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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52122 | Moving the New Residency at the Dance House Lemesos
April - December 2018
When I first applied for the Residency programme of the Dance House Lemesos, I was asked to share one sentence that described my state at the time. The sentence was:
‘I’m a dancer who hasn’t danced for a long time and seeks a new dance within.’
Some days I found it, others I was full of guilt looking for it. I wondered if making dance performances is a luxury or a need. If they are relevant today or if they are part of a high art culture existing in a different world than mine.
My body was seeking dance and during the last months I gave it the chance to find it. However, can this dance engage a spectator?
I entered the residency with one task at hand, to dance, to really dance. During the later stages of the residency I began to look for circumstances where the spectator would feel generously invited to watch dance - my dance.
During the final stages, I also began to read, to think, to recognise the space for these type of artistic ventures today and the discussion already proposed from colleagues.
I finished the residency with these questions:
What does it mean to watch a dancer today?
In an invitation to spend time, is dance necessary?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52131 | How Much Notice Is Required When Quitting a Job?
When An Employee Quits a Job, Providing Reasonable Notice Is Required Per the Common Law.
Lawsuit Document Involving Failure of Notice of Resignation by Employee It commonly understood that when an employer that fails to provide proper notice of termination of employment (or pay-in-lieu of notice) such constitutes as a wrongful dismissal; however, less known is the requirement that an employee also has a duty to provide proper notice. Perhaps the proper notice of employment resignation is less known as such arises in the common law only and is without mention within the Employment Standards Act, 2000, S.O. 2000, Chapter 41 ("ESA") and thus laypeople, and perhaps even many lawpeople, fail to recognize that a mere lack of codification within the employment statute fails to negate the requirement.
Notice Period, required from employee
Whereas the ESA is silent on the notice requirements of an employee, and if the employment contract was also silent, such leaves the question as to what period of notice is therefore required from an employee. Similar to situations where the notice period requirement imposed upon an employer is of 'reasonableness', the same applies per the case Gagnon & Associates Inc. et. al. v. Jesso et. al., 2016 ONSC 209 where it is said:
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Regardless of titles, what I do blurs the line between designing and coding. If a thing needs to be done, I figure out how to do the thing.
I'm constantly expanding my skills and experience; bringing my creativity to my work. I joined Capital One in December 2018 as a Software Engineer.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52190 | Northern Decisions
Northern Decisions
Planning in Hanoi for a winter-spring offensive during 1968 had begun in early 1967 and continued until early the following year. According to American sources, there has been an extreme reluctance among Vietnamese historians to discuss the decision-making process that led to the General Offensive General Uprising, even decades after the event. In official Vietnamese literature, the decision to launch Tet Mau Than was usually presented as the result of a perceived U.S. failure to win the war quickly, the failure of the American bombing campaign against the North Vietnam, and the anti-war sentiment that pervaded the population of the U.S. The decision to launch the general offensive, however, was much more complicated.
The decision signaled the end of a bitter, decade-long debate within the Party leadership between first two, and then three factions. The moderates believed that the economic viability of North Vietnam should come before support of a massive and conventional southern war and who generally followed the Soviet line of peaceful coexistence by reunifying Vietnam through political means. Heading this faction were party theoretician Trường Chinh and Minister of Defense Võ Nguyên Giáp. The militant faction, on the other hand, tended to follow the foreign policy line of the People’s Republic of China and called for the reunification of the nation by military means and that no negotiations should be undertaken with the Americans. This group was led by Party First Secretary Lê Duẩn and Lê Ðức Thọ (no relation). From the early-to-mid-1960s, the militants had dictated the direction of the war in South Vietnam.
General Nguyễn Chí Thanh the head of Central Office for South Vietnam (COSVN), communist headquarters for the South, was another prominent militant. Strangely, the followers of the Chinese line centered their strategy against the US and its allies on large-scale, main force actions rather than the protracted guerrilla war espoused by Mao Zedong.
By 1966-1967, however, after suffering massive casualties, stalemate on the battlefield, and destruction of the northern economy by U.S. aerial bombing, there was a dawning realization that, if current trends continued, Hanoi would eventually lack the resources necessary to affect the military situation in the South. As a result, there were more strident calls by the moderates for negotiations and a revision of strategy. They felt that a return to guerrilla tactics was more appropriate since the U.S. could not be defeated conventionally. They also complained that the policy of rejecting negotiations was in error. The Americans could only be worn down in a war of wills during a period of “fighting while talking.” During 1967 things had become so bad on the battlefield that Lê Duẩn ordered Thanh to incorporate aspects of protracted guerrilla warfare into his strategy.
During the same period, a counterattack was launched by a new, third grouping (the centrists) led by President Hồ Chí Minh, Lê Ðức Thọ, and Foreign Minister Nguyễn Duy Trinh, who called for negotiations. From October 1966 through April 1967, a very public debate over military strategy took place in print and via radio between Thanh and his rival for military power, Giáp. Giáp had advocated a defensive, primarily guerrilla strategy against the U.S. and South Vietnam. Thanh’s position was that Giáp and his adherents were centered on their experiences during the First Indochina War and that they were too “conservative and captive to old methods and past experience… mechanically repeating the past.”
The arguments over domestic and military strategy also carried a foreign policy element as well, because North Vietnam was totally dependent on outside military and economic aid. The vast majority of its military equipment was provided by either the Soviet Union or China. Beijing advocated that North Vietnam conduct a protracted war on the Maoist model, fearing that a conventional conflict might draw them in as it had in the Korean War. They also resisted the idea of negotiating with the allies. Moscow, on the other hand, advocated negotiations, but simultaneously armed Hanoi’s forces to conduct a conventional war on the Soviet model. North Vietnamese foreign policy, therefore consisted of maintaining a critical balance between war policy, internal and external policies, domestic adversaries, and foreign allies with “self-serving agendas.”
To “break the will of their domestic opponents and reaffirm their autonomy vis-à-vis their foreign allies” hundreds of pro-Soviet, party moderates, military officers, and intelligentsia were arrested on 27 July 1967, during what came to be called the Revisionist Anti-Party Affair. All of the arrests were based on the individual’s stance on the Politburo’s choice of tactics and strategy for the proposed General Offensive. This move cemented the position of the militants as Hanoi’s strategy: The rejection of negotiations, the abandonment of protracted warfare, and the focus on the offensive in the towns and cities of South Vietnam. More arrests followed in November and December.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52196 | Interpreting Dream Language, I
My previous posts described the nature and content of symbols and archetypes, unconscious material that helps make internal, psychic conflict available and understandable to the individual in whom a psychological crisis occurs. The next two series of posts address how to interpret symbols and archetypes so as to make sense of our unconscious material and begin healing our inner crisis. Jung developed the technique of interpreting symbols and archetypes as they appeared in the dreams of his patients. Active imagination (the manifestation of symbols and archetypes during an individual’s waking state rather than during sleep) may follow similar interpretative guidelines.
Dreams, by their nature, do not freely offer an interpretation of their contents,[1] so Jung found it best to approach a dream as though it were an incomprehensible text in a language he could not read.[2] Just as Jung maintained that no single form of therapy was applicable to all patients, Jung felt that there could be no single theory of dreams generally applicable to all dreamers and their dreams.[3] Employing a single method of interpretation on all individuals would (1) limit the dream before interpretation even began, and (2) possibly find more in the dream than is actually there, which in turn, would (3) reduce the dream’s ability “to offer new points of view” to the present crisis situation.[4] Rather than being a form of preconceived technique applied to dreams, dream analysis takes on the character of a dialogue between two personalities, which mirrors the conflict between two minds (i.e., conscious and unconscious).[5]
Jung described his method of interpretation as a process of “circumambulation” that works around the edges of the dream content and gradually moves toward the center of dream picture, ignoring attempts the interpretation might make to move away from the dream content itself.[6] Jung began his interpretation of dreams by examining the context of the dream content itself.[7] Dream interpretation must “keep close to the dream and its individual form,” Jung wrote, since the dream provides its own boundaries of meaning. This means that any outside material placed onto the dream has the potential to create misinterpretation and may show nothing except neuroses, which may or may not belong to the dream.[8] To keep interpretations within the bounds of the dream, dream analysis needs help from the dreamer to confine interpretation to only the “essential and convincing” meanings of words and images.[9] Placing the dream content into proper context further prepares the interpreter to answer the question: “what conscious attitude does [the dream] compensate” in the life and psyche of the individual to whom the dream belongs?[10]
Because dream content emerges from an individual’s unconscious, we cannot approach a dream with a preconceived notion that certain images elicit certain meanings. To decipher symbols and archetypes, an interpreter must operate with the assumption that each aspect of a dream is unknown, and remain open to the idea that the dream will reveal something unexpected.[11] Dreams must be regarded as “unpredictable as a person you observe during the day.”[12] What comes from an individual is unique to that person, and, while many people have the same problems in life, no two people will have the same dreams.[13] Understanding dream content comes only after considering the context of “the dreamer’s philosophical, religious and moral convictions.”[14] The dreamer is “the scene, the player, the prompter, the producer, the author, the public, and the critic” of the dream, the dream itself is the venue in which the psychic story is performed,[15] therefore, all archetypal figures are “personified features of the dreamer’s own personality” and all symbolic images reference the individual as well.[16] This means that, whoever or whatever a character is in the dream, the dreamer dreams about her- or himself.[17]
Next Time: Part II of “Interpreting Dream Language”
[1] C. G. Jung, Collected Works: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, trans. R. F. C. Hull, 2nd ed., Vol. 8 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981), par. 560.
[2] C. J. Jung, Collected Works: Practice of Psychotherapy, trans. R. F. C. Hull, Vol. 16 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985), par. 319.
[3] C. G. Jung, Collected Works: The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings, trans. R. F. C. Hull, Vol. 18 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989), par. 515-248.
[4] C. G. Jung, Collected Works: Civilization in Transition, trans. R. F. C. Hull, 2nd ed., Vol. 10 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978), par. 319.
[5] Jung, CW 18:492-7.
[6] C. G. Jung, “Approaching the Unconscious,” in Man and His Symbols, ed. C. G. Jung (New York: Dell, 1968), 14.
[7] C. G. Jung, Collected Works: Psychology and Alchemy, trans. R. F. C. Hull, Vol. 12 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993), par. 48.
[8] Jung, CW 18:433.
[9] Jung, CW 8:539.
[10] C. G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul, trans. W.S. Dell and Caty F. Baynes (New York: Harcourt, Inc., 1933), 18; CW 16:334.
[12] Jung, CW 18:248.
[13] C. G. Jung, Collected Works: Psychology and Religion, West and East, trans. R. F. C. Hull, 2nd ed., Vol. 11 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989), par. 88.
[14] Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul, 21.
[15] Jung, CW 8:509.
[16] Jung, CW 8:527.
[17] Jung, CW 10:321.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52234 | Like a Bridge over Troubled Water: An Easier Cloud for Driving Digital Transformation
By Swen Conrad,CEO,Ocean9, Inc
Swen Conrad,CEO,Ocean9, Inc
When it comes to digital transformation, today’s companies face a dilemma. With open source solutions like Hadoop and Spark, effective and scalable cloud-based architectures, and innovative business models, new entrants can seize market share quickly. Just think Uber. The question for established companies is how to keep up?
The answer is to leapfrog quickly. To do this, companies need to bridge the gap between business objectives and company resources (such as IT infrastructure and applications) – in a labor market where technology skills are scarce;
Connecting the Enterprise to the Cloud
Public cloud offerings like Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Azure can help–but they’re so powerful by now that they can be overwhelming. The same can be said for the sophisticated enterprise-class solutions that companies need to deploy to take advantage of technologies such as Big Data and the Internet of Things (IoT). Take, for example, one of the popular alternatives to Hadoop and Spark: the in-memory Big Data platform SAP HANA. The simple fact is that connecting SAP HANA to the cloud can be a formidable challenge.
Evolving Role of IT
This is not good news for IT organizations who are becoming more like orchestrators of business services than the traditional design, build, deploy teams of yesterday. As Mike Pearl suggests in a recent CIO Review article, the most effective IT groups today are following more of an assemble-to-order role where speed of deployment and integration is key–along with all of the proper governance to ensure compliance, security, performance and availability.
The pressure is on, in other words, for IT groups to move faster. And while the cloud has promised–and delivered on–so much, we need to do better. To facilitate the speed and flexibility demanded by the market, what’s needed is a more turn-key approach.
The “as-a-Service” Revolution
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) can be seen as the response to this demand for more turn-key solutions with Salesforce and SAP SuccessFactors as popular examples. Unfortunately, SaaS doesn’t meet all the needs of a given business. Many times, companies need a more custom approach. In response, the market now offers Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and even Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings that provide public cloud resources for companies to do with as they wish. In practice, however, this means building something from scratch and deploying it in the cloud. But what if you want to leverage existing investments by moving current enterprise assets–such as your database–to the cloud? What then?
Big Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS)
For most companies, their database acts like the central nervous system of their business. And with big data at the heart of digital transformation, these rapidly evolving databases are becoming the linchpin of business transformation.
What if we could easily and securely move these databases to the cloud and make them more self-managing and elastic to meet changing business needs as well as seasonal business fluctuations? This would save a tremendous amount of effort. And IT staff, in turn, could then be leveraged to drive differentiation based on big data instead.
Which brings us to Big Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS); in a recent article, BernardMarr estimated the BDaaS market to be at $30 billion in 2021. This market is supported by a growing list of vendors and solutions–including MapR, Hortonworks and Cloudera, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Qubole, and Treasure Data. But these offerings focus primarily on Hadoop and Spark. What about the growing number of companies that use enterprise class solutions such as SAP HANA?
SAP HANA-as-a-Service
Let’s address this question from two angles: the product and cloud infrastructure. From the product angle, SAP is investing heavily into SAP HANA Cloud Platform as a PaaS option next to its impressive list of standard offerings. This approach allows customers to extend their core SAP on-premise solutions to the cloud–making future releases for all SAP products easier.
From the cloud angle, both Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure have invested heavily in IaaS for SAP HANA. Unlike Hadoop and Spark, SAP HANA runs best on larger compute nodes with sizeable on-board memory for data storage in either a scale-up or scale-out architecture. To meet this need, Microsoft Azure now supports 3TB of RAM in a single node for SAP HANA while AWS now supports 2TB of RAM per node through its family of X1 instances.
A Bridge to the Cloud with Ocean9 for SAP HANA on AWS
While these are positive developments, guidance provided by both AWS and Azure on how to make their clouds and SAP HANA all play nicely together remains quite technical. This falls short of the “as-a-Service” potential for SAP HANA, keeping companies behind the eight ball when it comes to digital transformation.
Diagram: Ocean9 for SAP HANA on AWS solution architecture
Ocean9, however, is providing a way forward. Ocean9 for SAP HANA on AWS is a true SAP HANA-as-a-Service offering that gets you up and running in an elastic, flexible, cloud-native way. Natively built on the AWS API, Ocean9 leverages a total of 10 AWS services as shown in the architecture diagram below. All Ocean9 operations are simplified in a management console that allows users to make the right decisions quickly—dramatically speeding the onboarding process. Users can:
• Provision a certified SAP HANA system between 30 GB to 4 TB in 15 minutes
• Backup and restore to any point in time
• Scale out a system in less than 10 minutes
• Select up to 99.99 percent uptime using leading SAP HANA and AWS Business Continuity concepts
Best of all, Ocean9 follows the same hourly or monthly reserved pricing model that makes the public cloud an attractive and affordable business option. – See the high level of abstraction and simplification in the Ocean9 screen.
All this combined, Ocean9 relieves customers and partners from managing the non-differentiating parts of SAP HANA and enables them to focus on the aspects that are truly exciting–such as business processes reinvention, expansion into new fields such as IoT and Big Data, powered by revolutionary application performance with SAP HANA.
Picture: Ocean9 for SAP HANA on AWS provisioning screen
The Pressure’s off – or is it?
With the public cloud now available as a workable business option for SAP customers seeking to leverage SAP HANA, IT can now pursue digital transformation with confidence. Acting as a bridge to the cloud, IT is freed to pursue the assemble-to-order model described earlier. Real world business needs are met by orchestrating turn-key solutions in a flexible manner. In this world, IT’s job becomes one of adding value by integrating all these solutions in innovative ways that improve performance. Companies, in other words, can use the Ocean9 bridge as a means toward continuous innovation. And in a market where the pressure is always on to do the new thing first, that’s a bridge worth taking.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52243 | Was tinkering around in Python after a long hiatus, and decided to do a very simple fake telephone generator.
Anything I can do to improve it?
import random
areacode = input("Enter your desired area code prefix: ")
print(areacode + "-", end='')
for i in range(3):
print(random.randint(0,9), end='')
for j in range(4):
print(random.randint(0,9), end='')
What are some of the things I should keep in mind syntax wise? I feel like I'm using unnecessary looping here.
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\$\begingroup\$ What rules does your telephone numbers have to comply to? Which numbers are invalid? Are all numbers possibly generated by your generator valid? \$\endgroup\$ – Mast Jan 20 '18 at 21:29
• \$\begingroup\$ @Mast yes, basically I'm not doing anything 'real' just yet. I just want to know if there is a faster more pythonic way to generate telephone numbers with the user defining his area code. \$\endgroup\$ – wardialer Jan 20 '18 at 21:32
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\$\begingroup\$ I didn't downvote, but I wanted to let you know somebody voted to close your question as Too Broad. While I'm not sure it is, your lack of specification might have something to do with it. Might want to clarify it. \$\endgroup\$ – Mast Jan 20 '18 at 21:56
• \$\begingroup\$ The prefix-AAA-BBBB seems to suggest you're only making NANP numbers; if that's the case, you should mention it in your specification. The other 90% of the world deserves to know! \$\endgroup\$ – Toby Speight Jan 22 '18 at 9:22
• \$\begingroup\$ @TobySpeight I'm a dumbass when it comes to interpretations of collective prime societies. \$\endgroup\$ – wardialer Jan 22 '18 at 21:12
Assuming you're looking for numbers of the format XXX-XXX-XXXX (keeping in mind that this excludes international numbers):
I wouldn't separate the printing onto separate lines. I would build up the number (perhaps extracting this logic into a function) and then print the whole thing. You can also eliminate those unnecessary loops by generating numbers in different ranges and using different formatting strings to add the leading zeros (ex. a routing code of 2 should be 002).
You'll also probably want to handle the case that an invalid area code is input. For this, I pulled out the prompt into a separate function that can be used in a loop (until a valid area code is given).
Finally, for scripts you should wrap the main action in if __name__ == '__main__':
#!/bin/env python3
from random import randint
def random_phone_number(area_code):
"""Returns a random phone number (XXX-XXX-XXXX) with a given
prefix = randint(0, 999)
line_number = randint(0, 9999)
return f'{area_code:03d}-{prefix:03d}-{line_number:04d}'
def prompt_area_code():
"""Interactively prompts the user for an area code, returning it."""
while True:
area_code = int(input('enter an area code: '))
except ValueError:
if 0 <= area_code <= 999:
return area_code
def main():
if __name__ == '__main__':
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52277 | Moving Past the “Conflict”
Last Saturday I spent the day at the Grand Dialogue’s annual conference. It was a great conference and there were many ideas that deserve more discussion. The Keynote speaker, Brian Malley, made an interesting comment at one point during the day. He said sometimes students ask him how he can do his work as a scientist and be a religious person himself. Particularly perhaps because his work has to do with the cognitive science of religion.
Now, if you read that and thought, “Yeah, that’s a good question.” Then I invite you to consider Malley’s response to his students, which is to ask them why they think there should be a problem between his work as a scientist and his being a person of faith. Malley said that once students are asked to think about , to articulate,what specifically should cause a problem, they realize there is no reason for a conflict between his work in science and the fact that he is a person of faith.
This is another example of the many subtle ways we have adopted a worldview that assumes a conflict between science and religion. We expect there to be a conflict and we look for conflict and then we look no farther. But dialogue between science and religion is just that- dialogue between science and religion. It assumes that both science and religion are “real” things and that they can and should talk to each other.
Now if you don’t believe in religion, or you don’t believe in science, or you don’t think they should be in dialogue; can I ask a favor of you? Have your opinion but please, refrain from attending science and religion discussions. Attend all the science only or religion only events you wish. But would you leave the science and religion discussions to those of us who want to further the dialogue? We need to move past the old tired debates about whether science and religion should be in dialogue. Spending our time re establishing the validity of the discussion just wastes everyone’s time. We need to stop framing this as a clash of world views.
Religious faith must seriously engage the real world and that real world includes science. And science needs to hear the ethical and moral wisdom that religion can offer. Science and religion have important things to discuss.
Really, there is a lot for us to discuss. Science, in one way or another, affects almost every aspect of our lives. As does religion. Religion and science are too important and involve so many people that we must be in dialogue. Real dialogue, constructive dialogue that helps us live well in this complex and wonderful world.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52278 | Why is it that in the "good old days" (I've been cooking/ buying/butchering for 6 decades) freshly ground meat was red until prolonged oxygen exposure turned it brown (store-bought, packaged meat was a bit greyer...darker red on the outside and nice pink/ red on the inside). Today I notice the opposite, red on the outside and grey on the inside. Why is this happening?
• I've noticed the same, but I can't remember if that's true of all of the places that I get meat from, or how it's packaged (eg, the strange puffy packs where it's a plastic container w/ a fused plastic sheet on top, vs. the old fashioned shrink-wrapped ones ... or chubs or heavier plastic like cryo-vac (the last two which would've been done at a factory rather than the local store ... and might've been done in a low-oxygen environment) ) – Joe Jun 10 '18 at 21:59
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Likely a change to nitrite regulations. Here is Ireland: fsai.ie/faq/use_and_removal_of_nitrite.html We do it in US too. – Wayfaring Stranger Jun 10 '18 at 23:41
• @WayfaringStranger : that'd affect sausages ... but to the best of my knowledge, supermarket ground beef is just ground meat and fat ... no other additives. – Joe Jun 11 '18 at 20:12
• @Joe My food science is from the early 80's. Things may have changed with hamburger. I was told nitrite was commonly used, but people did start complaining about it back then. Perhaps its just in processed meats now. indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/… – Wayfaring Stranger Jun 11 '18 at 22:46
• @Joe you'd be surprised what's put in to make it look "better" for sale, especially in the US and Canada (the EU has very strict regulations and any additives would have to be listed on the packaging, but who reads the packages of supermarket meat anyway...). – jwenting Jul 31 '18 at 10:37
The color of meat comes from the pigment myoglobin. Freshly cut meat shows a purple-red color. When exposed to air, myoglobin forms oxymioglobin, providing an attractive cherry-red shade. However, long exposure to air and store lighting lead to the formation of metmyoglobin, which is brownish-red. The inside part of the meat can show a more greyish color due to the lack of contact with oxygen.
The industry uses some techniques to control / cover the oxidation of myoglobin up to metmyoglobin and keep a nice red shade for a longer time.
1. Modified atmosphere packaging (MAP): to avoid complete oxidation of the meat and final brownish/greyish color (that does not look appealing anymore); some gases like carbon dioxide and nitrogen are used to decrease the content of oxygen and to slow down this process. Therefore, the outside doesn't turn grey that fast. For more information please refer to: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4093050/
2. Color additives: in Europe, minced meat is a product category that is subject to contain color additives according to the Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008. E.g. the category "burger meat" can contain carmine or carminic acid (red color extracted from crushed bugs and stabilized with aluminium salts...), whereas other categories within the group may not be allowed to contain such color additives but natural colors or vegetable extracts. Nowadays many meat producers are switching to red beet or radish extracts to enhance the red shade of fresh minced meat in fresh sausages, meatballs, etc. while keeping "clean label". In the US there is a list of commonly used meat additives (https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/food-safety-education/get-answers/food-safety-fact-sheets/food-labeling/additives-in-meat-and-poultry-products/additives-in-meat-and-poultry-products)
Note: nitrites and nitrates are food preservatives not used in fresh meat but in cured and/or processed meat.
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This post is in continuation to the my previous post –
In the above post I have showed how you can override the OOB next and the previous stage clicks and make your own functions to fire when the next or previous stage movements happen. Please note that whatever I have mentioned in the above post is totally unsupported customization and should not be done unless you do not have any other option to try to.
This comes in handy specially in case of Dynamics CRM 2013 where you do not have stage change event handlers on the client side and you have some complex business logic to validate if the stage movement is logical.
Also for CRM 2015, the addOnStageChange is great addition to the library. But these events fire after the stage has been changed. In case you want to fire something before the stage changes from the client side, you might need to use the trick mentioned in the above link.
However many of my blog readers have reported that the above code is not working for them. After my research I could find that to fetch the OOB event handlers for the next and the previous stage clicks, the above link uses the code below.
$originalNextStageHandler = $(“#stageAdvanceActionContainer”).data(“events”)[“click”][0].handler
However the data API of jQuery has been deprecated from jQuery 1.8 and above.
If you do not reference the jQuery, CRM by default uses the version 1.7.2 of jQuery. You can find the version of jQuery your page is using by opening developers tools of your browser and typing the below code in the console.
However many a times we refer the advanced versions of jquery in our forms and why not. In that case if your form is referencing jquery version 1.8 or later, then the above code would not work.
In that case you would require to change the code to fetch the event handler to the one below
$originalNextStageHandler = $._data($(“#stageAdvanceActionContainer”).get(0), “events”)[“click”][0].handler;
The above code makes use of the private data API in jQuery.
Again a word of caution – It’s an unsupported customization and should not be attempted unless you have no other option.
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Whose Slave Are You? God's Or Mammon's?
By David Brandt Berg
--From a Talk on "Bible Economics" at "Church in the Home" First published September 1962.
Jesus casting out Satan
The final and crowning temptation that the devil offered Jesus was "All the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them." That's the most riches anybody had ever been offered--the whole World! The Devil said, "All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me." Jesus answered, "Get thee hence, Satan: For it is written, thou shalt worship the Lord Thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve!"--The worship of the riches of this life is Devil-worship! (Mt.4:8-10)
Matthew chapter 6:19-34: "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." He says don't bury your heart in those treasures, because those treasures will vanish away or get stolen, rust, corrupt or rot--along with your heart.--They'll corrupt your heart!
"No man can serve two masters: For either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon!" (Mt.6:24) Now what is Mammon?--Money, pure and simple. Mammon was literally the god of wealth, and if you serve money then you're serving the Devil! But if you are just using a job as a means to an end, in order to serve the Lord, that's different!--Like one meat-packer in Chicago said, "Preaching the Gospel is my main business, but I pack pork to pay expenses!"
"Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on."--Don't even worry about the necessities of life! "Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?"
"Behold the fowls of the air: For they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them. Are you not much better than they?" He says, "If I can feed the birds, don't you think I'm going to feed you?" "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin, and yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these."--"Look at the lilies: God makes them, God clothes'm, and they don't even work for it! So certainly God's going to take care of you!"
"Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought."--That means fretting, anxious thought.--Don't worry about "What shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or wherewithal shall we be clothed? For after all these things do the Gentiles seek."
That's all the worldly people live for, that's all they care for, that's all they work for! They're slaves of things! You can be a slave of things! They can own you, instead of you owning them! You can be working for them, instead of them working for you!
It's not that there's anything wrong with money, riches or wealth. It all depends on whether you own the money, or the money owns you! It's your attitude toward it. It all depends on how the money is used: Whether the money or the wealth is using you, or whether you're using the wealth!
"But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you!" God's Kingdom is whatever the King reigns and rules over!--The Church!--It's souls, people, His people!--Not a building nor a denomination nor an organization!--It's the children of God.--They are His Kingdom!
So if you're going to seek first God's Kingdom, you're going to seek souls! You're going to witness!--Be a witness and a soul-winner yourself, or help others to witness and soul-win, right? You're going to help the Kingdom of God in some way.
"Seek first"--means foremost and above all!--Before everything else, above everything else, beyond everything else and more than anything else! It means working for God and others more than for yourself, more than for money, more than for riches, more than for pleasure, more than for health, more than for government, more than for anything else!
And what'll happen if you put Him and others first? He says, "All these things shall be added unto you!"--All these material things, which God's got plenty of! If you need it and have to have it, He'll give it to you! If you're putting His Kingdom first, then everything you want, everything you'd like to have and everything you need will be used for what?--To keep on putting His Kingdom first!--To keep on using it for His Kingdom!
Bible economics is utterly contrary to the economics of man. Man's economics says: Self-preservation is the first law of nature. The first law of man's carnal, evil, human, wicked nature is, "First, I'm going to take care of myself.--First, I'm going to get mine!"
What's God's law of economics?--"He that would come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For he that loseth his life for My sake and the Gospel's, shall save it; but he that saveth his life"--self-preservation--"the same shall lose it!" (Mk.8:34,35) If you spend your life trying to save your life, you're going to lose it and lose eternity too! Spend your life losing your life for others--that's the secret of saving it!
"Take therefore no thought"--no worrying, doubtful thought--"for the morrow: For the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself." Don't worry about tomorrow! Tomorrow isn't here yet! Why worry about it? You've got enough to worry about today! "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof!"
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It's been a few years since I've last edited my profile. When I created it, a few years, my main interest was with level design. After having worked on my mod Starlabs for years but never getting it finished, my interest faded away. When I finally got some of it back and tried getting into Source, the much more complicated technical background (physics engine, entities, etc.) were things I wasn't prepared to put time in, as I just wanted to create levels. So, with that, I quit my level design work. But not before I wrapped up some of my Starlabs work and contributed it to the Reissues project.
For those interested in me, can visit my website. On there is much information regarding my interests. Currently, there's no section for my previous Half-Life work (on mods and such). For that, consult the list at the bottom of this page.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52378 | Gosh Darn It to Heck!
By Hugh Rawson
The reasons for this change are various, including religious revivals, industrialization and the relocation of people from farms to factories, an emerging middle class, increasing literacy, and an improvement in the status of women. The last, and its effects on language, was especially notable in the United States. Reporting on American society in the early 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville observed in Democracy in America, that “in the presence of a woman the most guarded language is used lest her ear should be offended by an expression.”
The oldest example of gosh as a watered down oath or exclamation meaning “God” in the historically-arranged Oxford English Dictionary is from a 1757 play by an English dramatist, Samuel Foote: “Then there’s the highest – and lowest, by Gosh.” Gosh subsequently was elaborated into many picturesque combinations. To name a few: gosh-almighty, gosh-all-fishhooks, gosh-awful, gosh darn, goshwallader, and ohmigosh. The basic gosh continues to be used. Thus, after accidentally pressing the wrong voting button in the North Carolina state legislature, Rep. Becky Carney was heard saying, “Oh my gosh, I pushed the green” (Daily Mail, UK, July 3, 2012).
Darn, meanwhile, is recorded mainly in American English, with the first example in the OED coming from the Pennsylvania Magazine of 1781. From the context, it is apparent that the term was recognized early on as a euphemism: “In New England profane swearing . . . is so far from polite as to be criminal, and many . . . use . . . substitutions such as darn it, for d- -n it.” (Note the uses of dashes, a convention that we still use; up until about 1700, damn would more likely have been printed in full.) Conveying the flavor of darn it as used in polite conversation nearly a century later is a line from The Arcadian Club, an otherwise unmemorable drama included in an 1874 collection for students: “And I have an impulse to swear! . . . Let Nature have her way! Darn it! darn it! darn it! darn it! I never knew it was so easy. Why there’s a pleasure in it!”
The mild darn also was developed into longer forms, such as darnation, goldarn (where the gol stands for God), and not by a darned sight, with the latter being softened even further into not by a considerable (or long) sight. The sound of the D also carried over into other substitutions for damn, including dang, dash, ding, dog (“I’ll be dogged!” or even “Dog my cats!”), and drat. Of course, darn alone continues in widespread use, as in the 2008 book title, Those Darn Squirrels, or the tongue-in-cheek complaint of New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristoff in early 2010: “I’m too busy dealing with the news insurance companies to practice any journalism. These days, gosh darn it, I have time only to bill readers.”
Heck for hell appears to be the youngest of this group of euphemisms. Dated only to 1865 in the OED, it may derive from the dialectical ecky or hecky, or – a rather longer stretch – from By Hector, referring to the Trojan hero. Like the others, it has been worked into such common phrases as “By heck,” “Just for the heck of it,” “We had a heck of a good time,” and “What the heck. It is the most commonly used euphemism today for the infernal regions, also sometimes alluded to as the blazes, Hades, Halifax (“I’d see you in Halifax, now before I’d do it,” Mark Twain, Old Times on the Mississippi, 1875), the hot place, and h- -l (“I firmly said to h- -l with it,” Ronald Reagan, An American Life, 1990). The term may also be abbreviated G.T.H., meaning “Go To Hell,” and more quaintly, typically by children, H.E. double toothpicks.
Hell appears in print nowadays more often than in the past. As far back as 1948, President Harry S. Truman’s campaign slogan was “give them hell,” and Matt Groening, creator of “The Simpsons,” kept his cartoon strip, “Life in Hell,” going for more than thirty years (1978-2012). High standards of politeness are still maintained in some circles, however. Thus, the radical activist Abbie Hoffman wrote a book entitled Revolution for the Hell of It, but after his death in 1989 the Newark, N.J., Star-Ledger referred to this work as Revolution for the Heck of It.
