOU ARE PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE IF SOMEONE EVER GETS HURT BECAUSE THEY USED THE WORD SHVARTZE. Live with that you moron. If i use the word shvartze on the train, and some liberal minded fellow who read your stupidity hears me and calls me out as a racist, then you are responsible for that. And if every time a jew uses the word shvartze a non-jew judges him unfavorably, causing a chilul hashem, YOU are responsible for that. So great. You shared your feelings, you imaginations of guilt. You are liberated. And just as stupid.
Yes, a black DID steal my bike, and a gang of blacks DID play the knockout game on my friend. I am not racist for saying they were black, there is no better way to say it. Period the end. They were shvartzes. And guess what.. my friend employs shvatzes in the company he owns. Suprise! and guess what? The current president is a shvartze! Whoop dee doo! unless you are blind and missed it. Shvartze is a color. Go be a stupid race baiter someplace safer and not make life miserable for the rest of us. You are a dumbass, a liar, and a danger to people everywhere. all so you could get some clicks. Crawl away and hide
• Elya G says:
Wow that’s a lot of pent up anger!!!!!
• Sruly. says:
Hey guess what, words, those pesky things that clearly annoy you so, can actually take on the characteristics of their common usage, even if the word itself originally had a benign and simple meaning. Your implicit attempt to ignore these facts and impose your own singular definition of the word is ignorant of both social history and the basic rules of linguistics.
You are right though, in that shvartze is a color, one that has taken on a singularly loaded context in this country, founded as it was by a great many people whose system of life was undergirded by the principle that men and women (but mostly men) of one color were superior to others, and had the right to subjugate those of “lesser” colors at will. This evil system of thought still bears many poisoned and strange fruits today, and you calling someone who has suffered doubly the insults of race and religious baiting and abuse a liar and other names I won’t repeat is shameful to say the least. I can’t think of anything more disgraceful to God’s name.
• Betsy Dobrick says:
Almost feel sorry for you, but can’t as you’re so wrong in your self-righteousness.
• Tom says:
Thank you, Shua, for underling the whole point of the article. Your rant is disgraceful.
• LioritH says:
In the Torah you are not to cause pain to your fellow man EVEN if it was not your intention.
You would know this if you study the Torah. This fellow Jew is in pain. It may or may not be the intention of those who use the word to cause him and other Jews of color pain, the reasoning does not matter. There is no rationalizing.
Please study the Torah to help you let go of that anger. You would know that anger is the Yetzer Hara (Evil Inclination).
Love your fellow Jew!
• Milhouse says:
Really? Where is that written in the Torah? Where does the Torah say that people get to make up new things to take offense at, and then they get to dictate to everyone else what language to use? In which se’if of shulchon oruch is that written?
7. Vill Visen says:
Shvartze is Nigger when Jews is Kike. It all depends on the context, my bobby used to tell me “when you go to the bank, make sure you get the Shvartze teller he is the kindest” now tell me where the nigger is in this. I would shift the blame on the Crown Heights Chasidim, they are very well known for converting people into their religion but once in there isn’t a great support system for the BTs! which leads people like you feeling on edge.
8. Elisheva says:
Shvetza is used in a derogatory sense. People who speak yiddish tend in general to put others who are different than them down. Weather shvartaa, shaigetz, goy, baal teshuva, gair I’ve heard all of these words used to differentiate the subject as being less than the speaker and the listener. IF you don’t like it change it through your choices.
9. Ben says:
Apparently the word has been used too many times as an insult for it to NOT have that connotation. Racism IS unnecessary… that doesn’t mean it’s not real.
10. Yael says:
Thank you so much for posting this. I’ve always been jarred by the status quo racism of the word, “Shvartze”. Even as a kid. “it just means ‘Black'” is such a cop out. If the word has to be justified, it shouldn’t be used.
11. Ephraim says:
Shvartze does mean the color black. I’m sorry that you’re surrounded by people who use it as a derogatory term, but they don’t have a monopoly on this word. Racists may take any word and turn it into hate, but that’s not the way that the majority thinks. Personally, I had a shvartze roommate a few years ago, and I often described him with this word. Not surprisingly, the only Jews who took it amiss were those who didn’t have a comprehensive understanding of Yiddish. I would encourage you to study Yiddish literary texts, and improve your knowledge of this rich language before publicly making a narr out of yourself!
• Sruly. says:
How is he making a narr out of himself? You may have existed in a situation wherein the word had no loaded meaning. You yourself may feel and intend zero in the way of racial animus when you use the term, but that’s just not generally the case in the 718. Thus the author is justified in making his case as such, since everyone from Brooklyn whether they’ll admit it or not knows the word is often used this way, and because, well, he experienced it.
• Jessica says:
Why didn’t you call your roommate by his name? I know I wouldn’t like to be referred to as “my Jew roommate”,..and yes, I’m Jewish and remember my dear grandmother using the word shvartze.. ..I loved her but it doesn’t make it right
12. Shua says:
funny you should mention it, my black gay friend just wrote an article about how the word “Jew” is racist, because every time he hears it or reads it online its always about a conspiracy and a a racist and an apartheid occupier. Must be “Jew” is an ugly racist term!!! Let’s band together and put an end to its use!!!!!
• So I’m curious. What do you think of the expression “He jewed me down?”
• Noa says:
Can you post a link to that article ?
• Milhouse says:
The use of “jew” as a verb is obviously offensive, because of its meaning, not because of some magic property of the word itself. We say “Jew” all the time, just as we say “shvartzer”.
And its meaning is offensive only because, unlike most stereotypes, it’s untrue. Yes, Jews have an eye for a bargain, and there’s nothing wrong with saying so; but Jews are not, as a rule, dishonest, and that’s why it’s wrong to say they are. If it were true, then those Jews who were not dishonest would have to accept that it was fair to use it in that way.
13. csbarrocas says:
I’m sorry that you had the negative experiences you describe. In my experience the word shvartze is usually used in a derogatory way. (Jewish people are rarely if ever referred to as shvartzes). I don’t allow my children to use that word.
• Milhouse says:
What a stupid remark. Jewish people rarely are black. When they are, they are sometimes referred to in that way.
• Betsy Dobrick says:
agree…just don’t use it…
• Betsy Dobrick says:
My reply was posted to the wrong comment. More Jews are black than ever and will continue that trend, this whole subject is abhorrent and to see such a cavalier response from you, Milhouse, that is what is stupid. You are unaware.
• Milhouse says:
On the contrary, I am very aware. And one thing I’m aware of is the insidious undermining of our Jewish culture by outside influences and principles. It needs to be emphasised: Racism is not an aveira. There are 365 aveiros in the Torah, and racism is not one of them. Nobody has the right to turn it into one. A person who keeps all the mitzvos but is openly racist is a tzadik; a person who scrupulously avoids racism, and keeps 612 mitzvos, but deliberately wears shatnez or carries on Shabbos, is a rosho.
That said, racism is stupid; it’s a denial of reality. But over-sensitivity to racism, seeing it where it doesn’t exist, or pretending that race is never relevant and that all distinctions on the basis of race are wrong, is also stupid and a denial of reality.
The reality is that race is relevant in some contexts and not in others; it often serves as a useful proxy for information that is not easily available, but as more and better information about a person becomes available race quickly loses its utility. Racism, actual racism, means ignoring that new information and continuing to rely on race even when it contradicts what one has learned about a person.
• [email protected] says:
Racism is an aveira.
It is at the very least onaat devarim, it is also a violation of Dan lechaf zechut. It is lashon harah. It is rechilut, it is a violation of v’ahavta le’reiacha kamocha, it also disregards kavod haberiot.
So I guess you are right. Racism isn’t an aveira…it’s 6 aveiras.
• Milhouse says:
Eyammer, you are wrong. Better learn a Jewish word before paskening halochos. Racism is not an aveira at all. It is none of the laundry list of things you mention. (Beside which, most of the items you list only apply to a fellow yid.)
• [email protected] says:
Saying that word if, hurting someone is certainly all of the things I mentioned, especially if they are a yid. The author of this article is a yid. Moreover Kavod Habriyot applies to all people.
I guess that if we are talking about yidden then there is lo tisneh et achicha bilvavecha, as well as the value taught in messechet avot -do not judge another until you stand in his shoes.
Looking to the Torah to justify hurting others is chilul hashem of the highest order as well as motzi shem ra on our holy Torah.
• Milhouse says:
Eyammer, just because a person chooses to be offended by something does not give him the right to control other people’s speech. The word is not objectively offensive, and that is all that matters. This whole exercise in victimhood is truly offensive; it’s a game where whoever screams and protests the loudest wins, and all decent people should refuse to play it.
Racism means treating someone unfairly, just because of who they are. It does not mean acknowledging the fact of racial differences, or making rational initial assumptions based on someone’s appearance. There is nothing wrong with that, and the attempt to turn it into a moral offense is part of a deliberate attempt to undermine our culture and our country (see Antonio Gramsci). We must not give it sanction.
14. Any descriptive word can be made negative/hostile, depending on the tone in which it’s used. Yes, “shvartze” means “black,” and the word “black” itself can be used in a bigoted way, depending on context and tone, as can the word, “Jew,” “Christian,” “men,” “women,” and just about any other descriptor you can think of. If the author’s predominant exposure to the word is of it being said in a hostile tone, then his feelings are completely understandable, and making ad hominem attacks on him only serves to make you look like a racist. Also, given that this is a Yiddish word, if a person is speaking in Yiddish, then it may well be innocently used; however, if a person is speaking in English, and then switches to Yiddish to use the word, “shvartze,” I think the probability of racist undertones is much greater. I mean, if you’re speaking English, and you just want to say, “black,” well, why not just say, “black”?
15. Milhouse says:
Shvartze isn’t Yiddish for Black. Shvartze is Yiddish for Nigger
That’s just bullshit.
The man who does my taxes is a yid. Isn’t yours? How many shvartze accountants are there, and how many yiddishe ones? And sorry, I wouldn’t want my son playing with shkotzim, no matter what color they were. If they were Jewish I’d be fine with it, but that doesn’t happen very often.
What you seem to have a problem facing is that it is a fact that many black people, people who bear a superficial resemblance to your relatives, are dangerous criminals, of whom anybody, including you, should be wary. When you see a stranger in the street, and know nothing at all about them, then skin color is very relevant to deciding how careful you should be around them. Only a suicidally insane person ignores color when making such an assessment. A white stranger can also be a criminal, but the likelihood is overwhelmingly lower, so the initial wariness should be dialed down several orders of magnitude.
Even liberals do it, they just feel guilty about it because they’ve brainwashed themselves with this false and perverted ideology that there’s something wrong with it. Well, guess what, there isn’t, and calling it “racism” won’t change that. I reserve the word “racism” for other things, things that are actually wrong, but if you insist that this is “racism” then I will tell you flat out that in that case there is nothing wrong with racism. You cannot turn right into wrong just by giving it a bad label. And recognizing reality is right, the greatest right there can possibly be.
Think of it this way: suppose your identical twin happens to be a notorious gangster. You know you are not him and are nothing like him; but nobody else does, unless they know you well enough to tell the difference between you and him. Anyone who sees you should be scared! And they should teach their children to be scared. Not doing so would be child endangerment. Is that wrong? Of course not. It’s just reality. If you must blame someone, blame the criminal.
But none of this has to do with the Yiddish word “shvartz”, which simply means black. (Actually if you overhear a casual conversation among Jews, and happen to catch the word “shvartz” without any context, it’s more likely they’re talking about money than a person!)
16. Chaya says:
As someone who has minimal background in Yiddish language and literature, I’m nevertheless aware that “shvartse” is not necessarily a derogation in itself. Still, I cannot help but agree that with its usage comes a derogatory attitude. I have no regard for political correctness, and I am not usually moved moved by liberal arguments. I’m also not blind to the tangible racism that blacks in Crown Heights impose on their Jewish counterparts (a phenomenon completely foreign to me, as growing up in a middle class neighborhood outside of Crown Heights, nobody cared if you’re white, black, or purple.) Yet, I cringe when I hear this word. There is simply such an injustice in categorizing an individual, whether he stole a bike or is a nice bank teller, by virtue of a characteristic he has no control over. It’s like saying, “Horrible driver, must be a woman” or even “She’s so sweet, just like a woman.” Although I might not feel exactly as does the author of this blog, especially considering that I don’t have a black parent, I very much feel much of what he expresses as someone who is receptive and sensitive to issues regarding the denigration of an individual’s or a community’s humanity. I hope the author is aware of the fact that both the positive and negative comments are after all, a validation of his perspective which implies that he pinpointed an important issue within the Crown Heights community – one that includes both Jews and blacks, and one that includes Jewish blacks as well. And guess what? It is also a community of which the next generation of doctors will be more black than Jewish. Will you say, “Oh, he just saved his life, must be a shvartse doctor” as you say today about a Jewish doctor? If not, perhaps it’s time to question the context of your usage of “shvartse.”
• Milhouse says:
There is simply such an injustice in categorizing an individual by virtue of a characteristic he has no control over.
Why? What’s unjust about it? It’s perfectly normal, and how humans have spoken without any shame for thousands of years. By calling it unjust you have put the lie to your claim that you “have no regard for political correctness, and I am not usually moved moved by liberal arguments”. The idea that there is something wrong with referring to a person’s accidental characteristics is unique to the very far fringe of radical leftist propaganda taught by American academics in the last few decades.
If women were, on average, significantly worse drivers than men, then that would be a logical thing to say.
What’s wrong with this? See, only a radical advocate of “political correctness” would find anything wrong with this.
What on earth makes you suppose that?
• Chaya says:
“Yuden” doesn’t literally mean “dirty Jew” or anything of the like, yet it inspires fear and contempt, especially if spoken by a Nazi. Is that not true?
And by the way, if you believe in Hashgacha Protis, no characteristic is accidental. My being Jewish is not accidental. I have no control over it but it hat does not imply it is accidental.
Some rectangles are squares. In fact, I could say that most rectangles are squares. Is it logical to say, “look, a rectangle. It must be a square?”
Either a radical advocate of political correctness or a woman who isn’t always sweet and knows there is nothing about her as a woman that makes her “sweeter” than a man.
Take a poll in medical schools around NY. Find out who will end up practicing medicine in high poverty neighborhoods like Crown Heights.
• Milhouse says:
No, “yid” does not mean “dirty Jew”, and it is exactly what we call ourselves and each other! What a silly example!
And if most rectangles were squares, and all you were told about a specific shape was that it was a rectangle, then it would be reasonable to suppose that it was probably a square.
Even if it’s not true that women are more likely than men to be sweet, what’s wrong with saying so? At worst, it’s factually incorrect; so what? How does that make it morally wrong?
And your poll of NY medical schools, if you really took one, is irrelevant. Our community’s doctors don’t only come from those schools.
• Milhouse says:
Oh, and look up “accident” in a dictionary.
• Chaya says:
Your logic is flawed.
1. If I’m not in control of a particular phenomenon P, this does not imply that it is an accident. A simple example: I’m not in control of my neighbor’s action. Does that imply that if he hits you over the head with a bat, it was an “accident?”
2. Here’s a little lesson in mathematics: There is an infinite number of rectangles, an infinite number of squares, and an infinite number of rectangles that are squares. The most I could say is that “Look, it’s a rectangle. It is a POSSIBILITY that it is a square.”
• Milhouse says:
Your English is flawed. As I suggested, look up “accident” in a dictionary. Skin color in humans is an accidental trait; it is not directly linked to character. You claimed that it is therefore wrong to use it to categorise people; I replied that your claim is without foundation. That’s all.
And yes, I am well aware that most rectangles are not squares. Now reread my comment and point out where I contradicted that.
17. Milhouse says:
Here’s another f’rinstance: if you look like an Arab, and you go anywhere in Israel, you will get extra scrutiny, and that is right and just. It’s inconvenient for you, but you have no moral right to feel insulted or put-upon; what you may justly resent is the reality that makes it necessary, i.e. the fact that so many people who look just like you are murderers and thieves. Any attempt to shame those who give you extra scrutiny would not only be unjust to them, it would also be monstrous, because if it succeeded it would endanger everyone, including yourself.
18. Chaya says:
Milhouse: Tell a Sephardic Jew, a Yemenite Jew, or a black Jew that only a “suicidally insane person” would not be wary “several orders of magnitudes more” of him than of his Ashkenazi friend.
• Milhouse says:
There are not a lot of dangerous criminals who look like most Sefardim or Temanim. But there are many dangerous criminals who are negroes. When one encounters a stranger in the street, one must instantly form a judgment about his character from his superficial appearance. The way he is dressed plays a role in that, but so does his general appearance, including the color of his skin. If he looks like the average black American, that automatically makes it several orders of magnitude more likely that he is dangerous. And yes, only a suicidally insane person would suppress that knowledge, and not be more wary.
Of course there may be other cues that can change this assessment drastically. But in the absence of such cues, race is a valuable cue, and it is morally perverted to teach people not to use it. If someone gets hurt because they were taught that it’s wrong to think that way, their blood is on the head of the person who taught them this.
• IC says:
By that logic Mr. Millhouse we should teach Jewish children to fear Jews who walk around in ‘Chassidic levush’ since almost all molesters of Chassidic kids are Chassidic Jews.
The funny thing is the criminals from BK’s AA & Afro Caribbean community pray far more often on members of their own community than they do on Jews.
If you are looking for social ‘cues’ to read in order to try to decipher a possible threat I respectfully suggest you try developing ‘social reading level’ beyond the fifth grade. You may be interested in the ‘The little black book of violence’ (no pun intended )by Lawrence Kane & Kris Wilder, it will do more to keep you safe than racial profiling will in 100 years.
19. Sheila says:
So sad to read all these “smarter than thou” comments on a personal story where this man is sharing his deep thoughts and feelings and is met with superficial and insensitive comments. Come on where is the ahavas his role for a fellow Jew?
20. Ashes says:
To everyone commenting about how ‘schvartze’ is just the Yiddish word for black, and we should get over it:
Bitch is just a word for a female dog, but no one wants to be called that either.
It’s all in the intention of the word, and even as a little kid, I knew the word ‘schvartze’ was/is derogatory. If a little kid can tell, the whole world can tell, and it’s a huge chillul hashem. You want to use it? Take off your kippah first.
• Milhouse says:
What a stupid comment. Of course calling someone a dog is an insult, male or female! The insult is in the meaning, not in the word! There’s nothing wrong with using “bitch” about an actual female canine, any more than there’s anything wrong in using the word “dog”. Or “horse” or “pig” about actual horses and pigs.
21. neshama says:
If a person spoke yiddish and not english maybe, we can let them slide, but if most of your conversation is english and u throw in shvartzeh then, there is a problem.
Cant wait for Moshiach, a LOT of askanazim r going to have to do some serious “al chet “.
• Milhouse says:
We throw a lot of Yiddish and Hebrew into our conversation.
• Mike says:
Neshama, you are right!! People dont realize what they are doing. The reason its like the “N” word is because people speaking English switch to a Yiddish word here and there to add meaning. Using schvartze to refer to somebody when you are talking English, means you are trying to describe the person’s character or identity like when you say “Black People” and make a special facial expression, a wink, or rolling your eyes, while you are saying it.
22. Sam Ben Asif says:
First of all, really enjoyed reading this akh sheli, may we all see a change in ignorance really soon.
Secondly Milhouse stop getting so effin brave with your blatant racism on here, oooh black people are more dangerous?
Lol you sound like you got bullied by then through school, you are an idiot.
And according to you we have a very dangerous man sitting in the whitehouse, putting his political stance and affiliations aside, but purely because he’s a Blackman!
The word Schvartze IS derogatory, this is acknowledged worldwide, you can just watch the movie ‘infidel’ for reference, where a white Jew uses the word to describe someone and is arrested immediately.
And may it be so all over the world, this bullshit will NOT slide
• Betsy Dobrick says:
Agree and no more responses to his racism. As I scroll down, this is not merely an unaware person, this is an angry bigot.
• Milhouse says:
Yes, Sam, black people are more likely than white people to be dangerous. A far higher proportion of black people than of white people are dangerous. Therefore, when one knows nothing about a person but his race, the fact that he is black significantly raises the chance that he is dangerous. That is a fact, which you cannot deny. Of course once one has more information about a person one can form a better and more individualized judgment, and his race quickly becomes unimportant and irrelevant. Racism consists of ignoring that, and sticking to the initial race-based assessment in the face of more reliable contrary evidence.
And no, this has nothing to do with the president, about whom we have a lot of specific information, so we don’t need to use his race as a proxy. And in fact he is dangerous, but the reason is not because of his black father but because of the communist upbringing he got from his white mother and grandparents and their friends, black and white.
I don’t need to watch any English movie to tell me what a Yiddish word in daily use means. Nor do I give a damn what is “acknowledged worldwide”; reality is not based on “consensus”, and does not change because of what people think. If people think the earth is flat, that does not make it flat; and if people think a word means something other than what it does, that does not change its meaning.
• David says:
Milhouse, I don’t know who you are but you’re extremely incisive and make good points.
“shkotzim” means “insects” though, so you shouldn’t say it.
• Milhouse says:
I know exactly what “shkotzim” (or “sheigetz”) means, and only use it when the context makes it appropriate. In this case the context was the undesirability of a Jewish child playing with children who are not Jewish; thus a pejorative is called for. And “sheigetz” is the traditional term we use; did your zeideh or elter-zeideh think twice about using it? So why should you?
23. Sherilyn says:
The ‘s’ word is never used in a non racist context. If someone doesn’t want to risk hurting someone’s feelings, they say black. The fact that people refer to you, a fellow Jew as that, or even on your presence, even AT ALL in the twenty first century is despicable.
• Sherilyn says:
And let me just add, that the same people who use the word shvartze would be the same ones making comments if a black Jew went off the derech, when if this continues, I would think the small population of black Jews, which is a GREAT thing, would dwindle.
• chaim says:
Wow! Your comment is straight up BS, and racist against EVERYONE now. YOU decided that the same people who use Yiddish words like shvartze would also make such comments? YOU my friend are the racist.
• chaim says:
You are wrong. You obviously do not speak Yiddish, or at least not well. Being that its my first language, I can tell you that you are simply stirring the pot. Secular Jews love to think that Shvartz is racist, speak Yiddish and then come back and give us your “educated: opinion.
24. egreg says:
If you can’t change everybody, change your perception. Reclaim the word!
Yid in Polish means Jew and there is no othet. In Russia it means Kike. You see, it is a matter of perception, but the word is the same.
Chassidic Jews in Crowd Heights happen to live next to Black neighbors they don’t like. Israeli Jews say stuff about Arabs – I just came from a visit. Sad to say you are hearing the tensions between two cultures. Just be happy that Chassidic Jews stop at talking and don’t beat people up.
Do you think I like it when girls say that all guys are after one thing, and don’t give me a chance to invite them on a date because of what previous guys said or did? Or what they were told? They don’t even know me.
This is the problem. You can’t change everybody. Embrace the word Schwartze and use it in positive ways! Show them that their Schwartze is just a point of view.
25. meira says:
I agree. The word is simply derogatory. Unfortunately it is so part of certain communities vocabulary. I do not use the word. If I don’t like a person, its not bassed on there color bit there actions.
More peAce.
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28. Fredda Finkelstein says:
I am not trying to be racist (nor do I believe that I am), a smart ass or derogatory in any way. I have a question. If I were in a room with ten male soldiers, dressed identically, of the same height and build and say to you, “I love that man, he saved my life and I will forever be indebted to him”. Nine of the men are white and one is not. If you were to ask, “Which man are you talking about?”, how would I refer to him?
• wsg says:
As a man.
By the way, did you know that 30% of “white men” have 3% black genes? If I am a a 3% black Jew, am I shvartze? The author is perhaps a 50% black Jew. At what percent is the label shvartze justified?
29. Sandra says:
Thank you for posting. As another Jew of color I look forward to reading more from you and connecting with you more online.
30. rutimizrachi says:
Wow. I think about the words they could write on my forehead. “FAT.” “TOO OLD.” “SETTLER.” My son put your post on his Facebook page. Here’s our discussion:
David Eastman: A true tragedy that an article of this nature would have to be written about and to the Jewish community.
Ruti Eastman: I take pride in the memory that your father and I deprogrammed you when you came home from school with words like “schvartze” and “goy.” When people say they only mean “black” and “person of another nation (other than the Jewish people),” we would say that the argument might hold up if you spoke Yiddish primarily, and if it weren’t said with the same tone used for an epithet. Thank you, David Eastman, for upholding your parents’ values.
David Eastman: The entire time I was reading the article and the subsequent comments (some of which read: “It just means ‘black’ what’s wrong with saying that?!”), I kept thinking: Geez, am I glad my mama straightened me up early! So thank you, Ruti Eastman for giving me such values which I could then uphold.
Can’t fix the world. Can try, one child, one post, at a time. Thank you, Zein Shver, for getting it said.
31. yossel says:
It’s amazing. It’s obvious that the majority of the commenters do not speak Yiddish and are not acquainted with conversational Yiddish. For me Yiddish was my first language and I speak as a native tongue. To all those who insist that Shvartze has racial connotations sorry to bust your bubble, it does not! As stated many times above it’s just the color black. Of course one can use many words and with the proper inflection make it sound negative.I know the author personally and he is obsessed with this subject and he needs to get over it.
32. Jude says:
l don’t care if it’s the only word for the color & the only alternative is to say the cumbersome “that color that’s the opposite of white!” If a word is insulting & upsetting to a large number of people, then even though you bear no responsibility for it being that way & it happened eons before you were even born, DON’T F’N USE IT! What is not to understand?
33. I remember Sharpton Who’s Job is To find reason for Hate and to Fan it, He tried Convincing People that Black In Yiddish means N****R i Guess he got it into Some heads,
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35. anon says:
So how many of you who are in the ” shvartz means black” camp are ok with being called a Jewboy? I mean, if you’re male and a Jew it shouldn’t bother you, right?
36. Elizabeth says:
What an extraordinary amount of desperate rationalizations for using a derogatory word. I’ve never heard “Shvartse” used with admiration. It’s not a neutral word. “Shvarts” is an acceptable adjective for black – mayne shiklekh zaynen shvarts (My shoes are black). “Shvartse”, however, is an unacceptable noun for the n-word. The real point for any vehement defenders of the word’s usage: As a Jew who is commanded to make the world a better place and not to commit the aveyra of embarassing anyone – are you willing to STOP using a word that is obviously causing someone pain? Are you utterly incapable of coming up with a substitute word, or is your vocabulary as limited as your imagination and compassion?
• Milhouse says:
Bull. How do you say “my black shoes”, if not “maine shvartze shich”?
And there is no aveira in recognizing that someone is different. If they feel embarrassed by it it’s their own problem.
You know, the more I think about this the more I realize what the underlying problem is. This entire concept that being aware of the differences between people is “wrong” is part of a much greater agenda. In fact even the concept that actual racism is some sort of aveira is part of the same agenda, which is to claim that something which all our grandparents took for granted, something that 20 and 50 and 100 and 200 years ago was considered completely normal, can suddenly become wrong. And underlying that is the idea that we know better than our ancestors. That they were ignorant and wrong, and we are better than them. Well, this idea is ANTI-TORAH. We have no right to say or to believe such a thing. We are not better than our ancestors, we are worse. Yeridas hadoros is a fundamental belief in Judaism; as time goes on, the generations go down, not up. We must look up at the past, not down. If something was good enough for our righteous ancestors then it should be good enough for us.
And that is what bothers me about this whole push to change our society and to introduce new moral principles that our fathers and grandfathers did not dream of. I reject actual racism because it’s stupid and illogical, but not because it’s immoral. It isn’t immoral; the worst one can call an actual racist is “unsophisticated”. But when the word “racism” gets applied to actions, beliefs, or attitudes that are not stupid or illogical, but on the contrary are solidly based on statistics and common sense, then it’s not only not immoral, it’s not even wrong, and on the contrary rejecting it is stupid and illogical.
• Shannon-Jo says:
“Racism is generally defined as actions, practices or beliefs, or social or political systems that are based in views that see the human species to be divided into races with shared traits, abilities, or qualities, and especially the belief that races can be ranked as inherently superior or inferior to others, or that members of different races should be treated differently.”
You say that we are worse than our grandparents. I beg to differ. In our grandparents’ day, because of the pigmentation of my skin (and its ability to withstand sun exposure for longer times without burning), the width of my hips (which makes me more capable to pushing out children and getting back to work quicker) and the belief that these and other characteristics somehow made me inferior to someone of a lighter skin tone, I’d be sold into slavery. Fast forward to today. I’m an attorney. See the difference?
Just because certain ways were acceptable once upon a time doesn’t make them right. It is anti-Torah to disregard the fact that we are ALL created in HaShem’s image (not just fellow Yidden), and entertaining naked and gratuitous contempt for anyone created in HaShem’s image—let alone an entire category of them based on color, eye shape, gender, national origin, or what-have-you—violates the fundamental inviolate human dignity resultant from all of us having been created in this image.
There is nothing wrong with recognizing that people are different (I personally prefer taller men to shorter ones and squared rimmed glasses tend to look better on rounder faces). The problem occurs when these differences are used to hurt and marginalize others—especially when we KNOW that our brother or our sister is hurting and feels marginalized—and instead of trying to heal that pain, we pretend that the infliction of said pain is okay because “thou shalt not be racist” isn’t explicitly written in the Torah.
• Milhouse says:
Shannon-Jo, who are these people who “generally” define it that way? Those people are wrong. Or, if they’re right, if that is the definition of racism, then there is nothing wrong with it, and every decent person should refuse to allow it to be used as an accusation.
That we are worse than our ancestors is a fundamental belief of Judaism. You “beg to differ”? Your request is denied. You have no right to differ. This is what the Torah teaches us, therefore it is by definition true. If modern attitudes are different from those of long ago, what makes you think the modern ones are right? What makes them right?
In our grandparents’ day, because of the pigmentation of my skin […] I’d be sold into slavery.
That is a vicious lie. There has never been a time when people were sold into slavery because of their skin color. Never. You are entitled to your own opinions but you are not entitled to your own facts. You have no right to make things like that up.
The ancestors of black Americans were not enslaved because they were black! They were enslaved in Africa, where everyone was black, so how could that be the reason they were enslaved? It’s obvious that they were enslaved for the same reasons people have been throughout history, i.e. by being captured in war, or for crimes, or because their parents were poor and sold them, or they fell into poverty and had to sell themselves. It had nothing to do with their race.
Remember that the Torah has no problem with slavery. In fact the Torah commands us to keep our slaves forever, and not to free them. לעולם בהם תעבודו.
No, Hashem’s image is the holy neshomoh that He put in us, and only in us. We say every morning that “man has no advantage over animals, for everything is meaningless, except for the pure neshomo”.
Deliberately inflicting pain on anybody is wrong; even on an animal, how much more so on a human being. But if someone chooses to be hurt in a ploy to gain control over his fellow people, we should not enable such behavior. Playing victim does not give someone moral authority.
37. milhouse says:
Racism is an aveira.
38. a yid says:
while shvartze can have derogatory usage at times, it is definitely not the same as “nigger”. it is extremely unfortunate that you are having these experiences. maybe better to move to israel?
i don’t think putting the word on your forehead is wise. as you said, you are more than your ethnicity. you are a jewish person, period. i wish you the best.
