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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43382 | Documents prove new ISIL leader's coop. with US
TEHRAN, Nov. 20 (MNA) – As some released documents prove, the current leader of ISIL Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi has previously cooperated with US intelligence elements.
According to Al-Forat News, the disclosure of some confidential documents proves that the new leader of the Takfiri terrorists of ISIL has previously been in contact and cooperation with the US intelligence service.
During an interrogation in an American detention center in Iraq, called Camp Bucca, in 2008, Al-Qurashi provided the Americans with classified information about members of the ISIL group.
It was in Camp Bucca that the US succeeded to train the ISIL terrorist elements.
This is while the US has announced a reward of up to $10 million for any information about Al-Qurashi.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43386 | Randall Balmer
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Randall Balmer
Randall Herbert Balmer
(1954-10-22) October 22, 1954 (age 66)
Ecclesiastical career
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ChurchEpiscopal Church (United States)
• 2006 (deacon)
• 2006 (priest)
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ThesisDutch Religion in an English World (1985)
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Randall Herbert Balmer (born October 22, 1954) is an American historian of American religion. He taught at Barnard College and Columbia University for twenty-seven years before moving to Dartmouth College in 2012, where he was named the Mandel Family Professor in the Arts & Sciences. He is also an Episcopal priest. He earned his PhD from Princeton University in 1985. He has been a visiting professor at Dartmouth College and at Rutgers, Princeton, Drew University, Emory University, Yale and Northwestern universities and at Union Theological Seminary, where he was also adjunct professor of church history. He has also taught in the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[1] He was visiting professor at Yale Divinity School from 2004 until 2008.
Following his ordination in 2006 and concurrent with his academic responsibilities, Balmer served as part-time rector of two Episcopal parishes in Connecticut: St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington (2008–2009) and Christ Episcopal Church in Middle Haddam (2010–2012). In addition to his academic writing, Balmer has published commentaries in newspapers across the country, including The Des Moines Register, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Dallas Morning News, the Omaha World-Herald, the Los Angeles Times, the Anchorage Daily News, the Hartford Courant, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New York Newsday, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and The New York Times, among others. His work has also appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, The Washington Post Book World, and The New York Times Book Review.
Balmer was nominated for an Emmy for scriptwriting and hosting the three-part PBS documentary Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory, based on his book with the same title.[1] He also wrote and hosted two other PBS documentaries: Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham and In the Beginning: The Creationist Controversy.
Balmer's criticisms of the religious right[edit]
In various books and articles, Balmer has criticized the politicization of the American Christian evangelical movement. In an article titled "Jesus is not a Republican" in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Balmer writes:
Indeed, the most effective and vigorous religious movements in American history have identified with the downtrodden and have positioned themselves on the fringes of society rather than at the centers of power. The Methodists of the 19th century come to mind, as do the Mormons. In the 20th century, Pentecostalism, which initially appealed to the lower classes and made room for women and people of color, became perhaps the most significant religious movement of the century.
The leaders of the religious right have led their sheep astray from the gospel of Jesus Christ to the false gospel of neoconservative ideology and into the maw of the Republican Party. And yet my regard for the flock and my respect for their integrity is undiminished. Ultimately it is they who must reclaim the gospel and rescue us from the distortions of the religious right.
The Bible I read tells of freedom for captives and deliverance from oppression. It teaches that those who refuse to act with justice or who neglect the plight of those less fortunate have some explaining to do. But the Bible is also about good news. It promises redemption and forgiveness, a chance to start anew and, with divine help, to get it right. My evangelical theology assures me that no one, not even Karl Rove or James Dobson, lies beyond the reach of redemption, and that even a people led astray can find their way home.[2]
Political career[edit]
In 2003, Balmer ran for a seat on his local school board and lost by four votes.[3]
In 2004, Balmer won the Democratic nomination for a seat representing the 111th District in the Connecticut House of Representatives. Balmer ran in the general election against incumbent Republican John H. Frey, despite the fact that Balmer had lived in the district for less than three years, Frey had never drawn an opponent, and the town of Ridgefield (which the 111th District represents) was "two-to-one Republican."[3] Ultimately, Balmer was defeated in the election. Frey won 8,824 votes, and Balmer won 4,478 votes; Frey won more votes than anyone else in the Connecticut House that year.[4]
• Grant Us Courage: Travels Along the Mainline of American Protestantism. New York: Oxford University Press. 1996. ISBN 0-19-510086-7.
• (1999) Blessed Assurance: A History of Evangelicalism in America. Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN 0-8070-7711-9
• (2002) Protestantism in America. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-11130-4
• Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism, 2nd Edition, Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2004, ISBN 1-932792-04-X, retrieved 2009-01-27
• (2006) Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America. 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-530046-7
• (2006) Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America: An Evangelical's Lament. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-00519-5
• (2008) God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush. San Francisco: HarperOne. ISBN 0-06-073405-1
• (2010) The Making of Evangelicalism: From revivalism to politics and beyond. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press. Pp vii + 89. [Paperback edition 2017.]
• (2014) Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0465029587
• Co-authored with; Riess, Jana (2015). Mormonism and American Politics. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231540896.
• (2016) Evangelicalism in America. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press. 211 pages. [Paperback edition 2018.]
Documentaries & e-seminars[edit]
1. ^ a b "Dartmouth College Dept. of Religion bio". Archived from the original on 2013-09-09. Retrieved 2013-07-13.
2. ^ "Jesus Is Not a Republican" The Chronicle of Higher Education
3. ^ a b "A Popular Barnard Professor Looks to Politics". Columbia Daily Spectator. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
4. ^ "Vote for State Representatives - November 2, 2004 - Assembly Districts". State of Connecticut. Archived from the original on May 22, 2013. Retrieved May 19, 2020. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43407 | Chatterbox by Keon Wong
Endless, corner-less scripture, their cracks
bending to an exorcism of 6 plains / planes
crashing into their doomed gravity,
like a child running into a mother’s arms;
few stand above the clouds but dolls
that spill like waterfalls
in a drought, drip by drip bittersweet.
The blocks of clouds are pillars of some Olympus
they told us about. Dangling snake, the shock
that puts us to sleep like soporific ivy, white.
The windows that peer from the basement,
an intrepid flame from hell
that grips passerby into its own ordeal;
saint, women, paper planes, they all sink
to the insatiable fullness of a future too big
to swallow. So they left it alone.
Endless, corner-less scripture, the canvas holding
my memories like Rorschach’s treasure crates
as I leapt in fear to heaven and crashed
into the foot of an abandoned attic.
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Poetry has gradually become my best outlet for my emotions during the uncertainty my hometown is enduring. It has also sharpened my skills in expression and thinking out of the box.
My other interests include photography, where I formulate my ideas in another experimental medium. I find it very therapeutic to observe and slowly record the changing world. I am also a huge fan of films and classic novels. I highly recommend them for growing your inner creativity as well as your world view.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43409 | I am a Big Data Engineer in India with 5 years experience. I have been offered a job in a start up in Berlin with 51k euros fixed salary and 5k euros variable annually.
I have a family of 4. My wife, 1 son(who goes to school in class 2) and 1 daughter(6 months old). Is the salary sufficient to survive and possibly save a little?
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‘Surviving’ in a foreign country with no network of family/friends for support and with possibly little surplus income to save for unexpected expenses numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Berlin – Traveller Apr 16 '19 at 6:18
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You will be able to somehow survive with 51k but if you are an engineer with 5 years of experience then 51k is almost ridiculously low. Data engineers are quite rare and with your experience, I'd say 70k should be the absolute minimum. – FooBar Apr 16 '19 at 14:13
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@FooBar, €70k sounds right for a data engineer who speaks fluent German. €51k-56k is a decent entry level. Berlin companies do not pay quite as well as, say, Frankfurt or Munich. – o.m. Apr 16 '19 at 15:26
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BTW one big shock to you will be how much it costs to HEAT your life during winters in nothern europe. – Fattie Apr 17 '19 at 11:37
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@Fattie why would a software professional want to be right next to work? I recently moved abroad, I am a software professional, and the reason I decided to live right next to work was because I personally don't like to commute. That has nothing to do with my preference. This question is about Berlin. Commuting in Berlin, especially on regional trains, is not that bad. I've done it. Many fresh expats, especially in startups in Berlin, like being close to work because they will not have friend initially, so they socialise at work, with the people there. OP has a family, so it won't matter much. – simbabque Apr 17 '19 at 16:03
You will probably have a relatively small flat relatively far from the city center, but there are plenty of families getting by on much less.
• You will pay very approximately 5k € in taxes and 10k € in mandatory health insurance and pension etc. That leaves 35k € as payout, about 2,900 € per month. Add the children's allowance mentioned by kriscorbus in his or her answer and you will have about €3,300.
• You might have to spend close to half of that on rent, heating, power. That's the big question mark. German law protects tenants with existing contracts against extreme price hikes, so any new contract will be considerably more expensive than average of the old contracts for the area. You won't be able to afford the most fashionable districts.
• You should inform yourself about Berlin districts. Some of the cheapest ones are cheap because they're not nice. Some are more racist than others.
• Where you live will also affect the quality of the public schools.
• The price for clothing, groceries, etc. depends on your expectations. Organic food is more expensive than regular, etc.
• Childcare could be a significant expense and finding a place could be a hassle. Does your wife plan to work?
My personal advice is that she should look for a job as soon as she is able, perhaps 20 hours/week. It helps the children to go to German-language childcare and it helps her to get into German society.
• Many people have no car, they travel on public transport. The commute could be one hour or more, but a car does not always save much time and parking is a hassle. Either way, transport costs will be a factor.
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To clarify the "average rents are less than new contract rents" for non-Germans: Germany has laws that protect tenants against arbitrary rent increases, so new tenants typically pay more than tenants who have already been in their home for a long time. Second note: public transport in Berlin is very cheap, only cycling (which I recommend) is cheaper. – gerrit Apr 16 '19 at 8:27
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51k gross with 3rd tax class result in ~2,9k net monthly (brutto-netto-rechner.info). – Ex Patriot Apr 16 '19 at 9:15
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@stwic Having 30k gross yearly results in less than ~1,7k net monthly. – Ex Patriot Apr 16 '19 at 9:24
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Keep in mind that when OP's wife gets a part-time job (which depending on the visa OP gets she might be allowed to, or might not), OP can switch to a better tax class, resulting in her paying the high percentage on a tiny salary, and him paying a low percentage on the larger salary. – simbabque Apr 17 '19 at 10:55
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@simbabque, I think you misunderstand how the system works. – o.m. Apr 17 '19 at 15:39
51k Euros is enough to live, but not enough to save (OK, it depends on your habits and life expectations).
Germany has complex taxation system. I hope this HowToGermany page helps to get an overview. There are several benefits in taxation system for parents, like children's allowance. In your case 194 Euros per month per child, results in additional 4656 Euros in year. Next upgrade is already planned: it will be 204€/child/month.
Allowance is not depending on fact - is your wife working or not. But just like @o-m I would suggest your wife to look for child care (in East- Germany you can have day care already for 12 month old babies), start to work and start to integrate into society. In Germany child care is unique information exchange hub, do not miss it out!
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Even slightly more than 4656€ since it's 204€ per child (with two kids) after July, 1st, 2019. – Ex Patriot Apr 16 '19 at 9:20
• Do the laws between East- and West-Germany differ in regards of child care? In West-Germany you can have child care, too, for 12 month old babies. As in East-Germany it's subject to availability. In Berlin it might be different again, as it's a mixture of East and West. Regarding Kindergeld special rules for Non-EU-foreigners may apply. – Bernhard Döbler Apr 16 '19 at 13:45
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@BernhardDöbler: the laws vary by Land (e.g. in the sense that the Land Berlin can decide kindergardens don't charge fees). But as "early onset" kindergarden was typical for GDR but not Western Germany, availability in practice is still different (± the effects of inner-German migration to the West). – cbeleites unhappy with SX Apr 16 '19 at 13:48
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Children's Allowance (Kindergeld) is part of taxing system. Nothing to do where you come from. So if you pay taxes in Germany and you have children, that you should apply for it. – kriscorbus Apr 16 '19 at 19:30
Others have already told you that the answer is positive. I'd like to add a few points:
• As an expat, life is usually more expensive because one lacks the cultural knowlege how/where to cut costs, e.g. which food is more or less expensive.
• Eating out is expensive in Germany, cooking from basic ingredients is much cheaper, even if you go for better ingredients.
This includes lunch at work: bring your own vs. canteen lunch customs vary between companies/groups/teams, but I've never met a place where bring your own was frowned upon. In many places you can even take your own to the canteen so you can join the lunch break talk with your coworkers (this and the coffee break are important for integration)
• However, Indian ingredients are probably quite expensive, particularly fresh (exotic) fruit.
• If you feel experimental, you may be able to arrive at variations of Indian food with more regional ingredients.
• To get an idea of what is reasonable (or not) in terms of grocery expenses, there exist a number of recipe books ("Harz IV Kochbuch", student cooking books) that were specifically written with the purpose of being inexpensive and nutrious at the same time. In case that's important for you, there's also a vegetarian subset of these books.
• There are also courses on cooking. E.g. at the so-called Volkshochschulen:
• Volkshochschulen offer affordable courses for adults and kids on a wide variety of topics, e.g. German language evening courses (also other languages) or cooking for kids as school holiday program.
Such courses may also be good opportunities for your kids' integration.
• Integration for a working professional isn't as easy as for international students. In Germany, sports clubs or "cultural clubs" (or maybe scouts group for the kids) are quite important. (Also, joining a sports club is usually much cheaper than a gym membership.) If you were in a volountary fire brigade in India, consider checking out the local one. This is the more important the more rural the place where you live.
Resentments and xenophobia are often tightly bound to how hard-working (or rather: not hard working; as IT professional you're on the ) and how interested in the German culture you are perceived. Most important here: learning German.
East Germany outside Berlin has few immigrants compared to the western Länder. But among them often the majoritymany * came there very suddenly in the 2015 refugee crisis. Having them in a region that keenly perceives that even after 3 decades they have not cought up economically with many western regions is a difficult mixture.
I'm saying this because if you moving outside Berlin into Brandenburg the costs for housing drop very much: going out maybe half an hour by regional train could give you acces to much lower housing costs. How feasible this is will depend on a number of other considerations, of course.
* update: I misread the IWH: United country – three decades after the Wall came down study: it allows to conclude that at the end of 2016, in many regions of eastern (and northern) Germany > 32 % of foreigners were seeking asylum, and @kriscorbus has kindly pointed out that mistake and commented that many of them have moved on (presumably into the big cities in the West and maybe into Berlin). I've been to Berlin + outside Berlin on and off in the last 2 years any my impression was still a comparatively high proportion of refugees - but that's of course just personal anecdata and may be totally different from one place to the other.
• In general, any kind of service is expensive (cmp. eating out) due to wages. Expect at least 50 - 60 €/h if you call, say, a plumber.
When you rent a flat, there are certain types of repair that are up to the landlord. For everything else, if you are handy you can save a lot of money. Still, you may need to plan considerable time to get yourself familiar with products/working techniques that differ from how you do things in India (I haven't been to India, but I've found substantial differences between Central Europe and North America).
• International school with lessons in English is going to be expensive - but German language education from elementary school on is free (as in no tuition). Private schools do exist (with and without tuition), but ≈ 90 % of the kids attend governmental schools.
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I don't agree with you here: "East Germany outside Berlin has few immigrants compared to the western Länder. But among them often the majority came there very suddenly in the 2015 refugee crisis." I live in East Germany, and besides me, there are many other foreigners, but almost none refugees. They all left to more attractive places. – kriscorbus Apr 16 '19 at 19:38
• Foreigners in East Germany are a special issue. Most are Russian for instrance are "Spätaussiedler" - still Germans – Bernhard Döbler Apr 17 '19 at 11:48
• @kriscorbus: many thanks for pointing this out - I a) made a stupid calculation mistake and b) hadn't realized that the recent IWH study showed numbers in that respect that weren't quite as recent. – cbeleites unhappy with SX Apr 20 '19 at 11:27
2900 Euro spendable income is 90% of the average family income in Berlin (source in German). And your family's earning potential is higher than your starting salary, as you could hope for a raise, or your wife could also start working, at least part time.
You won't be able to have a very lavish lifestyle, in the sense that many people you see will have something you cannot afford, for example a new car. But before you get jealous, you have to remember that those people have given up something else you are spending money on to get that car. It is only the rich ones who can have all signs of affluence at once.
With that kind of money, you won't be starting at the bottom of the social ladder. You may not be able to afford everything you see advertised, and you will probably live in a flat smaller and further away from the center than you wish (rent is currently really expensive in Germany), but many people you interact with on a daily basis will be living on less.
So this money will take care of "standard" daily/monthly/yearly expenses. Do not forget to protect against emergencies, these are especially hard if you don't have a network of family and friends close by. The mandatory health insurance (deducted before you get your 2900/month) will take care of all medical emergencies without any noticeable copayment. But you should get at least a Haftpflichtversicherung, which pays for damage you happen to inflict on other people's health or property (e.g. your washing machine breaks and floods the neighbour below you and you have to pay 20 000 for repairs). And, in your situation as a single breadwinner, seriously consider a good Berufsunfähigkeitsversicherung, it pays you a monthly income if you get disabled by disease or accident and can no longer work. You may hear that they are expensive, but the price varies by your occupation, and people who write software pay a comparatively low premium.
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rumtscho is right that many people in Germany are living with less money. Berlins moto few years ago was "poor, but sexy!" Poor is about 800-1000€/month/family. But since you work in IT, then you have pretty good chances on career and Berlin is the right place to be. – kriscorbus Apr 17 '19 at 8:00
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43410 | Me & my husband approached IELTS for FSW last month.
My results:
Listening: 8.0
Reading: 7.0
Writing: 6.5
Speaking: 7.0
Overall: 7.0
My husband's results:
Listening: 6.0
Reading: 7.0
Writing: 5.5
Speaking: 6.0
Overall: 6.0
one of a consultancy suggested me that either of us should get a 7 (primary applicant) n t other can be minimum 5.
In this case are we eligible for FSW with me as primary applicant and my husband will be secondary applicant?
Or else should he write the exam to get min score of 6 in each section? Please suggest us!
First off I want to clear it out that there is no minimum requirement for the dependent (in this case your husband). So as long as you are meeting the CLB 7 requirement (which you are) you should be okay.
However to improve your profile, you can always give the test again and have a higher score and better profile.
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You can earn points if the spouse/secondary applicant scores well enough on a language test. You should check total scores if either of you have different education or work qualifications because the points for those may outweigh the language points. – mkennedy Mar 7 '16 at 19:55
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What Is A VPN?
November 18, 2020
A VPN can serve a variety of purposes. The acronym stands for “virtual private network,” and at its most basic level a VPN is a tool that provides a secure internet experience. A VPN works by encrypting your internet connection, by routing your internet traffic across a network and through a server owned by your VPN provider. A VPN increases your privacy online, prevents ISP tracking and makes it safe to use public wi-fi. It also allows users to access blocked websites and access censored content. When it comes to selecting a VPN, the best VPNs out there are paid products – not free ones - as they offer better security and quality of service. VPNs work across a wide variety of desktop and mobile devices, and are installed via a VPN app. Keep reading to learn more about what a VPN does in greater detail, who a VPN protects you from (and what these parties want with your information), and where to use your VPN.
While a VPN and the end-to-end encryption it provides are extremely powerful and important tools to protect yourself online, a VPN is not a magical wand that can solve every privacy threat possible out there - although we wish some such tool did exist. There are a lot of misleading claims out there about what a VPN can do and some confusion in the marketplace in general, so we’ll also talk about what a VPN can’t do.
What Does A VPN Do?
At the most basic level, a VPN does two main things:
• Encrypts your internet connection
• Changes your IP address
Encrypting your connection secures it, and a VPN protects your network traffic from anyone who has the ability to see it (we’ll go over who this “anyone” is below).
Changing your IP address allows you to mask or hide your IP address, so the location tied to your real IP address cannot be identified.
Who Does a VPN Protect You From?
A VPN protects your data in transit. This means it can protect you from a few different people or companies that may be trying to sneak a peek at what you’re doing online or collect some of your valuable data.
• Your ISP: Primarily, a VPN protects you from your Internet Service Provider (or the internet service provider of the business you are patronizing or place you are using the internet from).
• Companies that own a network: For example, your workplace or a Starbucks café
• Hackers: If you are using public or untrusted wi-fi, a VPN prevents “bad actors” who intercept your connection from seeing anything (they can’t make sense of any information even if they do manage to intercept your connection, because it's encrypted).
What Do They Want with Your Information?
What might an ISP or a McDonald's want to do with your information? Unfortunately, the possibilities are numerous:
• Use it to throttle your traffic. If an ISP wants, they can decide to slow down your internet traffic based upon your activity. Say you watch Netflix for 12 hours/day and use a lot of bandwidth up, maybe they don’t like that. As a result, they may choose to throttle you – or slow you down – intentionally.
• Capitalize on it in their own ad networks. Many ISPs run massive ad networks. This means your data is very valuable to them and they can use it to target you with advertising which in turn leads to increased profits. So, they are getting money from you for providing your internet service and by capitalizing on the information they learn about your online habits.
• Sell it to other advertisers. Many ISPS also sell data to other advertisers or advertising networks for a profit. This practice is also common among applications you may trust, and when you sign up for free service of any sort.
• Use it for negative purposes. When it comes to those hackers out there, more than likely they want your data for some purpose that involves making money off the information or trying to use it for a less-than-wholesome reason.
Tell Me Again, How Does the VPN Protect Me?
If you’re using a VPN, you can stop your internet service provider, network owner or any malicious person who tries to intercept your connection from seeing what you are doing online.
With a VPN connection, NO ONE CAN SEE:
• Your real IP address (nor the location associated with it)
• Your location (your city or street)
• What sites you visit
• How long you visit the sites
• What applications you use
• Contents of communications you send or passwords you type in
OK! I’m Convinced I Need to Secure My Connection. But Where Should I Use a VPN?
In a word, everywhere! There is little downside to using a VPN each and every time you connect to the internet, although depending on your goal you may not need to have your VPN on 24/7.
Why Use A VPN In A Coffee Shop, Hotel, [Insert Public Place Here]
If you’re using wi-fi anywhere other than your home, the security of the network is likely in question. The network might be unsecured, or even if it is secured it might have a pretty bad password (we’re talking about café123, here). This means it’s easy for hackers to gain access and do whatever nefarious things they want.
It also means the company, IE Starbucks, could be watching your activity while you’re using their network. In fact, when you clicked “connect” and that little check box down there, you likely gave them explicit permission to do so.
There is also a chance that network titled “BEST CAFE” is not even for the BEST CAFE, but a fake network made by a malicious person to trick internet users and collect their details or spy on them. These networks can go by many names – honeypots, evil twins – but they are always bad news.
Why Use a VPN At Home
While you shouldn’t have to worry about security as much if you own your home network and have configured it properly, you may still want to leave your VPN on. Why, you may ask? To prevent your ISP from collecting information on your activity, as we reviewed above. Or, if you live in a shared space with roommates or wi-fi shared across an entire building, the VPN would be a good idea still.
Why Use a VPN During Travel
Just like the coffee shop example, networks at hotels, airports, train stations or any other travel-related spots are often of unknown origin or trustworthiness - hence the name of our public wi-fi protection feature, formerly called "connect on untrusted wi-fi".
Using a VPN while traveling also ensures you can access the same internet experience as you do at home, and bypass any censorship that exists. Censorship is another distinct VPN use case, which we'll delve into in another piece.
What Things CAN’T a VPN Do, Then?
As you can see, a VPN can accomplish a lot! But it does have some limitations. Below is some information on the things a VPN will not protect you against. (Good news is, there are other ways to protect your privacy in these instances).
A VPN Cannot:
• Make you anonymous online. As we outline in detail in one of our most popular pieces, I Am Anonymous When I Use a VPN: 10 Myths Debunked, a VPN cannot make you anonymous online. It's impossible to be completely anonymous on the internet, regardless of what tools you are using. Be wary of marketing claims that state otherwise.
• Hide your geolocation on a mobile devices with GPS capabilities. A VPN can mask your location on the internet and on a computer where your location is tied to your IP address, but it has no interaction with the GPS function on your phone or tablet. Thus, it’s not possible to use a VPN to totally hide where you are if you’re using a device with location services.
• Stop cookies. Even if you’re using a VPN, companies can still track you through the use of cookies. This is a function of a web protocol and if your browser is set up to allow cookies. There are some settings you can change to address this, but they are unrelated to the VPN.
• Stop Google from tracking you if you’re logged into your account. If you’re logged into your Google account and using Chrome, they are tracking everything you do. They know who you are and can sell the data they collect on you to others or use it for their own advertising platform. This is a service unrelated to the VPN, you’ve logged in to the service to use it, and in agreeing to the terms of use allowed them to track you.
• Stop Facebook from seeing what you visit on Facebook. If you’re using a VPN, Facebook will not be able to see where you’re coming from (your location and IP) or who your ISP is, but they can still see a lot. You’re logged in to their platform, and they can see what you click on – other profiles, articles, whatever. Again, this is a service you’ve logged in to and given permissions to, and it does not relate to using a VPN. The same is true of many other social media platforms.
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Hi all,
I am new to the forum. I am working through the tutorial Training feature classifiers with q2-feature-classifier
Unfortunately I am running into issues because I am not using the most up-to-date version of qiime2. I managed to solve the first issue at the qiime tools import part by reverting back to the old code
–source-format HeaderlessTSVTaxonomyFormat \ which is now…
–input-format HeaderlessTSVTaxonomyFormat
However, I cannot update my version of qiime2 because I am working remotely and accessing our HPC via a vpn. I don’t have the permission to update.
I am now running into an issue at the stage of Extract reference reads part of the tutorial…
I run the following code,
but receive this error
I have tried to set --p-min-length to 0 so this removed this but I still run into issues.
This is the code I ran to get the above error meassge
qiime feature-classifier extract-reads
–i-sequences 85_otus.qza
–p-trunc-len 120
–p-min-length 100
–p-max-length 400
–o-reads ref-seqs.qza
I just wondered if anyone had experienced this issue. I couldn’t find anything when I searched this time.
Thanks, Kate
Hi, @XrandallX and welcome to the forum!
Can you please share the output of qiime info? It looks like the min/max length parameters were added to extract-reads in the 2018.11 release. You are viewing the 2020.2 release version of the docs, according to the URL you shared above.
I recommend viewing the documentation which corresponds to the version of QIIME 2 you are using. From qiime info I can see that I am using QIIME 2 release 2020.8:
➜ qiime info
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Python version: 3.6.11
QIIME 2 release: 2020.8
QIIME 2 version: 2020.8.0
q2cli version: 2020.8.0
You can then use the drop down menu on the left side of the QIIME 2 docs to select the correct version:
I hope that helps! Let us know if you have any more questions :smile:
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Many thanks for your response and so sorry for wasting your time. I managed to get the person in charge of our HPC (which I am accessing remotely to update to the newest version) this has worked.
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Anton is the Caxton Professor of Journalism (Adjunct) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He was a co-founder and editor of the anti-apartheid newspaper the Weekly Mail (now the Mail & Guardian), Editor-in-Chief of South Africa’s leading television news channel, eNCA, and chief executive of Kagiso Broadcasting.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43521 | Explaining What the Hell F-Stop Is, and How It Can Change Your Photography
Dylan Bennet talks you through aperture size, focal length, and how they combine to produce the elusive concept that is f-stop. OK, so there's a little math, but it's not too complicated, and the understanding you'll gain makes it worth it. He wraps up by explaining how photographers use the f-stop terminology—what people mean when they say they're going up or down stops, and what's meant by a fast or slow lens—and provides a neat trick for memorizing the scale. Enjoy! [YouTube via PetaPixel]
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5G Means More Bandwidth, More Towers While this dramatic increase in bandwidth will have a direct impact on both users and the economy, there is also a downside.
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Typically, cellular networks have covered larger areas, while WiFi handles things on a smaller scale. … 5G cellular connections will be significantly faster than even the fastest LTE speeds currently available. Apart from faster speeds, 5G will bring much greater bandwidth and capacity to networks, just like WiFi 6.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43556 | mmark: Strict markdown processor for writers
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MMark in its current state features:
• An extension system allowing to create extensions that alter parsed markdown document in some way. Some of them are available in the mmark-ext package.
• A lucid-based render.
There is also a blog post announcing the project:
MMark and Common Mark
• parsing of an optional YAML block
• strikeout using ~~this~~ syntax
• superscript using ^this^ syntax
• subscript using ~this~ syntax
• automatic assignment of ids to headers
• PHP-style footnotes, e.g. [^1] (NOT YET)
• “pipe” tables (as used on GitHub) (NOT YET)
Differences in inline parsing
results in the following HTML:
(Note the nested emphasis.)
Could it produce something like this instead?
I decided to make parsing of emphasis, strong emphasis, and similar constructs like strikethrough, subscript, and superscript more symmetric and less ad-hoc. This is a work in progress and I'm not fully satisfied with the current approach as it does not allow to express some combinations of characters and markup, but in 99% of practical cases it is identical to Common Mark, and normal markdown intuitions will work OK for the users.
