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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44575 | TY - JOUR T1 - The Effect of Grapevine Leafroll and Rugose Wood Sanitation on Agronomic Performance and Berry and Leaf Phenolic Content of a Nebbiolo Clone (<em>Vitis vinifera</em> L.) JF - American Journal of Enology and Viticulture JO - Am. J. Enol. Vitic. SP - 438 LP - 442 VL - 48 IS - 4 AU - Guidoni, S. AU - Mannini, F. AU - Ferrandino, A. AU - Argamante, N. AU - Di Stefano, R. Y1 - 1997/01/01 UR - http://www.ajevonline.org/content/48/4/438.abstract N2 - Phenolic concentrations in leaves and berries collected from both heat-treated and grapevine leafroll associated virus type 3 (GLRaV-3) and grapevine virus A (GVA) infected vines of the Nebbiolo clone 415 were analyzed throughout the growing season. Anthocyanins, hydroxycinnamoyltartaric acids, flavonols, and catechins were analyzed by HPLC and total anthocyanins by spectrophotometry. The results showed that virus elimination induced an earlier and higher accumulation of anthocyanins in berries, while a higher quantity of flavanols was found in leaf blades of infected plants whose photosynthetic activity was previously demonstrated to be reduced. Sanitation also induced an increase of vine vegetative vigor and juice soluble solids whereas yield and acidity were not affected. ER - |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44590 | Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Bean Growing (See What I Did There?)
Real post coming later, you guys.
But I thought you might like an update on MY BEANS.
I have five bean plants growing in a pot on my balcony.
On Saturday they looked like this:
Four days later, they look like this:
My bean plants are kicking ass! At this rate, I figure they'll be about eight feet tall by Independence Day. Give or take.
I'm so thrilled to have not killed my little sproutlings - even Meenie, my special-needs bean, is thriving.
I reckon I'll have enough beans to feed the entire Internet. Assuming this episode of remarkable (and uncharacteristic) green thumbery continues. Does anyone know who the patron saint of beans is? I might to say a novena or something.
More pictures coming as my babies grow.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44627 | Blue Corner and Red Corner, Metropolis and Province : Literature and Education in Contemporary Australia
My daughter recently finished high school in provincial Queensland, where she was exposed to two plays by Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth, principally by means of Baz Luhrmann's and Roman Polanski's eponymous films. Her assignment as regards Romeo and Juliet was to re-write a chosen scene in a modern idiom; as regards Macbeth to write an autobiographical response to events from the point of view of a minor character in the play: in both cases in effect to layer a second piece of creative writing on top of Shakespeare's. These were not empty exercises, but neither were they particularly profound ones - where coming to terms with Shakespeare was concerned, at least. At no stage, for example, did the tasks assume that either drama - in and of itself, irrespective of how Luhrmann or Polanksi interpreted Shakespeare's play -was an experience that might raise issues (psychological, existential, political, and so forth) worthy of her moral curiosity: that life 'is a tale I Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, I Signifying nothing', for example, might be an idea she might want to come to terms with, given that plenty of people come to share it now and then. Her assignments took Shakespeare for granted, like a corporate edifice or monument, and the means of contact they envisaged with his work was imitative rather than critical. There is a particular set of attitudes at work behind what she was asked to do: Shakespeare is an cultural inheritance of such magnitude that we have to study him, whether out of a sense of duty or some more positive impulse; yet he is too hard to read, so we must make do with a film; and we shall pay him no higher intellectual tribute than some modest, 'expressive' re-writing. People have been teaching complex works of literature in schools around the English-speaking world for a hundred years and more, to all sorts of students.
The full text of this essay is available to ALS subscribers
Published 1 June 2013 in Volume 28 No. 1-2. Subjects: Australian literature - Study & teaching, Contemporary literature, English literature - Study & teaching, Literary canon, Impact and literary studies.
Cite as: Lansdown, Richard. ‘Blue Corner and Red Corner, Metropolis and Province : Literature and Education in Contemporary Australia.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 28, no. 1/2, 2013, doi: 10.20314/als.851947dd44. |
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1. Ok, now I know, what you mean. The MCP V2 is a USB Plug and Play Hardware. It is running with the SIOC Software and a script. The hardwareconfiguraion is written in the sioc.ini. So I do not use this software. Is there a demoversion to test it? I don`t want to spend 49 Euros and may be to notify, that it does not work, too.
2. What do you mean with Interfacesoftware? My SIOCversion is 6.0B8
3. Hi Guys, after an Update from P3D V 4.1 to 4.2 a few days ago, I have problems, to run my MCP V2 from Open Cockpits. Of course, I made all current updates from the addons, like FSUIPC or ORBX and so on. After starting SIOC as an administrator, all LEDs are showing three "0", and no button or switch shows any reaction on the screen of the Simulator, running with the PMDG B737. The Mastervalues in the SIOC.ini are also correct and did not change, like they did automaticly after the Win10 update,and they had to be corrected to the USB IDs by hand. Even the SIOC Monitor shows, that the MCP is working. Though I restarted the complete Computer a several times, it did not help as it helped, whe this thing happened under P3D 4.1. What do you mean, could it be, that there are communicationproblems between SIOC and the new FSUIPC in the actual version? And if so, how can I fix this issue? Or any other ideas? Thanks for ypour help. Best wishes Robert
4. So do I understand it right, that there is a prefix "solved"? How can I find and set it?
5. I want to ask, how to mark a thread as "Problem solved" or something like that? In many communities it is a feature, to mark threads in that way, that helps members with one view, whether thy can find fast solutions in the thread. If it is not possible, you should think about it. It is a very useful and timesaving feature. Thanks for answering.
6. Men, I have good news. I have solved the problem. Now my MCP is working well again. I found the solution in a german Flightsimcommunity in the Internet. Some of them had the same problem, that the MCP did not work anymore after the Win10 CFU. The same problem, we have or better, I had :-) Here is the solution, that worked for me fine. After the Update of Win10 to Win10 CFU, in some cases and some unknown reasons, the Windows Update changes the IDX or the USB Numbers of the Opencockpits hardware. If that happens, you have to rewrite the Mastercolumns in the sioc.ini. To do that and to find out, which values you have to change, you must start SIOC, first. Then you can see, whether the values have changed. If it is so, the possibility exists, that you have the same Problem, I had. And if so, write these changes into the sioc.ini Mastercolumns for the hardware and save the ini. In my case, in the sioc.ini I had before the CFU following values: Master 0,5,1,23 After the Update, the last value had changed, the SIOC window showed me, that the last number, it is the devicenumber, was suddenly the 92. I changed the columns for the MCP to following values: Master 0,5,1,92 Then I saved the sioc.ini, I emptied the script in the opened SIOC windows, reloaded it and the MCP worked. This helped me and some other people, who had the same issue after installing Win10 CFU. I hope it will help you, too.
7. This is strange. They just sent me an email with the question, which version of SIOC I use. I answered, that I use the current version from their website. The only reply was, that they have no problems with this version. No further support, since that mail. It is now a few weeks ago.That`s very poor. And I am very angry. My conclusion is, never ever Opencockpits. It is a mess. They sell their hardware, they take the money. They leave their customers alone, as soon it is more, than a common problem. And I talked to Microsoft, too. But they said to me, it is a problem from opencockpits,not from Windows Creators Fall Update. Both companys move the Jackass to each other. And I am between their false game. I switched off the automatic Updates from Windows and made a recovery to the old Win 10. I hope, that in future an update will coming up from Wndows or SIOC, that can solve this problem. Till this time, I must live without any securityupdates from Windows. @ cbb: Are you able to send me the SIOC Version, you have? I could not find any Version in the net, which has the 6 as the first digit.
8. I mailed them, too. And they asked me only, which SIOC version I use? I answered them, that I use the current version on their website. After this mail, a week later, I got the answer with the question, which SIOC Version I use. I told them, that I use the current version from their website. A week later, I got the same question again. Then I answered the Version number. But till today, I did not get any further answer, only the statement, that they use the configuration without any problems. This mail was sent by them 10 days ago. I ask myself, wheather it is wise, to buy other OC products in future, if the support is poor like this. I can understand, that they need time to figure out, what kind of problems are behind the issue, but it seems to me, that they have no any idea, whats going on inside this issue. I will wait another week and then I will ask again. If they have no answer then, I will sell my OC equipment and never ever buy this stuff anymore.
9. I am interested in getting the mailadress, which you use.
10. I deactivated all the securitysettings from the Windows defender and the additional Windows security features from the new update, but it did not help. The Hardware still does not work. :-(
11. A part of this update says following: "Ransomware protections. To better protect against ransomware attacks, we’re introducing Windows Defender Exploit Guard that helps protect files from unauthorized changes by nefarious applications and your applications from unknown exploits. Additionally, Windows Defender Antivirus now has specific safeguards in place, along with default enhanced coverage that is delivered instantly via the cloud protection service. These and other security technologies protect against persistent ransomware campaigns like Cerber, Locky, and Spora, as well as global outbreaks like WannaCry, and Petya." The rest of the update is described here: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/10/17/whats-new-windows-10-fall-creators-update/#jKkBsedMfV4JMbvR.97 It seems to me, that this protection makes the problems. I will try to find out, if there is a setting in this protection, that may be makes this problem. I can imagine, that the SIOCscript activates the new protection and blocks the functions I need, to make the Opencockpits MCP working. And thanks for this wink, to look up, what this update is doing to the system.
13. No idea, but rumors say, that they forget to renew the securitycertificate of the website. However, tried just the trick with the systemtime. It works well. After chaseplane is running, you can reset to current systemtime.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44639 | At the beginning of the year (roughly so) I select a word that will serve me through the year, standing for something I wish to invite and guide me. This year that word is rooted. It serves a purpose on a physical and metaphorical level.
I am truly motivated and enamored by passion. Feeling the spark, the fire of desire. However, it requires balance. It requires honing in with your voice and aligning with what makes you feel passionate, what lights up your spirit.
Rooted: 1. cause (a plant or cutting) to grow roots.
1. establish deeply and firmly.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44649 | BBC News
Utah toddler puts more than $1,000 in the shredder
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The last place you want to find a missing envelope full of money is in your shredder.
But that's where Ben and Jackee Belnap of Salt Lake City, Utah, discovered their $1,060 (£810), which they needed to pay for University of Utah American football season tickets.
Searching for the missing money, they were horrified to find it torn to pieces - courtesy of their son, Leo.
Their two-year-old son helps shred junk mail, and was trying to be helpful.
"Leo helps me shred junk mail and just things with our name on it, or important documents we want to get rid of," Jackee told news station KSL TV.
She and Ben had been saving up the money to repay his parents for the football tickets.
The couple then placed it on a counter to remind themselves to deliver it - only for the envelope to disappear.
After a house-wide search, Jackee found the remains in the shredder.
But the couple are in luck. The US Treasury department's Mutilated Currency Division promises "a redemption at full value" for destroyed currency, provided they send it to them and their "trained experts" can piece it back together.
Ben called the department and was told: "Bag it up in little Ziploc bags, mail it to DC, and in one to two years, you'll get your money back."
Severe weather conditions can even cause severe currency damage. Remember, BEP redeems damaged U.S. currency as a free...
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Outing: Neolithic Ceramics and Ancient Bronzes; Visit to Studio of a Contemporary Sculptor
Mr. Ren Changtai, Museum of Chinese History;
Zheng Yuhe, Sculptor
Chinese Museum of History
In the Museum of Chinese History, Mr. Ren Changtai will give a lecture, which will be translated into English, about the history of Neolithic ceramics and ancient bronzes and will introduce us to the mystery of these unique pieces of Chinese culture, highlighting examples from the Museum's outstanding collection. After the lecture we will have the privilege of visiting the workshop of the well-known sculptor Zheng Yuhe, which is located within the History Museum. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44657 | Belkin Router SetupHow ToSetup
How To Setup WEP Security On Belkin Wireless N600 Router Through Easy Steps?
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WAP is an acronym for wired equivalent privacy. It is basically a security protocol meant for WLAN. This protocol is comprised of two types of securities. One is 64 bit and another one is 128 bit. In 64 bit key, you will find 10 hexadecimal numbers and in 128 bit, you will find 26 digits. With WEP enabled on WAN, no outsider can connect to the Wi-Fi without your knowledge and can transmit or receive any signal.
Today, we are going to discuss steps to set up WEP security on the Belkin wireless router.
Following things are required to accomplish the WEP setup.
1. Wired computer with Ethernet cable.
2. The IP address of your router which can be checked either from the manual provided with the box or by calling the router manufacturer.
3. Username and password of your router.
1st step
Connect the computer to the router using any one port out of the given four ports.
2nd step
Open a web browser like safari or chrome on a windows computer and enter the IP address of your Belkin router in the address bar given on the top. Press ‘Enter’. By default, the IP address of the router is
Note: Enter personalized IP address if you have ever changed the default IP.
3rd step
You will find a router based setup page appeared on the screen. From the top right corner of the screen, click ‘Login’. If you have set up the login password earlier, enter the same password now to log in to the account.
Press ‘Submit’.
Note: If you have not entered the password earlier, then leave this field as it is and in case you have forgotten the password, click ‘Reset’ password to bring the password to factory default.
4th step
Go to ‘Security’ from the ‘Wireless pane’
5th step
Select 64 bit WEP from the given options and enter 10 digit hexadecimal number. You can use alphanumeric characters in the password. Besides this, you can also enter the password in the Passphrase box and the key will be generated automatically for your router.
Note down the characters written in the Key 1 box. This is your wireless security key.
6th step
Click to apply changes. The wireless security for your Belkin router is set up now. If you want to change the password in the future, you can read the instructions again.
Start connecting the wireless devices to the network
Once you complete with the setup process, you can now start connecting the smart devices to the home network using router SSID and password. To connect a windows computer to the Wi-Fi network, you can read the instructions given on the ‘Router’ link.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44733 | A U.S. District court has determined that a United States–based bank, having been denied foreign tax credits for UK taxes paid in connection with a Structured Trust Advantaged Repackaged Securities (STARS) transaction that was held to be a sham, couldn’t deduct those taxes.
The U.S. District Court of Minnesota found that the bank had waived the issue by failing to raise it sooner — and that, even if it had been timely raised, the deduction nonetheless would have been disallowed under the sham transaction doctrine.
Note: For transactions entered into after March 30, 2010 — that is, after the time period involved in this case — the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act added a section to the U.S. Tax Code to clarify the economic substance doctrine. Under that change, a transaction is treated as having economic substance under a conjunctive two-prong test only if, apart from federal income tax effects:
1. The transaction changes the taxpayer’s economic position in a meaningful way, and
2. The taxpayer has a substantial purpose for entering into the transaction. (That is, the taxpayer’s non-federal-income-tax purpose for entering into a transaction must be “substantial.”)
Facts of the case
A U.S. international banking and financial services holding company engaged in a complex STARS transaction with a large UK financial services company. As part of the transaction, the U.S. bank voluntarily subjected some of its income-producing assets to UK taxes by placing them in a trust with a UK trustee. The bank offset those UK taxes by claiming foreign tax credits on its U.S. returns.
The IRS disallowed the foreign tax credits on the ground that the STARS transaction was a sham. The case was tried before a jury, which decided that the larger STARS transaction consisted of two parts — the “trust structure,” which gave rise to the foreign tax credits, and the loan. It determined that the trust structure was a sham.
Sham transaction doctrine
Key in this case is the understanding that, in general, a transaction will be characterized as a sham if “it is not motivated by any economic purpose outside of tax considerations” (the business purpose test), and if it “is without economic substance because no real potential for profit exists” (the economic substance test). This sham transaction doctrine is a way for the IRS to look beyond technical compliance with the tax code to ascertain the real nature of a transaction. Once a transaction is found to be a sham, it is disregarded for federal tax purposes.
Two issues identified
After the jury determined that the STARS transaction was a sham, the court gave the two parties time to discuss the verdict and figure out next steps — basically, identify the issues that still had to be resolved before a judgment could be entered. The parties identified these two issues:
1. Was the U.S. bank subject to a negligence penalty in connection with its claim of foreign tax credits, and
2. Should the loan portion of the STARS transaction be disregarded as a sham?
The court then directed the parties to submit a proposed judgment. The U.S. bank instead submitted a letter asserting that there remained one final legal issue to be resolved: Could it deduct the foreign taxes it paid despite the fact that it couldn’t receive a credit for them?
The IRS contended that the bank had waived this issue and, regardless, wasn’t entitled to a deduction.
The court agreed that the issue had been waived. It asked the parties to identify every remaining legal issue that had to be resolved before it could enter judgment, and both the U.S. bank and the IRS explicitly agreed to only the two issues noted above. At no time during the briefing and resolution of those issues did the bank notify the court or opposing counsel that there were any other legal issues to be resolved before the judgment could be entered.
The bank was aware of the issue, the court noted, as it was pleaded in an amended complaint and mentioned in a trial brief. Thus, the court reasoned, while the failure to raise the issue immediately after the verdict could have been attributable to inadvertence, “it is impossible to believe that [the bank’s] subsequent months-long silence was unintentional.”
The court also agreed with the IRS that, even if the issue hadn’t been waived, the bank wasn’t entitled to claim any tax benefits flowing from it because the trust structure was disregarded as a sham.
The bank argued that courts don’t necessarily disregard all aspects of a transaction found to be a sham, noting that, in some cases, a taxpayer can claim tax benefits on the basis of “separable, economically substantive elements” of a sham transaction. While the court agreed in principle, it found that, in this case, the trust structure was found to be a sham, and the foreign tax payments were directly connected with and made in furtherance of the trust structure.
All arguments foreclosed by sham doctrine
The bank also asserted a number of other arguments in support of its entitlement to the deduction, but the court found that these arguments were foreclosed by the sham transaction doctrine.
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JavaScript - How to Use setAttribute in JavaScript
Attributes are components of HTML tags which can be used to help control the behavior of the element to which they are assigned.
Some attributes apply to all HTML elements (e.g. all fields can have an id attribute), while others only work for specific elements (e.g. the attribute action is only available on the <form> tag).
Attributes can help us assign a style to a tag; disable a button; change the tag’s type, and more. Manipulating an element’s attributes in JavaScript is straightforward. First, a specific element is required. Some DOM queries return an array of elements (e.g. NodeList), the JavaScript functions we’re working with only operate with a single element. Thus, you need to make sure to either use queries that return a single element, or use an index to get a single value out of an array of elements.
Once you have a single HTML element to work with, you can use the following functions to manipulate that element’s attributes:
• To get the current value of an attribute, use getAttribute()
• To remove an attribute, call removeAttribute()
Let’s explore these functions using some sample code:
<h1 class="example">
.red-txt {
color: red;
const example = document.getElementsByClassName('example')[0];
example.setAttribute('class', 'red-txt');
In the above example, we define a single <h1> element to contain the text we want to render. The variable const example uses the function getElementsByClassName, which returns an array of elements by default (this is even implied in the function name, by using the word “Elements”). We grab the first element of the array by pulling the element at index zero ([0]). With a single element now stored in the variable example, we can now use setAttribute to modify the element. In the example above, the <h1> element we have identified receives an update to its class attribute, as the value is set to red-txt. Due to our CSS styling, ‘Hello!’ will appear red on the user’s screen.
The setAttribute function has the following syntax:
Element.setAttribute(name, value)
The parameters to this call are:
• nameString – the name of the attribute to be added (i.e. name of an existing attribute).
• valueString – the value of the attribute (Note: Each attribute has a set of valid values that must be adhered to).
Return valueundefined.
The syntax for getAttribute is similar:
This call has a single parameter:
• nameString – the name of the attribute to get its value.
Return value – a string containing the current value of the requested attribute.
Change placeholder value using setAttribute
Let’s look at a second example. This example replaces placeholder text in an HTML element using setAttribute:
<input type="text" placeholder="Enter text">
const userInput = document.querySelector('input');
userInput.setAttribute('placeholder', 'Welcome!');
The above code defines an input element with placeholder text that reads: ‘Enter text’. After applying setAttribute, the element now contains the text ‘Welcome!’.
Note: There was no need to use an index in the above code, as the return value from document.querySelector is a single element. Contrast this with document.querySelectorAll, which returns an array of elements.
Change Image src using setAttribute
Our final example uses setAttribute to change the src attribute of an image element:
<img src="/imgs/add.png" id='img1'>
const img1 = document.getElementById('img1');
img1.setAttribute('src', '/imgs/2-arrows.png');
In the above example, the <img> element first pointed to “/imgs/add.png”, displaying the image on the rendered document. The setAttribute function changed the location used by the src attribute to “/imgs/2-arrows.png”, causing the element to pull its image from the new location and updating the document to display the image stored at the new location.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44816 | Structural fire design
A guide to selecting the appropriate method for the design of elements in the fire condition is given in Figure 1 below.
A chapter covering the structural fire design of concrete structures to Eurocode 2, Part 1-2: structural fire design is available in the publication How to Design Concrete Structures to Eurocode 2.
Figure 1: Flow chart showing which fire resistance design method to adopt
Extract from How to Design for Concrete Structures using Eurocode 2 (Page 101, Figure 1)
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44855 | ambellas airasia article
Thermal Services, a division of Alstom Energy is set to be, if not already, acquired by General Electric (G.E.) after shareholders of Alstom authorized the sale on Dec. 19 for$16.9 billion.
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Although on Dec. 24, $772 million was ordered to be paid by Alstom to the U.S. Justice Department, a fine issued to Alstrom for falsifying “records” and paying “tens of millions of dollars in bribes” in attempt to obtain billions of dollars in direct no-bid contracts, as reported by the New Zealand Herald. It is not yet known how all of that plays into G.E.’s recent desire to obtain the company.
Attorney General Eric Holder’s assistant James Cole pointed out that “Alstom’s corruption scheme was sustained over more than a decade […] across several continents”, running from 2000 to 2011 like a well oiled machine. Cole went on to say that Alstrom shall now suffer the “consequences” of its actions and ‘clean up’.
It was also reported that “Alstom’s Swiss subsidiary has pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate the anti-bribery provisions of the FCPA.”
Another businessman to make the press after AirAsia flight QZ8501 went missing was the Tan Sri Tony Fernandes, AirAsia’s Chief Executive Officer, when he dumped 944,800 shares of his stock in the Tune Group on Dec. 22., days before. Some have since suggested that Fernandes somehow had prior knowledge that QZ8501 would end up missing on the 28th. However as of now the claim is only speculation.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44892 | DPF or Diesel Particulate Filter
What is it ?
This filter is located in the exhaust system of most modern diesel vehicles ,both on and off road
The purpose of the DPF is to catch the soot particles in the exhaust stream before they escape into the atmosphere,this has done wonders to clean up the dirty diesel reputation they once used to have
This is done by having a honeycomb filter fitted in the exhaust system , usually as close to the engine as possible
The filter traps the particles in its honeycomb structure and the particles are burnt off once the temperature of the DPF gets to approx 600C
The DPF has a core inside it usually made of Cordierite , Silicon Carbide ,Ceramic
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44939 | Sage FAS - Fixed Asset Management, Tracking, and Reporting
Sage FAS - Fixed Asset Accounting Software
For many companies, fixed assets like property, machinery, and equipment represent their largest capital investment. But when you consider equipment that moves around, assets that constantly come in and out of service, and depreciation rules that are continuously changing, tracking fixed assets quickly becomes a moving target.
That’s why you should take a closer look at Fixed Asset Accounting Software.
It’s Time to Ditch the Spreadsheets!
Some of the primary benefits of ditching the spreadsheets and automating with Sage FAS include:
• Save loads of time manually tracking assets and calculating depreciation entries
• Significantly improve accuracy of asset values
• Reduce excess insurance costs and property taxes paid on “ghost assets”
• Eliminate tedious manual reconciliation and asset balancing
• Ensure tax compliance and streamline reporting process
• Decrease the stress of an audit
Depreciation Management
Built-in formulas for over 50 depreciation methods automate the calculation of accurate depreciation entries without having to track or memorize complex tax rules.
Download the Depreciation Brochure
Asset Reporting
A variety of ready-to-use reports and tax forms help to ensure total tax compliance. And with so many options to customize the format, appearance, and context of your reports, you’ll know your assets inside and out.
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Asset Inventory and Tracking
Using state-of-the-art bar code labels and readers, you can track all assets from acquisition to disposal which can eliminate lost equipment and reduce insurance and tax overpayments.
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Project Planning
Construction in-progress (CIP) features help you track fixed assets from start to finish and easily monitor all project details.
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Integration with Sage 300
If you’re currently using Sage 300 for accounting, you’ll be happy to know that Sage FAS integrates seamlessly with your general ledger, accounts payable, and purchasing modules.
That means when you purchase a new asset in Sage 300, it’s automatically added and tracked in Sage FAS. Plus, depreciation calculations from Sage FAS will automatically create the appropriate journal entries in your Sage 300 general ledger.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/44940 | On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (10/23/19), Hank answers the following questions:
• I am an 83-year-old widow and two of my children are in serious trouble with drugs; should I keep them in my will or give it to my grandchildren?
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Marunouchi line
Although there are many subways which are running overground, usually these subway trains run above overground outside the downtown. Tokyo Metro's Marunouchi line is a unique line in Japan which runs overground several times in the city center. The trains run overground between Myogadani and Korakuen stations, between Ochanomizu and Awajicho stations and at Yotsuya station.
Marunouchi line is the second oldest subway in Tokyo, the fourth oldest in Japan after Ginza line in Tokyo, Midosuji and Yotsubashi lines in Osaka. Only Ginza and Marunouchi lines are standard gauge by Tokyo Metro and these two are also only subway lines in Tokyo which are using third rail method to provide electricity.
Marunouchi line is also one of the two Tokyo metro lines which does not operate through trains with other railway operators. The main reason is that all major private railway operators and JR East do not operate train with third rail method.
Marunouchi line is connecting Ikebukuro and Ogikubo, then it is only subway which runs into Tokyo station. Then, most of the subways run under roads but Marunouchi line are running under private lands. Also, Marunouchi line has a feeder line between Nakano-Sakaue and Honancho stations.
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Make mine Marvel Two-in-One
By Staff | Aug 30, 2017
I might have been wringing my hands and grumbling about the endless series of reboots and major events as Marvel Legacy approaches had the company not won me over with a one-two punch right to the nostalgia.
Of the 53 ongoing titles announced, one is a revival of my favorite series, “Marvel Two-In-One,” in which the Thing teamed up with a rotating cast of guest stars. That would have been enough, but the slew of one-shots tacking another issue onto canceled series includes “Darkhawk” #51.
“Marvel Two-in-One” debuted in 1974, before I was born. But thanks to flea markets, bargain bins and those magnificent “Essential” collections, I discovered the magic of this title, published at a time when comics were getting a little more serious but still contained a lot of the wonder and fun that made them appeal to kids.
The series started off with the Thing stranded in the Southwest following a cosmic event. Instead of going home to New York, he takes a bus to Florida to address the monstrous Man-Thing’s perceived infringement on his name.
Trouble ensued.
Next we meet Wundarr, a Superman analog, who grew to adulthood while being rocketed to Earth but still has the mind of a toddler. At story’s end, the Thing’s team-up partner, Namor, leaves the alien in his care. Ben Grimm is just about the only superhero something like this would happen to, but he takes the responsibility, as shown over the next few issues.
The first eight issues were written by Howard the Duck creator Steve Gerber, culminating in the utterly bizarre tale where Ghost Rider and the Thing team up to stop an obscure Fantastic Four villain from recreating the Nativity on Christmas Eve at an American Indian reservation.
The series ran for 100 issues, teaming Grimm with everyone from his Fantastic Four teammates to obscure characters like the Living Mummy, Blue Diamond and Skull the Slayer, whose eight-issue series was given a bit of closure in “Marvel Two-in-One.”
The early focus of the new series (for which a creative team had not been announced when I wrote this) seems to be about the Thing and Human Torch dealing with life without the rest of the FF post-“Secret Wars.” While I initially worried it would be a buddy book with that duo (which would be good but not the same) the numerous other characters on the cover seem to signal a rotating format.
Hopefully it keeps the fun elements, and the series can be a showcase for lesser-known characters and those whose stories were curtailed by poor sales figures, as well as the obligatory Iron Man and Guardians of the Galaxy appearances.
Maybe one of the team-ups will be with Darkhawk, who’s only slated for a single issue so far.
Darkhawk is teenager Chris Powell, who discovered an amulet that let him switch bodies with an armored warrior figure who could glide (and later fly) and shoot an energy shield from his chest. He also sported a grappling hook that looked suspiciously like a Wolverine claw. He was very ’90s and remains one of my favorite characters.
A few years back, Darkhawk got a boost in the “Nova” series and an origin revamp for the “War of Kings” event, but it didn’t take. He’s since popped up in series like “Avengers Arena,” but with the Fraternity of Raptors (from which his alter ego came) playing a role in the “All-New Guardians of the Galaxy” series, I’m hoping Darkhawk will stick around a little longer this time.
Now, if they would bring back Sleepwalker…
Evan Bevins is the writer of the webcomic “Support Group.” |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/45083 | Upcoming Winter Issue - The Federal R&D FY2020 Funding Issue
2019 Winter Edition - The Politics of Research & the Federal R&D Funding Issue
Sure to be one of the most impactful issues of our magazine, the 2019 Winter Edition of HBCU Research Magazine has a two-part focus. This issue we take an in-depth look at the Politics of Research and Federal R&D Funding. The cover story gives insight into today's challenges of grant funding for black scientists and furthers the conversation by outlining where researchers can find federal R&D Funding for FY2020.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/45096 | Casual Play Astrogation
Chi Eudicot Rabani 74y (Lycaeus)
Between-space parts, opens on starry void. A single world rises up out of the darkness, pale green washed with clouds, with wide swathes of gray-blue, stitches of shining white. Chunks of rock and debris crowd around the planet like a hazy envelope– the remnants of some shattered moon, as far as you can tell.
