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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29254 | In "Looper" the future bad-guys send back people to be killed in a field by a guy with a stupid gun who then takes them into what appears to be a massively-insecure blast-furnace equipped factory of some sort.
Why couldn't they just make the people appear inside the furnace in the first place?
Was there a reason given other than it would have made for a considerably shorter film?
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The much better question would be why they need to send people back through time in the first place. They didn't have any problem kidnapping old Joe for example. They cannot tell me somebody could find him if they dissolve him into some large furnace right in the future. In the end they didn't have any problem killing his wife with a good old present gunshot. But Ok, that's just how the movie works. – Napoleon Wilson Mar 26 '13 at 23:47
I think the intention is that it's a lot easier and cleaner to have someone on the other side there to make sure the victim is taken care of, rather than just popping them to a location that they'll die at.
Think about it this way. Lets say that they did pop people into a furnace to kill them. What happens if said furnace is down that day and the victim doesn't get killed? Now they've got a royal mess on their hands.
Ok, so a man-made way to kill them doesn't work, lets pop them over some lava. Can they do that? Transport someone mid-air? That doesn't seem likely as we always see them touching the ground when they appear, but we can't be sure of the laws. OK, the bottom of the ocean? Well that's submersing them in a non-air medium, which might not be possible.
So, out of all of the possibilites I can think of, transporting someone back to a known spot in time to be killed by someone seems the most logical, especially since you have someone back there governing everything.
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To be clear, they transport people through time, not through space. In other words, if they were to send someone to the bottom of the ocean, they would have to build the time machine at the bottom of the ocean. – DisgruntledGoat Oct 21 '12 at 23:26
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@DisgruntledGoat They sent old Joe from future China to Kansas. How? Also, the Earth is rotating and flying through space every second, never in the same spot twice. – Chloe Dec 5 '13 at 4:42
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@Chloe You could be correct there. I don't recall off hand but I thought there was only one time machine? To be honest, it's probably not worth thinking about this, the sci-fi in Looper isn't particularly solid anyway. – DisgruntledGoat Dec 6 '13 at 16:29
For the same reason Batman lived as long as he did; when no one is there to supervise the death, there's no way to be sure the death actually occurred. Yes, I guess they could have someone sitting outside the blast furnace door peeking through a window to make sure the transport took place, but why bother? Sticking them in a field and knowing they're gonna get popped with a shotgun is probably just as easy and much more easily confirmed.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29262 | Today I was writing a song and I came up with some embellishments over the verse that I really liked.
I was alternating over D and Am7 (open shape, usual x02010), then I slid the fretting fingers up two frets to a Bm7-ish (x04030), then again to a C-ish (x05050) and finally to a Em7-ish (x09070)
Basically I am moving the Am7 shape over the neck, harmonising in sixths on strings 2 and 4 and letting strings 1, 3 and 5 ring. This way the chord stays the same but I manage to incorporate a melody over it without losing the strumming flow.
I know about playing in double stops, but here I am really interested in including strumming over open strings as well.
Question is/are:
• which other open chord position can I move the same way?
• has this technique got a name (so I can search resources accordingly)?
• do you know notable songs/pieces/artists that use it?
• Would something like "using a chord shape with open strings as a movable shape" be a more illustrative title? – topo Reinstate Monica Apr 23 '18 at 20:54
• Not actually, because the shape changes based on the lead note (C, D and G need an underlying major 6th as opposed to A, B and E) ^^ – moonwave99 Apr 23 '18 at 20:56
• Aha ok. I like the sound of this kind of thing too... Will be interested in the answers! – topo Reinstate Monica Apr 23 '18 at 21:17
• Generally this kind of thing is called a pedal or drone/bordun. I'm not aware of a more specific term for the particular variant on guitar with a two-voice homophonic melody on top, but it's certainly something done regularly by some guitarists, perhaps most commonly in blues with open tunings. Jimmy Page used it innovatively as the whole basis for a number of songs such as Kashmir and Friends. – leftaroundabout Apr 23 '18 at 22:22
• Pete Townshend moved an open E voicing up the fretboard, strumming open strings too, on I Can See for Miles. If you want to do this sort of thing, you can learn by experimenting; but the best thing to do is to really learn how chords are constructed and to learn the fretboard well so that you can see opportunities to use open strings when they arise. – ex nihilo Apr 24 '18 at 1:47
It's common to move open E major in this way on guitar.
You are moving chords over a pedal, creating what's known as oblique harmony where some voices move while others stay on the same note(s).
Cream's Deserted Cities of the Heart and the introduction to their version of I'm So Glad utilise this technique.
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• After visiting the Airman Flight School in Norman, Oklahoma (where Zacarias Moussaoui would enroll several months later and where another al Qaeda operative, Ihab Ali, had taken lessons in the mid1990s), Atta started flight instruction at Huffman Aviation in Venice, Florida, and both Atta and Shehhi subsequently enrolled in the Accelerated Pilot Program at that school.
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Red Eating Lunch
The cardinal family that frequents my backyard bird feeder has been around lately in spite of the super cold temperatures. Mom and dad (aka “Red”) feed for a while and scare off the smaller birds. Then a juvenile (their son?) shows up and feeds. It’s only once they all leave that the smaller birds come back.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29295 | TY - JOUR T1 - Strip of the Month: December 2013 JF - NeoReviews JO - NeoReviews SP - e618 LP - e625 DO - 10.1542/neo.14-12-e618 VL - 14 IS - 12 AU - Druzin, Maurice L. AU - Peterson, Nancy Y1 - 2013/12/01 UR - http://neoreviews.aappublications.org/content/14/12/e618.abstract N2 - Electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) is a popular technology used to establish fetal well-being. Despite its widespread use, the terminology used to describe patterns seen on the monitor has not been consistent until recently. In 1997, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Research Planning Workshop published guidelines for interpretation of fetal tracings. This publication was the culmination of 2 years of work by a panel of experts in the field of fetal monitoring and was endorsed in 2005 by both the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses. In 2008, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, NICHD, and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine reviewed and updated the definitions for fetal heart rate (FHR) patterns, interpretation, and research recommendations. The following is a summary of the terminology definitions, and assumptions found in the 2008 NICHD workshop report. Normal values for arterial umbilical cord gas values and indications of acidosis are defined in Table 1.View this table:In this windowIn a new windowTable 1. Arterial Umbilical Cord Gas ValuesAssumptions From the NICHD WorkshopDefinitions are developed for visual interpretation, assuming that both the FHR and uterine activity recordings are of adequate qualityDefinitions apply to tracings generated by internal or external monitoring devicesPeriodic patterns are differentiated based on waveform, abrupt or gradual (eg, late decelerations have a gradual onset and variable decelerations have an abrupt onset)Long- and short-term variability are evaluated visually as a unitGestational age of the fetus is considered when evaluating patternsComponents of FHR do not occur alone and generally evolve over timeDefinitionsBaseline FHRApproximate mean FHR rounded to increments of 5 beats per minute in a 10-minute segment of tracing, excluding accelerations and decelerations, periods of marked variability, and segments of baseline that differ by >25 beats per minuteIn the 10-minute segment, the minimum … ER - |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29296 | How to install SSL VPN service on Windows 10 ？
The default browser of the Windows 10 Enterprise operating system is Edge. Testing has revealed that it does not support the current SSL VPN installation. Therefore, Internet Explorer(IE) must be found, then SSL VPN can be installed and run(the installation is shown on this page) on Windows 10.Internet Explorer(IE) browser in Windows 10 is shown as follows:
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29330 | Do Your Pants Hang Low?
I live in small town in northern Ontario. Cochrane, like many small towns, has a busy main street. Most of the stores and services I needed that day were in easy walking distance, so I parked my truck at one end of the our main street. I could go up one side and down the other, completing everything … Continue reading Do Your Pants Hang Low? |
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What does being "saved" mean and what are we "saved" from. Pastor Eric opens God's Word in Galatians 2:20 and shows us that our life is found in Him and His sacrifice.
It’s time now for Session Four of SURRENDERED:
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of Baptism. We will see that baptism “tells” faith the old life in
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Changes in blood pressure during epidural anesthesia
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29390 | Tale of a Tantric
What happens when a seer uses his occult powers to violate the rules of the Jagannatha temple?
When Lord Jagannatha is bathed with a hundred and eight pots of sacred water on the occasion of the Snana Jatra, he falls ill with a fever. And so he is unable to grant his sight, darshan to his devotees. This period is called the Anasara in Odia, corrupted form of Sanskrit Anavasara. It is during this period that devotees throng to the famed Alarnath Temple at Brahmagiri. Meanwhile, they can see Pattachitra Paintings of the Triad in the temple sanctum. After treatment from the traditional Ayurvedic Vaidyas, the Gods recover after a fortnight.
This story precisely touches on the topic of Anasara. With an magical angry tantric, this is one of those mystical legends that still amaze people.
Anasara Patis of Puri, edited image.
The Story
Part 1
“How can the supreme have a fever? What is this rubbish? People believing in this can not be true followers of Jagannatha. By doing this, not only are you sinning by disbelieving him, but also by denying his sight to millions of anxious devotees. Open the door.”
The angry Tantric was fuming with anger. His name was Karnama Giri. A muscular man, he wore a humble cloth and held a cloth bag with his ritual paraphernalia- his piercing eyes refused to take a ‘no’ for an answer. Vermillion smeared all over his face and ashy matted hair- he looked like a masculine manifestation of Shakti herself.
One man from the crowd that had flocked there, amused by his frightening appearance asked-”It hasn’t even been a day since you arrived here, and you dare to question the rituals of this centuries old temple? Who are you to challenge the way of the Gods?”
Another of the crowd said, “It has been said- the deities are sick with fever. Let them rest. Why do you try to interrupt their sleep?
But the sadhu was stubborn. In his years of rigorous learning, he had come to realise that the Brahma is supreme. And when he comes to gaze at the formless being’s form, here are a bunch of stupid people who believe that the Brahma can catch a fever. What fools! How arrogant!
While the ascetic was lost in his thoughts, a man from the crowd sarcastically said, “If you are so confident that what you hold is the truth, then why don’t you go to our King, the Gajapati, and convince him to change the system? Only he has the power to alter what has been for centuries. And with strong evidence.”
However, Karnama didn’t see the humour in it. He asked for the Gajapati King’s address and set out. Not for a moment did he stop for fifty miles. Such was his mastery over Tantra that he could replenish his lost energy in a snap.
This is an incident of the 12th century, when Odisha was ruled by the Gangadynasty. The King was then in Sarangagada, and it took no time for the ghastly, emaciated sadhu to reach the fort’s entrance.
The King was amused at the sight- and even more at his demand. He patiently explained the sadhu that it was not possible for him to change what has been for years. Moreover, the Anasara Puja is the most secret ritual- no one knows what happens inside those closed doors. Not even the King. Only the Daitapatis, said to be blood-descendants of the Tribal King Bishwabasu who originally worshipped Jagannatha, do. And the secret was not to be revealed, for what is hidden must remain hidden. When the guest argued that this was a great hoax, the Maharaja was forced to concede to his demands, though partially. First the sanyasi had to prove what he claimed, and then the Maharaja would do his bit.
The invigorated sadhu said, “Let us depart for P uri. There I shall reveal to you the secret behind the Anasara Room.”The King gave him a few chickpeas. He watched the sadhu proceed towards a banyan tree and climb atop it like a madman. The ancient sadhu shut his eyes and remembered his revered deity, Karnameshwara, a form of Shiva. He ordered the Banyan tree to take him to Puri. The tree uprooted itself and flew like an aircraft. The Raja stood there, speechless with wonder. This was no ordinary mortal. He was an elevated being.
(I know I know, hard to believe because we know science. But stories are not science. You listen to it or you don’t.)
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Karnama popped them into his mouth, one by one. By the time he flung the last bit towards his mouth, the tree landed in Puri.
He went to the temple. All he had to do was get behind those closed doors. Nothing difficult for him. He gathered his yogic powers and tried to walk past those huge doors. When he shut his eyes and peeked inside in his mind, Karnama saw thousands of roads. Which was the right path that would lead him to the Anasara Chamber? Confused, he withdrew. He had to think of some other method.
This time he used Tantra. He turned himself to a bee, and flew through the narrow slit in the darkness. Immediately behind, he saw a huge lotus flower. It had eight petals. Eight enchanting maidens sat around it, each with a petal. Now, Karnama, having taken the form of a bee, was drawn towards the lotus. As much as he tried to resist his temptation, he could not. As an accomplished tantric he could withdraw effortlessly from carnal desires, but as a bee, he could not control himself. The heavy scent of the flower pulled him towards it. He flew towards the flower and fell inside. The tiny bee got drenched in the lotus’ irresistible scent.
Panicking, the sadhu remembered his adored BhairavaKarnameshwara was the only one who could save him. Oh, how many years of practice had made him perfect in the Tantras. Countless hours in terrible graveyards, heart-chilling Tantric rituals, beasts and ghouls and ghosts- all of these tests he had passed unscathed. Not once had he quivered- by the grace of Karnameshwara. And now, when he puts his art into use, it fails him! The deity at whose feet he has spent his life- that very deity is now unable to protect him! Here he is, as a bee, helplessly flapping his wings to escape the cursed flower.
Why, Jagannatha was none other than that being whom the Tantras worship.” Oh Jagannatha, won’t you pull me out of this cavernous flower?” prayed Karnama. Gathering all the life left in him, he tried as hard as he could to escape. Escape, and never return. Go away from this wretched fate. Somehow, he went through a hole in the door. Ah, how he had escaped alive! Who wanted to know what is inside that room? Life was more precious.
Now safe, Karnama wondered to himself, “How strange is the aura of this place that all my accomplishments fail me! How great is the deity that presides over this land that my god fails me! What would I not achieve by his sight!”
The thought energised Karnama. He wanted to try again. Who knows if what he would see could change his life! How many people would bless him, how the King would thank him for uncovering the fact.
They said that only the descendants of the Tribal King Bishwabasu had access to the Lord. Why, was that man more knowledgeable! He himself was inferior to none. Excited, he used his prowess, this time to make himself invisible. He waited for the Daitapatis to enter the room. He would enter it behind them, and no one could harm him this way. Soon, the said servitors arrived. They entered the secret chamber, and Karnama went behind. He became blind for a moment before his eyes could adapt to the darkness. As the darkness faded away to the dim light of a flickering lamp, he saw something very strange.
What he saw was an empty throne. The temple’s Ratnasinghasana was empty. No one sat on it. No Godly image was present. Suddenly, he noticed eight maidens at the four corners of the temple. What heavenly beauties! They sat surrounding the temple in an octahedral shape. A bit later, he realised that he was swaying away from his goal. He ran his eyes across the room again, but could find no God. Where was that great deity?
The eight ladies turned. They looked at him and at each other, and chuckled. Karnama felt he was being mocked. He could never find what he had ventured out to.
The defeated ascetic left. He returned to that Banyan tree. When the King arrived, he would make it clear- no one could tell what lay behind those doors. While leaving through the gates of the temple, he bowed down his head in obeisance to the Lord of this Land, Jagannatha- the great Lord of the Tantras before whom his life’s accomplishments had failed.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29408 | From what I understand most digital cameras have a sensor where each pixel-sensor has three sub-sensors, each one with an R,G and B filter. RGB is obviously the more fundamental colour model since it directly corresponds with the receptors (cones) in the human eye.
However, RGB filters necessarily cut out two thirds of white light to get their component. Surely cameras would benefit from shorter exposure times if the filters were instead CYM where each element cuts out only one third of the light? The camera's processor can still save the image in whatever format the consumer wants since a CYM datapoint can be converted easily to an RGB one.
I know this is sometimes done in astrophotography where three separate B&W photos are taken with CYM filters.
Am I just wrong and this is, in fact, what's already done - or is there a good reason for an RGB sensor?
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In long exposure astrophotography, one of the few areas where the total amount of light captured is a major concern, a common approach is to use a pure monochrome sensor and combine (relatively) short exposures periods taken with red, green, and blue filters to color the image, with a much longer interval where no filter is used to maximize the detail in the final result. – Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight Oct 16 '13 at 13:37
First, a little background to clear up a slight misunderstanding on your part.
**The vast majority of color digital cameras have a Bayer filter that masks each pixel with a color filter: Red, Green, or Blue.**¹ The RAW data does not include any color information, but only a luminance value for each pixel.
Not really. There's a lot of green light that makes it past the 'red' and 'blue' filters. There's a lot 'red' light and a good bit of 'blue' light that makes it past the 'green' filter. There's some 'blue' light that makes it past the red filter and vice-versa. The wavelengths that the 'Green' and 'Red' filters are centered on are very close to one another, and 'Red' is usually somewhere between 580nm and 600nm, which is more in 'yellow-orange' territory than 'red'. The "peaks" of the filters in a typical Bayer array aren't aligned with the wavelengths we describe as "red", "green", and "blue."
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So in a sense, our cameras are really YGV (Yellow-Green-Violet) as much as they are RGB. Our color reproduction systems (monitors, printers, web presses, etc.) are what are RGB, CMYK, or some other combination of colors.
As one can see, the green filtered pixels on a Bayer sensor array are the most sensitive to light. Additionally, half the color filters on a Bayer array are green, with only one-quarter being blue and the remaining quarter being "red". This makes our sensors more sensitive to the middle of the visible spectrum that to either end of it. The sensor referenced above is most efficient with light just above 500 nm.
Once we also consider that sunlight when filtered by the Earth's atmosphere is also brighter in the middle visible wavelengths than on the extremes, it should become clear why our eyes evolved to be more sensitive to those middle parts of the visible spectrum and why we design our camera sensors to also be most efficient at those middle wavelengths.
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As the illustration above shows, sunlight is strongest at these middle wavelengths and our eyes and cameras are most efficient/sensitive at those same wavelengths. So even though there are three different color filters on a Bayer mask, we don't lose fully two-thirds of the light with a reasonably efficient sensor.
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The colors used in Bayer filter arrays mimic the human eye, where our 'red' cones are centered around 565 nm, which is a greenish yellow, as opposed to our 'green' cones that are centered around 540 nm, which is green with just a tint of yellow mixed in. Our 'blue' cones are centered at about 420 nm. For more about how both the human vision system and our cameras create "color" out of the portion of the electromagnetic radiation spectrum we call "light", please see: Why are Red, Green, and Blue the primary colors of light?
There's no hard cutoff between the filter colors, such as with a filter used on a scientific instrument that only lets a very narrow band of wavelengths through. It's more like the color filters we use on B&W film. If we use a red filter with B&W film all of the green objects don't disappear or look totally black, as they would with a hard cutoff. Rather, the green objects will look a darker shade of grey than red objects that are similarly bright in the actual scene.
Just as with the human eye, almost all Bayer filters include twice as many "Green" pixels as they do "Red" or "Blue" pixels. In other words every other pixel is masked with "Green" and the remaining half are split between "Red" and "Blue". So a 20MP sensor would have roughly 10M Green, 5M Red, and 5M Blue pixels. When the luminance values from each pixel are interpreted by the camera's processing unit the difference between adjacent pixels masked with different colors are used to interpolate a Red, Green, and Blue value (that actually corresponds to somewhere around 480, 530, and 640 nanometers) for each pixel. Each color is additionally weighted to roughly the sensitivity of the human eye, so the "Red" pixels carry a little more weight than the "Blue" ones do.
The process of converting monochrome luminance values from each pixel into an interpolated RGB value for each pixel is known as demosaicing. Since most camera manufacturers use proprietary algorithms to do this, using third party RAW convertors such as Adobe Camera RAW or DxO Optics will yield slightly different results than using the manufacturer's own RAW convertor. There are some sensor types, such as the Foveon, that do have three color sensitive layers stacked on top of each other. But the manufacturers claim such a sensor with three 15MP layers stacked on each other is a 45MP sensor. In reality such an arrangement yields the same amount of detail as an approximately 30MP conventional Bayer masked sensor. The problem with Foveon type sensors, at least thus far, has been poorer noise performance in low light environments.
So why don't most digital cameras use CYM filters instead of RGB¹ filters? The primary reason is color accuracy as defined by the human perception of the different wavelengths of light. It is much more difficult to interpolate color values accurately using values from adjacent pixels when using a CYM mask than when using an "RGB" mask.¹ So you give up a little light sensitivity to gain color accuracy. After all, most commercial photography at the highest levels is either done with controlled lighting (such as a portrait studio where it is easy enough to add light) or from a tripod (which allows longer exposure times to collect more light). And the demands of professional photographers are what drives the technology that then finds its way down to the consumer grade products.
¹ Except the three color filters for most Bayer masked "RGB" cameras are really 'blue-with a touch of violet', 'Green with a touch of yellow', and somewhere between 'Yellow with a touch of green' (which mimics the human eye the most) and 'Yellow with a lot of orange' (which seems to be easier to implement for a CMOS sensor).
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• Thanks for the Bayer filter information. As someone who lives in a gloomy, low-light country I'd always optimise for sensitivity, but I understand the argument for colour accuracy. Great answer! – Robin Oct 17 '13 at 13:06
• Does your gloomy, low light country not have electricity and light bulbs? :-) – Michael C Oct 17 '13 at 23:42
• We are the most CCTV covered country in the world, so I guess some cameras work. As for light bulbs... I prefer to harness the glorious power of the sun. – Robin Oct 18 '13 at 9:00
• Even the glorious power of the sun needs a reflector sometimes to cast light on the shadow side of a subject. And the sun is 'asleep' half the time over the course of a year, no matter where on this planet you are. – Michael C Oct 23 '13 at 7:47
Cyan magenta yellow sensors have been made, along with red green cyan and a few other variations.
The main problem is that even with RGB sensors there is significant overlap between the spectral response of each of the dyes, i.e. the "green" pixels are sensitive to red and blue light to a certainer extent. This means the results require complex calculations to obtain accurate colours, the relative responses of adjacent red and blue pixels are used to judge how much of the green response was really the result of red and blue light.