Let's start by dividing all characters into three groups:
• Space characters, including space, tab, newline and carriage return.
• Other characters, which include all characters not falling into the two groups described above.
Markup characters can be “converted” to other characters via backslash escaping. We'll see how this is useful in a few moments.
We'll call markdown characters placed between space characters and other characters left-flanking delimiter run. These markup characters sort of hang on the left hand side of a word.
Similarly we'll call markdown characters placed between other characters and space characters right-flanking delimiter run. These hang on the right hand side of a word.
This produces a parse error:
*Something * is not right.
Something __is __ not right.
And this too:
This means that inter-word emphasis is not supported by this approach. (This is a pity, maybe I should adjust something to allow it.)
There is one more tricky thing. In some cases we want to end emphasis and have full stop or other punctuation right after it:
Here it *goes*.
You can see that the closing * is not in right-flanking position here, and so it's a parse error. To avoid this, some punctuation characters that normally appear outside of markup were made “transparent” and thus they are regarded as white space, so the example above parses correctly and works as expected. To put a transparent character inside emphasis, backslash escaping is necessary:
We *\(can\)* have it.
Here ( and ) are transparent punctuation characters, just like ., so they must be turned into other characters to go inside the emphasis. This is a corner case and should not be common in practice.
So far the main limitation of this approach is the pains with inter-word markup, as in this example:
**We started to work on the *issue*.**
Should we escape . here? On one hand we should, to close **. But if we do, the closing * won't be in right-flanking position anymore. God dammit.
Other differences
Block-level parsing:
• Setext headings are not supported for the sake of simplicity.
Inline-level parsing:
Additional information about MMark-specific extensions
Pull requests are also welcome and will be reviewed quickly.
Copyright © 2017 Mark Karpov
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43564 | Breaking: The DOJ Accepts It Cannot Go After Legally Compliant Marijuana Businesses
California CannabisFirst came the Ogden memo in 2009, which announced to federal prosecutors in the Department of Justice (DOJ) not to focus its limited investigative and prosecutorial resources on individuals whose actions are in clear and unambiguous compliance with state medical marijuana laws. Then in 2014, Congress passed the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, which prohibited the DOJ from using federal funds to prevent states from implementing their own medical marijuana laws.
The amendment was the basis behind a federal judge’s ruling last October that the DOJ could not enforce injunctions against a California dispensary that was in compliance with the state’s medical marijuana laws. During the case, the DOJ argued that prosecuting and shutting down medical marijuana dispensaries does not prevent states from implementing their laws. Judge Breyer did not respond well to this argument, instead saying that the DOJ’s interpretation “tortures” the meaning of the law and “defies language and logic.”
The DOJ appealed the district court’s ruling to California’s Ninth Circuit court, but in a surprising turn of events, the DOJ dropped its appeal earlier this week by filing a motion to dismiss its own case. If the DOJ had proceeded with the appeal and lost again in the Ninth Circuit, the ruling would have set an even greater precedent for California courts. This is a big win for those of us who believe that marijuana businesses operating in compliance with state and local laws should be treated the same as any other legally compliant business. As long as Congress continues to renew the amendment each year, marijuana business owners in legal states can sleep more soundly knowing they will not be woken up by DOJ boots kicking down their doors, and that even if this does happen, they could have the courts on their side.
Still, both the Ogden memo and the district court’s ruling highlight an important element of the federal government’s current position on marijuana enforcement. The feds will not interfere if, and only if, states have clear and robust marijuana regulations in place. For states like California, which only recently passed statewide regulation and is still in the midst of its rule-making process, there is an urgent need to get that robust regulation in place so cannabis businesses can enjoy the fruits of these policies against federal interference. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43574 | 1. First, you need to synchronize your Google Calendar with your iPhone Calendar.
2. Second, when you receive an invitation to an event via a CampusGroups email, click on the "Google Calendar" download link.
3)A Google event page will open. You can select various options. Then click on the "Save" button. (Note: You need to be logged in to Google on your iPhone.)
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43575 | User Source
User Source is one of the key criteria for measuring ROI on marketing efforts. Source analysis is being used for traffic quality measurement and engagements and is essential for knowing the best traffic sources, mediums, or campaigns.
Source analysis can be used to:
• Compare any user activity/event based on the Source/Campaign/Medium
• Split Funnels or Cohorts by the Source/Campaign/Medium
• Analyze Sessions/App Opens from a specific source
• Compare Campaign Types for MoEngage Campaigns
• Analyze Conversion and Revenue by Source
Source Analysis
Source analysis is deeply coupled with Session analysis. When the Source properties change, the Source changes and MoEngage considers it to be a new Session.
All of the Source properties are attached to every event/user activity of the Session and also with the Session event as well.
Source Properties
There are 2 different types of Source properties – UTM Parameters and User-Defined Parameters.
UTM Parameters
UTM parameters are used to analyze different traffic sources. MoEngage SDK, by default, reads the UTM parameters from the URL for the web and from the deep link for mobile apps.
MoEngage supports these UTM parameters:
• utm_source: Determines the website/app/link that sent the traffic (e.g. YouTube, Instagram, Google)
• utm_medium: Determines the type of channel used (e.g. push, banner, email)
• utm_campaign: Determines the name of the campaign (e.g. Newyear, Bigbillionday)
• utm_id: Determines the id of the campaign (e.g. NY1234, BBD456)
• utm_term: Determines search terms for paid traffic (e.g. Mobile+sale)
• utm_content: Determines the content used (e.g. banner, video, product image)
For example, in the given URL, 'utm_source' and 'utm_medium' are source properties and "MoEngage" and "Email" are the corresponding values.
UTM parameter is a must for Session and Source Analysis. Without UTM parameters, there will be no information available on the dashboard. Make sure all of the marketing links, referral links, and key-value pairs are having the UTM information with them.
There is no need to track any extra event for this. SDKs automatically read all the specified UTM parameters and append in all of the events.
User-Defined Parameters
Many marketers use custom source parameters that are specific to their business. MoEngage supports custom source parameters as well. Other than the UTM Parameters, you can also define 5 custom parameters for your Apps/Websites. MoEngage SDKs will include the new parameters the in URL as source properties and append them for all events.
Only in case of push notifications, if there is no deep link or deep-link do not have source information, system (SDKs) will look for source properties in the key-value pair.
MoEngage supports the last-click attribution model. All the user activity/event will be attributed to the last click done by the user. The attribution window here is the session duration.
For example, if the user came from a Google Ads, stayed for a session of 5 minutes and performed 15 events. The source property value, for all of these 15 events will be Google Ads. For the next session, if the user came organically, all the events in that session will not have any source information.
Let’s dive a little deeper and see how it works.
Source Reports
Available reports for MoEngage Session & Source are given below -
Session Count
Session count shows the total session count across the source properties such as Source or Medium.
The source properties are explained below in this document.
Conversion Count
Conversion count shows the total number of conversion across the source properties. For Conversion report calculation, the MoEngage system takes conversion activity/event present in App Settings page.
Revenue report shows the total revenue for the selected source properties. For the Revenue report calculation, the MoEngage system takes Conversion activity/event and Revenue attribute present in App Settings page.
Avg. Session Duration
Avg. Session Duration shows the average session duration for the selected source properties.
Avg. Session Duration = Sum(Session Duration)/(Total No of Session)
Bounce Rate
All session having session duration less than 10 seconds are defined as a Bounced Sessions. Bounce Rate is the percentage of bounced session wrt the total number of sessions. This report is available across selected source properties.
Avg. Session / User
Avg. Session / User shows the average number of sessions per user across selected source properties.
Avg. Conversion / Session
Avg. Conversion / Session shows the average number of conversion per session across selected source properties.
Report Filters
Reports can be filtered based on one source property. For example, report can be filtered on a medium like email.
Source Properties
All reports are analyzed on Source Properties. A maximum of two properties can be selected for the analysis. By default reports are available on Source.
Report Analysis
All reports are shown in the chart & table formate.
Chart Analysis
All reports are by default shown in Bar chart format, sorted by the highest count. This report can also be viewed in Line chart and Area chart.
Reports can be analyzed in the granularity of HourlyDailyWeekly, or Monthly for the desired visualization.
Downloading Reports
Once you’ve viewed the report, you might need to share it with your team. You can download the report in order to do that.
Charts can be downloaded in PNG format and you can export a CSV file of the tabular version.
Source Properties in MoEngage Campaigns
Push Campaigns
To add source properties or UTM parameters in MoEngage push notifications, on the Messaging page of the campaign creation Actions should be specified.
For Android, iOS and Windows Actions for the primary message should be one of the - Navigate to a screen, Deeplinking, or RichLanding.
Navigate to a screen - select the specific screen name and add Additional Key-Value pairs.
DeepLining - Deeplinking URI can have source properties (as specified above in the UTM parameter section) or the user can specify Additional Key-Value pairs.
RichLanding - RichLanding URL can have source properties (as specified above in the UTM parameter section) or the user can specify Additional Key-Value pairs.
For Web, the Action button URL should have the source properties.
If URL/URI/Deeplink has been added ling with Key-Value pairs, URL/URI/Deeplink will be given prference for selecting the source properties.
Email Campaigns
All the email links should have source properties (as specified above in the UTM parameter section) to analyse the traffic landing on app/website from the email campaigns.
For Source & Session analysis, the app should have android SDK on or above version 9.7.01 and iOS SDK should be on or above version 5.2.5.
To enable Source Analysis for your account, please connect with your CSM or write to us at
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43583 | Agincourt 600th Anniversary
220px-King_Henry_V_from_NPGThis Sunday, 25th of October 2015, marks the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt. One of the greatest battles in English history, it epitomises the pinnacle of English successes against their traditional enemy, France, during the epic struggle of the Hundred Years War. But what started it all?
The origins of the Hundred Years War go back 200 years before its outbreak, to Henry II. His marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine meant he was not only Duke of Normandy in the north of France, but Duke of Aquitaine in the south. And his accession to the English throne in 1154 brought all these French possessions to the crown of England. This made for the awkward position that the sovereign of England was technically a vassal of the King of France, causing no end of squabbles and friction for years to come.
Wars broke out frequently and the French gradually ate away at England’s French possessions.
It all came to a head with a crisis in the French monarchy. When Philip IV, the Fair, of France, died in 1314, he was successively succeeded by each of his 3 sons; Louis X, Philip V and Charles IV. Only one of these kings produced a son, King John the Posthumous was born 5 months after the death of Louis X, his father, and lived – and ruled – for only 5 days. Following the death of the baby king Philip V seized the crown, effectively disinheriting Louis X’s daughter, Jeanne.
220px-Edward_III_of_England_(Order_of_the_Garter)Although Salic Law was known in France, it generally related to property and had never actually been used to decide the succession to the crown. However, Philip V made certain that it would be from now on, by having the Estates General declare that women were not eligible to succeed to the throne of France.
Unfortunately for the French royal family, both Philip V and his successor, his brother, Charles IV, only had daughters. Charles IV died in 1328, leaving his wife, Jeanne d’Evreux, pregnant; a regency council was set up to rule the country, until the child’s birth. However, Jeanne gave birth to a daughter, Blanche, and France had to find a new king.
One candidate was Edward III of England. Edward was the oldest grandson of Philip IV through his daughter Isabella of France, Queen of Edward II of England. However, Edward III was only 15 years old and England – and Edward – were controlled by Edward’s mother, Isabella of France, and her lover, Roger Mortimer, who had deposed and possibly murdered Edward’s father, Edward II. Edward’s claim came through his mother – and he was English.
The assembly of French notables, convened to decide who should be king, declared: “It had never been seen or known that the kingdom of France should be subject to the government of the King of England.
As a result, they chose another as their king; the nephew of Philip IV, Philip of Valois, Count of Anjou and Maine. Philip was in his thirties, with a 9-year-old son, and had been Regent during Jeanne’s pregnancy.
Edward III initially agreed to pay homage to Philip VI, who was crowned in 1329, for his French possessions. However, he was still a minor and under the tutelage of his mother and Mortimer. When Edward took control of his kingdom, in 1330, he had a change of heart. Irked by Philip’s support for the Scots, and encouraged by local conflicts in Guyenne, Edward questioned the validity of his oath to Philip, made while he was still a minor. And in 1337 Edward III declared war.
Initial English successes devastated France: the French fleet was destroyed at Sluys in 1340, and Edward III ravaged the French countryside, in a great chevauchee. In an attempt to bring the French to battle Edward’s ‘scorched-earth’ policy saw towns besieged, convents and monasteries ransacked and the people displaced. The French were eventually brought to battle at Crecy in 1346, where their cavalry was destroyed. The fall of Calais followed in 1347.
In 1356, at the Battle of Poitiers, the English, under the Black Prince (Edward, Prince of Wales) captured France’s king, John II the Good. John was sent to England – where he died in 1364, still awaiting the payment of his vast ransom.
The 1360 Treaty of Bretigny was the crowning success of England’s war, with Edward III taking possession of almost a third of France.
Although technically at peace, the two countries kept picking at each other – each supporting opposing factions in places of mutual interest, such as Brittany. In then end, with the failing health of the Black Prince, and and aging Edward III, a resurgent France emerged under Charles V; which saw English possessions reduced to a few ports and their environs by 1380.
After 1389 truces between France and England were almost continuous. Richard II married Isabella of Valois, daughter of Charles VI, in 1396, as part of a 28 year truce.
Charles VI had suffered from madness since 1392 and France had started to implode. The king was surrounded by bad councillors and factions, such as the Armagnacs and Burgundians, had riven the country apart with their in-fighting. Many parts of France were ruled almost totally independent of central government.
However, with the turn of the century, the English had problems of their own and were unable to take advantage of France’s woes. Richard II was imprisoned and, later, murdered by the usurping Henry IV, who spent his reign preoccupied by troubles and rebellions in England.
Henry IV and his son, the future Henry V were divided as to which French factions they should support; Henry IV preferred the Armagnacs, while the Prince of Wales supported the Burgundians.
With the death of Henry IV, and the accession of Henry V, English ambitions turned to France yet again. Almost immediately, Henry laid claim to his inheritance in France. he made a pretense of negotiating for peace, while preparing for war. He would accept nothing less than the total reinstatement of the Plantagenet possessions in France.
There is an, almost certainly, apocryphal story of Henry V taking up arms against the French after they jokingly sent him a set of tennis balls, suggesting that he stick to such ‘childish’ occupations, for which he had established a reputation during his father’s reign.
Henry saw war with France as a way of diverting the interests of the great nobles away from internal conflicts, thus restoring and maintaining order at home. With peace negotiations faltering, and having dealt with several plots to displace him from his throne – the last of which, the Southampton Plot was foiled in the first week of August 1415 – Henry V and his army arrived in Normandy on 13th August 1415 and laid siege to Harfleur.
Harfleur held until 23rd September, by which time Henry’s army of about 10,000 was greatly depleted by dysentery. He was making for Calais – and England – when, on 25th October, he came face-to-face with the French.
At Agincourt.
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Article originally published on The Review in October 2015.
©2015 Sharon Bennett Connolly
20 thoughts on “Agincourt 600th Anniversary
1. Brittius 25/10/2015 / 10:39
Reblogged this on Brittius and commented:
…”If we are mark’d to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.”
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2. Michael Jones 25/10/2015 / 12:36
Good to see this post – and really nice to meet you at Harrogate Sharon.
600 years ago Henry V and his small army astounded the French, and the rest of Europe as well!
Their courage deserves to be remembered – they truly were a Band of Brothers.
I hope you enjoy 24 Hours at Agincourt – i try to do their achievement justice, and congratulations on your blog site – its great!
With best wishes on this special day, Mike.
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• Sharon Bennett Connolly 25/10/2015 / 13:03
Thank you Michael, it was a pleasure meeting you too. Can’t wait to get stuck into your book – I am prepared to be persuaded on Henry V… 🙂
3. Char 25/10/2015 / 21:29
Excellent article, Sharon! I’ve reblogged this…
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4. Noirfifre 15/11/2015 / 14:47
I recently completed the Agincourt course at FutureLearn and it was deliciously interesting, I was so excited to stumble upon your post here that it compelled me to go over to the Book Review to read more. It reminded me of the course all over again and I love it.
• Sharon Bennett Connolly 15/11/2015 / 16:15
Wonderful! Thank you. I must say, researching for the post has made me want to learn even more about Agincourt. It’s a fascinating period of history.
• Noirfifre 15/11/2015 / 18:26
I surely do, it is a fascinating period because now I have a bit of a fascination for Henry V.
• Noirfifre 15/11/2015 / 21:15
I have a much less information about his dad H, the IV. All I know is he usurped the throne, haha.
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A pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) program is a more equitable way to pay for collection and disposal of municipal solid waste.
Under a PAYT program, each house is charged for the waste they generate, rather than paying a flat fee. If a household throws away less trash, they pay less. Currently, there are over 7,000 communities that have implemented PAYT programs. Learn more about PAYT programs from the EPA website and, assuming that your city does not currently employ a PAYT program, develop a pamphlet, brochure, infographic, or poster of a PAYT program for your city that you could distribute to the community. You do not have to use your current city. You can select any city of your choice without a PAYT program.
In this pamphlet, brochure, infographic, or poster:
1. Outline the following important criteria for your PAYT program:
1. Container options (e.g., bags, stickers, containers)
2. Enforcement options
3. Pricing system
4. Ways to incorporate apartment/multifamily housing
5. Ways to incentivize recycling
6. Ways to consider/manage special populations (e.g., elderly, lower socioeconomic class)
7. Outreach/education program
8. And, discuss whether you will support this PAYT program in your community
2. Cite your sources using APA formatting.
3. Be creative with how you will visually present your pamphlet. You can use Word or another software platform to create your assignment.
Websites with free software for building brochures:
Canva: Free online brochure maker
My Creative Shop: You can try a free account
Vengage: Free infographic maker
Lucidpress: You can try a free account
Note: WCU is not responsible for these websites. You do not have to use any of them; this is a list to provide other options. You can be creative! |
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HBO’sWatchmenis already shaping up to be one of the most mysterious, compelling and controversial shows of 2019. Showrunner Damon Lindelof (Lost,The Leftovers) has spoken at length about how he worshiped the 1987 graphic novel by Alan Moore (which originated as a1986 series published by DC Comics). But his show is not a straight adaptation. Rather, it is a “remix” of the original material, set in the present day and dealing with modern problems, particularly the rise of white nationalism.
One could watch the show and follow the story without ever having read the book. That said, the show is a multilayered mystery. For those trying to put all the pieces together, it’s helpful to be able to parse which aspects are references to the graphic novel, and which puzzles are wholly new to the series.
Plenty of bizarre things happen in the first episode, including squid falling from the sky, the raid of a trailer park named Nixonville and an interrogation that takes place inside a pod flashing photo images at the suspect. None of these events has anything to do with the graphic novel — at least not directly. Nor do the horrifying opening scenes of the series, which depict the real-life massacre of hundreds of black business owners and residents of an area of Tulsa known as the “Black Wall Street” in June 1921.
But some aspects of the first episode — the black and white masks that the white supremacist group wears, the strange detour to visit an older gentleman in his castle and the advertisements for a show-within-a-show calledAmerican Hero Story:Minutemen, are pulled directly from the original novel and require some explanation.
Here’s everything you need to know about theWatchmengraphic novel in order to get the most out of the HBO series.
The show is not an adaptation, but a continuation
Regina King inWatchmen
Mark Hill—HBO
Lindelof has called HBO’sWatchmena “remix” of the old story. The graphic novel takes place in an alternate version of 1985 New York City where costumed heroes — some with superpowers, some without — run rampant. The comic is rooted in Reagan-era social and class anxiety and depicts men and women of varying degrees of morality fighting to do what they think is right or contracting themselves out to serve the missions of others.
Lindelof’s show takes place, for the most part, in an alternate version of 2019 Tulsa, Okla., and an America in which Robert Redford is president. Everything that happened in the 1985 graphic novel is canon, and there is even a show within the show that depicts many of the events from the graphic novel. Those events have clearly impacted the American society depicted in the 2019 of the series.
Some of the characters from the graphic novel show up, including Adrian Veidt, a.k.a. Ozymandias (Jeremy Irons) and Laurie Blake, a.k.a. Silk Spectre (Jean Smart). And there are many references to other main characters from the graphic novel, including Dr. Manhattan and Rorschach.
Here’s the plot of the originalWatchmen
watchmen alan moore and dave gibbons
Watchmenis a complicated graphic novel, and it’s difficult to summarize Moore’s efforts to interrogate and complicate the typical superhero narrative. But here goes:
The graphic novel jumps between the 1940s and the events of 1985. In the 1940s, there is a crew of masked men and women called the Minutemen who work together to stop crime — or hire themselves out for dangerous missions like fighting in the Vietnam War or helping to control race riots. Differing political and social views lead them to break up.
Fast forward to 1985, where someone is killing masked men. The first victim is a morally compromised mercenary namedThe Comedian. A man who calls himselfRorschach(he wears a mask that resembles the Rorschach test) investigates his death. Even though Rorschach shows himself to be a racist, sexist, homophobic maniac (who apparently also doesn’t shower), two other retired masked fighters calledNite OwlandSilk Spectrereluctantly team up with him to solve the mystery. Meanwhile, another former superhero-turned-successful businessman,Ozymandias, barely escapes an assassination attempt.
Silk Spectre’s boyfriend,Doctor Manhattan, is the only hero in the book with actual superhuman abilities. During a radiation accident he gained basically every superhero ability in the book — teleportation, creation or destruction with the snap of a finger, etc. The only downside is he’s blue and therefore not very good at hiding. Shortly after the Comedian’s death, Doctor Manhattan is publicly accused of spreading cancer with the radiation in his body. He exiles himself to Mars.
Silk Spectre visits Doctor Manhattan on Mars to appeal to him to return to Earth and protect it. While there, Silk Spectre finds out that her mother, who also fought crime, had been raped by the Comedian, and that the Comedian is Silk Spectre’s birth father. Doctor Manhattan and Silk Spectre share revelations about the pain and messiness of human existence.
Rorschach and Nite Owl discover that Ozymandias is behind the killings of the Comedian and other masked men (he faked his own assassination attempt) as well as the Doctor Manhattan cancer rumors. The two men travel to Ozymandias’ hideout in the Arctic to confront him. Ozymandias admits to trying to eliminate the masked men in order to carry out his ultimate plan.
He explains that he is plotting to prevent nuclear war by attacking New York City using a fake squid-like alien created in his lab. He unleashes the faux alien on the city, killing three million people — who Ozymandias believes are necessary casualties to prevent millions more deaths. The U.S. and Soviet Union call a ceasefire in response and team-up to face the alleged alien invasion. The Cold War ends.
Rorschach threatens to expose Ozymandias, and Doctor Manhattan kills him, saying that the only way to preserve the peace is to go along with Ozymandias’ lie. Ozymandias asks Doctor Manhattan if creating the fake alien was the right thing to do “in the end,” and Doctor Manhattan assures him that “it never ends.” Doctor Manhattan departs for space while Silke Spectre (who has split up with him) and Nite Owl take on new identities and marry one another.
TheWatchmenTV show introduces a lot of elements that aren’t in the book
Regina King in HBO’sWatchmen
Mark Hill—HBO
In the first episode alone, Lindelof lays out his intentions to deal with issues of race, with which the graphic novel was less concerned. The television show begins with the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, a real-life event that was not in the book.
The legacy of that assault on a flourishing black community continues to scar the community in Tulsa in 2019. Descendants of those killed in that massacre seem to have received some sort of reparations from the government — as referenced by the kid who is “on his way to being a racist” in the classroom in the first episode.
The police, meanwhile, have begun to hide their faces in response to a coordinated attack by a white supremacist group wearing Rorschach masks years before. The main character in the show is one such cop, policewoman Angela Abar (Regina King), a hero with complicated morals. While she fights against the masked men who spew racist, sexist and homophobic slurs — most of whom seem to live in an area they’ve dubbed Nixonville, after the president — she and her colleagues use questionable methods to capture and interrogate them.
The themes and symbols of theWatchmengraphic novel show up in the series
Regina King and Tim Blake Nelson in HBO’sWatchmen
Mark Hill—HBO
The most famous image from the Watchmen graphic novel is a drop of blood that falls on the smiley face pin the Comedian is wearing when he is killed. The smiley face shows up again and again in the show, beginning with a shot of Angela breaking eggs in a smiley formation in the first episode.
Then there’s the tagline for the graphic novel, “Who watches the Watchmen?” That line immediately signaled readers that the so-called heroes of this story would be morally complicated and not always trustworthy. Similarly, the show forces us to ask who has the prerogative to decide what is right and wrong.
You also may notice clocks constantly ticking in the show. There are countless clocks hidden in the panels of theWatchmencomic, including a literal doomsday clock ticking down until midnight. The story is imbued with a sense that the characters are running out of time and that something horrid is scheduled for a specific moment. Similarly, theWatchmenTV show is filled with clocks ticking, conveying a sense of dread to the viewer. On top of all that, there are the men in Rorschach masks literally chanting “tick, tick, tick” like a bomb about to go off.
White supremacists have taken on Rorschach as a symbol
It’s no surprise that Rorschach would become a symbol for bigots in America, much like the white hoods worn by the Ku Klux Klan. (After all, the KKK uniform is another form of the vigilante’s mask.) Rorschach lived by what he believed to be an unassailable black-and-white code of conduct, but that code was colored by his own misogyny (born from a complicated relationship with his mother, who was a prostitute) and personal prejudices.
While he seems to be a Batman-like hero at first, it’s slowly revealed that he spouts homophobic and sexist slurs, murders dogs for the crimes of their owners and enjoys committing violent acts. To embrace Rorschach as a hero — as many people,including Senator Ted Cruz, have done — is sort of to miss the entire point ofWatchmen. The graphic novel confronts the reader’s heroic conceptions of superheroes with the harsh and ugly reality of crimefighting.
But Rorschach did not exist as a critique of superheroes in the world of Watchmen. He was a real person, who sometimes did the right thing for the wrong reasons. He’s a complicated symbol and an aspirational figure for a vicious army of racists who adopt all the worst aspects of his ideology and channel them toward acts of pure evil.
Ozymandias is living in a castle with strange servants
Jeremy Irons as Adrian Veidt in HBO’sWatchmen
Colin Hutton—HBO
While Rorschach may only live on in memory, Ozymandias lives on in reality. Adrian Veidt, the businessman who plotted the faux alien attack on New York City, is declared dead, according to a newspaper headline in the first episode of the show.
Yet he seems to be alive and well, having decamped to some old castle and acquired himself servants who look human, but certainly don’t act human. (For example, one of his servants hands him a horseshoe to cut a cake rather than a knife, like he’s been misprogrammed.) The circumstances of his living situation remain a mystery for now.
His fake alien plot seems to have persisted, though: Characters in the show reference an extraterrestrial attack, and some even believe it was a government hoax, which isn’t all that far from the truth.
Doctor Manhattan is supposedly still on Mars
We learn in the early episodes that the characters in theWatchmenTV series believe Doctor Manhattan to still be alive, but living on Mars. In trailers for the show, we see masks that look like Doctor Manhattan. It’s unclear whether or not he will return to Earth.
Silk Spectre shows up in the trailer
Jean Smart as Laurie Blake in HBO’sWatchmen
Mark Hill—HBO
Laurie Blake, the former Silk Spectre, shows up as some sort of investigator or authority figure in the trailer, asking what the difference between a cop with a mask on and a vigilante is. She seems to have gone into mainstream crimefighting work after the events of theWatchmengraphic novel.
American Hero Story: Minutemenrecounts the events in the graphic novel
The show-within-a-show recounts the now fabled deeds of the morally complicated Minutemen from the 1940s, in all their gory horror. It heavily features a hero from the graphic novel called Hooded Justice, who wears a noose around his neck, a particularly potent costume in the context of the 1920s lynchings that set the stage for the show.
It’s clear that the events of the graphic novel serve as history, inspiration and entertainment for the characters in the television series.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43663 | Can I Learn Backend Before Frontend?
What is backend coding?
Back end Development refers to the server side of development where you are primarily focused on how the site works.
Code written by back end developers is what communicates the database information to the browser..
What is front end example?
A front end is the graphical user interface of a computer that makes it easier to use. For example, Microsoft Windows 3.11 was a front end for the MS-DOS command line. Before Windows, the user had to memorize a series of commands to perform tasks on the command line that made computers difficult for most users.
Should I learn front end or backend first?
I would recommend you should go with Front End first because you will have to use HTML, CSS and probably even JavaScript for analyzing your backend applicaiton. If you do not know Front End, at least basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, you will have very hard time.
How do I start learning backend?
How to become a Backend Developer?Step 1: Be well versed with the basics of Data Structures & Algorithm. … Step 2: Learn a Programming Language and choose a Framework. … Step 3: Learn the basics of Databases. … Step 4: Learn Framework(s) … Step 5: Start your practical training. … Step 6: Innovate and create something new. … Step 7: Hosting — AWS / Heroku.
What should I learn as a backend developer?
