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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30825 | Tuesday, 17 May 2016
Jumpers on or off with SPD
Ever look outside to see what the weather's like before getting dressed in the morning? I still do but generally these days clothes are laid out the night before and are based on the weather app on my phone. The only thing that matters with David is if it's going to be hot then we lay out his school shorts. But Anthony needs a bit more attention. This might sound as if Anthony is the more complicated, but both boys have autism and both have things to think about even with something as simple as choosing what to wear for school.
Anthony is quite temperature and touch sensitive. As far as the springtime weather and clothing goes, this means he can feel when he's getting hot really quickly and wants to be able to cool down by taking off his jumper. On the other hand, if it's raining, he wants to be able to wear long trousers so his legs don't get wet. Spring time is a constant reviewing of our weather app of see which version of shorts, trousers, long or short sleeve shirts, Anthony will be wearing to school.
David on the other hand is the opposite with temperature. He'll hardly notice if you put him in a really hot bath and doesn't blink if he's been holding ice in his hands for a while. Of course, the interesting thing here is that David is still actually getting hot or cold but he's just not bothered about it or perhaps doesn't register it in the same way. So whereas we have to prepare Anthony for every eventuality of the weather, David is more interested in wearing things as they are meant, It's part of his routine that he wears a full school uniform and like many individuals with autism, routines can make him feel comfortable. In the recent warm weather this has meant that David has been sweating lots at school.
On the day the weather first turned warm, David was in school in regular trousers, his school polo shirt and sweater. As the day got hot David refused to take off his jumper despite several attempts by staff to remove it. He ended up pretty sweaty. We are now sending him into school in his school shorts.
So how can we help the kids further?
Well, we can help Anthony make decisions on what he is going to wear based on what we think is going to happen and then help him if he becomes anxious about what he is wearing. We have used a 'problem chart before to help him with this. We can help him by pointing things out like, if it rains you won't get wet if you are inside for example.
For David, we're going to have to try and help him understand he can wear his school uniform without his jumper. Initially I think this will be a trial of taking his jumper off sometime after he has come home. As David can generalise tasks he may be able to allow to happen at school in the future too.
Jumpers on or off, shorts or trousers? Who knew getting dressed for school would be so complicated for our little guys? Our daughter is now beginning to rquet items to wear and that's a whole new thing for me. How do your lot get on with choosing clothes?
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1. Oh yes, totally know what you mean with this - our girl insisted on wearing her thick padded winter coat on a lovely warm day recently!
2. The Boy is sensitive to temperature but prefers his jumper to be off. I think he struggles with the feel of the two layers as well so I just put it in his bag now. He also can't stand to feel rain on him, his face in particular, and he won't wear shorts at school.He likes to wear comfy clothes outside of school uniform and I try to make sure his uniform is as comfy as possible as well.
3. Polar bear hates school jumpers, he loves to wear fleeces though, even on a hot day he will refuse to remove it. He'll be running around and getting hotter and hotter and still refuse to take his fleece off. It took us ages to teach him that it's okay to take the fleece off when he's too warm but he'll only do so when he gets really hot as opposed to before he gets to that point. It's a learning process.
4. Hayden associates is uniform with school, and we can tell pretty quickly if he is happy that it is a school day or not. He doesn't seem to have any problems taking it off, butif we didn't put it on in the morning I don't think he would realise he was going to school if that makes sense. Getting him dressed is a whole challenge in itself. If he doesn't know where he is going it will cause a huge meltdown. And at 5 and a half I still have to pick out his clothes and dress him. Thank you for linking up to #sectrumsunday lovely, hope you join me again this week xx
5. Can relate to this as my som doesn't appear to feel the heat or cold. Spend ages convincing him it's trouser weather and then when the warm weather comes we have to convince him to get his shorts back on! X
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30911 | Standard Swedish standard · SS-EN ISO 17677-1:2009
Resistance welding - Vocabulary - Part 1: Spot, projection and seam welding (ISO 17677-1:2009)
Status: Withdrawn · Replaced by: SS-EN ISO 17677-1:2019
This part of ISO 17677 establishes a vocabulary of terms and definitions for resistance spot welding, projection welding and seam welding.
NOTE In addition to terms used in English and French, two of the three official ISO languages, this part of ISO 17677 gives the equivalent terms in German; these are published under the responsibility of the member body for Germany (DIN). However, only the terms and definitions given in the official languages can be considered as ISO terms and definitions.
Manufacturing engineering (Vocabularies) (01.040.25) Welding processes (25.160.10)
Product information
Language: English
Written by: AGS 450 Motståndssvetsning, SIS/TK 134/AG 10
International title:
Article no: STD-70210
Edition: 1
Approved: 7/9/2009
No of pages: 56
Replaced by: SS-EN ISO 17677-1:2019 |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30931 | We met when we were in school
Never took no shit from no one, we weren't fools
The teacher says we're dumb
We're only having fun
We piss on everyone
In the classroom
When we got thrown out I left without much fuss
An' weekends we'd go dancing
Down Streatham on the bus
You always made me laugh
Got me in bad fights
Play me pool all night
Smokin' menthol
I practiced daily in my room
You were down the crown planning your next move
Go on a nicking spree
Hit the wrong guy
Each of you get three
Years in Brixton
I did my very best to write
How was butlins?
Were the screws too tight?
When you lot get out
Were gonna hit the town
We'll burn it fuckin' down
To a cinder
'Cause years have passed and things have changed
And I move anyway I want to go
I'll never forget the feeling I got
When I heard that you'd got home
An' I'll never forget the smile on my face
'Cause I knew where you would be
An' if you're in the crown tonight
Have a drink on me
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The Clash - Stay Free - Lyrics
The Clash - Stay Free - 3/8/1980 - Capitol Theatre (Official)
Stay Free- The Clash
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Stay Free - The Clash (cover)
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st: Re: Identify and delete duplicate obs
From "Joseph Coveney" <>
To <>
Subject st: Re: Identify and delete duplicate obs
Date Fri, 27 Dec 2013 09:29:58 +0900
Rongrong Zhang wrote:
my dataset has the following structure
industrynumber naics
1000 .
1001 114
100101 114
100102 114
both variables are string .
the first observation has a missing value for naics. observations
sharing the same four digit (e.g. 1001) will have the same naics, I
would like to keep one observation only for the same naics
i used
bysort naics: gen dup=cond(_N==1, 0, _n)
this command will count missing naics as well, I have thousands of
missing naics records, in which case, dup is a large number.
how should I replace dup value when the observation is missing naics??
this did not work"replace dup=-1 if naics==" "
Would something like that below do what you want?
I assume that you've got other variables that you want to retain, and that you're not interested in keeping one observation for each industrynumber-naics combination, but rather just as you said: one observation for each combination of four-character prefix of industry number and naics (including missing naics if need be, but avoiding missing naics when possible). I also assume that you want to carry along all other variables (not shown) in the same observation. That's what the code below does. If that's wrong, then perhaps you can clarify a bit.
By the way, your "this did not work" comment implies that naics is a string variable, but your -list- output indicates that it's numeric.
Joseph Coveney
. input str6 industrynumber long naics
industr~r naics
1. 1000 .
2. 1001 114
3. 100101 114
4. 100102 114
5. end
. generate str4 industry_nr = substr(industrynumber, 1, 4)
. bysort industry_nr (naics): keep if _n == 1
(2 observations deleted)
. drop industry_nr
. list, noobs separator(0) abbreviate(20)
| industrynumber naics |
| 1000 . |
| 1001 114 |
. exit
end of do-file
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30956 | Judge to rule if ex-SCDF chief Peter Lim has a case to answer to
Former Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) chief, Peter Lim Sin Pang, arrived at the Subordinate Courts on Thursday afternoon.
All eyes are on Lim, 52, who may be told to take the stand on Thursday afternoon. Lim is charged with corruptly obtaining oral sex from Nimrod Engineering's former general manager Pang Chor Mui in May 2010, in exchange for furthering the business interests of her company.
Lim's lawyer Mr Hamidul Haq, will be handing his written submissions to the court on Thursday afternoon, arguing that Lim has no case to answer to. District Judge Hamidah Ibrahim will decide if indeed Lim needs to answer to the charge and Lim could be called to the stand today.
On Wednesday, the prosecution summed up its case, saying it had presented enough evidence that Lim had corrupt intent when he obtained oral sex from Ms Pang. Prosecution had pointed out that Mr Haq did not dispute Ms Pang's testimony that oral sex took place between her and Lim in May 2010. Lim also did not disclose to SCDF, at any point, that he had obtained oral sex from the general manager of one of SCDF's vendors. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30964 | Upstream information
CVE-2008-2004 at MITRE
The drive_init function in QEMU 0.9.1 determines the format of a raw disk image based on the header, which allows local guest users to read arbitrary files on the host by modifying the header to identify a different format, which is used when the guest is restarted.
SUSE information
Overall state of this security issue: Resolved
This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.
CVSS v2 Scores
National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 4.9
Vector AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 380828 [RESOLVED / FIXED]
SUSE Security Advisories:
List of released packages
Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
• qemu >= 0.8.0-14.4 |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30989 |
Medium Nessus Plugin ID 61044
New! Vulnerability Priority Rating (VPR)
VPR Score: 4.2
Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming. The Perl CGI module provides resources for preparing and processing Common Gateway Interface (CGI) based HTTP requests and responses.
It was found that certain Perl string manipulation functions (such as uc() and lc()) failed to preserve the taint bit. A remote attacker could use this flaw to bypass the Perl taint mode protection mechanism in scripts that use the affected functions to process tainted input.
These packages upgrade the CGI module to version 3.51. Refer to the CGI module's Changes file, linked to in the References, for a full list of changes.
This update also fixes the following bugs :
- When using the 'threads' module, an attempt to send a signal to a thread that did not have a signal handler specified caused the perl interpreter to terminate unexpectedly with a segmentation fault. With this update, the 'threads' module has been updated to upstream version 1.82, which fixes this bug. As a result, sending a signal to a thread that does not have the signal handler specified no longer causes perl to cras
- Prior to this update, the perl packages did not require the Digest::SHA module as a dependency. Consequent to this, when a user started the cpan command line interface and attempted to download a distribution from CPAN, they may have been presented with the following message :
This update corrects the spec file for the perl package to require the perl-Digest-SHA package as a dependency, and cpan no longer displays the above message.
- When using the 'threads' module, continual creation and destruction of threads could cause the Perl program to consume an increasing amount of memory. With this update, the underlying source code has been corrected to free the allocated memory when a thread is destroyed, and the continual creation and destruction of threads in Perl programs no longer leads to memory leaks.
- Due to a packaging error, the perl packages did not include the 'NDBM_File' module. This update corrects this error, and 'NDBM_File' is now included as expected.
- Prior to this update, the prove(1) manual page and the 'prove --help' command listed '--fork' as a valid command line option. However, version 3.17 of the Test::Harness distribution removed the support for the fork-based parallel testing, and the prove utility thus no longer supports this option. This update corrects both the manual page and the output of the 'prove
--help' command, so that '--fork' is no longer included in the list of available command line options.
Users of Perl, especially those of Perl threads, are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues.
Update the affected packages.
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Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 61044
File Name: sl_20110519_perl_on_SL6_x.nasl
Version: 1.6
Type: local
Agent: unix
Published: 2012/08/01
Updated: 2019/10/25
Dependencies: 12634
Risk Information
Risk Factor: Medium
VPR Score: 4.2
CVSS v2.0
Base Score: 5
Vulnerability Information
CPE: x-cpe:/o:fermilab:scientific_linux
Patch Publication Date: 2011/05/19
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2011-1487 |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30990 | This module provides instructions and worksheets for Part 3: Look Ahead, Step 1: Define Your Guiding Vision. It can be used alone to create a powerful personal vision statement, or in conjunction with the Ten Thousand Choices planning process to build your comprehensive Master Plan.
Vision Statement Worksheet
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/30993 | This article is from the archive of our partner .
Contrary to crazy reports, Alec Baldwin will not be on your television while you are fast sleep—at least not yet: NBC announced this afternoon that Last Call with Carson Daly, the show you did not know was still on, has been renewed for a 13th.
The news isn't too surprising given that Baldwin was only in the "initial stages" of discussion, as The New York Times's Bill "Late Shift" Carter reported last night. But it does put a damper on those rumors for a while, unless suddenly the Daly vs. Baldwin becomes Leno vs. Conan all over again. (That would be exhausting.)
NBC's major late night shake ups will happen following the 2014 Winter Olympics when Fallon assumes Leno's spot at The Tonight Show. That leaves Fallon's spot at Late Night open, possibly going to Saturday Night Live head writer Seth Meyers stepping in.
Still, it must be a relief for Daly, since the news of Baldwin possibly coming in reminded everyone that they don't really care about the former TRL host's super-early-morning gig, even though he is an important part of NBC's family. He hosts the struggling network's true hit show The Voice. Though certainly no one is turning into The Voice simply to see Daly, that's a formula the network likely does not want to mess with. News of his renewal comes awfully suspiciously close on the heels of those Baldwin rumors. Makes you think there might be some attempt to quell any sort of Daly uprising.
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The UK paperback edition of Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz will be released on May 19, 2016. The book will be published by Orion. No cover art yet.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31007 | The making of Alien's chestburster scene
Cast and crew of the classic 1979 horror film recall the moment a monster emerged from John Hurt's stomach
The chestburster scene in Alien.
The infamous chestburster scene in Alien. Sigourney Weaver as Ripley looks on in horror. Photograph: Allstar/20TH CENTURY FOX/Sportsphoto Ltd.
Tue 13 Oct 2009 07.20 EDT
Ron Shusett (executive producer/ screenwriter): Ridley didn't tell the cast. He said, "They're just going to see it."
Sigourney Weaver (Ripley): They were crafty. They pitched the story so that you feel John Hurt's character would be the only true hero among us.
Veronica Cartwright (Lambert): We read the script. They showed us a mock-up, but they didn't show how it was going to work. They just said, "Its head will move and it's going to have teeth."
Weaver: All it said in the script was, "This thing emerges."
Ridley Scott (director): The reactions were going to be the most difficult thing. If an actor is just acting terrified, you can't get the genuine look of raw, animal fear.
Cartwright: They take John down in the morning to prep him and we're upstairs for four hours. We're sitting upstairs and nobody knows what the hell is going on. Harry Dean [Stanton] is sitting in the hall playing his guitar.
Scott: Prosthetics in those days weren't that good. I figured the best thing to do was to get stuff from a butcher's shop and a fishmonger. On the morning we had them examining the Facehugger; that was clams, oysters, seafood. You had to be ready to shoot because it started to smell pretty quickly. You can't make better stuff than that - it's organic.
Dan O'Bannon (executive producer/screenwriter): Once the creature was rigged up, they stuffed the chest cavity full of organs from the butcher's. Then they ran a couple of big hoses to pump the stage blood. During all this Ridley moved about, tending to the finest detail. I remember easily half an hour was spent with him draping this little piece of beef organ so it would hang out of the creature's mouth.
Scott: We had an artificial chest screwed to the table. John was underneath: it was an illusion his neck was attached to the body.
Cartwright: When they finally take us down, the whole set is in a big plastic bag and everybody is wearing raingear and there are huge buckets around. The formaldehyde smell automatically made you queasy. And John is lying there.
Weaver: Everyone was wearing raincoats - we should have been a little suspicious. And, oh God, the smell. It was just awful.
Shusett: He had four cameras running. Two guys, technicians, were under the table with a compressed blood machine. Nobody said a word, but Sigourney looked really scared. I said, "You're really getting into character." She said, "No, I have a feeling I'm going to be pretty repulsed right now."
Yaphet Kotto (Parker): We were all wondering what the hell was going on. Why is the crew looking at us the way they're looking at us right now? Why are they wearing plastic shields?
Cartwright: They have four cameras going. You see this thing start to come out, so we all get sucked in, we lean forward to check it out. They shout, "Cut!" They cut John's T-shirt a little more because it wasn't going to burst through. Then they said, "Let's start again." We all start leaning forward again and all of a sudden it comes out. I tell you, none of us expected it. It came out and twisted round.
Weaver: All I could think of was John, frankly. I wasn't even thinking that we were making a movie.
Ivor Powell (associate producer): I hadn't expected it to be quite that intense.
Weaver: Look, I worked with Roman Polanski on Death and the Maiden - he would shoot a gun off. You can act, sure, but when you're surprised, that's gold.
Shusett: Veronica Cartwright - when the blood hit her, she passed out. I heard from Yaphet Kotto's wife that after that scene he went to his room and wouldn't talk to anybody.
Kotto: Oh man! It was real, man. We didn't see that coming. We were freaked. The actors were all frightened. And Veronica nutted out.
O'Bannon: This jet of blood, about 3ft long, caught her smack in the kisser.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31038 | Vaping is becoming more and more popular as an activity for many categories of people. Youth vapes a lot, adults do vape a lot, even some senior people vape. It seems that vaping is becoming a hobby for everybody.
Having such a hobby, people may face a wide range of problems. These problems vary from the agony of choosing to the possible arrests in the airports. You would ask what all of these mean. The answer is pretty simple: so many countries, so many rules.
It is not a secret that the authorities of different countries may have a different attitude to the same social phenomena. Yes, we may call vaping a social phenomenon, because the speed of its spread is high and vapes are winning all hearts.
Therefore, due to some regulations, even the best vape mod may put you into jail. It is important to note that we are talking not about the actual process of vaping, but even about the storage of this, highly popular within the USA, device. There also exist plenty of stories, when a traveler was forced to throw away the most expensive vape mod because the device was banned in the country of his destination.
To avoid troubles abroad, you have to scrutinize all the possible dangers of having your best box mod (the original source) with you. Here also belong your e liquids or other fillings for the device. To make it easier to clear up what demands you may face with, we have analyzed several regulations from different countries and will give you (1) a list of possible problems and (2) a list of ways to avoid those problems.
Traveling with a Vape Problem #1. The very first problem is that you may travel to the country where there is a ban on vaping . This may mean that the actual presence of vape box mod kit in your luggage already is a problem.
Traveling with a Vape Problem #2. In many airports, smoking or vaping as a fact is banned. For sure, vaping on a plane is forbidden, so no choice.
Traveling with a Vape Problem #3. Not many people know about the rules of packing vapes while taking them on the board.
Solution #1.The solution to problem number one is quite easy. The first thing you have to do is to decide if you are ready to give up on the idea of vaping during your travel. If yes, you would not face any problems. If the answer is no, then the very first step is to become familiar with the list of countries, where there is a ban on vaping. To make your life easier, we put the short list below:
Brazil, Cambodia, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Philippines, Qatar, Seychelles, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Uruguay, and Vietnam.
Note: Be aware of the fact that the list may change with time!
It is complicated to give you a full list because some countries have quite confusing laws on vaping.
• For instance, the Indian states of Jammu, Karnataka, Kashmir, Kerala, Maharashtra, Mizoram, and Punjab have a very strict ban on using vape mods; however, the rest of India is entirely ok with vaping.
• The other perplexing regulations are that, for example, in Hong Kong, selling vapes is illegal, but using them is legal.
• An interesting situation is also in Canada. If you are under 19. Vaping is prohibited for you.
• The other strange example may be Australia and Japan. In these countries, the liquid nicotine is illegal; though using vape mods is ok.
• In Norway, you are allowed to vape, but not in the public establishments. Also, the use of nicotine with vaping is also banned.
If you have found that the country, you are traveling to, prohibits vaping, it is better to think of possible substitute of vape mods. Again, it depends on the country. The more drastic decision is to change the state of the destination.
Solution #2. This solution is similar to the first one. If you believe that you cannot spend your time in the airport without vaping, look if the airport has a special place for smoking and vaping. The approximate list of such airports:
Budapest, Tampa, Barcelona, Melbourne, Philadelphia, Mallorca, Chennai, Vegas (McCarran), Toronto, Cancun, Marrakesh, Cairo, Madrid, Lisbon, Heathrow, Auckland, Francisco, Athens, Nice, Milan, Warsaw, Vienna, Miami, Frankfurt, Los Angeles, Florence, and Dulles.
Solution #3. The significant point here is to stick to the rules of transporting vapes of a chosen airline. Although yourselves should always check this, we are listing some of the basic instructions on packaging vape mods. Before you go to the airport, it is essential to make sure that:
• you have your vape bag or vape carrying case;
• any extra batteries are in compliance with airline rules
• there is no magnet or anything that, theoretically, can ignite the battery, next to it;
• all the devices for vaping are off, and there is no option for them to start working unexpectedly;
• the e liquids are in a special transparent bags; each bag should contain a maximum of 100 mL. The total sum of the e-liquid cannot be higher than 1L per person;
• charge your device before departing from home as you can not charge on the aircraft.
• prepare your things from possible leaks (they are possible because of the air pressure change).
When you have arrived at the airport, take care of the following issues:
during screening, liquids from carry-on baggage must be separate from the other stuff;
• do not use your vaping device and do not unpack it.
The other very important tip is that your vape box mod kit should always be in your carry-on.
The rules when travelling with a vape are as simple as that; however, there may exist some extra points depending on your situation. To be on the safe side, you would better check all the lists above, because the rules change from time to time.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31045 | Music Piracy
Timeline created by Ronit
In Music
• Release of Napster
Release of Napster
Release of Napster as a means to easily search and share files on a peer-to-peer network without the need of using a chat or search engine like IRC or Lycos. Quickly becoming the source for the majority of online music piracy and quite possibly the reason for the demise of audio CD's and retail record stores.
• RIAA lawsuit causes massive increase in user base.
Thanks to the publicity given to Napster because of the high profile lawsuit filed by the Recording Industry Association of America, resulting in millions of new users signing up for the service; most of which were college students.
• Metallica Lawsuit.
Metallica discovered that a demo of the song "I Disappear", which was set to be released with the "Mission: Impossible II" soundtrack, was being played on the radio. Metallica was able to trace the source of the leak back to a file on Napster's peer-to-peer file-sharing network. It was also discovered that the bands entire catalogue was available for free download. Metallica argued that Napster was enabling users to exchange copyrighted MP3 files.
• Dr. DRE Joins the lawsuit.
In a written request to Napster, Dr. DRE asked Napster to stop sharing his songs. After no efforts were made towards stopping the piracy, Dr. DRE joined the lawsuit along with Metallica against Napster.
• A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster.
Quite possibly the lawsuit that fell the giant called Napster, this lawsuit was filed by 18 different record labels. The lawsuit stated that:
1. Napsters users were directly infringing the plaintiffs' copyrights.
2. That Napster was liable for contributory infringement of the plaintiffs' copyrights.
3. That Napster was liable for vicarious infringement of the plaintiffs' copyrights.
• Napster shuts down.
In a final court ruling, Napster is forced to shut down after they fail to follow a court order to stop the sharing of copyright material on their network.
• Napster files for Ch:7 bankruptcy.
After a failed attempt at being aquired by a German media firm, Napster was forced to file for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy and liquify all of it's assets in order to pay off the fines from all the lawsuits filed against the company.
• Lowpoint of the music industry.
According to the RIAA website, the music industry was at its peak in 1999, the same year Napster was released with sales of $14.6 billion. 10 years later the music industry has gone down 47% with sales totaling to $7.7 billion. Napster was around for 2 short years but even almost a decade later, the trend for downloading music illegally that it started still continues to affect the industry. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31073 | 5 Things That Will Wreck Your Skin
Great skin is in!
Clear, flawless, radiant skin. Sounds like a dream, or perhaps a nightmare for dermatologists who would be out of work. But who doesn't want luminous skin without the need for thick cover up, Instagram filters, and movie set-level lighting?
Skin issues are extremely common, and seemingly innocent things we do or subject ourselves to can be the cause for a less-than-perfect complexion. These 5 skin-wreckers are avoidable, so make some simple changes in your life to reveal the skin you've always wanted. Botox and seaweed wraps not required.
1. Falling Asleep with Makeup On
Nearly every gal (and a fella here and there) has fallen asleep after a long night with a face-full of eyeliner, blush, and foundation. Sure, you may look like a sleeping beauty, but over time, the habit of not washing your face before bedtime will start to wear on your skin.
According to Good Housekeeping, "Falling asleep with your makeup on can lead to bacterial infections and clogged pores, which can cause acne. And, the residue that stays on your pillow can even make you sick."
If you're the type to flop right in bed before cleansing, at least keep some makeup remover wipes on your nightstand and do a quick swipe prior to drifting off. Your skin will thank you in the morning.
2. Scorching Showers
A steamy hot shower may feel soothing and relaxing, especially on a cold winter day, but a too hot shower is terrible for your skin. Too many of these scorchers will leave your skin dry and flaky, which can be unsightly and painful.
Opt for a cooler shower—lukewarm to warm—and keep your time in there to a minimum. You'll start to notice smoother, supple skin with less blotchiness and peeling. Apply lotion when you get out of the shower for even softer, more touchable skin. Shower yourself in moisture!
3. Dehydration
We all know how important it is to keep well-hydrated, but did you know one reason is for the health of our skin? The skin is an organ, after all, and it needs water as much as our internal organs do in order to function and look well.
Good Housekeeping notes, "Hydrating yourself daily will not only help to fight off aging, but also give your skin a healthy glow."
Sip more water and see those fine lines plump up and feel how your skin seems a whole lot softer. And don't forget, alcohol can be dehydrating, so limit your boozing and drink a glass of water with every alcoholic beverage to keep balanced. Cheers to better skin!
4. Stress
Stress is harmful to the body on the inside—think headaches, stomach issues, and heart problems—but it can affect how we look, too. The skin can suffer from too much stress as well, causing zits, rashes, and wrinkling. Oh my!
Try to relax as much as possible and keep in tune with your emotions before they get the best of you.
5. Skipping Sleep
A poor night's sleep may have you feeling like a zombie, but too much missed sleep and you'll start to look like one too!
As per WebMD, "Chronic sleep loss can lead to lackluster skin, fine lines, and dark circles under the eyes. When you don't get enough sleep, your body releases more of the stress hormone cortisol. In excess amounts, cortisol can break down skin collagen, the protein that keeps skin smooth and elastic."
Get a good 7-8 hours per night to mend the skin overnight and look well-rested and well-maintained come morning. Don't let your bad skin be what keeps you up at night!
Now get the skin you're meant to be in by treating your body well. Great skin is in and you can be part of the never-ending trend!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31084 | Measure IAB TCF GDPR consent given rate with Google analytics
07 May 2019
GDPR flag
It is important to understand the consent given rate on a website for most publishers installed a paid or free IAB CMP (Consent management platform/manager).
Consent given rate is important for publishers regarding the revenue of display ads after GDPR. Most demand partners bid the inventory based on consent signals.
Google analytics provides the Javascript API for custom event measurement. Publishers can measure the GDPR consent given rate by users with Google analytics. This article shows how to measure and gain insight into the consent given at IAB CMP.
Google Analytics Debugger
Before getting started, it is worth mentioning there is a tool for debugging: Google Analytics Debugger. It is a Chrome plugin, once installed, you are able to see the detail logs at Chrome console how the webpage communicates with Google Analytics:
google analytics debugger
Custom Event Measurement
Google analytics custom event measurement API:
When the Google analytics is installed with Google tag manager, you might see the error:
Command ignored. Unknown target: undefined
This is because the tracker is unknown in your context scope, tracker can be get in this way:
var trackers =;
var tracker = trackers[0][":name"];
Then send custom events with the tracker:
ga(tracker + '.send', 'event', [eventCategory], [eventAction], [eventLabel], [eventValue], [fieldsObject]);
IAB CMP API (IAB Europe’s TCF v1.0)
All the IAB certified CMP like UniConsent provide the following API to access to the choices given by a user:
window.__cmp('getPublisherConsents', null, function(result){
The result looks like this:
If you like to measure how many people selected yes on ‘Information storage and access’, you can do like this:
var trackers =;
var choice1 = result.standardPurposeConsents[1] ? 'Yes' : 'No';
ga(tracker + '.send', 'event', 'IAB CMP', 'Consent', 'Information storage and access', choice1);
The API of IAB Europe’s TCF v2.0 is slightly different from v1.0. But the concept is the same.
UniConsent has built-in consent Analytics and Insight feature. You are able to see how many people give positive consent and details.
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Snow Cross is an unity 3d snowmobile racing game where your main goal is to finish the race on the first place. Speed up, collect all boost items and get your victory. So, if you like unity 3d snowmobile games, then you will maybe like to play Snow Cross, also.
To play Snow Cross, you will use arrow keys to drive, X key to brake and left click to change camera view.
