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Download Opera browser with: • built-in ad blocker • battery saver • free VPN Download Opera How to change default location for saving a group of tabs? • Hi everyone, I often use the function to save a group of tabs. Unfortunately, the default location is "speed dial folder". Is there a way to change this to the "bookmarks bar"? Or even better, to get a pop-up to select the location, similar to a "save under.." function? Best regards • @Chizzon There isn't, maybe because the feature is called save opened tabs as speed dial folders • Well, clear. But is there no way to save a collection of tabs more convenient? At least, I haven't found yet anything like that.. • @Chizzon There isn't as far as I know. • @Chizzon In Chrome/Chromium, if you right-click on the tab bar, you can choose "bookmark all tabs", which pops up a dialog allowing you to name the folder and choose where you want to put the folder. Opera takes that Chromium option, renames it to "Save all tabs as a speed dial folder", sets the save location to the "Speed Dial" bookmark folder and saves without popping up a dialog allowing you to change the save location. In other words, Opera sacrificed the normal option to have an option to save the folder directly to the speed dial bookmark folder without asking. • Yes, also I did not find any addon to modify this, unfortunately. Log in to reply
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mvnForum Homepage Print at Dec 4, 2020 12:00:03 AM Posted by natethedawg at Nov 29, 2016 7:59:30 PM Re: Random Screenie Fun Thread: Part 2 I think Daq needs to start cleaning up after his dock pets. That is so unsanitary. wow throwback.....where's all the tailors? King of Primordial Raiders Cabin Person of Sumiyoshi Sanjin Tsunami My posts are a reflection of my flags thinking. Except when they're not. Lord of Illusion Captain of the High Seas Council
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No announcement yet. Using the radius of a sphere as a spawn zone? [Solved!] • Filter • Time • Show Clear All new posts So I'm working on a pretty simple spawn blueprint for the enemies in my game. I want it to be fairly dynamic so I can dot them all over the map and adjust each one to spawn enemies. One of the things I'd like to be able to do is set a visual circumference of the spawn zone so when I'm placing it, I can verify where enemies may spawn within it. So to do this I created a collision sphere with no collisions and set it to be visible in the editor. I used some basic math to get the radius and then use that to set random locations within that radius to spawn my enemies in. So if I scale it up or down in the scene it will dynamically change the area they'll spawn in. But I've run into a snag. The radius of the sphere doesn't seem to correspond at all to the units in the scene. Maybe I just don't understand the engine well enough and should have known that, but what I tried doing was finding a formula to adjust the math to fit the size of the sphere, but no matter what I try it's completely off once I scale the sphere and test the spawn limits again. Any ideas on how I can accomplish something similar or how to go about making this idea work better? Last edited by Azaii; 10-16-2017, 05:15 AM. Well I solved it myself. I realized that scaling the sphere probably wasn't changing it's original diameter so maybe there was a way to get it's in-game scale. Turns out there's a node called "Get Scaled Sphere Radius" which works exactly how I thought it would work, no multiplication or formulae required. Thanks anyway if you read this!
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Nativity of the Lord – Proper III, December 25, 2018, Year C Please see How to Use Lection Connection Full lections can be read here. Based on the Readings as Set First Reading (Isaiah 52:7-10) Jerusalem’s watchmen, seeing the Lord return with salvation for the ruined city, are exhorted to call her to joyful celebration.  All nations will observe her people comforted and redeemed as the Lord acts in sovereign power. Psalm (98) All nature is called loudly to celebrate the coming victory of the Lord on behalf of Israel. Every nation will observe the powerful vindication of his people, aware that he will act fairly and rightly as universal judge. Second Reading (Hebrews 1:1-4, [5-12]) The author celebrates the fact that God has spoken through his Son, who, reflecting him perfectly, is both creator and heir of all things. Much superior to the worshipping angels at his birth, he has made purification for our sins and his kingdom is never ending. Gospel (John 1:1-14) St. John tells us that with the Word of creation taking on flesh, God himself has come among us as light and life. John the Baptist serves as its witness but not all to whom the Word is sent receive him. Believers, conversely, are born of God and made his children. • Creation, all over again/All things made new • Announcing/giving witness to the Word • The difference made by God’s arrival: it’s like night and day • Celebrating new birth • The universal significance of the coming of God’s salvation • The nations will be aware of the coming of God’s salvation
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Third Sunday after the Epiphany, Year A, January 26, 2020 Please see How to Use Lection Connection Full lections can be read here. Based on the Readings as Set First Reading (Isaiah 9:1-4) Isaiah, speaking at a time of great distress, declares that Galilee, although dominated by Gentiles and held in contempt, will be first to experience the glorious light of God’s liberation. It will be like the outnumbered Gideon’s utter defeat of a powerful enemy. Psalm (27:1, 4-9) The Psalmist declares his trust in the Lord who is his light and salvation and in whose presence he hopes to dwell concealed from his enemies. There, he will be sure to rise above them and be safe, if only the Lord will grant him a hearing. Second Reading (1 Corinthians 1:10-18) Paul exhorts the Corinthians to live in the unity of the one in whose name they have been baptized. He himself is but a servant who was sent by Christ only to preach the message of the cross that, although seemingly foolish, actually saves by God’s power. Gospel (Matthew 4:12-23) Matthew tells us that when Jesus withdrew to Galilee, a region long under a Gentile cloud, he was fulfilling Isaiah’s prophecy. There he begins to assemble his tiny band of disciples and through him God’s kingdom blessings begin to break out in the darkness. • God can use a few to accomplish amazing things • It is never us but “God in us” that furthers his mission in the world • The Lord is not indifferent to our times of distress and will act when it is best to do so • The Lord often chooses the “least” for his purposes • The Lord is made manifest in the changes for good that he brings about
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Connecting to Cleanfeed using your laptop or computer – RecordHub If you wish to use your computer to join us, please download the Google Chrome browser. Currently no other web browser works with Cleanfeed. You do not need an account to use the browser and you do not need to “finish setting up Chrome” by downloading the mobile app versions. Shortly before the recording begins you will receive an email from Cleanfeed containing your personal connection button. You are the only person who can use this link, so please do not share it. When you are ready, press Connect. If Chrome is not your default browser you will need to copy the link manually into Chrome. When the page has loaded press the green Start button. It is highly likely that your computer will now ask permission to access the microphone. Please allow this. All going well you will be connected immediately to Glisten Media and the other guests. Please use earphones or headphones when connecting via a computer. You can mute your microphone by clicking the green microphone button next to your name. If you have multiple microphones connected to your computer you can choose which to use by clicking on the cog symbol next to your name and changing the setting on the left where is says “Use browser setting”. To leave the call please close the Chrome tab. When trying to connect you get a message: “You’ve blocked your audio device”. • Please click the camera icon in the address bar and allow microphone access.
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I am working on a research project at the moment that requires me to use photoshop. I have ten different images that are all screen grabs from google maps. I would like to crop all the images to remove any google elements such as logo, areial view in the corner. I know how to use the crop tool but am just wondering how to make sure they are all same size - or cropped the same amount? as i would like to add some text to each image after cropping - these 'new' images will then be printed 6 X 4 size. Any help would be great! • You do understand that technically you are not legally allowed to do this. – joojaa Dec 18 '19 at 14:42 • Hi @joojaa it's for a non-commercial (temporary) college project, I thought this would be covered under fair use? – heroZero Dec 18 '19 at 15:13 I would paste each image to a layer in one psd-file then crop that file. Then use "export as..." on each layer (plus text). | improve this answer | | • Thanks Mikael!! – heroZero Dec 16 '19 at 20:11 I recommend Irfanview for this. You can put all your photos into a folder, view one of them in irfanview, "T" for thumbnails for all photos, then select all, then "b" for batch processing, there's a button "advanced", inside you'll find "crop" and "add overlay text" and "add watermark image", and all of them have options of cut from where and cut how much ( in pixels). | improve this answer | | Your Answer
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Question: How Do You Kill A Stomach Virus? How long do a stomach virus last for? How do you sleep with stomach flu? Is Gatorade Good for stomach flu? Does Coke help with stomach flu? Do you always throw up with the stomach bug? Children tend to vomit more than adults. Part may be an easy gag reflex. With most viruses that cause the “stomach flu,” as the infection moves through the stomach and intestines, vomiting stops after about 24 hours. But not always. Why do stomach viruses start at night? Should you drink water if you have the stomach flu? How can a family member not get the stomach flu? How long does it take for the stomach flu to run its course? Stomach flu has to run its course. The sickness usually passes in about 10 days without medication. The first few days tend to be the worst, but you can take steps to help get through it. Causes of the Stomach Flu? Does taking a bath help with the stomach flu? How can you pass a stomach virus? The viruses that cause gastroenteritis are spread through close contact with infected people, such as by sharing food or eating utensils, and by touching contaminated surfaces and objects. Is Ginger Ale Good for stomach flu? What food makes your stomach feel better? Is stomach flu serious? In most cases, viral gastroenteritis is not harmful. However, viral gastroenteritis can become dangerous if it leads to dehydration. Anyone with signs or symptoms of dehydration should see a doctor right away. A person with severe dehydration may need treatment at a hospital. Do hot showers help stomach flu? Again. Being sick can make getting through the day a chore, but hot showers can offer surprising relief when you’re feeling your worst. Hot showers stimulate blood flow to the rest of your body, and deliver benefits that can lessen cold and flu symptoms quickly. Can you throw up poop? What soothes an upset stomach? How can you get rid of a stomach virus fast? Is Pepto Bismol good for stomach flu? Can you catch the stomach flu from the air? Another way to catch the stomach flu is by breathing in airborne viruses after an ill person vomits. If the illness is not quickly recognized and steps immediately taken to control it, the infection will spread rapidly from person to person. Should I go to urgent care for stomach flu? What drink helps an upset stomach? Is chicken noodle soup good for an upset stomach? But then there are some foods we can turn to that’ll actually make us feel better when we’re ailing ― chicken noodle soup is famous for healing us when we’re under the weather. And there’s a whole other kind of soup, the kind that can soothe an upset stomach. Is it bad to drink water after throwing up? Is Gatorade or ginger ale for stomach flu? During an illness involving vomiting and diarrhea, it is important to prevent dehydration. Drink plenty of fluids in small sips until the stomach is settled and then in larger amounts until your thirst is satisfied. Clear liquids are the best. Water, Gatorade, Sprite, 7-Up, and Ginger Ale are suggested.
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Give a Hug!!! It's National Hugging Day! It only takes a moment to give a hug and it could change the direction of someones' day. Hugs are uplifting! Try to help someone else to have a great day! Giving them a hug and a pat on the back will boost their spirit. And say, "I love you!" You'll both feel better.
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Hesperus is Bosphorus A group blog by philosophers in and from Turkey God, Mind, and Logical Space (forthcoming at Palgrave Macmillan) leave a comment » My second book manuscript, titled God, Mind, and Logical Space, is now accepted for publication and enters  the production stage. It will come out this year with Palgrave Macmillan, as part of the new series, Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion. As with my other book (The Peripheral Mind, Oxford University Press forthcoming), the cover will feature work by Alex Robciuc. Instead of a summary, I thought I offer a little teaser in guise of some quotes on a few of the many topics I discuss. Here they are: (…) If you believe that God is actual, then you must believe that logical space does not contain regions with only demigods or regions lacking any gods whatsoever. But, intuitively, such worlds are conceivable (e.g. a world containing a single grain of sand, a world containing a bunch of Greek gods but no God, etc.), hence you should believe that it is almost sure that the actual world does not contain God. Actually, if we take such probabilistic considerations seriously (and why wouldn’t we?), the most plausible view about the actual world regarding divinity is that it is almost sure that it contains an arbitrary number of demigods and that God does not exist. This is also my take on the issue, and we will see in Chapter 7 that I am not alone in this belief, as at least one theologian seems to subscribe to this view, arguing that what people succeed in referring to when they intend to refer to God as a person is most likely one, or a crew of demigods (angels, spirits, jinn, devas, daemons and the like) (…) (…) So, for all we know, when it comes to the theological status of the actual world, polytheism is the most plausible religious view to hold (…) (…) What is the relevance of the Thomas Theorem for a metaphysician? I would like to put forward a radical, ontologized version of the theorem, which goes well beyond the purposes for which it is deployed in the social sciences. The Logical Thomas Theorem, as I call it, states: If people define a nonactual state of affairs as actual, then (a) it is actual in its effects, and hence (b) present in the actual world otherwise than by existing. The case of a situation being present in the actual world otherwise than by existing I call transistence.  A region R of Logical Space where some state of affairs transists is a region at which Logical Space is folded, by which I mean that a state of affairs that does not exist-relative-to-R has nevertheless causal effects at R. When such a relation holds between a transistent cause and an effect existent-at-R, I call the relation transistent causation. When a cause c and an effect e are connected by transistent causation, there exist two indices, i and j, i distinct from j, such that c exists-at-i and e exists-at-j, and c causes e. In other words, transistent causation occurs when cause and effect do not coexist. I am aware that what I have just said will likely cause a stir, so let me defend this radical seeming proposal. (…) (…) from the ontologists perspective, religious war, that is, actual widespread violence with drastic consequences, is literally a clash of possible worlds—a clash of transistent gods who cannot coexist in the same logical region, in our case in the actual world. One of them has to go, has to be annihilated. Transistence is a matter of behavioral effects of false beliefs, which make the world look as if the beliefs were true. When (i) each component of a pair of such beliefs contradicts the other, and (ii) there is no readiness on the part of the believers to accommodate the other, and (iii) some of the holders of the belief act upon it at any cost, the result is violence. Of course, this holds not only of religious violence, but any ideologically based violence. The power of transistence is shown by the story of Hitler, who is said to have exclaimed during the last days of the Third Reich that Germans don’t deserve to exist, because they are losing the war. An essential component in Nazi ideology was the idea of Aryan superiority of Germans, which coupled with Hitler’s main foreign policy goal, the idea of the need of a Lebensraum (living space), lead to the wars of occupation and the belief that German superiority will be confirmed by their success in occupying the lands they wanted and thus winning the war. From Hitler’s sick perspective losing the war was a disconfirmation of the belief that the Germans were really superior; the superior race of Germans failed to transist, in other words, by losing the war. We can then speculate that given Hitler’s claim that the Russians deserve to win, he might have changed his belief about who is the superior race, attributing racial superiority to the Russians. (…) (…) To think that ordinary believers ought to recognize the Absolute beyond the particular and relative of their own religion is to think that they ultimately ought to abandon their religion. Of course, I agree that it would be a positive development from the point of view of encouraging tolerance for alterity, if such change of beliefs was practically possible; I would not mind if most people became followers of Logical Pantheism. It would likely have positive effects on tolerance since people would have very different views about the classical notion of God and would be less sure that that being actually exists. But people need convictions, not doubts. They also need surprisingly little depth of thought in order to move them one way or another. To give two examples, most of the ordinary observant Muslims know to recite the Qur’an by heart, even though many of them don’t understand a single word of it (e.g. all Muslims who are not speakers of Arabic), and even a nonsensical musical parody like the song “Gangnam style” by Korean pop musician PSY can become “a force for world peace”, according to the United Nations Secretary General, Bar Ki-moon. Consequently, I think that rather than hoping naively that world religions will discover their “true nature”, that is, their commitment to the Absolute beyond all doctrinal particularities, we could settle for the more modest and realistic hope that the pop-religion, superficial as it is, based on noble lies, will behaviorally evolve in a direction compatible with the requirements of the belief in the Absolute. (…) (…)  To take our earlier example of public debate, does it matter whether God exists or not? From the point of view of the consequences of the belief that God exists, it does not matter at all. Today, in most parts of the world things stand as if God existed. Objectively, the actual world, even supposing that God does not exist, looks in many ways as if God existed. What are these ways? They are aspects of the actual world that are impacted by human behavior, which itself is dependent on human beliefs. To take an extreme example, in Saudi Arabia women are not allowed to drive cars (as of 2012, when I’m writing this). Politically, Saudi Arabia is an authoritarian theocracy, whose laws are based on the way the religious elite of the country interpret the Qur’an. Part of this interpretation—an essential one, indeed—is that the Qur’an is “the word of God”, so that, at the end of the day, the Saudi authorities will be convinced that they enact whatever God commands to be the right thing to do. God does not exist, we have supposed, yet, God (or “God” as interpreted by the Saudis) is as real as it gets when it comes to His impact on Saudi women’s lives. This is a very clear instance of the Thomas Theorem. Another paradigmatic example is the case of a mentally ill person suffering from delusions, delusional beliefs, persecution mania, and the like. Suppose someone has the belief that aliens are monitoring his every step, hallucinates alien voices, and interprets various physical signs in his environment as evidence for his beliefs about aliens. Certainly, we can, at a theoretical level dealing only with the content of the beliefs, dismiss his beliefs as false; however, we can’t simply dismiss his beliefs as false and be content with this much at the level of how to interact in real life with this person. Indeed, Thomas and Thomas themselves used the example of a violent psychopath to illustrate their theorem. (…) (…) What if the answer to the question of whether life is meaningful lies in the question itself, in the very fact that the question can and does arise for us? On the model of how Spinoza treats the question of human freedom—to put it briefly, all our choices are determined by prior state of the world and the laws of nature, so the only feasible notion of freedom consists in the knowledge of such determination—we could think of all instances of raising the question of whether one’s life, or life in general, is meaningful as instances of life’s meaningfulness, regardless of what answer we ultimately offer to the question. Heidegger thought that what is special about our existence, Dasein (being-in-the world) is that we are the only kind of being for which the issue of being arises; Dasein is “a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being this being is concerned about its very being” ([1953] 2010: 11). In a similar fashion, we could think of the meaningfulness of life grounded in the very fact that the issue of whether life is meaningful arises; since it only arises for us, we are the kind of being whose existence is meaningful. (…) (…) This means that our and other worlds “being in the mind of God” makes most sense and is most coherent if all worlds, all scenarios, all regions of Logical Space are in the mind of God. If we try to be selective about “the mind of God” and refuse to include things we don’t like, there will be no coherent and principled way to account for this selectiveness. So, although I empathize with the objection that the notion of God under Logical Pantheism contains a lot of “garbage”, I think that the objection is grounded in trying to fit the mind of God into the Procrustean bed of one’s prejudices about how God should look like, and that leads to ad hoc moves in a field where such moves are easily recognized—modal epistemology. (…) To me, using words like “tedious” and “worth knowing” in the context of talking about the content of God’s infinite mind sounds like saying of gravity that it would be tedious and not worthwhile for it to attract all objects on Earth, including all sorts of rubbish (…) (…) Why spend time speculating about how the ethical requiredness of existence would necessitate the existence of the world in a synthetic, non-logical fashion, instead of finding a way in which the world is logically necessitated, that is, logically guaranteed to exist? Logical Pantheism does precisely this, via the plenitude principle that grounds Logical Space. We have to put up with all the garbage that this brings to God’s courtyard, but, first, we already have to put up with a lot of a certain type of garbage in the actual world (empirical garbage, like bad jokes, meaningless suffering, and politicians), and, second, this is the price to pay for having a both a non-arbitrary explanation of why anything exists at all and a God whose existence is undeniable as a matter of logic. (…) Leave a Reply WordPress.com Logo Google photo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s %d bloggers like this:
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Tony goes wireless December 11, 2006 “I met a homeless guy yesterday. I’d seen him before but I didn’t know he was homeless. He’s a nice guy so I told him that there was lots of wire in the alleyway [Tony points towards the alleyway nearby]. So he says that he’ll get me a bike rack in exchange for the wire.” “How did you know he was looking for some wire?” “Well, his shopping cart was full of wire.” 3 Responses to “Tony goes wireless” 1. denguy Says: Yeah, I saw that guy. I only saw him one day though. Where did he go? 2. denguy Says: Oops, my previous comment was meant for the post, “Standing Up.” 3. Dear, Philip & Tony I know Tony about all my life, you see I ‘m his little sister Tony I do not know if you no that mom has pasted on and so has Stan . I ‘m glad to see you are still alive , I wish I could help but I live from pay to pay as it is . all my love & prays for you Love Sharon Leave a Reply WordPress.com Logo Google photo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s %d bloggers like this:
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Resources, Advice & Tips for Covid-19 Read More Scorpio Men in Love Jacqueline Dautaj Magnetic Scorpio man When a Scorpio man is in love, it is intense. However, Scorpio men have other characteristics that bubble to the surface when this magnetic man falls in love. A Scorpio Man Accepts Only the Best For Scorpio men who are in love, only the best will do. The best food, the best wine, the best of everything. This man takes nothing lightly. If the two of you are headed out to buy a bedroom wardrobe, Scorpio wants to know how it was constructed and where the wood itself came from. He's trying to find out if this is a good investment for his hard-earned money and if it will stand the test of time. So, the next time the two of you head out to the farmer's market and your Scorpio beau begins questioning how the tomatoes were grown, try not to roll your eyes; he really is just looking out for the both of you. Scorpio Men in Love Are Dedicated and Loyal Love 'em or hate 'em, no one can question the fact that once Scorpio man loves you, he'll be dedicated, loyal, and steadfast in his affections. This is not to say that Scorpios never cheat, but for the most part, you can count on his love being of the true-blue variety. As long as you don't do anything suspicious, like hang out at the bar with your ex-partner, there should be no problem. He's Jealous This leads to Scorpio's often common feelings of jealousy. Scorpio falls on the same axis as Taurus (much like Libra and Aries fall on the same axis) and as such, Scorpio shares a lot of the jealous and possessive qualities of Taurus. When Scorpio men are in love, you can expect them to occasionally show feelings of jealously, but this is not something you should take lightly. Even if all your Scorpio mate displays is a clenched jaw, take that as a sign to proceed with caution. He's Guarded Scorpio men can also be quite guarded about what they truly feel. The sign of Scorpio treats information, all information, as precious as jewels and only doles it out on a need to know basis. This guarded state can apply to their feelings as well. It's not that they won't tell you how they feel, it's just that they may keep hidden certain things from their past that are disturbing to them. Don't worry, though. In time, the odds are good that he'll share all those secrets with you! The Scorpio Male Is Intensely Sexual Perhaps it's because Scorpio rules the sex organs, or maybe it's due to this sign's inherent magnetism. Whatever the reason, Scorpio is usually seen as intense and sexual. It is not unique to have certain attributes associated with an astrological sign. In fact, all of the signs have certain characteristics based on the part of the human body they rule or that is associated with them. For example, Taurus rules the throat, and many prominent vocalists have a strong astrological connection with the sign. He Needs Deep Intensity In any case, Scorpios are very sexual, but that sexuality is closely tied to their brooding intensity. In order for Scorpios to truly demonstrate the depths of their passion, they need to feel a deep level of intensity. When this intensity combines with an outward show of affection, it's very powerful force indeed! He Has Great Stamina You may also notice that your Scorpio man likes to undertake activities that involve a good deal of strength or that require a lot of stamina. This is actually one of the best things a Scorpio man can do to channel some of his excess energy. In fact, the more arduous the task, the better it is for Scorpio because this sign was meant to slowly produce sustained energy. So, the next time your Scorpio man tells you he's going rock-climbing, let him. It's very good for his overall health. You Get What You Give in Love With Scorpio Men When they are in love, Scorpio men can be warm and generous or suspicious and brooding; it really depends on the "signals" he gets from his partner. With that in mind, "do onto others" is the perfect rule to abide by when dating a Scorpio. Whatever you put out to your Scorpion mate is exactly what you'll get in return. Scorpio Men in Love
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1. Have an Interesting Snippet to Share : Click Here Dismiss Notice Dismiss Notice Dismiss Notice Dismiss Notice Current Indian Cricket Team Discussion in 'Interesting Shares' started by SR005, Jul 16, 2019. 1. SR005 SR005 Bronze IL'ite Likes Received: Trophy Points: The Best review I rec'd about Current Indian Team. Virat Kohli always had a bunch of good players but never had a TEAM. Saurav Ganguly MS Dhoni Virat Kohli (sorry to exclude Rahul Dravid ) I clearly see three different captains and three entirely different teams they have played with. Virat Kohli had the team with strongest PLAYERS of all three. Ganguly had the strongest TEAM of all three. (there is hell lot of difference between a strong TEAM and a team with strong players) MS Dhoni had the SMARTEST captain in his team which is himself , along with a relatively stronger TEAM. The problem with Kohli is that he never had a team. He never wanted to build one. All that he wanted was success. Immediate success. He wanted to win one game at a time and he would sacrifice anyone for that matter. And he was successful in doing that. He has great records to boast about. But he never built a team. He never trusted anyone. Ambati Rayudu was given chance and groomed for nearly two years prior to World Cup. All of a sudden they felt Vijay Shankar is better. Didn't even bother to consider Rayudu in the squad. When Dhawan was injured they brought in Rishabh Pant. A very talented youngster who always hits a blitzkrieg 40 and throws away his wicket. When Shankar was injured they brought in uncapped Mayank agarwal into the squad all of a sudden from nowhere. Rayudu who spent his last two years only in the dream of CWC 19 got fed up and retired from international cricket. You need to TRUST your players. Like how Ganguly trusted Dhoni and Yuvraj Like how Dhoni trusted Rohit and Raina Kuldeep-Chahal combo was the key of Indian bowling in middle overs for a very long time . When they went for runs against England in a single match, the most dependable spin pair is broken instantly and they went for a new plan with just 5 bowlers removing Jadhav from the picture all of a sudden. Hardik Pandya was never given a fixed batting position. Such a talented batsmen is made to float around in the batting order. Dinesh Karthik never knew what was his role in the team. KL Rahul was constantly pressurized to justify his selection and in the process he totally lost his natural game. India's middle order is not weak. Sadly it doesn't exist. We had lot of batsmen who had talent to fill the vacant middle order but they did not get the trust they deserved from their captain. Kohli always had a bunch of good players but never had a team. The captain in Virat Kohli has really messed up a World Cup that should have been a cakewalk for such a bunch of talented cricketers. SinghManisha likes this. 2. rachaputi rachaputi Platinum IL'ite Likes Received: Trophy Points: Clap when they gets win, criticise when they don't Numbers proves their effort that's not just luck Attached Files: 3. SinghManisha SinghManisha Platinum IL'ite Likes Received: Trophy Points: Indian cricketers are not sportsmen, rather stars. IPL and brand endorsements have taken away the essence of the sport . This comment by Naseeruddin shah sums it all: “Virat K is not only the worlds best batsman but also the worlds worst behaved player. His cricketing brilliance pales beside his arrogance and bad manners.” SR005 likes this. Share This Page
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Investigating work visas: H-1B, H-2A and H-2B Miguel Keberlein Gutiérrez, supervisory attorney for the Illinois Migrant Legal Assistance Project, discussed the most common work visas in the United States during his session a Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting workshop on April 11. During his presentation, he also summarized one powerful example of system abuse when a migrant laborer died. Finding, using data on visas and immigration The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting hosted a workshop on "Covering the U.S. Visa System in Your Own Backyard" this April. During one of the workshop sessions, Knight Chair and veteran investigative reporter Brant Houston highlighted key resources reporters can use to research stories. These are a few of the top tools. Investigating student visas and diversity visas Each year, thousands of students and exchange program participants enter into the United States under different visa categories. They are joined by tens of thousands who come to the country under diversity visas. Knight Chair Brant Houston discussed the programs and shared reporting tools during his Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting workshop session on April 11. Investigating the EB-5 visa program The EB-5 visa program, which has grown increasingly controversial due to its lack of quality oversight, basically gives foreigners looking to invest large sums of money in U.S. businesses a pay-to-play green card. Tim Novak, Chicago Sun-Times reporter, spoke about the program at a Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting workshop.
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Jump to content Trigger, Tripwire, Flare up, Flush Recommended Posts • Root Admin Trigger, tripwire, flareup and flush. These are probably the four most common terms used when discussing rosacea. Because of poor communication and rosaceans not understanding what there terms actually mean much confusion results, adding to the already confusing dilemma of rosacea understanding, one example of the 'butterfly effect in rosacea.' So to set the record and end the confusion: Flare up according to the NRS is "a more intense outbreak of redness, bumps or pimples." The RRDi concurs.  Tripwire of Trigger Tripwire or Trigger is the same thing according to the NRS who uses these words interchangeably and states that both terms mean, "factors that may cause a rosacea sufferer to experience a flare-up—a more intense outbreak of redness, bumps or pimples. [1] The RRDi concurs. A medical dictionary source defines flush as: flush 1. transient, episodic redness of the face and neck caused by certain diseases, ingestion of certain drugs or other substances, heat, emotional factors, or physical exertion. See also erythema. [2] The RRDi concurs. A blush is a flush usually caused by psychological factors. A flush can be caused by a any number of factors as noted above including psychological factors. The RRDi concurs. The reason this is brought up is that while a significant number of rosaceans confuse flushing with a flare up there are rosaceans who report having a flare up of rosacea and DO NOT FLUSH. These non flushing rosaceans are admittedly fewer in number, and flushing is usually associated with a flare up, but nevertheless demonstrates that flushing is not necessarily a rosacea flare up. One could flush or blush and the skin returns to normal in a rosacea sufferer. Flushing does not NECESSARILY mean a rosacea flare up and it only means that it MAY produce a rosacea flare up. Those who think flushing is rosacea is like thinking pimples are rosacea (or for that matter, believing that erythema is rosacea). There is more to a diagnosis of rosacea than simply having pimples and erythema (see Diagnosis). For example, one could have erythema and have Atopic Dermatitis, not rosacea.  Flushing is one of the signs or symptoms usually associated with rosacea, but not necessarily required. Pimples are associated with rosacea but not necessarily required, i.e., Phenotype 4. Rosacea is always associated with redness or erythema or Phenotype 2. If you suffer from flushing you have Phenotype 1. The consensus among authorities is that to be diagnosed with rosacea one must have at least one of the distinct feature of rosacea or two phenotypes. Hopefully, if rosaceans understand these terms, trigger, tripwire, flareup and flush better, we will all be on the same page when we discuss rosacea.  End Notes [1] Coping With Rosacea, National Rosacea Society, page 1 [2] Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary Link to post Share on other sites • Admin pinned this topic Join the conversation Reply to this topic... ×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead   Only 75 emoji are allowed. ×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor • Create New...