Learn5 Skills to Learn to Become a Back End Web DeveloperWrite the HTML code that’s presented in the user’s browser.Write program code to make the site respond to the user’s clicks.Communicate with a database to store data users enter.Provide data to iOS or Android apps through JSON or XML APIs.More items…•
Is SQL a backend language?
Structured Query Language (SQL) is the standard language for relational database management systems. It is used to interact with the database that is a part of the back end. Statements written in SQL are employed to accomplish tasks related to updating or retrieval of data.
Is Python good for backend?
Because of its emphasis on code readability and its vast libraries and frameworks, Python is an ideal backend language when it comes to this area of technology. … Moreover, Python has a vast set of libraries specific to machine learning, such as Keras, TensorFlow and Scikit-learn.
Is angular front or back end?
Angularjs is a front-end framework powered by JavaScript.
Can I learn backend without frontend?
Not really. The “front end” is the interface for your “back end” application. It doesn’t really do anything without that layer. … If you have other goals and mind and only want to learn back end, then learn programming as a discipline, then move on to back end programming.
Which full stack is best?
MeteorJS is, hands-down, the best choice if you are looking for speedy web development as it is a full-stack web development framework, which solves both your front-end and back-end needs. It is a JavaScript framework that has an in-built collection on libraries and packages that are linked and bound together.
What language do most hackers use?
Which Programming Languages are more applied by Hackers?HTML. This programming Language should be learned by beginners as this is the most leading language. … JavaScript. JavaScript is the most used as client-side programming and for web development is also the best programming language for hacking web applications. … SQL. … PHP. … Perl. … C. … C++ … Python.More items…•
Is Java front end or backend?
Your app will still contain frontend code, but it also has to be built using a language that a database can recognize. Some common backend languages are Ruby, PHP, Java, . Net, and Python. These programming languages often run on frameworks that simplify the web development process.
Is MVC front end or backend?
Who earns more front end or backend?
Is .NET front end or backend?
. Net comprises both frontend and backend languages. As for example, ASP.NET is used as backend and C# & VB.NET are used for frontend development.
Is front end easy?
The practice of front end development is similar to playing the bass: it’s easy to learn but difficult to master. There is a lot more to it than HTML and CSS (which are plenty difficult onto themselves).
Which is best backend language?
The best backend technologies to use in 2019Express. js. … Django. According to this year survey results, Python has a solid claim to being the fastest-growing major programming language. … Pyramid. Pyramid makes it easy to write web applications. … Flask. Flask is another python framework. … Laravel. … Ruby on Rails. … Phoenix (Elixir) … Summary.
Is C++ still in demand?
C++ is a staple language in the software development sphere maintaining its popularity and demand for year after year. In today’s climate, new technologies, frameworks and languages are consistently emerging, often disrupting the market causing the popularity of other languages to dissipate.
Is front end easier than back end?
What are the front end languages?
Key takeaway → HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are at the heart of Front End development. The three languages are relatively easy to learn and offer plenty of flexibility and creativity. If you want to become a Front End dev, you need to learn these three languages and JavaScript frameworks.
Which language is used for backend?
PHPMajority of websites on the world wide web use PHP as the backend. The language will top any list of popular programming languages. The language is maintained by a very active open source community and can seamlessly work cross-platform across UNIX, Mac and Windows.
What is the most powerful coding language?
C#C# Developed by Microsoft, C# rose to fame in the 2000s for supporting the concepts of object-oriented programming. It is one of the most powerful programming languages for the . NET framework.
Is Ruby front end or backend?
In web development, there is only one front-end programming language: Javascript (and things that compile to it, like ClojureScript and Elm). So now that you know that, you can deduce that in web development, Ruby is a back-end language.
Is C++ front end or backend?
C++ C++ is a widely used programming language nowadays for competitive programming. It is popular as a back-end language too.
Which is harder C++ or JavaScript?
The languages are reasonable similar in syntax but with C++ you also have to learn object-oriented development in a way that’s far more complex than Javascript. It isn’t really harder to learn but you have a lot more that you will need to learn before you’re a C++ expert.
Are front end developers in demand 2020?
Front end Developers are Highly in Demand: Due to Startups increased and also the usage of smart devices increases, which are on app-based or web-based businesses solely based. For front end developers, this led to the more increase in demand.
Is Front End Development dying?
Front-end developers might build websites or web applications, or focus on mobile web development. It’s a broad role, combining elements of both design and programming. … This suggests that—as a discipline—front-end development is far from dying, and job prospects for those hoping to get into the field still look strong. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43667 | How to Test Cordless Phone Batteries
By Chanel Adams
Cordless phones typically need a battery or two for them to work. Somewhere in your house, you many have a collection of batteries. The batteries may be new, old or used. However, you may not know exactly how old they are or if they are still good to use. Find out the batteries' life with a battery tester. A battery tester allows you to read the results of a good or bad battery before you decide to use it.
Step 1
Purchase a battery tester. You will find them at hardware stores and electronic retailers. Ensure that the battery tester is compatible with your battery (AAA, AA, 9v, C or D).
Step 2
Insert the batteries into the tester. The probes should be on easier side of the battery. The battery should match to the positive and negative markings.
Step 3
Read the results of the battery tester. A good battery will have a full charge. A bad or dead battery will have less than 10 percent of a charge.
Place the dead batteries (if necessary) in a plastic sandwich bag. Take the battery to an electronics or home improvements store for recycling. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43673 | Jane Asher SCREENCAPS (re)Source
Posted on April 17, 2018 at 2:30 PM
Good day everyone,
On December last year I had a problem. I uploaded some Jne Asher pictures on the net. I usually contact photographers and/or we owners asking for permission first, but this time I totally forgot! And the photographer contcted me. He didn't want the pics removed (which I did) but being pyed for their usage.
I already had credited him and his website, as I always do in my posts. It wasn't enough for him. I had to pay. A LOT.
I don't want to have another experience like this again. I felt so sad and angry and frustrated... So since then, I deleted ALL my Jane pics from everywhere. All but gifs and screencaps. No one can sue me for them, can't they?
I know many people post the same pics again and again everywhere and maybe they don't give credit to anyone, and maybe they don't have the contact email (maybe that was the real problem) and they don't delete anything. I just hope they aren't contacted by a photographer as I did.
So now I only upload gifs and screen caps, but I also share photoshots, events, stage pics (my favourite ones), etc.
So I want to apologize for any inconventient this may cause. You still may join the Lady Jane group at yahoo (check links) where I still be uploading anything.
I just wanted to share my collection... what is the point if I can't share what I've got? I still safe her pics, the best versions possible... and still want to share the greatness of this amazing woman. They can't take me that and they won't.
Thank you very much for your comprenhension and support. In the following days/weeks this site will have its layout a bit changed so no-one won't be confused about what they'll find: SCREENCAPS ONLY.
Yours trully,
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43675 | Verifying Input
When creating constructors and adding setters, I’ve been taught to verify all input passed to the method. In working through the ProjectEuler exercises, I’ve made use of helper methods that hadformal parameters but didn’t necessarily verify the input (bad habit). With Problem8, I decided to put this into practice. The problem was: “find the greatest product of five consecutive digits in a 1000-digit number.’ I solved this problem using 2 for loops:
1. With the first for loop, I created a String object that contained 5 characters at one time. With every iteration of the for loop, the sentinel would be updated by 1 and thus, the String would be updated to contain a new sequence of 5 characters e.g. startingString.substring(i,i+4).
2. Rather than perform the required computation in the 1st for loop which would made my program faster, I decided to create a helper method which would accept a String and return the product of all the digits in that String.
3. The first iteration of my helper method didn’t include any checks to verify that the String didn’t have any non-word characters which would have caused a NumberFormat exception (I converted the digits in the String object using Integer.parseInt(String name)).
So, I added some to the helper method I used to make sure that the algorithm would return correct/appropriate output when provided input that fits the formal parameter specifications.
4. First, I stripped the String of all non-word characters with this command: digits.replaceAll(“\W”,””); An alternate and informative way to alert the user to the ‘bad’ input is via the try { } catch { } feature of Java.
5. Another thing to check for is if, after stripping all non-word characters from the String passed to the helper method, the String’s length is 0 i.e. the String is an empty String, I would return 0 as the product of the String in that case instead of the value of Product which was initialized to 1. That was taken care of via a simple conditional statement. Here’s the code for my helper method:
Overall, it’ll be good practice for me to view my code with an eye to splitting off ‘tasks’ into helper methods and making sure that input is verified.
Happy December break! :)
I’m thankful for family and thankful that my faculties are still sharp. 🙂 Long way of saying my semester ended on a very strong note.
Taking a break from stuffing myself, I thought of a crude solution to Problem 5 from Caution: With the way I solved the problem, I’ll run into an integer oveflow situation for N > 23. Without further ado, here’s the gist of my rough solution:
I’ve started using Github (@janoulle) and I know the basics of creating/cloning a repo, adding, committing and pushing. I may have to pony up for a private repo for placing my class assignments but the cheapskate in me thinks it might be better to move to Bitbucket which has free & unlimited private repos.
Edit: Problem 6 was relatively straightforward and I solved that quickly. It requires summation formula which, if you’ve taken Calculus I or Discrete Math, should be easy to do. I’ve pushed it to the Github repo which contains all my solutions.
Edit: Problem 7 is done.
Code Critiques
So, I finished the semester on a strong note: aced all 4 of my classes. Woohoo!
The relevant CS courses I took were: Intro to Programming (using Java), Discrete Math and Calculus I. I heartily recommend this combination of classes because the concepts I learned in Discrete Math served me well in my Java class (think propositional & predicate logic) and my Calculus class (functions/relations)!
Project Euler
ProjectEuler is “a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve.” In other words, it is a collection of problems for inquiring minds.
I solved the first problem using Python and it was relatively straightforward
The next problem (Problem 2) was solved with Java and it builds on skills you used for solving Problem 1 and adds the Fibonacci algorithm to the mix:
I’ll be working on Problem 3 and will have my solution ready when it’s fit for public viewing.
Update: my solution is here. It’s bulky but it works. Phew.
Some Resources for Learning Java
In my quest to learn more about Java, here are some sites that I’ve found to be of use to me:
1. The Java 7/6 API documentation – learn to love this site. You’ll refer to it endlessly as you run into problems or need to find methods for a task.
2. The Java Tutorials – by Oracle. I found this helpful while reviewing for tests. You can also download them to your computer.
3. – by Professor Fred Swartz. You can view the notes online or download them to your computer.
4. Training sites like ElementK. ElementK is not a free site but I have access to their huge library of training materials via my school. So make sure you browse your Computer Science Department homepage for hidden gems like free software for students and free training resources. If your school has a “student hub” (my school has one powered by uPortal which is where I learned about the free training), start your search there.
Reading input from the console
In training materials from ElementK, I observed the use of to accept input from the keyboard. In my intro to Java class, I was taught to use the Scanner class in Java. What is the different between these two methods?
I’ll talk about the Scanner class although the Java API docs do a much better job of clarification. If you want to create a simple Java program where the user is prompted to enter words, characters or numbers, you need a class that allows you to do this. The Scanner class does not belong to the java.lang package to you need to import the Scanner class from java.util.Scanner using the import command at the top of your Java class.
import java.util.Scanner;
Comparing Objects in Java
I’m taking advantage of training materials offered through an alliance with my school and ElementK to bone up on Java. I am currently taking the Java Fundamentals course which is a nice follow-up to the Intro to Computer & Programming course I just completed. With a little Java under my belt, I know that comparing two Object variables using the == operator can lead to unwanted results. In Java, object variables only hold the address in memory where the object is stored. Backing up a bit, here’s the code for creating an object in Java:
Classname objVar = new Classname();
The new operator allocates memory for the object to be created, calls the Class constructor and returns a reference to that memory which is then assigned to objVar.
So, if you do a direct comparison of two object variables like this obj1 == obj2, you are really comparing the memory locations of the objects you want! Unless your specific intent is to check and see if an object is an alias of another, you should avoid direct comparisons if you’re really trying to compare the state of two objects.
Imagine my surprise to find this snippet of code in ElementK’s training files for testing equality:
In this case, my recommended change would be:
where the getName() method returns a String object which we can them compare using the built-in equals or equalsIgnoreCase methods to compare the values returned by getName().
Code Academy!
I finally got around to finishing some lessons in Having a little bit of programming experience (very little Python, a little Java experience) helped me complete the exercises faster. After completing the exercises, I’m hungry for more. I took advantage of some O’Reilly specials to purchase some eBooks about JavaScript specifically:
1. JavaScript: The Good Parts
2. JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual 2nd Edition
I haven’t actually read them yet but with my upcoming free time, I’ll make some headway. So much to do! 🙂 Without making this post longer than it needs to be, here are the achievements I unlocked!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43720 | I’m Jonny Hale.
I'm an Oklahoma-born and Georgia-grown minister and singer/songwriter. I live on the county line with my wife Aaron Hale and two daughters, Eden and Isla. I have traveled all over the country training and mentoring worship teams as well as ministering through music and preaching the gospel. When I'm home I'm the worship leader at The River Church, I teach 60+ private lessons and master classes a week, and I'm the Worship Coordinator for Ft. Benning - one of the largest military installations in the world. I get to be a part of a team that ministers to thousands of America’s finest every week.
I am called to lead people in worship. Everything else I do centers around this 1 central calling.
I write worship songs. Psalms 33:3 commands us to sing a new song loud and with skill. I teach people how to write great songs and strive to write great songs myself.
I've had the privilege to teach 1000+ of people in local churches and 1 on 1 over the last 17 years. I still teach 50+ private music lessons a week as well as master classes and all the digital courses you will be able to find on this site as they are released!
This web template had room for 4 and I only have 3. If you are actually reading this, message me on social media so we can have a good laugh. I doubt I'll be hearing from you. I know I don't read this much text on any website.
How I teach music.
1 Technique.
Every language starts with good technique. If you can't understand the words you can't hear clearly enough to appreciate the message. We've all been on customer service with someone who has poor English technique despite that persons greatest desire to help you they are hindered by poor technique and it makes it almost impossible for them to get their message across. Music is the same way. If your instrument technique is inadequate you can't get your message across.
2 Theory.
Theory is to music what definitions are to words. If you don't know the definition of a word you can't use it to express your ideas and emotions.
When I was in 2nd grade I was taught some basic Spanish phrases. The teacher taught me to parrot a handful of common Spanish greetings. The problem is I didn't know the definition of any of the words... so I can't speak Spanish. A lot of people learn music the same way. They get on the internet or a friend shows them a few chords they string together to sound like a song. But, just because it sounds like music doesn't mean you speak the language. In second grade, just because the phrase sounded like Spanish didn't mean I knew the language. If you want to learn music you have to learn the definitions, the theory, behind what you're playing.
3 Style.
The most important part of speaking is not what you say it's how you say it. If you say something sarcastically you usually mean the opposite of the words you're saying. Music is the same way. If you don't invest time in learning and developing your own style you will never deliver the message you want to with a lot of impact. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43786 | Summoners: Vote on where next to explore
See the recent exploration summary post for more information on the story so far.
The League of Legends is overseeing the exploration of Nyroth. Expressing wariness as to what might be unleashed by incautious exploration, it has cordoned off most of Nyroth to start with, opening it up piece by piece.
Each sector contains pieces of the mainland, as well as associated islands. The League is about to open up a new sector: either the south of Nyroth or the northwest. It has invited Summoners and Champions of the League to vote on this question. Once a sector is opened up, it will become more readily accessible for island and mainland exploration.
Each island contains a subnexus, part of the network created by the mega-nexus believed to be at the center of Yoroth, once the Nyrothian capital. The cataclysm has thrown these subnexuses out of alignment, warping their magical effects. This has generally been a Bad Thing for the islands’ inhabitants.
Outside of the islands, the only place where living Nyrothians can now be found is a floating hextech city located above Yoroth. The winged inhabitants of this city in the clouds are few in number and largely ignorant of what has transpired since the cataclysm. They do possess a small library of pre-cataclysm books and records, but the ancient Nyrothian language has become largely unintelligible to them.
Vote Here
Click here to cast your vote for which sector of Nyroth should be opened up for exploration next. The sectors are:
• Northeast. (Already unlocked.) Monsku and Bobu. Includes the islands of Avalon, Emain Ablach, Argyre, and Daeyux.
• South. Arcadia and Yanti. Includes the islands of Krocylea, Scheria, and Mag Mell.
• Northwest. Pelu-Pelu and Korag. Includes the islands of Neritum, Aeaea, and Kibu.
Read on for more information. I’ve decided that revealing a little more for each island would be appropriate. There will still be plenty of surprises.
Challenges and Rewards
For more complete rules, see the island exploration rules page.
Factions can open up an island through weekend Featured Match victories. If a faction goes 2–1, it may select any island within those sectors that are currently open. If a faction goes 3–0, it can select any island. If a faction goes 1–2, it gets a smaller mainland exploration event in one of the currently available regions.
An island exploration is handled as a lore event. The faction is presented with an opening setup, and is then given several choices for how to proceed. These involve overcoming challenges of various types: for example, there might be a hostile force to be overthrown (Military), or a magical or scientific puzzle to solve (Research).
If successful, a faction will resolve the story of that island along the lines of the option they selected. It will also receive rewards commensurate with the challenges faced. They are of various types:
• Military. Gain a Military unit for the rest of the arc.
• Research. Accelerate Research progress. (e.g. finding a new moonstone for Nami, rebuilding the Kinkou Order.)
• Commerce. Discover valuable artifacts or treasure, or marketable goods. Gain wealth and commercial power.
• Favor. Choosing benevolent or generous options, or advancing the League’s interests, will often result in a Favor bonus.
• Champion. Islands do not generally grant a Champion outright, but they may make an unlockable Champion easier to recruit, or may add another Champion to their list of unlockable Champions. (The main way to add Champions is through League petitions.)
In the list below, I give general indications of what sorts of rewards seem likely for each island. Note that there is some flexibility here, and the categories above are not the only categories available.
Current Sector: The Northeast
The northeastern sector includes Monsku and Bobu, as well as the islands of Avalon, Emain Ablach, Argyre, and Daeyux.
Monsku Region
Bobu Region
The Island of Avalon
Controlled by Bilgewater.
When Bilgewater came to Avalon, it found little sign of the bustling cities described in Nyrothian legend. They discovered that most of the automata that powered Avalon’s industry had gone berserk in the cataclysm, tearing the great cities apart piece by piece for scrap components. They continued to grow food, weave textiles, and produce consumer goods in enormous quantities, but the malfunctioning constructs would slaughter any Nyrothians who came within their sight. Instead, the survivors of the cataclysm lived out a wretched existence under siege conditions, cowering in fortified fortress-valleys, barely aware of one another’s existence. Bilgewater unified the survivors together, and with the assistance of a small number of automata whose sanity had withstood the cataclysm they shut down the central automata factory and deactivated the berserk constructs that had held Avalon in terror for centuries. They then restored the island’s nexus, potentially allowing the creation of new, sane automata—though the natives are not yet ready for that.
The Island of Emain Ablach
Controlled by Bilgewater.
Bilgewater traveled next to Emain Ablach. They found an island teeming with plant life, but also afflicted with deadly plant monsters. They were able to repair the misaligned nexus and destroy the plant-monsters. The natives granted them ownership of a swath of reclaimed territory as a show of appreciation; Bilgewater generously chose to dedicate it to staple crops to help feed Avalon and other Nyrothians, rather than converting it to the production of cash crops to enrich themselves.
The Island of Daeyux
Controlled by the Shadow Isles.
Once a land of potent healing magic, the cataclysm inverted the Daeyux subnexus. The natives, who had enjoyed wondrous longevity and splendid health thanks to the life magic flowing through Daeyux, were instantly converted into undead monstrosities, most of them incoherently insane and near-mindless. A few mages were spontaneously transformed into liches—an unprecedented arcane phenomenon. These lich-barons rule over Daeyux, except for the area nearest the nexus, where wild currents of life magic still flow, rendering the undead nearby entirely uncontrollable. The Shadow Isles attempted to seize control of the subnexus to stabilize it, but their armies were defeated. They will need time to recover before they can attempt a second conquest.
The Island of Argyre
Open for selection.
Argyre is a mountainous, snowy island not unlike the Freljord. Legends tell of small furry inhabitants who sound suspiciously like yordles, as well as a great artifact, “Lanpoa”, which sounds an awful lot like the Mothership. Bandle City recently succeeded in restoring their Mothership to full operation; perhaps something similar could be done here.
Locked Sector: South
The southern sector includes Arcadia and Yanti, and the islands of Krocyclea, Scheria, and Mag Mell.
Yanti Region
Arcadia Region
The Island of Krocylea
The ancient Nyrothian’s scribbling was the source of much confusion, until the Valoranians consulted maps in the possession of the modern-day Nyrothians. It is sometimes the case that a piece of land will become flooded or erode away over time. Krocylea seems to have undergone the opposite change: the part scribbled out by the Nyrothian does not appear on older maps. It seems as though the cataclysm altered Krocyclea into a mirror-image of Argyre. Given that the magical energies of the nexuses are believed to have created Nyroth in the first place, this is perhaps not surprising, but why it should mirror Krocyclea in particular is unclear. Ancient records describe Krocylea as an independent kingdom with a fairly isolationist policy.
The Island of Scheria
Scheria is associated often with Yanti, and likewise seems to have been home to uncommon religious fervor. It is hard to glean much from the few scraps of records that remain, but the dominant religion seems to have been particular focused on balance and duality, such as between the sun and the moon. Many geometric and mathematical texts had origins in Scheria.
The Island of Mag Mell
Is that a dinosaur? Yes. Yes, it is. Mag Mell has always been known as a savage land, with extreme levels of volcanic activity and bizarre wildlife. There are stories of heroes voyaging to Mag Mell to do battle with fire elementals and the like. They may only be stories, but they have the ring of truth—not least because, unlike most such legends, in these stories the heroes often don’t come back.
Locked Sector: Northwest
The northwestern sector includes Pelu-Pelu and Korag.
Pelu-Pelu Region
Korag Region
The Island of Neritum
There is virtually no mention of Neritum in the ancient texts that have been deciphered so far. Indeed, the only clear reference to Neritum is in a book of epic poetry, in which one of the characters is said to be a Neritian swordsman. There are signs of an active civilization now existing there. It does not appear particularly welcoming.
The Island of Aeaea
Aeaea was known as an exceptionally wealthy and prosperous island-city. Their chief export, other than vowels, seems to have been automata.
The Island of Kibu
It’s readily apparent to anyone with some degree of magical sensitivity that Kibu is overcharged with wild magic, perhaps representing a sort of break in the network of nexuses and leylines that generates the veil and protects Nyroth from the ether-storms. It sounds like Kibu was fairly chaotic and unstable even before the cataclysm.
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Today we answer a question from Brigitte in France. She writes:
Could you tell me when to use little and when to use small?
Thank you – Brigitte, France.
Dear Brigitte,
Thank you for writing to us. The words “little” and “small” may seem to have the same meaning, but they do have different uses. First, we can look at them separately.
We use “little” to talk about a small or unimportant amount of something. For example:
There is a little dirt on the floor.
You can also use “little” to describe someone who is young, as in this example:
The little girls laughed at the dog.
Note that when the article “a” is placed before “little,” it means you do have some amount of a thing.
She has a little experience with political campaigns.
But without the article, “little” means you are lacking or missing something.
I have little need for swimwear in the winter.
There is an important difference between the words “little” and “small.” The difference is, when describing an amount, we use “little.” But when describing the size of someone or something, we use “small.” Here is an example:
The airplane seats are only a good fit for small adults.
Another different use of “small” is when comparing one thing with another.
My new phone is smaller than the old one.
It is not correct to compare amounts with the word “little.” In spoken English, people add the ending -est to “little” when comparing sizes. The word “littlest” is often used when describing sometime cute and very small.
That is the littlest puppy I have ever seen!
Little Puppy
Little Puppy
I hope that helps to answer your question, Brigitte.
And that’s Ask a Teacher.
I’m Jill Robbins.
And I’m Greg Stachel.
Words in This Story
cute – adj. having a pleasing and usually youthful appearance
puppy – n. a young dog
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Spain has announced that some of its forces stationed in Iraq have left the country, describing the decision as a security precaution.
Around 500 Spanish troops were deployed to Iraq as part of a US-led coalition formed to combat Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS). The soldiers, who helped train Iraqi security forces, were stationed in Besmayah, Taji, and Baghdad. It’s not yet clear how many Spanish military personnel were ferried out of the country.
Iraq’s parliament passed a non-binding resolution calling for the withdrawal of all foreign following the US assassination of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad last week.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43839 | The many-headed larva
A random discovery for this week, the larva of the moth Uraba lugens, also known as the Mad Hatterpillar. Fantastically creepy, the larva keeps the shell of its head, every time it sheds its exoskeleton; resulting in what can only be described as an extravagant hat. Picture by Sunayana Rammohan, Twitter @savebutterflies.
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Frye and Earl Birney
Another find from Bob Denham, this interesting passage from the Canadian poet Earl Birney:
There was a time [in 1933] at some Victoria College student debate when I was almost diverted back to my earlier skepticism about human affairs by the arguments of a cherubic yet very intelligent undergraduate who was quoting [Egon] Friedell and other historians I had not even heard of. His name was Norrie Frye. But I was by nature the optimistic sort of revolutionary and decided to cast my dice with the creator of the Red Army, Maurice Spector.
(Earle Birney, Spreading Time: Remarks on Canadian Writing and Writers, Book I: 1904-49. Montreal: Véhicule Press, 1980, p. 27)
Almost a decade later Frye reviewed Early Birney’s first collection of poetry, David and Other Poems, in The Canadian Forum (December 1942):
This is a book for those interested in Canadian poetry to buy and for those interested in complaining that we haven’t got any to ignore. Anyone who follows Canadian verse at all closely will be very pleased to see Mr. Birney’s fugitive pieces gathered into one little volume, and anyone who read the title poem when it first appeared in the Forum will be keenly interested in finding it again in a published book as part of larger collection.
The people who are familiar with the conventions of modern poetry, who can grasp its difficult language and place its recondite allusions, now form a specialized cult largely confined to universities. David will get the full approval of this audience as being on its own merits a touching, beautiful, and sensitively written story. But a large reserve of intelligent readers, not in the cult but willing to listen to a poet who has a real story to tell and who tells it simply and honestly, will also like this poem. The more blasé will take a while to recover from their surprise at seeing, in a volume of contemporary verse, a straightforward narrative cut to fit the “common reader,” without flounces of fake symbolism, gathers of atmosphere, tucks of philosophic rumination, or fullness of garrulous comment. But they will like it too. David is the best thing of its kind that I have seen in current poetry—and for some benighted reason its kind is rare. . . .
(CW 12, 23)
Frye concludes the review: “In case you didn’t get the point the first time, for those who care about Canadian poetry this book is good enough to buy, not to borrow or get from the library” (25)
Anyone growing up in the fifties and sixties is unlikely to have escaped reading this poem in high school, and, if one was lucky enough to be in the presence of a gifted teacher, to have been haunted by its vision and power. Birney is one of many Canadian writers emerging in the mid-twentieth century who owed a debt to Frye’s critical engagement with Canadian literature for the place they hold in the canon and in readers’ imaginations.
Frye Scoop! An Unpublished Talk by Northrop Frye
Communication and the Arts: A Humanist Looks at Science and Technology
Northrop Frye
A talk Frye gave at the Philips Series of Science Lectures at the Ontario Science Centre, Don Mills, Ontario, 12 December 1969. He was introduced by Ted Rogers, founder and CEO of Rogers Communications. Transcribed by Robert Denham from a tape produced by the Media Centre, University of Toronto.
Thank you very much, Mr. Rogers. The reason why I am here is that I got a letter from the director of the Science Centre, Mr. [Douglas N.] Omand, saying that while most of the people in this series were scientists and technologists he would like to include a humanist. This of course is a familiar procedure, which is known in other circles as tokenism. He went on to say that what he wanted was not on humanism but a talk on science and technology from a humanistic frame of reference. This seemed to be a very reasonable and sensible proposal, except that I cannot quite manage the separation between the two things. I’m not sure that I can talk about the sciences from a humanistic frame of reference without explaining what humanism is and what, if any, its importance in society may be. Perhaps we have to go back all the way to the Middle Ages when the original and oldest universities of our culture were established––Oxford, the Sorbonne, and the great Italian and Spanish universities. In those universities there was of course the training of the professional faculties––theology and law and and medicine––and there was also liberal education based on the conception of seven liberal arts. The principle behind this conception of seven liberal arts was that there are two great tools that man has evolved in his mastery of his environment, those two tools being words and numbers. So the seven liberal arts were divided into two groups. There was a group of three, called the trivium, which were concerned with the arts of words, and they were called grammar and rhetoric and logic. Rhetoric was extremely important, because the two key professions, theology and the law, were both rhetorical ones. Grammar meant, of course, the study of the inflected language of Latin, and the word “gramarye” acquired the meaning of magic or something mysterious.
