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Published in 1636, Peter Heylyn’s The history of the Sabbath: in two bookes details how man’s religion re-skinned the Jewish Sabbath and called it a Christian ordinance. I have edited it to modernize the English and eliminate most of the Latin in an attempt to make this work available and accessible to 21st century readers.
From the dawning of the New Covenant, Christians have struggled over how the Old Covenant Scriptures are to be applied to the lives of the saints. Acts 15 is one of several records showing how some Christians thought the Mosaic Covenant applied to Christians, claiming saints must be circumcised and follow the law of Moses (Acts 15:1 & 5). Peter rebuked these brothers, observing that the Mosaic Law (which was the centerpiece of the Old Covenant) was a yoke too heavy for man to bear and requiring this was putting God to the test (verse 10). Jesus said His yoke was easy, that He would carry the burden of His sheep (Matt 11:30) and John tells us, This is how we know that we love God’s children when we love God and obey His commands. For this is what love for God is: to keep His commands. Now His commands are not a burden (1 John 5:2-3).
Despite this clear teaching, over time, many Christians began to teach that Christians must be “baptized” as infants and obey the law of Moses – specifically the 4th Word of the Decalogue.
Heylyn’s book shows the historical development of this Christian Sabbatarian practice and how those who taught this practiced it. We see the common tale of those who say, “Do what I say, not what I do.” Paul taught against this (Romans 2:21); it ought not be so within the body of Christ!
I pray this old booke helps open the eyes of those who are trying to carry a heavy yoke or burden other saints with such teaching. In paper and Kindle formats.
A Tale of Two Sabbaths
A Tale of Two Sabbaths
Stuart BrogdenSabbath
The Bible declares itself to be sufficient for life and godliness for those indwelt by the Holy Spirit. This is the concept behind the doctrine of Sola Scriptura. People who truly hold to this doctrine will not embrace dogma that cannot be clearly taught from God’s Word. While there are myriad issues that divide denominations and churches from one another, one’s view of the Sabbath appears to be one of major contention amongst those who embrace the idea of Sola Scriptura. Within this arena there is a coalition who herald the Puritan view of the Sabbath, which is recorded in the Westminster and Second London Baptist confessions. What follows is a comparison between the biblical description of the weekly Sabbath and the confessional views of Christian Sabbatarians, according to the Second London Baptist Confession in chapter 22. Let the reader decide if the Puritans and those confessions had it right or followed traditions of man.
Biblical Sabbath “Christian Sabbath”
Every 7th day (Ex 16:27-30, Ex 20:8-11, 31:15, 35:2; Lev 23:3; Deut 5:14) Para 7: Claims “law of nature … by Gods appointment” a “moral, and perpetual commandment, binding all men, in all ages” (no Scripture citation). One day in Seven (Ex20:8). Changed from the last day of the week to the first day of the week (citing 1 Cor 16:1-2; Acts 20:7); claiming “Christian Sabbath” as the Biblical Sabbath was abolished (no Scripture citation).
Rest from all work (Ex 16:23, 25; 20:8-10; 35:2; Lev 23:3; Num 15:32; Deut 5:12-15; Jer 17:21) Para 8: Rest from all things (Isaiah 58:13; Neh 13:15-22).
Remain in your dwelling (Ex 16:29; Lev 23:3) Private and public worship are commanded (para 8; no Scripture citation)
It is a sign to the Israelite (Ex 31:13, 16, 17; Lev 24:8; 2 Chr 2:4; Neh 9:14; Ezek 20:12, 20)
Death penalty for violating it, even minor activities such as picking up sticks (Ex 31:14-15; Num 15:32-36)
No fires for cooking, Sabbath day meals were prepared the day before (Ex 35:3)
Ceremonial bread, made in accordance with a strict formula, was presented (Lev 24:8; 1 Chr 9:32)
Offerings – consisting of lambs, grain, and drink (Num 28:9, 10)
Soldiers/priests guard the temple (2 Kings 11:5-12; 2 Chr 23:4-8)
Gentiles not bound (Deut 5:15; Neh 10:31) All men are bound (para 7; Ex 20:8)
Prohibited from business (buying or selling) with Gentiles (Neh 10:31, 13:15-19)
Gentiles invited to join with God’s people and keep the Sabbath (Isaiah 56:1-7)
Israel to keep the Sabbath (Isaiah 58:13)
Duties of necessity and mercy are permitted (para 8; Matt 12:1-13)
No bearing of burdens (Jer 17:21-27)
1. The Second London Baptist Confession (1689 LBC) cites Exodus 20:8 for setting the Sabbath one day in seven and for binding all men. That verse does not mention the frequency of the Sabbath; verses 10 & 11 both specify the 7th day, that day which ended the week for the Hebrew nation. Every 7th day, not one day in seven – that’s the consistent record in Scripture. Neither does that passage mention anyone other than national Israel as the subjects of this covenant and this specific command.
2. The 1689 LBC then claims 1 Cor 16:1-2 and Acts 20:7 as a record of God having changed the day of observing the Sabbath. Read the texts – narratives showing the practice of the new church on “the day after the Sabbath.” No instruction or record of changing the Sabbath; no record of establishing the “Christian Sabbath” or abolishing the 7th day Sabbath, which continued on during the Lord’s time on earth and the apostolic era.
3. Because of the death penalty for minor infractions of the Sabbath command to rest (as shown in Ex 31 & Num 15), it was common in Israel for the people to ask the religious leaders for clarification of what was permissible. This developed into the complex, legalistic list of rules that were infamous in the time of Christ.
4. The “holy convocation” mentioned in Lev 23:3 is widely considered to have been a call to prayer, praise, and instruction from the Word of God. But the biblical record (Ex 12; Lev 23; Num 28 & 29) shows a consistent requirement to cease work, with cooking meals being the only exception. There is the occasional mention of humbling one’s self, making offerings to God, and the blowing of trumpets. Some of these convocations lasted several days or weeks. There is nothing in Scripture to indicate this was a weekly occurrence of prayer, praise, and preaching; although extra-biblical history does show the post-exile nation adopting the weekly synagogue practice that was well established by the time of Christ.
5. There are many special Sabbaths, such as the Day of Atonement (Lev 23:32) and the Sabbath year (Lev 25). This comparison is restricted to the weekly Sabbath.
6. Nehemiah 13:20-22 reveals the only passage in Scripture wherein Gentiles are told about the Sabbath, their merchants being warned to leave the Jews alone on the Sabbath so the Jews won’t be led astray. Gentiles are not commanded by Nehemiah to keep the Sabbath.
7. There is not one Scripture cited by the 1689 showing the weekly Sabbath being addressed to, defined for, imposed on, or required of anyone other than those under the rule of Moses. Nor is there any biblical record of Christians keeping the Sabbath.
The Sabbath Complete
a review by Stuart Brogden
The latter half of the 20th century has brought a growing interest in Reformed Theology, in striking contrast to the growing apostasy that has gripped many evangelical denominations. Many of my fellow Baptists aggressively and happily embraced the doctrines of grace and the great theological truths about God’s sovereignty and man’s true nature. I am a grateful Baptist who was introduced to this theological construct in the ‘90s and have come to see as foundational to the Christian faith the doctrines of the Reformation, especially the reliance on Scripture Alone for all things having to do with life and godliness and For the Glory of God Alone to keep us focused rightly in all we think, say, and do. And the mostly forgotten doctrine of our forefathers – Semper Reformanda – Always Reforming, because none of has it all together nor will we get it all together while we inhabit these tents of flesh. This brings me to this remarkable book – The Sabbath Complete, by Terrence D. O’Hare. This book is the result of our author “attending an Orthodox Presbyterian Church where various Sabbath-keeping applications were stressed.” (page xi) Prompted by his pastor, who urged his congregation to examine personal motives in religious practice, he decided to study the concept of the “Christian Sabbath”, which is widely popular in churches which hold to 17th century confessions such as the Westminster Confession of Faith and the 1689 London Baptist Confession. O’Hare’s study lasted as decade, producing this comprehensive analysis of this contentious issue. His desire, and mine, is that people on both sides of this issue acknowledge the human tendency to cling to traditions (some of which, he shows, are fine and biblical), which can lead to traditions displacing true worship of God and Christ. The thesis of this book is “that Sabbatarianism is a form of traditional pietism and that the acceptance of the fully ceremonial nature of the Sabbath, though shocking to some, is actually Christ-honoring.” (page xiii)
The Sabbath Complete is organized into 12 chapters which examine various aspects of the Sabbath – prototypes, initial practice, law, feasts; how it prefigures Christ in the rest He earned, the Gospel He preached, His resurrection; and a historical review of the practice which has come to be known in the confessions as the “Christian Sabbath.” Coming in at more than 350 heavily footnoted pages, this book is thorough, enlightening, and thought provoking. It is my prayer to whet your appetite enough so that you will buy this book and study it. May the Lord be our wisdom and His glory our goal.
In his examination of the Sabbatic prototypes given to us in Genesis, O’Hare observes (page 1) that “God’s provision for our physical rest is but a token of a more transcendent remedy for our spiritual privation” and follows up (page 6) thusly: “Though God’s rest after creation is a type of everlasting rest yet to come, it is more certainly a type of Jesus Christ, who has come, in whom the faithful rest in salvation.” This snippet shows O’Hare’s focus on Christ – His provision and sufficiency, which is a constant, welcome, perspective throughout this book. As an expression of God’s sovereignty and redemptive revelation, our author reminds us (page 7), “Jonah did not just happen to be engulfed by a great fish and later ejected as a random biological event, but this occurred as designed by the Lord to shadow forth the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord. Likewise, the seventh day rest was not a random terminus of creation but a purposed end point to shadow forth the inevitable results of God’s work in redemption.” This sets the stage for a book that is best read slowly, with an open Bible and notepad.
In addition to each Christian studying the Bible for himself, learning from credible sources of church history is very helpful as this sheds light on when and by whom our beloved traditions were started. O’Hare has helpful advice in chapter 9, wherein he reviews the shift to calling Sunday the “Christian Sabbath.” One of the earliest post-apostolic apologists, Justin Martyr, sheds light on the common-place view of Christians in the second century:
For this most ancient brother, the Lord’s Day was on the first day not as a new instance of the Jewish Sabbath, but in concert with a remembrance of God’s creation and Christ’s resurrection – wherein we have the promise of having our decaying bodies made new like His. Our author laments how Christian traditions were often started not on the Lord’s revelation to us as New Covenant saints, but by imagining connections to Jewish traditions – “such as circumcision giving way to baptism and the Lord’s Supper approximating the Passover, came the forced and fanciful system of religious holidays common in the Roman Catholic Church.” (page 222) He then provides a lengthy quote from famous Roman Catholic Thomas Aquinas, explaining his support for these practices and then comments (page 223), “This teaching blurred the differences between the old and new covenants and paved the way for works orientation. … It was fitting for a better covenant to have fewer ordinances: one, performed only once that identifies the child of God as an heir to the kingdom, and the second, a recurring and sustaining ordinance of remembrance of the life and work of Jesus Christ. Again, similarity does not connote identity. Baptism is not a Christian circumcision, and communion is not a Christian Passover, neither is the Lord’s Day a Christian Sabbath. This is as absurd as calling the new covenant the “Christian old covenant.”” Did I mention that a Presbyterian wrote this book? He goes on to say, “It is plain that the circumcision of the Christian is spiritual and not ritual, and that it is actually the death of Christ, which was His circumcision, into which we were spiritually baptized.” In response to several sabbatarian authors (such as Walter Chantry) who press the “Christian Sabbath”, in part, as a means to restrain evil and provoke (coerce?) Christian worship, O’Hare rightly observes (page 225), “If Christ can raise up rocks to sing His praises (Matt 3:9), why would it be so difficult for Him to raise up His beloved, who are indwelt by the Holy Spirit, to worship at the appointed time (Ps 116:18-19, 122:1-2)?” Amen! Saints of the living God don’t need a command to gather together for worship and fellowship – we, by definition, love Him, are drawn to Him, and we love the brotherhood!
Each chapter of this book delves into history and Scripture to determine the meaning and origin of the various aspects mentioned in the first paragraph. Each is compelling and enlightening. Chapter 4 – Sabbath Law, examines the Jewish laws and traditions tied to their Sabbath and points out inconsistencies in the practice of modern Christian sabbatarians. In nearly every chapter, the diligent reader will be awed by the realization of how detailed the Jewish religion is as given to them by God and how it is much, much more than merely a quaint religion for those people long ago. The Jewish religion, as the book of Hebrews tells us, is mainly a means of communicating God’s eternal plan of redemption to the people He called out of the pagan nations, to protect the promised seed and make His name known around the world. These two priorities – to glorify the Lord and declare the gospel – are consistently the highest order for us humans. This becomes more and more clear as each chapter is consumed.
To keep this review from running 20 pages or more, I will restrict myself to chapter 10 – The Sabbath in Church History. This will put the “Christian Sabbath” practice so aggressively promoted and protected into its proper context. My desire aligns with the author’s – to have readers of this book see the first day of the week in its biblical context, stripped of the accumulated baggage of 20 centuries of religion.
Chapter 10 begins with the apostolic teaching, with O’Hare stating (page 244), “There are three crucial distinctions between Christianity and its roots in Judaism: holy things, the law, and the customs.” He sees some continuity and some discontinuity in the connection between the old religion and the new, acknowledging the law is good, and “Yet these ceremonial laws isolated the Jews from their pagan neighbors, became the point of contention and ridicule, and represented a wall of separation between the two peoples. This was meant by God to display the isolation between sinners and Himself – the Jew included – so when Christ abolished the ceremonies of Judaism, the gospel of peace and the law of moral commandments would become the unifying theology and practice for Jew and Gentile alike (Eph 2:14-16). … At the beginning of the Christian Church, it was a stumbling block to require Gentiles to observe Jewish rituals: “to whom we gave no commandment.” (Acts 15:24)”
The review of the Didache (50 – 120 AD) reveals no evidence of Sabbath-keeping by Christians; the review of Ignatius’ writings (page 247) shows “he clearly distinguishes between Jewish conduct on the Sabbath and Christian conduct on the Lord’s Day, to indicate the superiority of being a disciple of Christ.” He walks us through the records of Mathetes (130 AD), Justin Martyr (114 – 165 AD), Irenaeus (120 – 202 AD), Tertullian (160 – 225), Origen (185 – 254), Eusebius (265 – 340), Sylvester, Bishop of Rome (314 – 335), the council of Laodicea (364); all of which provide no support for the “Christian Sabbath” and often denounce the idea as being a Jewish encroachment in the church.
By the time Gregory I was installed as pope of the then-emerging Roman Catholic Church, traditions now associated with that religion “were already taking root, such as the liturgical mass, a monastic life, symbolic outfits, ecclesiastical hierarchy, and declaration of days to honor saints.” (page 261) O’Hare provides a lengthy excerpt from a letter to Roman citizens in which Gregory I calls those who forbid work on Sunday (which he called the Sabbath day) “preachers of Antichrist” and sums up: “Gregory’s core understanding is that the Sabbath is a fulfilled ceremonial law that should no longer be literally applied.” (page 262) O’Hare quotes R.J. Bauckham’s claim that Peter Comester (a contemporary of Aquinas and Chancellor of Notre Dame in Paris) was the “first exegete to apply the Sabbath commandment literally to Christian observance of the first day”. (page 263) Our author reminds us (same page) that “While it is helpful to acknowledge the scattered, yet progressive, acceptance of a physical rest on Sunday, it is more important to understand the bases for these practices in empiricism and religious authoritarianism.” History tells us what happened and provides evidence as to motives. The Roman Catholic Church explored ways and means to better influence her subjects, working with the legal authorities to provide a day off work and advocating Christian observance of Sabbath principles. “Their expectation that all citizens attend Mass in this church-state led to the need to force compliance through the appeal to Sabbath law.” Thomas Aquinas further developed this line of thought, “asserting that the old law contains moral (emanating from natural law), judicial (laws regarding justice among men), and ceremonial (laws touching on worship, holiness, and sanctification) precepts; and that these three can be distinguished in the Decalogue as well.” (page 264) This appears to be the first teaching of what is now cherished reformed doctrine – that the Law of Moses can be separated into these three categories and dealt with appropriately for new covenant saints. There should be no denying these three elements are found in the Law of Moses, but, as O’Hare shows us with Aquinas, determining what is ceremonial and what is moral is the rub. Aquinas recognized a moral teaching in the Sabbath commandment – people should worship God; he also recognized the ceremonial component, specifically the date upon which such worship is to be given. “At this juncture, Aquinas took the first step toward Sabbatarianism by moralizing a ceremonial command” by asserting the moral necessity of giving time to God. (page 265) Aquinas agreed with Augustine that moral laws are revealed by nature, so all men are without excuse. But in order to get man to be at mass and give to the church due obeisance, Aquinas saw value in elevating that which had been rightly considered ceremonial to moral status.
We will step quickly through the early reformers to show how this idea progressed. Philip Melancthon is quoted as saying, in 1530, “Those who consider the appointment of Sunday in place of the Sabbath as a necessary institution are very much mistaken, for the Holy Scriptures have abrogated the Sabbath and teach that after the revelation of the Gospel all ceremonies of the old law may be omitted.” (page 274) “Luther vacillates between his definitions of the Sabbath as a ceremonial law bearing no external application for Christians and a binding law incurring God’s judgment if disobeyed.” (page 279) John Calvin also had trouble being consistent in his view on this matter. In asserting “that the Sabbath was ceremonial and is moral leaves us open to problems concerning the nature of its existence – it is both abrogated and legally binding. This was further complicated by the church-state relationship that sought to mimic a theocratic Israel and by Calvin’s misconception that the biblical Sabbath required all Israelites to assemble at the synagogue.” (page 281) In his commentary on the Heidelberg Confession, written in 1563, O’Hare lists eight failures on the part of reformers that led them to embrace the “Christian Sabbath” (page 288):
• Failure to familiarize themselves with the teachings of the early church fathers regarding the Sabbath.
• Failure to expand the understanding of how the Lord’s advent fulfilled each specific Sabbath command beyond “resting from one’s sins.”
• Failure to be consistent in the treatment of ceremonial laws and types.
• Failure to satisfactorily explain why the ceremonial Sabbath was placed with the body of the Ten Commandments.
• Failure to recognize the limitations of the Ten Commandments as a means to inculcate Christian ethics.
• Failure to differentiate the biblical Sabbath from the tradition of the synagogue.
• Failure to emphasize the authority of the apostles under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to institute a new order of congregational worship.
• Failure to distinguish the Sabbath from the Lord’s Day.”
In what may be the keystone paragraph in the entire book, O’Hare explains the meaning of the Sabbath commandment (page 289).
The Mediator is on the first table (of the Decalogue) because, unlike Moses, Christ truly comes from God and is fully God. Yet Christ, by becoming fully man, joins with man to make him complete. Man cannot become complete simply by keeping the law, but he must experience through faith a life-altering union with Christ. The ceremonial Sabbath is the evangelion within the Ten Commandments that addresses the redemption of man. It is Christ Himself who takes the place of the Sabbath in the Decalogue. The Lord’s Day is not a continuum of the Sabbath or its replacement; it is a fresh ordinance for the church of God based upon the completion of redemption that was twice sealed by the Lord, first by His resurrection and second by the descent of the Holy Spirit.”
This puts the Decalogue in the absolute best light for new covenant saints to understand it and relate to it. (Scripture never calls the Decalogue “The Ten Commandments”, but only and always “the ten words” – hence the term Decalogue. But “Ten Commandments” are much weightier in the mouths of religious overlords than are “ten words”. I would have liked O’Hare to address this aspect of the creeping incrementalism of religious lordship in the church.)
It was during this time that the early reformers also broke with the clear teachings of Scripture and the church fathers by beginning to teach the Sabbath as the product of a creation ordinance. This was taught by Ursinus who “may have adopted the theory of the Reformed Englishman John Hooper, who, in his widely published book, Declaration of the Ten Holy Commandments (1548), claimed that God instituted the Sabbath from creation. … So, only 300 years after Aquinas and fifty years after Luther, the admixture of the Sabbath and Lord’s Day developed into a general concept that the Lord’s Day is the Sabbath, fostering the idea that the Sabbath remains a viable force in Christian living.” (page 290) This creation-ordinance based “Christian Sabbath” was a major element used by state-churches on both sides of the Atlantic to coerce Sunday worship – just as Rome had learned to do, using the same unfortunate logic.
In 1973, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church published a report from a committee that had been formed to study the relationship of the Westminster Confession of Faith to the fourth commandment. In part, the committee reported:
The Westminster Confession of Faith was not changed to reflect the eschatological import of the fourth commandment. O’Hare, having taught in this book the nature of moral law (unchanging and universal), observes “If the Sabbath is not ceremonial or typological, it is not eschatological.” “Where”, he asks, “”can it be shown that the Ten Commandments summarize the moral law given to Adam? Where can it be demonstrated that the Sabbath commandment is purely moral?” (page 291) “Was the fourth commandment, as God gave it to Israel, about the Christian Sabbath or the Jewish Sabbath? Was there anything else in the fourth commandment that was abrogated than merely the day of the week on which it fell? Where can it be shown that God abrogated the Jewish Sabbath and installed a Christian Sabbath in its place? … So, besides omitting fundamental truths about the Sabbath, the Westminster codified interpretive errors that budded with Aquinas and blossomed with early Reformers.” (page 292)
In closing this very provoking chapter, O’Hare shows us that the fourth commandment not only commanded rest, it commanded work for six days. The Hebrew word in this commandment is in the Qal imperfect tense, which implies an on-going action – “you work”. “But, if the fourth commandment moralizes the example of God for man to obey, then it is as much a sin to work on the day of rest as it is to rest on the days of work. … if someone completes their (sic) work in three days and does nothing more for three more days, what exactly are they ceasing from on the seventh day?” He instructs us on two types of rest: “1) God’s rest signifies the promise of eternal life, and 2) Israel’s rest signified her faith in God alone. God’s work is redemptive, so man’s work is meaningless apart from that redemption.” (page 309)
The early church correctly believed that the Sabbath was a ceremonial command and welcomed the ordination of the Lord’s Day as a commemoration of the Lord’s resurrection. However, the ascension of church power through the state and the influence of rationalism allowed the medieval church to begin to associate the fourth commandment with the Lord’s Day. The Reformed church, by perpetuating the error of Aquinas, eventually expanded the scope of applications of Sabbath law and increased its moral muscle, forcing the church to practice Sunday Sabbatarianism.” (page 311)
He gives us eight conclusions which are supported by Scripture and history (page 311):
• The creation account is not about the Sabbath. It is about the primal peace with God that was lost through sin because of a lack of faith. The pattern of creation – six days of God’s work and the ensuing rest – reverberates through Scripture to demonstrate God’s sovereignty in effecting the work of redemption by grace through the faith of man.
• When Israel left Egypt they were given the Feast of Passover; a few weeks later in the wilderness they were given the Sabbath. At Mount Sinai, Israel received her full calendar of feasts. The Lord devised this new system of shadow laws to prefigure the person and work of the Messiah.
• The Ten Commandments are a summary of the Mosaic laws and therefore contain both moral and ceremonial laws.
• Christ in His earthly ministry was born under the law and obeyed the ceremonial laws as well as the moral laws.
• Christ is the end of the law for righteousness. His work of redemption – His incarnation, death, burial, and resurrection – is the fulfillment of all shadow laws, even though some of them are yet to be manifested in their entirety.
• The redemption of Jesus Christ initiated the new covenant. It is the fulfillment of what the former covenants forecasted.
• The apostles had divine warrant to establish first-day worship. Scripture unfolds the transition from things Jewish to things Christian. First-day weekly worship was the normative practice of the early church, it did not move the Sabbath to Sunday.
• While there is no explicit scriptural mandate for this transition, we have scriptural foreshadowing and history of first-day significance, and rationale. Christ’s resurrection and the inaugural descent of the Holy Spirit – the most important events of the church age – occurred on the first day of the weeks in fulfillment of Israel’s shadowy calendar laws.”
There is much, much more in this book than I can even hint at in these few pages – which are too many for most, I fear. Buy the book. Study the topics, challenge the author (I found a few places where I consider him to be in error), challenge yourself – for none of us has arrived any more than did any of the Reformers.
At the end of it all, why doesn’t this book, or anyone else, show from Scripture why the Jewish Sabbath command is not meant for the new covenant church? This is the wrong starting point. We look to Scripture to see what is, what God has revealed to us; not to prove a point. What we see in Scripture about the Decalogue is that is was an integral part of the Mosaic Covenant and the testimony or witness of that covenant (Ex 31:18, 32:15, 34:27 – 29). This key aspect of the Decalogue being a testimony of God’s covenant with Israel is further developed in Ex 25 and 26, with the ark being the “ark of the testimony” (see Ex 25:22 for emphasis). This is reminiscent of Ex 16:33 – 34 when Moses was commanded to put manna in a jar as a testimony God’s promise of provisions, seen in Ex 16:4 – 5. These are the most (only?) explicit statements in the Bible regarding the reason and purpose for the tablets and the ark – as a testimony of God’s covenant with Israel made on Mt. Sinai. Ezekiel 20:12 tells us the Sabbath is a sign between God and the Hebrews – marking their exodus from Egypt. It is not listed as a sign for the church, any more than water baptism is a sign and seal of that New Covenant. The burden is on the backs of those who say the Jewish Sabbath was, as the confessions say, abolished and re-established on the first day of the week, given to the church as the “Christian Sabbath.” That assertion, is found in paragraph 22.7 of the Second London Baptist Confession, yet established by no Scripture. Yet we do see in God’s Word the admonition for Christians to be understanding and accepting of brothers who lean on the practice of old religion (Romans 14 and 1 Cor 8) as well as stern rebukes for those who want Christians to practice old religion as a requirement (Acts 15).
The Sabbath Complete provides a comprehensive review and analysis of myriad aspects of the Decalogue and the Sabbath; examining the Word of God, the languages, and the historical context. Let the reader humbly go before Holy God and plead for understanding rather than rely on his own “wisdom” or unexamined presuppositions that we all hold too closely. Remember those who went before us – they knew they were fallible, yet many of them acted as if they were complete in their understanding of God’s Word. Yet they stood under the banner of Sufficiency of Scripture and all for the glory of God – as we must. But let these slogans of an bygone era be not merely nifty phrases we use to show our credentials, let each of us also acknowledge that we must be reformed and reforming for the glory of God, for He alone sees and understands perfectly.
This book is available on Amazon and directly from the publisher, at a competitive price.
Test ALL Things, Cling to that which is Good!
Each of us has doctrines we hold to without properly examining them in light of Scripture – that’s how we are wired as humans. This comes into play on this notion of Christian Sabbath keeping which was first invented by early Roman Catholics in the 6th century and codified in paedobaptists’ system of theology a thousand years later. Now it is a tightly held tradition by many; and many who love this teaching celebrate any work that supports their perspective – which does their argument no good. Walter Chantry’s book, Call the Sabbath a Delight, is such a work. In my two years of researching this subject, this book did more to convince me this “Christian Sabbath” is not defensible from Scripture than anything written against this doctrine. The best thing about this book is that it’s small and short.
Call the Sabbath a Delight call-the-sabbath-walt-chantry
by Walter Chantry – a critical review
Walter Chantry was born and raised in a Presbyterian home and graduated from a Presbyterian school (Westminster Theological Seminary). This is something worth mentioning, as it’s obvious he was heavily influenced by our paedobaptist brothers. Let each one of us realize we are likewise influenced by what we’ve taught and think is “so” and need test all things in light of God’s holy Word. In the introduction to this book, Chantry starts off presuming the Decalogue (not called the Ten Commandments until the New Geneva Bible) equals God’s moral law. Since this is foundational to his entire argument, it needs some explanation and defense, not mere assertion – but our author provides none. Perhaps he assumes everybody knows this or accepts it. Why this is problematic will be shown later. This short introduction to his book sets his premise, in which he comes across very much like the folks in the movie, Divided: just as the movie implied teenagers were going to hell because the right church program was not available, so Chantry paints a picture of a culture hell-bound because people have turned their back on the so-called Christian Sabbath: “We should consider it nothing less than shockingly unacceptable for Bible teachers and ministers to undermine the practice of the worship and service of God by teaching against the Sabbath law.” This pragmatic streak is another thing that shows up throughout this book. But we know, God saves His elect through the gospel people; salvation does not come through the Law or through behavior modification.
In chapter 1, Chantry quotes Ex 20:8-11 and calls it the 4th commandment. Does anyone think the tablets God wrote on contained all those words for the “4th Word”? By assuming all the words in these verses are the commandment, he fails to see the ceremonial, judicial, civil, etc. content in this and several of the commandments. He considers all of Ex 20:3 – 17 to be “the Ten Commandments”, summing up God’s moral law. If the 10 Words on the first set of tablets is God’s moral law, why do we not have those 10 Words clearly preserved in Scripture rather than bound up in words that conveyed the re-issue of the covenant of works to the Hebrew people? And why does the record of the Decalogue differ, particularly in the 4th commandment, between Ex 20 and Deut 5? Our author merely waves this aside, asserting, “as originally given on Mount Sinai (Exodus 20), the fourth law was enforced with an argument from God’s behavior during creation week.” Yes, the Lord gave illumination of His Sabbath command to the Hebrews by pointing back to the 7th day of creation, providing an example of the rest He was commanding the Hebrews to keep. God doesn’t call the 7th day of creation a Sabbath in Ex 20 – but He does use that word to describe the sign He has given the Hebrews. In his effort to defend his position, Chantry claims, “the Ten Commandments per se are free of all ceremonial and judicial peculiarities of the Mosaic covenant.” If this is true, should not the Lord have struck Moses dead for changing His eternal, moral law with he “rehearsed the Ten Commandments to Israel” in Deuteronomy? If by this our author means that embedded in the text of Ex 20:3 – 17 are the “the Ten Commandments per se”, that some of what’s recorded in this passage is not God’s moral law, he should have developed this argument. He leaves us wondering what he means, because he consistently calls “the Ten Commandments” God’s moral law and he does not tell us what he thinks “the Ten Commandments per se” might be. Just as we don’t have an inspired record of “the 10 words”, neither do we have for “the Ten Commandments per se”.
Chantry tells us (page 24) that Rom 2:15 is proof that Adam was given the Decalogue when he was created. This verse tells us that Gentiles without the law of Moses have the works of the law written on their hearts – it does NOT prove Adam was created with the Decalogue written on his conscience as claimed. Further, how could Adam know the Decalogue or any version of the moral law of God prior to having knowledge of good and evil? The law – any law – brings awareness of sin (evil); Adam knew none of this before he ate and his eyes were opened. Before the Fall, Adam and Eve knew the goodness of God; they did not know evil. After he and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, God said “the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil.” It appears that Adam was given the moral law of God in conjunction with The Fall – not when he was created nor when he walked in innocence.
There is, however, much to agree with in this book – we do get guidance from God as to what is honorable from His moral law, Christians are to be joyful about gathering on the Lord’s Day, he decries the overly rigid rules-based Puritan view of enforcing their Sabbath – which the authors of the WCF had as their baseline for their view. But Chantry, who was raised and educated as a Presbyterian, doesn’t seem to see the difference between the Jews living under the Old Covenant and the children of Abraham according to the promise living in the New Covenant. And he lumps all who don’t see this equivalence into the dust bin of dispensationalism (this line of argument takes up most of chapter 4, providing a platform for Chantry to condemn all who disagree by saying, “Never in Israel or the church did the gospel of salvation by grace through faith promote lawlessness.” This is the bucket all who do not hold his view are thrown into. There is no other position in Chantry’s model: if you are not a Sabbatarian, you are an antinomian. This is, sadly, an all-too-common assertion by Sabbatarians.
Another problem in claiming the Decalogue equals God’s moral law comes into play when Chantry argues for its universal application to all men at all times – implicitly endorsing blue laws and contradicting the historical record of Scripture and all of mankind. Only by Special Revelation can man know he is to worship God on a given day. How can the entire 4th Commandment, as presented herein, be universal when it’s apparent everywhere that many don’t know it, when nowhere in Scripture are any people outside the Mosaic Covenant punished for violating it? Nowhere in general revelation is man given the 7 day week; yet there is every evidence that all men everywhere know murder and robbery, etc. are wrong and all men worship something. God’s moral law is known to man and no man is without excuse. But there is no evidence that weekly rest from labor is part of that moral law; it appears only in context with God’s covenant people. Nowhere in any version of the 10 Commandments are people told to worship God on the Sabbath and nowhere in the Scriptures is the first day of the week called “Sabbath”. Yet we know from Scripture that the saints gathered to worship on the day after the Sabbath. They went to the synagogues to dispute with the Jews on the Sabbath.
He gives conflicting messages, telling us rightly that, as Peter said, we are not to live under the Mosaic law (beginning of chapter 2). But our author makes no effort to separate God’s moral law from the Mosaic Covenant in applying his sabbatarian argument. He cites Isaiah 58:13 & 14 as “a discussion of the Sabbath in all its spiritual beauty. Here is a text in which the Sabbath Law is presented without the drab and unappealing attire of judicial additives.” But Chantry told us in chapter 1 that “the Ten Commandments per se are free of all ceremonial and judicial peculiarities of the Mosaic covenant.” Is he now citing Isaiah 58 as proof against his assertion from chapter 1? He gives superficial attention to Scriptures but spends lots of pages talking about the woeful state of the culture and giving what can only be called pragmatic advice. “Mothers and fathers must work at making the Sabbath a delight to their children. Boys and girls must not come to view the day of worship as grim and repressive.” One cannot muster up nor manufacture “the joy of the Lord”. If mom and dad are new creatures in Christ, they will have joy in the worship, instruction, and fellowship that takes place in a local church. Yes, they will have sin to deal with and must strive for holiness. This should be modeled for their unregenerate small children – those impressionable young people can be easily trained to look like covenant children; but that is a very dangerous role for any person to play. As with the taking of the Lord’s Supper, young people ought to see Christian character and worship but parents ought to know they cannot participate unless they be born again.
Chantry (page 52) says there are some who “the claim that the New Testament is silent on the fourth commandment.” He then shoots himself squarely in the foot by claiming Matt 12:1-14, Mark 2:23- 3:6, Luke 6:1-11, Luke 13:10-17, Luke 4:1-6, John 5:1-18, and John 7:20-24 are New Testament teachings about Christians keeping the Sabbath – “They contain our Lord Jesus’ frequent and extensive teaching on the subject.” All of these passages are records of activity by Christ and/or His disciples doing kingdom work on the Jewish Sabbath with those under the Mosaic Law. He fails to cite the clear and thrice-told declaration (Ex 31:13 – 17, Ez 20:12. Ez 20:20) that the Sabbath is a sign between YHWH and the Jews. Chantry goes on to claim (page 54), that in Mark 2:27-28, Christ points back to creation in defending the continuation of the weekly Sabbath – And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.” Chantry claims the phrase, “the Sabbath was made”, refers to the 7th day of creation. He compares this passage from Mark to Paul’s very clear tie of creation to marriage – “Paul uses almost an identical formula in 1 Corinthians 11:8-9. ‘Man is not come from woman, but woman from man; neither was man created for woman but woman for man.’” Contrary to Chantry’s claim, there is no comparison: Paul clearly cites Genesis 2:18 – 23, but one has to claim Moses used the wrong word in writing Genesis 2:2-3, because he didn’t use the word for Sabbath found in Exodus 20. The Hebrew word for the “rest” God observed on the “seventh” day found in Genesis 2:2-3 is shābat; a primitive root; to repose, i.e. desist from exertion; the word for Sabbath in Exodus 20:8-11 is shabbāt; intensive from <H7673> (shabath); intermission, i.e. (specific) the Sabbath. These two are related but are not the same.
He constantly insists the Sabbath was created in the beginning, because God set aside the 7th day as His day of rest, made it holy, blessed it because on it He rested from creation. No mention of Sabbath, no command to man to do anything nor punishment of man for failing to obey this command. Nehemiah (chapter 9 verses 13 & 14) records that God gave the Sabbath to the Jews on Mt. Sinai. The sabbath that Christ says was made for men – not just for the Jews – is that sabbath rest all elect enter into when we are raised to new life in Jesus and cease from our working to be right with God as the Old Covenant demands. Hebrews 4 is not talking about a continuation of the pale, weekly day of the Jewish religion, which was a type and weak imitation of the eternal rest and reconciliation He bought with His blood.