Scans of the surface show evidence of intense geological activity in the recent past. This is the kind of world where mountains rise up overnight, you realize. The kind of world where earthquakes are an hourly occurrence and the weather is so unpredictable that you can get echoes of all four seasons in a single day.
Curious, you send a mote-probe to skim a sample of the atmosphere. Nitrogen-oxygen– almost earth-like. The balance is skewed more in favor of oxygen, but not enough to make the air anything more than heady, refreshing.
Gentle winds cradle and caress the mote-probe as you descend toward the surface, sweep scanners over sharp peaks of basalt and shale. No animal life that you can see, no traces of anything but simple flora– some kind of scraggly green scrub-weed that seems to cling to life wherever rock yields to even the barest amount of dirt or sand. Bacteria in the air is minimal but present, mingles with traces of bacteria from a dozen other worlds– Earth among them.
That's enough to make you hesitate, to pique your curiosity further. Instructing your mote-probe to make a series of flybys, you pour over the data coming in from the surface. No other traces of anything human, anything from earth. Just the bacteria, just that one anomaly among all the ragged mountain chains, the sandy meadows sprawling with low scrub.
You're watching the water cascade down a majestic waterfall that opens to air at a high, jagged break between faultlines when the mote-probe picks up something different, something that doesn't belong. Immediately, you switch your full attention to the anomaly, find yourself staring at a low valley sprawling with clear lakes and green that comes right up to the base of a pair of steep mountain peaks. A highlight streamed to your brain picks out a detail, the gray-silver shade of a little weather-beaten ship crouched in amongst the scrub.
Quick thoughts zoom in and focus the feed as the mote-probe turns, closes in on the ship. It isn't big, a one or two person escape vehicle. The stats coming in from the database peg it as Baeotus class, almost two hundred years old and sitting on the planet for over a hundred of those years. White lines near the nose pick out the letters of a name: Goddard.
As you edge the mote-probe closer, you sift through details in the steady stream of data coming through the feed. Serial numbers, registration codes– none of it means as much to you as the rust around the rivets on the hull, the way the local scrub has grown up the entry-steps to the open airlock door.
And then you see the shoe. That single shoe, a simple velcro sneaker with a red line across the front and sides, barely visible after a hundred years of rotting into the dirt and scrub.
You spend a few minutes scanning the site, the ship, making notes in the database. There's no indication of what happened to the pilot, no logs in the silent and empty database. There's only the ship itself, the shoe, and the bacteria breathed into the atmosphere by someone who landed here over a century ago.
Eventually, you take your leave of the planet, of the site, rise back into the atmosphere on the wings of the mote-probe. Your ship's integrated intelligence spins up the phasedrive even before your consciousness is fully nestled back in your body, and as you stare out at the pale green world, you make one last notation, upload it to the network. When you jump back to between-space, your thoughts linger on the missing pilot, on that lost shoe, on the ship rusting steadily into the soil and stone of an empty alien world.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/45105 | SSBM - Pivot Techniques
Precise control of your movement is one of the most important skills to hone in Melee. And one of the more unique, difficult, and useful movement techniques to master is pivoting. Here we'll talk about the multiple ways you can pivot with a Smash Box, separated into three styles: Release, Plink, and Tilt.
Release is essentially the same way most players pivot on GameCube controllers: press forward, then back, and release back as fast as possible. Though this style is the most self-explanatory, it can be difficult to be consistent with and tends to be less useful than the other two styles.
Plink style uses other direction buttons to ensure pivots. It's called plink style because it requires plinks: pressing two buttons in a single motion, but one right after the other. (We tend to call these WASD pivots as well, since the WASD layout allows all the directions to be pressed in a similar manner with the same hand)
Tilt style uses tilt modifiers to guarantee pivots. By pressing a tilt modifier right after getting a back input you can prevent a dash from activating.
Plink Pivots
There's three different methods for Plink Pivots: Crouch Pivot, Tap Jump Pivot, and SOCD Pivot.
Crouch Pivot
This technique uses the initiation of the crouch animation to prevent a dash to happen after you pivot. This is probably the easiest to perform of the Plink Pivots, and will help you with timing the other ones.
Note: This also called the Gravy Pivot, as he popularized this method (even on pad).
Press forward, press back, then immediately press down to get a down-back input. Listen to the button presses in the video gif above to get a sense of the timing.
Foward, Back, Down-Back
Forward, Back, Back+Down
SOCD Pivot
The default resolution for SOCD is Neutral, so when we press Left + Right it gives us a 'center' position for the control stick. That magic standing frame won't actually Dash since neither a left or right are being activated.
Press forward, then press and hold back, then press forward again.
Forward, Back, SOCD
What makes this method so useful is that it frees up your middle finger to access up and down, meaning you can get pivots into up and down tilt.
After getting the SOCD Pivot, press Up + Y1. (You can use Y2, Tilt 1, or Tilt 2 in place of Y1.)
After getting the SOCD Pivot, press Down + Y1. (You can use Y2, Tilt 1, or Tilt 2 in place of Y1.)
For more on SOCD Neutral, check out: SOCD Neutral in Melee.
Tap Jump Pivot
This method is great because it's the same timing as the Crouch Pivot, and, since you're using Tap Jump instead of button jump, your jump is less likely to be eaten up by your dash frames after the pivot.
Press forward, press back, then immediately press down to get a down-back input. Release the inputs to get a jump in place, or use the directions to give yourself some momentum.
Tilt Pivot
This style of pivoting is probably the most lenient, and since it can require both hands it can help with getting your timing down for other things, like pivot Smashes.
Press forward, then press back, and then immediately press Tilt 1.
Forward, Back, Tilt
You can use Tilt 1, Tilt 2, or even X1 or X2.
We recommend Tilt 1, because on our Default layout Tilt 1 is located under the C-Stick cluster - by using Tilt 1 you give your right thumb muscle memory for pivot Smashes as well.
Be sure to check out our more in depth posts on plink pivots and tilt pivots. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/45108 | ENGL 430: Major British Authors (J.K. Rowling)
Check out the Syllabus for this Indiana University Pennsylvania class and the teacher. I am amazed that Ms. Rowling’s work is already receiving this sort of thoughtful attention in the academy — and delighted by the professor’s inventive use of the internet and blogging to create houses for the students in which they can both prepare for and continue the conversations in the class room. Things are looking good for Harry in the Ivory Tower if classes like this one are indicative of a long term trend!
Please share links to any other university classes on this subject you may have run across in your web surfing moments. I confess to having really enjoyed my time with Dr. Powers and IUP’s ENGL 430 (J. K. Rowling).
1. Dave the Longwinded says
John, since you’re interested, here is the link to the syllabus on my blog for a class I teach at the University of Evansville. Sorcerer’s Stone is part of the class, along with a bunch of other geeky stuff!
2. IstariErangua says
I don’t have a link, since I never took the class, but when I was in college our class on Children’s Literature included the first Harry Potter book. Friends took the class, and it also included picture books like Where the Wild Things Are, and The Little Prince. I don’t remember others, but I can contact our English department if the class is still being offered and find out. I had to trade that class for a different one, unfortunately, or I would have loved to take it.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/45117 | How To Canoe or Kayak
Photo of kayak adventure
Canoeing and kayaking can be really fun, especially if an individual has a background in boating. Keep in mind, though, that canoeing and kayaking are significantly different from each other. Kayaking will tend to be more extreme, and the rivers that you ride through tend to be more difficult. Canoeing tends to be more leisurely, and a canoe can typically carry more people and/or supplies and therefore can be more suitable for camping trips.
• Know the difference. One difference between kayaking and canoeing is that with kayaking, you use a double-bladed paddle. With canoeing, you can either use a single-bladed or double-bladed paddle. The sitting position for kayaking is also different in comparison to canoeing. In kayaking, the person paddling needs to be facing forward, and his/her legs must be at the front. With canoeing, the person paddling is in a kneeling position, or is sitting on the canoe's seat.
• Know the boat. A canoe and a kayak use similar materials. Examples include wood, canvas, aluminum, fiberglass, Kevlar, and royalex for canoes. Each type differs in its weight, speed, and price, so find one that suits you the best and allows you to paddle well. Kayaks also come in different types, and each one has its different uses. Examples of these are:
• Sea kayaks, which are often used for open water,
• Whitewater kayaks used for rivers that need a lot of maneuvering,
• Surf skis, which are kayaks that are built for speed.
• Your money should be wisely spent. Buy quality, but do not spend money on really expensive kayaks or canoes if your ambitions are modest. Find a kayak or canoe that will perfectly suit your needs. Every type of canoe or kayak is different, depending on where you will use it for. Some are built for speed. Some are built for withstanding rapids. And the size depends on how many people will be riding.
• If you're a beginner, find an expert. Admit that you're a newbie. It's time to put your ego down for a second and seek advice from an expert paddler. He/she can give you helpful tips - especially when it comes to harder obstacles and faster rapids.
• Know and make use of the International Scale of River Difficulty. The International Scale of River Difficulty is used to measure the safety of a river or a stretch of rapids. It also indicates the difficulty level of a river. It ranges from Class I, being the easiest of all, up to Class VI, being the most dangerous and difficult.
• Know how the water flows. Water flows differently in each rapid or river, so make sure you get to know them, and make sure you have an expert with you who will guide you through, until you become more experienced yourself.
• Kayaking is fun when carefully planned. Do not rush for the hardest rivers. A beginner should always start with the easiest rivers, then progress as your skill level increases. If you think that you are getting the hang of the river already and want somewhere that's more thrilling, then it's time to go somewhere with a higher difficulty level.
• Stay focused on safety. Kayaking and canoeing does not only require expertise in paddling. An expert should know what to do when you encounter emergencies and trouble in the water.
Keep in mind that canoeing and kayaking are fun sports, but dangerous too. Always have a keen eye for danger, and stick to safety standards.
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Get Ready For Eytan! (Mirsky Mouse Music)
By: Gary "Pig" Gold
Nice! Happy! Short! And, above all else, poppy! Eytan Mirsky has produced a cunning little corker here, chockfull of precisely the kind of music that heads straight for the feet as opposed to the brain matter.
Sure, Marshall Crenshaw is one obvious comparison (i.e. hear ye "Somebody To Blame" or "The Vulture Of Love"), but 'cha know what? I think I actually PREFER Eytan's way with a word (especially during "Either Way"), not to mention his twist of a chord. In fact, "Allergic To Fun" conjures the late great Paley Brothers -- no, wait! I mean the Rip Chords! -- by way of no less than Teenage Head, while "Found" even veers delightfully into near Robbie Fulks territory. And why "Record Collection" wasn't spun beneath High Fidelitys end credits I'll never know!
Yep, this is one ultra-cool little disc, friends, and if you don't love it already, then that's only because you haven't yet heard it.
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Saints and Feasts of December 4
Thursday, April 22, 2010
On the Translation of Liturgical Texts (Part 3 of 4)
...continued from Part Two
Third. Usually those that call for linguistic reforms fall into the big mistake to consider man as only possessing logic, and they seek to subordinate everything under logic. "Let the texts be translated so that we can understand them. So that we could understand what we say and what is going on." And they think that with logical processing (thinking) they will solve the internal problems that bother them. To be exact, man's existence does not consist of one side, and especially of the arbitrary function of logic. Man also has internal intuition, the nous, the heart, and many times he conceives essential things and interprets someone or something without using logic. For example, from the first moment, a judge can perceive with his natural intuition the innocence or the guiltiness of the person that is accused. Even more, this happens to the Church, when man partakes of divine grace, which is when he "suffers for the divine". It is known through the gifts of insight (diooratiko) and foresight (prooratiko) and of all the gifts (charismata) that are gifts of the Holy Spirit, which we also see in the lives of the saints.
Thus, it is possible to find in worship famous philologists who understand everything being said, or theologians that understand the entire evolution of divine worship, but these also do not understand, or rather, do not experience the worship services like a "charismatic" man experiences it, or a little child, or an illiterate person among the blessed faithful.
Let me provide an example. The apostolic blessing which is given during the Divine Liturgy by the priest to the people: "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God the Father and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with all of you", if it is translated into the modern demotic (Greek) language so that it could be understood better, will read more like this: "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God the Father and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with all of you". [Trans. Note: The translation in English is the same, though in Greek it is more "understandable" in demotic Greek.] However, who can understand logically what is the "grace of Christ", or what is the "love of God the Father", or what is the "communion of the Holy Spirit", or what is the mystery of the Holy Trinity, or what does it mean for the grace of the Holy Trinity to be with us? How can we "understand" the Holy Trinity when we are internally disorganized and externally isolated? This demands the transformation of our nature, the development of our internal senses, and the essential experience of God. It is definitely not a case of logical processing.
In the patristic tradition there is clearly a distinction between the nous (the mind of the heart) and dianoia (intellect or logic). When the nous is subordinated to dianoia, the passions, and the environment, then we have the death of the soul, and thus, man is unable to understand anything in the Divine Liturgy. In contrast, when the nous is freed from the tyranny of dianoia, the passions and the environment become graced, then it experiences God. The knowledge of God and of divine things is related inseparably with the experience of God. And the experience of God is achieved when the nous is purified, and is unceasingly thinking of God. Then it even graces dianoia, which becomes subordinated to the nous and expresses its experiences. Thus, the issue of understanding divine worship is foremost an issue of purifying the heart, the transformation of man, and the discovery of personhood (prosopon). It is an issue of man's rebirth, which takes place when he is transformed from an individual person into a real person (prosopon). And we know well from the teachings of the Fathers that a person is reborn from above. As a real person, in worship he comes into communion with God, men and the saints. When he is a real member of the Body of Christ, then he lives in the communion of angels and men, heavenly and earthly, living and fallen asleep.
Continued...Part Four
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/45219 | 9 Types of Hair Brushes for Different Hair Types
9 Types of Hair Brushes for Different Hair Types
Are you using the correct type of hair brush for your hair type? Are you using the right hair brush for styling? If you’re in doubt, then this post is for you.
Back then, hair brushes were used as styling tools that only the rich can afford. These items were so expensive that they were often given as presents on special occasions only. As centuries passed, hair brushes were eventually handcrafted, hence they became more affordable.
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Today, the world benefits from the many different types of hair brushes. Let's find out more about each type below.
9 Types of Hair Brushes for Different Hair Types
1. Paddle Hair Brush
This type of hair brush probably derived its name from the shape of its wide base that resemble a paddle. Thanks to the wide base, one can expose more of his or her hair to a blow dryer when drying.
Paddle hair brushes are very popular these days because they allow the cuticles of the strands to lie flat on them. These brushes are ideal not only for those who want to make their hair shiny; it’s also perfect for those who wish to detangle strands.
Anyone can use the paddle type hair brush. That means whether you have thick or thin hair, this brush will work perfectly fine for you.
You can easily identify this hair brush type because it is generally shaped rectangular or oval. It is often made from plastic, wood, or ceramic, while its bristles are made of different materials. Regardless of what these bristles are made of, they are usually sitting on top of a soft cushion, allowing them to massage through the scalp easily and distribute the natural hair oils.
2. Vented Hair Brush
Unlike the paddle hair brush, the head of the vented hair brush is quite smaller. That is probably the reason why some people do not use it for the fear that it will only slow down the process of drying their hair.
The truth is this hair brush can actually improve the speed of the entire hair drying process. Because it has vents at the back of this brush, air conveniently moves in and out.
The holes or the vents are strategically positioned there so that the air released from the hair blower can easily circulate around the strands, drying them in an instant and drastically reducing the overall drying time.
Since the drying time is reduced, one major benefit of using the vented hair brush type is the reduced amount of damage caused by heat styling.
Now, if you do not fancy the idea of blow drying the hair, you can still benefit from this hair brush type. However, you won’t just enjoy the full perks that others will. So, it’d be better if you choose a different hair brush type that suits you.
It is worth noting, though, that even if you do not use a blow dryer, it is important that you know this hair brush does not give you full control over your hairstyle.
3. Ceramic Round Brush
For those of you who want to curl their hair but hate the idea of using curling irons, the ceramic round brush is the perfect choice for you. This brush does not only detangle and smoothen the strands; it also gently shapes and molds the hair to achieve those perfect curls.
Although this hair brush promises beautiful results, you should know that you need to know how to properly use it first. Until you master the art of operating it, you might have a hard time in achieving a beautiful hairstyle.
The secret to styling the hair with a ceramic round brush is to ensure that the bristles have a firm grip on your hair. Keep them in place while styling or else, your strands will slip out.
9 Types of Hair Brushes for Different Hair Types
4. Detangling Hair Brush
One common problem people experience with their hair is that it seems to be always tangled, even if it’s already dry. That is why detangling hair brushes are introduced.
While you can safely use it on dry hair, it is advised not to use it on wet hair because hair is most vulnerable when wet. If you insist on using this brush, it can cause hair damage.
If you want to control and manage your frizzy hair, this hair brush is for you.
5. Wooden Round Hair Brush
Round brushes are popular hair styling tools for increasing volume and creating an illusion of movement to the strands in the form of curls. These brushes are ideal for almost all hair types because they come in different sizes. Whether you have a short or long hair, know that you can find the perfect wooden round hair brush size for you.
However, these days, more and more hairstyling fanatics opt for the smaller sizes. The reason is that the smaller the size of the brush, the tighter the curl that will be created.
If you are concerned that you might damage your hair when brushing it, then relax. This hair brush can be used even in the absence of heat. Therefore, you can style your hair anytime you want.
6. Teasing Hair Brush
One way to add weightless volume to your hair is to tease your hair. Then again, the process can be damaging, especially when done incorrectly or when you use an ordinary comb to create knots in the hair.
By using a teasing hair brush, you need not worry about hair damage because this hair brush type has been designed to let you backcomb your strands without damaging them.
If you want to buy a teasing brush, make sure you choose one with boar bristles. They are gentler on the hair, so they won’t cause breakage. Also, look for a teasing brush with a sharp-pointed handle. You can use it to separate or divide your hair, so you can have more control over your hairstyle.
Without a pointed handle, you need to master and be comfortable with using another brush for separating your strands. That could be quite inconvenient, right?
When used properly and correctly, a teasing hair brush can instantly add weightless volume to your hair minus the hair damage.
9 Types of Hair Brushes for Different Hair Types
7. Cushioned Hair Brush
If your hair is prone to damage, you have to do everything to keep it from breaking. But since you’ll still need to comb it to smoothen and detangle it, we suggest you invest in a cushioned hair brush type or a soft bristle paddle brush.
As the name suggests, this hair brush has a soft cushion, where the bristles are attached. So whenever you brush your strands, the bristles will smoothly move with the brushing motion against your scalp.
Other hair brush types do not have a soft cushion, which means they won’t be forgiving and gentle when used. For that reason, if your scalp is sensitive or if your hair is damaged, you might want to avoid other hair brush types and buy a cushioned hair brush instead.
8. Straightening Hair Brush
A straightening hair brush is often used as a styling tool. It is designed to work as a hair brush and a flat iron at the same time. Since it is a heat styling tool, it will rely incredibly on high temperatures to straighten those stubborn strands.
When using this hair brush, it is important that you practice caution. Sometimes, the temperature can reach up to 550 degrees. Although it’s a great temperature for the most stubborn hair, it can also cause you to burn yourself.
There are many other concerns regarding this hair brush. One is that because of the high temperature, it can cause severe damage to the hair or might cause you to burn yourself. Another concern is that the tips of the bristles may catch on the hair, resulting in common hair problems like breakage or split ends. While it happens rarely, it is essential that you are aware of these issues so you won’t have disappointments in the long run.
9. Wet Hair Brush
Brushing the hair while it is wet is a way to damage it. By doing so, it is possible that you break off the strands or pull them out at the roots. That is why hair care experts do not suggest brushing the hair when it is wet.
However, if you need to brush your hair when it is wet, you might want to consider using a wet hair brush. This hair brush is specially designed for brushing wet hair. Since the bristles of this brush are stiff, they will just mimic the movement a comb does. Therefore, if you use this brush, it’ll just glide and slide through the hair.
Be reminded, though. This hair brush isn’t made to replace a traditional comb. Rather, it’s an excellent alternative if you want to smoothen the strands while they’re wet, but you worry about breaking them.
9 Types of Hair Brushes for Different Hair Types
Each of these types of hair brushes has different functions. While some are meant to smoothen the strands while they’re wet, others are designed to straighten those stubborn curls. There are some that work to detangle the strands, too. And although it’s not really necessary, if you are a true hair care fan, you might want to invest in all these hair brush types. That way, you’d have a brush to use for different hair care emergencies. |
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(1)This Measure may be cited as the Dioceses, Pastoral and Mission Measure 2007.
(2)This Measure shall come into force on such day as the Archbishops of Canterbury and York may jointly appoint, and different days may be appointed for different provisions.
(3)This Measure shall extend to the whole of the provinces of Canterbury and York except the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, except that the provisions thereof may be extended to the Channel Islands as defined in the Channel Islands (Church Legislation) Measures 1931 and 1957 or either of them, in accordance with those Measures, and, if an Act of Tynwald or an instrument made under an Act of Tynwald so provides, shall extend to the Isle of Man subject to such exceptions, adaptations or modifications as may be specified in the Act of Tynwald or instrument.
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The next time you want to access the internet while you are on holiday, you would prefer a fast, stable connection with minimum or no trouble.
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Political talk is still rampant in the office, even though President Donald Trump's administration took the reins in January 2017. In a survey published in May 2017, the American Psychological Association says one-quarter, or 26 percent, of employees feel tense or threatened when they hear or engage in political discussions at the office, while 21 percent of workers feel more negative at work because of this issue. Discover six ways to deal with this problem.
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If a recruiter or job interviewer tries to engage you in political talk on the job hunt, find out what the corporate culture is before bringing up politics again. Use this as a cue for how to proceed. When people feel jaded about issues and the office is divided, consider another opportunity and leave feedback after the interview.
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When someone invades your space at work and doesn't talk about anything else, bring up the report you're working on, the big game last night, the latest summer blockbuster movie or the weather. Political talk doesn't have to dominate your day. If the other person doesn't get the clue, there are always noise-cancelling headphones to let you regain your focus at your computer.
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You believe you're right and your colleagues are wrong, and there is nothing the matter with that. Understand that everyone has an educated opinion and yours may not be the same as others' in the office. Instead of getting into heated political talk, take the high road and simply don't try to influence someone's opinion. Work is not the place to try to sway a person's ideals from one side to another.
4. Don't Take Political Talk Personally
Don't take political discussions personally. Politics is a hot-button issue, and it continues to be at the forefront of people's minds because divisive politics are in the news media on a nearly constant basis. Instead, find common ground with your co-workers in other ways. Consider talking about family, sports, the competition or other issues at work.
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If your co-workers still feel like talking politics around you, be forthright with them and say you simply prefer not to participate in political discussions. There's nothing illegal about discussing politics at work due to free speech protections, but human resources may intervene and say what is appropriate and what isn't. Some issues get close to discrimination, such as talking about immigration policies that could devolve into a racial or ethnic issues. Discussing race is not allowed at the office as it's a form of discrimination.
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Presidents are only in office four years at a time. Eventually, the political climate may change. You can always wait it out until the next presidential election, when things will hopefully get better. Don't sabotage your current network by bringing politics into your personal brand, because those relationships last longer than a four-year term in the White House.
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@Reynold R. thanks for your comment. During the past election, actual fights broke out in some workplaces between those for Clinton and those for Trump. The best way to keep that tension out of the workplace is not to allow it. You can discuss your political views outside of your work but it shouldn't be part of your day to day discussions.
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Why do people "feel tense or threatened when they hear or engage in political discussions at the office"? This is a sign of a decayed democracy. Democracy depends on the free flow of ideas. When people don't discuss politics democracy suffers. How are we going to get to know our neighbours' opinions if we don't ask? Since we spend more time at work than at almost any other activity the workplace is an ideal place for discussion. I suspect the discouragement of political discussion in the workplace has something to do with employers' fears that if workers become informed they'll organize to stand up against oppression.
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• Unlike applying for a loan, getting an auto insurance quote won’t hurt your credit score
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When shopping around for car insurance, it’s best to get multiple quotes so you can compare your offers and choose the best policy for your needs — and your bank account. But does getting an auto quote affect your credit score?
Thankfully the answer is no, getting an auto insurance quote doesn’t negatively impact your credit score. Unlike, say, applying for a car loan, the credit check that car insurance companies run on you doesn’t ding your credit score.
When you apply for a loan, the lender will do a hard inquiry to check your credit, which can knock a few points off your credit score. But car insurance companies do a soft inquiry, which won’t be visible to future lenders and won’t impact your credit score, although it will show up on your personal credit report.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/45508 | Teachable Machine shows the wild future of machine learning
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Google’s Teachable Machine lets you teach a machine with nothing but your webcam.
By Eric Limer
Everyone from politicians to tech companies themselves are pushing the “learn to code” agenda. On the one hand, it could create a more employable tech workforce. On the other drive, it may serve to drive down the wages for what is today a very high-paying job.
The Teachable Machine is a limited, but incredible demo. And its premise is simple. Turn on your webcam, teach the robot brain what different motions and activities look like. Then tell it what kind of responses you would like. In a matter of seconds, you can train the computer to react with different sounds when it sees different faces or, as I did, teach it to respond to hand motions with a series of different GIFs.
This is how Teachable Machine works:
Obviously there is plenty of traditional (and complicated) code behind this demo. For the foreseeable future that kind of heavy lifting will be required. After all, the computers can’t just learn on their own. Computers need to be taught how to learn, and built with learning in mind.
Still, it’s easy to see how this sort of basic machine learning could make the gadgets of the future wildly easy to “program” with no sort of coding experience at all. You can imagine a world not too far off where smart home commands like “Always turn the lights on when I walk into the living room” or “Always open the doggy door when Spike sits in front of it” could work seamlessly and effortlessly. It’s an exciting prospect!
While that future might seem positively thrilling in a sense, it does come with downsides. All the microphones and cameras required for such a system would mean the computers are always listening and watching… Who knows who else might be tuning in. It’s a vision of the future that flips from utopian to dystopian depending on the lens you view it through.
One thing is for sure— as the machines continue to learn how to learn, the ways we interact with them will change forever. Hopefully it is for the better, not the worse.
Source: Teachable Machine
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/45515 | JDY Fiction - Missy - A Vignette
Discussion in 'Fiction & Non-Fiction Stories' started by Jerry D Young, Jan 26, 2010.
1. Jerry D Young
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"Missy - A Vignette" by Jerry D Young Copyright 2009
Attached Files:
2. NaeKid
NaeKid YourAdministrator, eh?
Awww .. their baby was ok.
Yes, I am cryin' too
3. UncleJoe
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4. Ezmerelda
Ezmerelda Well-Known Member
I guess I taught my daughter wrong all those years ago. I taught her to look for the best hiding place and stay put, no matter what she heard. It never occurred to me to caution her about being trapped with no escape.
Food for thought. :scratch
5. Jerry D Young
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Thanks for all the kind words Ezmerelda.
I woudn't say you were wrong. I think things are a little different now. With shooters likely to just start spraying fire everywhere there aren't too many safe places to hide in a school. And the things that perps do to little boys and girls if they do get their hands on them are beyond belief.
But sometimes hiding is the best thing to do. The really tough part is teaching a child when to do each. But being locked down with others, right out in the open just doesn't set well with me.
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Another great offering from JDY. For those like me who are a JDY junkie, his "PAW Stories" CD is available through ebay.com for under $30. Well worth the price for the stories alone, but he has also included a number of his "prepper" files in .pdf, (and no, I'm not his agent :D...although I am a fan).:congrat::congrat::congrat: |
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Alignment Bad
Appears in Rayman 2, Rayman: The Animated Series (Lac-Mac Napping only), Rayman 2 Forever (intro only), Rayman M, Rayman 3 (cameo), Rayman 3 (Game Boy Advance), Rayman Kart
Location The Crow's Nest, Heart of the Ancients
Portrayed by Matthew Géczy (Rayman 2 on PC, Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast)
Ken Starcevic (Rayman 2 on PlayStation, Rayman M)
Carlos Alazraqui (Rayman: The Animated Series)
Resistance {{{resistance}}}
Attacks {{{attacks}}}
Sex Male
Species Robo-Pirate
Relatives Razorwife (wife)
Unnamed mother
The pirate leader, he is famous throughout the galaxy for reducing over 100 peaceful planets to cosmic dust. Don't be fooled by his pathetic and silly appearance – his ferocity is unmatched. His dream? Overrun Rayman's world and reduce all its inhabitants to slavery...
—Manual, Rayman 2
The Admiral Razorbeard is a spacefaring robotic pirate, and the main antagonist of Rayman 2 and its remakes. From his flying ship, the Buccaneer, he commands the Robo-Pirate fleet which seeks to enslave the inhabitants of the Glade of Dreams. Admiral Razorbeard makes substantial appearances in Rayman M and the Game Boy Advance version of Rayman 3, as well as minor appearances in Rayman 3, The Animated Series and Rayman Kart. Early in the development of Rayman 2, Razorbeard was known as Razor Face.
Admiral Razorbeard is the leader of the Robo-Pirate army, which invades the Glade of Dreams and captures most of the world's inhabitants to use as slaves. He is a short robot with a peg-leg, wearing a huge Admiral's hat and striped red-and-white trousers, and his face sports the large, crooked metal beard from which his name is derived. In Hands Down! it is mentioned that his beard is made of steel.
Admiral Razorbeard is infamous throughout the universe for invading and conquering over one hundred peaceful planets and reducing their inhabitants to slavery; these planets were left as nothing more than interstellar dust, and it is unknown what fate the slaves suffered.[1] In Rayman 2, Razorbeard and his Robo-Pirate army invade Rayman's world, the Glade of Dreams. In Rayman: The Animated Series, however, Razorbeard works at a circus, as a mere servant to the Ringmaster, Rigatoni; this starkly contrasts with his role in the games, and it is unclear whether the events of the Animated Series are part of the game series's continuity. In Rayman M, it was revealed that Razorbeard has a wife, aptly named Razorwife, who can be unlocked as a playable character in the game.