After mastering the three arts of words, the student went on to the quadrivium, the four arts of numbers, and those in the middle ages were geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, and music. We can see how that has left its legacy in the culture of our own world. The sciences have developed very largely in the order of their closeness to mathematics. The most deductive, the most amenable to mathematical treatment evolved first. Astronomy in the sixteenth century with Copernicus, and later Galileo and Kepler; physics in the seventeenth century; chemistry, with Lavoisier, in the later eighteenth; the biological and geological sciences in the nineteenth; the social sciences in the later nineteenth and earlier twentieth century. In all this it became gradually clear that mathematics was the central informing language of the sciences, particularly, of course, of the physical sciences, but in some degree of all the sciences. Mathematics itself is not so much a science as a study of the possibilities of scientific formulation.
The arts of words, in the meantime, developed very differently. With the Renaissance, with Copernicus and Galileo developing the new astronomy, the humanists took shape as a group of people who were studying the languages which related to man as distinct from theology, which related to God, and the sciences, which related to nature. The humanists were concerned mainly with reviving the Greek and Latin texts. The printing press had just been invented, and it provided a means of producing accurate and mechanical copies of Greek and Latin authors. Unlike the sciences, which were founded on experiment and observation, the humanists were concerned very largely with a cult of authority. They traveled around Europe digging the manuscripts of Greek and Latin literature out of the monasteries, where they had often lain abandoned for centuries, and they wrote formal epistles to each other in Latin, reinforcing each other and keeping their spirits up in the course of visiting such barbaric countries as England and shivering in the cold climate for the sake of discovering whatever manuscripts might turn up.
Their general social influence was to regard the Greek and Latin writers as having produced the definitive statements on practically everything. The great classical poets––Homer and Virgil––were the models of poetry and would be forever. The great orators––Demosthenes and Cicero––were still the schools to which one should go for oratory, and the same cult of authority extended even into architecture and into the sciences themselves. Along with this went an attack on technical language of all kinds, especially the language of philosophy. There had been a considerable development of philosophy in the Middle Ages but the humanists said that a technical language of philosophy was not the way that people ordinarily talked. In other words, the humanists were concerned to defend the social importance of the use of words. Their ideals revolved around the idea of the gifted amateur or more specifically the orator. The technical philosophers were ridiculed and attacked as people who talked a kind of jargon which nobody could understand. Of course, the great philosopher of the Middle Ages, Saint Thomas Aquinas, still held some of his authority, but his great critic, the nominalist philosopher, John Duns, called Duns Scotus, who taught at Oxford, became a synonym for the old obsolete way of thinking and writing, the old jargon way. And the people who held by him were called the “duns men” or the “dunces,” and so the name of one of the greatest critical intellects in the history of thought became a byword for stupidity.
At the same time, while there was much that was reactionary in humanism, there was also something that had an intense social concern for the proper use of words. Roger Ascham, who was an advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, said, “You know not what hurt you due to learning when you separate words from matter. For if you look at the history of all nations, you shall find that social manners began to decline as soon as the use of words became vague and imprecise.” Almost exactly the same words were being used in our own day by the American poet Ezra Pound, who claims to have derived them from a Chinese origin. So this sense of the social importance of the precise, accurate, and powerful use of words was the mainspring which was the impetus of the humanist movement. It has left on our day and our modern universities the term “humanities,” which means the subjects of the literatures and philosophy and history. In general, it is a term favored by university administrators to designate the low‑budget departments. All through the nineteenth century the courses which the serious student took were courses in the two essential tools of knowledge, that is, words and numbers, which until about 1900 were interpreted as a course in the classics and a course in mathematics. In my own college, Victoria College, when it began in the nineteenth century in Cobourg, there was the course for intellectuals, which consisted of the classics and the mathematics, and another course for the people who made money and endowed the college, which was called the English course and was essentially a business training. It was not until the turn of the century, when the classics began to be replaced by the modern languages, that the same general set‑up and formulation of university curricula still was retained.
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Frye Alert: Of Culture and Condos
Courtesy of Bob Denham, another Frye sighting, and a very interesting one indeed: an article by Kyle Carsten Wyatt in The Walrus. The article puts together Frye’s ideas about Canadian Culture and the “condominium mentality” he saw as superseding the earlier “garrison mentality” he discusses in The Bush Garden. The author misunderstands–unless I am mistaken–what Frye means by the cultural energies of the country forming a counter-environment. Frye’s point is that imaginative culture responds to the alienating aspects of its environment by creating a counter-environment, a critical vision of the existing environment in relation to a world that actually makes human sense, as opposed to the absurdity and grotesqueness of the one we face everyday. Otherwise, the article beautifully captures Frye’s amazing prescience, so far beyond that which passes as cultural studies today. As the author points out, Frye was using the term condominium mentality well before the condo phenomenon really took hold and mushroomed.
You can find the article here.
The “Point of Ritual Death”: Frye, Capra, and the Structure of Comedy
In the third essay of Anatomy of Criticism Frye isolates four story shapes–romance, tragedy, irony/satire, and comedy–which he understands as stages in a hypothetically complete narrative structure. Romance and irony concern movement within, respectively, an idealized world and a world of experience; tragedy and comedy concern the direction of that movement. Frye outlines and illustrates in detail these “narrative pregeneric elements of literature,” or “generic plots,” which are “narrative categories broader than, or logically prior to, the ordinary literary genres” (162). Frye’s work has been, even if noted, generally ignored by narratologists. And yet its elegance–its simplicity, comprehensiveness, and explanatory power–which allows it to account for such an extraordinary diversity of narrative literature remains unparalleled. As it is impossible to outline Frye’s very complex argument here, I will content myself with a brief illustration of the dynamic nature of his view of narrative structure.
For the sake of demonstration, I would like to look at his understanding of comic plot and in particular the assertion in Frye’s “The Argument of Comedy” that “tragedy is really implicit or uncompleted comedy” and that “comedy contains a potential tragedy within itself” (65). This statement is crucial to Frye’s understanding of narrative structure as based on conventions that derive their logic from ritual, an assumption shared, among others, by a formalist approach to narrative such Vladmir Propp’s.
One of the modern masters of comic structure is the director Frank Capra, one of the great creators of American film comedy of the thirties and forties. In many of his films he was fond of bringing “his action,” to use Frye’s description, “as close to a tragic overthrow of the hero as he can get it, and [reversing] this movement as suddenly as possible” (65). This feature is central to the “U-shaped plot” of comedy, “with the action sinking into deep and often potentially tragic complications, and then suddenly turning upward into a happy ending” (FI 25). This darkening downturn near the end of his films, often noted by critics as a mark of Capra’s particular style, a part of his signature, is in fact, if we follow Frye, a conventional feature of comic structure in general. Frye calls it the point of ritual death, and he gives a formulation of it in the discussion of comedy in Anatomy. He speaks of the action of comedy as
mov[ing] toward a deliverance from something which, if absurd, is by no means invariably harmless. . . . Any reader can think of many comedies in which the fear of death, sometimes a hideous death, hangs over the central character to the end, and is dispelled so quickly that one has almost the sense of awakening from nightmare. . . . An extraordinary number of comic stories, both in drama and fiction, seem to approach a potentially tragic crisis near the end, a feature that I may call the “point of ritual death”–a clumsy expression that I would gladly surrender for a better one. It is a feature not often noticed by critics, but when it is present it is as unmistakably present as a stretto in a fugue, which it somewhat resembles. (178-79)
The hero or heroine in comedy, then, is at a certain point threatened with death or a displaced version of it (false accusation and imprisonment) and then at the last minute escapes. In Mr Deeds Goes to Town, Meet John Doe (which is not always thought of as a comedy), Mr Smith goes to Washington, and It’s A Wonderful Life, the hero struggles against insurmountable odds to overthrow a usurping, “humorous” society which threatens to destroy him and the ideals he represents. In each case, he is isolated and falsely accused by his enemies, and threatened with disgrace, imprisonment, or death. The point of ritual death in comedy corresponds to the death of the hero in tragedy, the phase of pathos in the complete structure of quest-romance; in comedy pathos is invoked, but a tragic result is avoided, often only narrowly.
In the first three of the abovementioned films, often seen as forming a trilogy, it is worth noting how the suggestion of crucifixion attaches to the hero at this point. The word crucifixion is in fact explicitly used in all three to describe the fate that awaits the hero, as he is falsely accused, set up in a mock trial, and then only at the last moment delivered from the hands of his enemies. Mr Deeds is imprisoned, put on trial to decide his sanity, and is about to be defeated because he refuses to speak and defend himself at his own hearing; at the last minute, the situation is turned around by the woman he loves who inspires him to break silence, and the humorous society is at the last moment routed: the film ends with Mr Deeds being carried out of the courtroom in triumph by a cheering crowd and then the couple escaping behind closed doors. In the last frame Mr Deeds picks up his “bride” and kisses her, in a classic comic ending. As formulated by Frye: “The resolution of comedy comes, so to speak, from the audience’s side of the stage; in a tragedy it comes from some mysterious world on the opposite side. In the movie, where darkness permits a more erotically oriented audience, the plot usually moves toward an act which, like death in Greek tragedy, takes place offstage, and is symbolized by a closing embrace” (164).
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Frye and Borges
In the fourth essay of Anatomy of Criticism Frye calls the two subconscious elements of association “babble” and “doodle.” He later gives the two elements more dignified names, “charm” and “riddle.” I think Borges’ fictions appealed to Frye not because of their charm but because of their riddles. Like Joe Adamson, I’ve also been fascinated with Borges’ “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” a story about “other worlds,” about things that are quite distant from us, things that are strange. On the first two pages alone we have repeated references to things that are fallacious, vague, ambiguous, nebulous, fantastic, imaginary. The narrator eventually discovers that Tlön is in fact an “other world”—what he refers to as a “cosmos.” What we have is a kind of Chinese box: a story within a story within a story. That is, people invent the country of Uqbar in order to provide a base for the subsequent invention of Tlön, which will eventually become a third world, Orbis Tertius. As people create fictional worlds within fantastic worlds, they cover their tracks as they go, hiding their fictions in rare editions of encyclopedias. What is Tlön? We’re not certain. In the Uqbar entry of the encyclopedia Tlön is referred to as an “imaginary region.” In the 11th volume of the Encyclopedia of Tlön it’s referred to as a planet. The mystery of Tlön is eventually cleared up in the “Postscript,” where we learn that Tlön was an imaginary country invented by a secret society dating back to the seventeenth century.
How strange, how odd all of this is. It does seem to be another world altogether. But is it really? Might Borges be suggesting that this strange, dehumanized, godless world is our world, the world that we’re still in the process of constructing for ourselves? So, while the fiction of Tlön as conceived by the philosophers and propagated by Buckley’s money is both ridiculous and in some ways deadly to life, the fiction about Tlön as conceived and told by Borges is delightful in its riddling wit and cleverness. Borges frequently presents us with riddles––intellectual puzzles to be figured out. It’s interesting to note, for example, that the postscript of “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” is dated 1943. Borges says that the story first appeared in the Anthology of Fantastic Literature in 1940. That’s the truth: it was published in 1940. So it appears to us that Borges added the postscript three years later. Why? Because he felt that readers were puzzled by the story and he needed to clear things up again? That seems to be a reasonable inference. The problem is, however, that the 1943 postscript was part of the story when it was originally published. Another example of Borges’ trickery: some of the books he refers to in the story are real; some are fictitious.
All fiction is about “other worlds,” worlds that have no existence except in our imaginations. Are Tlön’s philosophy and language and geometry any stranger or any more arbitrary than our own? In the account of the hrönir, we learn that the ideal influences the real. Lost objects begin to reduplicate themselves: the idea ends up shaping reality. And the story seems to end on a moralistic note in the comments on what has happened to people who become fascinated by symmetrical systems. Fearful symmetry, perhaps?
The appeal of Borges for Frye lay in the dianoia of his fictions, not in their ethos. We feel little engagement or identification with Borges’ characters. Frye told David Cayley that when he was writing his short fables for the Canadian Forum back in the 1930s, he knew “more about ideas than . . . about people. If some-body like Borges had been known to me at the time, I would have tried to pick up that kind of tradition.”
Frye owned seven of Borges’ books, all of which he annotated, and there are references to a half dozen of Borges’ ficciones in Frye writings: “The Immortal,” “Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote,” “The Gospel according to Mark,” “The Garden of Forking Paths,” “Borges and I,” and “The Aleph.” The scattered references to Borges throughout Frye’s work are collected in what follows.
The realist finds his material in waking experience, or, more accurately, he finds the analogies to his material in waking experience (because he seldom if ever transcribes directly from experience). It would be silly and misleading just to say that the romancer finds the analogies to his material in dreams, in spite of all the remarks (there’s one by Borges) about how all writing of fiction is really controlled dreaming. But if we expand the term “dream,” as I do in AC [Anatomy of Criticism], to cover all the conflicts of desire with reality, it would make more sense. Impenetrable disguises, where the same person is two people at least; metamorphosis of people into animals; anxieties of shipwreck and “falling” (sinking into water); fantasies in which a hero kills an impossible number of enemies—all these are reminiscent of what Freud calls “the dream work.” It would include conscious fantasy or day-dreaming, where the erotic drive is more controlled and subordinated. (“Notes 56a,” CW 15: 209–10)
For most of my life I have felt that I didn’t have enough to say in the ordinary fiction form to bother turning my full attention on it, when there were so many things as a critic I could say that were distinctive. But I’ve also had a persistent feeling that if I had the outline of some work of fiction by me, it would be useful as a counterweight or ballast, like a second weight on a cuckoo clock. I should not think of this as something eventually to be published in any form, merely as something there to be thought about as a mental exercise. Although for a while I had a novel in mind, set in western Canada, and very naively realistic in style, that was obviously getting me nowhere and I gave it up. I now realize that my gift in fiction, if I have such a thing at all, would be in one of the “anatomy” genres rather than in the conventional novel or romance forms. Apart from the small things I printed in my graduate student days, nothing has emerged in a big shape, and isn’t likely to unless I get a revelation out of line with what I’ve so far received. My early things were based mainly on Richard Garnett’s Twilight of the Gods—if Borges had been available then I might have got further with it. (“The Academic Novel,” CW 25:153)
I keep vacillating between the feeling that there are four areas & the feeling that there’s just one area with variations. Thus Oedipus seems to be the labyrinth one, but there are labyrinths in Eros too. Prometheus is the emergence from the labyrinth or cave: it features follow-the-leader games, where (see a passage in Yeats) an ordinary man gains immortality through attaching himself to his shepherd king. Harrowing of Hell. Egypt: Book of the Dead. (Hero as the dead king moving toward identity). Blake’s picture of Earth in GP [The Gates of Paradise]; Caliban; Borges’ story “The Immortal.” Parodied by Satan’s journey through chaos in P.L.[Paradise Lost], with its Ulysses echoes. Old Comedy: the Odyssey as a narrative Old Comedy, labyrinth followed by dialectic emergence of identity of Odysseus at Ithaca. (“Notebook 12,” CW 9:165)
I mention Borges, who seems to me one of the guides, along with the Alice books & Poe. He says in connection with Quixote that literature not only begins but ends in mythology, & he tells the story of the man who rewrote Quixote—a parable of the way every great work is polarized between meaning then & meaning now [“Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote”]. (“Notebook 12,” CW 9:165–6)
[from one of Frye’s pipe-dreams about a 64-section book] Fourteen, Sections 53-56: The new Hermes or Perseus. Doubles, clocks, mirrors, nympholepsy & alastor figures: growing mechanistic & conspiratorial worlds (Poe, Kafka, Borges); the dystopia; breakup of language as we approach Phase One. (“Notebook 24,” CW 9:306)
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Frye, Borges, and the Power of the Imaginable
I just finished teaching, in my last few classes of this term, a number of the remarkable pieces of fiction in Jorge Luis Borges’ Labyrinths. The more I return to the great Argentinian writer the more I see the deep affinities between his work and another writer I have grown more and more fascinated with, Edgar Allan Poe, “the greatest literary genius this side of William Blake,” according to Frye. Frye speaks of Poe admiringly in Anatomy as being a much more radical and uninhibited archetypal abstractionist than his contemporary romanticist Hawthorne. He means by this that Poe dispenses with the normal constraints of logic, realism, and conventional morality that hobbled a writer like Hawthorne and made him feel he had to contain the world of Ideality within the confines of a morally responsible allegory. Unlike Hawthorne, however, Borges, like Poe, utterly disregarded any “general distinction between serious and responsible literature on the one hand, and the trifling and fantastic on the other.” As Frye points out, such distinctions
are not literary categories, or qualities inherent in literary works themselves. They are the primary elements of the social acceptance of or response to literature. Hence what is accepted as serious or dismissed as trifling may vary from one age to another, depending on currents of fashion or cultural attitudes operating for the most part outside literature.
Because he so thoroughly abandoned any such sense of responsibility or seriousness, Poe was able to give himself over completely to a trust in his own imaginative life. Borges followed his own imaginative instincts in the same way. Both writers exemplify the idea of “pure” literature and the sheer power of the conceivable.
In the opening chapter of Words with Power, Frye outlines the sequence of modes that make up the verbal universe and shows how each mode (the descriptive, conceptual, rhetorical, imaginative, and kerygmatic) is founded on an excluded initiative, an aspect of the power of words it must deny in order to assert its own ascendent authority. Thus the mythological or imaginative is the excluded initiative of dogma and ideology, and the excluded initiative of the imaginative is the kerygmatic or anagogic, the world of the meta-literary, a prophetic mode responsive to both the existential and the spiritually transcendent. However, the latter is not a negation of the literary, but literature plus: there is not spiritual reality which is not also an imaginative vision. Perversely, with the current dogmatic hegemony of post-structuralism and cultural studies the imaginative is precisely what is excluded from study by many contemporary critics and scholars. It is against this dogmatic tendency, whether from the right or the left, that writers like Poe and Borges assert and champion the pure autonomy of the imagination.
Literature, Frye writes, is the product of
the need for a more inclusive mode of verbal communication of a type that since the Romantic period has usually been called imaginative. Such a mode takes us into a more open-ended world, breaking apart the solidified dogmas that ideologies seem to hanker for.
An imaginative response is one in which the distinction between the emotional and the intellectual has disappeared, and in which ordinary consciousness is only one of many possible psychic elements, the fantastic and the dreamlike having conventionally an equal status. The criterion of the imaginative is the conceivable, not the real, and it expresses the hypothetical or assumed, not the actual. It is clear that such a criterion takes us into the verbal area we call literature.
Nowhere is this criterion of the conceivable and the hypothetical more fully at the centre of a writer’s concern than in Borges’ work where the imaginative or subjective element of dreaming and fantasy reigns supreme. In perhaps his most famous tale, “The Garden of Forking Paths,” the universe is conceived of as a laybrinthine temporal multi-verse, a maze of time consisting of potentially infinite alternative story-lines: the legendary garden of the demiurge Tsui Pen is in fact a book, a work of fiction (compare Mallarme’s “le monde va s’aboutir a un livre”). It is a parable “whose theme is time,” an image of the universe as “an infinite series of time, in a growing, dizzying net of divergent, convergent and parallel times, of the universe as embracing “all possibilities of time.”
Another story, “The Circular Ruins,” concerns the paradoxical relationship between illusion and reality, creator and creature: a man arrives on the shores of a deserted part of the jungle, where there is a circular ruin, apparently a demolished temple, “long ago drowned by fire”: he is a shaman, a magus, who has come to this place to invoke the power of the fire god in order to engage in the demiurgic feat of creating a man: to do so he must “dream” a man and then insert him, by the fullest concentration of his mind, into reality. After great struggle he succeeds in his task, but suffers from the awareness that his child must some day be awakened to the knowledge that he is nothing but a dream. However, he is now an exhausted old man, ready for death, and as a conflagration engulfs the rebuilt temple of the fire god he stoically walks into the flames. Not feeling any pain, he realizes that he is himself the dream of another man, who is, according to an ironic infinite regress, perhaps himself a dream of someone else, who is dreaming of a man who creates a man by dreaming: “Not to be a man, to be the projection of another man’s dream, what a feeling of humiliation, of vertigo!”
In Borges, the hypothetical and virtual always trump reality. In one of my favorite “ficciones,” “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” the narrator and his friend and alter ego discover the existence of a complex, centuries-old fictional project undertaken in secret by an elite group of illuminati to create a completely illusory and fictional world: the discovery of a hoax in an encyclopedia about a country called Tlön leads to the further, astonishing discovery of an entire planet intricately imagined and recorded in an encyclopedia : the fiction is so successful that what is thus imagined takes on the force of an inexorable pressure on the existing world as the fictional universe begins to insert itself into reality.
The impossible, the non-existent, the unreal is actualized, in much the same way as described by Rilke in Sonnets to Orpheus (sonnet 2 of the second part), in which a the purely hypothetical creature, the unicorn, appears at least by virtue of those who lovingly imagined it and fed it “only with the possibility that it truly was”:
O this is the creature that does not exist.
They knew nothing and yet without a doubt
—his gait, his posture, his neck, down
to the silent light of his gaze—they had loved.
Indeed, it wasn’t real. But because they loved,
it became a pure animal. Always, they gave it space.
And in that space, clear and spare
it raised lightly its head and needed scarcely
to be. They nourished it not with grain,
but with only the possibility that it truly was.
And this gave such strength to the animal
that it grew a horn from its brow. But one horn.
It passed in its whiteness a young maiden—
and appeared in the silver mirror, and in her.
Borges’ writings, like Frye’s criticism, are always laid on the surest of foundations: the bedrock substance of the possible, the conceivable, the imaginable– creators of the real. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43857 | [Melbourne-pm] Perl Linux
Toby Corkindale toby.corkindale at strategicdata.com.au
Sun Aug 19 18:37:25 PDT 2012
On 17/08/12 22:57, Sam Watkins wrote:
> Looks interesting, good to learn how to do that stuff in Perl.
> Like all Perl code, it's 'true' open source: the source code is
> necessarily there*.
> I gather they don't use XS, other than modules that come with Perl?
> Did they reimplement cc and make? Those are essential tools;
> We need to be able to build perllinux under perllinux.
> I guess perllinux don't come with an X server or GNOME yet :p
> If they re-implement Linux proper in Perl, then I will get very worried.
No-one has worked on it (perllinux) for years. Don't hold your breath
for an X server :)
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New iPhone is Underwhelming
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This is a story about obsolescence...
I wasn't excited about the launch of the new iPhone, but I ended up getting one. My old iPhone 6 had served me well for years, but it was annoyingly short of free space, which meant continuously deleting stuff - a time consuming pointless exercise. The battery life was terrible, but I had managed to replace the battery quite inexpensively myself, so that wasn't an excuse for getting a new iPhone. The back was slightly scratched, but the screen was pretty good. The mute button no longer worked and the charging port was unreliable, only working at certain angles, which clinched the decision to upgrade.
I expected to be more pleased with the new iPhone.
But, I just put it in my pocket and carried on like it was no big deal.
Sure, the camera is better, the screen is better. Sure it's a bit more responsive; less laggy. However, there was virtually zero impact - no wow factor whatsoever.
When Apple introduced the fingerprint reader that was a big deal, because it saved having to type the unlock code every time, which is a vast improvement of usability. Given that I unlock my phone and do something with it 50 times a day, on average, you can imagine that it was a huge saving, not having to type my PIN all those times.
Since then, there hasn't been a 'killer' feature.
I'm not that bothered about having a better camera, because I have a good camera anyway with a much better lens and sensor than any smartphone could ever have. There simply isn't the room in a smartphone to include a large lens and sensor, so the image quality is always going to be very inferior to a proper camera.
Being able to unlock my phone with my face makes no difference to me versus being able to do it with my fingerprint. Face ID is not an improvement. Yes, biometric security is important to me, but I don't care whether it's fingerprint or facial recognition.
I don't play games on my phone or use anything which requires a powerful processor or lots of memory. I just browse the web, send and receive emails and messages, scroll through Facebook and Twitter, and access my banking apps. I could have stayed with my iPhone 6 and been perfectly OK, to be honest.
A friend who always gets the new iPhone, even when it's a minor upgrade, such as from the X to the XS, justifies his upgrades because of the frequency with which he uses his phone. This argument would also support my desire to upgrade too, given that I'm a heavy smartphone user and I have the disposable income, but it frankly depressed me that I spent the price of a reliable second-hand car on a gadget upgrade I really didn't need.
It's a year since I upgraded, and the screen on my iPhone XS is now scratched to pieces. Apparently the glass is very shatter resistant, but it's very prone to scratches. It's really disappointing to have bought a brand new cutting-edge gadget, and to find that it's not durable in everyday use situations. I have not abused my iPhone in any way. The scratches are all from simply being in my pocket, or on tabletops.
I haven't bought the new iPhone. I am not going to get the new new iPhone, because there's no way I can justify the expense for such a minor improvement.
It's kind of sad that I'll never re-experience that wonderful moment I got my first iPhone. That first iPhone was a real game-changer. That first iPhone was so transformative for human-computer interactions. I would be lost without having a smartphone and mobile internet available at all times. I - and so many others - have become dependent on the various communication apps, plus maps, taxis, banking and all the other things, which are so convenient to access through smartphones. My addiction to iPhone games was exhausted when I designed, built and released some for sale in the App Store, but I know that the impulse to check my various apps for notifications and new content is deeply engrained... perhaps an addiction, except it's one which does me no harm.
It must surely be time for a technology innovation which will inspire me again, like the original iPhone did. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43867 | Sometimes the hardest part about being a writer is not the actual writing, but getting there. I remember when I first started my blog I was paralyzed by the fear of not being good enough, so much so, that for months I didn’t write anything. I couldn’t. I was scared of putting my drafts out there. I was scared of not having enough ‘polished’ work. And I was scared of people reading it. (Silly, right?)
But it was true—I was limited, not by my actual writing ability, but by my fear, my ‘busyness,’ and my excuses.
In truth, there is a writer within each of us, but it’s only when we combat our anxiety, push back against our writer’s block and say, boldly, “I am a writer.” that we actually become one. So in the spirit of inspiration, I’ve collected a few of my favorite writing quotes. These are the sentences and people that have pushed me forward; I hope, in turn, their words will give you the strength you need to pick up your pen and go.
— Margaret Atwood
Joan Didion
— Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems
— Marianne Moore
— Ayn Rand
“The joy that isn’t shared dies young.”
— Anne Sexton
Dan Poynter
— Toni Morrison
— Toni Morrison
— Toni Morrison
— Louis L’Amour
“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
— Steven King
— Melinda Haynes
— John Steinbeck
“You can make anything by writing.”
— C.S. Lewis
“There’s always something to write about. If there’s not then you need to live life more aggressively.”
— Min Kim
— John Steinbeck
“We write to taste life in the moment and in retrospect.”
— Anais Nin
— Roald Dahl
— Uknown
“Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Writing is the painting of the voice.”
— Voltaire
— Martin Luther
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/43882 | Weeding the Soul
One Sunday when I was a teenager, an elderly man performed a vocal solo as a special musical number in our church meeting. He stood at the pulpit and sang, “O-o that I were an angel!” His vocal style was from a bygone era where portamento slides and lazy timing were popular, and I remember the piano accompanist struggling to stay in sync with him.
The music and the lyrics flowed to a dramatic and wistful crescendo. It was the first time I had heard that song, which sets to music a striking soliloquy from the Book of Mormon, found in Alma chapter 29:
Alma himself was a wicked man in his younger years, but had been called to repentance by an angel from heaven. I’ve always believed that he was thinking of that experience when he wrote those verses in chapter 29.
In his later years Alma spent much of his time as a traveling missionary, calling people to repentance. It is a noble sentiment, this desire to preach the gospel to all the earth. And if all the world would repent and live the gospel, then what sorrows would be eliminated! No one knows this better than a former sinner who has seen the fruits of repentance in his life.
A Weed
However, the song leaves out an important part of Alma’s contemplations:
Wait, what? Can it be sinful to wish for the repentance of others, or for greater power to call them to repentance?
Well, yes, depending on your motivations, and on whether you respect the agency of others in the choice. Lucifer went wrong on both of these points when he proposed an alternative to God’s Plan of Salvation:
Alma is an experienced caretaker of the Lord’s garden, now turning his attention to a weed trying to grow in his own soul. He knows this weed well, because it has grown there before, and it took a great deal of effort to uproot it. And for all of his ministry he has been fighting against various forms of it, growing virtually everywhere he looked.
Maybe Alma had a little flashback in that moment before his quick repentance. Maybe he remembered the doctrine of Nehor, the man who murdered Gideon. Or Nehor’s disciple Amlici, who caused the deaths of untold numbers of people in a brutal civil war. Or perhaps he thought of the city of Ammonihah, where Alma was imprisoned and tortured, where the Christian believers were burned alive, and where the eventual destruction of the city was so complete and sudden that the place became known as the Desolation of Nehors. These are all examples of the weed in full bloom.
Much better to pull it out before it takes root.
The weed is pride, which was defined by President Ezra Taft Benson as “enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowman.” Enmity is defined as “hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition.” Pride means pitting our will against God and against our brothers and sisters, instead of loving them and serving them. Alma had seen enough of pride and its consequences that he could not look upon this sin, even in its seedling state, “save it were with abhorrence” (Alma 13:12).