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Electronic paper explained: what is it and how does it work?
E-paper is proving to be a platform on which incredible and versatile projects can be realized – but just exactly what is electronic paper and how does it work? In the first installment of our series explaining e-ink we delve into how the technology that powers everything from your e-reader to traffic signs actually functions.
Electronic paper goes by many names, all of them describing the exact same thing: a technology that mimics the appearance of ordinary ink on paper.
First, a disclaimer: this is not just a text about how wonderful your e-reader is. Electronic paper, the technology behind your Kindle’s incredible glare-free screen, is amazing at bringing to life the adventures of your literary hero, but it is also capable of much more, much like regular paper.
Just like traditional paper can be transformed into everything from origamis to paper-mâché, e-paper is proving to be a platform on which incredible and versatile projects can be realized. E-paper’s amazing characteristics such as excellent visibility, paper-like readability and extremely low energy consumption make it perfect for all sorts of incredible products, from phones and accessories to digital signs.
But just exactly what is electronic paper and how does the darn thing work?
What exactly is electronic paper?
Electronic paper goes by many names: e-paper, sometimes spelled as ePaper, electronic ink and (generically, after the company that manufactures it) also e ink. All of these names describe the exact same thing: a technology that mimics the appearance of ordinary ink on paper.
Put simply, imagine you took a pen and jotted down something in a notebook. The clear, well defined lines of your text will have the same crispness and high-readability as content shown on an electronic paper display.
But why is that, and how does an electronic paper display actually display an image? And what makes it so different from all the other high-definition screens out there?
Millions of tiny ink capsules
To answer these questions we should start at the very core of e ink technology: small capsules filled with a clear fluid containing teeny-tiny particles, each about as wide as a human hair.
Each electronic paper display is made up of millions of such capsules in a thin film, with the particles inside the capsules of different colors and different electric charges. Electrodes are placed above and below the capsule film. When a positive or negative electric field is applied to an individual electrode, the color particles with the corresponding charge will move either to the top or bottom of a capsule, making the surface of the e-paper display appear a certain color.
Capsules filled with negatively and positively charged particles color the surface of an EPD when an electric charge is applied (source: E Ink).
In the most basic incarnation of an e-paper screen, the particles inside an e ink capsule will be either black or white. The white particles carry a positive charge and the black particles a negative one. If the electric charge applied is negative, then the negative black ink particles will be repelled to the top of the capsule and color the surface of the display black in that spot.
This is why an electronic paper display will sometimes be also called an electrophoretic display, or EPD for short: it simply means that it functions on the basis of the motion of dispersed particles in a fluid under the influence of an electric field.
Two key points that make a world of difference
The way e ink works means that it differs from other displays in two key points: it is both bistable and reflective.
Just like the sketch in your notebook will remain there until you erase it, the content displayed on an EPD will hold a static image, even without electricity.
The way e ink works means that it differs from other displays in two key points: an electronic paper screen reflects light from the environment and only consumes power when the content on it is changing.
This is possible because electronic paper technology is bistable. To help you understand what that means, just imagine flipping a coin – however the coin will land, there are only two possible outcomes: either heads or tails. In much the same way the tiny particles of an EPD will either be reflective or non-reflective (that is, black or white). In more advanced e-paper screens these bistable particles will also be provided in many levels of grayscale; energy is needed to put the color particles in their place, but once they are there, they stay there.
In practice this means that an EPD will be consuming power only when the content on it is changing – for example when you flip the page on your Kindle, or when the content of an e-paper parking sign changes from ‘Reserved’ to ‘Vacant’.
The rest of the time the display will simply show the image you want it to, with or without a power source and without having to constantly refresh the content shown (an LCD screen, for example, will have to refreshed about 30 times per second). This makes electronic paper extremely energy efficient, meaning that it can run for weeks on a single battery or even on alternative power sources.
No glare, no light pollution
E Ink displays are also reflective, which means that the light from the environment is reflected from the surface of the display towards the user’s eyes, just like with traditional paper.
In addition to avoiding light pollution, this features makes EPDs easier on the eyes, providing a wider viewing angle than most other displays and making content displayed on e-paper perfectly visible even in direct sunlight.
Some thirty years since its inception, electronic paper is undergoing quite a renaissance.
Starting in e-readers and slowly expanding its influence, e ink is taking on new possibilities of use. One of the sectors ideally suited to the user- and integrator-friendly features of electronic paper is digital signage – or, in other words, electronic signs in every shape and form.
Perfect for all kinds of indoor or outdoor displays, from traffic signs to passenger information, shelf labels in stores, interactive museum signs and all types of notice boards, EPDs are being driven as the displays of traffic operators, schools, office administrators and many more.
In fact, market forecasts show that the market for e-paper displays will reach over $8.59 billion by 2022, with applications of electronic paper technology such as signage a substantial part of this market.
And with EPDs becoming ever more advanced (case in point: flexible displays), thin, robust and durable, not to mention having a longer battery life, the electronic paper signage sector will no doubt be one to watch in the years to come. |
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The '80s were not a kind time to James Bond. Always an actor-driven franchise, it rolled into the decade in the waning years of Roger Moore, who would from The Spy Who Loved Me on through Octopussy and A View to Kill, his last entry, see declining profitability in the franchise as people lost interest in his outsized, comic-book portrayal of Bond in favor of the gritty realism that was coming into vogue at the time. And thus came Timothy Dalton, popularly remembered as "the worst Bond" (except for George Lazenby, who roughly four people even remember played Bond in one ill-fated movie). But maybe it was a rap he didn't deserve.
The best Bond, of course, was and ever shall be the first: Sean Connery, whose suave, charismatic Bond set the tone for the films in a way that could never really be undone. Although Roger Moore played Bond in the most films of the series -- and moreso than for Connery, it was the Moore era's unabashed formulaic silliness we'll always remember in send-ups -- Connery was the ultimate template for a Bond that split the difference between the serious, volatile action-Bond of creator Ian Fleming's stories and the flip playboy of Moore's extremes.
So it sort of makes sense that, following Moore, the series would swing to the other end of the pendulum, invoking the serious Bond of the original novels. In his two-movie tenure of
The Living Daylights
License to Kill
, Timothy Dalton played Bond straight-up. Gone was the smooth bemusement of Connery and Moore; Dalton's Bond was a wild-card who seemed constantly on the brink of losing control, burned-out and even kind of sad. More a human than a hero.
It wasn't, at the time, a portrayal that stuck. License to Kill failed to make money -- it was released at the same time as Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Lethal Weapon, and it just couldn't compete. The series itself was retired until 1995, when it returned with Pierce Brosnan, the most Connery-ish Bond since Connery, and the one-liners returned.
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It's interesting, though, to note that, if it were released today, License to Kill might be a lot better received; after all, Daniel Craig, the latest Bond, took a surprisingly similar tack in Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, playing the character closer to Fleming's character (and Dalton's performances) than anyone in 1989 would probably have expected would ever happen again -- and he sold it. Both movies garnered strong performance at the box office, and Craig is slated for another Bond movie at some point in the future.
So I think it's worth taking a look back at the worst Bond. Dalton was a little humorless, sure, and he sometimes looks a little cross-eyed, and the set-pieces are a little dated (which, admittedly, the dated-ness of serious Bond does not hold up as well as the dated-ness of silly Bond), but you just might find that Dalton was as legit a Bond, in his own way, as anyone else ever was. He beats the hell out of George Lazenby, anyway.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31144 | Still Liveblogging 'Toothy' Warner's Slave State Key Talky Deal
Mark Warner is a stud, especially from the Upper Deck of a Denver arena! What was he talking about, Change We Need? Changing energy? Saving the middle class? No:Changing the middle class. Yes We Can show those toothless gypsy whiners how to make a goddamn dollar every once in a while.
9:51 -- First point: this is probably not as good as Barack Obama's keynote speech in 2004. And thank god, because now we won't have to worry about someone challenging Hillary in 2012 and fucking everything up again.
9:52 -- We're all in this together! We need education! Blah blah. Why can't we have more Denny Kucinich and his message of "Change We Can Wake Up In America"?
9:53 -- He is telling a story about "The Boy From Lebanon," who is like Bill Clinton's twin Muslim brother from Hezbollah. He was either killed in the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre or he wasn't. Or something. The point is: Mark Warner closed the deficit when he was Governor.
9:56 -- Oh, uh, he's done. He doesn't want bipartisanship, the end.
9:57 -- Ha ha this dude sitting next to us keeps telling us to hold up our signs. He works on the Trains.
9:59 -- Mark Warner is escorted off by a leggy coterie of DNC roadie gals. And now they are licking his teeth, which is how he gets sexually pleasured.
10:00 -- Oh look, Ted Strickland, the Governor of Ohio.
10:03 -- Thank God this guy wasn't vice president, or any of those people. Seriously, is Joe Biden the only person in the entire Democratic party with a sense of humanity, or humor, at all? Y'all can comment on this Red Schoolhouse McGovernor Strickland until Hillary comes and makes our cramped legs hurt even more.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31159 | Throw It Back Like A Zodiac: Mercury Retrograde, Horoscopes, & Tarot Reading Defined
What's your frequency?
xoNecole Happy Hour
'Tis the season, ladies! The leaves are falling and temperatures are dropping, which can only mean it is time to get in tune with our best autumn and third quarter selves. And listen, for some of us, we have no clue where to start. Are we in Mercury retrograde? Am I an earth sign? Wait, how do I know if I am compatible with my partner?
Well, just in time for the shift, Tarot reader, Dani Simone joined Amer and Sheriden for this week's episode of the xoNecole's Happy Hour Podcast to get all of our vibrations in check! Also known as The Mystic Model, Dani's resume extends way beyond your local newspaper clipping. She also serves as the resident horoscope writer for xoNecole, and as Amer says, "Sis, don't miss!" So, grab your crystals and conjure up your best manifestation, spirituality, and zodiac questions. We're tapping into our higher selves today.
(Oh, and there may even be a live tarot reading for Sheriden and Amer too!)
Be sure to subscribe and listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
xoNecole's Happy Hour Podcast Season 2, Episode 5 Show Notes:
Pre-Show Intro
Have you ever invested on a luxury bag or purse? -- Telfar bags, black-owned luxury bags. People have been buying them and marking them up like 200%. So, they offered pre-orders to prevent mark-ups and were criticized for the process. Either way, it's important to support these brands.
OnlyFans or nah? -- Sheriden: too much porn is already free; hates faux-enticement. Amer: it's exploitative for celebrities to join, was originally for sex workers who want more access to more coins.
Various porn categories, and how black women are disrespected...even in porn
OnlyFans buyer's remorse?
White people showing up to hate on black women's bags. Again.
Happy Hour
Zodiacs And Horoscopes
"Your Partner's Love Language, According To Their Zodiac Sign": an xoNecole article written by Dani that explores different signs, planets to consider when it comes to compatibility, your moon, communication, and more. Expresses the importance of knowing sun energy in relationships and how deep it can go, as well as other signs you should consider in dating. Also, understanding how our energies interact with others.
Our experiences and connection with the spiritual world -- Sheriden: connection to God, the universe, and their energy is usually through sex and orgasm. Amer's connection: has an uncle that was a healer. Often dreamed of future, which caused her to get into zodiac signs. Was introduced to tarot cards. Has practiced or studied astrology ever since.
Zodiac Terms Defined
What does sexuality mean to you?
"Sexuality is energy and intention that you bring to the fact that you are a sexual being. That can never be separated from you, even if you're not in the act of sex. And when I'm in full alignment with that energy, I feel like I tap into a state of being that feels spiritual. There's a reason why in the throws of passion we say, 'God.' We come face-to-face with our highest selves." — Ev'yan Whitney
"What's your sun, moon, and rising signs?"
• Sun: how you present yourself to people
• Moon: how you emotionally navigate through situations
• Rising: who you really are at the core
Various modalities of astrology:
• Earth signs: Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn
• Water signs: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces
• Fire signs: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius
• Air signs: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius
Birth charts: snapshot of the cosmos at the time you were born. You need to know the exact time for accurate chart.
Synastry: comparing your birth chart to someone
Mercury retrograde: the planet is back-tracking, you revisit energies, themes, situations, relationships. That's why your ex is popping up, sis! Considered negative because of frequency (half of the year), but it's more inconvenient than negative.
Sex magic: visualizing what you want to manifest during orgasm. Get into it!
Chakras: different energy systems in our bodies
Tarot reading, what should you expect?`
The difference between an evolved sign and an unevolved signs
New Moon vs. Full Moon
Trines and Sextiles
Seeing repetitive numbers meaning (ex: Angel Numbers: a way that spirit, angels, and ancestors communicate and confirm something with us. Empress energy, manifestation energy, and creativity. Shifts, changes)
What's in store for the remainder of 2020?
People mentioned in this episode:
AOC (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)
Rickey Thompson
Cardi B
Bella Thorne
Rubi Rose
Kayla Robinson (OnlyFans)
Laci Jordan (graphic designer)
Ev'yan Whitney (sexuality doula)
The Hood Healer
Tatiana Tarot
Whoopi Goldberg
Ms. Cleo
Necole Kane
Resources mentioned in this episode:
xoNecole's "Money Talks" series
Honey Pot
Carmen: The Hip-Hopera
The Craft
That's So Raven
Cafe Astrology (website)
Time Passages (app)
The Pattern
Indian Matchmaker (Netflix Show)
Saturn's Return
Chakrub (crystal sex toy)
Dani hosts Soul Sessions on IG Live every Thursday at 8PM EST, where they explore different spiritul and life topics. You may follow her on Instagram at @themysticmodel. You may also visit her website at themysticmodel.com.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31170 | Foreign Aid Literature Review
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CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW 2.0 Introduction Over the past decades, the urge to increase foreign aid’s effectiveness has motivated numerous empirical studies to identify why aid programmes succeeds or fails. These studies underpinned the donor community’s attempt in the late 1990s to reform aid delivery, shifting from predominantly stand-alone projects and conditionality- led stand- structural adjustment programs toward partnerships and mutual accountability (World Bank, 1998). Besides research on the determinants of growth, recent work has examined the importance of institutions and good governance for aid effectiveness in recipient countries for example, Svensson 1999; Bumside and Dollar 2000, 2004 and Dollar and Svensson 2000), findings…show more content…
Does foreign aid raise economic growth? The answer is unanimous. There are studies in the empirical literature as seen later in this chapter that maintain that there generally chapter that maintains that there generally exists a positive relationship between aid and economic growth. Among such studies include Hadjimicheal et al (1995), Reddy and Minoiu (2006) and Burdary, Gemmell and Greenaway (1998). Some studies on the other hand have found that the positive relationship between aid and economic growth is not general but dependent on a number of factors. These main factors include the quality of policies (Burnside and Dollar, 1997); level of corruption (Svensson, 2000); type of political regimes (Boone, 1995) and absorptive capacity of the recipient economy (collier and Hoefflar,…show more content…
These theories were in the view that development assistance was important for these countries as capital formation played a great role in economic growth. The reason being that, these countries had few or insufficient private and public savings to finance large investments such as economic infrastructure. Furthermore, developing countries had few resolvers in form of foreign exchange to fiancé imports of machinery and other capital goods therefore, foreign aid was essential to fill the savings- investment gap and the trade gap by increasing investments and thus growth. However, from the 1980s, there have been varied objective of providing aid with expected benefits in terms of economic growth, poverty reduction, investments and public expenditures in services in recipient countries. Some of these advantages include. 1. Foreign aid in the form of technical assistance provides technical knowledge and skills which influences positively the development process. The technical knowledge and skills are expected to influence the development process by improving the quality of labour force (human capital) and fitting the skills
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31226 | Why Do You Seek the Living Among the Dead?
It was the first day of the week following Passover, the third day since Jesus was crucified and buried in a borrowed tomb. Early in the morning, before the sun came up, several women including Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and others came to the tomb with spices to complete the burial process they had started when Jesus was first placed in the tomb. But upon their return, things were not as they expected…
Why do you seek the living among the dead?
We at Bible or Not pray that you all have a wonderful and blessed Easter Sunday! Here is the complete passage from the Gospel of Luke, we are sure you will enjoy to see where the quote “why seek ye the living among the dead” is found…
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One might normally think that on Easter we might have picked a different Bible quote (yes, today’s quote is from the Bible). Yet there is much depth in this question, when looking at its context and the subsequent events.
This question is asked of Mary Magdalene twice. First by the angels near the tomb of Jesus, then by Jesus Himself.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31227 | A user thumbing-up a song
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As your users thumb-up songs, BitShuva learns what each user likes and plays more of the good stuff. Each song is categorized by artist, album, genre, and user tags. When a user likes a song, BitShuva associates that song's artist, album, genre, and tags into its knowledge bank of that user, influencing what get played.
Going beyond Pandora and other radio stations, BitShuva uses the sum total of likes and dislikes for a song to influence its community ranking. Songs with higher community ranking get played for more users.
End result is that your users hear the music they like, and less of the stuff they don't. Use BitShuva for your internet radio station and your users will be delighted.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31238 | Data Syncing in Core Data Based iOS Apps
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Generally speaking, when would you like to implement syncing in your app? This might be needed, if the data handled by the application should be available on other devices or via a Web interface, or you just prefer that your data is not lost after reinstalling the application. Obviously, in all such cases you can do with a single database instance at a server and a thin client on the app side. But then, your application will need to constantly stay online to be operable. If, on opening each screen, your app has to reload data from the server or initiates requests to the server as soon as the user makes any actions, just test it during your daily subway trip by intermittent cellular connection, and you’ll get the picture.
A Bit of Theory
Data syncing is quite a broad concept. It covers a range of different approaches with their upsides and downsides. A recent post by Drew McCormack gives one of possible classifications. It approaches syncing based on two perspectives: Synchronous / Asynchronous, Client/Server / Peer-to-Peer. Syncing implementation is severely dependent on these factors, data model complexity, amount of data transferred and stored, and other requirements. So in each particular case the choice should be in favor of the simplest implementation meeting the app requirements.
Based on a review of existing off-the-shelf solutions, we can delineate several major classes of syncing, different in granularity of objects subject to synchronization:
1. Syncing of a whole document or database is used in cloud-based applications, such as Dropbox, Google Drive or Yandex.Disk. When the user edits and saves a file, the new file version is uploaded to the cloud completely, overwriting the earlier copy. In case of a conflict, both file versions are saved so that the user can choose which version is more relevant.
2. Syncing of key-value pairs can be used in apps with a simple data structure, where the variables are considered to be atomic, i.e. not divided into logical components. This option is similar to syncing of whole documents, as both the value and the document can be overwritten completely. However, from a user perspective a document is a complex object composed of many parts, but a key-value pair is but a short string or a number. Therefore, in this case we can use a more simple strategy of conflict resolution, considering the value more relevant, if it has been the last to change.
3. Syncing of data structured as a tree or a graph is used in more sophisticated applications where the amount of data is large enough to send the database in its entirety at every update. In this case, conflicts have to be resolved at the level of individual objects, fields or relationships. In this post, we are primarily focused at this option.
If you prefer to immerse yourself deeper into the theory and algorithms of syncing, you can search the Web by the following keywords:
• Set Reconciliation Problem
The problem is as follows: We have to reconcile differences between two sets of data. There are some pretty simple ways to address this problem. For instance, we can reset both sets. However in practice the syncing algorithm have to meet user expectations and be quick. Let’s consider one of possible algorithms meeting these requirements. First of all, syncing should keep certain data on each object, i.e., creation date, last modified date and a unique ID. After this, the syncing proceeds by the following steps:
1. Retrieve a unique identifier, creation date, and modified date, for each object on the server and on the client.
2. By comparing the dates in sets of objects available on the server and on the client, determine which of the objects have beed changed, added or deleted.
3. Send the objects that have been added, deleted or modified on the client, to the server.
4. Retrieve from the server the objects that have changed on the server.
• Operational Transformation
This is a mathematical model or theory where all changes to the database are represented as a sequence of actions on the timeline, and the problem of synchronization is reduced to merging several sequences into a single sequence of actions, as a result of which all the data is synchronized. This model had been initially developed to support remote document editing and is now used in such projects as Apache Wave (formerly known as Google Wave) and Google Docs.
• operational-transformation
• Lamport Timestamps and Vector Clock Algorithm.
These are the algorithms that generate a partially ordered history of events in a distributed system and find violations of causality.
• Some of the principles and ideas that are used in Version Control Systems, such as Git or Subversion, can also serve to you as a source of inspiration to implement your own synchronization algorithm.
Off-the-Shelf Solutions: Libraries and Services
Today, there are several off-the-shelf solutions of varying levels of operability, that tackle the issue of data synchronization. Let’s discuss some of them.
First of all, these obviously are, the iOS SDK built-in iCloud features: iCloud Document Storage, iCloud Key-Value Store and iCloud Core Data. The first two are designed for document-level and key-value pair level syncing, so we will not dwell much on them to focus on the latter.
Core Data Sync runs on top of the same technology as document syncing. The application has access to a special directory which is separate from the app’s sandbox, where it can store data. This directory is synchronized with iCloud by the operating system, and the Core Data framework writes local changes to iCloud and merges the changes received from iCloud, with the local database.
It is recommended to use the SQLite database to sync via iCloud Core Data, as it helps to minimize data transfer over the network by sending incremental changes. In this case, each device maintains its own database instance, and only the change log is exchanged with iCloud.
While interacting with iCloud, please keep in mind the abnormalities that may occur and make sure that your app can handle them: iCloud may not be available at application launch, or a user may switch to another iCloud account, so while running from different devices in parallel, conflicts may arise. While debugging, make sure to monitor the amount of data exchanged and, if necessary, modify you app’s logic accordingly. Also, a restriction is imposed on the use of certain Core Data features, such as migration based on the Mapping Model and ordered relationships. For more details on these features please refer to iCloud documentation, section Testing and Debugging Your iCloud App.
Benefits of iCloud:
1. It is a server infrastructure that is free both for the app and the user.
2. It offers the maximum level of integration with the Apple platform: automatic backups, API is built-in directly into the SDK, association with an Apple ID.
3. Apple has taken care to ensure secure transmission and storage of user data.
Here are the reasons why syncing via iCloud may not be a choice for your application:
1. The data is associated with the user’s Apple ID rather than with your service.
2. The server part of your application can not access the iCloud data, so you neither can synchronize data with applications running on platforms different from iOS and Mac OS, nor provide the user with access to data via a Web interface.
3. In iOS 6, the iCloud Core Data functionality had had a lot of problems, and from the developer and the Apple’s viewpoint had been almost unusable. In iOS 7, Apple tried to fix these problems, but if you have to support previous iOS versions, iCloud Core Data use is strongly not recommended.
4. Syncing may fail because the user have disabled iCloud in settings,
5. or the user may get out of space in iCloud.
Dropbox Sync API and Other Cloud Storages
Many App Store applications sync via such services as Dropbox or Yandex.Disk, simply saving their data as files. Obviously, this can be used for document syncing only.
• Cloud based storage services often offer an easy-to-use SDK to third-party applications, providing methods for working with files and user authorization.
• To use this type of syncing, the user should sign-in with one of such services.
• You can synchronize data between applications run on different platforms or even upload them to your own server.
• However, there is no conflict resolution at the level of individual database records, so the file can only be fully overwritten.
Dropbox Datastore API
Having identified the developers’ need to synchronize their existing structured data, Dropbox offered its service and API for this. Its features include: support of a variety of platforms, offline browsing, automatic conflict resolution. In the Dropbox Developers Blog you can find lots of interesting information about the Datastore API, with a detailed description of algorithms used in it.
Datastore API is not just a synchronization framework, it implements all aspects of data storing and retrieval, replacing Core Data in essence. It means that to enable interoperability between the Datastore API and any other storage system already supported by the application, extra effort is needed. If you choose to use Datastore API only, you would be locked-in to a single syncing system and give no choice to your users. Fortunately, there is the ParcelKit open library. It mirrors the Core Data database to Datastore API and vice versa. It means that the application is running via Core Data, but all syncing is enabled by Datastore API.
A similar functionality to sync the Core Data DB is provided by other cloud-based commercial services. Among them are:
Such services offer similar functionality: cloud data storage, administrative Web interface, native SDK for iOS (and other platforms sometimes), REST API for data access using a native server-side code.
Automatic syncing for Core Data based applications.
• It is compatible with iOS 5.1 or higher.
• It can run in the offline mode.
• To enable syncing, all objects of the model shall inherit from the TICDSSynchronizedManagedObject class.
• The TICDSDocumentSyncManager class object is in charge of syncing management.
• The database is initialized by full import of the database from the server.
• As soon as the library is alerted to save the context, it automatically serializes all the changes and saves them for later syncing with the server.
• The syncing process involves the following steps:
1. First, all the changes are downloaded from the server.
2. Then the downloaded changes are committed to the local database. At this stage, conflicts between the changes made locally and on the server, are resolved.
3. After the changes are downloaded from the server and saved, the local changes are sent to the server, and the app saves the information on the last syncing date.
• The conflicts are resolved at the client application level. A decision on which change is relevant is made by the application developer using a delegate method.
• All data between the client and the server are sent as a set of files containing information about the changes.
• As a synchronization backend, the Dropbox or a WebDAV storage can be used. You can add support of any cloud storage to the library by overriding a few classes.
• Also, there is an experimental branch to support synchronization via iCloud Document Storage.
You can have a look at unresolved library issues at the list of tasks at github. Most of them remain open for as long as a several months to a year. Among these problems are: how to handle Core Data model migration, how to support ordered relationships, how to merge two existing databases. However, these are really complex problems that do not have an explicit solution.
This is a framework to synchronize with Core Data.
It is a relatively new library, conceived to continue unfolding of the TICoreDataSync concepts, but designed and written from scratch. It has been developed by Drew McCormack, who has been long involved with this problem. Before that, he used TICoreDataSync in his projects and even introduced his own patches into the project. Ensembles looks like a serious attempt to implement syncing in a really proper way, circumventing shortcomings of other libraries.
• It builds on top of the Core Data framework, adding syncing between devices via cloud storages, such as iCloud or Dropbox. The framework can enable support for any other file syncing service.
• The library intercepts the data that the application saves into its database, and appends to the local database the data arriving from all other devices.
• This requires minimal changes to the existing code. There is no need to inherit model classes from the library class.
• Not all the functionality conceived has been implemented yet, and the library has not been as thoroughly tested as other libraries. To date, such functionality as syncing of fields, relationships and ordered relationships of the database, is considered implemented. Still developers consider as problematic such use cases that are related to support of migration, BLOB syncing, and high database update rate.
• The framework implements the eventual consistency paradigm. Also, it uses the vector clock algorithm to apply changes on to all devices in a proper order, unlike other libraries, where sometimes the databases on different devices may get out of sync forever.
• The conflicts are resolved automatically by Core Data, whenever this is possible. In other cases, this is performed using the app logic. In this case, the conflict resolution event is also saved as a separate change and subject to syncing. The distributed version control systems are also based on the same principle.
Couchbase Lite
Couchbase Lite (formerly known as TouchDB) is an engine to support a syncing-enabled document-oriented NoSQL database.
Instead of interoperating with Core Data, it runs its own database engine, but still it deserves mention. The Couchbase database stores data as JSON documents and allows you to run all queries common to document-oriented databases, i.e.: filtering, aggregation, ordering, and map/reduce. The query language used is similar to SQL.
• iOS 6.0 version 6.0 or higher is supported.
• It is designed for "sometimes connected devices", so it supports the offline mode.
• It is assumed that the database is not very large, but it is possible to add large multimedia files to it.
• The logic of conflict resolution is implemented at the application level.
• The interface to the server copies the CouchDB replication protocol which is comprised of the REST API and a specific data model. It is assumed that the server also uses Couchbase.
• The application stores the database version ID at the time of last syncing, and requests only those documents from the server which have changed since this version.
• The engine also supports the mode with a constant connection to the server. In this case, syncing can be initiated by the server.
How We Implemented Syncing in Together
Together Video Camera is an application and service designed to manage the user’s personal collection of videos, organize them by various attributes, make movies of them, store all the data in the cloud and access it from multiple devices and via the Web interface. No network connection is needed to access most of the app’s features. Hence syncing in Together can be classified as asynchronous and client-server.
There are many reasons why it might be preferable to implement syncing independently rather than use an off-the-shelf solution. In our case, the main drivers in favor of this path were as follows:
1. The data model and the database structure requires special approach from the app’s logic viewpoint: relationships between objects should be properly preserved, collections of video content should be ordered. These rules can not be summarized under the universal framework concept.