In chapter 5, Chantry inadvertently makes my point – that the moral law of God is not equal to the Decalogue, though it shone through the Decalogue – when he observes that Jesus and the disciples defined moral purity by quoting the Decalogue. When the commandments are quoted in the New Testament, they rarely (once?) include the judicial/ceremonial language contained in Ex 20 and Deut 5. These first century men knew the actual “10 Words” as did their Jewish audiences. And not once does Jesus or His apostles teach or enforce any type of sabbath keeping as described in the Westminster Confession of Faith and the 1689 London Baptist Confession in context of the Christian faith. But Chantry doesn’t see this – he says, “Keeping the Sabbath Day holy is a commandment embedded in the code of moral law written by God’s own finger. It is a part of the definition of righteousness.” (page 63) Many theologians like to make much of the fact that God wrote the 10 Words on the first set of tablets, tablets made of stone – which Moses destroyed. The second set of tablets, which probably carved by Moses as commanded by God, were stored in the Ark of the Covenant, along with the jar of manna and Aaron’s rod. This Ark of the Covenant was lost in antiquity, and according the Word of God, is to be forgotten – (Jr 3:15-16): “And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. And when you have multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, declares the LORD, they shall no more say, “The ark of the covenant of the LORD.” It shall not come to mind or be remembered or missed; it shall not be made again.” Might these “tablets of testimony” (Ex 31:18) of the Mosaic Covenant be types and shadows that point us to something greater, as so much of what God gave Israel in that covenant is properly recognized as? God’s law written on tablets of stone, given to people with hearts of stone, who gathered for worship in a temple of stone. Compare this the new Covenant Jeremiah writes about: God’s people given hearts of flesh to replace their hearts of stone, God’s law written on the tablets of our hearts rather than tablets of stone, and we are God’s temple which is comprised of spiritual stones He is assembling for Himself. Chantry goes on to state (still on page 63),“The ways in which the moral law was applied and the way it was enforced differ greatly when we compare the management of Moses and the management of Christ.” This sounds a whole lot like our paedobaptist argument – that the covenant of Moses is part of the covenant of grace, just under a different administrator.
Chantry is right and correct in pointing out the ancient basis of the covenant of grace, delineating the difference between it and the Mosaic Covenant. His guidance regarding motives, in chapter 6, is solid, although he continues to use dramatic and inaccurate comparisons – calling those who do not align with his view of the first day of the week, lawless, antinomian. This is poor practice. It will take a biblical argument pressed on me by the Spirit of God that convinces me of anything – not a comparison between Christians and the culture.
In his argument about why Christians worship on Sunday, there is no argument – until he describes how the Sabbath was moved to the day after the Sabbath. If one takes the stone tablets as God’s moral law, rather than seeing them as a lens through which His moral law shone in the context of the Mosaic Covenant, then one must find a way to explain how that “which God wrote with His finger” was changed without a command from God. If the entire record in Ex 20 known as the 10 Commandments is considered to be God’s moral law, then one cannot accept changing the day (explicitly called out as the seventh day, not “every seventh day, and not the first); that is as much a part of God’s moral law as is the command to work six days (not five). And the 4th commandment does not command worship – but to keep it holy, set apart, and to abstain from work. But, if one sees God’s moral law as described above – shining through the Decalogue rather than the Decalogue being the source – then we can easily accept this change in the day, seeing the moral principle as the key thing. The Jews were commanded to honor the seventh day; Christ was raised from the dead on the first day and we gather for worship on that day. I know that many theologians agree with Chantry that Heb 4 is a proof text for weekly Sabbath keeping. But the Old Testament type given was a one time entry into temporal rest, just as was Creator God’s one time entering into His rest from Creation work – so why would the rest between these two be other than the one time rest the elect enter into when they are redeemed by Christ and take His light load upon them and find rest in Him? It is a stretch that belies belief to claim this is a weekly Sabbath, something that was a pale shadow of what was promised in Gen 3:15.
In the last chapter, Chantry tries to write off biblical passages that appear to teach that a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath were a shadow of what was to come, Col 2 being “the most striking and troublesome” for the author. “It is apparent that these three texts are describing ceremonial and judicial laws of Moses. … Weekly Sabbath-keeping as required in the fourth commandment does not fit the description of days described in Romans 14, Galatians 4 and Colossians 2.” His argument for this position is tied to his insistence on a creation ordinance – “The weekly Sabbath day is a creation ordinance just as is marriage. Moses said so (Genesis 2:1-3), Jesus said so (Mark 2:27, 28)! So did the author of Hebrews 4:3-4!” That Genesis 2 says nothing about a weekly pattern of rest for men does not come into Chantry’s evaluation of this topic. This pattern of days refers to all of the holy days of the Jews from yearly feasts to the weekly Sabbath, and comes from repeated descriptions of the Mosaic ritual, found in 1 Chron 23:30-31; 2 Chron 2:4, 8:12-13, 31:3; Neh 10:33; Isaiah 1:13-14; Ezek 45:17; and Hosea 2:11. This is another indication that the Mosaic code, of which the Decalogue is part, does not apply to Christian as a law – but as a type or shadow of the Christ to come. Our exodus is not from Egypt; that country is a type for sin and wickedness. The moral law, though it is revealed within the Mosaic code, is eternal and no more uniquely part of that Sinai covenant than the New Covenant is – though the covenant of grace was progressively revealed over time, even within the era of the Mosaic Covenant. His last point addresses “proper Sabbath behavior.” He gives some good counsel on the limits of elders and common sense examples of variation depending on circumstance, but defaults to Jewish rules to guide us. He does finish with a recognition that Sabbath keeping isn’t the “answer to all man’s ills”, but still holds up a Christian imitation of the Jewish rite as a joy for us to keep.
In explaining how the Sabbath day can be changed from the 7th to the 1st day, Chantry accepts the narrative accounts in Scripture which document the fact that Christians met for worship on the 1st day, claiming this does not “cause the entire law to crumble or disappear.” But if the Decalogue and this commandment in particular have no judicial or ceremonial content, then changing from “the seventh day” should take something more substantial. It is a common hermeneutic rule – narrative is not normative; one doesn’t build doctrine from narrative. Why should one be able to change God’s moral law by narrative example?
Regarding the assertion that the Decalogue is or sums up God’s moral law, this is a very complex topic that would benefit from a well researched book being written. One would need to develop the concept of “God’s moral law”, get a handle on what may have been carved on the stone tablets compared to what Moses recited to the Hebrew nation, and examine the biblical history and biblical theology of the relevant texts. If someone knows of such a work, please chime in!
The authors of Chantry’s “List of Outstanding Materials on the Sabbath” is comprised of 18 paedobaptists and 1 Baptist – Erroll Hulse, plus the Westminster Confession of Faith and Shorter and Larger Westminster Catechisms. This, in itself, tells us where the bulk of support is for Chantry’s position – those who flatten out the covenants and, in an opposite ditch from the dispensationalists, see equality of identity between the church and the nation of Israel.
Give me the joyful gathering of the saints who eagerly come together to worship the Lord and build one another up; I care not to enter into the shadow of what Christ brought to His church.
Is the Sabbath a Creation Ordinance?
Clipboard01If you say the Sabbath is a Creation Ordinance, a few guidelines for the discussion and a couple of observations. First, define “Creation Ordinance”; secondly, explain from Scripture how it is determined that Sabbath keeping is a Creation Ordinance. Thirdly, is Sabbath keeping binding on Christians (exegesis of Scripture); fourthly, where is the command to move the observance from the 7th day to the 1st day?
Observations: Most reformed folk consider marriage a Creation Ordinance, and we do see a command in Gen 2 regarding it. However, I know of no theologian who thinks every person or every Christian is commanded to marry. It is normal, blessed by God, etc. but not commanded.
1. Why would one Creation Ordinance NOT be a command and another one BE a command?
2. When is Sabbath keeping first observed in Scripture?
3. What is your interpretation of the manna collecting commands in Ex 16?
4. Where in the New Testament do you see Christians keeping the Sabbath? |
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• A The Loud House Massive Multiplayer Crossover fanfic, The Loud House: Revamped, is now officially taking Ambience: A Fleet Symphony's place as FanFiction.Net's longest ongoing fanfiction. It sits at a staggering 7,469,466 words and a mind-blowing 1,262 chapters (as of December 3rd, 2020). For the curious: it's a self-insert fanfiction wherein the protagonist joins with the Loud House to combat evil forces. Most of the text, however, is in script format and one-liners.
• At the Edge of Lasg'len, a Tolkien's Legendarium fanfiction, clocks in at almost 4,900,000 words, and is the longest fanfiction hosted on Archive of Our Own. It helps that it's written by a couple of authors rather than just one.
• Everything Changes, a Formula 1 Real-Person Fic, is currently the second-longest work on Archive of our Own, at over 4.6 million words (as of November 23rd, 2020), and it's still being updated.
• On 17th June 2017, Ambience: A Fleet Symphony reached 4,061,145 words, replacing The Subspace Emissary's Worlds Conquest as FanFiction.Net's longest ongoing fanfiction, and as of 24th January 2020, it is sitting at an even longer 4,556,264 words long. Having been first published on 8th May 2014, it was at one point the fastest-growing fanfiction on the site, with the author consistently putting out chapters near or exceeding 10,000 words every other day between the start of 2016 and mid-2017.
• The Subspace Emissary's Worlds Conquest was for many years the longest (non-troll) fanfiction on the FanFiction.Net site, and as of 12 June 2018 contains 221 chapters consisting of 4,102,328 words. And it's not even finished - the author has been updating this fic since March of 2008, and is hoping to make it 400 chapters. The most recent chapters are roughly 40,000 words each. That's enough for them to qualify as novels on their own, at least according to The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's criteria.
• Hugs and Kisses is a fanfic featuring Chris Jericho and Stephanie McMahon... which on 1 April 2014 quietly sneaked past Worlds Conquest when its 441st chapter took it to 3,593,793 words, making it the longest story on It held that title for about two months before Worlds Conquest exited its hiatus. As of chapter 503 it sits at 3,865,990 words, though updates seem to have stopped. The earlier part Hugs and Kisses: The Beginning is also over a million words, with the two combined totalling just over 4.9 million.
• CCW: Character Championship Wrestling is the longest Gen Fic on Archive of Our Own. As of its last update on 4 December 2017 it is 229 chapters and 3,817,471 words long.
• The Mass Effect fanfic, Spirit Of Redemption has a grand total of 3,404,854 words in 162 chapters. And by the way, it's all original plot and mostly all Original Characters. There are a few other stories out there that are longer than this, but what really makes Spirit of Redemption stand out is that it was written in only 21 months whereas the other stories that break 3 million words have been ongoing for years. It's also the longest completed fanfic. The writer, Myetel, once had a job writing technical manuals for NASA. Perhaps that explains it...
• Smash Life is chasing onto The Subspace Emissary's Worlds Conquest as the second-longest piece of Super Smash Bros. fanfiction online. As of October 5th, 2020, it currently sits with 3,259,471 words and counting, with weekly updates going on to this day (except during a 13-week hiatus from June 5 to September 6). For those who are curious: It's a documentary-style semi-reality show that deals with the life of the brawlers inside the Smash Mansion.
• These Black Eyes in the Teen Titans section is over 2.5 million words, 272 chapters. Depending on how much of Arc III has been lost, it may have been over 3 million in its full version.
• With This Ring is a Young Justice self-insert fanfiction which deals with a character with significant knowledge of the DC universe who gains an Orange Power Ring. As of Jan 2020, it is over 3.1 million words long, and has been updating daily for the past several years.
• Ah! My Goddess fanfic Trial by Tenderness sits at just over 2.2 million words as of December 2014 — at Harry Potter word-per-page rates, that's around 7,000 pages, and over three times the length of Atlas Shrugged. The author doesn't seem to be planning on stopping anytime soon, either.
• The Chase clocks in at over 2,000,000 words (contained within over 800 chapters) as of January 2016.
• Shards To a Whole an NCIS fanfic centering around McGee and Abby but extended to show Team Gibbs evolving into The Gibbs Family. On 12/23/2017 the story was marked as complete with a word count of 2,965,445, spread over 609 chapters. Not counting Shards, an Alternate Universe story currently at 140 chapters an over 650 thousand words and counting; "Shards" picks up after chapter 290 of "StaW", and is being written by Keryl Raist for those who want to follow the plot beats of her main story without dealing with a primary plotline of her later chapters in "StaW", in which Tim and Abby McGee and Jimmy and Breena Palmer enter into a long-term four-way romantic relationship.
• Brave New World currently stands at 2,404,050 words.
• Diaries of a Madman, which as of April 2019, is over 2.732 million words, holding the title of the longest fic on FIMFiction, with no sign of slowing down anytime soon.
• A Certain Unknown Level 0 has reached 2,701,790 words as of 14 September 2019, and is by far the longest A Certain Magical Index fanfiction on Spread over 153 chapters, it boasts an average count of more than 17,500 words per chapter.
• Chapters in recent arcs rarely contain fewer than 20,000 words (and more than 30,000 on occasion), which is down in part to the author writing responses to all those who leave comments (some of them very detailed).
• The infamously lengthy Uiharu Kazari arc alone has over 1 million words.
• The longest fanfic on Japanese fanfiction archive Hameln is ''Tensei Trouble'', and stands as a reminder that absurdly long fanfics aren't limited to English: as of 20 September 2020 its length is 2985 chapters and 15,260,785 characters, making it far longer than any of the other fanfics on this page even after correcting for the difference in word density when converting Japanese to English. The fic updates daily.
Over 2,000,000 words (series)
• Lightning on the Wave's Alternate Universe Harry Potter epic known as the Arc of Sacrifices. It's posted as 7 separate stories (mirroring the 7-book format of the HP series), so the site doesn't record the full tale's word count. This is really too bad, since it clocks in at just over 3 million words. Surprisingly enough (for a fanfic), it's actually a complete story. The author wrote it between September '05 and Jan '07, posting an average of 6400 words per day.
• Undocumented Features clocks in at (as of early November 2008) approximately 20 megabytes of pure ASCII text. That's 3.5 million words long. Which actually makes it longer than the Sacrifices Arc.
• Latias' Journey, weights in at 1,237,300 words. Combining it with its sequel Brave New World, already mentioned above, results in a length of over 3.5 million words.
• The Infinite Loops as a whole falls under this, thanks to having multiple authors writing for different franchises in the universes setting and having others still contributing snips to them as well. As of putting this here, just the Friendship is Magic branch of the loops has gone for 198 chapters and 2,042,068 words. In total, the loops ranks in at +400 chapters and +5,000,000 words. It's gotten to the point where the trope page has sub-pages for any compilation with more then 20 chapters; The MLP Loops obviously enough, The Pokémon Loops, The RWBY Loops, The Winx Club Loops...
• A Katekyō Hitman Reborn! fanfic series Flames and Family by madashes2ashes is made up of four complete stories and the fifth is still ongoing. Part IV in particular contains 2,225,275 words in 161 chapters, putting it in's top 10 longest individual stories. In total, the word count for the fics goes over 3.5 million words.
• Tales of The Cosmic War is a story that has three parts with a total of around 200 chapters (parts as in stories) the first one has around 1,100,000 words, the third was finished with 2,411,720 words on its own. In total, the trilogy spans 4,470,278 words.
• The 10 core stories of BlackRoseRaven's fusion of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and Norse Mythology referred to as the Blooming Moon Chronicles or the 99 Worlds Saga total 4,441,432 words. That doesn't even count the various sequels or side stories (most of the author's other entries tie in to The 'Verse).
• The Austraeoh series. While each story has 200 chapters, they are very short, usually no more than one or two thousand words. Still, as of July 2017, the entire nonology clocks in at above 3,300,000 words so far, and the author is planning on several more parts.
• The second story of the Digimon series, A Sticky Situation, is called Secret of the 327th and crosses over with Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Upon completion, it turned out to be 220 chapters and 2,291,357 words. The third part sits at well over 840,000 as of August 2015. And the fourth sits at over 600,000.
• The Pony POV Series. Altogether, the completed seasons and side-stories total 2,176,431 words.note Imagine a binding of that.
• The actual seasons can qualify. For a while, they hovered over 80,000 words, with Seasons 3 and 5 both breaking 100,000... then came Season 6. The Dark World/Shining Armor arc was a massive 825,116 word monster. Since then, seasons seem to hit this trend, with Season 5.5/6.5 hitting 174,056 words, Season 7 ending at 523,208 words, and the uncompleted Season 8 currently just north of 400,000 words.
• Pinkie Pie's Fourth-Wall Variety Show, a non canon Pony POV series, had all its episode collected together on FIMFiction. The end result was another 423,287 words on top of everything else.
• As of November 2016, all the works (including non-canon) in the Poké Wars added up to a total of 4,813,057 words.
• The same creator of Soul Chess brought us Fairy Without Wings. While Soul Chess did not break 2,000,000 words (see below) this one did and is still ongoing.
• Adopted Displaced series: As of January 1, 2017, the thirteen completed stories alone total 1,127,027 words. The series later passed the 2 million mark on May 19, 2017, with sixteen completed stories (1,531,578 words between them, with the four ongoing fics making up the difference). On top of that, the author's adding another 8,000 minimum every week. And there are more stories to come.
• At 2.2 million words and counting, To Be Human is a five-part Marvel Cinematic Universe fanfiction series centering around Natasha Romanoff, and it's still ongoing as of October 2020. All five installments qualify as Doorstoppers in their own right, with the incomplete fifth story clocking in at 322k, and all others clocking in north of 350k words. The third part is nearly 520k words, and the fourth part tops that at 660k words. Even more impressively, the author has proven highly prolific- the series only started in March of 2019.
Over 1,000,000 words (single)
• Cat-Ra: Monokub just can't help himself from making each episode several quite sizable chapters. The story has 1,456,237 words over 130 chapters
• Max Landis' Super Mario World is a 436-page movie script that would be 7 hours long if it were made, with almost every Mario character having a supporting role, character arcs, and being name-dropped at least once.
• Taylor Varga, a crossover between Worm and an obscure anime Luna Varga clocks in at 1.8 million words, and is still going strong as of January 2020.
• A Third Path to the Future a Harry Potter and Marvel crossover that clocks in at 1,839,596 words as of April 2020. It's updated regularly, still shows no sign of slowing down, and maintains a high quality.
• Sonic's Ultimate Harem, one of the most controversial pieces of Sonic fanfiction, chimes in at 1.6 million words by its completion. It's a Massive Multiplayer Crossover between 107 different franchises with Sonic having sex with 360 women.
• Traveler: A Pokémon fanfic with just over 1.2 million words with 50 chapters as of February 2020.
• Another Worm Fanfic, Mauling Snarks clocks at 1.5 million words as of January 2020.
• Yet again, with a little extra help reached 1,262,281 words at its completion after approximately three years of work. This is all before the Time Skip in Naruto, incidentally, and the story continues in a sequel for Post Time-Skip. Third Fang has put up roughly 1,200,000 words in a period of 900, that is 1300 words per day, everyday. this time figure does not remove the time taken up buy revisions or time spent doing other tiresome things like sleeping and eating.
• At over 1,080,000 and still ongoing as of 2015 Drifting is currently the second longest Naruto story on FanFiction.Net.
• God Slaying Blade Works— A crossover piece between a Fate/stay night/Campione! crossover written by Marcus Galen Sands, where Shirou and Illya survive the Normal ending of The Heaven's Feel route via Dimension hopping and God magic.
• Prince Of The Dark Kingdom: At 142 chapters and 1,181,731 words certainly qualifies. A Harry Potter fic.
• Yu-Gi-Oh! Forever, which lives up to its name; it's a whopping 321 chapters, 937,873 words, long. It also has a sequel, Yu-Gi-Oh Eternal, which is 70 chapters, 451,622 words, long.
• The Halo fanfiction The Life is 230 chapters long, with 1,622,859 words in total. Word of God originally stated that the story would end at over twice its then-current length back when it was 550,000 words; it ended up being nearly triple that. As of August 2016, it remains the longest story in the Halo archive.
• Yu-Gi-Oh! fanfic Skin, as of March 2014, has passed 1.8 million words.
• Soul Chess is complete at 208 chapters and over 1,700,000 words.
• The The New trials of Card Captor Sakura and friends, a Cardcaptor Sakura fiction that has almost 2 million words, featuring the entire returning casts of CCS as well as hundreds of original characters introduced in the story. The story features Sakura and Syaoran as they attempt to seal the dark forces as well learning more about their parents past while striving to understand the future for them and their friends.
• Unequally Rational and Emotional certainly isn't short in the Negima section, at 1,221,218 words as of chapter 48.
• RockmanEXE: The College Years comes in at over 1,000,000 words in 280 chapters. It's about three times longer than any other single fic in the Megaman category.
• As of May, 2018 Eroninja clocks in at 90 chapters and slightly over 1,950,000 words. The side-story Eroninja: The Limelight adds over another 100,000. Both stories are still going strong and the author intends to write at least two sequels.
• The Recursive Fanfiction Fallout: Equestria - Project Horizons has passed the original Fallout Equestria, has been completed with over 1.7 million words. Unlike plenty of other long fanfics, it's not due to Padding; both this story and the original have editors and are regarded as good quality works.
• Universe Falls, as noted by the creator, is the longest Gravity Falls fanfic and the longest Steven Universe fanfic on FanFiction.Net, with 1,701,585 words (as of October 2020), and were at the beginning of Arc 9.
• Ashes of the Past, a Pokémon anime fanfiction, clocks in at 1,869,563 words and still ongoing as of January 2019.
• While the Blooming Moon Chronicles are a doorstopper as a whole, two stories from the series deserve special mention: Glory Be, with 1,039,124 words, and Hecate's Orphanage, with 1,149,615. (It should be noted that these wordcounts are taken from the version published on Fimfiction.Net. The publications have a few thousand words extra.)
• Starlight Over Detrot (as of January 2017) clocks in at 103 chapters and over 1,019,952 words, and is 28 chapters into its third (and possibly final) act.
• Silver Glow's Journal follows a pegasus college student from the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic universe through a year-long foreign exchange program on Earth. It wrapped up at 379 chapters (styled as short jounal entries) and 1,000,907 words.
• The Digimon Adventure 02 fanfic Digimon Adventure 02: The Story We Never Told was completed at 70 chapters long, with 1,038,030 words.
• As of July 2017, Forum of Thrones, an ongoing and interactive Game of Thrones fanfiction has reached the first third of its intended amount of chapters, finishing this milestone at 1,117,256 words divided over 290 parts in nine chapters. The author himself has stated that the next two-thirds of the story are fully expected to be even longer, with him intending to finish the story north of 4,000,000 words.
• HP & the Jade Dragon as of September 2017 has 98 chapters and over 1,069,000 words.
• This Bites! is the longest One Piece fanfic out there with 1,529,531 words at 65 chapters (and a few specials) as of May 2019.
• My Huntsman Academia has over 1,000,000 words in the main storynote as well as 220,000 words of canon Omakes and 230,000 words worth of non-canon outtakes after less than a year and a half of work. It just finished Volume 1.
• Hotel for the Broken as of November 2018 is an A/B/O Haikyuu!! fanfiction with over 1,2 million words, making it the longest Haikyuu fanfiction on Archive of our Own
• The Loud House Historical AU Reeling In The Years clocks at 1,387,356 words as of September 2019 and still going.
• Traveler is a Pokémon Alternate Universe Fic and Patchwork Fic where Ash receives a male Nidoran instead of a Pikachu. As of March 2019, it has over 40 chapters and is over a million words long.
• As of July 19th, 2019, True Potential broke the one million words mark at chapter 94th.
• A Cold Calculus is a Euphemia-themed Code Geass For Want of a Nail fic with 1304k+ words.
• SAPR is a crossover between My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and RWBY that has passed 1.2 million words as of the first of January, 2020, and it continues to be updated. The author claims that he mentally divides up sections of the fic into different books, but no such indexing exists on the chapter titles, and on the three websites it is uploaded to it only has a singular listing.
• ''Uchiha Heiress Remix has a little over 1.3 million words as of May 7, 2020.
• A Thing of Vikings is a How to Train Your Dragon Alternate History fanfiction, and with 1,090,823 words as of chapter 100 published on Sept 20, 2020, the fic is officially longer than the combined length of the seven main Harry Potter books (1,084,170); while the author has broken up the story arcs into "books", they are currently aggregated as single fanfiction and thus qualify under this category.
• Son of the Sannin broke the 1 million mark with its 112th chapter on September 30th, 2020.
Over 1,000,000 words (series)
• The Calvinverse is a very long series, with over 1,000,000 words spread across its several stories... and that's only counting the official stories!
• The Trixieverse MLP series is one million, three hundred and forty-six thousand and eight words in nine successive books, each one focussing on different character arcs and situations but continuing the larger narrative.
• The Mass Effect fanfic trilogy Mass Vexations clocks in at just under 1.4 million words. Across the entire series, two of the installments clock in at just over 600,000 words.
• The Total Drama Comeback Series is composed of the first saga, one of the only complete alternate-seasons at over 400,000 words, and the second fic Total Drama Battlegrounds is set to at least triple that amount with double the contestants. This is over a million words for a kids' show.
• The Albus Potter Series, consisting of 7 "books", clocks in at over 1,120,000 words, about 50,000 words longer than the actual Harry Potter series.
• Iron Hearts, each of the chapters in this MLP and Warhammer 40,000 crossover series is well over 100,000 words, with most topping 200,000 by a fair margin. Altogether, the series is roughly 1,400,000 words as of April 26 2016.
• The six-season Total Shuffled Island Series is expected to approach 1.5 million words upon completion. The shortest finished season clocks in at about 190,000 words including author's notes, and a couple top 300K.
• As of July 2016, the series Down to Agincourt is more than 1,000,000 words in length (and that's only the first four books of a projected nine)!
• Child of the Storm alone ends up being over 800,000 words long. Add on the spin-off Chaos Reigns and the ongoing sequel Ghosts of the Past (which is planned to be the first of many), and it's about 1.7 million words long.
• The Lone Traveler spans 4 main stories and numerous side stories. 1.1 million words and still climbing.
• The Road to be a Pokemon Master, it has 3 complete stories, a fourth one that just started as of February 2019, and two more stories left to write. Together they sum 1.9 million words, and counting.
• Naruto fanfic Better Left Unsaid has just barely crossed a million words as of February 2019.
• Songs Of The Spheres. A Massive Multiplayer Crossover at 1,093,000+ words and counting with weekly updates as of February 22, 2019. It is set to be significantly longer than it is currently.
• An Undertale fan fiction sireis called Dreemurr Chronicles by Ben10Extreme currently has 1,017,235 words.
• The bulk of it comes from the current ongoning story, Our New Era. It has 692,208 as of the release of chapter 86 on August 15, 2019.
• Just the main volume of the Overlord (2012) fanfic God Rising: The Cult of Ainz is 1,046,613 words long. Add in the expanded universe of spinoffs, sequels, and supplementary material (several of which are ongoing, and with more planned), and there's another nearly 800,000 words to read in order to get the whole story.
• The Riddleverse, a series of The Fairly OddParents fics by FountainPenguin, is enormous. In March 2020, Origin of the Pixies crossed into 500,000 words with its 36th chapter out of an intended 66, while its companion, Frayed Knots, hit 403,000 with chapter 29 out of 77. The prompt challenge 130 Reasons Why I'm Fairy Trash is at 473,000 words with only 49 out of 130 prompts done. Adding in all the smaller fics totals up to 1,612,000 words. It's worth noting that the three big ones are also the three longest FOP fics around.
• Nan the Keyblade MasterSuper RWBY Universe'' has as of September 27 2020 written 13 stories, 3 one shots and 1 spin off chibi story. Which totals the word count at 1,280,910 words in total, making it one of the largest crossover, multi story universes.
Over 500,000 words (single)
Over 500,000 words (series)
• The Components of Construction is a Marvel Cinematic Universe AU fic that follows the adventures of a Gender Flipped version of Tony Stark by the name of Natasha Antonia "Toni" Stark. As of March 2020, the nineteen-part series consists of the main installment, The Limitations of Wax (a 222k word Doorstopper on its own), a Perspective Flip short story, and seventeen AU stories of a fanfic that is already itself an AU, totalling nearly 522k words.
• Razor Knight's Cyber Moon, a Sailor Moon-based epic trilogy, parts one, two and three. Total length: over 600,000 words.
• Higurashi author, Crimso, has written three stories (not counting the one-shots). From oldest to newest:
• Green-Eyed Demon (39 chapters, 316,917 words)
• Blood Flows Back (41 chapters, 319,817 words)
• Within a Nightmare (40 chapters, 249,976 words).
• Total word count: 886,710 words. She is currently now writing a story she calculates will have four parts to it with around thirty chapters. Each.
• Oh, and those three stories were written in just over one year. And I don't mean one year each.
• From Fake Dreams — a Fate/stay night Alternate Universe Fic written by Third Fang, author of the incredibly long Yet again, with a little extra help.
• Rytex's My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic series centering on Nova Shine and Twilight Sparkle.
• The Apprentice, the Student, and the Charlatan clocks in at over 333,000. It's still expanding due to the author's rewrites, as shorter chapters get more to them to flesh them out more. Its original complete version finished at 242,811. Even as far as single chapters goes, Chapter 17 ("Nightfall") is over 25,000 words long, and the rewrite of Chapter 12 got to 28,000 before it was split into two parts.
• Its sequel, Even In Other Worlds, is sitting at just over 200,000 words, however just under 40,000 words of it are April Fools' Day chapter updates (including one update that is all 22k+ words of My Immortal).
• The Darkness Series — when both stories are taken together it puts it at over 500,000 words.
• Kryalla Orchid's E'ara Series. The main trilogy is nearly 580,000 words, plus about 60,000 in connected one shots.
• Romance and the Fate of Equestria is a long fic, reaching 494,049 words and 195 chapters by May 2019. It also has a prequel, Legend of the Goddesses, which sits at 140,285 words and 58 chapters at the same time, totaling over 600,000 words. The first is still ongoing.
• The Bane of Humanity's Avatar/Legend of Korra/Transfomers crossover is a measurable series to read in pieces, ranging between 80,000 and 155 thousand words. However, put all 5 stories together, and you have a solid series just measuring over 500,000 words.
• Together, the three installments of Meg's Family Series surpass half a million words.
• Triptych Continuum: The first story, Triptych is over 513,789 words, and there are more than 65 entries in the series.
• Claymade's Ranma ½-Sailor Moon crossover, the The Dark Lords of Nerima series, has close to 700,000 words as of February 19th, 2019. The Dark Lords Ascendant, the third entry, is a door stopper on its own with 387,000 words.
• Skyhold Academy Yearbook is a massive AU project for Dragon Age: Inquisition which, as of July 2019, was nearing 700,000 words and has at least three more installments planned.
• Heart of the Storm is a five-part Marvel Cinematic Universe AU fanfiction centering around a romance between Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanov. The five parts steadily climb in length from 97k all the way up to 290k words, for a grand total of 863k words. The author proved rather prolific with this story, as well- from start to finish, it ran from July 2014 to September of the following year.
• Harry Potter Everyone Lives AU is an ongoing chapter-by-chapter rewrite of the entire Harry Potter series where, well, Everybody Lives. As of May 2020, it's at over 730,000 words, with almost a book and a half still to go.
• As of this writing, the A Man of Iron series consists of three books (with more planned) and is nearly 540,000 words long.
• As of November 8th, 2020, The Desert Storm series is made up of twenty stories and is over 930,000 words long in total. And it's still ongoing.
Over 250,000 words
• Phoenix Wright - Turnabout Storm!, the adaptation of the Youtube Video Series of the same name, has a total of 416,396 words.
• While we're at it, one particularly high quality fanfic in the SWAT Kats section is Endgame, which is now completed at 473,822 words and 70 chapters! (for those who beancount, that's 6768.8 words per chapter nearly) as of November 13, 2010. And the author has no intention of quitting now. Good thing it's an action fic rather than furporn. Now, the sequel, MegaKat Shield is underway!
• Overlordly broken, the longest Overlord fanfiction yet, has finished at 379,993 words and only 24 chapters, and is currently undergoing a rewrite which already has 115,304 words at 9 chapters.
• Thunderblade's Battle of the Sacred Essences is "only" 252,754 words, but it still comes out in excess of 400 pages when printed.
• A Dragon's Journey is a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fic of 385,025 words.
• Event Horizon: Storm of Magic currently consists of two "Books" that collectively number over 260,000 words: the Prologue and Book One. Books Two and Three are in the works.
• Mind, Body, and Soul, a Kim Possible fanfiction that's NSFW, clocks in at 450,669 words, and has a sequel being written that's three chapters long and 70k+ words already.
• Dissidia Final Fantasy fanfiction Shards Of Memory ended at 41 chapters and over 275,000 words. The epilogue itself almost hits 17,000 words, twice the length of even the longest chapters up until then.
• The appropriately named Dissidia fanfic "An Unending Struggle" is up to 360,000 words over 63 chapters, and is still going.
• The RWBY fanfic Weiss Reacts Volume One ended at 314,860 words and is currently on its second volume.
• The Dragon Age fanfic Middle Of Nowhere is well over 400,000 words and is still being regularly updated. At the pace it's going it should finish around 500,000 words.
• Evangelion fanfic Advice and Trust has reached 363,558 words and 55 chapters as of July 2019.
• Superstarultra's You Got HaruhiRolled!. Over 300,000 words long and still not done. Even more amazing, it's currently 86 chapters long, but individual chapters were still pretty short until chapter 72. A very large percentage of its length is in the last few chapters.
• Constant Temptation, a Death Note fanfic has 102 chapters and is over 300,000 words. That's not counting the Sequel and the Deleted Scenes...
• Hitchups is 40 chapters long, with 307,928 words that make up the entirety of the fic. For some time it was the second-longest How to Train Your Dragon story on after The Truth is a Shard of Ice by Whitefang333, though it's since been surpassed by other stories.
• Homestuck fic Herding Cats is over 460,000 words spanning 31 chapters.
• A Fanfiction based on Frozen (2013) called Elsa's Year, as of December 2014, is already over 300,000 words long - and still ongoing (though on hiatus).
• The Frozen (2013) fanfic, Frozen Wight is 82 chapters and over 310,000 words long. And it has sequel fics, albeit ones much shorter in length than the original fic.
• A Delicate Balance is a deliberately paced TwiJack fic that takes its time. At 36 chapters and 289,001 words long, it's been completed.
• Mega Man X: Terrornova is almost 500,000 words long (496,862 to be precise).
• What many consider one of the best Super Mario Bros./Sonic the Hedgehog crossover fanfics, Mario and Sonic: Heroes Unite!, is now complete after several years in the making. Its final stats are 371,110 words and exactly 100 chapters spawning three sagas. Sure, not quite as extensive as some other examples, but still impressive.
• DC Universe fanfiction Kara of Rokyn sits at 274,020 words spread over 51 chapters.
• Russian fanfic Black Book of Reverse Falls is up to 267,000 words over 64 chapters, and is still going.
• Necessary To Win, a Girls und Panzer and Saki crossover, is over 290,000 words long and is not yet complete, making it longer than any work in either fandom on
• Background Pony, by the author of The End of Ponies, clocks in at 20 chapters at over 430,000 words.
• Anthem of Our Dying Day has a whopping 442,220 word word count, with chapters regularly clocking at 10,000+ words. It has, however, went on a permanent hiatus because the author found it too hard to find his way around the convoluted plot.
• The Tainted Grimoire is already over 60 chapters and is at nearly 370,000 words. However, it has not been updated since May 2012.
• The Legend of Zelda: The Circle of Destiny is 435,469 words over 111 chapters as of writing, and it is still going strong.
• Vacation From The Norm, a Kim Possible fanfic, currently sits at over 450,000 words spread over two books. There's at least one more book planned in the series and the second book isn't finished yet.