Alma pointed out two problems with his desire, which correspond to the two enmities of pride. First, he recognized that it was a sin to covet a “bigger” or “more important” position than the calling which he already had. To do so is to show discontentment with or opposition to God’s will.
Second, Alma realized that his aspiration to shake the earth with the word of God did not respect the agency of others.
“For I know that [God] granteth unto men according to their desire, whether it be unto death or unto life; yea, I know that he allotteth unto men, yea decreeth unto them decrees which are unalterable, according to their wills, whether they be unto salvation or unto destruction” (Alma 29:4).
Persuasion is the Lord’s way, but Alma’s little daydream drifted closer to coercion.
Our Modern Weed Patch
Can you see any examples of pride in the world today? Does anyone feel hatred, hostility, or opposition toward their fellow human beings? Is there any evidence that some people are in a state of enmity with God?
We live in a day when the fruits of pride may be found at every scale of human civilization. Abusive marriages and families live in perpetual hostility. Some neighborhoods are not safe to even walk through. Cities are roiled in conflict, inflamed with racial hatreds. Entire political movements are based on resentment. And always there is war between nations, fighting over territory, religion, or regional dominance.
Those of us who share religious messages on the internet sometimes feel like Alma did at first, wanting a bigger audience and a bigger impact. But if pride is the weed, then priestcraft is a particularly noxious variety.
What is our real motivation for sharing our faith online? Are we trying to give God the glory, or are we hoping to siphon off some of it for ourselves? Would we rather have more people following Christ, or more followers for our social media accounts?
I don’t think Alma was much tempted by priestcraft, but his caution should give us pause. His message was good, and he knew it to be true. He sincerely wanted to save souls. But when he was tempted with wanting a larger audience, he backed away, sensing danger, and he repented as quickly as the thought had come.
Alma saw all of the fruits of pride in his lifetime. He taught his people the antidote, which still works today:
“Behold, are ye stripped of pride? I say unto you, if ye are not ye are not prepared to meet God” (Alma 5:27-28).
Humility and repentance through Christ can conquer pride.
I was recently struck by a statement made by President Henry B. Eyring in the April 2020 General Conference. He was listing and discussing prophecies about the work of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:
“We as a people will become more united amid increasing conflict. We will be gathered in the spiritual strength of groups and families filled with gospel light.”
We can be “more united amid increasing conflict” only if we choose to be humble.
Which of our vexing social issues could we make progress on if we dropped some of our hatred, hostility, and opposition? Could a little humility help us to see things from another person’s perspective? What if we stopped resisting God’s commands that we love one another, and forgive one another?
Chapter 29 of Alma’s writings provides a little glimpse into Alma’s mind which reveals volumes about his soul. It is a perfect example of what President Russell M. Nelson taught in the April 2019 General Conference:
“Repentance is the key to avoiding misery inflicted by traps of the adversary. The Lord does not expect perfection from us at this point in our eternal progression. But He does expect us to become increasingly pure. Daily repentance is the pathway to purity, and purity brings power. Personal purity can make us powerful tools in the hands of God. Our repentance—our purity—will empower us to help in the gathering of Israel.”
Alma overcame his pride, and for the rest of his life he repented of it so quickly that it could never overcome him again. Surely the Lord will help us do the same, if we ask for his help.
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Keto Spinach And Cheese Puff Pastry
keto spinach and cheese puff pastry
Have you ever had those little spinach and cheese pinwheel appetizers at parties?
Those perfect little pockets of puff pastry packed with spinach and multiple different kinds of cheeses have always been a favourite of mine and these Keto Spinach and Cheese Puff Pastry Rolls are no exception.
They are super tasty! These are exactly what you should serve at a get-together with non-keto friends and family, I think this recipe may just convert them, haha. The pastry is super buttery and flaky and the spinach filling is actually my favourite combination even on it's own (it makes a great dip)! You really can't go wrong with this recipe. Continue reading “Keto Spinach And Cheese Puff Pastry”
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My graduate training is in an interdisciplinary field (bioinformatics). I am affiliated both with a genetics department and an interdepartmental program that encompasses everything from genetics to computer science to evolution to statistics to engineering. The life-science-oriented fields seem to place a lot of value in publishing papers in high-profile journals, whereas some of the more quantitative and technical fields (comp sci and engineering especially) seem to be focused on getting accepted to high-profile conferences with low acceptance rate. So far in graduate school, I have focused completely on publishing papers in journals and have not worried about getting into competitive conferences.
My question is twofold: first, is my assessment of the life sciences vs the quantitative sciences accurate? and second, should I consider submitting my research to competitive conferences in addition to journals? Will this make me more marketable as an interdisciplinary scientist down the road?
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I'll give you my own opinion, as something of an interdisciplinary scientist in a nearby field (I work in mathematical epidemiology) with publications in both places (the conference paper frankly by accident):
First, your impression is indeed correct. CS and related fields very heavily weight conference presentations and proceedings papers in ways the life sciences really don't.
In my mind, there's two things you should be considering:
1. The opportunity to double-dip a bit. We had a question about this recently, but I think it applies to you as well. If your project has "Life science spin-offs" and "Computational science spin-offs", you can submit to both places. For example, I have a project that will end up living in both applied math journals and clinical journals. There's no reason you can't do both.
2. This part is purely my opinion. When in doubt, I'd go for journal publications, for a few reasons. I've found most CS and technical people recognize that outside their field, its papers or nothing, better than the other way around. Journal papers are also more likely to get on the radar of people you want seeing your work, get indexed in PubMed (LNCS for example is not indexed in PubMed) etc. Those departments will also probably recognize your technical chops either via talking to you, the technical bent of your publications, or a few conference presentations.
I sympathize with your problem - it's sadly familiar. Generally, I'd try to figure out which audience you want to sell yourself to more, and do as they do. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44001 | Who Lived With Whom – Part 1
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When I was in college, I had this crazy idea. With all the genealogies listed in Genesis, I wanted to see if I could build a family tree from Adam to Abraham. So, I decided to dig a little deeper into the genealogies of Genesis 5 and Genesis 11, the ones that say so and so begot so and so who begot so and so, etc. I know, I know. Couldn’t you think of something else to study, Jonathan? Were you trying to cure insomnia, Jonathan? I don’t have any other explanation than to say that I’m a nerd. And not only did I dig into these chapters, but I did it in the nerdiest way possible. It involved Excel and bar charts.
Now, before I write the next sentence, give me the benefit of the doubt and keep reading. So, here goes…I want to show you what I found. Not only did I learn something, but it completely changed the way I read the book of Genesis, and I think it might change the way you read it, too.
Genesis 5 talks about the genealogy from Adam to Noah. The Holy Spirit decided to record exactly how old each man was when he had a son, and then recorded how old he was when he died. From that, you can do some simple math and determine exactly how long it had been since Creation when each man was born. So, the nerd in me threw all of this into Excel. Look what came out.
Genesis 5
If the left of the chart represents Creation (year 0), then the orange section represents each man’s life. Look at the chart for a few minutes. Notice anything you had never thought of before? I saw TONS! Here’s a few things this taught me.
1. When we read about the lives of the different individuals in Genesis, those are not isolated stories that happened worlds apart. We can’t know for sure, but these men may have known each other, and may have even visited with each other on a regular basis.
2. You think your grandfather tells good stories? Lamech (Noah’s father) was alive at the same time as Adam. He could have sat and talked to his great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather about what the Garden of Eden was like, and what it was like to name all the animals! If he did, that means that everyone on the ark could have been given a second-hand account of Creation and not simply have learned it from stories passed down for generations.
3. Adam died before Enoch was taken to heaven, but Seth was still alive. It’s a very good possibility that Seth may have known that Enoch was taken (as well as the other men alive at the time). I imagine news of something like that would have spread quickly.
4. Scripture never really gives us much detail about Lamech. We know that Noah and his family were saved because God said Noah was righteous (Gen 7:1). Notice that Lamech had died 5 years before God made that statement to Noah, so Lamech may have also been righteous while he was alive. That makes me wonder. If Lamech was righteous, did he help Noah and his three sons build the ark? If he was not righteous, did he give Noah a hard time while he was building it? What about Noah’s grandfather Methuselah. Did he help or not?
5. Here’s the one that I really want to ask God someday. We know that Methuselah was the oldest person mentioned in Scripture. If you add up the numbers, he died the same year as the flood (1,656 years after Creation). Did he die in the flood, meaning he was a wicked man? Or could Methuselah have been a righteous man, something horrible happened to him to cause his death (such as being murdered), and it was the final straw that caused God to start the flood and destroy the Earth? I’ve lost sleep over that one.
Ponder on those things for a few days. Go back now and read the first 6 chapters of Genesis. Do you read them any differently? Does this timeline make you think of something I didn’t mention? If so, please comment and share with us.
On the next post, I’ll share with you the things I found when charting out the genealogies provided in Genesis 11. It will really make your head spin when you find out who all Noah lived with after the flood!
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Perhaps you can remember hearing your spouse or someone else in your family say: “Have faith.” What do they mean by that? Well, if they are God-fearing people, then the statement more than likely is coming from this perspective: “Have faith in God.” Why is it so important for us to be constantly putting our faith in God? Many people today would not put any stock into the idea that God even exists. So, how then can I trust Him? How can I put all of my hopes, needs, desires, and care upon Him? Faith.
When we define the word faith, we cannot find a better definition than Hebrews 11:1. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” I have never been to the moon, but I have seen the evidence that the moon exists. Or better yet, I have never seen my brain, but I believe that it is inside my head. I know and believe each of these things, not because I have handled them personally with my hands, and in some cases not that I have even laid eyes upon them (brain), but because I have seen the evidence.
Abraham was this way. Hebrews chapter eleven discusses all the different acts of faith, and verses seventeen through nineteen give us incredible information: “By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, ‘In Isaac your seed shall be called,’ concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.”
This is, of course, in reference to the place in Genesis where God had instructed Abraham to kill the son that had been promised to him (Genesis 22:2). Abraham did not even hesitate, according to the text. He simply gathered the things necessary for a sacrifice, called Isaac and headed out to kill the son that he loved (Genesis 22:3). If one studies the previous twenty-one chapters of Genesis, they will not find one time where the Lord raised up anyone who died.
So, how then could Abraham have known that God would raise up Isaac? Was this arrogance? Did Abraham think that he was so vital to God that there would be no possible way God would mistreat him? No. Abraham knew that God had made a promise to give him a son, which the Lord did. He also knew that God was not going to break the promise that was made to him because all nations were to be blessed through Isaac.
Our world today is not filled with commands from God to go and kill our children. Yet, could it be said that our faith is worse than Abraham’s? How often in the last week have you asked: “How could God do this to me? How could He expect me to do everything that the Bible says?” Perhaps the problem today is that we have seemingly forgotten our Lord, and because of that, we no longer have faith that He will keep His word? It is quite the opposite: “Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.’” (Hebrews 13:5)
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44032 | The reason why the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Catholic Church ecclesiologically differ is a topic too broad for a simple blog post. Nevertheless, simple common sense may go a long way in pointing out the obvious: recent developments in Roman ecclesiology seemingly contradict pre-schism precedent and ecumenical statements.
11/25/19 Note: This article had a factual error that I was only able to find out after reading the complete minutes of Constantinople II. It will be highlighted and a correction will appear at the bottom of the article. It does not affect the overall argument, but it weakens it a little and so I will retain my old comments and a response to them.
Not being a Roman Catholic, telling Roman Catholics what they believe would be in bad taste. Nevertheless, just like there is no single Orthodox answer to many questions, Roman Catholics (even with their very thorough definitions) are no different. So, I do not claim to contradict every possible Roman Catholic understanding of their own ecclesiology. For our purposes here, the point I am going to take issue with is the “popular” idea that the Roman Catholic Pope can exercise authority unilaterally, apart from the consent of the Church.
Whether or not the Pope (theoretically) can act unilaterally appears to be uncontroversial. The Roman Catholic definition of Papal Infallibility states the following:
As we can see in the underlined, the Pope can teach doctrines infallibly which cannot be contradicted, nor do they need to be verified by the Church at large via council, reception, or whatever. Granted, this definition was agreed upon in a council. But that’s besides the point. Theoretically speaking, the Pope could have formulated this definition without anyone’s consent or input.
Why is this relevant? Before the schism, even if such a hashed out view of Papal prerogatives did not exist, its development and application were certainly underway. For example, Saint Leo the Great initially resisted the calling of the Council of Chalcedon because he felt that he had settled the issue of dispute definitively. There are more than a few other examples of Popes writing words and betraying actions consistent with what was later defined in Vatican I. Nevertheless, such an idea hit significant road blocks along the way that reveal to us that Papal Supremacy as defined in Vatican I was not adhered to by previous Popes, nor the Church at large.
The Irreformable Creed. When the Church of Rome unilaterally changed the Constantinopolitan Creed in the early 11th century, they were essentially taking part in an innovation condemned beforehand by:
• Pope Leo III (“they [the fathers] forbade either it or any thing else to be added afterwards…I will not set myself up above [the Ecumentical Councils], but God forbid that I should either equal myself to them”)
• Pope John VIII (“That we may give you satisfaction touching that addition in the Creed, [and from the Son,] we let you know, that not only we have no such addition, but also we condemn them as transgressors of the direct word, that were the first authors of this addition.”)
• The Council of Constantinople IV, 879-880 AD, which what ratified by Pope John VIII.
It would seem that by both modern Roman Catholic and Orthodox standards there would be no other way to communicate that changing the Creed (in the words of the council, an “inexcusable assault on the fathers”) was off limits. Nevertheless, Rome went ahead and changed this Creed and would anathematize in multiple councils and other statements (including the 1054 AD excommunication) those who did not ascribe to the changed Creed.
The only way we can avoid considering such actions as schismatic is by presupposing that:
• The Pope does not require consent as per Vatican I.
• All the Papal statements/actions just listed somehow failed to meet some elusive criteria for being binding.
Now, I do not doubt that Roman Catholics have excuses where they can say like Spock, “Logic dictates that…” somehow the Roman Catholic Church has not torn the Church into two by ignoring the precedent of not changing the Creed apart from a council. A precedent we just saw was put in no uncertain terms!
Only if it were not for the dubious criteria of what is ex cathedra and what’s not! A criteria, who’s application is so unsure in Roman Catholic circles that there is no certainty over its application. Roman Catholics cannot even give a definitive answer over which councils that Popes have called “ecumenical” are indeed ecumenical. With such looseness, I can easily put on my Roman Catholic cap on and easily dream up excuses all day:
Sure, Leo III took it for granted that a Pope could never take it upon himself to change the Creed when holding a synod to discuss a Council in Aachen, but he was speaking of a “discipline” so when Popes speak on disciplines they are not infallible. What he wrote pretty much means nothing!
John VIII condemned additions to the Creed, of course, Roman Catholics concede. But did he then say a Pope in the future could not lift such condemnations and instead condemn those who don’t want additions? Well, no!
Oh, didn’t the eight ecumenical council call the Creed “a sacred and venerable Horos,” the significance of this being that throughout the first millennium Horos “is a technical term for the process of legislating what the Church is required to believe?” Well, they did not invoke the magical words “faith and morals,” so even if the term Horos literally pertained to “faith and morals” at the time it was written, the original Constantinopolitan Creed is non-binding.
And so, I can dream up countless excuses, anyone can make one, because when we can read anything we want in between the lines and have centuries of boiling the frog slowly, anything with enough tangential logic can be made “workable” even though it completely defies common sense.
For that reason, Vatican I’s assertion that “definitions of the Roman Pontiff are irreformable of their own nature (ex sese) and not by reason of the Church’s consent” can theoretically be true even though Pope Leo III and Pope John VIII would have never agreed to it. However, as long as we are invoking common sense, I do not feel obligated to counter theoretical arguments.
The Fifth Ecumenical Council. It is worth bringing up Seraphim Hamilton‘s recent argument against Roman Catholic ecclesiology. In short, he asserted, the fifth ecumenical council rejected the definition in Vatican I. The passage from Constantinople II at question is as follows:
And because it happened that the most religious Vigilius stopping in this royal city, was present at all the discussions with regard to the Three Chapters, and had often condemned them orally and in writing, nevertheless afterwards he gave his consent in writing to be present at the Council and examine together with us the Three Chapters, that a suitable definition of the right faith might be set forth by us all. Moreover the most pious Emperor, according to what had seemed good between us, exhorted both him and us to meet together, because it is comely that the priesthood should after common discussion impose a common faith. On this account we besought his reverence to fulfil his written promises; for it was not right that tile scandal with regard to these Three Chapters should go any further, and the Church of God be disturbed thereby. And to this end we brought to his remembrance the great examples left us by the Apostles, and the traditions of the Fathers. For although the grace of the Holy Spirit abounded in each one of the Apostles, so that no one of them needed the counsel of another in the execution of his work, yet they were not willing to define on the question then raised touching the circumcision of the Gentiles, until being gathered together they had confirmed their own several sayings by the testimony of the divine Scriptures.
And thus they arrived unanimously at this sentence, which they wrote to the Gentiles: “It has seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us, to lay upon you no other burden than these necessary things, that ye abstain from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication.”
But also the Holy Fathers, who from time to time have met in the four holy councils, following the example of tile ancients, have by a common discussion, disposed of by a fixed decree the heresies and questions which had sprung up, as it was certainly known, that by common discussion when the matter in dispute was presented by each side, the light of truth expels the darkness of falsehood.
Nor is there any other way in which the truth can be made manifest when there are discussions concerning the faith, since each one needs the help of his neighbour, as we read in the Proverbs of Solomon: “A brother helping his brother shall be exalted like a walled city; and he shall be strong as a well-founded kingdom;” and again in Ecclesiastes he says: “Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.”
So also the Lord himself says: “Verily I say unto you that if two of you shall agree upon earth as touching anything they shall seek for, they shall have it from my Father which is in heaven. For wheresoever two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” (The Sentence of the Synod)
The emboldened are relevant for the following reason:
1. This is not some random minutes to a section of the fifth council that Pope Vigilius “may have not ratified.” This is the sentence which implies within itself that Vigilius concurred with its conclusion and was part of its formulation.* Granted, Roman Catholic apologists will probably only be convinced by a statement like “and Vigilius is sitting right here next to us and he approves of everything in this sentence.” However, I am not trying to fulfill an impossible burden of proof. Rather, I am appealing to “common sense.” I am not obligated to address special pleading.
2. Conciliar decision making is Apostolic and so must be continued.
3. Conciliar decision making must be inherently Scriptural, implying the material sufficiency of the Scriptures.
4. “Nor is there any other way in which the truth can be made manifest” other than conciliar decision making. This appears to contradict the Roman position that “definitions of the Roman Pontiff are irreformable of their own nature (ex sese) and not by reason of the Church’s consent.” Again, I’m appealing to common sense here, not lawyer double-speak which can be argued as “technically true” though it obviously does not conform to reality.
Erick Ybarra, a Roman Catholic apologist, writes something revealing in an article of his that indirectly touches on the subject we invoke here:
What I think is even more concerning, however, is the responses of the *Western* churches during this time. Bishops in North Africa (including the Metropolitan of Carthage), Northern Italy, Aquielia, Milan, Spain, and Illyricum had all removed Pope Vigilius from the diptychs for being complicit with the Ecumenical Council at the time (they disagreed with Justinian and the Eastern bishops on the Three Chapters), and this launched a massive schism which lasted, for some churches, up to 100 years (some of the Spanish churches were out of communion w/ Rome for 150 years)…However, when Pope Vigilius ended up condemning the Three Chapters definitively, he did so without reference to the authority of the Council, but on his own authority.
As we can see, the rest of the Christian world did not take issue with the council short-changing their precious doctrine of Papal Supremacy. Rather, they excommunicated the Pope and the eastern Church because they did not receive the council as authoritative! Ironically, this shows that most of the Christian world explicitly had a conciliar and/or reception-based viewpoint–not the Papal Supremacist view.
Yet, Erick points out that Pope Vigilius wrote somewhere that he condemned the Three Chapters based upon “his own authority.” Does this mean that Pope Vigilius himself can be brought forward as evidence for the Papal Supremecist view? Not necessarily, as such a letter would not mean:
1. That he did not, by his own prerogative, accede to the conciliar view in the sentence of the fifth council.
2. That the whole world did not reject a Papal Supremacist view and had no issue with excommunicating the Pope (first the east and then the west…poor Vigilius!)
3. That appealing to one’s own authority means one views himself as superior to other authorities. One can obviously have authority and invoke it without by necessity viewing oneself as supreme over others (i.e. a Lieutenant can appeal to his authority when issuing an order even though in reality he is under a Colonel, General, etc.) A historical example of this is with Saint Augustine who saw no issue with having disputes against the Pope being appealed to an Ecumenical Council, even though he held a high view of the Papacy.
4. Vigilius could not contradict himself before and after the council, as fallible men are known for such contradictions.
I am unsure if Erick is referring to Pope Vigilius’ decretal. Nevertheless, if we read the decretal it pretty clearly concurs with my assertion that Vigilius signed onto the sentence of the fifth council:
But since Christ our God, who is the true light, whom the darkness comprehendeth not, hath removed all confusion from our minds, and hath so recalled peace to the whole world and to the Church, so that what things should be defined by us have been healthfully fulfilled through the revelation of the Lord and through the investigation of the truth.
Therefore, my dear brothers, I do you to wit, that in common with all of you, our brethren, we receive in all respects the four synods, that is to say the Nicene, the Constantinopolitan, the first Ephesian, and the Chalcedonian; and we venerate them with devout mind, and watch over them with all our mind. And should there be any who do not follow these holy synods in all things which they have defined concerning the faith, we judge them to be aliens to the communion of the holy and Catholic Church (Decretal Letter).
The reference to how God “hath removed all confusion from our minds” is obviously an appeal to the sentence of the council, claiming that the act of working conciliarly was a decisive factor in the council discerning the truth and issuing infallible definitions. After all, the “things…defined by us have been healthfully fulfilled through the revelation of the Lord and through the investigation of the truth.” These are clear references to the Bishops of the council investigating and defining the truth together.
This means, I am not off my rocker when I say Vigilius approved of a conciliar ecclesiology. Further, I am more than a little skeptical, after some “convincing” in Constantinople, that he held a view identical with Vatican I. That council would dictate Vigilius could have had all confusion removed from his whole mind and defined things through the revelation of the Lord in isolation and without the consent of the Church–something at contradicts what he actually wrote.
*In fact, the sentence of the council was written without Pope Vigilius’ input. This is only clear if one reads the seventh session, which is not divulged in the abridged minutes available online. If one reads the whole minutes, it is easy to identify this fact. Father Price, who translated those minutes, takes the stance that Vigilius both endorsed the whole counsel and its findings when he capitulated later than year and accepted the council, but also that Vigilius (as Erick asserted) cited his own authority in doing such. Upon reflection, I do not find Vigilius’ response explicit enough to presume that he really capitulated to conciliar authority–though his letter of acceptance does show dependence on the sentence and therefore was probably meant to be understood in this way. Being that when Bishops sign onto councils they often say something along the lines of “in my judgment, I decide …,” it would no be inconsistent for Vigilius to assert both his authority as a Bishop but in doing so also be speaking with the council, therefore conceding to conciliar authority at the same time. Being that his letter speaks of “we” all agreeing about the council findings, this appears to be the case. Lastly, I would like to add, the fifth council did feel it needed the approval of all Bishops. Vigilius’ himself was deposed for not appearing at the council and previous writings of his were used as approval of the Roman Bishop. When Vigilius himself capitulated fully late that year, the using of his writings to mark his acceptance became superfluous.
Conclusion. In this article, I appeal to common sense. You just read what the Popes said about the Creed and what an ecumenical council, with the Pope’s support, said about itself. Ecumenicity requires the consent of the Church at large.
Therefore, the definition we see in Vatican I simply cannot be justified without going into silly syllogisms and lawyer double-speak. The Roman Catholic Church, by excommunicating the eastern Church for not consenting to innovations since Constantinople IV (879-880), broke the bond of charity and clear precedent that began with the Apostles:
It is my hope and prayer that we do not explain this truth away, but rather admit wrong doing and return to the earliest Biblical consensus of how we settle doctrinal matters.
This article has a polemical tone which is sincerely not intended. I apologize for my limitations as a writer in which I am not quite sure how to communication my disputes with Roman Catholic historiography and their epistemology, which in my mind runs so contrary to how we sit down and think about any other issue we come across. Please read into my tone here as reflective of my own epistemological bias, not a disdain for Roman Catholics or their intelligence. |
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Ideologies and Political Theory
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The strong revival of conservatism in the 1980s, both as a governmental force and as a body of political thought, is frequently portrayed as a flowering of beliefs and attitudes attached to new theoretical frameworks, meriting the designation New Right or neo‐liberal conservatism, as distinct from plain neo‐conservatism. Those frameworks, it is often asserted, have substantially reformulated conservative doctrine and launched a cohesive set of positive ideas matching progressive ideologies in sophistication and breadth. The contemporary study of conservatism is thus confronted with two conundrums: is there now in evidence a new type of conservatism, breaking with its past incarnations and embarking on a programme of change so active that it may no longer be conservatism; and moreover, is there an unbridgeable rift between two concurrent conservative creeds, neo‐liberal and traditional? It is argued here that late twentieth‐century conservative thought occupies fundamentally the same semantic field as its predecessors, granted that the cultural constraints within which its network of concepts is decontested have been considerably transformed; consequently, conservatism appears to be attached to an innovatory range of substantive ideas and policies. The five sections of the chapter are: (a) Thatcherism as conservatism; (b) The subservience of economics; (c) ‘Who is the fiercest of them all?’; (d) Recent American conservatisms; and (e) The unity of Thatcherite ideology.
Keywords: American conservatism, British conservatism, conservatism, decontestation, ideology, neo‐conservatism, neo‐liberal conservatism, New Right, political thought, Thatcherism, traditional conservatism
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44045 | Three Wise Men and One un-Wise Woman
“I see Him, but not now;
I behold Him, but not near;
A Star shall come out of Jacob;
A Scepter shall rise out of Israel…” Numbers 24:17
What makes one wise? According to Wikipedia (my new best friend), wisdom is the application of knowledge gained. And today, rather than being filled with wisdom, it’s folly that saturates my soul. Or, staying true to my inner perfectionist, I shall be overly-critical and say what I’m really thinking. I am foolish. An utter fool. Simply, in my travels to a spiritual Bethlehem, I fail to act on that which God reveals to me. Namely, leaving perfectionism behind. Like a dog with a bone, I hold to that which consumes me. And rather than me gnawing on it, it gnaws at me. When there’s something I want to do, perfectly, it absolutely consumes every bit of my brain… leaving little room for anything else.
Two weeks ago I set my course for the Star of Jacob, and I knew exactly where I was headed. My writing of December 6 reminds me of my singular focus, “… as God’s word guides my way, the goal becomes clear in my sight… Jesus.” Yes, eyes straight ahead and He was my focus. He was the goal. But alas, I am a perfectionist to the core and ambitious to boot. And so, I set a second goal. You know, nudging the bar a tad higher. I thought what a great idea to blog this entire journey. However, one step led to another, and before I knew it the bar was so high I could barely see it. For I fully expected to reach Jesus, find a Christmas heart along the way, and write the complete Christmas story throughout my pilgrimage. And when I say write about Christmas, I mean all of it (to include creation, promises made to Abraham, the exodus of Israel, the Law, sin and Christ’s death and resurrection.) Oh, I was sure I could easily accomplish this grand feat. But you know what… today, I realize I can’t. I just can’t. For in truth, I am not perfect. And it took me nearly all of yesterday to figure that out.
But today is a new day. And through the story of the wise men, my hope is renewed. For their Christmas journey surely lasted more days than my fourteen. And eventually, the Magi did reach their destination.
The Magi, which means “wise men,” were likely astrologers who studied the signs of the times and stars. And I can only imagine the depths of knowledge that each one housed, stored up through a lifetime of observation. And because they were always watching and waiting, the Magi noticed when something extraordinary occurred. For there appeared to them a star, a new star, that outshone all the others. And leaving everything behind, they set their course by a bright light in the sky. These men knew the meaning of the star, and so, they acted wisely in venturing out. And their pilgrimage took them towards Jerusalem as they sought the King of the Jews. Upon arrival in the bustling city, King Herod gave them audience, which was the custom of the day. But their goal had not been attained, as this was not the true King they sought. And so, they kept searching…
Oh, there are several reasons these men were wise. But today, like a star, one outshines the others. For what is wisdom but the application of knowledge gained. And these men had knowledge, an entire storehouse of knowledge. But more importantly, they applied what they knew to their lives. For with the appearance of a star, the Magi became singular in focus. For the star indicated the birth of a King. And so, laying all else aside, they set their course for Him. And they didn’t stop until they reached their goal.
There were three wise men (so says tradition). And they set their course by a star. We don’t know for certain how long their journey lasted. Some suggest six days beyond birth, while others say the Christ child was nearing two years old by the time they came to Him. But in truth, it really doesn’t matter how long it took them. What really matters is… they made it.