Heck frequently crops up in newspaper headlines, editors apparently regarding it as an eye-catcher, e.g., “Is Our Language Going to Heck?” (Danbury, Conn., Express Line, Nov. 21, 1992) and“Raising Children Is Heck” (New York Times, May 22, 2011). Public figures also tend to lean on it when speaking publicly. President George W. Bush told his emergency management director in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 that “you’re doing a heck of a job,” which was so far from the case that Mr. Bush himself caught a lot of heck. President Barack Obama slipped into the same construction in 2010, saying his secretary of the treasury had done “a heck of job,” but the words were barely out of his mouth when, appreciating the unfortunate parallel with his predecessor’s remark, he backtracked with a joking “Pun intended.”
Heck may also be substituted for even “worse” words. Summarizing the career of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computers, The New York Times cited approvingly the headline used by the satirical online newspaper The Onion in its report on Mr. Jobs’ death in 2011. Not wanting to upset its readers, however, the Times replaced the forceful, four-letter expletive used by The Onion, so that the modified headline read: “Last American Who Knew What the Heck He Was Doing Dies.”
Old taboos die hard.
10 thoughts on “Gosh Darn It to Heck!
1. Harry
Some especially prim speakers will refer to “H – E – double hockey sticks.” I can’t find a specific citation, but I believe right-wing Presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann was fond of this expression.
1. Thanks for the note about Ms. Bachmann. It is good to know that childish expressions of this sort linger on in the vocabularies of some grown-ups. I will keep an eye/ear out for her use of the phrase.
2. Luc 007
Dear Hugh,
At some point, it would be nice if you could give us an insight as to how and why English speakers started to consider that “damn” and “hell” (or their euphemisms) could also convey a positive meaning, such as in the phrases : “this is damn good” or “you’re doing a hell of a job”. It is actually funny to think that the latter phrase (with the use of the euphemism “heck”) could only be construed as having a positive meaning in GWB’s mouth when he said it to his emergency management director, whilst the actual literal meaning of that phrase was a very accurate description of what a lousy job the EMD was doing. I find it puzzling that an “EMD from hell” can in no way be doing “a hell of a job”. The same word depicts something you would not want to imagine in your worst nightmare in the first phrase and in the second phrase something you would not even think possible in your most wonderful dream.
3. Delfin Carbonell
Informative and highly entertaining. Thank you. I am reminded of the time when I used “heck” as a crutch, even when talking to my friend and colleague Dr. Francis Heck, from the University of Wyoming. I could not help it. But again, it was a crutch I have since gotten rid of. Do consider writing about conversational crutches.
4. sobreira
Wow, “lest”, what a conjunction there is in English!! And for Luc about the double possible meaning of “hell of a”: isn’t that even more ambiguous for “awsome”? Here, a funny perspective about swearing, this case in a foreign tongue by non-bilinguals:
And a scientific article on the same (for hypotheses, page 9):
1. Delfin Carbonell
I did not know this dictionary was around. Thank you. My spellchecker does not know either.
A good subject for a post on Dictionaries on the web.
Thank you.
5. May I leave the comment that the “f..” word has replaced once impolite hecks , darns, dams etc and I once believed that was an American influence from films, TV etc but now just as well included in Australian productions Oh well how times do change and will continue to so.
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by Kate Woodford
Last month we focused on idioms that included various parts of the body. This week, we look at idioms featuring the most productive part – the head! As ever, we only cover phrases that are frequent and current.
If there is a problem and you bury your head in the sand, you behave as if there is no problem because you do not want to deal with it: This is an environmental catastrophe and we’re just burying our heads in the sand. Someone or something that is head and shoulders above other people or things is very much better than them: There’s no comparison with the other teams – they’re head and shoulders above them. If you keep your head down, you deliberately try to avoid making someone angry, usually by saying little and keeping busy: He’s in a bad mood this morning. I’m just keeping my head down. A discussion that goes over your head is too difficult for you to understand: I must say, parts of the talk went over my head.
Three common ‘head’ phrases also include a word for a part of the body found at the other end, (heel, tail and toe). If you are head over heels in love, you are completely in love: They met in Paris and fell head over heels in love. If you can’t make head nor tail of something, you can’t understand it: Could you read these instructions? I can’t make head nor tail of them! From head to toe means ‘covering all of the body’: By the end of the afternoon, both children were covered from head to toe in paint.
The following ‘head’ idioms are more informal. If you keep trying to do something but have absolutely no success, you might say informally that it is like banging/hitting your head against a brick wall: Trying to get him to help is like banging your head against a brick wall! If you speak to someone and they bite/snap your head off, they reply angrily, usually without a good reason: I asked a perfectly reasonable question and you just bit my head off! To laugh your head off is to laugh a lot, loudly: You laughed your head off when I tripped! British English has the informal idiom to get your head around something, which means to succeed in understanding it. (We often used it in the negative form.) The arrangements are so complicated – I can’t get my head around them.
Finally, ending on a positive note, we sometimes say two heads are better than one, meaning that two people working together achieve more than one person working alone. Do you have this phrase in your language?
43 thoughts on “Common idioms with the word ‘head’
1. Rudolf Sardi, PhD
“Two heads are better than one” translates into Hungarian as follows: két szem többet lát. Instead of the head, we use the eyes to indicate the same meaning as the English phrase does. In translation: more eyes can see more.
1. Kate Woodford
That’s interesting, Rudolf – thanks. We talk about ‘another pair of eyes’ with the meaning of ‘an additional person to check something’. Best wishes from Cambridge.
2. Michał
Hello Kate, very eloquent post.
In Polish: “Co dwie głowy to nie jedna”
Loosely translated:
“Two heads are better than one”
2. F Hossain
Another addition: let heart rule head, meaning to do something based on one’s own personal desires rather than for pragmatic or practical reasons.
1. Oli
Naval history. Wikipedia explains it better I would imagine but basically a sailor would have to urinate over a particular part of the ship, usually attached to the ‘figurehead’ iirc
3. Lucrecia Smith
Thank you so much for this lesson! I am an Spanish speaking learning English and I always had problem with idioms, they didn’t made any sense to me, and for that reason I couldn’t stick them in my mind. Now that I have seeing you comparing them with the parts of the body, it seems easy to memorize them. Thank you again & again.
1. Kate Woodford
Hi Lucrecia. Thanks for your kind words. It’s so encouraging to hear that people find our posts useful. Best wishes from Cambridge.
4. Maryem Salama
It seems we have the same (head)! as we have similar idioms of some of them in my language with a slight change in some others.
5. Mujahed Jadallah
To express the idiomatic meaning of “two heads are better than one”, in Palestinian Arabic we sometimes say “one hand just won’t clap”, implying that it takes two hands to clap.
6. Mohammed Elbarody
Thanks a lot for this good lesson
Yes l have similar meaning in my Egyptian Arabic language :
((The baggage with 2 hands should be carried by 2 persons))
7. Eleonora Boeriu
There is a similar idiom in the Romanian language, but with eyes” 2 eyes see better”.
And with “head”: “2 heads think better than one”.
8. Maryem Salama
A funny one in our dialect says Two Heads in one Hat which means two persons have the same way of thinking or looking things.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52395 | Fusion Concepts and Components
Basic Fusion concepts are explained below. Since the core of Fusion Server is Solr, you may also find it useful to familiarize yourself with Solr terminology.
Fusion apps provide tailored search functionality to specific groups of users.
An app is a named set of linked objects, including collections, datasources, index and query pipelines, index and query profiles, parsers, and more. Using roles and security realms, you can define security on a per-app basis.
Collections consist of stored data and the datasources that determine how the data is ingested and indexed. Collections are a way to logically group your data sets. Fusion’s concept of collections is the same as Solr collections. See Collection Management in the Search Development Guide.
Datasources are the configurations that determine how data is ingested and indexed. Each datasource includes a connector configuration, a parser configuration, and an index pipeline configuration. See Datasource Configuration in the Search Development Guide.
Connectors are the conduit between Fusion and your external data sources. Connectors retrieve your data and import it into Fusion Server. See the Connectors Reference Guide for a complete list of available connectors.
Parsers interpret incoming data in order to determine its format and fields. A parser consists of a sequence of parsing stages, each designed to parse a different data format, sometimes recursively. See the Parser Stages Reference Guide for complete details about all available parsing stages.
Index pipelines
Index pipelines format the incoming raw data data into fielded documents that it can be indexed and searched by the Solr core. A pipeline consists of a sequence of stages, and each stage performs a different kind of processing based on user-configured logic. See the Index Pipeline Stages Reference Guide for a complete list of available index pipeline stages.
Query Pipelines
Query pipelines manipulate incoming queries and return an ordered list of matching results from Solr. Individual search results are called documents. See Query Pipeline Configuration in the Search Development Guide.
Fusion Components
Apache Solr
Solr is the search platform that powers Fusion. There are multiple aspects to Fusion’s use of Solr:
• Fusion components manage Solr search and indexing and provide analytics over these collections. Fusion’s analytics components depend on aggregations over information which is stored in a Solr collection.
• Fusion collections are all Solr collections.
• Application data is stored as one or more Solr collections.
• Fusion’s own logs are stored as Solr collections.
• A few Fusion service APIs use Solr as a backing store, notably Parameter Sets.
Solr configuration
Fusion requires that Solr run with SolrCloud enabled.
Configuration for Solr’s Web service is in fusion/4.1.x/apps/jetty/solr.
Solr logs
Solr log files are in fusion/4.1.x/var/log/solr.
Accessing the Solr UI
With Fusion installed out of the box, you can still access the Solr UI at http://localhost:8983/solr/.
Solr documentation
Solr documentation and additional resources are available at http://lucene.apache.org/solr/resources.html.
You can also find plenty of Solr tips and technical discussions in our knowledge base, blog, and webinars. Lucidworks also maintains a search interface to Solr’s community discussions at searchhub.org.
Apache Spark
Apache Spark is a fast and general execution engine for large-scale data processing jobs that can be decomposed into stepwise tasks which are distributed across a cluster of networked computers. Spark provides faster processing and better fault-tolerance than previous MapReduce implementations. The following schematic shows the Spark components available from Fuson:
Spark Processes in Fusion
See Spark Administration for more information.
Apache ZooKeeper
For ZooKeeper installation instructions, see the ZooKeeper documentation.
You can find ZooKeeper’s logs at fusion/4.1.x/var/log/zookeeper.
ZooKeeper Terminology
Fusion ZooKeeper Nodes
Fusion configuration data is stored in ZooKeeper under two znodes:
znode lucid initial install
znode lucid-apollo-admin initial install
znode lucid working
znode lucid-apollo-admin working
Jetty provides Web services for Fusion’s UI, APIs, and Connectors, plus Solr. Each of those components runs inside its own instance of Jetty, using a separate configuration. Configurations for each component are located in fusion/4.1.x/apps/jetty.
Securing Fusion using SSL requires configuring Jetty to use SSL. For example, to secure the UI you need to modify the configuration in fusion/4.1.x/apps/jetty/admin-ui. See SSL Security (Unix) or SSL Security (Windows).
Log messages about Jetty are written to the log files for the components that use it: * fusion/4.1.x/var/log/ui * fusion/4.1.x/var/log/api * fusion/4.1.x/var/log/connectors * fusion/4.1.x/var/log/solr |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52396 | Disabling anti pop-up software
Note: This is required for the Web application only.
If anti-popup software (example: Popup Stopper by Panicware) is installed and is active on the Client machine, it will not allow any browser pop-ups to occur. This can cause certain operations to become disabled in the converted Web applications such as the enhanced Web features detailed below, or other operations that automatically load a browser window or popup. To prevent any problems, it is recommended that users disable any anti-popup software while using the converted Web applications. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52397 | • 2 min to read
The ASPxTokenBox editor provides the ability to autocomplete tokens from a predefined list. When the token box is focused, the drop-down window displays a list of predefined items. End-users can select tokens from a drop-down, or type them manually. Additionally, end-users can provide custom tokens. Note that editor tokens must be unique.
To remove a token, an end-user can use either the Remove button or the BACKSPACE key.
ASPxTokenBox provides the following features.
• Data-Bound and Unbound Mode Support
Editor items can be generated dynamically by binding the editor to a data source, as well by populating the control's item collection manually.
• Incremental Filtering
You can enable your end-users to filter list items dynamically, based on the text typed into the editor's input area on the client side ("find-as-you-type" filtering).
• Custom Tokens
You can restrict the tokens available to an item collection, or allow an end-user to provide custom tokens.
• Support for Embedding Tokens into ASPxGridView and ASPxTreeList Controls (See online demo)
You can use the ASPxTokenBox for editing column values in the ASPxGridView and ASPxTreeList controls.
• Full-Featured Client-Side API
ASPxTokenBox provides a comprehensive client-side API. This API is implemented using JavaScript and is exposed via the ASPxClientTokenBox object. The ASPxClientTokenBox object serves as the client-side equivalent of the ASPxTokenBox control. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52398 | Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Types of 3D Objects
Types of 3D Objects
Introduction to Types of 3D Objects
FlexSim offers a variety of different 3D objects that you can use to build a simulation model. The three most important categories of objects you need to know about are:
1. Flow items
2. Fixed resources
3. Task executers
There are more types of objects besides these three, but these categories are the most important for you to understand as a beginner. This topic will explain what these types of objects are and how they interact together. It will also include a brief overview of the other types of objects at the end.
Flow Items
Flow items are the items that will flow through your simulation model from the beginning of your simulation until the end. Flow items can represent many different things in your simulation model such as:
• Materials moving through an assembly line
• Customers walking through a service center
• Products moving to different locations in a warehouse
• Orders getting transferred from one station to another
By default, flow items look like brown boxes, as shown in the following image:
However, you can easily change the visual appearance of flow items if needed. See Key Concepts About Flow Items for more information about flow items, such as how to add flow items to a 3D model.
Fixed Resources
Fixed resources are objects that remain fixed or stationary in your model, as shown in the following image:
Generally speaking, fixed resources interact with flow items in the simulation, such as storing or modifying flow items. Flow items will flow from one fixed resource to the next downstream fixed resource until they reach the end of the simulation:
Fixed resources can represent various steps or processes in your model, such as:
• Work stations
• Machine operations
• Processing stations
• Loading and unloading sites
• Storage areas
Several different fixed resources are available in the FlexSim library. (See Overview of 3D Library Objects - Fixed Resources for more information.) You can also use these objects as a jumping off point to build your own custom fixed resources. (See Creating and Importing Custom 3D Objects for more information.)
Task Executers
Task executers are objects that can move throughout the model and interact with fixed resources and flow items. All task executers have the same basic functionality; the main difference between them is the way they move.
They are called task executers because they can be assigned tasks and task sequences. For example, these objects can travel, load flow items, unload flow items, set up or operate machines, act as shared resources for processing stations, and perform many other simulation tasks:
Task operators can represent workers, AGVs, vehicles or machinery that transport items, etc.
Like fixed resources, the FlexSim library has a variety of task executers to choose from. (See Overview of 3D Library Objects - Task Executers for more information.) You can also build your own custom task executers. (See Creating and Importing Custom 3D Objects for more information.)
Other Types of 3D Objects
Beyond these three basic categories of items in FlexSim, there are additional types of objects that you can use to improve your simulation model:
• Visual objects can help you manage complex models and add visual details that might be useful when presenting the model to stakeholders.
• Conveyor objects can be used to create conveyor systems to transport flow items through the simulation model.
• AStar and AGV objects control task executer movement in the simulation model, making sure that task executers use designated travel paths.
• Fluid objects can be used for creating simulation models for handling fluid materials. |
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Assign Variables Block
You can use the Assign Variables block in any phase of the application to assign a new value or expression to any of the user variables. Those variables can be used in other blocks whose properties support variables (for example, TTS prompts). The last-known state of variables is captured in metrics just before the SCXML session ends.
You specify user variables in the User Variables tab of the Initialize phase. When the application starts, those user variables are declared and assigned the user-specified default value.
You can use the Sort Function tab to sort the elements of a JSON array in a specified order. A maximum of three keys can be specified with each array. The same array can be sorted multiple times; therefore, the number of sort keys is unlimited.
The Assignments tab is processed before the Sort Function tab when your application executes the Assign Variables block. Do not assume that assignments are processed after sorting within the block. To extract specific parts of data after sorting, add another Assign Variables block after the one that performs sorting.
Assignments tab
Click Add Assignment to assign a value or expression to a variable.
• Select a variable from the Variable drop-down menu.
• Enter a value or expression for the variable in the Expression field. The value can be a simple literal value (such as a string, integer, or Boolean) or any valid JavaScript expression. The value expression can refer to other variables.
• Tip
When assigning a string value to a variable, you must ensure that you enclose the string value with quotation marks. Otherwise, the string is interpreted as a reference to a variable.
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Sort Function tab
Click Add Sort Function and select an Input Array that contains a valid JSON array with values that you want to sort.
Enter up to three values in the Key to Sort By fields. These values must exist in the array. If an element does not have the specified value, it is skipped by the sort function and the value appears towards the end of the list.
Optionally, specify a Sort Order and Key Data Type. For the date type, you can use the following formats:
• yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ
• Example in Greenwich Mean Time (Zulu): 2015-06-01T12:13:14Z
• yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss[+-]HHmm
• Example in Pacific Time: 2015-06-01T12:13:14-0800
You can specify a Key Data Type to use data-aware sorting to treat different keys differently. If you do not specify a data type, the sort function treats all sort keys as strings and sorts those strings.
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Advanced Scripting tab
Advanced Scripting is an optional feature and might not be enabled on your system. To enable this functionality, contact Genesys.
Click Advanced Scripting to enter your own ECMAScript expression.
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Jacque Fresco - Depression (1976)
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So people have a vocabulary for behaviour. Things to do. Okay? They want to get drunk, get laid, then you go to work in the other day. That is a habit. Now very of you people on painting rush to a book seller, and say look, this is what i think, and the rest of us supplies what they think are drawing suppliers. Or going into lowest, you know that, they don't have enough things. So, if you can build a vocabulary of behaviour, whereby you get part supplies, wednesday you go roller skating, tuesday swimming, and you go down and go sailing. I don't mean what you do all these things, but if you build enough behavioural areas that are pleasureful, you would destroy it too. It's not enough for being depressing because you have so many others. But if you keep saying why didn't Virginia call me this week, couldn't call me. On and on, you see, after calling, Virginia would call me. Now that habit is only based on living in Virginia top of building. You know what i mean? You are moving into that top building? In the teather, top building is the actor. Now you can get Virginia top building in the (?) best dressed man in town come from the building, when somebody moves in the town better dressed than you are, and Virginia goes out with Sam, then you have being wiped out, you don't need having (?) values. So you don't have emotional bond, okay? Now, there are other emotional bonds, which very, in emotional bond, when you are running into depressing, you go out and get drunk, that is going in the another area involved. Because when you can wake up and hang over and still be, right? So, think about how many emotional bond would go right, and this is the way you get on. Usually you don't get out of the depression. What you do is to develop habits you can not be in depression, that you are fulfilled. Another happening, trying moving around, some people buy couple of bucks, and you get spanish movies, french movies, greek movies, and some people go to cookie exhibitions and shows, you know? And some people spend time and they join the chats club, they discuss things, and somebody found a new place. I'm not suggesting you to do that, but there are people that have enough alternatives, so these distractions anyone doesn't means that they are over there. As drama is a good thing, but drama does always reinforce, unless when you get a job. Drama can be very painful if you are not capable to get any job. And you can telling everybody can't be proud of it, all right, then you depress this guy. Now, if this guy wants to date a women, he goes out and can't get it. He can't make out with this woman, can't relate with her. And he has to go out with women, and the depression is always follows the fact that you approach somebody and they say no. And you always get into depression, rather than saying what if people say no about them. They say no about habits and how to identify them. And by the way, in a strict baptist church, and kind of date anyone available girl there, they won't reject my point of view. And i would be pressed to continue, because go with that church people. You know, a lot of people they go (?) continuously, they want to know why they get depressed. So you stick yourself into a zone where the depression is being generated. Now, when you join up a lot of people that have a low level of value system, low grade, this is the way i think, usually occurs in the industrial plant, where people with much more credit in work, and one of them becomes the sloppy fingers joe, you know what that mean, because they drop someone there, they hang on you. And when comes drop those come nothing that impress you, you know what i mean? So, you can keep going back to the born bond, because you don't go any place out, when you go some place yourself, you wouldn't have contact with other people. You say have may contact the whole science, that where on the conversation thing. Or if you make contact with others you can build other real contact . Now, depression, like i said before, depression doesn't start here, it starts somewhere, by some signal, and what you have to do is like the engineers do, as i tried to describe yesterday. The engineer puts a propeller on an airplane, and then when the wing goes on a certain speed, it flies apart. That used to happen on these things. Scientists wanted to know how fast they can wear a steel ball. So they put hold all and felt apart at a certain speed. So, another scientist made a ball smaller, and then can go faster without pockets in a saying mess. The prime was when the little about this time. When you stay spoon, and the fact really was, several million revolutions per second, by electromagnetic. When they turned them off for one year, or something. Now, they have to identify the problem that the things flies apart. So when an airplane propeller flies apart, they don't know what to put there in the airplane, they put on the test track, design part propellers, instead of shield all around, you know? In a concrete wall. And they have what they call flies apart, giving all airplane propeller at 3000 of revolutions per minute, they (?) them up for 4000 and still holds together, and says that the propeller beyond 3000. You see? They have a safety line. They identify the problem and then gave you a hand out of this problem. You're not keeping yourself and the machine out of the ring, you see? You have to look at the instructions and identify out the problem. Normal people that have problems, say i'm depressed, that is one part of the problem. And the next thing is what makes me depressed. What makes me depressed. Then you have to identify, 1, 2, 3, 4. This is what makes me depressed. I had to the plane that guys would have be the plane. Without you, it would be terrific. So i'm sensitive to criticism. I just made a black mark there, and leaving sensitive criticism, then you know how it would say that. I get that down. This doesn't get out this is next thing. The guys says fucking fact one this. In Florida, everybody was locked inside. That is another show nothing know criticism would not address. Another thing that i can't stand is when i put my arm a long time ago and said phased. You see? That would be pressed, see as rejection, no end, you see, that i meant on that. Now i know what these are and they said impressive by anybody. The most people just feel depressed, and you said what bother you, i don't know, i just work shit, they go on, because they don't identify the problem. Now let's try again, you put normal people, non psychological problems, mechanical, in the both. Here they are. And they said that they don't have any outside depressions, they have boats. You, in that boat, see more in, you see water in the boat, and you see it (?) in, you can identify quickly the position of a problem. And the next thing is you don't have any contact to show him at home, there is nothing in the boat. You cut up the piece in shirt, they your wife says i paid 9 dollars for that shirt in the boat. You see? And you put around (?) that you think. You know what i mean? Now there are times that shirt has no value at all, except that hole, you know? That you can't swim a mile, you know, unless you can swim a mile. But if you are a mile off shore, you can't swim very well, fuck the shirt. Now, you don't have a shirt, so you got a baby in shirt, take your wives drawn a shirt that man hole, you know what i am talking about? He didn't. It's like umbrella that did it, fit in a dollar or dragon, or anything. Yes. Okay, so this is problem solving because the problem is identified, you know what were in the boat, and work in this area old lady to do it, and walk in that area. One movie were about in the boat, and to come in, and stand in fact that understand the rule of the bad guy, and was standing to get the water out of the boat. And, oh my, so stand close of the bucket, this (?), most of them. So when you drive at it, you out but in the world around. But in the water you couldn't go out, so the boat side get warm, what if they put that pull out the inner (?), and the (?), they would do things they are not problem solving. A lot of (?) you got when you have trouble with your wife and not getting along, they put the cock out of the boat. Is not the (?), they put the (?) out of the (?). Then they bring (?) together. You both have each other (?), so they have children, in order to have problems and the children. And the relative says what about having another kid? Another kid, and so, there are many people that comfort you in your arms, and put in the (?) purpose. So, the recognision of a problem is number 1, and the answer, not the answer right there, but the answer you find, whether you (?) say something other, you pick all there. And get busy, and then the depression doesn't disapear, unless, now...
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Medicare Part D is an optional prescription drug program that Medicare beneficiaries may add to their Original Medicare (Part A, Part B, or both) coverage. Sold by private insurance companies and regulated federally, there are hundreds of stand-alone Part D plans as of 2020—948 nationwide.1
In exchange for premiums ranging anywhere from $12.18 to $191.40 (in 2020), enrollees receive Medicare prescription drug coverage.2 But the drug coverage likely looks a bit different than what you may have seen from employer-provided insurance plans—most notably in the four phases of coverage and the (infamous) donut hole.
Detailing the donut hole
The donut hole (also called the coverage gap) is the third out of four Part D phases of coverage, which starts once you and your plan have spent a specified amount on medications. It comes after the first phase (the deductible phase) and the second phase (the initial coverage phase)—you’ll read more on these phases later.
Originally, when beneficiaries reached the donut hole from 2006–2010, they had to pay 100% of their medication costs until they reached the fourth and final catastrophic coverage phase. This is why the donut hole is also called the coverage gap, because there was a complete gap in coverage until the next phase.
However, thanks to the Affordable Care Act of 2010, the donut hole began to shrink, starting in 2011. As of 2020, the donut hole is fully closed.
What does the donut hole look like in 2020?
In 2020, the donut hole is fully “closed,” meaning that the coverage provided by your drug plan should be as good as the minimum federal requirements during your initial coverage phase. Practically speaking, this means that your coinsurance in the donut hole will be at least this amount (but your plan may cover more):
• Brand-name drugs: You pay 25%, your plan pays 5%, manufacturer discounts remaining 70%
• Generic drugs: You pay 25%, your plan pays 75%
Medicare Part D: the four phases of coverage
Medicare Part D provides prescription drug coverage, but how it does so can be a bit complicated. An uninitiated beneficiary might be surprised to learn they may have to pay four different prices for the same medications in one year. These price variations are due to the four phases of coverage. Here’s how it works:
Phase 1: Deductible period
During this phase, you must pay the full price of your medications until you meet the deductible set by your plan. This deductible may be any amount, but no more than $435 in 2020 (up from $415 in 2019).3 Once you reach the deductible set by your plan, you move on to the next phase of coverage: the initial coverage period.
Note: Some plans have a $0 deductible, in which case enrollees would begin the year in Phase 2—the initial coverage period.
Phase 2: Initial coverage period
In the initial coverage period, your Part D plan begins paying a percentage of the cost for covered drugs. Generally, the plan pays ¾ and you’d pay ¼ of the cost, although some plans cover more. It’s not uncommon to see copays as low as $1 for generic medications during the initial coverage period.
Some people never go beyond the initial coverage phase in a year. But once both you and your plan combined spend $4,020 on medications in 2020 (up from $3,820 in 2019),4 you enter the coverage gap—commonly called the “donut hole.”
Phase 3: Coverage gap, a.k.a. the “donut hole”
By the time you reach the donut hole, your drug costs may not change nearly as much as they would have in previous years. Since the Affordable Care Act took effect in 2010, you pay (at most) 25% of the cost of both brand name drugs and generics.
When your out-of-pocket costs reach $6,350 in 2020 (up from $5,100 in 2019),5 catastrophic coverage kicks in and you enter the last phase.
Phase 4: Catastrophic coverage
In this phase, your coverage kicks back in—and then some. You pay 5% of the cost of your drugs or a small copayment.
Catastrophic coverage continues for the rest of the calendar year. But come January 1, the whole cycle begins again.
What sends me into the donut hole in 2020?
In 2020, once both you and your plan reach $4,020 total cost for your covered medications, you’ll enter the donut hole. So, for example, if you pay $2 for a generic drug but your plan covers the remaining $8 of the cost, that would count as $10 toward your march into the donut hole. Also included in your total cost for drugs is your deductible (if you have one), but not your premiums for your Part D plan.
what sends me into the donut whole graphic
Once you’re in the donut hole, your coverage is set federally:
Some plans may offer even greater coverage, but they all must cover at least the amounts above.
How do I get out of the donut hole in 2020?
Once you reach $6,350 of out-of-pocket costs (detailed below) for covered drugs in 2020, you’ll exit the coverage gap. There are a few things that count toward your freedom from the donut hole:
• Your deductible (if your plan has one)
• What you’ve paid in coinsurance and copayments for covered medications
• The manufacturer’s discount on brand name drugs within the coverage gap
As a quick recap, before the coverage gap (donut hole), both what you and your plan pay for your medications send you toward the donut hole until you reach $4,020. Once in the donut hole, however, only the amount you’ve put toward covered medications (for the year), the manufacturer’s discount on brand name drugs (while purchased in the donut hole), and your deductible count toward getting out.
Here’s what this looks like in a simple, real-world example:
Larry’s Part D plan has the standard $435 deductible. Larry meets his deductible, and his plan starts paying 75% of the cost of his brand-name drugs while he pays 25%. This continues until Larry crosses over into the donut hole, when the total cost toward Larry’s covered medications reaches $4,020.
Up to this point, Larry has paid $435 (the deductible) plus $1,005 (Larry’s 25% of $4,020) toward his medications.
$435 + $1,005 = $1,440 (Larry’s out-of-pocket expenses entering the donut hole)
Since Larry’s out-of-pocket expenses entering the donut hole are $1,440, he will have to incur an additional $4,910 (the $6,350 out-of-pocket limit minus Larry’s current $1,440) before he exits the donut hole. Luckily, if Larry continues buying brand-name medication, both his 25% coinsurance and the 70% discount on his drug in the donut hole will contribute to him getting out and into catastrophic coverage.
If you’re wondering where you’re at related to the donut hole, look at your Explanation of Benefits sent by your insurance company every month, which should include this information.
How do I avoid the donut hole altogether?
Not everyone will fall into the donut hole, and there are a few ways you can stay out of it:
1. Buy generic medications. Generic drugs are typically much less expensive than their brand-name counterparts. Often, Part D plans negotiate even lower rates for certain generics (called “preferred generics”) and charge a copay as small as $1. This will slow your progression toward the donut hole.
2. Find a Part D or Medicare Advantage (MA) plan that covers more of your medication costs. While every plan is federally regulated, they each have their own list of drugs they cover (called a formulary) and the tiers the medications fall into, i.e., the amount they charge for each drug. To learn how to find the best plan for you, see how to compare Part D plans.
3. See if you qualify for Extra Help. Extra Help is an assistance program that subsidizes prescription drug costs. If a Medicare Beneficiary is under a specified resource level, they may qualify for Extra Help—in which case the donut hole doesn’t apply. To see if you are eligible for Extra Help, see the Social Security website.
4. Use your plan’s Medication Therapy Management (MTM) program. Medicare requires every Part D prescription drug plan to have an MTM program. With MTM, a pharmacist, doctor, or health care professional gives you a free consultation on your list of medications, during which they discuss a few things—such as possible side effects, potential interactions between the drugs you take, and even methods for lowering costs. This program can be very helpful for beneficiaries taking many prescriptions. The doctor may also offer suggestions on which drugs you may safely stop taking. To see if you’re eligible for the MTM program, contact your Medicare prescription drug plan.
Do Medicare Advantage plans cover the donut hole?
Medicare Advantage plans often come with Part D prescription drug coverage. While all plans must cover at least the minimum coinsurance set by the federal government during the donut hole, they are free to extend additional coverage. So yes, some Medicare Advantage plans do offer extended “gap” coverage for enrollees in the donut hole.
If you’re interested in finding a plan with extended coverage during the donut hole, call an agent and they can help.
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For example:
Ion exchange removed nitrate ions from solution.
Ion exchange removed NO3- from solution.
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I would say, write NO3- only if you can write subscript 3 and superscript - , otherwise write something else. – GEdgar Jun 25 '19 at 11:33
It depends on the situation (context). If the English term is clear, unambiguous, and helpful, use it. If that term leaves doubt about the exact chemical you mean, and this makes an important difference, give the formula to be precise. There are times you may want to give both, even if the identity is well known, just to track a process: "Electrolysis can split water (H2O) into its constituents hydrogen and oxygen."
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52471 | Ring name(s) Dragón Dorado
La Amenaza Elegante
Billed height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Billed weight 86 kg (190 lb)[1]
Born March 27, 1961 (1961-03-27) (age 50)[2]
Jalapa, Veracruz
Billed from Jalapa, Veracruz[1]
Trained by Raúl Reyes
Debut 01981-12-06 December 6, 1981 - Mexico City, Mexico
This article is about the Mexican wrestler, for the polygon, see Octagon
Juan Escalera (born March 27, 1961) is a Mexican luchador enmascarado (masked professional wrestler) better known as Octagón. He is currently with Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA), having worked for the company since it was founded in 1992. In 2011 he was inducted into the promotion's Hall of Fame. Octagón formed a Tag team with El Hijo Del Santo to take on Los Gringos Locos (Eddie Guerrero and Art Barr) in a double mask versus hair match on the first pay-per-view put on by a Mexican wrestling promotion. Over the years the Octagón gimmick has spawned a Mascot called Octagóncito and an "Evil clone" known as Pentagón.