• My Family and Other Equestrians: 281,007 words, 73 chapters and 14 interlude chapters (as of March 20, 2015), with no ending in sight (the author already has an ending planned, though).
• All-American Girl's "Book One" is over 430,000 words long. There's also the accompanying collection of side stories, Be Human, which has almost 300,000 words. (This is as of November 2017.)
• A Second Chance is a Peggy Sue fic where Twilight is catapulted back to the first episode. It got to 305,612 words before the author decided to end it.
• The Immortal Game, a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fic, lasts a respectable 297,951 words.
• Green is an exceptionally long fic focusing on a romance between Rarity and Fluttershy, among other pairings. It's still unfinished at 359,441 words as of April 2016.
• As of December 2015, Rites of Ascension is over 300K words long- and Word of God is that it is not even halfway through the second of five projected books.
• The Legend of Total Drama Island, a reimagining of Total Drama's first season, is on course to be around 400,000 words upon completion. The author has a richly descriptive style, and a high word count is the price of that.
• Re:Harmony is an Alternate Universe Fic of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic that, as of April 2016, has run over 400,000 words without finishing.
• The shortest completed Poké Wars arc by Cornova is The Incipience at 48,468 words long. Cornova's canon works alone add up to 365,080 words. And they are still ongoing as of November 2016.
• The longest Miraculous Ladybug fics on Archive of Our Own are:
• Invader Zim: The Series clocks in at 429,062 words.
• The Family Guy fanfic The Spellbook is over 284,000 words long, and is the second longest Family Guy fanfic.
• Damaged Defenders as of September 2017 is over 327,000 words and 129 chapters.
• The Quiververse, with eighteen completed stories, totals 448,554 words. And it's due to grow, with eight more stories in the first season alone and a second season of as-yet unannounced size to come in the future, as well as assorted bonus material.
• Hermione's Furry Little Problem has over 412,000 words and 189 chapters.
• Sophomore Sorrows is a high school-themed Arthur fanfic that clocks in at over 350k words.
• Lotus Jewel, the main book of the Zelda fanfic series Their Bond is 90 chapters and has almost 300k words.
• My Sister Leni ended at almost 275k words. It's 52 chapters long.
• Exoria: At 385,621 words at its 30th chapter, it goes beyond the 100,000 words necessary for the trope.
• The Frozen fic An Arm and a Leg is over 430k words long and spans over 90 chapters.
• Queen of All Oni ends up being 302,460 words long, spread over 29 chapters.
• Dark Mark's Supergirl story Hellsister Trilogy is 398,197 words spread over 61 chapters as of October, 2018.
• Project Powerpuff: Declassified is 453,263 words long, spread throughout 137 chapters.
• The New Adventures of Invader Zim is a multi-volume Series Fic, of which Season 1 clocks out at nearly 233,000 words, while the currently ongoing Season 2 is already over 111,000 words, bringing the series to over 344,000.
• Essence is a Pokémon fanfic where Ash has a Growlithe starter. It has 393k+ words spread over 12 chapters as of April 2016.
• SPECTRUM, by the time Act Two is finished, clocks in at around 490k words. Chapter Thirteen alone is 46,000 words long.
• Persona: The Sougawa Files is a finished Elsewhere Fic of a Persona game, and clocks in at 330,936 words.
• The Team Fortress 2 fanfic Sinner's Fire is currently 358,159 words long.
• As of chapter 30, the Persona 5 For Want of a Nail Fanfic Wings Of Rebellion is at 302,212 words long.
• Unbreakable Red Silken Thread: As of April 6th 2020, the story is on its twenty-eighth chapter and 363,109 words long. According to the author, the story may in fact become the longest Total Drama fanfiction on
• Yesterday Upon The Stair, a My Hero Academia fanfic, clocks in at 424,070 words.
• Fallout Girls, a crossover between My Little Pony: Equestria Girls and Fallout 3, ongoing at just over 300,000 words.
• Remnant Inferis: DOOM sits at 29 chapters and almost 290,000 words and is still ongoing.
• As of this writing, Don't Lose Your Heart is roughly 490,000 words across 162 chapters and shows no sign of slowing down.
• Hearts Of Ice is 279,662 words spread over 26 chapters.
Under 250,000 words
• The released chapters of Misfiled Dreams run 729 pages, including 2 blank pages in the first chapter and 7 pages of art. The unreleased (and unedited) chapters run another 324 pages.
• The Unity Saga, a Star Wars/Star Trek crossover that runs a total of 250 chapters. Most of the chapters have a manageable size, but the final entries in each of the six parts suddenly balloon to a very intimidating length.
• Rhyme and Reason was not only the first fanfic based on Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers and has always been considered one of the best, but with 158,492 words, it also used to be the longest and definitely considered a Doorstopper. But then, after seven years of on-and-off work, Gadget in Chains was completed. It stands at 402,670 words.
• The Russian original of Offensive Care has 176,362 words. The author's own English translation grew slightly beyond 200,000 words.
• Teaching Darkness: Memories by Rae Logan, is over 206,000 words, and itself is PART 5 in a series, with the previous story at only a little over 52,000 (at least a quarter of its sequel's size!) and the currently in progress part 6 at over 137,000 as of January 27th, 2012. The fanfic series itself has sidestories (for ideas decidedly too short compared to the main stories to focus a multichapter story around, regarded as a different canon, except maybe the Twilight Zone-esque one), about seven posted scrapped unfinished stories (released as Deleted Scenes), and several fan written stories, which, if compiled into one volume would be considered a Doorstopper. Sometimes jokingly referred to THE Largest Fanfic Series Centered Around A Scrapped Character In A Game That Never Happened. Who? Mephiles the Dark from Sonic Next Gen... VERY loosely.
• Thawing Permafrost is by no means a titan like the rest on this list, but it still qualifies as a door-stopper and the longest Mizore-centric fic in the Rosario + Vampire category (35 chapters across 518 pages, according to the author.)
• Here In My Arms is at least two and a half times as long, in the same fandom.
• Blood That Flows is, without a question, the longest Lyrical Nanoha fanfic on Over 300 chapters alone and over 720,000 words. The only Nanoha fanfic that comes close is the Deva Series, where, if you add up all four parts, there are more words than Blood That Flows, but it still has less chapters. Of course, the latter is a pure Nanoha Alternate Universe Fic, while the former is a crossover with Slayers that pulls plotlines from both series.
• The Neo Domino Purge is putting up a challenge for the longer Yu-Gi-Oh! fanfics - currently at 364,981 from 36 chapters. And still setting up the Dark Signer arc. The Remake is 94,882 words from 6 chapters. Altogether; 459,863 and counting.
• From the same author, Override, a Cardfight!! Vanguard fanfic weighing at just under 160,000 words from just 11 chapters, giving it a greater average words per chapter than the first version of Neo-Domino Purge. And it's just getting started. Judging by the author's writing, it won't be long before it climbs into the same kind of league as the above.
• A kitten!fic trilogy, focusing on the Akatsuki from Naruto, clocks in at over 700,000 words, starting with Consider Yourselves Kitties. This is notable because kitten!fics have a tendency to peter out after the first few chapters, even more so than most fics.
• While the first Volume of TSA The Amazing Spiderman is only 50,000 words long, Volume 2 is over 800,000 words long and 70 chapters in and not yet finished. The story will continue with Volumes 3 and 4, so it will likely reach two million words. This is justifable as it is a complete retelling of Spider-Man, which is 50 years of storylines to draw from.
• Also worth noting is that the author typically updates once a week, with most chapters going over 10,000 words.
• Horseshoes and Hand Grenades and stories relating to it have a combined total of 327,195 words with most of them not even finished and most likely more stories on the horizon.
• The Homestuck fanfic Like One Sundered Star is 700,000 words long as of Chapter 17, not counting its 90,000+ word "intermission fic". Word of God says that the main story is not even at its halfway point and that there will be at least one more intermission.
• Family by The Middle Warner Sibling, an Animaniacs fanfiction following the lives of the Warner Siblings within an Animated Actor universe, has a completed total of 763,370 words. However, if taking into account the side-story Friends, which contains some particularly imperative plot points in the context of Family, the two add up a total of 966,373 words for the universe as a whole.
• The Mobius Chronicles is currently two-and-a-half books and over 1,000 pages long, and the author reckons he has "multiple books" left to go.
• The entire Gensokyo 20XX series is about 343,453 words long, with one story in particular being about 120 chapters.
• As of April 28, 2020, Pokémon Reset Bloodlines stands at 689,716 words, and it's only reaching the conclusion of the Kanto arc (with the Indigo League). And that's just the main story; the numerous spinoffs and tie-in oneshots set in the same continuity add up even more for a total of 1,649,074 words (according to the Archive of Our Own stats), and over 6002 pages according to the Royal Road stats.
• Citadel of the Heart as of writing in December 21st, 2019 adds up to 506,685 words as an entire Series Fic, but only Truth and Ideals among the individual fics is completed as of writing. Truth and Ideals proper consists of 80 Chapters, a shorter prologue and epilogue page, and consists of 254,053 words; the other installments so far have currently less than 100K words, with the second highest being Sword Art Online: Special Edition at 77,912 words. Current statistics for word counts among other things can be checked here, but be warned as some of the stories are NSFW. The word count appears differently on, because formatting purposes do not prevent author's notes from being excluded from the word counts. AO3 has a feature that allows you to place author's note at the start and or end of any chapter by toggling the option to do so, and they'll be able to be automatically excluded from the word count for the story as a whole because of this.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/19483 | We must stop this insanity! Call on the Nobel Committee to disregard BDS’ ridiculous nomination for a Peace Prize.
The anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has officially been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, in a disgusting, twisted and provocative move.
The nominating statement, submitted by Norwegian parliamentarian Bjørnar Moxnes, claims improbably that BDS “should be supported without reservation by all democratically-minded people and states.”
Moxnes is apparently not familiar with BDS when he writes in the nomination that “like the BDS movement, we are fully committed to stopping an ascendent, racist and right-wing politics sweeping too much of our world, and securing freedom, justice and equality for all people.” How does this pertain to BDS in any way?
He describes BDS’ activities by regurgitating common fallacies, including that BDS seeks equal rights for “Palestinian citizens of Israel, currently discriminated against by dozens of racist laws,” and that BDS wants to “secure the internationally-recognized legal right of Palestinian refugees to return to homes and lands from which they were expelled.”
Absurdly, Moxens initially made a mistake when he wrote that BDS existed 11 years, not 12. He couldn’t even get that right.
While BDS claims it’s a human rights movement seeking peace, its real motivation is anti-Semitism and its true objective is the destruction of Jewish State.
BDS is a form of jihad that predates not only the 1967 Six Day War, but also the establishment of the State of Israel, with deep roots in the Nazi boycott campaign against Jews during the Holocaust.
BDS is waging a misleading and morally corrupt campaign against Israel. Anyone that wants to bring peace to the Middle East should condemn the movement.
The BDS campaign against Israel is an anti-Semitic movement to delegitimize the Jewish state as a prelude to its elimination. BDS represents nothing less than “the latest mutation of the world’s oldest hate.”
What can we do?
We must tell the Nobel Committee: if you truly seek world peace and want to retain any last shred of integrity for the Noble Peace, categorically reject BDS’ nomination.
Call on the Nobel Committee to disregard the ridiculous BDS nomination for a Peace Prize.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/19511 | The Pleasures of the Non-Sublime
According to Kant:
(Kant’s The Critique of Judgement, Oxford University Press)
What Remains
According to Derrida:
“what, after all, of the remain(s), today, for us, here, now, of a Hegel?
For us, here, now: from now on that is what one will not have been able to think without him.”
“The incalculable of what remained calculates itself, elaborates all the coups, twists or scaffolds them in silence, you would wear yourself out even faster by counting them.”
“I begin with love.
This concept does not leave much room, despite appearances, for chitchat, or for declaration.”
(Jacques Derrida, Glas, University of Nebraska Press, 1986) |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/19519 | My experience as a copywriter
Sharing my insights after 5 years of work experience
My experience as a copywriter
Photo by Dan Counsell on Unsplash
I have been a copywriter, a marketer, and simply a writer for more than 5 years. My last job is as a creative copywriter at Self Starters and in this article, I will share my knowledge with all novices who want to start their writing path.
1. Make a plan
This advice to a novice copywriter is what everyone has been taught at school. Before writing a text, it is important to create an outline first. And the more the better. This helps to logically organize your thoughts and generally greatly simplifies the writing process.
Moreover, an outline drawn up in advance will allow you to clearly express the idea so that it becomes more understood by a reader.
2. Start from the end
A common problem of any writing person is the fear of a white sheet. It happens when you sit down in front of a blank paper or a text editor and you just can't start it.
There is good old advice for copywriters: if you can’t start, don’t start. Instead, write down all the thoughts on a given topic that pop up in your head. Let them be incoherent, albeit with errors. It does not matter. This helps stir up the brain. And when already some lines will fall on the sheet, the first phrase will come by itself.
3. Proofread
For some reason, many neglect this advice for copywriters. Apparently, they believe that they can write a perfect copy from the first draft. However, this is a profound error.
Be sure to check the text for errors. Proofreading is a very important stage. Many people hate proofreading, and this is understandable. There is nothing more tedious in the work of a commercial writer. But you have to deal with this task professionally.
There are lots of special tools and software. But you can’t completely trust them, robots miss a lot. Unless it’s worth using them to remove the most serious mistakes. And then - with pens and eyes.
After writing, let the brain rest for several hours. It's even better to take a break for a day. Set the text aside, and then proceed with proofreading. Do it carefully, without rushing. Read the text till the end, one word at a time, so you don't miss the typos. Some recommend printing out the material and correcting it on paper as this way, it’s easier to detect typos than on the monitor. You should give it a try, it won’t get any worse.
4. Read
Good literature and blogs are a source of inspiration and a tool to build their own writing style for a copywriter. There is a saying, 'who does not read, cannot write.' So, here is my last piece of advice: read, read, read!
Nancy Kelly
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/19523 | empowering hope for the impossible-healing for the broken
I can hear you say…“Is it worth it? ““Is there even a point to hoping anymore?”“Are children even in God’s plan for me?”
If that is you, let me answer you with this:
The deep desires you have within your heart are not of your own–they were not planted there by you, but by the One who created you. And He wants you to know today that what He has planted in the soft fertile soil of your heart, He will one day make grow in your arms as you rock them to sleep…which for someone else who is reading this, that is something you often dream about, but fear will never happen.
And for that person I also say this:
Keep visualizing that day—keep dreaming of that moment—continue to have even the tiniest mustard seed of faith to believe that in due time, it will no longer be a vision you see in the distance or a dream you wish would come true, but rather your reality of a miracle staring back at you. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/19524 | The art of Canadian wild flowers
Irises and Lady slipper orchids
“Canadian Wild Flowers” (1868) was one of the first serious botanical works about nature and plant species in Canada 🇨🇦
Offering many beautiful lithographs of the wildflowers found in this country, this pictorial work written by Catharine Parr Traill & illustrated by Agnes Chamberlin, was a notable accomplishment for women at a time when we were largely unwelcome in a male-dominated scientific world. – The entire book is in the Public Domain and free to view online through the BHL digital library portal, with thanks to the Canadian Museum of Nature: HERE
A dose of art and the beauty of nature might help take our minds off the chaos currently taking hold of our world, if only for a little while. Stay safe, everyone. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/19551 | Here are a couple ways to take HyperCube data and transform it into something more useable.
Qlik Chart Object
This is a simple chart with two dimensions and one measure.
HyperCube Data Sample
The hypercube is the object behind a Qlik chart object. Here is how the chart data is returned by the getHyperCubeData() API call.
Row Array
This would create an array for each row, where each value in the list is a column value. This is a simple version of a hypercube data set.
This would create a single object, where the dimension fields are the key. This is in my opinion the easiest to work with. |
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Where the Long Tail Ends
Dec 22, 2019
Robert, Nat, and Cody are joined by returning guests Angela Fabbrini and Jim Laczkowski of Voices & Visions as we throw our fifth annual Secret Santa party. Who gave what to whom is the mystery of the episode as we take turns discussing five movies especially chosen for their recipients by their secret Santas.
Dec 14, 2019
Robert, Nat, and Cody are joined by Sean Gerber and John Bierly of Fandalorians to discuss the one and only MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE. A lot of fond memories are revisited.
Time tracks:
MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE Discussion: 0:00 to 1:06:25
Next Film and Outro: 1:06:25 to End |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/19561 | The name of the file is kept from the old buildsystem so that developers don't need to change so much in their own behaviour.
Build a package
pakfire-builder build path/to/makefile/makefile.nm
A very nice feature for doing first steps is the shell. One can easily set up a build environment and get a shell in it. After that one can do whatever one may think of. E.g. modify a package, create a new one, etc.
pakfire-builder shell path/to/makefile/makefile.nm
Edit Page ‐ Yes, you can edit!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/19596 | The IDRS (Indian Diabetes Risk Score) is calculated with the help of four parameters – Age, Abdominal Measurements, Family History, Physical Activity.
The Risk Score is classified into Low Risk, Moderate Risk and High Risk of Diabetes.
Based on the Score, diet, exercise and lifestyle modifications can be undertaking to control the severity and risk of Diabetes. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/19639 | Quad-Switch TTL-Compatibility
What is TTL Compatibility?
The TTL logic currently accepted as standard calls for gate outputs no less than 2.4V for logic "true" ("1") and no greater than 0.4V for logic "false" ("0") at 25°C. Corresponding to these levels are the usually-specific logic input levels: a gate must respond to levels greater than 2.0V (or input "1") or to levels less than 0.8V (or input "0"). Read full article |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/19641 | App Development Smart Home Windows
Installing Windows 10 IoT Core on a Raspberry Pi
Setting up a Raspberry Pi with Windows 10 IoT Core turned out to be more difficult than expected. In the end, there was a successful workaround – here’s how to get it running (even on non-supported SD cards).
Setting up the Raspberry Pi
As I’ve set up the public transport departure monitor with Linux, I wanted to try Windows 10 IoT Core for the Arlo security project – after all, the Python download script was running fine on my Windows 10 desktop PC.
The first step is to set up an SD card with the Windows image. Officially recommended are 16 and 32 GB cards from Samsung and SanDisk. I only had 4 and 64 GB cards left, and didn’t want to buy yet another one.
Unfortunately, the Windows 10 IoT Core Dashboard app failed to successfully flash the Windows 10 IoT Core image to both SD cards. It doesn’t provide any helpful advice; the error message is “Failed to unpack the Windows 10 IoT Core installation package”.
Windows 10 IoT Core Dashboard Installation Error
Reading the documentation, it turns out that an issue with the >32 GB SD card can be that Windows can only format in exFAT and NTFS; however, the Raspberry Pi image would need the card in FAT32. The recommended tool is the SD Memory Card Formatter. Unfortunately, this tool also failed to produce a working SD card for me.
Next, I tested the NOOBS installer. I managed to flash & boot with the 4GB SD card; in this case, downloading Windows 10 IoT Core through NOOBS didn’t work as well: the available space on the 4 GB SD-card was about 100 MB too small.
Another article of failures and compatibility problems is here; also a good read if you’re struggling: Windows 10 IoT and the Raspberry Pi 3 – installation, failure, and eventually success
How to Download Windows 10 IoT Core
Luckily, I found another workaround in the end, that was successful even with my 4 GB SD-card.
First, download the flash image of Windows 10 IoT for the Raspberry Pi 2 / 3. Choose if you go with the Insider version, or with the latest stable release (rs2):
No matter which route you go, you’ll download an .iso file. Don’t flash that to your SD card, it’s no use really. You need to mount the .iso by double-clicking in Windows Explorer and you’ll see why.
In the ISO, you will only find an installation file: Windows_10_IoT_Core_for_RPi.msi – would have been easier if that download was available directly and not packaged in an .iso, but that’s the way it is.
Install that .msi, and the main new file you’ll get on your PC is the actual image to flash on your SD card. It’s placed in:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft IoT\FFU\RaspberryPi2\flash.ffu
How to Flash Windows 10 IoT Core
This flash.ffu file is what needs to be flashed to the SD card. Flashing can be done through the IoT Core Dashboard app. While the Dashboard app didn’t manage to automatically do it’s magic, it does work if you supply the .ffu manually.
Open the IoT Dashboard, and choose “Custom” for the device. Locate the .ffu file and ensure you’re happy with the device name and admin password.
Manually flash Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi
Click on Install – and voila, Windows 10 IoT Core installs fine even on a 4 GB SD card!
SD Card partitions of Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi
The SD card now has 5 partitions: MainOS has a capacity of 1.45 GB with 590 MB free; Data has a capacity of 1,66 GB with 1,04 GB free. Theoretically, that should be more than enough space to work with Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi! |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/19655 | Email Settings for POP/SMTP/IMAP
Arrow Technology email servers support all of the commonly used POP, SMTP and IMAP configurations for security (SSL/TLS) and ports.
If using SSL or TLS security, you can either:
1. Use your own domain name for connecting. You will get a security certificate warning but your connection will be encrypted.
2. Use the Arrow Technology server domain name (typically for connecting. All of our email servers have SSL security certificates, so you should not get a warning.
The only disadvantage on using our vpsX domain names is that if your email service ever moves for any reason, you will have to update your email applications with the new server name.
For all accounts
• Username: Your full email address.
• Password: As advised, or can be changed in your hosting control panel. Only complex passwords are allowed.
• POP/SMTP/IMAP Server:
Some email applications require the password to be separately entered for each of POP, SMTP and IMAP, others allow the password to be shared. If you find POP works but SMTP does not, then ensure you have configured SMTP to use a username & password, because it will not work without one.
Secure POP/SMTP Accounts
POP: SSL with port 995
SMTP: STARTTLS or TLS with port 587
For the POP settings remember to review/adjust the advanced setting on how long to leave the incoming email on the email server for, before it is automatically deleted.
Secure IMAP/SMTP Accounts
IMAP: TLS with port 143, or SSL with port 993
SMTP: STARTTLS or TLS with port 587
You can also use a variety of other settings which will work, but some settings may not provide security features. If your email application shows TLS or SSL against all connection methods (POP/IMAP/SMTP) then you are probably all good :)
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/19670 | Symptomatic arrhythmia in an older active woman
A 70-year-old previously well and active lady presents with a two-week history of intermittent, irregular palpitations, which are worse with moderate effort such as walking up hills and heavy housework.
She says if she pushes herself she becomes quite breathless and a little dizzy.
Her GP is treating her for mild hypertension with ramipril 2.5mg per day. She is a lifelong non-smoker. Her total cholesterol is 5.6mmol/L with an LDL of 3.8mmol/L.
On physical examination, she has a pulse rate of 64 beats per minute, which seems irregularly irregular and a BP of 135/80. There is a |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/19756 | • Sony A6400 Digital Camera with 16-50mm Power Zoom Lens
Sony A6400 Digital Camera with 16-50mm Power Zoom Lens
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The Sony a6400 bridges the gap between the company's hugely popular full-frame CSC, and APS-C line-ups. Boasting AF acquisition of 0.02 seconds (the world's fastest), newly developed 'Real-Time Eye AF', and 'Real-Time Tracking'. The a6400 can also shoot up to 11fps with AF/AE tracking, while a BIONZ X image processor, a tiltable LCD touch screen, and 4K video recording are also included. Comes with the Sony Power Zoom 16-50mm lens.
Key Features:
• Advanced Real-time Eye AF
• New Real-time Tracking for object tracking
• 24.2MP APS-C Exmorâ„¢ CMOS image sensor and latest-generation BIONZ Xâ„¢ image processor
• 4K video recording with full pixel readout and no pixel binning
• Timelapse video using interval recording
Super-fast performance
A new BIONZ X image processor powers the a6400's impressive autofocus system. 425 phase-detection AF points and 425 contrast-detection AF points cover approximately 84% of the image area, working at a speed of 0.02 seconds.
AI-powered Real-Time Eye AF
Real-time tracking
Real-time Tracking™ also makes its debut in the a6400. This mode utilises Sony's latest algorithm including Artificial Intelligence based object recognition and processes colour, subject distance (depth), pattern (brightness) as spatial information to ensure that all subjects can be captured with excellent accuracy.
New levels of image quality
4K Movie Recording with Fast Hybrid Autofocus
Users can create stunning timelapse videos using the internal Intervalometer, which can be set to capture each frame from anywhere between 1-60 seconds. The total number of shots can also be set between 1-9999. There's also an option to control the AE tracking in this mode, with Low, Mid, and High sensitivities to be selected from, ensuring your entire video remains correctly exposed.
Key Features: Sony 16-50mm Power Zoom Lens
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Despite a 3x magnification ratio covering 16 mm to 50 mm (24-75mm 35mm eq.), the SELP-1650 is thin and lightweight thanks to a retracting mechanism that reduces the lens to just 3/16 (29.9 mm). It truly enhances the portability of E-mount cameras, giving users the means to capture spontaneous moments when on trips with a light and compact camera/lens combination.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/19770 | Focus on What's Important
Photo of a group of preschoolers raising their hands in a classroom
The key concepts below underscore the importance of addressing factors that impact health in order to focus CHI efforts and prioritize community health needs.
Your assessment of needs and resources will yield a wealth of information including opportunities to improve community health. The challenge will be how to prioritize those opportunities to maximize impact while making the best use of your resources. Remember to consider in advance how the availability of effective policies and programs will affect the prioritization of opportunities identified.
Key Concepts
• Processes and criteria that are open, transparent, and objective are used to set priorities
• Development of goals based on an analytic framework or logic model that conveys known or hypothesized causal pathways, upstream social and environmental determinants, and insights about what it takes to improve population health
Tools for Getting Started
• Guide to Prioritization Techniques pdf iconexternal icon
• This overview of widely used prioritization criteria and techniques includes guidance on which technique best fits your needs, step-by-step instructions for carrying out your effort(s), practical examples, and customizable templates.
• Developing a Framework or Model of Changeexternal icon
• Go to the Outline and Examples tabs for a step-by-step guide to developing a picture of the pathway from activities to intended outcomes, with additional related resources at each step. These sections also contain example frameworks and models for reference.
Click here for additional tools related to the key concepts.
Relevant Excerpts from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Final Rule
The IRS Final Rule on Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNA) for Charitable Hospitals pdf iconexternal icon contains language related to select key concepts above. An excerpt of this language is provided below. To see the full regulation, click on the hyperlinked references below this paragraph.18
“[T]o ensure transparency with respect to a hospital facility’s prioritization, the final regulations, like the 2013 proposed regulations, require a hospital facility’s CHNA report to describe the process and criteria used in prioritizing the significant health needs identified. In addition, the final regulations require a hospital facility to take into account community input not only in identifying significant health needs but also in prioritizing them.”19
19Id. at 78,963.
20Id. at 79,002. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/19783 | The Truth Behind Why Trump Calls Warren ‘Pocahontas’ Is Insane
Donald Trump is once again causing a controversy with the words that come out of his mouth. Why people let him talk or write anymore is beyond us, but never the less, here we are. Donald Trump calls Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas” in a derogatory way that should offend any sensible person. However, even though he went about it the completely wrong way, the reason he calls Warren that is actually oddly or, more accurately, accidentally merited. Now, before you raise the pitchforks, just follow us through what happened and why it happened.
1. Trump has made a habit of putting his foot in his mouth
donald trump speaks with native american code talker veterans
Note to Trump: Take down the Andrew Jackson painting in front of Native Americans. | Oliver Contreras-Pool/Getty Images
During a simple honoring ceremony for a few Navajo Code Talkers at the Whitehouse, Donald Trump managed to make an uncomfortable situation way worse when he brought up Elizabeth Warren. Donald Trump has always referred to Warren as “Pocahontas” in a mocking way. So while he was honoring these WWII heroes under a picture of Andrew “Trail of Tears” Jackson, he decided to use what can only be described as a racial slur for a political opponent.
There’s a lot to unpack here, so buckle up for a rough ride. At the end, you may actually think Donald Trump was a little justified in his mockery of Warren. I just puked a little saying that.
Next: Here’s why calling Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas” is racist
2. The way he calls her ‘Pocahontas’ is derogatory
donald trump's face in white shirt, red tie
Donald Trump isn’t calling Warren “Pocahontas” in a way that’s praising her for the work she is doing in shaping this nation. It’s not an allegorical comment on her work with Native Americans. He is using the term to disparage her. John Norwood, the general secretary of the Alliance of Colonial Era Tribes, said: “The reference is using a historic American Indian figure as a derogatory insult and that’s insulting to all American Indians.”
Next: Here’s why Trump calls her Pocahontas.
3. Warren claims to be Native American
Elizabeth Warren speaking
She claims to be Cherokee. | Alex Wong/Getty Images
For decades, Warren has claimed to be of Cherokee descent. Back in 2012 in an article from NPR, Warren said “I am very proud of my heritage. These are my family stories. This is what my brothers and I were told by my mom and my dad, my mamaw, and my papaw. This is our lives. And I’m very proud of it.” Her evidence of her heritage rests solely in those stories passed down by her parents and grandparents.
Next: That evidence has been challenged.
4. Genealogists can’t actually find any hard evidence of her Native heritage
Elizabeth Warren looking shocked
Despite the lack of hard evidence, Warren maintains that she is of Cherokee descent. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
A genealogist, Chris Child, researched Warrens family and found that her great-great-great-great grandmother was Native American. However, the evidence that was found can’t be corroborated as hard evidence, since it is a copy of an application of marriage and is not a primary document. Even if the claim is true, then that would make Elizabeth Warren only 1/32 Native.
Next: Warren still may have benefited from that claim without proof.
5. Did Warren’s career flourish because of her claim?
US Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat from Massachusetts, speaks to demonstrators as they hold a protest to demand more recovery assistance for areas hit by recent hurricanes
So far there isn’t any evidence that she has, although some things in her past are curious.| Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
There was an instance when Harvard claimed Warren as “Native American” when speaking about diversity in their school. Some wondered if she ever used that to get ahead in school. Critics say that she has never used her Native American heritage in that way. She didn’t even use it on her application to the school. That reference that Harvard had claimed came from the American Association of Law Schools directory where Warren had noted her Heritage.
Next: That’s not the only odd place her heritage came up.
6. Warren is also a published Native American chef
Elizabeth Warren at a pulpit
The name of the book is almost offensive. | Win McNamee/Getty Images
Back in 1984, Warren submitted 5 recipes to the Pow Wow Chow cookbook. The recipes were meant to contribute to a collection of Native American dishes that could be cooked at home. It isn’t clear whether or not Warren profited off of those contributions, but what she did do is equally as scandalous; She plagiarized the recipes some of them.
Cultural appropriation is one thing. But when you are culturally appropriating one cultural while appropriating another, it gets pretty shifty really quick.
Next: So was Trump in the right for calling Warren “Pocahontas?”
7. Trump really could have had something
Trump Oval Office
He’s just the village idiot with access to nuclear weapons. No big deal. | SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
Whether intentional or not, Trump’s way of criticizing Warren for doing something like this is offensive. He has thought of great nicknames that we use around the office and find objectively funny. Nicknames like “Rocketman”, “Lil’ Rubio”, “Lyin Ted Cruz”, etc, and all of them weren’t racist.
We get it; you hear that she may be falsely claiming her Native American heritage and the first thing that pops into your mind is a Native American historical figure made famous by a Disney movie. But Trump’s attempts to be funny and jabby is really just a lazy way of making fun of someone. It just confirms two things: He’s lazy and short-sighted.
As for Warren, she could clear up any doubt in her heritage by taking a DNA test. They’re extremely affordable and can clear everything up. Until that can be proven, she should probably avoid bringing up her “heritage” in any speeches coming up.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/19791 | If you have extra egg whites, don’t just toss them in the compost—acquaint yourself with how to use leftover egg whites and you’ll see they’re good for a lot of things.
Egg whites and egg yolks come together to create a perfect whole, but they are not created equal. The yolk is the yin, containing the egg’s decadence, and the white is the yang, the egg’s structure.
Because they each bring different attributes to the table, certain recipes favor either all egg yolks or egg whites—things such as rich custards, and ethereal meringues. While both of these preparations are well worth the effort, their creation means there are times when we might have a surplus of one or the other. Because there are an equal number of recipes that favor one or the other, this is hardly a bad thing. One simply needs to have a plan for how to accommodate the leftovers.
Having brought you 10 Ingenious Ways to Use Extra Egg Yolks, we now bring you 10 Ways to Use Extra Egg Whites.
Assemble a Pavlova
Most recipes calling for egg whites only fall under the heading of meringue, but few are as simple and as dazzling as a Pavlova. Named for a famous ballerina, the delicate meringue base also demonstrates structure and grace.
Whisk into an Egg White Omelet or Frittata
An all egg yolk scramble would be a little…extra, but the same stigma isn’t true for egg white dishes. Egg whites have half the egg’s protein, but virtually none of the fat. Because egg whites are also relatively flavor neutral, they can easily accommodate rich and/or flavorful elements like cheese, herbs, and chilies.
Improve Your Icing
Simple buttercream icing can be made from butter and powdered sugar, sure, but once you taste Swiss buttercream—an emulsification between butter and meringue—you’ll never go back.
Add Texture to Granola/Candied Nuts
Jon Melendez
In certain applications, egg whites can become almost unrecognizable. A simple wash of egg whites over your granola or nut mixture before it goes in the oven adds tremendous texture and crunch without adding any discernible egginess.
Enjoy a Frothy Cocktail
egg white sour
Egg whites are a principle ingredient in the construction of many classic cocktails, mainly sours. A simple sour recipe, such as this one for a Pisco Sour, contains spirit, lemon juice, simple syrup, and egg white, for a frothy, refreshing outcome.
Lighten Up with Angel Food Cake
Most cakes call for whole eggs, with perhaps an additional yolk or two for added richness. Egg whites’ signature, however, is their lightness, and the ability to incorporate air, precisely what is needed for structure in an ethereal Angel Food Cake.
Batter Up Your Veggies
Foods that are battered and fried rely on a “dredge”—a process of dipping the pieces intended for the fryer in alternating mixtures of flour or breadcrumbs, and eggs. Whole eggs are typically called for, but for tempura preparations, the specific lightness of egg whites only works especially well.
Make Homemade Marshmallow Fluff
Homemade marshmallows utilize gelatin, but in order to get that gooey, spreadable consistency, a meringue is what puts the fluff in marshmallow fluff. Proof that egg whites can make dreams come true.
Make a Face Mask
If too many extra egg whites makes you feel like you have egg on your face, you can literally put egg on your face.
Freeze for Later
When all else fails, and you can’t keep up cooking projects to accommodate your surplus of egg whites, you can simply freeze them and save them for when you can.
Related Reading: The Best Way to Store Everything in Your Freezer
What to Do with Other Odds & Ends
Love Your Leftovers: The Ultimate Guide to the Art of Repurposing Extra Food
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coffee-maker-comparison There’s nothing wrong with the classic drip coffee maker, but as English poet William Cowper said, “Variety is the spice of life, that gives it all its flavor.” As you’re probably aware, there’s more than one way to make a great cup of coffee. Not sure which style of coffee maker is best for you? Let’s take a look at some of the most popular ways of brewing coffee, and a few of the most common types of coffee makers that help you prepare your morning joe.
Drip Coffee Maker
This is your standard coffee machine, but designs have come a long way over the years. Modern drip coffee machines feature automatic timers, gentle heating plates that don’t burn coffee, and thermal carafes that keep your coffee warm all day long. Some even have altitude adjustments and pre-soak cycles. These aren’t your grandma’s coffee maker.
Espresso Machines
Espresso originated in Italy during the 1800s, but it’s since become a popular drink all over the world. It has a robust, concentrated flavor, and can be quaffed as-is or mixed into a wide variety of delicious espresso drinks. If you want to get that coffeehouse flavor at home, then an espresso machine is the right type of coffee maker for you. But do yourself a favor, and be sure to do some research on pulling the perfect espresso shot. If you want to make espresso like a pro, you’ll find that there’s more to it than you might think. Modern espresso machines often include adjustable shot length and other programmable settings, too.