With CMY the problem is much worse. You're essentially trading light efficiency for colour accuracy. This may be fine for astronomical photography where you don't always have crisp colour boundaries, hence you can reduce colour noise by blurring, but it's not good for landscape or fashion photography.
Amongst RGB chips, the exact choice of filters varies by manufacturer. Canon for instance uses weak dyes with broad response in order to chase low light performance, but the specific dyes used are also tuned toward discerning colours under fluorescent lighting, for the benefit of the army of sports and news photographers who use Canon cameras.
Sony on the other hand with the A900 tried to break into the professional fashion market by providing very high colour accuracy. Colour filter arrays used in medium format digital backs are tuned to provide pleasing (though not necessarily accurate) skintones.
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• Would it be practical for a camera to attempt to achieve somewhat eye-like performance by using a mixture of strongly-died and weakly-died pixels, possibly varying the pixel size as well, so that in lighting conditions where the smaller strongly-dyed pixels were picking up meaningful data they would be used to produce saturated colors, while in lower-light conditions the more weakly-dyed pixels would provide a cleaner luminance channel while adaptive filtering was used to clean up noise in the chroma? – supercat Jun 10 '14 at 17:10
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"The main problem is that even with RGB sensors there is significant overlap between the spectral response of each of the dyes..." It would be a much larger problem if each filter totally blocked any frequencies of light allowed by the others. The entire perception of "color" by human vision is due to the overlapping way the cones in our retinas respond to light of various frequencies. There are no colors implicit in various wavelengths of light itself, only in the perception of light by our trichromatic vision with overlapping responses of the S, M, and L cones in our retinas. – Michael C Feb 13 '19 at 1:49
The reasons camera makers settled on the RGBG Bayer array likely has more to do with patents, availability, and cost, than it does with color "accuracy". In principle, any set of three appropriate, "orthogonal" (so to speak), colors should be fine for color reproduction. With more advanced sensors and processors, it should be even easier.
I doubt the RGB vs CMY color accuracy claim because conversions between RGB and CMYK are done all the time for print. Also, prior to white balancing, the demosaicked colors in raw files are nothing close to the actual desired colors. If the colors were really "accurate", photographers wouldn't have to spend so much time color correcting photos.
Fujifilm's various sensor experiments (Super CCD, EXR CMOS, X-Trans) demonstrate that just because everyone else does something a particular way doesn't mean it's necessarily the best way to do it. Kodak also experimented with different color arrays, but they didn't do a very good job of marketing their technology and patents.
The Nikon Coolpix 5700, a 5mp camera from around 2002, appears to be among the last cameras to use a CYGM color array. Digital Photography Review says (emphasis added):
Image quality is excellent, with that great matrix metering, good tonal balance and colour (accurate and vivid without blowing out colours) plus above average resolution. Purple fringing is down but the overall look of the image is still very 'Coolpix'. Noise levels are good, especially when compared to other five megapixel digital cameras (as indicate by our comparison to the Minolta DiMAGE 7i).
The few image quality details we picked up on; barrel distortion, highlight clipping and Bayer artifacts aren't the kinds of problems which affect every day shooting and won't spoil your overall enjoyment of the 5700's image quality.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29439 | Everyday Miracles with Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D.
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Have you ever wondered how your cat or dog seems to know when you're coming home or how you know when you're being stared at from behind? These invisible links found in nature are some of the topics explored in this discussion with Rupert Sheldrake, one of the most innovative scientists of our time. Sheldrake believes that all self-organizing systems (including human society) have invisible fields within and around them which shape and mold their development. He calls them, "morphic fields." He proposes that "these morphic fields have the shape they do because they have a memory built in, a kind of collective memory of the species, by the process I call 'morphic resonance' -- the influence of the past on the present." (hosted by Michael Toms)
He's the author of several books including:
Topics Explored in This Dialogue
• Why your dog or cat knows when you’re coming home
• What are the unseen forces of nature in your life
• What is the relationship between the plant and animal kingdoms
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From Album: Earth: Voices of a Planet
Artist: Paul Winter Consort
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Artist: Paul Winter Consort
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29448 | Log, Mortise and Tenon
A mortise and tenon is used with all types of logs, and bolts are also used in newer log buildings. They can make the wall uniform so that it remains straight and does not bulge. Spruce logs tend to twist considerably as they dry, which is why larger mortises and tenons must be used with them.
The ends of the logs bordering openings are supported by T-battens. T-battens allow the log wall to descend and prevent the bulging of the wall. The T-battens can be fitted with non-descending components such as window and door frames. The T-battens can be door, window or fire battens.
A fire batten serves as a slide surface between a log wall and a brick wall. The purpose of mortise and tenon is to bind the courses of logs to each other and to prevent the lateral movement of the logs and the bending of the walls. The tenons are made from the same wood material as the wall logs or from a material felled at the same time as the logs. A tenon has a round cross-section and is 5 mm thinner at the centre than at the ends. Mortises and tenons must always be used near corners and openings. The recommended spacing in the same log course is 1,200 to 2,000 mm with pine and 80 to 1,300 mm with spruce. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29449 | Juniper meadows
There are large junipers growing in the juniper meadows and beside them low meadow or rock vegetation. There are juniper meadows in all over Finland, but they are rather small, only under one hectare. In the latest decays, many juniper meadows have been turned into fields or forests. Many of the meadows have become forested after the end of grazing. There are only a few hundred hectares of uncultivated juniper meadows left in Finland. Many species that have declined lately, thrive in juniper meadows.
In juniper meadows one may…
• graze animals or mow in order to preserve the characteristics of the juniper meadow, thin out tight juniper woods and walk around freely.
In juniper meadows one may not…
• fertilize or cultivate the soil, sow or plant seedlings.
• Grazing animals may not be given additional food in the juniper meadows, nor may the animals graze in grassland every now and then to avoid the juniper meadow of becoming eutrophic.
• It is not allowed to build anything in a protected natural habitat. |
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Create python folders with files automagically!
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# pymkdir
A command line utility to create python folders (folders with ``) to quickly create Python packages without the burden of manually creating new folders and then an `` file in it.
## Python Packages
Python treats folders with an `` as packages which can be used to hold python code. Also, in the init file may contain initialization code for the package.
However… after some time coding in Python, one realizes that creating folders and then creating
a file name `` becomes a burden!
But… worry no more! By using pymkdir, the old unix OS function `mkdir` will be improved to ALSO create automagically the `` file! Yes, no more worries!
## Usage
To create a local pyfolder, use the -f/–folder to create a pyfolder with the desired name:
`bash pymkdir -f <folder_name> `
To create a pyfolder at a given directory, use the -p/–path flag (defaults to `./`):
`bash pymkdir -f <folder_name> -p <path_name> `
And… just in case one becomes SO addicted to pymkdir (which is normal) and wants to start using it to create even normal folders (without the ``), just use the -e/–empty flag!
`bash pymkdir -f <folder_name> -p <path_name> -e `
Then, just enjoy the nice output (hopefully one has an UTF-8 based terminal):
`bash _ . * . 📂 Pymkdir 📂 . * . _ Creating the folder name... Creating the file... Done! `
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29457 | Collection : +37 Flowing Water Quotes and Sayings with Images
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Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Flowing Water Quotes of all time (listed in no particular order). You’ve likely heard some of the quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great, so if you’re looking for true inspiration, continue reading :
The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.Bruce Lee
Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by the same currents.Paulo Coelho
The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The river’s voice was sorrowful. It sang with yearning and sadness, flowing towards its goal … Siddhartha was now listening intently…to this song of a thousand voices … then the great song of a thousand voices consisted of one word: Om – Perfection … From that hour Siddhartha ceased to fight against his destiny.Hermann Hesse
A moving door hinge never corrodes. Flowing water never grows stagnant.Ming-Dao Deng
How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind’s commotion in the trees the sound of flowing water among the rocks, a stream unheard before, and you are where breathing is prayer.Wendell Berry
Running water never grows stale.Bruce Lee
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delightM. F. K. Fisher
Only the flowing water is pure and sweet. Only the spinning top and the moving bicycle do not fall over. Rest is not found in irregular and purposeless motion, nor is it stagnation; all real and firm rest is to be sought in harmonious action.Anna Brackett
Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.Bruce Lee
Till last by Philip’s farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.Alfred Lord Tennyson
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29458 | cost-effective websites to
help you launch now
An awesome idea, but fewer resources...
…can be challenging. Your awesome idea of startup needs the right action steps to help you set up a successful business. And those steps are backed up by resources. We understand that having enough resources in the initial days of the startup could be a taxing element as the startup owner (you!) has to spend the limited resources on inventory management, marketing, and a bunch of other stuff. But, this doesn’t mean that it’s a dead-end for you.
Let’s think for a moment that you are able to set up a world-class, lead-getting and revenue-generating website for your startup with fewer resources. Seems like a dream come true, right? And, it’s possible! We are here to help you with it: Our platform of Meraki Sites allow you to build your own pixel-perfect website just like the way you have always wanted it to be, without the big development costs.
The Process
Let us guide you through the process!
• Step 1: Choose a template
From the templates collection, choose the one that depicts your startup’s approach, values and goals in the most appropriate way.
• Step 2: Sign up
With no further due, sign up for the chosen template. Ensuring to make the procedure of sign up an easy one is on us.
• Step 3: Customize the template
Having the website with your own touches, is always an amazing feeling. Time to customize your website to have it a part of ‘you’ in it!
• Step 4: Launch
Why to wait longer? Let’s launch that amazingly great website you just crafted. (Our team is proud of your web designing skills. You did a great job!)
• Step 5: Grow
Time to relish the multiplying growth of your startup. Let your website do its job while you focus on the other aspects of your startup.
• Step 6: There is no step 6!
You can get your website up and running in just 5 steps. The Ninjas of QC wish you all the best for your growth and success!
We are different
Our philosophy
Your startup is your significant other (well, almost) — you love and care for it. And we totally understand that — why? — because we have been in your position in the past and we are fully aware how this feels; the feeling of being in love! And that’s why we are here for you to build a top-notch world class human-made website for your startup. Do you know how much important a website is for your startup? It’s like having wheels for your cars. No matter how sophisticated car (your startup) you have built with impeccable engine and flawless body, if your car doesn’t have wheels, you can not go anywhere. We put wheels on your cars to get you where you want to go: to the top!
This is worth the wait
The wait is always hard, we understand. But, when it’s about something amazingly great; it’s worth it, right?
Come join us in the launch of Meraki Sites!
‘Good things come to those who wait’
Meraki Sites - Waitlist
We help startups succeed
Assisting your startup in the transformation of it to a successful business stands as our motive. If this sounds so good to be true, then here is the practical proof of our promises and commitments. This startup was also like yours sometime ago, but by making the right balance of its amazing idea and our consistent efforts, it was able to achieve its level of success.
Well, our Ninjas are always ready to help you too. The question is, are you ready to be like this successful business too?
Frequently asked questions
What makes this different from other website builders?
First of all, let’s get this straight: Meraki Sites is not just a website builder. It’s a complete platform! The whole platform of Meraki Sites is built while keeping your startup and you in mind. Just choose a template, customize it and voila! — You just made yourself a full-fledged website that gets you leads on auto-pilot.
Do I need to worry about the complex back-end stuff?
Short answer: No.
We are here for all the complex back-end headache so you can sip your latte and enjoy.
Do I need any help from a web developer?
Short answer: No.
The template library has templates that were hand-crafted by professional web developers at Qureshi Creatives (aka Web Ninjas) in such a way that you can just edit the content using a drag and drop builder and all set to go!
Is the web copy included in my website?
Absolutely, yes. All the content within a template is yours. However, if you need a more personalized web copy that perfectly aligns with your startup, head over to Meraki Copy and we will write a copy just for you.
Do I have complete access to my website after launch?
Absolutely, yes. You would have complete access to the website on Meraki Sites platform.
Can I link my own domain with my website?
Yes, you can link up your custom domain with your website. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29471 | Realtek HD connect headphones with microphone
There are three main ways to connect a combined headset, depending on its type:
Separate 3.5 mm headphone and microphone jacks. Located on a computer nearby. Used on older devices with two plugs. In this case, connect the microphone to the pink connector, and headphones to the green.
The universal 3.5 mm jack, which simultaneously serves to connect a headset with a built-in microphone, is used on modern headsets.
It features a longer plug. The connector contains four contact areas, and the socket is marked as in the picture.
Important! When connected to a headset jack with separate connectors (as in the first case), it can work either in microphone mode or in headphone mode. It depends on which connector you will use.
Headsets with a USB connector. Plug into a regular USB socket. After connecting for the first time, the necessary drivers are often automatically automatically installed if you have the latest version of Realtek HD Audio installed.
If the headset does not work after connecting, update the driver and check if your microphone is turned on. We described these procedures in the following blocks of Questions and Answers.
1. Last week I downloaded and updated the Realtek Audio drivers for my laptop as per the prompt I received from Driver Update.
Since then, I have been unable to get any audio on Go-to-Meeting or ZOOM. I would like to know why and what to do about it. If the new drivers are not backwardly compatible with the microphone by laptop uses then I need to return to whatever driver I was using at the time since it worked just fine.
This is very annoying.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
1. Well, You should uninstall current installed Realtek HD Audio Drivers and download the old version of Drivers again and install it.
And check whether it solves the problem.
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The canvas rendering context provides two methods to render text:
Support for WebGL is present in Firefox 4+, Google Chrome 9+, Opera 12+, Safari 5.1+ and Internet Explorer 11+; however, the user's device must also have hardware that supports these features.
Importing images into a canvas is basically a two step process:
Up until now we have only seen methods of the drawing context. If we want to apply colors to a shape, there are two important properties we can use: fillStyle and strokeStyle.
Probably the biggest limitation is, that once a shape gets drawn, it stays that way. If we need to move it we have to redraw it and everything that was drawn before it. It takes a lot of time to redraw complex frames and the performance depends highly on the speed of the computer it's running on.
This sample program demonstrates a number of compositing operations. The output looks like this:
The following is a collection of tips to improve performance
Before we look at the transformation methods, let's look at two other methods which are indispensable once you start generating ever more complex drawings.
To get an object of this interface, call getContext() on a <canvas> element, supplying "2d" as the argument:
This article explores how to take data within a WebGL project, and project it into the proper spaces to display it on the screen. It assumes a knowledge of basic matrix math using translation, scale, and rotation matrices. It explains the three core matrices that are typically used to represent a 3D object: the model, view and projection matrices.
The WebGLRenderingContext.createShader() method of the WebGL API creates a WebGLShader that can then be configured further using WebGLRenderingContext.shaderSource() and WebGLRenderingContext.compileShader(). |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29498 | Archives For Colossians
…’The Father…has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins…He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together’ (Col.1:13-17, ESV) |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29503 | C.P. Company
Trousers Black
C.P. Company is an Italian brand founded in 1971 by Massimo Osti. In the brand's DNA there is constant research in military clothing and workwear. It has become very famous over the years for the quality, functionality and innovation of its products, often the result of extremely complex and cutting-edge production techniques.
These black nylon trousers have many particularities such as the side zippers which, when opened, allow the garment to have a wider fit and the lace at the waist that allows it to be adjusted.
Model height 180 cm Model is wearing size 48 |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29514 | A Satanic Plot Behind False Promises of Spiteful Militant Secularists And Socialists Through Regime Change In Muslim Countries!
Listen: The Importance of Security Before Provision and The False Promises of The Enemies – By Shaikh Saaleh Al-Fawzaan [hafidhahullaah]
To proceed:
Security is a great blessing without which a person is not able to live a productive, fruitful and happy life. And due to this, Allaah bestowed [His Blessings] upon Makkah by making it and the Masjid Al-Haraam a safe and sacred place. Allaah [The Most High] said:
Allaah [The Most High] said: [ فِيهِ آيَاتٌ بَيِّنَاتٌ مَّقَامُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ۖ وَمَن دَخَلَهُ كَانَ آمِنًا ۗ وَلِلَّهِ عَلَى النَّاسِ حِجُّ الْبَيْتِ مَنِ اسْتَطَاعَ إِلَيْهِ سَبِيلًا ۚ وَمَن كَفَرَ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ غَنِيٌّ عَنِ الْعَالَمِينَ – In it are manifest signs (for example), the Maqam (place) of Ibrahim (Abraham); whosoever enters it, he attains security. And Hajj(pilgrimage to Makkah) to the House (Ka’bah) is a duty that mankind owes to Allah, those who can afford the expenses (for one’s conveyance, provision and residence); and whoever disbelieves [i.e. denies Hajj (pilgrimage to Makkah), then he is a disbeliever of Allah], then Allah stands not in need of any of the ‘Alamin (mankind and jinns)]. [3:97]
Allaah [The Most High] said: [وَقَالُوا إِن نَّتَّبِعِ الْهُدَىٰ مَعَكَ نُتَخَطَّفْ مِنْ أَرْضِنَا ۚ أَوَلَمْ نُمَكِّن لَّهُمْ حَرَمًا آمِنًا يُجْبَىٰ إِلَيْهِ ثَمَرَاتُ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ رِّزْقًا مِّن لَّدُنَّا وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ – And they say: “If we follow the guidance with you, we would be snatched away from our land.” Have We not established for them a secure sanctuary (Makkah), to which are brought fruits of all kinds, a provision from Ourselves, but most of them know not. [28:57]
Allaah [The Most High] said: [ أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا أَنَّا جَعَلْنَا حَرَمًا آمِنًا وَيُتَخَطَّفُ النَّاسُ مِنْ حَوْلِهِمْ ۚ أَفَبِالْبَاطِلِ يُؤْمِنُونَ وَبِنِعْمَةِ اللَّهِ يَكْفُرُونَ – Have they not seen that We have made (Makkah) a sanctuary secure, and that men are being snatched away from all around them? Then do they believe in Batil (falsehood – polytheism, idols and all deities other than Allah), and deny (become ingrate for) the Graces of Allah?] [29:67]
Allaah [ The Most High] said:
لِإِيلَافِ قُرَيْشٍ
إِيلَافِهِمْ رِحْلَةَ الشِّتَاءِ وَالصَّيْفِ
فَلْيَعْبُدُوا رَبَّ هَٰذَا الْبَيْتِ
الَّذِي أَطْعَمَهُم مِّن جُوعٍ وَآمَنَهُم مِّنْ خَوْفٍ
(It is a great Grace and Protection from Allah), for the taming of the Quraish; (And with all those Allah’s Grace and Protections for their taming, We cause) the (Quraish) caravans to set forth safe in winter (to the south), and in summer (to the north without any fear). So let them worship (Allah) the Lord of this House (the Ka’bah in Makkah). (He) Who has fed them against hunger, and has made them safe from fear. [106:1-4]
Whoever has physical well-being and security in the lands, then [indeed] he has obtained all the [beneficial] worldly endowments. Salamah Bin Ubaidullaah Ibn Mihsan Al-Khatmiy narrated from his father that the Messenger [sallal-laahu-alayhi-wasallam] said: “Whoever among you wakes up [in the morning] safe in his property, healthy in his body and has his daily nourishment, it is as if he has been granted the entire world”. [Reported by Tirmidhee in Kitaab Az-Zuhud; Chapter: At-Tawakkul Alal-laah, Hadeeth Number 3346 and declared Hasan by Imaam Albaani in As-Saheehah, number 2318]
When our upright leader Ibraaheem [alayhis salaatu wassalaam] settled some of his offspring at this valley [i.e. Makkah], the first of his supplications was that which Allaah stated: [وَإِذْ قَالَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ رَبِّ اجْعَلْ هَٰذَا بَلَدًا آمِنًا وَارْزُقْ أَهْلَهُ مِنَ الثَّمَرَاتِ مَنْ آمَنَ مِنْهُم بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ ۖ قَالَ وَمَن كَفَرَ فَأُمَتِّعُهُ قَلِيلًا ثُمَّ أَضْطَرُّهُ إِلَىٰ عَذَابِ النَّارِ ۖ وَبِئْسَ الْمَصِيرُ – And (remember) when Ibrahim (Abraham) said, “My Lord, make this city (Makkah) a place of security and provide its people with fruits, such of them as believe in Allah and the Last Day.” He (Allah) answered: “As for him who disbelieves, I shall leave him in contentment for a while, then I shall compel him to the torment of the Fire, and worst indeed is that destination!].[2:126]
Ibraaheem supplicated to his Lord that this valley [i.e. Makkah] should be a land of safety. Then after this valley became a land that yields – and he had [already] asked Allaah to make it safe- [Allaah said that Ibraaheem] said: [وَإِذْ قَالَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ رَبِّ اجْعَلْ هَٰذَا الْبَلَدَ آمِنًا وَاجْنُبْنِي وَبَنِيَّ أَن نَّعْبُدَ الْأَصْنَامَ – And (remember) when Ibrahim (Abraham) said: “O my Lord! Make this city (Makkah) one of peace and security, and keep me and my sons away from worshipping idols]. [14:35]
This emphasises [the fact] that safety is an important affair needed by a person, otherwise Ibraaheem [alayhis salaatu wassalaam] would not have been eager to repeat his request to Allaah to make it a reality in this land. Look at the lands where a system that [guarantees] safety has been lost; you will find that the people are unable to pursue [affairs] of their daily lives- their schools and markets are shut and everyone stays in the houses. Those among them who have the ability would hasten to leave this land to go somewhere else; and if you ask one of them, you will find him saying that he is unable to live with his people and family in that place in which safety has been lost.