39. moonlight1021 says:
Perhaps we should ask a different question: is the word Shvartze the issue or rather underneath it, the “real” word is goy? That is people associate black folks with being not Jewish or even white folks who “don’t look Jewish” with being not Jewish? If the issue is the skin color, then they’re trying to say Jews cannot “really” be black because the majority of Jews are not black. and if they are black, then it’s because “something happened”: whether it was intermarriage or a conversion that took place. and when it comes to conversions, we’re dealing with the entire debate about who is really a Jew and who isn’t and is the conversion legitimate or not? I think one of the lost tribes was black, there are also the Ethiopian Jews returning who are black….perhaps if we had more black Ortho Jews in the community, then the rest of klal yisroel would not find it so strange anymore….perhaps we need black Jews and Asian Jews and everyone else to speak up and say we are Jewish, here we are, not everyone is white and Ashkenazi, there is much diversity in the community. In the Holocaust too, when the Ashkenazim met the Sephardim who didn’t speak Yiddish, they thought they’re not Jewish because they didn’t speak Yiddish….The list can go on….We also need a more positive attitude towards converts also who also have a hard time if they don’t fit a certain label…and perhaps the matter is not that you’re not white enough, even if you were white completely, you would’ve still had issues if you were labeled as “not looking Jewish enough” (whatever that means). And it wouldn’t stop there, it could go on also about the shape of your noise, your accent, if the country in which you were born had enough of a Jewish community etc…. in regards to you though, if I can raise a suggestion….perhaps what makes you different is not necessarily the color of your skin. there are plenty of Jews with a darker skin color than yours….perhaps the issue may be your beard which is of dark color making you look darker so if you had less facial hair, it would help people see your face better…
40. A courageous post and an important topic.
Yiddish language and linguistics being my area of interest, I do feel the need to comment regarding the linguistic issues that have been brought up.
On the one hand, the word שװאַרץ, /shvarts/, is in fact the only word for the color black in Yiddish. So there can be nothing problematic about its usage in Yiddish when not referring to people. It may be of interest to note that the traditional use of the word שװאַרצער /shvartser/ (the added -er makes it into a noun-like word) when referring to a person actually meant someone with dark-colored hair or features — as opposed to, say, a געלער /geler/, a light-haired person. The referent more often than not was Jewish. The older standard, neutral word for black-skinned person was נעגער /neger/. The word still appears, to the consternation of many students I’m sure, in one of the first chapters of the textbook College Yiddish, written in the 50s. Due to the phonetic similarity to the English racial epithet, this word has seen sharply decreased usage, at least in America. שװאַרצער /shvartser/ has to a great extent taken its place as the neutral word for black person in Yiddish. Though as in English, there are some alternatives, for example טונקל־הױטיקער /tunkl-hoytiker/, literally “dark-skinned”. אַפֿריקאַנער־אַמעריקאַנער /afrikaner-amerikaner/ is used sometimes but is not adequate when referring to black people outside America.
The word שװאַרצער /shvartser/ is not in and of itself derogatory in Yiddish. For instance, this newspaper article (http://yiddish.forward.com/articles/172478/th-anniversary-of-the-march-on-washington/), an obviously positive retrospective on the March on Washington, uses the word שװאַרצע /shvartse/ six times. That is not to say the word cannot be pronounced with derision. But it is essentially neutral, largely equivalent to “black person” in English.
Until now we have dealt with the usage in the Yiddish language. In English, the case is entirely different. ‘Schvartze’, the word Ben had written on his forehead, is a (Jewish) English word that was borrowed from Yiddish. However, in English, the word is primarily (if not only) used in a derogatory manner. This makes it a racial slur. Just because the word it is borrowed from and still sounds like in Yiddish is neutral does NOT make the term neutral when used in English, and no knowledge of Yiddish is necessary to understand its meaning. Words do not have an unchangeable essence — rather, they are defined by their usage. When you say ‘schvartze’ in an English sentence, you are not “switching into Yiddish” for one word. You are using a racial slur in the English language.
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42. Motl says:
So then what term would you like? אַפֿריקאנישׁ, Afrikanisch.
The word (Schvartze) comes from German and just means black. The negativity for me comes in how its used. But that could go for any human descriptive word.
Why do we have to describe any Jew by colour. A Jews, a Jews is a Jew.
43. AJR says:
Dear Zein, I really appreciate your article and the only criticism that I have is that it is WAY OVERDUE. After the process of becoming a Bal Tuvah, I was deeply saddened by the prejudice and terms that I found to be expressed by certain religious people. These types of terms are often so numbly and openly expressed in our religious world. While I have argued with and tried to explain to people about their negative use of terms like “Schvartze” and also”Goy” (for many, many year), this plea and my words are coming from a categorized “White”, (of European decent), Jewish woman. This is rather than coming from an African American Jewish man, such as yourself. So I say thank you, thank you for the picture and article and while I am so glad that you did this, this type of expression and speaking out, is WAY overdue! BTW, I have poetry that is published on this subject matter. Let me know if you would like me to send some poems to you! Sending you blessings for much success and healing in your path. -AJR
44. Simcha says:
Ohmagawd the frum community is in complete and total denial about how racist we all are! GUYS. If you’re Ashkenazi in America, you were deemed WHITE by the Anglo-Protestants who hustled you through Ellis Island AGES AGO. When that happened, you all entered the same glorious ethnic hierarchy our ancestors were battling for centuries in Europe with the goyim! Read up on your history, shut up and listen to the minority- weren’t ya’ll slaves in mitzrayim??
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47. I still remember the time a non-Jewish friend used the expression “Jew him down”. Before I had time to say anything he got extremely embarrassed and tried to correct himself with something like “I meant chew, not Jew”. I made allowances for the fact that he probably heard it many times growing up that that it was just a slip, etc, but the fact that I remember it over 40 years later points out that the friendship was never the same after that.
I can’t completely connect the above to the thread here except to imagine how I would feel about the S-word were I in Mr. Shver’s shoes or were I an African-American non-Jew.
• Milhouse says:
If he used “to jew down” in the sense of haggling, then why would any Jew take offense at it? It’s true, we Jews do like a bargain, and do try to haggle, or “handel” as we say in Yiddish. Why be upset when someone refers to that fact about us? Are you ashamed of it?! Do you want to be known as a spendthrift, who doesn’t notice the price of anything, and the whole world sees as an easy mark?!
The offensive use of “jew” is when it’s used to mean “to cheat”. That’s offensive because it isn’t true. Jews are not thieves or cheats, we play by the rules and try our hardest to win by them.
48. Carel van Leeuwen says:
Dear mr Faulding, how can i make apologies to you? I can not! It shockes me to read what is happening, B-H we have seen the other side as well, some one from the Dutch Suriname people did a giur at Yeshivat Machon Meir and he is B-H respected by every one. His name Shaul Yisrael. If you are on facebook you can see him. In the mean time may you have a Gut Shabbos and less hate,
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• Mood:
I hate these things.
Hmm.. wonder if I can do this with just Bohica songs.. (I haven't actually read most of the questions yet.. and someone remind me to get their new CD before the summer's out.. and some bohica clothing.. Tenshi, I'll let you borrow the CD, since I doubt you're ever actually gonna go ahead and download their stuff.. Uhh, right, back to the survey thingie >.>)
1. Best song to wake up to:
Doorway by Bohica
2. Best song to play over and over after a breakup:
Okay, yeah, I don't think Bohica's gonna work too well here.. not depressed or angry enough. In no particular order (and this is getting difficult since I'm in a good mood and all.. for various reasons ;)... Five for Fighting - Superman; Staind - For You (I think that's the song); Newfound Glory - Glory of Love; Blessid Union of Souls - Standing at the Edge of the Earth; Jars of Clay - Collide; Kylie Minogue stuff; Saliva - Always; Staind - Fade; Sugarcult - Crashing Down; Trust Company - Downfall; Virtue - Love Me Like You Do; Puddle of Mudd - Blurry; Type O Negative - Everything Dies; All That's Left - Creative Suicide; Tool - Sober; Cold - Stupid Girl
Okay, so I didn't do so badly. I'm sure I missed some stuff, though. XP
3. Song that reminds you of the good times in high school:
Hmm.. Wish I remembered the name of that song..
Woke up it was 7
Waited till 11
Just to figure out that no one would call
I think I got a lot of friends but
I don't hear from them
What's another night all alone
When you're spending every day on your own
Haha, I go down the halls singing that.. ^^
4. Song that reminds you of the good times in college:
Shouldda prolly tried to do the whole quiz with Blessid Union of Souls..
Wow, surprised I don't still have this one. Blessid Union of Souls - That's the Girl
5. Song that reminds you of your mother:
Hmm.. Russian songs are fun. ^^; Oleg Gazmanov - свежий ветер. I use that to poke fun at my mom all the time. ^^;
6. Best song to blast after a really bad day at work:
Uhh.. Green Day - Having a Blast? ^^; I used to play that all the time when I was depressed.. anger is more fun than depression. I tell ya, the glare I put on when listening to that wouldda made a thousand pound gorilla drop dead. ^^;
7. Song you'd like to dance to at your fictional wedding to your current celebrity crush:
Haven't had a celebrity crush in a couple years at least. Once I got my first girlfriend, I came to the conclusion that it was stupid to have celebrity crushes, so I stopped.
8. Song that makes you bawl every damned time:
Blessid Union of Souls - Standing at the Edge of the Earth is prolly the one that comes closest to that.
9. Song that makes you want to grab the nearest good looking person and do obscene things to them:
Well, no point in making a huge long list... XD ::thinks:: I guess Custom - Hey Mister, but that's just cuz it's funny. ^^; I dunno; I don't wanna do obscene things anymore. >.<
10. Best song to crank while driving 80 miles an hour on the open highway:
Only time I've gone 80 was when I was in a 70 zone coming up from Ft. Lauderdale. ^^; Uhh.. let's think. ::goes back to bohica to see if he can't find something:: HAHAHA! How about Playmates - Beep Beep? XDDD That's just funny.. but no, yeah ::goes back to find a song:: (I don't think bohica's gonna work >.<) Mmh.. Trust Company = Downfall?
11. Song that makes you laugh to even think about:
Custom - Hey Mister XDD
12. Song that makes you think deep thoughts:
Hmm... I dunno.. Sugar Cult - Crashing Down? Oh, Newfound Glory - Glory of Love.
13. Song that reminds you of your crush, real or celebrity:
Bohica - So Lost; Blessid Union of Souls - That's the Girl; (And, of course, the constant) Smash Mouth - I'm a Believer (Shush, I know it's a cover)
14. Song that never ever gets old, no matter how many times you hear it:
Anything Blessid Union of Souls or Bohica; Eiffel 65 - Blue
15. Song that you know all the words to, and can't help singing along with every time:
Uhh.. I don't think I know all the words to any songs. When I'm looping them over and over, I sometimes learn a whole song.. I guess I might still remember Five for Fighting - Superman
16. Song that you'd most like to erase from existence:
Umm.. nothing comes to mind, and I doubt that going through my MP3s would help me find one. XP
17. Song you'd most like to see performed live (that you haven't yet):
OLP - Somewhere Out There, just so that I can bring a buncha people. XP
Well, that took me about an hour.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50210 | Day 7 of Deuteronomy 28
The first slaves to arrive in the English speaking colony of Pilgrims was in 1619. That means for this generation it would mark the 400 year anniversary in August. Often when people think of so called Black history they distance those of so called Hispanic descent. When in fact they are the same “Black” people. Before the slave ship arrived …
The Bill of Divorce
In our previous post we wrote of the epidemic of (70%) divorce among so called black women. To resolve this among our Israelite sisters the first thing they must learn is the only reason that divorce is allowed according to God! Matthew 5:31 “It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:” Verse 32: “But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.”
This means for a man or woman to divorce from their spouse the reason must be fornication. Meaning sexual immorality such as adultery. But the big problem today is that Babylon the whore has been raising our daughters therefore the meaning of adultery has changed. While many so called “Israelite” teachers cater to what is popular in this society we instead want solutions. Matthew 11:6 “And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.” To our people there are topics that seem taboo or controversial because their minds are filled with filth. Yet the households of our people are broken and the results speak for themselves. What is deemed acceptable by the world of sin brings about failure. We need to restore the old paths that was our foundation of rock and that our nation was built upon. Isaiah 58:12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.”
P.S. radio updated.
God Hates Divorce
The origin of the English word “Divorce” comes from the Latin word divert, which is the same word where we get DIVERT from. When looking at statistics from 2014 it stated that 70% of marriages of so called black women end up in divorce. This is a revealing fact that shows we need to return to the honorable marriage of the scriptures. Deuteronomy 28:54 “So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall LEAVE:” Since the days of chattel slavery our people have been diverted away from the true understanding of marriage. This was done to destroy the households of our nation causing division and separation. How much more so now with the legalization of homosexual marriages? It should be evident that the marriages according to the world are of sin. The statistical report specify reasons why divorce is prevalent among our people; such as poverty, females earning surpassing her male companion therefore causing the traditional household to be in jeopardy. When reviewing all the reasons it is evident that the scriptural way to get married and run a household would solve all the issues of the broken homes in our communities. Hebrews 13:4 “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.” Yet many so called awakened brothers continue to divert our people away from the scriptures causing divorce and adultery to be among the Israelites. In this audio lesson we learn that God hates divorce and will judge those that teach diversions.
P.S. radio playlist was updated earlier this morning. Shalam (Peace)! |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50218 | Saturday, June 6, 2009
I CAN do this. I think. Maybe.
Ever have something you know you need to do, something that is necessary and probably will even be good for you, but you have to psyche yourself up for actually doing it?
That's where I am. The circumstances of my weekend necessitate it. The state of my house is begging for it. My children will be refreshed by it. But the mere prospect scares the heck out of me.
I guess the best thing to do is just take a breath and jump.
Here goes, once I finish this post, I am going OFFLINE for 36 hours -- 36 HOURS! That's more than a whole day.
No sneaking in to send a few tweets. No speed-round Scrabble games. No Facebook forays. No checking my e-mail via the iPhone. I think I might have to have the kids hide my laptop.
Go ahead and leave a comment here -- or not -- I won't know until 9pm tomorrow night.
Until then, have a great weekend!
Eternal Lizdom said...
You are BRAVE! I'm going to semi-follow your lead since my mom will be here in an hour for an overnight visit!
Unknown said...
Inspired! Belinda |
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Forum: Anime 05-07-2012, 02:17 AM
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Re: Suggestions?
It's weird when you think that Ef - A Tale of Memories, at least the Chihiro story, has the same underlying concept as an Adam Sandler movie (Fifty First Dates).
I would like to recommend Eureka...
Forum: Previous Gen 01-22-2012, 07:39 PM
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Re: Soul Calibur Legends
I remember this. Conceptually I think they were trying to do what Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks did: use the fighting game combat in an action adventure game, though apparently not nearly as...
Forum: Manga 01-22-2012, 01:32 AM
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Posted By Gatx
So I just found out more info, though the manga has been released for a while. It's called RéBURST, and ohhhh man.
So anyone a fan of Digimon? Remember the 4th season? This is like that; the...
Forum: Anime 01-13-2012, 11:27 PM
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Views: 4,344
Posted By Gatx
Winter 2012
Well why not, since no one's posted anything like this yet... So far I've seen:
"Another" - Which is another horror anime that has failed to be scary or creepy, though not for lack of trying. Also...
Forum: General 10-31-2011, 10:22 PM
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Views: 6,756
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Re: The College Topic!
I'm attending a public university. Luckily the college I'm at accepted a lot of the AP tests I took as actual credit towards GE requirements instead of just as electives so I'm actually now a year...
Forum: Movies 10-12-2011, 06:04 PM
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Views: 8,646
Posted By Gatx
The Avengers Trailer
I am so excited for this movie.
Though I do kind of wish Marvel would stop using rock music for EVERY trailer. I mean, how about an epic orchestral number?
Forum: Vidja Games 09-16-2011, 12:34 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 12,359
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Re: League of Legends
I used to play with some friends from my dorm floor last year. I stuck with Taric mostly. Started to branch out more and play more support characters like Ramus and Malphite. Also I'm "theoretically"...
Forum: General 09-04-2011, 03:43 AM
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Views: 62,210
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Re: What grinds your gears?
People who refer to "Code Geass Gaiden: Bōkoku no Akito" and "Code Geass: Shikkoku no Renya" as R3 and think they'll be sequels. Especially true in the case of "Akito" because it freakin' says...
Forum: General 09-04-2011, 03:38 AM
Replies: 31
Views: 28,254
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Re: What are the best and worst planets in the solar system?
That's why it counts for this topic, it's such a bad planet that it's not a planet anymore =P
Best planet: Earth (obvious reasons), or Mars (not so obvious reasons), can't decide
Worst planet:...
Forum: Vidja Games 08-29-2011, 04:43 AM
Replies: 26
Views: 14,438
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Re: Nintendo Wii U
Technically Nintendo doesn't have a monopoly on the motion market anymore, but honestly, the Kinect and Move aren't exactly successful. Kinect had the initial "wow factor" for casual and non-gamers...
Forum: Anime 08-09-2011, 09:55 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 7,501
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Re: Anime Fall 2011
Sweet, the new Unicorn episode comes out then. A lot of sequels to shows I liked, and a bunch of interesting shows. Looks like a good lineup.
Forum: Movies 08-08-2011, 12:47 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 10,452
Posted By Gatx
Captain America: the First Avenger
Has anyone seen this yet? It's been out for a while but I finally just saw it this weekend and I absolutely LOVED it. I'd have to say it's the best out of all the films in the Marvel Film Continuity...
Forum: Literature 08-02-2011, 03:00 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 9,674
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Re: Two Suns (original poem)
Just some quick comments.
Respectfulness is kind of unwieldy, "respect" alone gets the point across.
"Elegant" also seems a little extraneous in the last line, you're already conveying...
Forum: General 08-02-2011, 01:54 AM
Replies: 44
Views: 41,666
Posted By Gatx
Re: Random Survey - Where did you hear about us?
I think I was Googling something, and one of the hits was something posted in the forums, which is how I found out about this. Then my laptop broke down a couple days after and I listened to the...
Forum: Vidja Games 07-24-2011, 05:19 AM
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[Multi] Castlevania
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Re: Castlevania
Was this stuff made before Lords of Shadow actually came out? The graphics don't seems as good as the actual game.
It would be REALLY interesting from a narrative standpoint for Simon Belmont to...
Forum: Vidja Games 07-24-2011, 05:11 AM
Replies: 81
Views: 29,003
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Re: What Chu Playing Nao?
Finally gave in and picked up Mass Effect 2, had to play through the first Mass Effect again though, since I lost my save data when I reformatted my computer. Spent 20+ hours playing 2, so freaking...
Forum: Anime 07-24-2011, 05:03 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 7,453
Posted By Gatx
Re: Summer 2011
There's the Blade anime, as in those Wesley Snipes vampire hunter movies that a lot of people didn't know were actually based on Marvel comic books.
Blood C is pretty action heavy too, though...
Forum: Anime 07-23-2011, 06:02 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 7,453
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Summer 2011
Anyone watching anything? I thought it seemed kind of dry at first but there's a few interesting shows. So far Kamisama no Memochou, and Kamisama Dolls are the only one that I really like. Despite...
Forum: Anime 06-27-2011, 05:18 PM
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[Spoilers] Gundam AGE
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Re: Gundam AGE
Oh, actually I have some info about this too. It's not so much the next Gundam series as it is a sort of tie-in.
Gundam AGE is also a Level-5 RPG. Akihiro Hino and Level-5 were brought on to make...
Forum: Music 06-27-2011, 02:01 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 4,363
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Re: Favorite Yoko Kanno Soundtrack?
Sousei no Aquarion and/or Turn A Gundam
Forum: Forum Games 06-27-2011, 02:00 AM
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Views: 20,039
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Re: Zombies
You keep some pretty crazy stuff at your place, lol.
I have a . . . ceramic mug, and two unopened water filters . . . oh and a graphing calculator with drained batteries. I'm going to survive the...
Forum: General 06-27-2011, 01:57 AM
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Views: 33,889
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Re: If You Had a Death Note?
I'd do something completely different from all y'all. I'd write my own name in it, saying I'd die at the ripe old age of 90 something in my sleep, after planning out a moderately successfully, happy,...
Forum: Forum Games 05-15-2011, 02:53 AM
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Re: Name a hypothetical newspaper headline that would make you say "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
"Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will be exclusive for consoles"
Forum: Forum Games 05-15-2011, 02:51 AM
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Re: When I Say ___ What's the 1st Thing That Comes To Mind?
McDonald's Angus Burger
Forum: Manga 05-15-2011, 02:47 AM
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One Piece: I don't get it
Basically it's what it says, I don't get it. Of Jump's "Big Three," as I like to call them, I keep hearing that One Piece is the best but I've always been wary of starting it. For one, it's been...
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50249 | Wednesday, April 03, 2019
Pg. 99: Aaron Shulman's "The Age of Disenchantments"
Featured at the Page 99 Test: The Age of Disenchantments: The Epic Story of Spain's Most Notorious Literary Family and the Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War by Aaron Shulman.
About the book, from the publisher:
A gripping narrative history of Spain’s most brilliant and troubled literary family—a tale about the making of art, myth, and legacy—set against the upheaval of the Spanish Civil War and beyond
In this absorbing and atmospheric historical narrative, journalist Aaron Shulman takes us deeply into the circumstances surrounding the Spanish Civil War through the lives, loves, and poetry of the Paneros, Spain’s most compelling and eccentric family, whose lives intersected memorably with many of the most storied figures in the art, literature, and politics of the time—from Neruda to Salvador Dalí, from Ava Gardner to Pablo Picasso to Roberto Bolaño.
Weaving memoir with cultural history and biography, and brought together with vivid storytelling and striking images, The Age of Disenchantments sheds new light on the romance and intellectual ferment of the era while revealing the profound and enduring devastation of the war, the Franco dictatorship, and the country’s transition to democracy.
A searing tale of love and hatred, art and ambition, and freedom and oppression, The Age of Disenchantments is a chronicle of a family who modeled their lives (and deaths) on the works of art that most inspired and obsessed them and who, in turn, profoundly affected the culture and society around them.
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The Page 99 Test: The Age of Disenchantments.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50256 | Ancestors and siblings of process thought
While I’m scanning passages from C. Robert Mesle’s Process-Relational Philosophy, here are two more that inspired me.
The first passage appeals to my designer consciousness:
Descartes was wrong in his basic dualism. The world is not composed of substances or of two kinds of substances. There is, however, what David Ray Griffin calls an “organizational duality.” Descartes was correct that rocks and chairs and other large physical objects do not have minds, while humans do. In Whiteheadian terms, rocks are simply not organized to produce any level of experience above that of the molecules that form them. In living organisms, however, there can be varying degrees to which the organism is structured to give rise to a single series of feelings that can function to direct the organism as a whole. We can see fairly clearly that at least higher animals like chimps and dogs have a psyche (mind or soul) chat is in many ways like our own. This psyche draws experience from the whole body (with varying degrees of directness and clarity), often crossing a threshold into some degree of consciousness, and is able in turn to use that awareness to direct the organism toward actions that help it to survive and achieve some enjoyment of life. The self, or soul, then is not something separate from the body. It arises out of the life of the body, especially the brain.
The mind/soul/psyche is the flow of the body’s experience. Yet your body produces a unique mind that is also able to have experiences reaching beyond those derived directly from the body. We can think about philosophy, love, mathematics, or death in abstract conceptual ways that are not merely physical perceptions. Without the body, there would be no such flow of experience, but with a properly organized body, there can be a flow of experience that moves beyond purely bodily sensation. Furthermore, your mind can clearly interact with your body so that you can move, play, eat, hug, and work. There is a kind of dualism here in that the mind is not only the body but it is, in Griffin’s phrase, a hierarchical dualism rather than a metaphysical one. There are not two kinds of substances — minds and bodies. There is one kind of reality — experience. But experience has both its physical and mental aspects.
To my ears, this is a beautiful dovetail joint waiting to be fitted to extended cognition. “Rocks are simply not organized to produce any level of experience above that of the molecules that form them” but if a human organizes those rocks in particular ways, for instance drilling and shaping them into abacus beads, or melting them down to manufacture silicon chips, those rocks can be channeled into extended cognitive systems which in a very real way become extensions of our individual and collective minds. It is ironic to me that even at this exact instance, in typing out this sentence, a thought is forming before my eyes with the help of rocks reorganized as silicon chips which are participating in the “having” of this very thought. And if anyone is reading this and understanding it, my thought, multi-encoded, transmitted, decoded and interpreted by your own intelligence — rocks have helped organize this event of understanding! Humans help organize more and more of the “inanimate” world into participants of experience.
And now we are wading out into the territory developed by Actor-Network Theory, which asks, expecting intricately branching detailed answers: How do humans and non-humans assemble themselves into societies? I think the commonality within these harmoniously similar thought programs is their common rootedness in Pragmatism. It is no accident that Richard J. Bernstein saw pragmatism as a constructive way out of the unbridled skeptical deconstruction of post-modernism, and that Whitehead, who acknowledged a debt to Pragmatism, is said to offer a constructive postmodernism.
The second passage appeals to my newly Jewish hermeneutic consciousness. This is a quote by Whitehead:
The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.
This, of course, is a description of the hermeneutic circle, the concept that we understand parts in terms of the concepts by which we understand them, but that our concepts are often modified (or replaced) in the effort to subsume recalcitrant parts. We tack between focusing on the details and (to the degree we are reflective) revisiting how we are conceptualizing those details. These are the two altitudes Whitehead mentions: an on-the-ground investigation of detail and a sky-view survey of how all those details fit together.
This is an ancient analogy. The Egyptians made the ibis, an animal with a head like a snake (the lowest animal) and the body of a bird (the highest animal) the animal of Thoth, their god of writing, the Egyptian analogue to Hermes. Nietzsche also used this image in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and that is where I first encountered it.
An eagle soared through the sky in wide circles, and on him there hung a serpent, not like prey but like a friend: for she kept herself wound around his neck. “These are my animals,” said Zarathustra and was happy in his heart. “The proudest animal under the sun and the wisest animal under the sun — they have gone out on a search. They want to determine whether Zarathustra is still alive. Verily, do I still live? I found life more dangerous among men than among animals; on dangerous paths walks Zarathustra. May my animals lead me!” When Zarathustra had said this he recalled the words of the saint in the forest, sighed, and spoke thus to his heart: “That I might be wiser! That I might be wise through and through like my serpent! But there I ask the impossible: so I ask my pride that it always go along with my wisdom. And when my wisdom leaves me one day — alas, it loves to fly away — let my pride then fly with my folly.”
And I have seen the Star of David as an image of the synthesis of atomistic ground-up and holistic sky-down understandings. And this is one reason I chose Nachshon (“snakebird”) as my Hebrew name when I converted to Judaism.
(Eventually, I’ll have to try to connect process thought with my extremely simplistic and possibly distorted understanding of chaos theory. Eventually.)
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Emulators are small programs that enables your PC to play games that were originally made for Arcade Machines or Consoles. Once installed, go to the Games page, and download the games you want.
M.A.M.E. (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator)
Emulates: All kinds of Arcade Machines from different manufactures.
Download - Mame-UI (32-bit)
(Windoes: XP/Vista/Win7 32-bit)
Download - Mame-UI (64-bit)
(Windoes: XP/Vista/Win7 64-bit)
More are coming soon!
MAME-UI installation guide:
MAME is the most compatible and capable arcade emulator for multiple machines. There is a large community of developers, working to add new drivers for games. MAME was originally a DOS program, but Mame-UI is the Windows port of MAME. This tutorial is just a quick "get started" guide, not a complete manual.
Mame-UI comes in two versions: "Mame-UI64" and "Mame-UI32". MameUI64 is for the 64-bit version of Windows, and MameUI32 is for the 32-bit version of Windows.
extract the content of the downloaded zip-package to any directory you like. e.g.: "C:\Emulators\".. The package contains all files already inside the "MameUI32" or "MameUI64" directory, so this will be created automatically.
Placement & Installation:
I suggest you make a new folder called "Emulators" on your "C:" drive. You don't have to, but it makes things a little easier if you are not a computer geek. When the zip-package is extracted, go the the folder, and double-click the "MameUI32.exe" or "Mame64.exe" to start the program.
Browse the "All Games" folder!
When the program is running, click the "All Games" folder. Skim through this list. This is the -full- list. (Mame-UI doesn't come with these games! You need to download them this site separately! GAMES page) Most of the games are listed several times.
If you want to play the parent of a game (top of the stack), then all you need to do is download the parent. If you want to play one of special or localized versions, you need to download that version AND the main game as well. As you may have already noticed, arcade game zip files are all abbreviated. These abbreviations are shown in this list too, move the scroll bar to the right to see them.
*Never extract the contents of a game zip-package, because MAME uses the zip file itself.
*Never rename a game zip-package, because its MAME list's that exact name when detecting it.
Loading a game
Click on the Available folder and double-click on the game you which to play. Your first screen will say something about the game, just press any key to continue. Sometimes you have to wait a couple moments for the game to start.
When adding new games: just drag them into the "\ROMs" folder the the MAME installation folder, and Mame-UI will auto-detect them when you open the program again. If it doesn't, just press F5 to refresh, or go to File, Audit all games.
Enabling a game pad
Your game pad must be plugged in before you open Mame-UI.
1. Click on the Options menu then Default Game Options.
2. The "Default Game Properties" will pop-up. Click on the "Controllers" tab.
3. Check the box next to "Enable joystick input". If this option is shaded out, Mame-UI is not detecting your gamepad.
4. Click on Apply and OK.
That's it. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50274 | Austen Said:
Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels
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marriage status
mode of speech
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Mrs. Dixon had written most pressingly.
dear Miss Woodhouse's most obliging invitation.
thinking an airing might be of the greatest service—
Jane was quite unpersuadable; the mere proposal of going out seemed to make her worse.—
Jane would hardly eat any thing:—Mr. Perry recommended nourishing food; but every thing they could command (and never had any body such good neighbours) was distasteful. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50296 | Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Wordful Wednesday
Walkie talkies are so much fun.
Specially in your underpants.
And your Michael Jackson-esque glove.
10-4 ole buddy.
Over and out.
For more amazing WW head on over to Angie's Circus.
I just want to apologize to all the patrons at Target last night that were stopped in their tracks by my children while they sang and danced their way through the store.
They were many of you that were actually sought out and were sang directly too.
For that I am very sorry.
I thank you for your kind words even though I know you desperately just wanted be done with your shopping and home to your cozy PJ's.
You would think these girls were auditioning for a
Broadway Musical in Target.
Laurie Berkner's 'Gold Fish' and 'We Wish You A Merry Christmas' were the songs of choice.
Again thanks for your patience as you you tried to maneuver your shopping cart around my girls without running them over.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Over Achiever
Apparently you don't wanna be a class leader on the same day as one of my girls.
You will be put to shame in your patriotism.
I mean look at how much higher my kids flag is.
And look how proud she is.
Total Over Achiever.
If anyone knows who to call so my kid can audition to hold the flag for say the Superbowl...let me know.
I'm just saying.
Disclaimer: Olivia is a rock star flag holder as well.
If Olivia's mom is reading this I will totally pass along the audition information.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Funny Ph(F)rases Friday
Sorry I haven't been around much lately.
Apparently I am failing at multitasking...
Christmas is all I can handle at this point.
More entertaining conversations from my girls...
Charlotte: I don't like your Chicken cassehole Momma.
Me: You don't? Why not?
Charlotte: It's yucky, don't make it anymore. Ok?
Me: I will make note of that honey thanks.
Addison: Mommy your car is dirty. I think you need to get a new one.
Me: I wish it worked like that baby.
Charlotte: I am not gonna be your friend anymore sister. You peed on my blankie.
Addison: (crying) I didn't.
Charlotte: Yes you did, when you was sleeping.
Addison: (still crying) well then I am not gonna be your friend.
Me: Everyone is friends here. It was an accident.
To explain, somehow Charlotte's blankie ended up under Addison when she had an accident during the night. This was extremely traumatizing for Charlotte. Addison was heavily reminded of her mishap. But at least they are still friends :) |
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1: And it hath come to pass, In the latter end of the days, The mount of the house of Jehovah Is established above the top of the mounts, And it hath been lifted up above the hills, And flowed unto it have peoples.
2: And gone have many nations and said, Come and we go up to the mount of Jehovah, And unto the house of the God of Jacob, And He doth teach us of His ways, And we do walk in His paths, For from Zion doth go forth a law, And a word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.
3: And He hath judged between many peoples, And given a decision to mighty nations afar off, They have beaten their swords to ploughshares, And their spears to pruning-hooks, Nation lifteth not up sword unto nation, Nor do they learn war any more.
4: And they have sat each under his vine, And under his fig-tree, And there is none troubling, For the mouth of Jehovah of Hosts hath spoken.
5: For all the peoples do walk, Each in the name of its god -- and we, We do walk in the name of Jehovah our God, To the age and for ever.