Single-Serving Coffee Machines
keurig-b155 If you’re like many coffee lovers, then you’ve probably been caught up in the single-serving craze. Single-serving coffee machines like the popular Keurig series brew delicious coffee, one pod at a time. Each coffee pod contains its own filter and beans, sealed for freshness. That way you don’t have to worry about your ground coffee going stale. Single-serving coffee machines are perfect for small households and offices, and those who want coffee with only a minimum of fuss or cleanup.
Pour Over Coffee
The pour over method of coffee brewing originated in Germany in 1908, by a housewife named Melitta Bentz. The eponymous company she founded is still a popular brand among pour over enthusiasts. To make pour over coffee, you’ll need a slow-pouring pitcher, a pour over cone, paper filters, and a gram scale or measuring spoon. Measure out 60 grams of fresh-ground coffee for each liter of water, place the filter in the cone and the cone on a cup or pour over pot, and slowly pour 200-degree water over the beans. If this sounds like a lot of work, just wait until you taste it!
French Press Coffee Maker
Almost as hip as a pour over but decidedly less fussy, the French Press method is an easy way to brew awesome coffee, even when you’re on a camping trip. If you’ve never encountered a French press, it looks like a large cylindrical beaker with a metal filter attached to a vertical plunger. To make French press coffee, just measure out 2 tablespoons of fresh coffee beans per cup, grind them to a chunky consistency, then stir and steep them in water that has been heated to a boil and allowed to cool for one minute. Let it sit for four more minutes, and then gently depress the plunger to trap the grounds at the bottom. Pour and enjoy!
There’s More Than One Way to Make Great Coffee!
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New York Attorney General Sues Trump Foundation
“The sleazy New York Democrats, and their now disgraced (and run out of town) A.G. Eric Schneiderman, are doing everything they can to sue me”- President Donald Trump
On Thursday, the New York Attorney General filed a lawsuit on Thursday firing directly at the Donald J. Trump Foundation. According to the Attorney General, “The petition filed today alleges a pattern of persistent illegal conduct, occurring over more than a decade, that includes extensive unlawful political coordination with the Trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing transactions to benefit Mr. Trump’s personal and business interests, and violations of basic legal obligations for non-profit foundations.”
Charities, often funded with money that has been deducted from donors’ income taxes, aren’t permitted to engage in politics, however the petition asserts that President Trump’s was often improperly used to settle legal claims against his various businesses, even spending $10,000 on a portrait of Mr. Trump that was hung at one of his golf clubs.
A Trump Foundation representative stated to CNN that it was just bad politics, and “The Foundation has donated over $19 million to worthy charitable causes — more than it ever received. The President himself — or through his companies — has contributed more than $8 million. The reason the Foundation was able to donate more than it took in is because it had little to no expenses. This is unheard of for a charitable foundation.”
Underwood also reportedly sent letters to the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Election Commission asking those agencies to investigate possible violations of federal law.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/19815 | CFP: Comics and/or Graphic Novels
Paradoxa - Volume 32: Comics and/or Graphic Novels
Editor: Vittorio Frigerio (Dalhousie University)
Stichtag: 01.09.2019
American histories of comics have traditionally highlighted what they deem the indisputable U.S. birthplace of this mass-culture phenomenon, pointing to Richard F. Outcault’s Yellow Kid (1895) as the first comic ever produced. Alternately, the European view tends to favor the creation of this ever-popular medium by Swiss author Rodolphe Töppfer, with his Les Amours de monsieur Vieux Bois (1827 – first published in 1837) and highlights the importance of early works such as German author Wilhelm Bush’s Max und Moritz (1865).A similar, apparently irreducible dichotomy has appeared concerning the origin of the “graphic novel.” American critics consider Will Eisner’s A Contract with God (1978) as the first graphic novel ever produced, while European historians point to Hugo Pratt’s La Ballata del mare salato (1967 – although its influence is said to be felt primarily after its translation into French in 1975). And it is not unusual to see credit for the origin of the graphic novel given to the Argentinian El Eternauta, by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López (1957).
Apart from matters of national pride and predominance, these divergent views are also due to unresolved questions regarding the meaning of the terms involved. Töppfer’s books would not qualify as a comic if one were to consider the genre as primarily defined by the use of the speech balloon. But then neither would such seminal works as Alex Raymond’s Flash Gordon or Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant. In the Franco-Belgian domain, debates have also excluded such historically significant works as Joseph Pinchon’s Bécassine or Louis Forton’s Les Pieds nickelés. In the Italian tradition, practically all pre-Second World War productions, such as Sergio Tofano’s Signor Bonaventura or Antonio Rubino’s Quadratino would automatically be excluded.
The final definition of “graphic novel” remains open to debate, as any customer of a major North American booksellers’ chain knows full well. Major commercial publishers recycle “classic” comic book fare under the new label and present it beside recent, more “literary” productions issued by niche or alternative publishers. Indeed, we can easily go from all-encompassing definitions such as offered by Stephen Weiner…
“Graphic novels, as we shall define them for this project, are book-length comic books that are meant to be read as one story. This broad term includes collections of stories in genres such as mystery, superhero, or supernatural, that are meant to be apart from their corresponding ongoing comic book storyline; heart-rending works such as Art Spiegelman’s Maus; and non-fiction pieces such as Joe Sacco’s journalistic work, Palestine.” (Stephen Weiner, Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel. Introduction by Will Eisner. NBM Publishing, 2012.)
… to much more restrictive and specific ones, like that proposed by Thierry Groensteen…
“[T]he comics medium has matured, […]. Its standing has greatly improved, to the extent that it is now regarded as a form of literature in its own right. It has diversified by moving into new areas (history, personal life, science, philosophy, sometimes poetry) and by taking on new forms (diary, reportage, essay).” (Thierry Groensteen. The Expanding Art of Comics. Ten Modern Masterpieces. Translated by Ann Miller. University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 2017, p. 3.)
Such appraisals also seem to vary according to the national origin of the critic, with North American criticism generally more willing to include mass cultural products within the field of the graphic novel, while European critics highlight notions of “maturity” and generic evolution that reserve the label for productions outside of, or in the margins of the commercial mainstream. Comics, bandes dessinées, fumetti, tebeos, manga—as they are known with important variations in different cultural contexts—and their critical reception, thus appear to differ significantly depending on their national histories and cultural preferences, and are only superficially identical.
On the other hand, comic book characters, their authors, and their publications have crossed national and linguistic boundaries to an extent rarely seen in the world of literary fiction. Any account of the Franco-Belgian “bande dessinée” would be incomplete without acknowledging the impact of Golden Age American comics, either as aesthetic models (George McManus’s influence on Hergé, Caniff’s influence on Jijé and other artists of the realistic school of drawing), or as competitors whose symbolic dominance led to the development of an autochthonous industry. American underground comics and authors of Mad magazine inspired the creators of the French Pilote and encouraged the transformation of the medium so that it appealed to the tastes of an older audience. In return, Franco-Belgian “ligne claire” informed some notable contemporary North American creators (Jeff Smith, Chris Ware…) and even influenced the international art world (Dutch illustrator Joost Swarte).
A constant whirlwind of reciprocal influences has marked the evolution of the comic genre across North America and the major European markets, as well as important markets in Latin America, most notably Argentina. Hugo Pratt, Alberto Ongaro, and Mauro Faustinelli contributed importantly to the development of the genre in that country, while European translations of Argentinian authors such as Alberto Breccia, have helped generate cultural recognition for the new genre of the graphic novel. Not all experiments were equally successful. Moebius (pseudonym of French author Jean Giraud), invited by Stan Lee to draw the famous Silver Surfer, did not meet with unconditional approval in the U.S. Periodic attempts at translating celebrated series such as Tintin and Astérix for an English-speaking public have not been able to duplicate the success of the characters in their respective native countries. The iconic Italian western Tex Willer is a major hit in Brazil, but only one story has appeared in North America, and then only because it was drawn by well-known American artist Joe Kubert.
In recent decades, the increasing critical recognition of comics as a legitimate artistic and literary genre has spawned the creation of several significant international events, such as the Angoulême International Comics Festival (France) and the Lucca Comics and Games convention (Italy), helping to further break down barriers and to bring national traditions into ever closer contact, while at the same time favoring the representation of comics as specific national products deserving of state sponsorship and protection granted through agencies such as the “Centre belge de la bande dessinée” in Belgium or the “Cité international de la bande dessinée et de l’image” in France.
What can a transnational analysis of the development of comics and graphic novels teach us about the nature of the genre? Do the exchanges and circulations (of authors, characters, styles, subjects, publishing formats…) between national traditions allow for a rewriting of the evolution of graphic narratives, outside of nation-based or linguistic models? What do these migrations tell us about any immutable or invariable properties potentially common to graphic narratives, independently of their chronological and geographical positioning, their intended audiences or their degree of cultural recognition? How and to what extent can the historiography of comics and graphic novels benefit from adopting a global approach to the subject?
This issue of Paradoxa will explore comics and/or graphic novels. Among the possible approaches are:
• comics in their relation to their national identity whether in specific works or in series, as related to the publishing industry and its functioning, or to the career of individual authors, from the beginning of the genre to the present time;
• the importance of foreign influences on the evolution of national comics traditions; the success, or lack thereof, of comics characters in different countries;
• differences and similarities between national markets and readerships;
• governmental support and promotion of comic art;
• the transnational evolution of comics magazines;
• comics in a globalized world;
• the graphic novel as a global phenomenon; comics and graphic novels–natural evolution from one into the other, or competing genres?
We are interested in proposals from all disciplines and theoretical perspectives. Comparative studies which take into consideration more than one national tradition are preferred.
500-word abstracts of article proposals or questions regarding this project should be sent to by September 1, 2019.
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IBM Enterprise Linux Server (ELS) can help save software licensing costs, while consolidating different kinds of workloads onto a single server, supporting CIOs in their today's budget challenges. ELS also helps to overcome server sprawl, by requiring less physical servers, less floor space, less energy, with increased flexibility due to IBM z/VM virtualization and simplified management based on IBM Wave for z/VM.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/19851 | When you hear a media figure say “Americans are living in two different realities,” all that means is leftists are living in a fake news media bubble as opposed to the rest of us who are living in reality.
Case in point, this delusional article from Bloomberg’s Tyler Cowen which is the exact opposite of reality.
From Bloomberg, “The Right Finds the Perfect Weapon Against the Left” – “Conservatives are using identity politics to destroy liberalism from within”:
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Just so were clear, in Cowen’s world:
– The left’s coalition of the ascendant is divided merely by “their own vanities and squabbles” and not centuries of tribal, ethnic and religious rivalries which are still active today.
– Political correctness is a tool of right-wing, white conservatives used to oppress white liberals (like Elizabeth Warren).
We’re reaching levels of liberal delusion that shouldn’t even be possible!
[…] if you are a right-wing, conservative, or perhaps libertarian thinker, and you consider yourself an opponent of political correctness, I have a message: Political correctness, as a movement, is a winning issue for you. It is disabling some of the ideas you don’t like. You might want to celebrate in secret, but celebrate you should.
Here’s another ugly truth. The biggest day-to-day losers from the political correctness movement are other left-of-center people, most of all white moderate Democrats, especially those in universities. If you really believe that “the PC stuff” is irrational and out of control and making institutions dysfunctional, and that universities are full of left-of-center people, well who is going to suffer most of the costs? It will be people in the universities, and in unjust and indiscriminate fashion. That means more liberals than conservatives, if only because the latter are relatively scarce on the ground.
He’s literally writing this at a time where stories like this are pushed by the media every day:
You can have your life destroyed for calling the police on someone suspicious (or merely questioning them as in the case above) if you’re not the right skin color, but we’re supposed to believe liberals like Elizabeth Warren and the leftist professors who pushed all this PC nonsense are the real victims!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/19860 | Sega Genesis Mini: The Kotaku Review
Sega was always more loved than it was successful. At no point was the maker of the Genesis and Dreamcast the worldwide leader in video games. When it succeeded in America, it fell short in Japan, and vice versa. The Genesis Mini is an encapsulation of that moment when it came closest to victory—a reminder of what the…
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Usage of mikroBUS compatible add-on boards today
Device tree overlays loaded at boot time
Run-time device tree overlays
Using Greybus simulator to enable software hotplug support
Implementation of a mikroBUS socket on an embedded Linux system
Improving Linux support for mikroBUS
Motivation for supporting software hotplug
Creation of a mikroBUS bus driver in the Linux kernel
Improving the mikroBUS standard for better Linux support
Proposal #1: Use Greybus Manifest binaries
• Module vendor specified separately from driver usage
• Possibility of using existing driver names for invocation
Proposal #2: Use simple string identifiers
• Requires table to be kept in kernel
Specifics on power function
Usage of improved mikroBUS support in Linux and mikroBUS standard
Adding a mikroBUS socket to your Linux system
mikrobus@f00 {
#address-cells = <1>;
#size-cells = <0>;
compatible = "mikroe,mikrobus";
i2c-port = <&i2cN>;
spi-port = <&spiN>;
uart-port = <&uartN>;
int-gpio = <&gpioN M 0>;
pwm-gpio = <&gpioN M 0>;
rst-gpio = <&gpioN M 0>;
status = "okay";
Greybus Manifest
<code> [manifest-header] version-major = 0 version-minor = 1 [interface-descriptor] vendor-string-id = 1 driver-string-id = 2 ; Interface vendor string (id can't be 0) [string-descriptor 1] string = invensense ; Interface driver string (id can't be 0) [string-descriptor 2] string = mpu9150 [platform-descriptor 1] type = string value = mpu9150,int-gpio [platform-descriptor 2] type = u8 value = 23 ;Control protocol on CPort 0 [cport-descriptor 0] bundle = 0 protocol = 0x00 ;Control protocol Bundle 0 [bundle-descriptor 0] class = 0 ; I2C protocol on CPort 1 [cport-descriptor 1] bundle = 1 protocol = 0x03 platform-descriptor = mpu9150,interrupt-source, 1 ; Bundle 1 [bundle-descriptor 1] class = 0x0a ; GPIO protocol on CPort 2 [cport-descriptor 2] bundle = 1 protocol = 0x02 platform-descriptor = mpu9150,interrupt-gpio, 2 ; Bundle 2 [bundle-descriptor 2] class = 0x0a </code>
Comparisons to other popular embedded add-on form-factors
Form-factor Size Comments
• Over 140+ Development boards supported[4].
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Rate of Rreaction Between Sodium Thiosulfate and Dilute Hydrochloric Acid
Investigating the rate of reaction between sodium thiosulfate and dilute hydrochloric acid.
Sodium thiosulphate + Hydrochloric acid ïƒ Sodium Chloride + Sulfur Dioxide + Sulfur + Water .
Balanced Symbol Equation for this reaction is:.
Na2S2O3 (aq) + 2HCL (aq)ïƒ 2NaCl (aq)+SO2 (g)+H2O (l) .
Collision Theory .
The rate of a reaction is all about collision theory. The collision theory is "the theory that reactions happen when molecules collide." The theory helps to explain the factors that affect the rates of chemical change. "[1] But not all collisions between molecules lead to a reaction. Collisions are only successful when the molecules possess the minimum energy which can break the bonds between atoms to create new molecules. This is called the activation energy. The Rate of a reaction should increase if the number of successful collision per second also increases. .
These are the factors that affect the rate of reaction for this particular reaction: .
Temperature of the reactants: As the temperature increases the kinetic energy of the molecules also increases, meaning that there will be more random, frequent, harder, and more successful and fruitful collisions between the particles. At low temperatures or when you decrease the temperature, the rate of reaction decreases because the molecules have less kinetic energy; therefore they move around slower so collisions become weaker and more infrequent. .
When the temperature is increased it increases the energy of the particles meaning that they are greater than or equal to the activation energy, so at lower temperature the number of particles with the energy required to match the activation energy is less. As a result this means that the reaction is not as fast or successful. Concentrations of reactants in solution: In reactions which involve liquids, increasing the concentration of the solution increase the rate of reaction. This is because there is a greater chance of the molecules colliding frequently, resulting in a faster reaction.
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The smart city is not a pipe dream, but it is a big, intimidating problem. We’ve become very good at networking together devices and their people. But modern cities are uniquely monstrous entities, often with millions of individuals creating billions of variables each and every day. It’s not just about tracking and coordinating all these variables in an efficient way; it’s also about doing so safely and securely. If you think cyber war is a threat today, wait until it could shut off power to whole areas or individual homes, bring all transportation to a grinding halt, and even mess with the city gardeners! As we inherit the advantages of automation in civil planning, we gain the disadvantages as well.
But there’s one up and coming software technology that was specifically designed to coordinate lots of things safely and securely: the blockchain, which was first brought to the public’s attention through its use in the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. Also known as a cryptographically secured distributed ledger, a blockchain keeps a cloud-based copy of organized information (basically a spreadsheet) and continually performs the tough computational work of encrypting it all in close to real time. That sounds like exactly what we need, and in fact cities in China, the United Arab Emerates (UAE), and elsewhere have been eyeing the technology to deal with their smart-city needs.
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The next generation’s economic showdown? Perhaps, but it’s far from certain.
The idea is that by using a cryptographically secured and totally decentralized authority that can work at the speed of a computer, we should be able to keep power distribution, water treatment, self-driving transportation, and much more from ballooning beyond all practical limits as cities continue to grow. With a robust public blockchain in place, cities could provide payment options for every business — why use your old plastic card, losing a fraction of the payment to an intermediary like a bank or credit card company and driving up the price, when you can transfer money quickly and securely, directly to a business owner?
However, in many ways the true promise of the smart city is what it could do to shrink the communities of modern urban environments, bringing people together with well designed enhancements to the city’s level of interactivity. Smart coordination could let people intentionally organize much more easily by providing geolocated digital services, or easy event promotion to local citizens. It could also, under a more aggressive model, intentionally funnel people through their day so they end up being exposed to more social interaction, or more community culture.
At this point, it seems more likely that personal objections to the invasiveness of the programs will do more to block smart city functionality than technological barriers.
Ethereum is a blockchain-based online platform.
There are basically three reasons to turn to the blockchain for a smart city: You’re an insurgent power in search of distinguishing features and the capacity to somehow continue your current, enormous rate of growth indefinitely (China); you’re a holiday destination with an economic incentive to stay ostentatiously futuristic (Dubai, in the UAE); you’re becoming so unwieldy that the concept of continuing to organize via old-world systems is just absurd (Los Angeles, maybe?).
blockchain linus headIt’s a risk, certainly, since any new technology can fail or, at least, fail to live up to long term projections. There are many in the blockchain world who think it may not be able to live up to its incredible disruptive potential, and that it could be incapable of expanding much beyond its current scope. It takes an incredible amount of computing power to secure all those transactions and, more importantly, running all that computation requires an ungodly amount of electricity — by one estimate, running Bitcoin could soon take as much energy as Denmark.
Not just for smart cities, there are multiple pushes to avoid this fate — from the enormous open source collaboration of the Open Ledger Project to the more closed academic approach of, there are plenty of bids to fix the blockchain before it breaks, potentially tanking it. Their main goals are to figure out how to achieve all the blockchain’s core functionality, with no downgrade to security, much, much more quickly and efficiently.
Even with a hypothetical Blockchain 2.0, however, one efficient enough to allow millions of transactions per day, we’re going to need a method of power, both computing and electrical. The city could just provide all this and run the blockchain as a pure social service, of course, but that would be extremely expensive. It would also centralize power, undoing some of the distributed nature of the service and potentially undoing one of the blockchain’s core appeals to security.
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The basic trade-off of all current blockchain designs is that someone has to donate the time and money necessary to process changes and secure them cryptographically. Classically, that has been achieved by coupling the blockchain to a cryptocurrency — in a sense, the blockchain needed Bitcoin just as much as Bitcoin needed the blockchain. This means that if you’re going to make and maintain a blockchain, you’ll need to provide some equivalent incentive. It could be simpler when dealing with a government and non-anonymous transactions, and could in principle come in regular US dollars, rather than fancy crypto-bucks like Bitcoin or Ether. It could also come in the form of tax breaks or similar economic advantages, perhaps offloading the burden to corporations with the most to gain by exploiting such schemes.
In any case, the blockchain is simultaneously one of the only software technologies that could possibly provide for the needs of a truly smart city, and a potential dead-end that accomplishes little while breaking the municipal bank. But regardless of the tech behind it, we need to move to more efficient and successful models of living: As is often pointed out by smart city advocates, about half the world’s population currently lives in cities, but by 2050 that number is projected to increase to 66%.
How will cities — both existing ones growing to all new sizes and new ones springing up in developing nations — manage their ballooning organizational problems and stay competitive in the global market? The answer might just be the blockchain. And if not, the answer might be nothing at all.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/19943 | Reviewed by: Amber Wilkinson
"The sense of poise created, as people move through spaces or talk back and forth, objects often leaving the frame in one direction as another enters from the opposite side, achieves a soothing rhythm." | Photo: Elisha Christian
Space is the key to the Kogonada's thoughtful debut - in all of its dimensions. Most obviously, there are the spaces that his central character Casey (Haley Lu Richardson) inhabits - the city of Columbus, Indiana, where she has fallen in love with the slightly asymmetrical modernist architecture it is known for; the library stacks where she half-flirts with her colleague Gabriel (Rory Culkin); or the house where she hangs out with her mum (Michelle Forbes) or worries about her when she's at work. Then there's the space inside Casey, the yearning for something different, the fear of what might happen to her mum if she leaves.
Jin (John Cho) finds his space shrinking as he comes to Columbus, as much from Korean cultural tradition as desire, to sit at the bedside of his ageing father after he collapses while visiting the city. One day, he and Casey walk into one another's spaces - it's a chance encounter but like everything in Kogonada's film, it is beautifully balanced - one on one side of a fence, one on the other. Much in Columbus is shared, from soup to cigarettes to emotions.
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The writer/director treats the space within the frames of his film with the utmost care and respect, achieving a deliberate, not-quite-symmetry that mirrors the architecture, from back to front, up and down and from right to left. The sense of poise this creates, as people move through spaces or talk back and forth, objects often leaving the frame in one direction as another enters from the opposite side, achieves a soothing rhythm. Measured dialogue takes on additional weight and intensity because of the way the scene is shot, such as one conversation where one character is glimpsed in a rear-view mirror. This deliberate pacing, supported by Hammock's ambient scoring, allows us the time to feel the ways in which the characters' emotions also complement one another.
"Did your mother do meth?" the rhythm of the words appeals to Casey and equally to Kogonada, who also manages to achieve a balance in the dialogue without lapsing into platitudes. "This isn't the movies. Nothing's going to happen," says one character. In a way that's true. This isn't a film specifically about romance or grief, it's about reflection, connection, learning to shift your perspective and realising what is possible. Even the themes of the film are balanced, such as the pull of the past and the attraction of the future. Kogonada may be a skilled craftsman, but he never forgets his direction is serving the story and the characters, rather than the other way around.
Cho and Richardson slot together like perfectly, she playing Casey as bright-eyed with an easy smile and who deserves to succeed, even if her working-class background threatens limitations, while he brings a more world-weary but thoughtful calibration to Jin. Both actors deserve considerably more attention from casting directors.
In the end, the film is like an unexpected shell you might find on the beach, it might not look like too much at first but, once you start to turn it over in your hand and mind, you start to feel its weight and notice its facets, making you want to put it in your pocket and take it home so you can look at it again.
Reviewed on: 08 Oct 2017
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/20016 | In Defense of Ghosting on Your Date
Ghosting on a Date Is Probably Fine
I will admit right off the bat that ghosting on a date is not the most mature way to let someone down gently. But let me also say that I'm among the 80 percent of millennials who have been ghosted—that is, someone was contacting me totally normally one minute and then, with no explanation, never reached out to me again. They just fell off the face of the earth as far as I'm concerned. Not only that, I've been ghosted by friends, I've been ghosted by colleagues, and I've been ghosted by people I was newly dating. (I have not been ghosted by a long-term partner, and I won't be talking about that situation, which I find pretty much inexcusable.)
But in casual-dating scenarios, I've ghosted and been ghosted more often than not. And honestly? I don't feel the need to beat myself up about either scenario.
During my OkCupid days, I didn't get responses to most of my messages. I never worried: Statistically, it's to be expected. But when that scenario was reversed, some of the guys who I declined to message had different feelings about it. One sent me a follow-up message after mere hours of my silence, telling me I was obviously superficial for not considering him. One who I did end up responding to—and even meeting IRL—told me he considered it "unjust" for women to ignore the messages he put so much effort into crafting. Yeah, that relationship didn't last very long.
Attacking people for simply ignoring a message on a dating app that traffics in them is a tad extreme, but I've seen people—mostly straight men, in my experience—express the same feelings of unfairness when women ghost them after dates. "She led me on." "She owes me a response." To many women, being ghosted is a natural part of modern dating. When men don't see it the same way, it feels like male privilege to me. Since when do I owe near-strangers such emotionally draining conversations?
Besides, when I have told people I'm not interested, they've shot back with awkward follow-up questions. "Was it anything in particular?" is one of the best-case scenarios. "But I'm one of the nice guys!" is the worst. And many women have experienced much harsher retaliation for overtly rejecting men, like being fed the classic, "You're ugly anyway." Sorry, is that supposed to convince us to change our minds?
These reactions fall into the same category as men chastising women for putting them in the "friend zone." Nothing—not friendship, not a date, not a Tinder message—entitles you to someone's romantic or sexual attention, and acting like it does is yet another way to deny women control over their lives. Besides, I never assumed my dates were waiting by the phone for me to get back to their "nice to meet you" texts. It felt presumptuous to believe I'd need to let them down easy when they may not have been interested in me either.
Real talk: I actually prefer to be ghosted. I'd rather tell myself someone's probably just busy or not over their ex or in some other situation unrelated to me and forget about them than be explicitly told I don't appeal to them.
Sure, once you've known someone for a while and developed a consistent rapport, ghosting becomes rude. But when you go on a first, second, or even third date, there aren't that many expectations anyway. And if you're not expecting it to go anywhere, you shouldn't require an explanation when it doesn't.
If you don't hear back from someone after the first try, I'd argue that the polite thing to do is take the hint that they're not feeling it and move on. That'll spare them the burden of explaining their decision and maybe spare you some awkwardness. If they don't see how amazing you are, they're not the person for you anyway. |
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Schrödinger's Democracy
Superposition of Policies
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Making a decision can be tricky sometimes - and using a population-based method of picking from a different set of policies is the least-worst method we have of doing that.
I propose a marginally even leastest worse method.
Say 50% of the population want an aggressively individualistic state where it's every man for themselves and all the glory of victory to the best and the brightest - and at the same time, the other 50% of the population want a warm socialist utopia where everyone wants to hold hands and be wrapped in government issue kindness bestowed via a centrally administered bureaucracy from cradle to grave.
Whoever wins the election, the other 50% of the population have to suck it up.
So, how about a system of government that delivers what people want? So you voted low tax, minimal government intervention in your life - great! - off you go! You voted for high tax, big service - hey! - that's what you get aswell.
The key here is running a multi-state system - taxes are collected based on your voting preferences - but equally so is access to government services. Want education, access to libraries and a free -at the point-of use health-service? It all depends on your voting choices.
Some services are provided as a bare minimum, based on the nuisance they'd cause if they weren't provided for all e.g. waste collection, emergency services etc - everything else is vote dependent.
This way, a country can (for example) both run a national health service, and not at the same time - keeping everyone happy.
zen_tom, Jul 09 2014
You probably did not observe this idea The_20Heisenberg_20Political_20Principle
[theircompetitor, Jul 14 2014]
Just make all services optional with a flat fee based on the cost of supplying the service to all those who have opted for it charged to those who opt in for a service, would get you exactly what your proposing plus it's more flexible, they could change their mind on what they want mid term.
As everyone is in a definite state of opt in or opt out there's no wave form to collapse either so I fail to see any connection to Schrodinger's cat.
If as your preamble suggests you were looking for a better voting system (bearing in mind there are seldom only two possible answers (candidates) to a question (to vote for) in politics) you might consider something like the single transferable vote.
Which raises the point your 50% for & 50% against model is overly simplistic.
With first past the post (the model I assume you're using) & 5 candidates say it's entirely possible for one to win with as little as 21% of the vote despite 79% of the voters loathing them & wanting absolutely anyone other than them to win.
Skewed, Jul 09 2014
Did you just hand my beloved [zen-tom] a bone? Wow. Cruel world out there zenny.
blissmiss, Jul 09 2014
Hey Skewed, I guess the difference is that many services run on an "insurance" type of model - so the charge-per-use method of funding isn't appropriate. Also, changing your mind mid term is exactly what we don't want as otherwise everyone will vote for low-tax, low-service, until they want that service, at which point they may not be in a position to pay for it.
Similarly, democracy is almost exclusively about the distribution of service costs - can you come up with more than one counter-example?
The connection is that you can have a superposition of policies - e.g. a functioning national health service and a functioning low-tax, privately funded health- care system - at the same time. The waveform never needs to collapse, as is normally the effect shortly after an election.
Thanks [blissy] don't worry, quite happy to accept buns and bones alike.
As with any political idea - people like to split themselves into for and against - which is probably, in this post-classical era, a bit of a silly position to be in.
zen_tom, Jul 09 2014
//The connection is that you can have a superposition of policies//
Got it, the policies not the individuals, I withdraw the Schrodinger relevancy complaint.
Skewed, Jul 09 2014
"This way, a country can (for example) both run a national health service, and not at the same time - keeping everyone happy." This would make me very happy for sure.
blissmiss, Jul 09 2014
While we're at it, I fail to see how providing an example that uses 50/50 as a means of illustrating a concept equates to naïve or wrong. Want to try 21/79? Or 21/21/21/21/16? Pick your own example, any of them should work equally well. If that helps, be my guest - but I don't think it's a core part of the idea.
I suppose if you had 100, or a thousand, or a million different options, and the split of the vote was 1/1/1/1/.../1 then it might get complicated in terms of implementation - so it makes sense to consider something similar to the current set of choices we're offered as a starting model.
zen_tom, Jul 09 2014
//many services run on an "insurance" type of model - so the charge-per-use method of funding isn't appropriate//
Re-read what I said on this point.
//just make all services optional with a flat fee based on the cost of supplying the service to all those who have opted for it//
A flat fee assessed on the cost of providing the service to all those availing themselves of it divided by the number of those availing themselves of it.
a) That is the insurance model.
b) That's exactly what you get with your proposal.
Skewed, Jul 09 2014
OK, so you're asking what's the difference between a vote and an "opt-in"?
One difference that you've already highlighted is that votes are scheduled on a suitably long-term basis (4 years) which is probably long enough to make this a stable enough arrangement and removing the ability to opt-in/out halfway through.
Another part is that by linking service-opt-in to some level of governmental responsibility is to differentiate between "public" and "private" - the detailed and pros and cons of which are fairly well known and are well discussed elsewhere.
zen_tom, Jul 09 2014
Which doesn't change the most basic problem with your idea.
So everyone who can afford private health care opts out, health care is then only funded by those who opted in, you don't see a problem right there?
I'll give you a minute to think about it.
<Later Edit>
As it happens though I wasn't asking what's the difference between a vote & an opt in, I was pointing out the lack of difference from a final results standpoint & suggesting it would be cheaper & more flexible to use the opt in / out method.
If you want to avoid flexibility (for the purpose of stability) then fine, just make it a 4 year term opt in / opt out.
Skewed, Jul 09 2014
//fail to see how providing an example that uses 50/50 as a means of illustrating a concept equates to naïve or wrong//
Let me just climb down off this horse so I can see the screen better.
I'd kind of got the bit between my teeth there hadn't I, changing the wording so it's less confrontational, but the gist of it still holds (for me) at the moment.
<edit> identified that basic problem yet?
Skewed, Jul 09 2014
//Did you just hand my beloved [zen-tom] a bone?//
Afraid so [bliss] sorry.
//This way, a country can (for example) both run a national health service, and not at the same time//
It wouldn't Though, that's the basic problem with it, can you work out why?
Skewed, Jul 09 2014
Yes of course - the argument is obvious (if simplistic) - but the equally simplistic counter problem with the alternative scenario is using government as a stick to force people to pay for things they don't want.
People get pretty cross about that.
So this is intended as a step towards a sensible compromise that manages to superposit(?) both irreconcilable truths at once, and (hopefully) achieve a situation that's better than the current one - or, as I succinctly put it in the idea header - "a marginally even leastest worse method".
And you know what? I think it probably would work out - not all solvent folks want to use private health care (I know I don't) and not all poor folks want their principles to be overridden by economics.
At the same time, if voting turnout is anything to go by - people seem to be less interested in politics these days, and by directly linking your political choices to things that have a direct impact on your, and your families' lives, I contend would be good for society as a whole. We'd need to come up with some default status for these non-voters regards their rights and responsibilities - but again, I'm seeing that as another driver for more involved politics.
The overall result might just be that good, sensible economically responsible parties put together good, sensible, economically responsible policy documents, and stick to them - rather than the knee-jerk media- driven, extreme-issue politics of today - plus an engaged electorate who are both self-and- socially interested.
zen_tom, Jul 09 2014
If the intention was to improve peoples involvement with the political process (get more of them to (a) vote (b) actually pay attention to what they're voting for then I approve the motives, not what the idea says, if it was would still have a problem with the methodology.
Lets take health care for example (seeing as we already have).
If everyone who can afford private health care opts out (with their vote) this only leaves those who can't.
If health care costs $100 & 100 people have opted for a government health plan then the cost is $100 per person (the government still has to pay the actual / normal cost of the care) so by the normal insurance type model the tax required from them is $100.
If they couldn't afford $100 for private health care individually then they can't afford it for public health care as a group, ergo they opt out or are jailed for not paying their tax.
The only other alternative is the government subsidises it, which is stupid because you've just ended up pushing a lot of paperwork around to end up exactly where you started with the higher earners subsidizing the lower earners through their tax.
So not (all) who can afford private will opt out, but nearly all will.
Skewed, Jul 09 2014
//so not (all) who can afford private will opt out but nearly all will//
All the above rests upon that subjective assumption - Personally, that's not an assumption I share or agree with - but you're welcome to continue holding it.
And you're right - if that assumption is true, then those services so affected would suffer accordingly.
This system would allow the empirical testing of those assumptions to be carried out - and, based on the results, changes made, or alternative forms of funding found or created - once again, everyone (whatever their subjective opinions) wins.
zen_tom, Jul 09 2014
Now you're just being silly.
Skewed, Jul 09 2014
Really? It seems a fairly sensible, rational argument to me - unless you're being sarcastic! It's never easy to tell.
zen_tom, Jul 09 2014
//Really?// //unless you're being sarcastic!//
In this case a little of both.
The idea most people won't take the option of paying less tax was what I was referring to (the rest of the post came up while I was typing, give me a minute to read the rest).
Empiric testing? with peoples (children included) health care (meaning lives)?
I refer you sir to my prior anno & expand it to include the entirety of you last anno on the grounds I can only believe your being ironic.
Skewed, Jul 09 2014
And here's the thing - certainly people want to pay less tax, but if they've the choice between paying 100$ less in taxes, but have to balance that with paying an additional 110$ in private health-care fees, then maybe they should look closer at their choices.
There is a lot of emotive stuff here - some people see "government" and turn off - and assume that private healthcare must always be cheaper, and/or better than a government-run service. Maybe both? Having had experience of both systems (in this case) that's not a view I necessarily share. I think if people were given a choice, they might sit up and take more notice. If people had chosen to pay their tax for an NHS that was performing less well than an equivalent private practice, they might be more likely to do something about it. Right now, those distinctions are difficult to make - and you'd need to transparentalise the whole system for that to work.
Of course, there may be some people who are prepared to risk dying in the road to save their 100$ and that's their choice too. For me, this is where charity serves a role - but that's probably a contentious view - another opinion might say that there *must* be a government provisioned safety net - I'm not sure how this might fit into the mechanics of the idea - but I appreciate it's currently a blind spot.
I don't think you understood what I meant about empiricism - I was just suggesting that if 20 people got in a boat that started sinking, and could see 4 other boats that weren't sinking, they'd have the opportunity to jump across to one of the other boats (at the next election) - or, to shout out at the other boat-folk and say "hey, how come your boats aren't sinking?" and then enact or do whatever it is they are doing to stop the boat sinking. The alternative is to do what we currently do which is all get into the same boat and spend all the time shouting at each other, hoping that the boat doesn't sink - since if it does, we're all screwed.