Security cannot be [established] properly except by way of two affairs: Implementation of Allaah’s Laws and obedience to the rulers. Indeed, the Messenger [sallal-laahu-alayhi-wasallam] clarified this [affair] which is needed by a Muslim in his life. Irbaad Saariyah [radiyallaahu-anhu] said, “The Messenger of Allaah [sallal-laahu-alayhi-wasallam] gave us an admonition after the morning prayer –an admonition that made our hearts fearful and our eyes tearful. So, a man said, ‘Indeed, is this a farewell sermon, so what do you advise us?’ He said, ‘I enjoin you to have Taqwa of Allah and that you listen and obey, even if an Abyssinian slave [is made a ruler over you]; for indeed he among you who lives long enough will see many differences. So, beware of newly invented matters [in the religion] because indeed it is misguidance. And whoever among you witnesses that, then it is obligated on him to adhere to my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the rightly guided khulafaa, adhere to it with your molar teeth’”. [Reported by Ahmad 3/126]
Indeed, this hadeeth establishes the foundations of security in Islaam and they are: Firstly: Taqwallaah [Fear of Allaah (The Most High)] based on its complete and comprehensive meaning. Secondly: Obedience to the rulers [in what is good]. Fear of Allaah rectifies a Muslim’s relationship with Allaah, his neighbours and everything around him; and in the absence of Allaah’s Sharee’ah, destruction and depravity will occur. Indeed, Allaah [The Mighty and Majestic] warned the one who abandons His Sharee’ah and is disobedient to His Messenger. [Allaah said]:
And Allah puts forward the example of a township (Makkah), that dwelt secure and well content; its provision coming to it in abundance from every place, but it (its people) denied the Favours of Allah (with ungratefulness). So Allah made it taste the extreme of hunger (famine) and fear, because of that (evil, i.e. denying Prophet Muhammad) which they (its people) used to do. [16:112]
By listening to the rulers and obeying them [in good], all the affairs of the person’s life in his society will be a state of normality. Listening to the rulers and obeying them [in good] is included in the subject matter of Taqwa [fear of Allaah]. Al-Hasan Al-Basri [rahimahullaah] used to say, “Indeed, Al-Hajjaaj is the punishment of Allaah; so do not repel the punishment of Allaah with your own hands. Rather you must submit and show humility because Allaah] The Most High] said: [وَلَقَدْ أَخَذْنَاهُم بِالْعَذَابِ فَمَا اسْتَكَانُوا لِرَبِّهِمْ وَمَا يَتَضَرَّعُونَ – And Indeed We seized them with punishment, but they humbled not themselves to their Lord, nor did they invoke (Allaah) with submission to Him]”. [23:76]
Talq Bin Habeeb (rahimahullaah) used to say: Guard against fitna through Taqwa; so, it was said to him, “Summarize (the meaning) of Taqwa for us.’’ He said, ‘’It is act in obedience to Allah, with a light from Allah (i.e. Eemaan) and hoping for Allaah’s Mercy. And that you abandon disobedience to Allah with a light from Allah and fearing the punishment of Allah. [Reported by Ibn Abee Shaybah 11/33 and Ibnul Mubaarak in Az-Zuhd 473]
So, you find a person who knows what security is and his understanding regarding it increases due to fear of Allaah, and he is eager to obey the rulers [in good]; but when he falls short [in Taqwa], his perception of security becomes deficient. When Taqwa is actualised, he will receive the promise Allaah has mentioned [in Surah An-Noor]. Allaah said:
Indeed, it is known that the religion cannot [be established] without a Jamaa’ah and there cannot be a Jamaa’ah without a leader, and there cannot be a leader except through listening to him and obeying [him in what is good]. An absence of obedience to the ruler and putting oneself before him is one of the greatest causes of corrupting the land and the people, and turning away from the path of guidance and uprightness. Al Hasan Al Basri [rahimahullaah] said: By Allaah! The religion cannot be established except by way of rulers even if they commit tyranny and oppression- due to the many affairs that Allaah rectifies through them more than what they corrupt.’’ http://www.abukhadeejah.com/the-tyranny-of-the-rulers-a-reason-for-rebellion/
Ibn Rajab [rahimahullaah] said: ‘’There is [good and great advantage] in the worldly life when rulers are obeyed. And by way of it [i.e. obedience to the rulers], the beneficial affairs related to the livelihood of the people are established and they utilise them as an aid through which they manifest their religion and obey their Lord.’’ http://www.abukhadeejah.com/the-tyranny-of-the-rulers-a-reason-for-rebellion/
Disobedience to the rulers and putting oneself before them through fighting or other than that [is tantamount] to disobeying Allaah and His Messenger, and an opposition to that which Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaa’ah were upon – the pious predecessors. Preservation of security [in the land] leads to brotherhood and mutual alliance between the Muslims. Allaah [The Mighty and Majestic] said: [إِنَّمَا الْمُؤْمِنُونَ إِخْوَةٌ فَأَصْلِحُوا بَيْنَ أَخَوَيْكُمْ ۚ وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُرْحَمُونَ – The believers are nothing else than brothers (in Islamic religion). So, make reconciliation between your brothers, and fear Allah, that you may receive mercy]. [49:10]
Allaah [The Most High] said:
The believers, men and women, are Auliya’ (helpers, supporters, friends, protectors) of one another, they enjoin (on the people) Al-Ma’ruf, and forbid (people) from Al-Munkar; they perform As-Salat and give the Zakat, and obey Allah and His Messenger. Allah will have His Mercy on them. Surely Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise. [9:71]
Eemaan is neither wishful thinking nor mere claims, rather it is what settles in the heart and actions testify to it. A person cannot be a true believer until he loves for his Muslim brother what he loves for himself and until he deals with the people in a manner he loves to be dealt with! It is well known that security is something sought after by everyone; therefore it is the responsibility of a Muslim that he is eager for the security of others in order that he can receive security and safety for himself.
[Also, preserving security in the land] necessitates the fulfilment of trusts, whereas bringing about a state of insecurity is tantamount to treachery. Allaah [The Most High] said:
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تَخُونُوا اللَّهَ وَالرَّسُولَ وَتَخُونُوا أَمَانَاتِكُمْ وَأَنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ
وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّمَا أَمْوَالُكُمْ وَأَوْلَادُكُمْ فِتْنَةٌ وَأَنَّ اللَّهَ عِندَهُ أَجْرٌ عَظِيمٌ
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِن تَتَّقُوا اللَّهَ يَجْعَل لَّكُمْ فُرْقَانًا وَيُكَفِّرْ عَنكُمْ سَيِّئَاتِكُمْ وَيَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ ۗ وَاللَّهُ ذُو الْفَضْلِ الْعَظِيمِ
O you who believe! Betray not Allah and His Messenger, nor betray knowingly your Amaanaat (things entrusted to you, and all the duties which Allah has ordained for you). And know that your possessions and your children are but a trial and that surely with Allah is a mighty reward. O you who believe! If you obey and fear Allah, He will grant you Furqan a criterion [(to judge between right and wrong), or (Makhraj, i.e. making a way for you to get out from every difficulty)], and will expiate for you your sins, and forgive you, and Allah is the Owner of the Great Bounty. [8: 27-29] [End of quote] [Source: Source: An Excerpt from ‘Silsilah Ar-Rasaa’il Al-Manhajiyyah Fin-Nus’hi Wal-Irshaad Wat-Taw’iyah’. Pages 7 – 27 slightly paraphrased]
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29519 | George and the Bowman brothers
Dan and F.S. Bowman with George C Robinson on the right.Dan on the left, his younger brother Frank (middle) and George with hand on his hip, what a fantastic photo! It was Dan who was initially with the Robinson Brothers and here is George with the Bowman Brothers in the UK. Frank joining the AIF in 1914 and by the time he had met up with Dan and George had served in Gallipoli 7th Btn, then onto the Western Front around Feb 1916 in the 2nd MGC.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29562 | BVHM - It Was Showering Rainbows EBook
Our third, fourth, and fifth grade students at Buena Vista Horace Mann delight us with another volume of fancy and adventure stories. What if New York was inhabited by Pikachus? What happens when you put speed powder in the engine? How do we be kawaii??? Find answers to these questions and more inside It Was Showering Rainbows.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29586 | ssh and upmpcli problem
• Hello Mango,
I have a problem with my openwrt configuration.
First problem: I can't reach my widora neo through ssh when connected with the lan port to my router. I changed the network configuration for the lan port to dhcp so it receives a IP from my router, but I can't ssh into it.
Second problem: I want to reach upmpcli through my home wifi. So when the widora neo is plugged in the home router through ethernet, But upmpcli is not broadcasted through my home router. I tried different interfaces in the upmpcli config, but only the original setting of br-lan works and broadcast through the widora wifi.
In my finished project I don't need the wifi, only the lan. So I want to disable the wifi. But somewhere it seems connection through lan is blocked as upmpcli and dropbear aren't reachable through the lan port.
By the way, any change on a openwrt trunk version, so squeezelite is also available thought the openwrt repo?
• Looks like a firewall issue, but I have to look at your /etc/config/network file.
• Dear Mango,
This is my current /etc/config/network:
config interface 'loopback'
option ifname 'lo'
option proto 'static'
option ipaddr ''
option netmask ''
config globals 'globals'
option ula_prefix 'fdd7:5048:aea1::/48'
config interface 'wan'
option ifname 'eth0'
option macaddr '0c:ef:af:d0:13:4b'
option proto 'dhcp'
option ip6assign '60'
I already tried different version without succes. I disabled also the firewall:
/etc/init.d/firewall stop
/etc/init.d/firewall disable
What I want to achieve is that the widora works as a client on the system so not as a router, but in fact as a regular pc. I want to reach it over the network through ssh and it should work with upmpcli as a pnp renderer and with squeezelite as a squeezebox client connected to my amplifier (old Kenwood KR5400).
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29588 | Hello and a big welcome
to everyone new to diaspora\*
With Google+ closing today, you might have just signed up to diaspora* looking for a new home. We're so pleased that you've decided to give diaspora* a try. It's fantastic that you've joined us! We have a big existing community of former G+ users, and you could try tags such as #gplusrefugee and #googleplus to connect with people you know from G+.
We hope that you quickly find your way here, and enjoy getting connected with people and content.
Here's a few tips for getting started:
• There are some step-by-step tutorials on our project website covering the basics of how diaspora* works, and how to get connected with people. There's a link to these in the side-bar, should you ever want to read them in future, and there's also an in-app Help section you can access through your user menu (at the right-hand end of the header bar).
• You can search for people by name or by diaspora* ID (which looks like an email address), if you know it, from the search field in the header bar. You can invite people to join you in diaspora* by sending them a link to our project website, from where they can choose their own pod to register with. Your friends don't need to be on the same pod as you in order to connect and communicate with you.
• One good way to start getting connected with people is to start following some #tags of subjects that interest you (maybe #music, #photography, #linux, or #activism ... whatever interests you) so that you will see content on those topics in your stream. You can then start following people whose posts you find interesting, by placing them into one of your aspects.
• If you have any questions, post something with the #question or #help tag, and people will try to help you. Make sure to make your post public so anyone who can help is able to see it!
diaspora\* has some very simple community guidelines, which we hope everyone will feel able to follow so that all members can have the best possible experience here.
We're trying to improve diaspora* all the time, fixing bugs, honing performance and adding new features. But how fast we can do this is limited by the time developers have. To improve diaspora* faster, we need more developers! If you've just signed up and can code, or know someone who can and who might be interested in joining our team, get in touch!
<3 diaspora\*
#newhere #neuhier #nouveauici #nouvelleici #nuevoaqui #nuevaaqui #nuovoqui #nuovaqui #nuovoutente #nuovautente #nieuwhier #новичок #νέοςεδώ #diaspora
burning bridges like they are burning books
Yeah I also regularly download my data. My pod is possibly one of the worst so I definitely don't trust it staying around forever. Looking forward to the migration feature!
grey diaspora
Muse diaspora
I'm looking forward to when we can edit our messages after posting! Nothing more embarrassing than hitting "post", then finding you have misspelled a word!
grin diaspora
@Museand the comments. And comment likes and dislikes ;-) I clearly remember these from years ago. :-)
@Andrew Pam Hellofellow #podmin
@Jamie Macbeth This might help you getting around
Thanks .. I'll give it a read, might take a few days to get used to all the new stuff ... after rising from my G+ death..
I like Diaspora* a lot so far! Glad I found it...
It's so nice that here are no ads but I have still got problems to get the right # Tags. Sadly there is a difference to #Twitter and their 500mln users...
Diaspora is a good alternative to google plus. I have still no idea, why google plus is crashed down and Fake Book is still here.
This is just my thoughts, and I’m writing this in response to no one in particular, at the same time to all interested in this thread and the future of Diaspora.
I’m one of the new lurkers here and the freshness and freedom of Diaspora feels really good! I’m still trying to figure out where to go with this. Everywhere I go in search of alternative media someone is spewing content I don’t wanna see through (here:) tags I wanna follow. This has been going on for more than two decades now. But being free from commercial channels Diaspora provides a very good version. It could be described as a kind of a slow forum for thoughtful people.
Maybe the most devine (can I even use that word here?) reason for having people come here is to liberate them from being a data-producing product exposed to commercials. But maybe we should not search for the way where we reach and catch as many as possible, but let it grow slowly. Many wanna try something else because of a variety of reasons, not just because they wanna leave now “traditional” communities.
One can almost use the words ecological thinking about our growth. But as all good growing things, you don’t want them to die, and I am openly guessing a worry like that is behind your post @Robin - and a bit this one too. Being an anthropologist, this is a tad interesting to me. If anyone “in charge” would iike to, I can work with them, putting together a simple questionaire for trying to find the intention - or why.
Maybe Diaspora is what it is for now - if so just an alternative version to explore for some. A thing that can help understand what commercial forums are and what the users want with them, not a bad thing in it self. Then there are other ways to go about growth in the long run.
But I too wanna see more interesting porfiles and posts in here. Which returns me to the start of this post - my own lurkingness in here. That’s my “job”. Central in my life now is starting a small business. But I don’t wanna spew certain content in a commercail-free-forum like this. That contributes to my present lurky profile. but more is coming. (This post is one thing.)
Your view of what's here can be modified by three things...
• who you choose to put in your Aspects (follow)
• who adds you to their Aspects (sharing with you)
andAlso, there are two distinct streams available:
• your personal stream
• the Public stream.
The latter is a free-for-all where you will see post from anyone and anywhere with any content.
The former, your personal stream, is determined by Aspects/#hashtags/people sharing with you. Yes, some crap will seep in to that stream, but not as much as you will see on the Public one.
If someone is sharing with you and you don't care to see their posts (not replies, just their original posts), then you can Ignore them by pulling up their profile and click the Ignore icon (circle with line through it). This will prevent their original posts from appearing in your personal stream, but not replies they leave on other people's posts.
It is what it is... until improvements in true blocking are instituted here.
You are correct about the #hashtags being insufficient in themselves. The problem is that spammer, click-baiters, all-round-troll-assholes will often tag their posts and replies with false #science, #mathematics, #news, etc. tags. Unfortunately, the system will add that disguised crap into your stream. :(
Thanks for using false tags.
grin diaspora
Doubly so for repeating them! ;-)
#trolling but, um, since this is a properly tagged comment, maybe it isn't in the end. ;-)
Hello all :) looking forward to learning about this site and the great people here.
Welcome here @morgonas :)
il y a des francais ici? Si vous suivez la tag #giletsjaunes je suis sûr que vous trouverez des français et des canadiens.
Bienvenu! DeepL Translator
grimmer diaspora
Danke schön ihr Lieben; thank you loveley one's
Sorry for i'm unperfect in other languages
So english or german (sorry)
Kind regards
hello to all,I would like to thank you all for making me feel welcome and would like to say welcome to all the other new people :)
english is my only language but will do my best to understand others.
[removed spam comment from yesterday]
Wrote here a lot , and I do not know English , I do not have the ability to other languages
hello everyone :) just installed a translater on my browser ,was an idea given me by another user here :) helps alot thankyou :D
Zed Pro diaspora
Great job man
For many common languages, provides really good translations
@Christoph S of course, and it does not have the automatic data grabbing from google translate. But IMO it is too much of a hassle to go to the deeple website and have a message translated. A Firefox addon is so much more convenient. You don't have to leave the page you want to translate.
IMO this is second best (after having an option to translate in diaspora itself)
@ Christoph S and Rob Bosch but ist not for free.
@Hartmut Schröder (Schroeder) You can use the webversion for free at
If you want to use the API you have to buy a license... I still think it would be best to have a translate option implemented in #diaspora* but second best is a browser addon like the instant-translate addon....
nerios diaspora
Hi Diaspora be carefull i think that some malicious hacker want intercept traffic to all user, with a fake server cloning, they use some fake certified, just see a bit.
Thanks for the warm welcome. G+ is no longer available.
welcome :)
@Rob Bosch short of someone writing our own translator, the only other option I can think of would be to provide the necessary hooks, and have the pod owners pay for using the API on each pod :/
@Olav Folland Agreed on that. I was just looking for some options and stubled into this:
Could that be a startingpoint to add to d* (or maybe even all fedrated services)?
@Rob Bosch that's pretty cool. I didn't know there was OS stuff out there to play with. The basic command line app they provide even does auto language detection, which is pretty sexy.
Couldn't get an idea on the amount of horsepower required to do the actual translation, but assuming a manual translate button for a post/comment, the engine has to detect language (this might be doable with dictionary words) to determine what model to use, and then do a syntactical translation from detected language to target language. I could possibly do it for one or three people on my personal server, but even my small pod, I wouldn't want to try it on my cloud server.
The models are a bit trickier. Moses uses the same machine learning techniques Google and others use - to provide a good syntactical translation, you need to translate sentences, not words, so you have to feed the machine equivalent sentences in both the original language and the target language, and the more the better. This is done with books. For example, for a minuscule dataset, if you want to translate FR->EN, you might feed Moses The Count of Monte Cristo (an exceptionally large book) in both languages and tell it to sort things out. From that, Moses creates a model for the translation engine. Repeat for FR->ES, ES->EN, etc.
Straightforward, but where the problem comes in is that you need a huge dataset, or funny things can happen [Google for example had a 'hilarity did ensue' moment a few years back because in some cases, translating some African languages to English started spitting out Bible verses - because some more obscure languages don't have a lot of literature that is available in both source and target languages, but nearly every language has the Bible.]
So big datasets = big horsepower. The Moses documentation suggests a small dataset of 300K sentences can take 1-2 days to build a model on a gaming PC. So that gets you a minimal FR->EN. You have to build a separate model for EN->FR, etc. So ideally, you'd have a cluster available (to be fair, some of this may be able to be done by loading the learning tasks on top of an @home engine, but the main server would still have to be pretty beefy).
I'd be happy to "donate" surplus cpu cycles of my VPS (6 xeon E5 cores + 16GB RAM) to help with the learning part... it would be awesome if there could be a seti@home-like option to help training the translation engine...
@diaspora* HQ can you comment on this if this could be feasible for d*?
@Rob Bosch first, we would need thousands of person-hours worth of native language speakers to scan, OCR, and proof-read tens of thousands (or more!) pages of text for each target language to build a dataset
Then we need a host server/cluster to store tens of gigabytes of data per model)
Then we need a server/cluster (same one as before, probably) to distribute the tasks and combine the results
Then we gotta assume we have that cluster, and it can host translation services. * Diaspora* pods can host a couple thousand people on two cores and 8GB RAM. I seriously doubt a translation API on such a server could sever for more than like 20-50, including the stream performance hit, (And since most pods are hosted by individuals providing the service for free, asking them to radically upgrade their servers isn't particularly fair)
But, removing the hardware issues, and assuming a decent set of volunteers to do the data & software efforts, how long do you think it would take? Two years? More?
Post editing, groups, and some other features require a fraction of the effort. Being able to Federate with ActivityPub (like Mastodon) services would require less effort. And any of those add functionality that doesn't duplicate what can be implemented by users today via a browser plugin
There are a lot of things that are interesting, sustainable, good for distributed social networks, and some of them may even be even a good idea for diaspora*. Running our own translation service for the entire network is neither of those things.
#newtodiaspora ? Here's a #tip from a #newcomer: #start with some #tags and then you add more after a while #addtags . And, don't be #shy or #picky when it comes to starting to #share / #sharing with people by adding them to anyone of your #aspects . #people #here are often #funny or #creative , often by adding #ownart / #diy / #mywork , not least of which is #photo / #foto / #photography . One interesting tag seems to #gimpsunday . Yet a nother tip is #language. Even if #you #think language is a #barrier , in here it's most often not so. My #forgotten #german and #french is #returning now, #thankyou #diaspora #community !
#Sorry not sorry for #overtagging. I just wanna spread this as much as #possible. Part of why I #write it here as a #comment
grin diaspora may not work if your server doesn't "pull" those contents, and you'll end up nothing for the hashtags. Small servers need people to "follow' others to pull in the foreign (federated) content, and hashtags will only work afterwards.
It's a bit convoluted…
oooook. so now we know that. also.
and this is how we #learn #people
And also hastags in comments are not searchable...
And also hastags in comments are not searchable…
... but they are clickable. :)
grin diaspora
So basically if you click on the ♥ you enroll for the public directory of active users. ;-)
nerios diaspora
Gli admin di fakebook usano il tabnabbing e burpsuite per disattivare gli account delle persone, che ritengono usino la propria testa e di diversa opinione dalla loro.
grey diaspora
It's been two months and I still get notifications for this post.
Well now, I send one back to all of you! Made you look!
@grey neener neener neener ;)
Ah thanks, used to be on google plus too, still the same folks, looking for fresh faces both old and new :) |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29604 | Christian Grey's 25 douchiest thoughts in 'Grey,' the 'Fifty Shades' spinoff
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E.L. James' smash hit trilogy of erotic novels — Fifty Shades of Grey (also a half-billion dollar movie), Fifty Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Freed — centers on the torrid romance between young Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey, a sexy, mysterious billionaire with a dark past and a taste for S&M. On June 18, Grey's birthday, James released Grey, a nearly 600-page retelling of Fifty Shades from Anastasia's lover's perspective.