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We Have a Logo for Middle School Math Sunday Fundays Thanks so very much to Kimberly Howard, @MrsHowardMath, for creating this very cool logo AND the code to make it into a button.  Just copy this and paste the logo onto your blog post.  You will have the cool logo AND it will link readers back to the main MS Sunday Funday page. This week’s blog topic is “Student Math Class Notebooks“.  You can submit at any time.  Please use the Google Form below to submit instead of emailing or tweeting me the information.  It will make compiling the links much, much easier for me (thanks again to the wonderful Jeremy Loukas, @jloukas, for help with this!) AND prevent me from leaving anyone out. To submit a blog, fill out the form below or click on this link (if you don’t see the form).   What do you think? WordPress.com Logo Google photo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s
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This paper presents results of analyses by parametric methods of annual means of temperature, precipitation and discharge, and of seasonal maximum precipitation at 17, 28 and 10 Icelandic stations, respectively, for the period 1961–2000. Trends in mean seasonal temperature and precipitation are in broad agreement with results found by other authors using other methods. A positive trend appears in both mean annual temperature and mean temperatures in most seasons. Annual mean precipitation trends are positive in most seasons except for negative trends in the September–November season in the south. Additionally, positive trends appear in maximum one-, three- and five-day precipitation, both during the spring and autumn, except at a group of stations in central Iceland. Some of the positive trends in mean annual and seasonal precipitation may, however, be attributed to the positive trend in temperature which may have influenced gauge catch. Trends in mean annual and seasonal discharge are small and statistically insignificant; the trends found in temperature and precipitation do not all relate directly to trends in discharge but suggest hypotheses for further study of the relationships between them. This content is only available as a PDF.
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Latin America, Brazil, Africa and Asia Decreto sobre os Direitos, que deve pagar o assucar nas Alfandegas deste Reino.  De 27 de Janeiro de 1751. (Lisbon, n.pr., 1751) Folio.  (2) ff.   Wrappers.   "As sugar and tobacco were taxed so heavily that they ceased to be competitive with sugar and tobacco produced in the English, French and Dutch colonies, steps were taken to lighten export duties and reduce freight charges.   Inspection offices were set up in  1751 in Bahia, Recife, Rio de Janeiro and São Luís de Maranhão to control the quality and price of these two commodities . . ." (Colonial Brazil, ed. Bethell, p. 263-64).   Marquês de Pombal, Cat. bibliográfico, p. 339 (20). Place an order
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New artworks Le déjeuner en violet 6343 x 3835 px – 10.2 MB PNG. Dedicated to Jörn Bielewski Made with Krita Download Original A picture made on request in the late winter of 2019 by my friend Jörn Bielewski, the German translator of “Phill from GCHQ.” There are quite a few things I never got around to publish. This is one of them. Better late than never. See the post on the Dark Katharsisdrill hubzilla profile.
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TRAVEL: Sun, sand and sea – Batangas style – October 19, 2011  Jumping off at Tali’s famous cliff This round-up of accessible, affordable beaches in Batangas, which includes stops at Tali, Calatagan and Manila, appeared in Officially Philippines in October 2011. Well Played
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Smart SO2R Antenna Switching using Arduino and a SixPak One improvement I had wanted to make to my station for some time was the addition of automatic antenna switching.  I’ve been using an Array Solutions SixPak to manually switch antennas in my SO2R setup and, given how many band changes I make in a typical contest, it was becoming pretty tiresome.  In longer contests, I’d sometimes find myself confused in the midst of a band change with my mind stalling out while trying to remember where to turn the SixPak controller knob. Array Solutions SixPak My dissatisfaction with manual switching was compounded by the fact that I use some multi-band antennas.  For a band like 20m, I have three different antenna choices I could make, all with their own pros and cons.  And to make matters worse, these antennas have the names “20m”, “15m” and “10m” on the SixPak controller.  When I’m bleary-eyed and 12 hours into a contest, this all starts to seem a bit too confusing. So what to do?  I took a quick look at what others were doing (and selling) for antenna switching and quickly discovered two problems: 1. My Microham μ2r controller has simple BCD band decoder outputs for both radios, but I’m already using that to switch my bandpass filters (using a couple Unified Microsystems BCD-10 boards).  I don’t have any other readily available source of band data so I need a solution that can share this one. 2. All the solutions I’ve found seem to hard code the antenna choices for a given radio (e.g. “when radio A moves to band X then it gets antenna N”), but I wanted some logic included in the switching decision (e.g. “antenna N is the best antenna for band X so when radio A switches to that band then it gets antenna N unless radio B is already using it, in which case radio A will have to use antenna M, the second best antenna for the band.”) It was only a few weeks before the August NAQP when I decided to build a solution for myself.  Given the short timeframe, I assumed I’d use an Arduino UNO as the brains of the thing, both because it’s SOOOO simple to quickly prototype and build this kind of solution using an Arduino board, and because I happen to have several of them lying around the shack cooing “build something with me” every time I look at them. The Arduino UNO “Great!” I thought,  “I’ll use an Arduino and build myself a smart SO2R antenna switching solution!”  But hang on…  The SixPak requires high side switching.  That means the switch has to source some real current to those hungry relays out there on the side of my house AND I have to deal with back-EMF from the relay coils.  I didn’t have time to start building a board covered with FETs and diodes to power my 12 relays.  So I started to look around for a pre-built board that would let me quickly and easily get the job done. The Logos Electromechanical 4×4 Driver Shield I eventually found Logos Electromechanical’s 4×4 Driver Shield.  It looked perfect.  You control it through a couple of cascaded, latching shift registers, so you can bit-bang your switch settings into the thing using just a couple of wires, flip the latch using another wire and, presto, the relays synchronously switch.  At $50.00, the price looked a bit high.  On the other hand, it really was an ideal solution for me, and the board looked like something I could use in many a project to come.  At any rate, I was in a hurry, so I ordered one.  The board comes exactly as it is shown here. Controlling the 4×4 driver board from an Arduino couldn’t be simpler.  Here’s a code snippet from my own switching program: digitalWrite(PIN_LATCH, LOW); shiftOut(PIN_DATA, PIN_CLOCK, MSBFIRST, r2ant ? 1<<(r2ant-1) : 0); shiftOut(PIN_DATA, PIN_CLOCK, MSBFIRST, r1ant ? 1<<(r1ant-1) : 0); digitalWrite(PIN_LATCH, HIGH); You just hold the latch low, shift your switch settings via serial, and then pull the latch back up, and, Bob’s your uncle!  Your antennas are switched.  The rest of my code is pretty specialized and a bit of a quick hack, so I’m not posting it here.  Let me know if you want to see it and I’ll make it available. With the major parts of the solution chosen, I had to then figure out how to wire them all up.  Here’s a quick diagram of what I had in mind: I’m using a pair of Dunestar 600 multi-band filters that I’ve configured for low-side switching.  This setup has monopolized the band data output of my µ2r for the past year.  In order to also drive my smart antenna switcher, I needed to split that band data output.  I looked for splitters online and found some solutions but I ended up just hard wiring a “Y” splitter myself in the box holding the Arduino board and adding an extra DB-25 connector. The SnootLab “Power Screwshield” One other noteworthy component in this project is the Power Screwshield, which is another item I bought from Logos Electromechanical (though I believe it’s made by another company called SnootLab.)  This board, or another like it, is a must have for interfacing an Arduino with lots of ins and outs.  In my project, I’m literally using every i/o pin on the Uno board and being able to easily and securely attach wires to them using a screw terminal is a real convenience. The last thing I did before declaring this project “complete” was to stuff the Arduino+Screwshield into an old plastic box, wire up the DB-25s, and add a couple of buttons, a switch and an LED.  The switch is for on/off — telling the Arduino whether to switch for me or allow me to switch using the control box.  The LED is just an on/off indicator.  The buttons allow me to force the Arduino to connect a particular radio to the next antenna for the band its currently on.  So, for instance, if my beams are pointed east (from the Seattle area) when I hear Hawaii on 20m, I’ll push the button to switch to the dipole (the 3rd antenna associated with the 20m band), which will let me easily work into the pacific. The Arduino-powered automatic antenna switcher sitting atop my TS-590. As you can see from the picture, the final “product” isn’t too pretty, but it sure did work well for me in the contest.  It was so nice to not have to fiddle around with manual antenna switching.  There’s no going back now.  As next steps, I’d like to build a permanent version — probably just using an Atmel processor on my own board rather than an Arduino.  I’d also like to build my own switching board; one using modern chips (like the 4×4 board does) rather than a bunch of transistors and diodes.  I’d also like my switching board to support a robust control protocol that I could run over longer cables or even over wifi.  That way, I could use the board wherever I needed switching, and it could be generalized for more tasks like tuner control, rotator control, and even rig control.  It occurred to me during this project that ham radio really doesn’t have a well established protocol for station control.  I find this rather odd given the nature of the hobby, but nonetheless, it seems to be true.  I’d like to see that change.  Standard protocols and conventions for station control would be a great step forward for the hobby and for contesting in particular.  Maybe I’ll write more about that in an upcoming post… 1. Thanks for the nice comments on our products! You are correct that the Power Screw Shield is made by Snootlab, in France. They’re a great company and I like being able to make some of their products easier to get over on this side of the pond. Thanks again! 2. Dan Downard · · Reply I ran across your article while researching Arduino apps. I am doing the exact same thing using an Allen Bradley PLC and a AB Panelview. I also have a Visual Basic app for remote control. I am using Yaesu radios and a SixPak X 2 remote switch. I have software that will map antennas to the primary and secondary radios using a software defined matrix with a primary and secondary antenna defined for each band. Selections may be overridden by the HMI as long as the alternate antenna is no in use. The main reason I bought the Arduino was to duplicate my existing system without the use of the propietary hardware. I would be very interested in your software approach. I will be glad to send you what I have done if you are interested. Dan K4FXN Leave a Reply to Pierce Nichols Cancel reply You are commenting using your account. Log Out /  Change ) Google photo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s %d bloggers like this:
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Skip to main content InSource Solutions InTouch AlmDBViewCtrl: Adding time and date selection insource logo large.jpg                            TECH NOTE                     Describes one method for adding drop down boxes to an InTouch window so that the user can select the times and dates of alarms to display. • Author: Dillon Perera • Published: 12/31/2014 • Applies to: InTouch How and When to Use this Guide This guide is intended for use with InTouchs Alarm Database Viewer Control (AlmDBViewCtrl). 1. Create a new Window. 2. Go to Wizards > ActiveX and add an AlarmDBView Control to your window. 3. Double click on the AlarmDBView control 1. On the Database tab enter the information for where your Alarm database is. 2. On the Selection tab select the default time frame that you want to show (I think you wanted to set this to last 3 days) 3. On the Control Name tab, note the name of the control as we’ll need to use this in scripts.  (Mine is named AlmDBViewCtrl5) 4. Go to Special Menu > Configure > Wizard/ActiveX installation 1. Go to the ActiveX Control Installation tab 2. The list at the bottom of the screen lists all of the ActiveX’s installed on your PC.  This list will be different based on what software you have installed.  From the list I selected the “Microsoft Date and Time Picker Control, version 6.0”.  Once selected hit Install, to add it to the top of the list. Note: Because these controls are not Wonderware controls, we can’t guarantee they’ll work, and we don’t have a lot of documentation on them.  The Microsoft controls you can usually find a lot of information online about though. 5. Go to Wizards, and in the ActiveX tab you should now see DTPicker.  Add four of these to the screen, one for start Date and Time, one for end Date and Time.  Also add a button that will be used for refreshing the control with the new dates. 1. Here is what my window looks like: 6. Double click on the DateTime pickers to bring up the Properties window. 1. On the ControlName tab of each, name them DTPicker1Date, DTPicker1Time, DTPicker2Date, DTPicker2Time. 2. On the General Tab for the two Date fields, set the Format to 1-dtpShortDate.  For the two Time Fields, set the Format to 2-dtpTime. 3. Once you’ve done this it’ll look like this (Times shown now, instead of 4 dates). 7. Double click the Refresh button, and add the following action script: • Was this article helpful?
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Skip to content Placement Testing About Placement Tests The Language Center administers placement tests to all students who intend to continue studying a foreign language at Stanford. The purpose of testing is diagnostic: it assesses students' current language abilities in order to match them to the course most suitable for that level. Accurate initial placement is a key factor in successfully learning a foreign language. Placement exams in each language consist of both text and oral components. Proficiency testing measures what students are able to do with the language.  For most languages, after completing the online text portion of the examination, students proceed to the oral portion (procedures vary by language and time of year). For many languages, placement testing occurs in the summer and beginning of fall quarter only. A few languages offer limited placement testing in mid-quarter in Fall and Winter, for enrollent in the next quarter.   All language placement testing should be completed no later than the date specified on the testing page for that language. After reviewing this website, including the specific page for your language, if you have any questions, please email the Language Center. As mentioned, placement testing varies by language, with some languages only conducting placement tests before the beginning of fall quarter. For planning purposes, please check the placement testing page for each language for details on the required components and the testing schedule. The combined results of oral and written components determine the most appropriate course for the student who decides to continue studying that language, whether to fulfill the language requirement or for personal or professional interest. Remember these tests are for placement purposes, and are not achievement tests. Rather than receiving a score, you will receive a placement into a class where you can maximize your learning.  Your placement results will only be known to you and to members of the Language Center who direct placement testing. They will not be reported to all members of the department or recorded on your transcript. If you have no prior experience with the language, you do not need to take a placement test. Enroll in the first quarter of the first-year sequence. All students with any prior exposure to a language they intend to continue studying at Stanford, including formal study or home background, must take a placement test in that language before enrolling in a course. • If you have minimal experience with the language and believe you should start at the very beginning, take the placement test. Students with any background (study or home background) in a language may not self-place, even into beginning-level courses. • Even if you have AP, SAT II or IB scores that fulfill the undergraduate language requirement, you still need to take a placement test if you plan to continue in that language at Stanford. • If you are continuing in a language for which you do not see a scheduled placement test, please email the Language Center to inquire about arranging a test: • Because of the nature of language acquisition and maintenance, placement test results are valid for one calendar year. After one year, the placement test must be retaken if you intend to study the language at Stanford or overseas and have not yet done so. Testing schedules and procedures vary by language. For more information on the schedule and procedures for a specific language, please click on the appropriate link for that language on this page. If you have further questions, please contact Honor Code While taking any placement test, remember that you are subject to the Stanford Honor Code and Fundamental Standard.  Specifically, you are not permitted to receive outside assistance on these examinations.  "Outside assistance" means, among other things, the use of books, notes, dictionaries, grammar books, spell checkers, grammar checkers, translation tools, cutting and pasting foreign language items from the web, and composing items in writing before speaking. It is very important that you do your best on this exam and that you do not receive any help with it. In order to make good judgments about your language placement in Stanford programs, we need good information about your level and knowledge. Arabic Placement Testing Classical Greek Placement Testing Filipino Placement Testing French Placement Testing German Placement Testing Hebrew Placement Testing Hindi Placement Testing Italian Placement Testing Japanese Placement Testing Korean Placement Testing Latin Placement Testing Modern Chinese Placement Testing Persian Placement Testing Portuguese Placement Testing Russian Placement Testing Spanish Placement Testing Vietnamese Placement Testing
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What does evil and injustice tell us about God? How can we mere mortals account for or explain why good people, innocent persons suffer, and why so many wicked perpetrators of evil actions seem to escape justice here in this world? For the atheist, the answer is simple and characteristically nihilistic.  There is no God sayeth the atheist.  And, the New Atheism of recent years stridently asserts that there can be no God, His existence is not even possible.  The non-existence of God explains the existence of evil and injustice and senseless tragedy in this world.  That is one explanation. There are 2 more explanations if one believes in God. First, and this may be offensive to some readers, is the assertion that God is responsible for the evil and injustice in the world either by being somewhat malevolent towards humans or through a callous indifference to the sufferings of humans.  Some shorten this to simply and bluntly assert that God is evil. The second explanation is that God is not the cause of evil and injustice, but He allows these to occur and persist as part of a plan for man’s salvation, growth and development.  This plan for salvation can be viewed either collectively (a more macro perspective, i.e. for all mankind) or individually (a more micro view, for you the individual person). There is a nationally known radio talk show host that is currently touting his recent book that addresses questions such as these on his radio program.  He asserts that God is omnipresent but is not omnipotent and allows free will, and that is why there is such terrible evil and injustice and senseless tragedy in the world.  He opines that if he is not correct and God is omnipotent, then God would be evil.  (We think we have conveyed correctly what he keeps repeating on his daily show that we have heard portions of a few times in the past several weeks.)  We believe this man to be in error. We humans are rather prideful and arrogant at times, and believe ourselves to be far wiser than we truly are.  Yes, God allows free will, and yes there is much evil in the world.  There are many, many innocent victims of murderous violence (and abuse and neglect), natural disasters, horrible accidents, and of birth defects and terrible diseases, etc. each and every day in this hellish world.  Agreed.  But, those facts do not necessarily mean that God is not omnipotent (all-powerful).  Being omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent, does not mean that God cannot choose to refrain from intervening in the daily actions of human beings.  The fact that it appears to us that God is not intervening does not mean that God is not capable of intervening.  (A very crude analogy here would be that the fact that I choose to walk to the grocery store instead of driving an automobile there does not mean that I cannot drive a car or that I do not own a car.)  In our faith in God and His ultimate goodness, we need to cultivate some humility.  The ways of God are far beyond the ways of men.  God is not merely quantitatively so much greater than we mere mortals, but He is qualitatively much greater and different from us, too. We have discussed our questions and reservations as regards the law of karma found in eastern religions previously.  Karma does not quite ring true to us.  It seems to be rationalizing the suffering of good people and not really explaining such suffering in a very satisfying way.  (The interested reader is referred to this earlier post that can be called up by typing the word karma in the search box on this blog.)  Yet, in Hinduism, karma is an inexorable law and for lack of a better word, mechanism that was put into operation by God. What does evil and injustice tell us about God? The reader will have to choose his/her own assumptions or conclusions here. We believe that God exists and that He is not evil.  Yet, being aware of so much terrible suffering and evil in this world during these trying and terrible times, we sometimes find ourselves despairing that there will be any recompense for untold numbers of innocent victims in the next life.  Part of this despair or angst comes from the limitations of the caring individual who cannot alleviate or work to remedy more than a tiny, tiny fraction of the suffering and injustice here in this world.  We cannot know of course, but, sometimes hope withers away for a time.  Things can only be put right if God is truly just, loving and merciful.  Things can only be made right and new with an omnipotent God Who truly loves us, truly cares about us. copyright 2017 – larrysmusings.com 1. Very thoughtful analysis, Larry. The God taught by Jesus is a loving god. Many people grow angry at God for “allowing” this or that tragedy to happen, but such people seem to forget that God “allowed” his own son to be crucified. My personal view is that everything in this life happens for a purpose, and I also believe that the people who leave this life–our loved ones–go to a much better place. At t he same time, I also think it is the duty of those of us who remain behind to work to make this world a better one. This is what God put us here to do. 1. Thanks Richard for your insights. Yes, we can and do hope that our loved ones move on to a better world, a better plane of existence after they leave this world. But, there being so much hurt and injustice around us can be a source of despair at times. But, I do agree that we need to work as best we can to make the world better. Leave a Reply to larryzb Cancel reply WordPress.com Logo Google photo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s
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Forever Site Access Membership for $149 $279 Get This Amazing Deal Today! A - Open Position and Movable Forms 'Eh' – the Canadian chord. PUBLISHED: Dec 28, 2010 UPDATED: Mar 2, 2015 • VIEWS: 181 • LESSON CODE: UL71 Instruments: ukulele Subjects: chordsbeginnerintermediatecore A - Open Position and Movable Forms Open position A and its movable form and variations. Open Position Chord A_open_finger_2_1 A_open_finger_3_2 * An open position A major chord can be played with any finger. All depends on the context of its use. Typically played with either fingers one and two or two and three. Movable Form Chord Note Regarding Chord Photos Photos of chords can not typically show efficient fingering technique. Comprises need to be made to show only the fingers playing or fretting notes. Fingers should remain over the fingerboard even when not playing notes - ready to go, which typically does not make for a good photo. Two Roots? In the open position and movable forms of this chord there are two possible locations for the root or letter of the chord. String four and string one both contain the root of the chord and can used for transposition purposes. Movable Chord Forms Transposing Movable Form Chords Chord Transposition Chart This transposition chart can be used for any chord where the root, or letter name of the chord is on the A string . transposition chart for A The root is on string 1, the A string. Ukulele ChordsA larger sized transposition chart is available in my book Ukulele Chords . This is the book these expanded chord lessons are based on. Chord Tones - A C# E The chord tones of an A major chord are the 1st, 3rd and 5th scale degrees of the A Major Scale ( A B C# D E F# G# A' ) or A C# E • 1 - the Root or letter name of A is A • 3 - the third of A is C# • 5 - the fifth of A is E Chord Fingering Derived Chords sus or suspended Chords The term is borrowed from the contrapuntal technique of suspension, where a note from a previous chord is carried over to the next chord, and then resolved down to the third or tonic, suspending a note from the previous chord. However, in modern usage, the term concerns only the notes played at a given time; in a suspended chord, the added tone does not necessarily resolve and is not necessarily "prepared" (i.e., held over) from the prior chord. add2/add9 Chords Power Five Chords A Power 5 chord contains the root and fifth of a major scale with an optional octave of the root added for a three note power 5 chord. A power 5 chord is technically not a chord in the traditional sense but a dyad or interval. It's more of an implied chord sometimes major and sometimes minor. 7th (pronounced Seventh) A partial seventh chord can be created by lowering the Root of a major triad two frets. A seventh chord as a 4-part chord ( 1 3 5 b7 ) and one of the Big Six core chords used to derive other contemporary and jazz chords. A Seventh chord along with your basic major and minor chords are the msot common chord you will encounter. NOTE: A Seventh chord is very often referred to as a Dominant Seventh . This is not always accurate as Dominant — is a chord function and not actually part of a chord name, which is a capital letter and chord type information not it's harmonic function. We don't call a seventh functioning as a I chord in a blues a Tonic Seventh or the IV chord a Sub-Dominant chord, etc... Major Seventh Chords, maj7 A major 7 chord is created by raising the flat seven of a seventh chord one fret. A major 7 can also be created from a major triad by lowering the root one fret. 6 or maj6 The major 6 or 6th chord is created by lowering the b7 of a seventh chord one fret. An example would be from C7 ( C E G Bb ) lower the Bb one fret to A for C6 ( C E G A ). The major 6 can also be created from a major seventh chord by lower the seventh two frets. An example would be from Cmaj7 ( C E G B ) lower the B two frets to to A for C6 ( C E G A ). Chord Progressions If you ukulele does not allow access to the higher frets for a particular chord, then substitute another movable form chord lower down the neck or an open position chord. PRACTICE NOTE: To gain the most from these chord lessons and the practice progressions, memorize the location of each chord and the name of the chord. I've pulled this trick question on a few of my private students after they have played a chord in a lesson. Typically this happens at the beginning of a lesson before we actually get into the lesson. I'll ask them to play a chord that I just saw them play. I'll say; "Play a D chord." Some will say they don't know chord so and so and yet it's a chord they just played. Don't let a chord get lost in a particular song or progression. Know its name and it belongs to you for using elsewhere. End of Lesson - Thanks, Hope You Enjoyed It! Related Lessons Related Lessons for A - Open Position and Movable Forms at this time. QuickStart Chord Progressions, Blues Play-along Tracks • Updated: May 6, 2012 Four premium practice play-along tracks for mastering and exploring the Blues scale. Suitable for any instrument. QuickStart Chord Progressions, Pentatonic Play-along Tracks • Updated: May 6, 2012 Four premium practice play-along tracks for mastering and exploring the Pentatonic scale. Suitable for any instrument. The Pentatonic scale is also referred to as the Country or Nashville scale. Eric Clapton has been very successful in weaving the bright pentatonic sound with the dark blues sound creating an unmistakable sound. QuickStart Chord Progressions, Ionian Play-along Tracks • Updated: May 6, 2012 Four premium practice play-along tracks for mastering and exploring the Ionian scale. Suitable for any instrument. QuickStart Chord Progressions, Mixolydian Play-along Tracks • Updated: May 6, 2012 Four premium practice play-along tracks for mastering and exploring the Mixolydian scale. Suitable for any instrument. Common Chord Progressions for the Key of A • Updated: Feb 15, 2013 Common chord progressions for the key of A. Using the primary and seconday chords for the key explore these common chord progressions for the key of A. Related Books Related Books for A - Open Position and Movable Forms at this time. Ukulele Chords - C Tuning Updated: Aug 31, 2019 The ukulele chord book for every ukulele gig bag or case. New Updated 2 Printing. Ukulele- Reading Music Series - Primer Updated: Jan 3, 2020 Learn to read single note melodies in the first/open position. A Guide to Ukulele Chords Updated: Dec 5, 2017 Covers the basic ukulele chords that ALL ukulele players SHOULD know. A Guide to Ukulele Chords for Lefties Updated: Jan 10, 2020 Covers the basic ukulele chords that ALL ukulele players SHOULD know - for Lefties. A Guide to Ukulele Chords, 2nd Edition Updated: Jan 10, 2020 Covering the basic ukulele chords that ALL ukulele players SHOULD know. Related Lesson Series Related Lessons Series for A - Open Position and Movable Forms at this time. Basic Lessons for Getting Started with Ukulele Updated: Jan 1, 2003 These are the ukulele lessons that every ukulele player just starting out a bit seasoned should take a look at. Basic Ukulele Chords Charts Updated: Jan 1, 2003 Not so much a series - but the basic chords ALL ukulele players should know. Common Ukulele Tunings Updated: Jan 1, 2003 Any tuning is possible on a ukulele as long as the construction supports it and a string is available. There are three somewhat common tunings in popular use today, C, D and G tuning - with C tuning the most popular. Related Lesson Files, Resources and Assets Related Assets for A - Open Position and Movable Forms at this time. Basic Ukulele Chord Chart Updated: May 11, 2019 Site Access Plans for Thanks for visiting and checking out the site! 33 years ago.
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Jessica Michalofsky: prose CW: Graphic sexual scenes, NSFW When I come home, there is no one there. I make a hasty transformation. In the bedroom, I strip off my clothes—stockings and garter in my coat pocket, the dress and bustier falling to the floor—and pull on a t-shirt and pair of old jeans. Slip my feet into the flip-flops I wear around the house, and walk back out into the kitchen. Pull a loaf of bread from the cupboard, stoop down into the fridge and locate the turkey covered in foil. Grab a sharp knife from the dish drainer, a long slim knife with a rosy wooden handle. One of the turkey’s breasts remains, and with the sharp knife, noiselessly I draw the blade through the pale flesh, carving off slices of meat. I place these on the bread, which I have buttered, and cover the slices with curlicues of mustard. Salt and pepper. Then, I close the sandwich with a top piece of bread, and pulling the long knife toward me, cut the sandwich in two.  There is, I remember, a bottle of mineral water in the unheated back room that stays cool in winter. I fetch the green bottle, and when it opens, I hear a fizz. I pour half a glass of cranberry juice and half mineral water. Then, I take my sandwich and my drink and head to the living room. I am almost too distracted to watch a movie, but I choose one anyway.                                                                                  When the movie begins playing, I bite into my sandwich. The mustard hits my palate first. But as I chew the bread and the springy meat, a mild succulent taste fills my mouth. I follow this with a swig of mineral water and juice, which has a sharp taste of salt and the sour taste of fruit. I alternate bites of sandwich with swigs of juice, leaving a swallow of juice till the end.                                                        It’s a Swedish movie about a little girl who is left on her own for an entire summer. Her parents have gone to Africa to be missionaries. Her aunt, who is supposed to be caring for her, has abandoned the girl and gone off with a man she has just met. The family’s house is in the country, surrounded by fields of yellow grass and dark forests. The little girl is almost ten years old and has long strawberry blonde hair that lifts and shines in the sun.                                                          When she sits alone in the house in front of the window, sheer curtains billowing in an unrestrained breeze, the camera focuses on what we can see in the middle distance, outside near the dark trees, beyond the girl’s vision. She is both alone and free. I pause the movie, walk to the front room. Under the Christmas tree I find the chocolate covered marzipan, sweet but not too sweet. Passing the fridge, I stop and drink eggnog straight from the carton with the fridge door in my hand. I return to the living room, take my seat, and press play on the movie. As I watch, I lie first on my side, then I stretch my legs out on a low stool, then finally, I hug my knees to my chest. The enchantment is almost over. I have eaten almost everything that the spell has allowed, I am returning to normal. I pause the movie once again and go back into the kitchen for some salted nuts. I press play on the movie and eat the nuts one by one and lick my fingers.                                                  The little girl’s hair gets unkempt-looking, the movies verges always on some darkness, danger threatens to break through summer’s enchantment. No one—not her schoolteachers nor the residents of her small town—realizes she is living by herself in the house in the middle of the field of yellow grass near the dark forest. The girl seems both aware and unaware of her abandonment. She eats food straight from tins she has shopped for herself in town, and sleeps in a bed in front of an open window. A group of old men require that she kiss them, she doesn’t stop two older girls from pulling a young boy’s pants off. She catches tadpoles, which she keeps in a shallow basin in the kitchen, until one sprouts legs and turns into a frog. She gets burrs in her hair, she lies in a pool of stagnant water, and when in the sky a hot air balloon appears, and a man descends into the yellow field not far from her house, she goes to him.                                                      I am tired. My eyes sting and my stomach is full. I am now recalling the evening. I close the lights in the living room and make my way to the bedroom. I turn off the overhead light and turn on the little light beside the bed. Under the duvet, I begin to think back, the change in the bathroom a few hours earlier. The bath, the mascara, the stockings, the garter.                                                                              From his emails, I had an ominous feeling. But still, just before 7pm, I found myself getting into my car and driving across town to a low-rise apartment building, where M lived.                                                                                                          He gave me the money straight way, as I’d asked him to do in the email. I pretended to text a friend his address. This was my way of making him think that someone knew where I was. Then, we sat together on the couch that was very close to the TV, and he asked me if I wanted to watch a video. Two glasses of ice water placed on the table in front of us. Had I ever seen anything cuter, he wondered. On his TV screen he brought up a YouTube video of three tiny Pomeranian puppies scampering around in a wire pen.                                                  After we watched the video, he asked if I was ready to cuddle. When I said yes, we went to his bedroom. He turned on the overhead light, which was bright with two 100-watt bulbs. On the bed were two stuffed animals. On the bedside table, I saw two paddles. Would I be all right with some over-the-knee spanking?              I said yes, but no paddling.                                                                                                    He said okay, and proceeded to take my clothes off. The bustier, stockings and garter made no impression on him. All of it off, he said. He then asked me why I thought so many women shave their pubic hair. Actually, he said public hair, but then corrected himself—he didn’t like the look. I placed my clothes on the open flap of a cardboard box. We carried on with the small talk as he took off his clothes. He had a round body with a big tummy and short legs. His hair was short cropped and he was clean-shaven. There was a TV on a high dresser along with some boxes. A jar of pennies. The room was crowded with stuff. On the wall, a small bronze orthodox cross, and tacked to a map of Russia, a picture of an angel with enormous wings.                                                                                                            He’d been in the navy he told me, but had retired early. He said this as he climbed onto the bed. I climbed up after him. He had PSTD, he said, and when I asked if he’d been to war, he said yes, the Gulf War. He was all right now, but the depression medication took away some of his sex drive. Also, he was a high functioning Autistic. Did I know what autism was?                                                            I said, yes.                                                                                                                                  We did the cuddling for a few minutes, which meant I lay on my side and he hugged me tightly to his chest, and then he asked me to lie on my tummy. He worked my bum with his hands and fingers for several minutes. I had a soft bum, he said.                                                                                                                                      Was this a good thing, I asked?                                                                                              Yes. He grasped my bum with both hands and wiggled the flesh so that my whole bum and hips shook. Then he began the spanking. I lay with my hands folded under my chest. I could feel sweat trickle from my under arms. As he brought his hand down, he told me I was a bad girl. This continued for a few minutes. He asked me several times if I was all right, and when I said yes, he continued the spanking. The spanks hurt, but when he pushed his fingers into my sex, it was wet.                                                                                                                                Did it hurt, he asked?                                                                                                              I said it felt good, but no harder. After some more spanking, he got on top of me. I could feel him rubbing his sex between the cheeks of my bum. I reminded him of the need for a condom, and then, when he was ready, I went to the living room and got one from my coat pocket. I asked him if he’d like me to put the condom on. He said, yes. I asked him if he’d like me to suck him a bit first, and he said no, he didn’t like that.                                                                                                            I got back on the bed on my tummy, and he lay on top of me, nudging his sex between my thighs and the checks of my bum. Then he put his whole weight on top of me. I could feel his entire body resting on top of my own. He began working his penis into the soft, wet space between my thighs. It felt really good, he said.      Good, I said, and made a motion to indicate to him to take some of his weight off my body. Which he did. Then he moved around a little more and asked me if it was in.                                                                                                                                      No, I said, but it felt good.                                                                                                      Was it in now?                                                                                                                          No, I said.                                                                                                                                  Getting there, I said.                                                                                                                Had I ever done anal?                                                                                                              He’d done it once before.                                                                                                      Had he liked it, I asked?                                                                                                          Yes, it was very good, he said. Would I do anal with him?                                                I considered for a moment, wondered if I should charge him more, then said, okay. I reminded him of the need to keep the condom on. He said he had some lube. I saw him squirt the lube onto his penis, which was covered by the condom, and then he rubbed some on my bum. He lay back on top of me, and in a few pushes, his sex went in. He had a smallish penis, which was good. I relaxed and felt him moving within me. I focused on the thought of accommodating him, and he moved above me, saying how good it felt.                                                                    Was it good, he asked me? What was it like?                                                                      I said it felt good.                                                                                                                      Did it really, he asked? Did it hurt?                                                                                        I said it was a stretching feeling, but the truth was I felt turned on. Everything was wet and loose. I felt him move over me, rubbing his big belly over my back. And soon he came. He went right away to the bathroom and removed the condom, and I followed him and wiped myself clean. Then we got back into bed for more cuddling.                                                                                                                          Then we talked about relationships. He had an inability, he said, because of his autism, to find a woman who wouldn’t hurt him. I said relationships weren’t easy, and he asked what I was afraid of. Abandonment, I said. He said he wasn’t afraid of being abandoned. He was afraid of being taken advantage of. He was too nice. That was the good thing about autistic people, he said, they don’t wear any social masks. You get what you see, he said with a wave of his hand. He had a lot of offer, he continued. And he was very caring. But most people didn’t understand his kindness. Except babies. One time, he said, he held his friend’s baby for a whole hour. He looked at me as he said this. I was rubbing myself against his knee. When I stroked his chest, he put his hand on my hand and pulled it to his balls. He liked that, he said.                                                                                                  Lightly stroking, I asked?                                                                                                        No, just firmly cupping with your hand. Like that, ah, really good. Everybody likes it different, he said.                                                                                                                I said this certainly was true. And then he told me how he was a nudist, and that every year his nudist society rented out the Gordon Head pool. It wasn’t just adults, he said. People brought their kids too. But the lifeguards had their clothes on because they were working. He thought nudity was a beautiful thing. He put some lube on his sex and showed me how to use my hand. I asked him if minded if I played with myself a bit.                                                                                                    No, he said, and closed his eyes while I worked his sex. Was I right-handed, he asked?                                                                                                                                        Yes, I said. I used my left hand on my own sex, which made coming kind of tricky.                                                                                                                                                  He’d already come, he said, so coming again might be difficult.                                    That’s okay, I said, we still have some time. When he did, once again he went straight away to the washroom, and when he got back on the bed, I said I would make myself come, which I did.                                                                                            Had I come, he asked me as my eyes fluttered and my mouth made an Oshape.      Yes, I said.                                                                                                                                  Had I really come, he asked?                                                                                                  I said, yes. Then I went to the washroom and washed my hands. Then I got my clothes on, because it had been more than an hour. He said it was unusual for him to have come twice. I said I thought we had good chemistry.                                      Would I like to go to the nude beach with him in the summer?                                      I don’t know, I said. I’d have to think about it. I said it might feel weird asking him to pay for a social occasion.                                                                                                  He said going to the beach could be as good as this, and he motioned to the bed.                                                                                                                                                    Then he asked me if I wanted him to walk me down stairs. I pulled on my dress and put my feet into my shoes and said, sure. I put the stockings and garter in my coat pocket. We descended in the elevator together. He hugged me at the door, and I went out into the night. It was dark, my legs were bare, and many houses had Christmas lights. Jessica Michalofsky’s fiction, nonfiction, and reviews have appeared in publications like Brick, Geist, The Malahat Review, The Rumpus, Bookslut, The Globe and Mail, The Quarterly Conversation, and Joyland.