2. Such Core Data features as ordered relationships or file storage in the database, are not very well supported by the existing libraries.
3. All the off-the-shelf solutions assume meeting of certain requirements to the database structure or format of server interaction, which was not possible or practical in our case.
4. So we preferred to use your own REST protocol to communicate with the server. Such protocol should be identical for different platforms running the app, and should not be restricted by an off-the-shelf framework in any way.
5. We opted to keep all the data on our own servers and access them from different platforms, which excludes third-party cloud services.
Let’s now discuss each of the syncing specifics implemented in Together.
Loading the source data to the database. We assumed that the amount of data of a user account can be quite large, and the application should run decently even at poor connections. It means that when a user logs in to a newly installed application, we are not downloading all his data from server at once, but incrementally: At each stage of running the application only such data is requested that is needed to display the current screen. Moreover, this data is downloaded not all at once, but pagewise in the context of the current scroll positions.
Retrieval of data updates from the server proceeds in a similar manner: The application requests only that which is needed in the current screen. In this case, the server returns all the requested records rather than the updated ones. This is not generating a too high load on the network, since the amount of data transferred in each query is small. Still, this gives an option to simplify the server implementation, and use the same API for thin clients that do not save data locally.
Data import to the local database is run in a separate Core Data context running in the background thread. To reduce the time spent on import, we update the local database only with such objects that have changed since the latest syncing, which can be easily identified by the last change timestamp available for every object. Also, the import of changes has been optimized by querying from Core Data all the modified objects at once within a single fetch request. For more detail on this and other methods of data import optimization used in Core Data, please refer to this post:Importing Large Data Sets, issue 4.
To convert JSON structures to data model objects, we decided to avoid using off-the-shelf libraries like RESTKit or Mantle. This gave us the capability to parse highly structured and not always homogenous JSON responses, as well as to validate responses based on arbitrary rules directly inside the code. The import of data received in each JSON response is performed like from within a single transaction, which saves all the changes completely or rolls them back in case of an error.
Also, there is an asynchronous option to implement this method. All transactions are run sequentially as Core Data serializes all the performBlock calls.
This way, you can not get information on objects deleted from the server to remove them from the local DB also. For this there is a separate API method to return a list of objects deleted after a certain date. This request always uses the server time, so there is no need for clock syncing on different clients.
The above principles can be used in more simple applications that move data in one direction only, from the server to the client. Often it is more convenient just to introduce an intermediate step of saving data to a local database between receiving data from the server and its display to the user. This way you can save the data for offline access, make complex queries to the database, easily create various views of the same data for different application screens, and work with classes and objects of the model rather than with dynamically typed arrays and dictionaries, and make the server data structure more application-specific.
Perhaps it would be better to approach syncing in a reverse order: saving of changes made by the user to the server, both in the online and offline mode.
To send changes to the server, the API offers a common CRUD REST interface, with such methods as POST, PUT, or DELETE. Again, as in the case of data import, the API may just as well be used by a "thin client." This approach has an obvious downside associated with the fact that when a large queue of changes is parsed, the server receives, either in sequence or in parallel, a large number of requests, which increases the syncing time and puts a heavy load to the backend. This issue can be partially avoided by using HTTP Pipelining, through "collapsing" the queue and combining overlapping changes.
All changes in the local database related to syncing are performed inside a special wrapper of a standard performBlockAndWait method. In addition to data updates, it saves the current context and serializes all changes in the format suitable for saving between the application restarts, so that afterwards a request to the backend can be made based on such data. Context-related changes can easy be retrieved by standard methods NSManagedObjectContext insertedObjects, deletedObjects, updatedObjects, as well as NSManagedObject changedValues and committedValuesForKeys. The objects storing the serialized change are not standardized, and they are strongly dependent on a specific data model of our application and server API specifics. For instance, in addition to standard types of changes, such as field insert, delete or update, separate types of changes are assigned to such changes as album contents update or video screenshot update.
Then, each change is added to the queue which uses the FIFO mode to generate requests to the backend. Changes are added to the queue to ensure a valid sequence of requests sent to the server in case changes are interdependent. For example, video title editing is dependent on video creation, so such operations can not follow a reverse sequence. In this case, the groups of independent changes can be sent to the backend in parallel queries.
Also, we have partially implemented queue reduction by combining overlapping changes. So, when an object that has not yet been created on the backend, is removed, such removal is not added to the queue, and all the changes associated with a given object, are associated with such an object.
Unlike many other methods of syncing, we do not assign a globally unique identifier of the object at its creation. This identifier appears in an object only after it has been successfully created on the backend. The only exception to this rule is when videos imported from the phone library are assigned links to videos in the assets library (which includes UUID).
Now a few words on conflict resolution. First, minimize the risk of conflict due to the fact that only changed fields are sent rather than entire objects. If a user changes the order of videos in an album, only the information on moved videos is delivered, while the movement is expressed not in terms of numerical indexes of elements in the list, but in relation to other elements. For example, "video X moved to the position following video Y". In this case, the conflicts occur much less frequently. In the worst case, the video is moved to the end or beginning of the list, if the video Y was deleted before. However when the conflicts still arise, they are resolved according to the following principles:
1. At the server, such change prevents that has been sent to the server later.
2. On the client side, the changes received from the server are not imported until a relevant object remains in the change queue.
The application can change the current user account. At the data model level, the multiuser support is enabled by assigning the owner property to each object. In all of the screens, all database selections are filtered by the current user. Even if the user has not entered the app under any account, all the objects created by the user are assigned to a special anonymous default user. When a user logs in for the first time, all the objects that he has managed to create prior to this anonymously, are re-assigned to such a new user. When the user logs off, the application does not remove its data from the local database, so the data needs not to be re-downloaded in case of a repeated login. The application will not log off the user or switch from one account to another, until all the changes made by the current user have been sent to the server. The reason behind this is, that at logoff the server invalidates the user session ID, and the application can no longer send the data on behalf of such a user. Similarly, before certain actions can be performed, such as video sharing in social networks, it is necessary to wait until a relevant object is synced.
How to Implement Syncing with Other Applications
Brent Simmons, the developer of the Vesper notes manager, has published a series of posts dedicated to syncing engine development for his application. He shares his considerations directly in the process of development, without knowing how the engine will look like in the end. This allows the reader to follow the entire development lifecycle with the author, and gain a better insight into the reasons behind the decisions taken. You can even affect the final result by commenting his article via Twitter.
In 2012, a new version of a popular todo list app called Things 2, was released to support data syncing. Syncing was the main reason for a significant delay in the new Things version release, but despite this, they have decided to develop a syncing engine from scratch. The Things developers have published a series of posts providing a high-level overview of the issues that you may face while adiding syncing to your app, providing explanations of their methods of issue resolution.
In the Evernote Web site you can find a very detailed syncing protocol specification that describes all details of the app’s external interaction with the server. This specification is independent of data storage mechanisms used within the app. It is based on the assumption that internal implementation may differ for different customers. Main features of the protocol: the main copy of the database is considered the server database and all clients sync with it; the conflicts are resolved on the app side, with the client side saving the server state after each syncing; both complete and incremental data uploading is supported; to enable incremental updates, each synchronized object maintains a counter that is incremented after each object change. From the Synchronization Speedupification post you can get some idea of how it is implemented on the server side.
Clear also has its own sync engine based on iCloud File Storage. The data on changes synchronized is formulated in terms of the highest possible level of abstraction, i.e., closer to the user perspective rather than to the internal implementation. This allows you to more efficiently resolve potential conflicts. All the changes are ordered by the vector clock and the timestamps, stored in iCloud and played back on all devices. For more detail of this implementation please visit the Clear blog.
Despite a large number of developments, public libraries, commercial services, it is not possible to formulate a direct and generic answer on which syncing is a best fit for your app. In each case it is necessary to weight all the available factors with advantages and disadvantages of a particular approach. In some cases, the best choice would be to write your own syncing code. We hope that our review will help you navigate within this sophisticated yet fascinating topic and make your best choice.
Related Links:
1. Presentation by Dan Grover made ??in 2009, on syncing in ShoveBox.
2. iCloud Design Guide.
3. How to Sync iPhone Core Data with web server, and then push to other devices?
4. Links to Ensembles Resources – an interesting collection of posts on the Core Data syncing.
5. Tutorial in Ray Wenderlich’s blog: How To Synchronize Core Data with a Web Service, with many code samples implementing various aspects of syncing.
6. An online edition of the magazine, dedicated to data syncing.
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1. This artical was gud and interesting. I would like to know more..
How does the data is synchronised for applications like online ticket booking. where there are multiple users access server.
Adding the complexity multiple servers..
if you can explain the process that will be helpful.
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1. The course consisted mostly of lectures given by the instructor but there were also sessions where the students presented solutions to the homework.
1. Students should never allow themselves to be complacent and settle for second best in their training, dojo, fellow students, instructors, or themselves.
2. A quick guide for students with experience or instructors.
3. This book is appropriate for students, instructors, and researchers in applied linear algebra, linear systems theory, and signal processing.
Million Students
2. About 3 million students attend Russia's 519 institutions of higher education and 48 universities.
3. Channel One is shown in over 11,500 middle and high schools across the United States, reaching 7.7 million students.
Higher Education
1. Education The Leibniz University Hannover is the largest funded institution in Hanover for providing higher education to the students from around the world.
1. Students in The Clarkson School are fully matriculated undergraduates with freshman status at the University.
2. Unlike most colleges and universities around the world, MIT graduate students outnumber its undergraduates (60% of the student body are graduate students).
3. Textbook for undergraduates and beginning graduate students in statistics, and students and professionals in the social and health sciences.
1. Tutorials and workshops are also part of the program, presented by astronomers and undergraduate students of the university.
2. With the addition of these new residence halls, the university will be able to house all undergraduate students on campus.
3. According to a Boston Globe study published in February 2001, MIT had a suicide rate of 10.2 per 100,000 graduate and undergraduate students.
Mit Students
1. Students at the two schools can cross-register (i.e., MIT students can register for courses offered at Harvard, and vice versa).
2. MIT students, faculty, and administrators generally refer to buildings by number rather than name.
3. ESP classes are developed and taught by MIT students, alumni, and faculty, and members of the community.
High School
1. The small group of students with which Nakachi trained, and in 1950 came to lead, was made up of a small group of high school students.
3. An integrated web site designed for middle school and high school students, their teachers and parents.
1. Both components are designed for teaching basic writing skills to college students who are referred to as "non-traditional" students.
2. High school and college students who want to become dentists should take courses in biology, chemistry, physics, health, and mathematics.
3. Student.com - Student.com is a big online community for college students, high school students and teens with around 1,000,000 members.
Comprehensive Introduction
1. Voorhees College Sociology Program offers students a comprehensive introduction to the study of human society and social interaction.
2. This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of formal methods for students and practitioners.
3. This is a comprehensive introduction to criminology for students who are either new or relatively new to the subject.
Advanced Students
1. This complete and up-to-date history of English will be indispensable to all advanced students, scholars and teachers in this prominent field.
2. This book was written for researchers in modeling and cardiology, for clinical cardiologists, and for advanced students.
3. This book will appeal to readers from beginners to advanced students of commutative algebra or algebraic geometry.
1. In addition to compulsory courses, students are given the opportunity to specialise within a field with a number of optional courses.
2. What is mandated are the number of days in the school year, and, even then, students are not required to attend 100% of the time.
Foreign Students
1. The number of overseas students,including foreign students, overseas Chinese students, students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, amounts to 12,108.
2. Fuzhou University welcomes foreign students as well as students from the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions of China.
3. There are a lot of foreign students in Ukrainian universities, but the level of education is lower every year.
Financial Aid
1. Students who cannot afford their supplies can receive financial aid from the school, as was the case with the young orphan Tom Riddle.
2. Through the program, students and their families are provided information about college entrance and financial aid.
3. While some pay by cash, many students use financial aid to help with their college costs.
International Students
2. Like most university cities, Coimbra is home to many students from elsewhere, including thousands of international students.
3. All types of scholarships and financial aid for international students are highly competitive and require excellent academic records.
Medical Students
1. We teach biochemistry and molecular biology to medical students at NJMS and to dental students at the adjacent UMDNJ-New Jersey Dental School.
2. This app is useful for medical students, physicians, nurses, EMTs, and anyone who needs to learn about heart sounds, lung sounds, or bowel sounds.
3. In order to master the art of the auscultation, medical personnel include medical students need to practice their skills.
1. Readership: Academics and students working in criminology, sociologists, and those working in the field of cultural studies.
3. This volume is an invaluable resource for researchers, practitioners, and students working in information retrieval and databases.
1. The observatory fell into disrepair in the late 1970s due to a momentary lack of time and enthusiasm from staff and students at the school.
2. Welcome Regents, chancellors, faculty, staff, students, and friends of the University of Alaska.
3. The University of Miami's Iron Arrow Honor Society is a higly selective secret society and honor society for students, faculy, staff and alumni.
Several Students
1. She spoke on the subject of “College Fraternities” which sparked the interest of several students.
3. It was founded by several students who had decided that the general literary society on campus, P.D.A., was no longer a serious institution.
Former Students
1. Although many of the players are students, or former students it is not compulsory to be so, in order to play for the cricket club.
2. Former students of the University of Oxford, grouped by college.
3. Peachtree Linux is a Linux distribution being developed by several students or former students at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Essential Reading
1. With its expansive and detailed coverage, the book constitutes essential reading for professionals and students of Aegean prehistory.
2. This third edition will be essential reading for students of the sociology of work, industrial sociology, organisational behaviour and industrial relations.
3. These books will be essential reading for all students and scholars of literature.
1. Students may specialize in studying such areas as anthropology, sociology, social work, health and aging, or criminal justice.
2. The book will be essential reading for students of sociology, cultural studies, art history and comparative literature.
3. Gender and Crime is essential reading for students and academics in criminology, sociology, social policy and gender studies.
1. Ivano-Frankivsk Oil and Gas university has a two-pronged approach towards education of its students: in the classrooms and in the field.
2. Classrooms often have the same text for every student, even though students are grouped according to their reading levels for smaller group instruction.
3. As technology becomes more prevalent in classrooms, students with disabilities face even more challenges in keeping pace with their classmates.
2. Education is not confined to the classroom anymore and distance learning technologies allow students to decide where, when and how they want to study.
3. In Distance Education, students may not be required to be present in a classroom.
Hogwarts Students
1. Dumbledore's Army A group of Hogwarts students to whom Harry teaches Defense Against the Dark Arts during his fifth year.
2. But to Hogwarts students; however, it is the gateway to getting away from home and getting to Hogwarts.
3. The battle resumes as the parents of many Hogwarts students and residents of the nearby village Hogsmeade arrive to reinforce the Order of the Phoenix.
1. While many Hogwarts students suspect Harry, he and his friends believe Draco is the person behind the stunnings and rooster murders.
3. Consequently, Harry became a fourth champion, to the great disgust of the representatives for Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, as well as many Hogwarts students.
1. The State shall provide education to all pupils and students free of charge and grant allowances to students of universities and colleges.
3. Also, his students are playing in orchestras and teaching in universities, colleges and public schools around the country.
Faculty Members
1. Notable physicians and researchers that have been connected to the School of Medicine (either as students or faculty members) are listed below.
3. The AUCC believes that faculty members or students can make a copy of parts of a book or other complete works under fair dealing.
1. Students who are members of Phi Theta Kappa may apply directly to the following scholarships, organized by due date.
2. Students have also received scholarships at the School of American Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, American Ballet Theatre and several universities.
3. Sebastian created scholarships (1568) to help financially the students who wished to take medicine or pharmacy in the University of Coimbra.
College Students
1. Tau Kappa Epsilon and Greek Society Traditions There are a lot of fraternities and sororities that are out there for college students to take part in.
2. The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports also included it as part of the physical education curriculum for high school and college students.
3. Additionally, King annually sponsors a number of scholarships for both high school and college students.
Advanced Undergraduate
1. The aim of the book is to introduce advanced undergraduate and graduate (master's) students to basic tools, concepts and results of algebraic topology.
2. Audience: The book will be useful to advanced undergraduate and graduate students of mathematics, theoretical physics, and some branches of engineering.
3. The book is self-contained and is addressed to advanced undergraduate or graduate students in mathematics or physics.
Beginning Graduate Students
1. The course is primarily for beginning graduate students in mathematics but the audience usually includes students from other disciplines too.
2. The book is suitable for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in mathematical and theoretical physics, as well as applied mathematics.
3. The text would be suitable for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students of applied mathematics and engineering.
2. Students in this area take courses in Anthropology, Psychology, and Animal Behavior, and often conduct fieldwork in developing countries.
3. A minor in Geology and courses for students seeking a teaching credential in the sciences also are offered.
High School Students
2. The sorority also promotes development among its members, the students and the faculty at each of the campuses we represent.
3. The SJS works closely with students, faculty, staff, the CSB Senate, and university administrators to enhance all aspects of student life on our campuses.
1. Your chapter may only be for students in the College of Business, or maybe any student on campus can join.
2. Fraternities and sororities are great places for students to find extra support and a sense of community on campus.
3. Students receive the same caliber of education as they would on campus at the University of Notre Dame, but from the comfort of home.
Current On-Line Database
1. According to our current on-line database, Douglas Hartree has 1 students and 3 descendants.
1. Our Economics Learning Center has information for students, teachers, an professionals.
2. Students, teachers and professionals in mathematics and mathematical physics should find this a most stimulating and useful text.
3. As a reference work, Banglapedia has been designed to meet the needs of students and teachers, scholars and professionals, and individuals and institutions.
1. Contributions have come from educators, students, university professors and parents.
2. Everyone who has something to do with a school, from administrators, service providers, educators, students and parents, will find something useful here.
1. However, there is a type of secondary school (gymnázium) where the students still the teachers as professors (profesoři) out of tradition.
2. Professors who teach principles of economics are faced with a classroom of students with different abilities, backgrounds and learning styles.
1. At The University of Georgia, faculty, staff, and students have built significant collections in natural history through their research.
3. InterVarsity Christian Fellowship is a ministry that serves students and faculty at colleges and universities across the United States and around the world.
1. A teacher takes time after school to write postcards to parents of students who have done something special in class.
2. Virtual distance learning is the online form of distance education, wherein the teacher and students interact with each other via the internet.
3. Students will also receive regular telephone calls or messages from the teacher in order to help the student be successful with the program.
1. The first phase is teaching students what critical thinking is and what the major components are.
2. The first day of the course will focus on core operating system hardening, teaching students how to thoroughly audit and lock down a Linux system.
3. Constance Menard is also an instructor, teaching students at riding schools all over Europe, including Geneva, Brussels, and Toulouse.
2. Many colleges already use technology that allows teachers and students to interact more easily outside the classroom.
Beginning Students
1. It is very important that you recognize the following fact, which eludes so many beginning students of statistics.
2. To be subject to scholastic dismissal, a student, except the beginning students described above, must first be placed on scholastic probation.
3. In rare cases, beginning students of the art may experience slight muscle or joint soreness if practice is overdone.
1. It maybe a little bit difficult to acquire but Grimstad is the volume to work with for both advanced and beginning students of this saga.
2. This book is one of the most used in graduate courses in algebraic geometry and one that causes most beginning students the most trouble.
3. The author's clear belief is that all college students can engage in mathematics at a meaningful level, even beginning students.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31363 | This boy is back in town
It’s been a while. So what have I been doing? Ever heard of the Google Assistant? Well, turns out they needed a writer to give it something worthwhile to say in Dutch. These last 18 months I have lived the Google lifestyle, back and forth between Amsterdam and London, part of a great team of creative and tech savvy people.
I had a blast, writing converstational content, 100+ original jokes, multiple original songs, raps, seasonal stuff, curating fun facts, and creating an all around Dutch Google Assistant.
But, all good things come to an end. Now, I’m working my way back into the freelance life, under my “Story by Klimbie” banner. My creative projects are also picking up steam. Watch this space. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31375 | [Newbies] Reading PNG images into squeak image is slow
Ben Coman btc at openInWorld.com
Wed Oct 23 15:13:06 UTC 2013
Levente Uzonyi wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2013, Ben Coman wrote:
>> Levente Uzonyi wrote:
>>> On Tue, 22 Oct 2013, Mateusz Grotek wrote:
>>>> It is (even on Cog).
>>>> What is the reason for that?
>>>> Is it a problem with the algorithm used in the image or it's
>>>> unsolvable
>>>> inside the image and a plugin or FFI is needed.
>>> I doubt it can be significantly faster using smalltalk only. When we
>>> wanted to store images in files using lossless compression, we
>>> decided to use jpeg instead of png, because it has plugin support,
>>> so it's a lot faster to load and save the images.
>> That sounds contradictory since JPEG is not lossless (I know you
>> know, just stating the obvious). For computer generated images with
>> solid blocks of colour JPEG can have artifacts. PNG is lossless. In
>> general, photo=JPEG, graphics=PNG.
> You have to set the quality parameter to 100 to get a lossless image.
> The only drawback versus png is that it only supports three channels,
> so there will be no alpha channel in those images. But that was not a
> problem for us.
Thats interesting. I'd never heard of that. I always believed 100 was
still lossless per [1] [2]. What software did you use for the lossless
JPEG encoding?
cheers -ben
> Levente
>>>> P.S.
>>>> Code:
>>>> (PNGReadWriter formFromFileNamed: something) durationToRun
>>>> "0:00:01:09.591"
>>>> "unacceptale if you want to program an image browser"
>>>> Data:
>>>> 1301.png: PNG image data, 2048 x 1536, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced
>>>> (a pic of a street taken from a cell phone)
>>> That image is huge. Cell phones and digital cameras usually create
>>> jpeg images. But if you really need to support png, then ffi or a
>>> plugin is the way to go.
>> I believe this is because a higher level of compression would take
>> longer and use more battery. You can use http://www.xnview.com/
>> to often drop 80% of the file size of of cell phone images without
>> any apparent loss of quality.
> If that is a concern, then I'm pretty sure these machines have
> hardware which can compress the images. The do have it for video
> (mpeg2/h264), so adding jpeg is basically no extra cost.
> On the other hand, I don't think creating a png file is
> computationally less expensive, than creating a jpeg file.
> Levente
>> -ben
>>> Levente
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31384 | Having Fun at Marine World
(Monday August 4, 2008)
When the kids invited me to go with them to Marine World at Vellejo, I declined the invitation for a lack of get-up-and-go. But since I went with them last time I can imagine how much fun they had this time. You're listening to Patrick Juvet's song expressing "the magic and music everywhere that fills the air...I love America" that so describes this country. Okay...lets go!
Karly, Jessica, Christina, Brent, Katie & Amanda are ready for some fun in the sun...
Along with mom's Cheryl and Margie.
This photo's for the birds. Gotta watch those little critter's sharp beaks and claws...
And speaking of claws...
Don't ever think you can out swim tigers. They're great swimmers when hungry.
Now it's show time for killer whale. Amazing what it has learned to do.
Click on Cheryl.
Brent loves to have his picture taken.
Hmmm...Did I get it?
This is where you get soaked and your purse filled up with water.
Sunbathing on an ice cube?
The descent on the Slam Dunk can be a drenching experience.
Wha...Okay, what's so funny. Haven't you ever seen a walking-talking tiger before?
By now....As you can see, it's a place to have fun. |
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Great Opportunity to attend IOCDF Conference in Austin
The Annual OCD Conference is in Austin, June 19-21. I participate in this annual event each summer and always look forward to it. This year I am participating in three presentations. While I always encourage clients to consider attending, the location of this year’s conferences certainly makes it more convenient and more cost-effective than years past.
Is It Signal or Noise?
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When cavities become too large, an ordinary filling is not strong enough to cope with the normal biting forces. The dentist will need to have stronger fillings made in a laboratory. An inlay is used for this purpose and as the name suggests it fits inside the tooth. An onlay covers the top of the tooth and is used for worn teeth, or where the remaining tooth needs strengthening to prevent it breaking away. Sometimes a combination of both is used. They are either cemented or bonded to the natural tooth.
They can be made of gold, non precious metals, porcelain or special plastics. The choice depends on the position in the mouth in which they are to be placed, the strength of the bite, whether the patient grinds their teeth, and to some extent the wish to have a tooth coloured filling.
There are two stages in fitting these devices: The first is the preparation of the cavity and the taking of an impression of the cavity and of the opposing teeth so the bite can be made correctly. A temporary filling is then fitted. The impression is sent to a laboratory and the filling is constructed The second is the fitting. The tooth may need to be numbed to prevent discomfort during the fitting. There could also be a need for some minor adjustments to the bite but that is all.
As there are two stages and some quite complex laboratory work they are more expensive than ordinary fillings but less than crowns. They last between ten and fifteen years, which is probably longer than ordinary fillings and about the same as crowns. |
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Testing MySQL data migrations Part 1
In Part 1 of this series, I’m going to explore a simple “smoke test” of a data migration. What is a smoke test you ask? A smoke test is what I like to refer to as a sanity check that something is behaving I expect.
Example #1 – Count rows between new and old tables.
This can provide a low level of satisfaction, however, it’s probably the first of my tiers of testing. If row counts are off, your methodology is wrong and you can now start over and/or rollback the change.
-- Get row counts: (should match) smoke tests
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM new_table;
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM old_table;
Example #2 – Check your primary keys.
If you’re copying rows, then you expect your primary keys to be the same. If not, you’ve got a problem. Here’s a quick smoke test for key comparison. If you see a difference, your methodology is wrong and you should rollback.
-- Check PKs smoke tests
SELECT MIN(id), MAX(id) FROM new_table;
SELECT MIN(id), MAX(id) FROM old_table;
Example #3 – Find unwanted NULL values.
Say, you’re denormalizing or aggregating data and you’re maintaining a foreign key. You would expect to have NO NULL values. So you you need to test for their existence. If you find NULL columns, extend your testing to the source tables.
-- Find NULLs
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM new_table WHERE some_fk_id IS NULL;
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM old_table WHERE some_fk_id IS NULL;
…look for more to come in Part 2!
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F. Smarandache has defined many sequences of integers formed by concatenating the positive integers in specific ways. A question that is often asked about most of these sequences concerns the number of primes in the sequence. As Paul Erdos pointed out, determining how many primes are in sequences of this type is a problem that the current state of mathematical knowledge is unprepared to solve. In general, the sequences grow rather fast, so after a very short time, the terms are too large for modern computers to determine if they are prime. The only hope is to find some property of the elements of the sequence that can be used to very quickly determine if it can be factored.
Using the bases from three through nine to form new sequences, we can then ask the same question regarding the number of primes in the sequence. That appears to be a question just as difficult as the one for base ten numbers, and is summarized in the following statement.
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Preface.3 -- Table of Contents.4 -- Chapter 1 Sequences Formed by Concatenating All the Positive Integers.5 -- Chapter 2 Sequences Formed by Concatenating Selected Natural Numbers .44 -- Chapter 3 Smarandache Stereograms .70 3.1 -- The Stereogram.70 -- 3.2 Altering the Background.87 -- 3.3 Additional Stereograms .91 -- 3.4 Possibilities for Additional Figures .92 -- Chapter 4 Constants Involving the Smarandache Function .95 -- Index.133 --
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During the Pandemic
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We invite you to share, grow and enjoy the fellowship.
Please plan to attend.
Why study the Bible? It's Surprising that anyone reads it.
Logic says this book shouldn't survive. It's too old. It's too bizarre. It's too radical. It calls for undying devotion to a carpenter who called himself God's Son...yet it's been the best selling book in the world for YEARS! Go figure???
How do we have hope? What is our source?
When life's situations, trials and suffering discourage us, how do we lift our spirits, make sense of it all and remember the end of the story?
God still has instruction for us and desires that we come to him to learn to know our Creator and Sustainer better.
We are to be prepared at all times to explain the source of our hope.
We are never done learning and Satan isn't about to leave us alone just because we are adults. His Goal is to destroy ALL Christians!
Satan did not win the battle against Christ but he will still make a lot of noise and take as many souls to Hell with him as he can. Are you as diligent in bringing souls to Christ?
As Christians we have HOPE. We have the answer but too often we Christians remain silent, our silence pleases Satan because the non-believer has no idea of the eternal life that awaits Satan and his followers? As a matter of fact non-believers not only don't believe in God but they don't even believe Satan exists. |
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Most of America is suffering in at the moment's financial system. Credit is either sparse or non-existent to the citizens that shouldn't have an ideal credit rating. In case you are one of the hundreds of thousands of individuals suffering credit woes, then you might have stumbled upon the right article. In this text we will provide you with tips on how you can repair your credit. Before you know it, your credit score score shall be miles above what it's now!