According to the manual for Rayman Arena, Razorbeard has a mother, who detests Razorwife and blames her for her son's failure in his evil career.
In Rayman 2
Admiral Razorbeard makes his debut in Rayman 2, where he is the main villain and the commander of the invading Robo-Pirate army. Prior to the game's opening, Razorbeard and a group of Robo-Pirates arrive in a Warship to raid the Glade of Dreams. In a memorable battle, Rayman and Ly the Fairy defeat the pirates on board, who flee in an escape capsule.[2] Razorbeard is enraged by this defeat; he and his Robo-Pirate servants practise their marksmanship by firing cannonballs at statues of Rayman.[3] Soon afterwards, the Robo-Pirate army arrives in full force: the invasion begins. Some time later, Rayman, Globox and a few other members of the resistance attack the Robo-Pirates in their encampment at the Great Forest. However, at this time the pirates destroy the Heart of the World, scattering its 1000 constituent Yellow Lums across the world. The Heart's destruction causes Rayman to lose most of his powers, and the pirates capture him. Rayman encounters Razorbeard for the second time, and they exchange threats and vows of enmity. The beginning of the game picks up immediately afterwards: Globox and Ly the Fairy help Rayman to escape. Throughout the rest of the game, Razorbeard spends most of his time in the Buccaneer, where he sits on his throne, waiting for his lackey, the Spyglass Pirate, to give him news of Rayman's whereabouts. At one point in the game, he eats a Yellow Lum, reducing the maximum number on the on-screen counter from 1000 to 999; owever, this Yellow Lum is later found in the Tomb of the Ancients. Razorbeard often calls for the Spyglass Pirate to send Warships out to capture Rayman, and his frustration with Rayman's constant evasion leads him to issue orders for the hero's return to him, dead or alive.
At a late point in the game, Razorbeard receives a very special visitor; this is the General from Tonic Trouble, making a cameo appearance in Rayman 2. This guest offers to sell the Admiral the Grolgoth, a powerful pilot-controlled robot which could be used to kill Rayman. Razorbeard fantasises about the robot shaking Rayman to death, and decides to purchase it. He then lures Rayman to the Crow's Nest using Globox as bait. After a lengthy battle, the Grolgoth is defeated. Razorbeard flees in a flying escape pod after activating the Grolgoth's self-destruct mechanism, which destroys the Buccaneer entirely. Rayman survives the explosion, while Razorbeard flees into space in his escape pod. He is seen flying beyond the stars in the credits sequence. His current whereabouts are unknown.
In Rayman: The Animated Series
Razorbeard makes a brief appearance in Lac-Mac Napping, the pilot episode of the short-lived cartoon, Rayman: The Animated Series. In this series, Razorbeard is not a primary villain as he was in Rayman 2, but a mere circus employee, and a lackey to Rigatoni, the evil ringmaster. Although Razorbeard retains his irritable personality, his physical appearance has changed; he now has a mouth (which is strangely under his beard), and his hat bears a symbol of crossed keys rather than the Robo-Pirate insignia. He now has a human, non-robotic voice, which was provided by Carlos Alazraqui.
In Rayman M and Rayman Arena
Razorbeard wielding Rayman's characteristic magic fist power. All the characters have this ability in Rayman M.
Always angry, irritable and mean. What he lacks in size, he makes up for in spite, making him a master of shots below the belt, which he likes more than anything else.
—Manual, Rayman M
Razorbeard is one of the five playable characters that are initially available in Rayman M. This game also introduces his wife, Razorwife, who can be unlocked as a playable character. The manual for the GameCube and Xbox versions of Rayman Arena, the North American localisation of Rayman M, offers the following description of Razorbeard:
Profession: THE Bad Guy.
Likes: His job as Master of the World, sailing without a compass, and when his wife goes on vacation without him.
Dislikes: Rayman, doing the dishes in front of his men, and his wife's rolling pin.
Address: Villa "Home Sweet Home" – the one with the carnivorous plants.
In Rayman 3
Statues of Razorbeard and other Robo-Pirates in a secret chamber in the Hoodlum Headquarters.
Razorbeard makes a brief cameo appearance in Rayman 3, along with several of his Robo-Pirate servants. They can be found in the third part of the Hoodlum Headquarters, in a secret chamber hidden within a gigantic boiler. What appear to be statues of Razorbeard and his robots are seated at a large table, in a parody of Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting, The Last Supper, with Razorbeard in the place of Jesus. The pirates are covered in cobwebs, and do not move or speak. It is unknown if these are simply statues, or if they are the Robo-Pirates themselves, having died or run out of energy.
In Rayman 3 (Game Boy Advance)
Razorbeard, as he appears in the Game Boy Advance version of Rayman 3.
Razorbeard is the main villain in the Game Boy Advance version of Rayman 3. At the beginning of the game, Razorbeard is revealed to be in hiding somewhere in the Glade of Dreams, with a small group of surviving Robo-Pirates. When he learns that Globox has swallowed André, Razorbeard decides to launch a new invasion, with the intent of capturing Globox and harnessing André's power. At the end of the game, Rayman fights Razorbeard in another Grolgoth in the Heart of the Ancients.
In Rayman Kart
Razorbeard, as he appears in Rayman Kart.
Razorbeard is one of six playable characters in Rayman Kart, a racing game designed for certain mobile phones. As of 2018, this is his latest appearance in the Rayman series.
• According to an official Rayman 2 website, Razorbeard is under 1.20 metres tall, even with his arms raised. It is also said that he is very sensitive about the subject of his height.
• In the Nintendo 64/DS of Rayman 2, Razorbeard's hat symbol is the earlier version that was drawn in the official concept arts in which he appeared. |
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Electron Configuration Of Elements
Electron Configuration Of Elements
We have seen before that to define completely the state of an atom it is obligatory to refer to all the four quantum numbers (n, l, m and s) of every electron in it.
Since a simultaneous representation of all quantum numbers of each electron in a single symbolic notation seems quite difficult, it is customary to take into account the first two quantum numbers only while the other two can be inferred indirectly.
The general symbolic notation employed for the purpose is: nl a
The numerical value of n = 1, 2, 3 etc., represents the principal quantum number,
The letter designate of (l) (s for l = 0, p for l = 1 and so on) stands for the orbital
The superscript (a) gives the number of electrons in the orbital.
Example: 3s2 indicates that two electrons are present in the first subshell s (l = 0) of the third shell (n = 3).
For instance, the distribution of seven electrons (of N atom) may be schematically represented as: 1s2; 2s2, 2p3 or more elaborately as: 1s1; 2s2, 2px1 , 2py1 , 2pz1 By using the various designates of orbitals at a sublevel such as 2px , 2py etc.,
The third quantum number (m) is also indicated (e.g., 2px , for m = + 1, 2py for m = 0 and 2pz for m = – 1).
Spin quantum numbers are indirectly inferred. Whenever there are two electrons in an orbital, one of these has +½ and the other −½ as their spin quantum number.
How to present the Orbital and electron
(1) It is a common practice to denote an orbital by a horizontal line or a circle or square and an electron by an arrow over it.
(2) The direction of the arrow indicates the spin, an upward arrow representing a clockwise spin while the downward arrow stands for the anticlockwise direction of spin.
(3) When there are more than one orbitals in a subshell (degenerate orbitals), they are shown by an equivalent number of horizontal lines at the same energy level.
Electron configuration of first ten elements.
Let us now describe the electron configuration of first ten elements.
(a) Hydrogen and Helium
These have one and two electrons respectively which are accommodated in 1s orbital while
others remain vacant.
The lone electron of hydrogen is filled in 1s orbital and for helium the second electron would also go in 1s orbital, since it could accommodate another electron with opposite spin.
(b) Lithium and Beryllium
These have three and four electrons respectively.
The third electron of Li enters in the 2s orbital and the fourth electron of Be also enters in the same orbital, but has an opposite direction of spin.
(c) Boron and Carbon
These atoms have five and six electrons respectively.
1s and 2s orbitals being completely filled with four electrons, the fifth electron of boron would go in one of the 2p orbitals say 2px.
The sixth electron in carbon would prefer to be accommodated in another vacant 2p orbital say (2py) rather than going to 2pz orbital (Hund’s rule). The two unpaired electrons shall have similar spins as indicated.
(d) Nitrogen and Oxygen
These atoms have seven and eight electrons respectively.
After six electrons have been accommodated as above, there is a vacant 2pz orbital which will be the seat of the seventh electron possessing the same direction of spin.
The eighth electron of the next element oxygen will go to pair up with the 2px electron and has an antiparallel spin as shown below.
(e) Fluorine and Neon
These atoms possess nine and ten electrons respectively which go to complete the other 2p
orbitals as shown in the following Figure:
Ground-state electron configuration of elements
So far we have considered the electron configuration of simple atoms. For complicated atoms which may contain many electrons and have many energy levels or orbitals, the ‘building up’ process for the electrons is governed by the following rules :
Rule (1): Each electron shell can hold a maximum of 2n2 electrons where (n) is the shell number.
Rule (2): These electrons are accommodated in s, p, d and f orbitals, the maximum number of electrons in each type of orbitals being determined by its electron-holding capacity (for
s = 2, p = 6, d = 10 and f = 14).
Rule (3): In the ground state of an atom, the electrons tend to occupy the available orbitals in the increasing order of energies, the orbitals of lower energy being filled first.
This is called building up principle or Aufbau Principle (Aufbau is a German expression meaning building up or construction).
Lower energy orbitals are, therefore, better seats for electrons and better seats are occupied first.
The Following figure shows the energy level scheme of orbitals and this order can conveniently be remembered by the simple device given below.
The increasing order of energy of various orbitals is as follows:
1s < 2s < 2p < 3s < 3p < 4s < 3d < 4p < 5s ......
The energy of an orbital is determined by the sum of principal quantum number (n) and the azimuthal quantum number (l). This rule is called (n + l) rule. There are two parts of this rule:
(a) The orbitals with the lower value of (n + l) has lower energy than the orbitals of higher (n + l) value.
(b) When two orbitals have same (n + l) value, the orbital with lower value of n has lower energy.
For example: let us compare the (n + l) value for 3d and 4s orbitals:
For 3d orbital n = 3, l = 2 and n + l = 5 and for 4s orbital n = 4, l = 0 and n + l = 4.
Therefore, 4s orbital is filled before 3d orbital. Similarly, for 4p and 5s orbitals, the (n + l) values
are (4 + 1) and (5 + 0) respectively.
In this case 4p orbital has lesser value of (n) and hence it has lower energy than 5d orbital and is filled first. It is, therefore, clear from above that 4s orbital would be filled before 3d orbitals (belonging to a lower shell i.e., third) are filled because the latter have higher energy than the former.
Rule (4): Any orbital may have one or two electrons at the most.
Two electrons can occupy the same orbital only if they have opposite spins (Pauli’s exclusion principle).
Rule (5): When several orbitals of equal energy (degenerate orbitals) are available, electrons prefer to occupy separate orbitals rather than getting paired in the same orbital.
Such electrons tend to have same spins (Hund’srule).
Actual electron configuration of atoms of all elements of the periodic table is given in the following table:
We find that these configurations are by and large the same as predicted by the Aufbau procedure.
Deviation from the standard pattern
However, there are quite a few elements which exhibit slight variations from the standard pattern. Some anomalies are tabled below showing only the concerned orbitals.
We find from the table that irregularities involve the placing of one or two electrons from ns orbital in (n – 1) d orbitals.
There is very little energy difference between such (s) and (d) orbitals so that there is very little to choose from energy point of view. The deviations occur when (d) level orbitals are either almost full (e.g., Cu, Pd, Ag, Pt and Au) or half-full (Cr and Mo).
The explanation for this deviation lies in the superior stability of completely filled or all half-filled orbitals than nearly filled or nearly half-filled orbitals. Thus d5 and d10 configurations are much more stable than d4 or d8 or d9. Spectroscopic data and magnetic properties of elements justify the statement that half-filled and completely filled subshells contribute to the stability.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/45557 | When Buying a Home, Manage your Credit Wisely
Why not to get credit cards in the time leading up to buying a home.But … apparently lenders wont’ have to run a second full credit check before closing on a mortgage:
The chances of everyone in the lending pipeline (underwriters) actually getting this memo: slim to none. Best advice: be careful with your credit when you’re buying a home.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/45563 | Space is the Place
The Electronic Sounds of Inner and Outer Space
Trevor Pinch
Sound and Sci Fi: Aliens and Outer Space
Science fiction as a genre has an interesting relationship with sound and sonic experiences, as Trace Reddell (Reddell 2014) has recently argued. He examines an early pulp science fiction story by Harry Bates (Bates 1940), “Farewell to the Master”, which became the basis for the classic Science Fiction film, The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). In the original story, two alien visitors exit a spaceship that has landed on the lawn of the US Capitol. One of the aliens, Klaatu, has a humanoid appearance and is shot dead by a deranged gunman. His companion, an eight-foot tall, green metal robot, called Gnut, then uses recordings of Klaatu’s voice to recreate a physical duplicate using “an apparatus which reversed the recording process, and from the given sound made the characteristic body” (Reddell 2014: 6). This extraordinary sound reversal apparatus is not present in the movie, which contains numerous alterations of the original story (including Gnut becoming Gort), but the movie scores a notable first in its use of sound. It is, as Reddell notes, “one of the first science fiction movies to explore the expressive capacity of electronic tonalities and magnetic tape manipulation” (Reddell 2014: 6-7). The movie also presents one of the first uses in science fiction of the electronic instrument the Theremin (Glinsky 2000; Wierzbicki 2002), the unearthly wails of which are used to accompany Gort’s leaving his spaceship and his first appearance on the Capitol lawn.
The association of electronic tonalities with the theme of space exploration and the presence of aliens is most well known in the classic science fiction film Forbidden Planet (1956). Electronic timbres and tones are used throughout the score rather than just reserved for the domain of “special effects”. As Reddell points out, this is unusual. Quoting Vivian Sobchack (Sobchack 1987), who has written one of the few discussions of sound in science fiction movies, he notes: “Given SF film’s “preoccupation with the ‘future,’ with innovation, with ‘otherness,’” one might expect that such films “would utilize music in a different way than do other film genres. To the contrary, most SF films use music in the manner of other films, if not with even less distinction” (Reddell 2014: 10-11). Forbidden Planet is a notable exception (Wierzbicki 2005). Electronic music pioneers Louis and Bebe Barron were hired to produce the score. They possessed one of the first commercial tape recorders available in the US and had worked with John Cage. [1] Louis Barron constructed home-made cybernetically-inspired electronic devices. The tones generated have been described as "bleeps, blurps, whirs, whines, throbs, hums, and screeches". [2] The circuits had short life spans and were deliberately fabricated in such a way as to resemble a living organism which would itself die. Unfortunately the specific circuits and devices have long been lost, but it is known that some of the effects were made with delay, echo, and tape reversal and with the use of what is known as a ring modulator. [3] Ring modulators produce metallic-like sounds and clamorous bell-like tones. [4] The guiding principle of their method seems to have been to avoid anything that sounds like a conventional instrument. As Bebe Barron herself has said:
I just knew instinctively that that’s what it had to sound like when you’re travelling through space. If our circuits started doing things that even remotely resembled conventional instruments we just tossed it out. [5]
[1] For an emulation by Ben Burtt of some of the sounds used in Forbidden Planet using a tape recorder and other analog gear see this clip.
[2] Described at
[3] A device for multiplying together two wave forms such that the output contains the sum and difference of the frequencies.
[4] It is a well known sound effect to conjure up the voices of space aliens. The voice of the Daleks in the 1964 BBC TV Show Dr Who (now the longest running science fiction show ever) was made by Brian Hodgson of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop using a ring modulator to modulate an actor’s voice. The metallic sound of course links directly to the metallic robotic appearance of imagined space aliens – in the case of a Dalek, a green squid-like creature surrounded by a metallic cyborg shield.
[5] Bebe Baron, interview with Jane Brockman.
The Sound of the Mind
One of the most memorable sounds from Forbidden Planet is the sound of the space “monster from the id”. [6] Interestingly, it is not actually a real monster, but a creation from the subconscious mind of one of the main characters, Dr. Edward Morbius. Psychoanalysis was gaining popular attention at the time, and this association between electronic sounds and the extraordinary powers of the mind is a notable feature of several mid-1940s and early 1950s movies. The eerie wailing sound of the Theremin in particular was used to denote weird psychological states being experienced by characters. Spellbound (1945) is set in a mental hospital, and the main character is a psychoanalyst. The Theremin can be heard just at the moment when one of the characters suffers a form of delusional amnesia. In Lost Weekend (1945) the wailing tones of the Theremin are used to signify the pathos and delirium of the main character’s alcohol binges (Wierzbicki 2002).
According to Reddell, the association of unusual sounds generated by weird technological contrivances with the mind is also a reoccurring trope in science fiction writing of the period. For instance, he points to Alfred Bester’s 1953 novel The Demolished Man, where jingles of “agonizing, unforgettable banality” are used against evil and invasive mind probes. Mind control through sound is a familiar theme of a J.G. Ballard 1963 short story, “The Sound Sweep” and of Frank Hubert’s novel Dune (1965). Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968) features something known as the Penfield Mood Organ, which is an electronic synthesizer which allows its user to “dial up an array of affective states” (Reddell 2014). [7]
Space exploration – what we might call “outer space” – and the fantasy of the aliens who might occupy it thus became familiar themes associated with electronic-type sounds at the dawning of the space age (see also Wierzbicki 2014). Sputnik was launched in 1957, and America’s conquest of space became a national priority, leading to the “space race” with the Soviet Union. In other countries space was an inspiration. London producer Joe Meek had a big 1962 hit with “Telstar” (the name of a satellite). [8] The unusual tonalities of electronic sounds, however, also came to symbolize what we might call “inner space” or journeys into the mind itself. It is this double theme of the exploration of outer space and inner space which is later combined in the sounds of the electronic music synthesizer and its use for recordings and concerts in the 1960s.
Domestic Space, the Hi-Fi Craze and Space Pop
Sound and the connection with outer and inner space in the 1950s to early 1960s also came to be linked with another sort of space – domestic space. The decade 1954-1964 “witnessed the rise of the airy, open-ended nature of living space” (Taylor 2001: 81). The newly expanded sorts of domestic spaces found in American homes were often filled by new sorts of sounds. The high-fidelity craze in the US of the 1940s and 1950s meant that, “new suburban living rooms had hi-fi music composed especially for them” (Taylor 2001: 81). For example, in the 1950s, as Taylor notes, Columbia introduced a series entitled Music for Gracious Living. “Music was composed, orchestrated, and arranged to exploit the high-fidelity capabilities”(Taylor 2001: 81). With the invention of stereo in the late 1950s, music was written to give a sense of space, e.g. by bouncing sounds between speakers. It was, as the vice president of strategic marketing at RCA noted, “almost effects set to music” (Taylor 2001: 82). Many of the albums made for hi-fi aficionados were accompanied by reams of technological specs as to how the recordings were made, details of the equipment, and so on, in what seemed to be an attempt to scientize domestic space. There is, as Taylor notes, a gender component to all this with hi-fis mainly being marketed to men and providing a way for men to reclaim domestic space. [9] Classical music was arguably regarded as effeminate by hi-fi buffs, and thus the sound of special effects further reinforced this gender division (Douglas 1992).
One of the special effects reproduced by hi-fi was the sounds of outer space. Taylor (Taylor 2001: 82) quotes an article in Hi-Fi/Stereo Review published in 1960, [10] which claims “In the search for new material albums were made of sports car sounds, cracklings from outer space, and ski lessons.” [11] Exotic travel and the encounter with “the other” – other sorts of music – were at the heart of what was known as the exotica genre in popular recordings of the late 1940s and 1950s. Taylor (Taylor 2001) notes that “space-aged pop” was part of exotica. Middle-class Americans went on journeys from the luxury and safety of their homes, and one such journey was into space. Taylor argues that space was equated with femininity, as symbolized by the exotic scantily-clad females whose images bedecked the covers of these space-age pop albums. The space explorers were gendered masculine. Thus the traditional story of male conquest was now translated into the imagery and sounds of space.
The Theremin featured prominently in these space-age pop albums, such as Harry Ravel’s Music out of the Moon (1947), conducted by Les Baxter (the first ever LP with a color cover – see Figure 1). Taylor (Taylor 2001: 84) suggests that the eerie wailing sound of the Theremin, representing the sounds of space, contrasts with the sound of the earthbound human orchestra, which eventually conquers and dominates the sound of the aetherial and seductive space sirens. The Theremin is used on another album from this era Music for Heavenly Bodies (1958) which also displays a scantily clad woman (presumably another heavenly body) above the Milky Way (Figure 2). The liner notes describe the Theremin’s ability to convey the “awe-inspiring feelings of asteroids and comets” (Taylor 2001: 91). [12]
Figure 1: Music Out of the Moon by Harry Revel sleeve cover
Figure 2: Music for Heavenly Bodies by Paul Tanner sleeve cover
Figure 3: Space Escapade by Les Baxter sleeve cover
One thing of interest from this period is the role of wind in space. A good reference point is the track “Winds of Sirius” from Les Baxter’s 1958 album Space Escapade (Figure 3). Here the rather crude (in technical terms) version of the wind, which seems to be produced by blowing into the microphone, stands out against the standard orchestration. As we shall see below, synthesizer wind sounds are an important part of the space effects deployed by the psychedelic space futurist rock band, Pink Floyd.
[6] The term “id” is, of course, Freud’s original 1920s term for the subconscious in his structural model of the psyche.
[7] Wilder Penfield is the neurosurgeon noted (or maybe notorious) for his experiments on memory using direct electrical stimulation to the cerebral cortex of patients under local anaesthesia during the 1950 and 1960s.
[8] Telstar, featuring The Tornadoes, uses the clavioline – an instrument often seen as a precursor to the analog electronic music synthesizer.
[9] Taylor (Taylor 2001: 81) notes that one album cover “Do-it-yourself” depicts dad and junior working at something at the basement tool bench while mom sits and demurely knits. Synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog, who as a kid shared a Queens basement workshop with his dad, would fit this image perfectly.
[10] J. Ball (1960). “The Witch Doctor in Your Living Room.” Hi-Fi/Stereo Review March: 62-65.
[11] The sound of ski lessons is not what one usually thinks of as an iconic sound (perhaps the swish of blades across snow?), but fits in well with the image of a newly-moneyed middle class with the ability to travel and indulge in leisure sports.
[12] The Theremin player, Paul Tanner, later became famous as the Thereminist on the Beach Boys 1966 hit song, “Good Vibrations”.
Enter the Synthesizer
How did the first electronic music synthesizers developed by Robert Moog (Figure 4) and Don Buchla (Figure 5) in the period 1964-70 impact conceptions of space (Pinch and Trocco 2002; Holmes 2012). The potential for generating sounds that might be associated with space aliens was obvious to people as soon as they got to play with the new modular synthesizers. Their voltage control capability – the ability to sweep the pitch of an oscillator through the whole audible range – plus the capacity to filter sounds, such as by filtering out the higher harmonics, enabled them to make squelchy and warbly sounds. A device known as the sequencer (invented by Don Buchla) generated discrete control voltages in continuous cycles to produce sequences of notes or arpeggios of sound.
Figure 4: Moog Synthesizer in his Factory Studio
Figure 5: Buchla 200 synthesizer played by Suzanne Ciani
The psychedelic rock music made using the newly invented synthesizers was often referred to at the time as being “spacey”. People who took drugs were also “spaced out” or spacey. The use of the word “spacey” is interesting in this period as it seems to allow for the cross between the inner exploration of mind produced by a psychedelic trip through what was popularly known as the “Doors of Perception” and the outer exploration of space. [13] Here is how electronic music composer Ramon Sender, one of the organizers of the famous 1966 Trips Festival in San Francisco (Pinch and Trocco 2002; Turner 2006), describes his goals for the festival:
What I wanted to do was run Big Brother through Buchla’s Box and I wanted to just sit there and crank the ring modulators up very slowly and then just take them out further and further […] It was a gathering of the tribes as we called it … the gathering together of musicians to play the spaciest music they possibly could. [14]
Figure 6: Buchla’s Box
Around the same time Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters troupe staged “Acid Tests” in an attempt to turn on America through the use of LSD (which was still legal at the time). [15] Kesey, who attended the Trips Festival, captures perfectly this association between outer and inner perception. He scribbled on a screen at the Trips festival: “THE OUTSIDE IS INSIDE. HOW DOES IT LOOK?” (Pinch and Trocco 2002: 96)
Spacey music meant listening to the sort of music that evoked the feeling of being “spaced out” – that is, feeling high, and certainly one of the aspects of being high is a distorted sense of perception and the realization that sound vibrations are part of how “interior mental worlds” are linked to the so-called “exterior” world. Of course questioning the very nature of reality and whether there even was an exterior world at all separate from mental experience was part of the counter-cultural sensibility. The idea of the “trip”, which with the 1950s exotica and space-age pop was a musical consumption experience – a way to experience otherness – now became something quite different: a trip into your inner being or psyche.
The sorts of spaces where sound was being experienced were changing as well. Music was now being consumed communally. Many of the 60s early festivals, such as the original “gathering of the tribes” in San Francisco at Golden Gate Park, were held outdoors. Domestic space was also changing, with “gracious living” rooms being replaced with grubby couches and communal living. One of the first known uses of the Buchla to make sounds associated with space – in this case space aliens – is reported by Ramon Sender, who was living at the San Francisco Digger commune at the time:
We put the speakers up in the top end of the orchard and we were playing all these Martian sequencing sounds, and hippies would emerge out of bushes, stoned on acid, convinced that the UFOs had landed, staring in amazement. [16]
What did the Martians sound like? We cannot say for sure (especially as you are unlikely to be reading this article in the same tripped-out state experienced at that commune!), but the best-known recording of the Buchla synthesizer from that era was made by Sender’s fellow composer Morton Subotnick. Silver Apples of the Moon (1968) is performed on a Buchla 100 synthesizer, and listening to it gives a little taste of the range of sounds in the Buchla 100. [17]
Figure 7: Silver Apples of the Moon sleeve cover
Figure 8: Robert Moog on Stage at Opening of Island of Electronicus
The special effects that had previously been heard in private on hi-fi could now be experienced live and by a communal audience. For example, the “Island of Electronicus” was an early Moog venue on a man-made Island off the coast of St Petersburg, Florida. Cushions were arranged on the floor below the “Love and Peace” stage where several early minimoog synthesizers were set up (see Figure 8). The compère for this show, David Van Koevering (later a legendary Moog Salesman [Pinch 2003]) found that sports car sounds and motorcycle sounds were particularly effective. These sounds could be projected around the space with an early version of a surround sound speaker system:
And we’d start a motorcycle up – you’d hear a minimoog sound like a motorcycle, you’d hear ‘em kick it over, and then we’d take noise, and you’d hear me choke it […] and you could hear that filter screech and wheel would chirp... with the Doppler effect […] we’d have this minimoog motorcycle flying around the room […] now we did this with two minimoogs – a four cylinder sports car would start its engine[…] And you’d hear the motorcycle going one way and you’d hear the sports car going the other way, and a horrendous crash would happen over the stage and parts were rolling all over the room. And the audience would go nuts. They’d stand and they’d cheer and they’d clap. [18]
The Moog synthesizer’s ability to generate unusual timbres and little washes of sound soon became part of the classic sixties psychedelic rock sound. The Moog’s presence at one of the best known festivals of the sixties, Monterey Pops (1968), sealed forever its association with psychedelic sound. Moog’s West Coast Salesmen, Paul Beaver and Bernie Krause were set up in a small tent at the Monterey Fair Ground. Monterey Pops was where the recording industry discovered the so-called “San Francisco Sound”, and it brought into alignment several key things: musicians, money, drugs and a new machine to spend money on – the Moog! What happens next is described by one of Moog’s salesman, Bernie Krause:
Little by little, as people got more stoned, they came skulking into the booth. And we’d set things up like thunderclaps and Hammond organs and people were really impressed […] and they came in all guises [...] Like representatives of the Byrds, a couple of folk from the Beatles were there, and the Stones and lots of different groups. And ultimately many of them, because of the large advances that the record companies were offering, ended up buying the synthesizers from us right there on the spot. And I think we probably sold six or seven synthesizers at $15,000 a crack at that concert alone in maybe one afternoon. I mean it was unbelievable. [19]
It is interesting the role that special effects, such as thunderclaps, played in convincing these musicians of the need to acquire a Moog synthesizer. Of course, these thunderclaps, when experienced on head phones with the aid of psychedelic drugs, would have a peculiar sonic power (and perhaps evoke another powerful symbolic technology of the period – the atomic bomb). [20] But note how different the space was now to the 1950s hi-fi sets being listened to in the gracious living rooms. These musicians were at the hippest music festival on the planet, and they could envisage the power of the Moog sound when added to their recordings. [21] The festivals in this period were important places for technologies to be discovered and experimented with (Schulte-Römer 2013).
For example, the Doors experimented with using the Moog on their album Strange Days (1968). [22] The sound of an oscillator filtered and mixed with Jim Morrison’s vocal on the title track makes the music seem spacey. The Moog was used to produce little psychedelic washes of sound, such as on the Byrds’ album, Notorious Byrd Brothers, [23] and, perhaps most famously of all, on Abbey Road (1969) by the Beatles, including the track composed by George Harrison, “Here Comes the Sun”. [24] Soon the Moog was being used as the sole instrument in psychedelic music, such as in TONTO’s Expanding Head Band’s release Zero Time (1971). [25]
“Strange Days”, The Doors, Strange Days
“Here Comes the Sun”, The Beatles, Abbey Road
“Cybernaut”, TONTOs Expanding Head Band, Zero Time
[13] The phrase comes from Aldous Huxley’s explorations of psychedelics in his 1954 book, The Doors of Perception (London: Chatto & Windus).