And there’s one un-wise woman. She set her course by the Star of Jacob. Oh, she may veer off course every now and then, which delays her journey. But that doesn’t really matter. What really matters is, His star still outshines the others. And His light still guides her.
And so… as God’s word guides my way, the goal again becomes clear in my sight… Jesus.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44062 | Heterocyst simulation
3 Nov 2009
I first came across heterocysts in an undergraduate lecture, where they appeared in a paragraph about nitrogen metabolism. It was shortly before my finals, so I wasn't able to investigate further until after the exams were over. I was intrigued by the division of labour between cells in the filament, which was analogous to a multicellular organism. The patterning of heterocysts along the filament also reminded me of cellular automata and seemed to provide the simplest model for developmental biology.
After my exams, I created a simple mathematical model of a filament of cells containing heterocysts, and later, my first full scale cell simulation. Despite its limitations, it is still the most sophisticated evolution simulation that I've created. It's also different from my previous simulations of evolution in that the function of the enzymes and their rate is immutable; instead evolution works only by altering the amount of each enzyme in the cell. This is achieved by changing the rate of enzyme degradation, the promoter regions of genes and the activity of transcription factors. Evolution therefore works on the regulation of enzymes rather than the enzymes themselves.
It has been suggested that non-coding DNA accounts for more differences between organisms that coding DNA and in this simulation I hoped to explore that idea. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44064 | Page MenuHomePhabricator
Flow: Make Preview and Wikitext Edit available simultaneously
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See also: T75679: Flow: Preview message looks like an error and has question mark cursor
screenshot - before and after Preview
Split from T69192: The message Flow-preview-warning is too technical:
(Bartosz Dziewoński wrote)
Why is Flow hiding the text area when you're previewing a comment, and
replacing it with a huge green message bubble? That's confusing. Please just
do the normal MediaWiki thing for this and no complicated explanations will
be necessary.
I'll attach a screenshot from
I think this is an interesting new experiment. It reminds me of Slashdot comments, where one can only Edit OR Preview, but not both at the same time. (eg. try previewing a test reply at )
The normal MediaWiki thing, is to use the message:
and then show the previewed text
and then show the edit box,
[Which enables us to both Preview and Edit the wikitext simultaneously.]
The downsides of the normal MediaWiki thing, which I believe this experiment is trying to solve, are that it:
• Doubles the quantity of text onscreen
• Pushes the text I'm replying to, further up the window (often above the fold)
• The "This is just a preview" message might be missed by newcomers
• other?
The downsides of the new experiment are:
• Doubles the amount clicking required, for editors who use "preview" a lot. (which should be encouraged!)
• Can't Preview and Edit at the same time. (eg. If I'm wondering how a complicated template will work, I'll: preview, tweak, preview, tweak, preview, tweak, preview, save. -- Having the Previewed-text stay static on my screen, but just changing slightly each time I preview, is immensely helpful. Versus, having to retain it in my memory whilst I'm in edit-mode)
(Sidenote: I use the UserScript which makes previewing especially fast, and solves the whole Regular-Preview problem of "Refreshes the entire page, and moves you to #Top".)
I would suggest returning to the normal preview-method. (Especially because the javascript version currently on seem to use something akin to the ajaxPreview, which is nice and fast and non-jarring. (albeit needs aethetic updates))
Then also, place the standard [[MediaWiki:Previewnote]] message in a tooltip at the side, next to the "reply" button. That will provide less inline-text to distract someone whilst they're composing a post. (and less new messages to translate! cf. the original bug)
But I'm willing to be convinced otherwise. :)
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Yeah, this is something we should look at. Thanks for bringing it up!
Another downside to the new experiment:
• it makes ctrl-Z (undo) non-functional, after previewing.
I think someone accidentally partially fixed this, because today at mediawiki, I'm getting:
Yay! Now keep going! ;-)
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Since this ticket was filed, we enabled VE in the Flow message fields. The VE field now serves as a preview for wikitext.
When you're using the wikitext editor and you want a preview, you can click on the brackets icon and get an immediate preview of what your post will look like. If you see a problem with your post, you can either edit it immediately while in VE mode, or switch back to wikitext by clicking on the brackets icon.
This is much faster than a normal wikitext preview, with no extra page loads. It would be redundant to build an extra preview box.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44077 | my status will probably be ignored.
but i believe in the power that truth has.
i may be a relatively adept artist. but i am an awowed alcoholic… who astoundingly enough can still spell.
this is not my 'swan song', just an honest admission that i am what they used to call a dipsomaniac. sounds terrible doesn't it. i believe in truth. it's not terrible, but it is incurable, like cancer.
i have been battling this disease since i was thirteen.
i was sober for ten years and then for one year after a relapse of binges. now i have five years of surviving the drive to drink. yes, that's the way it is. every day we don't drink is some kind of miracle.
why am i telling you this?
because there is no understanding in the world about this affliction. everyone wants to say that we are weak-willed. guess again. a day doesn't go by that we wouldn't like a little relief. and when we take that relief we are doomed. that's it in a nutshell. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44080 | Big Nate In a Class by Himself Special Edition5stars
Nate is Not the Teacher’s Pet
By Lincoln Peirce
Harper, $12.99, 232 pages
“Today you will surpass all others.” That is the fortune Nate reads when he cracks open his fortune cookie. How will he surpass the rest of his classmates and make it a perfect day? Can Nate make Mr. Galvin laugh for the first time ever? Can he eat the most slimy cafeteria green beans in 10 minutes? Fans of Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid series will love Lincoln Peirce’s Big Nate: In a Class by Himself, a combination of funny text and comics. Nate is a regular kid who wants to be extraordinary. He is willing to do just about anything to be the best. He especially loves to make people laugh. But all that his teachers and principal see is a misbehaving kid who needs an afternoon of detention. But Nate is one cool dude who knows he is fantastic. After all, a fortune cookie told him so! A fun twist at the end will have readers laughing along with Nate. This special edition includes an extra 16 pages of winter fun – Big Nate’s Holiday Hullabaloo! Check out Nate’s Naughty and Nice list, his Christmas wish list, Gina’s Grinch list, a mix ‘n’ match game, a word search, messages in code and a special holiday comic. Look for Nate’s next book, Big Nate Flips Out.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44081 | GuardianoftheCoreA Semi-Fantastic Fantasy
3 star
By Michael E. Thies
Writer’s Block Press, $14.95, 337 pages
Those who assume the title of Guardian protect the universe of Gladonus and the secrets hidden at its mysterious Core. As present Guardian Eska finds himself nearing the end of his tenure, he seeks an apprentice to train to carry on the duties of his venerable position. That is where Michael E. Thies’ debut novel The Trials of the Core, the first in what will be his Guardian of the Core series, begins.
The gradual development of the characters is perhaps the most enjoyable aspect of this novel. The warrior Zain is quite compelling as he must overcome the guilt that internally ravages him. He supposedly killed his best friend Zakk, another competitor in the titular trials to evaluate the abilities of Guardian Eska’s potential successors. These trials range from physical to cerebral in nature and force characters to work either with or against each other. Observing how their individual values and cultural identities clash is quite interesting.
“The toughest trials test you truest.”
Another enjoyable facet of the story is that it is mostly self-contained. Inaugural entries of book series typically run the risk of ending quite anticlimactically as their purpose is to set the stage for a much grander story. While the ending of The Trials of the Core certainly prepares the reader for a sequel, it still feels as though something significant was accomplished, which makes the overall read all the more fulfilling.
This is not to say that the novel is a flawless piece of fantasy fiction, though. There are some dialogue issues most visible in characters such as the warrior Gabrielle. Her speech is written in a very thick dialect which some readers might consider an actual chore to interpret. Additionally, while the characters are interesting, one cannot help but note how similar they are to fantasy fiction stock characters and how little is done to truly elevate them. The universe of Gladonus doesn’t include all components of fantastical science and sorcery and never really coalesces together cohesively. Still, this book is a commendable first effort from Thies and is a quick read very likely to delight most fantasy fiction fans.
Reviewed by Michael Albani |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44088 | [manual index][section index]
fauth - set up authentication on a file descriptor to a file server
include "sys.m";
sys := load Sys Sys->PATH;
fauth: fn(fd: ref FD, aname: string): ref FD;
Fauth provides a means for the current user to authenticate to access resources available through the 9P connection represented by fd. The return value is a file descriptor, conventionally called afd, that is subsequently used to execute the authentication protocol for the server. After successful authentication, afd may be passed as the second argument to a subsequent mount call (see sys-bind(2)), with the same aname, as a ticket-of-entry for the user.
If fauth returns nil, the error case, that means the file server does not require authentication for the connection, and afd should be nil in the call to mount.
attach(5), security-auth(2)
The system error string is set on error, including the server not requiring authentication, and fauth returns nil.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44091 | So you have taken your first steps out of fear and anxiety. You are now on the road to exit depression. You have taken a step of faith and you have decided to accept the Passover lamb Jesus as your sacrifice for your sins. You have decided to believe in the Word of God and you are on your way out of Egypt (out of slavery to fear, anxiety and depression); but then those thoughts and feelings start to come back, you ask yourself, is this not working for me?
The Israelites found themselves in a similar situation very shortly after leaving Egypt:
Exodus 14:5
“When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his servants had a change of heart towards the people, and they said, ‘What is this that we have done? We have let Israel go from serving us!”
When the enemy (who’s only aim is to steal, kill and destroy) realize that you have been set free he will try and chase after you with thoughts of doubt and fear, just like Pharaoh chased after the Israelites. He will try the same tactic he has always used; he will try and make you doubt God’s word and his promises asking, “Did God really say?” He will chase after you trying to take you back to captivity and sadly many times we allow ourselves to be taken back there. But you have to allow him to take you back there he has no power to drag you back there if you remain in God’s word and under his wing.”
Exodus 15:10
“As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up and saw the Egyptians marching after them, and they were very frightened; so the Israelites cried out to the Lord.”
The emotion of fear in itself is not a sin and there is also a healthy kind of fear, the kind of fear that keeps you from sticking your hand into a pot of boiling water but when you start to make your decisions based on fear or live in almost constant fear that causes anxiety and depression then you are bowing to a spirit of fear and when fear knocks at your door you need to send faith to answer the door. Are you going to panic? No, you are going to call on God in prayer.
Exodus 15:13-14
“Then Moses said to the people, ‘Do not be afraid! Take your stand [Be firm and confident and undismayed] and see the salvation of the Lord which He will accomplish for you today: for those Egyptians you have seen today, you will never see again. The Lord will fight for you while you only need to keep silent and remain calm.”
To stand is an action, it’s not sitting, to stand you need ground to stand on and that ground is the word of God. If you are going to stand your ground on the word of God you need to get the word of God into you. You need to be calm and silent in speaking your fear but you need to be standing your ground and confessing God’s word about and over your situation. But we also see that you will have to speak to your situation in the Lord’s name. Like Moses you will need to lift your staff (the word) over the sea (the problem). Look at the situation the Israelites found themselves in, they had a sea before them and an army chasing behind them. They had to call on God. Here we see that God decided to take them safely through one of their problems and to take away permanently another one of their problems, a problem they had been captive to for a very long time.
Exodus 14:16
“As for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, so that the sons of Israel may go through the middle of the sea on dry land”
Exodus 14:19-22
“The Angel of God, who had been going in front of the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them. The pillar of the cloud moved from in front and stood behind them. So it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. It was a cloud along with darkness [even by day to the Egyptians] but it gave light by night [to the Israelites] so one army did not come near the other all night. Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord swept the sea back by a strong east wind all that night and turned the seabed into dry land, and the waters were divided.”
Moses had to speak to his problem and while the Angel of the Lord kept them safe from the enemy on one side He provided a way out for them on the other side. But they also had a promise that they would never see that enemy again, we pick up the story again in verse 24
Exodus 14:24 -26
“So it happened at the early mornings watch [before dawn], that the Lord looked down on the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud and put them in a state of confusion. He made their chariot wheels hard to turn, and the chariots difficult to drive; so the Egyptians said ‘Let us flee from Israel, for the Lord is fighting for them against the Egyptians. Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may come back over the Egyptians, on their war chariots and their charioteers.”
Exodus 14:30
“The Lord saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the seashore.
In the next Chapter we meet Joshua, it’s been a few years and the Israelites are about to enter the Promised Land. What are their orders from God? What are your orders from God in how to deal with your fear, anxiety and depression? |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44106 | The practice of “mindfulness” is sold by business gurus as a way to focus, relax, and gain mental clarity. In fact, according to an IBISWorld study, the mindfulness business is now a $1 billion industry, with its workshops, books, gadgets, and even phone apps being snapped up by corporate America. Several U.S. 1 Survival Guide stories have featured mindfulness experts offering meditation tips (U.S. 1, June 11, 2014.)
The practice of mindfulness is backed up by scientific studies that indicate that it can improve various kinds of cognitive functioning and even prevent the body from aging.
But Scientific American reports that these claims may be over-hyping research that is of shaky quality. In early October, a group of 15 prominent psychologists and cognitive scientists wrote an article for the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science that slams the scientific studies that support the practice of mindfulness as poorly designed, leaving the evidence for the effectiveness of mindfulness woefully lacking.
The authors note that for one thing, the studies do not agree on how to define “mindfulness.” A perhaps more serious flaw is that few of them include control groups. This means that whatever benefits purportedly shown by the studies could be due to the placebo effect, or due to simple relaxation. In other words, it’s not at all clear that chilling out or reading a book is any less effective for de-stressing than fancy meditation training.
The evidence for mindfulness becomes even less trustworthy upon rigorous analysis: a meta-analysis of multiple studies that included placebo controls showed that mindfulness did nothing to enhance attention, curtail substance abuse, aid sleep, or control weight — all benefits that have been touted at various times.
“Our report does not mean that mindfulness meditation is not helpful for some things,” writes Nicholas Van Damm, a clinical psychologist and psychology professor at the University of Melbourne, and the article’s lead author. “But the scientific rigor just isn’t there yet to be making these big claims.”
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Parse C++ header files and generate a data structure representing the class
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The western hemlock is an evergreen coniferous tree that can be found growing along North America?s west coast, from the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska to Sonoma County, California. The tree is also referred to as the Pacific hemlock and west coast hemlock.
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Zephaniah Survey #1
Zephaniah Survey
Zephaniah chapter 1
Who was Zephaniah? 1v1
Zephaniah was a member of the extended royal family of Judah, the great great grandson of King Hezekiah. (That made him a distant relative of King Josiah, the reigning king. The book of Zephaniah is easily divided, – there’s just two sections over the three chapters, and they are easily distinguished: Law and Gospel.
The Scales of Justice
Section A – THE LAW.
Zephaniah begins with a warning to Judah about the coming judgement that God will enact upon them for their idolatrous ways. Zephaniah describes THE DAY OF THE LORD with vivid, and evocative language:-
Its Complete Efficiency. V2 “I will utterly consume everything From the face of the land,” Says the Lord;
God will ‘utterly consume’ everything. Think of the great flood in the days of Noah, when the whole earth was destroyed, along with everything in it. Genesis 10:20 That is the level of desolation that will occur on the great ‘Day of the Lord’ that Zephaniah foresees. There’s a further explanation in v3.
2 Its Cleansing Effect. v4b.
God will cut off every trace of false religion! There will be no idolatry in heaven. Look at how idolatry is explained here.
1. Idolatrous religion. Expanded in v5-6. Religious people who claim to worship God, but at the same time are willing to compromise with the worship of false Gods. God, YHWH demands that his people worship no other god. He alone is to be worshipped and no-one else.
2. Pagan religion. V5 False religion. Zephaniah gives an example – those who worship the stars etc. Horoscopes. This paganism goes right into the royal house, something that Zephaniah must have been acutely aware of . Zeph 1:8-9
1. Wearing pagan apparel. And all such as are clothed with foreign apparel. The royal princes were dressing like the religions of the world!
2. Adopting pagan superstitions. v9 On first reading I thought this was about people who burgle other people’s houses, but I discovered that it’s not. It is actually about an ancient pagan belief, a superstition, that some pagan god dwells on the doorstep of every home, and we must therefore not anger that deity by stepping on his territory. 1 Samuel 5:4-5 “What nonsense,” you will say!
3. Obeying pagan deities. Who fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit. The ‘masters’ here are their pagan god, the thing that they worship instead of God. And what will satisfy those deities, which essentially are the god of self, is theft and lying – dishonest gain.
So, what pollutes the earth? False religion and all its consequences, sin, condemnation, destruction – On the great Day of the Lord there will be a cleansing, all the idolatry and false religion will be swept away under the wrath of God.
3 Its Clinical Exploration. v10.
No-one can escape from the searching spirit of God on that day.
• He knows WHO you are! v7 There’s going to be a judgement day – and the guest list is already drawn up! God knows each one who will be there on that great day! Look at the interesting language in 1:7,
• He knows WHERE you are! There is nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. – God knows where you are. v 12 The imagery is very vivid, this is an active searching – hunting down offenders.
• He knows WHAT you are! V12 He can look right into the hearts of men and see their complacency about eternity. Surely complacency is one of the greatest dangers facing the church. In Judah, there was complacency about lifestyle and ethics, believing that God has chosen Jerusalem and made promises – that they seem to think are unconditional! cf Micah 3:11
There is no escape, except to run to Christ and seek his mercy and forgiveness.
4 Its Contrasting Evenhandedness. v18.
How do you achieve justice? In Israel whoever has the most money gets their own way! Isaiah 1:23. Amos 5:12 Micah 7:3 This was a serious breach of God’s law. Exodus 23:8 Deuteronomy
You CAN’T BRIBE GOD. On the Day of the Lord the man who has bought influence with his money, will be shocked to find that the power and influence that his money has bought in this world will be stripped away, and will be worthless before the inscrutable and penetrating justice of God.
5 Its Comprehensive Extent. Chapter 2
God treats all men the same. Acts 10:33-34 The ‘Day of the Lord’ is not just for Jerusalem and Judah though. It’s for all the nations of the world, and in Chapter 2:4ff Zephaniah lists the nations around Israel, and describes the destruction that will befall them on that day. Just one example – Assyria. 2:13-15. What a proud people the Assyrians were! They had conquered the world. They had a magnificent city. They dwelt securely. V15. They were so arrogant that they said, “I am it, and there is none besides me.”
Pride always comes before a fall. She has become a desolation. The Day of the Lord has come.
So Zephaniah thunders out the Law. What a stern message! Yet before he leaves this sledgehammer down, Zephaniah gives us hope, and a hint of what’s going to come in the second part of his book. Chapter 2:1 ff
© BobMcEvoy July 2019
For discussion
Does it matter how a Christian DRESSES?
Can a Christian dress like a punk rocker, or a motor cycle rocker, like a ‘hells angel’ or like a ‘my little pony?’
Does it Matter how a Christian LOOKS?
Should a Christian dye his/her hair? What’s implied in Proverbs 16:31 The silver-haired head is a crown of glory, If it is found in the way of righteousness? Is how we look part of our testimonies? Must a Christian always look boring and dowdy?
Does it matter how a Christian ACTS?
Can you think of any superstitions that modern Christian get involved in?
What are the dangers of Christian complacency in the modern church?
If a Christian believes that ‘God is on our side’ does that mean he/she can live as they like?
Does it matter how a Christian SPENDS?
How can Christians misuse the money that God has given them to influence in a church?
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44221 | How Anesthesia Works
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Anesthesia is a mysterious concept to most of us, even if we've been anesthetized before. The term comes from the Greek for "loss of sensation," but that's not the only effect it causes in your body. Anesthesia, essentially a reversible condition induced by drugs, is intended to result in one or more different states of being. It can relieve pain, give you amnesia to knock out your memory of the procedure or how it felt, reduce anxiety (because who doesn't have anxiety when undergoing a medical procedure?) and paralyze your muscles.
It sounds a little scary, but anesthesia is made as safe as possible by careful calculation of the required dosages and diligent monitoring by medical professionals. And not all types of anesthesia are created equal.
When you think of anesthesia, it's likely you think of what's called general anesthesia, which is when you're completely unconscious during a medical procedure such as a major surgery. But there are several different types, and not all of them leave you oblivious to the world. Local anesthesia, for example, can affect just a small patch of skin. Which type you receive depends on a number of factors, including what kind of medical procedure you need and what your medical history looks like. There can also be some overlap between different types of anesthesia, and often, more than one drug is necessary to produce all the desired effects.
In this article, we will look at the different types of anesthesia so that you can understand what it is, how it works and what risks are involved. We'll also learn about anesthesia awareness and talk about the history of anesthesia (and what it has to do with cocaine). Let's start by looking at procedural sedation, also known as "twilight sleep."
Procedural Sedation, the Twilight Sleep
You may have undergone procedural sedation and not realized that it even qualified as anesthesia. If you've had your wisdom teeth taken out, for example, you've probably had procedural sedation. This type of anesthesia is used for short, relatively minor medical procedures and is also known as conscious sedation or twilight anesthesia. In addition to dental work, procedural sedation is used for things like setting broken bones, LASIK and minor cosmetic surgeries.
Under procedural sedation, you remain fully awake and can respond to questions and instructions. That doesn't necessarily mean that you know what's going on, though -- you'll be sleepy and relaxed. You typically won't remember the procedure or the short period of time following it. Some of the drugs used in procedural sedation can make you feel giddy or euphoric.
Procedural sedation has a lot in common with general anesthesia. That's because the same types of drugs used in general anesthesia are also administered in procedural sedation; they're just given in much smaller amounts. Usually, this means a sedative such as ketamine or nitrous oxide, which depresses the central nervous system. Sometimes a dissociative, which keeps nerve sensations from reaching the brain, is used instead, such as diazepam (more commonly known as Valium) or midazolam.
In high doses, these drugs induce sleep and paralysis and affect the cardiovascular system, but in lower doses, they calm the patient and reduce anxiety. For procedural sedation, one of these types of drugs is used in combination with an analgesic such as fentanyl for pain relief. These anesthetics may be inhaled, given orally, injected or used in a combination of the three methods. For example, nitrous oxide and other sedative gases are inhaled, but ketamine and Valium are injected into an IV line.
How long the procedural sedation lasts depends on the drugs administered -- it may be as few as five or 10 minutes or as long as an hour. Recovery is speedy, and you won't usually have the side effects associated with general anesthesia, such as vomiting, nausea or dizziness (although they can still occur). Patients under conscious sedation still have to be carefully monitored to ensure that they don't slip into deeper sedation.
We'll look at another type of anesthesia next -- the local kind.
Local Anesthesia: No Longer Cocaine!
Regional Anesthesia, from Peripheral to Central
The Basics of General Anesthesia
When you get general anesthesia, you're "put under," which means that you're totally unconscious and immobilized. You "go to sleep" and don't feel, sense or remember anything that happens after the drugs begin to work on your system.
It's not completely clear exactly how general anesthetics work, but the current accepted theory is that they affect the spinal cord (which is why you end up immobile), the brain stem reticular activating system (which explains the unconsciousness) and the cerebral cortex (which results in changes in electrical activity on an electroencephalogram).
Major, complex surgeries that require a long period of time to perform typically require general anesthesia. Patients may be under for just a few hours for a knee replacement, or as many as six hours for something more complicated, such as heart bypass surgery.
If you're preparing for a surgery requiring general anesthesia, you'll typically meet with the anesthesiologist to give him or her your medical history. This is important because people certain with conditions might require special care under anesthesia -- a patient with low blood pressure might need to be medicated with ephedrine, for example. Patients who are heavy drinkers or drug users also tend to react differently to anesthesia. During this meeting, you'll be instructed not to eat for several hours before surgery. It's possible for someone under general anesthesia to aspirate, or breathe in, the contents of the stomach.
When you're under general anesthesia, you'll be wearing a breathing mask or breathing tube, because the muscles become too relaxed to keep your airways open. Several different things are continuously monitored while you're under -- pulse oximetry (oxygen level in the blood), heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate, carbon dioxide exhalation levels, temperature, the concentration of the anesthetic and brain activity. There's also an alarm that goes off if your oxygen level drops below a certain point.
There are four stages of general anesthesia:
• During the first stage, induction, the patient is given medication and may start to feel its effects but hasn't yet fallen unconscious.
• Next, patients go through a stage of excitement. They may twitch and have irregular breathing patterns or heart rates. Patients in this stage don't remember any of this happening because they're unconscious. This stage is very short and progresses rapidly to stage three.
• During stage three, the muscles relax, breathing becomes regular and the patient is considered fully anesthetized.
• Stage four anesthesia isn't a part of the regular process. This is when a patient has received an overdose of drugs, which can result in heart or breathing stoppage, brain damage or death if swift action isn't taken.
We'll look at the drugs administered during general anesthesia, as well as recovery, next.
General Anesthesia Administration and Recovery
So how does a person "go under"? General anesthesia may be administered via gas, an IV line or a combination of both. Often, patients are first given an IV injection to induce unconsciousness, then gas to prolong and maintain the effect. (Some injected anesthetics can maintain the correct level of anesthesia without the use of gas.) The gas is usually isoflurane or desflurane combined with nitrous oxide.
Ketamine, sedatives (such as Valium) and depressants like Sodium Pentothal may be injected into an IV that was inserted prior to surgery. In addition, the person administering anesthesia might give you a muscle relaxant to ensure deeper paralysis, especially if your operation involves major organs.
As surgery ends, the gases are turned off and the IV anesthetic is discontinued. Patients go to a PACU (post-anesthesia care unit) where they are closely monitored. Often, you'll be given warm IV fluids to counteract both the dehydration that results from anesthesia as well as shivering from changes in body temperature. As the analgesic effect of the anesthetic wears off, you'd also receive some sort of pain relief -- an oral medication or even morphine, depending on the surgery. Some people recover within an hour, while others take longer to completely awaken.
After waking up, it's possible you'll deal with lasting side effects: vomiting, nausea and numbness in the area where surgery was performed. You'll probably feel disoriented and require assistance to get around.
It's also important to mention that there are serious risks associated with general anesthesia, including suffocation, allergic reaction, organ failure, stroke and death. These are concerns you should discuss with your doctor before your surgery.
Anesthesia has come a long way since its earliest days. Next, we'll take a brief look at the history of anesthesia.
The Shadowy History of Anesthesia
A nurse regulates the flow of anesthetic during an operation at a London hospital, October 1938.
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Although it hasn't always been called anesthesia, the concept has been around for as long as people have been performing surgery -- no matter how primitive or crude. Early anesthetics were soporifics (which dull the senses and induce sleep) or narcotics. These included opium, mandrake, jimsonweed, marijuana, alcohol and belladonna. Native American societies such as the Incas chewed coca leaves (from which cocaine is derived). While all of these substances can provide some level of pain relief, sedation or amnesia, there were no guarantees. There is also a history of using nonmedical methods such as hypnosis, ice (to numb the area) and acupuncture.
By the mid-1840s, the only two anesthetic agents regularly used in industrialized countries were opium and alcohol. Both had many negative side effects, such as addiction, and neither could typically dull the pain completely by themselves. Doses large enough to provide the desired effect could just as easily result in death. Sometimes, patients were knocked unconscious by a blow to the head. But without good anesthesia, surgery usually resulted in the tortured screams of patients.
Everything changed in 1846. A dentist named Dr. William Morton put on a demonstration at Massachusetts General Hospital when he removed a tumor from the jaw of a patient. Prior to the operation, he used a sponge soaked with ether to render his patient unconscious. Afterward, the patient claimed that he had no memory of the operation or any pain. The doctors witnessing this were highly skeptical, but Morton was soon hailed as the conqueror of pain.
The problem was that Morton wasn't the first to claim the discovery of modern surgical pain relief. A few years after medical journals published articles about Morton, Dr. Crawford Long stated that he had first used ether in operations in 1841 after observing its effects upon recreational users. In addition, Dr. Charles Jackson claimed that his work had influenced Morton. He went to Congress in attempt to gain recognition with the support of Oliver Wendell Holmes (credited with suggesting the use of the word "anesthesia").
The American Medical Association as well as the American Dental Association endorsed Dr. Horace Wells, a dentist, as the first person to use nitrous oxide to pull teeth in 1845. Chloroform was first used as an anesthetic by Dr. James Simpson in the mid-1840s as well. Because it's highly toxic, chloroform ceased to be used in favor of ether in the early 1900s.
Now, there's a wide variety of anesthetics available, but we still use derivatives of some of these early substances, such as morphine, the "-aine" drugs chemically related to cocaine, and nitrous oxide. Anesthesia continues to evolve and become safer, enabling doctors to perform necessary and life-saving operations. The next time you need anesthesia, you'll have a better understanding of the process.
For lots more information on anesthesia and related topics, check out the links on the next page.
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• Albin, Maurice S. and Patrick Sim. "Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D., 1809-1984, Poet, Physician and Anesthesia Advocate." ASA Newsletter. October 2004.
• American Association of Nurse Anesthetists. "Conscious Sedation: What Patients Should Expect." AANA. 2009.
• American Dental Association. "Anesthesia." ADA. 2009.
• American Pregnancy Association. "Epidural Anesthesia." APA. October 2007.