Repairing your credit score rating can imply getting the next credit score later. Chances are you'll not think this is essential until it's worthwhile to finance a big buy such as a automotive, and do not have the credit to again it up. Restore your credit rating so you've gotten the wiggle room for these unexpected purchases.
To keep away from getting in bother with your creditors, communicate with them. Clarify to them your state of affairs and arrange a payment plan with them. By contacting more information , you present them that you're not a customer that doesn't intend to pay them again. This additionally implies that they won't send a collection company after you.
By paying your debt and payments on time, you present your creditors that you just may be trusted. They may elevate your credit limits accordingly, which has a good impact in your credit report. This additionally allows you to handle your funds much more comfortably than with a low credit limit.
Begin working on your credit report at the least a quarter prematurely of starting to search for a loan or different gadgets that require a credit score test. Corrections to your credit report don't occur in a single day and you have to pay attention to this. By beginning prior to your want for a loan, you give your report time to indicate the corrections and improvements that you have made.
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Pay down bank card debt. Most individuals carry a debt on their credit cards, usually at an exorbitant interest charge. By paying about the subject , you will solely be making a small dent on the balance. When you've got any excess cash, you must start making an attempt to pay off the bank card that has the very best interest charge. Upon getting paid off see go , focus on your different playing cards in the identical method. Always pay down more information of the card with the highest curiosity price, first.
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UQ helps turn down horse ‘roaring’
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Delicious Citrus Shake
What you need:
One small can (or half-cup fresh) crushed pineapple
half a can of juice-sweeted fruit cocktail
1/3 cup of orange juice
1/4 cup grapefruit or pineapple juice (frozen concentrate is fine)
6-7 ice cubes
2 Tablespoons water
What you do:
Simply combine the ingredients in a blender, and blend until smooth.
This shake is absolutely manages to have a really creamy texture without any sort of dairy or soy product. I make them for breakfast, lunch, snacks...and its a great way to get kids to eat fruit.
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The exception and the pure regulation justification for it can be seen as an attempt to justify the Nuremberg trials and the trial of Adolf Eichmann, each of which had been criticized for applying retrospective criminal sanctions. On the opposite hand, the precept of legality also holds that no particular person is to be superior to the legislation. This implies that ignorance of a legislation is nearly by no means acknowledged as a respectable protection, except within the very uncommon case of Mistake Of Law.
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Nowhere, nonetheless, did he actually comment upon their legality or illegality, not to mention saying a verdict on the very faith of the emperor. A good lawyer should assist you to understand the legalities of the contract you are signing. Vicki Schultz states that we collectively have a shared data about most concepts. How we interpret the truth of our precise understanding of a concept manifests itself via the totally different particular person narratives that we tell concerning the origins and meanings of a particular idea. The distinction in narratives, about the same set of information, is what divides us.
The impact is that the events within the contract can implement the contract which signifies that if within the occasion when one of the events breach the contract the opposite get together can convey the case to the court to claim damages. Section 2(h) of CA 1950 defines regulation as an agreement enforceable by the legislation. The few fundamental parts to be thought of before a contract is made and valid are supply, acceptance, capacity, consideration, intention to create legal relationship, certainty and lastly free consent.
We don’t at all times like these guidelines, since they often imply that somebody is telling us what to do, or keeping us from doing what we would like. The following is a list of legal ideas and rules, most of which apply underneath common legislation jurisdictions. Ex parte Garland, the United States Supreme Court condemned as each bills of attainder and ex publish facto laws the passage of publish-American Civil War loyalty-check oaths, which had been designed to keep Confederate sympathizers from practicing certain professions. Ex post facto legislation, legislation that retroactively makes felony conduct that was not felony when performed, increases the punishment for crimes already committed, or adjustments the foundations of process in pressure at the time an alleged crime was committed in a method substantially disadvantageous to the accused. The modern administrative legislation is ok mixture of Droit Administratif, the French legislation system and Dicey rule of regulation.
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The courts then apply and interpret these statutes on a case by case foundation. In the United States, the Constitution is the final word supply of the legislation. Within the boundaries of the Constitution, there are two main sources of regulation, widespread regulation and statutory legislation. Constitution, that guarantee our fundamental freedoms like freedom of speech, religion, and the press. In the United States, it looks as if we’ve legal guidelines, rules, and laws to oversee nearly every thing. |
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Koala Hunting 2: The Quest For The Loch Ness Monster - Part 1 of 3
posted Oct 31, 2017, 2:32 AM by Viktor Zólyomi
Happy Halloween everyone! It is now time for Professor van der Bishop to explain the true science of the so-called Scottish land corals on his quest to find the Scottish koala, better known as the Loch Ness Monster. Please enjoy this outrageous sequel to Koala Hunting, the mockumentary in which the Professor explained the "true" science of koalas! |
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34. Acupuncture and Heel and Foot Pain
Oct 13, 2011 // by drxuacupuncture // Blog, Case Discussions, Uncategorized // No Comments
News Letter, Vol. 3 (10), October, 2011, © Copyright
Robert Blizzard III, DPT
Rehabilitation Medicine and Acupuncture Center
1171 East Putnam Avenue, Building 1, 2nd Floor
Greenwich, CT 06878
Tel: (203) 637-7720
Heel and Foot Pain
Jennifer is a 55 year-old, moderately obese woman. She runs every morning for about 4 to 5 miles, who complains of right heel and plantar foot pain, difficulty walking, especially in the morning after waking up from sleep for 2 years. She went to the podiatrist, who gave her an x-ray, which showed a mild heel spur at her heel. She was given orthotics for the right foot, but she still feels pain, therefore, she comes to me for evaluation and treatment.
By physical examination, there is tender point at right heel and arch. There is no ankle pain, no numbness nor tingling sensation at right leg. Based on my examination and clinical information, the patient most likely has right plantar fasciitis with possible heel spur.
There are two different concepts of plantar foot pain:
1. Plantar Fasciitis: Plantar fasciitis is inflammation of the thick tissue on the bottom of the foot, i.e. the plantar fascia. It connects the heel bone to the toes and covers and supports the arch of the foot. The pain is located at the medial heel, however, if the pain is severe, it will spread out to entire foot arch.
2. Heel Spur: A heel spur is a hook of bone that can form on the heel bone (calcaneus). A calcaneal spur (or heel spur) is a radiological (X-ray) finding, and when it is located on the inferior aspect of the calcaneus, is often associated with plantar fasciitis. However, sometimes, people may have heel spur without any pain, some people may have severe heel pain and the pain may mixed with plantar fasciitis to cause the entire plantar foot pain. An inferior calcaneal spur consists of a calcification of bone, which lies superior to the plantar fascia at the insertion of the plantar fascia, most common in the medial side heel of the foot.
Fig 10.1
Causes, incidence, and risk factors:
The most important key part of plantar fasciitis is overstretched or overused of the thick band of tissue on the bottom. This can be painful and make walking or running more difficult.
Risk factors for plantar fasciitis include:
1. Obesity.
2. High arches and/or flat feet.
3. Overwalking or running, especially running downhill or on uneven surfaces
4. Tight Achilles tendon, which is the tendon connecting the heel to the calf muscles.
5. Hard surface of the shoes, especially tight and hard shoes without any arch support or Cushing function.
6. Men ages 40 to 70.
The pain in the bottom of the foot usually is sudden onset with most often sharp or burning sensation, sometimes you may feel dull pain.
The pain is usually worse:
• In the morning when you take your first steps
• After sitting or standing for a while
• When climbing stairs or walking on uneven surfaces
• After intense activity
The pain usually feels better after you warm up with first steps or take hot shower. The pain may develop slowly over time, or suddenly after intense activity.
Signs and Tests:
The doctor will perform a physical exam. This may show:
• Tenderness on the bottom of your foot, usually at the medial heel and entire arch.
• Flat feet or high arches
• Mild foot swelling or redness
Fig 10.2
1. Anti-inflammatory medications: Acetaminophen (Tylenol), or ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin) to reduce pain and inflammation.
2. Rest- At least rest for one week or more, no running, no long walking.
3. Ice: apply ice to your bottom of the feet for at least 15 min, 2 to 3 x per day.
4. Wearing shoes with cushions, custom made shoe insole and heel cups. Boot cast, night splint
Arch Support
Fig 10.3
Fig 10.4
Fig 10.5
Fig 10.6
Fig 10.7
Fig 10.8
Fig 10.9
1. Physical therapy
Fascia-specific stretching exercise by gently pulling back the toes for 10 sets of 10 seconds. Repeat 3 times a day.
Fig 10.10
Fig 10.11
Another exercise targeted at the plantar fasciia and strengthening the small muscles of the foot is marble pick-ups. Place a handful of marbles on the floor and pick them up using the toes and place in container. Repeat for a total of 3-5 minutes. If marbles are not available, the same motion can be performed using a towel.
Fig 10.12
The use of anti-inflammatory properties of ultrasound targeted to the bottom of the heel is beneficial. A typical treatment would be around 8 minutes and can be performed by your physical therapist.
1. Acupuncture
The following acupuncture points are selected: experienced points (Arshi points), Ki 1 Yong Quan, Sp 9 Ying Ling Quan, GB 34 Yang Ling Quan,
Points Meridian/No. Location Function/Indication
1 Arshi Points As indicated For local pain
2 Yong Quan Ki 1 On the sole, in the depression when the foot is in plantar flexion, approximately at the junction of the anterior third and posterior two thirds of the sole Headache, blurring of vision, dizziness, sore throat, dryness of the tongue, loss of voice, dysuria, infantile convulsions, feverish sensation in the sole, loss of consciousness
3 Ying LingQuan Sp 9 On the lower border of the medial condyle of the tibia, in the depression on the medial border of the tibia Abdominal pian and distension, diarrhea, dysentery, edema, jaundice, dysuria, enuresis, incontinence of urine, pain in the external genitalia, dysmenorrheal, pain in the knee
Fig 10.13
1. Steroid injection: Steroid injection sometimes may make a significant improvement. However, you should use is cautiously, because the steroid may cause necrosis of the plantar foot.
2. Surgery: Last resort.
Jennifer’s Treatment:
Jennifer was advised to stop running immediately. In the meantime, she was given heel pad with two layers of shoe insoles, and changed to a bigger size of snickers. She was given above acupuncture treatment and physical therapy stretch exercise 3x per week for 4 weeks. She also stretch her foot and perform ice massage 3 to 4 x per day. Her plantar faciitis was completely healed. She run again after 2 months.
Tips for Patients:
1. Early treatment, the earlier, the better.
2. Always use two layers of shoe insoles to cushion your inflamed foot.
3. Rest and ice massage
Tips for Acupuncturists:
1. Arshi 1 and Arshi 2 are most important points to reduce plantar pain.
2. Use electrical stimulation to desensitize the plantar foot pain.
3. Encourage your patients to use shoe insoles, two layers are better than one layer.
4. Try not to use steroid injection.
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35. Acupuncture and Hip Pain and Trachanteric Bursitis
Nov 26, 2011 // by drxuacupuncture // Blog, Case Discussions, Uncategorized // No Comments
News Letter, Vol. 3 (11), November, 2011, © Copyright
Robert Blizzard III, DPT
Rehabilitation Medicine and Acupuncture Center
1171 East Putnam Avenue, Building 1, 2nd Floor
Greenwich, CT 06878
Tel: (203) 637-7720
Hip Pain – Trochanteric Bursitis
Cindy is a 64 year-old female who complains of right hip pain for about six months after a fall in her garage and injury of her right hip. She felt immediate pain at right hip. Then, she put ice pack on the hip and took some Tylenol and Advil. She thought the pain would go away. However, after one month, the pain still was very severe and she had difficulty walking. She was unable to lie on the right side because of the pain, which always awakened her up during the night. Whenever she tried to walk, run, or lift some weight such as 10 to 20 pounds, her right hip was very painful with right leg weakness. The pain sometimes also radiated down to her knee but not below the knee. She then called her primary care physician, and an x-ray was done, which showed no bone spur, no fracture, and no osteoarthritis, and while the PCP examined her, her hip was swelling and slightly warm. The range of motion of her right hip was slightly limited. Her PCP told her it was soft tissue injury, it would get better in about one month. She was prescribed Naproxen. However, the pain is getting worse and worse. Now, she is limping and leaning to the right side. The pain interferes her daily activities such as driving, walking, lying on right side, etc. Therefore, she comes to me for evaluation and the treatment.
Physical Examination: Cindy is moderately obese and tall. She walks with a cane because the pain is so severe, she could not walk independently. I palpated her right hip joints which is swollen and very tender. The pain also goes along the right side lateral thigh. I checked her range of motion. At this time, the range of motion is slightly limited especially at the external rotation. I asked her to flex and external rotate her hip by pushing my hand resistant outward, she feels excruciated pain. Her right hip joint muscle seems weak. By sensation examination, her both legs are equal to the pinprick and light touch. There is no sensory deficit.
Because of the severe right hip pain and debilitating, I decided to order MRI. The MRI only showed the trochanteric bursa was swollen, tender, and increased in size. There is no any other tendonitis or arthritis.
This patient most likely has hip bursitis, i.e., trochanteric bursitis. On the hip, we have two trochanteric bursae, one is called superficial trochanteric bursa which is on top of the femoral head, i.e., outside the hip joint. The other one is called deep trochanteric bursa, a deep bursa, which is underneath the gluteus medius muscle. Hip bursitis are inflamed conditions of hip bursa. The patients with hip bursitis typically complain lot of hip pain, although the hip joint itself is not involved. The pain very often radiates down to the lateral aspect of the thigh.
Fig 11.1
Fig 11.2
STIR coronal image demonstrates increased signal lateral to the left greater trochanter (arrow).
The course and risk factors of hip bursitis: The hip bursitis usually is caused by contusions from falls, contact sports, and/or by the bursal irritation resulting from friction by the iliotibial pain (ITB).
this condition is most common in the middle aged or elderly, and especially prevalent among women with the following conditions:
1. Repetitive activity such as stair climbing, bicycling, standing, running, hiking for long periods of time.
2. An injury such as a fall, or lying on the side for long periods of time, exerting unnecessary pressure on the hip.
3. Lower back pain, caused by arthritis, scoliosis, spondylosis, etc.
4. Previous surgery, such as surgery around the hip or total hip replacement which can irritate the bursa and cause bursitis.
5. Leg length discrepancy. This will change the center of gravity and cause irritation of the hip bursa.
for example, which is repetitive and cumulative irritation. Sometimes, leg length discrepancy and lateral hip surgery also can cause hip bursitis.
The symptoms of hip bursitis include:
1. Hip pain. The pain sometimes radiates to the outside of the thigh to the knee area, as well as to the groin area. The pain may be worse during activities such as running or sitting with the leg crossed over the opposite knee.
2. The pain may disturb sleep, especially when the patient is lying on her right side.
3. Swelling may occur from the increased fluid within the bursa.
4. The condition may cause limping and the patient may have difficulty walking or running.
5. Heat and redness may occur on the affected bursa.
Hip bursitis usually is not related to osteoarthritis. Therefore, by the MRI or x-ray, you cannot see the hip spur, bone spur, or narrowing of the joint space. You may also not see the tendonitis around the hip joint and only see inflamed enlarged bursa. The differential diagnosis of hip bursitis is as following:
1. Fracture of the femoral head
2. Avascular necrosis of the femoral head
3. hip fracture
4. Lumbosacral radiculopathy
5. Iliopsoas tendonitis
6. ITB tendonitis
7. Internal snapping hip and external snapping hip, etc.
Western Medicine Treatment:
1. Most often, physician will prescribe anti-inflammatory medication such as naproxen, Advil, etc. Usually, there is no significant improvement after taking the naproxen, etc., because the bursitis is acute and severe inflammation on the bursa of the hip but many patients like to take anti-inflammatory medication.
2. Rehabilitation program by physical therapy. Very often, physical therapy should be applied by stretching of the ITB, tensor fascia lata, external hip rotators, quadriceps, and hip flexors. The physical therapy modality such as cold pad, electrical stimulation, and soft tissue massage might be also helpful.
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1. Corticosteroid injection. There are many studies which showed the corticosteroid injection at the inflamed bursa can have quick, specific, and effective treatment with prolonged benefit. Usually, the patient should lie on the unaffected side. About 40 mg to 80 mg corticosteroid with 5 cc of 1% to 2% of lidocaine mixed to inject to the bursa about 66% of patients at a followup visit at one year and five years feel much improved.
As an acupuncturist, we should do as the following
1. Have the patient to rest. Instructed the patient do not perform any repetitive activity for at least one month, and in the meantime, put ice massage on the hip about 15 minutes to 20 minutes twice a day on the hip and the ITB. Because the inflammation inside the hip bursa, the fluid very often leaks out followed the ITB and makes the ITB inflammation. That is why, the pain radiates down to the lateral thigh. Because of ITB is attached around the knee, the pain will not go down beyond the knee. Therefore, the massage with ice is a very important procedure to decrease the inflammation and pain.
2. Acupuncture. The acupuncture usually I choose GB 30 Huan Tiao, Arshi GB31 Feng Shi, GB34 Yang Ling Quan, Sp9 Ying Ling Quan, Sp10 Xue Hai and Liv3 Tai Chong.
Points Meridan/No. Location Function/Indication
1 Huan Tiao GB 30 At the junction of the lateral 1/3 between the great trochanter and the hiatus of the sacrum. Pain of the lumbar region and the thigh, muscular atrophy of the lower limbs, hemiplegia
2. Feng Shi GB 31 On the midline fo the lateral aspect of the thigh, 7 inch above the transverse popliteal crease. Pain and soreness in the thigh and lumbar region, paralysis of the lower limbs, beriberi, general pruritus
5. Xue Hai Sp 10 When the knee is flexed, 2 inch above the medial edge of patella. Irregular menstruation, dysmenorrheal, uterine bleeding, amenorrhea, urticaria, eczema, erysipelas, pain in the medial aspect of the thigh
6 Tai Chong Liv 3 On the dorsum of the foot, in the depression distal to the junction of the first and second metatarsal bones. Headache, dizziness and vertigo, insomnia, congestion, swelling and pain of the eye, depression,, infantile convulsion, deviation of the mouth, pain in the hypochondriac region, uterine bleeding, hernia, enuresis, retention of urine, epilepsy, pain the anterior aspect of the medial malleolus
Fig 22.5
I choose the big diameter needle and with electrical stimulation at the bursa and the big needle usually can make the swelling going down and increase the energy flow go through the bursa. The stimulation can repetitively stimulate the bursa making the patient pain sensitivity going down and the patient will tolerate more the stimulation and the daily activity. Other points such as Hegu and Taichong will increase large dosage of endorphin secretion which will make the patient feel less pain.
Cindy underwent my treatment for about 10 visits and with soft massage, ice, and acupuncture with electrical stimulation and she feels much better after the treatment. She followed up once after two months and her hip pain is completely gone.
Tips for Acupuncturist:
1. Always ask the patient to rest and ice massage, and if you understand some Chinese herb, you can choose some Chinese herb cream with anti-inflammation function to massage the patient’s hip and ITB.
2. If the patient’s hip has obvious severe inflammation or infection, do not treat and you should refer the patients to her or his primary care physicians to check if there is any infection.
3. A large diameter needle with electrical stimulation will be much more effective than the small diameter needle without electrical stimulation.
4. You may teach the patient to stretch the right ITB band and hip joints in a certain way.
Tips for Patients:
1. Not all the physicians can make a clear diagnosis about hip trochanteric bursitis. You have to consult physicians of orthopedics and physiatrists.
2. Ice massage is very important treatment method, you must use ice to massage your hip 15 min 2x a day in order to reduce the inflammation and decrease pain.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31582 | Pertechnetate, TcO4-, is the universal starting material for the synthesis of 99mTechnetium radiopharmaceuticals.
It is produced from so-called technetium generators in which the parent isotope 99Mo, on an alumina chromatography column, decays to the gamma emmitting daughter nuclide 99mTc.
In the clinics, 99mTcO4- is eluted from such systems with an isotonic sodium chloride solution and is then converted to radiopharmaceuticals.
The 99mTcO4- ion has an ionic radius similar to that of iodide, for which reason it accumulates in the thyroid gland and can be used for thyroid gland scintigraphy.
Scintigraphic depiction of a thyroid gland enlarged on one side with 99mTcO4- |
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How to Choose the Best Skip Hire Company
Wherever humans being live, there will always be waste are that is generated. Home generated waste is not too much that is can not fit on a dustbin. In the event you are doing a house project then you should expect the waste to be more than the normal amount. Since the dustbin can not be big enough for your needs you should go for a skip bin. Buying a skip bin is just not a good idea. The best way to go about this is to choose a good skip hire company that will give rent you a skip bin and also give you collection services. But choosing a skip hire company is not as easy as it sounds. It is due to the skip hire companies being many that it is hard to choose. Consider the tips that are discussed here to pick the best skip hire company.
The first thing to look into is the location of the skip hire company. Almost all over the world, there are skip hire companies that are present. It is only the local clients of the skip hire company that are able to get the services of more skip hire companies. There is another very minute number of skip hire companies that are offering everywhere. The ideal type of a skip hire company is one that is local.
The next aspect to deal with will be the reputation of the skip hire company. Find out the kind of experiences that people that have hired the skip hire company have gone through. From you research you should be able to determine if the treatment that the clients of the skip hire company receive is good or not. You should also find the time and peruse the skip hire company’s reviews. The ideal skip hire company should also have skip bins that are of the right size.
Take into account what amount of money you will have to pay so that you can work with the skip hire company. Both the price of collecting and dumping the waste in the skip bin as well as the cost of renting the bin must be put in mind. Get price quotes from multiple skips hire companies. After all this, only stick to an affordable skip hire company.
Finally you should choose a skip hire company that is licensed. The only indication that the skip hire company you go for is a legitimate one is a license. Go with the skip hire company that has been in that line of work for a long time. make sure the skip hire company has good and quality equipment.
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Where you can hear a country song from far
and someone play the honky-tonk guitar
Where all the lights will go out one by one
the people join the sun, and the wind takes it away
Where the Mississippi rolls down to the sea
and lovers found the place they'd like to be
how many times before the song was ending
love and understanding ev'rywhere around.
Mississippi, I'll remember you
whenever I should go away
I'll be longing for the day
that I will be in dream there again
Mississippi, you'll be on my mind
(*|:) Ev'rytime I hear this song
Mississippi roll along
until the end of time (*:|)
Now the country song for ever lost its soul
when the guitar player turned to rock & roll
and ev'rytime when summernights are falling
I always will be calling dreams of yesterday.
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Keep it Detroit Even When You're Staying In: Movies to Watch on Netflix Right Now!
Living in Michigan means snow, lots of snow. Sometimes it gets so rough out there that staying in and watching a movie seems a lot more appealing than going out on the town. If you find yourself more attracted to the couch than the bar, but still want to add some Detroit into your night, watch one of these following movies, all of which are currently on Netflix. Each one will add a little Detroit into your night without leaving the couch. Some are "set in Detroit" and some were actually filmed in Detroit. All of them are worth a watch!
RoboCop - The Original 1987
The Original RoboCop was a pretty solid film. I watched it over and over as a kid and found that it held up as an adult. I used to get scared when I watched it, now it will more than likely just make you laugh. If you haven't watched it in the last ten years, I highly suggest revisiting this one.
Detroit 9000 - 1973
This is a film about two cops in 1970s Detroit. It has some vintage shots of the Renaissance Center and is hailed by Quentin Tarantino as one of his all time favorites.
The Crow - 1994
I'm not ashamed to admit that this is one of my all time favorite movies. It's a love story, it's dark, and the lead character died while shooting the film. The film takes place on Devil's Night in Detroit and has a killer soundtrack. If you haven't seen it, you must. And if you haven't seen it lately, give it another watch. It not only holds up, but it will bring back some good memories of my favorite decade, the '90s.
Detropia - 2012
This is a documentary about the struggles Detroit has faced after the collapse of the manufacturing businesses. You will see some familiar sites and it will make you think, no matter what your personal politics are.
Here are some other notable films set in or about Detroit that aren't currently on Netflix, but are worth a watch if you can get your hands on a copy.
Detroit Rock City - 1999
A film about four hot dudes getting to a Kiss show at Cobo, um yes!
8 Mile - 2002
You know this one, but it's always worth a re-watch. R.I.P. Brittany Murphy
Beverly Hills Cop - 1984
1980s Eddie Murphy. Need I say more?
Dream Girls - 2006
Queen B, Jennifer Hudson, Eddie Murphy, and Jamie Foxx. Set in 1960s Motown.
Grosse Pointe Blank - 1997
John Cusack!!!
Transformers - 2007
Appearances by the historic Michigan Central Station.
Whip It - 2009
Scenes filmed at Lafayette Coney Island and Ferndale High School, plus Drew Barrymore and Derby Girls!
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If sinners be d***ed, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there unwarned and unprayed for.” -Charles Spurgeon
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SEO And Content Management
With millions of websites on the world wide web, it is difficult to reach the top of the log and appear on the first page of Google. In this article we will cover why it is so important to have your search engine optimization (SEO) done on your website and the benefits there are to spending a bit of money doing it.
Content Management
• Managing your content might sound like a tedious story and truth be told, it is. Getting a good score for your search engine optimization has a few points that make it all the more important to know what your business is about, what your website is about and who your target market is.
Focus Words or Keywords
• Focus words or keywords are the specific words that you describe in your article or on your website. If you want your page to be high ranking on google then you need to make sure that your content lines up with your focus words. This helps when people google the topic your website is about. Having a clear goal towards what type of content display and the events that are happening.
• Keywords need to appear on the same page a few times for crawlers to identify the topic discussed. You will also need at least one heading with your focus word in it.
• The easier your website reads, the higher your readability score will be. This helps your search engine decide whether or not your website has a good flow, easy to navigate and read. For example, keeping all your sentences under twenty words and displaying headings above paragraphs and making long paragraphs shorter.
• These are two focus points to look at when optimizing your website to rank higher on Google with organic ratings. Organic ratings means that you did not pay for any advertising to place your advertisement at the top of Google. There is a lot more detail regarding SEO but by following these tips it will make a big difference in your ranking on search engines.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31688 | The meaning and symbol of International chess in dream
The meaning of chess dreams. Dreaming about chess has realistic influences and reactions, as well as the subjective imagination of dreamers. Please see the detailed explanation of dreaming chess organized below for you.
Dreamed that you played chess with others, indicating the decline of your career, clumsy partners, and poor health.
Dreamed that you lost in the chess game, indicating that you often feel depressed in a humble living environment.
If you dream that you have won, it means that you will successfully solve the unpleasant emotions that the outside world has imposed on you.
Dreaming about playing chess means you are close to the disaster and need to be prepared.
Zhougong stock market
Dreamed of playing chess, the stock price only went up and down slightly, which was a weak hovering situation.
Psychological dream interpretation
Dreamland commentary: Chess initially symbolized war. It always shows war and conflict in dreams. In addition, it also implies the necessity of adopting strategies in your life.
Psychoanalysis: If you dream of losing chess, it means that you have implemented a non-profitable plan in real life. You do n’t have the necessary aids, and you do n’t understand that you have to overcome stronger forces.
Spiritual symbol: On the spiritual level, the dream chess game embodies the contest between light and darkness. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31695 | Be Reasonable
The title of this post comes from a section of Jeff Sutherland's book Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice The Work in Half The Time. In that section he identifies four kinds of waste, or "Unreasonableness."
Being reasonable sounds ambiguous and subjective. It's particularly difficult for a CEO, CFO, COO, CTO or CRO to determine what is reasonable and what is not when it comes to expectations of the product and technology teams.
Sutherland discusses these four types of unreasonableness which lead to waste:
1. Absurdity. Don't ask the team to work for absurd, impossible goals.
2. Unreasonable Expectations. When a team has to move from one crisis to the next and its achievements are based on heroic efforts, the team members will experience burnout.
3. Overburden. Think "Dilbert." Onerous company policies, meaningless meetings, preventing teams from using tools or accessing environments they need to succeed; these all suck up time and energy while delivering no value.
4. Emotional. This is attributed to the presence of an asshole in the organization--someone who likes spinning up other people and putting them in a tizzy. This type of person often justifies his or her behavior by claiming they're trying to make people work better, but they're merely indulging the negative aspects of their personality.