6: In that day -- an affirmation of Jehovah, I do gather the halting one, And the driven away one I bring together, And she whom I have afflicted.
7: And I have set the halting for a remnant, And the far-off for a mighty nation, And reigned hath Jehovah over them in mount Zion, From henceforth, and unto the age.
8: And thou, O tower of Eder, Fort of the daughter of Zion, unto thee it cometh, Yea, come in hath the former rule, The kingdom to the daughter of Jerusalem.
9: Now, why dost thou shout aloud? A king -- is there none in thee? Hath thy counsellor perished, That taken hold of thee hath pain as a travailing woman?
10: Be pained, and bring forth, O daughter of Zion, As a travailing woman, For now, thou goest forth from the city, And thou hast dwelt in the field, And thou hast gone unto Babylon, There thou art delivered, There redeem thee doth Jehovah from the hand of thine enemies.
11: And now, gathered against thee have been many nations, who are saying: 'Let her be defiled, and our eyes look on Zion.'
12: They have not known the thoughts of Jehovah, Nor have they understood His counsel, For He hath gathered them as a sheaf [into] a threshing-floor.
13: Arise, and thresh, O daughter of Zion, For thy horn I make iron, And thy hoofs I make brass, And thou hast beaten small many peoples, And I have devoted to Jehovah their gain, And their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth!
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As well as me being a user and contributor to Wikipedia, I sometimes enjoy to make bad jokes for the fun of it. Below are most, if not all, of mine.
From Talk:Coriolanus (play)[edit]
Is it me or does "coriolanus" sound like it means "runka"? --User:MichTheWeird 28 June 2005 20:46 (UTC)
From wp:[edit]
Cats (musical)[edit]
See this page.
From Wikipedia:Votes for deletion[edit]
This article is about votes for deletion. For the fictional organization mentioned in A Series of Unfortunate Events, see V.F.D..
From Coriolanus (play)[edit]
The tragedy revolves around Caius Martius Coriolanus, a brilliant Roman general whom, having been banished from Rome, possibly because of his extremely awful name that sounds liek it might mean "runka", ultimately leads an assault on that same city. Only the pleadings of his mother stop him from sacking Rome, a change of heart which leads to his destruction.
From Richard's macaroni and cheese[edit]
You do not want to know.
From SpongeBob SquarePants[edit]
this page
From Talk:Fawful[edit]
Who else is tihnkign that this should be moved to the article of "Duncvis"?
From Wikipedia:Sandbox[edit]
All your Fonzie are belong to us.
From Whole grain[edit]
Whole grain never made any sense to me. I mean, what health benefits could you get out of consuming the entire seed of something? Sounds to me like some hocus-pocus or something, not unlike when they said that milk helps burn fat, which is completely illogical considering the amount of fat milk has in it.
If you ask me, the health people are probably going crazy. If anything, this whole grain thing would most likely have to be a hoax of some crazy sort.
But ah, what is a brain compared to a fit body these days? People are considered great when they have an excessive amount of money, power, and/or have such an excellent body from eating hardly any calories, hardly any carbs, and exercising until they collapse on the ground from running completely out of calories and carbs. But how come the third way to be considered great is looked at that way? One word: obesity.
Oh, how I pine for the days when news was news, not a health column that had to say "obesity" in almost every other article. This epidemic abuse of a previously respected word made millions worry about their weight too much and some result in practically starving themselves. Another commonly abused word is "epidemic", which leaves me at the phrases "obesity epidemic", "epidemic of obesity", and pretty much every other way to paraphrase that that you can think of.
But how is this image supposed to be achieved with McDonald's stuffing Big Macs in your mouth every day as you drive home from work? This is where exercising, dairy, and whole grains come in, right? But who really has the time for that other than people like that guy in the Fitness Made Simple commercials?
And now back to the subject of whole grain and how they get it to be the miracle food. Of course, all us Americans sick and fed up of an overload of health news would absolutely love to know, wouldn't we?
Now only if we new. I guess we will all have to take deep breaths, wait for the health news to calm down, wait for "obesity" and "epidemic" to get removed from the dictionary (they're already both close to expletive status anyway), and hope to find out what it is that makes whole grain do everything it allegedly does.
Another from Archie Bunker[edit]
"I'm a nut."
From Fawful[edit]
See this page.
From All in the Family[edit]
To some of us, All In The Family seemed to not make a lot of sense. There had to be more going on in the Bunker household for everything to make sense. Here are some theories:
• Archie Bunker used to listen to Edith complain all the time about him early in their marriage. So, one day, he got her hypnotized to think he is the greatest thing on the face of the earth. (see Gerakobittsu complex) They both tried hard to hide what had happened, but it was subtly obvious.
• Edith is actually an android developed by the extremely intelligent mole people living underneath the Bunker house, and Gloria was adopted at a very young age and never took any notice to Edith's tolerance level of Archie.
• "Archie", "Edith", and "Gloria" are all actors testing Meathead to see how long until he realizes that everything that has been happening is a test to see how well he thinks.
• Archie and Edith are ferrets in human clothing. (This is quite odd, but it may be so. It would likely explain Edith's sqeeky voice, though.)
• It's all just a TV show! This is perhaps the most likely theory to be what was intended.
• The least (or perhaps most) likely theory, all of the above.
From Arielle[edit]
No drawing can properly picture Arielle's cuteness, but I am leaving this here for now.
Arielle is the cutest ferret ever. If you disagree, then please upload a picture of your ferret and post it on the talk page.
Arielle's favorite activities include chewing on objects (particularly part of one of those backpacks that lets Big Brother see the blue-filtered items you are carrying around), playing with Azrael (my other ferret), licking up the water in the bathtub, and sleeping. Aww.
Ar13ll3's l33t c00tn3ss also pwns j00.
From Duncvis[edit]
See this page.
Another from George W. Bush[edit]
You really scare me.
From Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga[edit]
Mario & Luigi has also achieved a small cult following among some people, most notably the great Mich the Weird.
From List of shock sites[edit]
MrMichaelButler.com shows girls with really awful "perfection" hair and makeup jobs....
From Prank flash[edit]
He is you. Not."
From Zigzagoon[edit]
Zigzagoon also appears as a Pokédoll alongside an Azurill doll in the Japanese version of the Hoenn episode "A Three Team Scheme!". This was edited out for the American version, ruining the marketing effect of Team Rocket showing them (on a table) off to Giovanni, or at least I am led to believe. They should have kept the dolls there.
From List of haunted locations[edit]
• Franklin Castle - Mansion in Cleveland, Ohio. This one is commonly thought to be a favorite of wine-os, as those are the most likely ghosts in there.
From Template:Pokerefs[edit]
From James[edit]
James lost his face. He also probably also lost Victory Bell along with it.
James is a person on Pokemon. He has blue hair, or maybe it's purple. He owns this big disgusting thing named Wheezing that spits out icky sludge and this giant dead fish named Victory Bell that trys to eat him.
James has tons of shrines for him up all over the internet. He has a goofy voice that sounds like my pap imitating his voice. His friend Jessie has this red hair that comes off for a few feet and curls very cartoon-like. They like each other.
James also lost his face the day he went to an Ebay auction. I feel sorry for him. The end.
From Cipher Pol[edit]
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50305 | Monday, April 1, 2013
Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote by Duncan Tonatiuh
Papa Rabbit and his friends head north to find work in the corn and lettuce fields. Crops have failed in Mexico due to the drought and they need money to raise their families so they leave with a promise to return with earnings.
Abrams Books for Young Readers sent me a copy of this book for review (thank you). It will be published in May, so make a note on your TBR list to pick it up at your local bookstore then.
When his father doesn't return as scheduled, Pancho decides to go after him. When he finds a coyote who tells him he knows a short cut, he's happy to follow his instructions. Unfortunately, the coyote is only in it for the food. (Just like the men who guide people over the boarder are called "coyotes" and are only in it for the money.)
We have a lot of immigrants here in Las Cruces. There are big farms and ranches and plenty of field work for them. They often don't get paid very much, but it's still much more than than they can earn or make in Mexico.
I like how this book was put together. It's very simple for children to read, there is a glossary at the back for the Spanish words, and this can be opportunity for discussion about an issue that is receiving a lot of attention right now. Be sure to point out that not all immigrants are Mexican; they come from other countries, too. This would make a good book to read aloud and discuss during classes or homeschooling, too.
Why not get a copy and travel along with Pancho and see what you think?
Happy reading.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50313 | Tag Archives: symbolic links
Dropbox powertip: Word recovery and customized auto-correct files
(In an earlier post, I explained how I use symbolic links to make the most of Dropbox. Read up on that process first–and install Link Shell Extension–before proceeding with the auto-correction tips below.)
I promised to demonstrate how symbolic links allow me to overcome some of the limitations of Dropbox–namely, the requirement that everything has to be located within the Dropbox folder, whereas some stubborn programs (I’m looking at you, Microsoft Office) insist on storing important configuration files in pre-determined folders on the root OS drive. In this post, I’ll describe how to relocate several Word-related files and folders so that they will be synced by Dropbox–and why this could be a big time-saver for you. The first two tips are relatively easy, and don’t require symbolic links because Word lets you specify the locations manually: autorecovery documents and custom dictionaries. The third tip–moving and syncing Word’s auto-correction database files–require symbolic links, but the potential payoff in your workflow efficiency makes up for it. (Note: I use Word 2007 on Windows 7 professional for both of my computers; your mileage may vary with other versions)
Part 1: AutoRecover documents
AutoRecover documents are the backups that are automatically created whenever you work on a Word document. If something causes Word to crash before the file is saved, the next time you open the program it will prompt you to look at these AutoRecover documents and determine if they should be saved or trashed. The most obvious reason for moving these to the cloud is to increase the chances of making a successful recovery of your work–e.g., imagine your laptop gets stolen while you’re in line buying a coffee. It won’t do much good to have an automatic backup of your important chapter draft / paper / screenplay if that backup is stuck on a hard drive you no longer have access to. It goes without saying that your most important final documents should already be saved to the cloud for safekeeping, so why not provide the same security to your drafts? I know sometimes I’ve written several pages of text before I get around to saving the document, giving it a name and location and thus enabling Dropbox to sync it. By relocating AutoRecover files to Dropbox as well, I know that my work is synced from the moment I start working on a new Word document (at least, assuming I have an internet connection).
The second, less obvious reason to move your AutoRecover files to Dropbox is that it enables you to make use of the automatic Previous Versions feature that Dropbox provides. This is one of the neat, less-utilized features of Dropbox that can sometimes really come in handy–like if you screw up an important bit of code on your website and need to ‘roll back’ to an earlier version, or if you’re writing a paper and delete some reference or bit of info that you think you won’t need, and later decide it would be a nice addition after all. If you’re using Dropbox to sync your files, you will find that you already have access to previous versions stretching back to the last 30 days. For another $39/year you can get unlimited backups–previous versions of every file in your Dropbox, stretching back to the very first draft!
If you navigate to your files on the Dropbox website and right-click on a file, you will see a link for Previous Versions at the bottom of the context menu (For this and all of the following images, just click on them to see a full size version):
42813-Dropbox-versions-1If you click on that button, it will load a page showing links to all of the previous versions available, including the time and date they were saved and which synced device they were uploaded from:42813-Dropbox-versions-2jpg
Just click on any of the Versions to download a copy of the file. Cool, huh?
So let’s move those AutoRecover files! First, head to the Options panel in Word — in Word 2007, it’s a small easy-to-miss button at the bottom of the File menu.
42813-Word-menuNext, click on the Save tab. This is a good time to set your AutoRecover to trigger more frequently than the 10 minute default. I set mine to 1 minute, as you can see below. To move your AutoRecover file location, just click on the Browse button and select a folder somewhere on your Dropbox. You can also set your default file location to your Dropbox, if you haven’t already. 42813-Word-save
That should do it–your AutoRecover files will now be backed up to the cloud!
2. Custom dictionaries
Another quick and easy modification, while we’re in the Word options menu, is to set the default custom dictionary to be located on the Dropbox. If you set all of your devices’ copies of Word to access the same file, you’ll be able to save time by avoiding the re-entry of custom words every time you switch computers. If you already have a hefty custom dictionary file, just copy it to somewhere on the Dropbox (maybe the same folder you set up for your AutoRecover files?) and then add it and set it as the default in Word on all of your devices. First, click over to the Proofing tab in the Options menu:
42813-Word-proofingNext, click on the Custom Dictionaries button and you should see the following context menu appear:
42813-Word-customdicAs you can see from the file path below the dictionary list, I’ve already set my default CUSTOM.DIC file to a location on the Dropbox. I use the same file for Word on my desktop and on my laptop, so I don’t have to repeat myself whenever adding new entries to the dictionaries.
3. Auto-correct database files
Finally, this last part requires the most work, but it can pay off if you use Word frequently. I like to manually type up notes from books that I’m reading, including entire paragraphs that I think I may want to reference later in my own writing. This requires a lot of fast typing, and I often make typos–in fact, I often make the same typos. In cases where it seems safe to create an auto-correct pattern to fix these for me, I do so. You can take a look at the patterns that are already built into the Word auto-correct database: just make a typo in Word, then right-click on it and select Autocorrect, then Autocorrect Options. At the bottom of the context menu is a list of words (on the left) that will automatically be replaced by other words (on the right). This is how Word is able to interpret (c) and turn it into a copyright symbol, for example–or create smiley faces based on emoticons. But there are also a lot of obvious, frequent typos that Word recognizes and automatically corrects: teh becomes the, agreemnet becomes agreement, etc. I suppose Microsoft could be forgiven for not including such typos as anthroplogy or hegmeonic–most folks probably don’t use these on a frequent basis, but I certainly do. I found that over time, as I experimented and added more auto-correct patterns to my laptop (my primary note-taking computer), it was saving me time and cleaning up my most-repeated typing errors. I wanted to extend this benefit to my desktop as well, but Word didn’t provide a way to relocate or specify the files where these auto-correct patterns are saved — they aren’t included in the custom dictionaries, described above.42813-Auto-correct
I did some research and found that the contents of custom auto-correct patterns are stored in a few files within the default folder on the C drive where Office likes to store configuration files: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Office These files are named according to a pattern: MSO(Language ID Number).acl, where the Language ID number is a 4-digit code corresponding to each of the languages that Microsoft has provided support for (a few dozen seem to be available). MSO1033.acl holds the entries for English; MSO1027.acl holds the entries for Catalan, etc. You may have more or fewer or different files depending on which languages you have installed support for in Word. Since Word requires these files to be located in the default folder, the only way I could sync them to Dropbox and share them across computers was to make use of symbolic links (described in an earlier post). I located the files on my laptop, copied them to a folder in my Dropbox, deleted the originals, then used Link Shell Extension to easily replace the originals with symbolic links to the synced copies in Dropbox. Then, on my desktop computer, I deleted the MSO…acl files and replaced them with symbolic links to the same synced copies in Dropbox. Now my desktop copy of Word draws from the same auto-correct patterns as my laptop, without my having to manually re-enter all of the patterns. And as I add new patterns on either computer, the other computer automatically benefits. Time saved!
Essential software: Link Shell Extension
One of the key ingredients in many of my Dropbox ‘hacks’ is the symbolic link. In a nutshell, symbolic links are like post-it notes that tell your computer “Hey, I moved these files. Here’s a map to where they are now, but just pretend like they’re in the original spot. Kthxbai!” If you’ve ever created a shortcut in Windows, this may sound like the same thing. The crucial distinction is that most programs will follow the map to the relocated files and behave as if they are still in the original location. Why is this so great? Because it allows you to both 1) surpass one of the chief ‘limitations’ of Dropbox and 2) save virtually any file or folder on your computer to the cloud, either for backup or to sync between multiple devices. It also allows you to move files from small, crowded drives (like a solid state drive) to larger or more spacious drives, hopefully without breaking any functionality in the process.
Anyway, symbolic links are normally created using the command line interface, which is tedious and leaves a lot of room for error (e.g., accidentally mistyping one character could leave your files in limbo). Enter Link Shell Extension. This freeware utility adds a context menu inside the Windows File Explorer. Whenever you right click on a file or folder, you’ll see a new option to “Pick Link Source.” After picking a source, you can navigate to another folder and right click again to ‘Drop’ the source as any of a number of types of links. For my purposes, I always use symbolic links.
I’ll show some specific examples of files that I’ve moved to Dropbox and symbolically linked to their original location in other posts. For now, I’ll just outline the general method:
1. Locate the files you want to move. It’s probably best to move the entire folder, so you can more easily keep track of everything — and in case additional files are generated or added to the folder in the future.
2. Copy the folder/files, either with Ctrl+C or using the right-click context menu.
3. Navigate to wherever you want the files to reside–either inside your Dropbox, if you’d like to sync them to the cloud, or to a more spacious drive if you’re trying to save space on your SSD.
4. Paste the folder/files. You may want to create a new folder just for storing and organizing all of your symbolically linked files.
5. Now return to the original files/folder and delete them. This will free up the space they were using. Alternatively, you could cut and paste in step 2 instead of copying, but if your system encounters problems while removing the files (e.g., files that are still in use by a running program), it can make a mess of things–some files will be deleted, others won’t. I prefer copying and then deleting because I know I have a full backup of everything sitting in my destination folder, so I can use every tool at my disposal to delete the originals without worrying about losing anything.
6. Navigate to your copied files, e.g. in the folder you created inside your Dropbox folder. Once you’ve installed Link Shell Extension, use the new context menu option to select this folder as the Link Source: link-shell-start
7. Now navigate back to the original location of the files you copied/cut/deleted, and right-click again to use Link Shell Extension to Drop the source as a symbolic link:link-shell-drop
8. Voila! Your computer will basically treat the symbolically linked files as if they were never touched; if you edit them, the changes will still be saved just like before. The difference is that they are now physically stored in a different location, and if they’re inside your Dropbox, you can share them with your other devices. This means that even if you didn’t install a given program inside your Dropbox folder to begin with–or if the program stores its configuration files in another directory, like C:\Users… or C:\AppData…– you may still be able to sync those files while satisfying the program’s insistence on locating its files in predetermined folders on your C drive. I’ll offer some more concrete examples of how this is a handy feature in future posts.
Head on over to the source page to download Link Shell Extension or to read a LOT more about all of the program’s functions. If you find it useful like I do, please send a donation to Hermann Schinagl, the creator.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50319 | Friday, March 25, 2005
Da Stand
Ya know, as one of the head-freezing set I'm normally not one to critique bleeding-edge science. For example, I'm all in favor of the atom smashing going on at the Brookhaven Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), where they're smashing gold nuclei together at greater than 99.99999% the speed of light, in an attempt to create "quark gluon plasmas" ... that *just* *might* have less than an 0.00001% chance of creating a new big bang and destroying the universe.
Why am I not afraid? Becuase of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, which regularly bombard the Earth's atmosphere with far, far more energy than we can make in our measly human particle accelerators.
So if the universe could end over something like this, it'd be ending all the time.
I don't have such a cavalier attitude towards the attempt to mix bird flu and human flu, in which "what health officials fear most about bird flu ... acquiring genes from a human flu virus ... is getting under way in a high level biosecurity laboratory."
Why does this worry me, when news that the Brookhaven collider might have been spawning black holes does not? It's simple. The mixing of genes between pathogens, while it does happen in nature, is rare and hasn't yet happened between avian and human influenza. So while I don't worry about something dangerous that MIGHT happen relating to a phenomena that DOES happen all the time, as at Brookhaven, I do get worried about trying to create something that COULD but DOESN'T happen precisely because you are worried that something bad MIGHT happen. If you're really that worried that avian flu and human flu might combine into a world-ravaging pandemic ... why are you trying to make it happen?!?
Now, in reality, I'm not saying stop work. By all means --- if they can figure out how avian and human influenza tick and develop a proactive vaccine, more power to you. But ... haven't these guys seen or read The Stand?
I'm not joking around here. Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor included (spoiler alert) terrorists crashing an airliner into the Capitol building in Washington, long before 9/11. Ignore the crazy conspiracy theories --- the point is that what happened at 9/11 should not have come as a great surprise to anyone. We should have been prepared for this from the getgo, because a known failure mode had been examined and exposed. Or maybe the larger point is that speculative fiction enables us to wargame possible scenarios and prepare ourselves to deal with them --- or avoid them.
True, you can't live your life based on what you read in novels. For example, David Brin's Earth presages the kind of work going on at Brookhaven ... illustrating graphically the disasters that might happen if a man-made black hole fell into the Earth's core. I'm not worried about this, because I know that at the size range of the black holes we might create, quantum effects will dominate over gravitational effects and the black holes would evaporate before it had a chance to eat anything. This mental model of physics is helps me understand what's going on at Brookhaven and gives me the confidence to give them a walk on what they're trying to do. SO while fiction can spark our imaginations, it can't replace thought --- we need to develop mental models of the situations at hand and apply them rationally.
This is precisely the same kind of mental model that I use for my work in artificial intelligence --- knowing what artificial intelligence is and how it works enables me to realistically gauge the risks --- creating a superintelligent machine, for example (a very low probability event!) --- and to take steps to mitigate that risk appropriately --- namely, don't put any machinery that can take human life in the hands of your intelligent machines (much less Mankind's entire collection of nuclear weapons, as people seem to want to do in the movies)!
This is not because artificial intelligence researchers fear a superintelligent machine taking over a la Colossus the Forbin Project or the Terminator. Quite frankly, we'd be tickled pink if a superintelligent machine showed up, but we're not holding our breath waiting. No, the reason you don't put dangerous machinery in the hands of intelligent machines is because of the far more realistic --- and realized --- fear that so-called "intelligent" machine will make a stupid mistake because of bad programming and hurt somebody because, in reality, the machines we can make are just not smart enough to take over the world --- they're not even smart enough to even realize what they are doing.
So. Perhaps the workers at the CDC combining the avian and human influenza strains have a similar mental model of epidemiology which enables them assess the risks realistically and structure their work appropriately. Let's hope so.
We're very concerned.
-the Centaur
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50322 | Satellite Innovation in 60 Years and 60+ exactEarth Payloads
Posted by Nicole Schill on Oct 25, 2017 10:26:04 AM
Earlier this year, exactEarth began operating the single largest AIS satellite constellation in the world. To emphasize the impact of that fact, we’d like to take you through a brief history of satellite technology. We know that satellite technology kick started to worldwide accolades with Sputnik I. With that singular launch of a satellite that was a metallic ball with a 58cm diameter, weighing 83.6kg, the real-life space age was born. In the 60 years that have followed, space technology has leapt to human space travel, and global communication the likes of which leave no end of the Earth unreachable. How did we get here so quickly? Through healthy competition and our love of multitasking.
Space exploration started with the United States and the then USSR, the latter reaching the finish line first with Sputnik I – but the U.S. wasn’t too far behind with their own satellite launch in 1958.
A brief synopsis of NASA’s history with satellites in those first 30 years provides a thorough narrative of satellite technological growth globally in those early days. From the end of the 1950s through the 1960s NASA launched the first meteorological satellite, the first privately constructed satellite – and the first of its kind to transmit phone and television signals. The 1970s launched: Landsat 1, which reported back about land use, vegetation, and crops; more weather observation; and Seasat-A, which first detected oceanic information. In the 1980s information about the depletion of the ozone layer in the Antarctic was received via satellite, many more communication satellites launched, and it was announced that NASA would no longer launch commercial satellites. In those first few decades satellites were very much experimental and their lifespans varied. Seasat-A, for example, lasted just over 100 days. It wasn’t unheard of for space missions to include satellite repairs. By the 1990s satellites were sent out into space to observe planets, and just generally became a normal part of living on Earth. How old were you when you could look up at the night sky and confidently tell the difference between a star, a plane, and a satellite? For many, it’s now a common distinction.
And, of course, during this time human space travel began and has been significantly improved with global contributions. Since then satellite technology has been made available for personal use in a multitude of ways, including our favourite everyday tools such as GPS, television, and valuable satellite phone connection in areas of the world where cellular service isn’t available.
At our beginnings in 2009 with exactAIS, exactEarth set out to deliver quality, efficient, and user-friendly marine vessel tracking. We achieved a high standard of quality service with 9 payloads from our first-generation constellation and have taken leaps forward to improve upon that service.
Our most recent launch this month of 9 new real-time payloads, part of our next generation constellation - exactView RT powered by Harris aboard Iridium NEXT, brings the total real-time payloads launched to 22. This is a significant step closer to the final 70+ combined payloads expected in 2018. In 60 years satellite technology has gone from rudimentary trials with spectacular results, and in less than 10 that same technology has provided revolutionary information the world over for safety, commercial innovation, and environmental protection. The best yet is coming online right now.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50326 | unicode is faster than decode
This might come as a surprise, but in python 2.7, it's actually faster to decode strigs with unicode function, than decode method.
>>> from timeit import Timer
>>> s = "grzegrzółka"
>>> ts = Timer(lambda: s.decode('utf-8'))
>>> ts.timeit()
>>> tu = Timer(lambda: unicode(s, 'utf-8'))
>>> tu.timeit()
Of course, unicode method isn't valid for python3, but you can always mock it's behaviour for py3 in some compat.py file, but... strings in python3 are finally unicode, not ascii like in python2.7,so unless you develop some nice library, you probably know what python version will be running your project.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50328 | The Accidental Lifelogger
The Accidental Lifelogger 3
Guest blog post by: Tobias Malm
Photo of Tobias Malm
A lifelogger is a person who documents big parts of their life by photographing, writing, filming et cetera. You could compare it to a captain who documents their ship’s travels across the seas using a logbook. To a lifelogger, the ship is your body and time your sea. Most people enjoy documenting their lives. In most homes there are photo albums and in most desk drawers there are a bunch of important papers. A lifelogger takes this several steps further, which is possible with the help of new technology. An example of that is the wearable camera that the Swedish company Memoto is developing, which specializes in lifelogging by taking a picture every 30 seconds. The same company has produced a documentary about the phenomenon of lifelogging, and it was not until I saw it the other day that I understood the concept of it. After seeing the documentary, I realized that I’d been a lifelogger for almost all my life. In this post, I intend to tell you a bit about how this has expressed itself for me personally.
I’ve always had a peculiar interest in documenting things. I no longer remember how this started, but when I was about eleven years old I created a text document on my old Macintosh which I called my “logbook.” In it I mostly wrote down what I was doing on my computer and what I found on this new phenomenon called the Internet. I couldn’t spell and my teachers were considering the possibility that I was suffering from dyslexia. Unhindered by this, I continued to write down what I was doing during the days.
I also made sure to archive everything I created on my computer. Everything from texts to pictures and websites. I created file systems where I put all of these things in their rightful compartments. I hadn’t yet started to value life beyond the internet in the same way, but after a while I slowly began to introduce it into my logbooks as well. On the 24th of November, 2002, at the age of 17, I started writing my own diary. Today I’ve written nine volumes of two hundred pages each. Since I started writing these diaries, they have become a big part of my life, but I have nevertheless always managed to live by the motto that the diaries should be about my life, and that my life shouldn’t be about the diaries.
When I was in high school digital cameras were becoming increasingly common, and even mobile phones came with cameras. Without giving up my writing, I started collecting photographs and film clips. Today I have over 30,000 of them stored on my external hard drives. The reason I continued writing was because neither photographs nor videos could capture what was going on inside my head at these various moments. Every time we look at a photograph, we see the past through new eyes and the way you saw things when the photograph was taken is easily forgotten.
Today I no longer have my very first logbook. I still remember how I lost it; my computer was formatted and the floppy disk that I had saved the logbook on broke. In vain, long after this incident, I unearthed old disks from basement offices and old boxes in my childhood home in hope that I had saved it on another disk and forgotten about it. It does sadden me that this document is gone; a document that could help me understand how I became the person I am today. Ever since that disk broke, I have been more careful to backup my disks. Still, I have lost important data after that. External hard drives have crashed and computers have stopped working before I’ve been able to do a backup of their content. Nowadays I save everything on Dropbox, Google Drive and my five external hard drives. Now it would basically require an intercontinental nuclear war for me to lose my data, and if that were to happen I’d have worse things to worry about anyway.
SEE ALSO: Katie Stern from Memolane on Digital Scrapbooking and Lifelogging
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On-demand prints of Tobias’ personal journals.
As I said before, I don’t remember why I, as a young teen, began writing my logbooks and documenting my life. But in the meantime, I have found new reasons for doing so. The diary I write is partly for therapeutic reasons. Writing down my memories, thoughts and feelings has given me a chance to deal with them in a balanced way, and reading my old diaries has helped me see how much I’ve matured as a person. Another reason is that I don’t want all my life to be compressed into a few hours of presentation of distorted memories. Memory is a treacherous thing and the more times we return to it, the less accurate it gets. If I’m lucky enough to grow old, I want to remember the ephemeral and ordinary; moments of my life that are sometimes just as important as my most magnificent experiences. Even if I should die young there is value in what I have saved, not for me, but for my family. I want those I leave behind to be able to get an answer to the question of who I really was. Would it turn out so badly that I die alone, I imagine that future generations will be able to take part in and enjoy the remains of my life. Not because I think that my life is more interesting than anyone else’s, but because I think that everyone’s lives are interesting. I can, however, only document my own. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50335 | Tuesday, May 16, 2006
China to tax its wooden chopsticks
The Chinese government has slapped a 5 percent tax on exports of disposable wooden chopsticks:
The move is hitting hard at the Japanese, who use up a tremendous 25 billion sets of wooden chopsticks a year — about 200 pairs per person. Some 97 percent of them come from China.
And it's only going to get worse:
But pretty soon, some fear, Japan won't even be able to get expensive chopsticks from China: Japanese newspapers Mainichi and Nihon Keizai reported that China is expected to stop waribashi exports to Japan as early as 2008.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50341 | Friday, December 4, 2009
WPF and NHibernate Lazy Proxies
Using NHibernate proxies with WPF binding will likely leave you scratching your head at moments. There are at least two issues that can get in your way.
The first of these is that objects with INotifyPropertyChanged implementations will not update when the property is changed. Even though the event is fired, the WPF value never updates itself. This is because WPF compares the source of the event against the object that it originally registered the event with. Since the source of the event is the actual implementation object hidden by the proxy, but the object WPF knows about is the proxy object, WPF ignores the event. The best way to fix this is to have the proxy object rewrite the property changed events. There is a detailed explanation and a simple implementation here, but be aware that it doesn't redirect events from the source but throws its own events when properties are set.
The other issue you will sometimes run into is a strange null reference exception when setting the value of a dependency property. There is a bug in WPF where it doesn't properly handle the names of classes without any namespaces. Since the lazy proxy objects have no namespace, this bug pops up. The issue is fixed in WPFv4, but if you aren't able to upgrade, you can fix this by changing a line in Castle.DynamicProxy.
In ClassProxyGenerator.GenerateCode, add the "Proxies." part to the following line:
String newName = "Proxies." + targetType.Name + "Proxy" + Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N");
This should help anyone experiencing the error relating to DetermineWhetherDBNullIsValid.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50362 | Research Questions
The major questions that interest us emerging from this transnational, comparative scenario are:
• How might generally accepted notions of borders, and related issues of border crossing or containment, be productively questioned or revised within different regional studies contexts as a result of transregional, comparative dialogue?
• How are questions of belonging, legality, and rights as well as exclusion, violence, and protest affected by the dynamics of borders (whether demarcated as geopolitical and militarized boundaries or cultural and racial boundaries)?
• What are some of the concrete impacts of technologies of policing as well as technologies of evasion on mobility and confinement?
This research initiative will focus on promoting interdisciplinary, comparative research on the making, unmaking, crossing, and fortification of borders—national, colonial, regional, and continental. The central thematics that we will focus on are:
1. Human rights, citizenship, and racialized belonging
2. Mobility, militarization, and containment
3. Protest cultures and transnational solidarities
While the geopolitical contexts of the U.S.-Mexico, Israel-Palestine, and Afghanistan-Pakistan borders provide obvious scenarios for scholarly inquiry–as do the North/South Korea border zone and the former East/West Germany boundary–questions of borders are crucial to many other sites, which raise questions about the legal meaning of borders and states. Native American studies scholars have demonstrated the ways in which indigenous groups within the U.S. settler state constitute transnational communities and movements, even as the U.S. has exported its vision of the frontier to new sites of occupation. U.S. imperial formations have long relied on the ambiguity of territorial designations for colonized regions with degraded sovereignty. So when does a national border become an imperial border? How do indigenous communities contest and transgress colonial borders and produce alternative forms of knowledge about sovereignty, belonging, and territory? As scholars of colonial state formations have shown, borders are constituted not just on land, but also in the air, in water, and below ground. If populations become “illegal immigrants” without crossing a border because the border crossed them, what does it mean that borders can move and justify the violent removal and incarceration of racialized populations–who cannot themselves move freely?