• American Society of Anesthesiologists. "Anesthesia and You." ASA. 1994.
• BCMA Medical Museum. "Anaesthesiology Collection." British Columbia Medical Association. 2008.
• Hewer, C. Langton. "The Stages and Signs of General Anesthesia." British Journal of Medicine. August 7, 1937.
• Mayo Clinic Staff. "General Anesthesia." June 27, 2008. Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (MFMER).
• Massachusetts General Hospital Neurosurgical Service, Harvard Medical School. "'We Have Conquered Pain': A Celebration of Ether 1846-1996." MSH Neurosurgical Service. May 11, 2005.
• Miller, Ron D. "Miller's Anesthesia." New York : Elsevier/Churchill Livingstone. 2005.
• National Institute of General Medical Sciences. "Understanding Anesthesia." National Institutes of Health. December 2007.
• Oysten, Dr. John. "A Patient's Guide to Local and Regional Anesthesia." Department of Anesthesia at Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital. 1998. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44222 | Role for piRNAs and Noncoding RNA in de Novo DNA Methylation of the Imprinted Mouse Rasgrf1 Locus
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Science 13 May 2011:
Vol. 332, Issue 6031, pp. 848-852
DOI: 10.1126/science.1203919
Genomic imprinting causes parental origin–specific monoallelic gene expression through differential DNA methylation established in the parental germ line. However, the mechanisms underlying how specific sequences are selectively methylated are not fully understood. We have found that the components of the PIWI-interacting RNA (piRNA) pathway are required for de novo methylation of the differentially methylated region (DMR) of the imprinted mouse Rasgrf1 locus, but not other paternally imprinted loci. A retrotransposon sequence within a noncoding RNA spanning the DMR was targeted by piRNAs generated from a different locus. A direct repeat in the DMR, which is required for the methylation and imprinting of Rasgrf1, served as a promoter for this RNA. We propose a model in which piRNAs and a target RNA direct the sequence-specific methylation of Rasgrf1.
Imprinted genes show parental origin–specific monoallelic expression, which is controlled by DNA methylation in the differentially methylated regions (DMRs) (15). Differential methylation of the DMRs is established in the parental germ line, passed to the zygote, and maintained in the somatic cells, which eventually leads to monoallelic expression. During fetal testis development, the DMRs are demethylated (imprint erasure) in primordial germ cells at 10.5 to 12.5 days postcoitum (dpc) and de novo methylated (establishment) in prospermatogonia or gonocytes at 12.5 to 18.5 dpc (2, 3, 57), as retrotransposons (13, 5). Of the three well-studied paternally methylated DMRs, the Rasgrf1 DMR is unique in its requirement for the DNA methyltransferase Dnmt3b in both de novo methylation (8) and maintenance methylation (9). Intracisternal A-type particle (IAP) and long interspersed nucleotide element–1 (LINE1 or L1) retrotransposons also require Dnmt3b, as well as PIWI proteins and PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), for de novo methylation in the male germ line (7, 10). piRNAs are 24- to 30-nucleotide (nt) small RNAs that bind to PIWI proteins. The PIWI-piRNA complexes (PIWI-piRNAs) repress retrotransposons posttranscriptionally. Of the three mouse PIWI proteins, MILI and MIWI2 are expressed in fetal testes and MIWI in postnatal testes. Because DNA methylation of IAP and L1 retrotransposons is defective in the male germ line of Mili and Miwi2 mutants (7, 10, 11), PIWI-piRNAs may also repress the retrotransposons transcriptionally through DNA methylation.
To determine whether PIWI-piRNAs are required for de novo methylation of the DMRs at imprinted loci, we studied mice with mutations in the piRNA pathway. MitoPLD/Zucchini is a protein with a phospholipase D/nuclease domain involved in primary piRNA production in both flies and mice (1215). The Mili, Miwi2, and MitoPLD mutants show meiotic arrest during spermatogenesis. We analyzed the four paternally methylated DMRs (H19, Dlk1–Gtl2, Gpr1–Zdbf2, and Rasgrf1) in spermatogonia from Mili, Miwi2, and MitoPLD mutant pups by bisulfite sequencing (16). In the mutants, the Rasgrf1 DMR showed reduced methylation (Fig. 1A), whereas the H19, Dlk1–Gtl2, and Gpr1–Zdbf2 DMRs showed normal levels of methylation (figs. S1 and S2). At the Rasgrf1 DMR, methylation was more severely affected in the Mili (23.3% methylation versus 93.4% methylation in control heterozygotes) and MitoPLD mutants (16.8% versus 83.8%) than in the Miwi2 mutants (58.6% versus 77.2%). The Rasgrf1 DMR is located on mouse chromosome 9 (chr9) between Rasgrf1 and the A19 noncoding RNA, both of which are imprinted (17, 18). In the MitoPLD mutants, which showed the severest reduction in piRNAs, an ~2–kilobase (kb) region containing a cluster of CpGs was affected (region H to region L in Fig. 1B). A direct repeat in the Rasgrf1 DMR is known to be essential for methylation and imprinting of Rasgrf1 (19). In the sperm of the direct-repeat deletion mutants, the methylation status of the CpG cluster (corresponding to region K in Fig. 1B) is affected, whereas regions upstream and downstream of the cluster (regions upstream of region F and downstream of region Q in Fig. 1B) are unaffected (19, 20). The extent and pattern of the defect in methylation in the MitoPLD mutants were essentially the same as those in the direct-repeat deletion mutants (19, 20), which suggests that the methylation responsible for Rasgrf1 imprinting is lost in the MitoPLD mutants.
Fig. 1
DNA methylation of the imprinted Rasgrf1 DMR is impaired in piRNA pathway mutants. (A) Methylation status of a portion of the Rasgrf1 DMR [corresponding to a part of region K in (B)] in spermatogonia from Mili, MitoPLD, and Miwi2 mutants revealed by bisulfite sequencing. Open and filled circles represent unmethylated and methylated cytosines, respectively. A result on 12.5-dpc wild-type whole-embryo DNA is also shown (control, 50% methylation expected). Percentage of methylation is shown below each panel. (B) Methylation status across the Rasgrf1 DMR in MitoPLD mutants. The green and gray bars show the gametic DMRs (regions differentially methylated between oocyte and sperm) (30), of which the green one is important for imprinting. Positions of CpGs are indicated by short vertical bars. Repeat sequences identified by RepeatMasker are shown as colored boxes: green, LINE; purple, short interspersed nucleotide element (SINE); white, simple repeat; gray, LTR; light gray, DNA transposon. A direct repeat consisting of 40 copies of a 41-oligomer (18) and a copy of RMER4B solo LTR are also indicated.
To reveal the effect of the three mutations on piRNA expression, we analyzed small RNA libraries prepared from mutant fetal testes by Solexa deep sequencing (table S1). The relative abundance of 24- to 30-nt piRNAs decreased in all mutants compared with the wild-type control (Fig. 2A). It is known that MIWI2-bound piRNAs are larger in size than MILI-bound piRNAs. In the MitoPLD and Mili mutants, both 26-nt MILI-bound and 29-nt MIWI2-bound piRNAs were present at very low levels (3.4% and 3.5% of the wild-type control and 13.9% and 7.9% of the control, respectively) (Fig. 2B). In the Miwi2 mutants, 26-nt piRNAs were unchanged (99.2% of the control), whereas 29-nt piRNAs were reduced (36.7% of the control) (Fig. 2B). The extents of the defect in piRNA expression correlated with those in DNA methylation of the Rasgrf1 DMR in the mutants (Fig. 1A).
Fig. 2
Decreased piRNA levels in piRNA pathway mutants. (A) Size profiles are shown for small RNAs from wild-type (control), Mili−/−, MitoPLD−/−, and Miwi2−/− testes at 16.5 dpc. The peak at 22 nt represents miRNAs, and the other at 24 to 30 nt represents piRNAs. (B) Relative levels of Mili-bound (26-nt) and Miwi2-bound (29-nt) piRNAs compared with wild-type. The levels of miRNA were used to normalize the piRNA levels.
To further explore the link between piRNA and Rasgrf1 methylation, we identified 23- to 31-nt small RNAs mapping to the Rasgrf1 DMR. Twenty-one small RNA reads from wild-type testes uniquely mapped to the DMR with perfect sequence matches (Fig. 3A and table S2), which showed that they are derived from this DMR. In MitoPLD mutants, these small RNAs were lost (Fig. 3A), which indicated that they are indeed piRNAs. When we allowed one or two mismatches, hundreds of piRNAs mapped to a narrow region annotated as an RMER4B sequence, located just upstream of the direct repeat. RMER4B is a solo long terminal repeat (LTR)–type retrotransposon found in a few thousand copies in the mouse genome. Most (95.2%) of these piRNAs also mapped to another RMER4B copy in a piRNA cluster on chr7 with perfect matches (fig. S3 and table S3). Furthermore, most (78.9%) of the chr7-matched piRNAs were unique (table S3), which suggested that they are generated from the chr7 piRNA cluster.
Fig. 3
An RMER4B sequence in the Rasgrf1 DMR is targeted by piRNAs. (A) Numbers and locations of small RNAs from MitoPLD+/+ (left) and MitoPLD−/− testes (right) at 16.5 dpc mapping to the Rasgrf1 DMR (correspond to mm9 chr9: 89769659–89779158). Results for small RNAs with a unique hit (top) and those with mismatches (up to two mismatches including indels) are shown (bottom). (B) Detailed mapping of piRNAs in the RMER4B copy of the Rasgrf1 DMR. piRNAs are represented by bars colored according to the number of sequence reads obtained. Plus strand hits are shown above the sequence, and minus strand hits are shown below it. Mismatches are represented by black portions of the bars. Unique hit piRNAs are indicated.
The Rasgrf1-derived piRNAs mapped to the minus strand of the Rasgrf1 DMR (Fig. 3B), but the chr7-derived piRNAs predominantly mapped to the plus strand in two small regions (comprising sites 1 and 2 in Fig. 3B), which have similar sequences owing to a sequence duplication. In each mapped region, a 10-nt overlap was observed between the chr7-derived piRNAs and Rasgrf1-derived piRNAs (Fig. 3B), characteristic of the piRNA ping-pong cycle, which generates secondary piRNAs from target RNAs through cleavage by PIWI-piRNAs (21, 22). These observations indicate that an RNA (or RNAs) transcribed from the Rasgrf1 DMR is targeted by the chr7-derived piRNAs.
In a region immediately upstream of the RMER4B copy in the Rasgrf1 DMR, we identified an RNA that was specifically expressed in prospermatogonia (Fig. 4A). Cleavage of a target RNA by PIWI-piRNAs creates a 5′ end with monophosphate. To map the cleavage sites in the newly identified RNA, we carried out modified RNA ligase–mediated 5′ rapid amplification of cDNA ends (modified RACE) (23). The most common 5′ end of the RNA fragments mapped precisely to site 1 (Figs. 3B and 4B), which was one of the two ping-pong signature sites. We could not detect fragments cleaved at site 2, probably because of the simultaneous cleavage at site 1, which was proximal to the primer site. The RNA fragments cleaved at site 1 disappeared in MitoPLD mutants, which confirmed that the RNA is targeted by piRNAs. Furthermore, the RNA was up-regulated ~5 times in the mutants (Fig. 4D). We named this RNA “piRNA-targeted noncoding RNA” (pit-RNA). The pit-RNA transcript was specifically expressed during the stage of de novo methylation (SOM text).
Fig. 4
The Rasgrf1 direct repeat serves as a promoter for pit-RNA. (A) Detection of pit-RNA by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in germ cells from 16.5-dpc testes. Oct4 is a marker for germ cells. (B) Detection of a pit-RNA cleavage site by modified RACE. The numbers of cDNA ends obtained by sequencing the recovered RACE products are also shown (right). (C) Transcription start-site analysis by 5′ RACE. The number of cDNA ends determined by sequencing the RACE products is shown with an arrow in the schematic representation of the region (bottom). The positions of the PCR primers for the analyses are also illustrated. (D) Quantitative PCR analysis of pit-RNA in wild-type and MitoPLD−/− testes at 16.5 dpc. Error bars represent standard deviation (n = 3). The level of Oct4 mRNA was used as a reference. (E) Quantitative PCR analysis of pit-RNA in wild-type and direct repeat mutant testes at 16.5 dpc. Error bars represent standard deviation (n = 3). The level of Oct4 mRNA was used as a reference.
Rasgrf1 is imprinted in mice and rats but not in other rodent species (18). We found that the RMER4B copies are conserved in the rat genome at both the Rasgrf1 DMR and the piRNA cluster. Furthermore, it was reported that the direct repeat essential for the methylation and imprinting of Rasgrf1 (19) is found in mice and rats but not in Peromyscus and rabbits (18). The 5′ end of pit-RNA determined by 5′ RACE indicated that its transcription is initiated within this direct repeat (Fig. 4C). It is therefore possible that the defect in Rasgrf1 imprinting observed in the direct-repeat mutants (19) is a consequence of loss of pit-RNA. Consistent with this notion, pit-RNA was much reduced in testes of the mutants (Fig. 4E). It therefore appears that, through acquisition of the retrotransposon copies and direct repeat, Rasgrf1 acquired imprinting to regulate postnatal growth (24), as explained by the “conflict hypothesis” (25). However, it is also possible that Rasgrf1 imprinting is an inconsequential outcome of the importance of retrotransposon repression in the male germ line (i.e., Rasgrf1 is an innocent bystander), as retrotransposon repression by the piRNA pathway is essential for spermatogenesis.
In the small interfering RNA (siRNA)–mediated transcriptional silencing systems of Schizosaccharomyces pombe and Arabidopsis, polymerase II (Pol II)–transcribed and Pol V–transcribed nascent RNAs, respectively, have been proposed to serve as scaffolds for recruitment of the silencing machinery through siRNA binding (2628). In the Rasgrf1 locus, the noncoding pit-RNA is targeted by piRNAs, and disruption of pit-RNA transcription results in a failure in de novo methylation. Furthermore, in mice heterozygous for the direct-repeat mutation, only the mutated allele loses methylation (19), which indicates that the repeat acts in cis for methylation. Therefore, although we cannot formally rule out an indirect effect of PIWI-piRNAs, these results together lead us to propose that targeting of nascent pit-RNAs by PIWI-piRNAs at the site of transcription is an important step in the sequence-specific methylation of the Rasgrf1 DMR (fig. S4). In growing oocytes, transcription through the Gnas DMRs is required for their methylation (29), but in this case, involvement of the piRNA pathway is unlikely, because the offspring from Mili, Miwi2, and MitoPLD female mutants show no discernible phenotype (7, 10, 11, 15). In prospermatogonia, however, a large proportion of piRNAs maps to retrotransposons, and it is likely that transcription through retrotransposon sequences has a role in shaping the epigenetic landscape of male germ cells. The methylation patterns established in this way are mostly reprogrammed in early embryos, but the Rasgrf1 DMR is unique in that it maintains the parental origin–specific methylation (SOM text).
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2. Acknowledgments. We thank M. Kaneda, S. Chuma, V. Shteyn, and J. Peng for comments on the manuscript and H. Horiike, H. Furuumi, T. Ichiyanagi, Y. Amakawa, H. Chiba, and Y. Li for sample preparation. The accession number for the small RNA sequences is GSE20327. This work was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan to H.S. and K.M.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44229 | Oh, The Places You’ve Been!
ohtheplaces2We got to talking, some friends and I. We got to talking about a lot of shit. We’re good at that, you know, the “talking shit” thing. The subject came up of where we wanted to live. Barring silly little things like money and jobs and family, where is the best place in the world to live?
The variety of answers you get with that question are pretty damned amazing. Some, even, are surprising.
Kinda like mine.
“Wait, you bastard,” one friend cried, “you live in the middle of fucking Yellowstone, for fuck’s sake. Why the fuck would we even ask you?!”*
unnamed*Ever wonder why my characters curse so much in my stories? Welcome to my life…
The thing was, you couldn’t just answer the question once. You couldn’t just say, “Fresno”** and let things stand with that. You had to explain your answer, then come up with two more places.
**And, yes, that there is some weapons-grade sarcasm, if you’re wondering.
My first answer was easy to explain. Hell, my first answer was actually doable for someone like me — someone with no fear of change, or of starting completely from scratch. Of course, I also Boats at Dubrovnik old town portdidn’t have to actually explain my first answer, I just had to show a picture. One look, and my friends were on board with living there, too.***
***Yes, I’ve been there. And, yes, as someone who has been to dozens of countries and hundreds of cities, it is one of my favorite places in the entire world…
My second and third answers, however…they took some explaining. One of my friends — either smarter than the rest, or more sober — even managed to find the common thread linking those three places.
“Wait a second,” he said. “You’re a stupid fuck. Why are all these places on the water? And why are they all looking fucking west?!”
Oh, by the way, I never said my friends were particularly, uhh, friendly. Ahem.
If any of my friends had ever learned to read,**** I would’ve pointed them to a previous post of mine.
****Can you see now why we’re friends?
Okay, so quoting yourself is the writing version of a Circe Lannister orgy, but I’m gonna go ahead and do it anyway:
photo-1498804040961-7a2a6e07c263“You sit out at the end of the jetty, several hundred feet from shore. A drink in one hand, perhaps, and a cigar in the other. The ocean stretches in front of you; not just as far as the eye can see, but as far as the mind can wander.
The sun dips, touches the horizon. Fire in the sky, and in the clouds. The ocean turns from blue-grey, briefly, to molten metal. You can’t break yourself away; you continue to stare blankly, to watch and absorb the closest thing this world has to infinity. There is nothing in front of you but water. Intellectually, you know that a few thousand miles away you will find islands and peoples, but there is no room for “intellectually” when you’re staring out over the edge of the world.
No, when you’re looking out into that infinity, there is nothing in your universe but sunset and water and thought. Memories and dreams…a certain emotional distance from the world itself…and the “knowledge” not that you are at the end of the world, but that you have everything in front of you.”
Okay, so beside the fact that you have no idea just how badly I’m itching to edit that passage before I quote it, I should probably offer an explanation.
Of all the places I’ve been…
Of all the things I’ve seen…
Of everything I’ve done…
Nothing can make me feel that particularly bittersweet medley of small, nostalgic and warmly comfortable like staring out into infinity. And, no, the sunrises of coasts on the east don’t do it. Sunrises are about anticipation and hope. They are about beginnings and energy and tackling your problems.
Sunsets, on the other hand…
shutterstock_381332338.jpgSunsets are about that pause for reflection. For memory and reflection. For that feeling of a day well done, of a chunk of your well lived.
With a glass in one hand and a cigar in the other, of course.
The Evils of Preaching
So, how much of yourself do you put into stories? I’m not talking about blood, sweat and tears; plenty enough of those go into any fiction story. No, I’m talking about opinions and beliefs…I’m talking about the underlying messages and themes you want to communicate, especially those messages and themes that center on politics and current social issues.
I’ve written before about the futility of those who demand that others “shut up and X.” Whether that variable is sing, play, write, act, paint doesn’t matter. However you fill it in, it still comes down to an admonition that is, in essence, nothing more than a petty, childish demand for everyone on the playground to do what the admonisher wants. The rest of the demand, by implication, is that if others don’t give in to the demands, well…they’ll just take their ball and go home.
Pure, futile stupidity.
No, I will not “shut up and write.” Not anymore than I would expect an actor to play a role without bringing to bear a layer of subtext and meaning that goes beyond the mere words of the script. Nor a painter or sculptor to produce a work without message or substance. If you have something to say, you say it, regardless of occupation or calling. That goes double, by the way, for those creating their own works (whether song or story or painting or any other damned thing).
FA17A784-1CB4-4C5A-8EDF-B6B1AA146E0FBut — of course there’s a BUT — but communicating subtext and meaning can all-too easily become preaching, and that very quickly becomes tiresome. I don’t mind having my assumptions and beliefs challenged by a work, but I do not want to be preached at, no more than I want to be lectured.
So how much is enough? How much is too much?
That’s a hard one, not least because there really is no correct answer. The only rule I can really come up with — at least for myself — is that when your messages and your themes become proselytization, let alone evangelism, it’s time to dial them back…a lot. You have to trust your readers to follow the breadcrumbs of thought and insight you put out there. If you try to force them to follow, you’ve already lost.
EA8533C7-F1EB-495F-B9DD-7998C727A086Now, look, I like putting elements of social commentary and politics into what I write. Certain themes are very much at the center of the sci-fi I envision, to be honest, especially those themes that are focused on the individual, and on all the shit — the exploitation and marginalization — that we as a society allow and condone. But if I start preaching that? If the story becomes more about a message than it is about the characters and the plot?
Yeah, that doesn’t work. At all. (Yes, Ayn Rand, I’m looking at you…)
If I wanted to read a philosophical or political treatise, I would’ve bought one.
I wish I could say there was a magic formula, and an easy answer, but there’s not. Hell, for my own writing, I actually worry about this from both sides: as much as I think about, and try to defend against, being overbearing and preachy, I also worry about being too soft. Hiding too deeply and obscurely what I want to say is, on a personal level, just as bad as getting up on my soapbox.
The simple fact is that I spent a lifetime being quiet, telling others only what they wanted to hear.* I didn’t challenge their assumptions or prejudices, and I certainly didn’t offer any hint or view of something else…of something more. I’m done with that. I have something to say and, goddammit, I’m going to say it.
*As I’ve mentioned before, I am in fact a reformed sales & marketing weasel. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44240 | Website Troubleshooting
Website Troubleshooting
Web applications of all kinds can have glitches that keep them from working properly. Some bugs you might encounter on your website include database connection errors, emails not sending, pages not opening, or other unexpected behavior when your website is performing a task.
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Often the original programmer is no longer available, making it quite challenging to pinpoint and fix the issue. This is where I can help. I've spent much my 15-year programming career hunting down and fixing website software bugs.
Debug Process
• Review the coding structure & logic used
• Locate the offending code on the server
• Track down any applicable error logs
• Reproduce the error
• Correct the error
• Test the fix
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Hiring an experienced web programmer is the best way to solve the problem without inadvertently breaking other parts of your website. If you have encountered an error on your site, contact me with the following information to ensure the quickest possible resolution:
1. A detailed description of the error (e.g. the page is supposed to do X but instead it is doing Y)
2. URL of the page with the error
3. The type of browser you are using
4. How to reproduce the problem (if possible)
5. The most recent changes made to your website (e.g. any recent software updates, code changes, etc)
I charge by the hour in 30-minute increments to fix website bugs. As any programmer will tell you, it is virtually impossible to predict ahead of time exactly how long it will take to fix a problem. Some resolutions are simple and quick while others can be very time consuming.
However, if you provide specific details as described above, I will give you a completely free estimate of the cost to fix your website problem. You can request a quote here. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44256 | Axiom: Linear | Curve
‘An Axiom is a statement that is so evident or well established, that it is accepted without controversy or question’.
This collection focuses on the two most prevalent forms, the CURVE and that from which it derives the LINE. AXIOM LINEAR|CURVE is the duplication and layering of simple lines and curves to create complex shape and form.
AXIOM LINEAR primarily consists of strong, straight and clear lines that run parallel to each other until finally meeting to completion. Resulting in striking, bold pieces.
AXIOM CURVE takes these striking, straight lines and harmonizes them with subtle curvatures to create a more delicate aesthetic yet retaining its bold nature. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44261 | HOME > Solution > Alliance Partner Solution > Output Security Solution
Alliance Partner : L i-tech
Printing the setting of secure function when printing (watermark, barcode), propose to using specific Application S/W (by user and department.) Saving output image and text , management of output history by date and user, search a data by the function of searching keyword
- The rate of information spill by insider is reached to 70%
- Progress security information through the DRM but it is ineffective
- Difficult to apply the security of printing without any changes of machine from various printer
Systematic management of output document
• - Establish policy and guidelines of output security
• - Available to analyze security level and weak point
• - Establish the output security master plan
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44263 | tree: e1ea8e9e3ea4fd0e646b59368d659a4747204db0 [path history] [tgz]
1. .gitignore
2. Dockerfile
3. Makefile
5. build_release
6. favicon.png
7. go/
8. karma.conf.ts
9. modules/
10. package-lock.json
11. package.json
12. pages/
13. static/
14. tsconfig.json
15. webpack.config.ts
Skia Debugger
A web-based tool for viewing and inspecting SKP and MSKP files (recorded SkPictures)
The debugger consists of one-page app that that loads a wasm module loosely based on canvaskit the wasm module draws SKP file being inspected to the canvas in the center of the page. Source for this wasm module is in the skia repository at //experimental/wasm-skp-debugger
Running locally
Once, after a clean checkout, run the following
cd ../infra-sk
npm ci
cd ../puppeteer-tests/
npm ci
cd ../debugger-app
npm ci
Obtain the debugger wasm binary. You can either download the production version with
make wasm_libs
Or build it locally in the skia repo. (This also copies it to the correct dir)
cd experimental/wasm-skp-debugger
make local-debug
Start serving the application locally. (from this dir)
make serve
The application can now be loaded at http://localhost:8080/dist/main.html
Live reloading is enabled and will catch any change in typescript, javascript, css, or static files including changes to the wasm binary from make local-debug in the skia repo which copies the .wasm file here. Note that live reloading will not catch changes to webpack.config.ts
Webpack will show typescript compilation errors in the javascript console of the page and in the terminal.
Production deployment
There is an talk_driver that will deploy this application at ToT configured in infra/bots/task_drivers/push_apps_from_skia_wasm_images/push_apps_from_skia_wasm_images.go It is running make release_ci which in turn runs the build_release script in this directory.
In production, the app is served from go/debugger-app/main.go. See for the initial deployment. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44267 | Can You Get Over Me?
Put daggers in my heart and twist knives into my spine,
rip my skin away from the flesh,
and drain my blood, drop by drop.
Cut me into two halves, and then cut those halves further.
Take my eyes away.
Discard them on your way home.
Roast my flesh in a fiery rage.
Fill my soul with hatred—cage it, control it, confine it, and give me away to the lust of hell.
And tell me now—does that help you get over me?
This is to all those who think they can inflict pain upon the ones they love, to avenge the pain that was caused to them. The opposite of love is not hate, it is apathy. You don’t hate the person you once loved, and no matter how hard you try, their pain will never soothe yours. Anger and resentment are dangerous things, as much as they destroy others, they destroy us, too. Forgive; you’ll sleep better.
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19 Comments on Can You Get Over Me?
1. Forgiveness will make you sleep better, and anger is one hell of an alarm clock.
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2. Powerful! It is amazing how something that seems easy (forgiveness) is actually one of the hardest things to do. Love the poem.
Cheers! ^_^
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3. Sound advice ^_^
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4. I can forgive someone, but it’s another thing to be able to forget. Just because you choose not to carry any anger or hatred towards that person who had hurt you, doesn’t mean you can ever trust that person again or even repair the relationship.
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5. Time is the more realistic healer. Either that or a lobotomy.
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6. So Eloquently put. Love and Hate are the opposite of each other but still in the same circus. Apathy and indifference are not in that circus at all….they have their own tent. BUT the real question is not can I get over you……for my and my ego… is can I get over Me? ~~dru~~
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7. Words wrapped in wisdom here. Anger is the worst thing ever, it makes us helpless, succumbing to it. But, for me, I can say, I forgive, but I NEVER forget….
Loved Rose’s illustration..she is extremely talented!
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8. Show ’em your cable bill. That may work.
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9. The answer is ‘no’ 🙂 Vivisection won’t help, it only gives you nightmares 🙂
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44277 | VIDEO: Spartak Moscow section fires flare 50-plus yards at referee
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What’s Russian for “behind closed doors?”
Spartak Moscow may find out after one of their supporters fired a flare from the end line to the midfield stripe, barely missing referee Deniz Aytekin.
[ MORE: Champions League wrap-up ]
Maribor and Spartak drew 1-1, but UEFA repercussions are almost certainly coming for the Russian visitors.
That could benefit Liverpool, who visits Otkrytiye Arena in Moscow on Sept. 26. The Reds drew Sevilla 2-2 on Wednesday. |
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So I was on facebook and came across this:
12249730_436452446552442_3824436106729353461_nIn case you can’t see it at the bottom it’s put out by muslimsarenotterrorists.com so already we can tell that being an unbiased source is clearly not happening.
It states that ISIS has killed about 100,000 muslims in the past two years. Now, I’ve done a bit of searching, and cannot find out if this number is accurate at all. I find reports of 24,000 being killed in certain areas, a couple more thousand in other areas, etc. But it’s an interesting thing working here. We know there are Christians and Pagans who are being killed, enslaved, and so forth by ISIS…but only muslim casualties are mentioned here.
So there are two options.
1) ISIS has killed over 100,000 people (a number I find shocking, horrifying, and sadly all too realistic) and the author of this infopic is deliberately ignoring non-muslim casualties.
2) ISIS has killed about 100,000 people and the author of this infopic is deliberately erasing Christian and Pagan identities and claiming all victims were Muslims.
In either case, I find myself in a position to well, not trust their position at all. They are either ignoring the dead, or ignoring the identities of the dead in order to make a political and religious statement.