We read the entire book (you're welcome) and discovered that, when it's not too busy regurgitating the original book's prix fixe menu of light bondage sex scenes, Grey mostly depicts Christian checking his emails and referring to his penis in the third person.
But seeing the world from Grey's point of view also gives us access to his innermost, unvoiced thoughts and desires. As it turns out, those innermost thoughts and desires are really, really irritating. Enjoy?
2. Breakfast has been delivered and I’m famished. It’s not a feeling I tolerate—ever.
3. Her eyes widen. They really are beautiful, the color of the ocean at Cabo, the bluest of blue seas. I should take her there.
4. She’s one of the few women I’ve met who can sit in silence. Which is great, but not what I want at the moment.
5. I like my women in skirts. I like them accessible.
7. The clock at my bedside says 7:43. When was the last time I slept this late?
8. I press the button and the music is back. We both listen, now lost in the raw sound of the Kings of Leon.
9. The darkness is quiet, perhaps subdued by my libido.
10. The sweet appreciative noise echoes through me—to the end of my cock.
11. Her face is a picture of maidenly outrage.
12. Bringing affordable first world technology to the third world is something I’m determined to do.
13. Diamonds in her ears would complete the ensemble; I must buy her a pair.
14. [At Ana’s graduation.] I’ve been ogled, and had eyelashes batted at me, silly giggling girls squeezing my hand, and five notes with phone numbers pressed into my palm.
15. “Ana, baby,” I whisper, holding out my hand, and like the good woman she is, she steps into my embrace.
16. I forgo the Cristal and the Dom Pérignon for a Bollinger, mostly because it’s the 1999 vintage, and chilled, but also because it’s pink…symbolic, I think with a smirk, as I hand my AmEx to the cashier.
17. His wife is cloying, thrusting her perfect, surgically enhanced breasts in my direction.
18. “Dad jokes”—my father excels at them.
19. Her sharp intake of breath is music to my dick.
20. Her words travel directly to my dick, passing “Go” on the way.
21. And she’s pissed at me; maybe she has PMS. She said her period was due this week.
22. Ana arches a brow, impressed by the GT500. Yeah, it’s a fun drive, even if it’s only a Mustang.
23. Much as I’d like to, I’m not going to fuck her in the restroom at IHOP. She deserves better than that, and frankly, so do I.
24. When I look up again, the paintings in my foyer, my Madonnas, bring a mirthless smile to my lips. The idealization of motherhood.
25. I stop to change the music and drag precious air into my lungs. I want something… violent. “Pump It,” by the Black Eyed Peas. Yeah.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29609 | MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly RepMMWR Morb. Mortal. Wkly. RepMMWRMMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report0149-21951545-861XU.S. Centers for Disease Control4584820450Quick StatsQuickStatsFROM THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS15201515201564164504502015All material in the MMWR Series is in the public domain and may be used and reprinted without permission; citation as to source, however, is appreciated.
Death Rates* from Unintentional Falls Among Adults Aged ≥65 Years, by Sex — United States, 2000–2013
* Rates are age-adjusted using the 2000 U.S. standard population.
Deaths from unintentional falls are identified using International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) underlying cause of death codes W00–W19. There were 10,273 deaths in 2000 and 25,464 in 2013 from unintentional falls among adults aged ≥65.
During 2000–2013, age-adjusted death rates from unintentional falls increased steadily for both men and women aged ≥65 years, with consistently higher rates observed among men. During this period, death rates from falls increased from 38.2 per 100,000 population in 2000 to 67.9 in 2013 among men and from 24.6 to 49.1 among women.
Source: National Vital Statistics System mortality data. Available at
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29612 | Review: Mutant Year Zero: Gen Lab Alpha
The animal mutants are still part of an ongoing experiment initiated by some human organization called Elysium. They all live in a mountain valley called Paradise Valley which is surrounded by an impenetrable wall and they are being looked after by robots, they call “the Watchers”. But instead of being gentle caretakers these Watchers often act more like prison wardens. They also seemingly randomly abduct animal mutants who vanish forever, or return modified with cybernetics or exposed to mutagenic drugs. Robots are patrolling the valley and travel is often restricted. While some animal mutants see the Watchers as angels sent by the humans which they consider gods, other want to throw off the Watcher’s yoke and leave Paradise Valley to find a new, free life elsewhere.
There are several tribes living in Paradise Valley and each tribe has its own habitat. There’s the Dog tribe (which consist of mainly dogs, foxes and wolves), the Cat tribe (cats, cougars, lynx), the Rat tribe (rats, mice, squirrels), the Bear tribe (Bears and raccoons), the Ape tribe (Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans), the Rabbit tribe (rabbits and hares), the Badger tribe (Badgers, wolverines, and weasels), the Reptile tribe (Lizards, frogs, toads, and turtles), and last but not least the Moose tribe (Moose, deer, and reindeer).
Rules-wise Genlab Alpha is pretty close to M:Y0 (Check out my review of M:Y0 for more details). In fact it uses the same core rules with just a few adjustments to fit better with the animal mutant society. While all mutants in M:Y0 were basically the same age, animal mutant characters can either be youngsters, mature or elders, which influences both their rank in society but also their starting attribute and skill points. Younger characters have higher attribute value while older characters have more skills. We have played M: GA for a couple of sessions now and I get the impression that characters are pretty balanced.
Instead of M:Y0’s Empathy attribute animal mutants have Instinct. There are also completely new Roles with new role-specific skills and talents. A mutant animal character can choose between the roles of Healer, Hunter, Warrior, Seer, and Scavenger. When we started playing M:GA I decided to play a healer which not only can heal other animals but also brew potions, booze and poisons (with the help of some talents). Seers are somewhat special because they can make predictions. The player character playing a Seer “foresees” a possible event and if this event really takes place, the characters involved get a bonus to their skill rolls. Very cool!
Instead of mutant abilities animal mutants get animal powers. In order to see in the dark, or use his claws my cat healer for example has to spend Feral points to make use of his powers. Mechanically animal powers work almost like their mutant counterparts but are in general less powerful. Animal mutants also can’t lose attribute points by power use. BUT it’s possible that they lose some of their humanity when relying on their animal powers. Some temporary effects are losing the ability to speak or use tools for a while. The worst case is that the animal mutant runs off into the wilds and lives like a real animal for some time.
If you have played M:Y0 before getting used to the rules in M:GA basically takes no time at all. All the core rules are the same and both systems are fully compatible. The game also allows you to let Mutants get access to Animal Mutant roles and vice versa if you’ve completed the campaign.
Apropos campaign, let’s now have a look at the campaign included in the book. One of the major strengths of M:Y0 was its campaign. In that game the player characters are exploring the Zone sector by sector. Some sectors are special places which help to tell the story of the Mutants and their search for Eden. A big part of the game was building their home – the Ark – and dealing with randomly generated threats. This kind of campaign is extremly GM-friendly since you don’t need to do a lot of prep but each session is always full of action, drama and excitement.
In M:GA it’s all about rebellion against the machines. While survival plays a role as well, Paradise Valley is not as harsh as the Zone. Pretty early in the campaign the player characters are recruited into the Resistance and the players decide on which actions they want to take in the next month. They may have Resistance cells in each of the habitats which can take actions like “Spreading the Word” to “Assault”. The player characters are a cell in their own right and can take on the most dangerous or important jobs. The GM also decides each month what his robots (aka “the Watchers”) are doing. This creates a strategic meta game which drives the story onwards.
The gamemaster section of the book contains small scenarios for each of the habitats which can be played out as he or she wishes. Like in MY:0 the game has mechanics in place that allow the game to be run almost without prep. In the “worst” case the GM has to read a few pages of background and NPC info to get things rolling. M:GA also adds new artifacts and monsters to the Mutant universe. In this game the focus is unsurprisingly on robots, laser weapons, and creatures more suited for the mountainous Paradise Valley.
Overall M:GA is quickly becoming one of my favorite games. As I said before I was a bit hesitant to play an anthropomorphic animal at first, but I just fell in love with our motley crew of animal mutants fighting against the Watcher’s tyranny. I am also looking forward towards the future session in which our Mutant: Year Zero characters will first meet our Mutant animal characters at the edge of the Zone. And no, I don’t think we’ll fail to overthrow the Watchers… FOR THE RESISTANCE! Zwinkerndes Smiley
If you enjoyed M:Y0 you definitely should pick up M:GA as well. It adds another exciting facet to the Mutant universe and slowly unveils a couple of secret about humanity which is still missing.
You can purchase the hardcover version directly from Free League Publishing or from your favorite online or brick-and-mortar game store. It will set you back about €25 or your regional equivalent. The PDF version is available through RPGNow/DriveThruRPG and costs about €10.
One thought on “Review: Mutant Year Zero: Gen Lab Alpha”
1. I know what you mean about playing anthropomorphic animals.
I think the free adventure in the quickstart book for MYZ laid the groundwork for GA quite nicely using animals as the opposing forces.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29625 | A New Tangent for Work Futures
I am trying to game the Medium system. Don’t judge me.
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Medium has released the beta of a new user profile, and I have adopted it (see The New Medium Profile).
This led me to contemplate Medium as a means to publish and to make money from it.
I’ve come to a new understanding, which is that rather than publishing my long-format writing about the future of work at Work Futures, I will submit it to other publications that have wide readership. I personally have 20K followers, but Work Futures has only 518 and the newsletter only 300.
It’s not a given that everything I write will be accepted at other publications, but have written for others in the past, like BackChannel and The Start Up.
The newsletter is held back by the fact I can’t import the 2000 or so subscribers I have at Substack. That is a feature that Ev Williams says is coming. So I plan to continue to publish the Work Futures Update newsletter on a regular basis, with links to my long-form work, wherever it appears, as well as a curation of news and thinking from others. But don’t be surprised to see my writing in other publications.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29627 | Likert-plots and grouped Likert-plots #rstats
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ggeffects 0.8.0 now on CRAN: marginal effects for regression models #rstats
I’m happy to announce that version 0.8.0 of my ggeffects-package is on CRAN now. The update has fixed some bugs from the previous version and comes along with many new features or improvements. One major part that was addressed in the latest version are fixed and improvements for mixed models, especially zero-inflated mixed models (fitted with the glmmTMB-package).
In this post, I want to demonstrate the different options to calculate and visualize marginal effects from mixed models.
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Marginal Effects for (mixed effects) regression models #rstats
ggeffects (CRAN, website) is a package that computes marginal effects at the mean (MEMs) or representative values (MERs) for many different models, including mixed effects or Bayesian models. One of the advantages of the package is its easy-to-use interface: No matter if you fit a simple or complex model, with interactions or splines, the function call is always the same. This also holds true for the returned output, which is always a data frame with the same, consistent column names.
The past package-update introduced some new features I wanted to describe here: a revised print()-method as well as a new opportunity to plot marginal effects at different levels of random effects in mixed models…
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Marginal Effects for Regression Models in R #rstats #dataviz
Regression coefficients are typically presented as tables that are easy to understand. Sometimes, estimates are difficult to interpret. This is especially true for interaction or transformed terms (quadratic or cubic terms, polynomials, splines), in particular for more complex models. In such cases, coefficients are no longer interpretable in a direct way and marginal effects are far easier to understand. Specifically, the visualization of marginal effects makes it possible to intuitively get the idea of how predictors and outcome are associated, even for complex models.
The ggeffects-package (Lüdecke 2018) aims at easily calculating marginal effects for a broad range of different regression models, beginning with classical models fitted with lm() or glm() to complex mixed models fitted with lme4 and glmmTMB or even Bayesian models from brms and rstanarm. The goal of the ggeffects-package is to provide a simple, user-friendly interface to calculate marginal effects, which is mainly achieved by one function: ggpredict(). Independent from the type of regression model, the output is always the same, a data frame with a consistent structure.
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Quick #sjPlot status update… #rstats #rstanarm #ggplot2
Here are three examples:
Going Bayes #rstats
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My set of packages for (daily) data analysis #rstats
• sjPlot – to quickly generate tables and plot
• ggeffects – to visualize regression models
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29664 | 1337x Proxy & Unblocked Mirror Site List [100% Working Proxy]
Torrent sites have been around us for a long time providing us with contents like movies, applications, and games for almost any platform for free of cost. Browsing and using torrent has never been this easy. Select the link and use it to download the content using applications like BitTorrent or µTorrent.
But now in the early 20th century, many companies started to force them down as they were encroaching on their privacy content as some software that cost hundreds of dollars were provided free of cost.
To, put a full-stop on these torrent sites, many countries started to take them down. The owners of these various torrent site started to proxy their websites to prevent them from finding the actual website and also ensure the users to have more than one site to access and get the application of other content they were searching.
Unblocked 1337x Proxy & Mirror Sites List:
1337x was launched in 2007 which provides a directory of all the torrent files and magnet links used for peer to peer file sharing. It gained its popularity when Kickass Torrents, Extratorrents was shut down in the year 2016. This site is banned from a google search. Initially, it was in the .pl domain. But in 2015 partly to evade the block, it changed its domain from .pl to .to.
List of 1337x Proxy/mirror Sites
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These are the sites that we found is working correctly. Before you use be sure, torrent is permitted in your state or country. If you are not sure, it is better to use VPN while downloading and using torrent links.
1337 Proxy sites and Mirror Links
1337x has many proxy sites which offer the torrents links. But every day many such links get brought down or gets deactivated. So, new links and site get created to prevent the complete down of the site.
What is Proxy?
Here we have listed some of the proxies of the 1337x torrent site if you want to use them to download any items, you can use these 1337 unblocked live sites.
Using VPN
VPS vs. Proxy:
Many use Proxy rather than VPN. Though you would not find any difference, there are few aspects where VPN is much better than a proxy
• VPN offers security for internet access not only through the browser but also when you are using different applications over the internet. Proxy is limited only to securing internet access through a browser.
• Security such as masking IP address or routing yours traffics is far superior to any proxy.
• VPN provides an additional layer of security using scrambler which makes better protection. This is not offered by any proxy server.
Thus, going for a VPN is better than for a proxy service as using torrent is not limited to only browser access as you will download the torrent through applications like Bit torrent or µTorrent where your IP will be visible.
Note that these links provided for the 1337x torrent site are active for now. We will be updating this list every day as some links might get deactivated over time while more new might be added with fast speed access.
Do bookmark this site to check out which of the links are active together with the speed that the server is providing so you can download your content at a fast speed. Also, do not forget to use an antivirus and a VPN to protect your computer and even your identity.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29671 | Plumb-Ace advertises that its plumbers are more qualified than plumbers at any other major plumbing firm in the regio...
Filippo on June 7 at 02:05PM
Why is E correct
Could anybody explain why E is the correct answer? Thank you!
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Alexander on June 22 at 12:06PM
Even if it were true that the written portion were easy, that does not mean the rest of the certification was easy as well. Classic fallacy of composition.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29709 | Review: Emily Dickinson is America’s Original Quirky Girl in “Dickinson”
Dickinson Hailee Steinfeld in Apple TV+'s "Dickinson."
Despite the ridiculous concept and uneven tone, Apple TV+’s new comedy is a compelling watch.
Even 130 years after her death, Emily Dickinson remains one of America’s most beloved poets. Despite spending much of her adult life in seclusion and only publishing less than a dozen poems while alive, she was extremely prolific, penning over 1800 poems. Alena Smith (The Affair, My America) gives Dickinson a quirky girl persona for her new show on Apple TV+’s streaming platform, appropriately titled Dickinson. It’s an odd mixture, blending elements of Daria and Broad City with period piece drama. The result is a show that is more than the sum of its parts, thanks largely due to compelling characters brought to life by a quirky, unconventional cast.
Set in Amherst, MA sometime in the mid-Nineteenth century – the year is never specified, but it is antebellum as civil tension but not war is discussed – Emily (Hailee Steinfield, Pitch Perfect 2) is an eccentric young woman living with her mother (Jane Krakowski, 30 Rock), father (Toby Huss, King of the Hill), sister Lavinia (Anna Baryshnikov, Manchester By the Sea), and brother Austin (Adrian Enscoe). Emily finds herself at odds with the restrictions placed on women of her time and fights constantly with her mother over a desire not to do chores. She finds solace in her best friend and clandestine lover, Sue Gilbert (Ella Hunt, Anna and the Apocalypse). Tension comes into Emily’s life as she fights with her parents over her “proper place” as a woman, and when Sue accepts a marriage proposal from Austin.
Each episode is centered around Emily writing a verse of poetry, with the climax of each episode coming to a head with the completion of the verse – and in the second episode, the climax is both figurative and literal. The use of poetry as a framing device allows the genius of Dickinson’s poetry to shine and lends a (fictional) context to the author’s (fictional) life.
The most jarring and potentially off-putting aspect of Dickinson is the way the dialogue for the characters is modernized. This often comes across as a rather lame attempt to make the characters seem more appealing to “the youths.” What’s worse is that it is applied unevenly throughout the show, with the characters speaking in time appropriate dialogue with an anachronistic word/phrase thrown in, such as Austin describing the house his parents will build for him as “pimp,” or a young man telling Lavinia she looks “hella ripe.” Do young kids even use these terms? Your humble reviewer just turned 33, and since these are slang terms from his youth, I doubt teenagers are still using them.
The appeal to a younger demographic also comes through in the use of contemporary music – while this isn’t as jarring as the slang, it still comes off as incongruous. The modern elements come into sharp contrast with the sumptuous set and costume design. The Dickinson house, the most used setting, is luxuriously decorated, and the costuming is detailed and gorgeous. There are times the anachronisms are charming – period dancing overlaid with rap music – but it generally creates the show’s most groanworthy moments.
What Dickinson gets right, however, is its characters. Even with its weird use of modern phrases, the characters are all compelling in their own way. The primary focus of the first three episodes is on Emily and Sue’s relationship. Emily is presented as extremely headstrong and principled but is often reinforced that her ability to be so is due to her privilege. Despite the fights she gets has with her father over her behavior, he explicitly spoils her and wants to keep her in the family home, which gives her more leeway than most women of her era.
This is expertly balanced by Sue’s tragic backstory as a penniless orphan. After learning of Sue’s engagement to Austin, Emily berates her, saying they promised to never marry, and Sue reminds her that she has no family or money, and could possibly starve to death without marriage. Dickinson’s feminism is often very basic, with Emily upset at her inability to attend a science lecture or her father’s anger at her being published. But we see the other ways in which women are stifled in their domestic role, which hopefully will be addressed in more depth in future episodes. The first three episodes begin to dive into the lesbian relationship between Emily and Sue, and this will surely be the primary conflict for the rest of the season.
Throughout the first three episodes, Emily’s jealousy mounts and she begins to act like a brat in her attempts to keep Austin and Sue apart. Hunt is by far the standout of the show with her performance as Sue. Surrounded by the upper class, she is torn by her desire for a relationship with Emily and the reality of her situation. Even as Austin offers her support, she struggles with becoming dependent on him, and the third episode ends with her running away from the jealousy and control exhibited over her by both Emily and Austin.
The other standout is Jane Krakowski as Mrs. Dickinson. Krakowski brings the same sort of frantic energy she brought to Jenna Maroney in 30 Rock (which earned her a spot in The Spool’s very own Hall of Faces). But she channels it into a character who chooses to find fulfillment in her life as a homemaker. In the second episode, Emily has convinced her father to hire a maid so she no longer has to do housework. This leads Mrs. Dickinson into an existential crisis, and the scene where she expresses her dismay to her husband is heartbreaking in how he ignores her distress to keep Emily happy.
Rounding out the main cast is Lavinia, Emily’s hapless and lovelorn sister who often plays the foil to her sister’s cynical outlook. She yearns for the life of a housewife and to marry, perfectly content with the idea of a normal life. It’s nice to see a sister relationship that isn’t primarily antagonistic. While there is some normal sibling quibbling, the two seem to care deeply for each other even if their life goals are diametrically opposed.
One can hardly say that Dickinson is primarily concerned with historical accuracy – it’s hard to believe that someone most famous for being a recluse would voluntarily throw an opium-fueled rager – but despite its liberties with Dickinson’s character, this shows has a lot of promise. The tonal issues do need to be resolved, but that is something that can be course-corrected with further episodes; think of the uneven start that Bojack Horseman had in its first few episodes. Even with its flaws, each episode is compelling, and the show feels binge-worthy.
Is it worth it alone to justify an additional $5/month spent on streaming services? Maybe, but probably not. However, if another one of Apple’s original shows looks tempting (check out The Spool’s reviews for the other shows), then it would be worth your while. At the very least, sign up for the 7 day free trial and give this show a binge-watch.
Dickinson kindly stops for thee on Apple TV+ when the service launches November 1.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29720 | Practicing Empathy
Scripture Reading — Exodus 23:1-9
When we first moved overseas, everything was different for us—language, food, roads, social rules. It was humbling to need help from others to do something as simple as paying for public parking. I won’t forget the kind woman who helped us and kept smiling and talking in Italian—though we couldn’t understand a word. Her smile and dedication to help were a great gift.
Though our situation is much different from that of Israel in Egypt, I know the feeling of being a foreigner in need of help. God reminded Israel to remember their history of being vulnerable so that they could understand how strangers might feel in their midst.
Consider how refugees driven from their homeland or immigrants who have left their home might feel in a strange place.
God commanded his people not to oppress a foreigner or visitor or stranger for the simple reason that oppression hurts deeply. God’s people were to have empathy for others who came from a foreign land and needed help and hospitality, not opposition or oppression.
People who do not have the power of wealth and social status are to be protected by the law and supported by those who are in positions of power and influence. Tempting as it may be to follow the crowd, our identity as God’s people demands that grace be our guide.