Stateless subjects, refugees, labor migrants, and political activists all traverse borders, in vastly different ways and with varying motivations and consequences, illuminating which bodies are un/desirable and un/recognizable. These processes of regulating mobility and inclusion are deeply racialized and gendered, and produce new and sometimes unexpected alliances that challenge dominant discourses of globalization, humanitarianism, and securitization. But these discourses also produce deep rifts and complex fissures on the ground that undermine solidarities and that make naturalized or taken-for-granted alliances difficult or problematic. Queer studies scholars, for example, have addressed the ways in which sexual freedom and gay rights have been harnessed by imperial discourses of democracy, civilization, and progress, dividing sexual subjects on the basis of religion and region between those who are modern/liberated and those in need of rescue by Western modernity. The discourse of civilizational borders has been revived to replace the discourse of racial boundaries with a new cultural discourse that is presumably post-racial, even as states use a deeply racial discourse to define which political subjects are alien/other and worthy of belonging/rights.
Challenging state projects of inventing or circumventing borders from above are transnational political networks and solidarity movements. These are often animated by discourses of human rights and sovereignty as well as notions of self-determination, survival, and freedom that exceed the language of statehood. Transnational protest movements have emerged to challenge imperial and national violence and neoliberal capitalism, linking, for example, Madison with Tahrir Square and Occupy Wall St with the Palestinian youth movement. Political imaginaries of belonging that are not partitioned by national and colonial borders are produced and remade by those struggling with war, displacement, securitization, and dispossession. This initiative would help us reflect historically on old and new languages for thinking cross-regionally and forging a transnational political imaginary, for example, in the anti-globalization and global environmental justice movements. There are interesting forms of cross-pollination among these movements across national and regional borders, as well as across political concerns. How do transnational movements use technology and digital media to produce new conceptualizations of borders and new political languages of affiliation or resistance? How do transborder imaginaries rethink notions of community, proximity, neighborliness, or solidarity? What role do various forms of cultural production (video, music, social media, performance) play in these processes?
This initiative has two major goals: first, to respond to the urgent need for comparative conversations about the question of borders and to interrogate the production, deployment and evasion of regional and geographic categories; and second, to bridge scholarship in area studies and ethnic studies, fields that should be in closer conversation with one another given the realities of transnationalism and the transnationalizing of these fields. This initiative will help promote new approaches to the study of borders, violence, containment, rights, and protest as scholarship attempts to grapple with new political movements and networks that have emerged spanning Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia, Europe, and North America. These rapid shifts on the ground demand more complex theorization and cross-disciplinary, comparative research as older paradigms of transnationalism and diaspora appear increasingly obsolete or inadequate. Programs as such as the Social Science Research Council have focused on Inter-Asian Contexts and Connections in order to support new research that is needed to study region-making and regional shifts across Asia.
In addition to the new ideas this initiative might offer to scholars of the US-Mexico border, in the context of Asia there is clearly a need for research on realignments of regional and racial categorizations and re-regionalization in the aftermath of 9/11. For instance, new designations such as “Af-Pak” that stretch across national borders are central to counterterrorism and counterinsurgency policies as the U.S. has attempted to remap or invent regions in the global War on Terror. A comparative approach could productively examine border zones in Southwest Asia and in the Southwest U.S. to understand deeply racialized processes of criminalization of those who transgress national borders and are viewed as security or social threats.
In the Middle East (West Asia), Southwest/South Asia, and Central Asia, political, religious, and social networks have sprung up that span nation-states; for instance, transnational networks of Muslim scholars that intersect with discourse of human security or the transnational Islamist movements that have engaged in resistance to U.S. policies in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Libya and that, in some cases, have also colluded with U.S. interventions. Furthermore, in the U.S., the creation of new pan-ethnic and cross-regional labels after 9/11 such as MESA (Middle Eastern/South Asian) or AMEMSA (Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian) have provided new coalitional categories for mobilizing in response to religious and racial profiling. These cross-border alliances co-exist with a retrenchment of ethnic and national affiliations. There is a complex interrelationship between pan-Islamic, pan-Arab, pan-South Asian, and pan-ethnic categories that in some ways recreate, but also trouble, notions of internationalist and Third World solidarity of an earlier era. These interrogations of inter-Asian identities and politics might benefit by critically introducing Chicana/o and Latin Americanist concepts of de/reterritorialization, decoloniality, or interculturality. Building on UCD’s particular strengths in border scholarship on North America (U.S. Southwest) and the Middle East/South Asia, this initiative aims to promote broader comparative dialogue on global borderlands among faculty and students focusing on other contexts, including those of North AfricaEurope, US-East Asia, Native North America, and Eastern Europe, and with non-UCD (and non-U.S. based) scholars doing comparative or cutting-edge scholarship on these issues. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50373 | Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Mobile App Journey - Part V
In the prior post we briefly discussed calling the PG API in order to interact with the device's (such as a cell phone) API. Just because I glossed over it do not ignore reading the PG docs and exploring what is available.
You will have more flexibility and power if you are building your app with say, PhoneGap + Eclipse + the Android SDK than you will if using PhoneGap Build. But you can still do a lot with PGB.
One need for me was the ability to browse the web from within my app. Remember, a PG app is a native app, that is, it is a native "wrapper" around your HTML5/javascript/css. So when you are running your PG app that started out as HTML5/javascript/css, you are not running a web app -- you are running a native app. So, navigating to a web page from within your native app is different than simply navigating to a new page from a web app.
I think there are primarily two choices: the PG API InAppBrowser, and the PGB Plugin ChildBrowser ( you can read more about what a PGB Plugin is here).
I used the ChildBrowser Plugin, so I have no experience with InAppBrowser.
I had previously asked you to ignore the reference to childbrowser.js in my Index.html page. To get childbrowser to work you will need to first have a childbrowser folder (off of your app's root folder) with the assets, which are some .png files -- see the link above.
[Edit on July 6, 2013 - assets folder for CB no longer needed]
Next, you must reference childbrowser.js in your page even though you do not have/need this file.
So, in my Index.html:
<script src="phonegap.js"></script>
<script src="childbrowser.js"></script>
<script src="js/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
And finally, in your config.xml (more on this later) you need this line (for PGB):
<gap:plugin name="ChildBrowser"/>
So to browse, I could have something like this:
<a class="link1" href="#" onclick="Navigate('');">Opposite Coast</a>.
"Navigate" is a user function in my main.js:
function Navigate(thisUrl) {
var cb = window.plugins.childBrowser;
if (cb != null) {
else {
showAlert("Childbrowser does not exist", "Can't Browse");
First I try to initialize the cb variable. If successful I can then call showWebPage, else I let the user know things went wrong.
I think the moral of this story is that when using PGB you will need to see (if the PG API doesn't have what you want) if a PGB Plugin exists that can be used, then learn how to use that plugin. PG people occasionally add new plugins so the list changes.
to be continued...
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50397 | English | français
/ Welcome / Projects _ / Exhibitions
Maison Max Ernst in Huismes - From 23 June to 5 November 2018
Elisabeth S. Clark, Anne-James Chaton, Sammy Engramer, Jean-Michel Espitallier, Jérôme Game, Bernard Heidsieck, Emmanuel Lagarrigue, Rainier Lericolais, Violaine Lochu, Pierre-Yves Macé, Sébastien Roux, Julie Vérin et Quentin Aurat.
Voices questions how text is connected with sound, presenting the ear and the eye with works that have many different outlines. This show brings together sound pieces, films, scores, and artist’s books… The figure of the poet and visual artist Bernard Heidsieck is present between the lines. In the late 1950s, by way of the practice of reading, and the use of technological tools, he removed the text from the space of the page. As a result, the poetic field was open to other forms and styles of expression. What is the current situation with these avenues that he has helped to open up? The works of contemporary poets will be presented, echo-like: Anne-James Chaton, Jean-Michel Espitallier, and Jérôme Game are all pursuing this line of thought, using new tools. So as not to restrict this exhibition just to the sphere of poetry, it is interesting how, in tandem, it shows how certain visual artists and composers are appropriating the issue of the text, and coming up with sonic/acoustic translations. They include Sammy Engramer, Emmanuel Lagarrigue, Rainier Lericolais, Violaine Lochu, Pierre-Yves Macé, Sébastien Roux, Julie Vérin and Quentin Aurat.
As an initiator of sonic poetry and action poetry, Bernard Heidsieck has also produced many works on paper, and it comes as no surprise that, in this Abécédaire no.6 “clef de sol” [Primer no.6, “key of G”], the inventor of score-poems—poèmes-partitions—is once again playing with the links between visual poetry and music. “Ringing out the poet’s colourful alphabet, letter after letter […]. Bernard Heidsieck has cut out each one of the letters from newspapers and magazines, in many different forms, then glued them on and around the lines of a score introduced by a key of G. Page after page, the book offers abstract configurations—in which it is quite permissible to make out a diverse range of routes, constellations, jets, spheres, constructions, rain, and other forms of volatility offered to the reader’s sensitive and interpretative freedom […]”. Gilles Froger in Archive de la Critique d’Art (2015).
Recorded voice: Kaija Matiss. Text: Bob Dylan. Anamorphosis: a work whose forms are distorted in such a way that it only assumes its real configuration when it is looked at from a particular angle. For some years now I’ve been working on sonic translation, a principle which consists in using an existing work (novel, painting, piece of music…) as a score for a new sound piece. It is in this context that I’ve become interested in the transposition of the phenomenon of anamorphosis into sound. So I’ve imagined a series of instrumental pieces and sound installations which use space as a distorting tool and a means of resolution. For each one of the anamorphoses, people listening are invited to explore the sonic field and determine the listening point from which the “real configuration” is heard. This whole little game is like a pretext for exploration, listening to the transformation of sounds and their combinations: “The quest for movement and trompe-l’oeil excludes the special, unambiguous, head-on vision, and urges the onlooker to move continually about in order to see the work in its ever-differing aspects, like an object in perpetual transformation.” (Umberto Eco, L’Oeuvre ouverte). With the piece presented here, it is no longer a matter of transposing the anamorphosis in a direct way by imagining the spectator moving about in the sound the way he moves about in front of the image. But rather of thinking of anamorphosis as a method of organizing sounds in time. During a lecture on Leibniz, Gilles Deleuze broaches at length the issue of viewpoint and perspective. He defines anamorphosis as a specific case of perspective and differentiates between metamorphosis and anamorphosis. Metamorphosis as a movement from one form to another form. Anamorphosis as creating a form from the formless. This is what interests us here. No longer the search for the listening point, but how sounds take form and then revert to disorder. Sounds make sense, because sounds are words, a recorded voice uttering Bob Dylan’s words: "We can’t change the present or the future, we can only change the past, and we do it all the time."
Production : Anima Ludens / Solang Production / Language Art Studio : “How are we to bear witness to our experience of the image today, its ubiquity in all media, its intimate economy, public and political alike, its variety, and its wealth despite standardized practices? This is the question that lies at the root of this work. The idea was to answer it by questioning the textimage, which is to say the link, and the gap, the interstice between the legible and the visible. And a photographic show using writing seemed to be the ideal place for making such an attempt: hanging photopoems on the walls, these being centered blocks of text written in prose on 280 g/m2 satin paper, with a square 60 x 60 cm format, printed by plotter and then affixed to the walls—and seeing what this does to the ways we look at things. Showing through words, lending momentum to them and to the ocular narratives they underpin by way of the arrangement of the photographic exhibition: this is the wager of these photopoems. Produced by a special camera—writing, conditioned by the visual—, these photos in a new genre, at once documentary and visual, have as their starting point the fact of questioning the ways in which we see the world today, despite, through, or even because of the endless and denser proliferation of images of every kind. Will continually tipping from a reading system towards a vision system get us to perceive things and the world anew, in the manner of an enlargement or an off-centering. And will we be able to play with the codes of the photographic exhibition (printing, setting to scale, hanging) like so many ways of re-mobilizing the codes of narrative, description, and plot? That remains to be seen…” Jérôme Game.
To date, the “Portraits” collection numbers 65 works. Each piece is silkscreen- printed on a 120 x 176 cm format. By supposing that we are defined by the writings that we carry with us, Anne-James Chaton produces her portraits by taking from the model all the textual documents that the subject has with him/her during the meeting with the artist. Anne-James Chaton’s “Portraits” are based on the transcript of the contents of these documents of everyday life, such as bank statements, metro tickets, restaurant and shopping bills, bank cards, subscription cards, loyalty cards, etc. The information is gathered in the order in which the model gives it to the artist, and re-created by complying with its typographic marks, in such a way as to construct a lengthy sequence of data. This written litany, where meaning and identities are endlessly dissolved and remade, takes form in accordance with the kind of gaze cast.
Score, print on paper and annotations by the artist and the musician. Courtesy of the artist and the Galerie Dohyang Lee, Paris.
Between the words of a text, there is punctuation. This discreet and at times forgotten element is nevertheless an essential part of the language it surrounds. Elisabeth S. Clark’s Between Words explores this space and the interstitial notion of in-between. Using the long poem “Nouvelles Impressions d’Afrique”, Raymond Roussel’s work is edited, but without any words, in a way that singles out the exact facsimile of the author’s punctuation. Just the punctuation, which is turned into a score, becomes the main thread. This score for orchestra and voices has been performed several times by an orchestral ensemble and singers. From each one of these interpretations, the artist and the musicians re-appropriate the score, by adding personal annotations to it. The fact that Raymond Roussel was first and foremost a musician before becoming a poet is a little known fact. The artist has realized that the linguistic structure devised by the author for this complex poem can be compared to a musical structure. In underscoring and examining the topography of language, Elisabeth S. Clark’s Between Words draws our attention to a significant aspect of the construction of language, its material nature, its acoustic nature, and its choreography. By shifting between silence and sound, Raymond Roussel’s landscape of punctuation offers a musical writing that is as sonic as it is silent.
Éditions Laura Delamonade, edition of 500, 24 cm x 34 cm. “Using the recording of his voice as he reads a poem, Sammy Angramer extracts the graphic image from the sound waves and slips this image of the updated voice over the corpus of Mallarmé’s writing. The 26 plates in the exhibition borrow the layout of the posthumous publication, in 1914, in the Nouvelle Revue Française, respecting the typographic diversity and the whole masterful interplay of spaces and blanks which lend Mallarmé’s text different reading levels. […] The object is silent, the listening is visual and it is in accordance with Nietzsche’s wish that we must “hear with our eyes” the voice that is lodged in the sensibility of the line, in the ink itself, in the secret murmuring of an italic wave, towards its mutedness. The image of the pronounced word encompasses the signifier of alphabetic writing, the text is scrambled by the trace of its utterance that has become unpronounceable. The emphasis is, quite literally, on the form of the utterance, because the nature of what is uttered will remain hidden behind what creates the imagery. It is activity itself that is the form, and its abode is “what is expressed”, but no sooner is it said than this becomes blurred, and only appears henceforth as the trace which metamorphoses the writing. This strange conversion consisting in producing images and volumes based on a non-phonological relation to the voice puts the spectator at the centre of a strangely silent orphism, where the gaze alone is verbalized.” Jérôme Duvigneau, 2010.
Engraved copper on oak,180 x 4 x 4 cm. An attempt to record and/or represent a word. A sentence written by Hélène Bessette (Celui-ci ne m’a pas tuée) is repeated like a mantra. The artist pours sand on to a strip of copper, to the beat of his voice pronouncing these words. Acid is then sprayed on to it, and the whole thing is cleaned. The trace that remains is the “mark” of these words, and its persistence.
SEBASTIEN Roux: Nouvelle (2012): This piece is part of the artist’s work Traductions/Translations, where he uses the sound sentences of Gustave Flaubert’s La Légende de Saint Julien l’Hospitalier. The acoustic material present in the piece is deduced from the sentences of the text which describe sound situations, and contain dialogues.
PIERRE-YVES MACE: CHORALES (2013), 10 minutes
In the wake of Song recycle, Chorale is a piece based on the principle of musical recycling. The basic material is a selection of well-known songs, hits sung by amateurs posting their videos on YouTube. Here there are five different people singing the same song. Each one of the voices is assigned a loudspeaker in the broadcasting system. These ordinary, everyday voices are rendered unfamiliar by different processes of decomposition/recomposition (cut-up, reversal, micro-editing, time-stretching) which alter their melodic substance but without doing away with their vocal qualities. We recognize that someone is singing, but without identifying (or only very briefly) what was originally sung. Far from being erased, the acoustic artefacts peculiar to the original mp3 documents are accentuated, and incorporated in the musical writing.
During her residency at the Synagogue de Delme, Violaine Lochu produced a Vocal Primer, in which each letter refers to a specific dimension of voice and/or language; A as in aphonia, B as in babble, D as in dysphony, W as in whisper… This project tales on different forms; sound pieces which can be partly listened to on R22 Tout-Monde webradio or arrayed in the form of displays and sculptures by the artist and curator Guillaume Constantin. Others take the form of videos: in them the artist directs her own voice, in different spaces and in different physical postures. To mark the occasion, the typographer Christophe Hamery has invented the Supervox typeface presented in the form of a poster and an edition. Lastly, during a vocal performance, Violaine Lochu explores the extremes of her voice through letters like U – ululate, XY – female/male, and B – breath…
The original track of Daniella Marxer’s short film, 5 mins. Rainier Lericolais has been working since 2003 with the filmmaker Daniella Marxer. For this short film Voices (2018), the two artists worked using one and the same production process, involving collecting and assemblage. For Daniella Marxer, this involved constructing this short film using rushes from her latest film mon amour (2017), which were then put together to make a different film: the portrait of two women of different ages, the younger of whom raises an endless string of questions. For Rainier Lericolais, using the film-maker’s rushes, it was a matter of collecting not the images but the sounds of voices, to offer us a sound track where all that emerges from the not very intelligible dialogues is the musicality and sonority of the voice.
JEROME GAME HK Live! (2011)
Broadcast on five loudspeakers, 38 minutes. “HK Live!” is a radiophonic postcard of a stay in Hong Kong in the summer of 2010, which draws up a virtual portrait of the City-State by travelling into its acoustic matter, real and fantasized alike. A narrator moves between the world of Asian cinema and the prosaic world of Hong Kong today, captured by a portable mike. With noises, voices, dialogues and moods of both the city and its reflection on the screen running through him, he verbally strolls between these worlds the way a ball in a pinball machine bounces around in a glass box, propelled by the acoustic matter of the urban fabric and films he has seen. On the very surface of heterogeneous signs, he grows as an explorer of himself, replaying sequence shots and editing ideas in his voice and his own words. Or how the sound capture of a city and its different narratives makes a literary re-engagement possible.
A contrapuntal weave of voices reading texts which are pirate emails(fake stories of money hidden in African banks). With the voices of Jean-Michel Espitallier, Sandy Ameruio, Jean-Marc Montera, Erik Billabert, etc.
L’IBISCUS N’EST PAS UN ANIMAL (2012), 7’. Can we really trust language? This is the question seemingly posed, in the manner of comic absurdity, by this sound piece, which spools a list of words which are defined by what they are not (namely, animals!). The fact is that this negative clue casts confusion over their real sense. Are they not essentially, it just so happens, animals, because we are told that they are not animals? The reading is gradually jammed by vocal loops which, by spooling the same list of names “which are not animals”, end up by turning the utterances into a verbal matter which lets us hear another (animal?) language.
This work involves 60 very short texts (of equal length) which are so many micro-fake dialogues with 20th century writers, whose breathing has been taken from recordings of real interviews. I am interested in the way in which other poets and writers used to read and have read. So, in a very systematic way, I have put together a collection of voices on disks and tapes. Systematic insomuch as I bought everything I managed to find here, in France (which is to say, not a lot), during my trips abroad, visiting record dealers, and using American catalogues of companies specializing in this type of edition (Caedmon, in particular), including, incidentally, European authors. Two major features are in fact shared by all the authors successively summoned: on the one hand, as I have just mentioned, their voices have been recorded and, on the other hand, they are no longer alive. The breathing must only come from an edited disk or cassette, available in shops (this does not involve delving, for example, into Radio archives or plunging into a bottomless well). When some of the authors read, you cannot hear any breathing, so they are ruled out by force of circumstance. The reading arrangement is as follows: There is broadcasting via loudspeakers of the “real breathing” of each one of them, “perfectly audible”—looped—, “in counterpoint” to the live reading of the text which tries to conjure up the vanished author—with no overlay of any verbal statement. Sometimes a few brief acoustic objects are present. Extracts: Antonin Arthaud, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound.
The project Tu apparais, Elias, puis/tu disparais consists in several acoustic installations organizing the meeting between two writers, Camille de Toledo (born in 1976) and Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). That meeting, in the form of dialogue constructed from extracts from their writings, takes place like a philosophical stroll in different places. Following the idea of the patrol or round, it plays with sequences between several key notions of these two authors (the passage of time, the work of memory, otherness, transmission) in order to get them to ring out together. The two texts used are Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet and Toledo’s Oublier, trahir et puis disparaître.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50398 | Monday, February 23, 2009
Collapse of Complex Systems I: Nationalization and Shadow Capitalism
February 23, 2009
Perhaps the "debate" about nationalizing banks is distracting us from the more interesting questions: what complex systems are spinning apart? Who stands to win and lose if the current financial pyramid does topple under its own weight?
Lost in the media kerfluffle about nationalizing banks is the larger question: exactly what difference does any of this make? Not to put too fine a point on it, but if assets are falling in value, risk is being priced into loan qualifications for the first time in a decade and nobody in their right mind is seeking to saddle themselves or their firm with more debt, then who cares who or what owns the banks?
I've been working through three related texts in the past few weeks:
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The Collapse of Complex Societies (recommended by astute correspondent Geoffrey G.)
The name of this week's theme, "Collapse of Complex Systems," arises from these excellent analyses.
Before we get into the main topic, let's review the case for nationalizing banks as a "cure for what ails us:"
'Nationalize' the Banks (Nouriel Roubini interview) ( Dr. Doom says a takeover and resale is the market-friendly solution.
There's another reason why the concept should appeal to (fiscal) conservatives, he explains. "The idea that government will fork out trillions of dollars to try to rescue financial institutions, and throw more money after bad dollars, is not appealing because then the fiscal cost is much larger. So rather than being seen as something Bolshevik, nationalization is seen as pragmatic. Paradoxically, the proposal is more market-friendly than the alternative of zombie banks."
And courtesy of frequent contributor Michael Goodfellow, here is a counter-argument which suggests that "nationalizing the banks is the fix" is simplistic, naive and perhaps entirely wrong-headed:
Banks vs. bank holding companies (Marginal Revolution blog)
"I usually don't like to speak so negatively, but it's the advocates of nationalization who are in denial. There is a belief that Obama, Bernanke, and/or Geithner are somehow spineless or in the pocket of the banking lobby. The sadder truth is that they understand just how ill-prepared the U.S. government, or the Fed, would be to run such an enterprise.
I do understand that if all the water runs out of the sink, as it may, nationalization will come in some form or another, however disastrous that may be. But the desire to postpone it until the last possible moment, and the desire to pursue even a small chance of avoiding nationalization, are signs of wisdom, not cowardice.
When you read about nationalization, and see only the word "bank," and not "bank holding company," be very afraid of the advice on tap."
What strikes me about the nationalization "debate" (in italics to suggest it is staged/phony/a mere distraction) is its extreme reification/distance from the core issue, which is what passes for "capitalism" nowadays is a shadow simulacrum of the real thing. These bogus "debates" dominate the mainstream media (MSM) not because the issue is "important" in the sense of "curing what ails us" (beware facile medical analogies) but because they offer brilliant obfuscation of what really "ails us": a model of capitalism which only superficially simulates real capitalism.
Large-scale enterprises which are passed off or presented as "free market capitalism" are in fact one of the following simulacrums of capitalism:
1. Crony capitalism in which money is siphoned off and funneled to one's pals (see TARP).
2. Gangster capitalism in which legitimate competitors are restricted/limited by regulations
designed to favor the gangsters' enterprises, or by financial legerdemain or threats/blackmail/seizure.
3. Monopoly capitalism in which an oligarchy owns controlling stakes in key institutions and enterprises, and then maintains a carefully tended facade of "competition" to shroud the reality of plutocracy.
4. Pie-in-the-sky capitalism as presented by ideologically funded think-tanks and MSM/plutocracy shills in academia, NGOs (non-governmental organizations, a.k.a. non-profits) and the media.
Virtually every example of monopoly/crony capitalism can be cleaned up via propaganda and manipulated/edited "data" into shiny "free market capitalism" if sufficient manure, oops, I mean funding, is shoveled into the think-tanks and shills' pockets.
5. Central government planning masquerading as "free market capitalism." Look no further than the millions of dollars in contracts awarded under the umbrellas of Homeland Security and Defense. Not to mention TARP, "loans" to the so-called "domestic" auto industry, and other blatant central planning/politically driven awards within supposedly "competitive" structures.
From this perspective, the "debate" about who "owns" the banks, or if the government
nationalizes them just long enough to absorb the losses and then spins them off to the old cronies as "private enterprises" again, is essentially Kabuki theater for the edification of the masses.
By all means, rake those evil greedy bankers over the coals in front of the hot lights of an indignant Congress (which collected millions of dollars in campaign donations from said evil greedy bankers without a peep)--great stuff, great theater; all we need is a gladiator match or two afterward to complete the public "show."
And yes, let's "nationalize" the losses (that is, shove them onto the taxpayers), pull a few wires and strings, and then sell the profit centers off as private companies. And who stands ready to buy these newly cleaned-of-bad-assets banks?
Hmm--does this remind anyone else of how the assets of the old Soviet Union ended up in the hands of a small oligarchy?
The line that "we need to fix the banks before the economy can prosper again" has been repeated so often that it has acquired a truism status akin to gravity: of course apples must fall to earth.
But is this really true, or is it just a way of defending a desperate attempt to return to the glory days of simulated capitalism?
Maybe the "problems" we face globally lie elsewhere than the banks' bad debt and inability to leverage 40-to-1. (Sob; without unlimited borrowing and leverage, capitalism is broken!)
Maybe we should look for systems which are collapsing beneath the superficial "debate" about nationalization. We are told as a matter of faith that the central "problem" is bad debt and insolvent banks. That seems too simplistic and convenient to be true; at a deeper level, it seems the real "problem" is that free-market capitalism has been entirely subverted by simulacrums presented as capitalism.
We are supposed to be terrified of systemic financial collapse, as if civilization will end the second we can't buy cars and houses with almost no money down and banks can't write trillions of dollars in derivatives. I would hazard that what the powers that be are terrified of is the collapse of simulacrum-capitalism, of which the financial system is the most visible facet.
While we're on the subject of "collapse," here are a few other relevant titles:
Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects
Shameless pitch for my own book: Weblogs & New Media: Marketing in Crisis
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50399 | Friday, March 08, 2019
What If Politics Can't Fix What's Broken?
This is the politics of decline and collapse.
The unspoken assumption of the modern era is that politics can fix whatever is broken: whatever is broken in society or the economy can be fixed by some political policy or political process-- becoming more inclusionary, seeking non-partisan middle ground, etc.
What if this assumption is flat-out wrong? What is politics is incapable of fixing what's broken? What if politics merely fosters an illusion of solutions, a paper-thin veneer of faux progress? What if politics isn't a tool that's capable of fixing what's broken? What if all politics is able to do is generate delusions of grandeur and unresolvable conflicts? What if politics is ultimately little more than a fatal distraction?
This is of course heresy of the highest order, for a belief in the supremacy of politics is the secular religion of our era. The orthodoxy is: there is no problem that can't be solved with a political policy: a tax cut, a new tax, a new incentive, a broader definition of criminality, and so on.
What if the status quo is failing for reasons that are beyond the reach of politics? Politics assumes that tweaking incentives and disincentives via rewards and punishments, centralizing control of assets and income streams and manipulating the issuance of currency and interest rates can fix any and every problem.
The limits of politics are the limits of government. In the present era, all government seeks to further centralize power and capital because the era's quasi-religious belief is that centralization is the solution to everything.
This is of course false. Centralization works until it becomes the problem, at which point further centralization of power and capital only speeds system-wide failure.
Government can force certain things but it can't force everything. Government can encourage borrowing but it can't force its citizens to borrow. Government can force the expansion of currency, but it can't force the valuation of that currency.
Government can mandate this and that, but it can't force a negative return on investment (ROI) to magically become positive. Government can prohibit and tax and force outward compliance, but it can't force people to agree with policies that run counter to their beliefs.
Government can't rescue a status quo which is failing due to negative return on investment (ROI), gross inefficiencies, the loss of trust in corrupt institutions , and all the other ills that are intrinsic to centralization of power and capital.
As a result, the greater the government's power, the greater the polarization as the self-serving elites seek to protect their share of the pie as the pie shrinks. Each camp becomes increasingly extreme, and compromise is recognized as a process that erodes every camp's power and income.
The political solution is take-no-prisoners domination and the eradication of rivals' power to veto or contest the domination of the winner. This drive to polarization is the result of centralized elites attempting to distribute the system's increasing failure to their competing elites.
This is the politics of decline and collapse. This is the only possible output of centralized power grabs by self-serving elites, i.e. the status quo.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50419 | Friday, January 4, 2013
Epistle. To Mercy Hunt
Ever have those days? You know the ones I mean. Those days. They might be anything. And then anything again. One distinguishing characteristic they have is to circle back around from the day before and tap gently at your skull like a jeweler's tiny hammer fashioning a silver ring before it's inscribed. Hey you in there - what do you think? Can we let fantasies of liberation get to us? And if we do what happens then to the old presumable self that wears us like a raincoat on a bright sunny day? Ever get chased around like that? That no matter what you do to the contrary time appears solid and wants a blank disk from you to burn and copy a new music? It's scary to think - aren't we tired yet? And it's a sort of blessing to look out and be scared and think the tulips enjoy the water... someone yesterday passed by and said this is just like Seattle but without the benefits... and I said what do you mean... but they left without answering. I've never been to Seattle so I wouldn't know.
But it has been raining so much these days so maybe this looks like Seattle?
I said to the nurse art does not pay.
What she said the show's been up for five weeks and running and you've sold all the red ones. This is not a time to have doubts.
But I said why hasn't someone gotten in touch and said I'm not interested at all in what you do?
Listen she said what's to the good comes in strange and measured doses. Why compound it by looking through it? You have a payday and leave it a that. You might even be successful. You might even sense you were in touch with something. But no. You need to live your life and what you do like that life was forty degrees downward from ninety from the life you live.
What does that mean I asked?
The nurse laughed and said I haven't a fucking clue. Would you like breakfast? Or are you being stubborn this morning?
Breakfast I said.
Eggs beans tortillas salsa mexican style and served up like an environment... like there was the nurse... and there was a field you saw begging your retinas and was stamped in a message that you'd be foolish not to cross the fences across that field to walk over to the other side. Who argues with food? Only the wealthy or the damned can be so stupid.
Deep creek New England nowhere she reminded me from where she was and setting our plates down upon the table with a slow handed grace. I've seen it before - here as it was handed on a plate before me - and other plates that went on before me and I've seen it handed elsewhere - not like a dream but flashes from the real world - and that world was someplace back then before I was around but I see it now plain as rain or the sunlight that's not there - and I swear this was a kind of deliverance to the obvious failings on my part. Do you imagine there's some mathematical coding? Something that turns your brain into a password for dashed hopes?