The empiric part of the first example is that its transparent which set of policies (the boats) are working, and which are not. There's no opportunity to do that if you're all in the same boat, except to refer to previous boats - but that's a bit harder to do.
So I don't think it's anything to do with testing or risking people's lives - it's just a way of spreading out the risk - in a way that each individual person takes some responsibility for how they choose to interpret and deal with that risk. The alternative is that many people are forced to take the same risks that the majority have chosen for them.
But this is a great case in point - here we are, with two (possibly) irreconcilable points of view - how should we progress? In the real world, you'd go your way, and I'd go mine - just as the idea suggests. I guess that makes it baked - in a sense.
zen_tom, Jul 09 2014
[+] just for getting the Umlaut right ...
8th of 7, Jul 09 2014
//some people// //assume that private healthcare must always be cheaper//
Only the very silly who haven't taken five seconds to consider that both services are subject to precisely the same costs with the notable exception of the profit margin for the private services shareholders.
Skewed, Jul 09 2014
False argument: you're ignoring the fact those opting out are most likely the better off who are paying a higher level of tax than the less well off.
The tax system is skewed so the high earners are maybe paying $150 & low earners $50 (assuming equal numbers of each).
So if the cost of any health care is $100 dollars & private healthcare (with the shareholders profit margin) is $110 then those better off opting out save $40.
The gist of what your suggesting (or at least it's inevitable result) is ring-fencing the high earners from the low earners so they don't have to subsidise them.
If you're not ignoring facts to make your arguments fit you have a very poor grasp of economic reality & working tax systems?
Skewed, Jul 09 2014
//there may be some people who are prepared to risk dying in the road to save their 100$//
I think you're forgetting about the very large numbers of low earners who simply wouldn't be able to afford it, wouldn't be a choice for them.
Not without it being subsidised, & this (as presented) by ring fencing the high earners tax from that of the low earners removes any option of subsidy.
Add the option of subsidy back in & you nullify the whole thing & will just be wasting money (which will have to be paid for with more tax) shuffling paper around.
Skewed, Jul 09 2014
You're right, that would be a possible effect! As you'll also no-doubt be aware, progressive income tax always has that effect, under whatever system it forms a part of - and that kind of self directed ring fencing happens all the time. But I don't really want to get bogged down in the pros and cons of different taxation policies - I've lived under a few! - So let's assume a suitably balanced policy is in place that reduces the specific progressive-tax related ring fencing problem to a point where it doesn't present an issue.
I do think the subsidy thing is a red-herring though. Unfortunately, in terms of resolving it, all I think we can do is generate hot air on this one - so unless we can somehow generate and look at some figures, I guess we'll have to move on from this one.
zen_tom, Jul 09 2014
Sorry, you just happened to hit on an area I've given a lot of thought one way or the other.
The main problem I see with it is that I don't think there is a way round that effect, anything that gets round the ring fencing rolls back into taxation on those that opted out (with their vote).
And not getting round it will probably damage the economy.
Well over 50% of any population is going to fall into the lower earner category (take a look at a typical supermarket or office, how many check out / basic admin staff per supervisor or manager are there?).
So if they're all forced to spend more for the absolute necessities they already buy they'll have less for non-necessities so sales in all other sectors drop.
lower turnover > layoffs to preserve profit margins > more people on benefits > more tax on those still in work > etc.
If I was an industrialist I wouldn't want this as policy.
The only reasonable way round it might be having certain policy areas exempted but that weakens the idea, most would be the ones people cared about so the encouraging voters effect would be weakened.
Still, nuf said.
I promise not to raise the issue again ;)
Skewed, Jul 09 2014
Here's 3 possible ways out of that particular dead end then: VAT (sales tax), corporation tax, a flat income tax.
None of them a panacea, none of them immune to some of the points you raise, but all offering an alternative to the worse skewing effects of a progressive income tax.
But no I don't particularly want to discuss tax in detail - I take your point on the possibility of opting out, and already call that "brain drain" when it happens under the current system. So we know it happens, and we know there are ways of raising revenue that can mitigate against it. Nuff indeed.
zen_tom, Jul 09 2014
I promised not to continue along this line, so I won't ;p
Skewed, Jul 09 2014
this process is occurring in the US, as Texans have recently taken to pointing out, they have an immigration problem at both their southern and northern borders.
Granted, one cannot opt out of federally imposed laws, regulations and taxes, but one has ample options to escape local governments.
theircompetitor, Jul 14 2014
[theircompetitor] I knew that Heisenberg idea existed, I just wasn't able to find its position with any certainty.
zen_tom, Jul 15 2014
Just one of many problems that Texas has.
RayfordSteele, Jul 15 2014
Op in/out doesn't work for the majority when the nearly all the wealth is held by a tiny minority of the population, and in fact is exactly what that tiny minority is trying to achieve - with considerable success - as they can well afford to opt out and take care of themselves.
Aside from that you have to believe that votes are what determine the outcome of elections.
nuclear hobo, Jul 19 2014
What I was saying [hobo].
a) Throw in a legal minimum-wage index linked to inflation that actually reflects the real cost of living (including health care & retirement, which as best I can determine the "living wage" in UK doesn't) +10% say.
b) Change to a fixed currency, anchored on the price of some commodity (doesn't have to be gold) because that (a that is) will cause continued ass-inflation otherwise (no one wants balloon bums).
c) You then have to throw up some serious import tax barriers or local industry is undercut by all those with cheaper labour (& everyone ends up unemployed).
Under those conditions, this might have a chance to work without causing rather a lot of deaths (if healthcare is included), not to mention riots & the eventual overthrow of the government.
Which if you stuck to it regardless of the effect it was having on 80% of your population is I predict the probable outcome in most developed nations where living standards expectations for the masses have become a little higher than the United Arab Emirates say?
damn - I promised not to continue.
Skewed, Jul 19 2014
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The Future of Analytics and Data Science
Updated: Sep 3, 2019
Kate Strachnyi interviewed IADSS Co-founder Dr. Usama Fayyad to discuss the current and future issues of data science and possible solutions, after his keynote speech at ODSC Boston 2019.
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Kate Strachnyi: Given the huge diversity of roles for people in data, what behavioral changes or tools are getting adopted in the future?
Usama Fayyad: So I think the tools and behavioral changes in organizations are maturing probably in an expensive way more than the real way, meaning they're going through good and bad experiences of hiring data scientists. Some of them are seeing the value, some are seeing they made bad hires, and now they have to recover from that by firing or replacing. I think what's coming out of that is organizations are beginning to understand that they need to do a more thorough evaluation. And one of my biggest rules about hiring data scientists is that it takes one to know one. So if you don't have a good data scientist on board, your chances of hiring another good data scientist aren't near.
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So then where do you begin if you’re starting a department or don’t have a good scientist on board already which is why you’re trying to recruit, right? How do you solve that? We believe that by developing the standards, developing good descriptions of what are the roles, what are the positions and what is the training required for each of these roles, we can actually make it a lot easier for people to both sift through a lot of resumes and then hone in on the ones that look promising and then hone in on the interviews that are likely to be valuable and then know what to ask in the interviews. We shared a lot of feedback from candidates who say, hey, I interviewed at ten different places for the same job. And the interviews other than two little bits around programming had almost nothing in common. And each interview was a whole day affair with a completely different kind of an approach to it.
Kate Strachnyi: Well, one thing I'll say is if there are, let's say ten common questions that are expected to be asked of a data scientist, you can expect the answers to those questions to be posted on Google somewhere. So people will just memorize that and come in for interviews. That's another worry to think about.
Usama Fayyad: Of course. And that's why there's no substitute for doing a live follow up where you dig deeper. It's not enough to ask the canned question. When you're doing a video interview, there are tools that can check for these behaviors to see if somebody is looking somewhere else or if somebody else is sitting in the background whispering the answers. I'm amazed there is technology now where people use AI to detect whether to flag something in a video interview that's proctored, and there are companies which offer these services. And when you get a red flag, you drill down and say, do you really know this area? Let me ask you a few follow-up questions. And typically, somebody who's cheating would collapse very quickly.
Kate Strachnyi: Relevant to what we were talking about, there are a lot of people that want to be a data scientist, but they’re also a lot of technological innovations in AI that’s coming into play that help the data scientist do their job. So do you think that that the skills gap is going to close because basically, robots are taking our jobs? So is that a problem?
"AI is not about replacing the human with a robot. It is about taking the robot out of the human"
Usama Fayyad: I think it's the MIT data lab or the MIT media lab where they came up with the motto "AI is not about replacing the human with a robot. It is about taking the robot out of the human". So I think what is happening with AI and a lot of these technologies is they are making our jobs easier. I actually do not believe at all that they're capable of replacing our jobs. The jobs that are capable of replacing are the very mundane, very robotic, very repetitive type of tasks that I think machines are better off doing than humans. We need the humans because to this date; we don't know how to build a machine that has something that most humans have, which is common sense and ability to come up with judgments under new situations quickly.
The analogy I like to use is autonomous driving. I don't think we will see autonomous driving in the near term. It will probably take more than 30 years. But I do believe that there are many areas today where these AI algorithms can help us a lot. So, avoiding collisions when it's obvious that you're going to collide with a driver that is distracted. Getting warnings and applying brakes. These are helpful ones. Following lanes can also be helpful. A lot of these tools that assist you to do some other tasks, for some people parallel parking, can now be automated, and it's a good thing. So in these areas, you can automate much of this, but so far we have not been able to build the machines that can anticipate situations that we haven't seen before and quickly react and map knowledge from another similar situation to this one and apply it effectively. I have many examples of that, but that's why I don't believe how autonomous driving will happen, at least in my lifetime. But I think the machines were advanced enough to do a lot of the mundane tasks and help me when I'm distracted or when I'm incompetent or whatever. We haven't yet figured out how to correct that general intelligence, which seems to exist in humans and also in many animals.
Kate Strachnyi: Okay. So you're saying we're safe for now?
Usama Fayyad: Yes. In fact, historically looking at the past two AI winters, and I think there will be a new AI winter because of all the hype, we created a lot more jobs than we've eliminated. So you open up a whole bunch of new areas where people can do a lot of higher-value work.
Kate Strachnyi: Removing the mundanity from the requirements for human activities frees the human to be more responsive, creative, and proactive. Hopefully, there should be many benefits to many areas of the industry rather than a detriment. Do you agree?
Usama Fayyad: I completely agree and in fact that is completely supported. I'll use a very basic example that has little to do with data science, but is related. Accounting over a hundred years ago opened up these huge ledgers and spent days adding numbers and double-checking that you didn't make an error. In addition, there were all sorts of tricks to avoid errors and to double-check yourself with these ledgers that get dusty, and are impossible to access. Nowadays, no one at all would ever think about doing accounting without software doing the actual mundane work of keeping track of the numbers, adding them up, doing all the right things, creating the balance sheets and all of that. That, to me, is an example where now accountants can think about more strategic things. We can think about things such as “Was this expense necessary?”, “Does this make sense?”, “Could we save money here?”, “Could we utilize the assets better?” etc. Stuff that they never had time to think about. And that's really where the value is in managing money.
Kate Strachnyi: What’s the impact of data technologies on the expectations from the business?
Humans typically will consume data at the level of graphs and summaries, while machines like a machine learning algorithm want the detail of every little transaction and what was around it.
Usama Fayyad: The biggest thing we've seen is a huge wave of digitization. I think, and this is near and dear to my heart, in a lot of digitization, or what's called digital transformation efforts, people start digitizing a lot of the manual tasks, making them often more accurate, less repetitive, boring, and faster. All of that good stuff. But data ends up being an afterthought. So what happens is they create what we call "instant technical debt" because you have now built mechanisms to digitize and you forgot about questions such as "How do I capture the right data?" "How do I represent that data?" "How do I store that data?" "How do I retrieve it at the right time?" and "What level of data?". Humans typically will consume data at the level of graphs and summaries, while machines like a machine learning algorithm want the detail of every little transaction and what was around it.
And that is completely non-consumable by human but necessary for learning algorithms. So, to me what's happening now is people are now rethinking and saying, okay, if I'm really doing a proper digitization, I want to make sure that I put in the right brains and the right intelligence to actually design it in such a way that when I'm capturing the right data, managing the data correctly, and most importantly, enabling the algorithms which are very finicky machine learning algorithms which only require data in a certain format and completely collapse if it's not in that format, to be able to consume it. And that's what I think is changing now and becoming better, especially with big data, which makes it easy to deal with the different types of data.
Kate Strachnyi: Enterprise risk tolerance with data balancing between information security versus information utilization, what are your thoughts on this as a Chief Data Officer?
Usama Fayyad: A huge and very important topic. I'm a strong believer that you can have maximum utilization with maximum privacy. You just have to be careful about how you do it. So many organizations are obsessed with data leaks, attacks, and hacks. It turns out that most of the threats are internal. And a lot of these internal threats are from people who intentionally or unintentionally end up installing bad software, malware, etc. That's called social engineering. That's how the bad guys get you to bring it in, even if you're not connected to the outside. And in fact, the very famous breaches happened that way, including some of the famous ones in the news. The thing I want to say here is many organizations assume that once you're in, once the perimeter is secure, you're safe.
It turns out that most of the data threats are internal. Data should be encrypted. The keys should only be accessible by people who actually have reasons to access it.
And that's a very bad assumption. And by the way, with IoT, the Internet of things, that's becoming a super bad assumption because there is no such thing as a perimeter in that world. So, the proper practice here is simple, right? Data should be encrypted. The keys should only be accessible by people who actually have reasons to access it. And the management over the keys needs to be active enough to make sure that nobody is counting the keys for historical reasons. And the keys get refreshed all the time. The keys can be instantly changed so that people can be denied access instantly when something bad happens. Those technologies, by the way, are available today, they're just not used out of laziness. So if you do it properly and you make sure it's the proper access, often a lot of that utilization and information can be done by algorithms.
No human needs to actually look at it. And the beauty of a machine learning algorithm that is looking at a Data-set is that it doesn't need any of what we consider private information. The PII (personally identifiable information) for example, is useless to an algorithm. If you have a name or a social security number, the algorithm throws it out because it's a unique identifier for each data record. It has no predictive value unless it's a bad algorithm. But it would glean the overall predictive pattern that says, oh, when people use this product and this feature, they tend to run into these kinds of problems. That's the useful stuff that comes out of it. Or here, our customers were looking for something and it's an opportunity for us to double our sales. So these things can be gleaned from the data through algorithms that can be run securely without humans actually having access to it. And without endangering the privacy of that data, you just need to have a very well controlled and architected story on who gets access to the data when and for what reasons.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/20133 | Search Engine for Open Source Code: Ohloh
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Ohloh by Black Duck is a type of FOSS website which provides a Search Engine in a comprehensive environment to search free code. A FOSS is a Free and Open Source Software which is free and licensed to be used by anyone. Ohloh currently is a public directory of 16,651,326,963 lines of freely available source code which can be used by anyone in their development. One can even join the team to add new projects and correct or review existing ones. See the below screenshot.
As Projects and Code on Ohloh is available for editing and reviewing by public, this makes Ohloh one of the largest and accurate collections of open source code. It is a community for developers and Analysts which lets them search for the code, analyse the history of code and updates, and help them generate various reports about the activity. Ohloh lets you search source code and provides various filter options along with it to make your search result precise.
The various Filters that Ohloh provides are:
1. Definition: The various options that definition provides are Method, Object, Struct, Constructor, Class, Enum, and many more. So when you check on any of the definition options and search for a particular keyword, you will get only that type of result. It is a cool feature, see below screenshot. My search string was Dim a As Integer. It gave me the result very precisely as you can see from the screenshot. Ohloh_2
2. Languages: Ohloh supports all coding languages. So if you want to search only C code, you can select C from this list and it will list out only C code from the directory.
3. File Extension: It lets you select the file extensions from more than 100 types of files extensions.
4. Projects: The same way, you can check out the projects and select from them. There are more than 100 projects listed in Ohloh directory.
Once you search for any code, it will give search results along with the name of files and project from where the search result has come out. You can then even download this file and use the code. Ohloh lets you Browse all the files of any project. See screenshot below, I had simply clicked on Browse button and was able to view all the files of that particular project.
Now, if you click on any Project name, it will open a separate window wherein you can see the details of that project. You can see the Project Summary, Language used, a graph depicting Lines of code including comment and blanks, monthly and yearly activity of the project, commits per month, Ratings, and Contributors per month. This way it helps analysts to analyse and keep a track on the Project they upload.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/20147 | Clinton Confirms That WikiLeaks Podesta Emails Are True, Still Blames Russia
Let’s just all breathe a sigh of relief that we won’t have to live through yet another presidential debate, shall we? Even so, the debate was quite enlightening for a variety of reasons. One of those reasons is how Hillary Clinton subtly confirmed the veracity of the WikiLeaks “Podesta Emails.”
Toward the end of the final debate, Moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News asked questions of both candidates regarding their fitness to be president. Trump brought up the issue of the WikiLeaks emails and the James O’Keefe video in which some Clinton surrogates were caught admitting to causing violence at Trump events.
Wallace then pivoted that into a question to Clinton regarding her time as Secretary of State.
“Secretary Clinton, during your 2009 Senate confirmation hearing, you promised to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest with your dealing with the Clinton Foundation … but emails show that donors got special access to you … Can you really say that you kept your pledge to that Senate committee … why isn’t it what Mr. Trump calls pay-to-play?”
Clinton avoided the question regarding the pay-to-play scenario, instead segueing into how her foundation has helped millions of people around the world. When pressed on the issue, Clinton claimed that there was no evidence of any pay-to-play scheme.
But the confirmation of the WikiLeaks emails actually came earlier in the debate, when the two candidates were hashing it out over immigration, open borders, and Donald Trump’s infamous wall. Wallace asked Clinton pointedly if what she said in a private speech to a Brazilian bank was true.
“Secretary Clinton, I want to clear up your position on this issue, because in a speech you gave to a Brazilian bank, for which you were paid $225,000, we’ve learned from the WikiLeaks, that you said … ‘My dream is a hemispheric common market with open trade and open borders.’ So that’s the question.”
Clinton’s answer about the WikiLeaks emails was smooth, and she urged voters to read the rest of the answer in the speech transcript.
While the fact that sharing an energy grid with two other countries is simply a bad idea, Clinton’s answer confirmed what people have been debating all along.
But then Clinton turned the conversation around to how WikiLeaks is an agent of Vladimir Putin’s Russia. She said 17 intelligence agencies have “confirmed” that Russian hackers committed cyber attacks on the U.S. government in order to try and influence the election. However, after much crosstalk by both candidates, Wallace pointed out that, although the top national security officials believe Russia is behind all of the hacks, they do not know for sure. Politico reports that while authorities suspect Putin, they can find no evidence of a Russian connection in the latest releases.
WikiLeaks has also implied that at least some of the emails they’ve received were not hacked, which could mean an inside job.
In other words, it’s still just speculation that Russia had anything to do with some or all cyber attacks and although Clinton would desperately love to paint WikiLeaks as an agent of a hostile nation, her argument that the emails were sourced from Russia is still rather weak. Furthermore, various internet forums like Reddit and 4Chan have been digging deeply into the recent accusations against Assange with implications of involvement by close associates of Hillary Clinton.
A supposed dating site called has accused Assange of taking $1 million from the Russian government. The site is also behind the accusations of internet sexual molestation of an unnamed eight-year-old girl in the Bahamas. But again, there is a circular path to all of these accusations, and somehow they manage to all lead back to Clinton in some way.
Clinton turns tables on WikiLeaks questions to blame Russia.
I’ve already discussed the ToddandClare fiasco and linked to relevant sources so anyone interested can look it all up.
But, here’s where we stand right now. Clinton has verbally confirmed on national TV that the contents of the WikiLeaks emails are true. There is now no more question about their accuracy or provenance.
John Podesta really did call Bernie Sanders a “doofus.” Clinton’s campaign really did work in tandem with the DNC and the mainstream media to “throw Bernie a bone.” Neera Tanden really did say she’d do just about anything for Clinton. And Bill and Chelsea really did nearly drive a woman to suicide.
John Podesta did already say some of the emails were true but warned against the Russians planting some fake ones to undermine WikiLeaks’s credibility, which makes no sense at all. Why would Russia commit cyber attacks in order to influence the election, but then also plant fake emails in the mix to discredit them? So while pundits and social media mavens are up in arms over Trump’s refusal to say whether he’ll accept the results of the presidential election come November 8, everyone is overlooking the fact the veracity of WikiLeaks’s Podesta emails are no longer in doubt.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/20156 | Ahistorical Elements In The Underground Railroad
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The novel The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead is full of ahistorical elements. In a book about slavery in America, his use of ahistorical elements results in a commentary on racial discrimination and abuse in a unique, narrative way. He portrays every state differently, using each of them as an example of a different type of discrimination. South Carolina is represented as a “progressive” and modern state, with new and innovative ideas on how to treat slaves. It even has the Griffin Building to represent its modernism, even though that wasn 't built historically until 1910. Colson Whitehead chose to represent South Carolina ahistorically to comment on how racism and discrimination continued after the abolition of slavery, and he did this by incorporating elements of American culture and discriminatory decisions that did not appear historically until after the abolition.
Whitehead uses the section of his book that takes place in South Carolina to comment on the racial segregation prevalent in America in the early-mid 20th century. In South Carolina as it appears in The Underground Railroad, slaves are owned by the state government and assigned to work in their own communities. They are given amenities such as housing and money for food in return for their services, but they are required to stay separate from the white community. “Bessie greeted the other residents as they crossed each other on the sidewalk.Most were returning from work. Others departed to watch over
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/20157 | Information And Education: The Importance Of Information Literacy
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With increased development in the Information and communication technology which has led to globalization and other changes, competing favorably is mandatory. Additionally so many avenues of sharing knowledge have increased, necessitating for the questioning of the credibility of the source of information. Thus people are in constant need of being on top of all their activities. This way, the role of information literacy skills cannot be underemphasized. If you ask me, Information literacy skills are the heartbeat of lifelong learning or as I may put it in other words, general and holistic life. Since information literacy is all about knowing how to get information and apply it when need be, I believe this is the art of life that guides our day in day out activities since clearly these activities are informed by certain decisions, and how else would you make a decision, if you did not have information leave alone the right and quality information? To this end therefore, it makes information literacy such as an imperative prerequisite to lead any life, be it meaningful or lowlife. Additionally, lifelong learning entails being able to continually acquire education or basically information each and every day of one’s life. And there is no place that one cannot do this. Everywhere around us be it in Matatus, the social media, from grapevine, rumors, music, church, and politics, all these are avenues of learning. With the right skill set of information literacy, one is able to
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Praying Book Study at Redeemer - Jan - May 2017
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Everyone who attends will receive a copy of the Study Guide.
I will teach out of my book.
This class will meet once a month, Jan - May.
Our prayer focus will be the Psalms.
Praying Book Study at Redeemer - Jan - May 2017
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Everyone who attends will receive a copy of the Study Guide.
I will teach out of my book.
This class will meet once a month, Jan - May.
Our prayer focus will be the Psalms.
God Desires Participants, not Admirers
Soren Kierkegaard writes:
Thursday, December 29, 2016
Human Freedom Is Not Incompatible with God's Foreknowledge
Chicago Theological Seminary
I emailed them my response to this, which is:
The two statements are not saying the same thing.
Statement 1 does not commit the modal fallacy.
Statement two does. Here’s how it does.
Therefore, God’s foreknowledge and human free will are not incompatible.
Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Christmas - I'm Still Celebrating
Merry Christmas! (I'm still celebrating...)
Sunday, December 25, 2016
Uncovering Jesus at Christmas
This bothered me.
Merry Christmas, everyone.
Saturday, December 24, 2016
Violent Night (An Alternative Christmas Story)
And there was war in heaven.
Robert Mounce says that:
Violent night
Holy night
All's not calm
All's not bright
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
The Day Your Reputation Died
Bolles Harbor, Lake Erie, Monroe
Scot McKnight writes:
Monday, December 19, 2016
My Sermon on The Lord's Prayer - No. 3
Sunday, December 18, 2016
Friday, December 16, 2016
Eight Books by Henri Nouwen in One Volume
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• Intimacy
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• Our Greatest Gift
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Christmas: How God Rescued the Human Heart
Bolles Harbor, Monroe
As I was standing in the funeral home after the funeral an elderly man came up and shook my hand. "Very good job," he said, with a large smile.
Thank you.
"Of course," he added, "I forgot to put in my hearing aid, and didn't hear a word you said."
He was smiling as he told me this. I smiled and thanked him for the compliment.
Please put your hearing aid in, because God has something he wants to say that, if you are a Jesus-follower, will focus you during the American secularized "holidays." The mission of Jesus is to captivate and capture and heal human hearts.
It will help to understand this word “heart,” used over 300 times in the Bible.
The heart is that spiritual part of you where your emotions and desires dwell. The “heart” is a metaphor for the location of your most basic orientation, your deepest commitments. “Heart” concerns what you trust the most. Trust in the Lord with all your heart.
The biblical metaphorical heart concerns what we most love and hope in, what we most treasure, what captures our imagination. Jesus said, Where you find your treasure, there you will find your heart.
The “heart” has to do with inclination and orientation. Like – Do you have a heart for jazz music? Or – Do you have a heart for the little girls in Bangkok caught up in sex trafficking?
Your heart has an inclination (Genesis 6:5), something it leans towards. The orientation of your heart controls everything — your thinking, feeling, decisions, and actions – like the incline of a mountain controls the flow of water.
“Heart” is what you most love and, therefore, find most reasonable, desirable, and doable.
The "heart" is the core of a person.
No wonder Jesus is so concerned about our hearts. No wonder God sees outward actions as manifestations of the heart. Because if you can change a human heart, you can change their outward behaviors. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. (1 Samuel 16:7)
People look at selfies; God looks at souls. God looks at orientation and inclination. God looks at what we cherish. Because whatever we most cherish in our heart controls the whole person.
In this sense God has a heart. God has emotions and desires. God has purposes and motives and a rock-solid orientation. Therefore, God can be said to have a “heart.” And David can be called a man “after God’s own heart” (Acts 13:22). This means David's purposes, motives, and inclinations inclined to God. The plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations. (Psalm 33:11)
God’s heart inclines towards his creation. Especially you. And me. YOU are on God’s heart… right now… as you read these words. Like a loving parent has their children often on their heart, so also God is captivated by you.
God awaits a response, from you. God wants your heart to be captivated by him, to look to him, to love and trust him. He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart. (Isaiah 40:11) This is why it grieves the heart of God when one of his children gets disoriented and jumps out of his arms (Genesis 6:6).
God created you. You have been fashioned in God’s image. God has a heart. Therefore, you have a heart.
God made you to have the kind of heart he has. To share His orientation, his motives, his inclinations, his desires, and to cherish what he cherishes. To accomplish this God has planted seeds of his thoughts and ideas and truths in your heart.
In every heart there is a longing for God. I call this the primal metaphysical impulse, the ontological desire for something more, for the transcendent. I see it in the college students in my classes. They want to talk about the Big Questions of life. I see in them a basic longing for more than mere materiality, for more than what the media can give them. OK… but what if they are an atheist? No matter – I see it in them, too. As atheist Julian Barnes wrote at the beginning of Nothing to Be Frightened Of, “I don’t believe in God. But I miss him.”
Correct. Because God has made everyone in his image, which essentially means: with his heart.
Linda, Josh, and I were driving home from seeing a movie in Toledo. It was a beautiful, clear, starry night. I heard the Perseid meteor shower was peaking. I asked Linda and Josh if we could drive to Bolles Harbor on Lake Erie and look for meteors. It was almost midnight when we pulled in. I turned off the car, and we sat in black silence.
We saw five meteors that night. I thought about God, because God made this vast universe, as well as the inclination of my heart to attribute it to him.
What may be known about God is plain to [us] them, because God has made it plain to [us] them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. (Romans 1:19-20)
God has also placed – deep within every human heart – a basic sense of right and wrong. I see this when I teach my logic classes. One section of the class is on applying formal and informal logic to ethical systems. I take my dry erase marker and write this sentence on the white board: It is wrong to rape little girls for fun. And behold! The moral law manifests itself in every student's heart. Yes, it is really, objectively, wrong to do that.
C.S. Lewis, in Mere Christianity, called this the “key to the meaning of the universe”; viz., the existence of objective moral values. Lewis wrote an entire book dedicated to this – The Abolition of Man – where he discovers the Golden Rule in all cultures big and small. (My friend William Lane Craig presents his metaethical argument for God’s existence, using as an evidential premise the statement Objective moral values and duties exist.)
Is this relevant today? Well, “Star Wars” is culturally relevant. "Rogue One" begins showing tonight. Millions will descend upon theatres across the world and see, again, a battle between good and evil, between light and darkness. When George Lucas was interviewed by Charlie Rose he explained:
Your heart is a hard drive containing the software of God’s moral code, humming and teaching you even while you sleep. In his amazing book Addiction and Grace clinical psychiatrist Dr. Gerald May, wrote:
God has placed His treasures, the things he cherishes, how he is oriented, how He is wired, in every human heart. In your heart, too. Therefore, guard this.
Don’t give your heart to just anything!
This is the most important thing about you. Guard your true orientation. Guard the metaphysical impulse. Protect what you were made for and inclined to go after. Because from the heart, actions come. Here is the order:
First, your heart.
Second, what you do.
Your orientation; your inclinations; your motives; your passions; what you worship… such things determine what we do.
Christmas is the story of how God came to rescue and redeem that which was made in his image. He comes to give you himself, to fill your heart with all the fullness of Christ. When that happens, as it has happened to me and perhaps you as well, O come let us adore him is our natural response.
Thursday, December 15, 2016
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016
"Viability" Is Irrelevant to Personhood (and Abortion)
Monroe County (Ford pickup emerging from the womb)
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PROMOTE DIVERSITY: A college student wrote, saying that his teacher (with whom he did not agree!) was saying that interracial marriage “promoted diversity.” How sad. Especially sad since racial mixture doesn’t promote diversity — it destroys it.
It destroys biodiversity just like forcing or encouraging the varieties or subspecies of, say, eagles to live in the same territory and crossbreed would destroy biodiversity.
Just like forcing or encouraging the subspecies of the lovely shell-builders of the genus Murex to interbreed would destroy biodiversity — and destroy much unique beauty as well.
Evolution is the process which gave us all this diversity and beauty.
And evolution is a branching process, with subspecies varying — at first almost undetectably, then quite visibly — and eventually evolving apart enough to form new species.
It’s insane, pointless, and destructive to try and force the branches back together when they have begun to evolve apart, as the major human races certainly have. |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/20244 | Can You Go to Jail for Not Paying a Medical Bill?
If you have a medical bill that you are struggling to pay and worry about what will happen to you if you can’t pay it, I’m here to answer that question for you. Medical bills are unwanted and stressful. They can make you worry about where you will get the money to pay for them.
Unlike credit card debt or auto loans, medical bills are often unavoidable. If you are your child need emergency care, you have no choice but to accept treatment. That treatment can often come at a hefty price.
Millions of Americans are taken by surprise each year when their medical bills come in the mail. The amounts on those bills are often much larger than anticipated. Some people have the ability to pay the medical bills, but a large percentage of those who do not have the money available to pay them.
When you don’t have the money to pay your medical bills, and you have exhausted all options such as payment plans, personal loans, medical credit cards, and asking family and friends, that is when the stress, worry, and dread really begin to set in. Debt collectors constantly calling, sleepless nights, anxiety, and fear can take over your life.
What will happen if I can’t pay my medical bills? Can I be arrested for not paying them? Can I serve jail time? I’m here to answer your questions and help put your mind at ease.
Medical Debt Collections
If you don’t pay your medical bills, eventually, the hospital or your medical provider will sell your debt to a collection agency. They usually sell this debt for pennies on the dollar. There is a chance that you can negotiate with the debt collector and pay your debt off for less than you owe. It doesn’t always work, but it is worth a try.
This is when those debt collectors start calling. They can be annoying and make your worry increase.
As soon as your medical bills go to collections, it immediately shows up on your credit report. This can be harmful to your credit score, and the longer it goes unpaid, the more it will make your score tank.
Lawsuits for Medical Bills
If collection agencies aren’t able to get the money out of you, they will take legal action. This is the final phase of debt collection. Your medical provider or the debt collector can sue you for your unpaid debt.
If your case goes to court, a judge could order wage garnishment. Money could immediately be taken out of your paycheck each week before it even gets to you.
Thankfully, you cannot go to jail for unpaid medical bills. By law, you cannot go to jail for not paying civil debts. Of course, this same protection doesn’t exist for not paying taxes.
If you don’t have the income to be garnished, like talked about earlier, the debt collection agency can request the court to ask you to appear for the debtor’s examination. If you do not appear, the judge can issue a warrant for your arrest.
Don’t get it twisted. You will not go to jail for unpaid medical debt. But you will go to jail for ignoring a court order.
Look into Other Options
If you can’t pay your medical bills, things can look dire. Make sure you research and inspect your medical bill. Talk to your insurance company. Meet with your medical provider.
Do everything you can to negotiate the debt and get it paid. Look into payment plans, medical credit cards, and ask family and friends for advice.
You can even hire a professional to help. The bottom line is that you will have to pay the medical bills eventually. Do everything in your power to pay it sooner rather than later. It will save a lot of stress and worry for you if you do. |
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Misleading Gun-Death Chart Draws Fire
This chart defies convention by showing higher numbers near the bottom of the vertical y-axis, confusing some viewers.
(Image: © Reuters)
Recent reports about how Florida's "stand your ground" law affected the number of deaths in the state have raised a few eyebrows.
The stories have described how, after Florida enacted its self-defense law in 2005, the gun-death rate took a sudden jump. The controversial law — which allows a person to use "deadly force" in self-protection — was a factor in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman in 2012.
But sharp-eyed observers noticed that a graph accompanying many news reports seemed to suggest that gun deaths actually dropped, rather than jumped, after Florida adopted the law. "It is so deeply misleading that I loathe to expose your eyeballs to it," Lisa Wade, a professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles, wrote in Pacific Standard. [8 Weird Statistics About Daily Life]
When up is down
The problem, Wade and other critics say, is that the vertical y-axis of the graph gets smaller as it goes up, instead of larger, as is the norm when displaying graphical information.
"Most people see a huge falloff in the number of gun deaths after Stand Your Ground was passed," Wade wrote about the graph, developed by Reuters using information from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. "But that's not what the graph shows."
What the graph actually shows is that in 2005, the rate of gun deaths in Florida was relatively low, at 521. But in 2006 — the year after the law was passed — that number jumped to 740 deaths, and in 2007, there were 825 gun deaths in the state.
"The proper conclusion, then, is that gun deaths skyrocketed after Stand Your Ground was enacted," Wade wrote.
"This is the double edge of novelty in charts," wrote Kaiser Fung on Junk Charts. "There should be a very high bar against running counter to convention. Readers do bring their 'baggage' to the chart, and the designer should take that into consideration."
Showing "deaths in negative terms"
There's no evidence that the graph was intentionally designed to mislead people into believing that gun deaths dropped after Florida's stand-your-ground law went into effect. It does, however, highlight the risks of exercising creative license when presenting information graphically.
The designer of the chart, Christine Chan, explained her decision on her Twitter feed, saying, "I prefer to show deaths in negative terms (inverted). It's a preference really, can be shown either way."
Chan also noted that her inspiration for the chart came from a visually compelling graphic, seen on the website Visualising Data, which displays the death toll from the invasion of Iraq in a disturbing manner, using red "dribble" lines that evoke blood running down a wall. That graph also uses an inverted y-axis.
Lies, damn lies and statistics
Of course, this isn't the first time statistical information has been distorted in its presentation. In 2010, numerous media reports howled that one-third of all teen suicides are among gay and lesbian teenagers.
"Advocates drew upon various studies that suggested that homosexuals attempt suicide at a rate two to three times higher than heterosexuals," wrote Joel Best, professor and chair of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Delaware.