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OASIS Mailing List ArchivesView the OASIS mailing list archive below or browse/search using MarkMail. Help: OASIS Mailing Lists Help | MarkMail Help docbook-apps message Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Re: XSL stylesheets HTML output issues (bugs?) Dave Pawson [mailto:davep@dpawson.co.uk] wrote: > Richard wrote: > "a) Limited accessibility with rendered HTML elements. > Which HTML elements get output, for the same 'effect', seems to vary > depending on which tag(s) were used in the XML source, and where they > were used. > Sometimes the <b> element is used for bolded text, though this is > deprecated > and works poorly with assistive technologies like screenreaders. > In other cases the <strong> tag is output." > That's simply an aspect of going from a richer vocabulary to a lesser > one. HTML has far less elements than docbook. > Yet the class information is passed through for CSS use. What are you > looking for here? > The semantic markup is in the XML, not the HTML. I think Richard's point, which I agree with, is that the HTML should be as semantically valid as it can be--which is to say, no hardcoded formatting tags when a class name will do nicely. I haven't used <b> or <i> within raw HTML in years, because (a) there's no need anymore, and (b) it doesn't tell you anything about what you're marking up. Certainly something like this: <span class="argLink"><a href="#sysban_list">(1)</a>&nbsp;args</span> makes more semantic sense than this: <i><a href="#sysban_list">(1)</a>&nbsp;args</i> We've modified the XSL to do this for quite a few inline elements, which in our case has also allowed us to divide up authoring tasks more easily. You can customize the formatting of the output with a CSS file, without having to know the more complex XSLT. Rob Cavicchio Senior Technical Writer EMC Captiva EMC Corporation 10145 Pacific Heights Boulevard, 6th Floor San Diego, CA 92121-4234 P: (858) 320-1208 F: (858) 320-1010 E: Cavicchio_Rob@emc.com The opinions expressed in this message are my own and should in no way be interpreted to reflect the opinions of EMC.
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QoS Restriction per user on Global protect VPN L1 Bithead QoS Restriction per user on Global protect VPN Is it possible to create QoS policy for restricting maximum bandwidth per global protect VPN user by 10Mbps of upload and download?  Cyber Elite Not sure this is possible since QoS is set on the outbound interface. Perhaps someone else has other ideas? Cyber Elite As @OtakarKlier mentioned I don't think this is actually something you'll be able to do as it stands. I do believe that there is an existing Feature Request (FR) for this however, so reach out to your SE so that they can add your companies vote to the FR.  Like what you see? Show your appreciation! The Live Community thanks you for your participation!
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Messages in this thread SubjectRe: How should Touchscreen Input Drives behave (OpenEZX pcap_ts) On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 01:16:16PM +0200, Florent Thiery wrote: > > As of now, I return > > X_ABS, Y_ABS and PRESSURE values between 0 and 1000 (each). > > > Are you kidding ??? Does the touchscreen support pressure sensitivity? > Normally it wouldn't, you'd have only two values... Because > sensitivity touchscreens really are rare... That's why wacom does > use the pen to report pressure info on their tablets No, this touchscreen actually has fairly reasonable pressure reporting. I know that this is unusual. But I get reproducible numbers when trying soft stylus press, hard stylus press. And things like finger touching. Also I can actually distinguish a thumb from an index finger press ;) > >1) where does touchscreen calibration happen? The EZX phones (like many > > other devices, I believe) only contain resistive touchscreens that > > appear pretty uncalibrated. I'm sure the factory-set calibration > > data must be stored somewhere in flash, but it's definitely handled > > in the proprietary EZX userland, since their old kernel driver > > doesn't have any calibration related bits. > > > I would say touchscreen calibration = scaling (to resolution) + reference points see the other comments. apparently that is left to userspace. > I would say the best would be to watch pressure evolution.... If it > springs from 0 to 400 in less than sotg like 200 ms, then you got the > "button" event. Is it feasable? that would require rerlatively small polling intervals. please note that the hardware generates interrupts when pressure != 0. We could start a high-granularity timer > I got a question: does stylus usage on original A780 show the pressure > sensitivity? not that I've ever noted. But Motorola ignores many of the hardwares > Another one: you say you're workin on building X-e. Are you talking about kdrive? I have no idea, just replaying the package names that OE uses ;) I now have Xfbdev running on the A780. Unfortunately due to some strange black magic, the ts driver ceases to receive interrupts as soon as X is started. reproducible. The same happens with ts_test. ts_print works very good, though. Will do more debugging - Harald Welte <> We all know Linux is does infinite loops in 5 seconds. -- Linus [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature]  \ /   Last update: 2006-05-18 16:42    [W:0.076 / U:4.264 seconds]
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display | more... Previous Chapter Next Section § 1. National Insecurity On Wednesday, December 6th, 2000, as is frequently the case, both Canadian national newspapers devoted thousands of lines of ink to computing and information technologies in their news and business section. This is hardly notable in and of itself now (though unforeseen by anyone a decade ago) as the mainstream media has been doting over the impact of the Internet for almost five years. Yet the front page of the Globe and Mail carried a story detailing how the former Soviet Union is now widely acknowledged (by security professionals in the rest of the world) to be producing the planet's best computer hackers. 1 Luckily, many of these young artists have begun following a program of self-restraint, hoping their skills and sense of decorum with eventually make them gainfully employable in the West. As it is however, young Russian hackers (especially from around the St. Petersburg area) are blamed for some spectacular stunts over the past year, including stealing the source code of Microsoft's new Windows ME operating system, sifting through the digital archives of the Pentagon and NATO, posting thousands of stolen credit card numbers on the World Wide Web and lifting millions from Western banks. These exploits have been going on since 1994, when a young mathematician Vladimir Levin, sitting at the computer in his St. Petersburg apartment, transferred $12 million US from the accounts of Citibank into those of his friends around the world. European security experts now cite Russian hackers as the single gravest threat to Western banks. To anyone even remotely aware of the current economic situation in Russia, and given the people's history, none of this will come as any surprise. During the Soviet era, the nation was world-renowned for producing brilliant scientists, great mathematicians and masterful chess players; therefore retaining to this day a strong analytical tradition to draw upon. However, it must now feel largely abandoned by the West as it continues to waver in a gray area which is neither capitalist or state-controlled, but which rather seems to have taken on the worst grotesqueries of both systems. Almost 90% of software and hardware in the region is pirated and the unemployment rate among even the most technically savvy is still very high. One does not need to look very far to see how this combination of economic desperation and know-how can lead to trouble. The same day the Russian hacker story ran in the Globe and Mail, the National Post reported the Montreal youth responsible for crippling the sites of CNN, Yahoo!, Amazon and Ebay in 1999 was back in trouble. 2 Here was a 16-year-old boy who drew the interest of international police agencies when his 'distributed denial of service', or ddos attacks, put the former giants of e-commerce down for almost a day, costing their parent corporations millions of dollars. Mafiaboy (his on-line moniker) is apparently showing little interest in most of his high-school classes these days, though after becoming the target of an global manhunt and being single-handedly demonized as a 'dire threat to the New Economy', it may be possible he may simply be finding social studies in a Montreal Mile End school just a little tame. These are, however, just two passing examples of what information technology and global networks have made possible. The poorer, larger cities of this planet are (if global international development statistics are any measure) chockfull of disenfranchised impoverished young men who know how to code. On the morning of May 4, 2000 from a technical school in Manila, Onel de Guzman unleashed the ILOVEYOU virus upon the e-mail users of the world, and over the course a several days managed to inflict an estimated $1 billion US in damages to corporate systems. Although this seems an insanely inflated figure at first, one needs only keep in mind there are now an estimated 3 billion e-mail messages circulating the information networks of the planet on any given day, and that electronic messaging of one form or another has now superceded the telephone in business communication in the West. The monetary transactions taking place over these same networks ran to the tune of $300 billion US in 1998, and those levels are expected to escalate as business begin targeting each other exclusively (rather than individual consumers) in the coming years. 4 § 2. Information Poverty Two sobering statistics come into play when you consider the position of young people in developing countries, be it Russia, the Philippines or Sub-Saharan Africa, which appeared in the Carnegie Foundation Report, Preventing Deadly Conflict, commissioned after the genocidal horrors of Rwanda came to light. The 50 poorest countries, home to one-fifth of the world's population, now account for less than two percent of global income, and their share continues to decrease, yet by the mid-1990s, over $1 trillion US changed hands each day on the electronic networks of the global marketplace. As the report summarizes, "the benefits of technology do not fall equally among or within nations...technological innovation favors those who already operate in technologically sophisticated ways."5 The authors go on to point out a simple Internet connection for much of the planet is technically impossible due to infrastructure, or exorbitantly expensive (upwards of $100 US/mo. in sub-Saharan Africa for example), whereas in many developing countries an AK-47 can be had for a little as $6.6 Seen in this light, given population and economic projections for much of the developing world, hackers in the Philippines and the former Soviet Union (two countries with fairly high-priority funding status from Western development agencies) may soon be the least of the wired world's problems. There are far more desperate parts of the planet. One of the most eloquent and well-argued books on the subject of global information inequities was written in 1996 by William Wresch, an American computer science professor who spent a year on an academic exchange program in Namibia. He came back from the trip staggered by what he had seen there, writing that for the underdeveloped and marginal nations of the world, "for the poor, the starving, the abused, the desperate, information access may be the only hope. For these people, the stakes are life and death...information makes the invisible visible...ultimately, it will bring help." 7 Wresch was able to travel extensively during his time in central and southern Africa, seeing first hand the economic problems and successes, particularly in connection with technology transfer and education. Much of his fact-finding makes for depressing reading. He notes in 1990, while North America was publishing 461 new book titles per million people, Africa was producing 29. This is not a situation unique to Africa either, mentioning countries like Cuba or Sri Lanka, which while having satisfactory education systems, still produced negligible published work. Tanzania, he points out, published no books in the area of history at all in the 1980s. An entire decade in a people's history therefore goes unwritten, what Wresch calls "a typical problem for the very poor. If citizens want to learn about their nation, they have to learn it from outsiders." 8 In another example, he notes the same inequities extend even into the hard sciences: The scientific output of 80% of the world is dismissed. Is there no science there? The scientists working in developing countries think there is. They think they do good science, work that is ignored by the editors of major journals...but ignored, where else can they publish? In local journals. The problem is that such journals are unknown and unread by scientists in leading countries. 70% of Latin American journals are not included in any index...what information is lost? 9 The looming chasm between the developed North and the rest of the planet only widens as technological innovation accelerates along the exponential curve of Moore's law. By some estimates, Western industrial computer chip manufacturers are now even beating that heady principle, which pushes the falling cost of hand-held communication and computers devices in North America. The difference being that the telecommunications infrastructure to support these networks were already in place when chip prices began to fall dramatically. There is a self-perpetuating cycle built into the innovation then: where the network already exists, its growth, ubiquity and power continues to accelerate, bringing further innovations and applications. We in the West now can barely even keep up with the rocketing complexity of our own tools, given that the learning curve required to tackle each new technology will barely be tackled before the next replacement hits the market. Clearly this is not the case for the rest of the world, The following nations have just one phone line per 100 people: China, India, Kenya, Nicaragua, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe. Between China and India, we have essentially half the world's population working off one line per 100 people. Dozens of other countries have just two, three or four lines per hundred people. For the most of the world then, the telephone is not an accessible technology...half the planet is still waiting to make its first call.10 Given this global disparity, and as mentioned above, the next generation of youth throughout the developing world take on a dynamic quality. If the prowess of young computer users in marginal economies around the world has already been displayed in past years (as with the Russian and Filipino hackers), what can the information networks of the affluent West expect to be on the horizon? Harper's Magazine, a bastion of American civil responsibility, reported in May 2000 on it Index page, "Change since 1987 in the percentage of sub-Saharan Africans living on less than $1 a day: 0." 11 As Thomas Homer-Dixon of the University of Toronto International Center for Peace Studies explains, "poor countries will need immense amounts of human ingenuity...their citizens will sometimes need to exhibit great tolerance, generosity and commitment to the commonweal." However, as Homer-Dixon emphasizes, severe scarcity and desperation will frequently mean these civil instincts will also run in short supply and the potential for crime and conflict increase. When this is taken into consideration, the final indicator for alarm should be the urban and demographic transitions underway (keeping in mind which demographic group, more than any other, tends to commit crime, be it with a computer or weapon): In the absence of opportunities for easy external migration, much of the developing world's surplus population is moving into cities...these cities are expanding so rapidly that they are threatening to become, or in some cases have already become, unmanageable...the demographic transition has produced a youth bulge, which means these cities' populations have a disproportionately large number of young people...in Africa, for example, 44% of the population is under 15 years of age. Underemployed, urbanized young men are a particularly volatile group that can be easily mobilized for radical political action. 1 Geoffrey York, "The Internet's Zen Pirates: A guru preaching moral cleanliness develops a breed of crime-fighting hackers," The Globe and Mail, Dec. 6, 2000, A1, A11. "The Citibank heist was reportedly traced back to one programmer, who knew how to access the company's financial intranet. He sold the secret to another for an almost proverbial bottle of vodka. Citibank was soon loosing upwards of 10,000 a day as stringers in places like Prague were hired by Russian org.crime to go to banks and withdraw the money in cash," explained Jetifi. See also "Russians Arrest 6 In Computer Thefts" New York Times, Sept 27, 1995; "Extradition in Citibank hacking case," Financial Times (UK) Sept 21, 1995; or "Russian Bank Hacker Sentenced" at http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,10543,00.html. 2 Anon., "Mafiaboy jailed for violating bail by misbehaving at school," National Post, December 6, 2000, A12. Many seemingly agree this case is completely overblown. Jetifi, with great patience, also points out the following points about Mafiaboy's methodology: • First, 'a ddos (which WarMachine describes as smurfing) utilizes SYN attacks. The principle being to 'root' (take over) many machines and install a trojan 'zombie' program which gives you control over the computer. A trojan "zombie" program is usually used on a windows 95/98/NT/2k/XP system, where things like telnet and ssh don't allow remote administration/manipulation. They normally communicate using the IRC protocol, with the IRC server setup on yet another rooted box. The rooted boxes can then be issued commands, using a given syntax. At this point the cracker can do anything the OS can. For win9x/NT machines (where sub7 is a popular trojan), you are limited to ping flooding, due to the absence of 'raw sockets' (access below IP which is below TCP and UDP). • IP spoofing or SYN attacks were the crux of the attacks - mafiaboy had a large number of server farms under his control.' IP spoofing - the act of forging a return address on a packet - requires raw socket access. Raw sockets are an area of controversy. If you install certain libraries (one is called "libpcap"), on a windows9x/NT machine, then you can use raw sockets, but there is no out-of-the-box raw sockets functionality, and there are no known examples of the libraries being installed by computer intruders to access this functionality. • Many ddos attacks (smurfing being an exception) require control of a large number of machines. SYN flooding generally requires large numbers of computers. "Rooting" is a term generally applied to UNIX systems, that have a "root" user who is basically omnipotent. To "root" means "to gain root access privileges" You have control over any computer that you have rooted. See attrition.org, antioffline.com and packetstormsecurity.com for more on the technical aspects, or Cryptome for the wider policy issues of security. 3 Amy Hardon, "Living Riskier Electronically," New York Times, June 25, 2000, Sunday edition, D1, and "Charges dropped in 'Love Bug' virus case," National Post, August 22, 2000, A3. 4 Ronnie J. Phllips, "Digital Technology and Institutional Change from the Gilded Age to Modern Times: The Impact of the Telegraph and the Internet," Journal of Economic Issues 34/2 (June 2000): 278. 5 Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, Preventing Deadly Conflict (Washington, DC: Carnegie Foundation, 1997), 15. 6 "It is easy for the billion-odd people living in the rich countries to forget that the well-being of about half of the world's population of six billion remains directly tied to local natural resources. 60-70% of the world's poor people live in remote rural areas and depend on agriculture for their main income...over 40% of people one the planet - some 2.4 billion - use firewood, charcoal, straw or cow dung as their main source of energy...over 1.2 billion lack access to clean drinking water; many are forced to walk several miles a day to get what water they can find." Thomas Homer-Dixon, Environment, Scarcity and Violence (Princeton: University Press, 1999), 13. 7 William Wresch, Disconnected: Haves and Have-Nots in the Information Age (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996), 16. 8 Ibid., 40. Wresch states later in the book, "By one estimation, 80% of what is known about Africa is located not in Africa but in the libraries and government offices of Europe and the US...one guideline says libraries should have 100 books per student to ensure a range and depth of coverage. The library of the University of Namibia contains eight per student...the United Nations has a project underway to link African universities and their libraries. It is providing computer equipment, modems and expertise. What it can't provide are phone lines...Africa's phone lines can rarely handle high speeds. Despite recent attempts, the UN can't even reach Madagascar at 300 baud...lines elsewhere often lose messages at speeds above 1200 baud...as a result, people who might be helped most by e-mail are limited by its use." (130) Meanwhile, a recent study by Wired pithily entitled "Africa.com" (July 2000, p. 141-42), shows the vast majority of Africa is still serviced by one Internet Service Provider per country at best, and that Egypt, Monaco and South Africa are the only nations to have more than 20 ISPs. Again, even here one can see greater problems, Egypt for example has 40 ISPs, an estimated 600,000 computers, but only 11% of its population have access to sanitation and only 64% with access to safe drinking water. 9 Ibid., p.84, and W.W. Gibbs, "Lost Science in the Third World," Scientific American, April 1995, 92-99. 10 Ibid., p. 125. 11 "Harper's Index", Harper's Magazine, May 2000, 13. 12 Thomas Homer-Dixon, Environment, Scarcity and Violence (Princeton: University Press, 1999), 44. 13 Ibid., 58. A compelling factor in the 'digital divide' research going on at UNESCO and other international organizations, but which is often not mentioned, must be wealthy nation's fears of the possible scenarios arising from the tracking of disenfranchised groups. For security analysts this must be a major motivator in intervention schemes. Interestingly enough, this is not far from the trepidation which pushed for public education and libraries in the West: "Several factors have contributed to the growth of public libraries, from upper-class philanthropy, paternalist sympathies, fear of the untutored masses, and a desire to increase skills...whatever divided these motives...what lay behind them all was a notion that information was a resource which belonged to everyone rather than a commodity which might be proprietary and hence privately owned." In that much then, librarian's have been on a sort of front-line between the affluent and 'the masses' from the very beginning. See Frank Webster Theories of the Information Society (NY: Routledge, 1995), 112. Previous Chapter Next Section
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Previous IndexNL Next Oct 30, 2011      ` And a stiff dosis of - satirical - realism   "You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity... servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before crimes... and patient to the point of martyrdom before all the violences of bold despotism.    -- Machiavelli As I wrote yesterday, I am neither very fit nor do I feel particularly optimistic about much, but I am always interested in learning things, and there are quite a few things that I do believe that I would like to be mistaken about. Yesterday I reproduced some of a recent argument by professor Steven Pinker, to the effect of a stiff dosis of - statistical - optimism: If one can believe the statistics on violence that he presented, rather a lot in the human world has been improving for quite a while, and then, as I argued, probably not like he would, because of the economical, political and military successes of the combination of capitalism and free markets, against authoritarian regimes of various kinds, of which there are far less than there used to be. My final words yesterday were: Pinker's arguments and statistics are quite interesting, and may provide some hope to some: Even if the human world by and large is a mess, it is - statistically - less of a mess and is on average more civilized, and indeed also with more real knowledge and more scientific understanding and technological power and artefacts, than it was ever before. Also, by and large these are the products of The Enlightenment and of science, and - alas - the work of an enlighted minority of the most gifted, rather than of the majority who indeed also do most of the work to keep all fed and clothed. Then again, while I have no reason to distrust Pinker's statistics, it is rather likely that I am less optimistic about mankind than he is - and indeed than he would be if he had had my experiences with ME, which incidentally are mostly described in Dutch, not English, which taught me, among other things, that Machiavelli's quote is quite apt. Also, even if Pinker is quite right, not much is needed to tilt the balance: If indeed the Western economies collapse, the probable consequence are authoritarian regimes, while the balance of power will then shift towards China and Russia, that still are authoritarian states, if not to the same extent as under Stalin and Mao. So here follows a dosis satirical realism from Orwell's "1984", ostensibly by Big Brother or his Ministry of Truth or Emmanuel Goldstein, that I found at several places on the internet. The present version is from panarchy.org, where you can find quite a lot of interesting texts relating to politics, including the introductory note by the editor. It is not unlikely that, if I find the health for it, I will write some notes to this and also to Orwell's ideas about Newspeak, and Politics and the English language, which you find under the last link, on a good and interesting Russian site about Orwell, with many of his texts, on which there is no copyright in Russia. The editor of the panarchy.org site - incidentally a new term for me, and probably for most of my readers: I link sites because they contain interesting material, not necessarily because I like them or am familiar with all of their contents - says in his introductory note Ignorance is Strength is a much better analysis of politics and power than most academic books on the subject. and indeed it is, but I should add several things to this. First, although Orwell saw many things quite clearly and quite well that most of his contemporaries missed, much of his political analyses are not original with him, as indeed he himself clearly explained quite a few times in what I regard as his best writings, namely his Collected Essays and Journalism (<- useful Wikipedia link), for a considerable part of his political analyses was helped and inspired by two books of James Burnham, namely "The Managerial Revolution" and "The Machiavellians" - for which see e.g. my edition of and comment on "The Prince" and my Over Orwell, Burnham en de managers (Dutch)- and also by Orwell's knowledge of Stalin's Soviet-Union of his time - see my On Zinoviev's Theory of (Soviet) Man - and Orwell's knowledge of anti-utopian novels like Zamyatin's "WE" - see my On Zamyatin's "WE" - and Huxley's "Brave New World". Second, while Orwell saw deeply and sharply into totalitarianism and its forces, and notably into the abuse of language and thinking - Newspeak and Doublethink - he did not quote foresee the latest totalitarian form od Politically Correct language and thought, which is postmodernism, for which see e.g. my Scientific Realism versus Postmodernism for a handy, brief an incisive table of contrasts. And indeed, unlike Newspeak and Doublethink, that still presume a notion of truth, postmodernism is based on the firm denial that there is any objective truth; on the affirmation that everything people think and feel is somehow "social construction" - and the last is a link to one of the typically bad, jargon-ridden bullshit pomo-related articles in Wikipedia, including such sick and sickening prose as Third, the pomo Newspeak and Doublethink are partially proudly affirmed and embraced, partially in a doublethink mode denied versions of groupthinking, where all realism, all science, all independent truth, all objective facts are denied and replaced by and judged in terms of the moral ideology of usually leftist groups of usually quasi-intellectuals of small brain and postmodern university education in departments of literature, philosophy, sociology, pedagogy and political science, where the last forty years also the IQs of 115 could get academic degrees and a quasi-intellectual "academic education" for tenth-rate or worse intellects, without any real interest in real science, but all with fanatically held political beliefs and possessed of very sharp elbows and many likeminded friends with similar degrees to help them rise to power in social institutions, which is what they all really crave and aspire to. Fourth, over the past three decades pomos and postmodernism were remarkably successful, precisely because they succeeded in taking over most of the Western universities as regards the faculties and departments where degrees can be gotten by those without any real intellectual talents or interests. Indeed, as Orwell did foresee, and wrote in the text that follows: Fifth, the main human problem as I see it is that of average stupidity and ignorance: - On the human predicament - The tragi-comical human fundamental problem With these introductory remarks, here is Emmanuel Goldstein of Ignorance is strength, with an introductory note by the editors of panarchy.org: Here is George Orwell at his best. This is Chapter I of The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, to be read preferably after Chapter III (War is Peace) because it ends in a suspended way that allows the reader to start his own process of independent thinking after having received so many clues about reality. Ignorance is Strength is a much better analysis of politics and power than most academic books on the subject. A pleasure to read even if it is a punch in the stomach and a bomb in the brain of all of us, still servile subjects of appalling and unnecessary state rulers. Emmanuel Goldstein (George Orwell) Ignorance is Strength 1.   Either it is conquered from without, or 2.   it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt, or 3.   it allows a strong and discontented Middle group to come into being, or 4.   it loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern. But there is one question which until this moment we have almost ignored. It is: why should human equality be averted? Supposing that the mechanics of the process have been rightly described, what is the motive for this huge, accurately planned effort to freeze history at a particular moment of time? Here we reach the central secret. As we have seen, the mystique of the Party, and above all of the Inner Party, depends upon doublethink. But deeper than this lies the original motive, the never-questioned instinct that first led to the seizure of power and brought doublethink, the Thought Police, continuous warfare, and all the other necessary paraphernalia into existence afterwards. This motive really consists ... ... and here we are back in Nederlog: This is were the text ends. As I suggested above and earlier, part of the motive is that the great majority of mankind is neither able to follow nor interested in real science, high civilization, and great literature, and is strongly inclined to groupthink and totalitarianism, and to follow the worst leaders in religion or politics, because these have the most enticing and blatant bullshit and big lies, all designed to deceive the majority to believe and support the corrupt worst in the name of the morally highest ideals - see Stalin. So this is why I may be less optimistic than professor Pinker: I see no good reason to trust that "the democratic majority" may not be deceived by the morally worst and the intellectually mediocre into some form of authoritarian government, that with modern techniques of control, spying on people and propaganda may also last many generations once it has been successfully surrected - for which little more or else is necessary, as the history of the 20th century has shown, than an economic crisis combined with incompetent political leaders. For a lot more on and by Orwell, see George Orwell, and especially his Collected Journalism and Essays, of which there also used to be a good edition in four volumes in Penguin. Incidentally, on the Russian George Orwell site you also find full versions of Huxley's "Brave New World" and - in Russian - of Zamyatin's "WE", for which you can find an English translation here: "WE". P.S. Corrections, if any are necessary, have to be made later. -- Oct 31, 2011: Corrected some typos and inserted some missing words and some links. 3.  Hillary Johnson The Why 5.  Eleanor Stein Clinical Guidelines for Psychiatrists (pdf) 6.  William Clifford The Ethics of Belief 7.  Paul Lutus Is Psychology a Science? 8.  Malcolm Hooper Magical Medicine (pdf)  Maarten Maartensz ME in Amsterdam - surviving in Amsterdam with ME (Dutch)  Maarten Maartensz Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Short descriptions of the above:                 8. Malcolm Hooper puts things together status 2010. 10. The directory on my site about ME. See also: ME -Documentation and ME - Resources         home - index - top - mail