And in a manner of speaking what I do runs parallel to what everyone else does only at a slower pace because I have not only wounds and aspirations but also I hate to pull up short and stand about like I'm empty handed or didn't plan on something happening and you probably don't know what I mean but how do you care about something unless you know that something does not care about you and while it doesn't leave you stranded it does leave you spinning your wheels and each of these days I think I'll put some cash into an envelope and mail it to myself and yea that'll do it and maybe time starts again
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When death imitates art
Beyond the new city centre developments, the old Sheffield canal is overgrown, run-down and deserted. Signs of regeneration creep along its towpaths, including a small, innovative gallery housed in one of the warehouses.
Is this the work of a psychopath or is there a link between present horrors and the tragedy of four years ago?
Follow the links - in the text and below - to explore the world of Bleak Water:
| Map | | Triumph of Death | | The Gallery |
Ben Newsam has visited the various locations used in the book, photographed them, and put together this long web page. I really like it. Introducing the web page, Ben says:
A number of years ago, I read the book Bleak Water, by Danuta Reah. It is set in our shared home city, Sheffield. It is an atmospheric crime novel, full of dark forebodings and containing some “difficult” subject matter. I enjoyed it greatly, and it made a big impression on me at the time. So much so, in fact, that I sent my copy as a present for a friend who lives abroad and who doesn’t know Sheffield at all. I went to the trouble of visiting the various locations used in the book, took photographs, made notes, and added little stickers to the book so that my friend could maybe visualise the locations better.
This page contains the best of those photographs and the relevant quotes from the book, together with the notes I made at the time and some later updates. It may help other readers of the book to visualise the locations as well.
Danuta Reah talked to Clute and Edwards of about language, crime and art, with particular reference to Bleak Water: go direct to the podcast page.
"I wish I could describe Danuta Reah's talent and achievement with the same quiet, unsettling and mesmerizing technique she brings to Bleak Water. This is a writer who understands that there is no need to oversell the horror of crime and its legacy. A powerful, haunting book."
Laura Lippman
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"Bleak Water is as forbidding as its title. Young women are being murdered in Sheffield in especially cruel and fetishistic ways... A tempting circle of suspects."
Gerald Kaufman, The Scotsman
"Brings new depth to a resolutely populist genre and will reward anyone looking for a bit more substance than usual in crime fiction"
Ireland on Sunday
"A suitably sinister canal side setting for an art exhibition celebrating Brueghel's The Triumph of Death... Ms Reah holds her sometimes complicated plot together skilfully and she has a good ear for dialogue."
Sunday Telegraph
"A dark brooding tale, well calculated to set your nerve ends jangling and with all the warmth and cosiness of the tomb. Ten out of ten for terror."
Northern Echo
Irish Examiner
"Reah offers here a complex, character driven narrative that peers into the dark side of human nature... A haunting, multi-viewpoint narrative by an author who understands that people's psyches are multi-levelled and that no one is ever really innocent."
January magazine (best of 2002)
"This is a dark, dark book - one is led to wonder whether an obsession with the macabre inevitably leads to evil. There is a chilling and terrifying climax. I couldn't put it down."
Some foreign editions
Le Triomphe de la Mort - the French edition Bilder vom Tod - the German edition Dödvatten - the Swedish edition Tummat vedit - the Finnish edition
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50455 | Thursday, September 29, 2005
On Copyright, Royalties, and The New Economy
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= The New Economy=
Rob Perkins said...
You can have content wealth without homepage spew. It's possible, but it takes... a well-trained web designer.
I am Not That Designer. HTML makes me think of Perl, and I hate Perl quite a lot for the mess it can make. But consider that you might be hampering access to interested parties because your site is hard to get through.
Peggy Noonan arises from time to time as my Heroine in print. She never overdoes conservatism. More of her. Less of Ann Coulter. And please, please, someone like her from the Democrats. (Hint: Maureen Dowd is not what I mean.)
iTunes needs to lower some prices to $0.49, for songs which are not that popular, unless it can be shown that the artists are being paid most of that money, IMO. And, naturally, the stuff I'm *really* interested in still isn't available on iTunes. (I go in for some pretty obscure stuff, that used to be popular in Europe in the late '80's. If you've heard of Rondo Veneziano and have a source for them, do let me know.)
Re movie studios sequestering unproduced scripts... I thought the WGA had clauses that left rights to republishing scripts firmly in the hands of writers. J. Michael Straczinski, who wrote most of the scripts for his TV series, Babylon 5, for example, is releasing them in print form this year, and for a pretty good price, because he has those rights.
Is the picture different for scripts written for the feature film industry?
The Democrats out-raised the Republicans for the '04 cycle, didn't they? With more money raised from very wealthy donors than the Republicans could manage, whose bulk came from medium and small businesses?
(It's what I heard, and thought I'd verified from source data. I'm very pleased to be wrong about it. If you can prove it.)
I don't have many positive things to say about campaign finance, which absolutely didn't get fixed before '04 (and IMO made the problem worse, with the 527's and so forth), but one of the things I *do* have to say is that while reprehensible, the only thing that made them more effective than the Dems was a unified organization the Dems didn't appear to have.
I think they have something like it, now. Say what you will about Terry McCauliffe, he *did* get them organized.
Author said...
I'm a 50 year old diabetic with slowly "softening" vision. I recently elected to start university for a bachelor's degree (so I can better keep up with, and one day contribute to, "egg head" dialogue about vital issues). I continue to work part-time while experimenting with the undergrad system for 9 course hours in my first-ever semester. I rob from my schedule for school, work and health (sleep, diet, exercise, etc.) to visit my handful of blogs, etc., every other day or so.
I'm serious, not casual. Keep me in mind next time you make design decisions that obscure your message and information as a "challenge" to the sincerity of your audience. Thanks.
Anonymous said...
On the increasing divide between rich and poor, I cannot recommend highly enough the book Wealth and Democracy by Kevin Phillips. A former economist for the Nixon administration, he has changed his tune and now makes a very effective case that large concentrations of wealth are in fact poisonous to the ideals of democracy and freedom. When I talk to others, and I tell them of the books that shaped my political philosophy, I name two books: Wealth and Democracy, and The Transparent Society.
Rik said...
The New Economy is as 'new' as corruption among The Powers That Be. Some blogger (I forgot which one) reported a conversation on the street with a guy who wanted to return to coal, steel & water. You know, if coal liquefaction hits off, the guy might have his wish.. In the old days you might easily find a job with nothing more than a highschooldiploma. It's not that that isn't true anymore (though I think the US is turning into a very bad class-society, thanks in part to celebrity-worship): I think schooling systems haven't caught up with the changing times. There's a little booklet by Theodore Zeldin, called 'Conversation' (not something must politico's are very good at, but it is increasingly becoming a talktalktalk-economy). Zeldin writes that he asked an engineer how it would take the engineer to teach him (= Zeldin) how to think like an engineer. Answer: three months. How long before (he asked an md) he'd be able to perform useful tasks under supervision of a real doctor? Six weeks.
In the period 1850-1880 a schoolsystem came about that is largely outdated. What exactly is important in schooling / learning? In a hi-tech, nano, robotics and coal liquefaction world?
I don't care about income inequality. As long as there is a middleclass and it is growing.
Anonymous said...
Income inequality helps to foster the destruction of the middle class - that's why you should care about it. The problem is, once you reach a certain level of wealth, there's not much else to do with that wealth but gather more around yourself - usually by stripping it from others, via whatever means you can pay for.
The book I mentioned earlier (Wealth and Democracy) does an excellent job of describing why and how this happens, and what (Usually collapse, followed by revolution) comes next.
David Brin said...
Rik: a growing middle class almost defines the "diamond shaped society", tho it is also healthiest when:
ALL boats rise,
when today's poor are richer than past kings,
when the rich only get privileges bigger and sooner, not differences in KIND
when greater wealth/power is accompanied by greater accountability
when being born into a portion of the diamond only has a small influence over which part you occupy thirty years later.
Patriot-X, I never meant to insult you. But I really do need to show the full range of ideas on my entry page. As my eyes fade with age, I buy bigger monitors... (two is better!)... and there are 2X tricks in some programs.
But maybe I should have an "Easy Viewing" Optional entry page, hmmm? Anyone care to design that for me? Something that would distill the RANGE of topic/interest areas for people at a glance? I could offer that option pretty easily.
Thanks Thane. I'll look up Phillips.
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To those complaining about the size of text -- please note that any browser will allow you to increase/decrease the text size easily. View->TextSize
Anonymous said...
@ Rob Perkins
The biggest story last election was the growth of small donors. Largely through the Internet. That's what powered Howard Dean's campaign. And then it converted over to the actual election, too. This is analysis of the funding from after the conventions. Let me quote a bit.
"Aside from the sheer volume of cash, the big story of 2004 was the growth in small (under $200) contributions. The candidates raised $205 million in small amounts in 2003-04, more than four times as much as the $50 million that their predecessors of 2000 had raised in small gifts.
# Democrats’ under-$200 contributions rose from $11 million to $127 million, or from 17% to 36% of all of their contributions from individuals.
# Republican candidates’ small donations as whole went up less, from $43 million to $78 million, or from 28% to 31%. However, President Bush’s small donations went up from $15 million to $78 million, or 16% of his total contributions from individuals in 2000 to 31% in 2004."
Kerry did slightly out-fundraise Bush, I think, but he had to spend some of that on the primaries, and didn't spend quite a bit of it that well. (Seriously. Democrats? NEVER hire Bob Shrum to run a campaign again. He's lost the last what, six that he's been the campaign manager for.)
Most of the money for both parties comes from wealthy donors and big businesses. That's the way it's been for years, and the Republicans have actually had leads on that for a while. Probably because their policies are "business-friendly" while the Democrats used to get money because they were the ones in power. And most wealthy people and big companies are going to bribe both sides, to make sure whoever's in charge knows who their friends are. And who they owe their job to.
I'm sure there's after-election statistics of exactly how much both parties and candidates got from where, but most of the ones I found weren't easy to glance over.
And for the days of Napster. Not so much because it was free, though that was part of it, but because you could find ANYTHING on it. None of the record label sanctioned networks have everything and the file-sharing networks have been broken up and scattered so there's no one place to go find everything.
Dr. Brin, it's not just movie scripts. How many actual movies do the studios have lying around in their vaults that they don't think it's worth converting to DVD? Just old celluloid, breaking down. And there's thousands, maybe millions of books, artwork, poetry, and so on, that are "orphaned". The company that held the copyrights went out of business and nobody's sure who owns it now. More expensive to track down the actual owners than could be made reprinting it. (sometimes)
All this stuff just rotting, and nobody's allowed to preserve it, remix it, rewrite it, or so on, for eternity in increments of two years. All to protect Mickey Mouse.
Rob Perkins said...
I think the basic layout of your home page is more like a "site map" page than a home page.
What I might suggest doesn't really change the layout of the page. Rather, make use of a technology like "cascading style sheets" and offer a large-print version of the page to those who want it. That would mean using specific fonts instead of the graphics picture buttons for the menu entries.
Another approach is to bring the page to life a little bit by collapsing those menus on the left and using a bit of trickery to display submenus with the topics when a user goes over them with the mouse.
That sort of thing lets you maintain the front-page density you want, without overwhelming someone at first blush.
David Brin said...
Rob, do you know anyone who could implement such a techno phantasmagory for me on the cheap?
Rob Perkins said...
Yes. I'll email you a reference.
Author said...
I get by with off-the-shelf readers. My issue is that some of us don't have time to ponder where things are, what's new and what's not.
When I commented I was feeling touchy and shouldn't have written. For me the issue is about communication, and about making it as easy as possible for people to consider a position. Ben Franklin moved people to reconsider their positions though specific changes in his "debate" style, and "sold" people on ideas they would otherwise reject wholesale because he learned to couch his "argument" in ways that improved communication.
I believe that Dr. Brin has things to say that need to be read/heard, and anything done to diminish the odds of that are fixable speed-bumps. Entropy and misunderstanding don't need help. Wooly-thinkers are quite good at avoiding rational reflection. If even fans have trouble (in my case an inconvenience) accessing the valuable content then how much less likely will it be for opponents to encounter the ideas?
Dr. Brin has less time than I do, so his being unable to spend much time or thought on streamlining the website make sense. Declaring the motivation of disallowing improvements in accessibility to be a disregard for "casual" participation did not wash with me. My comment was to try to encourage a reconsideration of broadening the reach of the message rather than narrowing it. If a qualified person or group wants to repackage the information for clarity ... why not?
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Eigenvectors universality for random matrices
Let $(X_{jk})_{j,k\geq1}$ be an infinite table of complex random variables and set $X:=(X_{j,k})_{1\leq j,k\leq n}$. If $X_{11}$ is Gaussian then $X$ belongs to the so called Ginibre Ensemble. Consider the random unitary matrices $U$ and $V$ such that $X=UDV$ where $D=\mathrm{diag}(s_1,\ldots,s_n)$ and where $s_1,\ldots,s_n$ are the singular values of $X$, i.e. the eigenvalues of $\sqrt{XX^*}$. When $X_{11}$ is Gaussian, the law of $X$ is rotationally invariant, and the matrices $U$ and $V$ are distributed according to the Haar law on the unitary group $\mathbb{U}_n$. The Gaussian version of the Marchenko-Pastur theorem tells us that with probability one, the counting probability distribution of the singular values, appropriately scaled, tends weakly to the quartercircular law as $n\to\infty$.
The Marchenko-Pastur theorem is universal in the sense that it holds with the same limit beyond the Gaussian case provided that $X_{11}$ has moments identical to the Gaussian up to the order 2. One can ask if a similar statement holds for the eigenvectors, i.e. for the matrices $U$ and $V$. Are they asymptotically Haar distributed? For instance, one may ask if $W_2(\mathcal{L}(U),\mathrm{Haar}(\mathbb{U}_n))$ tends to zero as $n\to\infty$, where $W_2$ is the Wasserstein coupling distance. The distance choice is important. One may consider many other distances including for instance the Fourier distance $\sup_g|\Phi_\mu(g)-\Phi_\nu(g)|$ where $\Phi_\mu$ denotes the Fourier transforrm of $\mu$ (characteristic function). A weakened version of this statement consist in asking if linear functionals of $U$ and $V$ behave asymptotically as Brownian bridges. Indeed, it is well known that linear functionals of the Haar law on the unitary group behave asmptotically like this. Silverstein has done some work in this direction. Of course, one can ask the same question for the eigenvectors in the Girko circular law and in the Wigner theorem. One can guess that a finite fourth moment assumption on $X_{11}$ is needed, otherwise the top of the spectrum will blow up and the corresponding eigenvectors will maybe localize.
If you do not trust me, just do simulations or… computations! There is here potentially a whole line of research, sparsely explored for the moment. If you like free probability, you may ask if $U’XV’$ is close to $X$ when $U’$ and $V’$ are Haar distributed and independent of $X$.
There is some literature on the behavior of eigenvectors of deterministic matrices under perturbations of the entries of the matrix, see e.g. the book of Bhatia (ch. VII). Among many results, if $A$ and $B$ are two invertible $n\times n$ complex matrices with respective polar unitary factors $U_A$ and $U_B$ in their polar factorization then for any unitary invariant norm $\left\Vert\cdot\right\Vert$ we have
$\displaystyle\left\Vert U_A-U_B\right\Vert\leq 2\frac{\left\Vert A-B\right\Vert}{\left\Vert A^{-1}\right\Vert^{-1}+\left\Vert B^{-1}\right\Vert^{-1}}.$
The eigenvectors are more sensitive than the bulk of the spectrum to perturbations on $X$, and one may understand this by remembering that for a normal matrix, they are arg-suprema while the eigenvalues are suprema. Also, one can guess that the asymptotic uniformization of the eigenvectors may be even sensitive to the skewness of the law of $X_{11}$.
It is well known that the $k$-dimensional projection of the uniform law on the sphere of $\mathbb{R}^n$ of radius $\sqrt{n}$ tends to the Gaussian law as $n\to\infty$. By viewing $\mathbb{U}_n$ as a bunch of exchangeable spheres, one can guess that the Haar law on the unitary group, appropriately scaled, will converge in some sense to the Brownian sheet bridge as the dimension tends to infinity. Recent addition to this post: this was proved in a paper by Donati-Martin and Rouault! We conjecture that this result is universal for the eigenvectors matrix of random matrices with i.i.d. entries and moments identical to the Gaussian moments up to order $4$.
The uniformization of the eigenvectors of random matrices is related to their delocalization, a phenomenon recently investigated by Erdös, Schlein, Ramirez, Yau, Tao, Vu, as a byproduct of their analysis of the universality of local statistics of the spectrum. This is a huge contrast with the well known Anderson localization phenomenon in mathematical physics for random Schrödinger operators.
The unitary group $\mathbb{U}_n$ is a purely $\ell^2$ object. Its $\ell^1$ analogue is the Birkhoff polytope of doubly stochastic matrices, also known as the transportation polytope, assignment polytope, or perfect matching polytope, but this is another story…
This post benefined from discussions with Charles Bordenave and Florent Benaych-Georges.
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1. Introduction to ePMV in C4D
will contain screen grabs to guide many key steps by December 3, 2012
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ePMV: INTRODUCTORY TUTORIALS July 2012 AMI Workshop
Graham Johnson & Fabian de Kok
Made possible by Ludovic Autin, Graham Johnson, Michel Sanner & Arthur Olson
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If you have experience with 3D software, especially with Cinema 4D, this tutorial should take about 2 hours and it will turn you into an intermediate ePMV user. If you are new to 3D software, the tutorial could take you anywhere between 3 and 12 hours. It introduces you slowly and methodically to the Cinema 4D interface as you learn how to generate and work with molecules in the ePMV GUI.
Quickstart Activities
1. Basics 1: Build a PDB file representation in a Professional 3D application with 2 mouse clicks
1. Start C4D
2. Open ePMV GUI
1. C4Dmenu: Plugins > ePMV (one click-n-drag)
3. Get a Molecule using the ePMV GUI
1. (second click)
2. You have a ribbon model of the protein Crambin (PDB ID code 1crn)
4. Zoom in on scene
1. Hover mouse over viewport & type H on keyboard
5. Build Atoms
1. 1. Check [√]Atoms radio box
1. a) See all of the atoms in the PDB file with their canonical IUPAC colors
6. F. Study model
1. 1. Click & drag upper right viewport icons to rotate camera, pan, zoom, etc.
1. a)
2. 2. Turn Atoms on and off as you explore to compare to the underlying ribbon.
1. a) Check & uncheck [√]Atoms. Leave Atoms on when you’re done.
7. G. Align view to defaults to match instructor screen
1. 1. ViewportMenu: Edit>Frame Default
2. 2. Hover over viewport & type H to center and zoom again
8. H. Render the molecule (R)
9. I. Expand to 4 panel view
1. 1. Click upper right viewport icon
1. a)
2. 2. Zoom each of 4 panels
1. a) Hover mouse over each panel & hit H each time
3. 3. Render all four panels
1. a) R while mouse hovers over each panel one at a time
10. J. Experiment with each of the different Color by scheme: <options>
1. 1. In the Object Manager:
1. a) Unfold 1crn
2. b) Unfold 1crn:A
3. c) Unfold 1crn:A_cpk to expose the instances of each atom on the molecule and to understand the hierarchy format
2. 2. In the ePMV GUI:
1. a) Unfold >Color by
2. b) Try every menu pulldown to witness changes to the molecule and to the material manager. Depending on the molecule, Domains may have no effect
11. K. Beautify
1. 1. Open Render Settings
1. a) Click Effects>AmbientOcclusion
2. b) Render to see results
2. 2. Speed up
1. a) Set Acc = 20% | Min = 8 | Max = 32
2. b) Render
3. 3. Uncheck [ ]Specular for all materials
1. a) Double-click the first material to open the Material Editor
2. b) Hover mouse over Material Manager
3. c) Hit A to select all materials
4. d) Uncheck [ ]Specular in the Material Editor
5. e) Render
12. L. Save your Cinema 4D file
1. 1. C4D menu: File>Save file as…
1. a) 1crnSpaceFillAO1.c4d to a new folder you make on the desktop
13. M. Add a doodle object signature and consider a white background
1. 1. C4D menu: Tools>Doodle>DoodleEraser
1. a) Click once in the scene
2. 2. Select Doodle Object in Object Manager
3. 3. Attributes Manager>Options Tab
1. a) Set size to 800x600 or greater
2. b) Load Bitmap
3. c) Import your signature PNG
4. 4. C4Dmenu>Create>Environment>Environment
1. a) Select Environment in the Object Manager
2. b) Check [√]Enable Fog
Render a JPG
1. 5. Render settings:
1. a) Output>Preset: 800x600
2. b) Output>Frame Range: Current Frame
3. c) Save>File: Browse to the folder you created for the file to create a new file path with .jpg name
4. d) Save>Format: JPG
2. 6. Render with PictureViewer to save a file (Click Center Clapboard)
1. N. Share your signed creation with the world
1. 1. Upload JPG to ePMV gallery by following instructions
2. 2. Add a caption to your online gallery image with a description and credits
2. O. Save this final incarnation of your C4D file
1. 1. File>Save (S)
2. II. Basics 2: model a ribbon representation
3. A. Turn atoms off
4. B. Build a Basic PMV-style Ribbon
5. C. Unfold Backbone Representation
6. D. Check [√] Ribbon to build (you may already have a ribbon that was built by the new default when you first loaded 1crn)
7. E. Explore color options
1. 1. Try all o f the color options
1. a) Many schemes either don’t work in this beta version or are meaningless on a ribbon representation.
2. 2. When finished exploring, choose Color by scheme: [rainbow]
1. a) Some schemes, like rainbow, currently work with limited functionality on ribbons, coloring from N term to C term in reverse ROYGBIV
8. F. Choose Color by scheme: [secondary structure]
9. G. We will now work with molecules in a familiar interface
1. 1. Change a default color:
1. a) Double click the first hot pink material in the Material Manager
2. b) Change the blasted pink to a blue of your choosing
3. c) Unfold the hierarchy to expose the coils, strands, and helices in 1crn:A_ss
4. d) Material Manager>Function>Render All Materials
5. e) See in the Object Manager how this changes the applied material
2. 2. Override a default color
1. a) Create a new material in the material manager
2. b) Change it from white to green
3. c) Drag the new green material onto the other pink helix in the viewport
4. d)
5. e) Note in the Object manager how this retains the original pink material, but overrides it with a second green material on top of it (to the right).
10. H. Add a point light to the scene
1. 1. Drag it up on Y to about 50 (show them how to grab the green handle and pull up)
2. 2. Set Z to -20
3. 3. R to render viewport
11. I. Add a fill light and an ambient light
1. 1. Create>Light
1. a) Do this twice, or duplicate the light by control dragging in the Object Manager to make two lights
1. 2. Select one of the lights
1. a) Double click to rename it Key Light
2. b) Move it to your favorite Key Light position
2. 3. Select the other light
1. a) In the attributes manager, check [√] Ambient Illumination
2. b) Reduce intensity to ~30
1. 4. Render to test your lights
2. 5. Tinker with the lights and colors for 5 minutes
1. J. Render a JPG and post it to the gallery
1. III. Quickstart Basics 3: Upgrade to a Fancy Ribbon Model
2. A. Uncheck [ ]Ribbons
3. B. Check [√]Beaded Ribbons
4. C. Click [Options] (right of beaded ribbon)
5. D. Experiment with huge palette of settings for 5 minutes
1. 1. Use your glossary as a guide if you want
6. E. Render a JPEG and post to the gallery
7. IV. Quickstart basics 4: Add a transparent surface
8. A. With fancy ribbon still visible
9. B. Make an MSMsurface
1. 1. Unfold Surface representations
2. 2. Check [√] MSMSurf
10. C. Experiment with Surface Colors
1. 1. Unfold Color by
1. a) Try all of the colors.
2. 2. Set Pulldown to Scheme: Atoms using CPK
3. 3. Render view to see result
4. 4. Set Pulldown to Scheme: AtomsDG (polarity/charge)
5. 5. Render view to see result
11. D. Make the AtomSurface coloring transparent
1. 1. Double Click the first Material named “_Blue” to open the Material Editor
2. 2. Shift select the “_Red” and “_Green”
3. 3. In Material Editor check [√]Transparency
4. 4. Scroll 20% up to 60
12. E. In RenderSettings>AmbientOcclusion, click evaluate transparency
1. 1. Render
2. V. Quickstart basics 5: Animate a Ribbon-in-Surface Turntable Rotation
13. A. In Object Manager, select 1crn (topmost parent null)
14. B. Set playback head to zero using VCR controller
15. C. Uncheck Translate, Scale and Parameter Key record options next to Key button so only Rotate is blue
1. D. Click the [Key] button
2. E. Set VCR to end at frame 90
3. F. In Coordinate Manager in H box type 360-360/90
1. 1. Make sure H says 356, then hit [Apply]
1. G. Click the [key]
2. H. Hit VCR play
3. I. Linearize the anchors to make a clean rotation
1. 1. Open timeline
2. 2. Select all keyframes (A)
3. 3. Right Click on a Keyframe and select linear
1. J. Set up to render an animation in the RenderSettings
1. K. Render the movie as a quicktime with H264 60% compression
2. L. Post to the gallery when it finishes and meanwhile work on next project.
3. M. Save file
4. VI. Build the Biological Unit representation of a protein file:
5. A. Restart C4D and then ePMV
6. B. ePMV menu>Edit>Options:
1. 1. uncheck [ ] Center molecule
2. 2. Change [Secondary structure] in the pulldown to [CMS]
1. C. Get Molecule: enter the 4 digit ID 2plv and click [Fetch]
1. 1. We are fetching the asymmetric unit instead of downloading the all-atoms biological unit, which could unnecessarily bring 60x more data into your scene.
2. D. ePMV menu>Edit>Biological Unit
1. E. Type 2plv in the box and click OK (Type the exact name of your molecule, which is visible in the object manger)
1. 1. Wait patiently
2. 2. 60 copies of the original asymmetric unit have been replicated to form the entire viral capsid for polio virus- an icosohedral (soccer ball) sphere
2. F. Unfold > Surface Representations
1. 1. Adjust the settings for coarseMolSurf to Isovalue= 10, Resolution= -0.15, Grid Size= 20
3. G. Unfold > Color By:
1. 1. Select [Chains] from the drop down
4. H. Adjust Color by Chain Settings (there is a bug in 0.5.2 that prevents color palette edits from sticking – update to 0.5.3 as soon as its available)
1. 1. ePMV menu Edit > Color Palettes
2. 2. Unfold > Chains
3. 3. See in object manager that there are 4 chains labeled 1-4, so click to adjust those colors as desired
4. 4. Click [Set To]
5. 5. In the main ePMV GUI, set Color by [Chains] form the drop down menu
1. I. Color by pentamers
1. 1. Delete the textures of the parent geometry
1. a) In the C4D object manager unfold 2plv
2. b) Delete all but the phong tag from the CoarseMS_2plv mesh object (your virus should turn gray)
2. 2. Unfold 2plvbioMT
1. a) In the Material Manger, make 12 new materials colored as you see fit
2. b) Under 2plvbioMT, color 5 instances at a time
3. c) From top to bottom, select the top 5 monomers that make a pentamer 2plv_60 to 2plv_56
4. d) Adjust viewport to see them clearly
5. e) In the Material Manager, select the material you want to apply to the pentamer then click Function > Apply
6. f) Repeat steps fo 2plv_55 to 2plv_51, etc. eleven times
1. J. Backbone Worm Model (loft)
1. 1. Under > Surface Representations uncheck [ ] coarsMolSurf
2. 2. Unfold > Backbone Representations
1. a) Check [√] Loft
2. b) In the object manager under 2plv, unfold each of the chain parent nulls e.g., unfold 2plv:4 to 2plv:1 so you can see the loft object children.
3. c) Unfold each loft object
4. d) To speed up your viewport, simplify the loft objects by selecting the circle under each loft at once and in the attributes manager for the four circles set Intermediate points= Uniform, Number= 1, Set radius to 1 or any thickness for the backbone trace you like
1. e) Remove linear interpolations by updating the settings in the attributes manger for the four spline objects. Set intermediate points= Uniform, Number= 1, Change type form [Cubic] to [Linear] and then back to [Cubic]
1. 3. Unfold > Color By:
1. a) Select [Chains] from the drop down
2. b) ePMV menus Edit > Color Palettes (note, there is a bug in 0.5.2 that prevents color palette edits from sticking – update to 0.5.3 as soon as its available)
3. c) Unfold > Chains, see in the object manger that there are 4 chains labeled 1-4, so click to adjust those colors as desired
4. d) Click [Set To], in the main ePMV GUI set Color By to [Chains] from the drop down
2. 4. Take a peak inside:
1. a) Select 5 monomers that make a pentamer and hit ‘Option + G’ to group them
2. b) Move the parent of the group to pull the pentamer aside or hide it to take a peak inside the empty virus
3. c) Turn on ambient occlusion effect under render settings and crank the Maximum Ray Length to >400 to make it dark inside
1. VII. Full To-Scale Tobacco Mosaic Virus Particle (TMV)
1. A. Under ePMV options (edit menu), deselect 'center molecule', and set 'representation at loading' to none, press ok
2. B. Fetch: 2om3
3. C. Create Coarse Molecular Surface and set isovalue to 3 and grid size to 7
4. D. Select biological unit in ePMV edit menu. Type in 2om3 and hit OK
5. E. Create cloner object and set mode to 'linear.' Set x to 70cm, y and z to 0cm and count to 43 (Virions are ~300 nm in length and ~18 nm in diameter, these parameters are approximately to scale)
1. F. Rotate cloner object -90 degrees on Z axis
2. G. Place 2om3bioMT into the cloner object
3. H. Enable ambient occlusion in render settings and set color scheme in ePMV gui
4. I. Create a background object and set color ‘Use Color’ to ‘On’ in the attributes panel, default color should be white
1. J. Play with materials and lighting if time permits. Increase grid size in small increments for more detail.
2. K. Render out scene and save file
3. VIII. Different Representations for RNA and Coat Protein for TMV
4. A. Under ePMV options (edit menu), deselect 'center molecule' and set 'representation at loading' to none, press ok
5. B. Fetch: 2om3
6. C. Expand 2om3 in the object manager, there should be two chains (R=vRNA, and A=Coat Protein)
7. D. Make sure 2om3 is selected in the ‘Current Selection’ drop down menu
8. E. Select 'chain' under the 'Add selection set using string or...' drop down menu in the ePMV gui
9. F. Type in R after chain (it should read 'Chain R')
1. G. Hit the ‘save set’ button. You should have another selectable object under the 'Current selection' drop down menu named '2om3_selection0.' This is the RNA.
1. H. Repeat for chain A, but make sure to reselect 2om3 under the 'Current selection' drop down menu. 2om3_Selection1 will be the Coat protein.