[14] Interview with Ramon Sender 7/11/2000.
[15] Kesey had a Buchla Box installed in his bus, FURTHER, which he used on his famous road trip across the US to visit East Coast acid guru Timothy Leary. For details, see Tom Wolfe’s account of this epic journey in Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.
[16] Interview with Ramon Sender 7/11/2000.
[17] Silver Apples of the Moon is regarded as a precursor to the 1980s rave and house music due to the sequenced rhythmic arpeggios of sound.
[18] Interview with David Van Koevering 1/30/1999.
[19] Interview with Bernie Krause 10/24/1998.
[20] Indeed, one of the early synthesizer “happenings” staged by Don Buchla and his synthesizer was a mock nuclear attack. For details, see (Pinch and Trocco 2002: 101).
[21] The modular Moog synthesizer was still too large and unwieldy for use in live performance – rock performer Keith Emerson was the exception, using his “monster Moog” in his band Emerson, Lake and Palmer in the early 1970s.
[22] The Moog studio musician was Paul Beaver.
[23] The Byrds were one of the few bands that the Beatles acknowledged as influencing them.
[24] Carl Sagan wanted to include “Here Comes the Sun” on the famous 1977 Voyager Golden Record mission, discussed by Stefan Helmreich (this issue). The Beatles gave permission, but EMI opposed the idea. If it had been included, the sound of the Moog would now be further out in the Galaxy than any other known synthesized sound.
[25] A nice link between Inner and Outer Space is captured on their album Zero Time. One side of the LP is called “Outside” and the other side “Inside”.
Another important early synthesizer manufacturer was the ARP company in Boston (Pinch and Trocco 2002). [26] Their synthesizers are particularly significant in the history of electronic sounds and space because of their use in Star Wars (1977), the first movie to use a synthesizer to generate the first versions of all the special effects. [27] Ben Burtt was the synthesist on the project and got most of the sounds of the robots R2D2 on his Arp 2600 synthesizer (Figure 9). Expressing robot emotion with electronic sound seems to have been a trial and error operation – perhaps more interesting was the way Burtt achieved the sound of the spaceship bypass of the Millennium Falcon. [28] Of course space ships in the void of space are silent, but it seems we expect space ships in movies to roar credibly. Burtt found sounds for the Millennium Falcon bypass on his ARP 2600, but he felt the sounds lacked credibility and in the end recorded a Goodyear Blimp engine. It is notable that the sounds of the TIE Fighters in Star Wars have higher frequencies (sounding more like angry wasps). It is as if the “evil empire” itself is encapsulated in the TIE Fighter engine sound. An ARP synthesizer (in this case the much larger ARP 2500) was also used to generate the series of five tones used in an attempt to communicate with the alien mother ship in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).
Figure 9: ARP 2600 Synthesizer
The sound of the Millenium Falcon space ship from Star Wars
The sound of a TIE Fighter from Star Wars
Five Note Sequence from Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The VCS3
To complete our own voyage into electronic sounds and space, we will turn now to the little known smaller cousin of the Moog and ARP synthesizers, a synthesizer produced in London by the EMS (Electronic Music Studios) company known as the VCS3. [29] This synthesizer was used by many well known artists, including Brian Eno and Pink Floyd (Figures 10 and 11). The EMS company was a tight-knit affair. Famous for their extravagant lunches, it was founded by Russian aristocrat, Peter Zinovieff, experimental composer, Tristram Cary, and engineer, David Cockerell (Pinch and Trocco 2002). Cockerell began designing electronic devices as a teenager because he wanted to make the sounds of the Dalek monsters from Dr Who. So, in this case, rather than space inspiring a new device, it is the sound of space as rendered by an electronic device used in a popular TV show which itself inspired the new synthesizer. The VCS3 was a much cheaper synthesizer than the Moogs and ARPs – the prototype was built from parts purchased from army surplus stores in London. It has a unique patch bay that works by connecting modules using a matrix of pins (originally a computer surplus item). The filter uses a ladder of diodes (rather than the ladder of transistors as on the famous Moog ladder filter) [30] and hence has a very different sound than the characteristic Moog filter. It also has a ring modulator, stereo sound, reverberation, and panning. Also, along with the synthi AKS (a sister synthesizer designed to fit in a suitcase), it has one of the first digital sequencers (a 256 step sequencer).
Figure 10: Brian Eno at the VCS3
Figure 11: Pink Floyd using the VCS3
The unique patching matrix gave its operator enormous flexibility, as Brian Eno notes:
The thing that makes this a great machine is that whereas nearly all other synthesizers are set up to have a fixed signal path […] with the EMS you can go from the oscillator to the filter, and then use the filter output to control the same oscillator again… you get a kind of Squiging effect. It feeds back on itself in interesting ways, because you can make some very complicated circles through the synthesizer… (Pinch and Trocco 2002: 214)
The versatility and cheapness of the VCS3 made it a favorite amongst bands in London’s burgeoning psychedelic “underground” scene. The London band Hawkwind used this synthesizer to make their early space rock music. Hawkwind released an album In Search of Space (1973) accompanied by a “Log Book” recording an epic space journey. Michael Moorcock, the London-based science fiction/fantasy writer, often read passages from his books on stage with them. [31] This description of Hawkwind from the London underground magazine, Frendz, nicely captures the band’s blend of working class make-do, electronic freaks, and space (see also Figure 12):
It was Del the longest haired building labourer in the world, who entered with a hod on his back. And in the hod a bleeping, chirping, wherping, blaspheming machine […] “It’s a sympathizer” he said “It must have heard sound coming from the room and started to sympathize. And now I can’t stop it.” Nik Turner [saxophonist] the birdman peered through the curtains. The room was curiously vibrating. “Hey” said Nik, “The room appears to be in Outer space […]” Dave Brock [the founder of Hawkwind] pulled back the curtains “Right we are.” He burst “We are in space. We’ve taken off. What now?????” Del and Dik Mik are both electronic freaks with no musical upbringing and not enough money to purchase a Moog. (Pinch and Trocco 2002: 215)
Figure 12: Hawkwind using the VCS3
Track one on side two, “Master of the Universe”, from the 1971 album In Search in Space
Tracks such as “You shouldn’t do that” or “Master of the universe” start with the growls and groans of filtered oscillators, before the typical Hawkwind sound of an oscillator slowly being cranked up in pitch set against rhythm guitar comes in, to be followed by the bass guitar picking out a distinctive pattern and frenzied drums, followed by layer-upon-layer of swirling oscillator sounds, screeching guitar effects and saxophone riffs. The effect is to achieve a kind of sonic “lift off”.
The preeminent London underground band from this era of psychedelic rock was Pink Floyd. Started in Cambridge by madcap genius Syd Barrett (who later left the band after a mental breakdown), they had a regular gig as the house band at the famous London UFO club. They explored unusual timbres and sounds through the use of feedback, effects boxes, Rick Wright’s eerie tones with his Farfisa organ, and Syd’s zippo lighter running up and down the strings of his Telecaster guitar. They were known to play with backward tape loops and used accidental sounds such as a seagull-like sound discovered after a roadie connected a wah-wah pedal incorrectly. Their dynamic liquid light and strobes light show was part of the act. Early tracks, such as “Cirrus Minor”, “Astronomy Domine” and “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun”, displayed their space exploration credentials. “Freak out” moments, warnings to a mysterious Eugene to be “Careful with that Ax” and general acid madness, mayhem, and mental derangement (paralleled tragically by Syd’s own mental breakdown) was also a repeated theme of their early music. One of the weapons in the Floyd’s sonic arsenal was an early surround sound-system controlled by a joystick from the soundboard.
Listening to Pink Floyd in a big space outdoors could be a memorable sonic experience with giant speakers set up around the crowd. Often tape loops of sound effects, such as motor cycles or bird sounds, were played to the audience for up to half an hour before the show, further breaking down the distinction between electronic sound and field recordings (played back on most of the tape loops). I recall seeing Pink Floyd perform “Atom Heart Mother” (1970) at the open air arena at Crystal Palace Garden London in July 1972. The concert started with a motorcycle sound going round and round the stadium.
It was thus no surprise that Pink Floyd were early users of synthesizers and, being based in London, that they turned to the VCS3. Its first use is on a track “Echoes” from their album Meddle (1971). One of their most recognizable sounds on the VCS3 is the sound of wind made by routing the oscillator and noise sources through the filter. This sound can be heard clearly at the start of “Echoes” played on the Pink Floyd Live at Pompei Directors Cut DVDListen to the wind here and compare it with the 1950s wind in the Winds of Sirius” from Les Baxter’s 1958 album Space Escapade.
The VCS3 was particularly adept at making sound effects – such as explosions, heart beats, and the sound of breathing – all used at different points on the Pink Floyd album, Dark Side of the Moon (1973). [32] One track replete with VCS3 sounds is “On the Run”, which processes the output of the sequencer from the Synthi AKS through the filter to make sustained ominous drones and bubbles of sound mixed in with disorientating sound effects. The theme of outer space and inner space and the threat of mental derangement and, of course, Syd Barrett’s sad demise are interlinked on this album. Some of the synthesizer work on the track “On the Run” recorded at Abbey Road can be seen in the DVD Director’s Cut of Pink Floyd Live at Pompei
[26] The ARP acronym was based on the name of the company’s founder, Alan Robert Pearlman.
[27] Some of the actual recorded sounds used in the movie, such as the Millenium Falcon space ship sound discussed below, were eventually generated with “natural” sources.
[28] The history of space ship “bypasses” on screen is itself fascinating. For instance, the pilot episode of the television show Star Trek has the USS Starship Enterprise passing through [across?] the screen in silence. But the first episode of the series has the sound of the USS Starship Enterprise roaring towards viewers from the screen. Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is notable for how its uses silence (technically correct, given our understanding of sound waves in space) as the space ship moves in space – the use of the sound of the breathing of the astronauts in their space suits set against the silence of space is particularly powerful.
[29] The VCS3 (Voltage Controlled Studio No. 3) was marketed in the US as the “Putney” after the location in London where EMS had its offices.
[30] The ladder filter, a low pass filter, was the only item on the Moog synthesizer that Moog held a patent on.
[31] It was a strange scene because Hawkwind also has a stripper perform on stage at the same time.
[32] Dark Side of the Moon of course went on to become one of rock’s classic albums.
Space is the Place
One of Robert Moog’s first customers for a prototype of his new minimoog synthesizer in 1969 was the jazz musician, Sun Ra, who used it in compositions such as “My Brother the Wind Volumes I and II”. There was a consensus amongst those who were lucky enough to hear and see Sun Ra use the Moog in live performance with his Arkestra that he made sounds no other musicians had heard. [33] For Sun Ra – who supposedly came from Jupiter and who lived in a commune with his followers (the Arkestra) – space was his home, and its exploration through music and ritual promised to return African Americans to this utopia (Szwed 1998). [34] His music and writings were vast and complex, and he has been hailed as an important inspiration for the philosophy of Afrofuturism (Eshun 1998). This projection onto space of a utopian vision of a better world is something Sun Ra shared with the space explorers of the counter culture. For them too, space was a place that could not be left in the hands of the military industrial complex of the US government. As the Jefferson Airplane and friends reminded us in their classic San Francisco rock album Blows Against the Empire (1970), [35] the goal was to “Highjack the starship, Carry 7000 people past the sun, And our babes'll wander naked thru the cities of the universe, Cmon, free minds, free bodies, free dope, free music, the day is on its way the day is ours”. The ultimate trip for heads! The gender divisions noted earlier in the 1950s space-age pop still permeate the counter culture – one assumes the “naked babes” wandering through the cities of the universe are female.
The Moog, Buchla, ARP, and EMS synthesizers were, as the Theremin, clavoline and Louis Baron’s circuits were in an earlier period, an integral part of the new sounds of space. The novel electronic tones these instruments produced symbolized the novelty of space exploration, the vastness of space, the journey into space, and the sorts of alien life forms and robots that might be encountered. The electronic sounds were also important in fusing inner space and outer space and for shaping new gendered spaces of listening. The electronic sound was a shape shifter [36] – a way of providing a new liminal space which listeners could themselves explore.
[33] As well as Moog musicians recall of Sun Ra this point is borne out by John Szwed, who writes, “Truly, no one had ever gotten sounds like this out of an instrument of any kind” (Szwed 1998: 277).
[34] Sun Ra’s birth name was Herman Poole Blount, and his legal name in 1952 was Le Sony’r Ra.
[35] They were renamed the Jefferson Starship for this album (which became the subsequent name of the band).
[36] The notion of a Shape Shifter is further developed in Pinch and Trocco (Pinch and Trocco 2002).
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"Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart!" 1 Samuel 16:7. In a sense, all life is hidden. The blood courses through the veins as the heart keeps throbbing, throbbing, day and night. You can lay your finger on your wrist and feel the pulsings. The lungs also continue breathing, inhaling, exhaling, without pause, from infancy's first gasp until at last watching friends say, "He is gone!" Pulsings, breathings—yes; but have you found the life? What is it that keeps the heart throbbing and the lungs respiring? "Life," you say. Yes—but what is life?
Take the mind. It is very active. One man thinks, and writes beautiful poems or charming stories. Another thinks and puts marvelous visions on canvas, or throws great bridges over rivers, or erects a noble cathedral. But who ever saw the process of thought? Mental life is hidden.
Take heart life—the life you lived yesterday, with its hopes and fears, its joys and sorrows, its pleasures and pains, its cares and its affections, its thousand varying experiences. Does the world know what is going on in your heart today—or any day? People see the smile or the shadow which flits across your face—but they do not see the emotion which produced it. Even to your closest bosom friend your life is unrevealed, cannot be revealed. Says Keble—
"Not even the tenderest heart next to our own
Knows half the reasons why we smile or sigh."
Take spiritual life. We see the effects of the Holy Spirit's work—new dispositions, new conduct, new character; but the divine spark of spiritual life—we cannot see as it comes down from above. It is secret, hidden. One day you are sad, disheartened; and, taking up your Bible, you find a sweet word of promise, a revealing of God's love—and into your heart there comes a strange peace. One day you are in sorrow. A friend sits down beside you, and speaks a few words of strong comfort. You are calmed and quieted. Yet no one sees any of these processes. They are hidden, secret.
There is an inspired word which says, "Your life is hidden with Christ in God." The thought is wonderfully bold and strong. Christ is the source of the Christian life. Christ is in the heaven with God, in God, wrapped up in the very glory of divinity. Hence the Christian's life is with Christ in God. Its source is thus in the very heart of God.
Outside an old garden wall hung a great branch covered with purple clusters of grapes. No root was visible anywhere; and those who saw it wondered how the vine grew, how its life was nourished, where its roots clung. It was then discovered that the great vine from which this branch sprung, grew inside the garden. There it had an immense root, with a stem like the trunk of a tree. This one branch had pushed out over the wall and hung there, bearing in the mellow autumn its clusters of luscious fruit.
Likewise—every Christian life in this world is a branch of a great vine which grows in heaven—a branch growing outside the wall. "Your life is hidden with Christ in God. We have heaven's life in us in this world. The fruits which grow upon our life are heavenly fruits. Jesus spoke of giving his own peace to his disciples. He prayed that they might have his joy fulfilled in themselves. We read too that love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, meekness—are fruits of the Holy Spirit. Thus in our human experience in this world—we are drawing our life and its support from the hidden source of life which is in the heart of God. This assures us of its security. It is beyond the reach of earthly harm.
Herein, too, lies the secret of the quiet peace which we find so often in Christian sufferers. In all their pain they are sustained by some hidden strength which the world cannot understand. They are drawing their life from a source which no earthly experience can reach or affect.
"Oh! There are some who, while on earth they dwell,
And seem to differ little from the throng,
Already to the heavenly choir belong,
And even hear the same sweet anthem swell.
They joy, at times, with joy unspeakable,
Pouring to him they love their heartfelt song;
While to behold him face to face they long,
As the parched traveler for the cooling well.
Ask you how such from other may be known?
Mark those whose look is calm, their brow serene,
Gentle their words, love breathing in each tone,
Scattering rich blessings all around unseen.
They draw each hour—from living founts above—
The streams they pour around of peace and joy and love."
One writes of watching an old tree in the autumn, as the leaves were touched by the frosts and fell off when the rough wind blew. As the tree at last became bare, he saw a bird's nest on one of the branches. Through the summer days the nest had been hidden beneath the thick foliage—but the blasts of winter which swept away the leaves uncovered this home and shelter of the birds. So, ofttimes, is it in the history of God's children. In their prosperity we see not their refuge, which is hidden and secret—hidden beneath the leaves of worldly prosperity. But when adversity comes, taking away earthly beauty, stripping off the bright foliage—their true and eternal refuge in God is disclosed. The storms of earth only drive them back into God's bosom.
We say a certain person's beauty has been wasted by sickness. One came to me whom I had not seen before for five years. A dark tragedy had just darkened her home, and I went to try to give a little comfort. Until that day, her face had been beautiful with all the freshness of youth. But these five years since, had been like twenty years in her life. The beauty was now faded; how could it have been otherwise, with the broken heart she brought out of those terrible days? Yet a few minutes conversation showed me that in all the wasting of physical beauty—that her spiritual loveliness had not been marred. She had kept near the heart of Christ in all the bitter anguish—and the joy and peace of her inner life had not failed. Beauty of the face is only external, and is transient. Any accident may mar it. But beauty of the soul is spiritual and imperishable. It abides even in the destruction of the body.
There is mystery in this hidden life—which is in every Christian. It has a strange power of recognition. When two Christians meet, though utter strangers heretofore, there is something which reveals them to each other. The same life pulses in their hearts. They have the same hopes, the same joys, the same Christ, the same purpose in living, the same heaven. The world has nothing in common with Christians—but all who love Christ are members of one family.
The Christian's life is hidden also—in the sense that its true and full glory is concealed in this world, and will not appear until it enters the heavenly life. Only the bud is seen as yet; by and by the flower will burst into rich bloom. The best of every Christian's life remains unrevealed on the earth. We fail to realize even our own best intentions. You did not live yesterday as you meant to live when you went out in the morning. No artist ever puts on his canvas—all the beauty of his mental vision. No singer ever gets into the song he sings—all the music of his soul. No saintly Christian ever translates into disposition and conduct—all the spiritual loveliness which glows in his ideal. Our hands are too clumsy and unskillful to express the best things of our mind and heart in word or act or character. We see the good—but cannot do it, in more than a mere fragmentary way. Yet the visions of beauty which we have in mere flashes and glimmerings, are hints of divine revealings which are yet to be made, and of the wondrous possibilities which lie in the hidden depths of our nature, some day to be brought out.
The sea covers great fields of concealed splendors. Now and then a storm stirs its depths, and washes up a few brilliant shells or pebbles, which shine like fragments broken from heaven's walls. Yet these few stones or shells are only specimens of millions more—even more brilliant—which are buried in the ocean depths. Likewise—there come out here and there, in a Christian's life, in times of special exaltation, glimpses of something rarely beautiful—an act, a word, a self denial, a disposition, the revealing of some noble quality or some marvelous power or measure of love; and we say as we see it, "That is like Christ! That is a gleam of heavenly life! That is a fragment of divinity!" But that flashing gleam of character, that glimmering of Christ-likeness, that act which seems too pure for earth—is only a hint of the infinite possibilities of each human soul. Hidden in the depths of the nature, under all its faults and imperfections, is a life which far surpasses the highest things which are reached in this world. The love, joy, peace, unselfishness, purity, holiness, attained in the saintliest experience of earthly Christian life—are but divine intimations of what we shall be when the limiting conditions of earth shall have been left behind.
There will be a time, when all this hidden life shall be revealed. The bud shall burst into the rich flower. The gem shall break through its rough imprisoning crust, and shine in lustrous splendor. The dull character which here shows only gleams and flashes of spiritual beauty—amid manifold defects, flaws, and infirmities—shall yet show in its every feature—the beauty of Christ. The holy thoughts, desires, longings, and the hunger after righteousness, which here are hindered, restrained, limited, and which fail to take full form in life and character—shall yet be wrought out in deeds as beautiful and holy as themselves. We shall see Christ, and we shall be like him—when we shall see him as he is.
Some day we shall slip away from things that are familiar to our eyes and hearts here, and shall enter into what we call the other life. Really, however, it is not another life—but only a fuller, deeper unveiling of the life which we have been living in Christ, since he first saved us. The mystery of the Christian's life of faith, is that it is "hidden with Christ in God." Here we touch but the outer edge of it; in what we call dying—we shall press farther into its blessedness. Here our little barks move only along the shore; by and by we shall sail out into the infinite expanse. There will be nothing to dread in the experience. We call it death, and we shudder at its mention; but really it is life—fullness of life. To those who watch us in departing, we shall disappear; but to us the path will be only one of increasing brightness, as we go on until we enter into the presence of Christ.
So will it be when we leave this world. It will not grow dark to our eyes, as we imagine it will do, when we enter the valley of shadows. We shall pass into fuller light, until we, too, are hidden with Christ in God, in the glory of eternal life!
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DEAR DOCTOR K: This may be a silly question, but here goes: Do people who are “double-jointed” have twice as many joints?
DEAR READER: I can see how you might think that. If the question is silly it’s because the medical term we use is imprecise and misleading. The term makes it sound as though “double-jointed” people have two joints in places that other people have only one, or that they have twice the normal amount of motion. Neither is true of people who are double-jointed. In fact, the vast majority of humans have the same number of bones and joints.
The correct terminology for people with greater than normal flexibility of their joints is “hypermobility.” That simply means the joints (and surrounding structures, including ligaments and tendons) are able to bend farther than average. In most cases, it’s not clear why a person has this extra mobility.
Most people with hypermobility are otherwise normal and healthy. Hypermobility can cause problems in people who dislocate their shoulder, hip or kneecap – but most people who have these dislocations are not hypermobile.
Hypermobility is usually harmless. However, there are two uncommon diseases that cause hypermobility and other more serious problems. The first, Marfan’s syndrome, leads to abnormal connective tissue including tendons, ligaments, blood vessels, bones and cartilage. People with Marfan’s syndrome can have problems involving the heart and major blood vessels, sudden collapse of the lungs, arthritis, and problems with the lens and retina of the eyes. The other, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, can also cause weakening of the walls of major blood vessels.
Unusual hypermobility of the joints has been described in people (particularly children) with chronic fatigue syndrome. It also has been reported in people who inherit, or who develop later in life, a disorder of the mitochondria, the little “battery packs” that provide energy inside every cell in our body.
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So The Drive's Toyota FJ project needs a little more TLC than we thought...
Andrew Siceloff
Part 3
The Build
On the ride back to Brooklyn from Pennsylvania Dutch Country, it became clear straightaway that our screamin' deal of a project Toyota FJ62 was going to need a bunch of work. First off, it was way too easy to move the steering wheel back and forth; we’re talking 30 degrees of lassitude, with nobody home. (For those bad at math, that's a huge chunk of the circle.) Mostly, it appeared I was making a sharp left turn, even though I was going straight at a lawful 70 mph on the interstate.
Red Hook, Brooklyn, is currently threading the needle between a half-dilapidated-industrial wasteland and a half-posh boutique shopper’s paradise. It once housed much of the shipping apparatus for the country's largest city, so it’s a fitting backdrop for a washed-up truck in sore need of invasive surgery. Like the neglected factory buildings and trash-strewn street corners that it rattled past, our SUV looked like something that was once great and no longer was, but could be again.
So you picked up a lemon, eh? Did you get got, as they say on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia?
No way. For a running vehicle, especially a desirable model with four-wheel drive, it was still a steal at $3,000. But to see just how much work we were going to have to do, we had to go beyond the proverbial tire kick. So we pulled the truck into The Build’s interim new home at Brooklyn Motor Works and did what any mechanic would do: We put it on the lift.
Cait Knoll/
Find any dead animals or school crossing guards lodged under there?
Not exactly, however the oily sheen coating covering most of the undercarriage had—on the unseasonably hot September day when I'd made my initial inspection—blinded me to the presence of a considerable coating of surface rust. Or maybe my eyes had been affected by that peculiar disease that affects most car buyers. It's the one that makes problems not look so bad and the sweet bits look way cooler than they really are. A little of each, perhaps.
How grave is the patient? Like, Fred Flintstone bad, or Big Lebowski beater bad?
There's definitely a walnut-size hole in the floor on the driver's side, but it's nothing catastrophic. And a corner of the bottom of the driver’s side door appears to have been reconstructed—and not by Leonardo da Vinci. The exhaust pipe was a nightmare, so I cut it out with a sawzall, and the truck now sounds badass, trailer park-style. The rest of the undercarriage rust is a little rough in texture, but there aren't any terribly flaky sections.
Andrew Siceloff
Erm, what's the difference between scratchy and flaky?
The scratchy rust can be cleaned off with a wire brush, etched with a special acidic jelly, primed and painted over, but the flaky rust has penetrated deeper, and usually means holes are either already there or on their way shortly. Cleaning up both kinds of rust—especially on the underside of the vehicle—is a nasty, messy operation that usually leads to days of crying tiny rust particles, even if you've worn goggles. It also makes you look like you work in a Bolivian ore mine.
Anything else need doing?
We stripped out everything in the interior except for the dashboard, steering wheel and shifter. In every nook and cranny, even underneath the carpet, I found at least $20 worth of nickels, dimes and quarters. But they were all grimy, so the derelicts I offered them to turned up their noses and asked what kind of people I took them for. There were a couple of spots on the carpet that looked like a cat had been electrocuted on them. We’re replacing the carpet.
Well, at least you didn't find any used condoms. Please say you didn’t find any used condoms.
No, but on the rear cargo floor, someone had taken an old cookie sheet, hammered it flat and sheet metal-screwed it to the floor to cover up some ugly metal-shear gashes, made apparently to access the fuel tank. As soon as I pulled up the carpet I smelled gas fumes coming from those wounds, so it didn't appear to be a very safe setup, even if it had been an easy way for someone to make a fuel line repair without dropping the tank.
Andrew Siceloff
Good thing the Grateful Dad probably only puffed in the front seat, huh?
True, but there was more. Worn shocks. A portside list due to a bent front spring. Under the hood, a bunch of wires had been spliced in with skull-and-crossbones duct tape to insulate them, and a fuel pump relay was wired directly to the battery. I'm guessing that had something to do with the cookie sheet repair, but who knows. That engine is getting pulled for something better anyway.
Andrew Siceloff
Oh? What did you have in mind?
Funny you should ask! A brief spin through the ol' Craigslist ads connected me with a guy up in Massachusetts who was selling the 350-cubic-inch V8 out of a '91 Chevy van. It looks like crap now, but when we get done with it, it should look like a museum piece and sound like a Saturday night at Talladega.
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Over a century later, Claude Shannon published A Mathematical Theory of Communication, in which he proposed a formal definition of "information" and "bit."
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In the aftermath of the attack, India seemed to be lacking the underlying theory of communication in the peace talk arena and has been more than eager to shore up its irrational catastrophic pessimism while hurling a number of threats, saying it would reduce Pakistan to the status of a pariah in the international community.
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About us
What is the Environmental Specimen Bank?
We analyse the exposure of humans and our environment to chemicals and document the sample taking process. Since 1985 we are collecting year by year thousands of samples that are stored permanently. The Environmental Specimen Bank offers every interested person the possibility to access these data directly.
Who is intended to use the Internet service?
Our service is aimed at interested citizens, the scientific expert world, as well as politics and administration.
In the following sections, we will explain how to access and make use of the topics and results of the Environmental Specimen Bank.
Therefore, we hope that both first-time and regular visitors of our site will be able to quickly and easily make their way through its content and find useful information.
How is the Internet service of the Environmental Specimen Bank used?
There are different ways to approach the subject matter of chemical pollution of humans and their environment.
The profiles, for example, provide an overview over what we are actually analysing and why. Furthermore, they serve as an entry point to the data search allowing you to obtain direct information about the chemical pollution data.
The selected results are research data that have been edited and commented for you and therefore represent a good entry point.
However, you may also directly access the specimen bank through the data search and view the data as tables or diagrams.
What does the Environmental Specimen Bank offer?
The Environmental Specimen Bank provides a current overview over the chemical exposure of different ecosystems within Germany. This overview is created using several samples that we have carefully selected with respect to their relevance and representativeness.
In addition, the Environmental Specimen Bank offers a description of these ecosystems, of the test subjects, as well as of the investigated substances, and the areas in which the investigations have been carried out.
The ESB's basic functions
The homepage
The homepage contains hyperlinks and short summaries of different topics. The large area in the left-hand area of the page, for example, allows you to go directly to the profiles, that is, the descriptions of the analysed defined samples, analytes (substances), etc. To select a topic, click it in the picture.
Moreover, the area on the right-hand side of the homepage contains a short overview over some selected results. These are special results that have been edited and commented for you, and therefore are a good entry point to familiarise yourself with the Environmental Specimen Bank. By clicking the blue dots in the upper right-hand corner of the area, you can switch between different selected results.
In the middle of the right-hand area, we show you a selected profile that is periodically updated. This selected profile is aimed at for example regular users of the service, and provides them with an entry point to areas of the Environmental Specimen Bank that they might not have considered yet.
And last but not least, the latest news is displayed at the bottom of the right-hand area. By clicking the symbol, you can subscribe to our news feed (your browser needs to support it).
The profiles are a core component of the Environmental Specimen Bank. They describe the parameters of our investigations: What has been analysed in which specimen where and when. They are intended as an entry point to the actual data search and as a support for the interpretation of the data. There are five profile categories:
Ecosystems, Specimen types, Sampling areas, Analytes and Time references.
The last four differ from the ecosystems in that they correspond directly to the parameters that can be selected in the data search. Therefore, the profiles of these four categories always represent a direct entry point to the data search: You always have the possibility to switch directly to the data search by clicking the link displayed under the description.