Lord God, we quickly forget what it’s like to be dependent. As we remember the grace we have received in Christ, make us generous to care for others, knowing you have been generous to us. Amen.
Devotion topics: Hospitality, Kindness, Life, Trials & Challenges, Opposition |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29740 | Industrial GVA was negative at -10.8% Q2 2020.
Average super prime industrial rents were flat. Australian super prime rents average $111/sqm.
Super prime yields compressed by 15bp in all markets resulting in record low yields.
Land values increased by 9.9% q-o-q with Australian 1.6ha lots averaging $597/sqm. 0.25ha lots increased by 7.7% q-o-q to $734/sqm.
Transaction volumes in Q3 totalled $2.68b over 66 transactions. This was 40% higher than volumes recorded in Q3 2019. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29783 | When editing a buffer and initiating a search-and-replace, I use :s/oldword/newword/g
Now the word 'oldword' will be in the buffer I am editing, and sometimes it is a long word.
It would be helpful if I was able to auto-complete somehow the words 'oldword' and 'newword' from the contents of the buffer to save some typing, say by typing just :s/ol then TAB to cycle through matches in the buffer, and then similarly for 'newword'.
Is something like this possible without plugin ?
In general, is there a way of getting completion suggestions from the current buffer to assemble the : command line ?
• while in : command mode <C-r><C-w> yanks the word under the cursor into the command line. – theonlygusti Feb 10 at 12:16
I don't know if there's a way to do exactly what you are asking, but there are two alternatives I think are close enough:
1. If you open a command-line window with q: (from normal mode) or CTRL-F (from command-line mode), you can edit your commands with the full power of Vim. This includes using CTRL-P for autocompletion, which depending on the value of your 'complete' setting, can look for matches in your current buffer (include . in the value of the setting for that).
2. Not autocompletion, but if you have the long word under the cursor while editing the buffer, you could yank it first, and then paste it into the command line with CTRL-R {register} when editing the command line.
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If you have the long word under the cursor while editing the buffer, you don’t need to yank it first: you can use <C-R>= to paste from the special expression register. I have cnoremap <C-Space> <C-R>=expand("<cword> ")<CR> in $MYVIMRC. – wchargin Feb 10 at 6:55
With set incsearch you can complete using ctrl-L in / and :s/ command lines (see :help /_CTRL-L).
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Use this in combination with ctrl-G to jump to the word you want to match. – theonlygusti Feb 10 at 4:37
• For some reason, this works with / but not with :s/ – user3203476 Feb 10 at 14:38
• @user3203476, perhaps you are using neovim (in which case see inccommand) – Mass Feb 11 at 1:46
• yank the word and paste it while typing (<C-r>")
• type the command in the buffer and use :exec getline('.') to run it
I prefer the q:/<C-f> from the other answer though.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29820 | This wiki has undergone a migration to Confluence found Here
RegulatedMedicinalProduct FHIR Resource Proposal
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Draft resource in build:
Relationship to other resources
Owning work group name
Committee Approval Date:
Contributing or Reviewing Work Groups
• Pharmacy
• Orders and Observations
• Clinical Decision Support
FHIR Resource Development Project Insight ID
Scope of coverage
To support the content of the ISO 11615 IDMP Medicinal Product standard and other domain areas with similar requirements. 11615 covers detailed definition of products, their submissions to regulators, authorization activities, ingredients, packaging, accompanying devices, clinical particulars etc. Not all of those are expected to be covered in this single resource.
RIM scope
Resource appropriateness
This resource does not intend to clash with the existing Medication resource, but complements with an extra level of detail. It is seen as a sibling rather than a parent or a "superclass" to be profiled.
(The superclass option has widely discussed and rejected, since this would mean the Medication resource - by far the most commonly used - would become more complicated, being a very small profile of a very large model. We don't want to introduce such confusing complexity in that space - which is largely separate.)
This resource has been designed in close consultation with Pharmacy, and in conjunction with the MedicationKnowledge resource
Expected implementations
Content sources
The core basis for the resource is the information in ISO 11615 Medicinal Products standard, which is in turn party based on the existing implementations in the EU and US. A large amount of actual data exists in the EMA EU XEVMPD data base and XEVPRM XML messages. Example FHIR data of several full product data sheets exists based on prototyped resources.
Also, information gained from early stage implementation of these resources at EMA (2018, 2019), and from FDA (for PQ/CMC) and other workgroup review (BR&R, Pharmacy) and their comments.
Example Scenarios
Specific use cases include:
Submission of products from drug companies and NCAs (National Competent Authorities - the national regulators) to regional regulators. This is already implemented in Europe (by EMA and EU-wide stakeholders) with an earlier non-HL7 format (XEVPRM/XEVMPD). Currently being re-implmented with this resource as part of the EU wide SPOR project.
Resource Relationships
See diagram below.
RegulatedMedicinalProduct and Medication
This resource is intended to complement the Medication resource, which is focused on what is commonly needed for medical/clinical use cases. RegulatedMedicinalProduct adds information needed for regulatory use cases, of which there is little overlap.
Most aspects of RegulatedMedicinalProduct are not present in Medication at all, and are not current candidates for inclusion in the prescribe/dispense/administer workflow.
RegulatedMedicinalProduct and MedicationKnowledge
MedicationKnowledge resource is aimed at drug knowledge bases. There is overlap in scope that resource and some aspects of regulatory use cases. To fulfil that the common associated resources of RegulatedMedicinalProduct will be used (e.g. Ingredient, ClinicalUseIssue). The boundaries between all these resource have been carefully thought out and have had much discussion in workgroups (BR&R, Pharmacy, CDS) and with FMG representatives. Also refer to the logical model which was used to clarify the resource relationships, at the request of FMG, in the preparation of this proposal (linked to the approved MedicationKnowledge proposal page): MedicationKnowledge_FHIR_Resource_Proposal
Relationship to other resources
Draft content is modelled in the build, with outline supporting documentation. Completion planned Q4 2019.
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The WU-Minn Human Connectome Project (HCP) releases imaging data from subjects on a regular basis. Details on what data is included in each release are available in the Reference Manual for that release on the HCP documentation page. On this wiki page, we document known special cases in the data collected between releases. This data has not yet been released, so this page acts a placeholder for issues/features of certain subject data that will persist even after processing and release. When a release containing a subject noted here occurs, all the information documented here for that subject will be moved to the appropriate section of the HCP Data Release Updates: Known Issues and Planned fixes page.
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Defacing versions - Subjects with v2 defacing algorithm applied
Defacing is performed on all HCP scans to ensure anonymity of subjects. When structural QC is performed, correct defacing is checked. In a limited number of cases, the original version 1 of the defacing algorithm (Milchenko and Marcus, 2013) did not deface the images sufficiently so an updated version 2 defacing was performed. Here are the subjects to which v2 defacing was applied:
Contact Dan Marcus at dmarcus@WUSTL.EDU for questions on details and differences between the two defacing algorithm versions.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29832 | At my woodshop, it's typically suggested that I sand up to 220 grit or 320 grit. I'm always amazed at how smooth my surface feels after a good 320-grit sanding. However, when looking online I sometimes see advice to sand up to 600 grit. 600! That must be like glass!
I understand it's a matter of taste vs effort, but at some point there must be too little improvement to take another pass with a higher grit. How do I know what this point is? Does it depend on the finish that I'm going to apply?
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Quick tip:: Spend the time to fully shape and level the surface at your coarsest grit, then use each finer grade just to remove the marks created by the previous grade. – keshlam Apr 2 '15 at 20:23
I understand it's a matter of taste vs effort
Actually not as much as people tend to believe.
Sanding to 320 grit may itself be too high, and above 400 you can definitely run into problems. Some woods burnish when rubbed with higher-grit papers and this can prevent the proper penetration of finish, which helps ensures a more even colour and the formation of a proper bond between it and the wood. Burnished wood can resist finish, even to the point that it will bead on the surface sometimes and to fix this you need to re-sand at a coarser grit to 'open' the surface of the wood again.
What determines the grit you need to sand to is not so much personal preference but rather whether you are finishing the wood and with what.
Oiled finishes require a more meticulous approach to final smoothing because they don't build a film and after oiling minor surface imperfections are magnified, not hidden.
With a film-building finish (shellac, varnish, lacquer) you get a filling-in of minor surface imperfections, including sanding scratches. This is why you can get away with sanding up to a coarser grit and still achieve a very smooth final surface.
Using a film finish, depending on the species, even 150 can be high enough. But the normal range to finish sand is between 180 and 240.
If you do not intend to apply a finish — which can be used for dense hardwoods, particularly tropical species with a naturally high resin content — then you can sand to very high grits indeed because you're actually polishing the wood itself. Even beyond the 600 you mention, I've seen the results of sanding past P1600 and you do get increasing shine, up to a limit dependent upon the density and resin content of the wood.
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Adding to glw some of it depends on the wood. Some woods I've used 220 is as good as you are going to get, anything higher doesn't do anything and sometimes actually makes it look worse. Pine and other softwoods really don't benefit much from higher grits.
Red oak maxes out at about 320 anything higher and your just wasting your time. White oak is debatable, 400 is does a little but isn't really necessary.
Hard Maple I've sanded to 600 grit and you almost get a semigloss finish before you put anything on it. The denser the wood (with a closed grain) the higher the grit can actually make some difference. I suspect ebony would glow with a sanding up to 1000 grit.
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Ebony (or any oily wood in the rosewood family) with 12,000 (micromesh, e.g.) are beautiful without any finish whatsoever. Cocobolo, desert ironwood, honduran rosewood.. beautiful. – TX Turner Apr 2 '15 at 13:42
For most cases in which you intend to put on a film finish (like shellac, lacquer, or a varnish) it is enough to sand the wood to 220. (I suppose the same would be true if you intend to use an oil finish too). Nothing wrong with 320 - if that's all the store has, it works more or less the same.
Higher grits are really for sanding the film finish after you've built up enough thickness not to sand through it. These higher grits will allow you to create ever more polished finishes.
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Adding again to the above answers I'd say that it hugely depends on the type of wood and finish, but also on the method of sanding. Sanding by hand, with a "pad" type orbital sander, or with a disc type random orbital sander with the same grit will give you pretty different finishes.
We use random orbital disc sanders for finishing at our joinery workshop on Sapele, Idigbo and European White Oak and always use 120 grit. This gives an excellent finish when painted with a spray-applied water-based microporous paint or stain for external joinery.
I also find that with certain timbers and in certain conditions, finer grit papers tend to "gum up" - you get dust stuck to the paper which then leaves indentations in the timber rather than continuing to sand it, which can be counter-productive.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29834 | Outlook 2013: OOF no traffic from External (through Kemp) [SOLVED]
HI all
This morning i have to cope with a strange Behavior With outlook 2013. From outside Outlook refuse to connect to OOF Web services.
Well the A record exist the port is listening but the weird behavior is that outlook don’t try to connect to OOF. I use Wireshark to capture all the frames and I can’t see any tentative from my workstation to address the expected public address of the published Webservices. I can see the traffic of RpcOverHttp but absolutely no oof traffic which is published on another IP Address.
The Outlook reaction is very fast to display that OOF is not accessible… Weird. I don’t think for the moment that it is a web services configuration problem.
I try to use another profile to another account (Office 365) and OOF Works.
I have supposed that Outlook 2013 verify when he start if he can access to EWS.
Well after searching and searching I find a tools who records all URL accessed by your workstation. (Proximotron) by using it and indicate in the IE the proxy as localhost 8080. I was able to see what Url is accessed by the Outlook. And in my big surprise. The outlook use from external the internal URL address of Webservices. Intexweb.xxx.aero should be extexweb.xxx.aero.
Don’t ask me why. When I check the autoconfiguration option with Outlook client the result are these one which is not correct.
But when I ask to the Ews configuration internally I can see that the configuration is correct
I decided to change the internal value of these InternalUrl and set the same as external and yes it works.
So Kemp is not in fault. The real question is why the internal urls is used instead of external while using HTTP connection !!
Laurent Teruin
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29974 | Angel Beats Animeid Secrets That No One Else Knows About
In case you go searching for their sins, you'll find thembut they'll be buried deep. God assures us the ability to believe that which we want. Jesus doesn't need to be here to preach to us. At the beginning, Angel Beats! Gabriel, otherwise called the Trickster, is a fantastic character played by Richard Speight Jr.. Cassandra Wilson springs to mind. Paul is a good example of somebody doing greater works than Jesus.
Anime needs to be licensed by companies in different nations as a way to be legally released. In the mid-1980s, the expression anime started to supplant Japanimation. Now, it is not Japanese culture, but many anime and manga fans around the world also have an affinity for other aspects of Japanese culture as well. For instance, the top comedy animes can be be considerably more explicit in their humor.
In plenty of ways, the genre has changed into a joke. First and foremost, jazz isn't dead. Artists have to be strong, honest, and can walk fearlessly on ice should they desire to achieve the fire's warmth. The thing about art, is it is like one huge conversation.
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Three people take the 3 chairs. Serious Jazz heads can be challenging to discuss music with. The exhibited an unbelievable quantity of intelligence since they worked through the problem for a team. After you have earned 300 points, youall is given a completely free pretzel. As soon as you earn 550 points, youall qualify for a totally free weekend day. There are people I understand that deserve a little bit of retribution too, though I feel like it's a little petty wanting different folks suffer.
Technically speaking, as hard as it could be to hear, they were ideal. There's much meaning that could be derived from melancholy. The idea of the game is quiet simple and simple to play. As a consequence, people have developed a great deal of interesting anime theories on the way. Anime's genre classification differs from several other forms of animation and doesn't lend itself to simple identity.
Innocent men and women shouldn't be killed.7. A number of them advocate peace, while some are extremely warlike. A couple of them are able to even make studying (a small bit) fun! In truth, it pushes people away. In truth, it wasn't dating whatsoever. What really has me perplexed is the simple fact that there's a roving detector of which I feel that's not erroneous. The factors for that aren't known nowadays.
For quite a few, it was just through marriage which they may realize comfort and security. Death is inevitable, and I need to live on to delight in life. If everyone tried to live a great life, for some reason, than the world would be a far greater place. A religious experience is only that, an experience. In 1917, the very first professional and publicly displayed works started to appear. The anime market has many yearly awards which honor the year's greatest works. The fact that there's so much out there in the current market isn't necessarily the issue, however.
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A scarcity of confidence because of the psychological strain of negative comments played a significant part in how she chose to move. Also, it's an effort at attempting to mimic the manner music of different genres, apart from jazz, are being presented to their listeners. In case you have any leads, then PLEASE allow me to know! As a consequence, many will stay silent. Numbers are at the source of the language in the shape of letters therefore a mathematical expression can be written as words too. Prime numbers are extremely special not simply in math but had special properties utilized by the ancients when added a particular approach to form magnetic shapes.
Secondly, it's very creative, there are hundreds and hundreds of anime characters available on the market for you to pick from, even you can pick your very own preferred character to have it print. Distract even a single foe from attacking, and you're going to have proved your worth. You can earn money on the website, you're never likely to receive rich but any additional cash is handy. It's possible for you to apply your rewards to any buy, anytime. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29975 | The Importance Of Fixed Income
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29987 | 1 Maccabees
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1. "In the one hundred and seventy-second year a Deme'trius the king assembled his forces and marched into Media to secure help, so that he could make war against Trypho. "
2. "When Ar'saces the king of Persia and Media heard that Deme'trius had invaded his territory, he sent one of his commanders to take him alive. "
3. "And he went and defeated the army of Deme'trius, and seized him and took him to Ar'saces, who put him under guard. "
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/29993 | TY - JOUR T1 - Methods for distinguishing between protein-coding and long noncoding RNAs and the elusive biological purpose of translation of long noncoding RNAs JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/017889 SP - 017889 AU - Housman, Gali AU - Ulitsky, Igor Y1 - 2015/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/04/10/017889.abstract N2 - Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a diverse class of RNAs with increasingly appreciated functions in vertebrates, yet much of their biology remains poorly understood. In particular, it is unclear to what extent the current catalog of over 10,000 distinct annotated lncRNAs is indeed devoid of genes coding for proteins. Here we review the available computational and experimental schemes for distinguishing between coding and noncoding transcripts and assess the conclusions from their recent genome-wide applications. We conclude that the model most consistent with available data is that a large number of mammalian lncRNAs undergo translation, but only a very small minority of such translation events result in stable and functional peptides. The outcome of the majority of the translation events and their potential biological purposes remain an intriguing topic for future investigation. ER - |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30050 | Historical landscape
One of the advantages of writing historical fiction is that you don’t have to generate a new world from scratch, unlike, say, science fiction or fantasy genre. You can weave your characters into a ready-made reality and in so doing help to give their psychology and behaviour greater credibility. While this is in many ways a blessing it also has its downside. For Dave, of course, the task of depicting this world is pretty straight-forward, so long as he avoids language which sounds overly modern or anachronistic. For Kev, however, the task is a lot more daunting, as can be imagined with a graphic novel the size of ours, encompassing the best part of 2000 panels and a very wide range of settings. When Dave refers to a boy in a wheelchair, well, what would a wheelchair look like in the eighteenth century. In fact, did wheelchairs even exist? What does the inside of an apothecary look like? What kind of seating could you expect in an eighteenth-century theatre? Then there are kitchens, living rooms, horse-drawn carriages, ships, ports, bridges, architectural styles, food and drink, clothes, accessories, formal gardens, a menagerie and on and on. The list is never-ending. Fortunately, Kev’s into history and enjoys a challenge.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30076 | Identification and genomic distribution of gypsy like retrotransposons in Citrus and Poncirus
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TitleIdentification and genomic distribution of gypsy like retrotransposons in Citrus and Poncirus
AuthorsBernet G, Asins M
TypeJournal Article
Journal NameTheoretical and applied genetics
CitationBernet G, Asins M. Identification and genomic distribution of gypsy like retrotransposons in Citrus and Poncirus. Theoretical and applied genetics. 2003; 108(1):121-130.
Transposable elements might be importantly involved in citrus genetic instability and genome evolution. The presence of gypsy like retrotransposons, their heterogeneity and genomic distribution in Citrus and Poncirus, have been investigated. Eight clones containing part of the POL coding region of gypsy like retrotransposons have been isolated from a commercial variety of Citrus clementina, one of the few sexual species in Citrus. Four of the eight clones might correspond to active elements given that they present all the conserved motifs described in the literature as essential for activity, no in-frame stop codon and no frame-shift mutation. High homology has been found between some of these citrus elements and retroelements within a resistance-gene cluster from potato, another from Poncirus trifoliata and two putative resistance polyproteins from rice. Nested copies of gypsy like elements are scattered along the Citrus and Poncirus genomes. The results on genomic distribution show that these elements were introduced before the divergence of both genera and evolved separately thereafter. IRAPs based on gypsy and copia types of retrotransposons seem to distribute differently, therefore gypsy based IRAPs prove a new, complementary set of molecular markers in Citrus to study and map genetic variability, especially for disease resistance. Similarly to copia-derived IRAPs, the number of copies and heterozygosity values found for gypsy derived IRAPs are lower in Poncirus than in Citrus aurantium, which is less apomictic and the most usual rootstock for clementines until 1970.
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KeywordsCitrus limon, lemons, Citrus sinensis, oranges, Citrus clementina, clementines, Poncirus trifoliata, retrotransposons, genome, genetic polymorphism, genetic markers, nucleotide sequences, inter retransposon amplified polymorphism, molecular sequence data
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30102 | Windows 8.1 Universal Apps Pathfinding Bug
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The Exported Windows 8.1 Universal App works perfect in Windows 8.1 but not in Windows Phone 8.1, I believe its a problem with the Pathfinding behavior because without it in the project there is no bug.
Attach a Capx ... Error.capx
Description of Capx
Its just a Pathfinding example, clic and the player moves to the clic X & Y.
Steps to Reproduce Bug
• Step 1 Export for Windows Store, Universal 8.1+ (VS2013.2)
• Step 2 Open the project on Visual Studio 2013.2
• Step 3 Debug for Windows 8.1 and it works
• Step 4 Debug for Windows Phone 8.1 and it does not works
Observed Result
Visual Studio send a exception:
Unhandled exception at line 325, column 323 in ms-appx://14c61adb-27e4-47a4-9123-5c243f0134bb/c2runtime.js
0x800a01bd - JavaScript runtime error: Object doesn't support this action.
n[a]={ef:new window.Pathfinder,cells:null,Yh:!1}
Expected Result
I expect that the Windows Phone emulator runs the app.
Affected Browsers
• Windows 8.1: (NO)
• Windows Phone 8.1: (YES)
Operating System and Service Pack
Windows 8.1 Update 1 (64-bits)
Construct 2 Version ID
Release 168 (64-bits)
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What Is Metadata?
Metadata is essentially data about other data. In internet technology, Metadata provides information about other data found on the world wide web. Its main purpose is to supply search engines, browsers, and other web tools or services information about web pages and websites.
Metadata is actually not displayed on the web pages. It is, however, visible on search engine results. For instance, when you type in Google in search engines, one of the top results has the following Metadata:
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Simply put, Metadata helps search engines check, collate, and give the most relevant results to internet users. Hence, Metadata plays an important role in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) which functions when you put it in your site's HTML Meta Tags .
What Are HTML Meta Tags?
Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) Meta Tags are basically HTML tags within which you can put your Metadata. These tags, along with the Metadata in them, do not display on web pages themselves, but in the codes of websites — particularly, in index.html files.
There are many kinds of Meta tags that you can put in your website. Not all of them, however, may be important or useful. If you have a website and you want search engines and web users to easily find it, here are the Meta tags you might want to have in your pages:
Title tag This is the title of your page, and is displayed at the top of web browsers. Most search engines consider this section to be very important. Putting your top keywords here is encouraged. However, make sure they are relevant to your site’s content.
It is advisable that your title tag should only have 50 to 60 characters. This is because most search engines, such as Google, only display the first 50 to 60 characters of title Metadata.