1. I. Create biological unit for 2om3
2. J. Select 2om3_selection1 (Coat protein) and apply MSMsurf or CoarseMolSurf
3. K. Select 20m3_ selection0 (vRNA) and select atoms. The Coat protein and vRNA should be visually distinct at this point
4. L. Play with different representations for each chain and render out scene and save file
5. IX. NMR 2kzy
6. A. Restart C4D
7. B. ePMV menu>Edit>Options:
1. 1. deselect [ ] Center molecule and [ ] Remove water
2. 2. Click OK and close the options window
8. C. Fetch 2kzy
9. D. Check [√] Lines
10. E. Unfold Data Player
11. F. Click the pulldown that says 2kzy.mo… and drag to 2kzy.model to reinitialize the data player
1. 1. The Grey slider bar below should move to zero at the left
1. G. Scroll back and forth to see the different states (represented by your line model) in the viewport… there are 20 possible states (the last two of the 21 states are redundant)
2. H. Don’t try to animate this with simple interpolation- your teacher will explain why.
3. X. Bake Texture to Surface
4. A. Restart C4D
5. B. Fetch 1crn
6. C. Build a molecular surface by checking [√] MSMSurf
7. D. Render
8. E. Color by <Per Residue>
9. F. Save the File
10. G. Make a new Light and check [√] Ambient Illumination
1. 1. Your scene will appear dark, but this is fine- render the viewport if you want
11. H. Apply a Bake Texture Tag on the object MSMS-MOL1crn in the Object Manager
1. I. In the Attribute Manager for the Bake Tag:
1. 1. Tag:
1. a) Filename= 1crnPerResMat
2. b) Format = jpg
1. c) Options > Select Surface Color > Click Bake and be patient
1. J. In the Material Manager, create a new material
1. 1. Double click to open your new material in the Material Editor
2. 2. In the Color Channel, click the […] button to the right of Texture to set a path to the jpg you just created
3. 3. Drag this material onto your MSMS-MOL1crn object
4. 4. Turn off your light and you should see a fully textured object that looks like your rendered version, directly in your viewport
1. a) This step is not necessary for Blender and Maya which now have Vertex rendering directly in the viewport
1. XI. Represent DNA in a Variety of Styles
1. A. Restart Cinema 4D
2. B. Open ePMV
3. C. In the ePMV menu at top, click Extension>BuildDNA(w3DNA). In the Build DNA palette:
1. 1. In the box enter a name (i.e. test.pdb): type AMInews.pdb
2. 2. In the box enter a sequence: paste or type: GCC ATG ATT AAC GAG TGG AGT (you can repeat it three or four times to make a longer DNA strand, but its wise to keep it simple for this tutorial)
3. 3. Choose a type [M4>B-DNA (generic)]
1. 4. Click [Build] and wait for a few seconds (time depends on the length of your strand and any traffic on the Rutgers server)
1. a) The widget sends users a sequence to the w3DNA server (http://w3dna.rutgers.edu/index.php/rebuild) to generate a straight PDB file of the specific sequence that automatically gets constructed into the scene
2. 5. Create different representations
1. a) Unfold > Backbone representations and uncheck [ ] Ribbons
2. b) Under Atoms/Bonds check [√] Sticks under Color by: choose [Per Residue] then uncheck
3. c) Under Atoms/Bonds check [√] Atoms and under Color By: choose [Per Residue] then uncheck
4. d) Under Surface Representations check [√] MSMSurf. Change the probe radius to 0.01 and Color by: choose [Per Residue]
5. e) Leaving [√] MSMSurf checked, change the probe radius to 1.4 and under Color By: choose [Chain]
3. 6. Adjust the default colors of the Color By Chain settings (note, there is a bug in 0.5.2 that prevents color palette edits from sticking)
1. a) ePMV menu, Edit > ColorPalettes
2. b) Unfold > Chains
3. c) See in object manager that there are 4 chains labeled 1-4, so click to adjust those colors as desired
4. d) Click [Set Color]
5. e) In the main ePMV GUI set ColorBy to [Chains] from the drop down
6. f) Uncheck [ ] MSMSurf
4. 7. Under Surface Representations check [√] CoarseMolSurf. Set Iso= 0, res= -0.15, and Grid Size= 60, then under Color By: choose [Chain]
1. a) You can adjust the default colors of the color By Chain settings as described in the MSMS step if desired
1. XII. Loading a volumetric file (3D density map) derived from single-particle Electron Microscopy
1. A. Visit the Electron Microscopy Data Base
1. 1. Click Basic Search
2. 2. Type nuclear into the Title box on the search page and hit the [start search] button
3. 3. Click on entry 1097
4. 4. Click Map Information
5. 5. Click to download then unzip emd_1097.map.gz
2. B. CHANGE emd_1097.map to emd_1097.ccp4 (bug in PMV doesn't recognize the .map tag)
3. C. Open ePMV
4. D. Load a molecule, e.g., 1crn to trigger needed functions (temporary glitch we'll fix soon)
1. 1. This dummy molecule need not be visible, but its good to leave on to get an idea of the major scale differences between a tiny protein like 1crn (crambin) and your relatively large Nuclear Pore Complex
5. E. Unfold DataPLayer
6. F. In Data Player panel, Browse to your .ccp4 file to load it
1. 1. Since the file is formatted with proper headers, the map will load at a correct scale compared to any molecules in the scene (often shockingly large)
7. G. Zoom out to see your nuclear pore complex surface map
1. 1. Hover over viewport and Type H… you’ll be shocked by the size difference.
8. H. Adjust your data slider to approximately 2.6 (better to type then to slide, but play around since this is a large file)
9. I. Now you can center the molecule to the origin, generate a large sphere to mock up a nucleus, and I'll show you how to map the nuclear pore to your fake sphere nucleus in a separate tutorial for Cinema 4D.
10. XIII. Apply the nuclear pore to a mock nucleus
(These Cinema4D-specific instructions are generalizable to skilled users of other host software like Maya and Blender)
11. A. Generate a 3D isocontoured surface model using ePMV in the 1st part of this tutorial
12. B. Reduce the Polygon Count on your molecule
1. 1. C4D top menu Object>Deformer>PolygonReduction
2. 2. In the Object Manager panel, drag the new PolygonReduction deformer onto 'yourLoadedDummyMoleculeName'IsoSurface to make it a child of yourLoadedDummyMoleculeName'IsoSurface
3. 3. Right click on 'yourLoadedDummyMoleculeName'IsoSurface and select Current state to object
4. 4. After the new object is created below the original, delete the original (and its child Polygon Reduction Deformer
13. C. Center your nuclear pore complex to the origin of the scene.
1. 1. Select your reduced polygon mesh in the Object Manager
2. 2. Click on the PointTool button (in the left-most palette in C4D's default layout)
3. 3. Hover in the viewport and Select all of the points A on a mac, Cntrl A on a PC
4. 4. In the Coordinates manager, set all values to zero and click [Apply]
5. 5. In the Coordinates manager, type -90 in the H box and -300 in the Y box and click [Apply]
14. D. C4D top menu Object>Primitive>Sphere
15. E. With the sphere selected, in the attributes manager, change Radius=8000, Segments=3, and Type=Icosohedron
16. F. Double click the sphere in the object manager to change its name to mockNucleusOuterMembrane
17. G. C4D top menu Mograph>Cloner
18. H. With Cloner selected, set Mode=Object and drag mockNucleusOuterMembrane sphere from the object manager into the Object box in the Cloner attribute manager
19. I. In the object manager, drag your LoadedDummyMoleculeName'IsoSurface onto the Cloner to make it a child of the cloner.
20. J. Click on Cloner and change Distribution=Surface
21. K. Click on mockNucleusOuterMembrane and change segments=24
22. L. Create a new material and drag it onto mockNucleusOuterMembrane
23. M. Hack a hole into the outer membrane
1. 1. Double click the material name to change it to Nuc
2. 2. Double click the mockNucleusOuterMembrane material icon to open the Material Editor
3. 3. Check the [√] Alpha box and in the Alpha box details:
4. 4. Check [√] Invert
5. 5. Set the Texture pulldown menu to Effects>Proximal
6. 6. Click Proximal (spherical gradient box) to edit its details in the Material Editor Alpha
7. 7. Drag Cloner from the object manager into the big Objects area box
8. 8. Set Start Distance=410 and End Distance=500
24. N. Render your scene
25. O. Play with adding bump maps with noise and transparency, etc.
26. P. Try adding a Displacer Deformer as a child of mockNucleusOuterMembrane with noise scaled to ~3000 and height to ~200 to make the sphere more organic.
1. 1. This works fine for mocking up a nuclear membrane, from outside of the nucleus, but recall that its actually a double membrane (like a continuous spherical Endoplasmic Reticulum that is fenestrated by the nuclear pores.
2. 2. If you plan to fly close to or inside of your nucleus you may need to temporarily replace your pores with cylinders, duplicate the sphere and reduce that spheres radius to mock the inner bilayer, then boolean to remove the spheres, etc. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50509 | EppsNet Movie Reviews: Slumdog Millionaire
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Good story, good music, brilliant editing and cinematography.
One of the things I don’t like about movies is that conflict, even in feel-good movies about love and destiny, is too often resolved with violence, whereas much of the dramatic tension in real life stems from the number of people you’d like to physically assault but can’t.
Rating: Four stars (out of five).
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Maybe the movies represent the shadow side of our consciousness, showing the things we can’t or won’t act out in our real lives.
Then again, maybe they’re just crap…
BTW, I’ve heard this one is pretty good, all in all. Did you like it? All in all, that is.
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Pinapples, the sad story of George -Updated-
Once upon a time there was a pineapple, named George. He was yellow, obviously, and had green hair. He had only two friends; Michael the pear and Lucie the Onion. George was in love with Lucie, but she always made him cry. So 1 day he decided to take on a mask. He approached her from behind. "hi!" he said. She turned Around and screamed. "Get away from me, you monster!" She yelled at him. Poor George did not understand that she actually though he was a Monster. He took of the mask and started crying. She saw that it was George, but when she tried to hug him, he just cried more. Lucie did not understand anything.. Then Michael came along! "Hey guys" he said, smiling for himself. Lucie did not want to answer, neither did George. they where both really, really sad. "Hey, whats wrong buddy?" He asked George... "I don't know, she just makes me cry." George answered. Michael started to laugh. "That's because she is an Onion, you silly Pineapple! Onion's make anyone cry" he said, still laughing though. "But i love her!" George said. This news did not make him happier.
(i decided to make this part more violent than the first..)
George was
not happy. The love of his life was an onion. All that she had ever learned was
to make people cry and to give the food she was put into better taste. How was
she ever going to fulfill the dreams that George had for the two of them?
Michael came over to George and gave him a huge bro-hug. “Come here, bro.” he
said. “Now listen close. There are plenty of girls out there, waiting for a
strong, good looking, nice and brave hearted young pineapple, such as you!” “Thanks
mate!” George replied. He wanted to say so much more, but his heart was at this
time crushed, and eaten. No seriously, some humans ate his heart!...
walked over to the both of them. “I am sorry George.” She said, soft and calm. “I
guess you and i never really where meant to be…” George, now literally chopped
up in pieces, did not say a word. In fact, he had the best poker face I have
ever seen. Much because he did not really have a face left. “Nooo! George!!” Michael
screamed. Suddenly a wild voice appeared. “What is it for desserts mom?”
Michael and Lucie looked around, but they could not see anything suspicious. “Pear
and cream.” A lady voice answered.
A moment
after, it was just Lucie the onion who still had her face in 1 piece..
To be continued...
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The Vikings Will Rampage.
O.o cute story... Well kinda lol :p
In fact since its cute,
Monster MMORPG's first Kpop fan!
Back after more than 12 months of vacation.
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haha pineapples
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Haha! Big Grin
Nice story lolz^^
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My imaginary friend thinks you have serious mental problems!
Thanks guys, with this good response, i may make another chapter Smile
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The Vikings Will Rampage.
A fantastic but also slightly weird read. Smile Smile Smile
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(2012-07-01, 09:07 AM)hazel Wrote: A fantastic but also slightly weird read. Smile Smile Smile
The point was to make it weird Smile
Actually there where no point... i wrote it
as a joke. As it seems now, i will start on part 2, if my
creativity holds^^
But thanks Big Grin
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nice story... slightly weird tho
"A man who's lost his pride can never be free"
- Ramza Beoulve
When will the second episode come out???
"A man who's lost his pride can never be free"
- Ramza Beoulve
ramza be careful with double posting
im warning u
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(2012-07-02, 10:02 AM)Ramza_X Wrote: When will the second episode come out???
It will come out when i am done with it... You need to think more logically, my friend
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1. Not to put down German Shepherds 'cause they're great, but here's some other BIG, CAPABLE working dogs. Any of these breeds will produce Schutzhund-capable dogs with real stopping power. Rottweiler Belgian Malinois Giant Schnauzer Argentine Dogo Fila Brasileiro Irish Wolfhound Kuvasz Dobermann Pinscher Ovcharka
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Trijicon night sights?
What about a .410 front sight block (available through the Saiga-12.com store) and add a tritium post?
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agp gen 1 vs gen 2??
Good to know. Thanks Makc!
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agp gen 1 vs gen 2??
I haven't seen the gen 1 mags for sale in ages. Weren't they recalled? You could probably contact AGP and find out if you can exchange them for gen 2's.
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Romy Dragunov or .308 clone
Thanks, but I'll pass.
6. Good idea, and a big +1 for Shepherds. They're great dogs. I've actually started this fella on some Schutzhund training. He's just a mutt (probably Lab/Pit), but has a super attitude and a great nose.
7. +1 on motion sensor lights. As for dogs for protection, they're only as useful as their training. Do you have the time and motivation to train one to be a good working dog? Also, think about what type of dog you want: 1 - Alarm: any dog, any size as long as it's alert and loud when it counts. 2 - Deterrence: everything an alarm dog does, plus enough energy and size to make an intruder think twice. 3 - Stop: a dog with all the training for alarm and deterrence, plus the ability to stop an intruder cold. This is uncommon outside of military and LE working dogs. Also, do you want a the dog to stop a bad guy at your command, or do you want it to guard an area and attack any threat that enters? If you do decide on a dog, remember that you have to train yourself to train the dog. Consistency is the most important thing. You'll never have a reliable guard dog unless the dog's already mastered basic obedience and socialization.
8. +1 The 'magnet test' is mostly to satisfy insurance underwriters and lawyers. Outdoor ranges in wildfire areas sometimes ban steel because it can strike sparks.
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Most stable butt-stock
The grain on that looks awsome, what is the origin? Ironwood Designs maple, with Laurel Mountain Forge 'honey maple' stain and Permalyn finish, and Polytech metal hardware. My Type-56 almost-replica. Needs to lose the flash hider and have a full hood over the front sight, but otherwise pretty close
10. aresv
Romy Dragunov or .308 clone
There is no such thing as a Romanian Dragunov. Those PSL rifles have Kalashnikov actions, same as a Saiga. The only real Dragunovs were imported years ago: Russian Tigrs, a very few SVD's, and Norinco NDM-86's.
11. Having tried both, I prefer the XD. H&K's are quality pistols but I don't care for their ergonomics (plus H&K is legendary for their piss-poor customer service). OP, do you really WANT either pistol? If you don't, then don't trade. Keep your shotgun and trade it for something that suits you. Buckandaquarterquarterstaff is right. You can get a reliable .45 for cheaper than what your shotgun is worth.
12. aresv
Most stable butt-stock
The best tool for buttstrokes is probably a non-folding, non-telescoping wooden stock with a steel buttplate.
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Home Defense Question..
+1 Best idea I've heard yet. I may try that one sometime. Not really. When something goes bump in the night, 1. Make sure you've got your "special" magazine inserted. 2. Pull the pin. 3. Rack the bolt. 4. Selector from safe to fire. 5. Rock and roll. Or you could leave your bolt locked open with a notched selector (or factory BHO, but that adds an extra step for the safety). Leave any magazine you want in the gun. 1. Selector from safe to fire, releasing bolt. 2. Rock and roll. How many magazines do you own? Do you really want to drill holes in all of them, or are you only going to depend on a subset of them for home defense?
14. WHAT? Sounds like a candidate for thereifixedit.com, or more likely failblog.org.
15. Wolf won't hurt anything but the egos of gun snobs. It's not match quality, and it it's dirty, but you have to clean anyway. Just don't use it for accuracy. High round count run-n-gun type matches, Wolf is fine. |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50556 | Tuesday, July 29, 2014
St. Paisios heals a child
St. Paisios depicted giving a child a loukoumi (source)
The doctors were disillusioned, as my parents later told me, that they had to go make a surgical incision in my chest to relieve the fluid that that collected around my lungs. My young age, however, made this intervention even more difficult. The necessary tests were performed on that Friday, which showed that things were totally bleak, so at the meeting of the Physicians, they decided to go ahead the next Monday with further tests and the ultimately the surgical procedure.
On Friday evening, while I was sleeping in bed with the protective railings up, my mother was sleeping in a chair next to me, and something immediately woke me up, and I saw an elderly monk enter in from the door to the balcony. He turned towards me, put down the iron railing, and made the sign of the cross, blessing me three times. I was startled, and with joyous surprise, I cried out loudly to my mother who was next to me, but she, strangely, did not here me. That unknown monk smiled lovingly, and then left straightaway.
When my mother awoke the next morning, she saw with astonishment that the railing was down, and that I was cheerful. I explained as best I could at that age about this wondrous visit by a monk, and they began to show me different pictures of Saints so I could indicate which that monk might resemble. My gaze, however, fell on the picture of Elder Paisios from a book from the Holy Monastery of Souroti which my mother was reading those days.
On Monday, the doctors performed the prerequisite tests, and then were speechless. They confirmed the wondrous improvement in my health. The surgery was cancelled, and in a few days, I returned joyously to my home again. So great was the happiness and gratitude of my parents for this miracle of Elder Paisios, that my next brother that was born they named Arsenios.
(amateur translation of text from the Holy Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos, Navplion, http://orthodoxianpress.com/, source)
Saturday, July 26, 2014
Canons in the Eight tones to St. Panteleimon, by St. Joseph the Hymnographer: Second Tone
St. Panteleimon the Great Martyr and Unmercenary Healer of Christ (source)
Note: The following is my amateur translation of the second canon (in the second tone) in a series of eight canons in the eight tones written by St. Joseph the hymnographer to honor the great martyr and healer of Christ, St. Panteleimon. These are very beautiful and compunctionate hymns, and rightly praise such a great wonderworker of Orthodoxy. For the full texts of the canons in Greek, see here. If I am not mistaken, these are used around the feast of the Saint (i.e. either in the days leading up to or following his feast) in his Monastery on Mount Athos to more fully celebrate this great feast, the feast of the Russian Monastery of the Holy Mountain. May St. Panteleimon intercede for us all, and grant us healing of the passions of our souls and bodies! Amen!
Canons in the Eight Tones to St. Panteleimon the Great Martyr and Unmercenary
Written by St. Joseph the Hymnographer (+883AD)
Canon II in the Second Tone
The acrostic, from the first to the seventh, according to alphabet, in the eight and ninth: “Song of Joseph”
Ode I. Come, O people.
Entreat for our sanctification and enlightenment from God, O all-joyous one, for those who praise you with holy melodies, and who are enriched by you as a divine protector.
You disdained royal and lawless commandments, and hastened to the eternal, heavenly Kingdom, which you received, having struggled, O Panteleimon.
You clearly denied the generation and the worldly pride, O wise one, and struggled steadfastly. Entreat the Savior, that those who ever hymn you may be saved.
You are the glory of the faithful, O Birth-giver of God. Make those who faithfully hymn you to partake of the joy to come and eternal glory, through your protection.
Ode III. Strengthen us.
Having believed in God and having called upon Him in holiness, you raised the dead man, O blessed one. But entreat that I be saved, who am dead by all kinds of offenses.
Having desired the true life, you endured the storms of tortures, O all-blessed one, and were tied to a tree, as your flesh was torn apart with iron.
The Judgment is now at the gates, be watchful, my soul, and cry out: “Save me, have mercy on me, O Master, through the intercessions of Your divine Champion.”
Having given birth to God in the flesh, O Virgin, ceaselessly entreat on behalf of those who hymn you, O unshameable protection of the world.
Ode IV. I have hearkend, O Lord.
You were offered as a pure sacrifice to Him Who was pierced for us, O greatly-suffering Martyr Panteleimon.
Your flesh was utterly and mercilessly burned with torches, O all-blessed one, as you received divine refreshment from on high.
Enlighten me with the light of repentance, through your bright prayers, O Champion, and deliver me from eternal torments.
Cleanse us all from the pollution of the passions, O Birthgiver of God, for you bore the Source of dispassion.
Ode V. O, the source of light.
Keeping the law of God, and deposing the wiles of the lawless, you were cast into the sea, O Martyr, but were saved by the mighty hand of Christ, our only God.
You struggled in a strange manner, and befriended God, O glorious one. Enlighten the eye of our heart, which was darkened by the passions of life, O wise one.
O Pure and Virgin Mother, the eternal beauty of the Champions, and the refuge of those repenting, help us, who are terribly endangered on the sea of life.
Ode VI. In the abyss of offenses.
Arrayed with divine grace, O all-blessed one, amidst beasts you remained unmoved, O glorious Panteleimon, amazing all who gazed upon you with faith.
We have been enriched by you as our protector and most-fervent intercessor, O Panteleimon,. Deliver us from fatal trials and dishonorable passions, through your prayers.
Those who beheld the multitudes of wonders worked by you came to believe in Christ, O Champion, and you inherited that [eternal] mansion through your blood of martyrdom.
Entreat the All-good Word, O you who are graced by God, on behalf of us all, that we be granted remission of offenses, and that we receive eternal life.
Ode VII. The children were shown to be rhetors.
As your members were utterly flogged on behalf of the Lord, O Champion, you were unjustly bound to a wheel, but preserved by the hand of an Angel, and you conquered the bodiless foes through your body, O blessed-one.
Through the grace and strength of Christ, you joyously cast out our illnesses, O godly-minded Panteleimon, therefore I cry out to you: heal the passions of of my heart, entreating the Good and only Benefactor [Christ].
Preserve my soul from every snare of the enemies, O Panteleimon, I entreat you, that as you formerly healed the paralytic, now heal me, that I might walk the good path righteously, through your prayers.
As the Throne of the King of All, you became fiery, O Chaste One, in which sat He Who raised those bodies long-dead, and refashioned those who had been terribly shattered by sin.
Ode VIII. In the furnace fire.
Rejoicing in mind, you were placed in boiling oil, but were not burned, as you were aflame, O Martyr, with the love of Christ, and you received the refreshment from on high. Therefore, we honor you, O wise Panteleimon.
You stood with your feet immovable on the rock of the knowledge of Christ, and were not shaken by the many forms of tortures which were thrown at you in evil. Therefore, we hymn you, unto all the ages.
I ceaselessly entreat you, O Birthgiver of God, to deliver me from the evil path and impure thoughts, and every other soul-corrupting danger, that I might hymn you, unto all the ages.
Ode IX. God the Word from God.
That you might gain the riches of heaven, O Martyr, you counted the thoughts and joys of this world as refuse, and endured the greatest pains of your flesh manfully, thus righteously pleasing the Master of all.
Having imitated Christ, the Giver of Mercy, O Panteleimon, you were renamed according to the mercy which you showed towards all men, as you truly pour forth healing for every disease, O godly-minded one, for those who hasten to you.
Through your prayers for us, O Martyr, deliver us from the many forms of temptations, and terrible sicknesses and afflictions, O Panteleimon, and deliver from the eternal fire those who hasten to your protection with faith, O all-joyous one.
The awesome [Second] Coming of the Master approaches; who would not be pained at you, O wretched soul? Hasten, arise, cry out to Jesus, my God: “have mercy on me, save me, through the prayers of the wise Champion, as the only Surpassing-Good One.”
I am a lover of sin, and I shudder at the Judgment which awaits me there, O Birth-giver of God and All-Spotless One, namely terrible punishment. Therefore, I entreat your motherly prayers, which surpass understanding, to have mercy on me and save me.
For Canon I (in First Tone) to St. Panteleimon, see here.
A recent miracle of St. Paraskevi the Great Martyr
St. Paraskevi the Great Martyr and Wonderworker (source)
For the account of an astonishing recent miracle of St. Paraskevi, at her Shrine in Woodlawn, NY, see the following site. May St. Paraskevi pray for us all, that we be healed of our bodily and spiritual blindness!
Doxastikon of the Praises for St. Paraskevi in the Second Tone.
In the city of our God, on His holy mountain, there the Saint has come to dwell, keeping her lamp unquenchably. Let us hear the praise of the virgin: "O virginity, the temple of God! O virginity, the glory of the martyrs! O virginity, the partaker with the Angels!"
(amateur translation of text from source)
Monday, July 21, 2014
A recent miracle of St. Luke the Surgeon
St. Luke the Surgeon (source)
My name is X. M., and I am 38 years old and from Kavala, married and the mother of two boys, 13 and 8. I wanted to spread among you a story, my experience of a miracle...
From a young age I had health problems. In high school I had problems with my knees. Working as a hairdresser (20 years old), I developed carpal tunnel syndrome. After my first pregnancy (25 years old), the great problems started. Osteoarthritis, sacroileitis, tendonitis in many places of my body, spondyloarthritis, hypothyroidism...
Over the next ten years and after my second pregnancy, the state of my health had clearly worsened, and the last three years I was a "walking pharmacy": injections, pain killers, anti-inflammatories, and other things to fight the pain that I was fighting on a daily basis. And furthermore, on a daily basis: moaning, crying and anxiety.
Christmas of 2013 I visited a Neurosurgeon, who after all of the tests "discovered" a bulging disc in my spine. I believed that with surgery, I would get well! When, however, the doctor saw the MRI, he found that the bulge was so small that despite surgery, my problem would not go away. He suggested that I look elsewhere for my problem. I was going crazy, and believed that I was sick in my head, and I cried for two days straight...
I looked online to find some site, and I came across a site from two doctors with the phrase: "Fibromyalgia". Studying the symptoms of this syndrome, I found that I had all the symptoms! Pains in my muscles, in my joints, insomnia, depression...pain everywhere...During that period I began to read about the miracles of St. Luke the Surgeon, from a book that my husband had brought from Mount Athos. That was my first sign that the Saint was and is near me.
One night, as I was reading from his miracles, and as I was half-way through the book, I began to doze-off and as I had begun to sleep, left the book in the corner and tried to sleep. It was futile, however. I then had a clear sense that something was fragrant in my room, which only I could smell! When I learned that the fragrance was "myrrh", I took the book and continued to read. The fragrance left as soon as I finished reading the miracle!!!
Up to Pascha of 2014, the pains had become unbearable. I could not sleep, couldn't drive, couldn't cook...and the worst of all was that I couldn't hug my children, because every encounter with them was painful. I was in great pain and cried continuously...I couldn't bear this state any more, so I decided with my doctor to perform a series of injections, which had many severe side effects, and could even cause cancer. In light of the therapy with the injections, my husband, who was beside me all these years, and who I truly could not life without, suggested to me that we visit the Monastery of Sagmata in Thebes, to venerate the holy relics of St. Luke the Surgeon, and to pray for the intercessions of the Saint! Despite my terrible state, he did not have to ask me a second time...
The next day, May 3rd 2014, we left the children at my cousin's house, who was a great support for me throughout all these years, and traveled to Thebes. As we approached the Monastery, for some reason I was continuously tearful, and when I venerated the relics of the Saint, I began to cry even more. I entreated him to take away half of my pain (that would be enough), while my husband prayed that I not suffer all of the side effects of the injections. As I left, and as I heard the bells of the Monastery, I began to cry again!
Reaching Chalkida, where we were staying the night, we had dinner, and immediately returned to the hotel. I was worse than ever before, with heavy breathing and pain. I lay down at 8PM, and reading the life of the Saint, and I was able to sleep around 2AM. At 2:30AM, I awoke and complained: Oh, my God, I only slept half an hour!!! I tried to get up, and found that nothing was wrong, I had no pain anywhere!!! The fibromyalgia was gone! The help of St. Luke came unexpectedly quick! In the morning, when my husband awoke and saw me with a huge smile, he understood immediately what had happened.
When I returned and hugged my children, they understood what had happened, and began to dance from their joy. My cousin and my koumbara understood the difference over the telephone as soon as they heard me, without even seeing me. My doctor told me that I gave him the greatest gift, that he did not have to give me injections any more.
My spiritual father, Fr. T., my mother, and some of my close friends knew what I experienced, and they were next to me all these years, and they couldn't do anything other than rejoice at what occurred, and making my joy even greater. The moaning and weeping has ceased. I gained my life back again.
I will always be grateful to St. Luke the Surgeon, and I thank him for his immediate and unexpected prayers...
X. M., Kavala
(Amateur translation of text from source)
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
St. Porphyrios' Advice to a Pediatrician
St. Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia (source)
St. Porphyrios once told a Pediatrician: "Listen to what I have to say to you. Every time you examine a child*** you should offer a fervent prayer with love: Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on your servant."
As he said this he took a deep breath while he opened his hands. "It is in this way that you should pray for every child. God has sent a precious soul into your hands. As you place your hands on them pray fervently within yourself that the grace of God will be transfused into the soul of the child.
"Do all this things spiritually and in secret. The others who are present won't understand anything. You will prescribe to them medicines which science dictates but in the final analysis Christ will heal the child."
***Of course this beautiful advice can apply to anyone in healthcare, for any age.
Monday, July 14, 2014
120,000 people visited the Grave of St. Paisios
The humble grave of St. Paisios of the Monastery of St. John the Theologian, Souroti (source)
On the 20th anniversary of the repose of Elder Paisios, the Monastery of St. John the Theologian in Souroti (outside of Thessaloniki), where the Elder is buried, as usual holds a vigil service along with memorial for him. This year estimates hold that 120,000 of the faithful visited the Elder's grave. Some patiently waited up to four hours in line...
These thousands of people (including many young people) were present, and even though the church was open, it could not hold all of this sea of pilgrims, so many prayed in the courtyards of the Monastery. According to Police, 50,000 people remained for the vigil service, while a total of 120,000 people visited the grave of the Elder on July 12th.
May we have his blessing!
The multitudes of people waiting to venerate the grave of Elder Paisios (source)
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Excellent Documentary on the life of St. Paisios
Here is an excellent and extensive (3 hour long) documentary on the life of Elder Paisios. It has Greek narration, but English subtitles, with many excellent icons and pictures of places associated with the life of the Elder. They discuss the Elder's life, teachings and miracles before and after his repose. The official title is:
Elder Paisios the Athonite (1924-1994): "The Signalman of the Army and of God"
May we all have his blessing!
Elder Paisios on those who suffer for the world
St. Paisios the Athonite (source)
Two additional recent healings by St. Paisios
An icon of St. Paisios of the Holy Mountain (+ July 12th, 1994) (source)
1. "I, six years ago", a young man confessed to many, "was an anarchist. I wore earrings and took drugs. One of my friends had a book on Elder Paisios.
In December of 1996, this friend of mine was found at the bookstore of Souroti Monastery, where there was a couple with their little girl, and their father, two middle-aged women, and a young man. Straightaway, there was heard a loud cry. One of the middle-aged women, who was a large woman, collapsed to the floor and began to hit and cry out wildly. She swung her head here and there. The sight was truly terrible. The woman with the little child went out, while the rest approached her to try to help her. The woman bellowed and said with a wild, unbelievable and male voice: "I will take care of you guys who don't believe, I will show you...Now, a short time more and I will put the 666 on all your hands...You will all worship me...You losers and idiots..." and other insults.
Then she began to sputter and appeared afraid. "Paisios, don't burn me, don't burn me. You want to send me back to Tartarus...And this loser brings me to all these monasteries...why are you helping her? You're burning me, you're burning me." And she squealed even louder. She was hitting herself so strongly that we were afraid that she would break her skull. It was clear that she was being troubled by a demon.
"A...aaah" she cried again, "Now Maria has come too...you're burning me, Paisios." She let out a loud cry and became motionless, as if she fainted.
Those standing around approached tentatively to help her, while the women covered her with their clothes. As soon as she was settled, they lifted her up from the floor. She had opened her eyes and cried calmly and silently. She gave thanks from the depth of her heart. "I thank you, Elder...I thank you, my God. She said this over and over again with great gratitude.
She got up and went before an icon of Christ and Panagia and let out loud cried: "My God...My God. How did you accept me, who am unworthy...I thank you, my God. I thank you, O Elder...I am not worthy, my God, of this help."
The scene was very moving. Later she greeted my friend with gratitude and left. The woman had a demon. As she left, she mentioned that the previous night she saw Elder Paisios in a dream tell her: "Come to my grave, and I will make you well." She came to the Monastery and asked where was the grave of the Elder, she venerated the grave, and then went to the bookstore, where the above event occurred...
2. The following is from Ms. L.N.M., a Russian Physician from Moscow: "I suffered an accident, with the result being that my left eye became blind. They brought me to the General Hospital of Moscow. The rooms were full, so they put me in the hallway. That night, I did not sleep at all. I prayed and was very worried. Towards morning, as I was in a state between sleep and awake, Elder Paisios came. I saw him clearly and I recognized him, because I had read a book on his life. He covered my head with a handkerchief and disappeared. At that same instant, I understood that I was seeing from my blind eye. The doctors did not have to do anything. I was kept in the clinic from February 4th to the 11th, 2002...
I thank God for His mercy to me, and Elder Paisios for his help."
(Amateur translation of text from source)
For more miracles of St. Paisios, see here.