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Archive for the ‘solar journey’ Tag Heroine’s Journey Links and Resources While I was working on my recent contemporary fantasy Sarabande, I found a lot of helpful references about the heroine’s journey. The heroine’s journey has fewer Internet links, so perhaps you’ll find some of mine helpful if you are experiencing, reading about or writing about the journey. There seem to be two schools of thought about the journey. One is that the heroine’s journey is the same as the hero’s journey, potentially with a few modifications. While that concept approach works for many people, I don’t agree with it because the hero’s journey is a solar journey and the heroine’s journey is a lunar journey. My novel’s research materials tend to reflect the lunar approach. Dark Moon 1. Goddess Meditations by Barbara Ardinger 2. Dragontime Magic and Mystery of Menstruation by Luisa Francia 3. Moon Phases Calendar 4. Planting by the Moon 5. The Moon Watcher’s Companion by Donna Henes. 6. Moon Watching by Dana Gerhardt 7. Moon Tides, Soul Passages by Maria Kay Simms 8. Moon Mother, Moon Daughter by Janet Lucy Death and Rebirth 1. Descent to the Goddess by Sylvia Brinton Perea 2. The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image by Anne Baring and Jules Cashford 3. The Pattern of Initiation in the Evolution of Human Consciousness by Peter Dawkins & Sir George Trevelyan 4. Inanna, queen of heaven and earth: Her stories and hymns from Sumer by Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer – This book, first published in 1983, presented a long-awaited translation of the original Inanna material from the 2000 BCE cuneiform clay tablets. 1. She Flies Without Wings-How Horses Touch a Woman’s Soul by Mary D. Widkiff 2. Horses and the Mystical Path-The Celtic Way of Expanding the Human Soul by Thomas McCormick 3. The Tao of Equus by Linda Kohanov 4. Torden, Hear the Tunder by by C. Kirkham. (This is a well-written young adult novel about a young girl and a Friesian horse.) 5. Horses, Somatics, and Spirit: An Equine-Guided Program in Conscious Living, a workshop presented by Beverley Kane, MD, Ariana Strozzi, MSC. (This is an example of some of the programs available today.) Heroine’s Journey 1. The Heroine’s Journey by Maureen Murdock 2. From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine’s Journey through Myth and Legend by Valerie Estelle Frankel (See the July 2011 “Mythprint” review of this book here.) Frankel’s website includes a lengthy heroine’s journey reading list. 3. Sarabande contemporary fantasy by Malcolm R. Campbell released by Vanilla Heart Publishing, August 2011. 4. “The Way of Woman: Awakening the Perennial Feminine” by Helen M. Luke 5. Apple Farm Community – The Writings of Helen M. Luke 6. Real Women, Real Wisdom: A Journey into the Feminine Soul by Maureen Hovenkotter  (See a review here.) 7. The Heroine’s Coach, the website for Susanna Liller’s journey-oriented coaching services. The site includes an e-mail newsletter for women following their own paths called “Journey News.” 8. The Heroine’s Journey appears on author Leslie Zehr’s Universal Dancer website and includes a discussion of Sylvia Brinton Perera’s Descent to the Goddess, a book I found essential for my understanding of the journey. Zehr is the author of The Alchemy of Dance: Sacred Dance as a Path to the Universal Dancer. Light of Nature 1. Light of Nature Website, exploring the science and the philosophy of the concept. 2. “The Female Brain” by Louann Brizendine 3. “The Spell of the Sensuous” by David Abram 1. The Heroine’s Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder by Erin Blakemore 2. Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World by Kathleen Ragan 3. The Heroine in Western Literature: The Archetype and Her Reemergence in Modern Prose by Meredith A. Powers 4. The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts by David Lodge 1. The Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd 2. Unplugging the Patriarchy – A Mystical Journey into the Heart of a New Age by Lucia René 3. Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher 4. Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write about Their Search for Self by Sara Shandler 5. Surviving Ophelia: Mothers Share Their Wisdom in Navigating the Tumultuous Teenage Years by Cheryl Dellasega Story Within 1. And Now The Story Lives Inside You, poems by Elizabeth Reninger 2. The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram 3. Alchemical Studies by C. G. Jung 4. Harry Potter – A New World Mythology? By Lynne Milum 5. “Dark Wood to White Rose: Journey and Transformation in Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’” by Helen M. Luke 6. “The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling” by James Hillman 1. Achilles in Vietnam and Odysseus in America by Jonathan Shay. 2. Rape: Weapon of Terror by Sharon Frederick 3. Against our Will: Men, Women and Rape by Susan Brownmiller Weaving, Storytelling, Linen 1. American Textile History Museum 2. All Fiber Arts (weaving in stories and fairytale) 3. Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years by Elizabeth Wayland Barber 4. Linen from flax seed to woven cloth by Linda Heinrich 5. The Joy of Handspinning – many details, photographs and demonstration videos 6. The Weaver’s Book: A practical, authoritative step-by-step guide for beginners by an expert weaver by Harriet Tidball 7. Grading, Spinning, Dyeing: an introduction to the traditional wool and flax crafts by Elizabeth Hoppe and Ragnar Edberg 8. Fibers of Being – Judy’s detailed weaving blog 9. Eva Stossel’s weaving blog – In addition to information about weaving, both Judy and Eva include lengthy blogrolls. 10. A History of Irish Linen 11. Flaxland – Growers and Processors in the U. K. 1. Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes 2. The Company of Wolves by Peter Steinhart 3. The Wolf’s Tooth by Christina Eisenberg Writer’s Muse 1. The Sister from Below: When the Muse Gets Her Way by Naomi Ruth Lowinsky 2. Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity by Jan Phillips 3. The Voice of the Muse: Answering the Call to Write by Mark David Gerson. 4. 20 Master Plots: an How to Build Them, by Ronald Tobias 5. The Hero’s Journey: A Guide to Literature and Life by Reg Harris and Susan Thompson (This is a series of lesson plans for teaching the hero’s journey in a classroom setting.) Classic TA Resources for the Journey 1. Born to Win: Transactional Analysis with Gestalt Experiments by Muriel James and Dorothy Jongeward 2. Your Inner Child of the Past by Hugh Missildine 3. What Do You Say After You Say Hello: The Psychology of Human Destiny by Eric Berne 4. I’m Ok, You’re Ok by Thomas Harris Malcolm R Campbell is the author of the heroine’s journey novel “Sarabande” from Thomas-Jacob Publishing. NaNoWriMo: Sarabande begins to speak I am using National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) as an incentive to get out of the planning stage and into the writing stage for Sarabande, the sequel to my novel The Sun Singer.  Every year, NaNoWriMo participants attempt to write a 50,000-word rough draft of a new novel between November 1 and November 30. To accomplish this goal, writers must average 1,667 words per day. At 1,938 words written so far, I am 1,396 words behind schedule. I have an excuse. The opening action scene of Sarabande must synchronize perfectly with a battle scene near the end of The Sun Singer. So, I’m having to refer to The Sun Singer a lot, and that’s slowing me down. Prior to Sarabande’s first action scene, I began the novel with a paragraph that–like an overture for a musical composition–sets the stage for the book. Since the young woman, Sarabande, is going on a “lunar journey,” the introductory paragraph is exactly the opposite of the first words of The Sun Singer. In The Sun Singer, my protagonist was going on a “solar journey.” Sarabande, Opening Paragraph Fiery order of day and exuberant sun, young primroses drenched in the light of a long afternoon await like phantoms seeking night, any shade. She traverses a limestone ledge, hears marmots whistle, smells ferns, close, supported into the sky by rock, feels blue bird’s chatter—sweet and dear up from the green mountain valley. Whispers scrape her aura overhead. Scoop throw: like a Judo master, dulled light flings her away. She fights for Mother Earth, would sell her heart for her, and hears, is hearing, “There are numerous ways to live, little girl.” Warm blooded, that voice is the sister of chaos. The Sun Singer, Opening Paragraph Cold chaos of night and strangled moon, the great old trees drenched in sap’s perfume rise up like gaunt fingers out of the valley gloom seeking stars, any light. He shoves through tangled vines, hears small creatures running away in the dark, smells bones, close, crushed beneath the weight of eyes, feels owl’s call—sharp and true down off the black mountain’s ridge—hoooo hoo-oooo, hoo hoo, tear through his veins as mocking ice. A twig snaps beneath his boot. Choke hold. Shadows drag him down. He fights for breath, would sell his soul for it, and hears, is hearing, “There are numerous ways to die, little boy.” Cold blooded, that voice is mother of snakes. Now, Back to Work! As you can see from these openings, these are very different books. Solar and lunar journeys, in the sense used here, refer to what’s happening within the mind and body of an individual while on an adventure of some kind. For more information about solar journeys, take a look at Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With a Thousand Faces, where he describes the “hero’s journey” structure found in many myths as well as movies and novels. For more information about lunar journeys, refer to Maureen Murdock’s The Heroine’s Journey, Sylvia Brinton Perera’s Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women, and Demetra George’s Mysteries of the Dark Moon. Now that I’ve procrastinated for a few more minutes by writing this post, it’s time to get back to chapter one of Sarabande. E-Book Available for $4.99 until November 16th! Novel excerpts Copyright (c) 2004 and 2010 by Malcolm R. Campbell. Moon artwork Copyright (c) 2010 by Jupiter Images.
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Welcome to our community Be a part of something great, join today! Basis and Vectors New member Apr 21, 2013 Hi guys, I'm back and have another Linear Albgera question! Thanks in advance. No idea how to start Last edited by a moderator: Fernando Revilla Well-known member MHB Math Helper Jan 29, 2012 In both cases, you only need to apply the definition of coordinates. For $(a)$ express $v=x_1(1,0,1)+x_2(1,1,0)+x_3(0,1,1)$, solve the system and $[v]_{\mathcal{B}}=(x_1,x_2,x_3)^T$. For $(b)$, $w=1v_1+2v_2-3v_3$, where $\mathcal{B}=\{v_1,v_2,v_3\}$. Let us see what do you obtain.
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The Ragged Frenchman | Short Story I’m delighted to have another short story published in Literally Stories. ‘The Ragged Frenchman’ was written last Christmas and involved a little bit of historical research. As such, it really was a labour of love and I was pleased with how it turned out. One of the most evocative chapters of history is Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow in 1812. A few critically misjudged decisions by Bonaparte saw the French army depart Moscow too late in the year and retreating along the same route that they had used to thrust deep into Russia. Consequently, the land had been stripped bare of resources. Harried by marauding Cossacks and dogged by rapidly dropping temperatures, army discipline disintegrated and men became feral with cold and hunger. Horses were set upon for meat after stumbling on the wintry ground, and officers wandered off from their men to end their misery rather than march on. Hopefully I’ve managed to capture some of the chaos and desperation of the retreat, along with a healthy dollop of the supernatural. Read ‘The Ragged Frenchman’ here. Not necessarily in that order. 20 thoughts on “The Ragged Frenchman | Short Story 1. Good to see you’ve kept submitting quality work where it’s recognised 🙂 Do you get any sense of what kind of story appeals to them & how to improve the odds of a piece getting accepted? Liked by 2 people 2. I’ve just trawled through my acceptance and rejection emails from Literally to see if there is any patterns, Tom. They are uniformly supportive even when rejecting, and on a couple of occasions have told me that I’ve been rejected after a split decision by the editors. From the ones that have got through (A Life on Track, Watan, and The Ragged Frenchman), I can only say that they have been character-based in nature. Obviously I am critiquing my own work here, but, looking back, there is not much in terms of physical action in any of these. Instead I think I tried to focus upon voice and ‘the human condition’ (pretentious I know) almost exclusively. Bear in mind that there are journals who have knocked me back umpteen times and in whom I’ve never feautured, so I think it really is a case of matching stories to journals. Liked by 2 people 3. Good point. Thanks for explaining it so clearly. Do they ever highlight any particular strengths of your accepted stories that really went the extra mile, or is it more general ‘we loved this & we’d like to publish it’? Liked by 2 people 4. The acceptances are less explanatory. Like you say, they are usually just ‘congrats Matt, you have been successful and will be published on…’. To be honest, I never really ask why my submissions made it through – might be a good idea to start exploring that, though. Liked by 2 people 1. Terrifying tale… and I loved the explanation of its origins/inspiration here on your blog. Congrats, Matthew. :)) Enjoyed reading your convo with Tom in the comments, too. Liked by 2 people 1. Well, as you likely might gather by now, I’m clueless when it comes to both scary fiction and history. However… I just re-read it, and I just realized something interesting… in creative nonfiction, there is a form called the “hermit crab” essay – in which a tale contains another tale. I believe you you have pulled off a hermit crab in your tale, cleverly housing historical facts within a kind of ghost story, in this case. Which I think, even when seated by the fire of your yarn, is pretty “cool.” 😉✌️ Liked by 2 people 1. So many people dislike it, but I think it can work really well, especially for short stories. Like any of those writing rules, best to take it in moderation and not as an absolute. Liked by 1 person Leave a Reply You are commenting using your account. Log Out /  Change ) Google photo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s
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I recently read a few papers (here and here) that concluded that children exposed to peanuts before 1 year of age were less likely to develop peanut allergies later in life than children who were not exposed to peanuts. Is this backed up by further evidence? If so, is there evidence that exposing children to other potential allergens (eggs, dogs, etc) can reduce the chance of them developing allergies to those things in the future? • I seem to remember something I read a while ago which said something along those lines. From what I remember, the arguement is that there seems to be a rise in allergies and it seems to be due to the sterility of the environment in comparison to the past. I will try and find it. – Chris Rogers Jan 29 '18 at 22:12 • Those studies looked at direct consumption. This telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/09/26/… Looked at breast feeding while consuming peanuts – Graham Chiu Jan 29 '18 at 23:55 Peanuts and Peanut Allergies It was advised that Peanuts were not to be eaten during pregnancy due to possible allergy issues, but it is no longer the case. For peanut allergies, there is a therapy called Probiotic and Peanut Oral ImmunoTherapy (PPOIT) and a study published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health suggests that it can help for upto 4 years (Hsiao et al., 2017) 48 (86%) of 56 eligible participants were enrolled in the follow-up study. Mean time since stopping treatment was 4·2 years in both PPOIT (SD 0·6) and placebo (SD 0·7) participants. Participants from the PPOIT group were significantly more likely than those from the placebo group to have continued eating peanut (16 [67%] of 24 vs one [4%] of 24; absolute difference 63% [95% CI 42–83], p=0·001; number needed to treat 1·6 [95% CI 1·2–2·4]). Four PPOIT-treated participants and six placebo participants reported allergic reactions to peanut after intentional or accidental intake since stopping treatment, but none had anaphylaxis. Other Allergies As stated in my comment a while ago, there was an article I saw about allergies in general, which stated that there seems to be a rise in the numbers of people suffering from allergies and there is a hypothesis that this is due to the sterility of the environment compared to the past. I cannot find the article I was thinking of, but the linked Wikipedia page provides information on this with citations. In medicine, the hygiene hypothesis is a hypothesis that states a lack of early childhood exposure to infectious agents, symbiotic microorganisms (such as the gut flora or probiotics), and parasites increases susceptibility to allergic diseases by suppressing the natural development of the immune system. In particular, the lack of exposure is thought to lead to defects in the establishment of immune tolerance. The hygiene hypothesis has also been called the "biome depletion theory" and the "lost friends theory" [1]. [1] William Parker (2010-10-13). "Reconstituting the depleted biome to prevent immune disorders". The Evolution & Medicine Review. [21] Strachan, D. P. (1989). "Hay fever, hygiene, and household size". BMJ. 299 (6710): 1259–60. doi:10.1136/bmj.299.6710.1259. PMC 1838109 Freely accessible. PMID 2513902 The thing with these hypotheses, as indicated in the Wikipedia page, is that [with reducing modern practices of cleanliness and hygiene, there is] a significant amount of evidence that it would increase the risks of infectious diseases. [8] [8] Stanwell-Smith R, Bloomfield SF, Rook GA. (2012). "The hygiene hypothesis and its implications for home hygiene, lifestyle and public health". International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene. Biological Basis Allergic conditions are caused by inappropriate immunological responses to harmless antigens driven by a TH2-mediated immune response, TH2 cells produce interleukin 4, interleukin 5, interleukin 6, interleukin 13 and predominantly immunoglobulin E. Many bacteria and viruses elicit a TH1-mediated immune response, which down-regulates TH2 responses. Epidemiological evidence Epidemiological data supports the hygiene hypothesis Studies have shown that various immunological and autoimmune diseases are much less common in the developing world than the industrialized world and that immigrants to the industrialized world from the developing world increasingly develop immunological disorders in relation to the length of time since arrival in the industrialized world.[11] This is true for asthma[40] and other chronic inflammatory disorders.[5] [5] Rook, G. A. W.; Lowry, C. A.; Raison, C. L. (2013). "Microbial 'Old Friends', immunoregulation and stress resilience". Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. 2013: 46–64. doi:10.1093/emph/eot004 [11] Okada, H.; Kuhn, C.; Feillet, H.; Bach, J. -F. (2010). "The 'hygiene hypothesis' for autoimmune and allergic diseases: An update". Clinical & Experimental Immunology. 160: 1–9. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2249.2010.04139.x As with Peanut Allergies, Allergen Immunotherapy, also known as desensitisation or hypo-sensitisation, is a medical treatment for some types of allergies. Immunotherapy involves exposing people to larger and larger amounts of allergen in an attempt to change the immune system's response.[1] [1] "Allergen Immunotherapy". April 22, 2015. Archived from the original on 9 September 2016. Retrieved 15 June 2015. [6] Rank, MA; Li, JT (September 2007). "Allergen immunotherapy". Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 82 (9): 1119–23. doi:10.4065/82.9.1119. PMID 17803880. Hsiao, K. et al. (2017) Long-term clinical and immunological effects of probiotic and peanut oral immunotherapy after treatment cessation: 4-year follow-up of a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 1(2): pp. 97—105 DOI: 10.1016/S2352-4642(17)30041-X | improve this answer | | • An odd omission; nothing about the theory of human co-evolution with intestinal helminths, and their ability to sculpt the human immune system. – Graham Chiu Feb 10 '18 at 17:38 Evidence for early exposure to peanuts is good; other evidence is mixed Evidence for beneficial introduction of peanuts in early life The second paper you mention is the LEAP trial. This went beyond the previous advice which said that children were less likely to develop allergies if exposed to peanuts early; they had enough evidence to make a positive recommendation: Existing guidelines pertaining to the early introduction of complementary foods have indicated that the introduction of highly allergenic foods, such as peanut, need not be delayed past 4 or 6 months of life. There is now scientific evidence (Level 1 evidence from a randomized controlled trial) that healthcare providers should recommend introducing peanut-containing products into the diets of “high-risk” infants early on in life (between 4 and 11 months of age) in countries where peanut allergy is prevalent because delaying the introduction of peanut can be associated with an increased risk of peanut allergy. in 2017 this was codified into a recommendation by the National Institutes of Health. From the addendum for parents: Though it is suggested to "[c]heck with your infant’s healthcare provider before feeding your infant peanut-containing foods." These recommendations were contemporaneously reported in mainstream press. Evidence for exposure to other allergens early in life This is tricker to answer as there hasn't been a single focused study with evidence comparable to LEAP. One study looked at 514 children between birth and 24 months, and concluded that those who are exposed to "spores and pollen in the first 3 months of life are at increased risk of early wheezing". Similarly, there may be some correlation between early sensitivity to house dust mite (HDM) & grass pollen and month of birth due to seasonal variations. Asthma itself seems to vary by month of birth. However, it is important to note that these relations don't necessarily imply that early exposure causes the sensitisation- as ever, correlation does not equate to causation. Sensitisations or Tolerance A 2017 review on the subject of allergy development (PDF) is more equivocal: It is becoming increasingly clear that antigen exposures during the first few years of life are unique in their capacity to either elicit allergic sensitization or result in tolerogenic responses. It has been proposed that cutaneous exposure (through the skin) is more likely to result in sensitisation; whereas oral exposure is more associated with a development of tolerance. Interestingly, it would seem that cutaneous exposure to peanuts -- for example peanut dust entering via break in skin -- can drive intestinal sensitivity and perhaps prevent oral tolerance. Prenatal exposure While not technically in the scope of your question, there is interest in what effect prenatal exposure -- positive and negative -- can have on allergy development. Evidence here is inconclusive as well. Some studies show a benefit to early exposure, while others link it with the development of an allergy. A 2009 review discusses the evidence. Over the past decades, numerous studies have investigated the role of pet exposures in relation to atopy, but the published findings have been inconsistent and sometimes conflicting. Although there is growing evidence that exposure to pets may protect against development of atopic outcomes, the protective effects have not been replicated in all studies. Since then, there has been further evidence on both sides, for example a large Swedish study which showed that animal exposure could be protective against asthma development (reported in mainstream press); wile another study from Finland concluded that pet exposure was associated with a higher incidence of pet allergy. | improve this answer | | Your Answer
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Action Design Miami: Designing for Employee Action and Accountability In partnership with Action Design Miami Ever been challenged by chaos, lack of tools, focus, or accountability at work? Most of us have likely encountered these challenges in our working lives. How can leaders and employees design approaches to better prioritize focus on moments that truly matter? How might we design our organizations so everyone is aware of opportunities for improvement and engaged in driving cultural and operational change? Key Lime Interactive’s founder Ania Rodriguez will introduce us to how we can use Employee Journey Maps to motivate employees and create a culture of accountability. She will walk us through the high level process of creating journey maps and offer practical techniques on how capturing behaviors, actions and behavioral triggers (e.g. BJ Fogg’s model) is key to the success of behavioral changes. In this talk we will: +  Learn about Journey Mapping. +  Get an overview on how to create both lean and research-based Journey Maps. +  Learn about how to measure change using Journey Maps. When & Where Tue, Jun 14, 2016 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM WYNCODE at The LAB Miami 400 NW 26th St Miami, FL 33127
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I have some friends who work at a company which offers 50% 401k matching up to some amount, but they don't take advantage of it because they want to use the money for non-retirement purposes. Ignoring the problems with not saving for retirement, it seems like they're leaving money on the table. Can't they just contribute to their 401k up to the matching limit, then immediately withdraw it? I know there's a 10% early withdrawal penalty, but as long as the match is more than 11.1̅%, it seems like it would always be worth it. Is there any reason this won't work, like limits to how soon you can withdraw from an 401k, or how you withdraw from it? I know that you have to pay income tax on the money you withdraw, but you'd have to pay it either way so I don't think it's relevant. • 3 There's the penalty, and the tax they should have paid which they'll also have to pay. Apart from that, it still seems like they're leaving money on the table. – Peter K. Mar 19 '15 at 20:36 • 6 You, or your friends, need to read the information provided by the 401k plan about non-qualified withdrawals (those that will be subjected to 10% penalty plus income tax) as well as how vesting works in the plan under consideration. – Dilip Sarwate Mar 19 '15 at 21:30 • 1 I know that you need to pay income tax when you withdraw it, but you'd pay the same tax either way. – Brendan Long Mar 19 '15 at 22:21 • 6 Most 401k plans do not allow you to withdraw money while still employed at the company. – user102008 Mar 19 '15 at 22:22 • 1 @DilipSarwate, your comment should be converted to an answer. It covers everything. – Kent A. Mar 19 '15 at 22:25 You cannot withdraw funds from a 401(k) while still employed with your company. To access your contributions, that would be treated as a loan against the 401(k), in which case you'd pay an upfront fee, and then have to repay the amount loaned, plus interest, over a set period of time. (In essence, you are paying back yourself.) Typically, there is also a minimum amount you must take out as a loan. Should you leave the job and still have an outstanding loan against your 401(k), it will be treated as a withdrawal after a certain date, at which point a 10% penalty plus taxes applies, unless you pay back the full amount of the loan remaining before that certain date. Your friends should seriously consider contributing the minimum amount necessary to get that full 50% matching amount. It's free money. As you said, it's like leaving money on the table. | improve this answer | | Some 401k matching is not 100% yours immediately on deposit, depending on the plan. Some matching plans have a vesting period where the funds must stay in the account and you must remain employed before they are considered yours. Ensure that there is no vesting schedule tied to the matched portion. Contributions from your paycheck are 100% yours no matter what. | improve this answer | | Your Answer
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Log in No account? Create an account Sauntering Vaguely Downward [entries|archive|friends|userinfo] Mad Scientess Jane Expat Serious Business | Flickr Bounty Information | Wanted Dead or Alive: Mad Scientess Nanila Deeds of Derring-Do | Full of Wild Inaccuracies and Exaggerations Why The Bloke Is A Bad, Bad Man [20100329|20:56] Mad Scientess Jane Expat [Tags|, , , ] [the weather today is |harrumph] Since I don't yet have a UK driving license, the bloke drove us to Wales this weekend in order to climb the Brecon Beacons. My role in the car is to provide entertainment for the bloke so he doesn't fall asleep. Normally this consists of things like reading him the newspaper or a book, telling him amusing stories, or choosing music for the stereo. Sometimes, though, it just consists of being American. For instance, the roads in England are a constant source of bafflement. No matter where we go when we leave Cambridge, we seem to have to take the A14. I don't understand how one road can be simultaneously northbound, southbound, eastbound and westbound, but the A14 seems to manage it. This results in conversations such as the following. Him: "Bugger. I missed the turning." Me: "Oh no. Can we turn around at the next exit?" Him: "Yeah, it's just a pain." silence while we reroute Me: "So are we on the A14 again?" Him: "Yeah, but we were before, too." Me: "Wait, I'm confused. What was the road we were just on?" Him: "The A14." Me: "And the one we're on now?" Him: "The A14." Please note that the wrong road was not the A14 going in the opposite direction. It was a different road going roughly the correct direction. Me: "Tell you what, I'm just going to shut up until we get to the M6." Him: "You can't do that, I need you to navigate." Me, under my breath: "Where did I put the little cake that will get me out of the rabbit hole?" Later, I told him a story about a work telecon. Me: "So then I told her--" Him: "Wait, say the woman's name again?" Me: "It's pronounced 'NAH-zee'." Him, incredulously: "Spelt N-a-z-i?" Me: "Er, yes." Him: "Please tell me that's an abbreviation." Me: "Uh huh. For 'Nazilla'." Him: "Surely you'd go by 'Nazilla' if you had that name." Me: "You know, I've happily been typing 'Dear Nazi' and 'Thanks, Nazi!' for three years without thinking about it because it's pronounced 'NAH-zee'. Now I'll never be able to write it again without feeling horribly uncomfortable. THANKS A LOT." Him: *snigger* [User Picture]From: cosmiccircus 2010-03-30 00:08 (UTC) You guys seem like a fun and cute couple, who are perfectly suited for one another! :) (Reply) (Thread) [User Picture]From: cosmiccircus 2010-03-30 16:02 (UTC) (Reply) (Parent) (Thread) [User Picture]From: nanila 2010-03-31 19:54 (UTC) It's excellent when science is adorable as well as useful, isn't it? (Reply) (Parent) (Thread)
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An online resource based on the award-winning nature guide – Ice Pancakes Ice Pancakes 3-24-16 ice pancakes by Jim Moul I was amazed at the familiarity many Naturally Curious readers have with “ice pancakes!”  For those of you who, like myself, may not be familiar with these creations, these formations are essentially frozen foam. Ice pancakes usually form on ocean water or lakes around the Arctic Circle where the movement of water keeps the ice from forming a flat sheet.  Small needle-like crystals called frazil crystals rise to the surface of very cold water and accumulate together.  In calm water these typically form a greasy film that freezes into a flat surface ice.  However, in rough or choppy water, these crystals congeal together into slushy circular disks.  As these disks bump into each other and are buffed by the water, they develop ridges and raised edges, giving them a distinctive dinner plate appearance.  In the polar seas these can sometime have a thickness of close to 4 inches and diameter of between 12 inches and 9 feet. Eventually the plates fuse together to form consolidated sea ice that can have ridges that are up to 60 feet thick.  In northern freshwater rivers, pancakes can accumulate downstream of faster water that is thought to have created foam, that then froze. (Thanks to Jim Moul for the use of his photograph of New Hampshire ice pancakes.)
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This is part 1 of a 2-part series of reflections on the sermon I heard last Sunday. For a while now, we’ve been going through the book of Judges and we immersed ourselves in the story of Samson on Sunday. By the end of the service, we’d read 7 verses in Judges chapter 13, the whole of chapters 14 and 15, and most of chapter 16. That’s immersion. Reading all that at one go, I couldn’t help but wonder, “How is it that Samson is considered one of the faith giants in the Old Testament??” Here was a man with a weakness for pagan women. In chapters 14-16 we have the abbreviated account of his life as judge—he was judge for 20 years—and each episode has a Philistine woman as a supporting character. His death does not directly figure a woman, but the (in)famous Delilah was partly responsible for his predicament. Some things struck me about the story of Samson. Like, how does one sleep while one’s hair is being woven in a loom? Why doesn’t Delilah shave his hair herself? The Bible is clear that on the previous occasions she herself tied him up, tied him up again, and wove his hair in a loom. However, she “…called a man to shave off the seven braids of his hair…” I wonder what the significance of that is.  In addition, I was also taken by Samson’s poetic ways– not exactly what you’d expect from a Philistine-killer. On the serious side, these things were written as examples and warnings for us, that we may not fall into the same sins. I also noted some things about God. God is pure and holy. So why does it seem He was using not-entirely above-the-board methods? I remember reading that during the period of the Judges, “God wasn’t averse to bringing about states of affairs that did not conform to His revealed will in order to achieve some wise purpose.” In addition, God’s motives and actions are never tainted by sin, as are ours. So, even if He seems to be doing something “sneaky”, we can be sure that He has  His glory our and  best interest at heart. His grace is also abundant. Samson prayed just before his death that God remember and strengthen him. And God answered him. The Bible notes that “…he killed many more when he died than when he lived.” Apparently, that grace was also extended to his formerly barren mother—his “brothers and his father’s whole family” buried him. Thank God for His wonderful gift!