Professional wrestling career
Growning up, Octagón was mainly interested in Martial Arts and earned a black belt in Shotokan Karate.[2] He viewed Lucha Libre (professional wrestling) only as a hobby. This changed when he met Raúl Reyes, former professional wrestler from the Veracruz area. Reyes convinced Octagón that his martial art skills could help him earn a living as a pro wrestler. After learning the pro wrestling basics, he made his debut in December 1981 as "Dragón Dorado" (Spanish for "Golden Dragon"). Not long after, he changed gimmicks (in ring persona) and became known as "La Amenaza Elegante" (Spanish for "the Elegant Threat") in 1982.[3] He was not very successful as La Amenaza Elegante, although he did manage to obtain a contract with Mexico's largest, and the world's oldest, wrestling promotion, Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).
Creating Octagón
In late 1988 to early 1989, Octagón, along with CMLL booker Antonio Peña (the man in charge of writing the storylines that CMLL used), decided to create a new character that played off Octagón's martial arts background. The name was inspired by the movie The Octagon starring Chuck Norris.[4] Together they created the concept of "Octagón", a Mexican Ninja complete with black clothes and a black and white mask that incorporated a red headband. The Octagón gimmick also played off previous Karate gimmicks in Lucha Libre such as Kung Fu and Kato Kung Lee. the Octagón persona was a hit with the fans, especially the younger fans earning Octagón the nickname "El ídolo de Los niños" (Spanish for the idol of the kids).[4] Octagón became very involved in charities that benefited children, something else that helped make him popular with the younger fans. His popularity was reflected in CMLL's decision to give him a run with the Mexican National Middleweight Championship taking it from previous champion Emilio Charles, Jr. on November 20, 1991.[5]
Octagón began teaming with Atlantis, forming a duo so popular that they would go on to star in the movie "La Fuerza bruta" in 1991 and "Octagón Y Atlantis; La Revancha" (Octagón and Atlantis: The Revenge) in 1992. He also starred in another movie with Máscara Sagrada called "Octagón y Mascara Sagrada, lucha a muerte" ("Octagon and Mascara Sagrada in Fight to the Death" in the US). The team of Octagón, Atlantis and Mascara Sagrada was dubbed "Los Movie Stars" and were booked to win the Mexican National Trios Championship from a team called "Los Thundercats" (which was patterned after the ThunderCats animated series) in 1991. The team was be allowed to remain champions only until August 11, 1991, where Los Capos (the team of Cien Caras, Mascara Año 2000 and Universo 2000) took over from them.[6] Octagón's success both in the ring and on the movie screen was met with criticism from several established wrestlers such as Mil Mascaras and El Canek who referred to Octagón as "Muchachito" (the Spanish equivalence of "Little boy") in a derogatory tone.[4]
Asistencia Asesoría y Administración
When Antonio Peña left CMLL and created Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) in 1992, Octagón was one of the CMLL wrestlers that left with Peña, staying loyal to the man that helped create his wrestling persona. In AAA, Octagón was quickly paired up with El Hijo del Santo to form what would become the top Face (good guy, referred to as "Technicó" in Lucha Libre) Tag team of the promotion.[4] The duo teamed with veteran Villano III at the inaugural TripleMania event to defeat Fuerza Guerrera, Heavy Metal and Rambo.[7] The top face team of the company soon began to work a storyline with the top "Bad guy" (called Heels, Rudós in Mexico).
Working with Los Gringos Locos
The team of Octagón and Hijo del Santo was matched against the group known as Los Gringos Locos, especially Eddy Guerrero and Love Machine who were the two main protagonists of the group. The storyline began in late 1993 and quickly had the two teams face off in a match designed to crown the first AAA / IWC Tag Team Champions. Octagón and El Hijo del Santo were chosen to be the first champions and on November 5, 1993 they defeated Guerrero and Love Machine.[8] The storyline was soon expanded to see Octagón and El Hijo del Santo working with other Gringos Locos members such as Black Cat. On April 26, 1994 Octagón and Hijo del Santo teamed with Perro Aguayo to defeat Guerrero, Love Machine and Black Cat at TripleMania II-A.[9] Four days after TripleManía Octagón became a double champion as he regained the Mexican National Middleweight Championship from Blue Panther, Panther had brought the title with him when he jumped to AAA.[5] Just over two weeks later, Octagón and El Hjio del Santo were chosen to team with Jushin Liger and Tiger Mask III, two Japanese wrestlers making a special appearance in Mexico. The four-man team won their match at TripleMania II-B against La Parka, Psicosis, Blue Panther and Eddy Guerrero.[10]
At the end of May, 1994 Octagón lost the Mexican National Middleweight title, but not in the traditional way. Instead of losing the title in the ring. the storyline was that Octagón was too injured to compete in the third TripleMania of 1994 and thus the title was given to Blue Panther by default.[5][11] It is not clear if AAA chose to handle the title change in this way because Octagón was legitimately injured, or if it was indeed part of the storyline. What is known is that Octagón was healthy enough to step into the ring on July 23, 1994 and lose the Tag Team titles to Guerrero and Love Machine. The match was mapped out so that the title change was not clean, Los Gringos Locos cheated to win the belts adding to the "heat" (the intensity of which the fans watched the storyline).[8] The storyline between Los Gringos and Octagón and Hijo del Santo was one of the driving forces and main selling points of the first ever wrestling Pay-Per-View (PPV) produced by a wrestling company in Mexico, When Worlds Collide.[12]
The match was not designed to be a title defense; instead the company put the biggest prize that a Mexican Wrestler can win on the line. They made it a "Luchas de Apuestas" match, that is, a match where each participants bet either his hair or his mask. Originally it was planned to be the mask of El Hijo del Santo and the hair of Eddy Guerreo on the line in a singles match. Octagón and Love Machine were only supposed to be seconds outside the ring. But some time before the show, it became a tag team match in which Octagón and Santo bet their masks, and Guerrero and Love Machine bet their hair. The two teams produced a well received, highly regarded match that ended when El Hijo del Santo pinned Eddy Guerrero for the final fall.[12][13] After the match, the crowd watched and applauded all four men as Guerrero and Love Machine had their hair shaved off. The match was given a 5-star rating (highest rating possible) by Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Shortly after the show, Love Machine, (real name Art Barr) died from unknown causes which put a stop to the storyline.[13] The AAA Tag Team titles were vacated after Barr's death, but AAA never crowned a new champions.[8]
Octagon clones
In the early 1990s, Antonio Peña created a mini version of Octagón called Octagóncito, and in 1995, Peña and AAA decided that it was time to once again cash in on Octagón, this time by creating a "Mortal Enemy" character for Octagón to work with. In May 1995, Pentagón was introduced, looking and acting very much like Octagón with only minor differences on the mask. Since he was masked it was easy for AAA to use a well known wrestler, who had played out his previous gimmick and marketability, to play the role. They chose a wrestler known as Espanto, Jr. to play the part, giving Octagón his next storyline. Initially the two faced off in six man or eight man tag team matches as a way to build tension for singles matches further along the storyline. Their first encounter came at TripleMania III-A the first of AAA's major shows of 1995 when Octagon teamed with Konnan, Perro Aguayo and La Parka to defeat Cien Caras, Mascara Año 2000, Pentagon and Jerry Estrada although without Octagón being the one that won the match over Pentagón.[14] One week late at TripleMania III-A Octagón reunited with El Hijo del Santo, who along with Rey Misterio, Jr. and La Parka defeated Pentagón, Blue Panther, Psicosis and Fuerza Guerrera. Again Octagón and Pentagón were not involved in the finish of the match but faced off several times in the ring to further the storyline.[15]
In early 1996, the man behind the Pentagón mask was forced to retire from wrestling due to his age and injuries; since he always wore a mask, AAA were able to replace the man with a new Pentagón, generally referred to as Pentagón II. Octagón and Pentagón continued to build their storyline, stretching out the conflict between them over years, even at times seeing the storyline turn so that Octagón and Pentagón would team up. In early 1997, Octagón began his third reign as Mexican National Middleweight champion, given to him so that Pentagón II could be seen a few month later cheating his way to winning the title from him, increasing the storyline tension between the two.[5] While "Mask vs. Mask" matches were hinted at and talked about, nothing ever came of this between Octagón and Pentagón II. Pentagón II left AAA in 2001, halting the storyline without an actual ending. In order to create the payoff that the storyline had been building to over the years, AAA decided to introduce a new Pentagón, Pentagón III to take the place of his predecessor in the storyline. On June 5, 2002 Octagón finally met his "arch nemesis" in a match where both masks were on the line. Octagón got the ultimate revenge on Pentagón (at least according to Lucha Libre traditions) when he pinned Pentagón III forcing him to unmask and reveal his real name.[2] The unmasking more or less put an end to the storyline between the two characters, with one final match between the two in 2004 where Octagón won the right to shave Pentagón III's hair off as well.
On June 20, 2003 Octagón teamed with La Parka (the AAA version) to win the Mexican National Tag Championship from the team of Electroshock and Chessman.[16] in 2006 Octagón added another title to his collection as he won the Mexican National Middleweight title for the fourth time. With the Mexican National titles not being defended very frequently Octagón still remains the holder of both belts to this day. In December 2008 AAA announced that they will no longer recognize or promote any title that does not belong to AAA ending the long standing practice.[17] It is not clear if the Mexican National titles will be quietly forgotten or if Octagón will, at some later time, be stripped of the titles and then put to work in a different Mexican promotion.
Rudo turn
On June 7, 2011, AAA announced that Octagón would be inducted to the AAA Hall of Fame at TripleManía XIX.[18] After working as a technico continuously for his entire career,[19] Octagón made his first rudo turn on October 9, 2011, at Héroes Inmortales by attacking Dr. Wagner, Jr. and aligning himself with La Sociedad, along with fellow longtime AAA defender, La Parka.[20][21] On November 5, Octagón was named the new leader of La Sociedad subgroup La Milicia.[22]
Not to be mistaken for
Octagón shares many visible similarities to Japanese wrestler Masanori Murakawa, who wrestles as "the Great Sasuke", the main visible differences being patterns on their masks. Octagón made his debut with the mask design in 1989, before Masanori Murakawa adopted his Great Sasuke persona in the early 1990s.
In the early 1990s the Lucha Libre film genre saw a bit of a revival with several new films being produced, starring the new generation of Luchadors. Octagón played or starred in three movies in 1991 and 1992
• La Fuerza bruta (1991) (No English title known, probably only released in Mexico; Also starred wrestlers Atlantis and Emilio Charles, Jr.)
• Lucha a muerte aka. Octagon y mascara sagrada, lucha a muerte (Octagon and Mascara Sagrada in Fight to the Death, 1992) (Also starring wrestler Mascara Sagrada)
• Octagon y Atlantis, la revancha (Octagón and Atlantis: the Revenge, 1992) (Also starring wrestler Atlantis)
In wrestling
• Finisning moves
• Nickames
• El Amo de los Ocho Ángulos (Spanish for The Lord of the Eight Angles)[4]
• El ídolo de Los Niños (Spanish for The Idol of the Kids)[4]
Championships and accomplishments
• PWI ranked him # 26 of the 100 best tag teams with El Hijo del Santo during the PWI Years in 2003.
• PWI ranked him # 258 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the PWI Years in 2003.
• PWI ranked him # 50 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI 500 in 1999.
• Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
Lucha de Apuesta record
Wager Winner Loser Location Date Notes
Mask Octagón Huracán Ramírez II Mexico City, Mexico 01990-12-14 December 14, 1990 At the 1990 Juicio Final[2][25]
Hair Octagón Bestia Negra I Apatlaco, Mexico 01993-03-11 March 11, 1993 [4]
Hair Octagón and El Hijo del Santo La Pareja del Terrror
(Eddy Guerrero and Art Barr)
Los Angeles, California, United States 01994-11-06 November 6, 1994 [2]
Mask Octagón Jaque Mate Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas, Mexico 01999-12-10 December 10, 1999 [2]
Mask Octagón Black Shadow II Tlalnepantla, Mexico 02000-05-17 May 17, 2000 [Note 2][4]
Mask Octagón Pentagon III Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas, Mexico 02002-07-05 July 5, 2002 [Note 3][2]
Mask Octagón Coco Azul Tijuana, Baja California 02003-12-15 December 15, 2003 [2]
Hair Octagón Pentagon III Monterrey, Nuevo León 02004-09-26 September 26, 2004
1. ^ a b The Mexican National Trios title has been promoted both by AAA and by CMLL at different points in time.
2. ^ Steel Cage match that also included Pentagón and Rocky Santana
3. ^ 4-way match that also included Mascara Ságrada and Máscara Máligna.
• L.L. Staff (2008). "Lucha Libre: Conoce la historia de las leyendas de cuadrilátero" (in Spanish). Octagón (1961) (Mexico): p. 42. Grandes Figuras de la Lucha Libre.
1. ^ a b c "Statistics for Professional wrestlers". PWI Presents: 2008 Wrestling Almanak and book of facts (Kappa Publications): pp. 66–79. 2008 Edition.
2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Octagon". LuchalibreAAA.com. http://luchalibreaaa.com/octagon-2.php. Retrieved 2011-06-22.
3. ^ "Imagen: La Amenaza Elegante" (in Spanish). Asistencia Asesoría y Administración. October 11, 2011. http://luchalibreaaa.com/imagen-la-amenaza-elegante.php. Retrieved October 11, 2011.
4. ^ a b c d e f g h Various (2005). "El Amo de los Ocho Angulos / The Lord of the Eight Angles". Lucha Libre> Masked Superstars of Mexican Wrestling. Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.. pp. 110–119. ISBN 968-6842-48-9.
5. ^ a b c d e Royal Duncan and Gary Will (2000). "MEXICO: National Middleweight Championship". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. p. 392. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
6. ^ a b c Royal Duncan and Gary Will (2000). "MEXICO: National Trios Title". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. p. 393. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
7. ^ "Asistencia Asesoria y Administracion TripleMania". prowrestlinghistory.com. http://www.prowrestlinghistory.com/supercards/mexico/aaa/triple.html#i. Retrieved 2009-02-19.
8. ^ a b c d Royal Duncan and Gary Will (2000). "MEXICO/CALIFORNIA: AAA IWC World Tag Team Title". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. p. 401. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
9. ^ "Asistencia Asesoria y Administracion TripleMania". prowrestlinghistory.com. http://www.prowrestlinghistory.com/supercards/mexico/aaa/triple.html#ii-a. Retrieved 2009-02-19.
10. ^ "Asistencia Asesoria y Administracion TripleMania". prowrestlinghistory.com. http://www.prowrestlinghistory.com/supercards/mexico/aaa/triple.html#ii-b. Retrieved 2009-02-19.
11. ^ "Asistencia Asesoria y Administracion TripleMania". prowrestlinghistory.com. http://www.prowrestlinghistory.com/supercards/mexico/aaa/triple.html#ii-c. Retrieved 2009-02-19.
12. ^ a b "Historical Cards". PWI Presents: 2007 Wrestling Almanak and book of facts (Kappa Publications): p. 160. 2007 Edition.
13. ^ a b Molinaro, John. "Art Barr: What could have been; Looking back at Love Machine's career". SLAM! Sports. http://slam.canoe.ca/WrestlingStarBios/barr_art.html. Retrieved 2008-10-12.
14. ^ "Asistencia Asesoria y Administracion TripleMania". prowrestlinghistory.com. http://www.prowrestlinghistory.com/supercards/mexico/aaa/triple.html#iii-a. Retrieved 2009-02-19.
15. ^ "Asistencia Asesoria y Administracion TripleMania". prowrestlinghistory.com. http://www.prowrestlinghistory.com/supercards/mexico/aaa/triple.html#iii-b. Retrieved 2009-02-19.
16. ^ a b SuperLuchas staff (January 5, 2003). "Número Especial - Lo mejr de la lucha ilbre mexicana durante el 2003" (in Spanish). Super Luchas. issue 40.
17. ^ "¿AAA dejará de contar campeonatos de terceros?" (in Spanish). Super Luchas. http://superluchas.net/?p=9627. Retrieved 2009-02-22.
18. ^ a b "Octagón al Salón de la Fama AAA" (in Spanish). Mi Lucha Libre. June 7, 2011. http://miluchalibre.com/2011/06/octagon-al-salon-de-la-fama-aaa/. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
19. ^ "Los Perros prometieron una sorpresa: ¿Cumplieron?" (in Spanish). Asistencia Asesoría y Administración. October 11, 2011. http://luchalibreaaa.com/los-perros-prometieron-una-sorpresa-%C2%BFla-cumplieron.php. Retrieved October 11, 2011.
20. ^ "Héroes Inmortales con hechos inimaginables" (in Spanish). Asistencia Asesoría y Administración. October 10, 2011. http://luchalibreaaa.com/heroes-inmortales-quinta-edicion.php. Retrieved October 10, 2011.
21. ^ "Parka y Octagón = Perros del Mal" (in Spanish). Mi Lucha Libre. October 10, 2011. http://miluchalibre.com/2011/10/parka-y-octagon-perros-del-mal/. Retrieved October 10, 2011.
22. ^ "En Ecatepec, se consuma la venganza de Octagón" (in Spanish). Asistencia Asesoría y Administración. November 6, 2011. http://luchalibreaaa.com/en-ecatepec-se-consuma-la-venganza-de-octagon.php. Retrieved November 6, 2011.
23. ^ a b "Finishing Moves List". Other Arena. http://www.otherarena.com/nCo/finish/finish.html. Retrieved 2009-08-28.
24. ^ SuperLuchas staff (December 23, 2006). "Lo Mejor de la Lucha Libre Mexicana duranted el 2006" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas. issue 192.
25. ^ "EMLL Juicio Final 1990". CageMatch.net. December 14, 1990. http://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=33836. Retrieved February 25, 2010.
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Around this time last year The New York Times and The New Yorker published their investigations on the horrific accounts of sexual violence by film producer Harvey Weinstein. It opened up the conversation around sexual harassment and sexual assault not just in Hollywood and the film industry in general, but also in our society thanks to the #MeToo-movement. Continue reading “#MeToo edited by Lori Perkins” |
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>As I said I think it looks biannual.
With that I mean the pattern. In particular I don't share the opinion about other periods. But actually you wanted a comment on the height of the extrasystole. For this one one would probably need to look at all sorts of climate phenomena.
According to your correlation image from [5] interestingly ENSO precedes QBO (intuitively I could have guessed the other way around), so this could be one component |
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I am new to centreon, just installed 2.8.4 according to
Installed Centreon License Manager and Centreon Plugin Pack Manager.
Now there is supposed to be Administration -> Extensions -> Plugin packs -> Setup
I dont' see plugin pack (see the screenshot)
I also created a host (want to check the echo ping), it has pending status and not monitoring.
I don't know what to do. Any advise?
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The documentation has bugs. The plugins are not here Administration -> Extensions -> Plugin packs -> Setup
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So I managed to add the host and the service Base-Ping-LAN and it's now monitoring the status up or down. But there is also pending status ramaining. I installed all free available plugins and tried to add a host using this manual
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52559 | Le périph
It’s the busiest road in France. Its 35 kilometres have been taking people in and around Paris since 1973. Le périph, as the the Paris ring road is known, is not the most famous monument in the French capital but it is certainly the most visited. And while it is hardly a beautiful sight, it is a view that many French drivers spend hours looking at each day.
Inauguration in 1973
As I mentioned in my last post, the French are experts in how to ‘contourner‘ or go around things. In this case, it is the city itself.
Many large French cities have boulevards périphériques – Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille — but the Paris ring road is the biggest and best known. It was built alongside the old fortifications around the city, there since the 1840s to protect the capital from outside invaders — or the rioting French people.
It seems the recent wave of ‘gilets jaunes’ (yellow vests) are only the latest in a long tradition.
A map of the Paris périph with its many exits and the Seine river in the middle
The speed limit on the densely packed périph is limited to 70 km. There are many on- and off-ramps but no safety shoulders, which can make driving on it a hair-raising experience. I once had to do a stretch on the périph to pass my French driver’s test.
I remember thinking that some poor tourists might turn in endless circles around Paris before getting up the nerve to squeeze through its multiple lanes of traffic to exit.
Here’s more info and details on the inner and outer ring roads from Wikipedia.
Do you have a memory of driving on a ring road or ‘périph’?
Changer de vitesse
Breaking news here in France this week is the government’s decision to reduce the speed limit on secondary roads from 90 to 80 km/h. That’s all roads without a central divider mostly outside of towns across the country. Now will come the tedious business of changing thousands of road signs from 90 to 80.
Macron’s government has had the good sense to say they’ll pick up the tab for the sign change, sparing us the otherwise massive public outcry that would follow if the local taxpayers had to pay for it.
There’s still a lot of crying going on. If the French have one value, it is the right to go fast. When they can. Which is not often. But once they’re outside of urban areas, and unstuck from the frequent traffic jams, they treasure their right to gun it and make up for lost time.
This approach applies to much of life here. That characteristic gear changing, from foot-draggingly slow to all-systems-go fast, is one of the things I had the hardest time adapting to when we moved to France. It applies to so many areas of life that you simply have to get used to it. There are times when we do nothing but wait, and there are times when we move ahead at the speed of light. C’est ainsi.
Changer de vitesse – to change gears – is a skill I had to learn on many levels. From driving a car with a standard transmission to switching languages from my mother English tongue to the French way of formulating thoughts. To accepting that when we go, we go. When we stop, we stop.
I’ve gotten better at switching gears but it’s still not my forté (which, by the way, the French don’t say despite that little accent – the expression is rather: ‘ce n’est pas mon point fort’).
We are still gearing up from a very slow period following a fabulous family vacation in Curaçao. It was a wonderful way to spend Christmas, to ring out the old and ring in the new. But like probably every other island in the Caribbean, things move slowly. It took me no time at all to gear down to the slower pace of island life. Watching the waves roll in and out, the birds singing, the iguanas in the leaves, happily waiting for that piña colada.
But coming back is another story. We had a good rest and filled up on sunshine, so the body is more or less willing. My mind, however, is still five hours behind. It didn’t help that our return was a bit delayed.
Our flight circled for too long over Geneva, where the winds were very high and we were bumping around through the clouds for ages. When we finally began our descent, everyone on board was quietly relieved. Then, just as we saw the familiar approach across the lake and mountains, up we went again through the clouds. A few white-knuckled moments later, the pilot announced that he had aborted the landing due to wind shear. We were rerouted to Lyon, and finally made it home by bus some four hours later. Happy to be home safe.
When it comes to speed, I’m all for going a little slower. Yes, it’s annoying when things take longer than they should. And okay, they’ll probably enrich the state coffers with a few more speeding tickets. But hey, there’s no denying that it will save lives. And gas. And we’ll get there, sooner or later.
How has your new year begun? Are you in high speed or gearing up after the holidays?
Cours de GPS
road signs, panneaux
The female voice that lives inside my GPS is called, improbably, Serena. Perhaps this female persona was the fantasy of the German engineers who designed my personal navigation app. Or maybe the marketing people thought the name would inspire a sense of serenity.
When I had to choose between Serena and Henry, her male flatmate, I went with dulcet-toned Serena. Of the two, she seemed slightly less commanding.
Did I mention I have issues with authority?
My first impression is that she sounds nothing like a Serena to me. Her snooty British accent makes her seem far too well-schooled to be doing this job. And, having taken a trip or two together, I fear she must agree.
Although we are in France, Serena speaks English. If I have the option, I always pick the language this is least likely to cause confusion, or misinterpretation, to my English ears. This is especially true when it comes to getting from point A to point B. I am, as confessed before, geographically and spatially challenged, a condition that only seems to get worse with age. But because we are in France, and French-speaking Switzerland, I do expect her to have a minimal grasp of the lingo.
The problem begins as soon as we hit the road.
“Prepare to bear right,” announces Serena imperiously. The road stretches ahead in a straight line.
“I think you mean go straight,” I suggest, trying to be polite.
“Beware!” says that lady.
“Beware of what?” I ask. There is no danger that I can see.
“At the roundabout, take first exit.”
“You mean turn right?” I ask, squinting at the screen propped on my dashboard. You are not technically allowed to use a GPS on your phone while driving in France. Just in case you might be cheating by texting or checking your Facebook status, they make any use of a phone in a car illegal.
Thankfully I no longer have to face the road conditions shown in the picture above, which used to be part of my daily commute. But getting around France can be confusing, so I take all the help I can get.
“In 200 metres, prepare to turn left.”
Okay, that much I get.
“Prepare to turn left in 100 metres, onto LARUEDELAMARTINIERE,” anounces Serena blithely.
Her French pronunciation is a curve ball that catches me unaware. It bears no connection to French as I know it. What street does she mean? I glare at my screen but cannot see any name resembling her French with an English accent.
The road curves and I miss the turn.
“Chemin de la what? Where did you learn to speak French?”
“Now turn right.”
“Wrong! It says do not enter.”
“Of what?”
There is silence. I glance at my screen and see a straight arrow. It seems that Serena has strategically repositioned.
“At the roundabout, take the third exit.”
“You mean go left?”
“Take the third exit and continue onto the D93.”
“Whatever you say.”
“Now prepare to bear right.”
“Oui Madame.”
“Now bear right.”
“My god you’re a nag.”
“Turn right on RUDE LACHAINE.”
“Rude is right!”
“In 300 metres, you will have reached your destination.”
“What? You are seriously confused!”
“You have reached La Rue de la Résistance.”
“Ray-sis-tance?” I say, mocking her accent. “Listen, lady, this is France. You need to work on your accent.”
I look in my rear-view mirror and see a cop right behind me. Realizing he may be able to see me talking to my GPS, I put two hands on the wheel, activate the turn signal and proceed into the parking lot.
“Merci Serena!” I say, signing off. She says nothing, far too polite to say I told you so.
I have indeed reached my destination.
Navigon, the app I use. Not my destination!
Do you use a GPS?
Pompe à fric
“Ce sont des pompes à fric!”
“C’est scandaleux!”
Which is pretty well par for the course.
When was the last time you got a speeding ticket?
Bye bye, carton rose
Carton roseThis highly coveted piece of paper will soon be an artefact. The French government has announced the phasing out of the old pink ‘permis de conduire’, fondly referred to as ‘le carton rose’. It will be replaced by a standard credit-card sized piece of plastic. But I’m not giving up mine just yet. Here’s why.
“You’ll have to get a new driver’s license.” Those words didn’t mean much at the time. I’d figured moving to France would mean turning in my old Ontario driver’s license for a French one. I didn’t bargain on having to learn to drive all over again.
“It means you have to pass a test,” my husband explained. I hesitated for a moment over the grammar (it’s ‘passer un test’ in French rather than to take a test as we say in English, which translates somehow as if success were a requirement.) Then I realized. Merde.
“But I already know how to drive!” I wailed. “Standard or just automatic?” My heart sank. I’d learned how to drive in the U.S. on one of those big boats of a car that had automatic everything. No one but hippies drove sticks.
In France, however, the standard is still standard. Automatic transmissions are something of a novelty, generally reserved for little old ladies. The only way to get your driver’s license here is to take the test on a standard.
So I had to learn how to use a stick shift. It is a testament to our marriage that my husband was able to teach me this skill.
For one thing, I am not the world’s most coordinated person. To put it in the words of my dear old dad, I can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. Any form of driving involves a certain amount of multitasking: eyes on the road, checking your rear- and side-view mirrors, knowing when to step on the gas or the brakes, signalling and turning. Add a clutch and stick-shift into that equation and it’s like learning to juggle.
Second handicap, mine: I’m not a good student. When I can’t do something perfectly right away, I get mad. I don’t give up, mind you, but being around me through the learning process is not for the faint of heart.
Third handicap, his: a tendency to confuse left and right. Frustrating, but no biggie most of the time. As a driving instructor, however, it’s a problem.
If anyone witnessed those early scenes, I am not proud. But I learned to shift with the best of them (although I wore out the clutch on our first car pretty fast).
I also had to learn the ins and outs of the ‘Code de la route’ and take a written test – no small challenge for my then-fledgling French. The rules of the road in France are almost as complex as the grammar. Along the way I learned a lot of new vocabulary: la chaussée (road surface), la roue de secours (spare tire), un céder le passage (yield sign). As for the driving itself, the biggest difference is a little concept called ‘la priorité à droite’. It means you must yield to drivers who arrive on the right. This concept also exists in North America but as uncontrolled intersections are few and far between, it’s rarely an issue.
The French road test is no joke – it’s not uncommon to fail several times. I got it on my first try, perhaps because of my experience as a driver, perhaps because I was visibly pregnant. Most likely because I took the test through a driving school (it was faster and cheaper than applying on my own) and the inspector knew my teacher – they gossiped throughout the ten minutes of my road test.
When I finally got my new driver’s license it felt like a mere formality. I’d been driving for almost a year with my Canadian license anyway and had learned the real rules of the road: watch your rear and always pull over for anyone going faster than you. If in doubt, let the person on the right go first. And no matter how mad you get, don’t flip the birdie, especially at men (see my earlier post on gestures).
Now let me share a deep, dark secret: I have two French driver’s licenses. It happened a few years ago when I’d thought my original license was lost, and had it replaced. Then I found the old one lurking in the corner of a disused wallet. So even if I have to hand over the more recent one in exchange for a laminated card, I’ll keep the old carton rose as a souvenir.
But I’m in no rush to make the switch. This being the old world, we have until 2033. By then, I’m not even sure I’ll need a driver’s license. And in the meantime, I look a lot younger. |
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This page is about the Solar Generator added by Extra Utilities. For other uses, see Solar Generator.
Solar Generator
Block Solar Generator.png
ModExtra Utilities
TypeTile entity
Blast resistance25
StackableYes (64)
Next tier
RF storage100,000 RF
RF production0-40 RF/t
Technical details
Registry nameExtraUtilities:generator:7
Unlocalized namegenerator
The Solar Generator is a block added by Extra Utilities. It will create Redstone Flux (RF) from sunlight. Normal energy output values are up to 40 RF/t in the Overworld, and a constant 40 RF/t in The End. However, this generator cannot generate and emit power at the same time, making it a bit more complex than the solar panels from other mods. To switch from energy generation to energy output mode, you must apply a redstone signal. Therefore, a daylight sensor and inverter can be used, to have the generator generate during the day, and output it's energy in the night, when it would not be generating anyway.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52598 | Nematanthus is a genus containing approximately 30 species found in the montane forests of southeastern Brazil. Most nematanthus species have a trailing or bushy growth habit and grow well in hanging baskets. Their vigorous growth rate, unique blossoms, and hairy or glossy leaf texture make them stand out from other gesneriad counterparts like Aeschynanthus and Columnea. However, their seasonal or sporadic blooming period may make them undesirable for some growers.
The genus was first created in the 1820s. The etymology of the name comes from the Greek nema, meaning “thread or hair” and anthos, meaning “flower.” The name refers to the thin pedicels of the hanging blossoms on many species, especially the type species Nematanthus corticola.
Nematanthus is closely related to Codonanthe and Codonanthopsis. They are all within the same clade of Tribe Episcieae in the New World subfamily, Gesneriodeae. More recent DNA testing in 2013 revealed that Codonanthe is more closely related to Nematanthus than to CodonanthopsisNematanthus and Codonanthe grow in the same geographic area and they share the same number of chromosomes (2n=16). In comparison, Codonanthe and Codonanthopsis differ in their geographic locations, number of chromosomes, shape of their fruits and presence of corolla spurs, extrafloral nectaries, and anther connective tissue. Hybridizers have been able to create intergeneric hybrids between Codonanthe and Nematanthus, but there are no known intergeneric hybrids with Codonanthopsis.
The most commonly cultivated species of this genus are Nematanthus australis, N. gregarious, and N. wettsteinii. Their orange blossoms look like candy corn or goldfish, which is why this genus has the common name, “goldfish plant.” Other species like Nematanthus brasiliensis, N. corticola, and N. crassifolius have long pedicels that hang down from the stem. Species N. albus and N. punctatus are scented. Cultivars like Nematanthus gregarious ‘Golden West’ and N. gregarious ‘Dibley’s Gold’ have variegated foliage.
Nematanthus grow well in a well-draining soilless mix. They can be grown on a windowsill or under fluorescent lights with two or four lamps. Nematanthus can tolerate the typical humidity in a home of about 40%; however, their growth habit improves with increased humidity. Because they come from cooler temperatures at higher elevations, they are sensitive to extreme heat. At temperatures over 80°F (27°C), plants will rapidly lose their leaves. They will also lose their leaves due to overwatering. |
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Greyhawk Deity
Moradin, the Soul Forger, as depicted in Deities and Demigods (2002).
Title(s) Soul Forger, Dwarffather, the All-Father, the Creator, the Maker
Home Plane Seven Mounting Heavens of Celestia
Power Level Greater
Gender male
Class(es) Fighter 20/Expert 14/Cleric 15 (3rd edition)
Fighter/Cleric/Earth Elementalist/Fire Elementalist/Bard (2nd edition)
Alignment Lawful good
Portfolio Dwarves (survival, renewal, and advancement), Creation, Smithing (all kinds), Protection, Metalcraft, Stonework, Engineering, dwarven engineers
Domains Creation, Earth, Good, Law, and Protection
Alias(es) None
Superior None
Moradin (MOAR-uh-din) is the chief deity of the dwarven pantheon. His symbol is a hammer and anvil; most clerics of Moradin carry a miniature electrum war hammer, often magically treated.