These reports combined "a chain of bad statistics" with faulty assumptions to arrive at the one-third rate of suicide among gay teens, Best said. But it's not an accurate figure, Best added, and nobody knows how the rate of suicide among gay teens compares to the rate among straight teens.
Clarification: This article was updated at 10:15 a.m. ET to include information from Christine Chan's Twitter feed
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Prolonged Gestation Associated with Fetal Deformity
Peter G. G. Jackson
Prolonged gestation associated with fetal deformity cases usually occur as the result of some compromise of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis of the fetus, which is no longer able to initiate parturition. The affected fetus may either die and be aborted or live on indefinitely in the uterus. Genetic, infectious, toxic, and unknown causes have been associated with this problem.
Genetic Abnormalities:
Prolonged gestation associated with fetal adrenal malfunction is a genetically determined prolonged gestation caused by an autosomal recessive gene of the fetus in Holstein-Friesian cows. The fetal adrenal glands fail to produce corticosteroids at term, in response to fetal ACTH. As a result, the fetus continues to grow until it outgrows its blood supply. Induction with dexamethasone does not induce normal labor and parturition because of insufficient preparation of the birth canal. A cesarean section will save the dam, but the fetus invariably dies due to adrenal insufficiency.
Four further genetic abnormalities associated with prolonged gestation in various breeds of cattle involve fetal pituitary abnormalities. In one condition, severe fetal oversize (fetal giantism) is present. In the second, the calf has severe craniofacial defects and is much smaller than normal. In the third condition, multiple skeletal abnormalities are present. In a fourth condition, genetic abnormalities may occur as a result of cloning.
Prolonged gestation and fetal giantism has been reported in Holstein-Friesian, Ayrshire, and Swedish breeds of cattle. Gestation is prolonged by 21–150 days. Pronounced abdominal enlargement is seen in some cases. There is no attempted parturition unless the fetus dies first after having outgrown its blood supply. Cervical relaxation is poor, and dystocia invariably results. The calf weighs 48–80 kg at birth and shows signs of postmaturity. The coat and hooves are longer than normal, and prominent loose teeth are present in the gums. Breathing is difficult as a result of failure of surfactant release, and the calf may die from hypoglycemia. At necropsy, hypoplasia of the anterior pituitary and adrenal glands is seen.
Prolonged gestation with craniofacial defects in the fetus has been reported in Holstein-Friesian, Ayrshire, Guernsey, and Jersey breeds of cattle and is thought to be caused by a recessive gene. Affected fetuses cease to grow at 7 mo gestation. There is no spontaneous parturition in affected cattle because of the nonfunctional or absent pituitary gland in the fetus. Calves are usually dead when delivered. Some may show evidence of severe abnormalities of the cranium and face.
Prolonged gestation associated with multiple skeletal abnormalities has been reported in Hereford cattle. Affected calves show evidence of pituitary aplasia or hypoplasia. Arthrogryposis, torticollis, kyphosis, and scoliosis are present, and some calves have cleft palates.
Prolonged gestation associated with cloning has been reported in both fetal calves and lambs produced by somatic cell nuclear cloning. Early placental abnormalities have been detected in a high proportion of such animals, and placentomegaly may be seen in later pregnancy. The abnormality may result in fetal death or, if the fetus survives, in the large offspring syndrome. Spontaneous birth may not occur, and prolonged gestation results. Fetal lung and maternal mammary development is retarded and can compromise fetal survival.
Infectious Causes:
Although bovine viral diarrhea virus (see Bovine Viral Diarrhea and Mucosal Disease Complex) can cause abortion in cattle, it can also produce congenital defects in the fetus. These include cerebellar hypoplasia, anencephaly, and hydrocephaly. Affected calves may be born with severe defects of the CNS, but prolonged gestation occasionally occurs if pituitary function is compromised. The related pestivirus border disease virus (see Border Disease) can produce severe brain and coat abnormalities in fetal lambs. Pituitary compromise in such lambs can lead to prolonged gestation.
Akabane virus (see Akabane and Related Simbu Serogroup Virus Infections in Ruminants), found in Africa, Australia, the Middle East, and the Far East, can be transmitted by insects to both pregnant cattle and sheep. Bovine fetuses exposed to the virus at 76–104 days gestation may develop hydranencephaly (fluid-filled cavitation of the brain). Exposure to the virus at 105–174 days of pregnancy may cause both hydranencephaly and arthrogryposis. Affected fetuses may have severe brain damage. The cerebral cortex may be absent and the cranial cavity filled with fluid. Cerebellar hypoplasia may be present, and the brain stem is smaller than normal. Compromise of pituitary function in the affected fetus can lead to prolonged gestation.
Bluetongue virus (see Bluetongue), found in Africa, Australia, North and South America, and Europe, is also transmitted by insects; infection can occasionally cause prolonged gestation. The fetuses of cows exposed to the virus at 60–120 days of pregnancy developed hydranencephaly, whereas fetuses exposed later in pregnancy developed less severe CNS defects.
Gestation lengths >200 days have been recorded in ewes vaccinated during pregnancy with Rift Valley fever attenuated viral vaccine. Affected lambs developed severe brain defects and skeletal abnormalities. Some ewes developed hydrops amnion by the fourth month of gestation. Ewes in which pregnancy was not terminated developed ketosis.
Toxic Causes:
Several plant toxins cause fetal deformity and prolonged gestation when eaten accidentally or fed experimentally. When fed to sheep in early pregnancy, Veratrum californicum (skunk cabbage) produces fetal deformities, giantism, and prolonged gestation. Cranial defects and brain and eye abnormalities were seen in fetuses of ewes fed this plant at 14 days of gestation; pregnancy length in some cases was >230 days. The plant contains the amine cyclopamine, which is believed to be responsible for the fetal abnormalities. This plant also contains a number of toxic alkaloids that cause GI disturbance, dyspnea, and convulsions in sheep. Veratrum album has similarly caused prolonged gestation and fetal abnormalities in Holstein-Friesian cows in Japan.
An unidentified toxin in the plant Salsola tuberculatiformis (cauliflower saltwort) is thought to cause prolonged gestation in sheep. Pregnancy was extended >220 days, and affected lambs showed atrophy of the pituitary, adrenal, and thyroid glands. Fetuses appear to be most susceptible to the toxin in the first and third trimesters of pregnancy. Amniotic fluid continues to increase in volume in cases of prolonged gestation associated with this plant. Physical abnormalities such as cleft palate prevent normal swallowing of amniotic fluid in affected fetuses. Excessive fetal weight and the weight of accumulated fetal fluids may lead to rupture of the prepubic tendon in ewes.
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Chrysler Sebring, Dodge Nitro deemed failures by Chrysler
What do you do when you know you have (at least) a couple of losers on your hands? These days, you hold an e-mail discussion about it, something that can be easily leaked to the press. That's what Chrysler did, and what The Detroit News reported Friday morning. The internal discussion;-- a funny thing to have leaked;for a company that's about to go private -- singles out the Chrysler Sebring and Dodge Nitro as critical failures and for going straight to rental. You know the Sebring runs on the same platform as the relatively successful Dodge Caliber, plus the Jeep Compass and Patriot I discussed in my previous blog, the '09 JC49 and '10 JZ49 unibody SUVs and the Dodge Avenger.
So the joke that worked so well for Pontiac Aztek/Buick Rendezvous gets recycled: Chrysler built the Sebring to make the Dodge Avenger look good.
The internal e-mails indicate that engineering and design heads will roll, that Chrysler will have to move quickly to improve models like the Sebring and Nitro. Good luck. Look at all the new and coming Chrysler models on that platform. What'll Chrysler do about the sedans that are supposed to compete with the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord and the new Chevy Malibu? Revert to the old Sebring/Stratus platform? Chrysler kept those straight-to-rental cars on the road way too long to give itself time to get the new Sebring/Avenger right. And what did it get for its time and money? Heated/cooled cupholders.
Chrysler has spent the last couple of years denying that these front-drive cars and trucks (and all-wheel-drive derivatives) ride on the new Mitsubishi Lancer's platform. It developed that basic platform into its own, Chrysler has claimed. You can bet marketing won't rush to "correct" the Lancer attribution from now on. If Chrysler can legitimately blame any entity other than itself though, it's Daimler, which insiders say seriously hampered what Chrysler has been able to do in the last nine years or so, the Mercedes-based rear-drive LX cars notwithstanding. And DCX had an alliance with Mitsubishi when these deals were done.
Chrysler's morale is up since the sale announcement (despite the e-mail discussion ) because employees think they're over all that Mercedes meddling. Now it can build models like the Chrysler Imperial, a car that could infringe on lower- to mid-level Benzes. (Not if the production model looks like the concept.) And there've been local news reports about Cerberus's Wolfgang Bernhard lurking around Chrysler headquarters, looking atreal estate in Auburn Hills.
Bernhard is a well-respected car guy, but he had an office in that headquarters back when Chrysler was developing the Sebring and Nitro. How will he change things?
The problem is that, with the vast majority of its bread-and-butter cars built off the same platform and sharing the same DaimlerChrysler/Mitsubishi/Hyundai-developed global four-cylinder engine family, there's not much Chrysler can seriously change for years. Improvements will be patches. The Chrysler Sebring can be quieted up and its silly hood strakes can be smoothed out, but it will become heavier and, if it's possible, blander. The Saturn Ion-like roofline will require a more expensive fix. The News reports that, 18 months ago, Chrysler signed up with the same consultant that helped Hyundai improved its design, engineering, quality, and image. You'll see 10-year/100,000-mile Chrysler warranties before you see seriously improved Sebrings and Nitros (and the new Jeep Liberty, built on the same rear-drive-based platform).
Will big-bucks private-equity firm Cerberus sink cash into Chrysler necessary to make decent fixes, now that the automaker's hands aren't tied by a three-pointed star? We won't know for sure with Chrysler going private, but my guess is that Cerberus doesn't have the will to spend the billions needed. Somewhere in China, there must be an entrepreneur who smells an opportunity. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/20348 | Dean Cain’s OBAMAGATE Is a Frightening Indictment of Political Corruption
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Dean Cain’s OBAMAGATE Is a Frightening Indictment of Political Corruption
Editor’s Note: OBAMAGATE is now available on Youtube and TV. Before you decide to watch the movie, read a portion of our review below. For the full review, including a breakdown of violence, sexual content, nudity, and language, click here.
OBAMAGATE is a televised play available on YouTube and elsewhere that consists mostly of two actors performing texts, emails, tweets, memos, and Congressional testimony of Peter Stzrok and Lisa Page, two top officials at the FBI under President Obama who were caught taking official FBI action to smear President Trump’s 2016 campaign and hurt his electoral prospects. Taking into account its limitations as a televised play, OBAMAGATE is an engaging, well-acted and sometimes funny, but ultimately frightening, indictment of political corruption in the Obama Administration, but the video contains a fair amount of foul language, including some bleeped out “f” words, that warrant strong caution, especially for younger viewers.
Dean Cain plays Peter Strzok, and Kristy Swanson plays Lisa Page. OBAMAGATE also has performances by actors playing former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, former Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe, and other people who worked in the Obama administration. Strzok, a counter-intelligence “expert” at the FBI, directed the investigation of allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government officials. McCabe opened the investigation against Trump, and Lisa Page was McCabe’s legal counsel at the FBI.
The first part of the movie paints a picture of the character of Peter Strzok and Lisa Page and the nature of their relationship. In some ways, they’re like gossiping teenagers sharing their opinions and feelings while discussing what’s happening in the upper echelons of the FBI. They also share their disgust toward Donald Trump as he vies for the presidency against Hillary Clinton. Page also expresses her hatred toward Russia, which she saw as a bigger threat than Communist China and Iran.
Then, in several scenes, an actor playing a generic Republican Congressman interrogates Page and Strzok about their more controversial emails and about the FBI’s controversial investigations into Hillary Clinton’s emails and allegations of collusion between the Russian government and the Trump campaign in 2016. They give a couple straightforward answers, but they are often evasive. For example, Strzok is very evasive when it comes to discussing his email to Page that they have an “insurance policy” against Trump should he win the presidential election. Strzok also denies repeatedly that his private political opinions colored his part in investigating Hillary’s emails or leading the investigation of alleged Russian collusion.
Finally, OBAMAGATE shows Strzok writing an FBI memo that apparently says that a big story in the New York Times about Russian collusion in February 2017 is false in several major ways. First, contrary to the Times story, the FBI has no evidence of Trump campaign officials meeting with any Russian intelligence officials. Second, also contrary to the Times story, there were no calls between Trump’s former campaign head Paul Manafort and Russian government officials. Third, the FBI’s contact into the nasty Steele dossier about Trump and Russia denies finding any contact between Russian officials and the Trump team. OBAMAGATE ends with President Obama’s Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Obama’s National Security Advisor Susan Rice giving Congressional testimony that contradicts interviews they gave to the press. In their testimony, they admit there was no factual evidence that President Trump or any member of his team colluded with Russian government officials to meddle with the 2016 elections and help elect Trump. Also in Congressional testimony, Andrew McCabe could not recall any specific piece of verified information from the infamous Steele dossier about Trump’s alleged activities in Russia that gave the FBI any probable cause to start an investigation into allegations of Russian collusion against Trump. In Congressional testimony, Obama’s Attorney General Loretta Lynch says she was never given any information as Attorney General indicating a conspiracy between the Russian government and its affiliates with the Trump campaign. Of course, the national news media seldom, if ever, covered or even mentioned any of this exculpatory testimony.
During the end credits, OBAMAGATE notes that an Inspector General’s report found that Page and Strzok were guilt of undue bias against Donald Trump. It also found that Strzok’s emails and texts implied a “willingness to take official [FBI] action to impact the presidential candidate’s electoral prospects.”
After the end credits, Tom Fitton, Director of Judicial Watch, a watchdog group that investigates scandals and government policies, tells viewers that Strzok, Page, McCabe, Comey, and Brennan abused their power to target Donald Trump and other innocent Americans. He also accuses President Obama and Vice President Biden of taking part in this conspiracy to illicitly target Trump and other citizens. He urges viewers to share the movie with friends and family.
Taking into account its limitations as a televised play, OBAMAGATE is an engaging, well-acted, extremely informative, and sometimes funny indictment of political corruption in the Obama Administration. That said, although the texts, emails, tweets, memos, and testimony are verbatim, word for word, the actors do give them a dramatic and sometimes comical spin that may not accurately represent the tone the original writers and witnesses intended. Also, this spin tends to support the conservative political views of the filmmakers, so viewers should be wary when drawing final conclusions about the meaning of these primary documents using only this televised play.
The actors milk the humor that sometimes appears in these documents, especially in the texts, emails and Twitter posts or tweets. For example, OBAMAGATE inserts some Anti-Trump tweets from former CIA Director John Brennan throughout the play. Brennan comes out on stage holding a teddy bear while he delivers the tweets. Even more funny, each succeeding Anti-Trump Twitter post from Brennan gets angrier and angrier until the very end, when he’s absolutely apoplectic raking President Trump over the coals. Another, humorously ironic example is when Lisa Page sends a text to Peter Strzok that she’s absolutely bored while attending an FBI ethics training seminar. In their emails and texts with one another, Page and Strzok not only show extreme bias against President Trump, they also seem to show bias against regular American citizens and against any politician, not just Trump, who might threaten or challenge their moral and intellectual superiority as highly placed government technocrats. Page’s text or email about the boring ethics seminar seems to depict this egotistical feeling of pride and self-importance.
OBAMAGATE is not just engaging. It’s also an informative, moral and ultimately frightening indictment of political corruption in the Obama Administration and in the FBI. This corruption wasn’t a scandal about money. It was a scandal that affected the American electoral process at the most basic level. If federal officials, who exercise vast power, can use that power to target their primary political opponent illegally, then what stops them from using that power to target an average citizen?
On that note, it’s rather disturbing that, as OBAMAGATE points out before the end credits, 27 phones belonging to Russian Collusion Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s staff were total wiped before they could be examined, and 15 officials at the FBI and the United States Dept. of Justice also had all their phone messages wiped, destroying all evidence. |
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Ask a Baker: baking soda vs. baking powder
This week I have a great question -- and hopefully a great answer! -- for you: What is the difference between baking soda and baking powder? Can you substitute one for the other?
Well, we can tell you from experience: no, you cannot substitute one for the other, gram for gram! Mixing up the two is probably the most common mistake in the kitchen here, and we know what the problem is as soon as we pull the product from the oven! If you do need a fast answer for how to handle a substitution, just skip to the end of this article.
So I think we all know baking soda and baking powder, besides their unfortunately similar names, share their action as leavening agents in common. But let's talk about the differences.
Actually, let's first take a good long look at some Muddy's cupcakes, made with good, old-fashioned double-acting baking powder. Mmm, Pucker Ups!
Now that you are back from your quick trip to Muddys, back to the question at hand! The quick answer is: baking soda is a carbonate. When a carbonate is combined with an acid, it releases carbon dioxide bubbles which cause the trademark texture of most of the baked goods you know and love. Baking powder is baking soda, a carbonate, already mixed with a dry acid so a secondary acid (such as buttermilk or lemon juice) is not required by the batter to create a rising effect.
And now the long answer, to help it stick in your head and mine!
Baking Soda came first. The chemical name is sodium bicarbonate (I'm sure we've all heard that somewhere, right?). The sodium element explains the somewhat salty taste of baking soda. Bicarbonate involves carbon atoms joined to oxygen atoms (and some hydrogen thrown in for good measure). Is it any wonder then, that when exposed to an acid, sodium bicarbonate releases carbon dioxide bubbles, causing yummy things to rise?
For a majority of the history of mankind, baking soda has not been available to bakers in the pure form granted us by Arm & Hammer. It first became available to the public in 1846, and there was much rejoicing among Victorians throughout the Western world! The REALLY old cookbooks call it 'saleratus,' but obviously that term has fallen out of fashion. The fabulous new saleratus allowed the invention of a variety of new recipes that would have been impossible before, including the modern day scone and cookies of a texture we would recognize today.
Victorians and American colonists did use a much inferior (in taste and effect) alternative to baking soda known as pearl ash. Prior to learning the process of making it from Native Americans, however, yeast was the only leavening agent known in Europe!
Like baking soda, pearl ash is a carbonate that must be combined with an acid to cause a rising reaction. Unlike baking powder.
Be thankful you're a baker now and not before Baking Powder became available in the 1860s! Before that, if you weren't relying on yeast for your leavening, you had to combine a carbonate (pearl ash or baking soda) and an acid. Your acids were usually homemade vinegars or 'clabbered' (or spoiled) milk, neither of which had a reliably consistent pH. Recipes could turn out differently each time! And we all know what happens when you combine vinegar and baking soda: volcano! The carbon dioxide is released immediately when a wet acid combines with baking soda, so a batter relying on the combination of the two needs to be baked relatively quickly before all the carbon dioxide is completely released.
Chemists saw bakers' need for a reliably consistent acid and, if possible, a dry one that would not react with a carbonate/baking soda until it was heated. And so baking powder was born! Baking powder is baking soda mixed with a dry acid, or two or three! Fast-acting baking powder is made with an acid that dissolves into a liquid and causes an immediate release of carbon dioxide into a wet batter. A slow-acting acid does not allow any release of carbon dioxide until the cake goes in the oven and is exposed to heat. A double-acting baking powder includes both slow-acting and fast-acting acids to provide two separate rises and thus, reliably fluffy baked goods. That's why we only use double-acting baking powder at Muddy's! One frustrating morning when we realized we had run out of our usual baking powder led to us discovering the hard way that single-acting baking powder just doesn't cut it!
As for substitutions:
If your recipe calls for baking soda and you only have baking powder: You already have an acid in your powder, so you really just need the carbonate component of the baking powder. With all the acidic ingredients in baking powder, you will have to use much more of it to get the amount of carbonate you need. You will need 2-3 times as much baking powder as your recipe dictates for baking soda, but remember those extra ingredients will affect the taste of your product! You can counter this by leaving out (or at least dramatically reducing) the salt, but you may or may not be satisfied with your finished product.
If your recipe calls for baking powder and you only have baking soda: No amount of baking soda alone will replace baking powder! A recipe containing baking powder does not contain enough acid to cause a reaction to plain old baking soda, so you must use a combination of baking soda and a dry acid. Just combine one part baking soda with two parts cream of tartar, and use the amount of your homemade baking powder called for by your recipe! So easy! Remember this will be a fast-acting, single-action baking powder, so it may act like your usual baking powder. Just get your cake or biscuits into the oven quickly, and it shouldn't be an issue!
And that should be all you ever wanted to know (and probably more) about baking soda and baking powder!
Happy leavening! |
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The TestStand 2014 SP1 f1 patch resolves the issues outlined in the table below. National Instruments recommends this patch for all TestStand 2014 SP1 installations. You can install the patch through NI Update Service or you can download it directly through the following Drivers and Updates page:
Drivers & Updates: NI TestStand 2014 SP1 f1 Patch (32-bit)
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543915 Using cross-process TestStand synchronization objects may cause a hang if the SequenceContext parameter is not provided
541373 File Differ may crash when deleting a property from one of the files being compared
537554 Object not set to instance of an object error may occur after canceling shutdown of the TestStand Sequence Editor
535370 The background color of Message Popup buttons cannot be changed
536114 TestStand Deployment Utility will not correctly build a packed project library when code module VIs contain dependencies between vi.lib, user.lib, and/or instr.lib.
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549391 Enum values do not appear properly in LabVIEW module parameters when a typedef LabVIEW Tab Control is used
556654 Stepping into Visual Studio 2015 C# and C++ DLLs from TestStand 2014 SP1 64-bit does not work properly
553104 Process model runtime components are not included when the Install TestStand Runtime option is selected for a TestStand deployment
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/20422 | RxJava – Chaining Observables
In ReactiveX one can chain Observables using the flatMap operator, similar to chaining Promises using “then“.
Example 1
In listing 1, three reactive streams are created.
– counterStream creates a stream of integers 0, 1.
– helloStream creates a stream three strings, “Hello”, “World”, “!\n”
– resultStream chains helloStream to counterStream.
Listing 1
public class ChainObservable {
* @param args
public static void main(String[] args) {
Observable<Integer> counterStream =
Observable.range(0, 2);
Observable<String> helloStream =
Observable.create(o -> {
Observable<Object> resultStream =
.map(x -> {
System.out.println("# " +x);
return x;
.flatMap( counter ->
v -> System.out.println(
"Received: " + v
e -> System.out.println(
"Error: " + e
() -> System.out.println(
The output of listing 1 is:
# 0
Received: Hello
Received: World
Received: !
# 1
Received: Hello
Received: World
Received: !
Note that the “chaining” or ‘thening’ used here is not quite what chaining was meant for. The flatMap operator use in listing 1 passes the current counter, but the chained Observable does not use it, the Observable just repeats its onNext(…) invocations. The flatMap: “transform the items emitted by an Observable into Observables, then flatten the emissions from those into a single Observable”
The strange thing is the “Completed” output. The code does this because of line 14 in the source (does it?). The helloStream invokes onCompleted, but the completed in the subscriber is not triggered until the final counterStream event. Or, I’m looking at this incorrectly?
Example 2
In example 1 above, the function that operates on each item passed by the source Observable is not used. I’m wondering if it could be used in a “chained” in Observable, as in listing 2 below. Does this make sense? Doesn’t this then have a runtime penalty since the Observable is not created before it is used?
Listing 2 version where Observable uses flatMap data
import static java.lang.System.out;
import rx.Observable;
* @author jbetancourt
public class ChainObservable {
* @param args
public static void main(String[] args) {
Observable.range(0, 2)
.map(x -> {
out.println("# " +x);
return x;
.flatMap( count ->
Observable.create(o -> {
o.onNext(count + " Hello");
o.onNext(count + " World");
o.onNext(count + " !\n");
v -> out.println("Received: " + v),
e -> out.println("Error: " + e),
() -> out.println("Completed in subscribed")
Output of this version is:
# 0
Received: 0 Hello
Received: 0 World
Received: 0 !
# 1
Received: 1 Hello
Received: 1 World
Received: 1 !
Completed in subscribed
• RxJava
• RxJava: chaining observables
• Grokking RxJava, Part 2: Operator, Operator
• Transformation of sequences
• Don’t break the chain: use RxJava’s compose() operator
• Implementing Your Own Operators
• Can conditional state be used in RxJava Observable streams?
Listing 1, Full Source
Java 'hello world' using RxJava library
A simple RxJava example that uses an array of strings and combines them to create the traditional first program.
Jump to source code
RxJava is a NetFlix open source library that they developed as part of optimizing their architecture. The library is related to the “Reactive programming” pattern:
“RxJava is an implementation of Reactive Extensions – a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences for the Java VM”.
The main data structure in ReactiveX is, as presented in “Streams: The data structure we need” by Pam Selle, is the Stream. Streams are discussed in the SICP book, 3.5 Streams.
The main resource for RX in general is http://reactivex.io/
• Oct 18, 2015: Revised blog post and source code.
• Dec 26, 2015: Read an article on ribot’s site, “Unit Testing RxJava Observables“, that RxJava already has experimental support for unit testing assertions.
I thought I would try my hand at it. I used the ‘Hello world’ example on the RxJava wiki’s getting started page:
public static void hello(String... names) {
Observable.from(names).subscribe(new Action1<String>() {
public void call(String s) {
System.out.println("Hello " + s + "!");
As a source of gradual complexity, I used a list of strings for the target output, and I also don’t include the end “!” in the input stream. With this I was able to use more of the library to get a feel for the syntax and how it relates to the underlying concepts.
Learning Reactive
One problem with many introductions to RxJava is that they start off with overly simple or complex examples, and these complex examples require domain knowledge of some application. BTW, the worse example of this tendency was a book on Design Patterns where the author used obscure sports racing concepts and so forth.
Another problem is that the major Operators are very abstractly documented. Just look at the and/then/when or join operators. You’d think each Rx implementation’s documents would give examples for each operator. Update: I found one tutorial that has much more RxJava examples: Intro-To-RxJava
A good resource on picking Reactive operators is A Decision Tree of Observable Operators.
Below I created a JUnit test class in Java that creates an Observable from an array [“Hello”, “world”], and each test subscribes to it. That is, the test is the Observer. The subtle complexity is that the required “!” at the end of result string is not in the String array. How is that added withing the ‘Rx’ pattern? RxJava has a rich API, thus there are many ways to take that array and create the “Hello world!” string.
Test2 in the source listing 1 is my attempt to avoid ‘programmatic’ addition of the ending “!” to the String result. Instead, I concat three Observables: a concatMap that takes each streamed in String and creates a new Observable with [data, ” “], an Observable that skips the last [data,” “], and finally an Observable that just creates the “!”.
Yes, this is a lot of complex code for this simple task. The point was to use a simple task to learn the complex code. Later, the complexity would be tamed or matched to the task at hand.
How to fail JUnit test
Since I used JUnit tests to write the code, I wondered how would you detect that an RxJava operator got an error and failed the test? For example, during the onCompleted method? An error there will not invoke the onError method since the Observable is done generating any data. Thus, in Test4, I had to wrap the assertion fail in a try catch, then manually invoke the onError method. Probably semantically incorrect approach. But, that still would not make the JUnit test fail, I had to set a field so that the last statements in the test would use that to fail the test. Seems like a kludge.
Dec 26, 2015
Using RxJava’s test support is the way to go for simple assertions. Below I use TestSubscriber.
* Dan Lew's example in 'Grokking RxJava, Part 1: The Basics'.<p>
* Converted to a test.
* @see "http://blog.danlew.net/2014/09/15/grokking-rxjava-part-1/"
* @throws Exception
public final void test6() throws Exception{
TestSubscriber<String> testSubscriber = new TestSubscriber<>();
Observable.just("Hello, world!")
.map(s -> s + " -Dan")
.map(s -> s.hashCode())
.map(i -> Integer.toString(i))
// .subscribe(s -> System.out.println(s)); // -
I’ll leave most of the sample code as is for now. But, its best to use the library to its fullest before you create your own testing kludge.
Have not grokked RxJava yet, so the above is probably not idiomatic use or correct.
RxJava looks like a powerful system, but it is very sophisticated and may require a long grok curve. There are various YouTube videos and other presentations that give a contextual understanding of RX in general. Ben Christensen’s presentations are awesome.
There are many Reactive libraries available. Another is Pivotal’s Reactor. See this article “Pivotal’s Reactor Goes GA” A review of Reactor is “Playing with Reactor“.
The “React” term?
Many things are using some form of this term. For example, ReactJs, the M~V library from FaceBook. Sure, it relates, however the concept of event streams is not central to the library’s conceptual model, afaik.
Perhaps one of the most important use of RX, in terms of usage, is on the client side. One library is RxJS.
There is even a framework, Cycle.js created by André Staltz, née Medeiros, that combines the “reactive” concept with RxJS to create a new paradigm of client structure called Model View Intent (MVI). Some intro videos on CycleJS library:
• Java 8 (some tests are using Java 8 syntax)
• JUnit – ‘junit:junit:4.12’
• RxJava – ‘io.reactivex:rxjava:1.0.14’
• Guava – ‘com.google.guava:guava:18.0’
Dev System
• Windows 10
• Eclipse Mars
Listing 1, Full Source
Having the source as a JUnit test is helpful since the code can be used as a means to experiment and extend, while having the ability to easily test regressions.
Listening to Jake Bugg: “Broken”
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Videos, examples, solutions, and lessons to help Grade 3 students learn to tell and write time to the nearest minute and measure time intervals in minutes. Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes, e.g., by representing the problem on a number line diagram.
Common Core: 3.MD.1
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• I can say and write time to the nearest minute.
• I can measure the duration of time in minutes.
• I can solve addition and subtraction word problems involving durations of time measured in minutes.
Tell, write, and measure time to the minute (Common Core Standard 3.MD.1)
Telling Time to the Nearest Minute: 3.MD.1
How to tell time to the nearest minute, given a context?
Both analog and digital clocks are presented.
A minute is a small unit of time and an hour is a large unit of time.
There are 60 minutes in 1 hour.
AM is the morning and PM is the afternoon ore evening.
3 MD 1 Lesson 1
In this lesson, you will learn how to say and write time to the nearest minute.
Elapsed Time
Solving elapsed time word problems (Common Core Standard 3.MD.1)
How to tell elapsed time? 3.MD.1
Julia starts her homework at 4:23 pm. She finishes at 5:00 pm. How much time does Julia spend doing homework?
Solve using number line or using subtraction. How to solve problems involving elapsed time?
Elapsed time is how much time passes between two events.
Fred woke up at the time on the first clock. He ate breakfast at the time shown on the second clock. How much time passed between when he woke up and ate breakfast?
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Hatred reinstated on Steam Greenlight
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Hatred, aka. Everyone Please Pay Attention To Me, I'm So Edgy And Controversial: The Game, was removed from Steam Greenlight earlier this week. "Based on what we've seen on Greenlight we would not publish Hatred on Steam," Valve's Doug Lombardi said at the time.
Now, it's back on Steam Greenlight. According to the game's developers, Gabe Newell contacted them to say the following:
Hatred, for those not aware, is a faux-isometric shooter about murdering civilians. It's the game you'd make if you were an anti-social, angsty teenager desperate to prove to the world that you were truly nihilistic, rather than alone in a bedroom lined with ejaculate-encrusted T-shirts. That it's being made by adults suggests that it's a cynical attempt to generate controversy and pander to an audience railing against a perceived moralistic shift in the nature of game criticism and development.
While it will no doubt generate moral hand-wringing from the type of places that trade in that sort of thing, such worries seem beside the point. It's a grim-dark version of Postal 1, which itself is on Steam. After it came out, nobody cared about Postal. It was tediously mediocre. Take a line picked from the Hatred trailer: "I just fucking hate this world, and the human worms feasting on its carcass." Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Sixth-Form Goth Poetry Simulator 2015.
Back to Valve's statements, you'll notice that they're not contradictory. Hatred is back on Steam Greenlight. Whether it makes it to Steam proper remains to be seen. I suspect it'll ultimately come down to standard retailer policies—ultimately based on Hatred's content and age rating.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/20495 | Head hung low, her eyes glimmered,
Her life as she knew, flicked and shimmered.
Life all around froze for a second,
As she looked backed on what she once abandoned.
From the moment she was born to the moment that never ended,
He held her close, her wishes he had granted.
Years flew by, her life too busy,
She paid no heed to the one she deemed clingy.
Ignoring her anchor, she began to soar,
The distance once none had grown so more.
In her glory, she ignored his misery,
He lost his heart and she showed no mercy.
Sadness occupied the void, that she once filled,
And that took a toll on his health and his build.
All of a sudden, she felt her heart skip ,
A tug and a pull to the one she had ditched.
With a white teethed smile, she ran up the stairs,
To the one that taught her, her first steps that day.
She ran to hug him, to be engulfed in his warmth,
But all she saw was his frail and sickly form.
Now her head hung low with prayers in the air,
How she wished he had more time to spare.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/20511 | GIRLS like US - DAY 5: PRAISE like Deborah
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PRAISE like Deborah
Scripture: Judges 4-5
We know Deborah as the only female judge mentioned in the Bible. Alongside that calling, she was also a wife and a prophetess. She stood her ground when the rest of Israel was, yet again, in another cycle of rebellion. She was faithful to God in fulfilling her roles and people respected her and looked to her for wisdom and guidance.
Deborah is leading a people whose hearts were far from God. Once again, the nation of Israel has forgotten Yahweh and gone their own way. God then directs Deborah to tell Barak to go into battle, but Barak hesitates to go if she doesn't go with him. It was not her role to go into battle but agrees to it anyway.
Deborah instructed Barak, directed the people, strategized with the army, and foretold the victory of the nation of Israel in this battle. Her handprints were all over this triumph that brought Israel forty years of peace. But instead of stealing any of the glory from God, she leads her people to a song of PRAISE for the battle that the Lord has won for them. This expression covers all of chapter 5 of Judges as Deborah and Barak extravagantly declare the work of God. It speaks volumes of Deborah's heart and devotion to God. God was glorified through her faithfulness, courage, and leadership. She praised because her people's hearts were once again turned back to the Lord.
Deborah is inspirational because of her courage and wisdom. We look up to her as someone who achieved great things for God. But the lasting impact she made in her time was not in the battle she won against the Canaanites but the hearts she won back to the Lord. She was careful to point the people back to God through her praise. When people would likely lift her, she made it a point to lift God's name. We are called to do exemplary works just like Deborah. It may be in different fields and circumstances using our unique giftings but all for the glory of the same Name. When we give God glory, He uses it to draw people's hearts back to Him.
Cite a couple of achievements you’ve had this year. How does God play a role in your achievements?
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Start exactly as the basic bear and raise your knees 3-5 inches off the ground. Now brace your core hard and squeeze your shoulder blades together as you kick your right leg straight back until your leg is parallel to the ground. Hold this for 5 seconds and repeat on the left side. Once you can do 10 reps per side with 10 seconds holds you are ready to advance to the Bear Around the World. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/20519 | Nearshore vs Offshore – A Practical Difference
At first glance, it may just seem like some companies are doing marketing gimmicks to differentiate themselves from the competition. Let's leave marketing aside and focus on actual software development here. Is there really a difference in executing a project with a time zone difference? Let's take a look. Let's start from the beginning: requirements. So, Agile says that most of the tedious documentation in requirements is replaced by conversations and verbal explanation and documentation is kept only to a necessary level. Then, what happens to the requirements process when time zones start moving? Agile requires constant communication between the customer and the development team. If you don't change the processes and documentation, this process would simply slow down. Imagine a situation where you only overlap 2 or 3 hours of the workday with your provider. You do a nice long meeting where everyone "understands" the requirements and everyone leaves the conference happy. You go to sleep. Then a developer at your provider thinks up some obscure scenario that no one had thought of before.
Let's make it a bit worse: the scenario is actually not that obscure and quite possible to happen and the process that was designed does not support it and becomes basically broken, hindering the business to flow through the system. The team would have to wait until you wake up and go to the office to talk about it and figure out what to do. Not very agile is it? They've just had to "stand around" generating loads of questions for you for hours and had to wait an entire day to talk to you. Agile software development project requires truly constant communication between the team and the customer. This would allow the customer to be constantly informed of the progress and decisions that are being made in the project. The efficiency of the entire process relies on this, specifically because of the premise of replacing documentation by communication. One way of solving this is to simply "correct" that premise and document more to "make up" for the lack of communication. This would definitely work for requirements. The process would still be slower and a bit more painful, in the sense that you're back to writing long requirements documents.