I'm not a fan of using the term "asshole" to describe a colleague. It's too often used in an ad hominem attack against a political foe. But Sutherland provides a very good, more objective definition of an asshole in the work environment: "anyone who causes emotional chaos, inspires fear or dread, or demeans or diminishes people."
The challenge to leaders who want to eliminate the wastes of unreasonableness is to check frequently for signs that their teams are impeded by any of these types of waste. When they notice symptoms, they should look for root causes in the form of absurd, impossible goals; unreasonable expectations; onerous policies and tasks, and emotional strain created by toxic individuals. Only an astute leader is capable of identifying and rooting out these impediments to team success.
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5 stars This album is an amazing album. This album is a prog masterpiece, and a masterpiece of melodic death metal. The music is technical and beautiful. The lyrics are anything but shallow, and are also beautiful. As soon as you turn the album, you are instantly assaulted by the brief yet amazing Beyond the Dark Sun sucks you in like a massive black hole. After that, you will hear the aptly named Winter Madness. After that song, sings start to cool down a bit with Sleeping Stars. The best song on this album is without a doubt Death and the Healing which opens with a slow guitar solo, and gets heavy after that. This songs lyrics are perhaps the best I have ever heard. I recommend this to all prog fans, metalhead or not.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31698 | That Conscious Illusion
Whilst being a fan of both Blackmore and Dennett, one of their claims I have trouble with is the idea that consciousness (and free-will) is an illusion. I’m never sure if that’s a claim that it isn’t therefore real, which would clearly be preposterous, or simply that it shares some attributes with illusions, which is clearly true.
At the Skeptic’s Society 2005 conference Sue replicated the Libet experiment, whereby the movement of a hand appears to preceed any conscious decision to do so … reported here …
The most animated speaker of the day, Blackmore orchestrated an audience participation activity that replicated Libet’s experiments demonstrating that motor action potentials appear before a decision to move is made. That is, free will is an illusion. Something in your brain makes a decision to, say, move your hand. A moment later, you consciously decide to move your hand. But the decision to move it and the impulse was already well under way. My own take here is that there could be a ‘will you, won’t you’ cell that transmits its decision simultaneously to both ‘consciousness’ (which then realizes, “This is my decision”) and the motor neurons concerned (which quickly execute the decision). Consciousness appears to be a little behind the process (dynamic illusions of reverse depth can be particularly revealing here). Blackmore made the strongest case for consciousness being an illusion of sorts, and she did so in a very entertaining and informative manner.
I don’t buy this explanation either, other than the parallel aspect of the processing involved. My take is that the Libet effect is simply a matter of exposing the many levels of consciousness involved, and the fact that a relatively simple response type decision can be “conscious but delegated”, as a causal result of conditioned free-will / decision making, that doesn’t need to reach the level of active conscious thought to model the inputs / outputs / constraints / alternatives / risks etc, but can be left to the hard-wired genetic / physiological and soft-wired memetic / memory aspects to sort out with only parallel supervisory involvement of the conscious level in the process. In general the conscious level could kick-in to countermand the lower level action, if aware of other significant issues, but the workings vary from the wholly reflex to the wholly considered, and all points in between.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31701 | The Power Between My Legs.
In 1998, American feminist Inga Muscio released her groundbreaking book, Cunt: A Declaration of Independence.
Muscio points out that vagina is a medical term referring to a specific part of the female genitalia, whereas cunt refers to the whole package of womanhood.
Muscio says that the word cunt is powerful, and the word vagina comes from a Latin word meaning sword sheath. Her book affected me on many levels, and I’ve revisited the text numerous times since.
Not only did I reclaim the C-word, but I made changes to the relationship I have with my own genitalia.
I began to embrace my cunt-juice which was responsible for alluring the wolves.
I began to explore my cunt with my fingers more often — learning the wonders of clitoral stimulation and female pleasure.
I began to research the oppression of female sexuality throughout the ages.
I began to marvel at the monthly crimson between my legs.
My cunt has experienced a lot — sexual pleasure, rape, pap smears, abortions and great love. It’s one evolved pussy-cat! It’s been waxed, shaved, trimmed and vajazzled with crystals.
It’s been treated to the best French lingerie, the best vibrators and the best gynecologists. It’s remained fit and strong through daily Kegel exercises and the use of vaginal weights.
You see, my cunt matters.
It’s 2016, and we live in a vagina-hating-world. Women are shamed for how their cunts look, feel and smell. We are sold Brazilian waxes and fragranced vaginal sprays because our genitalia apparently revolts the world in its natural state. We’re instructed to keep our legs closed — because god forbid if anyone should witness our wealth.
The power between our legs is blamed for all evil. It’s blamed for rape and sexual abuse — it’s even blamed for starting wars!
Vaginas depicted in the art world don’t fare any better. What’s worse is that much of the disapproval comes from women. Go to any comments section, on any article covering vaginal art, and you’ll find a stream of women making statements such as That’s disgusting!
Menstruating vaginas manage to offend everyone. In many countries, women are made to pay a tax on sanitary products, with their governments claiming that they are luxury items. How on earth can an essential product used by half the world’s population be considered a luxury item? This is an outrage.
Social media sites like Facebook ban vaginal art, yet have no issue with the commercialization and degradation of vaginas presented in other forms.
Perhaps vaginal love should be part of sex education for young girls? How else can we change their view of what’s between their legs?
I’ve just completed writing an experimental short film about my own vagina. Next month, I will start filming. I’m looking forward to exploring my cunt’s beauty and flaws artistically. I’m looking forward to reacquainting myself with its scent and taste.
The power between my legs can never be measured. Its journey winds back through the ages — birthing life, pleasure and self.
VanessaDeLargieVanessa de Largie is a multi-award-winning actress, author and sex-blogger based in Australia. Her most recent book Don’t Hit Me! is a #1 Amazon Bestseller, and has received accolades from around the globe. To learn more about Vanessa’s work, visit her website.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31704 | Friday, September 11, 2015
Hi, all. On a morning stroll in the pasture, we found these.
I encouraged the puppies into the photos so you could get perspective on how LARGE these mushrooms are -- plates!
We've had so much rain this past week. The 'shrooms spring up everywhere.
And a few like this:
Adam tried to till the field in recent days. When he dug into this Pamlico Muck (our local soil type), he quickly found water. The field was draining the rain away. There's a slight slope from the back of our property toward the road.
And the dogs? They absolutely adore living here. They get to roam around in the pasture while Adam works out there. They haven't known this much freedom (especially Beau). They are happy.
The bees are happy. Adam wants to add a box on each hive as he's now feeding them as they head into the fall/winter. They've been too grumpy to open their hives. The raked grass is doing a good job at keeping the weeds down for now. The chicken feeder is a bee feeder. Adam like this arrangement.
These are Adam's farm boots which do not come into the house. Down here in river country, they are shrimp boots, but they serve well on the farm.
He borrowed a nice tiller from a friend and (as I said) made an attempt.
He got a strip done, but not too deeply.
Hopefully the soil will be dryer in the morning.
1. You are tenacious farmers! Mushrooms have been taking over my lawn, too. The grass never seems to dry out, so the mushrooms love it.
2. You're blessed. You know that, I know. :) So good for you both to have physical work in the midst of *life*. Levels things off, I believe.
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The (K-pop) song that started it all
My interest in Japanese pop culture began with anime, so it’s difficult for me to pinpoint the first J-pop song that grabbed my attention; it was most likely an anime theme song of some kind. I remember quite clearly, though, the first K-pop (or Korean pop) song that caught my ear – and my eye. Continue reading
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31752 | Thunderbolts: International Incident
The Thunderbolts as a team were certainly an eclectic group, and managing these diverse members and their various allegiances was an uphill battle for Norman Osborn. But keeping his team happy was a secondary objective to Osborn's primary goal...arresting unregistered superhumans. The Radioactive Man (aka Dr. Chen Lu), the Swordsman (aka Andreas Strucker), and their team-loyalties were the focus of the story featured in the one-shot Thunderbolts: International Incident.
At the onset of the story the Thunderbolts battled a group of unknown superhumans that were robbing a Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia. Interestingly, the Thunderbolts had achieved a level of nationwide notoriety such that they found themselves the subject of a cable news TV show called Thunderbolt's Watch! The show's host, Tiffany Vasquez, was at the scene looking for more gossip involving the team but to no avail. The Thunderbolts succeed in their mission and arrest the thieves. As it turns out, the criminals were unknowingly experimented upon by the bioterrorist Arnim Zola. The villain's goal was give the dregs of society super powers, then use them as his slaves to carry out his bidding. Osborn soon extracted the necessary information from the captured thieves, namely the location of Zola's bases (Nigeria, Germany, and China).
Osborn then briefed the team with their next mission, to preemptively strike against Zola and destroy his various bases whilst arresting him.
This provocative plan by Osborn led to a heated discussion between he and Radioactive Man who was adamantly against the Thunderbolts operating on foreign land without informing each country's government. The Radioactive Man was in a difficult position because despite being a member of the Thunderbolts, he technically reported to the Chinese government and thus experienced a conflict of interests with this directive. Osborn, rattled by Dr. Chen's insubordination, unveiled a very unsettling fact to the Chinese citizen, that his own country was afraid of him! Radioactive Man did not believe Osborn's claims and soon sought the advice of another Chinese super hero, the Collective Man. The Collective Man delivered the bad news that the Chinese Government did not want Chen back because they believed his powers to be too much of a liability. Feeling betrayed by his native government, Chen agreed to help the Thunderbolts with their foreign invasions.
Covering all his bases, Osborn pulled The Swordsman (aka Andreas Strucker) aside and made sure that he did not have any problem with the invasion of Germany. Strucker was fully onboard and did not think of himself as being a German.
After finding Zola's headquarters in both Germany and Nigeria abandoned and desolate, the Thunderbolts were able to corner Zola in China. At Zola's base, the Swordsman split off away from his team, who were battling Zola's engineered monsters, and trapped Zola. But Swordsman did not bring him into custody, rather, he made a deal with Zola to let him go free in exchange for providing a clone of Strucker's twin sister. Strucker did not believe that Osborn was going to come though on his promise to clone his twin. Zola agreed to Strucker's terms, but soon the Radioactive Man barged in and nearly killed Zola. The angry Strucker threatened to destroy the entire base, killing everyone, if Chen did not go along with Strucker's plan to free Zola. The Radioactive Man reluctantly complied in order to save the innocent civilians and Zola escaped. It was abundantly clear that this team did not have much by way of team loyalty, loyalty to each other, or loyalty to their homeland.
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Osborn extracts the necessary information from his latest captives, as seen in Thunderbolts: International Incident
Osborn gives Radioactive Man the unfortunate truth about his situation,
as seen in Thunderbolts: International Incident
Osborn tests the water with the Swordsman to see where his loyalty lies,
as seen in Thunderbolts: International Incident
The Radioactive Man lets Zola escape in order to save innocent lives,
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31765 | TNPSC - Indian Geography MCQ Frequently Asked Questions - 5
1. Which one of the following gives the correct sequence of places going from the east to the west of India?
(a) Sikhar, Tinsukhia, lndore, Vadodara
(b) Tinsukhia, Phulpur, Udaipur, Kota
(c) Jorhat, Bhopal, Ahmedabad, Rajkot
(d) Guwahati, Silchar, Bhopal, Rajkot
Answer: (c)
2. Which one of the following shows the correct sequence of occurrence of the following towns/cities as one proceeds from west to east?
(a) Ajmer, Darbhanga, Kohima, Sikhar
(b) Surat, Ward ha, Rourkela, Bharuch
(c) Pandharpur, Gulbarga, Kottagudem, Vishakhapatnam
(d) Anand, Rajkot, Dhanbad, Aizawl
Answer: (c)
3. Which states of India have a common border with Pakistan?
1. Jammu and Kashmir
2. Himachal Pradesh
3. Punjab
4. Gujarat
5. Rajasthan
(a) I, II, III, V
(b) I, II, III, IV
(c) I, III, IV
(d) I, III, IV, V
Answer: (d)
4. Which State has the largest coastline in India?
(a) Gujarat
(b) Tamil Nadu
(c) Karnataka
(d) Andhra Pradesh
Answer: (a)
5. The Karakoram Highway connects which of the following pairs of countries?
(a) India-Nepal
(b) India-China
(c) India-Pakistan
(d) China-Pakistan
Answer: (d)
6. Which of the following latitudes passes through India?
(a) Equator
(b) Arctic Circle
(c) Tropic of Capricorn
(d) Tropic of Cancer
Answer: (d)
7. Which one of the following countries has the longest international boundary with India?
(a) Bangladesh
(b) Bhutan
(c) China
(d) Pakistan
Answer: (a)
8. India is the seventh largest country in the world and it covers a total area of approximately _________
(a) 2700000 sq. km
(b) 3000000 sq. km
(c) 3200000 sq. km
(d) 3600000 sq. km
Answer: (c)
9. Consider the following statements:
1. The continental shelves of Lakshadweep are originated due to coral reefs.
2. The continental shelves of western coast are due to faulting and submergence.
Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct? [IAS 2009]
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Answer: (c)
10. Which of the following is the correct chronological order of the formation of the following states in India?
1. Sikkim
2. Mizoram
3. Goa
4. Arunachal Pradesh
(a) 3, 1, 2, 4
(b) 1, 2, 3, 4
(c) 1, 2, 4, 3
(d) 1, 4, 2, 3
Ans: (c)
11. The largest southernmost single island in India is _________
(a) Rameswaram Island
(b) Minicoy Island
(c) Car Nicobar Island
(d) Great Nicobar Island
Answer: (d)
12. "This Union Territory possesses a coastal stretch of about 45 km with 28 marine fishing villages. However 45% of the population is engaged in agriculture and allied products".
Which among the Territories is referred passage?
(a) Lakshadweep
(b) Pondicherry
(c) Andaman and Nicobar
(d) Daman
Answer: (a)
13. Which one of the following does NOT lie in Maharashtra?
(a) Balaghat Range
(b) Harishchandra Range
(c) Mandav Hills
(d) Satmala Hills
Answer: (c)
14. The Tropic of Cancer passes through the States of ________
1. Gujarat
2. Jharkhand
3. Assam
4. Mizoram
(a) 1, 2 and 4
(b) 1 and 2
(c) 1, 3 and 4
(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
Answer: (a)
15. Which of the following sets of cities is located on the reference longitude for Indian standard time?
(a) Bangalore-Varanasi
(b) Chennai-Varanasi
(c) Kakinanda-Pondicherry
(d) Pondicherry-Varanasi
Answer: (c)
16. Arrange the following hills of southern India from north to south:
1. Nilgiri
2. Cardamom
3. Nallamala
4. Anaimalai
Select the correct answer using the code given below.
(a) 3-1-4-2
(b) 4-3-1-2
(c) 1-3-4-2
(d) 1-2-3-4
Anwers: (a)
17. Amritsar and Shimla are almost on the same latitude, but their climate difference is due to _________
(a) the difference in their altitudes
(b) their distance from sea
(c) snowfall in Shimla
(d) pollution in Amritsar
Answer: (a)
18. The length of India's coastline is about _________
(a) 5900 km
(b) 6100 km
(c) 7000 km
(d) 7500 km
Answer: (d)
19. Which state among the following has the highest percentage of the Scheduled Caste population of State's population?
(a) Jharkhand
(b) Madhya Pradesh
(c) Punjab
(d) Uttar Pradesh
Answer: (a)
20. The Tropic of Cancer does not pass through:
(a) Madhya Pradesh
(b) West Bengal
(c) Rajasthan
(d) Orissa
Answer: (d)
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31766 | Thursday, August 30, 2012
Not the best Samaritan
I rode my bike past a number of fancy houses, many with pools facing the street. In one pool was a pink blob. A large pink blob. On closer inspection I realized the pink blob was actually a bathing suit with arms, legs and a head. Arms, legs and a head that were floating but not moving. I wasn't sure what to do. I could yell "Hey, are you ok?", but I didn't want to offend the swimmer by suggesting that I thought she was dead. I could call the police, but I figured the dispatcher would probably ask "Have you yelled 'hey are you ok?" and that would take me back to square one. I could throw a pebble over the fence and blame it on a squirrel if she responded or call and ambulance if she didn't, but the squirrel story didn't really seem believable. Or I could do what I ultimately ended up doing, which was stand and stare until I saw what looked like a foot moving and rode away.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31781 | August 23, 2006
Give to France what is France's
French daily newspaper France Soir Wednesday reproduced the 12 caricatures named "Faces of Muhammad" that had been previously published by Danish Jyllands-Posten. This just one day after a bomb threat forced Jyllands-Posten—which already had apologized, although it maintained it was legal under Danish law to print them—to evacuate its offices. Also Tuesday, Interior ministers from 17 Arab countries asked the Danish government “to firmly punish the authors of these offences." Here is a report by the BBC:
had no place in a secular society. Their publication in Denmark has led to protests in several Arab nations. Responding to France Soir's move, the French government said it supported press freedom - but added that beliefs and religions must be respected. Islamic tradition bans depictions of the Prophet Muhammad or Allah.
Under the headline "Yes, we have the right to caricature God", France Soir ran a front page cartoon of Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim and Christian gods floating on a cloud. It shows the Christian deity saying: "Don't complain, Muhammad, we've all been caricatured here."
The full set of Danish drawings, some of which depict the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist, were printed on the inside pages.
The paper said it had decided to republish them "because no religious dogma can impose itself on a democratic and secular society."
As a believer, I cannot find it in my heart to laugh when people take the mickey out of someone else's religion (as well as other people because of their beliefs), but it is also an opinion of mine that “no religious dogma can impose itself on a democratic and secular society.”
[Hat tip: Norm]
UPDATE [Thursday, February 2, 4:55 pm]
France Soir's editor, Jacques Lefranc, has been dismissed by the paper's French Egyptian owner in response to criticism from Muslim groups (The Guardian, BBC).
UPDATE 2 [Thursday, February 2, 8:25 pm]
The Scotsman:
The BBC said it would broadcast the cartoons which have caused a storm of protest in the Islamic world and led to the sacking of a French newspaper editor. The cartoons include an image of the prophet Muhammad with a turban shaped like a bomb, and another showing him saying that paradise was running out of virgins. The BBC emphasised that the images would be broadcast "responsibly" and "in full context" and "to give audiences an understanding of the strong feelings evoked by the story".
[Hat tip: david t]
[This post was first published at on February 2, 2006]
1. How come there is no jewish prophet if you are free press?
2. There is One with the Star of David on His head.
3. Fuck muslims. If they do not want to follow European rules they can go back to their desert and keep screwing goats |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31807 | Titia Brongersma on the Beach
by Eric Miller
Tell me, what could be more pleasant than to play, in the summertime, a Stone Age re-enactor? A couple of them sat in the flowery grass near a hunebed—a Giant’s Grave or cromlech, some five thousand years old—in the town of Borger, in Drenthe, the Netherlands. The shadow in which this ersatz ancestral couple sat was of the mitigated, oscillatory sort that broadleaf trees in August cast. The year was 2014. Yellowhammers and wagtails called; bulky wood doves reminded me of their Canadian cousins, the passenger pigeons extinct exactly a century before. A puffy dog rested, tufted tail bent round nose, beside the pair who practised some craft proper to their era, I believe it was weaving. The life of a re-enactor at a hunebed cannot be called “pastoral”; it aspires to precede the idea of the pastoral. This idyll took place by the enormous side- and capstones of the megalithic monument I had come to visit. The hunebed, a sort of junior Stonehenge, had the look of a great reptile skeleton; it appeared, though it was inanimate, to enjoy mere basking. Imagine if our bones alone could relish the felicity of life! This is the rude sweetness of nude sunbathing, taken to the posthumous degree: mineral, sparkling.
Near the museum attached to the hunebed is a field of stones, boulders really. Glaciers deposited them in this neighbourhood, and the ancient engineers who built the hunebed—archaeologists have named them the Funnel Beaker People—used such granite erratics to build their tombs or temples. In 1685, a poet named Titia Brongersma came to Borger and she directed the first dig at the site. She found articles of funerary pottery; they crumbled at the crisis of their extraction. So much the eloquent guidebook informed me. At that moment, I felt Brongersma call me: in the elusive instant when, having extracted a buried urn, Titia saw it fall to bits in her palms. The act of translation is similarly precarious. Later, I looked for her only book, De bron-swaan, The Swan of the Well. No one had ever rendered more than a few verses from it into English. To write is manual labour, and a kind of re-enacting. Titia used a feather, I am pretty sure. I could sense this quill scraping while I puzzled over her words. I translated them all. Her Swan of the Well makes its reappearance this year.
Sappho reborn! That is what the male intelligentsia of Friesland called the poet Titia Brongersma. In 1686, in the ancient Hanseatic city of Groningen, she published, not without some local éclat, The Swan of the Well. No one knows when she was born, or when she died. I intend to take this opportunity to ponder, briefly, a single song from her book, entitled “De verlangende Tirsis,” “Thyrsis full of longing.” This piece affirms Brongersma’s Sapphic affection for Elisabeth Joly—the poet’s beloved, who appears, in one guise or another, in fully thirty poems. Who was Joly? The historical record is mute. Joly remains no less mysterious than Brongersma herself.
“Thyrsis full of longing” manifests the poet’s mediumistic capacity to preside over a séance of sorts. She makes the sandy Frisian coastline of her verses throng with literary spirits. Quite characteristically, Brongersma adopts a male persona. She tells us what should ring in our ears as we read the piece. She chooses a passage from Jean-Baptiste Lully’s opera Le Triomphe de l’Amour, The Triumph of Love.
Thyrsis full of longing
Air: “Tranquilles coeurs
I may climb the hills and dunes and gaze
Out on the raving of the hollow seas,
I may pace the beach and scuff the shingle.
But Elise has sailed long since and if she tarried
So much the worse my sorrow would afflict me.
Tears mist my prospect of the shore, the gulf
Might swell with the heaving of my sighs.
The current rips faster, as the tide goes into ebb.
My fear for Elise’s safety is the dart of death.
Her lovely mouth that forms her lovely words,
That place of tender eloquence ruby-tinted!
It makes me raise my arms as though to signal,
The gesture over distance would seize your gaze.
“Can’t you hear me?” I bawl. “Are you as deaf as stone?”
My woe flows back. I would fall from delusion’s
Cliff-top, unless you rode a wingèd dolphin’s back
Plotting a course to me, over water.
Let me be the coastal beacon never dim
Inextinguishably kindling your kindly mind.
The bonds that chafe me only you can loose,
My heart’s consolatory Palinurus.
Brongersma’s title all by itself artfully conjures a ghost. “Thyrsis” is a pregnant name. It figures in the Roman poet Vergil’s Eclogues. A pastoral allusion, therefore: a matter of love in idleness, of shepherds, of shepherdesses. But Brongersma is a poet of uncanny implication. When we consult Vergil, we discover several particulars about Thyrsis. He resides in Arcadia, of course, not in Frisia. He enters a mighty song-contest. In the course of his performance, he describes his amatory predicament. He complains he counts to his lover “less than seaweed thrown up ashore” (projecta vilior alga). As her reader learns, Brongersma’s Thyrsis stands on an actual North Sea beach where much such unvalued seaweed must clump at his feet, bedraggled. Vergil’s wretched anti-hero loses his song competition. Brongersma, sketching an amitié with the fickle Elise—Elisabeth Joly’s skittish avatar—plays rapturously, ironically, with ideas of winning and failing, the wager and danger of love.
It is time to consider the tune to which Brongersma directs her “Thyrsis, full of longing” should be set. The French libretto intensifies the maritime, amorous resonances already lightly instinct in the name “Thyrsis.” I have said they come from Jean-Baptiste Lully’s opera Le Triomphe de l’Amour. In this work, the gods and goddesses of Greece and Rome must capitulate, one after the other, to the rule of Venus. Brongersma snatches her tag from the opening lines of the opera. Let me translate:
Carefree hearts, arm yourselves
For a thousand secret alarms.
You will forfeit the repose so sweet
Which you cherish deeply for its charms.
But love’s frisson is hundredfold more
Appealing than peace at its sweetest.
Venus famously rose from the bosom of the sea. Brongersma’s Thyrsis aptly stands at the ocean’s erotic brink. In Lully’s opera, Neptune woos Amphitrite. Next Bacchus, discovering Ariadne forsaken by Theseus and slumbering on the beach of Naxos, takes her to wife. A proud Frisian, Brongersma accommodates the loves of the gods—as well as French artistic fashion—to her native shore and her private passion, Elisabeth Joly.
“Can’t you hear me?” bawls Thyrsis, “Are you as deaf as stone?” Elise may not hear Thyrsis, but ghosts congregate at Brongersma’s summons. Her unfortunate speaker continues:
My woe flows back. I would pitch from delusion’s
Cliff-top, unless you rode a wingèd dolphin’s back
Plotting a course to me, over water.
With these words, another pair of shades, both Greek, surge like breakers to assist the articulation of Thyrsis’s grievances.
Thyrsis’s temptation to jump to his death recalls a legend associated with the original Sappho herself. After the ferryman Phaon jilted her, some say she took her own life. Ovid versifies this unlikely story. A nymph urges Sappho to hurl herself off a lover’s leap into the Aegean: “Seek steep Leucada, and do not shrink from its edge.” Frisian luminaries joined in chorus in 1686 to call Titia Brongersma a Sappho reborn. Brongersma’s dalliance with Sapphic allusion is in keeping with the tendency of their praise.
Luckily, the buoyant image of a dolphin piloted by Elise negates the dire idea of suicide. This vision rescues Brongersma’s speaker from his despair. Elsewhere among her poems—in verses addressed to Johan Jacob Monter—Brongersma alludes directly to a relevant myth, Arion’s.
Like Sappho a native of Lesbos, the musician Arion once booked passage from Corinth. That great city had lavished riches on him, and fame. Now he was going back to the island of his birth. The crew of the ship on which he sailed, eager to rob him, ganged up to toss him overboard. Celebrated for inventing the dithyramb, Arion begged the indulgence of a last musical performance. We may call it in Brongersma’s context an ironic swansong. For Arion’s music called to the ship’s side a dolphin—much as Brongersma recruits to Thyrsis’s lament all the glamour of literary allusion—and the musician, far from drowning, rode the amiable creature to the port of Taenarus. There the ruler Periander had the guilty sailors crucified.
Brongersma probably knows, too, that Arion was famous for his hymn to Neptune, a god well disposed to dolphins. Her miraculous sea-beast would ferry Elise, not Thyrsis. Here Brongersma’s music, like Arion’s, casts a spell intended to attract the help of an embodied salvation.
More fraught is the last allusion Brongersma makes. Her Thyrsis calls Elise his “heart’s consolatory Palinurus.” The story of Palinurus’s death and Aeneas’s meeting with him in the underworld are, together, two of the most haunting episodes in Vergil’s epic Aeneid. Talk about ghosts! At the end of Book 5, Neptune sends Somnus, Sleep, to stupefy Palinurus, the helmsman of Aeneas’s flagship. Palinurus is a human sacrifice, though neither Aeneas nor any of his crewmen know it. Somnus anoints the pilot’s temples with a bough dipped in Lethe, the river of forgetfulness. Thus drugged, Palinurus falls into the sea. Aeneas, discovering the loss of his helmsman, blames the victim for nodding off. The hero laments, “You will sprawl naked, Palinurus, on ignominious sand” (Nudus in ignota, Palinure, iacebis arena). Brongersma’s Thyrsis stands on a beach; he avows his naked heart; he implies he has steered through his life by Elise’s direction, consulting her as Palinurus consulted the stars.
Descending to the underworld, Aeneas encounters the ghost of Palinurus. The dead man protests that proper burial rites have not consecrated his corpse. He asks Aeneas to carry him across Styx, so that he may at last find rest on the farther shore. The hero replies that he cannot fulfill this request. Yet Aeneas offers some solace. He will honour Palinurus’s bones with a grave-mound:
And they will raise a barrow, and they
Will perform your final rites and the place
Will preserve your name, forever.
Et statuent tumulum, et tumulo solemnia mittent,
Aeternumque locus Palinuri nomen habebit.
Aeneas’s promise came true. The Punta di Palinuro retains to this day the helmsman’s name.
Allow me to draw an analogy. Taking up a brave station in the history of literature and on a seventeenth-century beach, Brongersma dares to perpetuate her elegiac devotion to the alluring Elise. By her verbal magic, the North Sea dunes of “Thyrsis full of longing” become, before our eyes, a monument as perennial as Palinurus’s.