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
St. Paisios of the Holy Mountain (+1994)
St. Paisios of the Holy Mountain (+ July 12th, 1994), right, depicted with his spiritual forefather, St. Arsenios of Cappadocia (+ November 10th, 1924), who baptized him (source)
Note: 2014 year marks the 20th anniversary of the repose of St. Paisios the Athonite. Of course much has been written of this great man who during his life helped hundreds on a daily basis with his prayers and spiritual instruction, and after his repose, helps even more. Thousands flock to his grave at the Monastery of St. John the Theologian in Souroti (outside of Thessaloniki) to receive his blessing, and many miracles continue to occur through his prayers. His life and writings continue to inspire, instruct and lead many to repentance and a more spiritual life. Below is a short summary of his life with a small selection of his teachings. We pray that we might all have his blessing!
Early years
St. Paisios the Athonite with his spiritual father, St. Arsenios of Cappadocia, icon by Alevizakis (source)
St. Paisios as a layman during his military service (source)
St. Paisios as a young monk (source)
The first years of the Elder’s monastic life
St. Paisios of the Holy Mountain (source)
St. Paisios of the Holy Mountain (source)
St. Paisios of the Holy Mountain (source)
His acquaintance with the Convent of St. John the Theologian
St. Paisios writing the life of his spiritual predecessor: St. Arsenios of Cappadocia (source)
At Stavronikita Monastery
St. Paisios sitting and talking with pilgrims (source)
At Panagouda cell
St. Paisios of the Holy Mountain (source)
The illnesses of the Elder
The last illness of the Elder
St. Paisios of the Holy Mountain (source)
St. Paisios the Athonite (source)
St. Paisios of the Holy Mountain (Source)
St. Euphemia the Great Martyr and All-praised, depicted as she had appeared to St. Paisios (source)
Priestmonk Christodoulos (1998) “Elder Paisios of the Holy Mountain”
Holy Mountain
On January 13th 2015, Elder Paisios was officially canonized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
A photograph of the martyric holy body of St. Paisios the Athonite taken during his funeral at the Monastery of Souroti (source)
A few quotes of Elder Paisios:
"We once asked Father Paisios:
- Father, you constantly tell us to have positive thinking. We would like you to give us some advice on how to deal with the following problem: Often people come to us to tell us that some priests charge a lot of money for performing the Holy Sacraments; they say that they smoke, or hang around coffee shops; they even say that some priests are involved in immoral acts, and in general, make strong accusations against them and present evidence to justify them. What answers can we give to people who accuse the clergy?
The Elder started telling us:
- I know from experience that in this life people are divided in two categories. A third category does not exist; people either belong to one or the other. The first one resembles the fly. The main characteristic of the fly is that it is attracted by dirt. For example, when a fly is found in a garden full of flowers with beautiful fragrances, it will ignore them and will go sit on top of some dirt found on the ground. It will start messing around with it and feel comfortable with the bad smell. If the fly could talk, and you asked it to show you a rose in the garden, it would answer: “I don’t even know what a rose looks like. I only know where to find garbage, toilets and dirt.” There are some people who resemble the fly. People belonging to this category have learned to think negatively and always look for the bad things in life, ignoring and refusing the presence of good.
The other category is like the bee whose main characteristic is to always look for something sweet and nice to sit on. When a bee is found in a room full of dirt and there is a small piece of sweet in a corner, it will ignore the dirt and will go to sit on top of the sweet. Now, if we ask the bee to show us where the garbage is, it will answer: “I don’t know. I can only tell you where to find flowers, sweets, honey and sugar; it only knows the good things in life and is ignorant of all evil.” This is the second category of people who have a positive thinking and see only the good side of things. They always try to cover up the evil in order to protect their fellow men; on the contrary, people in the first category try to expose the evil and bring it to the surface. When someone comes to me and starts accusing other people and puts me in a difficult situation, I tell him the above example. Then, I ask him to decide to which category he wishes to belong, so he may find people of the same kind to socialize with.
Elder Paisios was constantly stressing the importance of pious thinking in spiritual life. He used to say that a single positive thought equals a vigil in Mount Athos."
Icon depicting the Dormition of St. Paisios the Athonite, along with the various Monasteries founded by him directly or through his prayers and spiritual direction (source)
"In former days, the Holy Fathers first withdrew into the desert, becoming themselves a desert void of their passions by struggling. Without plans or programs of their own, they left themselves in the hands of God, avoiding honors and power, even when they arrived at measures of sanctity — unless Mother Church had need of them. They did obedience to the will of God, and they glorified the name of God with their holy life. They became spiritual blood donors, for they had acquired good spiritual health in the desert with good spiritual food and vigilant patristic watchfulness.
In our day, however, many of us, who are unfortunately influenced by worldly love, which can make no spiritual pledge, supposedly venture to do good, to donate blood, but our blood is full of spiritual bacteria and we do more harm than good.
If, however, we were living patristically, we would all have spiritual health, which even all the heterodox would envy, leaving their sick delusions aside to be saved without preaching. Now, however, they are not moved by our Holy Patristic Tradition, for they want to see how we continue the Patristic Tradition, to see our true kinship with our Saints.
Unfortunately, in our day, words and books have multiplied and experiences have diminished, because the worldly spirit, which pursues all conveniences and avoids all bodily effort, influences people. Most of us find rest in much reading but little or no implementation. We simply marvel at the holy athletes of our Church without realizing how much they’ve labored, for we have not toiled so as to be able to understand their toil, to love them and to struggle out of philotimo in order to imitate them.
Those, however, who struggle with philotimo and do not give themselves rest, removing their egos from every one of their actions, help very positively. For only then are the souls in need of help given rest, and only then will their own souls find inner rest, in this life as well as in eternity."
"One should not struggle, however, with sick scholastic meticulousness and be choked by stress (fighting with thoughts), but should simplify his struggle and place his hope in Christ and not in himself. Christ is all love, kindness and consolation, and He never stifles man, but possesses an abundance of spiritual oxygen — divine consolation. Thorough spiritual work is one thing and sick meticulousness is another; the latter chokes with its inner anguish (due to thoughtless external strain) and afflicts the forehead with splitting headaches."
St. Paisios the Athonite with Sts. Arsenios and Euphemia (Source)
"People who struggle hard, with much devotion, and have reached the angelic state to a certain extent and are nurtured with celestial honey, nevertheless offer nothing significant to God compared with what He has offered us. For they eat honey while offering Him wax. They eat sweet fruits and offer God tree resin with the censer. Therefore, we do nothing and offer nothing to God, compared with His great loving-kindness. For, while the Good God produces beautiful fruit with our rubbish or even with manure, in order to feed us, we wretched people turn beautiful fruit into manure."
"Blessed are those who have Christ as their hearts’ axis and joyfully revolve around His Holy Name, noetically and unceasingly repeating "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me."
"The elder said: It's not only that we become accustomed to saying the prayer. The purpose is for the person to know himself and sense his sinfulness. If he only slapped someone, he's a sinner because he shouldn't have done it. We are all sinners. Consider what God did for us and what we do for God. After thinking of that, even if the heart is granite it will soften. Let's think a little logically. God could have made me a mule and given me into an undiscerning hand which would load me with 150 kilos of wood and beat me. Finally I would fall into a pit and the dogs would open my belly and those who pass by would cover their noses for the stink on the road. Just for that should I give thanks to God? I don't thank Him. God could have made me a snake or a scorpion. But His love made me a human being. God was sacrificed for me. With one drop of divine blood He washes away all the sins of the world. If a person thinks of all this; on one side the good work of God and on the other his own sinfulness and ingratitude, even if the heart were granite it would soften. And then he senses the mercy of God. The heart must gain rest with "Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me." The prayer refreshes, not wearies. When we do not proceed in this manner, we acquire only the habit although the elder, the old self, remains within and we follow the way of delusion."
"Theology is the word of God, which is apprehended by pure, humble and spiritually regenerated souls, and not the beautiful words of the mind, which are crafted with literary art and expressed by the legal or worldly spirit."
St. Paisios the Athonite (source)
"Theology that is taught like a science usually examines things historically and, consequently, things are understood externally. Since patristic ascesis and inner experience are absent, this kind of theology is full of uncertainty and questions. For with the mind one cannot grasp the Divine Energies if he does not first practice ascesis and live the Divine Energies, that the Grace of God might be energized within him...Whoever thinks that he can come to know the mysteries of God through external scientific theory, resembles the fool who wants to see Paradise with a telescope."
"If we could go out of our self (the love for our self), we would also escape from the gravity of the earth and see everything in reality, with a divine eye, clearly and profoundly. That is why it is necessary for one to leave the world for the desert, struggle with humility, repentance and prayer, be deserted by his passions, remove his spiritual "rust" and turn into a good conductor in order to receive Divine Grace and become a true theologian...If we don’t remove the rust from our spiritual cables, we will constantly be short-circuited, full of worldly theories, doubts and questions. Then we cease to theologize, being found in a condition of worldliness, but will speak historically, or examine things legally and mathematically. Namely, we will examine how many nails were used to crucify Christ and how many soldiers were present when He was crucified without proceeding to the essence of things: that Christ was crucified for our own sins, in order to redeem us, and suffered more than all of the Holy Martyrs put together. Although He helped the Martyrs with His divine power, He did not employ His divine power for Himself at all and suffered terrible pains out of love, having His two hands and His two legs pierced with nails. Whether they crucified His two legs with one or two nails has no importance, inasmuch as both were nailed and He suffered the pain and drank the vinegar, that He might sweeten us again in Paradise, eternally close to Him, as our Loving Father."
For more sayings of Elder Paisios online, see here and here.
For the full biography of Elder Paisios, see this incredible book written by his spiritual son, Elder Isaac (of blessed memory), and recently translated into English.
Also, for more substantial publications of the Elder's teachings on many different subjects, see the series published by Souroti Monastery: Spiritual Counsels of Elder Paisios (Volume I: With Pain and Love for Contemporary Man, Volume II: Spiritual Awakening, Volume III: Spiritual Struggle, Volume IV: Family Life, and a 5th volume yet to be published in English). These are available several places online.
For the Greek text of the official Patriarchal act of canonization of St. Paisios, see here.
Icon of St. Paisios of the Holy Mountain (source)
Apolytikion in the First Tone
Kontakion in the Plagal of the Fourth Tone
On the this day (July 12th), the memory of our venerable Father Paisios the New, of the Holy Mountain, who reposed in peace in the year 1994.
Paisios, the tree of Mount Athos,
On the twelfth, Paisios reposed.
Rejoice the communicant with the Venerable, the pride of Athos, the adornment of Monastics, Rejoice the new teacher of the Church, O godly-minded Paisios, our boast.
***Note: I include amateur translations of a few hymns for those who wish to seek his intercessions at this time. There are several services written to St. Paisios in Greek, and I will refrain from additional translations, for several reasons, but especially until we know which service will get the final approval. These are taken from the Greek service written by Metropolitan Joel of Edessa.
The life and hymns to St. Paisios the Athonite, published in Romanian (source) |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50562 | Life is Like a 1970's Arcade Game
Life is like a 1970's Arcade Game
Not because
There are strange creatures
You've never seen before
Trying to kill you
By dropping small luminescent squares on you
And there's only one direction you can move in
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You're stuck in a maze
Full of ghosts who are out to get you
Trying to survive by eating blobs of light
Desperately seeking a hit from a luminous Pill
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No matter how hard you try
The enemies just keep on getting more and more
Faster and faster and faster and faster and faster and faster
Till you die
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You've got no 50p coin
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50590 | 6. Diatribe v. Epiphany
The Humor of Rabelais and Joyce
Miller criticizes Joyce for hesitation, for remaining on the "carapace" paralyzed by horror. He accuses Joyce of structuring his text about the image of the "grey sunken cunt of the world," rather than "Molly Bloom lying on a dirty mattress for eternity." In "The Universe of Death," he contrasts the "technical facility" of Joyce's humor and obscenity with that of Rabelais and, implicitly, that of his own narratives:
Is Joyce this man who can imitate any style--even the text-book and the encyclopedia? This form of humor, in which Rabelais also indulged, is the specific remedy which the intellectual employs to defeat the moral man: it is the dissolvent with which he destroys a whole world of meaning. [....] But observe the difference between the humor of Rabelais, with whom the author of Ulysses is so frequently and unjustly compared, and Joyce. [....] Rabelais' humor was still healthy; it had a stomachic quality, it was inspired by the Holy Bottle. Whereas with our contemporaries it is all in the head, above the eyes--a vicious, envious, mean, malign, humorless mirth. To-day they are laughing out of desperation, out of despair. Humor? Hardly. A reflexive muscular twitch, rather--more gruesome than mirth-provoking. A sort of Onanistic laughter... In those marvelous passages where Joyce marries his rich excretory images to his sad mirth there is a poignant, wistful undercurrent which smells of reverence and idolatry. Reminiscent, too reminiscent, of those devout medieval louts who kneeled before the Pope to be anointed with dung.[35]
Miller argues for an acceptance of the bric-a-brac world in which man's highest as well as his lowest activities and thoughts transpire on the same level, in changing contingent contact, rather than under a hierarchy of being and consciousness wherein "dung" may be taken as an ironic sign of divinity. In Miller's "cosmos--on the flat," "the monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses."[36]
It is the twenty-somethingth of October. I no longer keep track of the date. Would you say--my dream of the 14th November last? There are intervals, but they are between dreams, and there is no consciousness of them left. The world around me is dissolving, leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away.... I am thinking that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music will at last triumph. When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written. You, Tania, are my chaos. It is why I sing. It is not even I, it is the world dying, shedding the skin of time. I am alive, kicking in your womb, a reality to write upon.[37]
On the second page of Tropic of Cancer, Miller sets at nought all determinate relation between date and event, dream and reality, cancer and host, silence and sound, inside and outside, container and contained. This inaugural passage concerns Time: twentieth-century time and the time of Miller's narrative. Its purpose, however, is not to figure Time, but to strip Time of all the accumulated conceptual and figural structures which have led to its philosophic capitalization: Time emerges from this passage as time, the medium, the "meridian" of Miller's narrative and a word--"time"--to which Miller may attach a host of irreconcilable images and anecdotes. Indeed, it is this process of attachment that strips Time of its philosophic resolution and capitalization. The successive figures of time and their secondary permutations resist structuration. Time is origin and end, order and chaos, but imaginable as neither. Time is the womb into which the dying world is withdrawn, but it is also the chaos/score/skin left outside after everything is withdrawn into time's womb. To resolve these figures into a single coherent image, we must imagine time as a container containing its own outside, or alternately a container with no inside. A figure with such qualities may be described, but not imaged.[38] Making neither syllogistic nor integral symbolic sense, Miller's figures cannot be distributed upon a conceptual or visual space within which Time's meaning may be fixed. The very "world"--archetypal figure for all that may be understood as or as part of an encompassing, macrocosmic, spatial totality--is itself "dissolving," not disappearing or fragmenting under the influence of some external force. The world as totality remains a totality, but this totality--we might say, man's very drive to totalize his world--is encompassing, swallowing, itself: "The world is a cancer eating itself away."
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Thank you to all who attended the 4th meeting of the International Phytoplasmologist Working Group that was held from the 8th to the 12th of September in Valencia, Spain.
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Enabling Strong Password Functionality in Windows 2000
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 225230 - Windows 2000 Server includes the strong password functionality first provided in Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2). For additional information about the scope of default strong password functionality, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base. Q161990 How to Enable Strong Password Functionality in Windows NT
Implementing Guidelines for Strong Passwords
Adopting strong password policies is one of the most effective ways to ensure system security. This is only an example policy. It may not be strong enough for your needs; it is up to each customer to determine how strong is strong enough. Source:
Passwords 101: Ten tips to help you tighten Windows NT's security
Common sense advice on making sure your password policies are tough enough to discourage would be hackers. Source: Windows NT Professional Magazine (March 1998)
Article by Paul Robichaux - I'm going to let you in on a secret that's little discussed outside the security world: reusable passwords are evil. This might seem like an extreme position, but I can back it up. Source: Microsoft TechNet (Feb 2000)
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Setting and enforcing password security policies is a crucial part of securing your enterprise. Source: Windows & .NET Magazine (September 2002)
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The default password policy that ships with Win2000 (much like in WinNT), can best be described as "weak." A computer system -- along with its data -- are only as secure as the password of the users who access it, particularly users with admin level permissions. For this reason, if good password security is a concern, you should definitely tighten this policy up. Source:
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In the real world, an eight-character mixed alphanumeric password is no more secure than a simple four-character password according to Peter Tippett. If you want to cut costs and solve problems, think clearly about the vulnerability, threat and cost of each risk, as well as the costs of the purported mitigation. Source: InfoSecurity Magzine
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With all of our advances in security technology, one aspect remains constant: passwords still play a central role in system security. The problem is that as creative as humans are, we are way too predictable. If I asked you to make a list of totally random words, inevitably some sort of pattern will emerge in your list. This article is meant to bring you closer to understanding passwords in Windows 2000 and XP by addressing common password myths. Source: SecurityFocus
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50690 | The ergodicity problem in economics
Ole Peters
Fellow, LML
The ergodicity problem queries the equality or inequality of time averages and expectation values. I will trace its curious history, beginning with the origins of formal probability theory in the context of gambling and economic problems in the 17th century. This is long before ergodicity was a word or a known concept, which led to an implicit assumption of ergodicity in the foundations of economic theory. 200 years later, when randomness entered physics, the ergodicity question was made explicit. Over the past decade I have asked what happens to foundational problems in economic theory if we export what is known about the ergodicity problem in physics and mathematics back to economics. Many problems can be resolved. Following an overview of our theoretical and conceptual progress, I will report on a recent experiment that strongly supports our view that human economic behavior is better described as optimizing time-average growth rates of wealth than as optimizing expectation values of wealth or utility of wealth.
Rutgers University
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Lebanese or Lebanese Arabic is the variety of Levantine Arabic spoken mainly in Lebanonmarker though some consider Lebanese a language in its own right. Lebanese dialect shares 80% of its vocabulary with Syrian Arabic, and about 75% with Jordanian and Palestinian Arabic dialects. French, Turkic, English and Persian loanwords make less than 20%, but Aramaic loanwords make up to 40%. Many Lebanese usually mix French, English, Italian, and Russian to some extent into their Lebanese dialect for example, talfinli for call me or telephone me and fraize instead of the arabic farawila for the word strawberry or fraise in French.
Differences from Classical Arabic
Lebanese Arabic shares many featural similarities with other modern varieties of Arabic.
Other Influences
French also had a great influence on Lebanese Arabic, as the educated class tend to mix French during conversation.
• The following example demonstrates two differences between Standard Arabic and Spoken Lebanese: Coffee (قهوة), pronounced /qahwa/ in Standard Arabic, is pronounced /ahwe/ in Lebanese Arabic. The letter qaaf is not pronounced, and the letter taa marbuta becomes a softer /e/ sound.
• As a general rule of thumb, the qaaf is dropped from the words in which it appears, and is replaced instead with the hamza or glottal stop, e.g., /daqiqa/ (minute) becomes /da-ee-aa/. This is a feature shared with most dialects of Egyptian Arabic.
• The exception for this general rule is the Druze of Lebanon who, like the Druze of Syria and Israel, have retained the letter qaaf in the centre of direct neighbours who have substituted the qaaf for the aaf (example: "Heart" is /qalb/ in Arabic, becomes /aleb/ or /alb/ in Syrian, Lebanese, and Palestinian. The use of qaaf by Druze is particularly prominent in the mountains and less so in urban areas.
• Unlike most other Arabic dialects, Lebanese has retained the classical diphthongs /aɪ/ and /aʊ/, which were monophthongised into /e/ and /o/ elsewhere. This has changed over time, and today the /e/ has replaced the /ai/, /a/ and /i/ in everyday conversation, and the /o/ has replaced the /au/ and /u/. In singing, the /au/ and /ai/ are maintained for artistic values.
Regional Lebanese Arabic Dialects
Although there is a common Lebanese Arabic dialects mutually understood by most Lebanese, there are regional distinct variations in various parts of the country with at times unique pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary.
Widely used regional dialects include:
Spelling reform
Lebanese Arabic is rarely written, except in novels where a dialect is implied or in some types of poetry that do not use classical Arabic at all. Lebanese Arabic is also utilized in many Lebanese songs, theatrical pieces, local television and radio productions and very prominently in zajal.
Lebanese Arabic has been popularized throughout the Arab World particularly through Lebanese pan-Arab singers including Fairuz, Sabah, Wadih El Safi and many others.
Formal publications in Lebanon, such as newspapers, are typically written in Modern Standard Arabic.
While Arabic script is usually employed, informal usage such as online chat may mix and match Latin letter transliteration. The anti-Arabist poet Saïd Akl proposed the use of the Latin alphabet but did not gain wide acceptance. Whereas some works, such as Romeo and Juliet and Plato's Dialogues have been transliterated using such systems, they have not gained widespread acceptance. Yet, now, most Arabic web users, when short of an Arabic keyboard, transliterate the Arabic words in the Latin alphabet in a pattern almost identical to the Said Akl alphabet, the only difference being the use of numbers to point at the Arabic letters not found in the Latin alphabet.
• Spoken Lebanese. Maksoud N. Feghali, Appalachian State Universitymarker. Parkway Publishers, 1999 (ISBN 1-887905-14-6)
• Michel T. Feghali, Syntaxe des parlers arabes actuels du Liban, Geuthner, Paris, 1928.
• Elie Kallas, Atabi Lebnaaniyyi. Un livello soglia per l'apprendimento del neoarabo libanese, Cafoscarina, Venice, 1995.
• Angela Daiana Langone, Btesem ente lebneni. Commedia in dialetto libanese di Yahya Jaber, Università degli Studi La Sapienza, Rome, 2004.
• Jérome Lentin, "Classification et typologie des dialectes du Bilad al-Sham", in Matériaux Arabes et Sudarabiques n. 6, 1994, 11-43.
• Plonka Arkadiusz, L’idée de langue libanaise d’après Sa‘īd ‘Aql, Paris, Geuthner, 2004, ISBN 2-7053-3739-3
• Plonka Arkadiusz, "Le nationalisme linguistique au Liban autour de Sa‘īd ‘Aql et l’idée de langue libanaise dans la revue «Lebnaan» en nouvel alphabet", Arabica, 53 (4), 2006, 423-471.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50711 | Citizens for better science
The left should advocate for free access to not only scientific literature and data but also the means of production of science.
“Citizen science,” or the participation of people outside academia in the production of scientific research, is on the rise. While citizen science projects have existed for decades, several enterprises, including Zooniverse 1, Aurorasaurus 2, iNaturalist 3, NASA’s Landslide Reporter 4, and PressureNET 5 have appeared in the last decade alone. These platforms allow anyone to participate in data collection and classification for academic or government research projects.
While citizen science seems like a great way to expand scientific research beyond the walls of universities and private companies, many projects have been criticized for using participants merely for free data collection labor for academic scientists 6. Most citizen scientists never participate in experimental design, analysis of results, or the publication of findings. Additionally, while citizen science would seem to encourage greater scientific literacy among the general public, some have argued that the movement for citizen science is actually motivated by reactionary hostility toward experts 7.
The general public can and should contribute more to scientific projects than data collection labor. But citizen science is not a manifestation of right-wing science denial and distrust. Because members of the general public are capable of doing good science, inclusion of citizens will improve scientific results, and demanding free access to the means of production of science will improve both science and society, we on the left should support efforts to increase participation in citizen science. Specifically, we should advocate for the expansion of citizen science initiatives that encourage nonspecialists to participate in not just data collection but in every stage of the scientific process.
Non-scientists Can Do Good Science
The idea that scientific data and publications should be freely available rather than locked behind paywalls already has broad support on the left. The idea that people should also have free access to laboratories with scientific instruments and permission to submit publications to professional journals is rarely discussed, and it is often criticized. Critics of this conception of citizen science argue that it will lead to an excess of scientific information, most of which will be low-quality data, and possible misuse of scientific research.
However, information overload and the use of science for ethically dubious purposes are already rampant problems. The corporatization and casualization of academic labor has created a “publish or perish” environment in academia 8, where academics are pressured to publish larger volumes of work in order to keep their jobs. This has led to a surplus of low quality publications 9. In regard to the misuse of research, one need only read about atrocities like the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment 10, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques 11, and the health effects caused by pesticides like atrazine 12 to see the appalling cruelty with which academics, governments, and corporations have used science and technology.
In fact, these problems that critics claim will be caused by the expansion of citizen science will actually be ameliorated by it. In regard to information overload, most amateur scientists have jobs and other responsibilities, and thus are generally not able to produce the same quantity of work as professional researchers. Additionally, amateur scientists almost always work with professional scientists for training and guidance, and thus, rather than publishing on their own, they tend to collaborate with professionals to produce rigorous studies (collaboration tends to increase the impact of studies in terms of citation rates 13). And because citizen science should train and encourage amateurs to participate at all stages of the scientific process, non-specialists can help reduce information overload and improve the quality of submitted publications by contributing to peer review.
It is inevitable that some amateur scientists will misuse their work, such as to support oppressive or generally bad ideas. Members of the general public are not immune to the prejudices that have plagued professional researchers throughout the history of science. But there are fewer motivations for misuse among amateurs than among professionals. Independent scientists have fewer incentives to misrepresent their findings than scientists under pressure to receive tenure or to please organizations that fund their research 14. Thus the argument that citizen science will lead to higher rates of misuse seems weak.
I have laid out arguments in the abstract for why non-specialists can perform high-quality scientific work. But amateurs have done and continue to do high quality work in the real world, quite prominently in the fields of paleontology and astronomy, which have a rich history of collaboration between professional and amateur scientists. These two disciplines are distinguished from other natural sciences in that they are dependent on the collection of large amounts of field data, and collection of these data generally does not require large amounts of technical expertise. Because professional astronomers and paleontologists can only spend limited amounts of time gathering data from the innumerable stars and fossils yet to be identified and studied, they benefit from the extra data provided by amateurs.
Paleontology is deeply indebted to the work of citizens like Mary Anning 15, an impoverished woman with no formal education who discovered the first ichthyosaur skeleton to be properly identified and contributed to the discovery that coprolites are fossilized feces in the early 1800s, and Stephen Felton 16, a contemporary amateur who has published important papers on crinoid taphonomy and paleoecology with colleagues on the prestigious paleontology faculty of the University of Cincinnati.
In astronomy, amateurs continue to discover numerous comets, stars, galaxies, supernovae, and other objects, including the first mysterious “yellow balls” 17 that were later found be signs of the early stages of massive star formation. One amateur astronomer, Rev. Robert Evans 18, has visually discovered more supernovae than any other astronomer, amateur or professional. One of the supernovae he discovered, 1983N, was found to be the first example of a new type of supernova, now called a Type 1b.
It is clear that citizen scientists are capable of producing valuable scientific work beyond simple data collection, and continue to do so despite the professionalization of academic research since the days of “gentleman scientists” like Benjamin Franklin and Michael Faraday. But why should we advocate for inclusion of all people in the process of science?
Citizen Science Leads to Better Science
Not only are citizen scientists able to produce good science, but collaboration between amateurs and professionals has the potential to provide us with higher quality results. This has previously been shown in studies that consulted people outside the academy with knowledge of the phenomena being analyzed. Ecologist Richard Levins stated in “Class Science and Scientific Truth” 19, a keynote address delivered to the New York Marxist School, that scientists can learn a lot from different people in different trades.
He uses the example of Cuban meteorologist Fernando Boytel, who gathered data from peasant charcoal makers, windmill builders, and others who work with wind and have enormous knowledge and various perspectives about its patterns. Boytel was able to synthesize what he learned from the people he interviewed with scientific observation and wrote a respected book, Geografía Eólica de Oriente (Wind Geography of Oriente). His methodology allowed him save enormous amounts of time directly studying wind patterns.
One objection to Boytel’s methodology is that, despite these workers’ intimate knowledge of the wind, their knowledge cannot be as accurate as that attained from rigorous scientific observation and experimentation, and thus it should not be sought out. This is a fair point because often this knowledge is local and gathered from experience. For example, Boytel found that peasants in one specific valley believed that all trees grow toward the wind, a statement that is generally not supported by scientific findings because growing toward the wind should dry out the trees. But Boytel discovered that the unusual topography of the valley caused sunlight and wind to come from the same direction, and thus trees did in fact grow toward the wind. While Boytel’s study would have been somewhat inaccurate if his only data came from these interviews, his study was ultimately enriched by integrating observational knowledge and peasants’ knowledge from experience.
Beyond providing different perspectives to scientists, members of the broader public contributing to scientific discovery would likely challenge the justifications of social inequalities found in many studies, especially in biology and the social sciences. This is because the directions that different sciences take, most notably due to what questions get asked and answered, are influenced by the schemes of values held by the people asking and answering questions at a given time and place.
Philosopher of science Philip Kitcher distinguishes three types of schemes of values that influence science: a broad scheme of values, which encompasses the wide range of ideals that people have for themselves and for society; a cognitive scheme of values, which consists of the kinds of knowledge that one deems important; and a probative scheme of values, which comprises the priorities one has in determining which questions should be answered and in what order. When the points of view of citizen scientists are included, a greater diversity of schemes of values will guide the progression of science (though citizen science initiatives need to increase the representation of participants from underrepresented groups 20).
For example, in recent years there has been a decline in the number of paleontologists who work in the field of systematics, the study of how life forms have diversified and how they are evolutionarily related to one another 21. Jobs in paleontology today (which are sadly rare and becoming rarer) tend to go to specialists who work in newer fields like paleoecology and paleoclimatology, which focus more on broad patterns rather than on individual organisms. Because systematic information is the foundation of all paleontological studies, this decline threatens to bring progress in paleontology to a halt.
While many scientists recognize this problem, those willing and able to do systematic labor have been and continue to be pushed out of academia. Citizen paleontologists, who mainly do field collection, especially recognize the importance of systematic work in providing a more complete picture of past life in the field sites they study 22. Thus we can conceive of today’s professional and citizen paleontologists as having different probative schemes of values.
While professionals and amateurs alike tend to recognize the importance of systematic knowledge, and therefore share this in their cognitive schemes of values, amateurs generally believe that questions in systematics should be afforded the same if not greater amounts of attention and funding as questions in other paleontological fields. In order to save paleontology, we must include more practitioners who hold probative schemes of values that emphasize systematics. Thus, greater inclusion of citizen paleontologists, who are usually eager to conduct systematic studies, is critical.
In 1971, in an issue of the radical environmentalist magazine Survivre et Vivre, mathematician Alexander Grothendieck contrasted science as it is currently practiced with what he called “New Science” based on three principles 23, similar to Kitcher’s distinguishing of schemes of values in science. The first two, choice of goals and method, are akin to what Kitcher respectively called cognitive and probative schemes of values.
But in his third principle, Grothendieck emphasized that in order for science to get away from what he believed to be its oppressive roots, scientists must liberate people to do their own scientific work, especially work that serves the interests of working people (mainly, Grothendieck believed, focusing on environmental problems). Not only did Grothendieck think that scientific work is improved by actively involving a large part of the population in its production, but he also believed that better science is inextricably linked to the betterment of society. We must call for citizen science not only because it’s better for science, but because it is also better for people.
A Better Society Needs Citizen Science
If we on the left want to move science away from focusing on profitable questions, advancing theories that justify unequal social relations, and alienating the public, then we must organize for scientific infrastructure that supports and encourages citizen science, including people outside the academy at all levels of the scientific process and allowing all citizens access to the means of production of science.
One way to work toward this goal is to increase funds for publicly supported institutions that support this radical view of citizen science. One such institution is the Natural History Museum, London, which states in its “ten principles of citizen science” 24 that citizens should be allowed to participate at multiple levels of the scientific process and that papers and results from citizen science projects should be publicly available. A more radical way of expanding citizen science would be to demand the creation of alternative colleges and other institutions where members of the public can be educated on scientific topics as well as use laboratory materials at will, with professional guidance and supervision when necessary. These institutions should be committed to schemes of values that emphasize problems relevant to society, but they should not, as Grothendieck believed, abandon “science for its own sake” for exclusive focus on problems related to people’s material needs. Instead, we must ensure that scientific work, whether applied or for its own sake, progresses in ways that are not oppressive or supportive of capitalism.