Moradin appears as a stern male dwarf twenty feet in height. He has powerful musculature, particularly in his upper body. His beard is long and flowing, reaching to his knees; it is depicted as either snow-white or coal-black. Moradin dresses plainly, wearing furs and the leather leggings and aprons of a humble smith. On his forearms are his only concession to vanity, a pair of pure gold bracers. In battle he wears dwarven plate and carries a large shield. His large, glowing war hammer is named Soulhammer. A pure white radiance of divine power radiates from the Dwarffather, though he can suppress this at will.
Moradin is the head of the dwarven pantheon. He is married to Berronar Truesilver. He counts Gruumsh and Maglubiyet among his fiercest foes, and he loathes the other gods of the orc, goblinoid, kobold, and evil giant pantheons as well. Beltar seeks revenge against Moradin for helping to supplant her authority over mines. Moradin is friendly with Bahamut, Fortubo (for whom he created the hammer Golbi), Pelor, Cyrrollalee, Garl Glittergold, Flandal Steelskin, and Kossuth, and enjoys a strategic alliance with Yondalla and Corellon Larethian.
In some dwarven realms, Moradin is said to be the father of Dumathoin, Abbathor, Laduguer, Clangeddin, Diinkarazan, Diirinka, Vergadain, Muamman Duathal, and Dugmaren Brightmantle, but the exact relationships and order of birth vary from culture to culture.
An alternate dwarven pantheon in Races of Stone consists of Moradin, Hanseath, Laduguer, Mya, Roknar, Tharmekhûl, Thautam, and Valkauna. Followers of Roknar claim he is Moradin's brother, while Moradin's priesthood say that Roknar is an ancient, unrelated evil that came into being shortly after Moradin created the dwarves. Tharmekhûl is Moradin's assistant who tends his Eternal Forge. Thautam acts as Moradin's kindly uncle. Mya is Moradin's wife, as Berronar is not part of this pantheon.
Moradin's realm is Erackinor, on the plane of Mount Celestia, which he shares with his wife Berronar. Erackinor appears as a vast mountain on Solania, the fourth layer of the plane (also known as the Electrum or Crystal Heaven). Within the mountain is the Soul Forge, where Moradin tempers the spirits of his people and their weapons. Dwarven theologians believe this Soul Forge provides heat for the entire layer of the plane, and that the smoke from it forms the mists that hang in the vales. The dwarven spirits that dwell in this realm spend their time building, forging, testing, and bettering the dwarven race. The towns of Istor's Forge, Stonefall, the Rift, and Berronar's Side are the largest settlements in the realm, all buried underground and comprising tunnels, shorings, living quarters, armories, and fine art.
• Istor's Forge is a lesser town built in a circle around a pool of pure light lava used for smelting and smithwork. The ruler of the town is Istor, a revered smith and consummate orator. He usually works in solitude, appearing only to deliver his motivational speeches.
• The Stonefall is a narrow, V-shaped valley that blocks off most of the light of the plane and covered in thick, gritty dust from all the quarrymen, masons, sculptors, and miners who dweel there. Every surface is carved with stories, from the creation of the dwarf fathers, to the rise of all the kingdoms of dwarves who ever were, to the creation of the masterworks of the dwarven race. Also present are many statues and bas-reliefs of gargoyles, saints, and clan symbols.
• The Rift is built around a long, narrow crevasse that is also the city's main road and town square. It is more open and outward-looking than the other settlements in Erackinor, and anyone who has proven worthy to enter Solania is welcome to visit the Rift and purchase goods from its shops. Much of the trade is with the archons, the angelic rulers of the plane, and so common goods include lanterns, seals, scrolls, and other things celestial beings need.
• Berronar's Side is a fortified city half-exposed to the surface and half-buried in the mountain. A portal within leads to the Outlands and a road that goes to Dwarven Mountain, the realm of the gods Vergadain, Dumathoin, and Dugmaren Brightmantle. Another portal leads to Clangeddin's realm in Arcadia. In the center of the city is a temple to Berronar, where the wise mystic Naugret the Elder tends to the hearth. When she speaks, the other petitioners of the town are quick to obey, as her prophecies have never failed.
• The Soul Forge (called the Eternal Forge in The Complete Book of Dwarves and Races of Stone) is the birthplace of the dwarven race, where their seven fathers were forged, and where Moradin breathes life into every dwarf. It is a towering block of mithral, perceived as 40 feet tall by mortals, next to a pool of molten soulfire for softening and a wall of pure ice for tempering. The air is hot but never smoky. Moradin himself is almost always at the forge, overseeing dwarven spirits being forged (or reforged) and sent to the Prime Material Plane for birth or rebirth. Careless visitors risk being picked up, hammered into dwarven shape, and reincarnated against their will. The Forge also acts as a portal to any plane where dwarves live, and to the realms of all other dwarven gods. Nosy dwarves who appear to have so much time on their hands that they resort to pestering a busy creator god are often sent through a portal to some place where Moradin hopes they'll make themselves useful. When Moradin is elsewhere, those who earn the right to do so by completing difficult tasks assigned by Moradin's proxies may use the Forge to enhance any weapon.
Dwarves believe that Moradin is the father and creator of the dwarven race and, in many myths, creator of the entire universe. They teach that ceaseless toil and labor are the only fit occupations for a worthy soul. Fire tempers spirits, and wisdom comes from hard work. One must strive to forge strength within. Truth is buried deeper than ore in a mountain, and most of it is slag. Dwarves are expected to honor their god by improving their skills and fou nding new dwarven lands. They are told to honor the leaders of their clan just as they honor Moradin. They are taught the importance of following tradition and traditional ways.
Worshippers of Moradin believe in reincarnation, knowing that after proving themselves worthy that their souls are reforged in Moradin's forge and sent back into the world of the living.
The Scrolls of Narvil tell a heretical story of how, after forging the world, the gods, and the dwarves, the Creator became weary and slept. Some of the lesser gods, jealous of his skill, bound him as he rested, then heated up the Great Forge of the Creator to make races in their own likenesses: humans, for example, and elves. Then they begun arguing over what part of the world would be given to which race; their clamor awoke the Creator, but the lesser gods laughed at him and refused to set him free. However, the lesser gods did not know how to control the Great Forge, and great gobules of molten stone fell from the Forge toward the Oerth; the Creator breathed on them from his place of bondage, giving life to the fragments and thus creating the first dragons (CBoD, 9).
Moradin charges his followers with defending dwarven civilization and its ancient traditions. To them falls the task of removing the dwarven kingdoms of orcs and wiping out the followers of Gruumsh. He is upset if they flee from their foes or kill their fellow dwarves.
Dwarven sorcerers are considered blessed by Moradin; their abilities are thus divinely granted. (RoS, 9)
Moradin's clerics wear earthy colors, with chain mail and silvered helms. Ceremonial vestmens include shining, flowing robes of woven electrum wire, silvered helms, and earth-brown leather boots. His clerics are usually drawn from family lines, like most dwarven occupations. Many clerics of Moradin thus had parents and grandparents who were also clerics of Moradin and helped train them.
Novice clerics of Moradin are known as the Unworked. Full priests are known as Forgesmiths or the Tempered. In ascending order of rank, other titles used by priests of Moradin include: Adept of the Anvil, Hammer of War, Artisan of the Forge, Craftsman of Runes, Artificer of Discovery, and Smith of Souls. The High Old Ones of the faith have unique titles but are collectively known as High Forgesmiths.
Priests of Moradin seek to increase the status of dwarves in the Flanaess. They preside over a wide range of formal ceremonies and maintain geneologies and historical archives in cooperation with the clerics of Berronar.
Their favored weapon is the war hammer.
Hammers of Moradin
Another elite military order of Moradin is the Order of the Anvil of Light. which has been led by Barock Stormbeard of the Stormbeard clan for ages. The group's latest information deals with a deity trying to return to the Material Plane.
On the monthly holy days, common and precious metals are sacrificed to Moradin by melting them down at the forge and reforming them into objects usable by the clergy. While making such offerings, participants kneel, chant, and reach bare-handed into the flames of the forge to handle the glowing metal directly. Moradin prevents harm to the truly faithful (Demihuman Deities, 80).
During such ceremonies, the priests enter the temple, bow to the forge, and (in times of peace) surrender their weapons to the temple guards after striking the anvil by the entry with their hammers once. Priests of other gods are not permitted to advance to the forge except with the express permission of a High Forgesmith or an avatar of Moradin himself. The service then consists of humble prayer and open discussion on current dwarven issues. This discussion is considered to be between equals, though the ranking priest of Moradin has the authority to open or close any given topic. The service ends with a rising chant until the smith's hammer rises from the anvil of its own acccord; it may, or may not, then move about or glow to denote the god's will, but it always rings on the anvil thunderously to signify the end of the ceremony (Demihuman Deities, 80).
Moradin's prayers refer to metals and smithing: a common prayer to Moradin states "You burn the dross from me, but the iron remains." Geneology is important to Moradin's rites, with funeral prayers reciting the ancestry of the deceased for hundreds of generations (CD, 115).
Holy days
Moradin's holy days fall monthly; in some cultures this is when Luna is full, while in others it is when Luna is a crescent. IN addition, and High Forgesmith may call a holy day at any time, often doing so in celebration of some local event (Demihuman Deities, 80).
Temples to Moradin are always underground and carved from solid rock, but never set in unworked natural caverns. Hammers and anvils, the symbols of Moradin, are the dominant themes, as are statues of Moradin All-Father and the other gods of the dwarven pantheon (Demihuman Deities, 80).
At the center of every temple to Moradin is a vast forge (CD, 115). This forge is more than just a workplace but also a telinom, a sacred area. Dwarven forges rely not only on hammers and muscle but also on power derived from water and wind, thus fusing all four of the classical elements (DR#245). If the flame in the forge (which is protected by a permanent wall of fire effect) ever goes out, the temple must be abandoned or torn down stone by stone. Usually a new temple is built on another site, but occasionally the previous temple is rebuilt and reconsecrated (Demihuman Deities, 80).
• The Anvil of Songs
• The Axe of Ancestral Virtue contains the personality of one of Moradin's high priests from ages past. This personality has been copied along with the weapon several times. It refuses to divulge its original name. (CD, 93)
• Axe of the Dwarvish Lords
• The Brutal Pick
• The Earthheart Forge
• The Shaping Hammer
• The Shield of the Resolute is said to be forged from tiny pieces of hundreds of different shields taken from battlefields where dwarves fell defending their homelands. (CD, 101)
• Whelm is a legendary warhammer forged by a worshiper of Moradin to slay the enemies of dwarvenkind.
Myths and legends
The Forging of the World
In the beginning, only the Eternal Forge existed, in the Home of the Maker, in the Caverns of the Everlasting Flame. The Maker places stone and fire in his Eternal Forge, and forged the world with his hammer and tongs. He created the mountains, hills, hollows, and valleys. Then he quenched the glowing-hot planet in the Trough of Life; the steam rose and formed into the first clouds. The waters of the Trough flowed into some of the valleys and formed seas. The Maker set the world on a pinnacle of pure mithral, and there it remains (CBoD, 7).
The Forging of the Gods
The Maker returned to the Eternal Forge and combined water from the Trough of Life with stone from the world he had just made, adding molten iron to strengthen it. He shaped this new alloy on the Anvil of Spirit, and from this alloy he created the other gods to assist him. He quenched their glowing-hot forms in the Trough of Life, then he opened their eyes and blew on them. The gods came to life. The Maker taught the Gods of Crafts how to make things that would please him, and taught the God of Fire to burn and fan the flames of life. He taught the Gods of the Elements, and revealed to them all the place that gods would have in the world he had made (CBoD, 7).
The Forging of the Dwarves
The Maker returned to the Eternal Forge and created the dwarves from rock and iron (CBoD, 7). He quenched their glowing-hot forms in the Trough of Life, and so they were awakened. Deities and Demigods (2002) has the dwarves created from metal and gems. In Player's Secrets of Baruk-Azhik, the first eight dwarves are created from a greenish-silver metal called moraskorr and given gemstones as hearts. Carl Sargent, in Monster Mythology, writes that the Dwarf-Fathers were forged from iron and mithral hewn from the heart of the world. Dragon #245 states that dwarves were created from equal parts earth, air, fire, and water, and that the first dwarves were seven in number. Moradin left his seven children with two tools, the Anvil of Songs and the Shaping Hammer, with which they created the Axe of the Dwarvish Lords.
Each of the gods took one of the dwarves and revealed to them the secrets the Maker had taught them. The first king of the dwarves, called Frar in the The Complete Book of Dwarves and Silvervein Moradinson in Book of Artifacts, was given the gift of wisdom and told of the mithral pinnacle upon which the world rested. The dwarves ruled the world alone for a thousand years, spreading across the valleys and mountains of the world.
The Creation of the Other Races
The god of Evil, who goes unnamed in The Complete Book of Dwarves (as does the Maker), envied the Maker and his creations. In cold and cheerless caverns, the god of Evil created goblins, hobgoblins, evil giants, and other monsters. Lacking the pure water of the Trough of Life, the clay he made was tainted with his own impurities, and so his creations were as well. The god of Evil then sowed discontent among the other gods created by the Maker, and a few were persuaded by his twisted words and created races of their own. Thus it was that elves, gnomes, humans and other non-evil intelligent creatures came into being. Though less tainted than the creations of the god of Evil, they lacked the iron that had been forged into every dwarf's soul.
The dragons, who had apparently been sleeping beneath the world since before it was made, were awakened by the diggings of the lesser races. In a panic, the lesser races appeased their fury by telling them of dwarven gold. The dwarves had to flee the caverns of the First Dwarves, creating new homes closer to the surface.
In Races of Stone, the other races were created first and the dwarves were created last. Moradin made each of the races on his forge, but each time he decreed them imperfect, sent them into the world to live as best they could, and begun again. Finally his wife Mya, goddess of wisdom, told him to look within his heart to find the design of the best race. Moradin saw the truth in her words and created a race that resembled himself. These were the dwarves, the perfect race.
Creative origins
Moradin was created by James M. Ward for Deities and Demigods (1980).
• Bambra, Jim. The Complete Book of Dwarves. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1991.
• Baur, Wolfgang. "Heart of the Forge: The Dwarven Smithy." Dragon #245. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 1998. Pages 23-35.
• Brown, Anne. Player's Secrets of Baruk-Azhik. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1996. Page 4.
• Cook, David. Book of Artifacts. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1993.
• McComb, Colin, Wolfgang Baur, and Dori Jean Hein. Planes of Law. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1995. |
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#1. Star Jump
Stand with your feet together, arms fully extended with your hands by your sides. This is the start position. – Bend your knees slightly then straighten and push through the balls of your feet while straightening your your knees to jump up spreading your legs to wider than hip width apart. As you do so, raise both arms out and up in a smooth arc until your hands meet above your head. – As you return to the ground, bring your feet together and your hands back to your sides with your arms fully extended. Continue without pause for the desired amount of time or repetitions.
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#2. In & Out Squat
Stand straight with your feet together and hands by your side. Jump up, spread your feet, bend your knees pressing your hips back, and open your arms. – Push throug the hills to jump back up and bring both hands together above your head. – Repeat until the set is complete.
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#3. Pilates Swimming
Lay down flat on your stomach with your arms up over your head. Pull your abs in tight. – Raise your lower legs and upper body up off the ground (only your thighs and abs should be touching the ground). – Now pulse your arms and legs up and down. Move your right arm and left leg together and your left arm and right leg together. Alternate them back and forth for the desired amount of time.
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Also called the split squat. This exercise improves flexibility by stretching the hamstrings.
How to: Stand in a split stance, with the rear foot elevated on a high surface like a chair or a box. Keep your torso upright and the front foot flat on the floor. Then lower yourself until the rear knee slightly touches the floor. Slowly rise to starting position and repeat.
Pointer: Make sure the front knee doesn’t go past the toes.
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How to: Start with feet shoulder width apart then lower yourself and pause when the thighs are parallel to the floor. Then hold that position for 30 seconds to 3 minutes.
Pointer: Always use a timer when doing isometric exercises. It’s easy to give up if you don’t time yourself.
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We are temporal creatures. And life, well, life is temporal: it just keeps happening. That seems silly when I write it as it seems so obvious. And yet so much of how we think about things excludes time, excludes change. We think about change as something that happens after the fact rather than change being the fact.
We are always and already changing, transforming, evolving at every moment in multiple ways — our bodies, of course, as blood and oxygen and shit pass through our veins and intestines and noses and lungs and skin is sloughed, continuously; and the rest of us, too, as moods and desires shift relentlessly. Just think about your day: you are constantly, relentlessly, ceaselessly thinking, feeling, becoming something different — or at least I am.
Now, geometry deals with shapes in space. But what happens when time enters the equation and becomes constitutive of space? When change becomes constitutive of a shape, of an object? That is the domain of calculus.
And calculus gives us something incredibly interesting: the infinite series. That is, it gives us particular trajectories of infinity, different things winding and meandering and drifting infinitely in their own way.
So think about this. As we are temporal creatures — as we are always and already changing — we are not set in stone. Our identities are not this or that per se; our identities are this trajectory of becoming, this infinite series. Consider someone's life, all the ways that person went, all the different twists and turns — of spine, mood, liver, skin, diet, attitude, career.
Time makes us unpredictable (within limits) and uncertain. But does it make us infinite? I mean, sure, we are a series but we end in death, don't we? What makes us infinite?
Well, do we end in death? And, no, I'm not talking about heaven or hell but I am talking about a kind of afterlife. I am talking about the way we live on — in effect, in affect, in the memories not only of individuals but in the memories of the world itself.
Think about it like this. A star explodes in some distant galaxy. This explosion sets off a series of events throughout the cosmos as matter is fundamentally realigned, even if only very slightly. That star may be gone but its effects live on, infinitely, as its very being has reshaped the cosmos forever.
Well, we are all stars and, yes, one day we explode but that does not mark the end of our series, only an inflection point within its infinite trajectory.
The Joy of Thinking (Differently)
Here's an easy exercise. Look around the room and choose anything you see, anything you think of. Me, I'm looking at my set of keys.
Now start listing all the ways this thing — my set of keys — can be categorized, thought, imagined, all of its uses, all the ways it connects to other things. My keys, for instance, are little knives; symbols of discovery; symbols of enslavement; a literal weight on me; a plethora of opportunity and possibility; the limitation of my possibilities; envelope and box openers; a child's toy; a dangerous child's toy thanks to the lead; a collection of like things; a security blanket when I'm out and about, that jangle and jab tethering me to place and vehicle; the history of keys, of secrets, of private property; children's games of secret passageways; a sign of adulthood (my beast does not carry keys; at what age will he have his own key, I wonder).
What else?
Each thing — visible and invisible — exists within multiple categories, multiple series, multiple networks. Most things have a more or less prescribed use: this is what you do with keys, silly man, you open doors.
Inventors, of course, find different uses for known things. This is amazing: they find life, extend the thing, create new worlds from the old world. It is nothing less than a miracle.
Artists do the same: they literally have us see anew. Take something as simple as Starry Sky: doesn't Van Gogh teach us to see the sky — something we see everyday — again and anew, as if for the evry first time?
Reading — interpreting, perhaps, but I don't like that word for a number of reasons — can do the same thing. It can take a known object and make it unknown and then known again as something new. It is truly incredible: I can read some words on a page that make me see something I've always seen, understand something I've always understood, as if seeing it for the very first time. What was dead is summoned to life, to new life, to new possibility.
This is the way I experienced when I first read Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality v1. I was someone who believed that sexuality was a vital force that the powers that be repressed, beginning with the Victorians. Such and such culture or such and such historical period were certainly more liberated than we are. Indeed, like so many others, my understanding of sexuality was defined by the figure of repression/liberation.
Until I read Foucault who told me that repression was, in fact, another form of power — that power does not only restrict, it constructs. Look, Foucault says, look at how often and how much the so-called repressed Victorians talked about sex — relentlessly. They were so obsessed with sex they covered the legs of pianos out of discretion.
Oh, man, when I read that the whole world yawned anew. To have such a hallowed idea, an idea that I didn't even realize I had because I simply thought it was true, to have such a thing so completely re-organized, redistributed, a whole new sense of it forged was invigorating, intoxicating, making me delirious with possibility. The whole world — every thing, every idea, every person — could be read from multiple angles and perspectives, redistributed and recast and repeated and become something new. The universe becomes uncanny at its core, always shifting and realigning depending on how you look at it.
To think different, to think differently, is to create life. It is the ultimate joyful act — to read critically is to perform Whitman's great line: urge and urge and urge/always the procreant urge of the world.
If all things are multiple, are nodes with different series, then to forge or discover these series is to breed life.
What is Political?
When I was a kid, I was what I considered "political" — I read The New York Times, I was in touch with the Communist Party, I read Che and Lenin (sort of), I was a conscientious objector (under Reagan, to get Federal student loans, I had to register for the draft. How creepy is that?), and sought to lead a revolution in my high school (somewhere, there is video of me ranting into a microphone on a window ledge to a group of no doubt confused fellow students; to complete the picture, I had a substantial jewfro: see above).
Some time in my sophomore year of college, thanks to a heady concoction of Nietzsche, Foucault, and LSD, I abandoned this political stance. I may have had my formal reasons for doing so but it came down to the fact that is just felt false — because it was false, even if it felt so real. Bathos is a bitch like that. I was regurgitating ideology, repeating familiar narratives with their compelling but cloying sentimentality — Why can't we all be free?
As an adult — or whatever it is I am at 42 —, I once again consider myself political. But in a very different way.
At first, my politics began as local, everyday action. I began driving like there were other people on the road, letting in drivers pulling out of driveways. And I've always been civic minded — heeding line etiquette, giving up my seat on BART for anyone in need, offering to help the blind. But I began to see such actions as political, as shaping the way people interact — and isn't that politics?
But there are other things, too. In conversation, I try to avoid cliches or letting other people utter them, steering the dialogue into uncharted territory. Because it is cliche that shuts us down, keeps us in the familiar world of what was rather than the emerging world of what might be at every moment. I taught for many years, doing my darndest to foment the best kind of revolution: a revolution of generous multiplicity. I write, of course, trying to steer thinking into new territory — and mostly to foster a love, or at least an appreciation, for thinking differently.
(Writing this now it seems so, well, lame. Hmn.)
And then there are structures that coerce us, discourses that define us, often without our even knowing but just as often while thoroughly aware and annoyed and frustrated. I negotiate the discourses of masculinity, work, fatherhood, adulthood, son-hood, ex-husbandhood, etc. We are each nodes within networks that exceed us, ways of thinking and talking that are taken for granted as just the way things are, just what we do and hence are the very (insidious) structures of power.
This yields a very real politics of me, the politics that I am. I am — and methinks we all are — a veritable polyphony of voices, attitudes, beliefs, actions. Everything I do negotiates and distributes so many different factors — my sense of authenticity, my conscience, my desires, my fears, everything I've ever thought, been taught, believed. All of my — all of our — individual reckonings of our histories is a making of history, is political. Everyday, in multiple ways, we wrestle these discourses.
In the dating world, for instance, there are certain assumptions about what a relationship is, how it should proceed: drinks, a meal, sex, meet friends, go away together, move in together, get married, breed. Now, we may not all do this or want this. But you can't deny that this is an assumption which means any deviation from it becomes precisely that — a deviation rather than, say, the particular way a relationship may function.
Burroughs says that what we call politics is just the matador waving his red flag and, bulls that we are, we charge only to meet air. Or, if we're lucky, we nail the matador in the ass. But the bull fight doesn't change. Isn't it obvious by now that voting for one douchebag is the same as voting for any of those douchebags? (Douchebag is, without a doubt, one of the more hilarious words.)
If we see politics, then, as happening at the level of discourse — the level of how we talk about things, what we consider true and what we consider deviance — then art, film, the media in all forms is political from the get go.
So it's not that the political is solely personal or private. On the contrary, politics is the way the individual meets the world — meets others, meets ideas, meets him or herself.
This would shift political thought and political commentary rather dramatically. Rather than asking yourself, "Who will I vote for?", ask yourself, "What assumptions do I make as I wake and ready myself for the day? As I consider my future, my history, my love, my life?"
Philosophy and art and critique are the real politics. Which explains why they are never taught and are shit on so thoroughly.
The most exhausting aspect of life — and the reason I spend most of my time alone — is the endless negotiating and parrying of the dominant discourses. Yes, I know my use of "discourse," not to mention "dominant," pegs me as an academic asshole (when, in fact, I'm just a quasi-academic asshole).
But, first of all, discourse is the right word here. And, second, that's precisely my point!
Everything we say and do positions us, vis-a-vis both ourselves and others, in some way. And this way is not thoroughly creative: we don't express ourselves from the well of our individuality onto a blank slate eagerly awaiting our words and thoughts. No, we speak within a field of expectations that are rarely explicitly prescribed — and are prescribed all the more ardently by not being explicit. They are the terms of discussion, the very manner we assume to address each other, imagine each other — not to mention imagine ourselves.
Just look at auto correct. I can barely write a word without the engine thinking I've erred. Just now, it turned "dick" to "duck." This is not a spelling correction — some Apple slave writing that program assumed that people don't use the word dick so, well, they must have meant duck. But you know what? Some of us never say the word duck but do say dick with some frequency.
Discourse is an infinitely complex auto correct program. If only I could fire the fucker who writes it.
Cursing is one of those issues for which I am often put on the spot to defend but the other asshole questioning me doesn't have to defend his lack of cursing. I, for one, am suspicious of those who don't curse. But that somehow only makes me more of an asshole.
Years ago, after being asked not to swear in the classroom by none other than the esteemed radical philosopher, Judith Butler, I wrote this piece. Years later, I get a call from a reporter at CNN writing a piece about profanity on television. She had plenty of people to speak out against it — most notably, some creepy parents group — but couldn't find someone in favor of it. Her Google search yielded my blog and so I became the sole defender of profanity. And, to the journalist's infinite credit, she made me look like the responsible, good parent. A small victory! Here's her article >>
Now, look at this comment on a blog entry of mine that appeared on Thought Catalog: "Not voting," writes this discursive enforcer, "is painfully ignorant and irresponsible." Jesus! It was not an article about voting; it was an article about anonymity. But this bozo slips immediately into the accepted discourse about such things — voting is a matter of knowledge (hence my ignorance) and ethics (my irresponsibility).
Voting may not be the best example as more and more people are coming around to its futility (although the point in my article was not the futility of voting but the humiliation of voting). The discourse is changing, albeit it slowly. But my point is not that voting is good or bad but that there are ardently prescribed terms about the subject so that when I say something tangentially about it, it stirs the enforcers who don't have to say anything other than that one line: Not voting is painfully ignorant and irresponsible.
That's one of the great benefits of being enmeshed within the terms of a discourse: you don't have to work very hard. Why? Because what you say is so obviously true. The fuckwad who questions my cursing doesn't have to say squat but I have to defend myself.
To voice a different opinion takes an incredible expenditure of time and energy — and still inevitably ends badly. Foucault understood: the will to truth is the most insidious mode of power.
Now take romantic relationships. Think about all the different kinds of romantic relationships there could be. Now consider what you expect from a relationship — date, spend the night more and more, meet friends and family, move in together, marry, breed. I mean, it seems so obvious, right? Any attempt to alter this course means that the person is probably hung up, has issues, is afraid of intimacy, or the one I get all the time: I'm jaded. It's not that I've been through these things, that perhaps I know something. No, because I question the prescribed teleology of romance, I'm jaded. It's so fucking infuriating.
This is what we have to negotiate when dating — not a world of endless possibility but a tightly prescribed set of rules reinforced by an infinity of movies, songs, magazines, and people's true feelings. And that's what makes discourse so difficult to change, to combat: the believers really believe! And there is nothing necessarily wrong with this. What's wrong is when one trajectory becomes the only trajectory.
Of course there are some who follow different paths. But those people, and anyone who imagines a different order of things, are deviating. They are choosing what we call alternative paths.
But aren't they all alternatives? Can't we begin from a more generous place in which we create our own course of things? Can't one desire intimacy but not want to live together? And can't one just do that without having to justify, argue, plead, explain for hours on end? If one just follows the path, well, there's no work to be done — just stick to the treads. But, fuck, try to deviate and, man, it's exhausting! It's as Nietzsche says: saying no saps one's vitality.
This is the way of all things — the way we talk about movies, politics, ideas, travel, the way we talk about talking, tv, love, lust, porn, booze, drugs, life, kids, parenting, family, friends. There are such aggressively enforced rules about how we discuss these things, how we think these things, how we act. I can't have a discussion about some idiotic film and whether it was good or bad (thumbs up/thumbs down is the best we can do in the form of film critique?). I can't listen to casual jokes about "Republicans" — as if we're all on the same page, nudge nudge, wink wink. I don't assume that kids are the most wonderful thing in the world and should be paid attention to every moment; that tv is dumb and reading good; that the news matters at all; that my home team is the team I want to win; that Fox News is evil (it's all the same drivel to me); that tears are less aggressive than yelling; that I must have a career; that...that...that...
Travel is one of those things white liberal middle class folks just assume is a good thing. But you know what? I don't really like traveling. It's exhausting — I don't know the language, the money, where to shit, get a glass of water, eat. The most banal tasks of life become difficult and I am reduced to an infant. Don't get me wrong: you like traveling, go for it. My point is this: your love of travel should demand as much of a defense as my disinclination for it.
Constantly having to explain myself is simply exhausting. So I spend most of my time alone. And try, however meekly, to change the discourse to be more generous, to begin from a place less ardently prescribed.
No doubt, were this piece to appear on Thought Catalog, I already know what the comments would say: You're such a snob. You're an elitist. Hopefully, at least one would say, You're an asshole.
Goddamn, the anti-intellectualism of this country will be — nay, is — the death of me.
Feeling the Cosmos Seethe
Everyday, all day, there are so many distractions — conference calls and meetings, bills, traffic, people. We get so wrapped up in our day-to-day nonsense — does she like me? What did that text mean, anyway? I pay how much for cable? Man, that driver's an asshole! Is that a bump on my lip?
It is tempting to succumb to this barrage and begin to think that these are the things that really matter. Maybe they're not distractions at all; after all, this is what life has to offer. If I can figure out what she means in that text or can let the asshole driver know he's an asshole or if I google that bump on my lip for the next four hours then maybe, just maybe, I'll feel good and be right with the world.
But, more often than not, these day-to-day thoughts and events are irrelevant anxieties — at least the anxiety is irrelevant. We — or perhaps I should just say I — expend too much energy a) on things that don't matter in the least; and b) on things that my energy expenditure cannot affect. In both cases, thinking about these things, negotiating these things in the endless babble in my head, is a drain on my vitality.
This is not to say that the day-to-day matters of life don't, well, matter. Of course they do. We live in the day-to-day world; we live with our desires and people and drivers and work and bills. We can certainly streamline the amount of bullshit we have to deal with but we'll still have to deal with some of it.
At so least once a day, I try to feel the cosmos seethe. I try to quiet my neurotic head and feel — know — that I am just so much stuff in the endless mish mash of stuff and that this mish mash is infinite, streaming from the atomic to the cosmic. All the nonsense of the day falls away like so much sloughed skin or like an ox who, with a shake of his rump, sheds the flies from his hide.
Now, this is not an earth shattering observation. People meditate. But, to me, this is different. It's not an emptying of the mind; it's not a stillness. On the contrary, it involves putting myself in the cosmic swirl, amidst its ebbs and swells, its harmonies and dissonances, its resonances, its complexity. I imagine meditation to involve a simplification of life (I will be the first to admit that I may be way off on this front). And there's nothing wrong with such a gesture — it's just not what I'm talking about now. What I'm talking about is mixing it up with the delirious complexity of it all, the infinite collisions and collusions, the ricochet and marbling of matter both visible and invisible.
It's as if I shed my humanity, for an instant, and participate in the world as dust and leaf and am suddenly privy to the infinitely elaborate mechanics of the universe. It's not that I become nothing; it's that I become this thing amidst the everything.
Anonymity Freaks Me Out
The first and only time I voted was in the 1988 presidential election. I clearly remember walking in that little private wank booth and looking at this strange paper on which I was to mark my selection for this or that candidate. I remember feeling so small, so irrelevant, the process so dehumanizing. I was a nick on a prepopulated page, the same as every other: a nick in a series of identical nicks.
In an effort to overcome my reduction to a number, to reclaim my sense of humanity, I wrote in my choice for president: my grandather, Isidore Englander. It was reassuring to see my handwritten scrawl on this institutional document and to see a name so close to me, so absolutely idiosyncratic. I was confident that this would be Gramps' sole vote. This paper would not be one among many; it would be singular.
I never voted again. More than the irrelevance of the act, it's the demand for anonymity that turns me off. Give me a chance to stand up and voice my opinion, declare my decisions before the masses, and I'd consider voting. But walking into a beaded room bereft of the should-be carnal candy? Eeesh.
I have the same experience when buying things. The exchange of money for goods is prescribed in such a way that seller and consumer need not exchange anything else. This coldness, this reduction of ourselves to mere function, freaks me out. I just can't do it. I need to have some kind of personal contact — a quick joke, a non-consumer query, a smile, something that acknowledges our respective selves.
Mind you, this is not noble of me. On the contrary, it's often obnoxious and certainly narcissistic. Some checkout dude at Walgreens shouldn't have to suffer through my idiotic banter just to help me alleviate my angst.