Description tag This includes some brief information on what your website is about. It should be accurate and concise. This content is usually seen under the page title in search engine result entries.
According to best SEO practices, the advisable length of a description tag should not be more than 155 characters, including spaces.
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Take note that you should put not more than 10 keywords or phrases here.
Fun fact: Keywords used to be one of the most important SEO factors a few years ago. However, Google discovered it was being abused and overused, and so they removed its SEO value. Despite this fact, using keywords tag is still advisable, if used properly for tagging purposes.
Robots tag This is where you put specific instructions for web crawlers visiting your site. Although you can choose to not have this tag, it can help you control how robots treat your pages. With this, you can actually specify the web pages you want indexed, as well as those you don’t.
Note: It is extremely important to be careful when creating this tag. If you accidentally type noindex, your page or site could be de-indexed, and disappear from search results. Potential clients will be unable to find your site, and you do not want that to happen.
Why Do You Need HTML Meta Tags?
Essentially, HTML Meta Tags inform search engines that they have pertinent data or information about your site. When your site has Meta tags, web crawlers or net robots will be able to access your site and web pages. In turn, your site gets indexed by search engines.
Indexing by search engines is according to content relevance and keywords in your Metadata.
When a user searches for something online, they type in keywords into a search box. Search engines then scour their database using the said keywords as reference. After that, the search engine collates relevant data from indexed websites and pages, and deliver them to the user in the form of search result pages.
So when you put correct and relevant Metadata in your site and its individual pages, your site becomes more crawlable to search engines and more visible to users.
How to Put Meta Tags in Your Site
Putting Meta tags in your website will help search engines find and efficiently index it for web users. Here are some guides on how you could do that.
For Basic Sites:
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2. Open the .html file for your web page.
3. In the upper portion of the .html file, below the < head > tag, is where you should put your HTML Meta tags.
4. Insert the appropriate Metadata in their respective sections, like in the example below.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30129 | Le nom de la rose
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Voxel illustration for Première magazine, edition 474. For every issue, a cult movie scene is illustrated and commented by the movie director. The illustration is also available in a 3D version on Sketchfab as seen below.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30130 | A Dog-eared existence
Cutting Room Floor
“Library Property. You are responsible for any damage to this book, including ripped pages, water stains, underlining, highlighting, dog-earing, etc.”
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For Kyle, who changed the movies I love
Mind the Gap
Kyle’s excitement made my heart flutter. The movie was his — he sent me blocks of exclamation marks and little hearts, unwittingly coloring in magic marker hues over my tangle of nerves.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30145 | An invisibility cloak using optical camouflage by Susumu Tachi of the University of Tokyo on display at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) in Tokyo
Inside the Lab Where Invisibility Cloaks Are Made
Can science compete with magic?
Just before Christmas I finally got to see an invisibility cloak. I’ve written a whole book about invisibility—its myths, magic, and technology—but never before had I seen in the flesh one of the new devices that promise to make things vanish.
We all know what invisibility is, don’t we? Now you see it, now you don’t. Well, this invisibility cloak certainly wasn’t like that. It was housed in a Plexiglass box, and there was an on-off switch on the side. I was told to look through a viewing screen, through which I saw, in a gold-tinted mirror, the slightly distorted reflection of a toy panda. The reflection had a chunk missing where a couple of small triangular prisms, glued back to back and placed in front of the mirror, obscured the view. When the switch was flipped “on,” that missing part sprang back into view, as though the prisms had become wholly transparent.
That was all. This, I had to admit, was a strange sort of invisibility.
I knew enough about these “cloaks” not to anticipate something out of Harry Potter.
Was it as underwhelming as it sounds? I hadn’t arrived with high expectations, because I knew enough about these “cloaks” not to anticipate something out of Harry Potter. I knew that the cloak itself would not be some fabulous garment, but would pretty much resemble what it was: small prisms of transparent crystal made from a mineral called calcite. They blocked the reflection in the mirror because they had mirror-coated rear faces themselves, off which the light from the panda bounced out of my line of sight.
When my host, Jensen Li—a very smart young Chinese physicist from the University of Birmingham in England—hit the switch, the light now appeared to travel in a straight line right through the prisms, despite their mirrored facets, and was reflected off the mirror behind them and through the viewing screen to reach my eye.
What, then, had vanished? Well, it’s complicated. Bear with me.
We were in the Metamaterials Laboratory of the university’s physics department —a room dominated by a huge steel “optics table,” in which all manner of lenses and mirrors had been positioned to send laser beams along carefully arranged routes. I’d seen this kind of kit before; it’s like a gigantic Erector set. But all that stuff wasn’t the point. The action was taking place inside the plastic box set up in the corner.
What was actually being hidden in there? Well you see, there was a little sliver of metal inserted behind the calcite prisms. It was masked by their mirrored rear surface when the switch was off. But when the prisms became apparently transparent, the sliver should have come into view obscuring part of the panda’s reflection. Yet it didn’t.
So “invisibility” here meant failing to reveal something that was already hidden. The air of farce was compounded by the fact that I was witnessing all of this for a radio documentary. It’s hard enough trying to convey any sort of invisibility trick on the radio. But how was I to describe, let alone explain, this complicated arrangement of prisms, mirrors, screens and, um, pandas … and to make it sound fabulous?
A novice witnessing this piece of physics magic could be forgiven for thinking she was being hoodwinked—as if she’d been ushered into a circus sideshow to see “wonders” that are all too obviously monkey torsos crudely stitched onto fish tails.
I use that metaphor advisedly. Invisibility is a magical idea, and for many centuries the only way we have been able to achieve it is with magic. It was a specialty of the stage magician, dating back to the earliest accounts of sleight-of-hand in Roman times, when prestidigitators performed a variant of the old balls-and-cups trick in which the balls seemed to vanish from one place and reappear in another.
The cloak emerged from research on a new class of materials known as optical metamaterials, which can defy the normal laws of optics.
It’s sometimes said that there are only two real magic tricks in the entire repertoire: making things vanish, and making them appear. Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, gained a coveted place in the UK’s Magic Circle—the high priesthood of stage magicians—in 1977 by demonstrating his own competence at that ancient trick. In the music halls and theaters of the Victorian golden age of magic, the performers would use mirrors to create disembodied heads, or women with no legs or who entered cabinets and vanished.
In a sense, Jensen Li’s invisibility cloak is part of this same tradition, since it too relies on sending light rays along unexpected paths so as to cloak an object from sight. It emerged from research on a remarkable new class of materials known as optical metamaterials, which can transform and defy the normal laws of optics.
These materials are arrays of so-called “meta-atoms”: little manufactured devices that can act as antennas to receive and transmit light. The meta-atoms are designed and configured in ways that let them pass on the light’s energy along unusual paths from one element to the next. In the classic metamaterials invisibility cloak, unveiled in 2006, the light is guided gently around the cloaked object and then restored to its original path on the other side, rather like water in a stream flowing around a rock protruding from the surface. The cloak is a ring of metamaterial with the hidden object in its center. The light hits the ring on one side, is guided around the central hole, and is restored to its path. To an observer on the far side, it looks as though it has just travelled in a straight line all along, with nothing in its way.
The catch was that the 2006 cloak only worked with microwaves, which are the same kind of electromagnetic radiation as light but with a longer wavelength: These are the rays with which radar “sees” objects, which are detected when microwaves bounce back. The cloak itself was eminently visible: a series of concentric rings made from strips of plastic circuit board, on which the meta-atoms were little loops and rings of copper foil etched into shape. The researchers chose to work with microwaves because the meta-atom structures have to be about the same size as the wavelength of the light they’re manipulating: If you want to work with visible light, the structures have to be a lot smaller, which means they’re much tougher to make.
The scientists were totally upfront about this. All the same, for many who read news reports claiming that scientists had invented Harry Potter-style invisibility cloaks, the reality seemed anticlimactic to say the least.
The theory used to figure out what the metamaterial had to look like in order to bend light in the required manner is called transformation optics. It is partly the brainchild of John Pendry, a physicist at Imperial College in London, who collaborated with researchers at Duke University in North Carolina to make the microwave cloak. Jensen Li was Pendry’s postdoctoral student, and in 2008 the two of them figured out how to achieve cloaking in a simpler fashion, which didn’t have to rely on metamaterials at all. They outlined plans for a “carpet cloak”: A structure with a concave base that, when placed over an object on a surface, will bend reflected light so that it looks as if the reflected beam has simply bounced off the flat surface on which it rests, as if the cloak and the object beneath it were not there.
A graphic of a carpet cloak and how the device works. (Jensen Li)
Using this principle, one can make a cloak from prism-shaped pieces of calcite. The trick takes advantage of the fact that calcite has the unusual property of birefringence: Light travels through it at slightly different speeds in different directions. The birefringence means that objects seen through a piece of calcite look “doubled,” the two images superimposed imperfectly on one another. In 2009 a team at Birmingham led by Shuang Zhang made a calcite carpet cloak that could effectively hide an object within a shallow cavity at the base of the prisms as they stand on a surface. Jensen was demonstrating to me a variant of that device.
Jensen exemplifies the Chinese-born researchers who are setting the pace in the field of transformation optics. Xiang Zhang at the University of California, Berkeley, is another. Zhang recently reported a device that represents the closest Jensen’s “carpet cloak” concept has yet come to being made into a traditional cloak that can genuinely be laid over a bump so as to make it vanish.
Zhang imprinted an array of microscopic gold patches—the cloak’s meta-atoms—on a thin film of material so that they reflect light in just the way needed to cancel out the distortions introduced by the bump, making the cloak-wrapped surface look flat. It’s a cumbersome procedure, though, because the shapes and patterns of the gold reflectors have to be calculated and tailored to every differently-shaped bump—there’s no “one size fits all” yet.
But back in the Birmingham Metamaterials Lab we struggled, despite Jensen’s best efforts, to put the blocky calcite cloak into words. I haven’t even told you what the switch does, and I don’t think it would help. (It’s to do with the reflected light beams being polarized, and the screen being a polarizing filter.) Was it proper to call this invisibility at all?
Days later I went to the headquarters of the Magic Circle to watch their Christmas show. Doves appeared out of silk handkerchiefs, cards vanished and reappeared in impossible places, a woman was levitated, all the traditional illusions of magic were mustered to eye-popping effect. And I had to wonder: does science set itself up for a fall by appropriating the trappings of myth, legend, magic, or science fiction? Does anyone want, or even know how to interpret, compromised forms of immortality, teleportation, time travel, and so on? Or should we accept that science produces wonders only on its own terms? Goodness knows, they’re often wonderful enough. |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30166 | Tips to Help You Grow Your Muscles Fast
On the off chance that you have been hoping to assemble your muscle quick, you need to do things the correct way. Eating incorrectly nourishments and fouling up exercise will just demonstrate counterproductively. Regardless of why you need to beef up, here are 10 things you can do to pick up as much as a pound of muscle exceptionally week. Read on.
Fabricate your muscle as much as you can
For your muscles to develop bigger, what you have to do is enable you to body store the most extreme measure of protein. Your body might use the protein saves for different purposes, for example, making hormones.
Subsequently, your body might not have enough protein left to build muscle. On the off chance that you need to address this issue, ensure you give your body more protein than it employment.
Eat Meat
You require no less than one gram of protein to increase one pound. This is the most extreme sum your body can take in 24 hours, in light of an examination distributed in the Journal of Applied Physiology.
Expecting you weigh 160 pounds, you might need to utilize 160 grams of protein in 24 hours. This is the measure of protein you will get on the off chance that you devour one cup curds, an 8-ounce bosom of chicken, two eggs, a meal meat sandwich, 2 peanuts and one glass of drain.
Eat more
Besides protein, calories are the thing that you require. In a perfect world, you might need to get 500 more calories for each day.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30208 | Saliva And Dental Health
Saliva And Cincinnati
In this blog post from Endres Gateway Dentistry in Cincinnati we examine saliva, and its role in your dental health.
Now, don’t be squeamish! Saliva is mostly water. No surprise there. A small portion of it, though, is made up of enzymes, antibacterial substances, mucus, and minerals. The ideal pH balance of the mouth is maintained by saliva, and pH balance is a critical factor for preventing cavities.
The minerals in saliva help to maintain the enamel surface of the teeth. Immunoproteins in saliva curb the overgrowth of microbes in the mouth, thereby protecting the gums from gingivitis.
Now that you know how important saliva is to dental health, you can probably see why inadequate salivary flow should concern you. For most people, everyday chewing is enough to stimulate salivary glands to release saliva. But a condition called dry mouth, also known as xerostomia, is an ailment that should be dealt with quickly before oral health problems occur.
At Endres Gateway Dentistry in Cincinnati we want the best possible dental health for each of our patients, who come from Blue Ash, Loveland, and Montgomery. Services include family and cosmetic dentistry. Schedule an appointment today!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30209 | Windows Work Catalyst
Windows Work Catalyst Description
ScreenshotWindows Work Catalyst is a rogue anti-virus application which was designed specifically to pilfer money from unaware computer users, making them get enticed to purchase Windows Work Catalyst because of the fact that Windows Work Catalyst introduces lots of scaring information about the condition of the computer systems of targeted PC user and specifies that its full version will be able to repair those problems. All such data provided by Windows Work Catalyst is falsified and has to be totally rejected. Windows Work Catalyst, just as its predecessors Windows Attention Utility and Windows Inspection Utility, infiltrates inside of the computer systems via fake Microsoft Security Essential Alerts. The user may get those fake Microsoft Security Essential Alerts in front of his/her computer screen, if surfing certain corrupt websites, clicking malicious links or downloading virus programs without knowledge.
Windows Work Catalyst, a member of the FakeVimes family has numerous clones that include Virus Melt, Extra Antivirus, Fast Antivirus 2009, Presto TuneUp, Windows Security Suite, Windows Protection Suite, Smart Virus Eliminator, Packed.Generic.245, Volcano Security Suite, Windows Enterprise Suite, Enterprise Suite, Additional Guard, PC Live Guard, Live PC Care, Live Enterprise Suite, Security Antivirus, My Security Wall, CleanUp Antivirus, Smart Security.
Fake Microsoft Security Essential Alert would tell you that your PC is infected with some type of malware and that it has already found the solution for removal of this allegedly detected threats. Windows Work Catalyst then presses the affected user to click the buttons as recommended by Windows Work Catalyst rogueware. After clicking these buttons, Microsoft Security Essential Alert would claim that you must restart your computer to run the allegedly detected anti-virus program, that is Windows Work Catalyst, and then, after the system restart, the user finally sees the main program window of the Windows Work Catalyst malware program.
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Windows Work Catalyst creates the following registry entry or registry entries:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell "%AppData%\Microsoft\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe"
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30222 | million (n.)
"ten hundred thousand, a thousand thousands," late 14c., milioun, from Old French million (late 13c.), from Italian millione (now milione), literally "a great thousand," augmentative of mille "thousand," from Latin mille, which is of uncertain origin. From the start often used indefinitely for "a very great number or quantity."
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the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros;
Synonyms: " / one thousand thousand / meg
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a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole);
there were millions of flies
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30237 | Things to Do with Kids in the Olympia Area
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Bird Kabobs are the ultimate shreddable bird toys. Made from a soft pithy wood. They are irresistible to all hookbill birds from parakeets to macaws. They satisfy the instinctual need of these birds to chew. They have been described as bird catnip. Recommended by veterinarians for for birds with feather picking problems. Legendary among bird lovers worldwide. You'll be amazed at the site of your bird enjoying the bird Kabob. These are truly the most sensational bird toys ever made.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30318 | Vapore Mini
Installation: Built-In
Minimum distance from gas hob: 58 cm.
VAPORE MINI heats all the lower surfaces immediately after being turned on, bringing them to a certain temperature that prevents condensation from forming. The sucked air, still full of humidity, then passes through cold surfaces inside the hood where it releases the water contained in it, and is then collected in an internal tray. In this tank there are electronic sensors that continuously monitor the water level, stopping the hood motor as soon as the level reaches the maximum. The command LEDs flash to signal this condition. Emptying the drip tray is very simple and fast, and is performed by pressing a lever and placing a container under the drain valve. Only after having emptied the tray will the hood start working again.
• Adjustable and delayed self-switching off: This function allows you to programme delayed cooker hood shutdown which, in the shortest time possible, provides the right level of air purity in your kitchen.
• Perimeter extraction: This consists of a mechanical system that literally forces, pushes, the cooking fumes extracted along a slit that runs along the perimeter of the cooker hood. This system increases extraction performance whilst reducing cooker hood noise emission. Design and appearance are also improved as the grease filters are no longer visible.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30324 | Psychological stress has adverse effects on various human diseases, including those of the cardiovascular system. However, the mechanisms in which stress causes disease activity remains unclear. Using vaso-occlusive episodes (VOEs) of sickle cell disease (SCD) as a vascular disease model, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine discovered that the gut plays a critical role in provoking episodes of VOEs.
Their findings are published in Immunity in a paper titled “The Gut Microbiome Regulates Psychological-Stress-Induced Inflammation” and led by Paul S. Frenette, MD, professor of medicine and of cell biology and chair and director of the Ruth L. and David S. Gottesman Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Research at Einstein.
SCD is a group of inherited red blood cell disorders. In a healthy person, red blood cells are round, and they move through small blood vessels to carry oxygen to all parts of the body. However, in someone who has SCD, the red blood cells become hard and sticky and look like a C-shaped farm tool called a “sickle.” Painful episodes can occur when sickled red blood cells, which are stiff and inflexible, get stuck in small blood vessels. These VOEs deprive tissues and organs, such as the lungs, kidneys, spleen, and brain, of oxygen-rich blood and can lead to organ damage. No therapies can reverse VOEs and, over time, they cause significant damage to internal organs.
Using a mouse model, the researchers found that the path to VOEs begins in the brain. Stress promotes the secretion of glucocorticoid hormones in the brain, which make their way to the gut and increase its permeability. This permeability allows segmented filamentous bacteria (SFB)—a type of beneficial gut bacteria in mice—to interact with Th17 helper immune cells in the lining of the gut. The SFB stimulate those immune cells to produce pro-inflammatory molecules, which enter the circulation and promote the aging and accumulation of neutrophils.
The researchers observed SCD mice and healthy mice that were subjected to psychological stress. However, lethal VOEs occurred only in the sickle-cell disease mice. “Healthy mice don’t have sickled blood cells and therefore don’t suffer the ill effects caused by the buildup of aged neutrophils,” Frenette explained.
“Importantly, we found we could markedly reduce stress-induced VOEs in mice through several different interventions: inhibiting the synthesis of glucocorticoids, depleting SFB, or blocking the inflammatory molecules induced by these bacteria,” Frenette noted. “Each of those actions could potentially limit the impact of psychological stress on people with SCD.”
While SFB are found only in rodents, some evidence indicates that similar beneficial bacteria in the human gut can also induce Th17 immune cells to produce inflammatory molecules.
The researchers hope to investigate further whether there is any correlation between the abundance of these bacteria in patients with sickle-cell disease and the frequency or severity of VOEs that affect them.
Because there are no therapies for VOEs, life expectancy for those with severe SCD is 20 to 30 years shorter than for those without the disease. Their findings may lead to novel solutions for treating this painful and deadly disease.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30342 | Home / Kitchen / How to Install Kitchen Ceiling Light Fixtures
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How to Install Kitchen Ceiling Light Fixtures
Kitchen ceiling lights – In the light of the kitchen, the ceiling provides more even and wider lighting than a single light bulb in the ceiling. You can install a ceiling light in the kitchen without extensive rewiring. Just use the existing electrical connection box that the ceiling light in the kitchen is already connected to. Some home use tools are all you need to complete this project.
Remove the fuse or trip the circuit breaker that powers the power line through the kitchen. Switch off the devices and switch the light switch back to the “Off” position. Unscrew the lamp cover with your hand. Remove the lamp cover. Put aside. Remove the lamps from the lamp sockets. Remove the screws around the lamp. Pull the lamp off the ceiling lamp plate. Remove the torsion pins that screw into the wire pairs that come out of the hole in the ceiling lamp plate. Loosen the wires to separate the wires from the lamp and electrical connection box in the hole. Lay the light device on one side.
Tighten one flange and turn the nut clockwise on each pair of threads until resistance is felt. Screw the ceiling light device onto the ceiling light plate using the screws from another light. Insert the light bulbs into the ceiling light. Put the hole in the center of the dome through the extrusion screw at the bottom of the dome lamp. Screw the dome cover onto the screw clockwise until you feel resistance. Restore power to the kitchen. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30419 | Deep Learning Architectures and Tools: A Comprehensive Survey
Deep Learning Architectures and Tools: A Comprehensive Survey
K. Bhargavi (Siddaganga Institute of Technology, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2108-3.ch002
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Deep learning is one of the popular machine learning strategies that learns in a supervised or unsupervised manner by forming a cascade of multiple layers of non-linear processing units. It is inspired by the way of information processing and communication pattern of the typical biological nervous system. The deep learning algorithms learn through multiple levels of abstractions and hierarchy of concepts; as a result, it is found to be more efficient than the conventional non-deep machine learning algorithms. This chapter explains the basics of deep learning by highlighting the necessity of deep learning over non-deep learning. It also covers discussion on several recently developed deep learning architectures and popular tools available in market for deep learning, which includes Tensorflow, PyTorch, Keras, Caffe, Deeplearning4j, Pylearn2, Theano, CuDDN, CUDA-Convnet, and Matlab.
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Most of the companies are trending towards deep learning to solve most complex problems in an efficient way by training the network sufficient labeled or unlabelled data samples (Pulkit 2018; Angelov, and Sperduti 2016). It has become one of the important in digitalization era due to the following characteristics.
• Stronger synaptic connection among the neurons
• Lower dependencies on the input data samples
• Able to handle both labeled and unlabelled data samples.