The means of production of science are currently, for the most part, locked behind the doors of academic and corporate institutions, available for use solely by specialists. Research funding has become stagnant, or close to it 25, for many disciplines other than profitable ones like math and computer science. By demanding radical inclusion of citizens in the process of science, we will be able to counter many researchers driven by profit and academic prestige with ones dedicated to independent interest and social welfare.
Of course, including citizens in science alone will not save disciplines with declining job prospects and grant success rates like paleontology and astronomy, and it will be difficult to challenge the schemes of values of privately funded institutions that will likely refuse public demand for citizen science. In order to save these disciplines, we need to solve the bigger problem of disproportionate support of science for profit, military, and other similar purposes that serve the interests of capital.
One of the most pernicious effects of science under capitalism is the production and advancement of theories, most commonly in the social sciences and biology, that justify unequal social relations. Demanding the establishment of publicly funded institutions where citizens can learn and practice science will lead to the production of research that is less influenced by capital and more influenced by diverse schemes of values.
Kitcher advocates for science that follows democratically-informed cognitive schemes of values, which give priority to answering questions of greatest significance and urgency to all people. Establishing democratic processes for determining scientific priority could move fields away from what Grothendieck called “scientism,” or the idea that science is free of values when, in reality, much of current science shares the values of industrial capitalism.
Representing schemes of values that prioritize the urgent issues of society will also increase public trust in science. Previous studies have found that open access and full disclosure of scientists’ data and values could actually decrease the likelihood that people will trust the results 26, but it seems that the problem is not with transparency itself. Rather, the issue lies in the strong disconnect that many people feel with science, often due to different values and poor science communication 27.
Levins points out in “Class Science and Scientific Truth” that working people often have justified resentment about the oppressiveness of modern science and technology. This resentment causes feelings of alienation from science, and it gives rise to anti-science sentiments and mystical ideas like creationism (though mystical and outlandish ideas are certainly not exclusive to people outside the academy).
Specifically about creationism, Marxist biologist Richard Lewontin argues that impoverished people in the American South have sought to retain their cultural and religious values while their economic and political lives seem to be controlled by wealthy bankers and corporations, and this has led to widespread denial of evolution to this day 28. Lewontin’s explanation places the persistence of creationism as an ideology in historical context, and his materialist framework is useful for thinking about other ideas rejected by large parts of the American public like human-caused climate change and the safety of vaccines.
Due to historical inequities and injustices, it will take a long time to rebuild the trust in science of many laypeople, and we have to expect that increasing access to citizen science will inevitably lead to some biased work that reflects this alienation. One example of this is the work of amateur environmental and atmospheric scientist Forrest Mims, who is a respected researcher but who also endorses intelligent design and denies that global warming is occurring 29. But in order to equally distribute the knowledge and means of production of science, we must welcome people with even the most fringe beliefs to test their theories and work on projects that interest them. Only by allowing all people scientific agency can we truly build widespread trust in science.
This radical vision of citizen science, which imagines a world where all people are potential scientists, is a very idealistic one. Achieving it, or something like it, will require hard-fought battles for de-corporatization, more equal wealth distribution, and vastly improved educational opportunities. Thus, in order to improve both science and our society, the left must make organizing for radical citizen science, in the form of material changes to our educational and economic systems, one of our priorities. To quote Peter Kropotkin, “Knowledge is an immense power. Man must know . . . What if that knowledge . . . should become the possession of all? Would not science itself progress in leaps, and cause mankind to make strides in production, invention, and social creation, of which we are hardly in a condition now to measure the speed?”
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Re: Tolerance
Poster: [email protected] (Phillip Jones)
On Fri, 12 Jul 1996 14:42:19 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:
>Therefore I call upon you, upon us all, to be MORE critical of
>demonstrated misbehavior. Not to be rude, not to repeat rumour,
>but to be honest, polite, and intolerant. Yes, intolerant.
>Tolerance is one of the highest virtues of the SCA and its people.
>But tolerance of misbehaviour, discourtesy, blow-sloughing, and
>other evil is not a virtue, it is weakness. And a weakness that
>lets such behaviour continue.
Chivalry is not swallowing your pride when someone doesn't take what
you think is a good blow, but is stopping to discuss it. Chivalry is
being honest, even though it takes more enrgy than a small lie. If it
is chivalrous to call attention to other rude behaviour, then it is
chivalrous to call attention to improper fighting ettiquette, and the
time to do it is, for rapier, on the field. Marshals ask "were you
satisfied with the conduct of that match?" and that is THE time to say
no if you weren't. Call for Calibration. Let your opponent know that
his armour is outside of what you think is standard, and why.
Chivalry is a harder course than the expedient, chosen because it is
Right and True, not easier or less dangerous.
>Be intolerant. Be intolerant of evil in others. Be more intolerant
>of evil in Atlantians, for they can by their misbehavior hurt the
>honour of our Kingdom. Be still more intolerant of evil within your
>own household and friends, and be most intolerant of evil and misbehaviour
>within yourself.
Thank you for your reminder that evil does exist, and will try to
infiltrate, to insinuate, to besmirch our dream, that we must be ever
vigilant, and yes, intolerant.
Phillip Bell
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50745 | The world is three dimensional and most animations/models are more realistic if they involve three dimensions. It often does not seem that more difficult to program the distributions and motions, but it is definitely more difficult to display the images.
The simplest is to show objects which are closer to the viewer as overlapping objects which are further away. This animation of helical movement uses this method.
A more complicated way is to make use of the brain's ability to make an internal 3 dimensional image by combining the view from right and left eyes. On the computer, there seem to be three ways to make an artificial stereo image that don't require a lot of extra optics / electronics. One involves the viewer to fuse two images together, either by crossing eyes or going "wall-eyed". Another involves the use of red green stereo pairs and requires red / green stereo glasses. Another involves using a mirror placed in the middle of two images. This stereo animation lets you see the three different ways and to change some of parameters for making a stereo image, especially the stereo angle.
Three dimensional rotations: This animation shows a starfish oocyte being rotated in space. The axes of rotation are fixed in space, and are thus relative to the viewer. This animation shows the x y and z axis of an object being rotated in space. These rotations are relative to the frame of reference of the object, rather than that of the viewer. This animation shows a mobius strip being rotated in space (relative to its own axes) and also shows how the mobius strip intersects with planes parallel to the monitor screen.
Color stereo by fusing images (i.e., not red green glasses): brownian, ropes 1 - 2, variable viewing angle, rotation of 3 axes (using euler angles), rotation of a starfish oocyte, (red / green rotation of oocyte)
Stereoviewer - pictures from 2007
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Стандарты США на никелид титана с памятью формы в медицине
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Designation: F 2063 – 05
Standard Specification for
Wrought Nickel-Titanium Shape Memory Alloys for Medical Devices and Surgical Implants1
. Scope*
1.1 This specification covers the chemical, physical, me- hanical, and metallurgical requirements for wrought nickel- itanium bar, flat rolled products, and tubing containing nomi- ally 54.5 % to 57.0 % nickel and used for the manufacture of edical devices and surgical implants.
1.2 Requirements are for mill product, measuring 6 to 130 m (0.24 to 5.12 in.) diameter or thickness, in its annealed ondition.
1.3 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as the tandard. The values given in inch-pound units are for infor- ation only.
. Referenced Documents
2.1 ASTM Standards: 2
E4 Practices for Force Verification of Testing Machines
E8 Test Methods for Tension Testing of Metallic Materials E 112 Test Method for Determining Average Grain Size
E 1019 Test Method for Determination of Carbon, Sulfur, Nitrogen and Oxygen in Steel and in Iron, Nickel, and Cobalt Alloys
E 1097 Guide for Direct Current Plasma Emission Spec- trometry Analysis
E 1172 Practice for Describing and Specifying a Wavelength-Dispersive X-Ray Spectrometer
E 1245 Practice for Determining the Inclusion or Second- Phase Constituent Content of Metals by Automatic Image Analysis
E 1409 Test Method for Determination of Oxygen and Nitrogen in Titanium and Titanium Alloys by the Inert Gas Fusion Technique
E 1447 Test Method for Determination of Hydrogen in Titanium and Titanium Alloys by the Inert Gas Fusion Thermal Conductivity Method
1 This specification is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee F04 on edical and Surgical Materials and Devices and is the direct responsibility of ubcommittee F04.12 on Metallurgical Materials.
Current edition approved Nov. 1, 2005. Published November 2005. Originally pproved in 2000. Last previous edition approved in 2000 as F 2063 – 00.
2 For referenced ASTM standards, visit the ASTM website,, or ontact ASTM Customer Service at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. For Annual Book of ASTM tandards volume information, refer to the standard’s Document Summary page on he ASTM website.
E 1479 Practice for Describing and Specifying Inductively- Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometers
E 1941 Test Method for Determination of Carbon in Refrac- tory and Reactive Metals and Their Alloys
F 1710 Test Method for Trace Metallic Impurities in Elec- tronic Grade Titanium by High Mass-Resolution Glow Discharge Mass Spectrometer
F 2004 Test Method for Transformation Temperature of Nickel-Titanium Alloys by Thermal Analysis
F 2005 Terminology for Nickel-Titanium Shape Memory Alloys
F 2082 Test Method for the Determination of Transforma- tion Temperature of Nickel-Titanium Shape Memory Al- loys by Bend and Free Recovery
2.2 ASQ Standard:
C1 General Requirements for a Quality Program3
1. 3.Terminology
3.1 The terminology describing the physical and thermal properties of these alloys shall be as defined in Terminology F 2005.
3.2 See also Practice E 4: General Terminology.
1. 4.Product Classification
4.1 Bar—Round bars and flats (other sizes or shapes by special order).
4.2 Plate—Any product with width equal to or greater than five times the thickness.
4.3 Tubing—Hollow cylindrical shapes.
1. 5.Ordering Information
5.1 Inquiries and orders for material under this specification shall include the following information:
5.1.1 Quantity: weight, length, or number of pieces.
5.1.2 Alloy formulation, in terms of transformation tempera- ture parameter (see Section 8).
5.1.3 Form: bar, plate, or tubing (see Section 4).
5.1.4 Condition (see Sections 6.3 and 10.1).
5.1.5 Mechanical Properties, if applicable for special con- ditions (see Section 10).
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5.1.6 Surface Condition (see Sections 6.4).
F 2063– 05
7.4 Product analysis limits shall be as specified in Table 2.
5.1.7 Applicable Dimensions, including diameter, thickness, idth, and length (exact, random, multiples) or print number.
5.1.8 Special Tests, for example, chemical analysis on the nished mill product.
5.1.9 Special Requirements (see section 11).
. Manufacture
6.1 The material shall be made from ingot made from nickel nd titanium with no other intentional alloy additions.
6.2 The material shall be vacuum or inert atmosphere elted to control metallurgical cleanliness and alloy chemistry.
6.3 Bar, plate, and tubing shall be supplied as hot finished or old finished and annealed or heat treated as specified in the urchase order.
6.4 Surface condition may be oxidized, descaled, pickled, lasted, machined, ground, mechanically polished, or elec- ropolished.
. Chemical Composition
7.1 The heat analysis shall conform to the requirements of Table 1. Ingot analysis may be used for reporting all chemical equirements except hydrogen. Samples for hydrogen analysis hall be taken from the finished mill product (see Section 4) or s agreed upon between the customer and supplier. The upplier shall not ship material that is outside the limits pecified in Table 1.
7.1.1 Requirements for major and minor elements are listed n Table 1. Important residual elements are also listed. Analysis or elements not listed in Table 1 is not required to verify ompliance with this specification.
7.2 Analytical Methods—Major elements shall be analyzed y direct current plasma spectrometry according to Guide E 1097; atomic absorption, inductively coupled plasma spec- rometry according to Practice E 1479; X-ray spectrometer ccording to Practice E 1172; glow discharge mass spectrom- try according to Test Method F 1710; or an equivalent ethod. Carbon shall be measured by combustion according to
Product analysis tolerances do not broaden the specification heat analysis requirements, but cover variation between labo- ratories in the measurement of chemical content. The manu- facturer shall not ship material that is outside the limits specified in Table 1.
1. 8.Transformation Temperature
8.1 The nickel and titanium contents of nickel-titanium shape memory alloys cannot be measured to a precision required to guarantee shape memory or superelastic properties. Calorimetry or an equivalent thermomechanical test method must be used to assure the alloy formulation in terms of transformation temperature.
8.2 Alloy formulation shall be specified in terms of the transformation temperature parameter(s) required by the pur- chase order. This parameter shall be one of the following: Mf, Mp, Ms, As, Ap, Af as defined in Terminology F 2005 and as measured in accordance with Test Method F 2004, Test Method F 2082 or as measured in accordance with another appropriate thermomechanical test method.
8.3 When measured in accordance with Test Method F 2004 for transformation temperature by thermal analysis, the As shall be uniform to within the process capability of 610°C on the purchased product or as agreed upon by the customer and supplier.
8.4 Transformation temperature parameters are normally specified in the wrought product in the annealed condition as defined in F 2005. Other conditions for the certification of alloy transformation temperature shall be considered a special re- quirement.
1. 9.Metallurgical Structure
9.1 Microstructure:
9.1.1 Product shall have an average grain size number (G) of 4 or larger as measured by Test Method E 112.
9.2 Microcleanliness:
9.2.1 For all mill products, the maximum allowable dimen- sion of porosity and nonmetallic inclusions such as Ti Ni O
Test Methods E 1019 or E 1941. Hydrogen shall be measured
and TiC particles shall be 39.0 µm (0.0015 in.).
4 2 x
y inert gas fusion or vacuum hot extraction according to Test ethod E 1447. Nitrogen and oxygen shall be measured by
nert gas fusion according to Test Method E 1409.
7.3 The titanium content of these alloys shall be determined y difference and need not be analyzed.
TABLE 1 Chemical Requirements
Furthermore, porosity and nonmetallic inclusions shall not constitute more than 2.8 % (area percent) of the structure as viewed at 4003 to 5003 in any field of view. Porosity and nonmetallic inclusions
TABLE 2 Product Analysis ToleranceA
Element Tolerance Under the Minimum Limit or Over the Maximum Limit,
% (mass/mass)B
A Approximately equal to the difference between 100 % and the sum percentage of the other specified elements. The percentage titanium content by difference is not required to be reported.
been demonstrated for this composition.
B Under minimum limit not applicable for elements where only a maximum percentage is indicated.
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hall be evaluated in mill product at a section size not larger han 94.0 mm (3.70 in.) and not smaller than 6.3 mm (0.25 in.) n diameter, thickness, width, height, wall thickness, and so orth. Measurements shall be made in accordance with Practice E 1245 or an equivalent method with longitudinal samples arallel to the working direction. The supplier and purchaser hall agree upon the number and location of samples in the roduct, the sample preparation, the number of fields of view nd the measurement technique.
0. Mechanical Property Requirements
10.1 Samples from the final product, annealed so that the aterial reaches a minimum temperature of 800°C for a inimum time of 15 min followed by rapid cooling by water uenching, gas quenching, or air cooling, shall conform to the echanical properties found in Table 3.
10.2 Material may be ordered in the cold worked or heat reated condition to higher ultimate tensile strength and lower longation or other physical and mechanical properties as greed upon between the supplier and purchaser.
10.3 Specimens for product above 50 mm (1.96 in.) in iameter or thickness may be taken from plate or strip rolled rom the product. For product 50 mm (1.96 in.) or less in iameter or thickness, specimens shall be made from the roduct.
10.4 Tensile properties shall be measured in the longitudinal irection with respect to the final fabrication of the sample.
TABLE 3 Annealed Mechanical PropertiesA
Transverse tensile properties for wide flat products shall be as agreed upon between the customer and the supplier.
10.5 Tensile testing shall be performed in accordance with Test Method E 8. Tensile properties shall be those listed in Table 3 using the appropriate gage length for the product size being tested.
10.6 Other special mechanical tests shall be as specified on the purchase order.
1. 11.Special Requirements
11.1 Size variation and out-of-round tolerance shall be specified in the purchase order.
11.2 Special transformation temperature requirements in terms of product form, test location or heat treatment shall be specified on the purchase order.
11.3 Surface roughness shall be specified on the purchase order.
1. 12.Certification
12.1 The supplier shall provide at the time of shipment a certification that the material was manufactured and tested in accordance with this specification. The certification shall include a summary of the test results for chemical composition, transformation temperature, metallurgical structure, direction of metallurgical structural analysis, and mechanical properties as agreed upon by the customer and supplier (see Sections 7, 8, 9, and 10).
1. 13.Quality Program
13.1 The supplier shall maintain a quality program such as defined in Requirements C1.
Diameter or Distance Between Parallel Sides, mm
Tensile Strength MPa, Minimum
Elongation in 50 mm (2 in.) or 4 D, % MinimumB
14. Keywords
Up to 50 (1.96 in.) 551 (79.9 KSI) 15
Over 50 551 (79.9 KSI) 10
A Tested at ambient temperature of 20.0 to 24.0°C (68 to 75.2°F).
B 4D indicates 4 times diameter.
14.1 cardiac devices; metals; NiTi; TiNi; nitinol; nickel- titanium alloys; titanium-nickel alloys; orthopaedic medical devices; vascular devices; shape memory alloys; stents; super- elastic alloys; surgical implants
(Nonmandatory Information) X1. RATIONALE
X1.1 The purpose of this specification is to characterize the hemical, physical, thermomechanical and metallurgical prop- rties of wrought nominally 54.5 to 57.0 % nickel-titanium lloys to be used in the manufacture of medical devices and urgical implants.
X1.2 The purchaser’s choice of shape memory alloy ransformation temperature and mechanical properties is de- endent upon the design and application of the medical device.
X1.3 Thermo-mechanical process history, particularly cold ork and heat treatment, affects the transformation tempera- ure and other physical and mechanical properties of nickel- itanium shape memory alloys. The annealed condition stipu- ated in Sections 8.4 and 10.1 are for the test samples only.
Finished product is normally purchased in the cold worked or cold worked and heat treated condition.
X1.4 Ingot chemical analysis can be affected by subsequent thermo-mechanical and chemical processing. For example, pickling can result in hydrogen pick up. Therefore, hydrogen is specified for the finished mill product (see Section 7.2).
X1.5 The nickel-titanium alloys covered by this standard are commonly called nitinol alloys. Nitinol is not a single alloy, it is a family of alloys each designated by a transformation temperature measured under controlled conditions and after a specified thermo-mechanical history.
X1.6 Transformation temperature uniformity refers to the
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ange of As measured on an alloy formulation tested by a single aboratory working to Test Method F 2004.
X1.7 The elements carbon, cobalt, copper, hydrogen, iron, iobium, and oxygen are residual elements in these alloys (see
Table 1). They are controlled to special limits in order to ensure good shape memory physical and mechanical properties. The product analysis tolerance limits are based upon the analytical capabilities that have been demonstrated for these compositions.
X2.1 The material compositions covered by this specifica- ion have been employed successfully in human implants, xhibiting a well-characterized level of local biological re- ponse since 1972. References are as follows:
Castleman, L. S., et al., “Biocompatability of Nitinol Alloy s an Implant Material,” J. Biomedical Materials Research, Vol 0, 1976, pp. 695–731.
Ryhanen, J., et al., “Biocompatability of Nickel Titanium hape Memory Metal and its Corrosion Behavior in Human ell Cultures,” J. Biomedical Materials Research, Vol. 35, 997, pp. 451–457.
Trigwell, S. and Selvaduray, G., “Effects of Surface Finish n the Corrosion of NiTi Alloy for Biomedical Applications,” MST-97 Proceedings of the Second International Conference n Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies, Pelton, A et l., (eds.), SMST, Santa Clara, CA, 1997, pp. 383–388.
Wever, D.J., et al., “Cytotoxic, Allergic and Genotoxic ctivity of a Nickel-Titanium Alloy,” Biomaterials, Vol. 18, o. 16, 1997, pp. 1115–1120.
Trepanier, C. et al., “Effect of the Modification of the Oxide ayer on NiTi Stent Corrosion Resistance,” J. Biomedical aterials Research, Vol. 43, 1998, pp. 433–440.
Ryhanen, J., “Biocompatibility of Nitinol,” Minimally Inva- sive Therapy and Allied Technology, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2000, pp. 99-105.
Venugopalan, R. and Trepanier, C., “Assessing the Corrosion Behavior of Nitinol for Minimally Invasive Device Design,” Minimally Invasive Therapy and Allied Technology, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2000, pp. 67-73.
Thierry, B., et al., “Nitinol versus Stainless Steel Stents: Acute Thrombogenicity Study in an Ex-Vivo Porcine Model,” Biomaterials, Vol. 23, 2002, pp. 2997-3005.
Zhu, L., et al., “Oxidation of Nitinol and its Effect on Corrosion Resistance,” S. Shrivastava, Proceedings from the Materials & Processes for Medical Devices Conference, 8-10 Sept. 2003, Anaheim, CA, ASM International, 2004, pp. 156–161.
X2.2 No known surgical implant has ever been shown to be completely free of adverse reaction in the human body. Long term clinical experience in the use of the materials referred to in this specification, however, has shown that an acceptable level of biological response can be expected, if the material is used in an appropriate application.
Committee F04 has identified the location of selected changes to this standard since the last issue (F 2063 – 00) that may impact the use of this standard. (Approved Nov. 1, 2005.)
1. (1)Updated test methods in section 2.1 and 7.2.
2. (2)Renamed section 9.2.
1. (3)Updated product forms throughout the text.
2. (4)Altered allowable porosity, inclusion size, and percentage; estricted direction of porosity and inclusion size measurement n section 9.2.1.
1. (5)Reduced carbon content, established a maximum for the ombination of oxygen and nitrogen in Table 1 and brought the
table into compliance with the template wording.
1. (6)Added nitrogen to Table 2 and brought table into compli- ance with template wording.
2. (7)Increased tensile strengths in Table 3.
3. (8)Added date of first use in implant to X2.1 and updated Reference list.
4. (9)Added Summary of Changes section.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50782 | Senior Citizen Sex Problem
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Tuesday, January 30, 2018
How To Give A Clitoral Orgasm So Intense Her Body Will Ripple
Clitoral orgasms are so delicious to women that they crave them night and day. Men don't realize this! Here's keys to giving your woman ten different types of clitoral orgasms from the ancient Chinese love masters. Only recently were the secret techniques translated. Overcome the long-held problems of clitoral sensitivity and pain with these new techniques.
Most men and virtually all women know about the female clitoris. Once most women have a clitoral orgasm it is very sensitive and more touch can be painful. Traditionally, this has limited multiple orgasms a bit.
Here's are some step that will ramp up her sexual pleasure after each type and improve sexual performance. She will literally be thrashing around, rippling from head to toe, and screaming with all her might.
1st Technique. No-touch clitoral orgasm.
There's many reasons why this is one of the best female orgasms ever. First, it sets up the woman's wild excitement and makes her ready for almost anything! Second, it gives her a wild, head to toe orgasm! Third, it gives her an intense orgasm without touch so literally you can go to her clitoris again without the usual sensitivity and pain. In fact, most women INSIST upon TOUCH! Fourth, you can do this anywhere. At home, in a car, even in a library!
The key to this orgasm is to evoke women's amazing imagination toward what they want in an unfulfilled fantasy, sex game, or sexual technique. Then, once you know what really turns her on, you describe, step by step, how you'd do that to and for her. You need to make it very REAL and very NOW. Act and talk as if you're actually doing that to her now.
Even if you don't succeed the first time, if you have any skill at all in communicating with her, you will turn her on more ever before.
2nd Technique. Breast-clitoral orgasm.
Many women can have a clitoris orgasm just by sucking and licking their nipples. There's a nerve from their nipples to their clitoris. So you can give them two consecutive clitoris orgasms without even touching their clitoris. They feel it internally. And it makes them so hot that they just HAVE TO HAVE your touch!
The key is to start slowly, tease around the clitoris, and then finally lick and suck it. Then gradually increase your speed and suction power. Don't hurt her but get feedback. It should take about 5-10 minutes.
3rd Technique. Clitoral orgasm.
Once she's had one or two clitoris orgasms without touch, she's absolutely going to be WILD for your touch. It shouldn't be sensitive or painful, but it will be throbbing and waiting for you.
Touch it on the very tip with an upward stroke and retreat. Make her tilt her pelvis to your touch, whether by finger or tongue. Make her impale herself on you as you tease her and tease her. It should take about 5 minutes of teasing for her climax.
4th Technique. Breast/clitoral orgasm combo.
Once you get each of these types you can simply combine them together. Suck her nipples hard again as you gently touch her clitoris. I recommend that you start first with the breasts and let her clitoris have a little rest. Soon, she'll draw your hand or head down there.
5th Technique. Clitoral/g-spot orgasm combo.
Now, start working on her g-spot as you let the clitoris rest a bit. Slide one or two fingers inside her and use a "come hither" motion on her g-spot. It should take about 3-5 minutes of firm stroking and then gently touch the clitoris with either your finger or graze it with your teeth.
6th Technique. Deep vaginal/clitoral orgasm combo.
You can now drive inside her with your penis and reach the deep vaginal spot which is 8 inches inside at the top. Don't worry if you're not 8 inches long. You can reach it by her increasing vibrations, your hot ejaculation, or just her imagination. Stroke upward to hit the clitoris as you slide your penis out. Use this combination and she will go nuts.
7th Technique. Breast/clitoral/g-spot triple combo.
Now, apply the breast, clitoris, and g-spot at the same time. Use the same techniques and hit the clitoris last. You can "milk her breasts" with your hands as you rub her clitoris and g-spot with your fingers and thumb or mouth and teeth.
8th Technique. Clitoris/g-spot/deep vaginal triple combo.
Now, get in a chair and have her straddle you (when she stops shaking so much) and she can now rock backwards and forwards and hit all three spots at the same time with the same techniques as described above.
9th Technique. Breast/clitoris/g-spot/deep vaginal quadruple combo.
Now for the finale! From the straddling position, now hit all three inside spots as you again suck her breasts. Try to time your deep sucking action with every deep thrust. She will certainly EXPLODE AS NEVER BEFORE! |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50802 | Destiny of Kashmir – Pakistan or India?
1947 saw the first of many fights which the world witnessed between Pakistan and India, over Kashmir. Although more than 70% of the population of Kashmir is Muslims, the Raja of Jammu and Kashmir politically found it convenient to join hands with India on the time of partition. Muslim Kashmiris were too depressed on this act and rebelled. In a fit of desperation, Raja signed the accession treaty with India as Indian troops took over one part of Kashmir. Until this date, the other part of Kashmir belongs to Pakistan.
After the first war of 1947, the valley was divided into two parts. Pakistan had control over a thin strip of land encompassing Western Kashmir, Gilgit, and Baltistan. The rest of Kashmir came under the control of India. But the point was that the UN treaty had made it clear that the state was a disputed territory and neither of the countries could lay claims to it. This led to indecision and ill feelings between the two nations, a matter still unresolved 64 years later.
Is it not time all of us learn to make peace? That is all we could say. Democracy and the sorting out a problem through political discussions can lead us to prosperity, while incidents like the 1948, 1965, and the 1971 wars will only hinder the progress of both countries.
Author MairaS:
Webpreneur. CEO ContentCreatorZ Pakistan. Managing Partner Media Marketing Services.
4 Responses to “Destiny of Kashmir – Pakistan or India?”
1. Sayyaji says:
Thats true! We ( Pakistanis & Indians) should learn to make peace. Issue of Kashmir could be solved only if kashmiries are allowed to vote and take their own decision.
2. QM Nawaz says:
O,PLEASE ,how can ve b so selfish,nd egoestic about kashmir,let them choose,their destnetion,nd stop bludy american,s to involveing in pakistans matter. nd thanks Saira for beautifull coments,as u r.
3. sameer says:
I feel patriotism is the root cause for the absence of peace.People in both the countries, india and pakistan, view the situation or if i could use liberty (the one which both the countries collectively won against the British) i would say they view any situation through the prism of their respective nationalities.Indians and Pakistanis both, feel that if one of the country looses their clutch on the region they would make it a paradise again.Like either of them has recreated paradise in their own respective administrated regions other than Kashmir.In an ideal world, if both the countries had governments that really cared about the kashmiris (hello!..the people who are really suffering here..) they would stop their respective armies to be active in the region and push the Democratic forces in.A process that is loosely called as ‘ at-last development ‘.In the war for territorial acquisition there cannot be any long lasting winner(No! lets talk about Afghanistan then[..]).Only the war for hearts can have one.
If any one irrespective of their nationality has felt otherwise or felt hurt,then i would like to inform you that its just my personal opinion and there are no chances that my neighbor(like the one living in the next house) would ever think the same.This is what i feel personally.I also feel that writers who smoke are the prime reason for long sentences.They use up the time for pressing on ‘full stop’ to fill their lungs with carbon monoxide and find clever lexicon to escape the omission grammatically unhurt.But that issue is not relevant here i suppose.I also suppose that you may not be knowing what lexicon is and will finally touch the dictionary .Please don’t misunderstand me,i was just trying to see if that collective liberty we won together could be overused to make cynical jokes. Consider this last sentence as my genuine apology if i really pissed you off.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/50831 | How To Build On ARM
This document contains information about building/testing LLVM and Clang on an ARM machine.
This document is NOT tailored to help you cross-compile LLVM/Clang to ARM on another architecture, for example an x86_64 machine. To find out more about cross-compiling, please check How To Cross-Compile Clang/LLVM using Clang/LLVM.
Notes On Building LLVM/Clang on ARM
Here are some notes on building/testing LLVM/Clang on ARM. Note that ARM encompasses a wide variety of CPUs; this advice is primarily based on the ARMv6 and ARMv7 architectures and may be inapplicable to older chips.
1. The most popular Linaro/Ubuntu OS’s for ARM boards, e.g., the Pandaboard, have become hard-float platforms. There are a number of choices when using CMake. Autoconf usage is deprecated as of 3.8.
Building LLVM/Clang in Relese mode is preferred since it consumes a lot less memory. Otherwise, the building process will very likely fail due to insufficient memory. It’s also a lot quicker to only build the relevant back-ends (ARM and AArch64), since it’s very unlikely that you’ll use an ARM board to cross-compile to other arches. If you’re running Compiler-RT tests, also include the x86 back-end, or some tests will fail.
cmake $LLVM_SRC_DIR -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
Other options you can use are:
Use Ninja instead of Make: "-G Ninja"
Build with assertions on: "-DLLVM_ENABLE_ASSERTIONS=True"
Force Python2: "-DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/python2"
Local (non-sudo) install path: "-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/llvm/instal"
CPU flags: "DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=-mcpu=cortex-a15" (same for CXX_FLAGS)
After that, just typing make -jN or ninja will build everything. make -jN check-all or ninja check-all will run all compiler tests. For running the test suite, please refer to LLVM Testing Infrastructure Guide.
2. If you are building LLVM/Clang on an ARM board with 1G of memory or less, please use gold rather then GNU ld. In any case it is probably a good idea to set up a swap partition, too.
$ sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/ld /usr/bin/
3. ARM development boards can be unstable and you may experience that cores are disappearing, caches being flushed on every big.LITTLE switch, and other similar issues. To help ease the effect of this, set the Linux scheduler to “performance” on all cores using this little script:
# The code below requires the package 'cpufrequtils' to be installed.
for ((cpu=0; cpu<`grep -c proc /proc/cpuinfo`; cpu++)); do
sudo cpufreq-set -c $cpu -g performance
Remember to turn that off after the build, or you may risk burning your CPU. Most modern kernels don’t need that, so only use it if you have problems.
4. Running the build on SD cards is ok, but they are more prone to failures than good quality USB sticks, and those are more prone to failures than external hard-drives (those are also a lot faster). So, at least, you should consider to buy a fast USB stick. On systems with a fast eMMC, that’s a good option too.
5. Make sure you have a decent power supply (dozens of dollars worth) that can provide at least 4 amperes, this is especially important if you use USB devices with your board. Externally powered USB/SATA harddrives are even better than having a good power supply. |
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