Breaking personal boundaries is more difficult in the anonymous super stores. These places breed anonymity. Once inside, we become consumers, shopping to some prescribed algorithm. And the employees have no investment whatsoever; they barely acknowledge you. Their only desire is to get the fuck out of there as quickly as possible. What do they need, not to mention want, with my anxious interpersonal invasion?
Perhaps there is a freedom to such anonymity. By agreeing that we're just numbers to each other, we are left alone to do as we will— no need to pass moral, religious, or aesthetic judgement on others. You do your thing; I do my thing. And so it goes. There's no need for things to get personal.
This is one thing I enjoy about politeness — it allows strangers to be strangers with the least amount of friction. Sometimes, we need things from each other or, in this crowded world, we bump into one another — a simple "excuse me," "thanks," or "please" makes the interaction run smoothly.
Still, I have this deep seated desire to break through these barriers, to risk judgement in order to enjoy a whiff of intimacy, however slight. In that moment, there is the possibility of wonder, of the heartfelt and the hilarious, the witty and the surprising.
But that's not why I do it. My need cannot be justified by anything other than itself: anonymity freaks me out. It's as though I need the world to recognize me, not just this body, but me. Perhaps if those around me see me as an individual — not as just another customer, consumer, or constituent — then I'll be better tethered to the earth, less likely to slip into the ether unnoticed.
Ah, yes, this is it: anonymity smacks of death. And, egomaniac narcissist that I am, I believe my individuality will be enough to keep me alive. But only if everyone notices.
Teaching the Way of Words
If words are not (only) tools to state facts and ideas but are themselves bodies that are as true and delirious as the world itself, then perhaps we need to rethink how we teach operating with words and how we operate with them.
Mind you, I taught comp at Cal for 7 years, more or less. I've seen what the kids of California have been taught about language, what they think counts as a good paper. Needless to say, I hope, this is not to knock my students of old. It's to knock the diverse powers that be who teach this nonsense.
Oh, man, I wish I had some say in the public school syllabus, in how reading and writing are taught. My goal would be to teach students to go with words, not just use words. I would teach that words are not there to express truth per se but to express life itself in all its glorious messiness.
First of all, no more outlines. Outlines are hierarchies that reinforce the view that words are just there to give flesh to truth, to ideas. Outlines show one logic, one way grammar — the grammar of hierarchy. And while hierarchy plays some role in thinking and writing, rarely is it a good master grammar. There are so many ways to present an argument, so many ways to make one's way through an idea or three, that to limit it to hierarchy is to limit thought itself.
Use, instead, what I call an argument map. The emphasis here is on the flow between points, how you move from one idea to the next. Notice that there's still some hierarchy as there's textual evidence for each point. But rather than cascading top down, this encourages a lateral movement through ideas.
Freewriting. This is such an excellent exercise. Give students a question, any question. And ask them to write immediately and without stopping for, say, 10 minutes or so. Oh, man, the prose and ideas that fall from their pens! All of a sudden, prose that was once stilted and awkward flows with vision and feeling. Ideas that were ill-conceived and half-baked take on a hue of wonder and discovery.
Read aloud. It's important to understand, to experience, the sensual resonance of words. An excellent way of doing this is to read aloud. And be dramatic. Let the words move you. Let them choreograph your breath, your emotion, your rhythm.
Teach sense, not meaning. The brilliant Lohren Green argues that the dictionary is an odd beast: it delivers the meaning of all words in the same voice. Butterfly, doodle, widget, concrete, robust, this are all defined in the same tone and timbre: cool, subdued, even. But does "any of numerous diurnal insects of the order Lepidoptera, characterized by clubbed antennae, a slender body, and large, broad, often conspicuously marked wings" really let you grasp butterfly? And so Green wrote a different kind of dictionary, a poetical dictionary, that defines each word according to that word. Bleak is, well, bleak; acrobat plants its landing; purple is verbose; glee leaps with delight; doodle meanders around the page.
To understand sense is to understand the many and diverse aspects of a word — its meaning, its connotation, its rhythm, its weight, its mood and character, its networks within language and beyond.
Imitate other writers. This is a classical exercise: write as others have written and, in so doing, find your own voice. I used to make students write like Ginsberg in Howl or Nietzsche in everything. This shows you possibilities of language, what's possible, by making your body literally move through different mechanics, different senses.
Listen to other languages. It doesn't matter that you can't understand the words, the meaning. William Burroughs says the best way to learn a language is to grasp its rhythm — everything else will fall into place. To begin with rules and meanings is to miss language all together. To hear a language you can't understand is akin to listening to music — you hear rhythm and tone and sound, not concepts and referents.
I, for one, love American English because it can be soft — tuft, symphony, loquacious — and hard — book, finger, fuck. French is so soft, all vowels, skipping quickly off consonants. This lets the French have a word such as jouissance but when it comes to angular anger, well, French must be content with a scowl: "va te faire enculer," while beautiful, just doesn't do what "you fucking fuckpig" does. There's that great scene in The Matrix 2 in which Lambert Wilson describes cursing in French as wiping your ass with silk.
The point, in any case, is this: words need to be reckoned, to be heeded, just as anything does. We have to learn to feel them in our mouths, in our minds, in our loins and bellies, see how they operate, hear how they resonate.
There is a common perception that there are certain things and experiences that words can't touch. These things and experiences, we imagine, are sublime, tearing at categories and sense and hence words. Any attempt to speak such things, we presume, is not just futile but sacrilege — as if words sully the divine perfection of the experience.
But I think this view does not quite grasp what words are, what words can do, and how they stand towards and with the world. Words don't name things. Or, rather, they don't only name things. Words are themselves experiences that at once construct and tear at categories, sense, and perhaps themselves.
Words are not just the way we order the world. They are the way we re-order the world, over and over again. When we speak and write well, we are at the border of sense and non-sense, the world coming in and out focus, in and out of chaos, in and out of order.
I want to suggest, then, that while certain things and experiences may be unnameable, they are not ineffable. Words are events that interact with other events. When we speak some sublime experience — an experience that cannot know categories or concepts, an experience that is utterly itself, sui generis and infinite — we don't necessarily domesticate its unwieldiness. We don't necessarily categorize it, move into the realm of the known, into the realm of safe knowledge. We do not necessarily profane its sanctity.
Words are not just sounds and marks. Look at these words here. Look at the spaces between the letters, between the words, between the paragraphs: there is space. The same is true when we speak (at least usually; sometimes, I do drone on and on). Silence and emptiness is an essential aspect of language.
When we use words well, we put them in flow with the world — with its knowledge and its sublimity, its sounds as well as its silence, with its order, its chaos, its moods and affects, its things and facts. Language can be as delirious as experience. Isn't this one task of poetry? In this sense, everything is effable, even if many of the best things are unnameable.
What's Your Time?
New Years Even, 7:40 pm, I'm standing at the ocean's edge which simultaneously marks the edge of this silly city. The ocean seethes as it will — it may be infinite and seem eternal but we see it fluctuate with the moon and the weather. We see its mode of temporality, how it distributes time: waves are a kind of metronome, keeping a cosmic beat.
Out in the middle of the ocean are several barges headed for the East. They move so steadily, so defiantly, so mercilessly — like the ocean, in a way. But in much more manageable, human terms. Where the ocean relentlessly verges on the sublime — precisely because it's relentless — barges I can think. I can grasp weeks and tons.
Above, planets and stars wink from past centuries.
Large rocks budge, a tiny bit, over centuries. To us, they just sit there, enduring. But slowly, they are eroding and moving. I wonder if, to them, time flies.
Dunes line one perimeter of the beach, coming and going with the winds but over months, years, decades.
There are people scattered about the beach, huddled around bonfires. They seem as though they're in for the long haul, relatively speaking — until the early morning. The barges are in for a longer haul; the dune and rocks, an even longer haul; the ocean, well, it seems to exceed the haul.
These bonfire people enjoy a time so different from the time of the commute when everyone moves with such purpose and speed. They'll kill you if you get in their way.
Make your way through a city any day and see all the micro temporalities — the strollers, the sitters, the sleepers, the coffee drinkers, the runners, the cars, the freeway. Cities are assemblages of so many different times, most accelerated but still with great, with endless, variation.
I can see Bergson's duration so clearly: time is not outside of us, an abstraction that moves steadily and geometrically around its circle. No, time is itself a dimension — I see it, know it at this moment: all these different temporalities, all these different durations, are time happening right now — a now that is all these different times, all these different nows, these nows that are different speeds and distributions of before and later.
Deleuze asks us to look at a moving image of, say, a man walking a dog by a river in the mountains. See all the different times: the time of the man, of the dog, of the river, of the mountains. All images have multiple times.
My friend, the poet Lohren Green, takes time to think, to write — it's as if he has bovine digestion, moving ideas through four stomachs. Me, I've always been fast: I write fast, think fast, digest food fast. When writing Anti-Oedipus, Deleuze was the slow one, Guattari already having moved on to the next connection, the next node. Neither speed is better or worse: they simply (or not) mark our respective temporal tendencies.
Time is all the times of all the different things, each thing happening in its time, enduring as it endures. Time is not a neutral abstraction. Time is an infinitely variegated becoming. This world and everything in it is in motion, happening, changing. This world and everything in it — including everything invisible such as moods — happens, changes, transforms, always and already.
In Burroughs The Place of Dead Roads, Kim Carsons advises would-be gunfighters, "Always take your time." It's not necessarily about being the fastest; go faster than your speed and you'll shoot your foot or fumble all together. Of course, if the other guy's time is faster than your time, you're done for. But then you were done for before the shoot out even began.
So the question is: What's your time?
Talking to Other People
How, I ask you, do I express all that?
Plugged, Unplugged: Conflicting Mythoi
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52699 | Reading the Way of Spaces (a podcast)
Golden Gate Park, in San Francisco, offers a whiff of the wild which offers different modes of behavior than, say, Central Park in Manhattan.
Spaces distribute bodies and behavior. They make demands and set limits. Consider how you walk into and use a restaurant. You keep your clothes on; you don't walk around much; you don't lie down. There are behaviors that we all assume we will enact, following the invisible but all the more powerful laws of action.
Now consider all sorts of spaces — parks, cities, "nature," classrooms. What is asked of us in those spaces? What kind of energy do we need to expend in order to find our ease, to go with the space in such a way that we maximize our vitality?
All of this was triggered by time I spent recently at clothing-optional spas in Northern California, spaces that ask square, urban me to behave differently. This implicates me and my social semiotics at a profound, resonant level. Who am I here? How do I go? What serves me best in this place?
Always Already Coming: On Fabric and Marc Lafia's "In What Language to Come"
A painting is a material whose materiality is repressed. It becomes forgotten, background, a no place, a blind spot. We look at the paint, not the canvas. We can say the same of photographs and film: the material — the paper, celluloid, code — are quieted by the play of significant and signifying content. What matters is the image freed from its materiality, an image that can somehow exist anywhere. Sure, we might focus on the paint or the exposure time, comment on the density of a painting's paint. But we rarely, if ever, see the canvas, paper, and plastic.
This has of course been amplified by the digital network. Images are no longer tethered to any material other than ones and zeros, interpretive algorithms that transform those numbers into an image that can be seen but not touched. It's as if the image has finally been freed from its body, pure soul manifesting here and there. The materiality of art has responded by becoming monumental, the stuff of stories — think Koons or, in film, Michael Bay — or conceptual, rarely taking root in thingness. Or else it's all petty bourgeois craft, people relishing the feel of wood, of rope, of clay — which is great. But it's not art. It's not creation as such; it's delicious commodity, a decadent relishing of stuff.
Marc Lafia's work often focuses on the terms of image making and distribution — on photography, on narrative, on algorithms of sense making, on the always-on network (which, as Lafia makes exquisitely clear, is a ubiquitous camera and screen). In his work, he has made semiotic content secondary to the production of semiotic content which, in turn, becomes the semiotic content. Which is to say, it's not that his work is absent signification; it's to say that what he signifies is the very terms of signification.
In this new work, he has shifted from the means to the stuff. If in earlier work, he presented the seeing of seeing, in this work he presents seeing as such — an absurd claim, perhaps, and one I am making, not Lafia.
This is not to say that fabric is free of significance. On the contrary, it is mired in it. But this mire creates a miasma that belies ready reference or any direct didacticism. The referential trajectory is blurred, veiled, drifting and draping this way and that, blowing with the wind, wrinkling and pleating, often a folded mess of a pile, multicolored and multi-textured. It is not quite babel but it is polyglottal, alternately and simultaneously euphonious and cacophonous.
Fabric is at once something and not something. It is usually a means, a vehicle, an ornament and not something in and of itself. For centuries, it was a currency, something of value, yes, but something to be exchanged. And, no doubt, today it retains a certain value, the stuff of consumerism.
All the while, it is saturated with association. It is the stuff of clothes and bed, of fresh from the shower and cuddling on the couch, the softened ground beneath our feet, the surface of our sitting. It surrounds us, encloses us, and while we might pay this or that version of it our concerted attention, the fabric as such tends to remain secondary.
And then there is the phenomenology of fabric. It is technically a solid but it shares an affinity with liquid, almost filling its container. It is fundamentally pliable, plastic, as if awaiting use, scissors, stitching, glue. In this sense, it is akin to the digital, a file always awaiting manipulation. But unlike the digital, fabric has an immediate tactility — it is seen and touched before and as it is manipulated. It is not just palpated; it is the stuff of palpation.
In this work, Lafia does not use fabric as a backdrop. It is fabric and nothing but: fabric on fabric, fabric with fabric. And not to create an image as, say, Rosemary Trockel does. Nor to act as symbol or a means as Joseph Beuys did. And it's certainly not the fine craft of, say, Turkish kilim. Rather, Lafia engages fabric as fabric, using fabric perhaps as a painter would use paint — only, in this case, the painter paints painting.
There is, then, this sumptuous redundancy in Lafia's work. Rather than zoom out or zoom in on the means of image making — as he has so often done in the past — here he remains thoroughly and completely within the realm of the seen, within the realm of seeing. He creates an orgy of fabric, bodies mixing with bodies in all sorts of relations and juxtapositions and with no desire other than this — this frolic, this play, this drape and drift, these folds, this billowing. It doesn't add up to anything; it goes nowhere. It doesn't try to point to meaning or to an experience other than this — a tautology, an haecceity, a redundancy, the world touching itself everywhere, a polymorphously perverse onanism, a plenum of palpation.
This is surely a new language freed of signifiers and signifieds, free of Saussure's semiotics, Lacan's algebra, and Derrida's deferral. Untethered, this is a language free to roam (like all poetic languages). Unlike the language of stretched canvas and pinned art, these fabric works occupy their territory with grace and aplomb. They can live anywhere (I accidentally typed "love" anywhere, a fortuitous mistake).
There is a certain aggression, no doubt, an aggression implicit in any territorialization. These works not only take over a space; they want to take over a space, indoors or out, big or small. They do not stay nailed to the wall, discreetly out of the way, only to be looked at now and again. No, these works inundate, spread, drift, drape, get in your way.
But not all territorializations are created equally. This occupying tongue is passionately languorous, generous, joyous; it softly but insistently spreads the word — which is to say, it spreads itself. This is not only in what language to come. It's in what language is always already coming.
Good Enough
(This essay was fueled and helped by discussions, feedback, and insights from the inimitable Kia Meaux.)
Two weeks ago, I find myself at Orr Hot Springs — I love the passivity of "I find myself there," not I went there or I was there; French has that great reflexivity — I call myself, I seat myself, etc — in which the subject is also object; English does this all too rarely. I love it because it expresses that middle voice in which we actually find ourselves all the time, more or less, at once elevating and then refusing the ego as subject — anyway, two weeks ago I find myself at Orr Hot Springs, a naked resort tucked into the hills in Mendocino County in Northern California. It's hot out. I'm lying in the shade on a wooden deck next to a cool spring fed pool into which I occasionally plunge. I'm alongside a beautiful, brilliant woman who, like me, is naked. We are not entirely sober, as it were, and are feeling plain old good. There is no cell reception, no WiFi, no clients, no work, no kid, no hassles, and nothing to buy. I turn to my lovely cohort — my lover — and say something like, "Ah, this is so decadent. All I need now is a cocktail." To which she replies: "Isn't this good enough?"
I was, needless to say, humbled.
Like many people, if not most, I have a fiend in me. I find myself in a situation, which is to say I situate myself here or there, only to find myself wanting for something. And immediately I reach for a remedy — a cocktail, an edible, a book, a TV show, my phone, sex, something or someone or some experience that is not present.
Often, this is a fine and good reaction. I know how to steer my experience into my pleasure zone, that place where everything suits my constitution. If say, I'm at a boring event for my kid's school, I may sneak a swig from the flask tucked into my back pocket. This is not a lack of contentment; it's good planning and self-awareness. I know my needs; I know the world; I know how to play it — a rhetorician's coup.
Usually, I am able to avoid any such experiences as I've engineered my life so that I am able to say Yes often and No ever so rarely. No one invites me to dinner parties that I feel obliged to attend. No one invites me anywhere, in fact, that I feel obliged to attend — except, occasionally, an event for my son's school. I've developed a world built around my particular inclinations, around and with my way of going.
But this can of course lead to an ever tightening knot in which I fold in on myself until I'm this tightly wound bundle of self: me, all me! I submit to my habits because I can and because they feel good or, rather, because they are good. I have, for the most part engineered a life of me. Which is fantastic. But this me becomes a habit which can, and will, inevitably not be satisfied. My me will not have its way. This is the condition of life: it is a flux that exceeds me, takes me up. Which is all a fancy and long winded way of saying: sometimes, I'm somewhere where I really would like a cocktail — or quiet, my pillow, fresh bread, my friends — but it's not attainable. Despite my best laid plans, I am not, nor will ever be, totally in control.
It is insane to wish things other than as they are — that there was always a cocktail, always quiet, no traffic, no assholes, no rent due, that she always loved me, that the train is on time. This doesn't mean one doesn't work to engineer that the same thing doesn't happen again. I am not suggesting that we can ever live in a pure now free of all social ills or that we'd even want to. Or that just because shit sucks, we have to only live in sucky shit. We are not just of time; we are time. Like the now, we are not immediate. We are folds of pasts, other presents, and futures. But to say, here and now: Damn, I wish that what is happening were something else is a kind of madness and certainly the basis of neurosis.
And is the very fuel of the American, or at least Western, liberal capitalist world. It is propelled by a constant desire for something else — new shoes, new house, new job, new phone, new boyfriend, new restaurant. Imagine, for a moment, if we were all content with our lives. Imagine, for a moment, that we wake up and say: This is good enough. Then we get out of bed and go on with our days, all along our mantra is, This is good enough. How would Amazon ever survive?? While I reach for my cocktail, most people reach for a new pair of shoes. Or a another date. This guy's pretty good but, well, is he all that? Our entire economy — financial, social, and sexual — is propelled by a pervasive lack. Something is missing. I need to fill that hole. (And it's not that capitalism made us this way; it's that we are capitalism. We are this will, this breed of life, this way of going, this will to power.)
We relentlessly yearn for, and in fact demand, something more. Something else. This is how we interpret that cryptic right to pursue happiness. Out of my way, loser, I see a better guy over there! I'm swiping left on your sorry ass! This — all this — is never enough.
Would you ever feel like you should settle for good enough? Don't you feel that you're entitled to more than that? You're entitled to the best, goddamnit! And the best sure as shit isn't this! Gimme another blouse! (Yes, I know no one says blouse; I do because it's funny.) Gimme another boyfriend! A better girlfriend! Sure, this one is good enough but how could I — why would I — ever settle for good enough???? We even have conversations about having it all! How to Get It All is a not uncommon headline.
Think about how insane that is! It's hilariously deranged. What will, what breed of life, would even ask such a question? How could such a line of inquiry even find itself expressed, not to mention seriously discussed? To me, the most deranged thing about this is that the question is asked by those who wouldn't know what to do with it all! They have plenty and are still lacking — and so they want more? In fact, they want it all???!! Really? How about first do something beautiful with what you have before asking for everything. Jeez louise. It's a will that, as Nietzsche would say, is ill constituted.
Wanna know how to have it all? Stop asking! Stop looking for something else! Stop swiping left or right! You already have it all, you deranged nincompoops!
And, please, know that I count myself among the deranged nincompoops. After all, there I am at Orr Hot Springs with an incredibly beautiful, lovely woman who loves me and whom I love; it's the perfect temperature and, if it's not, there are pools to warm and cool me; I have nothing whatsoever to worry about. And yet, without thinking, I want something else, something more. I want a cocktail.
But isn't this good enough?
What propels me to seek more, to seek something else, to reach for that cocktail? It seems to me that that dissatisfaction comes from a sense of lack, a fundamental belief that life is not enough — that I am not enough. Nietzsche calls this nihilism. It oozes from a being incapable of affirming this life, incapable of loving this life, incapable of loving itself. And we certainly live in a world premised on this lack of love for life. For Nietzsche, it began with the slave revolt of Judeo-Christianity who found perfection outside life, in God. I see it in liberal capitalist America where we are told, from day one, that something is wrong. Pregnancy, for fuck's sake, is seen as a medical condition. The very birth of the species is a disease! And then it continues — you shit wrong, you're too loud, you can't spell, you can't read, you can't do that, stop playing with your food, put your clothes on. You are wrong! All this, in fact, is wrong! So we keep grasping for the thing that will make it right.
And the only thing we believe capable of setting it all straight is something outside of life — the ego or god. Both, alas, create and propel relentless dissatisfaction as they create a split within life, a split between the world and me. I am here; the world is there; I can control the world. But this is a false dichotomy. After all, aren't I constitutive of the world, as much stuff as the sky, planets, widgets, and squirrels? I am not in traffic; I am traffic. To be groaning about traffic is to be groaning about myself.
So what if rather than looking elsewhere, we exhale and say: I am good enough. This is all good enough. Life is good enough. Such is amor fati. Such is love.
Should I find myself at the altar, the eyes of friends upon me, my sweetie before me, all I want to say, all I want to hear, is: You, my love, are good enough. What expression of love could possibly be greater?
Plugged, Unplugged: Conflicting Mythoi
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52713 | How to Get the Most Blooms on Petunias
Small-flowered petunia varieties often produce the most blooms.
Small-flowered petunia varieties often produce the most blooms.
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Petunias (Petunia x hybrida) grow as summer annuals in most climates. Grandiflora types produce large blooms but they do not produce as many flowers as the smaller-blooming multiflora and milliflora petunias. Selecting a type of petunia known to flower lushly helps ensure plenty of blossoms, but proper care during planting and throughout the growing season will help produce more blooms.
Amend the bed with a 2-inch layer of compost worked into the top 8 inches of soil. Select a garden site with well-draining soil that receives at least six hours of direct sunlight to help achieve the most flowers.
Spread 1 pound of 8-8-8 fertilizer over every 50 square feet of garden bed just before planting. Work the fertilizer into the top 8 inches of soil so the nutrients are instantly available for the newly planted petunias.
Plant healthy, compact seedlings in the garden bed after the soil temperature reaches 60 degrees Fahrenheit and all frost danger has passed. Space milliflora varieties four to six inches apart and space all other varieties 18 inches apart.
Water once a week, providing about 1 inch of water, or enough to moisten the top 6 inches of soil. Avoid overhead watering because this can reduce the number of blooms. Water near the base of the plants so the flowers and petals remain dry.
Pinch back petunias, except for the milliflora varieties, after the plants grow 6 inches tall. Pinch back the topmost set of leaves to encourage further stem and flower bud formation. Cut off the spent blooms after they fade to encourage further bud formation.
Apply a soluble, balanced fertilizer blend to the bed every three weeks beginning in mid-July, or when the petunias begin to flower and spread. Apply the amount of fertilizer recommended on the package for your garden size and the fertilizer blend.
Things You Will Need
• Compost
• 8-8-8 fertilizer
• Shears
• Soluble fertilizer
• If you smoke, wash your hands before working in the garden. Tobacco products can spread tobacco mosaic virus, which can kill petunias.
About the Author
Jenny Harrington
Photo Credits
• Jupiterimages/Comstock/Getty Images
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52716 | Pregnant woman teaches stranger who touched her belly a lesson
By Samantha Stewart|
It goes without saying that being pregnant will sometimes result in people forgetting what they can and can't do, most evident when they think it's totally fine to touch your growing stomach.
One fed up mum-to-be found herself in this extremely uncomfortable situation, but rather than awkwardly smile through the unwanted attention, she attempted to give the handsy woman a taste of her own medicine.
In a post on Reddit that has since been removed, the anonymous mum explained her pregnancy hasn't been the best experience, dubbing it "absolute hell."
"I had 3 early miscarriages before this…Nausea and vomiting almost every single day and gestational hypertension,” she wrote
In a bid to get some normality back in her life, the woman wrote that she went to her grocery store to pick up a few things so she could "feel like an actual human being for 25 minutes," even though her "feet were screaming."
Little did she know the hands of a pesky stranger were about to kill her buzz.
"This lady in her '50s actually reached out and touched my belly out of nowhere and was like 'Awww is it a boy or a girl?'" the mum continued.
In case that wasn't enough to tip her over the edge, she added that the stranger's "hand was positioned like right where my shirt meets my pants, so I could actually feel part of her hand on my bare skin."
Her response to the uninvited attention? "What I did was reach over and grab her boob."
She continued: "Now when I say 'grab', I mean more that I placed my hand on the top of her boob until she pulled away pretty much instantly."
"And she just looked at me with this absolutely aghast face, and I was just like 'not great, huh??' and walked away."
The mum added that her husband thought the woman had it coming, however her own mother was not as impressed. "She ranted to me about how I can't just grab people because I am grouchy. Which... okay, true," she admitted.
Pregnant woman
The post has since been removed (iStock)
Before the post was deleted, people chimed in with mixed reactions to the scenario. Most mums who had been in similar predicaments praised her response, with one person saying they "really laughed out when I read this. I wish I had your balls when I was pregnant!"
While others argued that the woman who touched her meant no harm, and that it is never okay to grab another person.
"You should've told her (you were uncomfortable) instead of borderline sexually harassing her," one person wrote.
The moderator of the discussion soon decided to pull the mum's post, explaining they "didn't create this group to tell people that sexual assault is ok as long as it's funny."
"I think a lot of you just got carried away enjoying the schadenfreude, and I'd like to remind you what we're here for: which is simply to judge what is right," they added.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52762 | OutlookCom.txt 09/03/13 OUTLOOK.COM - WHAT IS IT ------------------------ Outlook.com replaces Hotmail as the free Windows mail service. Is it the same as Hotmail? No. Does it replace Outlook? No. Well, where does it fit and what does it do? Declaration of Bias: I don't like Outlook.Com. (So what, I don't like broccoli either.) But Outlook.com is supposed to represent Microsoft's vision of the future of computing - the new wave of user design. We've spent the last 30 years studying user interface design and learning what users understand best and can use most effectively, and the MS team has thrown large portions of that out in the name of 'Modernity'. Well, it's pretty enough, but it just doesn't work. It's heavy on style and light on usability, and not worth using unless you have to. Dan Covill What is Outlook.com? -------------------- Microsoft's latest free e-mail _service_. It runs in your browser. Mail is kept on the server/in the cloud/somewhere. What Outlook.com is NOT ----------------------- 1. Outlook - A mail/calendar application in MS Office Pro. 2. Outlook Express - free mail program, came with Windows XP. EMAIL and Microsoft - A Checkered Past -------------------------------------- Win Version Mail Program Mail Service ----------- ----------------- -------------- Win 95 Outlook Express Hotmail Win 98-XP " MSN Hotmail Win Vista Windows Mail Windows Live Hotmail Win 7 Windows Live Mail " Win 8 Mail Outlook.com Note: Win 8 Mail cannot access POP accounts - IMAP only. This is to allow syncing between devices. How do you sign up? ------------------- Go to outlook.com and register or log in. (All hotmail accounts have already been merged.) Accounts and Aliases -------------------- You have to sign in with your "Microsoft Account" MS Accounts use your email as an ID. Mine used RoadRunner. This means email you send from Outlook looks like it came from RR. They have 'Aliases'. You can choose which alias your mail comes from(!) I opened an Outlook acct a year ago - [email protected] I sent a test mail to that address - went ok, no bounce. I went into Outlook.com, with my MS Acct. a. No mail for me. b. OK, that's because I logged in as [email protected] c. I need to add an alias for my Outlook acct. d. "Add existing acct as alias" rejected - "Account already in use"! Solution: 1. On 8/21 MS eliminated 'renaming' and changed to aliases. 2. Went to Account Aliases page (using MS Account) a. "Open a new account as alias": "[email protected]" b. Accepted. (did NOT ask for a password!) c. I can designate either 'alias' as the main ID. 3. Can send messages to Dan.Covill and get them at Outlook.com. 4. The test msg I sent to [email protected] never appeared! Side Effects: If you use a Gmail acct as the Outlook 'alias': a. All mail you send from Outlook will appear to come from Gmail. b. If recipient replies the reply will go to Gmail. c. If you reply to mail sent to Outlook.com, the reply will appear to come from Gmail. Conclusion: 1. Make sure your primary 'alias' is the Outlook.com alias. 2. Don't use Outlook.com unless you have to. How to sync? ------------ 1. You must have a Microsoft Account (was Windows Live ID) 2. Your MS Account must be the primary alias. Demo. ----- Browser - Outlook.com - sign in w/MS Acct. Usability Issues: ----------------- New message: 1. Click plus-sign named 'New'. New message page appears. 2. The To: panel is at far left, but focus still on right pane. -- You have to click inside the To: box BEFORE typing. + Your alias is shown, and you can select another if you wish. + Can add cc and bcc as desired, with assistance. 3. The 'Add a Subject' box is at the way top, and it's not a box. - You have to specifically GO THERE, it's not automatic. - Once you've added it, it doesn't say 'Subject' any more 4. After entering the subject, you have to manually go to the text. - Hitting 'Enter' at end of subject does NOT move you down. 5. Clearly marked 'Send' button + other options. 6. You can 'Save Draft', but then you can't get out! 'Cancel' will restore main page, but not your inbox! 'Drafts' menu choice recovers drafts nicely, however. 7. While drafting a new message, you can't look at your inbox! In general, layout is confusing and NOT user-friendly. Use Gmail or Yahoo instead. References: ----------- (Comparison between Outlook.com and Gmail |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52767 | Cebiche Carretillero at La Mar San Francisco Make room on the menu, Thai and Vietnamese. Peruvian cuisine is the latest ethnic fare that chefs are adding to their menus. "Peruvian is one of the many regional cuisines that operators are calling out on menus.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52784 | May 11th, 2010
curled up with a book
fic challenges!
Hi, everybody!
I got back from Egypt on Sunday, and will be putting up a post about it soonish (as soon as I can figure out which of the 275 pictures I took - in five days! - you'd want to see most).
In the meantime, I'm pleased to say that I'm participating in this year's round of spn_j2_bigbang! My story is called "(Chances Are This Is) How John Winchester Got His Groove Back" and here's the summary with which I lured the wonderful artist glitter_noire into my web:
This is a hetstravaganza AU! We start off with some Mary/John porn (with bonus Trickster voyeurism!) and then Azazel kills Mary and the Trickster steps in, because he can't let a hot blonde just die. So she's reincarnated as Jess. Sam goes to Stanford with John's okay and Dean's blessing, and with the understanding that he would hunt with them on breaks. He meets Jess and decides he wants to bring her "home" for the summer - and that's when she and John meet and the Mary in her wakes up. John, meanwhile, has found out that it was a demon who killed Mary, and he sends Dean on a quest for more information (the "five states in five days" trip mentioned in "The Kids Are Alright"); Dean hunts and hooks up and finds the truth. And then it all gets messy. (Light on the angst, but not exactly a funny story either - sort of season 1-ish in tone.) (Also, a little experimental in form, but that might not last after my lovely beta is done with it.)
(It's okay if you made a face while reading that. When deirdre_c was in town, I was trying to summarize the story for the lovely fangirls who'd gathered together, and they all made the "oh, honey, no" face at me, which is kind of how I looked when I was writing the damn thing.)
Oh! Also, I urge everyone to sign up for spn_summergen, because it's a really fun and low-key challenge, and you get an awesome fic written just for you!
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52802 | Wings in the Wind – How to Cope During Times of Hardship
It was a cloudy evening. Hoping that rains would arrive to ease the drought situation in the city, I stepped into the balcony to look up at the dark clouds. My hands were holding onto the railing when the wind began to woosh by.
I sighed.
The winds are no rain’s friend. I knew that the city would not see much rains that evening. My eyes skimmed the clouds and began to return to the ground. But in between the clouds and the trees, my attention was drawn to the birds in motion. They were flying…nay, they were doing something else in the air. They were gliding.
There was no flapping of feathers, no intention to gain speed over one another, no desire to dive and jump. The birds were all gliding in the otherwise blue canvass of a sky that was currently splashed by a dark-grey painting of pregnant clouds.
Their wings lay still in the whispers of the wild winds. The birds did not fight to fly through the winds. They chose to glide through them instead.
Now, why did the birds not fly through the wind like they normally would?
It was simply because they knew that while it was perfectly normal to beat their wings against the rhythm of a light breeze, it was futile to try and defeat the deafening roar of the strong winds.
As I moved away from the balcony, I understood the lesson that Nature was trying to teach me through the flight of the birds.