The team would also continue to have to manage the cases where requirements don't explain what must happen under certain conditions (lack of detail of the requirements). The process would go back to more traditional methods where basically a requirements bug would be reported and then corrected. There are definitely ways of getting through this. The question is not really if one or the other works or not. They both work, just with important differences in the process that you must follow to "make up" for the lack of communication. The question is "Is it really worth it?". Is the offshore provider so different and so much better than the nearshore provider so as to sacrifice response speed and increase the work your team must do to make sure the hundreds of pages of requirements and documentation are correct and cover all the details of the system? Isn't it more comfortable to be able to just simply pick up the phone and talk to someone and explain things to them?
You will probably be able to tell them more and have more time to focus on meeting your business objectives and being analytical about your new product than focusing on the details described in a document? If you'd like to know more, contact us. We'd be happy to explain in more detail.
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Pulmonary Atresia with intact ventricular septum
• As in Pulmonary Atresia with VSD, this defect is also associated with complete obstruction of the Pulmonary Artery. However, as there is no associated VSD, blood is diverted from the right atrium to the left atrium via the Foramen Ovale. The right ventricle (RV) is usually small (Hypoplastic), though its wall may be thickened (Hypertrophied). Survival depends on the ductus remaining open in the early days of life (in order for blood to reach the lungs), Most babies will need a 'Shunt' operation during infancy, involving insertion of a tiny piece of artificial tube (made from Goretex) between the Aorta, or a branch (usually one of the arm arteries), and one of the branch Pulmonary Arteries.
Complete repair may be possible, but often necessitates several operations.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/20533 | The land of Roar by Jenny McLachlan
Updated: Oct 14
Eleven-year-old twins Arthur and Rose Trout are stuck at their Grandad's house for the summer and everyone is bored. Suddenly, Arthur remembered a game that him and Rose used to play. It was called Roar. Ever since Rose got a cell phone, all she has wanted to do was text and post things on social media, and Rose DEFINITELY does not want to play a made-up game from when they were five. But... is it really as imaginary as she remembers it? When Grandad and the twins clean out the attic, they find a cot which Arthur only remembers as the magical entrance to Roar.
One afternoon, Grandad was wondering... is Roar real? "Sometimes Grandad can just be silly," Arthur thought, but as Grandad foolishly crawled through the cot, he suddenly... disappears! Arthur follows after him and ten seconds later, Arthur is in Roar! Soon, Arthur runs into his old pal, Win, and he tells Arthur about everything that has happened since Arthur and Rose stopped visiting Roar. The next thing you know, they set off on a life-changing journey to save Roar. Will they save their Grandad and conquer Roar once and for all, or will they perish by the power of Crowky? Find out more in...
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/20537 | Your favorite digital&analog limiter? eq? stereo expande
Discussion in 'Mastering' started by covenant66, May 5, 2006.
1. covenant66
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What is your favorite digital (plug-in) version and analog version for each of these (for mastering):
Stereo Expansion
Also, does anyone find the UAD-1 Precision Limiter to be better than Waves L2?
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Re: Your favorite digital&analog limiter? eq? stereo exp
Ok, I will be the first.
I really like the UAD PL for a lot of music type that I did recently. Sometimes, I switch to L2 which I find it a little more tight but again, really depends on the material and which serves best the mix. I would not say better (PL) but I use it more often for the reasons mentioned above.
I like the Weiss EQ (EQ-1 MKII) and dig the Massive on the analog side.
For me, the best stereo expansion without its side effects is a well balanced eq choice settings, thats what serves me best. I use once in a while the MS mode on the Weiss eq when needed.
Compression side, again really depends on the material, I have 3 outboard, no preferences, really depends on the source material. On the plugin side, I do not use any compression plugs, imo, it just does not cut the gig.
I use reverb very very rarely and when need it, I used the Waves stuff.
Dither; I did several tests and participated to some blind tests about dither types and brand and honestly, I do not hear major differences, there are some but very subtle comparing to eq settings and compression.
I mostly use POW-r #2,3 and TPDF.
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Limiter -- Almost always analog - Several to choose from, but the one I've been using more than most (lately) is a modified Aphex Systems 722 Dominator II. Digital - UAD's Precision Limiter, no question.
EQ -- Believe it or not, probably almost a tie between analog and digital - Crane Song's Ibis EQ (analog) or UAD's Precision EQ (digital).
Stereo Expansion -- Almost never. But if I have to, I split into a M/S matrix manually (normally in digital) and go from there. Any M/S expansion type plug I've ever used is far too destructive by itself.
Compression -- Almost always analog again - Crane Song's STC-8M, Manley's Variable Mu are out in front here. I *might* use a plug as a mult now and then - UAD's LA2A is great for that. But for "everyday" use, I still haven't found a plug that I'm "feeling" like a nice analog piece.
Reverb -- Rare. Samplitude's native "room simulator" convolution thing comes in handy here and there. I have no (true) analog verbs - Digital rack units, sure. But nothing that sounds better than the Samp stuff, and nothing as tweakable as UAD's DreamVerb.
Dither -- Pow-r III is probably the "default" if I'm not being picky about it. Lavry's dither is great, Crane Song's is great, Apogee's UV22 (hardware) is great... Depends on the mood.
UAD vs. L -- I'd almost rather clip the converters than use the "L" series limiters (yes, I like the UAD limiter better). I suppose there's some "prejudice" and "bias" in that statement, but I really do like the UAD better.
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1. Are you rude to people who buy aircraft from you? Or do you change completely? Or is it too early to tell?
2. Where was the CoG? I imagine that the plane could be overloaded and still have the CoG within limits.
3. a) Inertia and momentum are the same thing. b) If something is weighed on a scale and the scale says 2.35, then the mass is 2.35 kg. (Assuming the object is not being accelerated and the scale is accurate and being used on the surface of Earth.) c) You messed up because force is measured in newtons, not kg.
4. Yes. Some people have posted here about what survival kits they would carry. The survival kit that you should carry for remote areas is very simple. a) Sat phone, b) EPIRB (or whatever the correct acronym is), and c) as much water as you can carry, say 10 L per person.
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6. The actual answer is that whichever ship has the most favourable tides will go faster, this factor being much more important than air density. It also overcomes the issue of hull speed.
7. About flying in your mind, you can do the same thing when you are learning to navigate long trips. You can sit in a lounge chair, look at your watch, plot on the map and fill out your flight log.
8. I train at Archerfield and don't find that I get held up for more than a few moments. There are other reasons to train at a non-controlled field, and I suppose some controlled fields do waste your time. I passed the RA-Aus theory exams by myself, but I did physics (gasses, momentum, acceleration) and maths (vectors) in Grade 11 and 12, which helped a lot. The other thing, which I hinted at before, is that it does not matter if you attempt an exam and fail. In fact, the more you fail the more you learn. I found stalling too frightening to do. So I went on the thrill rides at Dreamwo
9. Grit is more important than talent. Failure is an inevitable byproduct of success. Flying instructors vary in quality.
10. If all else fails, the longest answer is most likely to be the correct one.
11. This is me doing an inverted spin and recovery in an Extra 300. I stand by my previous comments and have nothing to add. 201121a EX300 Inv Spin - Copy.mp4 201121a EX300 Inv Spin - Copy.mp4
12. Triple fail, Turbo. The first fail was that you missed the comment in my original post that was wrong, and, if followed, actually could have caused a problem if someone followed it. I said to recover from a stall by, all at once, applying full power, aileron neutral and release back pressure. In fact, according to the FAA, you should move the stick forward (if you are not inverted) THEN apply full power. They said that the reason for applying the controls in that order was so that one was not tempted to try and maintain altitude with the elevators and still break the stall. So, the correct ord
13. The answer is that I'll get more out of it if I think about it before I do it. Also, as far as I know, Foxbat don't have a specified method of spin recovery, so it's going to have to be generic.
14. Anytime someone reads a book, they are learning to fly by correspondence. And suggesting that I could kill someone by writing down a guess is just ludicrous, Facthunter's +1 notwithstanding.
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There are many possible conditions that cause pain on someone's left side, such as a heart attack, explains the Harvard Medical School. Pain can also be caused by a slipped disk, says Healthline.
Pain in the left arm and neck can be a sign of a heart attack, states the Harvard Medical School. The pain can also spread to the middle of the chest, the back and the jaw. It is accompanied by pressure and burning in the chest, nausea, and difficulty breathing. However, pain that is definitely confined to one side of the body can be a sign of another condition.
A slipped disk can cause pain on one side of the body that extends through the arms and the legs because the disk compresses the nerves, says Healthline. This can also cause numbness and tingling on one side of the body. Generally the pain worsens at night and after long periods of standing and sitting. A slipped disk can cause the muscles to feel weak.
Fibromyalgia can cause pain on either the left or right side of the body or both, explains WebMD. Other symptoms include numbness in the limbs, headaches, urinary and bowel problems, and fatigue. Although this disease is difficult to diagnose correctly, there are treatments that can decrease the pain and other symptoms. |
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A cool down is an important part of your workout or run training. The most basic cool down exercise after your run, no matter the distance is to walk or slowly jog for 3 to 10 minutes. It may include stretching or gentle variations of the movements you did during your workout. The main reason why we cool down after our run is to allow your heart rate and breathing to return to normal, decrease joint or muscle soreness and promote relaxation.(1)
Like with the warm up you may be tempted to skip cool down, but there are reasons that validate the importance of cooling down.
Benefits of a cool down
• Allows heart rate to return to normal. Cardiovascular or aerobic exercise can increase your heart rate significantly so at the end of your run, you want your heart rate to return to normal slowly to prevent light-headedness feeling faint.
• Gradually slows the rate of breathing. When your heart rate increases with exercise, so does your breathing. These are signs you are working hard. A cool down allows your breath to steadily return to the same rhythm it had before you started your run.
• Helps prevent muscle soreness. It's common to feel stiff or sore after run. A cool down jog and stretch may help your body to feel better in the hours and even days following your run.
• Improves relaxation. Your cool down is a great time to reflect on how you felt your run went and give yourself some self-praise for the hard work you did. This can help create a sense of relaxation and well-being.
How to Do a Cool Down
The way and how much cool down you do will largely depend on what run session you did. For example, an easy 5km run will likely only need a brisk walk for 2-3 minutes, then gradually taper your pace to a stroll followed by some stretching. But, a set of hard efforts will demand a longer cool down run, walk and a longer stretching session.
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Stretching tips post run
• Important post-run stretches include the following parts of the body, but not exclusive to: hamstring, quads, calf muscles, IT band, hips and back muscles, arms and abs and triceps.
• Hold still on each stretch for 15 to 30 seconds. No bouncing.
• If you feel pain, don’t stretch. Discomfort yes, but not pain. Don't stretch beyond the point where you begin to feel tightness in the muscle. You shouldn't push through muscle resistance. As you feel less tension, you can increase the stretch until you feel the same slight pull.
• Make sure you stretch both sides equally and not just an area on one side of the body because it feels tighter than the rest.
• Keep your body relaxed, and keep breathing – it is important to get an oxygen supply to the muscles for repair.
1. Mcgowan CJ, Pyne DB, Thompson KG, Rattray B. Warm-Up Strategies for Sport and Exercise: Mechanisms and Applications. Sports Medicine. 2015;45(11):1523-1546. doi:10.1007/s40279-015-0376-x.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/20594 | (This is the first in what I anticipate to be a series of three essays on moral inquiry. The second will be a survey of some traditional themes and their contemporary applications, and the third will focus on the “center” around which such inquiries ought to be oriented.)
Statements of moral/ethical[1] evaluations are often confronted in turn by the varyingly self-righteous demand, “Who are we to judge?”
Anyone who has taught classes in ethics (and I've done so both in traditional “brick and mortar” settings as well as online) will encounter that phrase repeatedly. It is an only slightly more specific version of the basic question “Says who?” to any claim of ethical evaluation.
The overt nature of the logical fallacies involved in such questions should scarcely require notice, which makes it all the more irritating that the fallacies do, indeed, need to be constantly and repetitiously addressed. Among other things, the “who” questions are bald-faced Red Herring fallacies as well as Complex Questions[2] because the issue of “who” is irrelevant, and presupposes as facts matters that are in reality patently false: The question takes for granted the implicit assumption that the only way an answer of ethical standing or judgment can be determined is by a kerygmatic and bald-facedly authoritarian announcement.
There is an even deeper issue to be examined in the above, but before getting to it one must first set aside a common misunderstanding to an ambiguity in the verb “to judge” and its various cognates. On the one hand, there is the sense of judgment in which one “passes sentence” even to the point that one actualizes the punitive conditions of one's condemnation. This is the sense of “to judge” that the Scripture itself condemned. (The New Testament, at least; the Old joyfully wallowed in sadistically dishing it out.)
But there is a second sense of “to judge,” and that is to give a reasoned evaluation. Persons eager to eschew the Old Testament version often enough abandon with equal elan any claim or pretense to even allow, much less employ, reason in ethical matters, because reason involves making judgments. The breathtaking absurdity of such a move is called “relativism,” and is the deeper issue hinted at above. But to close out this sub-topic, the proper response to the accusatory claim, “Who are you to judge,” is quite simply, “Who do you imagine I have to be? It is altogether sufficient that I am a rational agent for me to pass a reasoned evaluation on this subject.”
The antithesis of reasoned evaluation is relativism. Relativism is in essence the denial that any rational standard exists, can be found or can be made that could suffice to license any judgment beyond that of the utterly whimsical. Any judgment – oh, excuse me, “evaluation” – is always and only “relative” to some person, or group, or “perspective” for its validity. There is no objectivity to such standards according to the relativist, only what happens to be asserted within some “local” bracket or frame of reference whose validity is exhausted by the person or persons making the claim.
Occasionally the attempt is made to expand the perimeter of that bracket, to make it bigger and therefore “more important.” For example, rather than collapsing into pure subjective (that is, individual) relativism, an appeal might be made to the society or culture group. But such appeals do not escape the basic logical problems of relativism (all of which orbit around the proclaimed absence of objective standards). After all, what standard of objective evidence could the relativist possibly appeal to that would put the culture group (“cultural relativism”) upon a “better,” “higher,” “more logically valid” footing than the most perfectly arbitrary and capricious claims of any particular individual? Indeed, what are the claims of a culture beyond the collective claims of the individuals who compose it, and who just happen to more or less agree with one another in their various relativistic “perspectives?”[3] Since the claims of the culture have no better logical footing than those of the individual, “cultural relativism” has no reasoned basis with which to differentiate from the most aggressively subjective relativism imaginable.
The above line of reasonings might be criticized on the grounds that it represent a “Slippery Slope” argument which many credible sources would call a fallacy[4]. But one would have to believe in the objective standards of sound reasons and effective inquiry – i.e. “logic” – to advance such an argument in the first place. But the only way one can believe in such a standard is to also be convinced of its value. Which is to say, logic as a cognitive standard can only be rationally judged to be of any value if one is rationally satisfied that one ought to reason in such a way. But any claim of “ought” is ultimately an ethical claim. Any claim that one “ought” to reason logically is a claim about the Right thing to do, the Good form of reasoning, the Valuable method of inquiry.
If we accept the reality of facts and of the meaningfulness of rational standards of inquiry into those facts, then we have already committed ourselves to the objective reality of at least some standards of value and evaluation. This commitment is to the objective reality of such standards, but how far does such a commitment take us? Even if we accept the moral burden of truth, what guarantee does this give us that there is anything like a general moral reality of “The Good,” that such a reality is open to anything like rational inquiry, or that our ideas of such things amount to anything more than our parochial tastes and preferences? Another way of phrasing this would be: “What guarantee do have that moral inquiry will actually succeed, that is provide us with genuinely rational, objective standards of moral evaluation?”
The only response to this question is that there is no proof that any inquiry will succeed except the actual success of that inquiry, at which point the question is moot. The fact that a subject of inquiry proves difficult is no excuse for assuming that the inquiry itself is pointless. After thousands of years since the West's first written inquiries into the subject, we still do not have an adequate or complete theory of gravity, and yet gravity is one of the most manifestly obvious relational structures in our lives. But anyone who came forward and suggested that inquiry into gravity was pointless, or that gravity had no objective reality would surely be dismissed outright as an utter fool. So by the same token, the fact that moral questions do not yield themselves up to casual investigation or reduce themselves to trivial simplicities is no evidence that said questions are meaningless, or that their answers are no more than capricious declarations. Answers may be hard to find but that (by itself[6]!) does not mean they do not exist.
One might respond to the above by asking how it differs from an overt (and ultimately relativistic) leap of blind faith? After all, doesn't the above basically say we should just “hope” that things will work out? But such a question presupposes – either implicitly or explicitly – a false dichotomy[7]. Just because we can offer no ironclad proof of a proposition (the evidently implicit part) does not mean that accepting that proposition is an act of faith. In the case here, there are obvious practical reasons for taking seriously the claim that there are real standards in the world and that inquiry is a rationally meaningful activity: namely, without such an axiom, inquiry itself cannot even get started! Inquiry might fail, but never even trying is the only thing that can guarantee such failure a priori. To reject the axiom that inquiry is meaningful and the results can be objective, in the absence of genuinely compelling reasons to do so, is the ultimate form of irrationalism since it undercuts the very possibility of success while offering nothing in compensation. This is true whether the inquiry is scientific or moral. But this is precisely what relativism does: it rejects the objectivity of standards of inquiry and standards revealed by inquiry. It thus rejects rationality itself.
Given the logical vacuity of relativism one might wonder why so many otherwise well meaning persons would endorse it, particularly around issues of ethics? As a general rule it is unwise to arrogate to one's self the privilege of saying what another person's thoughts and beliefs “really” are, yet I would like to cautiously suggest a speculative response to the above question. I suspect that there is another false dichotomy at play here: person's who have been variously hurt or offended by some viciously absolutist ethical systems of standards leap to the unjustified conclusion that the only protection offered is the denial of all standards in relativism. In other words, the retreat into relativism is an attempt to find tolerance in an otherwise intolerant world.
But this retreat is “absolutely” self-defeating. After all, in the absence of objectively compelling standards, how can one possibly make a credible claim that, say, herding millions of people into gas chambers is “wrong”? To say that genocide is “evil” one has to have a standard of evaluation by which such claims can themselves be justified. And why should anyone care about tolerance, unless there was something “valuable” and “good” in it? Absent such a standard, why not be intolerant, even viciously so? Without a standard to appeal to, all the relativists can say is that they don't like intolerance. But without a standard of evaluation, why should anyone care what relativists or anyone else feels about things?
Indeed, in the absence of objectively valid standards, the only people who really “get” the world are the sociopaths, the Bernie Madoffs and the Ted Bundys. This is because in the absence of objectively valid standards of ethics, then the only thing left is the power to get away with things. And while it is surely the case that this latter is exactly the only rule many people operate by, relativism reduces us to the enthusiastic endorsement of this rule as the only one there is. Any discussion of “ought” becomes meaningless.
[1] Some people use the terms “moral” and “ethical” (and their respective variations) to mean different things: “moral” for value-oriented practices of a particular culture and “ethical” as the abstract theory of what ought to be done. I, however, make no such distinction. It is not a matter of what the terms “really” mean: Both terms have the same root meaning, the first coming from Latin and the second from Greek, so any claim about how they “really” ought to be used is largely just pretentiousness. Since the above mentioned distinction is not one that I'll have occasion to use, I choose to treat them as meaning the same thing and will alternate between them as stylistic balance and personal whimsy happen to move me at the time.
[2] http://www.fallacyfiles.org/redherrf.html , http://www.fallacyfiles.org/loadques.html . Any person with even a passing interest in logic and its numerous fallacious misuses should have the Fallacy Files ( http:www.fallacyfiles.org ) on their favorite list.
[3] There is, in point of fact, a fairly well formed answer that can be given to this frankly rhetorical question. But such an answer takes for granted the objective and rational validity of certain standards of evaluation for the establishment of its claim. The only way a relativist could endorse such a response is by first explicitly rejecting relativism. The overtly self-contradictory nature of such a move will not, in general, trouble the genuine relativist, but for the rest of us it will place their claims squarely where they belong: on the same level as barnyard noises. I'll offer some comments on the role(s) of the community and the individual in moral inquiry in a later essay, the third of this series.
[4] For example, http://www.fallacyfiles.org/slipslop.html .
[5] One might compare the discussion in Edgar Sheffield Brightman's Moral Laws, The Abingdon Press (1933), especially the first third of the book, to page 125.
[6] A particularly tricky issue this: when do we finally admit that a question is badly framed &/or that an answer is not to be found? Areas of formal logic, mathematics, and abstract computer science are the one's where genuine proofs of impossibility are likeliest to come about. I suspect that in more empirical matters the principle set of metrics will be pragmatic ones of interest and use. Even in formal arenas, the driving factor is often a pragmatic one: if people did not find the conjectural aspect of Fermat's “Last Theorem” to be of inherent interest, then they would not have fretted over it for over 350 years until the Wiles-Taylor proof. Wikipedia provides a reasonably accurate and quite accessible discussion of this latter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem . In the case of ethical matters per se, the interest is there already, so the practical reasons for engaging the issue are real and trump any nihilistic laziness.
[7] Which is yet another informal logical fallacy: http://www.fallacyfiles.org/eitheror.html |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/20605 | Monday, November 2, 2015
365 days of izo - day 236 - morning at the aviation museum
This was the sort of morning I'll look to when things are shit and I am seriously questioning my ability to be a mama. Pure glory. And I laughed so hard I cried thanks to Maya. She was trying so desperately to fly the simulator (see below) but kept spinning out of control and screaming "OH MY GOD WHAT IS HAPENNINGGGGG?!".
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/20610 | Robert E. Grubbs Foundation awards scholarships
JACKSON CENTER — Two Jackson Center High School graduates have received $500 scholarships from the Robert E. Grubbs Foundation.
Maissen Akers, daughter of Dan and Christy Akers, is attending The Ohio State University at ATI studying Animal Science with an Equine specialization
Heath Elliott is enrolled in Advertising Art at Wittenberg University. He is the son of Alan Elliott and Tricia Stemen of Jackson Center.
The Robert E. Grubbs Foundation was established by Judy Grubbs in her husband’s memory to benefit seniors at Jackson Center High School. The scholarship fund is administered by The Community Foundation of Shelby County.
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Death by Publication
A Mystery
Sir Edward Destry, head of a distinguished publishing house in London, has been friends with his most successful author, the dashing French war hero Nicolas Fabry, for thirty years. Over time, though, Sir Edward’s admiration for his friend has soured into envy. When Fabry publishes a new novel in France that rockets to the top of the bestseller list and wins the country’s most prestigious literary prize, Sir Edward plunges into grief and fury. Fabry’s fiction is no fiction. Its heroine is modeled on the only woman Sir Edward ever loved—and for whose tragic suicide Destry took the blame. Now he discovers it was Fabry who was responsible for her death, and he abandons her. With precision and passion, Sir Edward plots his revenge. He translates Fabry’s novel into English and devises a plan guaranteed to cause disgrace, ruin, and—death by publication.
Darkly comic and masterfully plotted, Death by Publication, which won France’s most prestigious detective fiction award the year it was published, is an inspired exploration of obsession, betrayal, and fraud—a gripping page-turner that is as thought-provoking as it is stylish.
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2011 RT Book Reviews Reviewers' Choice Award Finalist The threatening midnight calls followed Dr. Elena Gardner from one city to another, prolonging her grief. Even worse, they are echoed by the whispers of her own colleagues. Whispers that started after her comatose husband died in the ICU . . . then another mysterious death during her training. When a third happens at her new hospital, the whispers turn into a shout: "Mercy killer!" Why doesn't she defend herself? What is the dark secret that keeps Elena's lips sealed? Two physicians, widowers themselves, offer support, telling Elena they know what she is going through after the death of her husband. But do they? And is it safe to trust either of them with her secret? Soon Elena will find that even when the world seems to be against her, God is for her, if she'll only trust him.
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Thrace 3.0. Coinage in the land of Orpheus
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The engraved coin shows two rows of canons fighting each other. In the back you see the factory of the big guns.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/20639 | tempest in a teacup
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…to blog about something other than gaming, for once :P
It occurs to me that after my intro to the last season of anime I haven't talked much about the shows I've been watching. In the intervening period I've added a bunch of shows and dropped one rather ignominously. In any case, here's what I've been watching (through fansubs, anyway). You'll probably notice that the vast majority of these are holdovers from last season, meaning of course that not a whole lot caught my eye this season.
Bamboo Blade
Fun series about a kendo team consisting mainly of girls. It does have some shounen sports-anime elements but pokes fun at some of them (like how the instructor's motivation for assembling a strong female kendo team is so he can win free meals at a sushi restaurant for the rest of his life). Most importantly, the characters are lovable, and the humour is pretty good. The fact that the animation (for the kendo bits, at least) is really good helps too.
Hayate no Gotoku!
40 episodes and still going, and somehow, still funny. Also it pokes fun at almost everything, from established anime to censorship policies to 24 and Knight Rider. Random cameos from Nabeshin are also awesome, as is Norio Wakamoto (aka the most GAR Japanese voice actor ever) being the narrator. My only gripe is that the series needs more Hinagiku, although a Maria is fine too.
The best of Kyoto Animation's visual novel adaptations thus far. I look forward to this every week, but if you didn't like Air or Kanon this isn't going to do anything for you.
Sketchbook ~full Color's~
This series is technically from last season, but the subbers have been ridiculously slow with it. :(
It's another slow slice of life series (I seem to watch a lot of those these days) focusing on the members of an art club, particularly a slightly airheaded girl called Sora Kajiwara who has a very unique way of looking at the world. The narrative runs from her perspective (for the most part). One of those shows you can watch to relax and unwind, much like ARIA.
Shakugan no Shana II
After a very promising start it turned out the villain they introduced was no more than a bit player. There was a lot of slice-of-life stuff in between, which I don't necessarily mind since it did serve as character development fodder. I particularly liked the two-parter about Margery Daw's past, which tied quite nicely into the more recent episodes where things finally picked up again.
You're Under Arrest: Full Throttle
This, unfortunately, turned out to be pretty bad. Studio Deen completely dropped the ball on this one, completing stripping out interesting characters like Toukairin and Saori (and everything that made the existing characters interesting while they were at it). Interpersonal chemistry? That's gone too. The series somehow also manages to have worse animation than the ORIGINAL YuA series in spite of being made 10 years after the fact.
ARIA the Origination
It's…ARIA. I loved the first two seasons, and so far the third looks like it'll be just as lovable.
I do also plan on getting some DVDs (legitimate anime purchases? omgwtf), probably starting with boxsets of older series that I like (Escaflowne! Cowboy Bebop!) and progressing to more recent stuff that I liked (like Haruhi and Death Note).
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/20673 | Never mind their mysterious extinction 65 million years ago.
It's their world and we're walking through it.
First there was Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg's 1993 blockbuster movie about the prehistoric creatures, followed by two sequels: The Lost World and Jurassic Park III.
Now comes "The Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park: The Life and Death of Dinosaurs," a traveling exhibit making its last stop in the United States and its only stop in Florida at Miami Metrozoo.
It's a place where reel magic meets real science.
Don Lessem, paleontologist, author and creator of the exhibit, combines the life-like dinosaur sculptures seen in Jurassic Park with the largest traveling collection of cast skeletons and fossil evidence rarely seen before.
What were the ancestors of dinosaurs? What did they eat? What sounds did they make? What other animals lived in their world? And how and why did they die?
"The Life and Death of Dinosaurs" tries to answer the questions with modern science and discoveries, such as the recently excavated skeleton of Giganotosaurus, a meat-eating dinosaur larger than T-Rex. The 6-foot-long skull is seen here for the first time in any exhibit.
And that's Mamenchisaurus towering above the trees outside. The world's largest scientifically re-created dinosaur stretches 72 feet long with a 30-foot neck.
Dinosaur sculptures featured in Jurassic Park are used to re-create scenes from the movies. Velociraptors. The plate-backed Stegosaurus. And, of course, the fearsome Tyrannosaurus Rex.
"We wanted an immersive environment. Where people would feel like they're experiencing the movie and a part of the real dinosaurs, too," says Kathleen Turner, the Metrozoo exhibits manager who designed the scenes incorporating elements of the movies. "If you stand and search, you'll find a lot of details that are hidden."
Movie trivia fans will discover such attention to detail, such as the Barbasol can used to stash the stolen dinosaur embryos. Or the marshmallows still on the fire at the ransacked campsite. And the scientists' Jeep, its headlights on and wheels still spinning, after fleeing an angry T-Rex.
"It's certainly not an exact replica," Turner says. "I designed it to make it fun, to make you look for things. The scenes are very active, even though the dinosaurs are not moving."
Alas, the exhibit attempts to separate movie myth from dino facts. Take Tyrannosaurus Rex, for instance.
Perhaps the most infamous creature of Dino Land (think Great White Shark of movie fame), Hollywood's T-Rex is a fierce and fast-footed predator. In reality, this 7-ton dinosaur could only move up to 25 mph, hardly fast enough to catch a speeding Jeep.
Then there's Dilophosaurus. In Jurassic Park, the playful dino quickly changes into a deadly predator, flaring its neck frills and spitting nerve poison from two sacks on either side of its neck.
According to Lessem, there is no science to suggest this dinosaur could spit or that it had neck frills.
In the movies, Velociraptors or raptors, are depicted as clever predators about the size of a human.
Fossils indicate these dinosaurs were closer in size to wolves and had an IQ lower than that of an ostrich.
They did, however, capture prey with sharp, retractable claws on the second toe of each foot.
And finally, dinosaur DNA. In the movies, scientists are able to fill in small gaps of missing DNA information using frog DNA.
No such luck in real life. Most of the DNA information from ancient animals is missing and cannot be replaced with DNA from a different animal.
Kathleen Kernicky can be reached at 954-356-4725 or kkernicky@sun-sentinel.com.
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What features can a webinar have?
The purpose of a webinar is up to the host, but the options to choose from are on a wide spectrum. This means that the tools you use to launch your webinar have to be flexible enough to provide you with features that will keep your audience engaged, no matter the topic.
Below are some of the features that a majority of webinar tools provide. Learn how you can take advantage of them while hosting your own webinar.
Text chat
Engaging an audience big or small can be done in a few different ways, but one of the most simple methods is by enabling text chat.
Doing this allows your audience to ask questions related or answer questions that you prompt. Without being in the same room, it’s difficult to grab a presenter’s attention with a question or an answer, but text chat in webinar tools makes it possible.
And, just like your question being addressed in a traditional meeting, answering questions that your audience has builds trust and authority.
Slide decks
Making an engaging webinar can be difficult. If your webinar is educational in one way or another, consider having a slide deck handy to present to your audience as you talk through it.
Having a slide deck also allows you to provide a clear agenda for your viewers, encourage engagement, and give the audience something to walk away with.
Traditionally, webinars run live so that the audience can ask the presenter questions and get answers in real-time.
Although watching a pre-recorded webinar becomes less engaging, the information being presented or discussed can be viewed by those who missed the live version, can be referred to later by your audience, or recorded with a guest who is unable to make the scheduled time. They can also be held more than once if you have an evergreen topic.
Screen sharing
If your topic requires a demonstration, screen sharing features in webinar tools will come in handy. Viewers will be able to see exactly what actions you’re taking on your screen and follow along on their own if needed.
Screen sharing can be useful beyond demos, too. If you’re sharing a video or presentation in a non-traditional way, screen sharing is a way to show your audience what you’re seeing.
Additionally, if you’re demonstrating more than one process or using more than one tool or file, screen sharing is often more effective than screenshots for viewers.
If you’re explaining a complex topic and want to do it live, using a whiteboard feature enables you and other hosts to take notes, illustrate ideas with drawings, or draw arrows to demonstrate a process.
Just like you’d be able to do in a classroom, the whiteboard feature that some webinar software provides allows your audience to feel like they’re right there with you and gives them a clearer idea of your subject.
Surveys and polls
Having your audience answer a question in text chat can become a little chaotic, especially when your audience is on the larger end of the scale.
Providing polls during your webinar allows you to give set options for your audience to choose, and it keeps your results organized in one place. Polls and surveys give your audience an easy way to engage with your presentation and questions in a quick and orderly manner.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/20744 | Google searches that return nakedness that really shouldn't, Part one.
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link number one, safe search on… wtf
Scared People
(while not at work I clicked this link. I think it might lead into the cavernous underbelly of the internet. It’s part of my favorite part of the internet, communities that exist outside the normal bustling public part of the internet. I think of it like a pyramid, sites like Amazon and Google on top based on a foundation of pornography but further down are sites like this that cater to specific sub-genres of internetians. Like sites that post Star Trek fan fiction about homosexual affairs between Kirk and Spock or in this case some weirdo posting strange pictures alongside his creepy poetry)
I checked this again and I think the unintentional nakedness is gone, but there are some naked bikers having sex on the first page of results. Happy Surfing!
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Creative Zen is an Mp3 Player. While it is way higher in quality it is outshined by the Ipods advertisement. The difference between them is alot. The battey life is way longer than the Ipods. The Audio is also topnotch. You can Convert your media files to a higher quality with the audio converter(more on that seen below). It also comes with a few assessories included with the actual Player. All for $250 which is half of what an ipod costs.
What i think is Most important is how you get your music. The creative mp3 players, support WMA, MP3's, Which are the main ones I use. The best thing is that if you preffer to buy online music, you have many resources you can use. You can use Napster, pay $1 per song, or pay $15 for unlimited downloads called napster-to-go. You can also download music from Peer-to-peer sites, which is essentially free music(try looking up limewire or bearshare). 1000 songs for $1OOO DOLLARS?!? How about 1000 songs FOR FREE.
The Creative Zen comes with software you can use to sync your music and comes with an audio converter(it came with mine)which you can us to convert MP3's to WMA, and vice versa, wich you can use with some other audio formats. I use the software to convert 4MB MP3's to 1.5MB WMA's, Are you following me? Making you have more space for more songs. Something you wish you could do with your Ipod.
"Hey man, i got my new ipod this weekend!" -Ipod User
"Yeah How much"- Creative Zen User
"400 dollars, plus 200 songs off of itunes"-Ipod User
"Hahahaha. I got my Zen for $250 and 1000 free songs!"
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(n) A Portable MP3 Player designed by Creative Labs Ltd. Which is one of the earliest MP3 Players created by a "Mainstream" company.
It is often compared to the Apple Ipod due to the current replacement of MP3 Player as a general term for all devices, with Ipod by the mainstream culture.
In recent revisions of the device it appears that Creative have begun changing the propietary connectors used in MP3 players of its type to ones that are more standardises (i.e. Mini USB Jacks) rathern than make devices that require certain connectors that have to be bought from the creator of the device.
Due to the power of the Ipod brand Creative have recently changed their "IPod Beater" attitude and are focusing on creating MP3 Devices that are DIFFERENT than the Ipod.
"This is a Creative Zen MP3 Player, It's different from an Ipod".
Dude it's cheaper than an Ipod, Get a Zen!
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Over-praised mp3 player that does the basic things of any other. People though think this one's liek zomG so much kewler kuz itz leik wai bettar then teh ipodz11. People say it costs half of what an iPod costs, though this is a very wrong statement. The darn thing costs $250 and so does the iPod. I don't really find much difference between the two, although iPod beats Zen in advertisements. Still, the objective of MP3 players is letting you liten to music, and that's all people should need, people shouldn't care about the "extras" it has, just listen to music dammit. People these days.
Person 2: It's just a damn MP3 player. Don't make such a big fuzz about it. *whacks Person 1 with a lurker stick" :P
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/20819 | Chris Coyier: the man behind CSS- Tricks
We welcome to the hot seat Chris Coyier. He is the designer and writer behind the CSS-Tricks blog. CSS-Tricks discusses new tricks (duh), ideas, and styles in CSS.
Preeti at Web Hosting Search: Let's start with the beginning, how did you decide to apply for a job at Chatman Design without any 'real web' experience?