So let’s get down to the meat of this. Before we blame Muslims or Islam for the crimes of Islamic terrorists…we should think of the Muslims murdered by said terrorists. As if Muslim victims deserve a privileged status over non-Muslim victims.
So I’m going to look at this blame thing in two parts. Muslims and Islam.
Are Muslims (presumably all Muslims) to blame for the Crimes of ISIS?
It is my personal believe that each man is responsible for the crimes he commits. To blame a man for the crimes of his ancestors is unfair, he had no way to prevent such a crime. To blame the man for the crime of his neighbor, too, is not so easily done, especially if the man is ignorant of the crime being committed.
That is my personal view.
However, there is a widely held belief that those around someone who commit a crime and do not prevent it, are responsible. Every time a loan gunman has gone out and killed people, media and populace alike have screamed in loud voices “the family and friends knew this person! They should have realized what was happening! Why didn’t they do something to stop this?”
I see no reason why this position should not be aimed at the Muslim community as a whole. After all, the latest statistics I have heard about support for Islamic extremist views put out by international intelligence agencies was that 1/4 – 1/15 Muslims believed in an Islam Identical to that Islam believed in many “terrorist” Islamic organizations. Meaning that statistically every Muslim family has at least one relative who believes in radical, violent, supremacist Islam.
Now that is statistics, and actual ratios no doubt differ depending on location. In ISIL lands, I’m sure the number is closer to 14/15 Muslims believe in Fundamentalist, Supremacist Islam. But these are the ratios we have, and the lowest is 1/15.
To put this in perspective, on my dad’s side of my extended family we have probably a good 60 living members at least. Say that’s an average “Family size” and double that for Mom, you’re looking at say 120 family members. At the minimum 1/15 ratio, you’re looking at at least 4 family members who support Islamist Islam.
As just one of the attacks in Paris showed the other night, 4 people is enough to kill about 100 people fairly easily, if brutally.
So it is not a unjust assumption to assume that there is at least one radical in every Muslim family. Now ever family has that “crazy uncle/cousin/etc” but eccentricity is no excuse to not be vigilant. After all, if one of my cousins started talking about blowing up some place because it wasn’t Christian and killing people because they didn’t believe in Christ, you can bet your ass that if the whole family didn’t dogpile the shit out of them, at least one of us (myself included) would go over and beat sense into them (or hand them over to the cops with evidence).
So why should Muslim families be held to any different standard?
Now I’ve heard stories of Muslim parents caught unaware by their Children’s radicalization. How much of these claims I believe, is actually hard to say. How do you not realize your child is suddenly wanting to go kill the infidel? Sure, the internet makes secret lives better, but maybe you might actually want to sit down and talk with your children about what they believe. If they’re a fanatic, it will generally slip out.
So that’s families, but what about the Muslim people as a whole?
Well, I come from a religion (Heathenism) with its own fair share of “radicals,” though thankfully our radicals spit a lot of bile and don’t go out and kill people. My experience as a member of Heathenism is that many, many people like to claim “all Heathens are racists.” And it’s true, some Heathens are racists. But we other Heathens step up, and step down on them. While we might not crush every one accused of racism, but those who have actually been racist tend to find themselves surrounded by a bunch of very angry Heathens. The problem then tends to resolve itself non-violently, long before any violence towards others would have occurred.
So if it is fair for my religion to be judged by our worst, and for my religion to police its worst, I see no reason why it is not a fair expectation of Muslims to do the same. A people is made up of both its best and brightest, and its worst and darkest. How you uplift the former and crush the latter is the true measure of a people’s worth.
And frankly, Muslims have done a terrible job of that. ISIS is supposed to have killed 100,000 Muslims and yet the Muslim world has done jack all to actually stop them. If anything, ISIS has clearly spread it’s ability to affect the larger world outside it’s national borders in ways no one thought possible. And I do hold Muslims responsible for that. These are their people, their kinsmen, and instead of massing up and putting ISIS down…they are running away. And not just running away, allowing these extremists to tag along with them into non-Muslim lands who have generously offered safe haven only to receive violence and bloodshed for noble mercies.
If you see a man being butchered on the street, and you do nothing to help, are you not guilty of at least aiding in the crimes of the murderers? I think so. If you know that people are going to go out and murder others, and you do nothing to stop it? Legally, you’re an accomplice. Morally, you have committed a great sin.
Is Islam to blame for the Crimes of ISIS.
There is an interesting trend when it comes to things like this. So I’m going to flip it around.
Is Christianity to blame for the burning of witches and the brutalities of the Inquisitions and Crusades?
I’m pretty sure there will be a resounding cry of affirmation from most people to that question. Christianity has a long history of violence and supremacy behind it. In the name of Christ, thousands, millions have been butchered across history. And even most Christians will admit that yes, the Christian faith is responsible for those atrocities.
So why is it suddenly not okay to blame Islam for the deeds and actions inspired by its holy texts? Indeed, the greatest atrocities we hear coming from ISIS are not only inspired by passages from the Koran, they are directly commanded quotes from the Koran. Those that are not, are taken directly from some of the historically validated greatest scholars of Islamic religious belief.
If a group of Orthodox Jews were to suddenly begin exterminating every non-Jew in the Middle East based on the commandments to do so from the Torah and the Greatest Rabbis of history, I certainly wouldn’t try to claim they were no longer practicing Judaism.
So why do we allow this to happen with Islam?
We shouldn’t. As long as Muslims and others are allowed to claim that ISIS and those like them are not “real Muslims” the the problem doesn’t end. It’s like claiming that the Nazi’s who carried out the holocaust weren’t the “Real Nazis” because they interpreted some parts of National Socialist doctrine in a literal way that said it was a good thing to gas Jews. Or like saying that the Crusaders and Inquisition weren’t real Christians because they interpreted their faith and texts in a way that let them do what they did.
The whole of the “ISIS is not Islam” rests on a logical fallacy known as the “no true Scotsman.”
“Person A: “No Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge.”
This is basically what every Islamist denying “it’s not Islam” person is doing. “No Muslim would commit such acts!” “We have proof that the terrorist was a part of the Islamic State.” “Well, no true Muslim would be a terrorist!”
Except, that all falls apart when you look at who the first and best guide to being a Muslim is to ever Muslim out there: The Prophet Mohammad.
And every action taken by ISIS is a mirror of actions taken by the original Prophet Mohammad and his followers. All of them. The only difference is that ISIS has guns and trucks rather than bows and camels. But all the rapes, all the murders, all the “Destroy the infidel!” things…yeah. Exact same. It’s all in the Koran. Holy scripture. And Mohammad is universally referred to in Islam by all Muslims as “Allah’s Perfect Man.” Which, when you consider the fact that he was deserving of Divine Revelations to a God’s personal message….kinda tells me as a Polytheist that such a man is what that God completely desired to have preaching his message.
Remember, in Islam, Mohammed is held up to the same, if not greater status, as Jesus, Moses, and Abraham. That level of perfection. These guys are Equals. Abraham put YHVH/Allah as the only god, Moses freed his people from life long slavery, and Jesus tried to teach everyone to love thy neighbor. And then Mohammad shows up with “enslave the Jew and Christian, make them 2nd class citizens in your land taxed for their different belief, and just go ahead and kill any pagans, gays, or other people who are not muslims.”
A full list of just what kind of a person the Prophet Mohammad was in his “perfection” would be worthy of an article of its own. But I’ll leave it at this. To say he would be a war criminal and pedophile by today’s standards is a completely factual statement based on his own holy book’s record of his deeds. And this is Islam’s Perfect Man.
So I’m sorry, but if your Perfect Muslim give an example that says ISIS needs to put on their try hard panties because they’re not doing enough to mimic his own actions…I’m going to say Islam is directly responsible. Christianity is responsible for its bad actors and actions, Judaism has been, Heathenism has been, etc. Islam must be as well.
It’s time to stop treating Islam and Muslims like the child pitching a fit in the supermarket that we’re all to terrified to discipline because he’s throwing shit everywhere, and get the proverbial belt. Christianity has mellowed out extremely because we as a whole world gave it said belt and told it “no, you do not get to go around killing people simply because you don’t like them.” We cannot expect Islam, child of the same god and follower of the same history, to do better without also teaching it.
So yes, I blame Islam for what it’s followers do. And yes, I hold Muslims responsible for their actions, or more accurately, inaction in stopping the growth of ideologies and groups like ISIS. If you do nothing, and evil grows, then you have helped that evil and violence to grow. If you speak the words “kill the non-believer” and people go out and do that, you are directly responsible for those murders.
Hela Bless, Bellona Avenge. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44309 | What is Physio Led Personal Training?
If you are a mid to older aged adult looking to become more active and improve your physical and mental health through physical exercise then Physio Led Pilates is for you. Having the medical background of a physiotherapist combined with the sport science knowledge needed for effective personal training sessions gives you the comfort of knowing that you are in safe hands.
We can support and supervise you through a structured exercise programme that meets your individual goals, all while being conscious of any previous injuries or health problems that may have put you off a regular personal trainer in the past.
What are the benefits?
Relieve Joint Pain
Improve Strength & Flexibility
Improve Your Physical Functional
Improve Sleep and Mood
Reduce Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases
Reduce Risk of Diabetes & Cancer
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44332 | Step 1
Log into your RBO Agency profile.
Step 2
Create the bond request and enter the tenant's details. They will receive some instructions on how to pay the bond directly to the RBO's bond account.
Step 3
Once the tenant has paid the bond directly to the RBO, you will receive an email confirmation. Add this Bond ID to the lease profile in the app.
Other helpful links: Making a bond claim - NSW, Configure a lease
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44370 | The Blot Spot Community
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44388 | Charli XCX Is Dropping a New Mixtape and Also, Look at This Styling!
Image via Charli XCX
Image via Charli XCX
Worldwide pop princess Charli XCX is dropping a new mixtape this week entitled Number 1 Angel, a long-awaited follow-up to her effervescent last single, “Vroom Vroom.” As Stereogum points out, one of the new tracks is an irresistible little number called “Lip Gloss” that’s already lodged in my head—MMHMM! I KEEP IT STICKY ICKY LIKE LIP! GLOSS!—and sets the stage for an exuberant summer, ideally one with lots of warehouse sweating and looking cute.
In anticipation of that and in honor of exactly that, let us pray to the excellent styling that went into her mixtape cover!
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Two crimson puffy jackets and (Dior?) pumps that look like unfurled lipstick tubes is the most, particularly because monochrome will never go out of style—and also, conveniently, it’s the color of the International Women’s Strike! Two for two. See also: Givenchy Fall 2017, which pays homage to Riccardo Tisci’s best looks (ugh, I still want the pant boots from A/W 2012) and sets the stage for another chapter. Power moves.
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I’ve only heard parts of songs she sings like Fancy and Boom Clap(???? Is that what it’s called?) I really don’t get her and don’t think she has a particularly good voice. Can someone explain her to me? |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44390 | No evidence equals atheismWhen you ask an atheist why they are an atheist, it’s not uncommon for them to respond, “Because there is no good evidence that God exists.” If that is their only justification for atheism, they have made a gross logical blunder.
In the case of genuine dichotomies (such as God’s existence: God exists, or God does not exist), the lack of evidence for A is neither evidence against A, nor evidence for B. In order to conclude that A is true or B is true, one must have positive evidence for the truth value of A or B. The absence of evidence for both A and B simply means that we must suspend judgment.
Applied to the debate over God’s existence, even if one wants to argue that there is no good evidence for theism, it does not follow that theism is false, and it certainly does not follow that atheism is true. To conclude that theism is false one must present positive arguments against theism. Likewise, to conclude that atheism is true, one must present positive arguments for atheism. Atheism is not the default position in the absence of evidence for God’s existence.
Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga made this point in a poignant fashion in a recent New York Times interview. He said, “Lack of evidence, if indeed evidence is lacking, is no grounds for atheism. No one thinks there is good evidence for the proposition that there are an even number of stars; but also, no one thinks the right conclusion to draw is that there are an uneven number of stars. The right conclusion would instead be agnosticism.” Precisely. Even if there is no evidence for God’s existence (a claim I would reject), the proper conclusion would be agnosticism, not atheism. Atheism, like theism, requires a positive argument before it is worthy of being believed.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44430 | Real money or digital currency?
With online gaming becoming an evermore-prevalent cornerstone of the games market, many developers are also turning to the Internet for publishing. As mentioned previously in this blog it’s Valve and their online digital distribution service Steam that are the current masters of this art – you pay your money you get your game.
Now many other developers are seriously looking at the prospect of online only publishing and this includes Realtime Worlds, the developer behind Crackdown and APB. The latter is an action orientated MMO which when purchased comes with 50 free hours of online play. After this, 20 more hours can be bought for £5.59 or if the player prefers they can buy a 30 day unlimited package for £7.99.
It’ll also be possible to buy this extra play time using an in game currency, RTW points, which can be bought in large amounts with real money or made through selling custom items to other players. In an interview with Develop, APB Lead Designer EJ Moreland said it’s a system that’ll also be implemented in the developers’ future titles.
““Realtime Worlds is transitioning from being a developer to being an online publisher, [and] RTW Points is going to be the currency for all of our games in the future.”
One of those games is a yet unannounced title and Moreland’s comments seem to suggest that the Dundee-based studio will be producing another online title. Of course, through self-publishing a title online the Games Developers, Games Designers, and Games Artists cut out the middle man in the form of needing to cover the costs of physical discs and retail. This may very well be appealing to Train2Game students looking to break into the market.
However, one has to wonder if people will use the currency to buy extra playtime. Paying for RTW points with a debit card will take some time, then will the whole process have to be repeated in order to pay for the actual product? Though perhaps the use of RTW points will strengthen the APB community, and ultimately encourage them to play for longer – and thus pay for more content. Maybe players with large amounts of RTW points will play future titles too, seeing as they’ve already stocked up on the currency needed to buy it. We’ll see.
What do you think is the best system for a developer to use when publishing a game online? Real money or a specific type of in-game currency?
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44448 | This Week in Doctor WhoThis Week in Doctor Who
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Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord
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Featuring: Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Steven Moffat, David Tennant, Nicholas Briggs, Murray Gold
Peter Davison is on a quest to discover what makes the ultimate Time Lord. The Fifth Doctor meets the talented people who have helped create the show both past, present and future, and asks "Who is the Doctor? What will make the Twelfth Doctor unique?"
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44470 | Hyperkinetic circulation during exercise in neuromuscular disease
R. G. Haller, S. F. Lewis, J. D. Cook, C. G. Blomqvist
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Increased oxygen transport by the circulation is normally tightly coupled to increased oxygen uptake (VO2)during exercise; cardiac output (Q) increases 5 to 6 liters for every liter of increased oxygen utilization(ΔQ/ΔVO2≃5). We measured cardiac output and oxygen uptake at rest and during bicycle exercise in 7 patients with myalgia without evident muscle disease and 15 patients with myopathies. Resting circulation was normal in all patients, and during exercise the increase in cardiac output relative to oxygen uptake was normal in all myalgia and most myopathy patients. However, in four patients (with dermatomyositis, phosphorylase deficiency, carnitine deficiency, and ocular myopathy with “ragged-red fibers”) exercise cardiac output was excessive and ΔQ/ΔVO2 high, resulting in an abnormally high level of cardiac work for a given level of exercise. This hyperkinetic response may represent aberrant regulation of the circulation by skeletal muscle as a consequence of some myopathies.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44482 | Rooted in Christ
Rooted in Christ contains 366 Scriptural devotions for growing Christians. Just as a tree draws nourishment through its roots, so a Christian receives spiritual nourishment for growth by being "rooted in Christ". Colossians 2:6–7 says, "As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus as Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44483 | Kaiju-a-GoGo: Friendly-Faced Destruction (Developer Interview)
Kaiju-a-GoGo* fulfills the promise of classic games such as Rampage or War of the Monsters by giving you control of a customizable monster (or “Kaiju”), and an entire world to conquer.
I had the chance to speak with the Lead Designer of the game, Martin Cirulis. In the video above, you’ll learn about his history in the video game industry, the founding of Kerberos Productions, and how Kaiju-a-GoGo became the unique title it is today.
KaijuAG Screenshot 1 from Steam Store Page
Destroying Sydney…
Gameplay in Kaiju-a-GoGo consists of tearing apart buildings and historical monuments, stomping on civilians, and fighting the Kaiju Defense Force (KDF) in locations around the globe. Resources gained from battle/surrendered cities are used to upgrade your secret island base and Kaiju. Each Kaiju has 90+ unique abilities, so playthroughs can be wildly different depending on the player.
All actions are performed with mouse clicks, simplifying the controls for less experienced gamers. Early on, destroying cities, taking over territory, and etc. can feel difficult as your underpowered monster tackles a far-more advanced military presence. This and the strategy required to conquer the planet without being found/destroyed by the KDF raises the recommended skill level higher than the graphics and control scheme would suggest.
Eventually though, through smart fighting, upgrading and construction, your mad scientist can rule the world!
KaijuAG Screenshot 2 from Steam Store Page
The World Map contains locations both iconic (London) and slightly more esoteric (Albuquerque, New Mexico).
Two additional downloadable monsters (Shrubby and Armagordon) are coming to the game in the near future. As these monsters are added, the price of Kaiju-a-GoGo will go up by $1 per Kaiju until it hits its final price point.
Potential Concerns:
In Kaiju-a-GoGo, YOU are the “bad guy” trying to take over the world. You do this by attacking (or threatening to attack) a city and its inhabitants until they surrender. Graphic violence or destruction is not depicted.
I spoke with one of the developers after the interview above to see whether further concerns exist. She gave me an insight into how far the team went to be inclusive:
We actually decided to represent fewer Buildings-of-Faith than are present in real life, in almost every city in the game, to avoid causing unnecessary distress to people who would be offended by the destruction of Mosques, Cathedrals, Buddhist Temples, monasteries, etc…Overall we tried to favor secular buildings instead.
The Mad Scientist angle and the occasional references to evolution or other scientific theories reflect the views of the developers…Since this is a silly fictional world which includes giant robot dinosaurs and a mystery element called “purpletonium”, we’re hoping that the light humor will be inclusive to all.” (Arinn Dembo, Lead Writer of Kerberos Productions)
From what I’ve seen, even significant regional religious sites (for Christianity and otherwise) are for the most part spared…
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44521 | From Team Fortress Wiki
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How One Church Said “Yes” to God
Without faith, it is impossible to please God – Hebrews 11:6 Pastor Kevin McGinley and SouthGate Church in Colorado understand that verse of Scripture very well. Several years ago, the church exercised faith to begin a journey that would radically transform lives, as... |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44567 | Emptying Your Cup
Updated: May 31
You may have heard the expression “Empty your cup”, but do you know what it means?
The expression dates back to Ancient China, where a famous zen master had a conversation with his student. The student who was full of opinions and thoughts came to the zen master seeking his knowledge. The zen master noticed that his student’s teacup was empty and began pouring more tea into the cup, filling it past its capacity and spilling it all over the floor. The student cried asking him to stop, and the zen master replied saying “You are like this cup; you are full of ideas. You come and ask for teaching, but your cup is full; I can't put anything in. Before I can teach you, you'll have to empty your cup."
When are cups are full, we might feel we know everything there is to know. We exist in the same mundane routine, the same chores, the same tasks, and etc. We think we know everything there is to life and most of what we have learned is filtered in our mind through judgment, assumptions, and opinions.
Do you remember when you were a child and learning something new? Or maybe it was the first time you saw the sunset? How did it make you feel? This was when your cup was empty… Our world is full of many different experiences and interesting ideas and people. But if our cup is full then we marginalize every experience.
This zen proverb but is still relative to this day. As adults have you noticed that your cup is full? Are you ready to empty your cup and navigate through life with excitement?
Often times we forget that we are physical beings having a spiritual experience. At The Modern Mystery School, we honor the spiritual and physical sides and grant you the tools to empty your cup and live with excitement and joy.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44571 | Plato's Military?
Saturday, 3/26/2011
Plato's Military?
Henry Kissinger said, "military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy". Unfortunately, our military now bears(or should we say bares) too much resemblance to Plato's dream society where all men belonged to all women and all women belonged to all men. Thanks to "Comrade" Obama, now all men belong to all men and all women belong to all women. It must be long as he says,"God bless America". But, which God is he talking about, the God of darkness ....or the God of light?
When has a morally decayed military ever protected a country from tyranny? We now have an un-American military serving under the resolutions of the communist UN instead of a congressional declaration. They now are fulfilling the goal of servicing and protecting all sexes in every way! As in our school system, the goal is to turn everyone into a "Swallow" or Raven".(Go to issues and read "Homosexuality")
To follow the basic belief expressed by Wm Penn, "Tyranny begins where God leaves off"; I pose the question: has the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" given us a system of freedom...or...tyranny? Has it given certain people the freedom to do evil ...or the freedom to do good?
That question can only be answered upon the assumption that there is a Creator who has outlined a code for human relations that will bring mankind the greatest level of happiness, and for which we will be judged in an afterlife. Wm Penn also said, "If we will not be ruled by God, we will be ruled by tyrants".
Our country was founded upon a system that would give people the freedom to do good,... freedom of religion. Now we have a fifth column behind the guise of various names such as liberal, progressive, secular, democratic, or socialist; creating the freedom to do evil...a freedom from religion; the freedom from accountability. And they all hide behind the ACLU.
They don't love America; they hate America. They hate its God, they hate its morality, and they hate its patriotism. They have the chose to reject all three, but they don't have the right to force it on the rest of us....or the right to pass their consequences onto us. The freedom to do evil is not constitutionally protected, but the chose is.
The Constitution of the United States was established to prevent government from abusing the citizens in basic four ways. First it was not to Force the people to accept "a deal they can't refuse". It was also to protect us from vice(crime), monopoly, and the "debauchery of public morals". Now government is the author of and protects all four through unconstitutional agencies and and executive orders. And where is our Congress, "out to lunch"?
Tyranny has many faces, Freedom only one. There is opposition in all things. For an up, there is a down; and for every right, there is a wrong. Plato's dream of what amounts to nothing more than a national whorehouse or a "Sodom and Gomorrah" society is no different than that planned "in the beginning" by the "dark force".
One might even consider Plato the great socialist of his time. In biblical history homosexuality seems to be the final straw before God allows his established freedom societies to be conquered or destroyed. His biblical promise has always been the same for individuals or countries: If you live my laws you will be blessed, if not, you will be cursed.
In these modern times, there is another dark force that would like to see America become another "national whorehouse". And that is the Soviet system of international communism. More can be found in the issues section under the topics of Homosexuality and the Sex Resolution. Moscow is still the capitol of the "evil empire".
To summarize, their goals call for destruction of the family through promiscuity,
pornography, adultery, and homosexuality. All violate the greatest bond of love that can exist between two individuals of the...opposite sex. Is not loyalty not the greatest sign of love? What kind of country will such people give us?
Rev. Dan Stanley of Eau Claire, WI, wrote an article that was, to my amazement, published in the local paper. He spoke out because of "the obvious disregard for the Lord's ways" in the community. "What is being disregarded in our city is sex and its proper practice according to the Bible".
He goes on to say, "our sex-saturated society" has been dumbed and numbed to silence. "Rather than seriousness, we have turned most of the sex discussions into jokes until we find ourselves paying the consequences." This is the community where a lesbian teacher was given permission to out herself to her seventh grade class in more detail than some parents would have liked.
Rev. Stanley lists seven areas of concern and list them as follows: 1) nakedness, 2) fornication,3) adultery, 4) living together, 5) homosexuality/lebianism, 6) bestiality, and 7) pornography. As I told him, I agree with all those concerns except the sixth; I've never heard much on that one. He says these areas cover the sexual immorality going on in Eau Claire; it twists your thinking and harms your Soul.
Homosexuality is neither the beginning or end of the moral problem in the military anymore than it is so in our society. There are those in the military that believe in a double standard because of the risk to life they take. They are no more exempt from our Creator's laws than anyone else. Now the news media is reporting on the abuse and sexual assault of women in uniform.
No one has such a right to do so in the name of "unit loyalty" or "esprit de corps", nor, especially, by authority of rank. In this case everyone does not love a "lover". Neither is being a Don Juan acceptable, though mutual consent is implied. What are they taking their oath to do? What system of government do they really represent, freedom or tyranny, Americanism...or communism?
Where do we look for leadership? We've been talking about the Democrat and Rhino platform. It seems that neither party will allow a "clean" candidate to run for President. Why is that!? Do we look to the Clintons, Edwards, or the Bushes? How about Guliani, Gingrich, Trump, or McCain?
The resolution passed by our Barron county RP was blocked at the 7th District level and also at the state convention. Then they came in, replaced the county leadership, and removed the resolution. Whose cause where they serving? Is it not our duty to warn our children... or our community and nation?
It may be too late; the "commie" gays now rule the military and our country! General George Washington discharged such people. What kind of soldier homos, pornos, or whores for his country? Would he be a facist, a communist, a Nazi....or an American; a Christian soldier expecting the protection from the hand of God?
As a Vietnam veteran and a "Gentleman", and due to a combination of Methodist upbringing and natural conscience, I can say, "I came back with honor". Historically, the military has always been a ground for moral testing. It is getting all to obvious who is failing. If we pamper or exhibit too much patience for the weak and degenerate, they become a cancer on the nation.
Should we honor such a military anymore if they're going to buy in to communism? I question saluting people serving an enemy cause. But then again, they may be the only people who "know which end is up"! Talk about CYA! As a sign says on many businesses, deliveries will now be made in the rear!? How about a new motto for the military?...We have your behind covered! I guess we can keep the old one, "An Army of One"!
Stalin said, America is like a healthy body and its resistance is three-fold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within." George Washington said, "a decay of public virtue has fed the hopes of the enemy...cannot our common country, America, possess virtue enough to disappoint them?
Which will be your chose: virtue or vice...loyalty or dissolution? Is our oath of allegiance taken to America...or Amerika? Do we want that "light from above" or the darkness from below? This UN-American activity must end... will be the end of the liberty and freedom bequeathed to us by the "Hand of Providence"! ......and that is.. AFACT! |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44573 | Wednesday, August 17, 2016
What To Put In A Back To School Essentials Basket
Me: "Okay kids, time to get up for school!"
Them: *GROANS*
My daughter loves to fall back to sleep. It'll go completely quiet, which is not normal for her, and then...
Me: "Wake up! Wake up! You'll miss the bus!"
Her: "You're being rude!"
I'm being rude? I'm making them breakfast and I'm the rude one?
Well. My version of making breakfast is plopping down the cereal boxes. Still.
After the kids are at school, I do a happy dance and relish in the quiet.
But then I remember that going back to school means bringing home germs. And getting sick. I know I'll need to stock up on Children’s TYLENOL®, Extra Strength TYLENOL®, and Children’s MOTRIN®.
To make things easier, I decided to put together a basket I can easily grab if someone complains about feeling ill or being in pain.
Here are some things to put in a back to school essentials basket:
1. Children’s TYLENOL®. It works differently than other pain and fever medicine and won't upset little stomachs. It's also the brand recommended by most pediatricians.
2. Children’s MOTRIN®. You might wonder why I need this when I have the Children’s TYLENOL® and it's because my daughter sometimes wants a different flavor. Help your kids bounce back by relieving their pain or fever with Children's MOTRIN®. For high fever, nothing works faster or lasts longer.✝ Among OTC brands. Lasts up to 8 hours.
You can find the Children’s TYLENOL® and Children’s MOTRIN® in the Kids Pain and Allergy healthcare aisle at Target:
3. Extra Strength TYLENOL®. My teenager has outgrown the children's medicines, so he uses this now when he falls ill. I also use it when the kids are being extra whiny and my head begins to pound. It is the brand of pain reliever doctors recommend most.
You can find this in the general pain relief healthcare aisle at Target:
4. When noses get sniffly, and trust me, they will--I picked up some tissue packs. Band-aids also are important for scrapes. My daughter sometimes comes home with a tiny scratch that she got from her pencil somehow.
5. Hand sanitizer to help ward off the germs. If anything, your hands can at least smell fantastic.
I like having everything in one spot. If a child complains of a stomach ache, I know exactly where to find something to help. Get positively prepared with the right pain relief for you and your family at Target.
What would you put in a back to school essentials basket?
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1. It's hands down, my least favorite part of fall. The sicknesses are rampant after MONTHS of being completely cold and virus free. Uncool.
I also have both Tylenol and Motrin. I think they work kind of differently but also do great side by side. You have to be prepared!
2. Oh ugh. We haven't even started yet and my kids have colds.
3. This is such a great idea!!!! So much easier to be prepared.
1. Yes!! Being prepared makes things go smoother, that's for sure.
4. If I had to add to make back to school essentials box I would add some wipes, and a thermometer to the mix. #client
1. That's a great idea! I need to go get the thermometer out of the cabinet and add it to the basket. Thank you!
5. Oh god I never wanted to get up for school as a kid! In college tho, I took 745am classes and I did spinning at 545am. I'm a weirdo!!
6. That's a good idea to keep everything in one basket...! I'm going to use this idea! Hmm, come to think of it, its been a while since some nasty virus has done the rounds in my office... Fingers crossed it stays this way!
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