• Used to train the machines to make cognitively intelligent.
• Explores the power of depth in machine learning.
• Fast training as it deals with fewer parameters.
• Distributed representation can handle higher dimensions easily.
Some of the applications of deep learning include coloring black and white images, generation of image captions, automatic game playing, audio recognition, designing drug, filtering social network data, inspection of composite materials, giving sound effects for silent movies, diagnosis of medical images, handwriting recognition and so on (Bhargavi, and Babu 2017; Deng, and Yu 2014).).
However deep learning involves several challenges (Chen, and Lin 2014; Falcini, and Lami 2017), some of them are listed below.
• The learning speed of the deep learning algorithms is very slow.
• The desired accuracy is achieved only when the algorithm is trained with more number of training samples.
• More number of input parameters is required for better tuning of the deep learning network.
• The efficiency of the model is trained by the ability of the model to perform better over the unseen data samples.
• Hyper parameters are sensitive towards the outliers.
• To train and test the deep learning algorithms the hardware devices must have high computational ability.
• The power consumption rate of the multi core GPUs used for training deep learning algorithms is high.
• The deep learning algorithms lacks flexibility as it does not provide precise solution to specific problems.
• The rate of retraining and retuning of the models is more even when small changes happen in the type of application.
• The noise in the training data causes overfitting problem which declines the performance of the network towards real world applications.
• The deep learning models cannot be generalized easily outside the training space of the problem.
In literature several works are available on deep learning tools and steps to install the tools for working is covered which includes hands-on sessions information about the deep learning tools, visualization tool available for machine learning, Python packages frequently used for deep learning, popular tools for modeling artificial intelligence components, and so on. However the works carried out have limitations as it does not discusses in-depth about the deep learning architectures and the deep learning tools. And the existing works concentrate more on the installation procedure to use the tools and advantages and disadvantages of each of the tools are not mentioned clearly. So in this chapter the basics of deep learning, comparison between deep learning and non-deep learning techniques, deep learning tools along with their advantages and disadvantages are discussed.
Deep Learning Versus Non-Deep Learning
A comparison between deep learning and non-deep learning is given in Table 1.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30433 | It's a Fine Line Between Good and Evil
For many of us life is simply a struggle to walk the line between good and evil but few people make that struggle look nearly as fun as Haylie Lelliott, today's Inked Girl of the Day. The Australian beauty describes her personality as a mixture of those two elements but given her sunny disposition and the meaning behind some of her ink it's hard to imagine Haylie crossing over to the evil side that often.
"My favorite tattoo would have to be my sleeve," Haylie explains. "It's made up of all the little things that mean the most to me. It started with my little brother's name on my wrist on the 10 year anniversary of his bone marrow transplant."
"He had leukemia at the age of three," Haylie continues. "It was a miracle to reach the 10 year mark and he is stronger than ever to this very day."
As we looked through the many sexy pictures on her Inked Girls profile we were impressed by the sleeve before we heard the story behind it. Now that we know that it holds so many personal meanings to her we have to say that Haylie has a fantastic sleeve. While the artistry that makes up a tattoo is still very damn important, it is those tattoos that have emotional attachments that end up being the best.
While Haylie may mix up good and evil in her life we can only see the good side while we flip through her photos. Well, I guess the sexiness of the photos might make them a little bit bad, right? Nonetheless, check out here profile here.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30477 | Friday, February 28, 2014
1983 Honda Civic S - From The Days When Honda Made It Simple...
Two Hondas in a row... That may be a first for JaCG.
Yesterday I wrote about a 1990 Civic CRX Si. The Si is a brilliant little car. It's a lot of fun to drive.
The basic Civic is not as much fun to drive. Not by a long shot. Still, in their own way, the early Civics are brilliant cars.
Created during Honda's "Honda: We Make It Simple" days, it was simple and unexciting. The very smooth 1500cc engine produced just 67 HP, making it a slow (but not dangerously slow) car that could easily get 35 MPG on the highway. They were simple to maintain and dependable.
This is a Civic S, Honda's early attempt at bringing some sportiness to the Civic line. It was introduced in 1983, the last year of this generation Civic. There are no mechanical differences between the standard Civic and the S, but it did get a firmer suspension, "sporty" 165/70R13 Michelin tires, a tach, and some blacked out trim.
Early Civics rusted in pretty spectacular fashion, which is what makes this car interesting. It appears to be rust free. It has a blown head gasket. (Which is a very, very common problem.) Usually, when an older Civic comes up for sale, it's running fine but has rust issues, not vice versa.
The paint looks really good on this car. Maybe too good. I wonder if it's been repainted or if it just looks so good because the car was photographed when wet. If it's been repainted, check for poor rust repair.
20 years ago, a 1983 Honda Civic with a blown head gasket and 182,000 miles would have been junked. But today, with so few left - especially rust free ones - this car has been bid up to $1600.00, with over a day to go in the auction.
I would bet just about anything that this car will be sold to a kid or a tuner, who will customize the hell out of it. It's cool to see it in the condition it is today and remember back when Honda made things simple.
Located in Silverdale, WA, click here to see the eBay listing.
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Chris Keen said...
I thought for certain this was the same car I featured back in December, but the VIN, mileage and some minor details are different, although they both have blown headgaskets. Looks like this one is just across Puget Sound from the other one, so that area must be a vortex for the Civic S. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30480 | Ideal Meals for lovers on Valentine’s Day: Lobster
What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than to share a meal with your special someone (or more)? And, we suggest that you go for lobster for some good reasons.
“You’re my lobster!”
Pop culture has brought us Friends – you know, that popular television sitcom – which then has perpetuated the romantic notion that “lobsters fall in love and mate for life.” Of course, for those who have done the research, they would know that it’s not necessarily the case. Lobsters may well be “serial monogamists”. An article on Marine Science Today gives us the real story: “Instead of mating for life, a dominant male lobster mates with an entire harem of female lobsters. He mates with each female one at a time, in a series of serial flings that last about two weeks each.” (But hey, to each their own.) And you can suspend some disbelief and tell your special someone, “You’re my lobster” and mean it in a way that creates warm and fuzzy feelings.
Eating lobster create connection.
Keith Keogh, a notable chef, is quoted as saying: “It is an exotic delicacy that results in an intimate moment with a loved one, because lobster is hand-held and shareable. Shellfish, especially lobster, is a catalyst for connection like no other food.”
Seriously, what’s more beautiful than that? Also, the fact that you eat lobster with your hands where things can get messy can be primal and sexy. You can also do the cleaning up together – some bonding moment for you.
Lobster is an aphrodisiac.
Lobster is chock-full of nutrients that help you stay healthy. Among these nutrients is zinc, which, among other things, can help improve testosterone levels and sexual function, particularly among men. Then there’s vitamin B12 and magnesium, which are also associated with improved sexual function.
Lobster is a luxury food item.
Well, generally. And what better way to make your special someone feel pampered than by treating them to a luxurious lobster dish?
Here are some lobster recipes you can do at home
1. Herbed Lobster Tails on the Grill "A light and flavorful grilled lobster tail recipe. The lemon-herb mixture really help this dish to pop. While this recipe calls for olive oil, you can certainly use melted butter for something a little more decadent." Get recipe here:
2. Butter Poached Lobster Salad “It may seem a little intimidating, but there is no better way to impress a date than to serve home cooked lobster. This dish is luxurious, but surprisingly light and refreshing.” Get the recipe here:
3. Lobster Thermidor A classic French dish where the lobster shell is stuffed with a creamy mixture of meat, egg yolks and brandy. Top up with cheese and bake for an oven-browned cheese crust. Get the recipe here:
4. Grilled Lobster with Wine Sauce “A delicious sauce of egg yolk and white wine goes perfectly with grilled lobster.” Get the recipe here: 5. Lobster Thai curry with butter basmati rice and coriander cress “Lobster is a great meaty seafood that works wonderfully when given the Thai green curry treatment, especially when the curry paste is homemade too.” Get the recipe here: |
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Episode 24: 3 Ways to Live a More Fully Engaged Life
Do you ever feel like life is just sort of happening to you?
You meander through your days on autopilot. From home, to work, and then back home.
You absently kiss your partner. You passively play with your kids.
And while there are occasional moments of sheer and utter joy like on your wedding day, or during your yearly vacation, by and large it feels like you're just passing the time.
What a shitty way to live when you put it that way, huh? And unfortunately, it's how must of us sail through life, from cradle to grave.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not judging. I get caught in the exact same cycle. But you know me, and you know I'm nothing without my belief in our ability to change our reality at the drop of a decision.
With that in mind, here are 3 ways to get out of the practice of passivity and into a more fully engaged, joy-filled life.
1. Identify what a 'fully engaged life' means for you.
I could sit here and tell you to go sky diving or travel the world as keys to living a more engaged life. But the truth is, that may not be what living a more engaged life looks like for you.
Maybe for you it's simply a matter of having conversations with your partner instead of zoning out in front of the tv each night. Maybe it's leaving your loathsome boss and starting that online program. Maybe it's picking up art supplies in your free time and getting back to your very first love.
The point is, you have to define it. You say you want a more engaged life, so ask yourself what that looks like. Write it down, get detailed, spell out a day-in-the-life, and start enacting every possible part of that picture, starting now
2. Remove things that leave you disengaged.
We all say we want to live more fulfilling lives, and then as fast as the words leave our lips, our eyes drop down to our phones. We immediately get to work mindlessly scrolling through social media, mindlessly consuming hours of television, mindlessly drinking our troubles away.
Sometimes living a more engaged life is less about what you do and more about what you don't do.
How would your life shift if you started removing the activities that left you feeling uninspired and disconnected?
What if you started calling your friends instead of texting them? What if you went to see a play instead of a movie. What if you had sex instead of watching porn?
Living a more engaged life doesn't have to mean a massive upheaval; it can just mean making simple, intentional choices to replace passive activities with active ones.
3. Seek novelty.
Ok this is the part where I tell you to go sky diving or travel the world. Or you know, whatever new adventure tickles your fancy. Our brain thrives on new experiences.
Think about it, when you're doing something new, you don't have the luxury of being passive. Your brain is fully present, soaking it all in, seeking understanding, and making adjustments as you fail and try again.
And again, I always like to bring these ideas down from the clouds and back to earth. This tip doesn't mean you need to make a budget to travel to a new country every other month (although that'd be totally cool if it's in the cards for you).
It could be as simple as going to a different restaurant every time you have a date night. I can speak for myself and Bryan in this, we decided to hop on Groupon to find fun, new date ideas that neither of us would have ever thought of (hello archery course!).
Take a class, join an activity group, ask your friends to introduce you to their other friends, try a DIY project instead of going to the store for that bird feeder.
Whatever it is, find something new to try at least once a month and you'll feel yourself and your life expand in ways you never thought possible.
Ok, now you know 3 ways to live a more fully engaged life... which means there's only one thing left to do: act! So get out there, put these tips to practice, and report back with your awesome adventure!
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Visas E1 and E2
Visas E1 and E2
E visas are among the most widespread since they are intended for a large group of people, companies, and their employees, from merchants and businessmen to professionals and artists. There are different requirements that must be met and taken into account to request such visas. Legal advice, therefore, becomes fundamental, not only strictly for the field of immigration but also for the formation of companies and contracts on the basis of the visa application, in order to have the preparation of documents and tests required by the US immigration service; in fact, it is often to wait until the end before applying for a visa, concentrating their initial efforts only on the start-up phase of the company. This is difficult when applying for a visa, where there are often no basic requirements or documents to obtain it, precisely because of an incorrect initial configuration.
Commercial Visa E-1:
The E-1 visa (“Treaty Traders”) is the visa intended for those who frequently maintain commercial activities or services with the United States; such frequent exchanges must be documented correctly and must respond to precise proportions in order to obtain the visa. This visa is often used by merchants and import and export companies, but it can also be extended to the provision of services, it can also be requested by professionals or other people engaged in different types of activities, such as architects, artists, and craftsmen. The E-1 visa is issued for a maximum of 5 years and then extends for other periods of 5 years, as long as all the basic requirements persist.
Treaty Investors Visa E-2:
There are several countries that can use the E-2 visa, this visa it is for those who wish to invest a sum of money in the United States in order to start a business or services, or to take over a business already in operation. The Immigration Office of the attorney Sonia Oliveri can not only provide legal advice for the application of this visa, but also get in touch with possible contacts to detect or train the modalities of the franchise.
The investment required for an E-2 Visa is variable, it is often wrongly stated that an investment of around one hundred thousand dollars is required to obtain an E-2 visa, this preconception not only lacks legal foundation but is often far from practical reality. The relevant laws do not dictate any type of threshold, on the contrary, they dictate a principle of proportionality. The investment is considered acceptable or not according to the type of activity that you want to carry out. For activities with low start-up costs, it will be required an investment that covers almost all initial costs, on the other hand, for investments with high start-up costs, an investment that only covers part of the initial costs can be considered sufficient. Therefore, even an investment of only twenty thousand dollars can be enough to obtain the E-2 visa, if the activity does not require, by its nature, a substantial initial cost and the last one has been incurred in its entirety. For example, a Law Firm; an investment of a few thousand dollars to cover only the first months of rental of the premises and the necessary technical equipment (computers, telephone, etc.) can be considered sufficient. Likewise, an investment of one hundred thousand dollars may not be sufficient if the activity carried out requires a substantial initial economic expense. One hundred thousand dollars is probably not considered sufficient, for example, in the case of the opening of a new hotel or a new transport company, since it would represent a very small investment in proportion to the start-up costs that will be incurred.
The investment is not the only requirement for an E-2 visa, it is also necessary that the investment be made by a citizen of the treaty country or by a company controlled by a citizen of the treaty country (or another country where it is possible to apply for an E-2 visa). Even about the control requirement, incorrect statements are often heard; in particular, as a general rule, it is considered that the person requesting the E-2 visa must possess at least 50.1% of the shares of the company; this does not correspond to the truth in cases where the company is managed by one or more managers, rather than directly by its members, in fact, the requirement that the applicant manage the E-2 visa can also be demonstrated through his position as a manager, as well as that of a member. It is also possible to demonstrate negative management, that is, even if the company is directly controlled only by its members, if it has only two members and each owns 50% of the shares, each member counts with the same power to make decisions, being able to immobilize the other simply by voting on the contrary to each other. This situation is defined as “negative management” and is considered sufficient to obtain the E-2 visa for each of the two investors.
Another requirement for the E-2 visa are: that the investment comes from the country of origin (Spain, Colombia, Italy, etc.) and has already been carried out partially (and not only planned); that the company has already opened or is about to open; that the business activity allows to obtain a substantial benefit, not only guarantee the mere existence of those who manage it. Finally, it is also possible to immobilize the amount to invest, conditioning it to obtain the visa. The E-2 visa has a maximum initial duration of 5 years, but is renewable continuously, as long as the commercial activity persists.
Nationals employed by the holder of the E-1 or E-2 visa:
Each individual holder of an E-1 or E-2 visa can hire one or more persons of the same nationality to work as managers or specialists in their own company, sponsoring them for a visa and as an employee.
Although the definition of Legal Manager and Specialist is the same used for the L visas (see the page dedicated to the L visa for more information), in the case of visas, this definition is interpreted more broadly, which allows framing various types of workers such as Managers or Specialists. Even a very young person with low qualifications will be able to obtain a visa as a manager, as long as it is possible to demonstrate that once he has obtained the E visa, he will be at least partly directive. In the same way, an individual who can fulfill specific functions, even if he is not particularly specialized, can be considered a Specialist; for example, a generic cook, without particular specializations in a type of kitchen. Thus, in the case of visas as employees for any certificate, training and experience, they are certainly useful, but they do not play a crucial or essential role in the case of L visas (see the section on L visas to understand the difference). The employee visa E-1 or E-2 also has a maximum initial duration of 5 years but is continuously renewable, as long as the commercial activity persists and while the employee continues to work.
Members of the E-1 or E-2 visa holder (principal and employees):
The spouse and unmarried children under the age of 21 can accompany the holder of the E-1 or E-2 visa in the United States. In addition, although children can only obtain a travel visa, the spouse has the right to apply for a work permit (the so-called EAD) with which they can perform any type of employment (unlike the E visa holder who can only perform work activity within your company). |
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During the Foundation Stage, students engage in a broad range of experiences which help them develop as young individuals with an appreciation of Modern British Values through completing the Kingsbury Guarantee. When they have completed their Guarantee, students graduate in Year 9.
In order to graduate, students must provide evidence of their competency across 12 key areas:
1. Independence
2. Leadership
3. Team work
4. Aims and aspirations
5. Communication
6. Literacy
7. Numeracy
8. Problem solving
9. Positive thinking
10. Creativity
11. Listening
12. Presenting
The pinnacle of the Foundation Stage is the Graduation Ceremony where students are recognised for their achievements. Students graduate at different tiers according to how well they have met the criteria we set for graduating. The highest accolade is to graduate with Distinction. |
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Dotting with the Aboriginals
Your child will transform bubble wrap into a vibrant dotted artwork while learning about Aboriginal art.
4 - 9
Est. Time:
<30 mins
How we did it:
Materials List
1. bubble wrap (8 by 10 inch section)
2. paints (various colors)
3. paintbrushes
4. construction paper (1 sheet)
1. You could say Aboriginal rock art is the original art with some examples dating back over 60,000 years ago. Using swirling lines, dots, shapes, and repeated designs, Aboriginal dot art is vibrant and organic – and was originally created with the use of natural pigments such as ochre and painted onto cave walls or hard sand. These artworks also contain symbols and stories representing the Dreamtime, or explanations for why certain things are the way they are. During the “time before time” Australian Aborigines created these special stories to teach and share traditions. Take a look at examples of dot art as well as Aboriginal symbols with your child before getting started. Encourage your child to select a theme or symbol as a base for her Aboriginal dot art creation. She can focus on an animal or one of the traditional symbols and create a couple of sketches before working on the bubble wrap. When she’s ready, invite your child to paint her design onto the bubble wrap using vibrant colors of tempera paint just like the Aboriginals did. Now she can radiate the design by creating repeated lines around the central shape. Once she’s finished offer her a sheet of brown construction paper and then press on top of the bubble wrap. Now she can lift the paper to reveal her own unique Aboriginal dot art. Now your child can gently wipe the bubble wrap and continue to paint and create using different colors of construction paper and designs! She can even write her own unique Dreamtime story to go along with her creation. |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30522 | ANNAM Noodle Bar Opens In Eastwood City
Saturday, July 09, 2016
A new restaurant just popped up in Eastwood City! It's called ANNAM which comes from the same people who brought you NAMNAM Noodle Bar, the most popular one in Singapore. Now I don't think I've tried it when I was there because I probably was concentrating on hawker stores but the good thing is, they're relatively serving the same dishes as if you're there. The lovely menu is composed of different bowls of Pho, so you're relatively going to have your Vietnamese fix when in this joint. I'm a little tired of the other Vietnamese restaurant in Eastwood, not naming names, but their store is relatively a fresh take on that.
I don't have interior shots but I'll be back there soon. The place has tons of seating, bunk seats, bar stools, they can easily fit groups and combine chairs and tables if needed. It looks small outside but they maximized the space inside so you're bound to find something good to eat in ANNAM. Speaking of which, here are some of the things I liked on their menu.
This is one of their dried noodles. They call this the Sauteed Lemongrass Pork Noodle. It is served with a bowl of bone broth on the side and the way they eat it is they pour a bit of it on the dried noodles before consuming it. I like the fried Imperial Roll on the center, tasted like a cross between the local lumpiang shanghai and chinese kikiam. It's a little softer though, but really good.
This is their Vegetarian Southern Rolls served with peanut sauce on the side. For those who are watching their weight, this might be a good alternative to your favorite rolls. Wrapped in rice paper, has cabbage, bean sprouts, other veggies, it's filling but definitely not oily. If you're a little allergic to prawns like me, this would be a good thing to have while having your Pho fix.
This one is the Fresh Southern Rolls with Prawn, Pork, Fresh Herbs and Peanut Sauce. I can hear the ladies on my table raving about these. It's fresh, you get that sweet shrimp flavor when you bite into it. Pretty good that we get something legit like it now in the Philippines.
They don't really hold back on the spices so you might find a few of them a little too SPICY. Be careful what you ask for, but this is GOOD NEWS for people like me who LOVE the spicy kind. This is their Crispy Squid with Sriracha Mayonnaise. As the name suggests, they probably have a batter and got these squid pieces deep fried. Then you have the option to up the ante with the Sriracha laden mayo as your dip. I loved this one.
This is the Crispy Imperial Rolls. As I said a while ago this is a cross between our very own lumpiang shanghai and chinese kikiam which I absolutely love. Yes, you need to have this either over rice or just be something to munch on while you're having your pho. It's sweet and savory, something that most of us in Southeast Asia LOVE!
My love for beef balls were already triggered as soon as I saw this on the menu. This is their Pho Australian Ox Tail and Beef Balls. It's like a lighter bulalo, with a few herbs in between. The beef balls are also freshly made so they probably did it inside the restaurant with their own hands. It doesn't seem refrigerated either which is a good thing. It kinda crumbles a bit when you bite into it but it was still firm. The rice noodles were springy, make sure you add Sriracha and Hoisin sauce to take the flavor profile further. I loved this a lot!
I chose this for the sole mention of Sambal on its name. This is their Chili Sambal Braised Beef. It's got strands of beef, separated or broken down by the sheer softness of it. It's mixed in with Sambal Chili, which Singaporeans love. I like the intensity, but this might prove a little too hot for Filipinos. This is probably made for me, I did finish the whole thing, but it's a tad pricey. I think you're paying for the ambiance, the interior, the freshness of ingredients. With that in mind, add it up, then it's worth it.