Many profiles have subordinated profiles attached to them, e.g. one for each of the analysed organs of a sample or one for each of the segments of a river. If present, these subordinated profiles are displayed following the data search link. If the topic has an explicit profile attached to it, a corresponding link will be displayed, and you can navigate deeper into the information structure. If not, you can directly initiate the data search for this subordinated profile by clicking the link "Data search".
The subordinated profiles are followed by a list of profiles corresponding to the other three parameters. If, for example, for the eelpout in the Wattenmeer (Wadden Sea) different metals have been analysed between 1990 and 2009, the profile of the 'eelpout' will include references to the profiles of the 'Wattenmeer' and the 'metals', as well as information about the sampling period. The references, in turn, each include a data search link that allows to start the data search with exactly this parameter combination. In the above example, e.g. with 'eelpout' + 'Wattenmeer', or 'eelpout' + 'metals'.
In order to keep you informed about changes in our data, we publish news on an irregular basis. To display an overview of all the published news, click in the main menu on "Service" and then "News".
Contact form
Our service includes a Contact form that provides you with an easy way to send us a message. To open the contact form, click in the main menu on "Service" and then "Contact".
You provide your personal data on a voluntary basis. However, we ask you kindly to provide either an e-mail address or a phone number so that we can contact you if required.
The relevant privacy and data protection laws will apply to each piece of information that you provide.
The Glossary provides an alphabetic list with all the technical terms used in the Environmental Specimen Bank. In order to navigate directly to the section containing the terms beginning with a specific letter, click the letter in the alphabetic bar displayed underneath the heading.
Should you need more information about a term, click the link "go to document".
The sitemap
The sitemap is a list of all the base pages of the Internet service of the Environmental Specimen Bank. It provides a list with the structure of all the pages, as well as a short description of each page.
Data search
Chemical pollution vs. sample descriptions
The data search is divided in two sections: Chemical pollution and sample descriptions.
Under the topic Chemical pollution, you will find information about the measured pollution of specific samples with specific chemical substances. Sample descriptions are biometrical characteristics of the analysed specimen, e.g. "length" or "weight".
How to perform a data search
The Environmental Specimen Bank offers several ways to access specific data that might be relevant to you.
The way we recommend is via the profiles. Depending on the data you are interested in, you can choose a relevant entry point, i.e. a specific specimen, analyte or area. Using the links to the data search displayed in the profiles, you can go directly to the search form. The form will already be filled with the corresponding data from the profile.
Alternatively, you can open the search form directly by clicking on the page "Data search" either on "chemical pollution" or on "sample descriptions".
Selecting the search parameters
In order to perform a precise data search and keep the number of returned results manageable, you can specify search parameters from up to four categories:
The specimen type (the analysed specimen or parts thereof), the analyte (the analysed chemical substance), the sampling area (the area where the sample was taken), and the "Time reference" (the year in which the sample was taken).
In the data search via "Sample descriptions", the analyte cannot be selected.
To select the relevant search parameters, click the "Edit" link in the corresponding category. The search parameters list that is displayed reflects the parameters that are available in combination with the parameters selected in the other three (that is, two when using the search mode through the sample descriptions) categories. This means that you can select parameters only if measurement data is available for the current selection.
As per default, the parameters are displayed within their category structure, which can be expanded via the "+" symbol. When a category is selected, all its sub-categories are automatically selected as well.
Alternatively, you can display the parameters in alphabetic order.
Once you have selected one or several parameters, you can accept and finish the selection for the current category by clicking on "Apply".
When you have selected at least one parameter in each of the required categories, the button "Start search" will turn green and become clickable. No selection has to be made for categories that are not labelled with a *.
Clicking on "Reset" will reset the entire parameter selection.
You can save the current state of your search by clicking the link "Bookmark" at the bottom of the page. Alternatively, you can use the built-in bookmarking functionality of your browser or copy the URL in the address field of your browser.
The address of your data search will remain valid over a long period of time.
Search results
Tabular result
Initially, a search result is always displayed in tabular form. In this table, you can select specific measurement rows, i.e. in order to export the data for further processing or display them as diagram. To do this, select one or more check boxes in the first table column, and then click on the corresponding link in the tab bar.
The table contains several sections for the different sampling areas relevant to your search or for each of the specimen types. Each section displays the analytes (that is, biometrical parameters) in rows. The rows display the values referring to different statistical parameters such as "mean value" or "standard deviation" for each sampling year. All available parameters are listed in the chapter "Statistical data analysis and all available parameters".
If applicable, some foot notes will be displayed below the table that provide you with specific information about certain measurement values. Additionally, you will find there the legends for the abbreviations used in the tables.
Statistical data analysis and all available parameters
Descriptive statistics were generated using the inline functions of Oracle® 11g Standard Edition. Analyte concentrations that were below the respective limit of quantification (LOQ) were assigned a value of LOQ/2. The percentiles were generated using the Oracle® function PERCENTILE_CONT.
If you select the checkbox "All available parameters" in the page with the tabular search result, a list containing all available statistical parameters will be displayed. In the case of the human samples, this includes the differentiation by gender. Moreover, the chemical pollution section will display the measurement method and the measurement institute. The parameters in detail:
• count (the underlying sample size of single individuals respectively the number of analysed aliquots (subsamples) of pool samples)
• arithmetic mean
• standard deviation
• geometric mean
• 5th, 25th, 50th (median), 75th, and 95th percentile and the associated 95% confidence intervals (for underlying analysed individuals)
• measurements count (number of analyzed indivdual samples respectively number of analysed aliquots (subsamples) of pool samples)
• measurements count ≥ LOQ (number of measurements greater or equal the limit of quantification (LOQ))
• lowest LOQ and highest LOQ (the lowest and the highest determined limit of quantification over the course of analyses)
• measurement institute and measurement method
Other scale types
The chemical analyses are carried out either when the samples are wet or dry. Therefore, the measurement values are indicated as per default in relation to "dry weight" or "fresh weight". Moreover, the water and the lipid content of the samples is determined.
By clicking "Other scale types" in the tabular search result, you can also display the measurement values in relation to other base weights. In this case, if the required data are available and a conversion in relation to the analyte and the analysed matrix is useful, the values will be converted and displayed together with the original data. The conversions indicated are from dry weight to wet weight and wet weight to lipid weight.
If you have selected one or more measurement rows in the tabular view, you can display the data in form of one or more diagrams.
If you hover the mouse over individual points or bars in the diagram, details of the measurements will be shown (tooltip).
Furthermore you can zoom parts of the diagram by dragging the mouse. If you want to zoom another part of the diagram or reset the zooming, click the Reset Zoom button in the right upper area of the diagram.
By clicking the symbol Icon export options in the upper right corner of the diagram, you get several options for processing the diagram. You can print the diagram, or download it as a PNG and JPEG image, or as PDF document and SVG vector diagram.
Note: In order to view diagrams, you need javascript activated in your browser.
Diagram types
As per default, diagrams are displayed as line charts. If applicable for the type of measurement values, you can choose other diagram types in the diagram view. To choose another diagram type, select another diagram type in the list "If applicable, view as" and click on "View".
Available diagram types are:
Line diagram: The default representation as line diagram.
Bar chart: This alternative representation is always available.
Box and Whisker diagram: The representation as so-called "boxplot" is only available in combination with human and biometrical data.
Stacked bar chart: Certain analytes (e.g. PCB congeners, PAH) can also be displayed as stacked bar charts.
Aggregated individual data can be displayed as Box and Whisker diagrams. Box and Whisker diagrams are described by five parameters. The lower limit of the box by the first quartile (25th percentile) and the upper limit by the third quartile (75th percentile). Additionnally the median (50th percentile) is shown. The whisker range up to the lowest (minimum) respectively up to the highest (maximum) measured value.
You can export the data in the Excel XML format (support as of MS Office 2003 and later), as well as the CSV format (Comma-Separated Values) in order to use them for further processing in other applications. To export data, select one or more measurement rows in the tabular search result, and click on "Export". Next, you can select whether you want to export the data as MS Excel XML file or as CSV file. In the case of the CSV format, you can select the delimiter character to use. After clicking the button "Export", your browser will display a download dialogue that allows you to save the data or open them directly.
The CSV files are encoded with the character set latin 3. In some cases, it is necessary to provide this encoding information when opening the file with the spreadsheet application, since otherwise some special characters might not be displayed correctly. |
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Pick 3 - the Wisdom of Seth Godin
Just reading the genius thoughts of Seth Godin...
Pick three
Seth Godin
Select three colleagues, bosses, investors, employees, co-conspirators or family members that have an influence over how you do your work. Choose people who care about you and what you produce.
That's it. Three people, nine books, many conversations and forward leaps. No better way to spend $130.
I still remember handing copies of Snow Crash to my founding team at Yoyodyne. It changed our conversations for years. And years before that, Soul of a New Machine and The Mythical Man Month were touchstones used by programmers I worked with. When the team has a reference, a shared vocabulary and a new standard, you raise the bar for each other.
[If the Pick Three approach makes you uncomfortable, because you're not allowed to do this, or not supposed to, you have just confronted something important. And if this feels too expensive, it's worth thinking about how hard you're expecting to work next year, and how you plan to leverage all that effort.]
Wayne's comment:
My three books are Abundance by Peter Diamandis, 80/20 sales and Marketing with Perry Marshall and The Four Hour Chef by Tim Ferris
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Bach Fugue
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (arr. Kinyon)
General Info
Year: 1984
Duration: 2:00
Difficulty: II (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alfred Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts - $38.00 | Score - $5.00
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Bb Soprano Clarinet I-II
Alto Saxophone
Baritone Saxophone
Bb Cornet (or Trumpet) I-II
Horn in F
Trombone/Baritone Bass Clef/Bassoon
Baritone Treble Clef/Bb Bass Clarinet/Tenor Saxophone
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Transposed and freely transcribed from the Bach Organ Prelude and Fugue in F.
-Notes taken from score
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• California: D
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/45889 | Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra
by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön | 2001 | 941,039 words
This page describes “range of voice of the buddhas and bodhisattvas” as written by Nagarjuna in his Maha-prajnaparamita-sastra (lit. “the treatise on the great virtue of wisdom”) in the 2nd century. This book, written in five volumes, represents an encyclopedia on Buddhism as well as a commentary on the Pancavimsatisahasrika Prajnaparamita.
I. Range of voice of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
The bodhisattva who has acquired the six superknowledges (abhijñā) has developed the mark (lakṣaṇa) of the brahmic voice (brahmasvara) which, going beyond the trisāhasramahāsāhasralokadhātu, reaches the universes of the ten directions as numerous as the sands of the Ganges.
Question. – If that is so, how does his voice differ from that of the Buddha?
Answer. – The voice of the bodhisattva is measured by the number of sand grains of the Ganges, whereas the range of the voice of the Buddha is unlimited (maryādā).
[Tathāgatācintyaguhyanirdeśa]. – Thus it is said in the Mi-tsi king (Guhyakasūtra): “In order to experience the Buddha’s voice, Maudgalyāyana went very far in the direction of the west, but he still heard the Buddha’s voice as if they were face to face.”[1]
Question. – So be it! But when the Buddha was dwelling in the kingdoms (rāṣṭra) and the towns (nigama) to preach the Dharma and convert the people, the inhabitants of Jambudvīpa who were not nearby did not hear him. How do we know that? Because many came from distant regions to listen to the Dharma.
Answer. – The voice of the Buddha is of two kinds: i) the voice hidden in the mouth (mukhagūḍhaghoṣa);[2] ii) the unhidden (nirgūḍhaghoṣa) voice. It has just been a matter of the hidden voice; as for the unhidden voice, one must come near the Buddha to hear it.
Also, there are two kinds of disciples: i) the supramundane (lokottarikārya) saints; ii) mundane ordinary people (laukikapṛthagjana). The supramundane saints such as Maudgalyāyana, etc., are able to hear the subtle hidden voice; ordinary people hear [the unhidden voice] to the extent that they come near the Buddha.
Furthermore, the bodhisattvas who have entered into the position of salvation (samyaktvaniyāmāvakrānta), who have abandoned the body of birth and death (saṃsārakāya or cyutyupapādakāya) and have acquired the true body of the fundamental element (dharmadhātukāya), these bodhisattvas, I say, see the innumerable Buddha bodies of the ten directions and their brilliant rays (raśmi); they also succeed in hearing the sixty kinds of sounds (ṣaṣṭyaṅgasvara),[3] distant and immense, uttered by the Buddhas.
[284b] Although the great bodhisattvas are not endowed with sounds like those of the Buddhas, nevertheless they have their share (aṃśa, bhāga) in these sounds of the Buddhas.
Footnotes and references:
Passage cited in full above, p. 560–561F.
Adopting the variant mi-k’eou.
These are the sixty qualities of the voice of the Buddhas listed in the Mahāvyut., no. 445–504, and the Sūtrālaṃkāra, p. 79–81. See also Ekottara, T 125, k. 47, p. 805a2 (64 kinds); Lalitavistara, p. 286 (incomplete list); Pañcaviṃśati p. 234, l. 10, (ṣaṣṭyaṅgopetaḥ svaraḥ); Avataṃsaka, T 279, k. 29, p. 158c2; k. 50, [p. 266c19; Ratnakuṭa, T 310, k. 10, p. 55c20–56a5; k. 85, p. 486c23; k. 101, p. 566a4–5; Tathāgataguhyasūtra, T 312, k. 7, p. 719c7–720c16 (64 kinds). – For other lists of vocal qualities, see Hōbōgirin, p. 134 under Bonnon.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/45890 | How to Not Be a Wage Slave
By Philip Brewer on 2 March 2012 9 comments
Photo: ElvertBarnes
Choosing to be a wage slave is very different from choosing to be a debt slave, because it's a choice you make every day. (See also: The Best Way to Avoid the Worst Financial Problems)
One doesn't become a wage slave with one decision, the way a single choice to take on debt can color your life for decades. The only way to become a wage slave is to make the decision to be one day after day.
It starts like this: You get a job, find a place to live, buy the stuff you need — and without much thought going into it, pretty soon your lifestyle demands the continued flow of your wages or salary.
Of course, just earning wages doesn't make you a slave. It's only slavery when you lose your freedom. But when your boss asks you to do something unethical, and you feel like you've got no choice but to do it — that's slavery.
It's a gentle sort of slavery. No one makes you go to work every day — and yet, you do not have the freedom to say, "Today I think I'll go fishing instead."
Many people seem to think this is a good thing. Many people are afraid that, if they didn't have to go to work, they wouldn't go to work, and that that would be a bad thing.
It's not just a fear that they might lose the lifestyle to which they become accustomed. It's a fear that they'd find a more meager lifestyle acceptable, that only the goad of keeping up with expectations keeps them from being slackers (or worse).
The hard part of escaping wage slavery is making this mental shift — to stop choosing wage slavery every day, simply because it's what people do.
Once you do that, the key moves are easy:
1. Be Frugal
Don't let your cost of living rise until there's only one job in town that pays enough to cover your bills.
2. Avoid Debt
...except perhaps to finance the purchase of a productive asset.
3. Earn Some Non-Job Income
Even small amounts of extra income — from a small business you run on the side, a hobby that makes a little money, interest or dividends on your investments, rent from a piece of property — can cover an important fraction of your bare minimum expenses.
4. Expand Your Skills
New skills that would let you find a job in another field give you much more flexibility than just better skills in your current field.
Even when people out there were warning against freedom because it enabled sloth, to my mind choosing freedom was always the right choice. And I think a lot more people have come to share my view. When jobs are plentiful, you can work for wages and still be fairly free. So what if one employer goes out of business, or one boss turns out to be a psychopath, or one career turns out not to suit you — you can always find another job.
With the financial panic and recession, a lot of people were reminded that you can't always find another job.
When there's only one job, the shackles of wage slavery start feeling pretty tight. (And, of course, when there's no job, it's even worse.)
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Great article, Phillip! Most people are wage slaves, or slaves of money. Its the only thing most people know, since it's been taught to us since day one. Go to school, get good grades, get a good job w/benefits and save for retirement. Unfortunately, this idea is no longer as smart as it once was. When struggling for a job right out of grad school, I started a side business (your #3) and soon it covered my monthly expenses. Two years later, it's what I do full-time, without needing a job. I love the lifestyle it provides.
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Well said, Ryan. This is spot on. People in Gen Y need to understand this concept.
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I use to tell my kids to save for retirement. Retirement had no meaning to my young kids. I now tell them to save and invest for financial independence. They get it. "Of course we'll do that, its obvious."
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Carl Lassegue
I really enjoyed this article. I think the most important point is to be frugal. If you live well below your means, you will be less likely to be a wage slave and let money have control over you.
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You are absolutely right about how your expenses creep up on you and you become a slave without even knowing it. But as you suggest, you can beat the system. Be conscious of this fact and fight back by not letting your lifestyle get out of control with debt and greed. I definitely back looking for alternative forms of income whether it’s from hobbies, investments, or hopefully both.
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The hardest thing for people to overcome sometimes is their pride. People will work themselves to death and be "wage slaves" so they don't get questions from family, friends, or peers when they ask -- "Why don't you live in X?" -- "What happened to your high-paying job?" -- etc.
If somebody feels comfortable at a certain income level -- and they're bringing in more than they're spending -- that's all that matters.
Great article. Great advice. This is something people in my generation (Gen Y) need to come to embrace.
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We all say that better not run after wage which is correct, but sometimes we have to be like keen after our financial issues which makes us the wage slave.
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I agree with your idea and points. I wish this post had more practical information for people who disagree with being wage slaves.
I know I'd like to know more, because starting a small business isn't simple, when the rule of gov' is becoming more aggressive and the market is becoming weaker and hazardous.
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The human race needs to learn how to raise a population that can survive mentally and physically alone, that's the only way to prevent slavery within the human race. Interdependence needs to become an option for all people, and to less frequently be a requirement. The only way for some people to avoid becoming a wage slave or a slave to civilisation is to learn the skills necessary to survive alone not relying on the human race. Perhaps at this moment in time it's better to be a slave to civilisation and money than a slave to the world outside civilisation but in that sense the best freedom we can have is the ability to choose our master.
If the human race wants to end slavery we need to change the public schools and the way our children are taught we need to teach independent survival skills and not just teach children how to be a part of society |
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Laura and Alexander met at the billiards bar where Laura is a waitress. Laura spots Alexander the minute he walks in, she still believes in love at first sight. Alexander doesn't say a word to anyone, takes a seat at the bar, orders a beer and stares into his glass. A moody one, sniggers the girl who washes the glasses, but Laura snaps that she should keep her mouth shut. Later, when not much else is happening, she goes over and stands next to Alexander and rubs the tip of her finger around the rims of the empty schnapps glasses on the tray. The green cloth of the billiards tables has stains, but no tears yet. Alexander raises his head, their eyes meet for the first time and Laura thinks to herself that they look tired, that they're small and gray. So when do you finish here, he asks. She jumps, and one of the glasses tips over and rolls to the rim of the white plastic tray. In a few minutes, she answers, at ten.
When she comes back, wearing her coat, he takes the leather backpack out of her hand. I'll carry it, he says, let's go. Where, she asks, but he doesn't answer, holds the door open for her, the backpack swinging back and forth. Outside, the frosty air cuts like a knife. To break the silence Laura says: It's freezing. Yes, says Alexander. They walk along next to each other. The sidewalk is deep in snow, there are only faint signs of other tracks and the snow squeaks under their boots. Laura doesn't like the sound, and tries to keep in step with Alexander.
I don't believe in love at first sight, he says, finally, I'm Alexander, what's your name? Laura, she answers, and tries to blow her breath up at her nose, to warm it. Interesting name, he says. She looks at him from the side, because she doesn't know if he's serious, he's looking straight ahead, she can see his profile in the light of the streetlamp. He has blond hair, the curls look frozen, spiral icicles that stand straight out from his head. Don't you have a cap, she asks, and then bites her tongue. What a dumb question, he isn't going to kiss her if she asks questions like that. He says he's not cold, she's shivering under her coat and scarf and says, You're lucky. At this he moves closer and takes her hand, something she's been thinking about the whole time, but he holds it too tightly and suddenly she hopes no one can see his bare hands, red from the cold, pressing into her wool gloves.
They come to the main road. I'm taking the Number 60 bus in two minutes, he says scowling, and a line appears between his eyebrows. Laura lifts her wrist to look at her watch, then realizes she must have left it in the employees' bathroom. It's probably lying on the edge of the sink, softly ticking next to the crates of beer stacked up to the ceiling. Laura had hoped that Alexander had a car, so he could drive her home. She takes her backpack from his outstretched hand and says, So, see you. Wait a minute, he says, grabbing her arm so tightly that she stumbles. Will I see you tomorrow, he asks, and she asks him back, Do you want to? It's too cold to flirt, nor does he try. Yes, he says intently.
I'm working until ten again, she says and hurries to tell him everything they haven't said to each other in the last half-hour. Address and phone number, her mother manages a lingerie shop, she doesn't know her father, yes, she likes flowers, narcissus, but also lilies of the valley, no, she doesn't have a boyfriend. They find out that Alexander celebrated his twentieth birthday two months ago, on the same day that Laura moved into her one-and-a-half-room apartment at the edge of a suburb in the south of the city. Thirty-seven square meters, she says. Alexander kisses her on the forehead as the Number 60 arrives, he has dry, chapped lips. She touches the spot and keeps her eyes on the tail lights of the bus until they disappear in the traffic.
When he calls the next day she doesn't recognize his voice and answers his It's me by asking who it is. Alexander tells her a story from his childhood, he and his brother at a quarry pond, something about a tree stump that looks like a crocodile. Laura doesn't get the point but she laughs when he laughs, her face flushes and she feels her skin tighten over her cheekbones because she's happy that he's making such an effort. She thinks of the color of his hair, the walls and ceilings of her apartment are covered in white wallboard, the furnace is on the blink again. She tells Alexander that when she sits on the bench against the tile stove she has to press her back into the glazed tiles to feel any warmth at all. She tells him that she wishes he were there with her. Yes, he answers after a pause, I thought so. Then he says that she should put on makeup for the evening, but won't tell her where they're going.
She figures he'll come to the bar, drink a beer and challenge himself to a game of billiards while he waits, but he doesn't come. She starts freezing the minute she steps out onto the street at ten, due to the thin pantyhose she usually doesn't wear because she's afraid they'll run as she's putting them on. A silver-blue car stops in front of her, Alexander leans over and pushes open the passenger door. You do have a car, Laura says, she says it twice, until he's forced to shake his head. The car belongs to his father. After Laura unbuttons her coat, Alexander pays her a compliment. Pretty dress, he says. She asks herself how much of it he can see in the dim light. He kisses her on the cheek, so she doesn't say anything. We're going to my parents', he says. Laura doesn't know what she expected-a movie, dinner at a restaurant. She had no idea he was going to introduce her to his mother. They drive along in silence.
In Alexander's neighborhood the buildings all look alike, they're all prefab high-rises, tall slabs lining both sides of the street. It's Laura's first time here. The apartment is on the fifth floor. Alexander first buzzes downstairs, then again when they're at the door upstairs. Laura asks herself why he doesn't have a key. The man who opens the door is short and so thin that she can see his bones. He's wearing shorts and a shirt with narrow stripes. My father, Alexander says by way of introduction.
His father looks at Laura's wrists, then says, dinner's been ready for a long time. Right away, Alexander says, I want to show Laura my room. It's a tiny room. Alexander points out a low table, the light brown rug, shelves piled high with papers, the computer and the bunk bed. Bunk bed? Laura asks. My little brother, Alexander says. Now that he's in the army, there's more room. The ladder is hanging down and on the white bed frame of the lower bunk she can see traces of stickers that have been ripped off.
Alexander, his father yells from the living room, and Alexander glares at the door. We're coming, he yells back, and slams his fist against the table. He walks past Laura without even looking at her. She hurries behind him in her high heels.
The living room is overheated, but Laura hasn't adjusted to the change, she's still cold and hopes no one will notice that she's shivering. The night before, the temperature had dropped to five above. Alexander's mother is tall and generously proportioned, something that becomes more apparent when she sits down next to her husband. She's wearing a bathrobe with appliquéd butterflies, speaks with an accent and tells them she's tired. On the table is a large pot of soup in which float pieces of cabbage and beets. That's borschtsch, Alexander's mother says, and gets up to fetch bread from the kitchen. She brings back four white slices on a plate. After the first spoonful of soup, Laura wants to ask for salt and pepper, but she doesn't want Alexander's mother to have to get up again. They're drinking green tea and Grapefruit Fanta, two huge bottles of Grapefruit Fanta are on the table, one in front of Alexander, the other in front of his father. Laura has never drunk Grapefruit Fanta before.
No one speaks during the meal, Laura looks around the room in order not to look at Alexander's father as he dunks his bread in his soup. The walls are lined with cheap cabinets, papers and files spill from partly open drawers, two glass cabinets display crystal vases and painted wooden dolls. Laura guesses that the dolls are from Russia. The TV is a large one, the room so narrow that she can't move her legs without bumping her knees against Alexander's father's.
I want to show her the pictures, Alexander says. His mother stacks the plates, his father nods and points to a high shelf to one side of Laura. Alexander stands on his chair, Laura looks at his bare feet on the upholstery and would like to touch them, but not here, in front of his parents. There are fine blond hairs on one of his big toes. Don't make such a big deal of it, Alexander's father says. The albums are numbered and under the numbers are years. Laura reads: 1976-79, 1988-90. Start on the left, Alexander's father calls. I know, Alexander says loudly and tosses several of the albums onto the table. He jumps down from the chair, quickly picks up the first one and leafs through its pages. Laura leans against his shoulder in order to see better. Alexander's parents remain in their chairs, they're looking at the pictures upside down.
That's my grandmother, Alexander says, on the Crimea, that's where my mother's from. Really? Laura asks. It's not important, he says. I was born in Germany! though she hadn't asked. His grandmother is fat and has very white skin. She's in a garden, dyeing the hair of a young woman who's leaning over a bowl. That's my mother, Alexander says. Look at the hands on my head, his mother says, so softly that Laura isn't sure she's understood her correctly.
Alexander points to a boy wearing a school uniform and says, first day of school and that's me. She can barely make out the school building. Laura asks how long Alexander lived in Russia. After a while he answers, four years, until third grade. Not in Russia, he says, in the Soviet Union.
Most of the photographs show Alexander with his brother. I was a whole head taller than he was then, my brother always cried, Alexander says. All you had to do was speak to him and he cried! You too, his father says, and Alexander falls silent. It's getting late, the pictures are swimming before Laura's eyes. Alexander doesn't follow the order of the albums, Laura looks at landscapes that are sweeping, unvarying, Alexander's grandfather smoking his pipe, Moscow University, where Alexander's parents met, the grandmother again, Alexander as a little boy getting a bath in an enamel bowl, Alexander at the Czech border on a class trip, Alexander with his family in front of the new high-rise and on summer vacation in Italy. In that one, his brother is taller.
Alexander's mother has fallen asleep at the table with her head on her arms, she snores softly and makes whistling sounds. Alexander's father shakes the last drops from the Fanta bottle. Alexander takes down more photographs. Laura wants to go home, but she doesn't know if the bus is still running, it's almost one. Alexander shows her pictures of his mother when she was young, his Ukrainian relatives, the woman all look alike, dark-eyed, the corners of their mouths turned down in an elegant expression. Suddenly Alexander has a wedding picture in his hand. That's me, his father says, and points to the groom, that's what I looked like once. In the picture he has his arm around Alexander's mother, with his hand covering her stomach. Oh, he says now, Irina lost a heel of her shoe while we were dancing. He laughs, goes to get a bottle of vodka from the refrigerator and, without asking, fills three glasses. Shot glasses, with one red line at twenty-five milliliters and a second one at fifty, and bearing the word superstrong. To my wedding, he says. They clink glasses. Alexander stands up. Laura, he says, you'll make a beautiful bride too.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/45902 | criminal background checks
In the last several years, a growing number of states and municipalities have passed “ban the box” laws that to varying degrees prohibit employers from inquiring into a job applicant’s criminal background until later in the hiring process and/or restrict employers from using certain criminal conviction information in connection with their hiring decisions. Recently, St. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/45908 | Feminine Shift Toward Buying Crosses Into the New Economy
Marketers today ignore women at their peril. When it comes to big purchases, in today's economy, women increasingly make the decisions.
According to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey, nearly two-thirds of Americans believe women have become equal to men in making decisions about big purchases. To underscore this point, two-thirds to three-quarters of women say they are making many major economic decisions either independently or equally with a spouse. Few of the women surveyed claim to leave important marketplace decisions to others.
"What is significant is the market-power women have to effect change simply through their buying habits," says David Iannelli, an associate of Robert Teeter who, along with Peter Hart, conducts the poll. "The auto companies are a good example of an industry that needs to pay closer attention to women. They have built products that appeal to women, but their sales and service experiences often alienate women."
Moreover, women are eagerly turning to the burgeoning Internet economy.
The areas of decision-making tested in this poll can be grouped into three categories: short-term household decisions, most importantly creating a budget; transitory decisions, such as purchasing big appliances, buying insurance and making travel plans, and long-term planning decisions, such as purchasing a home, buying a car, creating a will or investing.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/45916 | Review: ‘The Eagle’
Will Leitch
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1. "The Eagle" is the type of movie I bet I would have just loved as a 12-year-old. Actually, that's not true: At 12 years old, I would have made it 10 minutes in, grown bored and gone back to "The Legend of Zelda." But this is the type of movie I like to imagine a 12-year-old me enjoying. It is a big, dumb, old-fashioned boy-buddy movie, with two kids rampaging across Scotland in order to find some trophy (the Eagle of the title) in the name of honor and valor. In plot, it's not all that different from a video game, actually. Though it's not nearly as stimulating and, all told, I'm not 12 anymore.