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A Moist Upsetting Word According to a 2006 article in USA Today, 64% of Americans admit to using the f-word at least occasionally. (Many of the other 36% were probably lying.) The taboo around the f-word probably exceeds how offended people are by it, but our self-censorship persists — you can’t say it on broadcast television and those of us who write family-friendly email newsletters rarely use it (except for when they’re also the names of towns in Austria). The same is probably true for other similar words — our reluctance to using them in polite company is nice, as there’s no reason to make someone unnecessarily uncomfortable. But it is probably a bit on the extreme side. The title above, on the other hand, doesn’t contain any swears or expletives in it. But it may make you a bit squeamish. And if it does, don’t worry — you’re not alone. Except when also discussing cake, the word “moist” can be off-putting — according to a 2016 study by Paul H. Thibodeau, a professor of psychology at Oberlin College, 10% to 20% of the population often dislikes the word. That’s far and away worse than any non-expletive. It probably isn’t an exaggeration to say that  “moist” has unfavorables which compare to other words which are typically adorned with asterisks or thinly-veiled euphemisms — even though we’d never think of calling it the “m-word,” What gives? The phenomenon is called “word aversion” per the New York Times. At first, many experts thought that the aversion was to what the word sounds or looks like, or something triggered by our mouth muscles as we form the word, but that turns out not to be the case. According to Nautilus, “similar-sounding words, such as ‘foist,’ did not generate the same reaction,” and “because those words also put your facial muscles in similar positions, we can also discount the disgust-facial expression theory.” Rather, as Mental Floss explains, “people found the word moist most disgusting when it was accompanied by unrelated, positive words like ‘paradise’, or when it was accompanied by [words that would give it a PG-13 meaning]. By contrast, when it accompanied food words (like ‘cake’), people weren’t as bothered by it.” And, quite tellingly, “the more disgust [respondents] associated with bodily functions, the less they liked [the word] ‘moist’.” Further, word aversion doesn’t end with the m-word. Slate spoke with Natasha Fedotova, a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, discussing her research into the power that words have. Specifically, Fedetova was investigating “the extent to which individuals connect the properties of an especially repellent thing to the word that represents it,” something which understandably leads to word aversion.  Per Slate: “If you serve people who are grossed out by rats Big Macs on plates that have the word ‘rat’ written on them, some people will be less likely to want to eat the portion of the burger that touched the word.” The words take on magical properties; per Fedeotova, it is “as though they can transfer negative properties through physical contact.” And to add even more magic, it turns out that such negative properties are contagious. Mic spoke with University of Chicago linguistics professor Jason Riggle, who noted that disgust can spread from person to person: “if you drink too much tequila, the thought of tequila will make you sick. But you can also observe someone else getting sick from something and develop a similar disgust response. Disgust is contagious in that way.” Word-induced disgust, it turns out, are no different. The more one hears that “moist” is a dirty, vile word, Riggle explained, the more likely that person is to conclude that the masses are correct. So if, after reading this, you are now part of the ten to twenty percent who really don’t like the word “moist,” well, sorry about that. Bonus fact: We may not like the word “moist,” but bacteria like warm, moist environments, as anyone who has ever used a Petri dish certainly knows. And in public restrooms, that can cause a real problem. Many public restrooms are outfitted with automatic hand dryers which blow warm air at our wet, recently washed hands. In 2014, per the Washington Post, researchers (using harmless bacteria for testing purposes, thankfully), asked test subjects to wash their hands and then dry up in different ways. The results aren’t good for those who like the machines: “bacteria counts were 27 times higher near warm-air dryers than when subjects used paper towels .” The reason? Per ABC Australia, “bacteria were already inside the warm-air dryers, thanks to the warm moist environment” which allowed them to thrive. From the Archives: Turning of Niagara Falls: The word “moist” makes a surprising (and not at all disgusting) appearance. Related: A case of 1,000 very patriotic moist towelettes.
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You may also like Sweets in a Box Picture a Pyramid ... Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level: This activity is about imagining a picture in your head. You will probably have to write some numbers down. Try not to draw anything. Here we go ... Imagine a step pyramid. Each layer is made from a number of stone cubes. There is a square number of cubes in each layer, which increases for each layer (increasing from top to bottom). The cubes are numbered starting from the top layer so that, looking from above, each new layer carries on counting starting from the North West corner. (When the end of a row is reached you start at the West end of the next row.) There are equal steps on all four sides of the pyramid (in other words, each successive layer "sits" exactly in the middle of the layer beneath it). We'll imagine a six-layered pyramid that uses 91 cubes in total. What numbered cubes are vertically underneath (in a straight line): the cube that is number 1? the cube that is number 4? the cube that is number 8? Now imagine stepping up two layers at a time, starting at the middle cube on the South side, second layer up. Which numbered cubes would you step on to end at the top, if you stepped up in a straight line? Starting at the South West Corner and stepping up one layer at a time on the corner steps, which numbered cubes would you step on? What if a second pyramid was built, numbering the cubes as they built the pyramid, so the numbering would start from the bottom North West corner and starting the second row as before. So number 1 at the bottom and the last cube number 91. the cube that is number 91? the cube that is number 89? the cube that is number 80? Is there a cube that has the same number in both pyramids? What was the difference for you in doing the second pyramid compared with doing the first pyramid?
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Locating supporting materials Advocacy and Cultural Competence November 21, 2020 Poetry Analysis – Final Draft November 21, 2020 Assignment 3.1: Locating Supporting Materials Locating Supporting Materials Objective  Identifying Types of Supporting Materials Purpose:  To increase your familiarity with different types of supporting materials. Instructions:  Go to the American Rhetoric website (americanrhetoric.com) and choose a speech from the Speech Bank. After checking out the speech, answer the following questions. Questions: What speech did you choose? List the speaker, title, location, and date of the speech. List each type of supporting material—narratives, examples, definitions, testimony, facts and statistics—and indicate whether or not the speaker used that time. Give an example of each type of supporting material the speaker used. How effective were the supporting materials the speaker uses? Explain your answer. How did the supporting materials help the speaker achieve her or his specific purpose? What have you learned about supporting materials that you’ll apply to your speeches in the future? Chat with us on WhatsApp
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Dockerfile provided by MP MP should provide a Dockerfile that should result in a container which bundles the tools developed by the MP along with all requirements. Based on ocrd:core Docker containers should be based on the ocrd base image which itself is based on Ubuntu 18.04. For one, this allows MP to use the ocrd tool to handle recurrent tasks in a spec-conformant way. Besides, it locally installed and containerized CLI interchangeable. Naming images Image tags MUST be the same as the project name but with underscore (_) replaced with forward slash (/). project name docker tag ocrd_tesserocr ocrd/tesserocr ocrd_calamari ocrd/calamari ocrd_olena ocrd/olena Labelling images The Dockerfile MUST accept build args VCS_REF and BUILD_DATE. VCS_REF contains the short id of the latest commit this image was built upon. BUILD_DATE contains an ISO-8601 date. From these build args, the image shall be labelled with this command: maintainer="https://github.com/YOUR/PROJECT/issues" \ org.label-schema.vcs-ref=$VCS_REF \ org.label-schema.vcs-url="https://github.com/YOUR/PROJECT" \ maintainer and org.label-schema.cvs-url shall point to the issues and landing page of the GitHub project resp. Shell entrypoint No CMD should be provided. No ENTRYPOINT should be provided. If CMD or ENTRYPOINT are provided, they should be empty arrays. /data as volume The directory /data in the the container should be marked as a volume to allow processing host data in the container in a uniform way. FROM ocrd:core VOLUME ["/data"] maintainer="https://github.com/bar/ocrd_foo/issues" \ org.label-schema.vcs-ref=$VCS_REF \ org.label-schema.vcs-url="https://github.com/bar/ocrd_foo" \ # RUN-commands to install requirements, build and install # e.g. # apt-get install -y curl Command to build docker image docker build \ -t 'ocrd/foo' \ --build-arg VCS_REF=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD) \ --build-arg BUILD_DATE=$(date -u +"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")
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A practical introduction to quantum computing - follow our online lecture series CERN openlab and the CERN Quantum Technology Initiative have organised a series of open, free lectures on quantum computing. The talks will focus on the practical aspects of quantum computing. They will be given by Elias Fernandez-Combarro Alvarez, an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Oviedo in Spain since 2009 and a cooperation associate at CERN since earlier this year. Quantum computing is one the most promising new trends in information processing. In this course, we will introduce the basic concepts of the quantum circuit model (qubits, gates and measures) and use them to study some of the most important quantum algorithms and protocols, including those that can be implemented with a few qubits (BB84, quantum teleportation, superdense coding...), as well as those that require multi-qubit systems (Deutsch-Jozsa, Grover, Shor..). We will also cover some of the most recent applications of quantum computing in the fields of optimisation and simulation (with special emphasis on the use of quantum annealing, the quantum approximate optimisation algorithm and the variational quantum eigensolver) and quantum machine learning (for instance, through the use of quantum support vector machines and quantum variational classifiers). We will also give examples of how these techniques can be used in chemistry simulations and high-energy physics problems. As well as focusing on the practical aspects of quantum computing, the course will also discuss the implementation of algorithms in quantum simulators and actual quantum computers (such as the ones available through the IBM Quantum Experience and D-Wave Leap). No previous knowledge of quantum physics is required and, from the mathematical point of view, only a good command of basic linear algebra is assumed. Some familiarity with the python programming language would be helpful, but is also not required. The lectures will run from 10:30 to 12:30 CET on Fridays for the next seven weeks, starting on 6 November. Please find individual links to each lecture below. Lecture 1/7, Friday 6 November: https://indico.cern.ch/event/970903/ Lecture 2/7, Friday 13 November: https://indico.cern.ch/event/970904/ Lecture 3/7, Friday 20 November: https://indico.cern.ch/event/970905/ Lecture 4/7, Friday 27 November: https://indico.cern.ch/event/970906/ Lecture 5/7, Friday 4 December: https://indico.cern.ch/event/970907/ Lecture 6/7, Friday 11 December: https://indico.cern.ch/event/970908/ Lecture 7/7, Friday 18 December: https://indico.cern.ch/event/970909/
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Category Archives: Classical 1. Guitar Man, Cale's 12th album, is his strongest in a long time for several reasons. He recorded it almost all by himself out in his California desert studio, and his imagination seems to have been stimulated by his experiments with drum machines, synthesizers, and sequencers/5(55). 2. The Guitar Man Lyrics: Who draws the crowd / And plays so loud / Baby, it's the guitar man / Who's gonna steal the show / You know, baby / It's the guitar man / He can make you love / He can make. 3. Night after night, who treats you right, baby, it's the guitar man Who's on the radio, you go and listen to the guitar man Then he comes to town and you see his face And you think you might like to take his place Somethin' keeps him driftin' miles and miles away Searching for the songs to play Then you listen to the music and you like to sing along. 4. Lyrics to "Guitar Man" on oserarxabugaxymaputenredea.xyzinfo Elvis Presley. Elvis Aron Presley (January 8, – August 16, ) was an American singer and actor. 5. guitar man acoustic guitar tips acoustic day-to-day resource 22 year anniversary! care, preservation, maintenance, playing tips & tricks beginner guitarist tips / guitarists / conversion wheel mp3 / youtube / guitar chords / wallpaper / jokes / links desktop theme / guitar tuner / metronome / screensavers. 6. The Guitar Man is also one of my favorite songs. The last time I saw them in concert was years ago in San Diego's intimate 4th and B venue. Barry from Sauquoit, Ny This song was surrounded by the #15s. 7. Nov 12,  · [INTRO] G C D Dsus4 D Dsus2 D (2x) [VERSE 1] G C D Dsus4 D Dsus2 D Who draws the crowd and plays so loud baby it’s the guitar man G C D Dsus4 D Dsus2 D Who's going to steal the show you know baby its the guitar man [CHORUS I] Em C He can make you love, he can make you cry Em A He will bring you down and he'll get you high Cmaj7 Bm7 Something. 8. Nov 04,  · Directed by Rocky Capella. With Mark Rhino Smith, Michael X. Sommers, Christopher Coppola, Diane Amos. A 'failed' musician tries to save the souls of at-risk youth and San Quentin prisoners and along the way discovers the true gift of his music and the deeper meaning of freedom. Leave a Reply
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How to Disable Red Badge Circle on System Preferences in MacOS May 12, 2020 - 16 Comments How to hide the red badge icon from MacOS System Preferences System Preferences in MacOS shows a red badge circle icon when there is an available software update for the Mac. This can be helpful for users who want to be notified of software updates, but it can be annoying to other Mac users who are specifically avoiding a particular software update. For example, many Mac users who are ignoring Catalina may have chosen to hide MacOS Catalina software update notifications and prompts but may still see the red update badge icon on their System Preferences icon. This article will show you how you can hide and disable the red updates badge from appearing on the System Preferences icon in the Dock on modern macOS releases including Mojave and Catalina. How to Hide Red Badge Updates Icon from System Preferences on MacOS Disabling the red update badge from the System Preferences icon involves using the Terminal, if you’re not comfortable with the command line it’s better to avoid using these commands as they are for advanced Mac users. 1. Launch the Terminal application 2. Mac Terminal icon 3. Enter the following syntax exactly at the command line: 4. defaults write AttentionPrefBundleIDs 0 && killall Dock Hide the red badge icon from system preferences on Mac 5. Hit return, the Dock will refresh automatically and the System Preferences icon will no longer show the red updates badge 6. Red badge hidden from the MacOS System Preferences icon 7. Quit Terminal when finished Most users won’t want to do this if they want to see the red badge icon when software updates are available. But if you’re specifically avoiding a software update, or if you’re just selectively installing specific system software updates in MacOS, then you may appreciate having the ability to hide the red badge icon. Hide the red update badge in MacOS System Preferences If you’re having issues with the command above, you can also choose to break down the command into two separate components if you’d prefer to, with the first part being the defaults write command: defaults write AttentionPrefBundleIDs 0 And the second component being a refresh of the Dock by using the killall Dock command: killall Dock The end effect is the same; the red updates badge will be missing from the System Preferences dock icon in macOS. How to Show Red Badge Icon on System Preferences in MacOS Again Returning to the default setting which shows the red badge icon is easy, just change the 0 to 1 in the aforementioned command like so: defaults write AttentionPrefBundleIDs 1 && killall Dock Again hit Return to execute the command and the Dock will refresh, showing the red badge updates icon again. Note this way of hiding the red icon is specific to the System Preferences red badge icon that shows when software updates are available. For other apps that show red badges, you can disable red badges for other app icons in Mac OS through Notifications preferences and you won’t need to use any terminal or command line to hide those, that can all be handled directly through the graphical user interface instead. This trick also only pertains to modern versions of MacOS where the System Preferences are where system software updates are delivered. In earlier Mac OS X releases where system software updates were delivered from the App Store, this method will not work. Did you hide the red badge icon for software updates in MacOS? Did you disable the red icon because you’re avoiding and ignoring the MacOS Catalina update on a Mac, or for another reason? Do you know of another approach to disabling or hiding the red badge icon on System Preferences? Share your experiences, thoughts, and comments below! Related articles: » Comments RSS Feed 1. Ted Farmer says: Is there also a way to disable the red badge on the App Store icon? Thanks 2. Alan says: Hi! I really need to do this for Whastapp desktop app for MAC. I bought a new mac and installed whatsapp from appstore. Whatsapp won´t showont the notifications setting as it did on my previews mac. Can you help? Really need to turn off the badge icon! 3. Matt says: Thanks! It seems that after doing the initial steps running the command to return things back to normal keeps the red circle removed yet still looks for updates. I could be wrong but it looks that way 4. VAS says: I did by editing changed “dock-extra” for system preferences and no more red annoyance. • ric says: What changes did you make to the plist file ? • Jan says: Search for the “” With this key “dock-extra” And on the next line change “true” into “false” It disables badges for all System Preferences. 5. Scott Myers says: We normally just make an Alias of the System Preferences app and put it in the Dock. Makes it easy to revert back if necessary. 6. ric says: I read about this somewhere else a few weeks ago. I did it but then found that the red badge icon returned every day or so after a restart. Has anyone else found this and is there another workaround to save one reentering that code each time. 7. JMII says: The badge comes back. Not sure of the time period but it seemed like 24 hours later. 8. david watts says: Thank you for this. I didn’t want to remove the SysPref icon from my Dock since I use it almost daily and I like it to be there. But the red dot was truly an annoyance. Now it’s gone. Thx again. 9. Dale Mackie says: Thanks for the tip! Much appreciated. 10. Mykel says: My issue is slightly different. I have the red badge but there are no updates. While on Mojave I issued the “sudo softwareupdate –ignore “macOS Catalina”” command. Now I’m on Catalina and can’t figure out how to get rid of the red badge. “sudo softwareupdate –reset-ignored” doesn’t work. 11. arie de reus says: Thank you. Again a tip which is very useful 12. PW says: Worked until after restart, and then it was back in Mojave. 13. Michael says: I would have used this tip when Catalina was first released, but my solution was simpler. I just removed System Preferences from the Dock. The notification badge still appeared in SP, but at least it wasn’t staring at me constantly from the Dock. Easy enough to launch SP from the Menu bar Apple when needed… • User says: I was just about to say the same. However, I find the real annoyance to be the nags that appear in the Notification Center, and I’m not aware of any way to prevent System Preferences from posting those alerts. That would be a real find. Leave a Reply Shop on and help support OSXDaily! Subscribe to OSXDaily Tips & Tricks iPhone / iPad Shop on Amazon to help support this site
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Jump to ContentJump to Main Navigation Teaching Mysticism$ William B. Parsons Print publication date: 2011 Print ISBN-13: 9780199751198 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2012 DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199751198.001.0001 Show Summary Details Page of Teaching Mysticism: Frame and Content (p.2) (p.3) Introduction Teaching Mysticism William B. Parsons Oxford University Press This brief chapter provides a historical overview and development of the term mysticism. It notes its varying meaning within religious traditions, its problematic features, and its use with respect to different methodological perspectives. It then proceeds to a summary overview of the structure of the volume, noting its four parts (Presenting the Mystical Element: Tradition and Context; Negotiating Mysticism: Expanding the Map; Investigating Mysticism: Perspectives, Theories, and Institutional Spaces; Tracking Mysticism: Pedagogy and Contemporary Culture) and the basic orientation that animates the chapters that compose each part. Keywords:   teaching, mysticism, traditions, overview, structure Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
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Molecular Mondays Header Today’s post is part of a special series here on Planet Pailly called Molecular Mondays. On the first Monday of the month, we take a closer look at the atoms and molecules that make up our physical universe, both in reality and in science fiction. Today, we’re talking about: It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a superatom! Okay, Superman isn’t the right reference to make for this post. I should probably make a reference to the Power Rangers, or perhaps Captain Planet. “When your powers combine, I am Superatom!” Superatoms vs. Molecules Atoms combining together is nothing new. That’s called a molecule. You could say that a superatom is basically just a molecule that acts like a giant atom. In normal molecules, each atom gets to hold on to its own electron cloud, more or less. Yes, the atoms do share electrons. Yes, some molecular structures allow electrons to travel freely between atoms. Yes, sometimes an atom ends up losing an electron and never gets it back. But for the most part, each atom still has its own unique electron cloud or electron shell structure around it, and therefore each atom still retains its own distinct chemical identity on the periodic table of elements. In a superatom, something wildly different happens. An entirely new electron cloud forms, not around any individual atoms but around the molecule as a whole. This supercloud even has layers or shells, and it can form chemical bonds, just like the electron cloud around an ordinary atom would. So Much for the Periodic Table Because superatoms have their own electron clouds and can form chemical bonds with other atoms—or other superatoms—we can use them to create new molecules: molecules that would not be possible using just the hundred-plus elements on the periodic table. So if you’re a chemist or an engineer (or a science fiction writer) and you can’t find the chemical element you need on the periodic table, you now have more options. You might be able to find (or invent) a super-element to do the job instead. P.S.: I wonder if Star Trek’s dilithium might be a super-element that incorporates two lithium atoms. 8 responses » 1. Hello, just came across your blog. Cool stuff, as I am specially interested in atoms and molecules. Thanks. John Liked by 1 person 2. Interesting. This is a new concept I’d never heard of before. I suppose the nuclei remain separate (so this isn’t a form of cold fusion or anything)? I wonder what conditions lead to their creation? Liked by 1 person • J.S. Pailly says: As I understand it, the nuclei do remain separate, so there’s no cold fusion involved. It also sounded to me like certain superatoms can form in nature, but I’m sure that’s rather unusual. Most of them are probably made in laboratories. This is something that I’m hoping to do more research on. Liked by 1 person 3. Kirov099 says: Really awesome, and could definitely come in handy for sci fi writing. I was also not familiar with this, so it is a pretty interesting concept. I’ll have to do some research now. Liked by 1 person 4. Scott Levine says: Thanks for this post. Interesting stuff. I’m not a chemistry guy. How’s a superatom different from an isotope? Liked by 1 person • J.S. Pailly says: So basically, isotopes matter more for nuclear physics than for chemistry. Carbon-13 has one more neutron in its nucleus than carbon-12, but they both have the same structure of electron shells around them. And it’s the structure of these electron shells that determines an atom’s chemical reactivity. With a superatom, you have more than one atomic nucleus in the center. The structure of the electron shells around these multiple nuclei are distinctly different than the shells that would form around an individual nucleus. And since the structure of the electron shells are different, the chemical reactivity of a superatom are different. That means we can use them to cause chemical reactions or to build chemical structures that would not be possible using the normal atoms from the periodic table. Liked by 1 person Leave a Reply to J.S. Pailly Cancel reply You are commenting using your account. Log Out /  Change ) Google photo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s
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My name is Danielle and I am a Canadian freelance writer living in Hong Kong. I am a self-professed dweeb with a dash of geek who has a BA in English and Awesomeness. I have an obsession with running, cats, pole dancing, reading, writing, and listening to angry music. Follow me on: FacebookTwitter, Goodreads  “Pluviophile” is derived from the word “pluvial”  which means “of or relating to rain” or “characterized by abundant rain”. Adding “phile” to the end of a word is an indication of love and adoration and is derived from the Greek word “philos”  which literally means ‘loving’.  For example, I am also a bibliophile, which literally translations from Greek as “biblion ‘book’ + philos ‘loving’.”  So a pluviophile is someone who loves rain. I find rain extremely calming and love the feel and the sound of it, I also personally believe it endorses the best environment for reading! 4 thoughts on “About” Leave a Reply WordPress.com Logo Google photo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s
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Zoom: Now with Actual Privacy Zoom went from an obscure teleconferencing company to a household word when the pandemic hit. Zoom wasn’t the best videoconferencing app by any means. But it was dead simple to use and kinda fun to say. For better or worse, it became the de facto tool for many of us to keep in touch. Over that time, Zoom has made many important improvements. This week it has finally rolled out what appears to be true end-to-end encryption (E2EE). Today I’ll tell you how to enable this new feature. In other news: Be sure to update your iPhones to iOS 14.2; also be sure to keep Google Chrome and Windows 10 up to date; Adobe Flash is finally almost gone; police in Jackson, Mississippi are trialing a program to directly tap into people’s private security cameras like Ring video doorbells; the NSA and FBI have been burned by the very backdoors they added; and California’s Prop 24 passes, beefing up privacy protections for its citizens (and probably for all of us). Further Info (for podcast page)
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Part 2 By Jean Shaoul 6 January 2012 This is the second in a three part article on the political apologetics extended by the Revolutionary Socialists for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. The first part was published on Thursday, January 5. The 1952 Free Officers’ Coup To refute the claims of the Revolutionary Socialists as to the Muslim Brotherhood’s supposedly “progressive” and left-leaning character, it is worth examining the political and social forces that brought the military to power in 1952. This provides many striking parallels with events today, not least the role of the type of Popular Frontism now advanced by the RS in blocking the working class from intervening independently in a revolutionary situation. Egypt, like many colonial and semi-colonial countries, was in political ferment after World War II. Its economy had collapsed and almost all social layers sought to throw off the yoke of British imperialism, which continued to rule Egypt via its puppet, King Farouk and which, together with France, owned and controlled the Suez Canal, Egypt’s major source of income and employment. In government, the secular bourgeois nationalist Wafd—which had led the national movement since the 1919 uprising against the British and had put down the working class uprising in Alexandria in 1924—proved incapable of implementing serious social reform. This led to mass strikes, demonstrations, political unrest and instability that posed the question of the working class taking power. But the Stalinist bureaucracy’s betrayal of world socialist revolution under the fraudulent guise of building “socialism in one country” was to prevent this possibility from being realised. Following the collapse of the Hitler-Stalin pact and Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, having joined forces with Britain and the Allied Powers, Stalin ordered Communist Party members to drop their support for anti-colonial movements that saw the war as opportunity to throw out the British. The Soviet Union’s later support for the partition of Palestine and the establishment of Israel was met with anger throughout the Arab world. Within Egypt, the Communist Party, and its various offshoots, had in the 1930s swung between an ultra-left perspective and an embrace of bourgeois parties in a Popular Front. On occasions, they courted the Islamists as revolutionaries until they were attacked by them, when they called them fascists. Despite this, the Democratic Movement for National Liberation (DMNL), formed by the Egyptian Communist movement in 1947, still enjoyed considerable support. But while claiming to be “the fighting organisation of the working class,” it stressed that it defended the interests of “all classes and all patriotic groups of the nation”. It adopted Stalin’s “two-stage” theory that insisted that in colonial and semi-colonial countries such as Egypt, the struggle for socialism had first to pass through the stage of “democratic capitalism”. During the social upheavals of 1948-54, the DMNL argued that the revolutionary strivings of the masses had to be suppressed and subordinated to a “popular” and “national” front with the Wafd and the Muslim Brotherhood. The struggle for socialism could only begin after the bourgeois democratic revolution had triumphed. The supporters of the Fourth International in Egypt fought against this line, but were among the first to be arrested and suppressed. As the Wafd collapsed, broader layers of the bourgeoisie switched to the Muslim Brotherhood as a means of combating communist influence in the working class. The King called upon the army to put down the working class, but the army was seething with discontent over its defeat in Palestine. In 1949, sections inside the army had formed the Free Officers Movement. Many were influenced by the Muslim Brotherhood, including Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser; future President Anwar Sadat was a member of the organisation. The Free Officers feared that political opposition to King Farouk would lead to a socialist revolution. They mounted a pre-emptive strike under the banner of Egyptian nationalism and sent Farouk packing. They installed General Muhammad Naguib as President of their junta, the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC). On taking power, the RCC suppressed strikes and demonstrations by textile workers in Alexandria. The strike leaders were hung on the factory grounds, as a message that the RCC would not tolerate any independent action by the working class. By the time the DMNL opposed Naguib’s regime, it had lost much of its influence in the workers’ movement. The political vacuum this created ultimately led to the victory in 1954 of Nasser in a power struggle against Naguib. Nasser proceeded to outlaw all political parties including the DMNL, the Communist and Socialist parties and the Wafd, jailing the Stalinist leaders and severely circumscribing the trade unions. Only the Muslim Brotherhood escaped the political ban. The Brotherhood’s leaders were at first supportive of the Free Officers coup in 1952 and worked to promote support for the military. Only when Nasser insisted upon a secular constitution did the Brothers turn against the military and attempt to assassinate Nasser, who outlawed the group in December 1954. For many years, the Brotherhood went into political decline as movements such as Nasser’s were able to utilise the Cold War conflict between the Soviet Union and US imperialism to secure a degree of apparent independence and to pursue policies that lent them an anti-imperialist coloration. In Egypt this included the overthrow of the monarchy, the removal of British troops, the nationalisation of the Suez Canal, and Britain and France’s forced pull-out from Suez in 1956. This inaugurated a period of economic and social reforms, including the limited secularisation of the state and break-up of the large estates, the nationalisation of basic industry, and the development of education, basic infrastructure and social services. Islamism’s re-emergence The 1970s saw a political re-emergence of Islamist groups, including the Brotherhood, who were to benefit from the determined reorientation of the Egyptian bourgeoisie towards an accommodation with US imperialism. The signing of the Camp David Accords and recognition of Israel in 1978 marked an end to Egyptian pretensions to advance a Pan-Arab and even socialist alternative for the Middle East. The political vacuum created by the Stalinists’ insistence that the working class had no independent political role to play allowed the Islamists to dominate anti-imperialist movements throughout the Middle East. Popular support for Islamic groups grew, particularly among the most impoverished layers and the rural poor. The deposing of the Shah’s tyrannical regime in Iran and the 1979 revolution inspired and promoted a network of Shi’ite groups, including Amal and Hezbollah in Lebanon, Shi’ite opposition elements to the Iraqi regime, and Shi’ite minorities in the Gulf States. Washington’s regional ally Saudi Arabia responded by helping promote Sunni groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood. The ruling elite in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States poured money into both the Brotherhood and Salafists, who adhere to a form of Islam closer to Saudi Wahhabism, to counter and suppress progressive political tendencies in the working class. They invested in businesses in Egypt and throughout the Middle East and set up banks and financial institutions in Egypt, London and Geneva. Islamic finance was crucial in bringing together wealthy businessmen, political Islamists and Islamic scholars. Riyadh provided aid to governments, along with stringent conditions on economic reforms. Washington supported the growth of Sunni movements as a counter to Moscow’s influence, as a political weapon against Iran or radical nationalists such as the Ba’ath Parties in Syria and Iraq considered to be pro-Soviet, and as an explicitly anti-Communist force to disorient the oppressed masses with radical-sounding rhetoric. From 1980-89, the CIA provided the largest covert aid programme in US history to Afghanistan in order to destabilise the Soviet Union. It financed and armed the most extreme mujahidin groups, including Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network, fighting the Soviet-backed regime in Kabul. Similarly, the Jordanian monarchy encouraged the Brotherhood and mobilised them against the Palestine Liberation Organisation in Black September 1970. Israel also helped the Brotherhood establish itself in Gaza and the West Bank to counter the PLO. The Brothers were later to provide the basis of Hamas. Jordan and Israel supported the Syrian Brotherhood in their civil war against the Ba’athist regime from 1976 to 1982. Within Egypt, in line with his realignment with Washington, President Anwar Sadat sought to open up the economy to free-market reforms and encourage foreign investment. This led to a rapid decline in living standards for the broad mass of the population, while spawning a new business elite, many of whom were aligned with or sympathetic to the Brotherhood. It was estimated that, by the 1980s, as much as 40 percent of private businesses were linked to the group—chiefly in real estate and foreign currency speculation. Many of the emerging Islamic business class invested in banking and finance, setting up investment firms based on Gulf oil money. The new Islamic business class also included the small and medium size businesses, merchants, manufacturers and labour contractors. With estimates that the military controls up to 40 percent of the economy, these two groups constitute the bulk of the Egyptian bourgeoisie. In 1980 Sadat also amended the constitution to acknowledge Sharia as a main source of law. He recruited Muslim Brothers and Islamic student activists and used them to gain the leadership of the student movements. As well as a re-energised Muslim Brotherhood, other Islamic groups emerged such as the Salafist groups around al-Dawa (the Call) and groups like al-Gama’a al-Islamiya. The Muslim Brotherhood remained illegal under the constitution, but it was allowed to operate as long as it concentrated on the provision of social welfare attached to the mosques. This assumed ever-greater importance as the masses sank into poverty. With all legal opposition parties severely circumscribed, support for Islamist groups began to grow as the only existing opposition to the regime. The US attitude towards Islamic tendencies changed after they began to cut across the strategic interests of Washington and its regional allies. In November 1979, a group of militant Islamists took over the Grand Mosque in Mecca in an uprising that was brutally suppressed by the Saudi regime. Over the next few years, several Shi’ite militias held US personnel and other Westerners as hostages, while Hezbollah launched raids against Israeli troops in occupied south Lebanon. Islamic Jihad also destroyed the US Embassy in Lebanon in 1983. In October, another suicide mission destroyed the US Marine Corps barracks, forcing the withdrawal of a US military detachment there in 1984. In Egypt the Brotherhood spawned small groups calling for an armed uprising against the Sadat government. In September 1981, Sadat ordered a crackdown on political opposition. Shortly afterwards he was assassinated by Islamic Jihad, which opposed Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel. Between the late 1970s and 2000, militant Islamists carried out over 700 attacks in Egypt, particularly economic targets and on Christian Copts, killing over 2,000 people. The Brotherhood was still given significant leeway, however. It was not allowed to officially stand candidates in elections, but Brotherhood-backed candidates could stand as “independents”. By the early 1990s, in an alliance with the Islamic Labour Party, it had achieved some success in local elections. The regime of President Hosni Mubarak responded with a bloody crackdown, with mass arrests, jailing and torture. By the end of the 1990s, the Brotherhood began to fashion itself as a political party, issuing a draft manifesto and consistently outperformed the legal opposition parties in elections. In the 2005 elections, it was virtually the sole organised opposition party to Mubarak’s ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), winning 88 seats, about one fifth of the parliament. The government arrested thousands of its members, trying many in military courts. It amended the constitution to prevent independents from running for Parliament, making it impossible for the Brotherhood to stand in November 2010 elections characterised by massive fraud. To be continued
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Architectural Constraints of REST API In this post on Architectural Constraints of REST API, you will learn six key architectural design constraints of REST API. Basically, the six architectural design constraints that I list here form the guidelines to develop and deploy web services that allow clients to access resources on a web server. These constraints are – • Client-Server • Stateless • Cacheability • Layered Architecture • Code on Demand • Uniform Interface Let us discuss these constraints one by one. Client-Server Architecture Under this constraint, the server and clients are separate entities. it means they can be updated or even replaced independently. Moreover, the technology that clients and servers implement need not be the same. However, the implementation at both ends can be quite different. Accordingly, the server has no concern about how the client system is developed and vice versa. Basically, the client makes requests about the web resources using URIs and the server hosts the resources In fact, the client and server follow the software engineering principle of Separation of Concerns. With this concept, there is a loose coupling between client and server. If somehow, the server is not available then the client can communicate with a backup server, and this fact is hidden from the client. However, they must adhere to the Uniform Interface constraint. Uniform Interface This is one of the most significant Architectural Constraints of REST API since it enables the decoupling between the client and the server. Also, these constraints describe the interface between these two entities. Basically, both clients and servers can evolve independently if they work with a uniform interface. In particular, this constraint follows four guiding principles that we list below. • Resource Identification in a Request • Manipulation of Resource through Representations • Self-Descriptive Messages • Hypermedia As The Engine of Application State Resource Identification in a Request According to this principle, the Uniform Resource Identifier or URI identifies each web resource uniquely. Manipulation of Resource through Representations The representation or format of a resource should have enough information that allows its manipulation, such as a unique id. Basically, the resource should have appropriate representation such as proper naming conventions and a format like XL or JSON. Self-Descriptive Messages The messages should have enough meta-information so that they can be processed. Usually, this information includes the HTTP Response code, content-type, etc. Hypermedia As The Engine of Application State Basically, hypermedia is a link included in a web resource. It helps the client discovering other resources. HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) inspires the concept of statelessness. The server is not storing any client context. It is the client, who is responsible for managing the state including the session state variables. The server can restrict itself for manging resources only, while the client implements methods for maintaining the application state. The benefit of the server being stateless is that it enables load balancing by deploying additional servers. In particular, if the clients maintain the session state, replacing the server is not visible to the client. However, it requires additional bandwidth for transferring the state data along with the requests. This architectural design guideline encourages the use of caching wherever possible. Basically, caching is a technique that allows storing a web resource such as a web page temporarily at either a client location or at a server location. when a request arises of a resource, then its cached version is served if it is available rather than regenerating the resource. As a result, the server is transferring frequently requested resources from the cache and thereby significantly increasing the performance. Basically, caheability avoids unnecessary processing for generating the response and results in less requirement of bandwidth. However, setting the optimum cache duration is also important, otherwise, it may result in serving the stale data to the client. Layered Architecture This constraint states that the client-server architecture should be a layered architecture. Accordingly, the client may interact with the server directly or indirectly. In fact, the layered architecture constraint allows the client to access any of the available servers which fulfill the client request. Basically, the client is not aware of the fact that it is interacting with the actual server itself or with an intermediary. Hence, in the case of an increase in traffic, load balancing becomes possible. Code on Demand (Optional) The client may ask the server to download some of the code such as JavaScript files and runs this code only when the demand arises. However, it is an optional constraint as it may increase the dependence of the client on the server, thereby, increasing the coupling between the client and the server. However, for efficiency reasons, the clients may choose to implement this feature. Related Topics REST API Concepts Leave a Comment
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How St. Luke's Church in Tarboro, N. C., Challenged My Racism Column by Bishop John Shelby Spong on 14 October 2010 0 Comments Please login with your account to read this essay. Thank you for your columns. I have been reading them for seven years and have enjoyed every one. I use them for reference in many discussions with other Christians and non–Christians or, as you say, "Church Alumnae." Having just finished a column about New Testament books, a thought occurred to me. Do you or other biblical scholars use any of the writings that were not adopted or canonized as New Testament material to determine the authenticity of those books that were accepted as New Testament material in the 4th or 5th century? I am speaking of the material discovered at Nag Hammadi. When you say that Matthew and Luke used Mark as a reference, could those groups that wrote that material have used for example the Gospel of Judas or the Gospel of Mary? Thank you for your time with this question. Dear David, Extensive studies have been made of non–canonical books by many scholars, including members of the Jesus Seminar who, for example, elevated the Gospel of Thomas into the Canon of the New Testament when they published their book, "The Five Gospels" — edited by Robert Funk and Roy Hoover. Professor Elaine Pagels of Princeton University has published a major study of Thomas entitled "Beyond Belief". Professor Karen King of Harvard has written a book on another of the non–canonical gospels, entitled: The Gospel of Mary Magdala. Most of the material discovered at Nag Hammadi is considered later than the New Testament period and is not used to authenticate events in the life of Jesus so much as to throw light on the early development of Christianity or, as Professor Bart Ehrman of the University of North Carolina would say, "early Christianities" because there was clearly more than one until what we now call "orthodoxy" finally won out. I think we need to remind ourselves constantly that "orthodoxy" does not necessarily mean it is right, but it does indicate that it won. Hope this helps. ~John Shelby Spong Leave a Reply
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Tag: Administrative Tools What is the God Mode on Windows? Little TipsWindows 10 TipsWindows PCWindows Server Tips What Is This So Called God Mode on Windows and How Do I Access It? Windows has a really cool tool you will be glad to discover if, like me, you like to have lots of power on you computer. Some people have called this feature the “God Mode,” but we will call it “Power Tools Mode,” because we fear God here. The Power Tools Mode is easy to access. Just create an empty folder on your Desktop, Rename the folder to the following exact code with the brackets and dot and then press Enter. The folder icon should change to look like that of the Control Panel et voila! Icon for the so-called God Mode on Windows The new icon This folder gives you access to tools like: • Shortcuts to several actions in the Action Center (including a shortcut to View the Reliability History discussed in one of our articles), • Several Administrative Tools, • Devices and Printers, • Several Accessibility features in the “Ease of Access Center.” What is the God Mode on Windows? Power Tools accessible via the so-called “God Mode” on Windows.