Just like how the birds move through the wind, we too move through various situations in life. Some of these situations are like the gentle breeze. We can work our way through them with some effort to reach our destinations. However, in the might of disastrous situations, it makes better sense to glide through it, rather than try and fight it out. Because, it is futile to fight against something that is much more powerful than us – that we have no control over.
Rather, we make a wise choice to wait it out. For our situation, just like the mighty wind, is just passing through.
Sometimes, the best way to stick to our sanity is to simply accept our difficulty for what it is – a shift in the passage of time.
The Nature around is no different from the Nature within.
Here’s to growing through acceptance, and making wise choices!
For long before the smart phones and the internet connections, long before the black boards and the wooden benches, and long before the bearded men and their wise words, we learnt on the laps of Nature – her external visuals making silent connections with the Nature within. Here’s to getting back to the lessons from Nature, our Teacher One!
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52822 | The Old Honda NSX R And The New Honda NSX Could Not Be More Different
But is that a bad thing, necessarily?
The new Acura NSX, or Honda NSX depending on your market, happens to be quite excellent in our estimation. It’s also a twin-turbo hybrid with all-wheel drive and more technology than an F1 car and a Space Shuttle put together.
The two cars have six cylinders in the middle and the same name, but that’s about it.
So when you pit them back to back, as Drivetribe (remember that? It’s still a thing and they do videos now) did, you should not be surprised to get very different experiences. And Jethro Bovingdon here finds fault with the new NSX’s weight and soft brake pedal.
Sadly we never find out which can pull the better lap time on this track due to rev and speed limiters on the old NSX R in this test. But the verdict is that the new NSX is an NSX, even if it’s a very different one.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52828 | Record of a Night Too Brief
Title: Record of a Night Too Brief
Japanese Title: 蛇を踏む (Hebi o fumu)
Author: Kawakami Hiromi (川上 弘美)
Translator: Lucy North
Publication Year: 2017 (United Kingdom); 1996 (Japan)
Press: Pushkin Press
Pages: 158
Record of a Night Too Brief collects three short stories that the book’s cover copy describes as “haunting” and “lyrical” in their depiction of young women experiencing “loss, loneliness and extraordinary romance.” This is a lovely sentiment, but it in no way describes the actual stories in question, which are less “haunting” than they are grotesque and less “lyrical” than they are unapologetically strange. Instead of trying to treat them as romance, I believe it’s much more fulfilling to approach their absurdity in the spirit of intellectual play.
The title story, “Record of a Night Too Brief,” is a sequence of nineteen of the unnamed narrator’s dreams. Each of these dreams is two or three pages long, and they are linked only in that every other scenario features a young woman whom the narrator is either pursuing or in the process of merging with. If there is a unifying theme or plot, it is lost on me, but the power of these dreams comes from their vivid imagery. To give an example (from page 11):
Several dozen ticket collectors stood in a row, and once we passed through, showing our tickets, the tall object came into view.
It was a singer, who stood as tall as a three-storey building. From where I was, I had a clear view of the beauty spot under her jaw, and the rise and fall of her breasts.
“The beauty spot is artificial,” the girl informed me, gazing up at the singer, enraptured.
The singer was producing notes at different pitches, as if she were warming up. When she sang high notes, flocks of birds took flight from the branches of the ginko trees. When she sang low notes, the earth heaved, and small furry creatures emerged from underground and crawled about.
…and so on. It’s all very random, but one can’t help but become swept up in the ebb and flow of the constantly shifting parade of surreal images.
The next story, “Missing,” is set in an apartment complex that functions according to its own arbitrary and bizarre set of customs and rituals. One of the rules of this community is that each household can only have five members. If a sixth member is added for any reason, then someone has to disappear. This recently happened to the narrator’s family after her older brother was engaged to be married. Because his fiancée would have become the sixth person, he disappeared, and the narrator’s other older brother stepped in to fill his position. His fiancée, Hiroko, has no idea that this has happened, as the rules are different in her own apartment complex, where certain members of certain families literally shrink. Meanwhile, the narrator continues to hear the voice of the older brother as he (or his spirit) skulks around the apartment. No explanation is given for any of this, as everyone takes these occurrences for granted.
The final story, which provides the title of the original Japanese publication, is “A Snake Stepped On.” This story is about a young woman who one day finds herself living with a snake. This snake takes the form of an older woman who insists that she is the narrator’s mother. As she accustoms herself to life with a snake, the narrator begins to realize that many of the people around her are also living with snakes, including the local Buddhist priest whom she thought of turning to for an exorcism. Following the conventions of magical realism, the tone of this story is mundane, with the possibility of being devoured by a snake – or becoming a snake oneself – treated as merely another everyday occurrence.
Record of a Night Too Brief is a short collection of curiosities that are fascinating in their novelty. The fantastical qualities of each story allow for various interpretations, and they will no doubt intrigue different readers for different reasons. As contemporary fairy tales, the stories in this collection spark and inspire the imagination.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52831 | TY - JOUR T1 - Monoclonal antibodies to Leishmania mexicana promastigote antigens. I. Secreted acid phosphatase and other proteins share epitopes with lipophosphoglycan JF - Journal of Cell Science JO - J. Cell Sci. SP - 175 LP - 180 VL - 99 IS - 1 AU - Ilg, T. AU - Menz, B. AU - Winter, G. AU - Russell, D.G. AU - Etges, R. AU - Schell, D. AU - Overath, P. Y1 - 1991/05/01 UR - http://jcs.biologists.org/content/99/1/175.abstract N2 - The abundant surface glycolipid, lipophosphoglycan (LPG), of Leishmania promastigotes is composed of phosphosaccharide repeating units linked via a phosphosaccharide core to a conserved lyso alkylphosphatidylinositol membrane anchor. It is shown in this paper that monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) directed against LPG also react with an acid phosphatase secreted by L. mexicana promastigotes. Acid phosphatase purified by column chromatography (apparent Mr = 100,000) reacts in immunoblots with the anti-LPG mAb AP3 and another mAb, L3.13, which does not recognize LPG. mAb L3.13 was used to purify the enzyme by affinity chromatography. The resulting glycoprotein has the same molecular weight and binds AP3 on immunoblots. The secreted phosphatase is non-covalently associated with a high molecular weight, galactose-containing glycan or proteoglycan that is recognized by both AP3 and L3.13. In addition to acid phosphatase, other parasite proteins appear to be modified by LPG epitopes. ER - |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52832 | Why You Feel Guilty When Receiving Gifts
When the holiday season comes around everyone loves to surprise each other with giving gifts, however, receiving gifts is a completely different story. For some strange reason, receiving gifts has a tendency to manifest guilt, also known as ‘Gift Guilt’. Why is this is the case? It does not make any sense from a logical standpoint because gift giving and receiving is expected for the holidays. Everyone knows it’s coming but holiday goers, without question still have guilt. There are a few unexpected psychological triggers that make this unfortunate part of holiday season cumbersome. Fortunately, once you understand the different triggers, you will feel a lot more relaxed during the holiday season and be able to curb the guilt.
Adam’s Equity Theory
Equity theory focuses on determining whether the distribution of resources is fair to both relational partners” Guerrero, Laura K; Peter A. Andersen & Walid A. Afifi. (2014). Close Encounters: Communication in Relationships, 4th Edition. Essentially, this theory stems from a mental mechanism that pertains to maintaining an equilibrium in different circumstances. It can apply to romantic relationships, management, or even recruitment. Each situation has a different level of fairness. For relationships, does the other person give as much as they receive in the relationship? For management, does each employee have the same level of opportunity and privileges? And for recruitment, is each candidate tested in a fair way.
When it comes to gift giving, people often worry about the gift they are giving is equal to the perceived value of the gift that they are receiving. Concerns arise such as: What do you do if the gift cost differs? What do you do if someone does not like the gift that you gave them? Or the best, what if I receive a gift I don’t like? Unfortunately, there is no way to guarantee each person’s gift will be equal in perceived value to maintain Adam’s Theory. In that case then, anxiety can arise from this inevitably unknown.
Moving forward, it will best be to accept that there will always be this gap and just put your best foot forward when exchanging gifts. You cannot control someone’s reaction, but you can control the effort you put towards gift giving.
Expectancy Theory
“Expectancy theory of motivation: an individual will behave or act in a certain way because they are motivated to select a specific behavior over other behaviors due to what they expect the result of that selected behavior.” Oliver, R. (August, 1974). Expectancy Theory Predictions of Salesmen’s Performance. Journal of Marketing Research 11, 243-253. In other words, you do something expecting a certain result behavior. For gift giving, you exercise a behavior of gift giving in an expectation that the receipt will enjoy the gift. The unknown here, is the receipt emotional response. If they don’t like the gift they still need to act like they do. Hiding the emotional response and putting one forward that you expect the other person would like. Hence, there is a large anticipation period that people have to worry about.
In this case, make sure that you recognize you cannot control the other person’s response, but you can control the effort you put into gift giving, just like Adam’s Equity Theory.While these may seem trivial, both of these theories relate to many business problems that arises in management and all sort of kinds of business areas. So just like gift giving, knowing your theory is key.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52834 | Why Fiction Writers Need Science
Science Books
I’ll admit it: I’m a science nerd. I make a good portion of my living from scientific and technical writing. Plus, I just love most of the sciences. They’re fascinating. But even if I weren’t a few (dozen) math credits away from being Sheldon on the Big Bang Theory, I’d still read and learn about science to inform my fiction. Why? Because science is the foundation for everything, including fictitious people and situations.
Before you say, “I don’t write science fiction, so I don’t need an interest in science,” hear me out. Science isn’t just for technical writers, or writers of science fiction and fantasy. Science can make all fiction better.
Don’t misunderstand me. I’m not saying that you have to go out and get a degree in chemistry or physics in order to be a better writer. You don’t have to include the level of detail that Andy Weir did in The Martian. But a little knowledge (or the willingness to look up details and facts and add them to your work) can’t hurt.
Science scope
Think about it: All fiction takes place in a world. It may be a world that you made up, or the real world that we walk around in every day. Whatever the case, all worlds operate on scientific principles. You may have gravity or not. Your world probably has weather, sunrise, and sunset (maybe more than one sun, even). People get sick and have to see doctors (or healers). Animals are often roaming around somewhere, even if just the family pet. That pet may have to see a veterinarian. Plants grow and maybe your characters have gardens, or live in a tree.
Your characters may be amateur bird watchers, work in a zoo, or they may be actual scientists working in laboratories. (Or wannabe chemists working in a meth lab. Whatever.) Your super-sleuth may spend time in the morgue looking at dead people, or investigating a terrorist bombing. Wouldn’t it be helpful to understand a little about the human body, or what makes for a successful bomb?
Much of fantasy, including witchcraft, shapeshifting, and fantasy beings/beasts, is grounded in science. How do you explain how your shifter changes form, or why she’s the way she is without a little science. Witchcraft and potion making is often glorified chemistry, botany, or manipulation of the elements. Fantasy animals are based on real animals, and the undead, vampires, and monsters have to be explained somehow. You need realistic underpinnings if you expect your reader to buy in to whatever weird stuff you’re selling.
Science rules everything in your character’s world. The least you can do is learn a little of it.Science DNA
The more you know about natural science, physics, biology, botany, zoology, astronomy, chemistry, etc., the more you can toss in small, relevant details that make your stories make sense to your readers. You don’t have to go overboard, but explaining how your world works and why gives you the credibility and reader buy-in that makes readers stick with your work. Otherwise, a reader is going to say, “I just can’t believe this crap,” and toss your book into the return pile.
If you’re a science-phobe and you can’t be bothered to learn or incorporate even small scientific details into your work, don’t expect your readers to stick with you. They don’t need a dissertation on the periodic table, but a little background on how the suicide bomber was able to combine chemicals into a successful bomb might be helpful. Or a few details that make it seem like your romance novel’s veterinarian boyfriend in your romance knows what he’s doing. (Or not, if malpractice is your goal.) You have to give readers enough information for them to say, “Oh, that makes sense,” or, “Yeah, I could see that really happening.”
Science is the foundation for everything, including believable fiction that readers will love.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52837 | British identity a shared culture
Below is the full text of his lecture. Thank you for inviting me to the LSE to give this lecture tonight, on the subject of national identity, as part of your series of lectures in memory of Ralph Miliband.
British identity a shared culture
Firstly, it must be said that this book is excellent for lay readers. Tracy Prince deftly weaves a picture of Britain's past and current cultural identity for those of who live outside the region and have no academic training in cultural studies, British history, or literature.
Her arguments and examples are easy to follow and thorough; she does a great of job of exploring an issue from several different points. I only wish that Prince had taken more time to define t This is a First Reads review! I only wish that Prince had taken more time to define terms like "post-colonial theory" because readers like me may not always be familiar with what that means.
Secondly, I appreciated that explored the diversity of literature and cultural tension both within and outside Britain.
British Identity
She has specific chapters dedicated to Black literature "Black" meaning all people of color in Britainclass issues, and Jewish writers. Prince also spend a considerable of time exploring the issues that female and queer writers face in multicultural Britain.
Personally, I greatly enjoyed the book and would recommend it anybody who is curious to learn more about the subject. I've come away from reading it with a great list of authors who are embracing and writing about multicultural Britain.
This is a excellent overview of British literature of the 20th Century.
Ten core values of the British identity - Telegraph This, after all, is what most political argument inside liberal democracies is about — small economic gains and losses that might accrue to different sections of the population. For politicians brought up in this culture, it is not surprising that they should appeal to voters in the referendum on that basis:
With a historical timeline as a guide, this book explores British literature as a reflection of the changing cultural identity of the nation. Within Britain, writers began to identify themselves as Irish, Scottish and Welsh rather than as British.
British identity a shared culture
Before reading this, I took for granted the effects of racism on U. An influx of authors with family roots in India, Africa and the West Indies were influenced by the challenges of assimilation into a culture with a defined class system.
Tracy Prince provides great backgrounds of many of the key authors.America’s British Culture by Russell Kirk. The “identity crisis” is a relatively recent development of human psychology. Most people in history were what they were, and they didn’t bother overmuch to wonder what that was.
The English people are a nation and an their most solid form in the new devolved political arrangements within the United Kingdom – and the waning of a shared British national identity with the growing geneticists and others about the extent to which historical changes in the culture of the British Isles corresponds to.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52852 | Mensajes Desde Colombia: Messages from Colombia
In August 2018, I returned to the United States with more than one hundred messages from Presbyterian churches of the Urabá region, located in the northwest of Colombia. In Mensajes Desde Colombia: Messages from Colombia, I share some of those messages and my own journals about being a peace accompanier. This is a bilingual text in English and Spanish.
Regresé a los EE. UU. en agosto de 2018 con más de cien mensajes escritos por miembros de las iglesias presbiterianas de la región de Urabá en el noroeste de Colombia. En Mensajes Desde Colombia: Messages from Colombia, les comparto algunos de ellos y mis propias crónicas de la experiencia de ser un acompañante para la paz. Es un texto bilingüe en ingles y español.
The Global Game: Writers on Soccer
Published in 2008 by University of Nebraska Press, The Global Game: Writers on Soccer includes more than fifty contributions – most in translation – about the world’s most popular sport. I edited the book with Thom Satterlee and Alon Raab.
David Goldblatt, Times Literary Supplement:
The first truly global survey of writing on the global game. … The collection gives a powerful reminder to Anglo-Saxon literary cultures that football – the most global cultural phenomenon of all – has a rich, multivocal literary tradition.
Bill Littlefield, Only a Game (National Public Radio):
I admit a bias. I’m a soccer fan. If you are, too, this is the book for you. And if you aren’t, and you give The Global Game a chance, the light may yet shine upon you.
Marc Jolley, The Sport Literature Association:
It is worth every minute of your time to read this collection. You will never see, or experience football (soccer) the same way again.
Library Journal:
As much social commentary as a compendium of soccer tales and soccer reflections, this delightful collection is essential reading for the soccer fan and those interested in soccer and sport generally in a global environment. … Bringing a variety of writings together in one volume is a credit to the editors, who provide an excellent introduction for each entry.
Russell Eisenman, MultiCultural Review:
Those who like or study soccer, and would like to read different perspectives about it, will find much to savor.
Duke Magazine:
From locations that span the stadiums of Burma and Iran to the northern lights over Greenland to the remotest areas of Sierra Leone, the writers celebrate the players, fans, rituals, and politics of the world’s most popular sport.
Gabe Logan, Journal of Sport History:
This anthology’s successful use of essays, memoirs, and poetry demonstrates the varied language of soccer.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52861 | If you missed the earlier "Answerathon" thing, you can read about it here.
Welcome to the first-ever Mi Yodeya Joke-a-thon!
The goal here is to post as many funny jokes as possible and get your answers upvoted (i.e. a net +1). Once the contest starts, you must post every day1 and get an upvote within 24 hours of posting to remain in the contest.2 Once all but one person is knocked out, the contest is over!
What’s the prize for playing, you ask? Nothing.3
How do you play? All you have to do is find a question from this list and post an answer containing a joke that practitioners of Judaism, broadly speaking, will be particularly likely to get or enjoy. Nothing mean or inappropriate. Any remotely Jewish (or Mi Yodeya) connection is sufficient. If a post makes you smile, upvote it. Don't think hard about it. Just notice if you actually physically smiled, and if you did, you know what to do. (Hint: click the up arrow.) If you have no mouth, you are exempt. (See? That's a smile! Now upvote this post. Now. Don't think. Just click.)
On each day of the competition, someone will append a line to the accepted answer on this thread with the date on it. Once you’ve gotten an upvote on an answer, add your name to the end of that line with a link to your answer.
The competition will start immediately though due to lack of prior advertising [and the fundamental connection between the days of Rosh Chodesh] the first "day" will run for Thursday, Friday and Saturday UTC this week only.
This is a place for unstructured humor that doesn't fit into the normal Q&A of the PTIJ policy, but that you still want to share with fellow Yodeyans. Feel free to post funny things even after you've been eliminated.
Have fun!
1”Day” starting and ending at midnight UTC.
2Friday and Saturday are counted as one day, and, by extension, any answers posted on Friday get 48 hours rather than 24 to get an upvote.
3What’s the prize for winning, you ask? Still nothing.
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I bet I know why the downvoter doesn't have words to describe his vote. Lacking a mouth, anyone? – Double AA Mar 7 '19 at 3:43
• I suppose it’s only fair that once I steal your worst post contest you return the favor by stealing my Answerathon. – DonielF Mar 7 '19 at 3:45
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@DonielF I'd been planning this well in advance of your brazen burglary. – Double AA Mar 7 '19 at 3:46
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I mean, it’s your opinion that שיחה גזולה is okay. – DonielF Mar 7 '19 at 3:54
• And what qualifies a downvote – Dr. Shmuel Mar 7 '19 at 5:30
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The joke list link appears broken – LN6595 Mar 7 '19 at 17:12
• @LN6595 it's working for me. It should list only this q. This is the only q to post your jokes on. – Double AA Mar 7 '19 at 17:14
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I would like to see the eye tracker records of at exactly what paragraph and line each of the upvoters broke the linear flow and darted up and to the left. I know when I did! – WAF Mar 7 '19 at 19:07
• @Dr.Shmuel I don't know – Double AA Mar 7 '19 at 22:28
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The competition is on! Once you’ve gotten an answer with the upvote, go ahead and add your name and the link to the list below.
DAY ONE: Rosh Chodesh Adar II (March 7-9)
DAY TWO: 3 Adar II (March 10)
I sometimes make mistakes in shemona esrei, but I never have to repeat it, since I complete all of davening toch kedei dibur.
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Thank you, DoubleAA, for this outlet. I've had this joke in mind for years and never had the appropriate platform for it. – Isaac Moses Mar 7 '19 at 22:20
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OMG!!! A self-proclaimed speed-davener with an Olympic record to it. I think you deserve a chulent medal my friend! – DanF Mar 7 '19 at 22:27
On Rosh Hashana at my shul this year, the Chazzan accidentally skipped the beginning of Malchuyot, "Lo Aleinu"...
בשבח והודאה להשי״ת מזמינים את מוקירי התורה ואוהביה
להשתתף בשמחת
הכנסת ספר תורה
בהשתתפות כ״ק הרב המגביה שליט״א
שתתקים בעז״ה ביום י״ד באדר ב׳
בשעטו״מ אחרי קה״ת ע״י מי שהוציאו
התהלוכה תצא בעז״ה מהשלחן
קהל שומרי השעון
ותגיע לארון הקודש בק״ק הנ״ל
ותנו כבוד לתורה
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To give credit where it's due, the name I used for the synagogue (which is of course not the main point here, but I had to include something) is an old joke that I heard from my father and that, as far as I know, he made up. – msh210 Mar 11 '19 at 4:48
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You should consider adapting this into printed handouts. – Isaac Moses Mar 11 '19 at 18:46
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@IsaacMoses I hung one on my synagogue's notice board this morning (with permission). – msh210 Mar 15 '19 at 8:11
A Chasidishe Rebbe went to the doctor. The doctor took a test and returned with the results. He said to the Rebbe, "I regret to inform the Rebbe that he has a virus". The Rebbe responded "Avairis? I don't have any avairis! Just Mitzvis!"
The story is told of the Rogatchover Rebbe, that a man approached him asking for his haskamah on a Sefer this man had recently written. The Rogatchover read through the book and told him that, rather than writing a Haskamah, he would give him a name for the Sefer: יין קפריסין.
The man was puzzled, and he asked the Rebbe about the meaning behind the name.
The Rogatchover responded: והלא מי רגלים יפין לה...
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Rogatchover Gaon perhaps – Dr. Shmuel Mar 11 '19 at 2:47
Sofrim must always be careful not to use their special quill and ink to write notes in their day planners, or else they'd be immediately rendered invalid in accordance with the classical principle that סת"ם כלים אינם בני יומן
What can you be Mattir and thereby have it become not Kosher?
A knot.
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I don't get it. Sounds more like a riddle than a joke. – DanF Mar 7 '19 at 22:22
Joshua 11:1:
ויהי כשמע יבין מלך חצור וישלח אל יובב מלך מדון ואל מלך שמרון ואל מלך אכשף
When Yabin, king of Chatzor, heard [of some of the Jews' battles], he sent to Yubeb, king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron and to the king of Achshaf, [inviting them to join him in battle against the Jews].
Sending to Yubeb was his first priority because he wanted to be able to say "I've got Yubeb". In fact, he was so insistent on sending the message to Yubeb that there was no mountain high enough, no valley low enough, and no river wide enough to keep him from getting to Yubeb.
Prior to benching on Shabbos/ Yom Tov, my family's minhag is to omit the last word of "שִׁיר הַמַּעֲלוֹת."
Why, you ask?
Because that's what the text itself says!
נֹשֵׂא אֲלֻמֹּתָיו
no'say alumosav
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You probably also have a hard time understanding the super secret paragraphs that you have to stop reading in the middle because they say אל תקרי – b a Mar 8 '19 at 1:29
Help!! I’ve overheard my parents talking about something called a bris that they’re going to give me next week, which is some sort of amputation. They talk about it as if I don’t understand, but I’m not stupid, after all, I wasn’t born yesterday!
I saw pictures of a chassidish wedding the other day, but they were all in black and white!
A poor Jewish man asked Hashem, "God, what does a million years feel like to you?" God replied, "I live outside the realm of time. To me a million years is no different from a second."
The man then asks, "Hashem, what does a million dollars mean to you." Hashem answered, "I am omnipotent. I have no need for money. A million dollars is nothing special to me."
The man then asked, "In that case, God, could you please give me a million dollars?" Hashem answered back, "Of course! Just give me a second."
• Pretty sure it’s כי אלף שנה בעיניך כמו אתמול כי יעבור; if 1000 years for us is a day for Him, then a second for Him is only a few days for us. Oh, right, this is for jokes, not PTIJ. – DonielF Mar 11 '19 at 22:13
Q: What bracha do you make when you receive something that you ordered on-line?
A: Birkat "A-ma-zon"
One of my friend's rabbi told her that she doesn't have to clean her kitchen or sell her pots and pans for Pesach because none of her food would be fit to be eaten by a dog.
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I don't get it. Sounds more like my neighbor than a joke. – Double AA Mar 7 '19 at 22:34
One of my rabbeim in high school told us that Shacharit for Shabbat proves that the cholam should be pronounced "oy." Otherwise, the last phrase of the following doesn't rhyme with the others:
יִשמַח משֶׁה בְּמַתְּנַת חֶלְקו.
כִּי עֶבֶד נֶאֱמָן קָרָאתָ לּו.
כְּלִיל תִּפְאֶרֶת בְּראשׁו נָתַתָּ לּו.
בְּעָמְדו לְפָנֶיךָ עַל הַר סִינַי.
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On a serious note, the intended poetic structure is probably acrostic: ישמח משה בתנת חלקו כי עבד נאמן קראת לו / כליל תפארת בראשו נתת בעמדו לפניך על הר סיני / לוחות אבנים הוריד בידו וכתוב בהם שמירת שבת With three letters per stanza it thus makes sense that the fourth blessing of the amida has letters 10 11 12 – Double AA Mar 10 '19 at 19:10
Reminder: Everyone remember to hear Maftir tomorrow and don't forget to hear Maftir tomorrow.
Why are bladder specialists so good at predicting the weather after eating fleishigs?
Because their meaty-urologists!
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“Post an answer containing a joke that practitioners of Judaism, broadly speaking, will be particularly likely to get or enjoy...Any remotely Jewish (or Mi Yodeya) connection is sufficient.” What’s Jewish about this? – DonielF Mar 8 '19 at 3:39
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@DonielF ... fleishigs. – Y e z Mar 8 '19 at 3:55
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@DonielF Sorry, I should be more clear. I didn't just mean the fact that I gratuitously used a Yiddish word. What I meant is, there is no concept of being "fleishig" or "meaty" outside of halacha. After a non-Jew eats meat, they don't consider themselves to be meaty. That is a purely halachic concept. – Y e z Mar 8 '19 at 4:29
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because that's they can "meat" their colleagues at the watering hole. – DanF Mar 8 '19 at 19:59
A very old one.... A maskil named Nochum is giving a speech and the hecklers are chanting ״ולא נחם״ So he turns around and yells, “דרך ארץ פלישתים!!!
ולא נחם אלוקים דרך ארץ פלישתים פרשת בשלח
Q: What's a good name for a "dying" shul. (I.e. - a shul that has mainly members age 65+ and hardly ever gets a minyan, etc.)?
A: Temple Alav Hashalom
How do you know that Moshe wore a yarmulke?
Because it says וילך משה, “and Moshe went.” Can you imagine that he’d go out without a yarmulke?!
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I’m aware that this is a terrible joke. That’s the entire point. – DonielF Mar 8 '19 at 3:41
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Coulda sworn we had this joke on MY already, but I don't see it. – msh210 Mar 9 '19 at 23:02
• @msh210 Perhaps you were remembering this? – magicker72 Mar 11 '19 at 12:08
• @magicker72, likely; thanks – msh210 Mar 11 '19 at 12:18
This is really a question, hoping it belongs in this thread.
Just before bentching, my brother makes the following assertion quite loudly: “Rubber tires never break!” Then the family continues Birkas HaMazon, something about shame.
I went to the mechanic recently and he said I needed new tires. I am currently searching for the presumably Gaonic source for my brothers prayer.
Some ideas of sports for a Jewish Olympics:
• Shacharacing (who can finish Shacharit fastest)
• Hagbah lifting (judgiing based on techniques like the most columns showing, lift technique, proper "twisting", etc.)
• Etrog juggling
• 100-meter "Kid-dash" - the race from the shul to the shul Kiddush
• 10-meter mikvah sky-dive
• Synchronized shuckling
• Shat"z-put (ousting a bad-sounding shat"z)
• Titzit tying
(Feel free to add to the list)
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Peyos Curling and Hamanhead throwing – Dovid Wartelsky Mar 11 '19 at 0:25
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Proposed edit to Shacharacing: the Davening Triathalon (who can finish all three minyanim the fastest) – DonielF Mar 11 '19 at 22:18
• @DonielF Add it to the list, please. (It seems that this "contest" is fizzling. – DanF Mar 12 '19 at 15:37
Q: What would you call a breakfast event in shul where they learn the daily Gemarah page?
A: Daf Yummy
Because we can't greet Caesar with "Peace!" on יום אידם (the Ides day), he doesn't get blessings and therefore should beware.
I'm the Ba'al Koreh (Torah reader) in my shul. Last Shavu'ot, a teenager was called for an aliyah. I hardly ever see this kid in my shul, so, unlike the regulars, I didn't know his name by heart.
I asked him what his name was so I could call him for the aliyah. He says, Pesach ben Avigdor.
I look at him and say, "Well, you showed up here 7 weeks too late."
A waiter at a Jewish wedding goes to a table telling the people seated at the tables, "The Kallah is a zonah." (the bride is a prostitute.) Then the next table, too - "The kallah is a zonah". And so on, he says to each table as he passes them.
The mashgiach (kosher supervisor) runs and pulls him away. "Are you meshugeh? Why are you telling everyone, 'The kallah is a zonah'? I told you to tell everyone, "The challah is mezonos!"
My friend's wife is a lovely person, but a bit of a Yenta.
Once when I called my friend, I asked if I could speak to his wife. He said, "I don't think so. She has laryngitis."
I responded, "Gee. I'm not sure what to do first - wish Refu'ah Shleima or say Hatov Vehametiv!"
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52898 | How do I breastfeed at family functions
As much as I loved spending time with family, it is the time that was probably most awkward to be breastfeeding
I still cringe when I think about family members addressing my babies and discussing my boobs. AWKWARD. "Is it time for you to go drink boobie?" PLEASE, HELP ME!! I would think to myself, how do I end this train wreck of a conversation as I continue on to feed my baby.
Then there's the uncle that sits next to you on the couch you chose away from everyone... and the sweat that starts dripping, because you know that as soon as your little cherub has had a snack's worth he will rip the cover off to engage in the unwanted conversation.
Be encouraged, be brave, you can take charge.
One way you can breastfeed more comfortably, is ask for someone to sit with you while you nurse. This might be your husband or a sister you are very comfortable with. Another option, which I did a lot, is to go into a bedroom where it's nice and quiet. This was hard for me, because I am very social and always felt like I was missing out on the party. If that's you, then the KOOI COVER might be a good option for you. It communicates that you prefer some privacy, your baby doesn't feel smothered, and you're not missing out on socializing.
I hope this helps. I promise this is only a season, it will go by faster than you want to, but it's worth it.
You got this mama.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/52940 | Tag Archive | me time
Me time
What do I do when I want to relax?
What do I do to get away from it all?
What do I do for me time?
The answer is simple: I write
Sometimes what I write is interesting
Other times, not so much
The purpose is not always
Creating a work of art
It’s emptying my cup
There is a calm that comes over me
When I write
I can’t explain it
Don’t know why
But that writing is one of my favourite things
There is no doubt
Give me a pen and paper
And a writing spot
Preferably in a coffee shop
And I’ll be happy and satisfied
Why expressing myself
Brings me joy, I don’t know
Why do I have this need to write
I don’t know
All I know is that writing gives me life
Refreshes my soul and cheers my heart
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From: Kostya Altukhov (kostya_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-06-29 06:31:15
Robert Ramey wrote:
> > 2. archive_exception should really be derived from std::exception
> >
>I considered this and saw no benefit to doing so. How would this be an improvement?
Very often my catch-block (for all exceptions) looks similar to this one:
catch(std::exception& ex)
I really do not want to have more than one catch block for reporting
errors, one for archive_exception, one for std::exception, one for something
else. Nor do I want to remember that some exceptions should be catched
in a different way.
Therefore, _all_ possible exceptions should be derived from std::exception
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Re: [presentation-api] Presenting the content of an <audio> or <video> element
From: Anton Vayvod via GitHub <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 10:05:17 +0000
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Note that if one wants custom UI for a video player, it's usually
still done with the media element. My spec proposal has video/audio
player custom UI as the main use case (with the default UI, browser
doesn't need an API that much). There's no messaging either, media
element methods work on the second screen.
For an arbitrary element it seems much harder to define how it would
behave in sync with its own copy that has different dimensions. What
would properties like width and height return, for example?
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Early Modern Conversions Project
Early Modern Conversions: Religions, Cultures, Cognitive Ecologies is a multi-disciplinary project with sites for research at universities around the world. U-M is one of the funded sites for primary research. A grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRH) of Canada provides the primary funding for the five-year project, including support for graduate student research. McGill University in Montreal is the home of the project, which is directed by Professor Paul Yachnin.
The goal of Early Modern Conversions is to rethink early modern Europe as an “Age of Conversion.” We seek to develop an historical understanding of conversion that will address corporeal, sexual, epistemological, psychological, trans-human, political, and spiritual kinds of transformation. Among the topics we explore are the ways in which early modern Europeans changed their confessional, social, political, gender, and sexual identities; the geo-political reorientation of Europe in light of changing or emerging relations with Islam and the Americas; the rethinking and the translation of Greek and Latin Antiquity; the rethinking and transformations of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam; changes in and changing uses of the built environment, including the growth of cities and nation states; the development of science and technology; and of course, the reimagining of God. We think in terms of ecologies rather than epistemes.
Steven Mullaney (English) and Valerie Traub (English and Women's Studies) are co-participants in Conversions. George Hoffmann (French) and Hussein Fancy (History) are collaborating participants.