A monument ends by memorializing, in some measure, everyone who reflects on it. Six years ago, I was happy—blithe might be a better word—to inspect the hunebed at Borger. Titia Brongersma says she wept, however, when in 1685 she handled the relics she removed, a pioneer of archaeology, from inside the same monument. She could not revive the dead. But she could imagine them:
It is as good as kisses from many lips
That your earthen worth is now extolled.
I felt for you, salt tears thickly coursing,
Soaking through your opening to the bottom
Where remains lay packed in you, while I kneeled
In front of you, the crumbly stuff sifting
From the burst seal burial long sanctified.
Brongersma nobly plays the part of a re-enactor—the re-enactor of Stone Age grief. This is, to borrow a phrase from Lully’s opera, a triumph of love.
As Brongersma’s translator, I am her celebrant as well as her mourner. Unlike Charon—or a wingèd dolphin—I cannot ferry the poet or Elisabeth Joly, either, back across the waters of oblivion. Like Vergil, however, I can do my best to renew a worth that now is earthen. The Swan of the Well turns out to be a kind of phoenix. We may not know where Brongersma’s tomb is—no hunebed marks it—but I am pleased to believe that the spirit of her verse, appeased, vitalized, can live again on our lips.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31818 | Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning Summary
Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning Summary Although the collective knowledge in the field of Pedagogy on how readers, “actually carry out this interpretive process with college-level expository text is rather limited” (Haas and Flower 167). The study in discussion would like to help the understanding of this constructive, rhetorical view of reading.
Throughout the article, Haas and Flower emphasize how students “are good readers in the traditional sense… yet, they paraphrase rather than analyze, summarize rather than criticize texts” (170). This brings up two key points that Haas and Flower discuss in a relation to rhetorical reading strategies, in student reader-writers. According to the research Haas and Flower conducted, only about one percent of students use the rhetorical reading strategy, which means that most students don’t criticize and analyze text that they read.
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Most students mainly use the Content and Feature/Functional reading strategy, rather than deconstructing the text, they just say the basic things, and summarize which brings up the question, how does the constructive process play itself out in the actual thinking process of reading? Haas and Flower purpose that readers “construct meaning by building multifaceted, interwoven, representation of knowledge” (168).
The main focus Haas and Flower have throughout the article is the fact that students are staying at the “mediocre” level while reading, instead of breaking down the text and actually analyzing what the author(s) were trying to say. Haas and Flower want students to get use to using the rhetorical strategy, since it will help students better understand the text they read especially as they continue on with higher education Works Cited Haas, Christina and Flower, Linda. “College Composition and Communication” Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning. 1988 |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31827 | Revelation 6:9-11: The seed of the church.
‘Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.’ Evelyn Underhill. Speaking God’s Word is dangerous. It comes at a price, and many have paid the ultimate price. Many still do. Notice the clear indication in verse 11 that such suffering for believers will continue to the end of time. Remaining silent about your faith in Christ may keep you physically safe, but it is spiritually dangerous. There is a way to save your life which means losing it, and a losing of your life that means you keep it. This is how it is in God’s ‘Upside-down Kingdom’. One of the early church leaders famously commented that, ‘The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.’
In verse 9 John uses the word ‘’slain’’ regarding these Christian martyrs. He has previously used it of Jesus (see 5:6,12). This is surely an aspect of what the apostle Paul calls ‘’the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death ‘’ (Philippians 3:10)? The souls of these Christian dead are ‘’under the altar’’ (9). This speaks to me of safety. They are safely home; sheltered in God’s presence. Warren Wiersbe also makes the point that this was where the blood was placed in the tabernacle (Leviticus 4:7;17:11). They are conscious, and are communicating with God. They are able to speak. They are wearing white robes. These are emblematic of purity and victory. In spite of all appearances to the contrary, these dear believers are not life’s losers.
PRAYER: Lord Jesus, most worthy and slain Lamb of God, I pray for my brothers and sisters who face danger and death all day long because of their testimony to you. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31849 | Trade Commodities
What is commodities trading?
Commodities are the natural resources that shape our global economy because they are required on a permanent basis to generate its most basic components. Soft commodities, referred to as "Softs", are generally agricultural in nature (like sugar and corn). Hard commodities, on the other hand, referred to as "Hards", are energies or metals (such as natural gas or gold).
The commodity markets are influenced by a number of factors, including supply and demand, economic and political events and, of course, the weather. The U.S. dollar also plays a role as that is the currency commodities are generally listed in. Consequently, commodity prices can often fluctuate significantly. |
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Does training make French speakers more able to identify lexical stress?
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Abstract This research takes the stress deafness hypothesis as a starting point (e.g. Dupoux et al., 2008), and, more specifically, the fact that French speakers present difficulties in perceiving lexical stress in a free-stress language. In this framework, we aim at determining whether a prosodic training could improve the ability of French speakers to identify the stressed syllable in Spanish words. Three groups of participants took part in this experiment. The Native group was composed of 16 speakers of Spanish; the Non-Native and Control group were formed of, respectively, 22 and 14 speakers of French with no knowledge of Spanish. The experiment involved three phases. During the pre-test phase, participants performed an identification task in which they heard trisyllabic Spanish words (e.g. número, numero, numeró) and had to indicate the stressed syllable. During the second phase, participants learned triplets of Spanish pseudowords based on accentual contrasts (e.g. lúguido, luguido, luguidó) by associating these pseudowords with visual shapes (e.g. Dufour et al., 2010). In the post-test phase, the same procedure as the pre-test was used to assess changes in the identification of stress. The Control participants, instead of receiving prosodic training between the pre- and post-test phases, had to click on visual shapes appearing on a computer screen, with no oral input. We analyzed participants' responses (correct/incorrect) as well as reaction times, using mixed-effects models (Baayen et al., 2008) in order to examine the influence of training not only on the ability to perceive lexical stress, but also on the time necessary to process the accentual information. Moreover, given that not all participants were equally able to learn the accentual contrasts during the training session, we also took this variability into account in the analysis. Results are discussed in the framework of existing research on stress deafness and models of L2 acquisition.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31894 | devstack does not work
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Hi, i did the installation of openstack-icehouse on a laptop running Ubuntu 14 using devstack, I know that everytime you reboot you have to run to get devstack back to work but mine rejoin-stack script is getting stuck when he tries to start n-obj service:
2014-12-08 15:00:53.551 INFO nova.S3 Objectstore.wsgi.server [-] (10191) wsgi starting up on
looks like he is trying to start the service at wich is wrong(i guess).
I had run devstack with this local.conf:
disable_service n-net
enable_service q-svc
enable_service q-agt
enable_service q-dhcp
enable_service q-l3
enable_service q-meta
enable_service neutron
#Neutron Cfg
# Optional, to enable tempest configuration as part of devstack
disable_service tempest
Any help to make rejoin-stack to work would be welcome btw, it's possible to start the services without rejoin-stack script? thanks
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2014-12-08 15:00:53.551 INFO nova.S3 Objectstore.wsgi.server [-] (10191) wsgi starting up on This just means that service is listening on all interfaces at port 3333. is working according to this info If you are unable to access any service then specify.
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Listening on is fine, it just means it's opening up a port on all of the interfaces that are able to listen. You need to see where the actual errors are coming up. Are you unable to access Horizon after rejoin?
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I hate to resurrect this thread but I can't seem to get the rejoin-stack to work as described either. The last output of the script that runs is...
2015-01-08 01:33:59.381 DEBUG heat-api-cloudwatch [-] ************************** from (pid=4264) log_opt_values /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/oslo_config/ 2015-01-08 01:33:59.381 INFO heat.api.cloudwatch [-] Starting Heat CloudWatch API on 2015-01-08 01:33:59.383 INFO eventlet.wsgi.server [-] Starting single process server 2015-01-08 01:33:59.384 DEBUG eventlet.wsgi.server [-] (4264) wsgi starting up on from (pid=4264) write /opt/stack/heat/heat/common/
When I attempt to run a command like
[stack@win2k3 devstack]$ heat stack-list Unable to establish connection to
[stack@win2k3 devstack]$ curl localhost curl: (7) Failed connect to localhost:80; Connection refused
The only way I can get DevStack to work is to rerun which takes forever after a reboot. This doesn't seem right. Please help.
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@joeq: this is not an answer. This site is not a forum and this is not a 'thread' :) I suggest you to open a different question since this question has an accepted "answered" already (even though the question was vague) Read
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31902 | An A-Z Guide To The Search For Plato's Atlantis
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Sodom & Gomorrah along wth Zoar, Admah and Zeboim constituted the Cities of the Plain referred to in the Bible and believed to have been situated in the Jordan Valley before their obliteration (apart from Zoar) in a catastrophic episode during the 2nd millennium BC. Explanations, religious and rational have been offered to explain the event. My preferred explanation is that an encounter with an extraterrestrial body such as a comet or asteroid caused the devastation(d).
>In 2008, a Sumerian clay tablet, known as the ‘Planisphere’ in the British Museum, was, after 150 years, translated and claimed to record an encounter with an asteroid ‘suspected of being behind the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.(e)<
In October 2015, there were reports that the sites of Sodom and Gomorrah had been finally located(a). November 2018 saw a further claim(b) that Sodom and possibly other the ‘cities of the plain’ had been destroyed by a meteoric airburst, similar to the Tunguska or the more recent Chelyabinsk events. This catastrophe took place north of the Red Sea in what is now Jordan according to archaeologist Phillip Silvia of Trinity Southwest University in Albuquerque.
Silvia’s conclusions have been confirmed by Dr. Steven Collins(c) who has excavated at the Tell el-Hammam site and describes his findings in his book co-authored with Dr. Latayne C. Scott, Discovering the City of Sodom [1625].
In Atlantis and other Lost Worlds [1535]Frank Joseph claims that Comet Encke in 1198 BC “scores a number of meteoric hits along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and possibly on Atlantis itself, which perishes ‘in a single day and night’, according to Plato. The catastrophe is global, encompassing the destruction of the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah” Joseph bases this on the studies of two Swedish geologists, Thomas B. Larsson and Lars Franzén.
This linkage of Sodom with Atlantis is not new. In the 18th century, Carl Friedrich Baër (1719-1797) who was pastor at the Lutheran chapel in the Swedish Embassy in Paris, was possibly the first to propose a connection between the demise of Atlantis and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
A similar theory was proposed by Roger M. Pearlman in a 2018 booklet [1596], . In this small, difficult to read, book the author also suggests, a linkage between the destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah and Atlantis, placeing Atlantis in the Jordan Valley and equating Abraham with Atlas – “If Atlas as described in Plato’s work was based on a historic figure, Abraham alone meets key criteria.”
On a lighter note, in 1948, William Comyns Beaumont published an extraordinary book, Britain – The Key to World History [0088], in which he claimed among other things, that Edinburgh was the original Jerusalem, London was Damascus and rather worryingly, that Bristol was Sodom.
See: Köfels Impact
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31923 | If the center of gravity of an airplane is too far aft, it will become more unstable
Iif the CG is too far forward, then drag will increase due to increased angle of attack.
• $\begingroup$ Large aircraft typically have an optimum c.g. recommended. That c.g. is in terms of percent of mean aerodynamic chord, often expressed as %MAC. For the 747-100s and -200s, the figure is 26.6 %MAC for the zero fuel weight c.g. $\endgroup$ – Terry Jan 9 '14 at 0:29
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• $\begingroup$ A tailplane doesn't really produce lift because it's more like an inverted wing (unless negative lift is considered lift). The further aft the CG, the less the tailplane has to push the tail down (causing drag). That's why a canard design is so much more efficient because all wings produce "positive" lift. $\endgroup$ – Philippe Leybaert Jan 7 '14 at 22:37
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• $\begingroup$ I stand corrected dor missing out on the negative sign, but fortunately the drag part is correct :D $\endgroup$ – yankeekilo Jan 7 '14 at 22:44
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$\begingroup$ @PhilippeLeybaert: Some horizontal stabilizers are designed to generate lift or tail down force, depending on the regime of flight and the CG.... It isn't always tail down. $\endgroup$ – Lnafziger Jan 7 '14 at 23:00
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$\begingroup$ @PeterKämpf for large ships and/or double seaters the tank is also used solo, e.g. to compensate for more or less voluptuous crews without any water in the wings. $\endgroup$ – yankeekilo Apr 18 '15 at 17:09
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$\begingroup$ We call that a monday-(week day of your choice) landing in German, depending on how often you hear the wheels squeak :D $\endgroup$ – yankeekilo Jan 7 '14 at 20:06
• $\begingroup$ @yankeekilo Hah, that's awesome. $\endgroup$ – egid Jan 7 '14 at 21:11
Advantages of forward CG position:
• Higher stability, so less attention is needed to keep the trimmed aircraft straight and level.
• If the aircraft can be made to spin, the spin is easier to end.
• For taildraggers: The tail can be lifted up earlier during the take-off run.
• For tricycle landing gear aircraft: Better stability on the ground.
Well, that's about it!
Advantages of rear CG position:
• Less trim drag, because less downforce needs to be created at the tail and compensated by the wing.
• Better maneuverability and lower control forces, because less control surface deflection is needed for the same excursion from the trimmed state.
• Lower minimum speed, which translates into lower take-off and landing distances.
• For taildraggers: More stability on the ground against tipping over.
• For tricycle landing gear aircraft: Lower rotation speed possible at takeoff.
Note that shifting the CG more aft, behind the neutral position, will make the aircraft statically unstable and will increase trim drag again, because now the tail will operate at abnormally high lift coefficients which come with high induced drag.
The typical application for forward CG positions is a manually controlled long range aircraft which will fly in gusty weather. Then it will be beneficial to have high stability.
The typical applications for rear CG positions are performance- or maneuverability-optimized aircraft like gliders or aerobatic airplanes.
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The FSI blocks module contains the solver to handle Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI) problems. The module features:
• implicit and semi-implicit formulations;
• different structural (nonlinear) materials;
• efficient preconditioners to solve the FSI linear system (e.g. FacSI);
• the treatment of conforming and nonconforming meshes.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31962 | centos debian fedora gentoo Linux monitoring munin munin-node osuosl ubuntu
Part I: Setting up Munin-Node
After becoming increasingly frustrated with cacti’s lack of sane repeatable configuration and extensibility I began to explore other options.
Munin showed the most promise and compatibility with many of the services we run at the OSL, such as memcached and varnish. I liked how the plugin system is set up independently on each host, and that each plugin can be managed, configured, and consolidated through symlinks.
For the benefit of the uninitiated the setup on each node goes something like this:
#For gentoo
emerge munin
#For Fedora/CentOS
yum install munin-node
#For Debian/Ubuntu
apt-get install munin-node
Each client is a “node”, and runs the daemon ‘munin-node’. It’s configuration file exists at /etc/munin/munin-node.conf. This file merely tells the daemon which user to run as, which interface/port to listen to, where to log, and which munin masters are allowed to poll statistics.
bkero@ponderosa /etc/munin $ cat munin-node.conf
log_level 4
log_file /var/log/munin/munin-node.log
pid_file /var/run/munin/
background 1
setseid 1
user root
group root
setsid yes
allow ^$
host *
port 4949
Inside the /etc/munin/plugins directory are symlinks to the actual plugins that are polled. Note that both varnish checks point to the file varnish_. Plugins ending in ‘_’ have multiple uses, and their behavior changes depending on the file name.
bkero@ponderosa /etc/munin/plugins $ find . -type l -printf "%P -> %ln"
varnish_objects -> /usr/local/libexec/munin/plugins/varnish_
varnish_request_rate -> /usr/local/libexec/munin/plugins/varnish_
cpu -> /usr/libexec/munin/plugins/cpu
if_eth0 -> /usr/libexec/munin/plugins/if_
if_tun0 -> /usr/libexec/munin/plugins/if_
uptime -> /usr/libexec/munin/plugins/uptime
apache_accesses -> /usr/libexec/munin/plugins/apache_accesses
apache_volume -> /usr/libexec/munin/plugins/apache_volume
The only other configuration is in the /etc/munin/plugin-conf.d/ directory. This contains arbitrarily named configuration files sourced in to configure plugins.
bkero@ponderosa /etc/munin/plugin-conf.d $ cat mysql-settings
env.mysqlopts -u maintenance
For less organized and stringent configurations, the /usr/sbin/munin-node-configure script can be run to automatically detect which plugins a system should have and enable(symlink) them accordingly.
That’s the entire structure, behavior, and configuration of a munin-node. Note that there is no additional security on the munin-node. To test that a node is working correctly simply ensure the daemon is started, then netcat(or telnet) to localhost on port 4949.
bkero@ponderosa ~ $ nc localhost 4949
# munin node at
apache_processes mysql_slowqueries if_eth0 processes apache_accesses users apache_volume mysql_threads varnish_hit_rate swap varnish_backend_traffic uptime mysql_bytes load varnish_request_rate if_tun0 cpu varnish_ hddtemp mysql_queries threads iostat memory varnish_objects varnish_memory_usage
fetch uptime
uptime.value 25.96
You’re done! If you feel like continuing and making Munin-Node useful at all, read Part II: Munin Master.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/31977 | Thursday, February 18, 2016
The real story of honey bees and a straw man from Anthony Watts at WUWT
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Any time there's a chance to reject science, Anthony Watts will grab it with both hands. Today he's decided to build a strawman out of bees. He's found a rather shallow article at Washington Post, which looks to me to have a lot wrong with it. The article was about how beekeepers have managed to rebuild the honey bee population in the USA. It's not yet back to its heyday of 1990, however it's increased from the low days of 2006 by about 20%. Close to the end of the article, a couple of economists are quoted cheerily calling the recovery "a victory for the free market", oblivious to the government support that helped address all the huge problems.
Anthony Watts' strawman
Anthony Watts wrote the headline: "Bee-pocaclypse called off, bees doing OK, global warming was never a cause" and referred to an old article from Wired. I say he referred to it, but he didn't link to it, he just copied and pasted a snapshot of the headline. That very short 2007 Wired article was about an article at Salon. That Salon article in turn was about how scientists were starting to look into the massive decline in the US population of honeybees. There were a lot of possible reasons put forward in the Salon article, but at the time (2007), all the research wasn't in.
Needless to say, Anthony Watts didn't give any insight into US honey bees. He doesn't do background research. His forte is copying and pasting slabs of text pinched from somewhere or other, putting his "claim" dogwhistle headlines on top of scientific press releases, and promoting logical fallacies and wacky climate conspiracy theories.
What caused the dramatic decline in honey bees in the USA?
It seems that there wasn't a single cause, there were a combination of factors that lead to the rapid decline in honey bee numbers. One of the main culprits was called Colony Collapse Disorder, but that also had multiple causes.
I've come across a paper by Professor May R Berenbaun, who is Professor and Department Head of the Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her paper is fabulous. She gives a history of beekeeping going back to early innovations. As well as that she discusses how scientists got together to identify what had happened to the honey-bee population, the multiple causes of the decline, and how it has since recovered quite a lot. It's complicated. She referred to "a century of benign neglect" among other things. In recent decades there were mite infestations, which rapidly developed resistance to pesticides. In October 2006, scientists mapped the genome of the honey bee.
In 2006 Dr Berenbaun headed up a National Academy of Sciences Study Group to look into the problems with honey bees, so she knows her stuff. Colony Collapse Disorder isn't a single cause, it's the result. The causes seem to have included everything from viruses and other pathogens (eg various viruses carried by mite infestation) to a "staggering amounts of chemical contamination within managed hives".
Her paper is long, but it's chock full of information, entertaining and easy to read, if you are interested in learning about the US honey bee industry.
From the WUWT comments
peter is, perhaps wisely in this case, more inclined to listen to beekeepers, not the Washington Post
February 17, 2016 at 3:56 pm
Comments on the article are about what I would expect. “Is to, is to, is to, a problem. I don’t care what your facts are.”
That said, there are some comments from bee keepers who say the problem is still a problem and I tend to give credence to people who actually get their hands dirty over office experts.
So I don’t know what the truth is on this.
William Grubel talks of "a parasite" - yet there are a combination of problems with honeybees:
February 17, 2016 at 4:25 pm
The answer is easy. There IS a parasite. They DO lose 30% every year. They CAN and DO compensate as a normal part of their business. What I DON’T see is any connection to global warming. Seems the alarmists have gone dark on this subject.
Bulldust is correct AFAIK. Some Australians earned a few bob sending disease-free Australian bees to the USA:
February 17, 2016 at 4:46 pm
I believe Australia is still largely or totally Varroa free. Apparently there is quite a demand for our bees.
Mark luhman just likes a good conspiracy theory:
February 17, 2016 at 8:52 pm
Just like the frog die off, human had something to do with it, ecotourist and and human pet frogs help spread the fungus that killed the frogs by introducing it to populations that had not seen it before but again global warming or the use of herbicides and insecticide had nothing to do with it. The blame human first crowd pick on the the “political correct causes” while ignoring the true cause since the true cause would not advance their agenda.
dbstealey doesn't have an opinion on the subject of the article, but he knows that climate science is a hoax:
February 17, 2016 at 4:39 pm
Danny Thomas says: …man always affects his (her) environment just by being in it.
Agree completely. But that isn’t the question. The question that answers the debate is this one: is dangerous AGW happening?
The answer is clearly No. We have been enjoying a true ‘Goldilocks’ climate for more than a century. Rational folks say, “Give me more!”
It’s the irrational crowd I’m worried about.
TG posts some inane "thought" that popped into his head. Nothing to do with bees.
February 17, 2016 at 4:25 pm
Maybe mental illness and too many climate conferences are killing all species.
How about Warmers getting a productive job that contributes to the economy instead of condemning progress and the constant seeking rentseeking grants and handouts!!!
Most of the rest of the WUWT comments were either:
• the certain cause of the problem (usually just one) or
• one of the "climate science is a hoax" conspiracy theories.
Don't waste your time at WUWT. If you're interested in the history of bees in the USA and the causes of the dramatic drop in numbers in recent years, and the rebuilding of the honey bee population - read the article below.
References and further reading
Berenbaum, May R. "Bees in Crisis: Colony Collapse, Honey Laundering, and Other Problems Bee-Setting American Apiculture." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 158, no. 3 (2015): 229. (pdf here)
1. I stubbed my toe today, It wasn't due to global warming. Therefore global warming isn't real.
1. There's some bees, so I won't have to talk about the sea ice trend.
2. Wow! You continue to do an amazing job on all these bogus claims by WUWT. Thank you for the great coverage and reporting! I've Actually spoken to a large beekeeper here recently who sat next to me for two days (really hard to type now sorry), he was very aware of climate change affeting his colonies. he has over 7,000 hives and delivers the all over the country non-stop during the crop season but lives very close to me. We discussed his work and honey. He has suffered through many dead and dying colonies.
Yet more lies from wuwt connedspiracy fools.
3. Great article by Berenbaum. Watts seems as acute as ever.
A friend of my tells me her parents are among the North Americans (I'm in Canada) importing queens from Australia.
I had not realized that one could mail bees from Australia to Canada until she mentioned it but apparently is is normal practice. I suppose one cannot expect the bees to fly all that way on their own.
Err, just where did Watts or anyone else get "Climate Change" from the WP article? Not one mention that I could see.
I did take exception to the caption on the picture about good little capitalists. I would have thought a beehive was an excellent example of a collectivity, perhaps the model for medieval monasteries?
4. Commercial bee colonies in North America that are wiped out by disease, parasites, pesticides, severe weather or unknown causes are replaced by queens and small colonies imported from other areas of North America or overseas.
Wild bees and other insect pollinators have no such deus ex machina solution.
5. There is a train crash looming; some observers notice but most of the passengers are oblivious.
The observers blow the whistle and call for the brakes to be applied, which they belligerently are.
The crash is avoided, yet the oblivious people call the observers false prophets and alarmists over something that did not happen.
This is the logic of the 'post truth' world we live in today.
6. Chemtrailers bang on about bees too
7. As an aside while reading the Berenbaum article I ran across this line, "Varroa destructor is a blood-sucking ectoparasite" I think I vaguely know that is meant but what an excellent insult. I can say about my worst enemy, "He/she is a blood-sucking ectoparasite".
It's good to see the chemtrailers are so nature and reality oriented. And, at least, planes are not dropping aluminium foil all over us any more.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/32022 | Bug 171 - Cannot create file larger than 2GB
Summary: Cannot create file larger than 2GB
Alias: None
Product: Samba 3.0
Classification: Unclassified
Component: File Services (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0.0preX
Hardware: All Linux
: P2 major
Target Milestone: none
Assignee: Gerald (Jerry) Carter
QA Contact:
Depends on:
Reported: 2003-06-15 17:10 UTC by Gerry Reno
0 users
See Also:
Description Gerry Reno 2003-06-15 17:10:10 UTC
I am using tar to create a filesystem archive that results in an archive of
approximately 4GB. The tar command has no problem creating the archive on an
ext3 filesystem. However, when I attempt to create the archive on a smbfs
mounted filesystem the archive fails at exactly 2GB. I am using RedHat 8.0 with
the 2.4.18-19.8.0 kernel and have upgraded SAMBA from 2.2.7 to 3.0.0beta using
the RedHat 8.0 version of samba-3.0.0beta1-1.i386.rpm.
Comment 1 Gerry Reno 2003-06-15 17:18:19 UTC
Add'l info: SAMBA is mounting a W2K NTFS directory.
Comment 2 Andrew Bartlett 2003-06-21 19:15:36 UTC
This is outside our control. This is a bug in kernel-side smbfs.
Comment 3 Andrew Bartlett 2003-06-21 19:18:17 UTC
See http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba/ for some (experimental) patches.
Comment 4 Gerald (Jerry) Carter 2005-02-07 08:39:25 UTC
originally reported against 3.0.0beta1. CLeaning out
non-production release versions.
Comment 5 Gerald (Jerry) Carter 2005-11-14 09:28:04 UTC
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/32024 | Bug 8632 - printing regression: form sizes seem broken, cannot print letter size correctly
Summary: printing regression: form sizes seem broken, cannot print letter size correctly
Alias: None
Product: Samba 3.6
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Printing (show other bugs)
Version: 3.6.1
Hardware: x86 Windows XP
: P5 major
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Karolin Seeger
QA Contact: Samba QA Contact
Depends on:
Reported: 2011-11-27 17:32 UTC by Kuba Ober
Modified: 2014-04-04 13:08 UTC (History)
4 users (show)
See Also:
sort back the forms for samba 3.6 (26.33 KB, patch)
2012-07-02 14:20 UTC, mamachine
no flags Details
v4-0-test patch (1.95 KB, text/plain)
2012-09-27 07:47 UTC, Andreas Schneider
no flags Details
v4-0-test patch (26.88 KB, patch)
2012-09-27 08:03 UTC, Andreas Schneider
asn: review? (gd)
jra: review+
v3-6-test patch (26.88 KB, patch)
2012-09-27 08:04 UTC, Andreas Schneider
asn: review? (gd)
jra: review+
Description Kuba Ober 2011-11-27 17:32:24 UTC
This is a regression from 3.5.12. Tested on a CentOS 5 server using 3.5.12 and 3.6.1 from sernet. This can only be reproduced on XP.
To reproduce:
- install samba 3.6 on a linux machine
- ensure there's a cups printer available (any will do)
- in a clean smb.conf, export any cups printer (or export all of them)
- in a clean, up-to-date Windows XP SP3 vm, install an HP LaserJet 8000 PCL printer locally and install the driver for it on the printer shared by samba
- connect to the printer on samba server
- open libreoffice 3.4.3 writer, ensure that the page size is Letter
- open the print dialog
- when selecting the local printer, the page size in the preview pane (on the left) shows up as 8.5x11in and that's correct
- when selecting the remote printer, the page size in the preview pane goes to seemingly the first form size in the list of forms provided by samba (10x11 in)
Of course the print job that gets generated has some crazy custom paper sizes, and the printer insists on you having to override the paper size.
The type of printer does not seem to matter, the issue manifests seemingly with any printer driver we've tried.
Thus, there is no way to correctly print letter-sized documents from LibreOffice to a samba 3.6 print server. This also affects Office 2010, although there is a workaround for the latter: you have to change document size to any other paper size, apply, then change back, and only then it will print correctly. This workaround does not work in LibreOffice.
Other applications seem to be affected as well, for example when printing from Inkscape the image is shifted on the page compared to when printing to the same printer on samba 3.5. Do note that samba 3.5 seems to behave the same as a local installation of the same printer, so if I access given printer locally (via a tcp/ip printer port), or via samba 3.5, the results are the same. It gets broken if I access it on samba 3.6.