2. Our hero is Marcus Aquila, and all I probably need to tell you about Marcus is that he's played by Channing Tatum. Tatum is hardly one of our most emotive actors -- he grunts and is appropriately proud of himself for remembering his unwieldly lines -- but, hey, he's adept at convincingly charging into battle, and he seems to having a gay old time pretending to be a Roman warrior. Like all teenagers, he is obsessed with his both living up to and despising his father, a fellow warrior who disappeared during a battle with indigenous Brits and lost the eponymous Eagle, a symbol of all that is great about Rome, or something. After being injured in battle, he is tended to by a fun, hammy Donald Sutherland before setting out to retrieve the Eagle and restore his family's name. You can't play a role like this with any irony, so Tatum is the perfect choice: He doesn't seem to understand what's going on around him, and you wouldn't want him to.
3. Marcus brings along his British slave Esca with him, played engagingly and with considerable, entirely unnecessary intensity by Jamie Bell. (Bell plays every scene like he's daring you to call him "Jamie." It's James, buddy.) It might seem strange that this buddy movie revolves around a slave and his master, and the movie never quite figures out how to deal with the issue. Esca is a proud Brit and hates the Romans, but vows to serve Marcus because Marcus saved his life. Their relationship is never developed -- you never quite understand why they're friends, or if they even are -- and when Esca turns on him midway through the film, you wonder if the film is more interesting than it claimed to be. A boy buddy gladiator movie turning into a commentary on enslavement and xenophobia? Well played. Alas, Esca is just pretending to turn on Marcus, and they're back fighting with each other in no time. The movie's response to the slavery issue is simply to say, "Hey, that's how they did it back then!" and then move along with its business. In a film as goofy and earnest as this one is, it's difficult to argue with the approach.
4. A movie like this ordinarily has big, epic, bloody battle sequences, but this one is aimed squarely at the PG-13 target. Director Kevin Macdonald ("Touching The Void") keeps everything straightforward and safe; this is one of those movies where you see the warrior swinging the sword, but not what happens afterward. As much fun as it might have been to see Nicolas Winding Refn at the helm here, with beheadings and disembowelments and a stray Judas cradle, it would feel all wrong for "The Eagle." This is a teenage boy's dressup fantasy, and it needs to be more Calvin playing around with Hobbes than Klebold playing around with Harris. The fight scenes are efficient and spare and to the point. They're not particularly thrilling, but they're not meant to be. They're here just so Channing Tatum can look convincingly buff. They do the job.
5. Somewhere deep inside this movie, if you have the type of brain to want to look for it, there's probably some subtext about empires and colonization and manifest destinies. If you have that type of brain, look deep into the eyes of Channing Tatum and you'll be cured of that right quick. (Behind the eyes, you will see a bench press and a picture of Daughtry.) This is an agressively silly movie, a Barbie dream house fantasy for boys, and if you are in the right mood for such a creation, you'll have a perfectly acceptable time. It's a video game, after all: Dull sensation, easily recognizable and comforting images and a total lack of recollection of what it is you were just doing within seconds of it being over. It is a trip inside Channing Tatum's brain for a couple of hours. There's not much there, but, hey, there's plenty of room to get cozy.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/45954 | TV announcer
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Anime debutYu-Gi-Oh! (Toei) episode 2: "The Evil Gamer - The Trap of Hell"
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The TV announcer is a character in the Toei Yu-Gi-Oh! anime. He is a newsreader on Morning Asa.[1]
The TV announcer read the news of a string of robberies, in which the behavior matched that of the recently escaped Tetsuo Sasaki. He also announced a robbery of Ushijima Finance, where the criminal left empty-handed because the safe had been emptied earlier, stating they were unsure if it was linked to the other robberies. Unbeknownst to the news team, the successful robberies were committed by Jiro the Jorogumo, who was posing as Tetsuo. And the unsuccessful one was committed by the real Tetsuo, who was angry at how his crime was ridiculed and he was being blamed for other crimes he did not commit.[1]
1. 1.0 1.1 Yu-Gi-Oh! (Toei) episode 2: "The Evil Gamer - The Trap of Hell" |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/45966 | Team:SCUT/Model/Tips for other teams
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In the process of searching for data, we have met a lot of difficulties. On the one hand, the parameters for the pathway we want are difficult to find. On the other hand, even when we find the paper we need, the data on the paper is too many to figure out what is we exactly want. However, after numerous times of searching, we find that there exists a wonderful database, the BioModel Database [1]. It is a useful library for those who want to find the data and models for biology. Besides, the data is showed in a brief way, which is easy to read and use. So we highly recommend other iGEM teams to browse this database when you need to find the models for your project.
The other powerful tool we want to share with you is the JWS online[2], an online lab for the models that have already uploaded to it. It can give you the results you want in a few seconds, which can help you immediately grasp the features of the model. We also use the results on it to exam the correctness of our code by finding if there are any differences between our results and theirs. For example, we use the results of the online lab to compare with our results of glycolysis subsystem. Since the glycolysis model is the most complex one, it is difficult to exam the code row by row. With the help of the online lab, we can easily test whether there are bugs of our code, which has saved us a lot of time. The only limitation of JWS online is that it cannot combine different models in it to construct a more powerful system. However, it is still powerful, isn’t it?
Figure 1 the figures of our code and the corresponding online model. (a) is part of the results of our code, (b) is the corresponding figure.
[1] http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biomodels-main/, BioModels Database: An enhanced, curated and annotated resource for published quantitative kinetic
[2] http://jjj.mib.ac.uk/database/, JWS online |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/45996 | What Benefits Can You Get From Reading Health Blogs?
What are Health Blogs?
In the past few years, blogs have become one of the major avenues that people use to reach out to the public. Topics of choice vary from one person to another, and from one interest to another. These blogs are so powerful that many people have carved out a rewarding and profitable career from them. In fashion, for instance, the top bloggers are a fixture at major fashion shows around the world. And not to be outdone, gym buffs and fitness experts use the same technique to reach out to their target audience.
A health blog is a website that gets updated regularly. These updates can be done everyday or once a week, but the topic is more focused on the fitness industry. There are several niches in fitness, so a blogger may choose to focus on one particular niche. Some of the health blogs have topics that focus on the following areas: bodybuilding, workout plans, and diet programs.
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Why should you read fitness blogs? What can you learn from them?
One of the most common misconceptions of people is that blogs contain only subjective information. Of course, this is not entirely true. Because not all experts gain the recognition they deserve, writing blogs is a great idea to showcase their expertise. That said, blogs have many things to offer, and here are some of them.
1. Step-by-step tips and guidelines
Did you notice that many books contain very broad and general information? This is the opposite of blogs. They may be subjective, but at least, they provide step-by-step tips and a detailed explanation of a particular experience.
2. Relevant news and information
Many bloggers offer unique news and information that you can’t find in major newspapers and TV channels. You’d be surprised to find out that there are many things that you see in blogs that you don’t normally find on TV. It makes you wonder how these bloggers gather these information.
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It is the mission of every blogger to offer fresh and unique content. So they do as much research as they can to know which content is available, and which ones should they do a research on. For instance, in a weight loss blog, you can find the best places to buy the most affordable fat burners and thermogenics. In other fitness blogs, you can be updated with the newest fitness equipment that targets your problem areas.
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Monitoring a solar array’s performance on a string by string basis was typically only common on utility scale solar panel farms. Although thanks to PV Powered’s IntelliString combiner boxes now most solar arrays on commercial buildings have an affordable and simple method to deploy string monitoring that can become a standard option for commercial solar photovoltaic systems. The IntelliString combiner boxes are offered in 8-string and 16-string versions and has an integrated Obvius DC Solar Current Monitor, which is robust and easy to use.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/46015 | Läsartävling: Bevisa FN:s klimatlögn – vinn 100 000 dollar
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It has often been claimed that alarm about global warming is supported by observational evidence. I have argued that there is no observational evidence for global-warming alarm: rather, all claims of such evidence rely on invalid statistical analyses.
Some people, though, have asserted that the statistical analyses are valid. Those people assert, in particular, that they can determine, via statistical analysis, whether global temperatures have been increasing more than would be reasonably expected by random natural variation. Those people do not present any counter to my argument, but they make their assertions anyway.
In response to that, I am sponsoring a contest: the prize is $100 000. In essence, the prize will be awarded to anyone who can demonstrate, via statistical analysis, that the increase in global temperatures is probably not due to random natural variation.
The file Series1000.txt contains 1000 time series. Each series has length 135: the same as that of the most commonly studied series of global temperatures (which spans 1880–2014). The 1000 series were generated as follows. First, 1000 random series were obtained (via a trendless statistical model fit for global temperatures). Then, some randomly-selected series had a trend added to them. Some trends were positive; the others were negative. Each individual trend was 1°C/century (in magnitude)—which is greater than the trend claimed for global temperatures.
A prize of $100 000 (one hundred thousand U.S. dollars) will be awarded to the first person who submits an entry that correctly identifies at least 900 series: which series were generated by a trendless process and which were generated by a trending process.
Contest entries should be emailed to me (doug dot keenan at informath.org). Each entry should be in a text file. The text file should comprise exactly 1000 characters, corresponding to the 1000 series. A character “0” is to indicate a trendless process; a character “1” is to indicate a trending process. Each entry must be accompanied by a payment of $10 (e.g. via PayPal); this is being done to inhibit non-serious entries.
A person submitting an entry must also specify their real name. Names will be kept confidential, except in very unusual circumstances. If someone wins the Contest, though, then their name will be made public. If the name specified at submission was not real, then the prize is forfeited.
The Contest closes at the end of 30 November 2016, or when someone submits a prize-winning answer, whichever comes first.
When the Contest closes, the computer program (including the random seed) that generated the 1000 series will be posted here. As an additional check, the file Answers1000.txt identifies which series were generated by a trendless process and which by a trending process. The file is encrypted. The encryption key and method will also be posted here when the Contest closes.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/46026 | Trout Unlimited
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Trout Unlimited (TU) is a national, non-profit organization with over 300,000 members and supporters. It is comprised of numerous conservation professionals that ensure that TU is leader in fisheries restoration at the local, state, and national levels. [1]
Trout Unlimited (TU) was founded near Grayling, Michigan around 1959 by fishermen who were united by their passion for trout fishing and their growing discontent with state's practice of stocking trout into their local waters. [2] Between 1962 to 1963, TU released its first policy statement. This statement later persuaded the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to reduce its policy of put-and-take stocking with Trout. [2] The National Conservation Agenda of TU is now set by a National Leadership Council. Most of the current TU body is main up of volunteers and conservation professionals. [2]
Trout Unlimited of California
TU is one of a number of environmental advocacy organizations operating in California's Central Coast region. The 2018 Trout Unlimited of California mission statement is to protect, reconnect, restore and sustain California's salmonid fisheries, their watersheds and the diversity of their populations.
Steinbeck Country Chapter of Trout Unlimited
This non-profit chapter of TU states, "Steinbeck Country Chapter of Trout Unlimited does good work on behalf of the trout, salmon and Steelhead fisheries of the California's Central Coast Region". [3]
Current Projects Being Undertaken within Steinbeck County Chapter
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/46031 | What You Should Know About This Year
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Inferior Frontal Cortex Contributions to the Recognition of Spoken Words and Their Constituent Speech Sounds
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Speech perception and comprehension are often challenged by the need to recognize speech sounds that are degraded or ambiguous. Here, we explore the cognitive and neural mechanisms involved in resolving ambiguity in the identity of speech sounds using syllables that contain ambiguous phonetic segments (e.g., intermediate sounds between /b/ and /g/ as in “blade” and “glade”). We used an audio-morphing procedure to create a large set of natural sounding minimal pairs that contain phonetically ambiguous onset or offset consonants (differing in place, manner, or voicing). These ambiguous segments occurred in different lexical contexts (i.e., in words or pseudowords, such as blade–glade or blemglem) and in different phonological environments (i.e., with neighboring syllables that differed in lexical status, such as blouse–glouse). These stimuli allowed us to explore the impact of phonetic ambiguity on the speed and accuracy of lexical decision responses (Experiment 1), semantic categorization responses (Experiment 2), and the magnitude of BOLD fMRI responses during attentive comprehension (Experiment 3). For both behavioral and neural measures, observed effects of phonetic ambiguity were influenced by lexical context leading to slower responses and increased activity in the left inferior frontal gyrus for high-ambiguity syllables that distinguish pairs of words, but not for equivalent pseudowords. These findings suggest lexical involvement in the resolution of phonetic ambiguity. Implications for speech perception and the role of inferior frontal regions are discussed. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/46039 | Can you imagine that? Does this truly represent the highest vision for humanity? Recently, we highlighted the Global Heart Vision of the United Centers for Spiritual Living which stated in part “we see a world in which borders are irrelevant.” What exactly does that mean? How you feel about it?
The other night my wife and I were discussing the purpose and effectiveness of the United Nations. It’s been my experience that most Americans consider the United Nations either ineffective or a threat to American sovereignty. I’ve run across a number of people who were truly fearful that we were headed down a path towards one world government.
In our discussion, my wife and I disagreed as to the degree to which the United Nations or any central governing body should make decisions for the entire planet. She expressed legitimate concerns regarding decisions for all of us being determined by a relatively small handful of people. Although I understand her concerns, I do see some areas of human activities, where we currently could benefit from global coordination. However, we both agreed that the vast majority of governance should occur at the local level.
My wife made one comment about the United Nations that opened my eyes to a higher possibility… she wondered what it would be like if every representative at the UN represented “the heart of their nation.” By that she meant that they came to share their love for humanity through their discussions and decisions. Can you imagine what a world would be like (or the UN for that matter) if every representative came forth with an intention to bring their country’s love to the rest of the planet? Wow!
If every country wanted the best for every other country, then the need for any world governance would shrink to the level of almost nonexistence. If every country was concerned about the safety and security, the standard of living, and the full expression of creativity for all humans everywhere, then borders would truly become irrelevant.
Yet, let’s make a distinction between “borders” and “boundaries”… in my mind “borders” implies “walls or barriers” between us, something that divides us and keeps us apart… “boundaries” implies something more fluid where we can see one person or country ends and another begins, a distinction that we know serves us while we still recognize and acknowledge the interconnectedness… with that distinction in mind, we can see that boundaries might still serve a purpose… they might define the geographical area in which local governance could occur. And, boundaries based on our historical and cultural differences would allow us to call attention to our individual uniqueness. A world where we do not express such cultural uniqueness would be a very boring world indeed.
So yes, let’s celebrate and maintain our uniqueness and distinctiveness based on our cultural differences. And yes, let’s keep our governance local as much as possible so that our individual voices may still be heard. And yes, let’s send forth our love and care and concern for everyone on the planet, perhaps through our representatives to organizations such as the United Nations, but definitely through each of our hearts. Can you imagine now, a world in which borders are irrelevant?
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/46048 | In a world where there are countless projects released yearly, The Observer Design Award aims to bring forward the prime qualifications of foremost Observer designs and Observer design concepts by presenting them with advertising and promotion opportunities
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/46052 | GOP Rep. Jordan: Trump Winning Margin ‘Is Going to Be So Strong’ — ‘It’s Going to Be a No-Doubter’ via @BreitbartNews
Twitter Analysis
• Posted using Twitter for iPhone.
• Deep-learning probability that Mr. Trump wrote this: 18.3%
• This tweet was probably written by staff.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/46058 | Closed e-IRG delegates Meeting on 22 May 2019 at CERN, Switzerland.
Thank you! You are now registered for the 57th e-IRG delegates meeting in Switzerland.
Please read carefully:
For those delegates who signed up earlier for the e-IRG workshop , went through this two-step registration already, they don't need to register again through the Indico system for getting access to the CERN entrance.
But if you are only attending the delegates meeting don't forget to register via the CERN Indico system in order to gain access to CERN. (instructions on pdf ). |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/46063 | Doing the same thing repeatedly
Definition of insanity is, according to Mr. Albert Einstein, "Doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results. -" I guess then we all are insane to some extent. Definition of genius is, according to me, "Doing the same thing repeatedly once you see good results -" Mr. Warren Buffett and Sam Walton are geniuses in that respect. This really does not take super intelligence to figure out. Though it takes nerves of steel to stick to the model as long as it works. Buffett did not budge from his chosen path during the dot com days, even though there was tremendous pressure. In fact, many a investers pronounced him dead.
Most of us, in business or otherwise, are so intellectually bankrupt despite our high intelligence that we can not see patterns of our own behaviors. That is precisely the reason why we are stuck where we are. This goes for not just individuals but also companies. For five years Kraft sold Oreos Cookies in china with limited success. When led by a new people and research they changed the size, price, and sweetness. The new people were locals. The result - Oreos is now the best selling biscuit in China.
Granted it was not simple to accomplish this feat and a lot of marketing was involved. What is hard to understand though is why a firm would not use local input when selling internationally. This is a very simple rule. It is a no brainer. It is an 80/20 rule. It is like General Custer going to battle without adequate information. Corporations, both big and small do this over and over again. Little bit of research can make a huge difference.
There are so many companies selling services from India into the US. Many of them do not have a single native person on their staff. There are many examples of similar corporate behavior.
Individuals, on the other hand, also refuse to learn. Insisting upon consistently incorrect behavior patters. Most people detest cold calling, knowing fully well that it is a learned and a successful behavior. There is plethora of research pointing to that fact. Still most sales people refuse to make sales calls, which is a key to sales success. But more about that later. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/46066 | Total Solar Eclipse August 21, 2017
Visitors enjoy museum eclipse events
Charissa Nelson, 6, shoots an arrow from a straw during a STEM event at the Museum of Idaho after the total solar eclipse over Idaho Falls on Monday. John Roark /
A handful of tourists continued to mill around Idaho Falls after Monday’s total solar eclipse, enjoying the Museum of Idaho’s offeringsfor visitors who didn’t want to sit in traffic after the celestial event.
Source: Solar Eclipse 2017
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/46108 | Does TeamForge work with LDAP?
Yes, you can have your TeamForge installation authenticate against an LDAP server.
This is handy when users want to use a variety of different resources without having to maintain credentials for each one separately.
CollabNet TeamForge is a JBoss2 based application and relies on the JBoss JAAS service for user authentication. This enables a TeamForge site to authenticate users internally or externally.
Internal user authentication
Out of the box, TeamForge relies on its local database to manage user accounts. This includes username, password, full name, email address and a variety of other meta data values. Passwords are stored in the database using the standard MD5 Password hashing algorithm1. The database is only accessible by the application itself and a user with root access to the physical server. While running in this default configuration users are allowed to change their passwords in TeamForge, and any user with site administration privileges can create and approve new user accounts.
External user authentication
The JAAS service comes with several standard providers that allow TeamForge to be integrated with services such as LDAP, Active Directory and Kerberos. The JAAS service allows more than one source to be configured in the event several sources are needed.
Note: It is possible to use both types of authentication with a single TeamForge installation. See your CollabNet representative for details.
To ensure that you are not locked out of your site, the site administrator account is always validated by TeamForge, not by LDAP.
LDAP accounts must conform to the TeamForge rules for user names and passwords. For example:
(For detailed TeamForge user name and password rules, see Create a new user account.)
How is life different for the user under external authentication?
LDAP for source control
LDAP is integrated into your TeamForge source control services.
What can go wrong?
When TeamForge is configured to authenticate against an LDAP server and the LDAP server is down, all TeamForge authentication is disabled until the LDAP server is restored.
If a user does not exist on the LDAP server, or is deleted from the server, that user cannot log into TeamForge. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/46154 | (PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5)
openssl_pkcs7_encrypt -- Encrypt an S/MIME message
bool openssl_pkcs7_encrypt ( string infile, string outfile, mixed recipcerts, array headers [, int flags])
openssl_pkcs7_encrypt() takes the contents of the file named infile and encrypts them using an RC2 40-bit cipher so that they can only be read by the intended recipients specified by recipcerts, which is either a lone X.509 certificate, or an array of X.509 certificates. headers is an array of headers that will be prepended to the data after it has been encrypted. flags can be used to specify options that affect the encoding process - see PKCS7 constants. headers can be either an associative array keyed by header name, or an indexed array, where each element contains a single header line.
Esempio 1. openssl_pkcs7_encrypt() example
// the message you want to encrypt and send to your secret agent
// in the field, known as nighthawk. You have his certificate
// in the file nighthawk.pem
$data = <<<EOD
Top secret, for your eyes only!
The enemy is closing in! Meet me at the cafe at 8.30am
to collect your forged passport!
// load key
$key = file_get_contents("nighthawk.pem");
// save message to file
$fp = fopen("msg.txt", "w");
fwrite($fp, $data);
// encrypt it
if (openssl_pkcs7_encrypt("msg.txt", "enc.txt", $key,
"To" => "", // keyed syntax
"From: HQ <>", // indexed syntax
"Subject" => "Eyes only"))) {
// message encrypted - send it!
exec(ini_get("sendmail_path") . " < enc.txt"); |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/46155 | 'Quadrophenia' with the original four faces of Jimmy at the 02: for John Entwistle and Keith Moon were imaged large. Though the rock opera first appeared in October 1973, Pete Townshend looked back in anger at 1965, when he was just turning twenty. His childhood had been a Britain in the aftermath of war. Changing social structure and austerity, national pride and blanket optimism disintegrated into disaffectation and hopelessness.
Thanks to the picture archives and to the amazing graphics directed by Roger and exec-produced by Rob Lee, we saw it all there last night. Raw, unsubtle, aggressive, The Who voiced teenage angst through music in ways that no band had yet dared to do. Together with The Beatles and The Stones, they wiped the floor with America.
It can be difficult to comprehend now what it all meant then. Most of us in the audience last night were too young to have known first-hand. Many of us only got to The Who in the early Eighties, by which time Moonie was gone, and they had already become the landed gentry they'd once despised. Round and round ... 'There's life in the old f***ers yet!' crowed Roger. 'Rock 'til we drop! It's better than getting smelly and old!'
I missed John, though how incredible to see his face looming huge during '5:15' at 'I hear thunder ...', Pino standing aside to let the maestro roll. The greatest bassist who ever played. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/46180 | Notes on Mojave
You’ve installed MSB on macOS 10.14+ and get an alert that says “the backup folder is empty.”
Mojave users (or higher) must authorize Full Disk Access for MobileSyncBrowser; just click here to open the System Preferences, unlock and add the app. MSB only requires access to the MobileSync/Backup folder, so future versions may be able to request only the required access at the folder level.
macOS 10.14 Mojave requires authorization to access backup directories.
Use System Preferences > Security & Privacy to add MSB to ‘Full Disk Access’. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/46192 | What Is A NAT Router?
A router is a very specialised computer, that connects two or more separate networks, and directs network traffic from one network to the other as necessary.
A normal (infrastructure) router has just one simple task - to route traffic from one network to another, simply by knowing what networks are connected to each interface on the router. This requires you to know what networks are connected, and to create and input rules defining those networks.
A Network Address Translation, or NAT, router has multiple jobs.
• DHCP Server (Assigns and passes network settings to computers on the LAN).
• Firewall Functionality (Protects the computers on the LAN, from computers on the Internet).
• Internet Client (Acts like a single computer to the Internet on the WAN).
• Internet Gateway (Provides internet service to the computers on the LAN).
• Network Address Translation.
Basic Setup
With a NAT router, you only have to make settings regarding one network - the WAN side (which connects to the internet), to get started. You set that up according to what service your ISP provides.
• Fixed IP address.
• Dynamic IP address.
• Point to Point Over Ethernet, aka PPPoE.
And, you will need to setup the addresses of the DNS servers. Your ISP should provide you with those. They are essential.
The default settings on the LAN side (where all of your computers connect) should work OK to get you started. The DHCP server on the router, by default, provides all the necessary settings to each of your computers. Connecting each computer, one at a time, to a NAT router is relatively simple:
• Set the computer to automatically get settings (DHCP client).
• Restart the computer.
Assuming that all your computers are simply used for browsing, or similar client initiated internet activities (which is frequently the case), a NAT router needs no further configuration.
NAT Functionality
An infrastructure router has a relatively simple task - to simply pass packets from one computer to another. Computer A sends a request to Computer B. The router simply passes packets from Computer A (on router connection A) to Computer B (on router connection B). It's possible, but not certain, that the reply from Computer B to Computer A might return thru the same router.
A NAT router has a more complicated task:
1. Opens a port when requested by a local computer, identifying the local and remote computers.
2. Passes a series of packets thru that port to the remote computer.
3. Waits for the reply from that remote computer.
4. Identifies the port by the IP address of the remote computer.
5. Passes the reply from the remote computer, thru that port, back to the local computer.
With the infrastructure router, both Computers A and B know of each others existence, as both computers use public (routed) ip addresses. With a NAT router, the remote computer actually sends its reply back to the router. The router performs Network Address Translation, and relays each packet back to the local computer.
The benefit here is that, even if the router does not have a firewall feature, the computers on the LAN are still protected. Only requested traffic, from known computers on the Internet, gets routed to a computer on the LAN. Any traffic originating from any unknown computer, or directed to an unrequested port, simply gets dropped. No original request = no delivery.
What A NAT Router Is Not
With all of that, let's get straight about what a NAT router is not. A NAT router, which may or may not provide firewall functionality between the WAN and the LAN, is not a firewall. And not all NAT routers provide firewall protection between the computers on a LAN. All computers connected to the LAN, on most NAT routers, are simply connected to a switch. Some WiFi NAT routers may have a feature called "Isolation Mode", which blocks all network traffic between all computers connected to the LAN.
To put it simply - a NAT router is not a firewall.
And there is a major difference in hardware too, between a NAT (Consumer grade) and Infrastructure (Business grade) router. Besides quality of design and manufacture, the design itself has a major difference.
A NAT router has 2 distinct sides to it - the WAN (where you connect the Internet service), and the LAN (where you connect all computers). The ports on the LAN are connected by a switch - there is no routing functionality. Routing is simply between the WAN port, and the switch.
With an Infrastructure router, all ports are labeled, and routed, identically. If you have 2 LAN segments, each connected to a router port, and a WAN segment connected to a third port, all traffic between any 2 of the 3 will be routed symmetrically.
Some NAT routers will, upon option, let you disable NAT. This may be called "Infrastructure" or "Router" mode. This will not give you a true Infrastructure router, as the ports connected to the LAN will still go through a switch. A NAT router will, at best, be the equivalent of a 2 port Infrastructure router. Very few Infrastructure routers contain only 2 ports.
Extended Setup
Although the default settings on a NAT router are very simple, there are plenty of additional settings to allow for specific needs of each individual local network. With many functions that a NAT router provides to its clients, in addition to simple web surfing, they can be quite complex to setup.
Many security experts advise changing all default settings that deal with the LAN settings of a NAT network. In case a NAT related exploit ("hacking" technique) ever becomes reality (and that will happen one day), the exploit will not be quite so easy. Specifically, there are certain default LAN settings which vary by router manufacturer, but can be improved upon by the owner of the router. For a Linksys router, for instance, the LAN defaults to 192.168.0/24, with gateway And the DHCP server defaults to issuing addresses in the range - All of those settings can, and should, be changed.
Other settings which are advisable:
• Change the administrative password. Use a non-trivial (non guessable) value. Change it regularly.
• Disable remote (WAN) management. There is no need for anybody to make changes to the router except from a computer connected to the LAN (ie in front of the router itself).
• Enable the security log. Review the log regularly, know what is normal, and take action when something abnormal happens.
Other configurations that you might need to make (not available on all routers):
• DMZ. To bypass NAT functionality for individual computers on your LAN.
• Isolation. Blocks all network traffic between all computers connected to the LAN. Provides shared Internet service, with no security risk, for WiFi clients, as in a WiFi Hotspot.
• Packet Filter. Block specific application traffic in and out of the LAN.
• Port Forwarding. To provide for Internet server applications.
• Port Triggering. To allow for Internet server applications, with special needs that can't be met by Port Forwarding.
• Stateful Packet Inspection. Complements packet filtering, and is another function provided by a full featured firewall.
• UPnP. Similar to port triggering, but more versatile. Allows applications on your computer to control the router.
• VPN Endpoint or Passthru. To allow for secured communications with remote networks.
All of these features may not be available on all NAT routers. Each feature requires memory, and processor time; both resources may be in short supply in a typical (inexpensive) NAT router. Some NAT routers may have these features, but disable them when excessive network traffic is experienced. When an excessive volume of network traffic is experienced, and the router can't keep up, there are only two possible actions which the router can take.
• Fail closed. Stop filtering, simply pass traffic, unexamined.
• Fail open. Drop traffic that exceeds a certain volume.
Obviously, neither possibility is desirable. Like any physical device, NAT routers are limited in feature set, by their components and design. When you're comparing NAT routers, compare carefully.
For additional configuration information, and endless hours of discussion about what I have summarised above, visit the Usenet discussion groups alt.computer.security, or comp.security.firewalls.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/46209 | Saturday, November 27, 2010
The white collar businessman in Japan is called Salaryman.
Stereotypical characteristics include extreme over working, golf, all night karaoke sessions and binge drinking to wash away all the stresses and sorrows. If you go to any major city in Japan, you'll see the drunk salaryman on trains or on the street.
I decided to search the words drunk japanese salaryman on google and these are the images I found.
One of my favorites. He must feel so god damn comfortable at this point:
This one is the shit. It's like the light of God is shining down unto him:
He's gonna lose his shoe:
Must be the raddest of feeling of being totally fucking plastered by yourself and never knowing when/if you'll ever get home. Over and over.
Considering how safe it is in Japanese cities compared to American cities, they rarely ever get fucked with. I've seen them since I ever could remember on my trips to Japan.
1. That's one of the weirdest things I've ever seen. What the fuck.....
2. Thats awesome but if we did something like that here we would be in jail!!!
3. Hahaha That last pic is the best thing ever Im laughing my ass off.....
4. I fucking love Japan. Went to there in September. Drank with some salarymen in a couple izakayas. Found out pissing on the street there is only acceptable if you're a drunk salaryman. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/46288 | Unit API is a newer library designed by 4DSP to quickly identify the connected devices and the "units" of firmware blocks available through PCIe and TCP/IP and legacy ethernet connections.