The Institute for the Humanities serves as a full partner in the program. Its director, Professor Sidonie Smith, serves on the project advisory board. The institute provided funding for on-campus activities, including a “Conversions” graduate student fellowship that was offered in 2014, 2015, and 2016. The institute also hosted two major events in 2016, the Summer Seminar for Younger Scholars (to be conducted by Mullaney and Yachnin) and the annual Early Modern Conversions Symposium.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/53031 | Celebrate International Sign Language Day! Enjoy FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ITEMS! Details below.
Signing is Cool!
Learning sign language is super cool! Want to know why? Here are the top 12 reasons why we should learn sign language:
1. You can make friends with the deaf.
deaf friends
2. You can communicate across the room without shouting.
signing in hospital
3. You can sign through glass windows.
lady behind the bank window
4. You can communicate in secret codes.
soldiers signing
5. You can sign with your mouth full.
old folks signing while eating
6. You can sign underwater.
signing thumbs up underwater
7. You can dance more expressively.
dancing lady
8. You can eavesdrop with your eyes.
gentlemen signing
9. You can talk to babies faster.
mother signing to her baby
10. You can communicate in noisy places.
loud speaker with couple covering their ears
11. You can add one more language that you know.
guy talking in English, Tagalog, sign language and Spanish
12. You can help promote deaf equality.
with sign language I am equal
Isn't that exciting? Learn sign language now!
12 Reasons Why You Should Learn Sign Language |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/53041 | What is Service Mesh and do I need one?
Let's start with this - what problem does Istio solve?
Or... are we just using it cause it's the next cool thing? To be honest - there's a bit of both, from what I'm seeing with most of my customers.
To illustrate the problem Istio solves, lets take an example customer who already has their Kubernetes clusters. It doesn't matter on which cloud/data center k8s Masters and Workers are. SRE team is properly skilled, and operating the environment. The Developers see the great improvement as there's a clear improvement, plus an SRE team clearly understands what they need. Life is good.
Knock, Knock...
D: Oh... it's Marketing! Hello, Marketing, how can we help you?
M: Hey, Developers!!! How are you, bros? So... we have this super awesome new feature we'd like to test only in Southern Spain, and only on iPhones... and maybe just like half of the users if possible. How long do we need to do this?
D: ˆ%#$%!@ say... what??? Hey @SRE team, any chance Kubernetes can manage traffic management this granular?
SRE: Hmmm... How many people are we allowed to add to the team to operate the environment? Does potential business benefit justify contracting new SREs?
Enter - Service Mesh
And let's consider Istio, as my favourite Service Mesh at the moment...
There are 3 Core Features of Istio:
1. Traffic Management: We can do Canary Testing, where we would like redirect 10% of traffic to the New version of the app. Or, create an algorithm that redirects an application to a different version, such as - iPhone users, let me route you over ... here.
2. Security Authentication and Authorization: Identity is assigned to each Pod when it's spun up, and we can create rules and policies for ACL, to say what services they can access.
3. Logging: Istio also has a dashboard in Grafana.
Istio is a CONTROL PLANE (adds a pluggable Control Plane), and a Service Mesh is an actual Data Plane. Everything that Istio does is via Envoy Proxy, which is a literal Sidecar that is spun up with EACH Kubernetes Pod.
What are some elements in the Istio architecture diagram above?
Delivering config to the Proxies (Envoy). As a User you interact with the Pilot, through CLI, Automatically, or CI/CD. Pilot is in charge of:
- Service Discovery
- Intelligent routing
- Resiliency
Envoy Proxy
L7 Load Balancer, Sidecar for all the Containers. It's a literal Sidecar, and Envoy Proxy is deployed along with EACH of the Pods. It takes care of:
- Dynamic Service Discovery
- Load Balancing
- TLS Termination
- Health Checks
- Staged Rollouts
Access control, quota checking, policy enforcement. Mixer keeps checking and getting reports if all Proxies are alive and well. Single API for syndicating, so Plugins for Monitoring, API management or Prometheus would go to Mixer.
Strong service-to-service and end-user authentication with built-in identity and credential management.
Istio CA
Handles the certificates, to secure the communications.
Istio uses the following configuration concepts:
- Virtual Service
- Destination Rule
- Gateway
- Service Entry
This entire mechanism seems (and is) pretty complex, but it allows us so much more in the micro service architecture. For more details I recommend checking out the official documentation, it's pretty well organized and technically written.
Kubernetes as such adds a big operational overhead. Istio adds even more overhead, and a big complexity on top of your platform. Should you use Istio then? If you have a huge Kubernetes clusters, bunch of Cloud Native Applications designed with micro services, with hundreds... maybe thousands of containers, and you also have a business requirement that justifies adding the overhead - sure, Istio is awesome! If not... maybe look for a simpler solution to your problem.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/53068 | Cy.wikipedia localisation has gone missing
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Over the last 3 weeks or so I've been editing most of the MediaWiki strings on Welsh Wikipedia, Logging on tonight I am horrified to find that the user interface has reverted to English even though all the MediaWiki: space strings still appear to be there.
Is this some ramification of the Great Christmas Server Crash, and can we have the proper strings restored as soon as possible please?!
-- Arwel 23:20, 26 Dec 2003 (UTC)
It's fixed. Sorry, my fault. -- Tim Starling 00:56, 27 Dec 2003 (UTC)
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/53074 | becoming and being
Since the fallen soul can no longer live in the reality of absolute being it enters into a relative actuality, an invented, intellectual existence in which it is constantly becoming and striving to be who it truly is in reality. This, of course, is not a possibility since the soul is an image of the absolute and therefore itself absolute and the ground of its existence is only relative. It is able merely to project a negative image of its being, the idea of an individual self, into the artificially invented actuality of civilization, where it is held captive, conditioned and deformed by that artificial and false environment, the city, from which there can be no escape without a faith which reintroduces the absolute, spiritual categories into the world of intellectual relativity, thereby redeeming the soul.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/53113 | Asking after the oblique mystique
“To be with the one I love and to think of something else: this is how I have my best ideas, how I best invent what is necessary to my work. Likewise for the text: it produces, in me, the best pleasure if it manages to make itself heard indirectly…”
This is Barthes’ observation in The Pleasure of the Text.
Why would it be the case, writer, that our best ideas come indirectly? What power lay hidden beneath our floorboards, in the back of the cupboard, waiting for us to grope and grasp at another object altogether so that we may say with surprise, ‘Look what I found’?
1. Individual Valuations mysterious questions depending on the locality.
Here, then, a mysterious one dives in and stays until you find something, but it’s worth it to stay(°J°)))
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1. When a sudden prompt to write about something nudges me, It’s those hidden little sparks thar are the most refreshing to work with. It is always a surprise to me to find out what I have to say. Your words are very inspiring, and your artwork is amazing!
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2. There is certain something magical in all of this. When I get stuck (as I have been lately), I go back to Elizabeth Gilbert’s book on writing, Big Magic. It reminds me to keep at it–the stories appear and connect is to something much bigger.
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1. Beethoven symphonies–loud. Watching clouds. Hiking by the river or a mountain trail. Good latte in a coffee shop. Playing the violin. I think key for me is going to some other part of the brain for a while.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/53119 | Rearview Camera with Electrochromic Mirror Display
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T in Oklahoma (Okiemockbird) Help: Copyright rules (9) RE: Help: Copyright rules 12 Feb 01
I'm not a lawyer either, this is not legal advice, and also it's a bit off the thread originator's topic. That said: in the U.S. the 1923 rule is probably fairly strong for things like books and stories that were published by reputable U.S. publishers. But of course the copyright is expired only in the book as it was published prior to 1923. If a "revised edition" was published in 1923 or later, the revisions have a separate copyright applying only to them. The problem, of course, is deconvoluting them from the uncopyrighted parts.
Of course the "1923 rule" (or "1922 rule" as I prefer to name it, after the last year from which works were promoted to the public domain) applies only to the U.S. In other countries a copyright might last longer, or not as long. Also the copyright status of some works that were first published outside the U.S. is complicated in the western U.S. by a bizarre court decision (Twin Books--the Bambi case) in the U.S. ninth judicial circuit. Then there are at least hypothetical complications involving the old common-law right of first publication. Still (though I repeat that I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, etc. etc.) the "1922 rule" strikes me as being a part of copyright law that is somewhat less unpredictable than, say, the answers to questions of fair use.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/53130 | Перевод песни White Flag – Demolition Girl
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I'll make you crawl
I'll make ya so sad you were mine
I'll make you stall
And, honey, I'm sure that you will find
I'm telling you
I don't let go until I'm through
I'll make you cry
I'll make you wish that you could die
I wanna be your demolition girl
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/53147 | Back home from MySQL Central @ OpenWorld
Back home after an excellent week at MySQL Central in San Francisco. I want to thank the MySQL Community for all your questions, suggestions, and discussions. Your knowledge about – and passion for MySQL is stunning. Thank you!
It was also good fun, see pictures and comments #MySQLCentral. Presentations are available online, for example my own What’s New in MySQL 5.7? [CON2314] and Alexander Nozdrin’s New Data Dictionary: An Internal Server API That Matters [CON4478] .
And don’t miss the Keynote Oracle MySQL Session 2014 — Screven and Ulin.
See you all next year!
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/53164 | Hitler’s Economic Program (1)
IMG_0258One of the many common misconceptions about Adolf Hitler is that he knew next to nothing about economics. In reality, he knew enough to (a) understand the “Mussolini Blueprint” – successful economic reforms implemented by Il Duce; (2) figure out how to adapt this blueprint to very different situation in Germany; (3) hire the best individual to the position of the “economic Führer” of the Third Reich; (4) control the latter and provide him with the necessary support; and (5) replace him with the more appropriate one once the initial Mission was accomplished.
Eliminating unemployment (i.e. bringing the German workforce to the state of full employment) was the most fundamental need and demand of German citizens. And, therefore, it became Hitler’s top priority, his job #1.
One did not have to have a Ph. D. in economics (facts, logic and common sense were enough) to figure out that the only way to quickly reduce (and subsequently eliminate) unemployment in Germany in 1933 was by massive government spending. Primarily on civilian projects.
For a very simple reason – although radical expansion of German armed forces and of the armaments industry were (obviously) highly efficient ways to radically reduce unemployment, in spring of 1933 Hitler (and Germany) were still not strong enough politically and economically to openly violate the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
Hence the bulk of massive government spending had to go into construction (expansion of public and residential building), transportation (building roads and increasing production of motor vehicles), land reclamation (creating additional agricultural land) and reforestation.
As the Reich government did not have (and will not have) the financial resources needed to underwrite such a massive public spending program, it had to take the road of deficit financing.
The hyperinflation of 1921-23 was still fresh in German (and Hitler’s) memories so covering the budget deficit by printing money was, obviously, out of the question. So was borrowing abroad.
German economic recovery (the so-called “Golden Era” of the Weimar Republic) in 1924-29 was financed by loans provided by American banks through the Dawes Plan (adopted in 1924) and the Young Plan (adopted in August of 1929).
However, after these banks have been hurt (and hurt severely) by the Wall Street Crash of October 24th, 1929 and subsequent Great Depression, they predictably withdrew their loans to German companies (and to Germany in general). Which immediately sent German economy into a tailspin creating severe problems that Adolf Hitler now had to fix.
Hence, the Nazi government had to restrict itself only to domestic sources of funds for covering the inevitably massive budget deficits. The other three were (obviously) borrowing from banks, corporations and individuals. Ideally in a form of government bonds (interest-bearing securities) that could be used as “parallel currencies” until they mature and will be repaid in full from the state budget.
There was no need to create a specific incentive for German businesses to invest in these government bonds – the budget will simply pay them with the latter for the jobs done for the government.
Because these bonds were designed as the essentially “industrial currency” (a very common instrument to finance rapid economic growth), the business in question will be able to pay its suppliers or creditors with this “currency” and so on.
Borrowing from individuals was a different matter entirely. To motivate Germans to invest into government bonds, Hitler had to first make them trust the German government with their money. Not a small feat after hyperinflation, Great Depression and other economic calamities.
And then to carefully managing consumption, making sure that (a) German households consume enough goods and services for a comfortable lifestyle; and (b) still have enough disposable income to invest into government bonds.
The latter essentially meant making certain items simply inaccessible to the majority of Germans so that they had nothing to spend a certain share of their income on other than investing into government bonds (i.e. on savings). And, of course, conducting a massive propaganda campaign promoting savings and investments.
Obviously, managing consumption required tight control over wages and prices (making Nazi Germany not exactly a market economy). This control was needed anyway – to avoid inflation (the word that scared Germans more than Count Dracula and Frankenstein monster combined).
Now the trillion-Reichsmark (literally) question was how on Earth Hitler’s government would be able to pay off these gargantuan debts once they come due (and sooner or later they obviously will).
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/53166 | Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Overview
In a normal immune response, alien proteins such as those of bacterial or viral origin trigger the immune system to destroy the invading organism. In an autoimmune disorder, the immune system becomes confused and develop sensitivity to normal body proteins. When the immune response mistakenly identifies these normal host proteins as “foreign invaders”, inflammation, swelling and nerve destruction can occur. This is the basis of an autoimmune disorder.
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease that involves antibodies attacking the myelin sheath of the central nervous system. Myelin is the wrapping of the nerve cell with an insulator type cell.
These insulator type cells are made of specialized cells called oligodendrocytes (found in the central nervous system) that wrap themselves around the axon (the nerve cell body) like a burrito. There are gaps between these insulator cells. The action potential (the nerve signal) jumps from gap to gap between these cells, significantly increasing the speed of conduction (how fast the signal conducts down the “wire”). If disease processes like multiple sclerosis destroys these specialized insulation cells, the nerve signal slows or is completely blocked.
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Are you suffering from symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis (MS)?
The term “Multiple Sclerosis” really is a good descriptor of this disorder. There are multiple patches of sclerosis (hardening type scar) that occur in the nervous system which includes the brain and spinal cord. These sclerotic patches can block nerve signals or cause the nerve cells to trigger producing false sensations. The is like a door bell with a short in the wire-ringing when no one is at the door.
With Multiple Sclerosis, females normally outnumber males 2:1. The onset of multiple sclerosis is typically between the ages of 20-40. The symptoms start in a variety of locations. Vision loss in one eye, double vision, unusual paresthesias in the arms or legs, or incoordination all can be associated with multiple sclerosis.
Fatigue, imbalance, and dizziness also are related. The symptoms can be mild or progressive. This disorder is found more often in light-skinned individuals from the northern European descent but can affect anyone. The physical examination typically will demonstrate upper motor neuron findings (hyperreflexia, Hoffman’s sign, clonus, Babinski’s and incoordination).
Diagnosis is important as some treatments can slow or alter the progress of this disease. MRI is used to diagnose the disease in the brain or spinal cord, and a laboratory analysis of cerebral spinal fluid can assist with diagnosis.
To discuss Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in more detail, please contact the Vail, Aspen, Denver and Grand Junction, Colorado area office of back doctor and spine specialist Dr. Donald Corenman.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/53176 | Lessons from Scripture
By Carl S. ~
The scriptures referred to herein are those of the three Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, each of which have their own variations and interpretations of what they consider “inspired.” We might seriously consider those lessons which are basic to every one of them, and the implications for everyone not ascribing to those lessons. These ARE the lessons of scripture:
The Ghent Altarpiece: God Almighty
The Ghent Altarpiece: God Almighty (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The punishment for disobeying the god frequently involves killing an innocent human being. Innocent children are punished, even to the third and fourth generations. Mankind, with its multitude of good people, were drowned as rats even as they struggled to survive under already harsh conditions, to raise families, even as they loved and cared for one another and their pets, as we ourselves do today. To rectify “shame” or dishonor because your daughter or son disobeys you, kill them. (It is a matter of alleged “love” that the innocent son of this god himself had to be tortured and killed to right the wrong done by his predecessors.)
The Almighty is not only unquestionable to mere humans, but his actions are above and beyond morality. The Almighty's actions are explained away by his spokesmen as unfathomable and all-wise. Whatsoever the deity does, on his own or through the powers invested in his agents by him, is to be submitted to. (Our god can do no wrong, and his representatives can do no wrong in interpreting his will.)
Whatever actions are essential to advance the kingdom of the Almighty and his chosen elect, so that it triumphs over every other system, must be carried out. Under this commandment, lying and cheating are virtuous, as are the destruction and erosion of legal and secular systems which are not seen to serve the deity nor his representatives on earth. The kingdom of God is interpreted as a political force. (One does not need to look far for constant examples of these things, even in present times.)
Whatever you are told to do, no matter how much it conflicts with your moral sense and your love of humanity, obey. Hate yourself and your life, but love your neighbor as yourself. If you are told to kill your son, daughter, friends, neighbors, infidels, heretics, non- worshipers, obey. If you are commanded to deprive fathers of the land they farm for their families, and to kill them, or to pull the baby nursing at its mother's breast and slay it, obey. If you are told to slay the sons in those families, toiling in the fields, helping their parents, obey. If you are told to take their sisters and rape them, enslave them, and seize their lands because the Almighty has made these matters mandatory, you must obey. You must also teach your children that to obey the Almighty through his representatives is their most noble moral obligation.
These lessons are used to justify evil. Anything is permissible in the scriptures, if one wants it to be. As St. Augustine said,
“Love God and do what you will.”
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Why is it important to sing hymns in worship?
Scripture exhorts us to sing “psalms and hymns and spiritual songs” (Eph. 5:19-20; Col. 3:15-17). The Westminster Directory of Public Worship concurs with Scripture and says, “It is the duty of Christians to praise God publickly, by singing of psalms together in the congregation.”
“Why do Christians sing when they are together?” Dietrich Bonhoeffer answers: “The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them to speak and pray the same Word at the same time; in other words, because here they can unite in the Word” (Life Together, 59). I think that’s an important point.
Notice that right before Paul says to sing “psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,” he says, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you [pl.] richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom” (Col. 3:16). So, singing ought to be part of the ministry of the word. We ought to sing the Bible. We ought to sing Psalms and we ought to also sing biblically rich songs. So, that’s in part why the Directory says our “chief care must be to sing with understanding.”
When we sing songs to God, however, we are not just thinking. We are not just singing for the sake of singing or just edifying each other. We are recounting God’s truth and goodness and being moved anew to thanksgiving (cf. Ps. 78).
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Q&A: Many churches adopt confessions, why then do leaders and laypersons often stray from orthodoxy? What lessons can we learn from this?
A. Confessions are good and have biblical precedent. Humans, however, are fallen and as 1 Timothy 4:1 says, “some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.” People are lovers of self rather than lovers of God (2 Tim. 3:2-4). That is why there are problems with heterodoxy and heresy, even where there are solid confessions in place. Confessions may not keep false teaching from emerging but it is helpful to have them in place to quench the spread (like gangrene) of unhealthy teaching.
One lesson we learn from the prevalence of unhealthy belief and teaching is the importance of qualified leaders. It is vital that pastors/elders be able to teach (1 Tim. 3:2) and correct opponents of the truth (2 Tim. 2:25). We also see the important place of church discipline. The church is set apart as the light of the world and the “pillar and buttress of the truth” (1 Tim. 3:15) if the truth is not proclaimed and protected by the church how dark will the darkness be?!
The second lesson is that churches must work hard to be watchful and stand firm in the faith (1 Cor. 16:13). If someone is contradicting orthodox teaching and causing division then they should be removed from the church community (1 Tim. 6:20-21; 2 Tim. 3:5; Titus 3:10). The church is to be the set apart people of God (Eph. 1:4; 5:27). Thus, Paul writes “stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter” (2 Thess. 2:15).
Is Jesus Really the Only Way?
A lot of people believe that all “good” people go to heaven.
“After all, isn’t being good[1] what really matters? If someone is good and sincere in their beliefs then they should go to heaven. Plus, aren’t all religions basically the same?”[2]
“How could a good God allow people to go to hell?”
However, it should be asked, does God want those people to go to hell?[3] And has God provided a way for them to be saved? The answer to the first question we’ll see is no[4] and the answer to the second question is yes.
First, Scripture repeatedly says things like God desires all humans to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth (1 Tim. 2:4). Here are three more:
“The Lord is… not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance” (2 Pet. 3:9).
“Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord God, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live?… For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord God; so turn, and live” (Ezek. 18:23, 32).
So, God’s desire is for people to come to a knowledge of the truth of salvation in Jesus Christ and repent of their sins and be saved. That is God’s desire. However, that’s not it.
Second, God has also provided the way of salvation. The one God has provided the one way of salvation through the man Christ Jesus who is the one mediator between God and man (1 Tim. 2:5).
Imagine we were all on an island that a very wealthy and magnificent man owns. It is on fire and we all have to get off or we will die. Now, imagine that the owner of the island built a very large and sturdy bridge to the mainland so that people could escape. And in making the bridge he himself died.
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Why should we read the Bible?
“Does God love all humanity, every single person?”
“Does God love all humanity, every single person?” My natural inclination right off the bat is to say, “Yes. Yes, God loves all humanity, every single person.”
But we do not want what I want to think but we want to look at what the Bible says and wrestle with its teaching. So, what does the Bible say?
This may be a harder question than it would first appear. This is because this question is never explicitly asked in Scripture and thus is never explicitly answered. It is difficult because we are vying for certain answers. We so often want to make God like ourselves (Ps. 50:21). It is also a difficult question because the Bible seems to teach that God at the same time loves the whole world and yet hates all the rebellious.
In Scripture, we see that God has made man in His image (Gen. 1:26-27), so in as much as each person still reflects God’s image, God, I believe, loves that aspect of them.
In Matthew 5:43-48, Jesus tells His disciples to love their enemies and gives God the Father as an example. God “makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.” Matthew, in this passage says that He does this in love.
God, therefore, clearly has this kind of love for all humanity. He is the example that we are to imitate. We are to “love our enemies” in imitation of God Himself. Thus, I conclude, yes, God does love all humanity, every single person. In a similar way, Psalm 145 says, “The LORD is good to all, and His mercy is over all that He has made” (Ps. 145:9).
Yet, the Bible also says that God hates all workers of iniquity (see for example Ps. 5:5; 11:5b-6; Rom. 1:18ff; Jn. 3:36). As we look at this question, it is important to remember that the LORD is God and He is good even if we cannot understand His ways. We must remember that although God has revealed Himself and we can truly know Him yet we cannot exhaustively grasp Him.
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On what day did Jesus die?
First, I encourage you to read Matthew’s account in the Gospel of Matthew. It will be helpful to read since it’s the longest (Matt. 27:24-62).
In Matthew’s account we see that Jesus dies (v. 45-56) and then Joseph of Arimathea asks Pilate for permission to bury Jesus’ body (Matt. 27:57-61). Joseph did this on the Preparation Day, that is, on Friday, the day before Saturday which is the Sabbath.[1] It was very important that Jesus’ body not stay on the cross on the Sabbath because then the land would be defiled (Jn. 19:31).[2] So, Jesus died on Friday because He was taken off the cross before the Sabbath.
The next day, that is on Saturday,[3] “the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate and said, ‘Sir, we remember how that impostor said, while He was still alive, ‘After three days I will rise’” (v. 62). And then they asked for guards and so Pilate granted their request and gave them guards.
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Is there a basis for Human Rights?
God’s existence and His revelation are necessary conditions for meaningful human rights. Christianity gives a firm foundation for human rights. Not only that, but Christianity has “the strongest possible resource for practicing sacrificial service, generosity, and peace-making. At the very heart of [Christianity’s] view of reality [is] a man who died for his enemies, praying for their forgiveness. Reflection on this could only lead to a radically different way of dealing with those who [are] different from them. It [means] they [could] not act in violence and oppression toward their opponents.”[1] Of course, that doesn’t mean that the ideal is always followed.
There have been Christians that have done very wicked things. There have also been many wicked things that have been done by atheists.[2] That, however, does not mean that all atheists are bad or even that atheism is wrong. As we will see below though, atheists do not finally have any basis for morality or human rights.
Richard Wurmbrand who experienced ghastly torture at the hands of an atheistic government said,
Scripture, on the other hand, clearly condemns injustice.[4] Scripture shows us that God loves justice and, conversely, hates injustice; He has compassion for those who suffer injustice—everywhere around the world; He judges and condemns those who perpetrate injustice; and He seeks active rescue for victims of injustice.[5] Much of secular society, however, does not have a reason to condemn injustice.
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Listen to the third Other Voices podcast featuring Young Fathers and more
We have had two Other Voices podcasts so far, and it’s actually Dingle times next weekend.
The ticket giveaway finishes tomorrow at noon but until this here is the final podcast episode featuring Gavin James, Otherkin, Stornoway and a track from Young Fathers.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/53203 | A tribute to the late, ultimately great #robinwilliams
I was a child of the 70s when kids were aloud to stay up and watch Saturday Night Live because it was new new and ultra cool. Or, at least my parents didn’t seem to mind that things were way off left, and definitely pushed the envelope as “kid friendly material.” You could do that back then without fearing that CPS suddenly might morph into your house and slap your parental wrist for bad parenting. Mork and Mindy was a regular staple right there with SNL for most of the kids around me because Mork, although written with adult comedic situations, seemed so…innocent…sweet even, and I could identify with that. Oh, and then I wasn’t supposed to watch Robin Williams do stand up comedy, but somehow managed to anyway. Holy crap, he taught me how to laugh so hard I peed my pants! His stand up was…brilliant, pure, honest, and ground breaking. His many movies to follow took me up…and down…to the left…and even to tears. The World According to Garp taught me about life, love, and a lot about sex. Dead Poets Society just hurt. Painful. Loss. His comedic characters in many of his movies always got you with his acute ability for just “plain silliness.” Not to be trite, but man could he bring out the kid in you. Honestly though? Those quiet moments he would get in every one of his films, even if only for a moment. We all know THOSE moments…his serious moments with THAT look in his eyes…they were never just an actor’s moment. No, Robin just never stopped being Robin. Be at peace my friend, your wonderful spirit lives on…
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Why Current Science (Including the Big Bang) Points Directly Towards Intelligent Design of the Universe
Argument 1:
A. The first law of Thermodynamics states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed
B. The second law of Thermodynamics states that energy always flows in the direction of increased entropy. [1]
C. Therefore, our universe had a beginning. [2]
Argument 2: (From Aristotle)
A. Things either come into being or they are eternal
B. All things which have come into being were caused to come into being by a cause [3]
C. Therefore, our universe was caused to come into being by a cause
Argument 3: (From Aquinas)
A. As we have previously said, there are only eternal or caused things
B. The cause of the universe could not have been non-eternal, because then it would have needed to be created by something else
C. Therefore, the cause of the universe must have been an eternal cause, or (as in Aristotle) an “unmoved mover”
Argument 4a: (From William Lane Craig)
A. According to Big Bang Theory, not only matter & energy, but both space and time were created at the beginning of the universe
B. Therefore, the cause of the universe must be something beyond matter, energy, space, and time
C. William Lane Craig would also argue at length that current attempts to scientifically disparage Big Bang cosmology over the past half-century have all continually failed.
Argument 4b: (Also from William Lane Craig)
A. The only things we know of that are beyond matter/space/time are: 1) ideas, laws & concepts, 2) personal minds
B. The cause of the universe could not have been an idea, law or universe because these entities are static and do not move. Therefore they cannot cause anything to come to pass. [4]
C. A personal mind would be capable of making a decision such as to cause the universe to come into being [5]
D. Therefore, we conclude that the original cause of the universe was:
1) (Obviously) powerful enough to cause the universe to exist
2) Able to exist beyond space/time/matter, while still able to interact with it
3) A personal mind, capable of willing for the universe to exist
Thus I conclude that current scientific theories – including the Big Bang – provide compelling evidence that there is indeed a personal, all-powerful being behind the origins of the universe.
Final Argument:
A. There are three basic options for such a being: 1) a God of some sort, 2) an alien, 3) some unknown being
B. If an alien or unknown being had powers and characteristics such as we have been describing, he/she/it would be identical to what we normally mean when we speak of deity. [5]
C. Therefore, it seems almost inescapable that the evidence all points towards some sort of a God behind the creation of the universe.
[1] Entropy is a measurement of waste energy – usually heat. What this law says, basically, is that the universe is burning itself out of useable energy. For example, you could hold a litre of gasoline in your hands. Now there is some real good potential energy! But what happens when you burn it? Now you just have heat. That heat is still a form of energy, but it is less useable. And if you don’t use it right now (for example to boil water or run a car) the heat will leak out into the environment and be gone. In a similar way, but on a grand scale, scientists say that the universe is burning up its useable energy. Stars are continually “burning” (actually a nuclear reaction) and are sending heat and radiation off into space, never to be retrieved again. Also, the planets and galaxies are swirling further apart from each other, and the planets themselves are slowing and cooling. For these reasons, it is the general consensus of scientists today that our universe had a beginning.
[2] This conclusion may not seem obvious if you do not know these two laws well. Read over what I wrote in the first footnote, and please send me a comment if you think I am not being clear enough.
[3] This law is made more obvious by thinking what would happen if it were not true. Do things just pop into existence out of nowhere? They most certainly do not! And all science would shatter if they did! As Shakespeare has said, “Nothing will come of nothing.” Things are either eternal, or they have come into being. True enough, there are some micro-physicists who say that in a certain type of experiment, particles “appear” out of nothingness – or a vacuum – and then disappear again. This experiment is usually used by atheists to discredit this point. However, when William Lane Craig asks them if there is really nothing in the vaccuum they fall silent. According to Einstien, matter can be converted to energy, and vice versa. In reality, these particles are not just appearing from “nowhere,” but are converting from energy to matter, then back again. But both energy and matter would have been created at the beginning of the universe. If matter/energy/time/space sprang out of nothing, it would be a quite different thing than what is observed in these experiments.
[4] If they were to cause something to come to pass, they would do so necessarily, and they would have done so by now, so that the universe would have been burned out infinitely long ago already. But this is already fraying the edges of our comprehension of what a “timeless” eternity may be like!
[5] William Lane Craig gives this example: “Say an eternal, conscious being was sitting on a chair for all eternity. He could one day decide to stand up. But the number five could never decide to become four and a half.” The one is able to affect reality in arbitrary and surprising ways: the other can only influence reality in ways which are essential to it’s nature.
[5] Think about it! If an alien had a personal mind, existed outside of space/time/matter/energy and had the power to create the universe, wouldn’t you be correct to call him/her/it a god? Perhaps we would not love this god like many love Jesus – but we would at least have to fear him like they used to fear Zeus! How could such an alien – so far removed from us, so different, so powerful, and yet so intimately involved in all our affairs – keep from evoking feelings of religious awe, reverence and fear from us, if not more?
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Why Do Snowbirds Still Use Generators?
There really is no need for generators when dry camping/boondocking in the Southwestern desert in the winter. And yet, they show up every winter, and lower the quality of the camping experience. Why should this be so?
If a camping neighbor shows up with a generator that looks like this, you might as well hitch up and leave. It is a reasonable hope that you'll get luckier in another campsite.
1. Do the "practical" bloggers and vloggers make solar panels sound so complex that they scare people off? What is so complex about buying a self-contained "solar suitcase," setting it out on the ground to track the sun, and attaching the alligator clips to your battery clips?
2. Even easier yet, most people could upgrade their converter/charger so that 45 minutes per day of generator usage would be good enough; they wouldn't need to run it for hours.
If their RV has a Progressive Dynamics converter/charger, they need only buy a "Charge Wizard" module for a few dollars. It plugs into the base unit to make it function as a proper "three stage" converter/charger that puts out over 14 volts DC, to quickly charge the battery.
"Dumb" converter/chargers are (or were) used by the RV industry to save a few dollars. They only put out 13.5 volts DC, which takes hours and hours per day to charge batteries, EVEN IF you have a huge, noisy generator!
3. Or just replace the P.O.S. converter/charger, that the RV industry dumped into your rig, with a proper one, that is, a three-stage unit made by companies like Xantrex, Samlex, or Iota. (I like to buy from The cost is about $250 dollars.
These three steps are easy. So why hasn't everybody taken care of it? That is where the cultural and marketing issues come in.
Anonymous said…
I have wondered the same thing. I think most people* already have a battery bank. And now solar is cheaper than most generators. Never mind anyone else; why would THEY want to listen to their own generator?! But hey, if you use solar it's not an engine.
Also aggravating is that people no longer "just" run them 16 hours per day (6 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Nope, now it's all night, too.
What I really want to do is rant! Not only have they ruined the desert SW, but I can't (stand to) camp in any of the small primitive forest service campgrounds in the summer anymore either, anywhere in the US. It's one big generator fest. And if there aren't any (by some miracle), then I basically just have the tension of waiting until they show up. I no longer set anything up outside because that just makes it more of a hassle to leave.
BTW, I was camping at a nature preserve a few years ago when the site host came around and we got to chatting (we pitched our voices above the racket). I figured he'd be a sympathetic ear and said something about how it would be nice if the rules could at least call for reduced generator hours (say noon to 3 p.m. or whatever).
Ha, nope, he said "Well then how could the campers do anything?" I mentioned that solar is pretty cheap and easy now, and amazingly effective. He started challenging me on specific things, such as "Well okay, but you can't make waffles on solar" (Um, sure you can.... waffle iron on stove?), etc. Finally, it was, "Okay but what if campers want to watch TV all day?" I gave up at that point. Nature was never mentioned. I did have about 30 minutes of lovely nature sounds in the morning before the "waffle irons" fired up.