Comment 1 Kuba Ober 2011-11-27 17:34:00 UTC
I'll be glad to debug it, but I need the following:
- what log level to use? indiscrimately setting level 10 on all components slows samba down to a crawl, so I presume there's a more targeted setting that would only deal with printing?
- what calls to look for?
I can then do a side-by-side comparison between 3.5 and 3.6.
Comment 2 Kuba Ober 2011-11-27 17:48:24 UTC
** BOUNTY **
I'm offering a $300 bounty, payable via PayPal either to the fixer personally, or to some general samba fund, to fix this issue (your choice).
Note: I presume there are problems under Windows 7 clients too, but this specific way of reproducing doesn't work there. I really don't want to downgrade to 3.5 as Samba 3.6 finally fixes the driver installation horkage from 3.5 -- I had hoped I was over with messing with tdb files to rename printer drivers (as you'd need to do to get the same printer share work under XP and 7).
Comment 3 Andreas Schneider 2011-11-28 10:22:34 UTC
thanks for taking the time and reporting this bug.
Providing Samba log files
Provide all log files from '/var/log/samba/' directory and the tdb files from
'/var/lib/samba' and the configuration file '/etc/samba/smb.conf'. Post the
output of 'rpm -qi samba' or 'rpm -qi samba-<subpackage>' too. We need that
information to reconstruct what happened.
If winbind for logging in is part of the problem please provide
'/etc/security/pam_winbind.conf' and if you have enabled debug in
'pam_winbind.conf' Ä/var/log/messages' is requried too.
More detailed description about different Samba components can be found blow
this section.
Testing daemons (winbind, smb, nmb)
1. Stop all running Samba processes (winbind, smb, nmb)
2. Remove all log files from /var/log/samba/
With this approach we ensure to have the start date of the testing in the
log files.
3. Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and set the following variables in the in the
[general] section of the config:
debug level = 10
debug pid = Yes
max log size = 0
Instead of setting a global debug level in smb.conf it's also visible to
smbcontrol <damon_name> debug 10
to increase the debug level of the Samba daemon in question to 10 at run
If winbind is part of the scenario please set
debug = yes
in /etc/security/pam_winbind.conf
4. Start the processes again (winbind, smb, nmb)
5. Reproduce the error and note the time when you start any test. If a problem
occurs while testing note the time (use date on the system you perform the
tests on to get a time fitting to the log files).
Attach the log files from '/var/log/samba/' and the tdb files from
'/var/lib/samba/' to the bug. If possible, remove the tdb files and provide clean
files. Therefore it's best to bond them to one compressed tar archive. The
relevant parts of '/var/log/messages' could be interesting too.
Comment 4 Brecht 2011-12-05 15:26:58 UTC
Just wanted to say that we see the same behavior on Samba 3.6.1:
- we use cups printers
- uploaded HP Universal Printerdrivers to Samba server
- did some default settings (e.g. papersize A4)
- installation of printers (and default settings) on clients work fine
- but after some time the default papersize changes to 10x11 (we didn't notice immediately so we don't know the trigger yet). Installed printers where not effected, only new installations
I try to setup an new environment with debugging turned on as asked.
Comment 5 Andreas Schneider 2012-01-09 10:19:38 UTC
I'm still looking for debug level 10 log file :)
Comment 6 Andreas Schneider 2012-02-08 11:01:10 UTC
Comment 7 Jörg Ludwig 2012-03-01 17:21:01 UTC
We have got the same problem with Samba 3.6.3 from Debian squeeze backports.
The same bug was also in Samba 3.5.8, while Samba 3.5.9 to 3.5.11 were working fine.
I have reproduced the problem with a Samba 3.6.3 server on log level 10 and a Windows XP SP3 client. Logs, config and tdb files:
17:43:00 domain logon
17:43:10 printer install by login script failed for unknown reason
17:43:40 domain logoff
17:44:10 domain logon 2
17:44:27 printer install by login script successful
17:45:00 open printer settings to check page size => A4
17:46:00 open firefox to print page => A4
17:47:00 open libreoffice to print page => A1 (should be A4!!)
17:48:00 domain logoff 2 and shutdown
From our login script:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /dn /n \\iserv\printer /q
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n \\iserv\printer
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y /n \\iserv\printer
Please let me know if you need any further information!
Jörg Ludwig
Comment 8 mamachine 2012-07-02 14:20:22 UTC
Created attachment 7683 [details]
sort back the forms for samba 3.6
Comment 9 mamachine 2012-07-02 14:23:00 UTC
I'm having the same problem and think to have the answer/solution.
It seems the order need to be the same than the one defined for the papersize in "samba-3.6.X/source3/librpc/gen_ndr/spoolss.h". For example Letter must be in position 1 and A4 in position 9.
I understood this by looking at the logs in level 10 (papersize didn't match the formname) :
[2012/07/01 13:17:49.121335, 1] ../librpc/ndr/ndr.c:284(ndr_print_function_debug)
spoolss_OpenPrinterEx: struct spoolss_OpenPrinterEx
in: struct spoolss_OpenPrinterEx
devmode : *
devmode: struct spoolss_DeviceMode
papersize : DMPAPER_A4 (9)
formname : 'A1'
Actually in position 1 of the array "builtin_forms1" (in "samba-3.6.X/source3/rpc_client/cli_winreg_spoolss.c") we have the values of the form "10x11" ; so if you select "Letter" it will use "10x11". And if you select "A4" il will use "A1". That matchs with previous comments.
You can see exactly what format is used by the server by connecting to it via regedit and looking to the value of "Default DevMode" (offset 0x67) for your printer (HKLM/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Print/Printers/YOUR_PRINTER_NAME)
The solution I suggest is to sort back the array "builtin_forms1" in "samba-3.6.X/source3/rpc_client/cli_winreg_spoolss.c" by using the same order than from the array "default_forms" in "samba-3.5.X/source3/printing/nt_printing.c". There is some extra values with the forms A0 and A1 which don't exist in current samba-3.5.X and I don't know in which position to put them ; so I removed them from the array in the patch I made.
For the comment 7, you can understand why it fails for a few 3.5.X versions by looking at the difference between the 3.5.8 and 3.5.9 (the order of the forms was changed by adding A0 and A1) :
$ diff -Nru samba-3.5.8/source3/printing/nt_printing.c samba-3.5.9/source3/printing/nt_printing.c
--- samba-3.5.8/source3/printing/nt_printing.c 2011-03-06 19:48:05.000000000 +0100
+++ samba-3.5.9/source3/printing/nt_printing.c 2011-06-14 13:17:28.000000000 +0200
@@ -91,8 +91,6 @@
- {"A0",0x1,0xcd528,0x122488,0x0,0x0,0xcd528,0x122488},
- {"A1",0x1,0x91050,0xcd528,0x0,0x0,0x91050,0xcd528},
{"A4 Small",0x1,0x33450,0x48828,0x0,0x0,0x33450,0x48828},
So for the version 3.5.X the solution would be to use the array default_forms from the version 3.5.12 in "samba-3.5.X/source3/printing/nt_printing.c".
For the version 3.6.X use the non alphabetically sorted array (cf. patch "sort back the forms for samba 3.6").
After applying the patch it seems you need to go to the configuration of each printers to update/repair the "Default DevMode" value.
So for each printer you need to go in the properties of the printer, then choose the Advanced tab, then "Printing Defaults..." and click OK (you don't need to do any changes).
Before doing all printers check with a connection via regedit that the "Defaults DevMode" of the printer you looked took the right value and then you can start to heat your mouse ;-).
This bug seems to live since a long time ago (started in experimental I guess) : http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=commitdiff;h=4bc46e0f271f3dcf90ee8beb8738a18fffb2a4b9;hp=d4474ba470a70ce0476156a9399193ec024bb455
Mikaël Le Bohec
Comment 10 gansm 2012-09-24 21:17:00 UTC
Please add this patch to the next 3.6 release.
Comment 11 Andreas Schneider 2012-09-27 07:47:26 UTC
Created attachment 7948 [details]
v4-0-test patch
Comment 12 Andreas Schneider 2012-09-27 07:57:33 UTC
Comment on attachment 7948 [details]
v4-0-test patch
Wrong patch for wrong bug.
Comment 13 Andreas Schneider 2012-09-27 08:03:25 UTC
Created attachment 7952 [details]
v4-0-test patch
Comment 14 Andreas Schneider 2012-09-27 08:04:21 UTC
Created attachment 7953 [details]
v3-6-test patch
Comment 15 Jeremy Allison 2012-09-27 16:40:02 UTC
Andreas, can you request review from me as well please ? gd is often busy and this is obvious goodness :-). We probably need a 3.5.x back-port too.
Comment 16 Andreas Schneider 2012-09-27 17:07:34 UTC
This is not needed for 3.5. The code has been rewritten for 3.6 and in this rewrite I sorted the key alphabetically. Turns out Microsoft requires a special order :)
Comment 17 Jeremy Allison 2012-09-27 18:22:35 UTC
Re-assigning to Karolin for inclusion in 3.6.next and 4.0.0.rc.next.
Comment 18 Karolin Seeger 2012-09-28 07:01:48 UTC
Pushed to autobuild-v4-0-test and v3-6-test.
Closing out bug report.
Comment 19 Kuba Ober 2014-03-15 21:19:39 UTC
Since there was a bounty on this (I have no idea how I missed that email that the bug was closed!), I don't intend to renege on my word. The $300, via PayPal is to be split between whoever has worked on this.
Comment 20 Andreas Schneider 2014-04-04 13:08:51 UTC
Kuba: Thank you very much. I would be open to a donation in form of hardware :) |
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$\begingroup$ You should have a look on possible and common oxidation states of tin and chlorine and then you should be able to figure out the formula of tin chloride. $\endgroup$ – pH13 - Yet another Philipp Jul 13 '15 at 10:24
• $\begingroup$ But if you didn't know what tin o r chlorine was how would you determine what to write if you had no books or data or anything to refer to? $\endgroup$ – Technetium Jul 13 '15 at 10:37
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$\begingroup$ @Joel That's a pointless question. If you wouldn't know what "addition" or "subtraction" mean you couldn't answer questions like "1+2=?" or "3-5=?" ... you simply have to learn certain things to answer questions. $\endgroup$ – pH13 - Yet another Philipp Jul 13 '15 at 10:47
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$\begingroup$ I do not agree that this question should be closed. The answer could reasonably be short, as @PH13 subtly mentions it. Lacking research != Too many possible answers/too long answers. $\endgroup$ – M.A.R. Jul 13 '15 at 16:20
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$\begingroup$ No one knows every formula, however there are rules and algorithms to find such formulas. $\endgroup$ – Asker123 Jul 14 '15 at 0:44
In my experience if someone says something like tin chloride they are usually insinuating you know the most common oxidation state that metal is found in when complexed with the chloride atoms. This is a bad practice of them if they haven't explained further but I digress... In this example with the metal center of the complex being tin, the most common oxidation state is +2. This means the formula in its neutral state would be $\ce{Sn^{+2}}$ with 2 chlorides with a (-1) charge making the molecule neutral at $\ce{Sn(II)Cl2}$.
Different effects cause common oxidation states for specific elements. These are outlined further with Mendeleev's Periodic Law. It breaks down into how shielded the nucleus is by electrons, and how big the radius of the atom is.
A further explanation of tin's common oxidation state calls upon knowledge of the inert pair effect, where elements to the right of the second and third row transition metals such as: In, Tl, Sn, Pb, Sb, Bi form compounds that are less reactive than one would think where the oxidation state is 2 less than the expected group. This is caused by the $\mathrm{ns^2}$ electrons being relatively inert. The cause of that nonreactive state is because of two reasons specifically:
1. Larger-than-normal effective nuclear charges in these elements.
2. Lower bond energies in their compounds.
A good book to use referencing this subject further is Descriptive Inorganic, Coordination, and Solid-State Chemistry by Glen E. Rodgers. This is the book I own and used for when I studied periodic trends, and inorganic chemistry as an undergraduate. It's a great book for this subject, among others.
Also there are commonplace names that are used as somewhat of a slang for certain compounds used in research frequently. These can be learned through experience, or you can just google common names... All formal names are dictated by the rules set forth by the IUPAC. Learning those rules would be good idea. Also keep in mind that in some research projects you will encounter molecules that have informal nicknames too.
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Actually, the rules for naming compounds have been converging on the notion that you should be able to construct the compound from the name. How you do this is simply research and practice. There are sites for inorganic and organic naming conventions. Regarding your example, I immediately knew you were talking about an inorganic salt of tin, and I further knew than tin tends to be in the $+2$ state, resulting in the formula $\ce{SnCl2}$. But I also know lots of other possible formulas simply based upon the linked rules. You may not know everything, but you can know a lot simply by learning some basic rules.
Also, @Ryan Lee's answer points out that "tin chloride" is potentially ambiguous, and modern convention has been changing in a direction to make this more clear. The preferred name for this compound is tin(II) chloride, which emphasizes the the fact the the oxidation state of tin is $+2$. Most naming conventions have been formalized so that they encode a way to completely reconstruct the molecule. Nonetheless, tradition exists, so we often still call that solvent acetone rather than propan-2-one, the latter being much more structurally descriptive (i.e. ketone functional group substituted at the 2nd carbon of propane).
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The other answers here have already given good responses to how you would find the answer to the specific example you gave. I want to focus on the question and this particular quote:
...it seems unreasonable to know the formula of every compound in existence.
You're absolutely right. In principle, we're supposed to have formal naming systems (thanks trb456 for the first two links) that describe exactly which molecular formula you're dealing with. Unfortunately, chemical naming conventions are a bit of a mess, with multiple names for every molecule. So what's a chemist to do?
The answer is that instead of learning the formula for every molecule in existence, you learn to extrapolate and make some pretty good guesses off of what you know. For instance, let's say someone's talking about lead chloride. Well, I don't know what the formula for that is! It could be any number of chlorines!
Luckily, I do recall that $\ce{PbO}$ is often used in microscopes. And since oxygen can only take on a 2- charge, that means that lead has to be +2, so the formula is $\ce{PbO2}$!
Oh wait, but I also remember something in my textbook about a $\ce{PbO2}$ compound. That means that there's two possible forms of lead chloride, $\ce{PbCl2}$ and $\ce{PbCl4}$. And now I've narrowed it down to two possible formula, which the Wikipedia disambiguation page helpfully shows us are the only two.
As to which one is specifically being talked about (and you'll have to believe me on this), I would be inclined to believe that it's the lead(II) variant simply because you see lead(II) so much more often than you see lead(IV).
Another trick you can use is to look at common naming conventions and try to guess why they were named that way. While common names are a lot more unpredictable than the official IUPAC rules, there are some common themes that still get involved.
To take a simple example, the following molecules are named acetylene, and acetate, respectively.
Acetylene and acetate
Notice a trend: these are all two-carbon molecules with some functional group coming off the end. In that vein, I can guess that acetonitrile will be a two-carbon molecule with some sort of nitrogen group coming off the end...and I'd be correct!
Ultimately, it's silly and somewhat pointless to try to memorize the official name, common name, and molecular formulas of every single compound you'll ever use. Instead, there are two sets of tricks you can use:
1. Nature follows a pattern. Look at compounds you already know and try to figure out what rules compounds you haven't seen should follow
2. Humans didn't pick names for no reasons. Look at the names and see if there's a common pattern.
It's not easy, but if you work hard at it for a year or two, you should have enough knowledge to piece together information about most of the compounds you'll hear about.
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The Bible, a collection of very ancient books written in languages which have not been spoken in their original forms for many, many centuries, contains many enigmas for the average reader of modern times. This is especially true since many parts of the Bible – and it is the Old Testament being discussed here as well as the New – were written in parables and in the poetic language of prophetic vision. While it is certainly a sound practice to interpret Scripture in the context of Scripture, with the idea in mind that the Word of Yahweh our God clarifies and explains itself, the 66 books of the Protestant Bible, or 72 for the Catholics, or even 80 for the original King James Version compilers of 1611, are not by themselves a complete revelation of the history of White Man (Adam-kind). Neither should one be so arrogant as to believe that these books which we now have were the only inspired Scriptures transmitted in antiquity: for not all of the books excluded from canon by early churchmen deserved such a fate, and not all of the books of antiquity survived until the Christian era. Neither can these books be completely understood all by themselves in any language, because of their incomplete state and the antiquity of the languages they were written in. Yet with sound, thorough studies in history and archaeology, many facets of the Bible are much better understood. Not only the historical books of the Bible, but the utterances of the prophets also come to life with studies in these fields, and the certainty of the Word of Yahweh our God is surely made manifest. Furthermore, with studies of the ancient languages which the Bible was first written in, a surer understanding of that Word is acquired. Yet unless one looks outside of the Bible, to other ancient writings produced by kindred cultures during the Biblical age, a proper understanding of many of the metaphors and idioms of Biblical languages shall never be acquired, and the intended meaning of many Biblical passages shall forever remain concealed. Here we shall look at part of an ancient Mesopotamian poem, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and see that it helps us understand certain obscure, oft-debated passages found in the third chapter of Genesis.
The version of The Epic of Gilgamesh cited here, and some of the information concerning the poem, is from Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (hereinafter ANET), edited by James B. Pritchard, Princeton University Press, 1969, pp. 72-99. Here an Akkadian version of the poem is found, which was based upon a much older Sumerian version, and most of the Akkadian tablets containing the epic were uncovered by archaeologists who excavated the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal at Nineveh. The Assyrians were Shemites, cousins of the Israelites, who had descended from that Asshur mentioned at Gen. 10:22. Their language, Akkadian, was the lingua franca (the language of commerce and diplomacy) throughout the ancient world for a thousand years up to the Persian period, where after the sixth century B.C. it was eclipsed by Aramaic. Other fragments of this Akkadian version of the epic have been found elsewhere, some of which are dated to the first half of the second millennium B.C., and it is clearly evident that the poem existed in Akkadian even before Moses wrote the Pentateuch. The poem is known to have existed in Sumerian even before the time of Abraham. It is in Sumer, in the Chaldaean city of Ur, where Abraham is first introduced to us in Scripture (Gen. 11:27 ff.).
The creation of epic poetry as a method of communicating myth and history was a pastime of Adamic cultures throughout ancient times. Unknown to many, the Exodus account as it was written in Hebrew was originally an epic poem, and there are other shorter examples of the genre in Scripture. Reading The Epic of Gilgamesh, the poem surely seems to set the precedent for the later Greek epics about Odysseus, Heracles and Jason: for they are all tales of mighty men performing heroic deeds coupled with long travels to strange places. The character Gilgamesh, like so many early Greek heroes, was said to have been formed by the gods, and to be himself two-thirds god and one-third human (ANET, p.73). If this brings Genesis chapter 6 to mind, it is surely not an accident. Gilgamesh is also mentioned several times in the Book of Giants found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, for which see the scrolls designated 4Q530 and 4Q531. The Book of Giants is an elaboration of the Genesis 6 account associated with the “apocryphal” Enoch literature, a collection of ancient Hebrew stories and prophecies which should not be ignored by serious Bible scholars. If nothing else, this certainly shows us that the Hebrews of Biblical times did not exist in a vacuum: that elements of literary tradition, myth, culture and language were indeed shared with their kindred, neighboring nations.
In this Akkadian epic, Gilgamesh is a mighty man “endowed with super-human size” (ANET, p. 73), who rules as king over the Mesopotamian city Uruk, which is the Erech mentioned at Gen. 10:10 in the Bible. Gilgamesh is portrayed as a greedy, rapacious character, and a harsh ruler who cannot be challenged, having neither rival nor equal. Therefore the people of the land appealed to the god Anu for assistance. With this, the goddess Aruru is beckoned to create another mighty giant, and she complies, creating Enkidu to be a rival to Gilgamesh. Enkidu, created in the wilderness of the steppe, out of the way of civilization and any contact with humans, becomes a great friend and protector of wildlife: a sort of Tarzan-cum-Dr. Doolittle of the ancient world. Soon Enkidu puts animal hunters and trappers in fear, protecting the animals from them and putting them out of their means of living. Seeking relief, a hunter then goes to Uruk, and appeals to Gilgamesh to lend assistance against the mighty savage Enkidu (ANET, pp. 73-74).
Rather than leave the city to confront Enkidu, Gilgamesh advises the hunter to subdue the savage giant by quite another method. From Tablet I, part iii, lines 40-45 of the epic (ANET, p. 75):
“Go, my hunter, take with thee a harlot-lass.
When he waters the beasts at the watering-place,
She shall pull off her clothing, laying bare her ripeness.
As soon as he sees her, he will draw near to her.
Reject him will his beasts that grew up on his steppe!”
The hunter does as Gilgamesh instructs him to do, and by carrying out the plot he is quite successful. From part iv, lines 16-39 of the same tablet (ANET, p. 75):
“The lass freed her breasts, bared her bosom,
And he possessed her ripeness.
She was not bashful as she welcomed his ardor.
She laid aside her cloth and he rested upon her.
She treated him, the savage, to a woman’s task,
As his love was drawn unto her.
For six days and seven nights Enkidu comes forth,
Mating with the lass.
After he had (his) fill of her charms,
He set his face toward his wild beasts.
On seeing him, Enkidu, the gazelles ran off,
The wild beasts of the steppe drew away from his body.
Startled was Enkidu, as his body became taut,
His knees were motionless – for his wild beasts had gone.
Enkidu had to slacken his pace – it was not as before;
But now he had [wi]sdom, [br]oader understanding.
Returning, he sits at the feet of the harlot.
He looks up at the face of the harlot,
His ears attentive, as the harlot speaks;
[The harlot] says to him, to Enkidu:
‘Thou art [wi]se, Enkidu, art become like a god!
Why with the wild creatures dost thou roam over the
Come, let me lead thee [to] ramparted Uruk,
To the holy temple, abode of Anu and Ishtar,
Where lives Gilgamesh, accomplished in strength,
And like a wild ox lords it over the folk.’”
Enkidu then goes on to confront and challenge Gilgamesh but loses the struggle, after which he instead becomes his close companion and fellow adventurer in later exploits.
Notice in the pericope supplied above that lines 29 and 34 (of the original) have been emphasized with bold type (which is not in the original). In ANET, on p. 75, a footnote at line 29 reads: “The general parallel to Gen. 3:7 is highly suggestive.” This parallel is, in fact, more than merely “highly suggestive”, and there is no similar note in ANET for line 34, which is certainly comparable to Gen. 3:5.
Now indeed, to the rational mind, it should be perfectly evident that the ancient Assyrians reading The Epic of Gilgamesh related one’s sexual awakening with the attainment of wisdom and understanding (line 29 above, cf. Gen. 3:6-7), and that by attaining such understanding, one was perceived as becoming like a god (line 34 above, cf. Gen. 3:5). For Enkidu surely had no knowledge of sex before meeting the harlot, and it cannot be assumed that Eve had any knowledge of sex before meeting the serpent. This Akkadian story was being copied and recited during the very time when Moses was writing the Pentateuch, and therefore the idioms of the language are clearly contemporary with Moses, and were used by a kindred people speaking a closely related Shemitic dialect!
Is the Genesis chapter 3 account also about sexual seduction and awakening? Of course it is, and so “... the eyes of them both [Adam and Eve] were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons” (Gen. 3:7). At “aprons”, a footnote in The King James Study Bible, Thomas Nelson Publishers, ©1988, says “girding coverings”. Adam and Eve, ashamed of themselves after their sexual awakening, attempted to conceal their nudity by covering their bodies, specifically their loins – as that type of garment alone is sufficient enough to inform us – thereby hiding the “scene of the crime”, and the source of their feelings of guilt! Note that Adam and Eve were naked before their seduction, “and were not ashamed” (Gen. 2:25). The Genesis chapter 3 account is all about sexual seduction, written in a parable containing ancient Shemitic idioms, which the Shemitic Epic of Gilgamesh certainly helps us to understand. Now the next questions to be answered must be: Who is the serpent? Or did Adam and Eve have sex with a snake? Or a tree?
The “serpent” is introduced to us at Genesis 3:1: “Now the serpent was more subtile than any beast of the field which Yahweh God had made ...” Many scoffers assert that this statement somehow proves that the serpent was part of the original creation (Gen. 1:20-25; 2:19-20), and must be a literal snake. Yet this statement is merely comparing the serpent to the beasts of that original creation. Examine a similar statement: “Now the Jaguar was more luxurious than any automobile Chevrolet had made.” The Jaguar is, of course, not manufactured by Chevrolet. One may protest that Yahweh God had created all things, as Scripture reminds us in so many places, and of course it is true that He did. Yet while the Genesis 3 serpent may have been created by Yahweh, or it may have been a corruption of Yahweh’s original creation – which we witness men doing today in many places – it was not necessarily a part of the original creation here on earth, described in the first two chapters of Genesis.
The Genesis account of creation found in the first two chapters of the book is neither a technically scientific nor a historically complete record. Rather, it is a prophetic vision of the stages of creation given from an earth-bound perspective. For that reason it is quite geocentric, and the sun, moon and stars are described as mere lights in the sky, when now through scientific observation we know with certainty that they are much more than that. The “days” of Genesis chapter 1 are better understood to be “ages”, a meaning which the original Hebrew word used there surely bears. As our own science tells us, the planet is certainly much older than 6000 or so years. Once these Genesis chapters are properly understood, it is realized that there is no conflict between the Bible and science (true science, not evolution, which is in fact a godless religion). The earth is surely many ages, or millions – even billions – of years old, and many things happened here before the beginning of history as it is recorded by our White Adamic race. The fossil and geological records offer much proof of this, in spite of the insane objections presented by evangelical fundamentalists.
The "Tree" of Knowledge
With all of this being said, the foundation is now laid for an understanding of the origin of the serpent, with the idea in mind that, once the language is understood, the Word of Yahweh our God clarifies and explains itself. At Rev. 12:7-9 we find: “7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, 8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. 9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.” At Rev. 20:2, in another prophecy, we again see “the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan”, where it is certainly evident that the “serpent” is an enduring entity, and not just some snake in the grass. These are “the angels which kept not their first estate” described by the apostle Jude in his epistle (v. 6). We also find at Luke 10:18, that Yahshua Christ exclaims: “I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven”, and here this Satan is again associated with “serpents and scorpions” – surely figurative human “serpents” and figurative human “scorpions” – in the accompanying remarks at 10:19. Bear in mind that Yahshua Christ, being one with the Father from the beginning (i.e. John 1:1-5, 14), surely witnessed the things which happened before He was born on earth as a man. So it is evident that the serpent – and the phrase “that old serpent” surely must refer to the serpent of Genesis – is one with Satan, the Devil, and other epithets given to him and his kindred throughout Scripture. The “serpent” of Genesis 3 is a member of that race of angels which revolted from Yahweh God, and were cast out into the earth, as described in Revelation chapter 12. We are not told when this happened, but can only imagine that it happened some time before Adam, but during the latter ages of creation. The fossil record shows that there were many races of humans here before Adam, the first Aryan White man, such as Neanderthal man, Cro-Magnon man, etc., any one of which may have been of that race of angels. Throughout Scripture angels appear as men, and are often even indistinguishable from men (i.e. Gen 18:1-33; 19:1-14).
If the serpent was a man (though not an Adamic man), what is the “tree which is in the midst of the garden” (Gen. 3:3) which Adam and Eve ate from in the temptation? Genesis 2:9 says: “And out of the ground made Yahweh God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.” The “tree of life” and the “tree of knowledge of good and evil” do not grow out of the ground, nor are they good for food, but they are “in the midst of the garden”. Genesis chapter 2 is not an historic record. Rather, it is a prophetic vision representing past events, written in the form of a parable. The “tree of life” and the “tree of knowledge of good and evil” are not literal, but figurative trees. Literal trees have knowledge only in fairy tales and in Hollywood.
In Proverbs, at 3:18; 11:30; 13:12; and 15:4, the phrase “tree of life” appears as an idiom, where it indeed seems to signify a means of sustenance or a way of salvation or preservation. At Gen. 3:22 it is seen that Adam must “put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever”, thereby recovering from his fall into disgrace. At Rev. 22:14 we find the “tree of life” mentioned again, and it is reserved for those who shall be permitted entry into the new Jerusalem, the city which descends from heaven. In John 15:1-7 Yahshua Christ tells us that He is the “true vine”, and He explains that those who abide in Him are the branches. In John 6:31-51 Yahshua explains that He is the “bread of life”, and that those who eat such bread shall live forever. The only viable conclusion is that Yahshua Christ is the figurative tree of life, and that those descendants of Adam who abide in and keep the ways of Yahshua are given to remain a part of that figurative tree, thereby bringing forth righteous fruit (John 15:5-8). The purpose of fruit is to produce more trees of the same kind! Even today, families are seen as “trees”, and as they grow (or “branch out”) their various elements are called “roots”, “stems”, “branches”, etc. Obeying the Biblical commandments to remain a separate people, and not to commit fornication (race-mixing), “righteous fruit” can only be pureblooded, Adamic offspring of the children of Israel!