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Posts Tagged ‘interaction’ Why being easily embarrassed makes people like you more [Psychology] 29 Sep For those of us with a clumsy disposition and a constant fear of saying or doing the wrong thing - otherwise known as English people - embarrassment is a constant companion. But that might be a surprisingly good thing. More »
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Side Balance Leg Curls To do the Side Balance Curl, you’ll stay in that side balance position with your knee down and hand about under your shoulder. With your leg raised to parallel to the ground, or as close as you can, squeeze your glute so your leg is in line with your body. Keeping your knee still, and a nice straight line from your head to your knee, curl your heel in toward your butt. Do not flex your hip, tucking the knee forward. Instead use your hamstring to curl the heel back. Keep the leg as close to parallel to the ground as you curl and extend back out. Feel your quad even work as you extend your knee and bring the leg back out straight.
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Skip to main content How to use physical explain plans In this Cockroach University lesson titled “How to use physical explain plans”, you will learn how a cluster finds information, you’ll see an explain plan diagram, and you’ll get to look at a very complicated explain plan broken down into its parts. In this lesson, you will learn: •00:00 How to use the EXPLAIN ANALYZE statement •0:20 How CockroachDB responds to a query •0:54 How to understand the nodes and indexes involved in a query •1:32 How to interpret the results *This video is an exceprt from our course, "CockroachDB for Python Developers". Learn more about CockroachDB by signing up for free training at Cockroach University: ---------- Reference Links •SQL Performance Best Practices: (CockroachDB Docs) •Indexes: (CockroachDB Docs) ---------- Careers: CockroachCloud: Blog: Docs: Community Slack: Twitter:
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7th Day of Prayer Welcome to our 7th day of prayer as the people of Faith Lutheran Church. Our prayer theme for today is “Our Pastors, Staff, and Leaders”. Our reading today is from 1 Thessalonians 5, verses 12-15: Let’s pray together. Offer a prayer thanking God for those who serve among us as their occupation and ministry focus. Name these people by name. (PAUSE) Ask that God’s Spirit might sustain these people in their work, and might fill them with the joy of the gospel as they work with us. (PAUSE) Ask that the members of the congregation might honor them for their work’s sake, and might keep them in their prayers regularly. (PAUSE) Amen. May God bless you and keep you in God’s grace. Leave a Reply WordPress.com Logo Google photo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s %d bloggers like this:
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Philosophy – “Why Racism is a Product of Fear” – 12/2/2020 “The greatest weakness of all is for one to believe they lack it.” – Modern Romanticism In a realm of situations, there are specifics. In one pointed out situation, there’d be a person who could say, “It is subjective for what one thinks.” Though, that situation was merely broken down from all others, alike it. To the specific situation of prejudice, it is like all others. For there is a universal trait that we do not normally consider. We’d not consider it, since it would expose human flaw. It is fear that we do not consider. Fear is universal in each situation of prejudice. Among all those situations, that unifying factor could indeed be the key to unity. Among all human weakness, people are joined together to heal. Fear is a weakness, there for either the soothing of it, or the exploitation of it. Since the latter option is always available, no human openly admits to what they fear, on normal circumstances. In fact, who would admit their fears to a stranger? Who would, besides those who are never heeding caution upon that stranger, that such an unknown person might exploit it? For it is that humans always come upon strangers, and it is that a stranger becomes a friend when they are trusted. Trusted for fears? That requires closeness. To be close, would mean to mend such weakness, that through togetherness, two people fear nothing. For they are no longer alone, when holding hands of differently-colored lights. Beauty is that which always is weak. We are weak, when beautiful. As it is, “beauty” should only be defined as what makes us lost in ourselves, at first unable to trust anyone with our history. We hold beauties within ourselves, about ourselves, saved for the acceptance by another. We do not loosely toss truths about, anymore than we should nonchalantly tell a mother her child has died. Humans hoards their truths, being same as all things beautiful, saved for a person who could accept it, and continually compliment them. A man can call a woman “beautiful”, as she’d never thought of herself in such a manner. Then, that man is trusted by her, if his words were sincere. As it is, all things so beautiful come together, are unified. Though, weakness still remains, since further insecurities will lead to needing further reassurance. Who can one trust, without looking into the eyes, without being close? And, if one is betrayed, one still learns. One has learned what shouldn’t be, versus what should. One has learned the falsehoods from the truths. Again, could fear be our admitted element, out of us, to the open where in each of these situations of prejudice, we are unified? We can know such truths, to not be distant out of ignorance and fear. We can see past the surface, past the skin, past the eyes, to the mind and heart of an individual. We need not be so ripped apart, as a wound is when the flesh has come undone. For we can also penetrate flesh with empathy. We can make a person weep, without stabbing them. We can hold what is trusted, in our arms, without betraying them. For if we did stab them in the back, they’d be ripped free from us, once again. Is that the “freedom” people wish for? Love is the mighty forgiveness, of this world. It forgives histories, grievances, among all flaws a person had placed entirely too much focus upon. After death, forgiveness is the power that forgets negatives, as it remembers the positives that had made a person live. Though, if fear could be the singular flaw, that instead of stabbing a person, could be admitted, then the other side could, too. We can admit to being so afraid, that we all clash together, not as fire, though as water, as tears. We could break as the waves, against the rocks that be the earth at our feet. Why don’t we? No situation of prejudice is so different, that this universal aspect of fear cannot be the key to surrendering ourselves to who is meant to be loved. Philosophy – “Why Diversity cannot be Forced” – 11/29/2020 “The importance of diversity is in its expression, of language. Yet, can art be forced, without the burnout of the soul? Must extreme measures be taken for the person of their language to force truth forward? Forcing diversity seems to be what makes the torturous interrogator.” – Modern Romanticism Forcing truth, to the surface of one’s own esophagus, is to eject diversity without its naturalism. We are not intimate with ourselves, with what we express, with what we feel, when another means to place us “on the spot”. For those who force diversity are also people who mean to humiliate. They are the psychopaths, the extractors, and those who wish for truth to be regurgitated. Examples of truth, of all diversity, is to the ideas of it, spoken next for speech’s sake, then made tangible and physical. We love truth, for we trust it. We cannot love God, for we cannot care for Him. Yet, we can love God’s words, as we are silent in our attentiveness. Though, to Creation so natural as a spawned life from a womb, we cannot force without resorting to a philosophy that pertains to the inhuman. Whether inhuman or psychopathic, the “interrogator mentality” is the abomination meant to be purged without diversity for what kills. It takes no special instrument to slay, though to extract truth? That requires genius. Yet, it requires an equal amount of genius, not of the evil and malicious intent, to create truth. It is of example, of Creation, that truth is made. For we do not force it, when it is made, anymore than a mother must force her child out of her, during labor. Anymore than a husband rapes his wife, out of force, to impregnate her, would make the diversity; because, it will not. Diversity is always a creation, born as an example unto it. Artists do not force it out, anymore than creativity can be turned on like a faucet. Brainstorm – “Creating Diversity of the Idea” – 11/7/2020 Repetition is not ever in the comprehension of who needs their necessity. A necessity of something so needed, will not be met through repetition. For those who speak highly of mass production, in its relation to equal distribution, cannot ever tell of quality to that necessity. To need something of the time it is required, will make the patience for it, stand out. For in the want of it, makes the waiting period, the tellable dilemma. The wait of a product, to ease the pains of what is ill, is only due to that the gap becomes narrowed between the wanting person, and the distributer. A gap, for this is the reach of the distributer to the one who is required of a thing. Their reach will become narrowed, due to a forceful person’s wish for it, due unto their impatience. Yet, to narrow the gap, comes at the cost of opportunity for what is available. This is due to there being a contrast between patience for a specific, and the straight-up immediacy for it born out of impatience. Philosophy – “Why Living in the Moment is a Sign of Low Intelligence” – 11/3/2020 “Has not the average person been aware of their steps, ahead? Is it a commitment to fear, to stay where one is? The future always looks the bleakest to those who cannot face it. They would rather see the light of the moment, as it grows larger with each waiting hour that passes.” – Modern Romanticism All long-term effects are the greater outcomes, regardless of one’s opinion upon them. A low intelligence is often the sign of personal disregard for responsibility. For to “live in the moment”, is to lack responsibility. How is it? Why not step forward, if one wishes to face where one lacks a choice? It is in a person’s dutifulness, to comprehend that “lacking a choice” means to do the selfless thing. It is the case, while “living in the moment” means to know what one has, though will never gain. Of wisdom, which is there in the future, makes the person comprehend that life is never lived, while we are stilled and frozen. It must be, that in the comprehension of potential betrayal to what one holds close to heart, that to “live in the moment” is to defend oneself. A personal weakness, this is, for to be frozen, never to drag the dead weight that are one’s own memories, makes the person without a desire to take a risk. Reality is not meant to bend to one’s own decisions, though to one’s own indecisions. As in, when no one has a choice, people take a risk, and take back their freedoms. To step into the future, is that risk, and is that lack of a choice. For what nation under the shadow of a tyrant, has not restricted choice? If that be the case, then it is in the people’s dutifulness of lacking choice, to take them back. We are most responsible to do right, when control is upon us, and we can return our freedoms to us. We are not free when we are bound to restriction, nor are we free when we lack the courage to take back what we recognize most. If we recognize darkness, then we should be willing to take the moment’s light, to reveal what awaits, ahead. Humans are bound by their obligations to have something more. But, when all we hold is a nothingness, we are inevitably committed to take back what we know to be everything. The long-term of effects, is always how we decide our future by abstaining from the mere moment. It is to comprehend fear, sleep with fear, and breathe fear. It is to know it, hold it, and make love to it. It is to find fear, bring it home, to understand it. If we cannot be willing to plunge our bodies into risk, we are dead. For is the corpse not stiff? Is the corpse not frozen, without movement of blood? It was due to our death, because of fear, and because we did not swallow it. We merely allowed ourselves to drown. “Inside, there is Everything” – From “The Prejudice of Globalism” – 10/31/2020 There is everything of the inside of a person, beyond the color of skin, beyond the stains. To the essence of truth, coming from within, it is never a shallowness. Then, to the politician who cannot see that, will say against a teller of truth to merely hear their words. Though, not merely to the words that they’ll scorn, though to place blinded eyes upon their actions. For no person who merely speaks, will be one who ever acts. And, no person who is scorned for their language, can ever be someone who does not act. Truth is always something that pierces, for it is always something that shocks. Just as the bullet penetrates skin, causing a shock, or just as a simple poke of a finger against a person’s flesh, is the same resulting feeling. “Shock” is the reaction of surprise, astonishment, amazement, all resonating from the irony of what is normally expected. This is to say that for the population who yearn for a well-spoken politician as their leader, are those who will take offense to the truth. To all truth, resonating from within, makes the politician of mere words, as the one who objectively deceives. Words are the shallow aspect of all things that linger upon the surface. It is then that we can prove that all things upon the inside can be comprehended as truth. As truth, for what is tended to upon the inside, will never be received with prejudice. It is in the knowledge of what is within, that makes a betterment towards leadership. It is in the “everything” aspect of what can be better understood, that makes such a politician with this vision, unable to be prejudiced, nor deceitful. It makes the leader with the populist perspective, a person unable to be neither the racist, the sexist, the prejudiced one, nor the deceptive one. For of each thing pertaining to the outside, makes such notions all of ignorance’s definition. Among what pertains to the outside, is a mere focus upon the external. Of all things external, is what pertains to what receives prejudice. What receives prejudice, is upon the outside. We are never prejudiced towards what is within, for how can we be? How can a person be prejudiced towards the favorability of what one easily comprehends? One, upon the external, merely forces meaning into it. It is something already so simple to understand, for the politician to make a drawing. A painting or image to the skin color, is the same to the solid color of a wall. The solid color to a wall had been covered. Its nakedness, already clothed. It makes the deception for what one does not yearn to see, beyond. As such, “nakedness” is the result of what is “revealing”, being always in reference to truth. One, in the case of a person covering themselves, is not trusted to see truth. As such, the shock of what could be seen, is becoming the suffocation unto the death of that truth. One covers, and now the curious are distrusted, for it is now the intent to never reveal the truth. It is now the intent to be dishonest. Just as the nude form causes shock, it is the same for all truth. If one adds to the example of graffiti, with tattoos, is the act of merely applying another layer to cover what can be revealing. Vandalizing truth is the same as sparking prejudice. To the person who claims there are those who wrongly ridicule graffiti, should perhaps wonder why anyone would question the outside of anything. To the one of objective intellect, will question, not merely listen to, what remains upon the surface. To the canvas for the painting, as it was not ever first a surface, though a sheer blankness. Graffiti is merely a covering over a surface, already drawn. Therefore, it is objectively a covering upon truth, creating deception. It makes the painting the creation of truth. To the focus upon surfaces, is never the focus upon the internal, for it has been covered. We can apply innumerable layers, though truth remains forever waiting to be unearthed. As we are always prejudiced to what is external, we are not ever the same to what is internal. This makes the globalist perspective as the mindset of prejudice. Such means, that for the globalist perspective, there is purely external endeavors being enacted. Then, to what is within, there is purely the avoidance of could be seen, and could be solved of grievance. This marks the politician of a globalist perspective as one who is prejudiced. For in what a person can know best, makes them not prejudiced. It makes a person who attempts to comprehend what is outside, someone who will be ignorant. It is unknown territory where one dwells, marking a strict focus upon the outside, related to looking upon one’s skin color. The outside, which holds the same definition as anything to be prejudiced towards, is opposite from the inside. To say it, again, the internal is what cannot be received with prejudice. And, to say it, again, the one with a globalist perspective, believes not in aiding what can be known best, being within. It is to say that when a supposed leader holds such a perspective of globalism, makes what is within, secondary to their focus. How is anyone to say that the leader who holds a populist mindset, can be prejudiced towards anything? It is objectively not the case, when to have a populist mindset, is to focus on what is within, being opposite from the prejudiced and globalist view upon the external. “Outside, there is Nothing” – From “The Prejudice of Globalism” – 10/31/2020 How ever can a person understand that which is a nothingness, objectively so? A nothingness to what one sees, of outside endeavors, for that is the truth. Outside of what one can comprehend, a nothingness resides. Nothingness, for in the things so uncertain to ourselves, is like reaching for what is unable to be controlled. To the common politician, it is for them to control. It is for them to learn to control, for that is their motive. They will raise the speech, in loudness, though will merely be the deception that comforts those who offer question. For to the common politician, a question is a sign of confusion and worriment. Their words soothe, as easily when they can alleviate a threat of truth. Outside, a nothingness, for it is the same as seeing the detail for which there is none, of a person’s skin color. Race, among all forms to a diverse world, hold that nothingness upon itself. For in this case, “nothingness” would translate to “what lacks meaning”. In each category that pertains to this “outside”, deception remains the fruit to the politician’s eyes. It is the deception of the outside, marking all politics as wishing for control upon its climate. Upon all climate, there is, too, the surfaces for which we first notice. Upon the ocean, as the surface accumulates the pollution. All things rise, of pollution, to the surface. For it is now to be proven that gravity merely weighs down meaning. Of all things human, to the feelings we should know reside at the deepest level, are objectively not the pollutions that rise. It is of love, knowing comprehensively that it does not pertain to height, for it lacks a level. Love is not measured by the height of it, for it is impossible to say one loves more or less. It is then to prove that love is a height that extends to infinity. It is then to prove that all humanity is a depth to which resides beneath our pollution. As pollution rises, humanity declines beneath it. As love cannot be measured, it is never something pertaining to pollution. If any romance becomes toxic, or the toxin of pollution, it is then to prove that better emotions are buried beneath it. Yet, in that “nothingness”, to which the politician yearns to control, is a thing of its pollution. It is a thing to which a politician yearns to “clean up”. For its aspect of nothingness, makes it upon the side of a politician’s ignorance in what is beneath. To better things, of emotions and humanity that are at a depth, makes the politician who clings upon “pollution”, a person of deception. It is to the same degree, that the politician who focuses upon “cleanliness”, is one of deceit. For it is to the surfaces of all things, that something meant to be cleaned, cannot be trusted, beyond. We are, in that sense, distanced. Distanced, from what is better to be known. We cannot discuss a person’s race, any more than a person can find discussion in the stark and solid color of a wall. Though to the inner details of a person, beyond the pollution to which the ordinary politician yearns to clean, is where there is purity. There is the purity to which the politician ignores, when their desire to clean the surface has what is beyond, go unnoticed. All politicians of words, are a nothingness. They attract themselves to deceit, for they are deceit, themselves. It is in the motive to speak, that makes them attracted to what remains upon the surface, related to words. Shallowness, for this is the term that relates, as well, to words. Words are the shallowness, not ever matching to something opposite from prejudice. For we are prejudiced to the surface, as we are never to what is beyond. If we are willing to listen to what is beyond, we hear truth. We hear truth, not the deception of surfaces. Surfaces are the deception that is like the Siren attracting sailors. For upon the surface of the ocean, their hearts are deceived, when they deceive themselves. As deception, or those with weak wills, are attracted to the same, it is proven here that “will” always pertains to action. That is, to be in control of oneself, so that one does not feel fear enough to be attracted to mere deception. The deception is the surface, masking those “inner details” that are ignored, for the sake of the prejudice. It is, as well, for the sake of what a politician of words can control. To control the surface, is like controlling the waves, to control the tide, to control the direction of where people walk. Philosophy – “Of True vs. False Diversity” – 9/20/2020 “Nothing made should be viewed as all that which can be divided, without breeding a materialistic mindset bent around choice. To choose, merely means to escape from the responsible self. To do the right thing, is to embrace responsibility.” – Modern Romanticism Diversity has its two meanings in creation and causation. What is born out of the latter, is the division of things already in existence. We can divide creation, into causation, to make a diversity such as the “gender studies” we believe diversify male and female. Diversity of what already exists, is nothing so different from being an anarchist or a torturer. Someone who tears apart at a nation, or tears apart at a person’s mind, to have something for pleasure’s sake. Out of diversity to creation, we are not destroyers, nor those who fragment, nor those who confuse. We are creators, artists, and those who lead with discipline enough to raise what has been formed. Formed out of what? Formed out of a thought, to be made as speech, in the name of Individualism. In the target of speech, there is soon the targeting of thoughts. We are targeting the former, being of God, being of creation, being of artistry. We are targeting what can be formed, what can be made, what can be understood of another without seeing the surface. A creationist way of diversity, has its meaning in life. Diversity, by way of causation, means to destroy life. For to cause, merely means to have had a choice, in doing so. To create, merely means to have had no choice, and one must take to the responsible task of raising what has been made. To the diversity of causation, we are tormenters, destroyers, and those who despair creation into a nothingness. To the diversity of creation, we are sculptors, musicians, and obey truth like nothing else had ever mattered. In creation, we are not deception, we are never lustful, and we are not materialistic. In creation, we love, because what is before is, simply can be offered that support. Philosophy – “To Hell with all Redefinitions, Difference, & Uniqueness” – 9/12/2020 “All originality pertains to the stagnant history of a thing, of a creation, of a development. When people can pertain their future to the history, they are responsible. For responsibility could only ever amount to a person knowing that their history cannot change. And so, the future should not change, though simply improve. For if they were to change their history, they’d change their identity, and they’d just change, not improve, their future. Through such division of difference, and such redefining of uniqueness, we repeat a bloodbath for a history. We repeat the core of human history, pertaining to selfish pride.” – Modern Romanticism All history is stagnant. All history is repeated through redefining of definitions, of words, of the world. For such is the reference to the redefinition, or the remaking, of history or our identity. As our history or identity is meant to remain stagnant, and never changed, it is through irresponsibility that a person does not keep such an identity stagnant. Responsibility is the sameness of a thing. Irresponsibility is the chaos that comes from redefinitions and change. We are irresponsible, because we do not want to keep definitions the same. That is irresponsibility, because to be irresponsible means to never keep things pure. We are responsible in such a sense, when in love, or when we act on our love for a family member or friend. We want to keep them unwounded. We want to keep them unbroken. Such responsibility makes a person remain in that sameness. As sameness relates to responsibility, then it is change, chaos, and repetition that relates to irresponsibility. How often is a man said to want to protect his woman? How often does a woman state that she doesn’t want to be protected by her man? Sameness for the former. Change and chaos for the latter. Humans change by redefining their history. For the word “change” has a definition of its own. Not of sameness, makes that definition, when the word has no relation to logic or improvement. Logic has its relation to improvement, while change does not. Any nation’s voting system, to term limits for a president or prime minister, makes such ways pertain to change, not improvement. Not of sameness, and the differing ideologies create the eventual chaos, for eventual nationwide political upheaval. The person who believes themselves unique, believes themselves redefined. Once again, all redefinitions pertain to the lack of stagnancy that follows a lack of responsibility in repeating the past. We repeat the past, because we developed a world out of change and repetition. Change and repetition, versus improvement and stagnancy, are the only differences one should notice. Improvement has no relation to stagnancy. Change does, however, because it goes in every direction, besides upwards. Improvement moves upwards, towards an eternity where once in outer space, there is no direction. For there is no direction in outer space. Though, improvement heads in that direction where change and chaos is impossible. Quote – “Responsibility is not a Choice” – 8/7/2020 “To responsibility. To choice. There cannot be both, at the same time. For when we state that we must do something, say at the care of something, we always say the words, ‘I have little choice.’ For it means that, we are not able to choose, upon when we do objective right. We confuse choice with being responsible, when to be responsible means to forfeit one’s freedom, to be dutiful.” – Modern Romanticism Philosophy – “Sophia against Sophia: Discovery versus an Absence of Choice” – 7/18/2020 What makes the woman feel empowered? In the two eyes of mine, and only the two eyes of mine, I have observed it to be somewhat natural for a woman to be interested in vastness. Vastness of choice, and never a submission to limitation. She is interested in what causes her horizons to expand, and her choices to be upon the numerable. She is not interested in being limited, for she possesses wings. It is that a woman yearns for freedom, craves it like the wind in her long hair, and can sometimes starve herself to it upon the time she exits out of love. Memories are to a woman, the entrapment of her from experiencing a more. Yet, why has no one seemingly considered, in recent years, that a woman’s “desire to discover” is based around herself? To a world, she is the most “edible being”. By that, she is given many seeds, many sprouts from her womb. As she represents life, she can represent what is starved of life. For the infant to the child will display widened, curious eyes. It is to say that little things are immensely curious of the larger in physical size. A woman, in that sense, is interested in a man’s power, not in her own. Does a woman, in such a sense, even possess power of her own, if all she is interested in, is what a man can do? Of everything small in physical size, will become interested in the large in physical size. For a man will display acts of chivalry when he can, so that her intellect is preserved. To think of it in this fashion, that a man of larger physical form, might protect a woman of smaller physical form. It is that he innately comprehends her smaller physical form to mean that she possesses a greater intellect than his own. For a man innately comprehends that she is much better than he, in that she will not be as brutal. For a large physical size, in the department of animals, means dominance. Though, of shadows, and only of shadows, is the physical size apparent. Physical size creates shadows, and it is why a man has been termed a giant. To a woman, being small in size, must mean that to a man, she is his light. A true light, as more than any sincere compliment, refers her to him as a truer savior than any act of himself to protect her from physical danger with his size. The small in physical size, has much for intellect. The small in intellect, has much in physical size. There is no third path, anymore than a person has a third arm. Sophia was the fallen one of self-discovery. Truth, to a woman, is of her, for she is consumed by the world, both of breast and of comfort. Whether that represent, to today’s time, “comfort food” or to simply be stagnant and fearful, a woman is the seducer to the giant, to breed the biblical “The Fall of Man”. In truth, there is something discovered. In love, there is a person discovered, who makes up our reflection, being not of the one we had seen only of ourselves. For to knowledge’s sake, we are seeing another world, yet a familiar one, for part of that discovered world of love, is ourselves. Can a woman see that she is the tool of growth, to any nation, to any culture, to any idea of critical thought? Yet, she can be treated as not loved, though produced in a perpetual nature, enough to be someone mass produced of her expulsions. She expels from her the infants for newer generations. Though, when the world booms in population, this is misused, and mere lust becomes the lesson of any human. That lesson is the teaching for a human that they must create, to create, again. Love, or rather, having no choice, has no meaning in this. For when we love, we have already discovered. And, when we have devoted ourselves, in the name of our life, to that special someone, we lack any choice to escape from them. It is that we do not want to escape, for we have already escaped from a worse world to a better one. A man realizes to himself that he had nothing in his life, before he enters a woman’s arms, to then comprehend that he has everything. A woman is the missing ingredient to a man’s moronic existence of continuous ambition. His life of independence halts when he has found a woman, having discovered his answer. To encourage a woman to engage in careers that pertain to science, might relate to the fact that a man has to halt all personal progress, soon as he has found love. When a woman’s psychology is used by the world to create the innumerable choices a society can have, there is no halt of progress. There is, again, the mass production coming from within her. She is continually used, though as merely a means to no end. When possessing no choice, there is devotion. Though, not to the material, as having no choice will be for the non-material and organic. We love what relates to us, as we relate to what loves us. Therefore, in having no choice, we are not materialistic. Philosophy – “Why Having a Choice Relates to a Low Attention Span” – 6/19/2020 In its respect, attention spans rely on what we realize we lack a choice in doing. To care, to be responsible for the pained child of ours, to notice that to love means to lack a choice. When we pay attention, we grant that attention when it is needed most. To have a choice, means to abandon the duties of one needing to be responsible. Responsibility is granted unto creation. It is also granted unto what one has destroyed, and now one feels guilt for their actions. It is because reason offers a person many choices, while to love offers no choice for the individual. We are freed only of our desire to decide, to contemplate, to philosophize, when we love. It is simple to understand, that when we see the one we love in pain, we say to ourselves that we possess no choice but to rush to their aid. It is fear that causes the realization of the danger. Though, it is not the fear that motivates us, as much as it is the feeling of love, that drives us on. Though, when our attention spans have been shortened, it is because we always thought to have a choice. We even thought such decisions, given from our freedoms, to stretch beyond the scope of responsibility and care. We step beyond the realm of families, so that we end up as deadbeats or wretches, who do not care. We end up as Narcissistic individuals, who feel fear when attempting to comprehend another, to love them. A lack of a long attention span is only ever formed, because of the omission of dutifulness. When we are not dutiful, we believe we are free. Through having numerous choices, we attempt to pay attention to multiple things, rather than paying attention to what is needed most. When we have many choices, we are not given many tasks, though many freedoms, as that is against the need to be responsible. To pay attention to a one, rather than on a multiple, is the same as loving someone. For we do not divide, when we love, as we see those we do love, as loved equally. To be wholly free, means to be without a need to be responsible. Therefore, to have a low attention span, means we have not paid attention to what matters most, for another’s sake. Because, unlike a child, an adult has responsibilities, for they always pertain to providing for others, or contributing to a social realm. It is the same when a child has a low attention span, is easily distracted, because their ways in the world co-exist with having no duties, no committed tasks, no responsibilities. A child inherently has a low attention span, because Nature has made them needing care by a mother and a father. Children have nothing to care for, except for the care-free wonders of their youth. Therefore, children have low attention spans. Love is the emotion that requires an individual to be responsible, to be dutiful, as we lack any choice in what matters, for any matter.