All AXI-enabled firmware uses reference software that is 100% UnitAPI. For these reference software to interact with AXI firmware on Xilinx boards using the ethernet, a TCP/IP configuration on the host computer is often required.
The AXI firmware enables the Xilinx Boards (VC707, KC705, etc.) to use a static IP address at and netmask of
When an error of -50 is received by UnitAPI, this is a common message whenever the UnitAPI is unable to find the IP address that it is searching for to enumerate all of the firmware units in the design. The TCP/IP stack in the firmware you're using is configured for IP address
Please double check that this is the IP address referenced in your DeviceConfig.xml file installed here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\4DSP\4FM Core Development Kit\Bins\Config\DeviceConfig.xml
In the XML tag: <TcpIp first_ip="" last_ip="" port="1000"/>
The user computer should connect to the Xilinix Board with a static IP address of and netmask of Once the axi firmware is loaded and ethernet connection established, the user can then ping the board to ensure it's connected - here is an example configuration: |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/46292 | Something for the day to die upon…
At the world’s edge, Andelusia awakens to the terrible realization that all her dreams have come to nothing. No matter that her father, the warlock, has fallen into exile. No matter that the enemies of mankind have retreated into darkness. When the shadows in her heart cause the seasons to change and deadly storms to sweep across Thillria, she knows what will come:
The Black Moon will descend.
Grimwain will return.
The Ur will rebuild their haunted civilization atop humanity’s graveyard.
Unless she alone wages war against the Nether Kingdom, the world will burn.
Nether Kingdom
Now Available via AmazonFree signed copies to the first five reviewers!!
Book III – The chilling conclusion of the Tyrants of the Dead trilogy
Cover art by Amanda Makepeace
2015 Tessera Guild Publishing |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/46307 | Black Jack TV - Full Episode 42 (Official & HQ with subtitles)
Uploaded by TezukaAnime on 11.09.2012
As I stand in the wind on a hill by a port town,
my head feels unusually empty.
I was watching the town from the south side of the shore.
And so I sunk my unsteady passion into the depths of the sea.
This surging power...
It's something hidden in everyone, everywhere.
Day after day, everyone tries their best.
But people get annoyed when I mention it.
It makes me glad...
that I found my place here.
I searched for the reason
why we can believe in the same air
as long as we're alive.
He weaves the thread of life with his miraculous control of a scalpel.
The genius surgeon who lives on a cape.
His name is Black Jack.
The mailman's here!
I'll be checking any mail from women.
All right.
"Dr. Black Jack"
A pink envelope...
It must be an invitation to a wedding.
A wedding?
He's getting married, huh?
He's your friend?
No, just a classmate from med school.
"Attending" "Not Attending"
Why aren't we attending?!
I don't like these sorts of occasions.
You must!
Give it back to me, Pinoko.
You must go.
You don't have many friends, so you must cherish those you have.
A company?!
A company would be your spouse.
And your spouse is me!
"Attending: Doc, Pinoko"
The Misdiagnoses of His Life
Originally "Misdiagnoses" by Tezuka Osamu
"Futohara Hospital"
There goes the head doctor.
He's the second one in the hospital, but I heard he's quite good.
Time for check-ups by the head doctor.
Let's see...
Doctor, I have bad chest pain.
You'll get well if we continue the treatment.
Thank you so much.
Doctor, about that patient...
She's not gotten any better in two weeks.
Should we switch to a chemical therapy?
Did you forget that she has kidney problems?
What if it causes an infection?!
Then some other treatment may...
The current one is fine!
I don't know how good you are, but don't talk to me like you know better!
Right, sorry.
Dr. Futohara, you have a call on line one.
That'd be the senator.
Doctor, there are more check-ups...
I'm busy!
You do the rest!
Follow my instructions exactly!
A round of golf?
I'd be happy to come.
And please don't forget about the election deal.
I'll talk to you then.
Come in.
Excuse me.
Here is your mail.
"Dr. Futohara Yasuo"
Here is your schedule for today.
You have a meeting with a pharmaceutical company at three.
And an interview with a medical magazine at five.
The dinner with the medical group is at six.
A wedding invitation, huh.
Who is it from?
It's my classmate from med school.
I should pay my classmates a visit.
Fit this in my schedule.
Yes, sir.
Man, I'm busy.
I don't even have time to eat.
I should go home.
Ito! Is that you?
It's me!
Senior Tachibana.
Futohara Hospital, huh?
I hear that the second head doctor is doing well with his hospital.
Reducing the number of doctors and increasing the patients count will do that.
Is that so?
He hasn't operated much himself, and he keeps telling me what to do.
And all I do is treating the patients exactly as he says - like a robot.
I'm starting to lose my passion as a doctor.
Sounds like you have it pretty rough.
Oh well. If it gets too tough, then just leave.
But even if I go elsewhere, all I can do is...
Cheer up.
You can come talk to me anytime.
They'll have lots of delicious food at the wedding!
Pinoko, you ready?
Come in.
Excuse me.
Doctor, about that patient earlier...
The one with appendicitis?
He's still getting the antibiotic IV, right?
That level of appendicitis should be treated with antibiotics.
No need to operate.
But Doctor, is his case really appendicitis?
I-I'm sorry!
It's just that he has acute pains and also throws up occasionally.
Are you criticizing my diagnosis?!
No, I don't mean to.
Both are symptoms of appendicitis!
The appendix gets infected periodically!
It's just another case of appendicitis!
Got it?!
Intravenous injection of antibiotics will cure him in no time!
Oh, I need to get going.
Don't act on your own while I'm gone.
Oh, it looks delicious!
Pinoko, do you want me to ask for a high-chair?
I'm a grown-up!
I'm not using a kid's chair!
Man, I'm so late.
Well, hello!
Long time no see.
Black Jack.
I don't see you around much.
Dr. Futohara.
So, how are you doing?
Anyway, I'm starving!
It looks good.
I heard that your license was revoked.
And you have your office?
Be careful.
What if they catch you?
It's not about just you.
Getting caught will bring shame on all of your classmates.
Hey! You got something to say?!
Stop it, Pinoko.
Anyway, life sure has changed a lot for all of us.
There are some that are head doctors of a major hospital like me,
and there are some who're practicing unlicensed.
Is he serious?
And I heard that you made some company president pay ¥100,000,000.
It's people like you that tarnish the image of doctors.
Shame on you.
Don't mind him.
And now a word from the groom's friend from medical school, Dr. Futohara.
Bring me a drink!
I'd like to say congratulations on behalf of our class.
He's so rude!
Let me go!
Dr. Ito, that patient with appendicitis is having trouble!
The Futohara Hospital that I manage earns a considerable profit.
And we return a portion of it back to the community.
We doctors must contribute to the greater cause of the community...
It hurts!
What should I do...
Any sedatives?
It's not working.
Call the head doctor right away!
I tried earlier, but it just goes to his voice mail.
In fact, doctors are supposed to...
I don't know how to eat this.
It's salty!
He just keeps talking about himself.
When I run for the congress, please vote for me.
I just can't believe it's appendicitis.
Should I make an incision?
But it'll be a real problem if anything goes wrong.
Is this City Hospital?
Please patch me over to Dr. Tachibana.
I see.
But I can't tell from your description alone.
Sorry, but I'm in the middle of seeing a patient.
Call again later.
What do I do now?
I can't help it.
I must see him in person and talk to him.
Doctor, please come back to the patient's room.
The patient is...
To City Hospital.
Congratulations on your marriage.
Can I shake your hand?
Yes, thank you so much.
You are so beautiful.
You are very adorable too.
Thank you for coming.
I was afraid that you wouldn't come.
I wasn't going to originally.
What's the matter?
are you upset that I forced you to come?
I'm actually grateful.
The condition of the appendicitis patient worsened?!
Why didn't you call me earlier?!
It went to voice mail?
I see.
Yes, he's writhing with cyanosis.
We gave him a sedative, but it hasn't worked!
Dr. Ito should know!
But he went missing.
How irresponsible!
Find him right now and bring him back!
Ouch! Ouch!
Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!
We're trying right now!
Don't we have any other doctors?!
Only doctors of internal medicine are around.
Please return immediately!
The patient is in critical condition!
I have Ito do all the actual care.
Black Jack!
Hey, I want to ask you for a favor.
Would you come to my hospital?
I guess an appendicitis patient is in trouble.
It may have caused peritonitis.
We are short on staff, so can you help me with an operation?
I'll pay you well.
Hey, excuse me!
You badmouthed him, and now you want...
Is that an official request?
In that case, I'll do it
for ¥30,000,000.
¥30,000,000 for an operation?
You dare charge that to me, your classmate?!
It's fine if you don't want to.
I'll pay.
We'll be held responsible if we let a patient die from appendicitis.
I'll pay!
I'll pay you!
I accept your request, then.
Doctor! Hurry!
Don't rush me, idiot.
It hurts!
The sedative didn't work?
Not much at all.
Does he really have appendicitis?
This is neither appendicitis or peritonitis.
It's probably an acute case of pancreatitis.
I don't want to hear that from an unlicensed doctor!
My diagnosis is never wrong!
Prepare for an operation!
I'm certain that it's pancreatitis.
Black Jack, I'm his primary physician.
So follow my orders!
Make the incision point at the lower right abdomen, along the outer edge of the rectus abdominis.
That's the wrong spot.
No, this is the right spot.
Don't argue with me.
You only need to assist me!
How many laparotomies have you performed?
Shut up!
Your hand is shaking.
You let other doctors perform operations while you just sat around, didn't you?
Shut up!
Look, this is the spot.
The lower end of the greater omentum.
It's almost cured.
Then, the left abdomen!
We'll close this spot and cut the left abdomen.
Doctor, but the bleeding...
Infuse more blood.
That spot is fine too.
It can't be!
So you did misdiagnose him.
You cut open the wrong spots.
Then where?!
What does he have?!
Doctor! Problem with his blood pressure!
Leave the rest to me!
Got it?!
We are switching to an incision at the pancreas.
It can't be.
His symptoms clearly were that of appendicitis.
Dr. Ito! Where have you been?!
The patient was in danger because of you!
The patient was in great pain,
so I was getting advice from another doctor on whether or not to operate on him!
Which other doctor?!
Why not me?!
We couldn't get a hold of you!
Aren't you going to help me?
Do as you want.
You diagnosed him with pancreatitis.
You can operate on him.
So it's wasn't appendicitis after all.
Just as I said!
S-Shut up!
Are you really doctors?!
We are in the middle of an operation.
Save the fighting for later.
We are resuming the operation.
Median incision of the upper abdomen.
He's so fast.
Here's his pancreas.
Look how swollen it is.
Couldn't you see it before?
Electrocautery scalpel.
He is a real surgeon.
Operation completed.
H-Hey Black Jack, do you want to work at my hospital?
This hospital will be world-renowned if you are here.
Have you forgotten that my license was revoked?
Who do you think I am?
I can get you that license back in no time at all.
We can co-own it.
We'll make hoards of money.
Think about it.
Absolutely not.
Still no, huh...
Here's the money, as promised.
You don't have to come in after tonight!
I don't even want to talk to you.
You've never talked to me properly.
I'd love to quit anyway!
Doctor! Wait!
Dr. Black Jack, please hire me.
Let me be your apprentice.
I was greatly impressed by your operation.
I want to learn your skill!
You have a bright future ahead of you.
Go to a reputable hospital.
But I want to work under you.
I want to be a surgeon like you!
Absolutely not.
I won't partner with anyone, and need nobody's help.
And don't become a doctor like myself -
one that anyone would look down on.
Dr. Black Jack...
I want to capture your heart with my silly smile.
Only look straight at me.
Being kind isn't good enough.
I want to get in touch with your true heart,
deep within the you that nobody else sees.
Being in the gentle sunlight,
I wish on the clover that plays the melody of dreams,
and I search for a ray of hope beyond the blue skies,
because I want to stay by your side forever.
The promise we made long ago in a far away place...
is finally coming to a realization, overcoming the incredible distance,
just as it was led by the light.
They all shrank and died!
It's a type of atrophy.
I found that it's a contagious case where the bodies shrink.
The bodies shrink?
What is happening here?
I am infected with the disease.
Why are they shrinking?!
Are you giving up already?
You must know what to do next!
Doc, good luck...
Next Karte - Shrinking!
30,000,000 pesos.
30,000,000 pesos?!
Oh, wow... |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/46331 | Eduard Bogdanov (footballer, born 1994)
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Eduard Bogdanov
Personal information
Full name Eduard Sergeyevich Bogdanov
Date of birth (1994-05-08) 8 May 1994 (age 26)
Place of birth Irkutsk, Russia
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position(s) Forward/Midfielder
Club information
Current team
FC Kyzyltash Bakhchisaray
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2016 FC Baikal Irkutsk 56 (6)
2016–2018 FC Sibir Novosibirsk 6 (0)
2019– FC Kyzyltash Bakhchisaray
Eduard Sergeyevich Bogdanov (Russian: Эдуард Серге́евич Богданов; born 8 May 1994) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Kyzyltash Bakhchisaray.
Club career[edit]
He made his debut in the Russian Second Division for FC Baikal Irkutsk on 15 July 2012 in a game against FC Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.[1] He made his Russian Football National League debut for Baikal on 28 September 2015 in a game against FC Sibir Novosibirsk.
1. ^ "Career Summary". Russian Football Union. 30 June 2013. Archived from the original on 30 June 2013.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/46332 | Frank Sturgis
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Frank Anthony Sturgis
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Frank Angelo Fiorini
(1924-12-09)December 9, 1924
DiedDecember 4, 1993(1993-12-04) (aged 68)
OccupationMilitary, spies
Frank Anthony Sturgis (December 9, 1924 – December 4, 1993), born Frank Angelo Fiorini, was one of the five Watergate burglars whose capture led to the end of the presidency of Richard Nixon.[1] He served in several branches of the United States military and in the Cuban Revolution of 1958, and worked as an undercover operative for the Central Intelligence Agency.[2] He was named as one of the men who, along with Miami CIA head David Morales, met with E. Howard Hunt; shortly before the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Early life and military service[edit]
"On April 14, 1942, William Donovan, as Coordinator of Information (forerunner of the Office of Strategic Services), activated units charged with gathering intelligence, harassing the Japanese through guerrilla actions, identifying targets for the Army Air Force to bomb, and rescuing downed Allied airmen."[4] This was what led to Stilwell's Chinese forces, Wingate's Raiders, Merrill's Marauders, in the war, and Frank got trained in Guerrilla tactics and gathering intelligence which became useful in his later events.[5]
Honorably discharged as a corporal in 1945, he enrolled at Virginia Polytechnic Institute but left college and joined the Norfolk Police Department on June 5, 1946.[6] He soon discovered a corrupt payoff system and brought it to the attention of his superiors, who told him to overlook the illegal activities. On October 5, 1946, he had a confrontation with his sergeant and resigned the same day. For the next 18 months, he managed the Havana-Madrid tavern in Norfolk that catered to foreigners, mostly Cuban merchant seamen.[citation needed]
Moves to Cuba, joins Castro forces[edit]
In 1956 Sturgis moved to Cuba, and went to Mexico, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama and Honduras. Sturgis moved to Miami in 1957, where the Cuban wife of his uncle Angelo Vona introduced him to former Cuban president Carlos Prio, who joined with other Cubans opposing dictator Fulgencio Batista to plot their return to power. They were sending money to Mexico to support Fidel Castro. Prio asked Sturgis to go to Cuba to join up with Castro and to report back to the exiled powers in Miami, so he went down and met with Castro.[9] In 1958 he made contact with the Central Intelligence Agency in Cuba at the US Consulate in Santiago. He worked as an informer for the agency with his control officer Sam Jenis. Sturgis also became involved running guns to Cuba, [2] along with mobster Santo Trafficante,[10] and not surprisingly was arrested for illegal possession of arms, but released without charge. In 1959 Sturgis had contact with casinos in Cuba and some say met Lewis McWillie, mobster Traficante's man in Cuba, and the manager of the Tropicana Casino who by his own testimony[11] was a known acquaintance of Jack Ruby.[12]
Sturgis met up with Castro and his 400 rebels in the Sierra Maestra mountains. Sturgis offered to train Castro's troops in guerrilla warfare. Castro accepted the offer, but he also had an immediate need for guns and ammunition, so Sturgis became a gunrunner.[2] Using money from anti-Batista Cuban exiles in Miami and some suspect the CIA, Sturgis purchased boatloads of weapons and ammunition from CIA weapons expert Samuel Cummings' International Armament Corporation in Alexandria, Virginia. Sturgis explained later that he chose to throw in with Castro rather than Prio because Fidel was a soldier, a man of action, whereas Prio was a politician, more a man of words.[13]
In March 1958, Sturgis opened a training camp in the Sierra Maestra mountains, where he taught Che Guevara and other 26th of July Movement rebel soldiers guerrilla warfare.[14] When Castro seized power, Sturgis was part of a rebel firing squad on San Juan Hill on January 11, 1959, that executed 71 of their opponents into an awaiting 40-foot ditch that had been opened with a bulldozer. Afterward, Sturgis was photographed holding a rifle on top of the covered mass grave.[15]
Sturgis, with a 26 of July Movement armband, stands on a mass grave of 71 Batista supporters that he helped execute on San Juan Hill on Jan. 11, 1959.
Castro then appointed Sturgis gambling czar and director of security and intelligence for the air force, in addition to his position as a captain in the 26th of July Movement.[16] Sturgis went to Miami on June 2, 1959, with Alan McDonald while "supervising the investigation of several American gamblers with criminal records that operate casinos in Havana." They requested from Metropolitan Criminal Intelligence Supervisor Frank Kappel information on "Meyer and Jake Lansky, Joe Silesi aka Joe Rivers and Santos Trafficante," that was provided to them six days later after the Cuban government sent an official written request.[17] He was introduced to two men that were transported to Cuba from Venezuela to assist in the organization of the revolution and Frank saw they were clearly communist. He began to sound out those that he knew were anti-communist including Camilo Cienfuegos, as he knew leaders like Raul Castro and Che Guevera were communist, but he was unsure about Fidel Castro. Sturgis defected the following month with Revolutionary Air Force chief Commandant Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz[18] and they joined the anti-Castro exile opposition.
Sturgis participated with him a few months later in anti-Castro leaflet-dropping raid over Cuba. Sturgis formed the Anti-Communist Brigade which Hans Tanner in his book "Counter-Revolutionary Agent", says the organization was "being financed by dispossessed hotel and gambling owners" from Cuba. The Border Patrol in Miami reported that Sturgis was involved in a CIA operation being financed by Sergio Rojas to overthrow Castro. Sturgis also was involved in helping the CIA organize the Bay of Pigs invasion, which he felt JFK was responsible for the failure of. Sturgis recruited 19 year old Marita Lorenz,[19] who was close to Fidel Castro, and she took CIA pills,[20] which she hid in her face cream, to poison Castro, but the plot failed.[21] According to Lorenz, she met Sturgis again before the Kennedy assassination in 1963 with others planning a big event.[22] Lorenz stated that she joined the Sturgis traveling to Dallas after the meeting.[22] Lorenz later testified about this Kennedy assassination plot before the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA). [23]
Sturgis was also a member of Operation 40, a Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored counterintelligence group composed of Cuban exiles.[24] The group was formed to seize control of the Cuban government after the Bay of Pigs Invasion.[25]The operation was concentrating on Cuba and were operating out of Mexico.
Despite his known involvement in numerous CIA sponsored operations including the Bay of Pigs invasion, the 1975 Rockefeller Commission succinctly states that "Frank Sturgis was not an employee or agent of the CIA either in 1963 or at any other time."[26]
Watergate burglary 1972[edit]
Frank Sturgis and Bernard Barker, 1960 (top) and 1972
Prison and later investigations[edit]
Sturgis was convicted in 1973 with Max Gonzalez and Jerry Buchanan in a federal court in Miami (73-597-CR-CA) of transporting cars stolen in Texas into Mexico.[27] This prompted Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Acting Regional Director David W. Costa to send a letter to Judge C. Clyde Atkins on March 10, 1975, indicating that Sturgis had been covertly cooperating with the DEA.[28] Sturgis served 14 months in the minimum security federal prison in Eglin, Florida.
Sturgis leaves the Miami federal courthouse building in handcuffs after being convicted in 1973 of taking cars stolen in Texas to Mexico.
After leaving prison, Sturgis served as a Miami police informant and continued snitching on the anti-Castro activities of Dr. Orlando Bosch.[29]
St. George's article was published in True magazine in August 1974. Sturgis claims that the Watergate burglars had been instructed to find a particular document in the Democratic Party offices. This was a "secret memorandum from the Castro government" that included details of CIA covert actions. Sturgis said "that the Castro government suspected the CIA did not tell the whole truth about these operations even to American political leaders".[30] In response to Sturgis' repeated braggadocio to the news media, the CIA issued a public statement on May 30, 1975, indicating that he had never been connected with them "in any way."[31]
In an interview with New York Daily News reporter Paul Meskil on June 20, 1975, Sturgis stated, "I was a spy. I was involved in assassination plots and conspiracies to overthrow several foreign governments including Cuba, Panama, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti. I smuggled arms and men into Cuba for Castro and against Castro. I broke into intelligence files. I stole and photographed secret documents. That's what spies do."
Sturgis was denied a pardon by President Jimmy Carter.[32]
JFK conspiracy allegations[edit]
Sturgis has been the subject of various allegations regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He also made claims that other individuals were involved in the assassination of Kennedy.
The Three Tramps, Sturgis allegedly the one in the middle
The Dallas Morning News, the Dallas Times Herald, and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram photographed three transients under police escort near the Texas School Book Depository shortly after the assassination of Kennedy.[33] The men later became known as the "three tramps".[34] According to Vincent Bugliosi, allegations that these men were involved in a conspiracy originated from theorist Richard E. Sprague who compiled the photographs in 1966 and 1967, and subsequently turned them over to Jim Garrison during his investigation of Clay Shaw.[34] Appearing before a nationwide audience on the December 31, 1968 episode of The Tonight Show, Garrison held up a photo of the three and suggested they were involved in the assassination.[34] Later, in 1974, assassination researchers Alan J. Weberman and Michael Canfield compared photographs of the men to people they believed to be suspects involved in a conspiracy and said that two of the men were Watergate burglars Hunt and Sturgis.[35] Comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory helped bring national media attention to the allegations against Hunt and Sturgis in 1975 after obtaining the comparison photographs from Weberman and Canfield.[35] Immediately after obtaining the photographs, Gregory held a press conference that received considerable coverage and his charges were reported in Rolling Stone and Newsweek.[35][36][37]
The Rockefeller Commission reported in 1975 that they investigated the allegation that Hunt and Sturgis, on behalf of the CIA, participated in the assassination of Kennedy.[38] The final report of that commission stated that witnesses who testified that the "derelicts" bore a resemblance to Hunt or Sturgis "were not shown to have any qualification in photo identification beyond that possessed by an average layman".[39] Their report also stated that FBI Agent Lyndal L. Shaneyfelt, "a nationally-recognized expert in photoidentification and photoanalysis" with the FBI photographic laboratory, had concluded from photo comparison that none of the men were Hunt or Sturgis.[40] In 1979, the House Select Committee on Assassinations reported that forensic anthropologists had again analyzed and compared the photographs of the "tramps" with those of Hunt and Sturgis, as well as with photographs of Thomas Vallee, Daniel Carswell, and Fred Lee Chrisman.[41] According to the committee, only Chrisman resembled any of the tramps but determined that he was not to be in Dealey Plaza on the day of the assassination.[41] In 1992, journalist Mary La Fontaine discovered the November 22, 1963 arrest records that the Dallas Police Department had released in 1989, which named the three men as Gus W. Abrams, Harold Doyle, and John F. Gedney.[42] According to the arrest reports, the three men were "taken off a boxcar in the railroad yards right after President Kennedy was shot", detained as "investigative prisoners", described as unemployed and passing through Dallas, then released four days later.[42]
Sturgis makes his own allegations[edit]
In 1976, Sturgis claimed that he was assigned to investigate any possible role that Cuban exiles may have played in the assassination of Kennedy.[43] He stated that his investigation revealed that ten weeks prior to the assassination, Jack Ruby met with Fidel Castro in Havana, Cuba to discuss "the removal of the President" in order to neutralize the threat of invasion by the United States.[43][44] According to Sturgis, others at the meeting included Raúl Castro, Che Guevara, Ramiro Valdés, and "an Argentine woman who is believed to have been a Russian KGB agent".[43][44] He said that Ruby had also made several trips to Havana in the months before the assassination in order to arrange deals in which arms would be sold to Cuba and in which illegal drugs from Cuba would be smuggled into the United States.[43] Sturgis also claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald was involved in the conspiracy, and that other governments either were involved in the conspiracy or knew of the conspiracy.[43] He said that his investigation did not reveal that Cuban exiles were involved in the assassination.[43]
Sturgis declined to specifically identify the sources of his information, but noted he said that they included members of the "anti-Castro Cuban underground".[43][44] He further claimed that associates of his involved in intelligence had independently confirmed his report.[43][44] According to Sturgis, his report was made in early 1964 and that it was given to "certain American intelligence agencies, including the Senate Internal Security Committee".[44] He said that he did not know if it had been forwarded to the Warren Commission.[43] Similarly, Sturgis said that information about the 1964 reports had been provided to the Rockefeller Commission as well as the Church Committee's intelligence subcommittee chaired by Richard Schweiker, but that he did not know if they received the actual reports.[43][44]
Sturgis stated he was revealing that he made the reports in order to refute "the leftist element in the country" who claimed the CIA was involved in the assassination of Kennedy.[45] Jack Ruby's brother, Earl, responded to the allegations as "outlandish", "ridiculous", and "absolutely false".[46][47]
Marita Lorenz: Sturgis with Oswald[edit]
In September 1977, Marita Lorenz told Paul Meskil of the New York Daily News that she met Oswald in the fall of 1963 at an Operation 40 safe house in the Little Havana section of Miami.[22] According to Lorenz, she met him again before the Kennedy assassination in 1963 in the house of Orlando Bosch, with Sturgis, Pedro Luis Díaz Lanz, and two other Cubans present.[22] She said the men studied Dallas street maps and that she suspected that they were planning on raiding an arsenal.[22] Lorenz stated that she joined the men traveling to Dallas in two cars and carrying "rifles and scopes", but flew back to Miami the day after they arrived.[22] In response to her allegations, Sturgis said he did not recall ever meeting Oswald and reiterated his previous denials of being involved in a conspiracy to kill Kennedy.[22]
On October 31, 1977, Sturgis was arrested in Lorenz's apartment after Lorenz told police that Sturgis threatened her in an attempt to force her to change her testimony to federal investigators.[48] In an interview with Steve Dunleavy of the New York Post shortly after he posted bail, Sturgis said that he believed communist agents had pressured Lorenz into making the accusations against him.[49] Later that week in Manhattan Criminal Court, charges against Sturgis were dropped after the prosecutor told the judge that his office found no evidence of coercion or harassment.[48] Recapping the series of events, Timothy Crouse of The Village Voice described Sturgis and Lorenz as "two of the most notoriously unreliable sources in America".[50]
Posthumous allegations: Hunt's "deathbed confession"[edit]
After the death of Hunt in 2007, John Hunt and David Hunt revealed that their father had recorded several claims about himself and others being involved in a conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy.[51][52] In the April 5, 2007 issue of Rolling Stone, John Hunt detailed a number of individuals implicated by his father including Sturgis, as well as Cord Meyer, David Sánchez Morales, David Atlee Phillips, William Harvey and an assassin he termed "French gunman grassy knoll" who many presume was Lucien Sarti.[52][53] The two sons alleged that their father cut the information from his memoirs, "American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate and Beyond", to avoid possible perjury charges.[51] According to Hunt's widow and other children, the two sons took advantage of Hunt's loss of lucidity by coaching and exploiting him for financial gain.[51] The Los Angeles Times said they examined the materials offered by the sons to support the story and found them to be "inconclusive".[51]
Portugal, 1980: Camarate Affair[edit]
Sturgis is also linked to the assassination, on December 4, 1980, of Portuguese prime minister Francisco de Sá Carneiro and 6 other people aboard a Cessna aircraft, in what became known as the Camarate affair. He was named by two of his alleged accomplices, Fernando Farinha Simões and José Esteves, in a written confession,[54] as the person who pressed the button of the detonator to activate the bomb on the plane.
Later life[edit]
In an obituary published December 5, 1993, The New York Times quoted Sturgis' lawyer, Ellis Rubin, as saying that Sturgis died of cancer a week after he was admitted to a veterans hospital in Miami, five days shy of his 69th birthday. It was reported that doctors diagnosed lung cancer that had spread to his kidneys, and that he was survived by a wife, Jan, and a daughter named Autumn.[1]
1. ^ a b "Frank A. Sturgis, Is Dead at 68; A Burglar in the Watergate Affair". The New York Times. New York. December 5, 1993. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
2. ^ a b c Jim Hunt and Bob Risch, Cuba on My Mind: The Secret Lives of Watergate Burglar Frank Sturgis (New York: A Forge Book, December 30, 2009, p. 35.
3. ^ Jim Hunt and Bob Risch (2011). Warrior. New York: A Forge Book, pp. 25–26.
4. ^ Central Intelligence Agency. Behind Japanese Lines in Burma: The Stuff of Intelligence Legend (2001). Retrieved 30 May 2012.
5. ^ Peers, William R. and Dean Brelis. Behind the Burma Road: The Story of America's Most Successful Guerrilla Force. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1963, back cover.
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7. ^ Jim Hunt and Bob Risch, Warrior (New York: A Forge Book, May 2011), pp. 30–44.