Chris Coyier: It was a lucky break, really. I head from a friend of a friend they need somebody quickly so I got my resume together and called over there. I was working this crazy job as a Prepress tech at a printing company working three 12 hour shifts from 6pm to 6am. So I had four days off every week and I was spending my time immersed in learning about web design.
So I didn't have any "real" web experience, but I had plenty of "learning on my own" web experience. During my first interview, we popped open a laptop and viewed some of the sites I had been working on. So that's an important tip, definitely have some websites ready to show off if you are trying to get a web design job!
WHS: How was CSS-Tricks born (for those who don't know)?
CC: That first obsession with web design began with this idea to start a bunch of blogs focused around helping people out with design stuff. Most of them were focused on specific Adobe software (like IllustratorHelp.com, now long gone). By far the least successful of these was CSS-Tricks.com, but as it turned out, it was the one that I enjoyed writing for the most. It became my early journal for documenting all the stuff I was learning about web design. I found that if I wrote up what I was learning as a tutorial I learned it myself a lot better. That is basically still what CSS-Tricks is today! Only it's just grown a lot since then and all those other blogs have faded away.
WHS: How do you balance your schedule between the day job and CSS-Tricks?
CC: I work regular day-job hours where I work on day-job stuff. I work on other projects, including CSS-Tricks at night and weekends and when I have free time. It's manageable. CSS-Tricks requires no particular commitments. I plan to keep active at it forever, but if my work schedule got too busy or something unforeseen were to happen, it could take a rest. The day-job is where all the ideas come from anyway, it's like my training for CSS-Tricks.
WHS: You have Band Website Template, any plans for more sites like this?
CC: Yep. That was fun to make! The idea is that its a website template, but not soley just a design. It comes with extra functionality built in that is specific to the type of site it is. In the case of the Band Website Template, it is a secure interface for managing a gig calendar. Something that all band websites need. I help some friends out with a website for their band, and the idea was first built into their site and then re-structured for this template.
When we do a new template, I want it to be the same way. Not just a design, but some context-specific functionality. I want them to so well made and designed that even if you didn't need the template, you could buy it and poke through it as a lesson in web design and development.
WHS: What is your favorite CSS-Trick? Okay maybe you can't choose one, two is fine.
CC: My favorites are really the big classics. CSS sprites are really cool. That is, using one big image which you only display small parts of in certain places. You can drastically reduce the number of server requests using CSS sprites properly and significantly speed up a website. CSS image replacement is a classic too, allowing you to use really clear, semantic, text tags in your HTML and then swapping that out for an image with CSS. This provides the best of all worlds, full design control, high accessibility, and better SEO. Another favorite is the sticky footer, that's a clever bit of CSS right there.
WHS: For those new to web designing, what is CSS and why is it important to use it?
CC: Even if you aren't a web designer, you know what HTML is. It's the language which browsers read to display websites. Every website in the world uses it (or a version of it). Even "Flash" websites are just flash files embedded into HTML. The idea behind CSS is remove anything from the HTML that has to do with the design of the website, leaving behind only the content of the website. Having those two things separate is loaded with positives. Perhaps most importantly, it keeps your code easier for YOU to understand. Updating content becomes a lot easier.
Search engines also have a lot easier time with content not cluttered with irrelevant information. Changing the design down the road becomes a lot easier. The pages are more efficient and load faster. The list goes on and on. With today's internet, any site not using CSS for design/layout is just dumb.
WHS: So I'm trying to make my own website and learn CSS, HTML, etc, but it can be very confusing. What advice do you give to new web designers?
CC: My advice is to start with a template. Download something you like from somewhere, get it up as website, and then start getting creative and changing things to get them how you want them. How I learned was actually installing WordPress and messing with themes. You can learn a lot that way quickly.
Then, once you have your feet wet, go back and start learning some fundamentals. What is the box model and how does that work? If you start with those fundamentals, you will bore yourself to sleep because you don't have something tangible to relate it to first. It's a bit like learning the guitar. Yes, you really need to work on fundamentals. But, it's a heck of a lot funner and you'll stick with it if you learn to play a song first.
Let's talk about you…
WHS: I notice one of your hobbies is photography? What do you like to shoot?
CC: I'm really an amateur, but it is really fun. I'm attracted to all the nerdy things you need to know about like shutter speed and aperture. Portraiture is usually my favorite, I like close up candid shots that happen to capture something really emotional or special. Like I said though, I'm really an amateur and what I really need to do is just take more pictures!
WHS: How do you enjoy Portland, OR compared to Madison, WI? Does cow tipping exist there? Just kidding. :)
CC: HA! When I was in high school in Verona, WI (just outside of Madison), there was definitely some cow-tipping going on. I didn't grow up here in Portland so I don't really know, but I bet some of the rural areas around here have their fair share. The city of Tillamook actually isn't that far from here which is a gigantic cheese manufacturer, so it's not like there isn't any cows around here =).
Madison is awesome though, I certainly didn't leave because I hated it (Go Badgers!). I work from home and so I can work from anywhere and I'm just out here for the change in scenery.
WHS: mmmm. cheese.
WHS: Lastly, you have some pretty cool friends: Chris Spooner, David Walsh, Steven Snell. Do you get to met IRL or is it virtually?
CC: I've actually never met any of those guys in real life, which is too bad really. Even David, who is from Madison, I've never actually met. We became better friends after I had moved out here to Portland. All three of these guys do seriously amazing work though which I really respect on top of them just being nice guys in general.
I'd probably meet folks more often if I actually went to conferences or meetups or anything, I just never seem to make it. I somehow manage to have some friends in real life too, who are also very cool, just aren't techy enough to be on my blogroll =).
Thank you Chris for your time on this interview. We definitely love to hear about the inside view of web designing. If you want to contact Chris, you can do so by visiting his website at www.css-tricks.com . Either way, do visit his website, there's a dearth of good information.
And P.S. we also want to wish him a happy birthday!
Written 2008-08-27 (Updated 2016-10-10)
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You know, i always have to work with Internet but i have little experience about web. Thanks a lot for your useful article. I wish you would keep on posting more.
Elune, 4 January, 2010
Thanks for useful CSS tutorials!
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For sure, Chris is a rock star. No doubt about it. Thanks!
AskApache, 22 July, 2009
For sure I've been a huge fan of css-tricks.com for years.. Back when I was really learning CSS that was T-H-E place I would go to learn cool stuff... lots of ground-breaking articles etc.. Nice interview!
Shashi Kumar, 22 May, 2009
Firstly Thank you for posting this great interview from Chris, I regularlky visit css-tricks and learnt the most valuable things needed in this business from css-tricks, nevr had the time to say thanks to chris there, her I thank you both
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Ringing in the Study Area saw a varied mix of species including: Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Marsh Tit, Coal Tit, Goldcrest, Treecreeper, Redwing and Chaffinch (2 male). A total of 25 birds. Other observations included: approximately 250 Woodpigeon flying over, 2 Redwing, 3 Fieldfare, 2 Raven, 1 Buzzard, 6 Goldfinch, 2 Bullfinch, 2 Chaffinch (1 male and 1 female) and 6 Mandarin.
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Carolines Hirons Reveals How to Tailor Your Skincare Routine to Your Workout
Your face will thank you...
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Trying to sandwich your skincare routine in and around your workouts can be a bit tricksy to say the least. Yet spending a few extra minutes post sweat sesh can help to keep your complexion healthy, and hydrated.
Unsure about wearing make-up while you run? Or whether a quick splash of water is enough to soothe skin after a a marathon of kettlebell swinging? You're not alone.
In fact, skincare guru Caroline Hirons has revealed in her new book Skincare: The ultimate no-nonsense guide (RRP £20) that: 'I am frequently asked by people that exercise in all manner of ways about when they should schedule their skincare routines and what they should use.'
Skincare The Ultimate No-Nonsense Guide
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In this extract from the book, Caroline reveals how to tailor your skincare routine to your workout, handily broken down by different types of exercise, Whether you're hitting up the gym or are off out hiking, here's what to apply and when.
AM: If you're in a cold climate, apply a little facial oil to protect your face before you pound the streets. Then do your full morning skincare routine after you've had a shower.
If you find yourself in a hot climate [on holiday, say] apply SPF before you hit the streets, go run, come home and do your skincare routine.
PM: For an after-work run, remove make-up, apply a thin layer of moisturiser and SPF if the sun is still out, run, sweat, shower and then do your proper evening skincare routine.
Gym / Weights / Cardio
AM: Get up, if you have dry skin apply a little moisturiser, go to the gym, sweat it out, shower and then do your proper morning skincare routine.
MIDDAY: If you're working out at lunch time then remove your make-up, apply minimal moisturiser, do your class, sweat like a race horse, shower and repeat your morning skincare routine.
PM: If you're hitting an after-work class go to the gym, remove make-up and apply a thin layer of moisturiser, do your workout, sweat, shower and then do your full evening skincare routine. If you're going for dinner, then apply moisturiser then your make-up and remove it all before bed as usual.
Whatever time of day you cycle, you want protection on a face that is being wind-bashed. Cycle with no make-up, make sure you apply moisturiser and SPF and do your full skincare routine after your post-cycle shower. I would consider applying a facial oil to the cheeks too, although you might end up covered in bug roadkill.
Hot Yoga
Being frank, hot yoga is not good for your face. The entire purpose of it is to make you sweat, however, unlike in other sports, you can't cool down because you're in a room where the temperature is maintained at 'scorching'. That healthy 'glow' will eventually lead to broken capillaries. Having said that, i know some of you are completely addicted to it, so your main concern is to keep the nose / cheek area under control.
After the class, spritz as soon as you can with a floral water - not normal water - then shower, then apply a hydrating serum and moisturiser. You will be dehydrated afterwards, so if you regularly attend hot yoga classes i would keep spritzing bottles handy, and keep an eye on your face for signs of dehydration like fine lines and cake-y make-up.
Swimming (for when pools re-open...)
AM: Apply a thin layer of moisturiser (I avoid my forehead to prevent product dripping down into my eyes, but do what you feel your skin needs), swim, shower, do morning skincare routine.
PM: It's not great to swim in make-up, no matter how rushed you are. So remove and put a thin layer of something protective - I prefer a little facial oil, but light moisturiser works. Then swim, shower, do your full evening skincare routine, unless you're going out for dinner.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/20846 | Prospective employers love to ask you behavioral interview questions (also called situational interview questions). These kinds of questions dig a little deeper into what makes you tick. The answers to behavioral interview questions reveal how you have handled real-world situations in the past, which predict how you will probably behave in similar situations in the future. More importantly, they show an employer how you approach and solve problems—which is a valuable thing to know about a potential employee.
We almost always have to answer behavioral questions with some kind of example or story. Questions that begin with “Tell me about a time when you…" or “How have you handled…" invite you to tell a story or describe a particular situation where you accomplished a goal, solved a problem, or overcame a challenge at work.
One of the challenges with these kinds of interview questions is that it can be all too easy to get caught up in the story and miss making your point. Your point, in any story you tell (or in answering any interview question), is to give them one more reason why you're a great candidate for the position.
The best way to effectively answer any behavioral interview question is to always frame your story in a particular structure, called the STAR technique.
What Is The STAR Technique?
STAR stands for "Situation or Task," "Action," and "Result." Most people have no trouble retelling the situation and the action they took. But it's very easy to forget about telling the result, which is the most important part.
When you tell your story, tell it like this:
Situation Or Task
Job candidate answers a behavioral interview question with the STAR technique
Set the scene for your story. What was the situation? What task were you faced with? Give it some context, and show them what the problem was.
Professional man answers behavioral questions during a job interview
Talk about your thought or decision-making process that led to your choosing an "Action" to take. Walk them through it with you:
"Because of X, Y, and Z, I looked at A, B, and C and decided that our best course of action was to do G."
Professional woman answers behavioral interview questions during a job interview
This is the most important part of the STAR technique. Obviously, this needs to be a positive, happy ending. If at all possible, quantify your result. This means to describe your result in terms of numbers, dollars, or percentages. For example:
"I saved the company $47,000."
"I reduced our losses by 30%."
"I saved a customer relationship worth $1M per year."
"We were able to hire 6 new employees and increased our production by 400%."
Whatever your results were, quantify them. This is the "wow" moment in your story. Numbers provide hard evidence that you did what you said you did, and put your achievement in context. This is the surest way to impress potential employers.
All the stories you can tell that show how you approached a problem or task, thought critically about it, and made good, solid decision that benefit your company will help you stand out in the interview and get the offer.
Discover what key competencies hiring managers look for with behavioral interview questions, and weave the themes of your stories into a compelling reason to hire you in Career Confidential's Behavioral Interview Podcast.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/20850 | Would-Be Keyneses Fight Over Economic Strategy
WASHINGTON -- If the world is enduring the worst financial crisis since the Depression, as President Clinton says, is there a modern John Maynard Keynes to show us the path back to prosperity?
Keynes, of course, was the British intellectual, civil servant and bon vivant who challenged economic orthodoxy to explain the Depression and tried, with mixed success, to convince Franklin D. Roosevelt the solution was heavy government spending. World War II defense spending ultimately proved his case.
Unfortunately, no one among the many commentators in academia, government bureaucracies or investment banks has yet emerged with the cure to the virulent combination of financial fright, crumbling banks and Asian recession threatening the international economic order Keynes himself helped craft after World War II.
So the U.S. government and the International Monetary Fund are tinkering with their original formula: cobbling together multibillion-dollar loans to countries whose currencies are under attack, in exchange for promises to pursue economic rectitude. The latest wrinkle: an evolving scheme to couple big private-sector loans to embattled Latin American countries with newfangled guarantees by the World Bank and its sister agencies.
But at least three American economists see themselves as modern mini-Keyneses: Paul Krugman, 45 years old, a sharp-tongued professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Jeffrey Sachs, 43, an ardent Harvard professor who could be the most popular U.S. economist in the developing world; and Joseph Stiglitz, 55, a puckish Stanford professor now serving a stint as the World Bank's top economist.
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On the right of Bhagwan Swaminarayan is his first spiritual successor, Gunatitanand Swami. He is known as Aksharbrahman – a perfectly enlightened devotee of God through whom seekers can realise God. His left hand gesture is known as the gnan mudra, which symbolises enlightenment.
The Hindu tradition of worshipping God with his ideal devotee can also be seen in the other shrines, through the divine pair of Radha-Krishna, Sita-Rama and Shiva-Parvati.
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BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Neasden, London
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Surface Duo review: Why I'm still confused about Microsoft's dual-screen device
I've been using Microsoft's Surface Duo for the last two weeks as a phone and mobile productivity tablet. Here's my 'non-reviewer's review' of the company's newest $1,400+ Surface.
When I received a Microsoft Surface Duo dual-screen Android mobile device two weeks ago from Microsoft for review, I was curious how and if it could fit into my daily workflow. I also was curious whether it could replace my current Android phone and/or Kindle. Most of all, I wanted to know if using this device regularly would answer my biggest question: Why does it exist? What does it offer that a single screen mobile phone or tablet doesn't.
Two weeks later, I have to say that I'm not sure that the Duo scratches any itch for me. It's an interesting concept, but it definitely feels like a Generation 1 solution that's in search of a problem more than a solution to a problem I have with mobile devices.
This is one of my usual "non-reviewer" reviews. I am not attempting to provide readers with speeds, feeds or comparisons with other new phones or tablets. I'm hoping to address what "normal" users might want to know -- along with a number of reader-supplied questions -- about this new device.
I'm currently a happy Surface Laptop 3 and Pixel 3XL phone user. I've had a chance in the past to test-drive a few Surface devices (some provided by Microsoft and some of which I purchased myself). I've not been a big fan of the majority of Surface PCs. I did initially have high hopes for the Surface Go, as I'm perpetually in search of a thin, light and very portable computing device with good battery life. Sadly, the Surface Go fell short for me on multiple of those counts and wasn't lappable or usable for real work because the detachable keyboard was too cramped and bouncy.
Nevertheless, I persisted. I was interested in the Duo because it purported to offer great mobility and productivity gains. So how did it fare in my two weeks of testing? Here's my rundown.
What pleasantly surprised me: The Duo hardware is premium and drool-worthy. The 360-degree hinge feels really solid. Unlike most Surface devices I've tried, the Duo feels properly balanced and weighted. It's not lappable (you knew I had to go there), but the hinge is really nice and tight, making using this in tent mode, book mode and "compose" mode (like a tiny laptop, with the SwiftKey keyboard on the second screen) all very nice experiences. (Speaking of the SwiftKey keyboard, I often found it didn't automatically dismiss when I was done with it, but there's a down arrow in the left corner navigation bar below the keys that gets rid of it.)
Microsoft did not include a Surface pen with our review units. Existing Surface pens work with the Duo (and can sort of stick to the exterior of the device because of the magnets in it, but not by design). I didn't try using a pen with this device because I don't find using a pen useful; I don't sketch or draw on my PCs or phones and I type rather than write. If you're curious about the pen experience, you'll need to read another review. (Ditto if you're curious about gaming on the Duo; didn't try it, as I am not a gamer, casual or otherwise.)
See also: Surface Duo: Made for an office culture that no longer exists | Where's the keyboard case? | Forget the Microsoft Duo: LG's Dual Screen devices offer more for hundreds less
Other things that made me happy: The Duo's battery life is soooo much better than it is on other Surface devices. It actually lives up to Microsoft's "all day" promises (also unlike the case with other Surface devices) and holds a charge for days. While battery life is very dependent on the types of apps being used and whether it's on WiFi, cell or a mix, I found myself getting more than a full day of battery consistently with intermittent use. I'm guessing the Duo's good battery life is because this is an Android, not a Windows device. But maybe it also has to do with the way Microsoft designed the device with two batteries, one on each side.... (?)
Things that didn't make me (too) sad: The Duo works just fine as a phone. It's a big and somewhat unwieldy phone, weighing in at half a pound (not including the bumpers). Because of its roughly 4-inch horizontal width in portrait mode,the Duo is easier to use as a phone with wireless earbuds. Call quality using Google Fi in and near my New York City apartment was solid.
Microsoft seemingly decided keeping the Duo super-thin was more important than having a premium camera on this device. The Duo's single 11 MP camera quality is OK. It's not amazing, but after applying a system update which Microsoft pushed out late last week, I have to say picture quality was passable and better than I had feared. I still prefer most of the shots I took with my Google Pixel 3XL to the Duo, but the Duo didn't take terrible, photos. Low-light photos with the Duo also were somewhat washed out.
Two unedited (just cropped) photos for comparison:
Surface Duo photo
Google Pixel 3XL photo
For me, the biggest problem with Duo camera is the way it's built to work. Clicking on the camera icon opens it in selfie mode, as there's only a single, front-facing camera. If you open the camera app on the left screen and then fold the screen over so the camera is facing outwards, the camera works like it does with a regular smartphone. (Double clicking the fingerprint sensor also results in the camera app opening properly). This whole process is cumbersome and makes taking photos a slow and onerous process.
What perplexed me: The gestures! Even though I've been an Android user for several years, I didn't know before using this device that Android gestures were a thing. As someone who avoids Windows gestures and most keyboard shortcuts, Microsoft's decision to ship the Duo with Android gestures turned on by default made for a frustrating first few days. Every time I opened the device, I had to stop and wonder: Am I supposed to swipe up or down? Towards the hinge or away? These "handles" on apps are hard to grab and flinging them doesn't always yield the same results. (And I'm not alone; a 2019 survey showed many Android users still prefer and use buttons over gestures.)
To turn off gestures on the Duo and use buttons instead, go to Settings > System > Gestures > System Navigation and chose 3-button navigation. The change lets you seethe trusty back and home commands and switch apps using buttons. This made my Duo usage a whole lot less frustrating.
What further perplexed me: Microsoft's own navigational system on top of Android's native gestures. I knew from seeing videos and reading about the Duo, that users could drag an app to the center of the Duo, hovering just above the hinge, and let it go so that it "span" both screens. But I didn't realize that some apps had to be spanned in order for them to work the way we've seen in Microsoft demos. To get a message, a photo or another item to open and appear by itself on the right hand screen with apps designed to handle this (Microsoft Outlook and OneDrive for example), users first have to span the entire app. When using the new Chromium-based Edge, users have to select a link, right click on it and select "open in new window" to get it to open on the opposite screen. To me, these behaviors aren't intuitive, even after doing them multiple times over the past couple weeks.
Microsoft is including some Tips videos preloaded on the Duo. It also is posting Duo support pages on its site with more navigational and other kinds of Duo-related information. These are helpful starting points for figuring out how to use the device. I hate to say this, but the Duo experience often remined me of Windows 8: It assumes users can easily figure out how to do basic things and errs on the side of providing too little information. This assumption helped to make Windows 8 one of Microsoft's least-loved operating system releases. What's wrong with including a cheat sheet in the box to give users an easily consultable reference point?
What about the built-in software/services? The Duo is true Android (running Android 10 when I received it), with the Google Play Store, plus a bunch of pre-installed Google apps (Search, Assistant, Calendar, Drive, Photos, Maps, YouTube, Gmail, and more). It also comes loaded with a bunch of Microsoft apps, including Office, Teams, Authenticator, Bing Search, Intune, LinkedIn and Your Phone (some of which require subscriptions in order to use all the features). Microsoft has customized some its Office/Microsoft 365 apps for the Duo, meaning they can handle Duo-specific postures and interactions, like "spanning."
Some have asked me if they can uninstall the preloaded Google apps and services on the Duo so it could be a "true" Microsoft phone. The answer is no. You can disable some of the preinstalled apps, but not uninstall them. The same is true of the Microsoft apps that come preinstalled.
The Launcher/Feed that's part of the Duo experience is the same one that's now available to other Android users and is easy to use and handy, in that it puts your meetings, documents, calendar and other oft-used apps front and center.
The "Link to PC"/Your Phone experience, via which Duo users can see and interact with photos, messages and apps on their mobile devices from their Windows 10 screens is not as seamless and fully-featured as Microsoft demos and videos might have you believe. The recently demonstrated ability to interact with two Duo apps that are streaming side-by-side isn't there yet and there's no dedicated Apps section in the Your Phone menu for the Duo. (The new Your Phone Apps experience also is not working as demonstrated on Samsung's Galaxy phones, either, as my podcasting partner Paul Thurrott blogged recently.)
Can the Duo replace my current Android phone (Google Pixel 3XL)? It technically could, but I definitely found myself reaching repeatedly for my single screen Pixel when I was in a hurry to get things done. I didn't have to try to remember how to open an app or wonder whether it would open on the right screen or the left or whether that mattered. A web page on my Pixel included just about as much information as a page open on one of the screens on the Duo, albeit with a lot more density and less spaciousness. And it's no contest when it comes to the camera: The two-year-old Pixel 3XL camera takes better pictures and is much easier to use.
Can the Duo replace my Kindle Paperwhite e-reader? Definitely. Amazon has optimized the reading experience for the Duo so that using it in book mode simulates a physical book, with two pages side-by-side along with a page-turning animation. However, I will note that I'm not a speed reader, so having two pages open, side, by side, when reading doesn't really do much for me. I've moved on in terms of the way I read books, thanks to reading almost exclusively on the Kindle, and am very comfortable seeing a page at a time and clicking to advance the page.
Can the Duo replace my Surface Laptop 3? No. Because I write a lot, I need a real (non-glass) keyboard. I don't want to have to carry a bunch of separate peripherals with me to make the Duo work as well as a PC.
The biggest question: Does the Duo make me more productive than a regular mobile phone because it has two separate screens side-by-side, as Microsoft contends? My answer after two weeks is no. The non-intuitive gestures and constant guessing how apps will open and work slowed me down. I also couldn't come up with a lot of reasons to create or use Microsoft's touted "App Groups," which are a way to automatically load two different apps side-by-side.
I also realized after these past two weeks that I'm really not much of a multitasker. I do sometimes have two windows open simultaneously on my PC. But more often that not, I am just switching from app to app; not using them at the same time. On my phone, I have gotten used to how nested app experiences work. I don't open multiple browser tabs on my phone. I don't use two side-by-side monitors in my PC setup, which may be a reason I don't feel a need for two separate screens on a mobile device.
Microsoft Chief Product Officer Panos Panay said "The ability to get things done shouldn't be limited to just when you were sitting in front of a traditional PC." For me, it isn't. But there are still certain tasks that are easiest on a dedicated PC/tablet and others that I'm fine with doing on a single-screen phone. The first-generation Surface Duo has not changed my mind that two optimized devices are better than a single hybrid one.
The Surface Duo is available for purchase in the U.S. as of today, September 10, for a starting price of $1,400 (without a pen or earbuds). |
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3. 3. STARTER:ID THE LOGO:<br />
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5. 5. DELHI METRO<br />
6. 6. 1)Bénigned'Auvergne de Saint-Mars was a French prison governor in thelate 17th and early 18th century. He is best known as the apparentkeeper of ________________________. According to letters written bySaint-Mars to various officials and ministers of France, he had in hiscustody a prisoner of State, whom he carried with him from Pinerolo tothe Lérins Islands, and later to the Bastille.FITB.<br />
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8. 8.
9. 9. “The Man in the Iron Mask”<br />
10. 10. 2)_____________ is a legendary lost invention from during the reign of Roman Emperor Tiberius Caesar. As recounted by Isadore of Seville, the craftsman who invented the technique brought before Caesar a drinking bowl made of ______________, and Caesar threw it to the floor, whereupon the material dented, rather than shattering. The inventor was able to simply repair the dent with a small hammer. After the inventor swore to the Emperor that he alone knew the technique ofmanufacture, Caesar had the man beheaded, fearing such material could undermine the value of gold and silver.FITB.<br />
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12. 12. Flexible glass<br />
13. 13. 3)Diagnosing poor co-ordination between the X's larynx and thoracic diaphragm,Y prescribed vocal exercises which would occupy an hour daily. Y's treatment gave X confidence to relax and avoidtension-inducing muscle spasms. As a result he suffered only occasional hesitancy in speech. By 1927, he was speaking confidently and managed his address at the opening of the Australian parliament in Canberra without stammering. Y's work with X continued through the 1930s and 40s. He usedtongue-twisters to help X rehearse for major speeches.this is the pic of X.ID X and Y.<br />
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16. 16. X-king george VI,Y-lionellogue<br />
17. 17. 4)In February 2010, the Church of England Decided to disinvest from the company "X" on ethical grounds.According to indigenous rightsorganization, Survival International, the Church’s decision is extremely unusual, as it almost always prefers a policy of 'constructive engagement’ to disinvesting.The Church stated that "we are not satisfied that X has shown, or is likely in future to show,the level of respect for human rights and local communities that we expect" and that "[it] would be inconsistent with the Church investingbodies’ joint ethical investment policy".ID X.<br />
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19. 19. Vedanta<br />
20. 20. 5)"X" was patented in 1810 by the English inventor Peter Durand, based on experimental work by the Frenchman Nicolas Appert. He did not produce any "Y"s himself, but sold his patent to two other Englishmen, Bryan Donkin and John Hall, who set up a commercial X-ing factory, and by 1813 were producing their first X-ed goods for the British Army. Early Xs were sealed with lead soldering, which has led to lead poisoning. Famously, in the 1845 Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin, crew members suffered from severe lead poisoning after three years of eating X-ed food.ID X.<br />
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22. 22. Tin cans<br />
23. 23. 6)ID and PUT FUNDA<br />
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25. 25. The Nike ONE is a hypothetical high performance vehicle/concept car that was developed by Nike and Polyphony Digital. This vehicle is featured in the Gran Turismo 4 video game for the Sony PlayStation 2. This vehicle resembles a moon buggy with a maximum speed of 230 miles per hour (370 km/h) and an eight-gear automatic transmission.However, the top speed of 230 miles per hour can only be achieved by drivers in their physical peak (those who exercise between 60 minutesand 120 minutes per day).<br />
26. 26. 7)The term "X" was first used in connection with Hunter S. Thompson by The Boston Globe magazine editor Bill Cardoso in 1970. He described Thompson's "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved," which was written for the June 1970 Scanlan's Monthly, as "pure X journalism."Cardoso claimed that "X" was South Boston Irish slang describing the last man standing after an all-night drinking marathon.He also claimed that it was a corruption of the French Canadian word which means "shining path," although this is disputed.ID X.<br />
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28. 28. Gonzo<br />
29. 29. 8)"Wheels Of Zeus",a company founded in 2001.It made wireless hardware for keeping track of the physical location of enabledobjects.ID the founder.<br />
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32. 32. Steve Wozniack<br />
33. 33. 9)Jamaican pediatrician Dr. Cicely D. Williams introduced the name "X" into the medical community in her 1935 Lancet article.The name is derived from the Ga language of coastal Ghana, translated "the sickness the baby gets when the new baby comes", and reflecting the development of the condition in an older child who has been weaned from the breast when a younger sibling comes.Breast milk containsproteins and amino acids vital to a child's growth. In at-riskpopulations,X may develop after a mother weans her child from breast milk, replacing it with a diet high in carbohydrates, especially starches, but deficient in protein.ID X.<br />
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35. 35. Kwashiokar<br />
36. 36. 10)He began by taking charge of his family-run a retails pharmacy chain.Born in the town of Tiruchirappalli in 1969, He did his MBBS from Annamalai University. He wanted to pursue further specialisation and dreamt of building a multi-specialty hospital in the town. But he became an entrepreneur because of a twist in fate. The untimely Death of his father compelled him take up his family business of one pharmacy retail outlet in the town of Trichy.what does he own and ID.<br />
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38. 38.
39. 39. Dr.ArunMurugaiah,ofVasan Medical Hall fame<br />“NAAANGA IRUKKOM” :P<br />
40. 40. 11)___________ is considered to be one of the oldest inhabited places in South India. A major archaeological find was made in the year 1864 when the British archaeologist Robert Bruce Foote discovered a stoneimplement from the Paleolithic Age inside a ballast pit.Since then, a number of stone age artefacts have been uncovered.Most of these artefacts are currently lodged in the Egmore museum. The present-day town of ____________ has its origins in the settlement which existed during the time of the 7th century Pallava king Mahendravarman I.FITB.<br />
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42. 42. Pallavaram<br />
43. 43. 12)X-ing is a form of psychological abuse in which false informationis presented to the victim with the intent of making them doubt theirown memory and perception. It may simply be the denial by an abuserthat previous abusive incidents ever occurred, or it could be thestaging of bizarre events by the abuser with the intention ofdisorienting the victim.The term derives from the 1938 stage play "X"(originally known as Angel Street in the United States), and the 1940and 1944 film adaptions. The plot concerns a husband who attempts todrive his wife to insanity by manipulating small elements of theirenvironment, and insisting that she is mistaken or misremembering whenshe points out these changes. The title stems from the husband'ssubtle dimming of the house's X, which she accurately notices andwhich the husband insists she's imagining.ID X.<br />
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45. 45. Gaslight<br />
46. 46. 13)This teak tree is one of the largest living teak tree in the world.It has an amazing girth of 6.48m and a crown height of 48.75m It is believed to be around 400 years old.According to the local tribal belief here when this tree was tried tocut down, the blood spurted out from the place of cut. This tree was being since then worshipped by the local tribes in Parambikulam as "Virgin tree". Thus the name. This tree has been awarded ‘MahavrikshaPuraskar’ by the Government of India. what is it's name?<br />
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49. 49. Kannimara<br />
50. 50. 14)Xis a name created by ChoudharyRahmat Ali as alternative toIndia.In his pamphlet The Seven Commandments of Destiny for the seventh Continent of "X", Rahmat Ali proposed relabeling the Indian subcontinent as "X", and from there excising Muslim-majority areas to form new states.ID X<br />
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52. 52. Dinia<br />
53. 53. 15)X is an acute viral infectious disease spread from person to person, primarily via the fecal-oral route.The term derives from the Greek words for meaning "grey", referring to the "spinal cord", and the suffix which denotes Inflammation.X was first recognized as a distinct condition by Jakob Heine in 1840.its causative agent wasidentified in 1908 by Karl Landsteiner.ID X.<br />
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55. 55. Poliomyelitis<br />
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59. 59. 17)ID THE LYRICIST OF THE SONG:<br />
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61. 61. SONG:<br />BAND:U2<br />LYRICIST :SALMAN RUSHDIE<br />
62. 62. X,a writer ,will make his maiden foray on the big screen with a cameo in VishalBhardwaj's forthcoming film “Y", based on his short story.X had earlier collaborated with him in the 'The Blue Umbrella (film)' which was also based on X’s story. The story was recommended to VishalBhardwaj by his wife. ID X,Y<br />
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64. 64. X-ruskin bond<br />Y-”saathkhoonmaaf”<br />
65. 65. CONNECT THESE THREE<br />
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67. 67. GalynaKolotnytska is a Ukrainian nurse. She was described as the "voluptuous blonde" by Gene Cretz, the US ambassador to Libya, whom without Muammar al-Qadhafi, leader of Libya never travels.This characterization was surfaced after the secret diplomatic cable sent by Cretz was revealed by WikiLeaks as a part of its United States diplomatic cables leak.But the woman in this pic is not her but everyone thought the women in pic was galynakolotnystka<br />
68. 68. ID AND WHY’S HE FAMOUS?<br />
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70. 70. NITHISH KUMAR -the youngest player to debut for Canada in a first-class match when he played in an ICC Intercontinental Cup fixture against Kenya in August 2009, and then subsequently became the second youngest ODI player in February 2010 at the age of 15 years 273 days - only eclipsed by Pakistan's HasanRaza in 1996. <br />
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Best savings for Kid-size garlic bread in year. Was at a friends house and she was making lasagna and didn't have enough garlic bread for everyone.so she made some "just for the Now this is what I fix if I'm in a hurry and don't have time for "real" garlic bread. Measure the flour, yeast and salt into a large bowl. Reassemble loaf; wrap securely in heavy-duty aluminum.
Kid-size garlic bread In a small bowl, combine the tomato sauce, onion, oregano, basil and garlic powder; spread over the biscuits. I kept party-size pumpernickel bread in the freezer, topped it with spaghetti sauce with meat and mozzarella. When I make garlic bread the "normal" way using baguettes sliced almost all the way through then wrapped in foil and baked, softened butter mixed with garlic works much better because it's easier to smear butter into the slices rather than drizzling. You move boiling sear Kid-size garlic bread using 4 technique along with 5 together with. Here is how you do the trick.
modus operandi of Kid-size garlic bread
1. This 1 loaf of flute of sour dough bread.
2. This of shredded parmesan cheese.
3. use of garlic powder.
4. then of butter.
But for this method when a loaf of bread is split in. Its quick and easy garlic bread recipe,its a kids loves this garlic bread. The secret to garlic bread that's neither too greasy nor too dry is having the If yours is a different size, you'll need to adjust the amount of garlic butter accordingly. Stir together the Parmesan cheese, garlic powder, and basil in a small bowl.
Kid-size garlic bread technique
1. Depending on how many pieces of bread you're going to make will determine how much butter you need. So get that butter and mix in some garlic powder (minced garlic would work too) into it to taste..
2. Spread garlic butter over the little pieces of bread from the sour dough flute..
3. Place bread slices onto baking sheet (i put tin foil under them so the bread doesn't stick). Add the shredded Parmesan cheese (other cheeses will work too) to the pieces of bread. If you're using the shredded Parmesan, you may want to make sure it's a single layer of cheese since it's not as easily melted as softer cheeses..
4. Set oven to 350 and put the bread in and cook for 8 mins or until the cheese is melted..
5. As a side note, the crusts for these are quite crunchy so if your children are too young, these may be too hard for them to eat.
I don't know about you, but we are huge fans of bread, and usually have it as a side dish with most meals. My name is Kristyn and I'm the mom of SIX stinkin' cute kids and the wife to my smokin' hot hubby, Lo. My mom's maiden name is Luna, and I'm one of the many. "Garlic Bread" is a series of in-jokes referencing bread that has been topped with garlic and butter, which inspired dedicated circlejerk-style communities on both "Garlic Bread" is an Italian bread dish topped with garlic and olive oil or butter. Online, it has become a popular subject of circlejerking and. OK, first a disclaimer: garlic bread is not Italian. |
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