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Many agree that D&D 3.X has a tier "problem" (or system or classification, depending upon your preference). I enjoy the basic rule set of 3.X but have a hard time having fun with a system that is so unbalanced. Even when my group and I are all playing lower tier characters, I still feel as though I should be playing a wizard or something to maximize my character's potential. I've heard a lot about Pathfinder and how it is an improvement over 3.X. I've never actually played it nor even seen it played, so I'm wondering if Pathfinder has the same problems that 3.X does. Specifically, are some fundamental Pathfinder options (like classes or races) so obviously terrible that picking them puts you at a disadvantage and other options so obviously superior that picking them gives you an advantage? • \$\begingroup\$ However, if I have to delete one more round of comment-fighting, I will indeed close this again. Post your answers and stand by them - don't argue about others' opinions. \$\endgroup\$ – mxyzplk - SE stop being evil Apr 11 '15 at 21:16 No, Pathfinder actually makes the balance quite a bit worse. The weakest classes got weaker, and the strongest classes got stronger. • Changes to combat feats and combat maneuvers mean that the few mundane tricks the system had, are now much more difficult to pull off and are less useful when you do. • Changes to magic items disproportionately hurt martial characters • Insistence on strict and painful “realism taxes” on mundane characters, even well into high levels, prevent them from keeping up. • Nerfs to spells were few and haphazard – while a few specific cases were nerfed considerably, most were untouched, and plenty of high-power options remain • Class features for spellcasters are occasionally quite potent. While some archetypes for mundane classes are also pretty good, the fact that the best classes could actually get substantial improvements is worrisome. Combat Maneuvers The math on Combat Maneuver Bonus vs. Combat Maneuver Defense is poor. Simplifying and unifying the systems was a good idea, but they failed on execution. Because you add both Str and Dex to CMD, but only one to CMB (and for several other reasons, this is just the simplest one), CMD scales much better than CMB does. As a result, at mid-to-high levels it becomes very difficult to actually use combat maneuvers. Meanwhile, most of the Improved (combat maneuver) feats have been split into both Improved ____ and Greater ____: two feats to do what you used to be able to do in a single feat. In the most important case, Trip, two feats to not even do what you did with one in 3.5: now the follow-up attack off of a trip is an attack of opportunity, which means trippers require Combat Reflexes to use it, and need a lot more Dexterity. Changes to items are also serious problems to martial classes. All enhancement bonuses to a physical ability score are found only on belts – which means if you want more than one, you have to pay harsh premiums on combining items. Martial characters need bonuses to both Strength and Constitution (or Dexterity and Constitution in some cases), because the math of the system still has those bonuses baked into the design assumptions, but now they cost more. Compare this to 3.5, which, as of Magic Item Compendium, charged no premium to add these sorts of abilities even to other items entirely. Meanwhile, while it’s also true that all enhancement bonuses to mental scores are headbands, most spellcasters only care about one mental score (Wis for clerics and druids, Cha for bards and sorcerers, Int for wizards, and so on), and then they are free to get a bonus to Constitution (most character’s second-most-important ability) without having to pay extra. To add insult to injury, the official guidance on houseruling magic items explicitly says you should not allow these items in different slots even as a houserule! They were so adamant about enforcing this massive penalty on mundane characters that they literally called out DMs who were considering fixing it! Realism Taxes The most glaring example here, though far from the only one, is the insistence that, “just because it costs a feat,” i.e. a major character resource, doesn’t mean exotic weapons are supposed to be better than martial weapons. And, in fact, none of them are actually good. 3.5 had a lot of problems with Exotic Weapon Proficiency; very few of the exotic weapons were actually worth a feat. Pathfinder made very sure to nerf those so they no longer were. Minimal spell nerfs Depowering spellcasters really requires going through each and every spell; Paizo did not even attempt this. They did nerf a few particularly-notorious spells, but missed many others. They did nerf the polymorph spells, which desperately needed it, so that is a good thing; Pathfinder polymorphing is without a doubt a massive improvement over 3.5. But it’s also just about the best change in the entire system. Further, they have printed new spells of absurd power. Do a google search for paragon surge and the ridiculous things that can be done with it. Astonishing class features for spellcasters The arcanist, a new Pathfinder class, is by-far the worst offender here, getting the best of both worlds between prepared and spontaneous spellcasting, off the best spell list in the game, plus free metamagic effects (read: one of the most powerful classes of effects in the game). But the core classes also occasionally got major upgrades as well. By contrast, the default fighter gets a variety of small numerical bonuses. The fighter’s problem was never numbers – if a fighter can make his numbers count, you’re dead, 3.5 or Pathfinder. The problem was always that the fighter is remarkably poor at forcing his numbers into the game, if the competition didn’t actively cooperate with him. None of that changed. This list is not exhaustive This isn’t everything that Pathfinder did that exacerbated the mundane-vs-magic divide that was already massive in 3.5. It was, in fact, a very consistent effort across Pathfinder’s entire history. The Pathfinder FAQ and errata are chock full of the developers stripping away anything powerful or useful they accidentally gave to mundane characters. Pathfinder is therefore one of the most magically-dominated systems out there. | improve this answer | | • 1 \$\begingroup\$ This answer was wonderfully useful to me. I really how you have some kind of input on PF2 design! \$\endgroup\$ – Pat Sep 7 '19 at 11:49 • 1 \$\begingroup\$ @Pat I haven’t paid much attention at all to PF 2e; I’ve heard some decent-sounding ideas, but PF 1e itself was plagued with a lot of poorly-executed good ideas, so that may not mean very much. But since it’s a complete overhaul, maybe they’ll do better from scratch; I don’t know. I will say that rarity-based balancing has me very, very concerned. While many ideas in PF 2e sound pretty good, that one sounds very, very bad. \$\endgroup\$ – KRyan Sep 8 '19 at 0:39 • 2 \$\begingroup\$ I agree, the "excuse" that "It is ok for it to be overpowered because it's super-rare" is a really bad way to think. Because if it never gets in the hands of the PC, then it never applies and that rule item or mechanic might not be there at all. But if it does indeed get in the hands of the PCs, then it's not super-rare at all anymore, and simply becomes something constantly unbalancing the game all the time. Same for "costly": If PCs are too poor, it never applies. But once they are rich enough, wham, permanent constant unbalance. "Hard-to-get" is never a good excuse for unbalanced power. \$\endgroup\$ – Pat Sep 8 '19 at 15:34 There is no real change to class balance between 3.5 and PF. In order to address whether or not the tiers from 3.5 still largely apply to Pathfinder(at least when comparing t1 casters with t4-5 martials), let's look at the definitions of T1 and T4, and show what has and hasn't changed about Pathfinder that might change the class balance. As an example of an iconic T1 class, I'll use the wizard. What I say here largely works for the other T1 classes as well, though. In the iconic post about why a wizard is in T1, the author listed a few major points and a few specific tricks. The major points all still hold: wizards have access to all of the best battlefield control magic, summons, and utility spells. Wizards don't have access to the best buffs, but they're still pretty solid on that front. The ways that wizards get powerful allies, like simulacrum and planar binding still work at similar power levels. In fact, simulacrum is a little better, because you no longer need a piece of the creature to be simulated to cast it. The specific spells mentioned are largely unchanged. Many of the spells from later books are missing, but they are replaced with new tricks that are similarly powerful. For example: Blood money is a spell that lets a wizard take a few points of damage and ignore the material component of a spell they cast in the next round. Even not considering spells that are nonstandard, wizards in Pathfinder can do pretty much everything they could do in 3.5. As an example of an iconic T4 class, I'll use the Barbarian. Barbarians are a lot more interesting, in general, in Pathfinder. They get a bunch of special Rage Powers that give them more cool things to do when they're raging. Some of the better ones make it much easier to get enemies into melee range: Boasting Taunt lets you automatically make an enemy attack you and possibly make them shaken, and Dragon Totem Wings gives you a fly speed when raging. Basically, a PF Barbarian does the same thing that a 3.5 Barbarian does: it gets into melee range quickly, and then does incredible amounts of damage. A well-built Barbarian can out-damage most other classes. However, the Barbarian's options for dealing with problems end there. If a challenge involves doing anything other than killing enemies as fast as possible, the Barbarian has very little that they can do. This hasn't changed between 3.5 and PF. Technically, a Barbarian could intimidate people to deal with social situations, but most Barbarians are going to have low Charisma, and thus won't have a very high bonus. Like the definition of T4 says, the Barbarian can do damage quite well, but is basically useless at everything else. In addition, in PF there are several nerfs to some of the combat options that martial characters cared about in 3.5. Due to changes in the combat engine and certain feats, it's much more difficult to make an effective character based on tripping, disarming, or other combat maneuvers. Also, due to changes in how magic items work, it's more difficult for martial characters to get the stat bonuses that they would expect in 3.5. This is largely immaterial to the tier system, since it doesn't change the fact that martial characters can typically do one thing, and really can't solve problems out of combat. As I've shown above, the major things that define what tier each class is in haven't changed between 3.5 and Pathfinder. Wizards (and other T1 casters) have the ability to solve basically any problem using their spellcasting, no matter what that problem happens to be. A PF Barbarian is definitely better than a similarly-optimized 3.5 Barbarian, but it still basically only has one way of solving problems. While Pathfinder is generally a nicer system than 3.5 in a lot of ways, class balance is not one of them. | improve this answer | | The balance is similar, but different In my experience playing Pathfinder from Open Beta, my gaming groups have found it easier to make more capable characters who work well together as compared to 3.5, and we would not go back at all. The race, skill, and feat changes produce a more generally balanced infrastructure -- the acquisition of feats at every odd level increases every class's available options, but the number of martially-focused feats compares favorably to the number of magically-focused feats, meaning that the increased number of feats generally benefits martial characters moreso than casters. (Metamagic feats are very powerful in a spreadsheet, but my players are leery about doubling-down on their guesswork when memorizing spells for the day in actual practice.) In general, prepared spellcasters have more capacity for versatility on a day-to-day basis than martial classes. On the flip side, in Pathfinder, martial characters tend to be slightly better at whatever their especial niche is than most casting characters I've seen fielded in actual play; additionally, once a prepared caster has memorized spells for the day, that's it, they're stuck with their choices as surely as the martial characters are, but with the added bonus of having a greater chance to be straight-up wrong about what spells they needed that day. A martial character in a typical campaign is almost guaranteed to be presented with multiple opportunities to stab things according to their particular proclivities, but spellcasters are subject to a greater range of effects that cause their shenanigans to fail. As far as actions taken out of combat, Pathfinder's changes to the skill system and the addition of Character Background Traits (which often augment skills) are both points that permit martial characters some extra latitude in their ability to do more than damage, and while it's true that a Wizard can usually employ magic to out-skill a Barbarian, the Wizard who does this has either sacrificed some other potential utility that day to memorize that magic, or has sacrificed money for a scroll. With the lack of restrictions on Use Magic Device, though, our Barbarian has elevated access to scroll-based augments if she wants, or more probably the Wizard would elect to maximize the Party Utility by buffing the Barbarian to begin with. To me, it makes sense that magic-users are generally more versatile in their potential capabilities and that martial characters would have a fairly narrow focus for their skill set. Magic is ... magical In a broader sense, a system that failed to present some kind of divide between magic and mundane would lack verisimilitude, in that we as players expect magic to be, well, magical. If magic is just another way to stab people, something will feel off in the game. Alternately, if magical ability is not required to transcend mundane limitations, it again loses its intended sense of wonder. (My group tried out 4th Edition when it was released, and concluded that it suffered from this problem - the classes felt more balanced in terms of capability and wonder-generation, and everyone felt like they were playing Wizards as a result, which messed with their heads and how they felt about their characters.) Pathfinder Adds the Archetype concept One of the things that better supports the genesis from concept to character is Pathfinder's inclusion of the Class Archetype system, where certain thematic elements of a class's mechanics can be substituted for other abilities that support an alternate perspective on how that class could be implemented. In general, the martial classes have a larger volume of archetypes than the casting classes, from what I can see. Most of my players running martial characters have elected to use at least one archetype to more clearly support their character concept and mechanical abilities, and have been all the more effective in their pursuits because of it. On the topic of Combat Maneuvers... Some of the complaints in other answers reference the cumbersome nature of Combat Maneuvers. In general, I agree that Combat Maneuvers are less easy to use out-of-the-box than they were in 3.5, but with some careful build choices they can be made to surpass their 3.5 utility. The fact that Combat Maneuvers are now all managed on a unified system also makes it easier to obtain bonuses to Combat Maneuver checks, and debuff opponent's CMDs. Finally, for a character that specializes in effective Combat Maneuvers, consider the Monk (Maneuver Master Archetype). Here we have a character that is purpose-driven to execute Maneuvers, to a degree that would require substantial resources for a spellcaster to replicate, which perfectly illustrates the nature of the changed class balance in Pathfinder. Options Are Just Different In Pathfinder, I find that the diversity in class options and applicability speaks to the different styles of play that people enjoy. There are some feats and abilities that are available specifically to be suboptimal choices, to be sure, to cater to those people who would like to RP a suboptimal character, but at that point as a player, those choices are optimal for your desires. I feel that the Pathfinder rules present a more coherent framework to support the concept that your character is part of a group of adventurers who are working together in one way or another to resolve the adventure, as compared to the 3.5 rules, and from that perspective the race and class options are much friendlier and less prone to inducing the sensation of total lack of utility (in most cases). | improve this answer | | In my opinion the core rule book for pathfinder is very balanced. Every class has a strength and a weakness that is different from the others. Naturally, the more add ons you use the less balanced the game will become. I very idea of balancing such a vast variety of options like those found in numerous pathfinder productions is unfeasible. For me role playing comes before roll playing and the more options a player has when building a character the better. But, if you prefer a balanced system and you group tends to be more meta-game heavy with a focus on the rules (there is nothing wrong with that, it just isn't how I play) then you may want to stick to a system with fewer options like 5th edition, or even just limit player options to say PHB 1 & 2 in pathfinder. That's just my two cents though. | improve this answer | | Your Answer
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Elf messenger From the RuneScape Wiki, the wiki for all things RuneScape Jump to: navigation, search The dead Elf Messenger The elf messenger is a deceased elf encountered during the quest Within the Light. The player finds the Prifddinas report when searching the messenger. The report covers the status of the elf city of Prifddinas and its connection with the Temple of Light. It is signed by Iestin.
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Gomorrah v1.0 is out! It is with immense excitement and pride that I hereby annouce the release of v1.0 of my latest DOOM mapset, Gomorrah! About 15 months worth of work went into creating the mapset and bringing it into a state I can confidently call "final". Of course, there's no guarantee that this version is the last one … Continue reading Gomorrah v1.0 is out! Gomorrah RC1 is out! After just under 10 months of smashing away at Gomorrah, I'm happy to announce that the RC1 build of the mapset is out! In case you're unfamiliar with Gomorrah, it is a 6-level mapset for Doom 2 and GZDoom that utilizes the amazing OTEX texture pack by ukiro. I began working on it back in … Continue reading Gomorrah RC1 is out! Mini-lesson: How NOT to get into Doom mapping So, you like Doom. You've just discovered the awesome community that still creates custom content for it to this day. You've downloaded Doom Builder or some other Doom mapping software with the intention of giving it a spin yourself. You've probably even made some attempts already. This mini-lesson will serve as a guide as to … Continue reading Mini-lesson: How NOT to get into Doom mapping
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Prayer Chain Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. 1 Thessalonians 5:11 Asking for Prayers When asking for prayers contact the head of the chain or email the parish office. The request and any information you want shared will be passed along down the chain. Prayer warriors will then lift up your intentions. Being a Prayer Chain Member To pray for others is to act in great love. We can help one another in this journey of life through sincere prayer and fasting. To be on the prayer chain please email the parish office or contact the leader of the prayer chain. You will be added to the list and asked to contact the next person on the list to keep the prayers going. Below is an option to submit a prayer request. Name and email are optional. %d bloggers like this:
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Jump to content Sign in to follow this   12.06.2020 Updates Recommended Posts 1. Fixed the West room at Cerberus. 2. Changed adamant scimitar stats requirements from 1 to 30 attack level.  3. Fixed the bug when players equipped pickaxe was ignored due better pickaxe in inventory. 4. Fixed the stairs on bottom floor of the Slayer Tower. 5. Fixed 3rd age pickaxe animation. 6. Community Manager rank does not have unlimited special attack anymore. 7. The "Recent Listings" button in the GE is not delayed anymore. 8. Changed the crafting teleport to the Crafting Guild. 9. Added the cash reward to 1M gp per Pest Control game. During the 30 mins of 1.5x Pest Control points event the reward is increased to 2-5m gp per game.  10. Coins received from slayer tasks (normal monsters, NOT boss tasks) are 5x the normal amount. 11. Updated the slayer helm (i):   - added 15% range and mage bonus.  12. Cooking gauntlets provide a 2.5% cooking exp boost when worn. Increased the price for cooking gauntlets in prestige shop to 9 points. 13. Fixed the bug when player actions continued after clicking on NPC. 14. Fixed the Retribution and Redemption prayers. 15. Fixed the Zuk pet.  16. Players are allowed to sell back items to Achievement shop for half of buy price.  17. Fixed problem that server won't accept new clients if it's reconnecting to database for some reason. Update prepared statements on reconnect. Player Save Service that takes failed player saves from queue and processes them. Log action logs to file if MySQL is down. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Guest Drunk Evan Great update 👍  Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Reply to this topic... ×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead   Only 75 emoji are allowed. ×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor Sign in to follow this   • Recently Browsing   0 members No registered users viewing this page. • Create New...
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I found it all oppressive, UNTIL… Psalm 73, & 77-78 Psalm 73 17 NIV Yesterday we read the short short story (2 verses) of Jabez (1 Chronicles 4:9, 10).  He prayed.  God granted his request.  Remember, we don’t know the timeline for the life of Jabez.  Since he had requested from God the expansion of his territory (amongst other things) I feel it is most likely that this answer didn’t come with a snap of the fingers  -though God can certainly work that way when He wants to. I wonder if this answer was achieved over a period of time, with some persistence and wisdom and work required from Jabez.  But still – it sounds so simple and sweet. A fairy-tale ending in just two verses. Jabez prayed.  God granted his request. But, what about the times when the answer isn’t coming.  We may be praying hard – with a good measure of persistence, wisdom and work, too.  But, it’s just not coming together like we thought a good God would do. I think of Job and the 41 long, difficult, trying chapters of his story – before the final 42nd chapter when we see God finally shower Job once again with double the blessings.  It would be great to read the book of Job today to remember Job’s anguish – and God’s answer.  Or, you can read Psalm 73 – it is like a mini book of Job boiled down into one powerful psalm. The author of this psalm begins by acknowledging that he knows God is good.  And, yet, he personally had nearly lost his way and his faith because of his own serious struggles while simultaneously watching the wicked prosper.  He saw boastful, callous, violent, evil men succeeding and growing in popularity and wealth, all while denying and even mocking God.  Are we sure this wasn’t written in 2020, perhaps during a Covid-19 epidemic?  Haven’t we seen and heard the same thing this week and shook our heads and asked, “Where is God?  This isn’t right or just or fair?  The world is too messed up!”  And we sink down deeper in our despair.   As the psalmist said, “When I tried to understand all this, it was oppressive to me…” (Psalm 73:16) Yes – keep reading!  The good stuff is coming – just like it came for Jabez and Job and the psalmist,  it is coming for you and for me.  Though it does require a little bit of action on our part.  The psalmist reveals the secret.  He wrote, he was oppressed UNTIL he, “entered the sanctuary of God; then I understood their final destiny.” (Psalm 73:17).  Look to God.  Put yourself smack dab in His presence.  Intentionally seek Him out.  Change your focus.  Consider the whole timeline, the big picture.  Look into the future.  Consider the consequences and coming judgement.  Rest in knowing God has got this.  And He has got me.  And if you let Him, He has got you. The rest of this psalm has beautiful passages of God’s strength, guidance, comfort, plan, wisdom, & protection in any and every situation.  Don’t miss the chance to read it for yourself and soak it in.  Which verse is your favorite in Psalm 73? Also, don’t miss out on the powerful truths in Psalm 77 & 78.  Psalm 77 begins much the same way Psalm 73 did – in agony and despair.  And maybe you have been there yourself sometime?  Perhaps you have asked yourself, “Has his unfailing love vanished forever?..Has God forgotten to be merciful?” (Psalm 77:8, 9). And yet – here again we will see a great turn-around.  In a few short verses he will be writing, “Your ways, O God, are holy, What god is so great as our God?” (Psalm 77:13).  What makes the difference?  What happened in-between verse 9 and 13?  Did he win the lottery?  Did he get all his wishes granted in the sudden snap of his fingers?  It had looked so hopeless.  What changed? 10 Then I thought, “To this I will appeal:     the years when the Most High stretched out his right hand. 11 I will remember the deeds of the Lord;     yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago. 12 I will consider all your works     and meditate on all your mighty deeds.” His situation did NOT change.  His thinking did. What he was focusing on changed.  He rewired his brain, his thought processes, his attitude, his words, his outlook.  He remembered the good God had done.  He meditated on God’s work. The anguish and oppressive depression doesn’t have to win, even in a situation that appears so bleak.  You may find yourself in the dark, questioning God.  You are not alone.  But, don’t allow yourself to remain in the dark.  Keep stepping towards the light.  You don’t have to wait until your circumstances change.  Instead, change your view.  Enter His Sanctuary.  Search for the good things He has done – in the past and today.  Seek Him.  Read His Word. Remind yourself of His power, faithfulness and love. Marcia Railton Today’s Bible reading can be read or listened to at https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+73%2C+77-78&version=NIV Tomorrow we will jump back to 1 Chronicles – for just one chapter (6) as we continue our 2020 Chronological Bible Reading Plan Leave a Reply WordPress.com Logo Google photo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s
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Dudley Dudley From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Dudley during meeting on NH Governor's Council Dudley Webster Dudley (born Dudley Webster; August 4, 1936) is a political activist in the American state of New Hampshire. Dudley was born in Exeter, New Hampshire. Dudley is known for her legislation that stopped Aristotle Onassis from building an oil refinery in Durham, New Hampshire in 1974. In 1976, Dudley became the first woman elected to the New Hampshire Executive Council. She served for four terms. In 1984, she won the Democratic primary to represent New Hampshire’s first Congressional District. She was defeated by Republican Bob Smith.[1] Dudley has served as a trustee of the University of New Hampshire. She served on the board of directors for the UNH Alumni Association.[2] Dudley inherited her first name from her grandmother’s maiden name.[1] She was married to Portsmouth attorney Thomas Dudley.[3] This is how she got her last name, Dudley. References[change | change source] 1. 1.0 1.1 Rachel Kapochunas (8 January 2007). "Dudley Not Redundant for Shea-Porter". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 July 2015. 2. "UNH Announces 2010 Granite State Award And Honorary Degree Recipients". University of New Hampshire Media Relations. Retrieved 4 July 2015. 3. "Thomas Minot Dudley Obituary". Gatehouse Media, Inc. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
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Overton Window and #RacistFacts #TrueSpeech or #RacistFacts Overton window The Overton window is the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time.[1] It is also known as the window of discourse. The term is named after Joseph P. Overton, who stated that an idea’s political viability depends mainly on whether it falls within this range, rather than on politicians’ individual preferences.[2][3] According to Overton, the window frames the range of policies that a politician can recommend without appearing too extreme to gain or keep public office given the climate of public opinion at that time. Overton described a spectrum from “more free” to “less free” with regard to government intervention, oriented vertically on an axis, to avoid comparison with the left-right political spectrum.[4] As the spectrum moves or expands, an idea at a given location may become more or less politically acceptable. After Overton’s death, his Mackinac Center for Public Policy colleague Joseph Lehman further developed the idea and named it after Overton.[5] Overton_Window_diagram.svgPolitical commentator Joshua Treviño has postulated that the degrees of acceptance of public ideas are roughly:[6] • Unthinkable • Radical • Acceptable • Sensible • Popular • Policy %d bloggers like this:
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This question questions a published research paper: Does "Unskilled and Unaware of it" prove that incompetents have a higher self-appraisal than competents? As does this one: Do the recent CLOUD results have significant implications for global warming? And this one: Is the US Newborn Mortality Rate higher than 40 Countries? And this one: Is this new study on cell phone / cancer connection legitimate? Two are criticized (and presumably close voted) on daring to question "peer reviewed and published" and two are not. Are we just using "peer reviewed and published" as a reason to shut down contentious political topics? If that is the case, would it not be better just to eschew current political hot-topics as a site policy? | | • I'm trying to remember the name of the English guitarist who in relating what he learned in the US said "Americans want to have fun, while the English want to be right." IMHO it seems wanting to "be right" can take the form of being excessively critical of people with off-mainstream (therefore less- or not-published) views. I'm thinking of what Elizabeth Kenny went through with her Polio therapy, or Ignaz Semmelweis, with antiseptic procedures. I've experienced it re. performance tuning. Anything can be wrong, no matter how well accepted. – Mike Dunlavey Sep 4 '11 at 17:12 I would consider any question about the presentation of a scientific paper in the media to be on-topic. Examining if the conclusions of the paper are presented accurately in the media is perfectly fine. When you are asking about a specific paper that has not been mentioned in the media at all, then we're certainly crossing into the research-level area and we should probably close the question. I don't think we should shy away from critically examining scientific papers, even though it is problematic with our huge scope and the lack of experts in all fields. If we restrict it to papers mentioned in the media, the vast majority of what is left is going to be about common skeptics topics like evolution, alternative medicine and climate change. There are often skeptical bloggers and others writing about the details of those widely publicized papers, so there should often be enough material for us to work with, even if we don't have an expert in that field on the site. But we should be able to attract experts for the most popular field over time on the site, which should greatly improve our answers to such questions. The CLOUD question is about a widely publicized paper and I'm seeing it more as the question if the media representation is accurate and also if there is any contradicting evidence in the peer-reviewed literature. I would regard this as on-topic. The newborn mortality rate question is about a statistic that is very often used as evidence in comparisons of the US healthcare systems with other countries. I also think this on is on-topic, though I think it would be a better question if it asked whether this statistic means that the US healthcare system is worse than those of the other countries. I suspect that this claim is the motivation behind the question, but it is really a related, but different question. | | • Thank you. I think this clarifies the situation well. – Russell Steen Sep 5 '11 at 15:18 I think this is a case of "What is there to be skeptical of here?" Simply put, if you wonder whether the study is sound, read it. Unlike unbacked claims, a peer-reviewed study one is backed with the methodology and the data used to draw the conclusion. You have everything at your disposal, just read and decide for yourself. If you don't understand what is being said, that I can understand but it isn't skepticism at this point; it's a need for vulgarization, no? I don't think that fits, or should fit, in our scope. Now, if it's an article reporting a peer-review study's finding, it's a different story. Journalists have, let's say, a pretty bad record of accurately reporting science. I think such questions are acceptable, if only because poor scientific journalism must not go unquestioned. | | • 1 This doesn't make sense in the context of my question. My question is why we are treating some peer reviewed studies differently than others. All four questions question a peer reviewed study. Why are two bad, and two not? Should all four be bad? If so then we are we only dinging the political ones? – Russell Steen Sep 3 '11 at 0:39 • To be clear, what I'm trying to get at is: What is the policy? Is the policy that any question which directly challenges a peer reviewed study is bad? If that's the case, that's cool. If it's not the case, I'd like to know what the policy is. – Russell Steen Sep 3 '11 at 0:46 • It has to be worth asking how to deal with the (ridiculously common) situation where there are contradictory peer reviewed studies. Epidemiology is riddled with contradictory claims about small effects and it is often the existence on just one of these that drives media frenzies. Skepticism can't stop when we find a published study with a result we like. – matt_black Oct 10 '11 at 23:51 • 1 @matt_black: I think such contradictions are out of our scope. I think makes more sense to leave this to the field's SE site. With that said, anyone who uses a study to make a point falls under our scope; we focus on claims, not studies. An intellectually honest person, faced with an unclear portrait of reality, should be agnostic about the nature of reality. If the person is not being intellectually honest by overstating the rational degree of certitute, it falls under this site mission to point it out. – Borror0 Oct 11 '11 at 2:14 You must log in to answer this question. Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .
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SpineUniverse Community Advice Please register or log in to join the discussions! had injections and now cant walk Started by jenn27bradford on 05/15/2011 6:52pm I am a pretty healthy 27yr old female. I had what I think as typical back pain. I only had issues after I stood for a long time or when I was in a bent position like doing the dished. I had been seeing a pain mgmnt doc for six months he never ran any tests other than a physical and put me on really strong pain meds. After 2 months of being on them he started telling me I had to do back injections or he was cutting off my meds. I told him I wasn't comfortable with that when no tests have been ran. Last month he had an x ray done of my back and told me that all my cartlege and ligiments were gone and they needed to do an epidural, steroid, and a facet level 1&2 injections. That night my left thight mussel starts twiching then my leg startd cramping then after four days I can no longer walk on it. I'm on a walker with excruciating pain. It started in my left buttocs down my theigh and now my calves. I have to sleep in a recliner cause i cant get out of my bed. I never had leg issues until these injections. I'm so scared I don't know what's wrong if it will get better. The docs want to wait weeks to run theae tests. I have four kids I can't care for. If anyone has any idea what this is please respond Do you find this discussion helpful? 1 Response Read up on Dr. John Sarno and find information online about discussion forums related to his method of working on patients. Good luck.
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The Enfolded Time was a story which was original to the anthology The HAVOC Files. It asserted that due to the Doctor's frequent visits to the 1970s and 1980s in his faulty TARDIS, the two decades were merged into one and 20 years of Earth history took place over the course of 10 — thus providing an in-universe justification for the UNIT dating controversy. Summary[edit | edit source] After a New Year's gathering in his home on the grounds of Brendon School, Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart is visited by a young man called Albert Wilson. Just as the two men are about to meet, Lethbridge-Stewart finds himself in an odd place where he encounters various versions of him, from the last twenty years. Including Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart of the Fifth Operational Corps and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart of UNIT. They attempt to explain to him what is happening, but he finds it hard to follow. Eventually he meets the Accord, a transdimensional being who is trying to repair the damage caused to Earth, to strengthen it before a forthcoming war that is going to spread all across time and space. The Accord explains that, due to the Doctor's regular visits to Earth from 1969 to 1989 in his damaged TARDIS, the timeline of Earth was disrupted, enfolding time in on itself so that twenty years occurred over a ten-year period. Nobody on Earth was aware of the problem, as they were an intricate part of it. The Accord explains that once Lethbridge-Stewart is returned home, an awareness will occur across the globe. For a brief moment everybody will recognise the discontinuities of the last twenty years. Lethbridge-Stewart is returned to Earth, and for a short time forgets where he has been. He meets Albert Wilson and learns that Albert is his son, a result of his tryst with Doris back in Brighton in 1968. It is only recently that Albert learned of Lethbridge-Stewart, and now that he has his own child on the way, Albert wishes Lethbridge-Stewart to be part of their lives. A phone call from the United Nations reminds Lethbridge-Stewart of his recent trip to the domain of the Accord. Discrepancies have been discovered in various UNIT reports. Lethbridge-Stewart arranges a meeting to discuss the development of new dating protocols. Characters[edit | edit source] References[edit | edit source] to be added Notes[edit | edit source] • This is the first appearance of Albert Wilson, the illegitimate son of Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart and Doris Wilson, following their brief encounter in Brighton in 1968. He grew up believing George Wilson was his father until Doris revealed the truth shortly before the events of this story. Continuity[edit | edit source]
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VMWare Fusion 12 Network Issue Updated the VMWare Fusion install on my MacBook Pro yesterday and I came across an issue after starting Fusion, upgrading the Windows VM and trying to access a network resource - local and internet. Basically, it couldn’t get an IP address, using either sharing the IP with my Mac or using WiFi directly. A search on the internet found some issues reported using betas of Big Sur, which I am not using. Basically, they found that removing a plist file and killing the configd task (if it was running) resolved the issue. So, I tried it and it worked for me. The command to use from your terminal, after quitting Fusion, is: sudo rm /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist && sudo killall -9 configd Then you can start Fusion, start up your VM and you’ll get a network connection. Now, I wait for the first set of updates for Big Sur and I’ll think about upgrading. 😏 Reference: VMWare Fusion Discussion
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“Fear was my game changer” I am not sure about you, but I have experienced fear too often throughout my life.   Within the past 2 years, fear has controlled my life. Now let’s talk about this because “control” is often looked at as a negative thing. So here is why I chose to use the word control. When things are out of “our” control we panic, become fearful, regress and may even resort to things that are not healthy for us.   We feel hopeless, we can become negative, isolate, stop doing the things that we enjoy, along with so many other negative or demorlizing things.  About two years ago, I received some very disappointing news that I felt at that time would change my life for the worst.  Fear took over! I became uncertain, I doubted myself, I questioned my character, my talents and even who I was as a person, a sister, a woman, a friend and as a human being.   “Whewww chillleee, it was a very rough time.”   After becoming exhausted mentally and with the constant support and prayer of an amazing cousin in my life, I felt a shift.   My perception of the events changed, I decided to control my own narrative for myself and no one else.   That desire for approval went out of the door quickly.  The idea of self-acceptance started to creep into my life, my mind and my spirit.   I was like “holy crap” what is happening here. I began to focus more on my mental health, self-care and what I wanted for myself.  I realized that my fear was being fostered by approval.  I realized that I was seeking perfection in a unperfect place.   Oh boy, once the lightbulb came on, my shoulders became lighter and my head elevated even more.    My fear became my drive. My fear increased my ability to care for myself better. My fear forced me to leave no stone unturned. My fear forced me to step into new challenges.   My fear drove me to apply to a school that I did not feel good enough to get  into; I DID and now I am 1 year from completion of my doctorate.  My fear drove me to start “Through Her Slanted Eyez .”   Ultimately, My fear drove me to start thinking with my HEART and not my MIND. I started becoming fearful for NOT doing what my heart desired to do.   Fear changed my entire perspective on something I thought was my demise.   I am bolder! I am fearless! I have courage! I am more optimistic! I see my dreams being my reality. I am crushing my personal goals. I am finally doing this thing called life for me and only me. So much has changed for me because I decided to embrace my fears. That confident woman that many individuals already knew became even more confident through her own reassurances. 5 thoughts on ““Fear was my game changer” 1. Thank you for being so vulnerable and authentic. I definitely needed this reminder. I will now start letting fear control me in a better way than I have. Liked by 2 people Leave a Reply WordPress.com Logo Google photo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s
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Upside Down, Girl You Send Me 8 comments on “Upside Down, Girl You Send Me” 1. HA! And still that tongue, no matter which way. (I’m glad you didn’t add “on.” HA!) 1. it’s a sonnnggg, upside down you turn me, inside out, and round and round 1. Wait. Didn’t it originally say “Girl you turn me?” That’s why I said what I did. HA! 2. yes it did originally say ‘turn’ but i didn’t want anyone else to think bad thoughts if they didn’t know the song lol 2. Once again with the tongue hanging out. Doesn’t matter what position, does it! But she does look cute upside-down. 1. yes, haha, i know, her tongue is ALWAYS sticking out!! but it’s cute, as long as she doesn’t mind waking up with a dry tongue 🙂 3. So true, darling. That’s what you do with the sweetest songs you sing & the finest frames you hang up into the soul of this wanderer. All the best & safe travels, Fritsch. 1. you should find a girl and settle down… and i laughed and laughed lol NOT So... What do ya think? %d bloggers like this:
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The Kabardian language (Kabardian: адыгэбзэ or къэбэрдеибзэ, also known as East Circassian, is a Northwest Caucasian language, closely related to the Adyghe language. It is spoken mainly in the Russian republics of Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay–Cherkessia and in Turkey and the Middle East . It has 47 or 48 consonant phonemes of which 22 or 23 are fricatives, depending upon whether one counts as phonemic, but this is contrasted with just three phonemic vowels. It is one of very few languages to possess a clear phonemic distinction between ejective affricates and ejective fricatives. Wikipedia
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Editor's Note Editor's Note Protect the Children Jordan Deam | 10 Jun 2008 08:42 Editor's Note - RSS 2.0 Change is scary. Sometimes it creeps up on you over the course of a century - after all, it took nearly 50 years after American women earned the right to vote before they could comfortably wear pants in public. Other times, it can be downright violent. There's no more horrifying an emblem of how much our society has changed than the phenomenon of the school shooting. It's such a grotesque perversion of our notions of childhood innocence that each incident shocks our culture with meteoric force. In an era saturated with high-def cameras, talking heads and more scrolling news tickers than the mind can process, this incomprehensible violence always manages to cut through the noise. They're children, for Christ's sake. What malevolent force could possibly motivate them to kill each other? Unfortunately, we've had decades to ponder this question, and there hasn't been a satisfying answer. That's the other thing about change: Whether it happens over a generation or between third period and lunch, it's all-consuming. Everything from our relationships to the way we communicate to how we view our place in the world is subject to currents that we rarely can see, let alone control. But it's not like us to throw up our hands in indifference. We want to know why. It's a human need to comprehend the incomprehensible. And for better or worse, it's this need that has placed the videogame industry at the center of the debate on the impact of media consumption on child development. This week at The Escapist, we explore the queasy relationship between the game industry and a culture wary of the "unintended consequences" of a generation raised on digital media. In "Slave to the Beat," Erin Hoffman dives into Audition, an online multiplayer rhythm game made for hyper-alert, lightning-thumbed preteens. Richard Aihoshi speaks with game developers about how to make online worlds more child-friendly in "MMOGs are for Kids." Robert B. Marks ponders how violent games could affect players' ability to respond to a crisis in "The Anatomy of Violence." In "Monkey Play, Monkey Do," Michael A. Mohammed examines the difficulties of establishing a concrete link between violent games and aggression. And in "Killing Me Softly," Benjamin Asbury reports on the "war" against violent games from the front lines: a games retailer dealing with the fallout of the "Hot Coffee" scandal. Jordan Deam Comments on
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Interactive Tutorial about Diffraction Interactive example : Polygon of atoms Basic examples Single atom Pair of atoms Row of atoms Interactive examples 1D crystal builder Polygons of atoms Different atoms Ewald sphere Bragg's law This interactive example allows the creation of a polygon of atoms and the calculation of the corresponding Fourier transform. All atoms have a distance of r=1.4Å from the origin. This example will illustrate the relation between symmetry of the atomic arrangement and the corresponding scattering pattern. Play around with different input parameters and answer the following questions: • Describe the relationship your observe between the symmetry of the atom positions and the symmetry of the resulting diffraction pattern ? • What is special about the values n=1,2,3,4 and 6 compared to other values of n ? • What difference do you observe between neutron and x-ray diffraction patterns ? Once you are done, click here to verify your answers. © Th. Proffen and R.B. Neder, 2003
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Audit framework From ArchWiki Jump to navigation Jump to search The Linux audit framework provides a CAPP-compliant (Controlled Access Protection Profile) auditing system that reliably collects information about any security-relevant (or non-security-relevant) event on a system. It can help you track actions performed on a system. Linux audit helps make your system more secure by providing you with means to analyze what is happening on your system in great detail. It does not, however, provide additional security itself—it does not protect your system from code malfunctions or any kind of exploits. Instead, Audit is useful for tracking these issues and helps you take additional security measures to prevent them. The audit framework works by listening to the event reported by the kernel and logging them to a log file. Note: Audit framework compatibility with containers was fixed in Linux 3.15, see [1], however interpreting audit records may be difficult as support for namespace ID is still work in progress, see [2]. In-kernel audit support is available in linux (since 4.18), linux-lts (since 4.19), linux-zen (since 4.18) and linux-hardened. For custom kernels CONFIG_AUDIT should be enabled. Audit can be enabled at boot-time by setting audit=1 as kernel parameter. For userspace support install audit and start/enable auditd.service. Note: In order to disable audit completely and suppress audit messages from appearing in journal you may set audit=0 as kernel parameter and/or mask systemd-journald-audit.socket. Audit framework is composed of the auditd daemon, responsible for writing the audit messages that were generated through the audit kernel interface and triggered by application and system activity. This daemon can be controlled by several commands and files: • auditctl : to control the behavior of the daemon on the fly, adding rules etc. • /etc/audit/audit.rules : contains the rules and various parameters of the auditd daemon • aureport : generate report of the activity on a system • ausearch : search for various events • auditspd : the daemon which can be used to relay event notifications to other applications instead of writing them to disk in the audit log • autrace : this command can be used to trace a process, in a similar way as strace. • /etc/audit/auditd.conf : configuration file related to the logging. Adding rules Before adding rules, you must know that the audit framework can be very verbose and that each rule must be carefully tested before being effectively deployed. Indeed, just one rule can flood all your logs within a few minutes. Audit files and directories access The most basic use of the audit framework is to log the access to the files you want. To do this, you must use a watch -w to a file or a directory The most basic rule to set up is to track accesses to the passwd file : # auditctl -w /etc/passwd -p rwxa You can track access to a folder with : # auditctl -w /etc/security/ The first rule keeps track of every read r , write w , execution x , attribute change a to the file /etc/passwd. The second one keeps track of any access to the /etc/security/ folder. You can list all active rules with : # auditctl -l You can delete all rules with : # auditctl -D Once you validate the rules, you can append them to the /etc/audit/audit.rules file like that : -w /etc/audit/audit.rules -p rwxa -w /etc/security/ Audit syscalls The audit framework allows you to audit the syscalls performed with the -a option. A security related rule is to track the chmod syscall, to detect file ownership changes : # auditctl -a entry,always -S chmod For a list of all syscalls: syscalls(2) A lot of rules and posibilities are available, see auditctl(8) and audit.rules(7). Search the logs The audit framework provides some tools to ease the use and the research of events happening on a system. Using pid You can search events related to a particular pid using ausearch: # ausearch -p 1 This command will show you all the events logged according to your rules related to PID 1 (i.e. systemd). Using keys One of the great features of the audit framework is its ability to use keys to manage events, such a usage is recommended. You can use the -k option in your rules to be able to find related events easily : # auditctl -w /etc/passwd -p rwxa -k KEY_pwd Then, if you search for events with the key KEY_pwd, ausearch will display only event related to the file /etc/passwd. # ausearch -k KEY_pwd Look for abnormalities The aureport tool can be used to quickly report any abnormal event performed on the system, it includes network interfaces used in promiscous mode, process or thread crashing or exiting with ENOMEM error etc. The easiest way to use aureport is : # aureport -n aureport can be used to generate custom reports, see aureport(8). Which files or syscalls are worth-auditing? Keep in mind that each audit rule added will generate logs, so you must be ready to treat this amount of information. Basically, each security-related event/file must be monitored, like ids, ips, anti-rootkits etc. On the other side, it's totally useless to track every write syscall, the smallest compilation will fill your logs with this event. More complex set of rules can be set up, performing auditing on a very fine-grained base. If you want to do so, see auditctl(8). Gather logs from different hosts The audit framework has a plugin system which provides the possibility to send local logfiles to a remote auditd. Send logfiles To send your logfiles to a remote host you need the audisp-remote plugin which comes automatically with the audit package. Activate the plugin: active = yes direction = out path = /usr/bin/audisp-remote type = always format = string and set the remote host where the logs should be send to: remote_server = port = 60 ##local_port = optional transport = tcp Receive logfiles To make audit listen for remote audispds you just need to set the tcp options: tcp_listen_port = 60 tcp_listen_queue = 5 tcp_max_per_addr = 1 ##tcp_client_ports = 1024-65535 #optional tcp_client_max_idle = 0 Now you can view the logs of all configured hosts in the logfiles of the receiving auditd.
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On the basis of now classical ethnographic studies by O. A. Sukhareva, the author traces the technical transformation and diversification of the traditional silk and cotton textile weaving and dying in the vernacular manufactures of the cities of Qarshi and Kitab under Russian Protectorate and in the early Soviet period (see notably, in the latter city, the role played by the manufacturer Tursun-Jan ‘Chulaq’).  This study brings interesting nuances to the prevailing estimations on the escheat of vernacular manufacture under Russian dominance, and sketches perspectives on the craftsmanship and manufacture continuities between the colonial and early Soviet periods. Stéphane A. Dudoignon, National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris CER: I-4.2-353
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The Creationism vs. Evolution Debate Let us clearly state up front that the ongoing controversy of “Creation vs. Evolution” will never be resolved to the satisfaction of the secular scientific community. It cannot be resolved in a secular context regardless of the well-intended efforts of many on either side of the debate, or in between, because the current focus of the argument is emotionally and factually misdirected. Armed with only the observations of current and historical geologic processes and other empirical data, and assuming natural history has been a continuum across billions of years, the present secular paradigms of geological and evolutionary theory are about the best belief system that the educated carnal mind of man could be expected to conceive and accept from the available physical evidence. Without the input of Biblical Authority, current theories are incomplete and many questions and mysteries remain unresolved, especially in relation to the origins of mankind. Secular scientists are confident to point out scientific inaccuracies of the Bible because they have been led to view the Bible through the distorted lenses of traditional Biblical interpretation. What these scientists have successfully contradicted is traditionally-held Biblical interpretation; specifically, that all things were created out of nothing only about six thousand years ago, as espoused by Young Earth Creationists. However, when you get down to the solid core of what the Bible actually and truly says, Scripture compared to Scripture, there is no scientific evidence in existence today to refute what it actually says: All life, indeed an entire ancient world order, had already perished from the face of the Earth long before the seven days of Genesis. The rightly-divided Scriptures reveal that the seven days of Genesis are a REGENERATION of the heavens and earth, and that life on this planet has not been an actual continuum. Both the Bible and scientific data are most certainly in agreement on one very key point: This planet Earth is very, very old, and if God authored both the Word and Earth’s geologic record, no real contradiction in fact can possibly exist. The fault MUST be interpretive on both sides. Noah’s flood and Divine creative intervention by a Holy God are not factored into the world’s accepted origins model, because God can’t be observed or quantified in a physical system or seen under a microscope, although the results of His work can be observed and quantified. For these reasons there is an unbridgeable gap between secular Empirical Science and the Christian faith in respect to both Creation and Noah’s flood. Empirical Science is the pursuit of quantifiable facts and repeatable observations and is limited to the physical sphere of reality. From this purely physical perspective, the geological evidence appears to indicate that this planet and the life on it are the result of natural processes over time, and that the existence of all life forms and extinction must be credited to a natural process of random mutations and selection by nature itself. In such a paradigm of interpretation, the researcher’s faith is in a theory or synthesis of theories which seems to best fit the observations. The Christian, on the other hand, must also deal with spiritual things, which are just as real as physical things, but can only be seen through the agency of faith by the illumination of the Word of God. An honest born-again Christian (who is also a scientist) cannot be fully objective in an empirical perspective in dealing with the question of origins. The acceptance of God’s Words on matters of original sin and supernatural agency hold us accountable to a higher interpretive system, a system which has no place of welcome in the institutional physical sciences of the world. No amount of compromise will be acceptable to either the Naturalist or Creationist extremes of each respective school. That being said, please do not misunderstand. A lot of good knowledge emerges from the practice of good science and the scientific method, and there are a lot of good Christians who are scientists. But when it comes to matters of origins and the things of God, natural science (without God) is as much out of its depth in providing the full truth as the Young Earth Creationist who ignores solid scientific data. Behind the scenes, however, the real driving issue between Naturalists and Creationists is not the existence of God. The real issue is whether all things were created by the Hebrew God of the Holy Bible and according to a designed purpose and specific time scale. The authority of the Bible and the moral issue of personal accountability to God are the hidden root of all contention in that debate. Leaving behind the vanity and politics of the Creation/Evolution debate, those who have a well-grounded faith in the Scriptures and a good knowledge of the geological evidence (not theories) are in the better position to attain to a more perfect understanding of how all the pieces of the puzzle fit together. It is only when we accept God and His Words as the final authority in ALL matters that we are able to perceive the complete picture and resolve the “6,000 years problem” at the heart of the controversy. It is our goal through these web pages to provide you some of those answers. The Bible will ALWAYS have an answer, although we may not immediately see it. For example, it was not until a few centuries ago that the Geological sciences had progressed to the point where the previously-accepted 6,000 year age of the Earth, which was dogma in both the institutions of Church and science, began to be questioned by what was observed in the geological record. Some theologians of the day who were honest enough to realize the truth of those emerging observations and were steadfast, faithful, and committed to defending the Scriptures, were inspired to observe the possibility of a time “Gap” between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 in the Creation narrative. That “Gap” had always been there – ever since the day Moses penned the book – but not many eyes were open to seeing or understanding it until the times were right. It was already there when the Scottish theologian, Thomas Chalmers, first noticed and began to preach it in the early 19th century. Up until then, the real age of the Earth was not a burning issue. But when the proper time came, the Word of God once again proved itself timely and relevant to the level of scientific understanding of the day. This is “Progressive Revelation” and it continues even in our present age. Here is another example of Progressive Revelation in the book of Revelation: (Revelation 11:9 KJV) The question is how could people all over the world, in different nations and places, all “see” these dead bodies on a street in Jerusalem at the same time? Certainly from the time John wrote it in about 90 AD, up to about the middle of the 20th century, nobody could understand how that would be possible. But today, with global satellite Television and Internet Web Cams, anyone today can understand how it is possible. The point is this: It was a truth that was not revealed to mankind until it was TIME, even though that literal truth had always been there. The same holds true for the Genesis narrative. When it was time for man to learn about geology and Earth’s natural history, and the full truth about origins, the qualifying verses and explanations were already there in the Genesis narratives and elsewhere in the Bible. It was TIME for those truths to unseal. It is now time for the Fundamental Christian Church to accept this paradigm shift. This line of thinking is completely lost, of course, on the Young Earth “Creation Scientists” of today who preach that the original creation of ALL things occurred only 6,000 years ago. They also use Noah’s flood as the catchall solution to explaining the Earth’s sedimentary rocks. They claim that all the Earth’s hydrocarbons (coal and oil) were made by Noah’s flood. Some claim that most of the Earth’s mountains were uplifted during Noah’s flood. Some even claim that the Ice Age was precipitated by Noah’s flood. Because their theology demands that all of the Earth’s natural history be jammed into a narrow 6,000-year period, they are required to have the dinosaurs roaming the earth before the flood, side by side with mankind, and a few even have dinosaurs listed as part of the animals on Noah’s Ark. The “Science” (see 1 Timothy 6:20) for support of this belief system is based mainly on appeals to anomalies, “what if” arguments, “water canopies” which defy the laws of physics, and a peculiar collection of urban legends. It is neither good science nor good Biblical interpretation. I don’t dispute that Noah’s flood was real, because the Bible tells us that Noah’s flood was real; shortly we will propose a flood model that addresses the real-world Scriptural and scientific requirements. The major point which must first be clearly understood is that both the Earth’s geology and the Scriptures tell us that Noah’s flood could NOT have been responsible for the earth’s extensive sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous petrology. Freshman level knowledge of the Law of Superposition and field observations of Angular Unconformities in folded mountain sediments say otherwise. But more importantly, the Bible itself witnesses against these false claims. This is discussed more in depth in our section on Fossils and Sedimentary Rock. The notions of alleged major tectonic and/or volcanic activity at work during Noah’s flood are conclusively shown to be false by the low levels of SO4 ions (acid) in the ice layers of the Greenland Ice Sheet, which can be correlated to the time of the flood. That same Ice Sheet contains a wealth of Paleoclimate data which show that all of earth’s geologic history cannot be compacted into a 6,000-year time frame, especially when its layer history can be dated and traced back over a period in excess of 100,000 years and cross verified with assorted proxy dating methods. The bottom line is this: We should not lightly dismiss the claims of Young Earth Creationists – we should violently discard them. Noah’s flood is not a credible scapegoat to evade the tough technical and Scriptural issues. The full truth about Creation and Noah’s flood for a faithful Bible Believer must fit all the observations and verses, not just some of them. The full truth is only revealed by a prayerful examination of the EXACT wording of the Scriptures, through the Spirit of Truth, and faith in those words combined with some common sense and reasoning (Isaiah 1:18). It also takes courage and trust in the Lord’s Words and His wisdom, not yours, to see how it all fits together, and standing against the majority position in such matters when necessary. You cannot disregard the full truth revealed by Genesis 1:2 and remain in denial, hiding your head in the sands of traditional interpretation. Remember, in order to effectively witness to the lost, we must be able to demonstrate to the unsaved scientist or intellectual that one does not have to give up his/her brain to believe in Jesus and the Bible; to tell them that God published so that they would not perish. (Let the reader understand the play on the metaphor.) If you can deal with the facts on their turf and show them you know what you are talking about, then you have a better chance to convince them of their need for Jesus. An honest interpretation of the Scriptures and unprejudiced consideration of the geologic data will enable the Bible Believer to effectively witness. Before getting down to the Scriptural and Scientific support for the “Gap Theory” and a focus on the key truths revealed in verse Genesis 1:2, we need to falsify some of the “Creation Science” of the “Young Earth” Creationists by clearly showing what Noah’s flood was (and was NOT) responsible for in respect to the Earth’s geologic record. (KJVBible) *** Will Myers Share this: About Will Myers This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a Reply You are commenting using your account. Log Out /  Change ) Google photo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s
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Easy VPN Startup Using Hosted VPN Services A VPN (Virtual Personal Network) joins a PC or laptop within the Web to the office network enabling the rural consumer to are if they certainly were sitting at their desk in the office. Generally, creating a VPN requires significant complex abilities as work firewall needs to be reconfigured, the VPN machine has to be setup and the complete lot has to be produced secure. After setup and working, the VPN machine needs to be monitored (to guarantee there’s nothing suspicious planning on) and maintained with the newest security areas supplied by the VPN vendor. But, there is an alternative solution method to startup a VPN using a VPN service. A VPN service gives all the features of a VPN host but eliminates the complexity and charge of setup, tracking and maintenance. To pure vpn offered as a site, you’ll need to visit the companies website, enroll on the web and obtain a software program to a system in the office network. That application joins any office network to the VPN Support via the Web without having to change your firewall. By perhaps not changing your firewall, you’ve removed a potential attack stage for hackers who check firewalls to recognize weaknesses. When any office network is connected, you can then put consumers to the company and startup their PCs for VPN access. The heightened VPN services give a way to let the remote user collection themselves up for access to work in order that within minutes of registering, a remote individual may be taking care of their purposes and files as though they certainly were in the office. Some hosted VPN companies just provide access to a person’s possess PC meaning their company PC must often be driven on and they have a PC/Laptop when out of the office. While these kind of VPN solutions function, they are not to eco-friendly (you need a powered on PC for each rural user) and they don’t support actions such as for instance composing and studying mail if you find no internet access (such as on an aeroplane). Other VPN services connect the distant individual to the office network as though their PC was on a extended cable. With your services a distant person joins directly to the record and mail hosts without having to use a desktop PC. With this sort of entry, people use their notebook the identical way in and out of the office and never having to recall if a file was saved on a server or on the laptop. Mail programs such as for example Microsoft Outlook function especially effectively on a network VPN because they allow the user to read and compose mail even if they are not attached to the VPN. When the consumer next attaches to the VPN, prospect may quickly deliver all the newly created mail. Some VPN solutions may also offer a safe way to get into mail and files from any browser to ensure that distant people do not have to have a notebook together at all times. Leave a reply
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Associations to the word «Gut» GUT, noun. The alimentary canal, especially the intestine. GUT, noun. (informal) The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged GUT, noun. (uncountable) The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc. GUT, noun. A person's emotional, visceral self. GUT, noun. (informal) A gut course GUT, noun. A narrow passage of water. GUT, noun. The sac of silk taken from a silkworm when ready to spin its cocoon, for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. When dry, it is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fishing line. GUT, verb. (transitive) To eviscerate. GUT, verb. (transitive) To remove or destroy the most important parts of. GUT, adjective. Made of gut, e.g., a violin with gut strings GUT, adjective. Instinctive, e.g., a gut reaction GUT BARGING, noun. (British) A sport (or slightly mock sport) in which two men with big fat guts (ie. their bellies) try to push each other off a mat, pushing only with their guts. GUT BUSTER, noun. (colloquial) An extremely funny joke. GUT BUSTER, noun. (colloquial) A meal that causes particular gastronomic pain. GUT CHECK, noun. (idiomatic) (sometimes hyphenated (especially when used attributively)) An honest, reflective appraisal of one's true feelings concerning a matter of concern. GUT FACTOR, noun. (idiomatic) The emotional dimension of decision making. A persons subjective (often almost visceral) feelings about what feels right or wrong, good or bad. An inner persuasion that one may feel convinced is the appropriate decision. GUT FEELING, noun. (idiomatic) an instinct or intuition; an immediate or basic feeling or reaction without a logical rationale GUT FEELINGS, noun. Plural of gut feeling GUT REACTION, noun. (idiomatic) An instantaneous reaction made without thought. GUT REACTIONS, noun. Plural of gut reaction GUT REHAB, noun. A major restoration project on an old house or other building, ripping out plaster walls back to the studs and rafters and replacing them along with some or all of the trim, windows and doors, plumbing and electrical systems, exterior siding, roof, etc. GUT ROT, noun. (slang) Stomach ache. GUT SHOOT, verb. Alternative form of gut-shoot GUT SHOOTING, verb. Present participle of gut shoot GUT SHOOTS, verb. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gut shoot GUT SHOT, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of gut shoot GUT SHOT, adjective. Alternative form of gut-shot GUT SHOT, noun. A shot in the gut. GUT SHOT, noun. A gut-shot straight. GUT SHOT STRAIGHT, noun. Alternative form of gut-shot straight GUT SHOT STRAIGHTS, noun. Plural of gut shot straight GUT SHOTS, noun. Plural of gut shot Dictionary definition GUT, noun. The part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus. GUT, noun. A narrow channel or strait. GUT, noun. A strong cord made from the intestines of sheep and used in surgery. GUT, verb. Empty completely; destroy the inside of; "Gut the building". GUT, verb. Remove the guts of; "gut the sheep". Wise words Joel Osteen