When looking for a campsite, I used to look for things like flat ground, a tree, or nice views. Now I look for the red/green/yellow orange squares, and gas cans (or, conversely, solar panels).
*I was at one campsite where a fellow in a large toy hauler ran TWO open frame generators 24/7. Came to find out he didn't bother with a battery bank at all. (Money saving tip...)
Thanks for the post. It's nice to not feel like the only one sometimes.
Anonymous said…
PS: I realize I got off on my own rant and didn't directly speak to your good question. Why? Why does someone still use a generator when solar is no longer super expensive?
I suppose it's a combination of culture and "tradition"? I don't know; just thinking out loud.
Culture: Solar panels are for tree-hugger sissies?
Tradition: Everyone knows combustion engines mean powerrrr. More noise, more power!
Maybe a bit of not wanting to bother to learn something new? Sure, solar is easier and cheaper now, but it's still something where (unless you have a vast array) you have to do some thinking, monitoring use, and setting up. I've never used a generator for RV-ing but I imagine you just put gas in, fire it up, and do whatever you want, right?
That's OK Anonymous, I enjoyed your rant. But yes, the point of the post was not so much to complain against generators -- if anything, they have gotten better over the years -- but to wonder why they haven't been sent to the dustbin of history, now that lighting has become low power LEDs, computers need 10 Watts or less, smartphones use even less, solar panels have fallen from $5 per watt to $1 per watt, and three-stage chargers are no longer specialized, expensive items.
Meanwhile the high energy and high power chores, like heating water or air, are still done by propane. And Propex furnaces aren't as rare and exotic as they used to be.
Hell, even the ubiquitous Mr. Coffee machine of yesteryear, which used 900 Watts, has become passé since it has been superseded by the AeroPress coffeemaker, which just uses hot water from a pan on the propane stove.
Anonymous said…
I wish you would submit this article to one of the RV publications.
Last week, I was in a FSCG, and a travel trailer turned their generator on when quiet hour ended (in this case, 6am) and didn't turn it off until 10:00pm. To make matters worse, they couldn't hear over the generator, so they were shouting at each other just in casual conversation. It was a very small campground, and I could hear them all the way across to the other side. I so badly wanted to ask, "Why do that to yourself?"
Unfortunately, I had prepaid. A good lesson to pay as you go!
Anonymous said…
I have a genset and use it sparingly. I agree with the comments. That said, you are pissing in the wind.
Ed said…
They need that generator power to keep their 300 W outside flood lights on all night.
I spend all my time in commercial Parks and that is one of my biggest gripes - light pollution. For some strange reason there are those people that must have a couple of LED ropes under/around their RV and their 'toad' plus flood lights that would be more appropriate in a prison yard.
Dave Davis said…
We've been taught that you can have it all, and you come first because you are special. Everyone knows about pollution and what it's doing to our environment, but somehow people think they are being "green" and run their generator. To make matters worse, they sit around one of the biggest polluting indulgence, the campfire. Wood fires put more carcinogenic material in the air in 2 hours, than running that noisy generator. Everyone's main complaint is the noise pollution, but if you are hundreds of feet away and can smell a campfire you are inhaling particulate matter.
I say let's ban generators and campfires from all state, federal and local property.
Ed, certainly, 300 Watts of flood lights on all night are needed to make 'Mildred' feel safe!
But consider yourself relatively lucky. You know those cars, in ghettos and barrios, that are tricked out to bounce up and down, while a 200 or 300 Watt stereo system pours "music" out of the trunk of the car? Just imagine when they do something similar to your neighbor's 12,000 pound toy hauler!
Dave Davis, how much pollution comes from campfires compared to a small forest fire or brush fire?
Dave Davis said…
Yet another reason not to have generators,they contribute to Forest and brush fires.
If I stay at a Walmart I will run my generator. I have a 400 watt Oxygen machine that my 4 batteries won't keep going for the time I need it.
We tried boondocking on BLM land when we first went full-time but running the generator, even though it was quiet, just seemed wrong.
Dave Davis, "even though it was quiet, just seemed wrong." Maybe you meant this in a different way than I took it, but Satisfaction and Connection to Reality are two nice things to be gotten from camping.
Thinking about sunlight, hours, angles, and amps can become an interesting hobby to a camper. We don't live WITHOUT this and without that just for the hell of it. Rather, we want it to be just difficult enough to get our requirements that we come to appreciate them, instead of just mindlessly flicking on a switch or flushing water down the drain, like we do in a regular house.
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This post is all about how the Québécois marde can be used. Yes, that’s right, shit. Below — 6 examples. Let’s begin.
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The first thing you can do with shit in Québec is get yourself in it. (Try not to.) T’es dans’ marde, man. You’re screwed, man. You’re in trouble.
T’es is a spoken language contraction of tu es. T’es sounds like té.
Dans’ is a spoken contraction of dans la. First, la loses its l, which leaves us with dans ’a. When you say dans ’a, the ’a gets virtually swallowed up in the vowel sound of dans. There’s perhaps still a trace of it left over, but, practically speaking, we can say that dans la marde sounds like dans marde (although, in reality, dans is probably held just a millisecond longer than a regular dans in this case). We can use an apostrophe — dans’ — to signal that there used to be a la (or a contracted ’a) in there: dans’ marde.
You can express anger by damning shit. The interjection maudite marde literally means damned shit, but you can use it the way you might say things in English like damn it, bloody hell or even just shit. Maudite marde, j’ai perdu ma Rolex! Damn it, I lost my Rolex!
For effect, maybe you’ll even want to add ah ben to it. Despite its spelling, ben sounds like the French word bain. In other words, the en of ben sounds like the nasalised in, not en! We could also spell it bin to make it phonetic, but the spelling ben is much more common. Ben is a contraction of bien. Ah ben helps to add desperation. Ah ben maudite marde! Well, damn it! Well, shit!
If you’re having a shitty day, maybe you’ll want to exclaim, aujourd’hui, ma vie, c’est d’la marde. My life’s shit today. Well, that’s what Lisa LeBlanc said in a song, anyway. You might even want to take it a step further and say, aujourd’hui, ma vie, ça vaut pas d’la marde. My life’s not worth shit today.
D’la is a spoken language contraction of de la. This contraction is used quite literally all the time. In ça vaut pas d’la marde, if you visualise the the d’ as coming at the end of pas instead of the beginning of la, you’ll probably find it easier to pronounce. In other words, first say pas with a d sound on the end of it, then say la.
Christmas is the season of giving, so why not give some shit? J’vas y donner d’la marde means I’m gonna give him shit, which is really just a shitty way of saying I’m gonna yell at him.
J’vas is a spoken language equivalent of je vais. The vas in j’vas rhymes with pas. To pronounce the contracted j’vas, just say vas with the French j sound on the front of it, all in one syllable.
Y here is a spoken language contraction of lui. (J’vas lui donner d’la marde.) There’s no liaison between vas and y.
If you’re gonna give someone shit, then you might as well go all the way and tell him to eat it – if you’re prepared to take a fistful of shit in the face in return, that is. Mange don’ d’la marde! Eat shit, will you! Don’ here is really donc, but don’t pronounce the c.
Pis sounds like pi. It rhymes with the French word si. Pis is a contraction of puis.
Have you run out of shits to give while making a decision? Ah pis d’la marde! Imagine a child taking her first steps on her own in the living room with her parents looking on encouragingly. She takes one step, then two, then… boom! She crashes to the floor. She knows she’s supposed to get back up and try again; she can see the fiery glow of excitement in her parents’ eyes. But trying again is hard work. What she really wants to do is sit down and throw up her lunch.
She hesitates… try again or sit and throw up? try again or sit and throw up? OK, fine, I’ll try just one more time for mummy and daddy. But just as she begins to push herself up, she changes her mind. It’s just not worth the effort, and that mashed butternut squash she just ate really isn’t sitting right in her stomach. She sits back down, and, much to the horror of her parents, exclaims with resignation, ah pis d’la marde! Ah screw it!
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On Urbania in “Il ne fait définitivement pas beau dans le métro,” Marie Darsigny writes about her displeasure with taking the métro.
She says:
Mon rêve : une bataille générale à Berri-UQAM, où je sors ma sandwich et l’effouerre dans la face de mon prochain.
My dream: a brawl at Berri-UQAM, where I take out my sandwich and squash it in the face of the person next to me.
A few interesting things to look at in this quote:
1. Your dictionary probably says un sandwich, but it’s used here in the feminine instead — ma sandwich. You’ll often hear sandwich used in the feminine, particularly in spoken language.
2. The verb effoirer means to squash, to crush. This verb is an informal usage. It didn’t even make it into the Usito dictionary.
The author has used a pronunciation variation, and then spelled that variation phonetically (effouerrer).
I squash my sandwich in the face of the person next to me.
J’effoire ma sandwich dans la face de mon prochain.
Or using the author’s variation:
J’effouerre ma sandwich dans la face de mon prochain.
The Wiktionnaire article for effoirer says the following about this verb’s spelling variations:
Variantes orthographiques
Elles sont très nombreuses : ce verbe étant essentiellement oral, il est très souvent transcrit phonétiquement par la personne qui l’écrit. Par exemple, on trouve effouarer, effouerer, effouérer, effouèrer, éffoirer, éffouarer, éffouèrer, éffouérer, éffouerer, effouairer, éfouérer.
Got all that?
The reflexive verb s’effoirer has a different meaning. For example, s’effoirer sur le divan means to crash on the sofa. The same Wiktionnaire article gives this example of it: J’ai juste le goût de m’effoirer sur le divan, I just feel like crashing on the sofa.
3. Can you say how dans la face in the quote might be pronounced spontaneously? Dans la can contract in informal speech, but do you remember how?
Maybe you’ll remember from past posts the expression dans la marde, which contracts informally to dans’ marde in spoken language. T’es dans’ marde means you’re screwed. Dans’ is a spoken reduction of dans la.
The same reduction can occur in dans la face.
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Marie Darsigny, Il ne fait définitivement pas beau dans le métro, Urbania, 17 February 2015.
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We’ve seen it before: when dans and la come together in colloquial speech, la might lose its L sound leaving us with dans ‘a.
Then, if you say that fast, the remaining ‘a sound just kind of gets swallowed up.
That’s why dans la marde in the expression être dans la marde (to be in shit, trouble) sounds more like dans marde in colloquial speech.
T’es dans’ marde!
(= Tu es dans la marde!)
You’re in shit!
You’re in trouble!
You’re in for it!
I suppose for good style we should include an apostrophe after dans to show that the la was contracted (dans’ marde), but it’s rare in casual writing online to see anybody actually bother.
The same thing can happen with the expression dans la face. It can become dans’ face. Here are some examples from around the Wonderful World Wide Web. I’ll put the apostrophe in for good measure.
Ça fait sept ans que j’ai ça dans’ face.
I’ve had that in my face for seven years.
Essaye de te contrôler avec ça dans’ face 24 heures sur 24.
(You just) try to control yourself with that in your face 24 hours a day.
Maudit internet. Quand on était jeune, câlice, on se disait ça dans’ face.
Damn internet. When we were young, for fuck’s sake, we’d say that to each other’s face.
J’ai juste à y flasher ça dans’ face!
I just have to flash that in his face!
The y here is an informal pronunciation of lui. In full, this sentence would read: j’ai juste à lui flasher ça dans la face.
C’est comme un coup de poing dans’ face.
It’s like a punch in the face.
A friend on Facebook sent me the image below. You can click on it. I’m not sure where the photo was taken, but it doesn’t matter.
There’s a mistake on the sign. Can you understand why the mistake is funny?
The sign should have said:
Piétons, prenez le trottoir d’en face.
Pedestrians, take the other sidewalk.
Here’s a correct example.
D’en face means “on the opposite side.” But say d’en face aloud. It sounds just like dans face, doesn’t it?
Piétons, prenez le trottoir dans face.
Pedestrians, shove the sidewalk in your face!
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Merci Anne-Marie 😀
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/53257 | As Einstein realized, empty space is not really empty. Saints, sages and yogis who have looked within themselves have also realized that within the emptiness is unfathomable power, a web of information or energy which connects all things. This matrix or web has been called the Logos, the Higgs Field, the Primordial OM and a thousand other names throughout history. In part one of Inner Worlds, we explore the one vibratory source that extends through all things, through the science of cymatics, the concept of the Logos, and the Vedic concept of Nada Brahma (the universe is sound or vibration). Once we realize that there is one vibratory source that is the root of all scientific and spiritual investigation, how can we say "my religion", "my God" or "my discovery". The primordial spiral is the manifested world, while Akasha is the unmanifested, or emptiness itself. All of reality is an interplay between these two things; Yang and Yin, or consciousness and matter. The spiral has often been represented by the snake, the downward current, while the bird or blooming lotus flower has represented the upward current or transcendence.The ancient traditions taught that a human being can become a bridge extending from the outer to the inner, from gross to subtle, from the lower chakras to the higher chakras. To balance the inner and the outer is what the Buddha called the middle way, or what Aristotle called the Golden Mean. You can be that bridge. The full awakening of human consciousness and energy is the birthright of every individual on the planet. In today's society we have lost the balance between the inner and the outer. We are so distracted by the outer world of form, thoughts and ideas, that we no longer take time to connect to our inner worlds, the kingdom of heaven that is within.
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RickNZ wrote at 2012-09-08 01:28:
I'm using LinearAxis and LineSeries, and some segments of the lines with zero values, that should appear along the X axis, do not appear.
I have <oxy:Plot> object with about a dozen <oxy:LinearAxis>, each with their own <oxy:LineSeries>, configured in XAML. Each LinearAxis is positioned along the Y axis using StartPosition and EndPosition, with a small gap between them. Minimum is set to 0, but no Maximum, so they auto-scale. I'm using MajorGridLines and MinorGridLines.
Each LineSeries uses YAxisKey to select the corresponding LinearAxis, and sets a Color for the line. I'm using the default line style.
The zero-valued line segments only disappear on some of the LinearAxis.
If I vertically resize the graph, the zero-valued line segments appear in some areas where they were missing, and disappear in others where they were visible.
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Windows Management Instrumentation in remote monitoring
January 29, 2019
Windows Management Instrumentation in remote monitoring
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Windows Management Instrumentation in monitoring
Pandora FMS features include decentralized monitoring, which is based on several standards and/or protocols of common and open use (SNMP v1 and v2 -v3 from version 7.0 NG 727-, ICMP and WMI). In this article we will talk about the latter, starting from the simplest and with references to each of the articles published here in your blog.
Local monitoring and remote monitoring
The local monitoring is done through programs of the operating system or third parties, and scripts or programs stored in the firmware of the device (router, modem, etc.) and that are executed every so often. The response values will be stored in your own storage system and may optionally be sent – or consulted – to other servers in charge of collecting such data. Pandora FMS uses this option for the computers with GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows® – among other operating systems thanks to the Tentacle® protocol, even in isolated surroundings.
Remote monitoring consists of sending messages from a server, containing queries – and even our identification, including passwords – about the status of a device. SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) , is the first choice for these tasks, but as its name indicates it is something very basic.
GNU / Linux and SSH
The central server of Pandora FMS is executed on GNU / Linux and one of the features of this operating system is that we can use Secure SHell, better known as SSH, which is a protocol that allows to consult in a remote and secure way other computers with GNU / Linux. This connection contemplates the sending of credentials and guarantees an encrypted communication in both ways, so when connecting we can perform all the tasks of monitoring as if we were doing it locally. This is fine for the world of high computing, since the vast majority, use a successor of Unix and its corresponding POSIX. But, how do we do with the operating system used by the vast majority of end users?
Windows Management Instrumentation
With the breakthrough of the Internet in our lives, personal computing took hold and the need to remotely manage computers was discovered. In 1992, the “Distributed Management Task Force“, DMTF was created, whose founding members are important companies which produce hardware and software of the United States Achieving an agreement among such a variety of companies is a titanic task, and the rules and protocols dictated are extremely deep and we will not describe them here, but we will make an exception with two of its regulations: ” Web-Based Enterprise Management“, and “Common Information Model“, ; The latter includes all documents issued by that organism. A special mention is the”Desktop Management Interface” or DMI, 1998) for personal computers which includes many features, such as serving an SNMP query by returning all the MIB values available.
For 1998, Microsoft Windows® releases one of its most famous versions and at the end of the 20th century it evolves to Windows 2000®, a robust operating system that “absorbs” Windows 98 SE® and incorporates the regulations of DMTF, as Instrumentation of Windows Administration (WMI). Even today important manufacturers build fully certified devices with its standards and are very important models for the high-end business environment. The rest of the users are also indirectly benefited from WMI, since manufacturers also include their own “drivers”; for example, Windows 10® includes 47 new “providers“, only for mobile device management service!
The Microsoft® company has also made available to us a tool that works by command line, interface preferred by us in order to be able to extract any data available for the Windows Administration Instrumentation.
The importance of this theory is that since it’s proprietary hardware it opens a path of effective communication between each of the components and the Windows® operating system.But, what does all this have to do with Pandora FMS?
Practical example with Windows Management Instrumentation
So far we have given you the theory in a very, very basic way, and in this article published by one of our colleagues we realize how to pick up the processor temperature metric with WMI. In general, we can obtain any other value, let´s see:
wmic:root\cli>path win32_processor get maxclockspeed
We opened a terminal window and then we launched the command wmic.exec.
When having the command indicator with the command path we establish where it will look for information, and with get we ask the specific value, in this case the speed of the processor. For Pandora FMS, which has the ability to take an inventory of devices, this is one of the values that we can collect and save in our database in the central server.
If we need to set up a web server under Windows®, we must use Internet Information Services (“Internet Information Services“® or IIS) since Windows Server 2008®, there are more WMI providers useful for monitoring, added services with Powershell® and even to obtain metrics on virtualization.
Practical Uses of Windows Management Instrumentation
• Internally: if we have a Pandora FMS software agent installed in a computer with Windows 2000® or higher, we can have access to an infinity of metrics, including very specific components which are impossible for the operating system to have by default installed, since otherwise the disks or installation download of the operating system would be gigantic. Although it is true that the monitoring scripts (modules) for Pandora FMS are very general, also -following the same approach of the operating system- we will be able to have our own routines for concise hardware, in case we need its monitoring. This represents a great advantage and denotes the flexibility of Pandora FMS.
• The wmic.exe tool also has the ability to add other computers on the same local area network, by means of the command “/node:computer_name”, always taking into account the credentials and access privileges granted to the querying user. This concept we indicate operates very much like a broker agent, but using WMI. Note: we must review that we will first need to establish the credentials due in all the devices with Windows® installed and what we need to monitor, and then configure Pandora FMS so that it collects each metric identified with the corresponding device.
• To implement and test all our WMI queries it is recommended to use the tool WBEMTest.exe. Although not officially a Microsoft® software, in practice it is widely used for testing and debugging scripts in WMI.
• To communicate from a computer with GNU/Linux we will have to add a special client for this task. In free software there are many alternatives, but we prefer those written in Python language. One of them is wmi_client_wrapper, which once installed we can pass a program like the following:
import wmi_client_wrapper as wmi
wmic = wmi.WmiClientWrapper(
output = wmic.query(“SELECT * FROM Win32_Processor”)
• From the above we must also point out that there is the Structured Query Language for Windows Administration Instrumentation, which is very long to read and is abbreviated as SQL WMI or simply WQL. This functionality allows programmers a familiar environment, just as if we were working with a database. This shows the breadth of the standard, since with Python, available on many platforms, allows to connect and SQL. In fact, a universal language, with its “dialects”, makes it possible to connect many different companies. Of course all this helps Pandora FMS in its monitoring tasks!
• Remotely we have another possibility: through SNMP and adding the feature “WMI SNMP Provider”, an element that is used by other monitoring software which we have reviewed. Now, Pandora FMS has support for SNMP v3, which includes identification and secure communication to obtain the metrics.
Records in Windows Management Instrumentation
Finally we want to review the management of records in WMI, since we can monitor the operation of WMI itself, as well as any other WMI provider we discussed. We won’t be long; the main ones are:
• Wmiprov.log: contains WMI data and events, including binary compilation errors if we use MOF.
• Ntevt.log: is the most important and allows access to anyone using the Event Log Provider.
• Dsprovider.log: The Active Directory is essential for the software written for this operating system; the records can be consulted in this way.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/53300 | It’s easy to identify the culture of a particular region or group of people based on the way they talk, language, dress code and more. However, have you thought about what your personal culture is, which you carry around. Enjoy the video
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1. hahaha thank you so much. Forgive me, im trying to make out who Miss M is can you please tell me who this is? Obviously we were in school together. Thanks again
1. Mah, Mah, Mah…How many times did i call you? lol. I needed to listen to this.This is kick start message for the week. The message is so on point. You just brought to light another dimension word “Culture”..”The culture of You”..It’s not just about dress or tradition, way of life etc…this is about a person..a personal culture!This just made me think about something else..Adhering to culture vs. Being cultured..that is another topic of it is own…thanks a lot for this!
1. hahaha Yef, you called me 3 times my darling, yes yes yes, you got it, exactly what I was trying to bring to light, ah you bring me so much joy having gotten “it”. Yes, I was trying to make us think, food for thought, that apart from the obvious meaning of culture which we mostly associate immediately with a group of people, a place, a location, the cultural norms of that region, the cultural outfits, traditions………..yet, what if we look at our own selves as individuals, have we ever thought about the fact that we as ONE person, can have a personal culture. For, if it is easy to identify someone as BELONGING to a particular named culture just by the way they dress or greet or pray, shouldn’t we as individuals also have something about us that is so US that it cannot be mistaken. And is it possible we already do, but never realized that we had created this culture for ourselves, we are already recognized for certain things, but yet we dont know we are notorious for it or well known for that particular way of behaving, dressing, talking etc. So this is a good time to identify what our personal culture is that exists, if we like it, we improve on what we like, and what we don’t like time to discard, and what we would like, time to start practicing it. I could go on and on, hahahahaha
2. Mah!!!! Love your video on culture and the stark reminder of the culturally diverse world we currently live in. It got me thinking of culture in the true sense of the word and what would otherwise be “perceived culture.” If a person “loses” their culture, do they lose their identity or cultural heritage?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/53338 | 9: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access
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By Brad Shoemaker and Will Smith, Brad Shoemaker, and Will Smith. Discovered by Player FM and our community — copyright is owned by the publisher, not Player FM, and audio is streamed directly from their servers. Hit the Subscribe button to track updates in Player FM, or paste the feed URL into other podcast apps.
Apologies for the crackling in the audio! A recording snafu forced us to use a backup recording that wasn't as high quality as we would have liked.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/53344 | Pottery by Poet Rummager
I pull you close.
You tell me no –
Not tonight.
Just one little kiss.
I smell your sweat.
It whets my appetite.
You scare me,
You whisper
As I make you mine.
I inhale your scream.
Tentacles unwind.
I pierce your thoughts
Like a scalpel to your brain.
I slice off sweet dreams
And toss them away.
Say my name!
I insist.
You cover your eyes.
Say my name!
I seethe.
You refuse.
I grit my teeth.
I bite.
You shriek.
You wake in the night.
You shout.
I’m aroused
By your fright.
You screech.
I laugh with unfettered delight.
Don’t ever forget my name.
I sigh as you give up the fight.
*Pesadilla means nightmare in Spanish.
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Add Firebase AngularFire2 To Ionic Apps Using Angular
In this tutorial, we take a look at how you can add AngularFire2 to you Ionic apps and use firebase. In this post, we will only take a look at the setup of AngularFire2 in Ionic.
Step 1)
We will start by creating a new app. We do that by running the following command in the command prompt.
Note here that I have navigated my terminal inside of the newly created folder as I will be running other commands inside the app folder.
Step 2)
Now we will install firebase and AngularFire2. To do that we will run the following command.
As we are using the--save option, NPM will make an entry of the firebase installation in the package.json file. The package.json file will look something like this.
Step 3)
Head over to and create a new project (You can use your existing one as well). Then click Add Firebase to your Web App.
After that, you will get a modal that will have your configuration code. The code will look something like this.
As we are using Angular/ionic, from the above snippet we will need only the config object as we already have the firebase files npm installed for us.
Step 4)
Now it’s time to add the configuration code to our app. So open up the main module file of your app, for Ionic it is app.module.ts and code it as follows.
Here we are importing AngularFireModule and then creating a variable with our configuration and then passing it to AngularFireModule.initializeApp(). And just like that, we have our app configured to use AngualrFire.
Note here that I am also including and the AngularFireDatabaseModule, AngularFirestoreModule and the AngularFireAuthModule, make sure you only include what you intend to use in your app.
In this tutorial, we saw how to setup AngularFire2 in Ionic. Firebase also has a JavaScript SDK that you can add to your app. The Firebase JavaScript SDK relies on callbacks and promises for its methods, whereas the AngularFire2 library is Observable based. As Ionic is based on Angular and we have AngularFire2 it makes more sense to use it.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/53361 | re: Help! I am Overwhelmed With React and It's Preventing Me From Finding A Workflow VIEW POST
re: Thank you for replying. I'm getting an understanding of it after all these great replies and looking at how React fits into a project. It's going t...
If I may, I'd suggest attempting to step back for a second and look at what each part of a web app does. Abstract it a bit. Rather than start with the names of frameworks, start with what parts a website/app has, then map different technologies to them. For instance, what does a web app contain, in no particular order:
Operating System
Front End
Content Management System
Cache or CDN
Web Server
Now, while the final product is a singular item, each piece is independent in itself. What makes the final product is, ultimately, the glue code that joins it all together.
So rather than thinking "How do I need to shoehorn React into Perch" think "What is Perch's job? - To get the content from the database and put it in front of people." Then think "What kind of presentation am I looking for once the content gets in front of people? - Responsive, dynamic UI that can change based on user needs, browser statem, and media breakpoints."
From what I'm reading, it looks to me like your trying to build this application as an entire, monolithic and, therefore, overwhelming undertaking. When really, just focus on the pieces as standalone projects. You know your CMS, your know MySQL, you know Apache/Nginx, and I'm sure you've used some jQuery and/or JS, and you know your HTML/CSS setup of choice. React does not do anything you do not already do on a regular basis. And, to be honest, it does not even go about it all that different than you are used to. Try to even strip away the fact that the JSX files are "React" files. Convince yourself that it is JS as I've always known and used it, the imports and keywords are just different. Control flow is the same, conditionals are the same, all the fundamentals you are already a pro at are right there. They're just served up a little different. You got this! We all have the utmost confidence in you!
Great advice. I sat with a piece of paper and pen and consolidated my thoughts. It's so powerful.
Is it correct to say that React is a framework for developing the V of the MVC design pattern, a pre-built CMS provides the M and C in some cases?
I'm also going through the react tutorial again while taking my time.
Again, thanks for the advice, really got me thinking more clearly!
• Nick
Yes, React is just a View library - see its API documentation
reactjs.org/docs/react-api.html . By itself, it has no opinion about how you structure your app. Everything else (flux, redux, babel and so on) is optional.
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The Advantages Of Using Long Tail Keywords
In the extremely competitive world of SERPs, businesses are constantly on the lookout for ways to get ranked high that would translate into more hits and hence, more conversions. Keywords still remain the cornerstone of most SEO strategies, and since there is tough competition for large “head” words, trying to get ranked with top keywords is becoming increasingly difficult. So, keeping the focus on generic keywords could be actually harming your business as it could potentially negate all your other SEO strategies. Instead, businesses are slowly turning their attention to “long tail keywords” that have a lower amount of search traffic volume than general generic searches but have very low competition and hence much easier for the page to get ranked. This makes sense when the niche is in a highly crowded field with several big players. Getting ranked with the big keywords would take years or might be just impossible.
What actually are long tail keywords anyway?The search demand curve
Long tail keywords are those three or more keyword phrases that are very specific to a business. These terms get only a small amount of search traffic but have very low competition for the terms. Long tail keywords are longer phrases that are relatively nearer to what a customer is looking to buy. A keyword such as “music systems” might have thousands of searches per day but “best music systems for living rooms” might only have a few hundred searches daily. This is the reason keywords research prior to publishing a page is extremely important for any online business. The trend nowadays is towards long tail keywords that answers the most specific of search queries. It has been observed that some long tail keywords actually do better than the big keywords on SERPs. We do not want to be buried under a heap of multiple pages for a particular big keyword, do we? We would prefer our page to be ranked high using a long tail keyword instead of a high volume search keyword. Use a good keyword tool like Jaaxy, try different long tail keywords, and optimise your content around them and your page will rank much faster and is likely to remain on top of the SERPs for a much longer period. By good keyword, it is meant a combination of words that are highly specific in a particular niche but has very less competition.
Long tail keywordsWhy long tail keywords are better
Utilising long tail keyword is regarded as the best way to maximising conversions and is an instrument most businesses employ nowadays. With increasingly more number of people using highly specific searches in a niche and more people using the voice-activated search, the use of long tail keywords will be what matter in the long run.
Lower competition
The best benefit of using a long tail keyword would have to be its lower competition. When the right combination of keywords of a niche is identified that has very low competition, we realise that it is much faster to get ranked. This means the probability of our page getting clicked by users is multiplied manifold.
More conversions
Using the right long tail keyword may result in only a small increase in traffic but it is seen that the conversion rate on that keyword is higher than a high volume search keyword. This is because when a user types in a highly specific search query, he or she is zeroing down on a search, and here, expectedly, the user is in the final stages of making up a buying decision. Here, the users are very clear about what they want. Therefore, a long tail keyword might not bring in traffic in droves but it brings a high-quality traffic that spells better results for a business. The choice is between traffic with 1000 visitors daily with only 1 or2 actually buying and only 100 visitors daily but of them 10 buying something from our site.
Improved SERP rankings
A significant development in search engines is that they are now more favourable towards intuitive and highly specific search queries. They are better at processing queries of users that are more natural sounding. In other words, the search engines are more in favour of users typing in search words that concur with what they would have said verbally. And if one sees the trend towards voice-activated search on smart devices, the use of long tail keywords would increasingly become relevant in the future. Hence, if our pages are optimised for more “humansounding” search terms, the page will rank higher and much faster than a big term in a niche.
Long tail keywords strategy for businessBusiness plan
With our aim at bringing in more converting traffic, it only makes sense to look for a low volume traffic that converts better than a high volume traffic with no conversions. Developing a successful marketing strategy should include analysing and understanding the benefits of using long tail keywords for your business. Selecting a low competition keyword for your niche should remain your priority. Try to get your page ranked with a long tail keyword, and it will be soon before conversions start happening. Give your business a head start. Learn to optimise your content to provide valuable information to the audience. Keywords or no keywords, it will be worthwhile to remember that we are putting up our content for the audience and not the search engines.
Keyword research cannot be ignored
No business can afford to ignore keyword research and this is where the importance of a good keyword tool comes in. Even though the content is king, and it will be what drives a business website, we cannot overlook the statistics given by a keyword tool. The tool enables a user to determine which keywords have enough traffic that could sustain our business. It gives a fairly accurate idea of how a page would rank for a keyword in SERPs, and how tough it would be to find our foothold with other competing pages. Bloggers swear by the keyword tool for undertaking a keyword research before any post is published. One of the best keyword tools in the industry would be Jaaxy. It comes with a Free Sign-Up that includes 30 searches to let users have an idea of what it feels like using a very powerful tool for their business.
Always remember, finding the right keywords is the difference between success and failure. The longer and more specific the search terms are, the higher the chances of conversions are.
1. “A Note On Long Tail Keyword”
2. “Jaaxy Is Now The Official Keyword Tool Of Wealthy Affiliate”
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/53396 | Helicoplacoids are Early Cambrian echinoderms with triradiate ambulacra that are covered by helically-arranged columns of calcite plates. They are abundant only in shales of the Middle Member of the Lower Cambrian Poleta Formation (Atdabanian) at Westgard Pass in the White-Inyo Mountains of California. To identify and understand the unique taphonomic conditions that led to their preservation, 146 helicoplacoid specimens were examined along with the rocks in which they are preserved. Considering their loosely articulated skeletal construction, together with their common occurrence at the base of cm-scale graded beds, helicoplacoids most likely were preserved during obrution events. A majority (69%) of helicoplacoid specimens are partially disarticulated, probably indicating that most helicoplacoids underwent some combination of pre-burial and post-burial decay. Because most (73%) helicoplacoid specimens are preserved on the same bedding plane as at least one other individual, and many (39%) are preserved on bedding planes containing at least 10 individuals, it appears that helicoplacoids were gregarious and frequently were preserved in mass mortality obrution deposits. Low levels of bioturbation, possible microbial stabilization of the sediment, a shallow redox boundary, and a normally calm depositional environment capable of preserving obrution deposits are all factors that aided in the preservation of helicoplacoids. Additionally, the presence of helicoplacoids in several facies of the Middle Member of the Poleta Formation indicates that they lived in a wider range of paleoenvironments than those represented by the shales, where they are found most commonly. The exceptional preservation of helicoplacoids, therefore, is most likely narrowly restricted stratigraphically and geographically because the proper balance of energy regimes, together with the factors mentioned above, was achieved only rarely during the Early Cambrian, not because helicoplacoids were restricted to living in one paleoenvironment.
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