This is their 3 Colour Dessert. It almost felt like a halo-halo but it's not. It's closer to their Iced Cacang but I think they used coconut milk instead of milk. It's a little "not too sweet" for a dessert but it would be good for those who are watching their sugar. You get the same lovely flavors, less the sweetness. I guess it works.
This is their Vanilla Pudding with Palm Sugar Caramel. You'll get that intense sweetness from the syrup, it kinda paints on the canvass, things like this happen. I like that it's sweet, but some of the others find it too sweet. I'm still rooting for it though. Good to share after a date.
My favorite part of the show was when they told me they had this inside the store. This is Fish Sauce, Chili Sauce (like Sriracha) and Hoisin Sauce. They actually sell these too, plus the bowls I think and a couple of the noodles they use in their dishes. They have it dried so you just have to throw it in boiling water and cook like how the pros do. Their Hoisin sauce is really good too, as it's not too salty, but more on the sweet savory side. Now that's just for starters.
ANNAM is something I'd really want to go back to when I'm having my Vietnamese Pho fix, they've literally exceeded my expectations and the catch here is, they don't even use MSG. Now that it is here, people should really try it out. I'm glad I did, so you know what to do. Go grab your friends, your loved ones, share a bowl of Pho and make ANNAM in Eastwood's 1880 Building. It's right beside the second Starbucks store (the large one). Just walk a couple of steps and you'll find it there. For what it's worth, it's the place to be now that it's raining a lot in Quezon City. They have intense Viet Coffee too for those who run in those batteries. You better get yourselves a bowl. Four out of Five Kumags.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30549 | When filing for divorce, there are many differences that military members may face that their civilian counterparts do not. Some of these differences you have some measure of control over, such as where you file. This is one of the most important things to consider in a military divorce because the law varies by state, so depending on where you choose to file, the outcome of your divorce could change significantly. This is more of an issue for military members than civilians because civilians rarely have a choice in where they file.
In civilian divorces, the couple often very clearly resides in one state, likely the state in which they were married. As a serviceman or servicewoman, you may have been married in Ohio before being stationed in Texas, owning property in both. In this instance, you may be able to file for divorce in either state, and knowing the divorce laws of each state will help you decide where to file.
It’s important to remember that just because you may have a choice in where you file for divorce, there are still limits. You should file for divorce in a state in which you actually live; where you were married does not affect where you can divorce. With this in mind, it’s generally a good idea to file in a state where you vote, go to church or pay state taxes. For an in-depth explanation of how to choose where to file for divorce, click here.
If you are eligible to file for divorce in Texas, it is important that you meet with an attorney who is experienced handling military divorce cases in the state. This is the most reliable way to ensure that all of the aspects of a military divorce case, such as division of military retirement, are handled appropriately and fairly. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30558 | Linux : Change file/folder owner
On a Unix based system, all files and folders belong to a group and a owner. Or rather, an owner and a group has specific permissions to read, write and execute files. So you might need to change the owner of certain files and folders so that you’ll be able to open them, edit them and write to them again.
I’ll show you how to do this via SSH. You’ll need a login and password in order to access the shell.
ssh -lroot
Once logged in, change the directory to the one where the files/folders are located.
cd /var/www/vhosts/
Then you might want to recursively change the owner for all files and folders inside that directory to another user. Lets set the owner of the files and folders to “peter”
chown -R peter *
That is all there is to it. You have just changed the owner of all files and folders recursively inside the specified directory to “peter”. You can now open the files (for example via FTP), edit them and write back to them again. Good luck! |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30581 | The New Realities: VR & AR
If you’re anything like me (possibly a product of the 80s) you’ve been waiting ever so patiently for the future to arrive. And while the complete George Jetson lifestyle has yet to fully materialize, we do see a number of emerging technologies suggesting the future could be close at hand. Even as self-driving cars are beta testing their way down freeways across California, personal jetpacks are sadly far, far away from satisfying my childhood dreams. But at least one set of technologies saw dramatic advancement in the last few years....
Virtual Reality (VR) and its half-brother, Augmented Reality (AR), were promised to us decades ago. Unfortunately, until very recently, every commercial iteration was an abject failure. But with the combination of advancements in processing, high-resolution displays, and camera miniaturization, a number of real-life VR and AR technologies have finally debuted. Hear me now: the future has, in fact, arrived. Buckle your seat belts.
VR & AR are similar but slightly different technologies. Virtual Reality is the process of using external hardware to completely supplant visual and auditory stimulus. Basically, you strap on headphones and a VR headset and enter a 360º environment completely computer generated. These virtual spaces have applications across nearly all vertical markets: business, medicine, entertainment — the sky’s the limit. Consider the possibilities of full-emersion video chat, and the ability to bring expert, medical clinicians to remote sites using VR “telepresence.” In addition to the scores of VR movies and video games in development, the platform of VR will find a home well outside of just entertainment. From applications with NASA to CSI-like crime scene recreations to virtual vacations, expect VR to shake-up any industry it bumps into. The 500- pound gorilla in this space is the Facebook-acquired Oculus with their VR headset called “Rift.” (
Augmented Reality is a bit different. Instead of masking the outside world and entering a fully- immersive environment, AR is defined by an overlay of computer-generated content on top of the real world. (For the Star Wars fans: think R2-D2 projecting Obi-Wan to Leia.) We’ve seen a few players in this space, but nothing has ever taken off. Until now. Pokémon Go, a game derived directly from AR tech, just became the most successful game in the history of smartphones. Instead of visiting this game world from the comfort of a couch, Pokémon Go requires players to head out into the real world to find treasures and interact with game characters.
But Pokémon Go uses a smartphone’s screen only — no immersive headset yet — so it’s obviously a stepping-stone in the progression of the technology. For the full expression of AR, look to Microsoft and their innovative (but still in development) HoloLens to lead the AR charge. Their marketing lingo positions HoloLens as “the first fully self-contained, holographic computer, enabling you to interact with high‐definition holograms in your world.” And as much as I’m typically bearish on Microsoft, their AR program is at least one indicator that Microsoft could still have a little innovation in their back pocket. Expect AR to power revolutions across the board. (
So while jetpacks won’t be riding us into the near future, expect new VR and AR tech to deliver a breathtaking “virtual jetpack experience.” These new post-reality innovations are opening exciting new opportunities for entrepreneurs everywhere. The Jetsonian age may actually be upon us — just buckle your headset.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30624 | Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
Updated: Jul 31
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan, p.40.
Just because for every single moment up until now there has been no evidence that humans don't have the turkey's best interests at heart, doesn't mean it is not possible.
• No black carrots have ever been sold in your local grocery store store (or suburb or state) is not the same thing as black carrots do not exist.
• No cancer cell has been detected is not the same thing as there is definitively no cancer.
• Test scores show no improvement in learning from Classroom Practice X is not the same thing as Classroom Practice X produces no improvement in learning.
Confirmation bias is our tendency to keep searching for evidence that corroborates with our pre-existing belief rather than searching for evidence that might prove that belief wrong. Only looking for orange carrots won't prove that black ones don't exist. Yet, from Taleb again, those "discomfirming instances are far more powerful in establishing truth" (p.58).
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What color are Cersei’s eyes on Game of Thrones? Melisandre’s prophecy of Arya theory explained
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In the latest episode of Game of Thrones, Arya and Melisandre reunite after many seasons and revisit an old prophecy she once told her. The prophecy in question predicts her future about who she kills but does so in an extremely subtle way. Here is that prophecy back from Season 3:
This conversation is revisited again during The Long Night and it raises the question: Who has the green eyes? Could this prophecy be referencing, Cersei Lannister?
What color are Cersei’s eyes?
Unfortunately for Cersei Lannister, the fierce queen has green eyes in both the book as well as the television show. It’s also interesting that when the prophecy was first mentioned by Melisandre, she had the colors in order brown, blue, and green. Now that Arya has closed the blue eyes (The Night King), it could mean that Cersei and her green eyes are the next she will shut permanently.
There are also other theories that the green eyes represent both Jaime and Cersei. The thriving idea behind this is that Arya will turn on Jaime for being the Kingslayer and then use his face to kill his sister. Here are some tweets involving that fan theory below:
However, an alternative thought might be that Jaime may be critically injured in battle and tell Arya to finish him so she can wear his face to kill Cersei. Either way, both scenarios are extremely possible.
It has also been noted that the green eyes could be Little Finger, who already bit the dust last season. One thing is for sure, Cersei’s time is coming and whoever kills her, let’s hope the death is just as poetic as the fall of the Night King.
Game of Thrones airs Sundays at 9/8c on HBO.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30658 | The French Connection
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Trivia: The casting of Fernando Rey was an accident. William Friedkin had wanted to cast Francisco Rabal, whom he had seen in Belle de jour (1967), but at the time didn't know his name. Only after actor and director met did Friedkin realize Rey wasn't the actor he had wanted. Friedkin ended up keeping Rey after learning that Rabal spoke neither English nor French.
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Trivia: James Caan, Peter Boyle and Steve McQueen were all offered the role of "Popeye" Doyle but turned it down for various reasons. Gene Hackman was eventually cast without auditioning, reading for the part or screen-testing.
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Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: This is Doyle. I'm sittin' on Frog One.
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Now, let’s not talk of the birds, but of this Neo009. It’s father is called Theodor Zox, he’s from Denmark and has accomplished many good deeds in recent times; like several fantastic records with Morris Audio, Tic Tac Toe and Trenton. Zox has originally been a graphic artist, but multitasking is a keyword of this 3rd millennium, so we may say that this record emanates a certain harsh precision, like a high end digital art print that even makes us doubt about Mondrian.
If Zox was a Sculptor, his works would be angled and polished, simple and magically effective. No sound on this record (which is called “more fluff”, which astonishes me) hangs around too long between the acrylic clear beats, the square waves are bellied and cold as Vodka from an iceberg, the higher frequencies refreshingly cool as hills in the highlands, and straight lines are the dominating theme by far; this is dance music in itself. The basses live in rich bounteousness which is strictly controlled, though. Why boom it when you can bang it? Perfect shapes, functional beauty and a refreshing taste will rock you. During any physical effort like dancing or so. Like DJing, too, actually.
This record is highly gainful for your warm summer nights, on a beach or in more urban settings.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30707 | When Should You Say You're Available to Start Work?
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When you're looking for work, your first concern is usually getting your foot in the door someplace new. Once the interview is over, however, you might be brought up short by a common question: "When can you start?" If you're switching jobs, the issue of how much advance notice you should give can be difficult—especially if your current employer doesn't know about your job search. Here are some guidelines to help.
If your dream job extends an offer of employment to you, or if you're still in the interview process and the hiring manager just wants to gauge potential start times, it can be tempting to blurt out that you're available to start immediately. While this shows an admirable enthusiasm for the new job, it could put you at a disadvantage.
If you're switching jobs, your new employer will almost certainly be interested in the respect you demonstrate for your current job, as it's the best indicator of how seriously you're likely to take the interests of your new company. As a rule, people involved in the hiring process expect to wait two weeks for you to wrap things up at your old job, and this standard delay will rarely be held against you. This is all the more true if you make it clear during the hiring process that you can't just walk off your old job without advance notice.
Issues of advance notice aside, it can be to your advantage to delay starting a new job even if you're presently unemployed. Taking a break to mentally prepare yourself for the new job can help you get off on the right foot at a new company. It's also worth remembering that, with the exception of companies offering mainly unskilled and entry-level jobs, most employers are interested in more than your suitability for the position during the hiring process. Quite often, asking when you can start is the opening of a salary negotiation that you might not even know is happening. Your new company's hiring manager might be asking you for your ideal start date as a way of judging how eager you are for work with an eye toward offering the lowest salary the market will bear.
Answering that you won't be available to start work for two weeks — ideally without even mentioning advance notice or other jobs you might have — is a nonconfrontational way of letting your new employer know that you aren't desperate for work and that your salary requirements will be in line with industry standards.
Getting a new job is exciting, especially when you've been out of work for a while. The temptation to get started right away can be overwhelming, but letting on that you're available immediately can hurt you in the eyes of your new company. Not giving advance notice on a job you're leaving is frowned on, after all, and even unemployed job seekers could command a higher salary just by asking for a two-week delay.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30710 | Measuring Sound with Microphones
This document provides information to help you understand the fundamentals of sound pressure, how microphones work, and how different sensor specifications impact microphone performance in your application.
In addition to the sensor characteristics, you must consider the required hardware and software to properly condition, acquire, and visualize microphone measurements. For example, you need to perform signal processing, such as octave analysis on raw sound pressure signals to represent the data in a format comparable to the response of the human ear. To better familiarize yourself with the measurement hardware and software processing necessary for microphone measurements, download the Engineer's Guide to Accurate Sensor Measurements.
What Is sound pressure?
Pressure variations, whether in the air, the water, or another medium the human ear can detect, are considered sounds. The human eardrum transfers pressure oscillations, or sound, into electrical signals that our brains interpret as music, speech, noise, and so on. Microphones are designed to do the same thing. You can then record and analyze these signals to gather information about the nature of the path the sound took from the source to the microphone. For example, in noise, vibration, and harshness test, engineers are usually interested in reducing undesirable sounds, such as the noise passengers in a car experience while driving. This could include sounds that are above or below the frequencies the human ear can detect or amplitudes at specific resonant frequencies. These measurements are important to designers who need to reduce noise to meet emissions standards or to characterize a device for performance and longevity.
Sound pressure is the most common measurement performed because humans are exposed to sound and can detect sound pressure. Measured in pascals (Pa), the sound pressure level represents how a receiver perceives sound. You can also determine the sound power of a source. Measured in watts (W), the sound power level represents the total acoustic energy that is radiated in all directions. It is independent of the environment including the room, receivers, or distance from the source. Power is a property of the source, whereas sound pressure depends on the environment, reflecting surfaces, the distance of the receiver, ambient sounds, and so on.
How do microphones work?
You can choose from a few different designs for microphones, but the most common instrumentation microphones are externally polarized condenser microphones, prepolarized electret condenser microphones, and piezoelectric microphones.
Figure 1. A microphone is a transducer that converts acoustical waves into electrical signals.
Condenser Microphones
A condenser microphone operates on a capacitive design. It incorporates a stretched metal diaphragm that forms one plate of a capacitor. A metal disk placed close to the diaphragm acts as a backplate. When a sound field excites the diaphragm, the capacitance between the two plates varies according to the variation in the sound pressure. A stable DC voltage is applied to the plates through a high resistance to keep electrical charges on the plate. The change in the capacitance generates an AC output proportional to the sound pressure. The charge of this capacitor is generated either by an external polarizing voltage or by the properties of the material itself, as in the case of prepolarized microphones. Externally polarized microphones need 200 V from an external power supply. Prepolarized microphones are powered by IEPE preamplifiers that require a constant current source.
Figure 2. The most common instrumentation microphone, a condenser microphone, operates on a capacitive design.
Piezoelectric Microphones
Piezoelectric microphones use a crystal structure to generate the backplate voltage. Many piezoelectric microphones use the same signal conditioning as accelerometers and may use IEPE signal conditioning to provide the polarization voltage. Although these sensor-type microphones have low sensitivity levels, they are durable and able to measure high amplitude pressure ranges. Conversely, the floor noise level on this type of microphone is generally high. This design is suitable for shock and blast pressure measurement applications.
How do I choose the right microphone?
Response Field
You must choose the microphone that is best for the type of field in which you will operate it. The three types of measurement microphone are free field, pressure field, and random incidence. These microphones operate similarly at lower frequencies but differently at higher frequencies.
A free-field microphone measures the sound pressure from a single source directly at the microphone diaphragm. It measures sound pressure as it existed before the microphone was introduced into the sound field. These microphones work best in open areas free of hard or reflective surfaces. Anechoic chambers or larger open areas are ideal for free-field microphones.
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Figure 3. Free-Field Microphone
A pressure-field microphone is designed to measure the sound pressure in front of the diaphragm. It has the same magnitude and phase at any position in the field. It is usually found in an enclosure, or cavity, which is small when compared with wavelength. Pressure-field microphone application examples include testing the pressure exerted on walls, on airplane wings, or inside structures such as tubes, housings, or cavities.
Figure 4. Pressure-Field Microphone
In many situations, the sound is not traveling from a single source. Random-incidence or diffuse-field microphones respond uniformly to sounds arriving simultaneously from all angles. You use this type of microphone when taking sound measurements in a church or an area with hard, reflective walls. However, for most microphones, the pressure and random-incidence responses are similar, so pressure-field microphones are often used for random-incidence measurements.
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Figure 5. Random-Incidence Microphone
Dynamic Range
The main criterion for describing sound is based on the amplitude of the sound pressure fluctuations. The lowest amplitude that a healthy human ear can detect is 20 millionths of a pascal (20 μPa). Since the pressure numbers represented by pascals are generally low and not easily managed, another, more commonly used scale, the decibel (dB) scale, was developed. This logarithmic scale more closely matches the response reactions of the human ear to the pressure fluctuations.
Manufacturers specify the maximum decibel level based on the design and physical characteristics of the microphone. The specified maximum dB level refers to the point where the diaphragm approaches the backplate, or where total harmonic distortion (THD) reaches a specified amount, typically 3 percent THD. The maximum decibel level that a microphone outputs in a certain application depends on the voltage supplied and that particular microphone’s sensitivity. Before you can calculate the maximum output for a microphone using a specific preamplifier and its corresponding peak voltage, you first need to calculate the pressure in pascals that the microphone can accept. You can calculate the amount of pressure using the following formula:
Where P = pascals (Pa) and voltage is the preamplifier output peak voltage.
After determining the maximum pressure level that the microphone can sense at its peak voltage, you can convert this amount to decibels (dB) using the following logarithmic scale:
Where P = pressure in pascals
Po = reference pascals (constant = 0.00002 Pa)
This formula provides the maximum rating that a microphone, when combined with a specific preamplifier, is capable of measuring. For the low-end noise level, or minimum amount of pressure required, you need to review the cartridge thermal noise (CTN) rating of the microphone. The CTN specification provides the lowest measurable sound pressure level that can be detected above the electrical noise inherent within the microphone. Figure 6 shows the typical representation of the noise level at different frequencies for a microphone when used in conjunction with a preamplifier.
Figure 6. The inherent noise level is greatest at upper and lower capabilities of the microphone.
When selecting a microphone, you must confirm that the pressure levels you are testing fall between the microphone’s CTN and the maximum-rated decibel level of the microphone. In general, the smaller the microphone diameter, the greater the high-end decibel level is. The larger diameter microphones typically have lower CTN, so they are recommended for low-range decibel measurements.
Frequency Response
After you consider the type of microphone field response and dynamic range you need, review the microphone’s specification sheet to find the usable frequency range (Hz). Smaller diameter microphones usually have a higher upper frequency level capability. Conversely, larger diameter microphones are more sensitive and better suited to detect lower frequencies.
Manufacturers place a typical tolerance of ±2 dB on the frequency specifications. When comparing microphones, make sure you check the frequency range and the tolerance associated with that specific frequency range. If an application is not critical, you can improve the usable frequency range for that microphone if you are willing to increase your allowable decibel tolerance. You can check with the manufacturer or look at the calibration sheet for a particular microphone to determine the actual usable frequency range for specific decibel tolerances.
Polarization Type
Traditional externally polarized and modern prepolarized microphones work well for most applications, but they do have some differences. Externally polarized microphones are recommended for high temperatures (120 °C to 150 °C) because the sensitivity level is more consistent in this range. Prepolarized microphones tend to be more consistent in humid conditions. Sudden changes in temperature that result in condensation on internal components may short out externally polarized microphones.
Because externally polarized microphones require a separate 200 V power source, you are limited to 7- conductor cabling with LEMO connectors in this setup. The newer, prepolarized microphones have become more popular because they are powered by an easy-to-use, 2–20 mA constant current supply. With this design, you can use standard coaxial cables with BNC or 10-32 connectors for both current supply and signal to the readout device.
Temperature Range
Microphone sensitivity decreases as the temperature approaches the maximum specifications of the microphone. You must be aware of not only the operating temperature but also the storage temperature of the microphone. Operating and/or storing a microphone in extreme conditions can adversely affect it and increase its calibration needs. In many cases, the required preamplifier can be the limiting factor for operating temperature range. Although most microphones can operate to 120 °C without any loss of sensitivity, the preamplifiers required for these microphones typically operate in the 60 °C to 80 °C range.
Signal conditioning for microphones
When preparing a microphone to be measured properly by a DAQ device, you need to consider the following to ensure you meet all of your signal conditioning requirements:
• Current excitation to power the preamplifiers in IEPE sensors
• AC coupling to remove DC offset to increase resolution and take advantage of the full range of the input device
• Filtering to remove external, high-frequency noise
• Proper grounding to eliminate noise from the current flow between different ground potentials
• Dynamic range to measure the full amplitude range of the microphone
To learn more about how to condition, acquire, analyze, and display microphone measurements, download the Engineer's Guide for Accurate Sensor Measurements. |
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Dominic O'BrienDominic O'Brien is the current and eight times winner of the World Memory Championships. Since he began developing his memory just 13 years ago, Dominic has gained many prestigious titles. He has won many entries in The Guinness Book of Records. He was named Brain of the Year 1994 and was awarded the title Grand Master of Memory by the Brain Trust of Great Britain, October 1995 - presented to him by Prince Phillip of Liechtenstein. Some of the programs he has appeared on are How Do They Do That?, Oprah, You Bet, Guinness World of Records, Magic & Mystery, Tomorrows World, Are You Superhuman? and, of course, Record Breakers.
In 1995 Dominic was the subject of ITV's Network First's Fear and Counting in Las Vegas. Dominic set a new world record in August 2000 at the WMC by memorizing perfectly a random sequence of 316 numbers in just 5 minutes. That is faster than 1 digit per second. He is the inventor of the Dominic System, a powerful technique to rapidly access the power of memory.
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