The “tree of life” being a figurative tree, it only makes sense that the “tree of knowledge of good and evil” is also a figurative tree. Men are often portrayed as trees in the Bible, for instance in Ezekiel chapter 31, and at Matt. 3:10; 7:17-19; 12:33; and Luke 3:9 and 6:43-44. If the children of Yahweh can be branches upon the “true vine”, the tree of life, then those angels who rebelled against Yahweh and who were cast out into the earth, or their descendants, can surely be the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which Adam and Eve ate from. That the act of eating can be an idiom for sexual relations, see Proverbs 9:17 and 30:20. Also notice in the pericopes from Gilgamesh supplied above that the harlot was twice described with a noun usually used to describe fruit: “ripeness”.
Verification for this interpretation is found in the parable of the wheat and the tares and its explanation, in the thirteenth chapter of Matthew. From Matt. 13:24-25: “24... The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: 25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.” And from Matt. 13:37-39: “37... He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; 38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; 39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil ...”. When could Satan – the Adversary – have sowed tares in among the wheat? Genesis chapter 3 is not a historical record. Rather, it is a parable representing events which occurred early in the history of the Adamic race. By seducing Eve, the enemies of Yahweh were able to sow tares among the wheat. There have been many other women – and men – like Eve down to this very day. After the seduction of Eve, she was warned that “... in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children ...” (Gen. 3:16), a natural result of her sexual foray, and “... thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee” (ibid.), in spite of her incontinence and desire for the “fruit” which the serpent offered her (Gen. 3:6). Genesis chapter 3 is indeed a parable about sexual seduction, and an understanding of Shemitic idioms as they appear elsewhere in the Bible, and also in contemporary writings such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, surely helps us to comprehend as much. Another result of Eve’s seduction was that her “seed”, or offspring, would have perpetual enmity with the “seed”, or offspring, of the serpent, who are also the Adversary, or Satan (Gen. 3:15). Once these two parties, or groups of people or races, are properly identified, it is wholly evident that there has indeed been perpetual enmity between them. This enmity has manifested itself at many intervals throughout history and is recorded not only in the Old and New Testaments, but in the annals of history down to this very day.
As it stands in Hebrew, Genesis 4:1 is a demonstrably corrupt verse, and so it cannot be relied upon as a Scriptural authority. Scholarly sources have attested that the Hebrew of Genesis 4:1 is corrupted, and so it can hardly be properly translated. See, for example, The Interpreter’s Bible, vol. 1, p. 517. Cain was certainly not the son of Adam, and this can be discerned in several other places. First, the genealogies provided at Gen. 4:16-24 and 5:1 ff. do not associate Cain with Adam. Secondly, statements found in the New Testament show that Cain was the son of the serpent, the devil, or Satan, such as those found at Luke 11:46-51; John 8:31-47; and 1 John 3:12. 1 John 3:12 plainly states that Cain was “of that wicked one”, although there is no Biblical evidence that Cain ever spoke to the “serpent”, who was in reality his natural father – as the Aramaic targums state in their versions of Genesis 4:1. Note that there is no word for “half-brother” in Hebrew or Greek, and the term never appears in the Bible, although many half-brothers and half-sisters appear elsewhere in Scripture.
John 8:44 states that certain Judaeans were of their father the devil. These Judaeans claimed to be Abraham’s seed, but denied ever being in bondage (8:33). In Romans 9:1-13, Paul explained that not all Judaeans were Israelites: some descended from Jacob, and some from Esau. The Edomites, the descendants of Esau, could indeed claim to be Abraham’s seed. And the Edomites were never in bondage, while the Israelites had been in bondage in Egypt, and later in Assyria and Babylon. The Edomites had become a part of the kingdom of Judaea and converted to Judaism about 130 years before the birth of Christ. This event is mentioned by the Greek geographer Strabo, writing circa 25 A.D., and explained in detail by the Judaean historian, Flavius Josephus, writing circa 70 A.D. Because Esau married Canaanite women (Genesis 36), and the Canaanites had previously intermixed with the Kenites, who were the descendants of Cain (see Strong’s #’s 7014 & 7017), along with the Rephaim, who were descendants from the “giants” of the Genesis 6 account, and with several other non-Adamic peoples (i.e. Genesis 15:19-21), the descendants of Esau were also descendants of Cain. Because we are told that those who belong to Yahshua Christ hear His voice and follow Him (John 10:27), it can be safely inferred that the disbelieving Judaeans who contended with Him were not Israelites, but were Edomites, and Yahshua told them that they were not His sheep, which is why they did not believe Him (John 10:26). These are those who claimed to be Judaeans, but were truly of the synagogue (assembly) of Satan (Rev. 2:9; 3:9), along with their lineal descendants today.
Seeing that the disbelieving Judaeans were descended from Cain – and so ultimately from the serpent (John 8:44; 1 John 3:12; Matt. 13:39) – it is then understandable how Yahshua could hold them responsible for the blood of all the prophets beginning with Abel, whom Cain slew, as recorded at Luke 11:47-51. It would have been criminal on the part of Christ to have made such a charge had it not been literally true. The Greek word which the A.V. renders “generation” in this passage is properly and much more appropriately translated “race”, speaking of fathers and sons both near and remote. Both Kenites (i.e. 1 Chron. 2:55) and Canaanites (i.e. the descendants of Judah’s son Shelah, Gen. 38:1-5; 1 Chron. 4:21-23) also infiltrated ancient Israel – and especially the tribe of Judah – in the earliest times, perpetrating much evil. One recorded example of a descendant of Cain slaying the priests of Yahweh is found in the story of Saul and the murderous Doeg the Edomite, at 1 Sam. 21:7; 22:6-19. It is those disbelieving Judaeans, the Edomites and other Kenites and Canaanites who long ago adopted Judaism, who caused all the trouble for the followers of Christ in the early centuries of the Christian era, and who are at it again today, with the support of derelict clergymen and ignorant, dishonest politicians.
After the return to Jerusalem from Babylon in the late 6th century B.C., the original Hebrew dialect fell into disuse among the Judaeans in favor of the closely related Aramaic, which was the common language of trade and diplomacy throughout the Persian Empire at that time. Therefore, in order for people to properly understand the Scriptures at Sabbath services, religious leaders had to translate them from the Hebrew into Aramaic. That this practice was indeed extant can be determined in the text of Neh. 8:7-8, where it is described. Although Greek became widely known and commonly used throughout the east after the 4th century B.C., supplanting Aramaic as the lingua franca of the region, Aramaic continued to be spoken locally by many of the native peoples. It is actually Aramaic which is called “Hebrew” in the New Testament. While it is certain that many quotes from the Old Testament which are found in the New Testament were taken directly from the Septuagint (which is the Greek translation of Scripture), it is just as certain that Aramaic translations of Scripture were also in use at the time in which the gospels were written. Ephesians 4:8 is one quote from the Old Testament which agrees with an Aramaic version of Scripture, but with neither the Masoretic nor Septuagint texts. Without the Aramaic targums, one may be inadvertently led to believe that Paul had misquoted Scripture at Eph. 4:8!
The Aramaic targum called pseudo-Jonathan says at Gen. 4:1: “And Adam knew that his wife Eve had conceived from Sammael the Angel (of death) and she became pregnant and bore Cain. And he was like those on high and not like those below. And she said: ‘I have got a man from the angel of the Lord’.” Another, the Palestinian Targum, says it differently: “And Adam knew his wife Eve, who had desired the Angel; and she conceived, and bare Cain; and she said, I have acquired a man, the angel of the Lord ...”. While it is evident that neither of these targums may perfectly represent whatever it was that the original text of Genesis 4:1 may have said, it is also evident that something is missing from the Hebrew of Genesis 4:1 which we have today, and subsequently from the Greek translation of it found in the Septuagint. It is further evident that early Aramaic interpretations of Scripture attempted to compensate for what they believed was missing from Genesis 4:1. Surely it is obvious that those who wrote the targums didn’t see a snake and apple story in the text of Genesis 3! Aside from the Aramaic targums and the passages from the New Testament discussed above, other “apocryphal” Hebrew writings support the assertion that the Genesis 3 account represents sexual seduction, such as 4 Maccabees 18:7-8 and the Protevangelion chapter 10, among others. These writings do not have their source in the Talmud of Judaism. Rather, like most of the Hebrew Scriptures, they were later taken in, expounded upon, and perverted by the Talmudists.
A proper understanding of Genesis chapter 3 is of great importance in acquiring a proper understanding of not only all the rest of the Bible, but of history also. In the context of the Bible, childish tales about snakes and apples are outright deceptions, and are the very reason why the White Adamic race is in such trouble today. For at this very moment, the jews, arabs and their kin are leading the world down a path of destruction. These people are indeed descended from the ancient Canaanites, Edomites, Kenites and related tribes, and so they are the descendants of the serpent, the devil, the Satan of Genesis 3 and Revelation 12, “which deceiveth the whole world” (Rev. 12:9). They ARE the antichrist (1 John 2:18, 22; 4:3; 2 John 7)! They are currently gathering with others of the heathen nations for battle, hoping to finally destroy the White Adamic race, the remnant which are indeed, for the most part, the true descendants of the Old Testament children of Israel (cf. Rev. 16:13-16; 20:7-9; Ezek. 38:1-39:29). Those who insist upon promoting snake and apple stories are themselves among the number of the deceivers.
From the A.V., Rev. 20:1-3 reads thusly: “1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.” And Rev. 20:7-8: “7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 8 And shall go out to deceive the nations ...”. There are several periods with which this thousand years has been identified. One is from the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. to the admission of the jews into Britain after the Norman conquest of 1066. One more likely is from the time that the jews began to be publicly excoriated and separated from Society. This began under the emperor Constantinus, a son of Constantine “the Great”, who ruled in the 4th century, and lasted until the feudal system was replaced with jewish capitalism in the 15th century. It is jewish capitalism which has been the power behind all of our wars of the past few centuries, and is the power behind globalism, multiculturalism, and the dangers we face today. There are no ghosts or goblins who have the world deceived today, and neither can a single man survive a thousand years and do such things. However a race of people certainly can do as much, and indeed they have!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/32100 | Project Bicep – beyond ARM templates
One of the key concepts and advantages of public cloud hosting is the use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). IaC allows repeatable results and faster, simpler automation and orchestration. These can drastically reduce the time to deploy resources and provide a built-in level of quality, change control and versioning. However, a certain amount of time needs to be invested up-front to develop IaC skills to the level where you can truly realise these benefits.
Anyone who has spent serious time with Azure has very likely had exposure to ARM templates. This is the IaC format developed by Microsoft and is widely adopted as the default approach to IaC on the Azure platform.
These templates allow you to declare the objects you intend to deploy without having to run a sequence of commands to deploy them. Simply describe what resource you want to create in the file, deploy it with a single command (either in PowerShell, the Azure CLI or even the Azure portal) and Azure takes care of the hard work in the background. And it’s not just initial deployments; you can also modify existing resources. So, for example, with a quick change in a template you can change your virtual machine instance size or save money by decreasing the size of your Premium File Share.
Unfortunately, ARM templates have several disadvantages. The JSON syntax can be daunting to beginners and difficult to debug; the use of some functions such as “concatenate” and “reference” can result in extremely long and complicated lines of code. This results in templates that can be extremely hard to read, not just for others but even going back to a template you may have written yourself some time before. Also, they do not support any kind of modularity, so the ability to use repeatable chunks of code is not well provided for.
When transitioning to and working with public cloud we all want to be good cloud citizens but we also want to be spending as little time as possible writing and wrangling our code. So, any move toward simplification should be very welcome!
To this end, some months ago, Microsoft announced Project Bicep; a new Domain Specific Language to replace the current JSON-based code. Bicep is a project aimed at simplifying the language to make it easier to author and debug. It also aims to provide much better support for modularity to make sharing and reusing your code easier.
Project Bicep is not a rewrite of ARM; when you write a Bicep file you then need to compile it into an ARM template before actual deployment using the usual methods. Bicep is, in essence, an abstraction on top of ARM rather than a replacement.
A Warning
It is important to note that, at the time of writing, Bicep is in its first public release stage and is thus experimental. When installing it, there are multiple caveats given that it is not fully-featured and may be subject to future breaking changes. So, I really would not advise starting to use it in a production context at present.
With that warning in mind, let us take a closer look.
To begin using Bicep, it first needs to be installed in PowerShell. Full instructions are available. This includes an extension for Visual Studio Code which is the recommended authoring tool.
A Basic Bicep File
As a starter let us describe a simple Storage Account resource:
resource stgacct 'Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts@2019-06-01' = {
name: 'stgacct1234'
location: 'eastus'
kind: 'Storage'
sku: {
name: 'Standard_LRS'
This declaration has four components:
1. The “resource” keyword.
2. Symbolic name: “stgacct” – this is Bicep identifier that can be used to reference the resource throughout the Bicep file. It is not the name of the resource when it is deployed.
3. Type: “Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts@2019-06-01” – this is comprised of the resource provider, the resource type and the API version.
4. Properties: this is everything between “{…}” and describes the specific properties you want the resource to have. These are exactly the same as available in ARM templates.
For comparison, the equivalent ARM template would look like this:
"$schema": "",
"contentVersion": "",
"parameters": {},
"functions": [],
"variables": {},
"resources": [
"type": "Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts",
"apiVersion": "2019-06-01",
"name": "stgacct1234",
"location": "eastus",
"kind": "Storage",
"sku": {
"name": "Standard_LRS"
"outputs": {}
And, indeed, if we saved the file as “storage.bicep” and compiled it with the command “bicep build storage.bicep” this is exactly what we would get as a result.
Parameters, Variables and Outputs
As in ARM templates we can also use parameters, variables and outputs:
param location string = 'uk south'
param name string = 'stgacct1234'
var storageSku = 'Standard_LRS'
name: name
location: location
kind: 'Storage'
sku: {
name: storageSku // reference variable
output storageId string =
The parameter and variable values declared here are just default values and can be replaced with the desired values as required. Well worth noting is how simply the output is declared using the Symbolic Name for the resource, “stg”. The equivalent ARM is:
"storageId": {
"type": "string",
"value": "[resourceId('Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts', parameters('name'))]"
As you can see, Bicep is so much quicker and easier to both write and read. The Symbolic Name can also be used to retrieve run-time properties that only exist once the resource itself has been created, for example, a Storage Account’s primary endpoints.
There is also no need for a specific declaration block for parameters, variables and outputs like there are in ARM templates; you can declare them anywhere.
Finally, and importantly, the Symbolic Name replaces the explicit “dependsOn” property used in ARM templates to describe dependencies between resources. In Bicep, if you reference any property of a resource via the Symbolic Name, the equivalent “dependsOn” property will be automatically added to the compiled ARM.
String Interpolation
Other really useful Bicep concepts include string interpolation which directly replaces the “concat” function used in ARM to join strings. In ARM you would use:
"variables": {
"storageAccountName": "[concat(parameters('namePref'), 'stgacct1234')]"
to join the value of the parameter “namePref” to the string “storage001”.
In Bicep this is more simply written:
var storageAccountName = '${namePref}stgacct1234'
No need for a function – it is just handled under the hood.
The Ternary Operator
Another useful ability of Bicep is to support the use of the ternary operator for conditions. This is the equivalent of the “If()” function in ARM. Here, instead of using the “storageSku” variable the example uses the ternary operator to conditionally choose a redundancy setting for the storage account using the parameter “globalRedundancy”:
param location string = resourceGroup().location
param namePref string = 'storage'
param storageRedundancy bool = true
var storageAccountName = '${namePref}${uniqueString(resourceGroup().id)}'
name: storageAccountName
location: location
kind: 'Storage'
sku: {
name: storageRedundancy ? 'Standard_GRS' : 'Standard_LRS'
output storageId string =
Using “globalRedundancy” this way allows a True / False choice on whether or not to switch on Geo Redundancy for our Storage Account.
The Future
As mentioned previously, Bicep is still very much in its early stages and Microsoft have already trailed a couple of the features coming soon:
ARM templates use the copy() and copyindex() properties to provide iterations and loops. For example, you can use this to create multiple virtual machines with one template without actually defining each virtual machine individually. Bicep promises to extend this functionality with other types of loops such as For and For Each.
These will be re-usable modules that completely encapsulate resources and can be shared within and between teams. Again, an extremely useful tool to help reduce the time needed to develop IaC.
Project Bicep promises to be a real evolution beyond ARM templates. The simpler, more intuitive syntax reduces the entry point and time spent learning to develop Azure IaC. And the promised extension of functionality over what ARM itself can provide is very enticing in itself.
At present, there is obvious functionality missing and it is far from being on a feature par with ARM. Equally the need to compile ARM templates which can then be deployed is a bit cumbersome.
However, this is just the beginning. Although I found it useful as an aid to help learn Bicep by being able to see the equivalent code in ARM. I would hope that in future Microsoft will provide the functionality to deploy Bicep directly without the intervening compilation, but time will tell.
Also, a really useful feature would be the ability to reverse compile existing ARM templates into Bicep so that we could all move our current libraries of ARM templates to the new, simpler format should we wish.
All in all, if you work with ARM templates day-to-day, are just starting out, or are just interested in where Azure and IaC is heading, I thoroughly recommend heading over to the Project Bicep Github page and start getting familiar with it.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/32113 | In this article, we'll walk through how to get the Ether balance for an Ethereum address using Node.js and Web3.js.
To get the balance of an Ethereum address, we'll need a way to connect to an Ethereum blockchain node. To make this easy, we'll use Infura. Their API gives you instant access to the Ethereum networks.
Before moving on, make sure you have an Infura account created and a Public ID API key. We'll use that api key to access Infura's API.
Table Of Contents
Install Web3.js NPM Package
Before we install Web3.js, make sure you have Node.js installed and an application directory setup to store our code.
If needed, we wrote a guide on installing Node.js.
You can install the Web3.js NPM package with one of these commands:
npm install web3 --save
yarn add web3
When that's done installing, Web3.js is ready to be used and we can start writing some code.
Get Eth Balance of an Ethereum Address
Let's get the balance for an Ethereum address!
Open up your favorite text editor and add this code to your application's index.js or app.js file (make sure you replace YOUR_PROJECT_ID with your unique Project ID):
const Web3 = require("web3")
const web3 = new Web3(new Web3.providers.HttpProvider(""))
web3.eth.getBalance("0x52bc44d5378309EE2abF1539BF71dE1b7d7bE3b5", function(err, result) {
if (err) {
} else {
console.log(web3.utils.fromWei(result, "ether") + " ETH")
A couple of different things are happening in the code here, so let's go through each part:
1. First, we require the web3 NPM package and store it in the uppercase Web3 variable.
2. Then, we create a web3 instance and set its provider (the method in which web3 gets access to an Ethereum node). We use the HttpProvider() function and pass our Infura api endpoint. This api endpoint is for the Mainnet network (you can replace this with any of the other networks, i.e. Ropsten) and has the ID for our project appended to the end of the url.
3. Now that the web3 instance is ready to use, we use the web3.eth.getBalance() function to get the balance of an Ethereum address. We pass an Ethereum address as a parameter and the function returns a callback with an error and the balance for the address.
4. Inside the callback, we do some error handling by logging any errors that occur.
5. Then, we log the result from the callback function. We use the web3.utils.fromWei() function to log it in a human readable-format.
When you run the code, you should get an output similar to this:
2519.67405 ETH
If you're looking for more things to do with Web3.js, check out the documentation.
Pretty pain-free right? Hopefully, this article helped you out!
As always, thanks for reading and happy coding! |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/32128 | Frequent Contributor
Starting the "deployment" conversation can be like talking about the elephant in the room for us parents. We know its there, we can see it staring at us, except we are fighting that first stage of deployment ourselves, denial! Therefore, it is easy to put off the conversation.
Here's why you should start talking to your kids early about an upcoming deployment. There are actual stages to deployment! They are normal and by knowing each of them, you can actually explain them to your (school aged) kids.
Here are some ways to explain deployment to your kids and some ways to cope with predeployment stress from
• Talk with your child. And listen to her/him. As much as you're permitted to, describe your deployment and let them know that the reason you can't reveal all the details is to help keep you and others safe. Listen to their concerns and answer their questions without judging them. Don't be afraid to let your child know that you wish you didn't have to go, too. But try not to overburden her/him with your feelings. Otherwise she/he may feel responsible for making you feel better. If your child says they're afraid you won't come back home, talk about all of the training and practice you've had and how that will help keep you safe.
• Help your child find positive ways to cope with strong emotions. Everybody needs a reliable way to release pent-up emotions, whether it's shooting hoops, painting a picture, digging in the garden, or turning up the music and dancing in the living room.
• Give your child a job. Children this age tend to thrive on responsibility because it makes them feel important and grown up. Sit down with your spouse and put together a list of chores they will need help with while you're gone. Assign one or two of these to your child, and set aside time for training.
• Spend time doing fun things or just hanging out. Strengthen your connection and create comfortable, pleasant memories all at the same time.
Talking about deployment is never easy. But by learning the stages, and starting early, it can make a difference in having a more positive deployment experience.
For more information on talking to your kids about deployment visit the below links:
Helping Your School-Age Child Deal with Your Deployment -
Helping Your Preschooler Deal with Your Deployment.
Related post:
Deployment Tips for You and Your Preschooler |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/32136 | July 2020 Wrap-Up!
This month was pretty good! Not GREAT, but I’ll take anything at this point!
I’m still 11 books behind on Goodreads, but we’re going to willfully ignore that little fact in favor of the 18 books I read in July instead. Don’t ask me how that math works. I set myself up for hell and I am still ready to broil in it.
(Listen. I’ll catch up with novellas. Probably. I’ll figure it out!)
What I Read:
I’ll Be the One by Lyla Lee // ★★★☆☆
The Unfaithful Queen by Carolly Erickson // ★★★☆☆
The Last Wife of Henry VIII // ★★★☆☆
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor // ★★★☆☆
Home by Nnedi Okorafor // ★★★☆☆
The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor // ★★★☆☆
One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake // ★★★☆☆
Two Dark Reigns by Kendare Blake // ★★★☆☆
Five Dark Fates by Kendare Blake // ★★★★☆
Queens of Fennbirn by Kendare Blake // ★★★★☆
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan // ★★★☆☆
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite // ★★★☆☆
Crank by Ellen Hopkins // ★★★☆☆
The Revenant by Michael Punke // ★★☆☆☆
Heartless by Marissa Meyer // ★★★★☆
Beastly by Alex Flinn // ★★☆☆☆
Cloaked by Alex Flinn // ★★☆☆☆
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware // ★★☆☆☆
20 in 2020:
1. Hereafter by Tara Hudson
2. Black City by Elizabeth Richards
3. The Princess in the Opal Mask by Jenny Lundquist
4. The Alchemyst by Michael Scott
5. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
6. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
7. Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake
8. Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
9. Vamps by Nancy A. Collins
10. Splintered by A.G. Howard
11. The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman
12. The Blessed by Tonya Hurley
13. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
14. Ashes of Twilight by Kassy Tayler
15. Breathe by Sarah Crossan
16. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
17. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
18. The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
19. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
20. The Last Wife of Henry VIII by Carolly Erickson
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1. I’m also behind in my GR goal. Oh well. We’ll see what happens until December. lol. I haven’t read the Blake books yet but I do love their covers! Even the novellas have great covers!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/32137 | August 2020 Wrap-Up!
So, while I did read quite a bit, that’s basically all I did. I read 16 books and 2 novellas.
What I Read:
The Everafter by Amy Huntley // ★★★☆☆
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson // ★★★★☆
A Kiss in Time by Alex Flinn // ★★★☆☆
Ashes of Twilight by Kassy Taylor // ★★☆☆☆
Shadows of Glass by Kassy Taylor // ★★☆☆☆
Remnants of Tomorrow by Kassy Taylor // ★☆☆☆☆
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien // ★★★★☆
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly // ★★★★☆
The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan // ★★★☆☆
The Hollow by Jessica Verday // ★★★☆☆
The Haunted by Jessica Verday // ★★☆☆☆
The Hidden by Jessica Verday // ★★★☆☆
My Calamity Jane by by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, & Jodi Meadows // ★★★☆☆
The Luxe by Anna Godbersen // ★★☆☆☆
Rumors by Anna Godbersen // ★★★☆☆
Another Faust by Daniel & Dina Nayeri // ★★☆☆☆
Tumbleweeds by L.J. Smith // ★☆☆☆☆
Dinner Disaster by L.J. Smith // ★★☆☆☆
20 in 2020:
1. Hereafter by Tara Hudson
2. Black City by Elizabeth Richards
3. The Princess in the Opal Mask by Jenny Lundquist
4. The Alchemyst by Michael Scott
5. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
6. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
7. Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake
8. Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
9. Vamps by Nancy A. Collins
10. Splintered by A.G. Howard
11. The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman
12. The Blessed by Tonya Hurley
13. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
14. Ashes of Twilight by Kassy Tayler
15. Breathe by Sarah Crossan
16. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
17. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
18. The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
19. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
20. The Last Wife of Henry VIII by Carolly Erickson
So, definitely not the best month rating-wise, but I got some good ones in there. I was WHOLLY unimpressed with the novellas I read for The Vampire Diaries (and I don’t know why I keep reading them — I do NOT like Elena…), and, honestly, at this point I’m about to swap to fanfic to get what I want out of the story.
(Only problem is, most of the fanfic seems to be for the show… and I still haven’t seen the show. Should probably remedy that!)
I also did a little bit of a reread towards the end of the month, which I’m still working on. I used to adore The Hollow series by Jessica Verday and The Luxe series by Anna Godbersen, but that was back in 2011 and 2012, respectively, and oh boy have my reading tastes changed after nearly ten years of reading. I’m a little disappointed, but I’m not in the least bit surprised that they didn’t quite live up to my memory. I hadn’t read as many books back then! They both still have fantastic plots, in my opinion, they’re just not nearly as meaty as I like in my fiction nowadays. Still good reads!
Oh well, onto the next month.
Thanks for reading!
4 thoughts on “August 2020 Wrap-Up!
1. I had a lot of 3 star reads this month which isn’t typical for me and I don’t see that as a bad thing it’s just a little bit of a bummer because I want to love everything I read. I’m sorry to hear about the loss of your pet!!
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2. So sorry about the loss of your pet. 😦 But wow you did a lot of reading in August! I’ve read My Calamity Jane and The Return of the King but not any of the others. I own a couple of The Luxe books but still haven’t gotten around to reading them. Story of my life! lol
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1. Thank you ❤️ I feel that!! I enjoyed them a lot more the first time I read them, and they’re still pretty good books! I want to read Godbersen’s other series, actually, because it’s set in the 20s and I’m a sucker for that era!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/32141 | Ethernet and H1-Bus?
H1 is ethernet with an additional application layer called TF (Technical Functions). This allows equipment to talk to each other more efficiently thus improving performance. I believe that the association layer is layer 7 in the ethernet spec. Hope this helps.
Georg Hellack GHF automation GmbH
H1 was the former name given by SIEMENS to their Ethernet based PLC communication. It is now called 'Industrial Ethernet'. The name 'H1' relates to the physical (ethernet) as well as the protocol layer. There are two flavors, one for low-level access with some protocol on OSI transport layer (COTP TP4). The protocol is decribed in the manuals for the S5 comm. processor board and is often called 'H1 protocol'. Then there is a more sophisticated protocol TF, which handles typified data. The philosophy is very similar to MAP/MMS. There is also now a TCP/IP-based version, which uses RFC1006.
Best regards,
Georg Hellack
GHF automation GmbH
Ralph Mackiewicz
This is H1:
Layer 7 Application: TF (Technical Functions)
Layer 6,5: Null
Layer 4, Transport: Class 4 ISO/OSI Transport
Layer 3, Network: CLNP without ES-IS (static routing only)
Layer 2, Data Link: IEEE 802.2 LLC and IEEE 802.3 MAC
Layer 1: Physical: Industrially hardened 10Base5 (options now available).
This is Ethernet:
Layer 2: IEEE 802.3 MAC
Layer 1: 10Base2, 10Base5, 10/100BaseT, 10BaseF, etc. etc.
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