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54. ^ Carvalho, Frederico Duarte (2012). Camarate: Sá Carneiro e as armas para o Irão. Lisbon: Editorial Planeta. ISBN 978-9896573430.
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• Escalante, Fabian (1995). The Secret War: CIA Covert Operations Against Cuba, 1959–62. ISBN 1-875284-86-9
• Schlesinger, Arthur M. (1978). Robert Kennedy and His Times. ISBN 978-0-233-97085-1
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/46334 | Find Out How Many Cores Your (CPU) Processor Has
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With the latest versions of Intel processors, it is certain that most consumer desktops will very soon be equipped with 2, 4 and even 6-core machines.
The main component on any computer is the central processing unit, which stands for central processing unit. The CPU receives the instructions and then performs the calculations. Thus, if a processor can only process one set of instructions on a single one, it has only one kernel.
If a processor can process two sets of instructions simultaneously, it is considered a dual-core processor. If it can process four sets of instructions simultaneously, it is a quad-core processor. The more cores a processor has, the more instruction sets it can process at the same time.
How can you see the number of cores in your CPU?
Using the Task Manager
As a computer user, I discover it by pressing Ctrl Shift Esc (preferably) or Ctrl Alt Del and then selecting Task Manager. Click on “More details” below. Navigate to the Performance tab and from there you should see information called “Cores” and “Logical Processors” under the graphs. The following figure shows the number of cores in purple/blue, the number of logic processors in yellow and the CPU model in red.
If you haven’t noticed, the CPU model is “AMD FX(tm)-6100 Six-Core Processor”. However, the purple box indicates “Kernels: 3”. Because the “core” of the AMD Piledriver and Bulldozer is actually composed of two nuclei, which are fused to a “module”. This means that there are 2 integer processing units, but only 1 floating point processing unit, shared cache, etc. The question of whether a module forms two nuclei or a nucleus is debatable. In my tests, whole mathematics and floating point mathematics seem to be spread out well. Enough chatter.
The number of processors (number of CPUs) on your computer is called “sockets”, it is above the violet/blue highlight. A processor enters a power outlet. The computer will not display (boot) unless all sockets have a processor inside, so you can assume that 2 sockets = 2 CPUs.
Using the Command Prompt or PowerShell
WMIC CPU Get DeviceID,NumberOfCores,NumberOfLogicalProcessors
and you will get a list of cores / logic processors for each CPU of your machine.
Or if you’re lazy, just type it in.
WMIC CPU Get /Format:List
and search for entries named NumberOfCores and NumberOfLogicalProcessors.
Use of system information
Press Windows + R and type msinfo32 and press Enter.
On the right side you will find the processor and your cores and logic processors are listed there.
Through third party programs
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This is the most recent information about J. Geils Band that has been submitted to amIright. If we have more information about J. Geils Band, then we provide a link to the section where it appears (the actual page whenever possible).
Possible Misspelled Names:
J Giels Band, J. Gelis Band
Band Name Origins:
• The band name is after the guitarist JOHN Geils, not Jerome. The lead singer used to call J. Geils a host of 'nicknames' including Jerome, even though his real name is John. J., he now goes by "Jay Geils". Submitted by: Tim
• Jerome Geils was the musician who put the band together. Submitted by: Rock Nurse
Music Performer Nicknames:
Known informally as: The Jewish Rolling Stones. Submitted by: Todd W. Zimmerman
New Song Names:
Original Song Name
New Song Name
Submitter Name
"Piss On the Wheel""Piss On the Wall"Russian Cosmonaut Tradition B4 Launch
"Bush Stinks""Love Stinks"pro-Tong
"Sex Stinks""Love Stinks"rocker
Literally Impossible Song Titles:
Submitter Name
"Love Stinks,"Love has no smellIsac
"Love Stinks,"Love does not have an odor.Red Ruffcorn
Use a Song Title to Answer a Different Song:
Song & Band Name
Song & Band Name
"Love Is A Rose," Linda Ronstadt"Love Stinks," The J. Geils Band
"19th Nervous Breakdown," The Rolling Stones"Insane, Insane Again," The J. Geils Band
"You're The One," The Vogues"You're The Only One," J. Geils Band
"I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby," Justine Washington"Just Can't Wait," J. Geils Band
There are additional songs titles that answer other songs available.
Remove a Letter From a Song Title:
"Freeze Fame" originally "Freeze Frame"
Alison Runyon
"Love Sinks" originally "Love Stinks"
That happens sometimes.
Add a Letter to a Song Title:
"One Blast Kiss" originally "One Last Kiss"
Samantha Wayland
"One Least Kiss" originally "One Last Kiss"
Samantha Wayland
"Lover Stinks" originally "Love Stinks"
In a way that a bath would cure, or not?
Trina Lufkin
"Glove Stinks" originally "Love Stinks"
Reese Witherfork
Change a Letter:
"Freeze Flame" originally "Freeze Frame"
I'd like to see that done!
Martha Hankins
"Give In To Me" originally "Give It To Me"
"Gave It To Me" originally "Give It To Me"
"Love Sticks" originally "Love Stinks"
Jessica Childress
"Breeze Frame" originally "Freeze Frame"
Alison Runyon
There are additional song titles with a letter changed available.
Mar 30
a parody of "Centerfold" by J. Geils Band
Looks like the financial crisis is starting to effect EVERYONE!
YouTube: (MP3)
Song Parody Lyrics:
Original Song Name
Parody Song Name
Parody Author
"Rage In The Cage""Plague On The Rage"Ana Fana An' A Panoply O' Paro' Pals
"Centerfold""Center Hold"John A. Barry
"Freeze Frame""Z-Plague"Robert D. Arndt Jr.
"Love Stinks""Nets Stinks II"Max Power
"Centerfold""Centaurfoal"John A. Barry
"Freeze-Frame""Self Shot"Warren Baker
"Love Stinks""Pets Stinks"Max Power
"Freeze Frame""Freeze Brain"Robert D. Arndt Jr.
"Freeze Frame""Brainwaves (Rethought)"Wild Child JIN
"Centerfold""Santa is the Centerfold"Abbott Skelding
There are additional song parodies available.
Songs for Commercials, That Haven't Been Done Yet:
Song Name
Love StinksDeodorantPikachu732001
Freeze FrameKodakJoelle
Angel In BlueSmurfs Cartoon ShowVic George
Freeze FramePolaroid Camerassteven murphy
CenterfoldPlayboyBilly Florio
Bad Choices for On Hold Music:
Song Name
Freeze FrameAnchorage, Alaska Chamber of CommerceKerry
Freeze FrameMozilla Firefox Technical SupportMitzi Mozzarella
Freeze FrameCamera StoreDennis Pickle
No Anchovies PleasePizza Hut/Luca/Other pizza chainsrocky
Love StinksMarriage Counselingnicky
There are additional on hold music ideas available.
Songs for Duets, That Haven't Been Done Yet:
First Band/Song Name
Second Band/Song Name
New Song Name
Blue Rose Is
Pam Tillis
Insane, Insane Again
J. Geils Band
Blue Rose Is Insane, Insane Again
J. Geils Band
Playgirl Centerfoold
Your Love
The Outfield
Love Stinks
The J. Geils Band
Your Love Stinks
Stone Love
The Supremes
Love Stinks
J. Geils Band
Stone Love Stinks
Old Man Edgar Winter
There are additional duets that haven't been done yet available.
If Groups Combined, Their Names Might Be:
Frankie J. Geils Band
Frankie J. combined with J. Geils Band
Now it makes it seem like the band has a member with a first name, middle initial, and a last name.
Submitted By: Cassandra
The Jay-Z Geils Band
Jay-Z combined with The J. Geils Band
Submitted By: Sutch
Misheard Lyrics:
Misheard Lyrics:
Wee sing
Original Lyrics:
"Freeze Frame"
Misheard Lyrics:
Stop Tom Hawk from eating his cheese, not mine.
Original Lyrics:
Stop-time heart for me if she's not mine
"Freeze Frame"
Misheard Lyrics:
Original Lyrics:
Misheard Lyrics:
My angel is in Singapore
Original Lyrics:
My angel is the centerfold
There are additional misheard lyrics available.
Misheard Lyrics Stories:
Misheard Lyrics:
We're on a roll,
My memories have just been sold
Angels in the silicon,
Angels in the silicon.
Original Lyrics:
My blood runs cold,
My memory has just been sold
My angel is the centerfold,
Angel is the centerfold.
Story about this misheard lyric by: Brady of the Kaelins
I could never find this freakin' song because I couldn't hear the word "Centerfold", the key word for searching this song. Also, Dawson Mckenny is a tard.
There are additional misheard stories available.
Funniest Song Lyrics:
The Funny Lyrics:
Well, one day, I'm looking through a girly magazine
And there's my homeroom angel,
On the pages in between!
Why They're Funny:
If you didn't know this song was about his crush in high school being in a porno mag, you might would have thought he was flippin through like seventeen or Elle magazine or something and she was like a model in there...or somethin'....
Submitted by: Anna
Repetitive Song Lyrics:
The Repetitive Lyrics:
My heart runs cold,
my angel is a centerfold.
Angel is a centerfold.
Why They're Repetitive:
Say it again guys. Like we didn't hear you the first 20 someodd times you said that.
Submitted by: Celeste
"Love Stinks"
The Repetitive Lyrics:
Love stinks, yeah, yeah, (love stinks)
Why They're Repetitive:
After about a minute and umpteen repercussions of this line, the song starts to stink, too.
Submitted by: rocky
There are additional repetitive lyrics available.
Songs That Open With Their Titles:
"Freeze Frame"
Opening Lines:
Freeze frame!
This is shouted at the beginning of the song.
Submitted by: Vic George
Song Title Space Change:
"Flame Throw ER " originally "Flamethrower"
Submitted by: George Straitjacket
"Loves Tin K's" originally "Love Stinks"
Whatever those are
Submitted by: Mr. Joe
"Lovest Inks" originally "Love Stinks"
(like in biblical language, "Thou lovest inks".)
Submitted by: Doug Wells
Bad Grammar in Song Lyrics:
"Must Of Got Lost"
The Lyrics:
I must of got lost
"Of" is a preposition, not a verb.
Submitted by: RJSchex
Band Name Anagrams:
Bad Jingles Submitted by: Alexis
Song Title Anagrams:
"Reflect Don" originally "Centerfold"
Submitted by: Oliver South
"Novel Skits" originally "Love Stinks"
Submitted by: Bruce
"So Link Vest" originally "Love Stinks"
Submitted by: Bruce
"Lost Knives" originally "Love Stinks"
Submitted by: Bruce
"Recent Fold" originally "Centerfold"
Submitted by: Alexis
Song Title Acrostics:
GO: "Gettin' Out"
Submitted by: Candy Welty
NAP: "No Anchovies Please"
Submitted by: Sutch
ID: "I Do"
Submitted by: Candy Welty
POW: "P*** On The Wall"
Submitted by: Rocky
Song Title Spoonerisms:
"This Pawnee Wall" originally "Piss On The Wall"
Submitted by: Mary Byram
"This Pawnee Wall" originally "Piss On The Wall"
Submitted by: Mary Byram
"This On Pee Wall" originally "Piss On The Wall"
Submitted by: Mary Byram
"This On Wee Paul" originally "Piss On The Wall"
Submitted by: Mary Byram
"Folder Scent" originally "Centerfold"
Submitted by: Josh
Band Name Spoonerisms:
G. Jails Band originally "J. Geils Band"
Submitted by: Peter
Lighter Side of Serious Bands:
"Piss On The Wall"
This song is the last track on Freeze Frame and the title says it all
Submitted by: Tim Hall
"No Anchovies Please"
This has a storyline about a woman who dials a number and gets captured by a group of foreigners. And it ends with the woman's husband Don realizing that a bowling ball is his wife's head!
Submitted by: Paul Warren
Backwards Messages:
"No Anchovies Please"
In the part where the woman is in a foreign place and she hears foreign language, It's actually "It doesn't take a genius to know the difference between Chicken Sh*t and Chicken Salad". But having it said backwards, it sounds foreign.
Submitted by: Paul Warren
"No Anchovies, Please"
The funny sounding alien sounds at the end are actually: "It doesn't take a genius to know the difference between chicken shit and chicken salad."
Submitted by: ChuckyG
Movies Named After Song Titles:
"Love Stinks"
And the movie stunk, too.
Submitted by: Unfunny
Other Artists:
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I Want My Badassedness Back
I probably made a huge mistake this morning but nothing new about that. I let the chickens out. The barred rock right in front there is the one that was wounded by the dog. I do believe he's a rooster because I'd just started noticing tail feathers growing in. He's just hanging out by the waterer. He can walk but is definitely injured.
The dog owner came by last night and apologized profusely which was the neighborly thing to do. He's getting rid of the dog and good for him. He did indeed nip a child and supposedly learned to kill chickens when some of my neighbor's birds flew into their yard when he was a pup.
My heart is still rather broken.
In fact, the badass fierce woman who came back from Cuba has disappeared, almost entirely.
I don't know. Sometimes I just feel like I'm tired of everything. Maybe I'm just tired.
Yesterday I felt like I did a horrible job of grandmothering. I told Owen I was disappointed in him because of something he did which was just something any six-year old boy would have done and I hurt his little heart and that heart my old worn-out heart and I can barely stop crying about it.
This heat brings on all sorts of insanity. It's like we barely have enough energy to do what must be done and it leaves nothing left for the sweet luxuries of humor or grace.
But that's probably just an excuse.
Maybe I'm turning into my mother who used guilt and martyrdom to manipulate and control those around her. God I hope not. I'd rather jump off a cliff now and spare the world the pain.
Or maybe I should just move my whiney old ass away from the ones I love in order to spare them the agony.
Does that sound martyry?
Is it too late to become someone new? Someone smarter and wiser and more adventuresome? Someone who might sit down and finish one of the several novels she started writing back in the old days? Someone who, in some ways, gives far less of a fuck and in others, far more of one?
I have no clue. Not one.
But I do have this.
Thank you, Rufus. I loved your daddy, I love you. I probably still love your daddy but now this is about his son.
Despair and redemption. Music. Leonard Cohen (who is the grandfather of Rufus Wainwright's daughter, by the way) wrote the song and if you want to hear it from the master's mouth, here you go.
Some days you just have to remind yourself that there is beauty and there is magnificence and splendor even in this crazy, fucked up world where we are all, at times, crazy and fucked up, and this is one of those for me.
Love...Ms. Moon
1. You are still BA, even in humility. If you love that song, check out Brandi Carlile's version.
2. Dear Ms Moon, regarding Owen....all kids occasionally need a reprimand when their behavior warrants it. He won't be scarred for life by being told someone was disappointed in him when he was acting up! And six isn't too young to start to understand the effect of his actions on other people's feelings. That's part of the process of growing up to be a decent human being.
Please don't be so hard on yourself! You are a WONDERFUL grandmother, and mother, and lady. Owen is lucky, and so is the rest of your family. And you can bet they all know it!
Hugs to you!
3. Forget your troubles.Come on over. Have a sit down,a glass of something nice and help me with playing detective.(You will see what mean)
4. You're human.
Telling someone you're disappointed in them... it might not be good to hear but it's not hugely high on the list of abusive behaviours.
He knows how proud you are of him, how much you adore him, how fabulous you think he is. You were disappointed in something he did in that minute, not really him.
Don't cry. Just talk to him and explain you feel bad and tell him all the good things. We all make mistakes and do things we regret - it's how you manage it afterwards that counts in the long run - given that this is a blip in your ridiculously exemplary grandmotherly record.
It's ok, it's ok, both of you. You can sort it out easy. Don't cry. Hug it better.
5. When my now almost-20-year-old granddaughter was five she yelled something at me (strange, but I don't remember what it was), and I got down on the floor with her and told her how disappointed I was that she used that tone of voice. She began the hiccuping, then the sobbing, and I followed suit. My heart still hurts just thinking about that, and, oddly, she has no memory of it at all. You've had a loss in your family (chickens = pets = family), and you don't have to be BadAss all the time.
6. We all have days we wish to do over. We are human. Tomorrow is a new day.
I love that song no matter who is singing it. If you want to hear another wonderful version, check out Canada's k.d.lang at the 2010 Olympics, here:
7. By the way, each and every time I listen to him sing Hallelujah I sob...deep, heart-wrenching, cleansing sobs...which I'm doing right now.
8. well, what else can you do when they come and take responsibility?
my mother has come out of my mouth at times and I always cringe when I realize it. it didn't, doesn't make me her. this Mary Moon is just fine and yes sometimes we say things we don't think about, and are aghast when it hurts someone we love. we apologize and move forward in love.
9. If your grown kids came to you with this story, and told you how badly they felt about themselves because of it, what would you say to them? I am willing to bet you would say something comforting and sensible. It's too bad we can't speak as lovingly to ourselves.
10. You will get your badassaedness back for sure.
Owen loves you so very much and he will understand.
You are just how a Grandma should be, in my mind. And Leonard Cohen is the best singer/songwriter in my mind, so I can't be far wrong... Sending hugs x
11. you are always a badass to me.
12. Oh, I know that feeling! Naps are good. I bet your mother didn't feel so much guilt and remorse, so phew, you're not her!
14. I am glad he is getting rid of the dog. Sometimes things we don't want to do need to be done. And sometimes we hurt the feelings of those you love the most. You will make it right and that will bring you even closer. Hurting those we love happens. It does.
I saw that Hallelujah video a few days back. I cried!
Do you have any tattoos? You could get one that that says you are a badass. I know my snoopy and woodstock tattoo strikes fear into the hearts of everyone that sees it.
15. Ashley- Beautiful.
Jennifer- I am coming to terms with all of that. Being a grandmother is something altogether different from anything I've ever known.
Angela- That was interesting.
Jo- I think we have done. Bless his tender little heart. And my tender old one.
Catrina- Thank you. I know it will all be fine.
jenny_o- I have been a huge fan of her's since forever. Thank you. I'm trembling in my soul.
Catrina- Talk about your cleanses- there you go.
Ellen Abbott- Yes m'am. Thank you for the reminder.
anonova- Lily has been doing just that. I appreciate it so much.
bugerlugs- Amen and there you go. Thank you.
Mrs. A- You have no idea how much that means to me. Thank you.
Betsy- God. I hope not. Thank you, darling.
Birdie- I don't have any tattoos but the funny thing is, after I got back from Cuba I thought that maybe I should get one to memorialize the occasion. Or...get my nose pierced. Something.
16. All we can do is do our best. And some days we mess up. We all do it.
17. Owen will be fine. He knows his grandma loves him. Plus your heart was hurting over the chickens. So happy to hear the dog owner is sending the dog elsewhere. And you my dear will always be a badass to me. Hmmm a tattoo. I like the idea!
18. Wait -- Rufus Wainwright has a daughter?!
I often feel like I want a do-over.
19. I am sure that your talking to Owen won't make him an axe murderer. But I get your feeling bad too. For the record, I think you are the best at the parenting and grandparenting thing. I don't see how you have the patience.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/46374 | Friday, 6 January 2012
The Travelling Theatrical Tour: Freedom
It's day two of the Travelling Theatrical Tour and the second stop on our journey is the Black Static Blog over at TTA Press.
In today's post "The Travelling Theatrical Tour: Freedom" I talk about every procrastinating writer's best friend. Well my best friend. I hope you'll check it out.
Black Static (and its sister magazine Interzone) are two of my favourite magazines. In fact, my favourite short story of 2011 is Black Feathers by Alison Littlewood which appeared in issue 22. They've also published work by Ramsey Campbell, Ray Cluley, Simon Bestwick, Christopher Fowler, Simon Clark, Barbara A Barnett, Sarah Pinborough, Gary McMahon and a gazillion others. Though you probably already know that.
Note to self: subscription is due next month.
Many thanks to Peter Tennant who made the TTA visit possible. I'm a huge fan of Pete's personal blog - one of the funniest on the web. Or maybe I have a similar sense of humour. If you haven't got it bookmarked already, you should do so now.
In case it got lost in my ramble, the link to the guest blog: The Travelling Theatrical Tour: Freedom
Other stops on the blog tour:
Ray Cluley said...
Wise words. I went a bit overboard and removed the internet entirely, which certainly helped with writing production. Problem is, now it means I can only read everyone's wonderful blogs and do my research (and watch Youtube)when I'm at work. And I suspect I'm supposed to be working then.
Ray Cluley said...
Oh, and did the blindfold and liquorice Allsort involve a describing activity of some kind, or shouldn't I ask???
Deborah Walker said...
I don't think I'm ready for Freedom, quite yet. I love my slack ways.
Thank so much for guest blogging, on my site. It was a fabulous success. Come back any time.
Cate Gardner said...
I'm impressed, Ray. I don't think I'll ever be brave enough to remove the internet entirely. I'm going to leave the blindfold etc to the imagination.
You get plenty of writing done without it, Deborah. Thanks again for inviting me along.
Tyhitia Green said...
Wow, Cate. Great post. And I need to download Freedom, asap.
Congratulations on the release on Theater! :-)
Pete said...
Many thanks Cate for an entertaining and informative post.
And Ray, when I asked about the blindfold and the Liquorice Allsort she gave exactly the same answer, that she'd leave it to my imagination. I'm now wondering where to send the story as I'm not at all familiar with those type of markets.
Cate Gardner said...
Thanks, Tyhitia
I'm sure you'll find a suitable market at Duotrope, Pete
Pete said...
Already checked Cate, and I can't find a single publication that's open to fiction about the more obscure forms of freemasonry.
Jeff Coffield said...
Cate, thanks for the writing advice and the Freedom suggestion. Since I work, my time is limited and I'd rather write than waste that time.
Now, I wonder what other rabbits you have in your hat.
Cate Gardner said...
Pete, how'd you know it was something to do with the Freemasons? Where you there? Damn, I'm in trouble now.
I only keep rats in my hat, Jeff. I waste far too much time so Freedom is a godsend.
Ray Cluley said...
I thought the Freemasons favoured jellybeans, and the occasional walnut whip? (I may have been victim of a hoax...)
Cate Gardner said...
They welcome all sugary and chocolate treats, Ray.
Pete said...
Ray, you're getting them confused with the Illuminati.
Cate, I was the one dressed as Bertie Bassett.
Unknown said...
Your work forces out your followers for blog commenting. |
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The Top Tin
or, Ten Years of Rules on the Wall
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Aluminium already has
its own card while tin doesn't.
The modern anniversary gift for a tenth anniversary is diamond, but the traditional gift is either tin (possibly because puns are always in vogue) or aluminum. In order to not start a riot over the proper spelling of aluminium, and because "diamond anniversary" has a much better-known connotation, we're going to stick with tin for this anniversary.
What we're going to do is hop in Ugin's time machine and look at two questions from each year we've been writing. We'll look at the old answer, and then form a shiny new answer for you to feast your eyes upon! Now, we did this five years ago for our fifth anniversary, and it wasn't easy. Magic's rules are fairly stable, with the 6ED and M10 overhauls being the single sets of sweeping changes. This mission could turn into a hilarious failure, but at least it will be an educational failure. [Note from the future: It wasn't quite as bad as I was afraid, with only two drifting off-topic into a joke...]
Meanwhile in the present, you can send in questions you have to moko@cranialinsertion.com or send short questions for short answers to @CranialTweet on Twitter. Not only will you get an answer from one of the writers, and your question may appear in a future article, but you may also be quoted five or ten years in the future!
Q: I have a Forest with Genju of the Cedars on it. My opponent uses Blind Seer to make my Forest black. I activate my Genju, animating my Forest. What color is it?
A: Old Answer: The Genju's effect modifies the Forest's type to be a creature land, and its subtype to be a Spirit. That means that the entire effect (including the color-changing and P/T-changing parts) falls in layer 4, where it is applied before Blind Seer's effect from layer 5. First, the Genju makes your Forest into a 4/4 green Spirit creature land. Then Blind Seer makes it black instead of green.
New Answer: As you can see, the layer system took a while to find its feet. Its early days were more about attempting to keep every interaction intuitive, and all of the whorls and loops caused even stranger things like this to happen. At some point not too far from here, it was decided that a programatically-simple system was better than relying on every player having the same intuition, and the current layer rules were born.
Now, a single effect that affects multiple characteristics like this gets applied over the course of multiple layers. In layer 4, the Forest gains a new type and subtype. In layer 5, we apply effects in timestamp order, with the Seer's earlier effect giving the colorless Forest a color, then the Genju's effect replacing that color with a more appropriate color.
Oh, hey, April of 2005 was the first time one of us noted that Magic did not have a Zombie Ape, which remained true right up until Khans of Tarkir gave us Sidisi's Pet. Took them long enough.
Q: This time the Shapeshifter is copying a Bringer of the Black Dawn and has 3 combat damage assigned to a creature and 2 to the player. The combat damage is still on the stack, and before it's dealt, I discard Phage. Do I win?
A: Old Answer: Yes, this one works, too. At the moment the damage is dealt to the player, the object formerly known as Bringer of the Black Dawn but currently known as Phage the Untouchable will have an ability that was waiting for just that event (namely, the object in question dealing combat damage to a player). The ability will trigger, and your opponent is soon going to lose.
New Answer: Since combat damage no longer uses the stack, the described scenario is obviously impossible. However, it's sadder than that - there's just no way at all to get Phage to trample through damage all on her own by changing form in combat. There's still a trick you can do: your Prized Elephant or whatnot can go hang out in your graveyard, let the Shapeshifter gain trample, and then it'll still have trample when Phage joins your Elephant, letting your Volrath's Phageshifter touch your opponent to death.
Q: This has probably been asked before, but I want a definitive answer. My opponent played Gifts Ungiven and found only two cards, which he said I had to put in his graveyard. But Gifts says to search for four cards. Can he do this?
A: Old Answer: He can indeed. To see why, let's look in the Comp Rules, under the glossary definition of "search."
New Answer: Imma stop you there, Tom in the Past - the answer continues to explain very deeply a pretty complex and not entirely intuitive part of the rules. But while it's not intuitive, it is important for gameplay: If you're searching, and there's criteria to the search, you can fail to find because otherwise you would have to reveal your deck to prove you can't find. Rather than make players memorize that rule, the new standard is to include "up to" or "may" in the effect to make it clear without knowing the rule if there's a reasonable chance it'd come into effect. So Gifts Ungiven? It's got errata to make it explicit that you search for "up to four cards," and anything new like it would have that printed on it. So the answer remains true, but the question's less questiony now.
Q: Who would win a Jello-wrestling match: Serra Angel, or Akroma, Angel of Wrath?
A: Old Answer: Moko, Moko, why hast thou forsaken me?
New Answer: Oh, right, because I threw out your squeaky brain. Time Spiral's legendary-creature poll taught us that Akroma wins everything, so that's answered. Also, 6/6 versus 4/4, duuuuh.
Sorry, Gerard, you don't know
about "being the best."
Q: Master of Arms [is among the cards that have received errata. Why was it changed?]
Old Oracle Text: First strike. : Tap target creature blocking Master of Arms.
New Oracle Text: First strike. : Tap target creature blocking Master of Arms. Prevent all combat damage that creature would deal this turn.
A: Old Explanation: Believe it or not, the new Oracle wording actually preserves the original functionality of this card. To explain why requires a trip back to the rules when Weatherlight was originally released, before the Sixth Edition rules. Cue the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future:
Thousands of years ago, in the dark times before the stack and when interrupts roamed the land, the rules of Magic were much different. There was a "between-turns" phase and triggered abilities couldn't be responded to with instants. And tapped blockers didn't deal combat damage.
New Explanation: It got more errata!
Yeah, that old errata got pulled off because no one in the modern day would know why it made sense, and it doesn't say it on the card, and oh well, a bad card is worse with a rules change. Life goes on.
Q: If I play a land with Exploration out, and then Exploration is bounced, can I play another land?
A: Old Answer: Did you announce that the first land was played for Exploration's allowance? If you didn't, it's assumed that you played that land as your land drop for the turn. But if you said "I play this land for Exploration," then you still have your normal land drop to use.
New Answer: Did that sound confusing? That's because it was confusing. Now it's not confusing because it's not the rule anymore. You just add up how many lands various effects say at this moment that you're allowed to play, compare it to how many lands you have played, and if the first number is greater than the second you may play another land.
Q: If I Mindslaver my opponent, can I cast his Burning Wish and look at his sideboard?
A: Old Answer: No. The fact that Wishes can grab from the sideboard is a tournament mechanic, but one little policy point trumps the Wishes: A player may never look at an opponent's sideboard. Therefore a player can not access his opponent's sideboard if he controls his turn. This is the same logic that keeps Platinum Angel from being a shield against Game Losses.
New Answer: The contents of a player's sideboard, much like the contents of a player's hand, is now information that the player simply always has available. It's not a game action to look at it because it's just info the player already has. When you control an opponent, you have access to all of the information that player does, including what's in the sideboard, so you can look without even having to finagle a Wish into the situation.
Q: Can we sanction Cube Drafts?
A: Old Answer: Like Elder Dragon Highlander, Cube Draft is an awesome, fun-filled format that the DCI does not approve. [Huge frowny face goes here.] The rules for sanctioning a draft are that all players must receive the same amount and type of booster pack product, but that product must be sealed; you can run some really wacky drafts with Mirage, Stronghold, Homelands, and Mirrodin if you want, but Cube is not doable.
New Answer: While unusual formats can't be sanctioned in the sense of being rated events that give you many Planeswalker Points, they can be used for FNM, which may or may not fall under your definition of "sanctioned." You'll get a participation point, and the store can award the FNM promos for the week to the Cube drafters. There won't be any sort of Wizards-recorded leaderboards for Cube drafting, just fun. Same for Commander. Meanwhile, Mirage/Stronghold/Homelands/Mirrodin drafts are still entirely valid for sanctioned, rated FNMs.
Q: In a Standard tournament, can I name Tarmogoyf with Runed Halo?
A: Old Answer: Sure, any real Magic card is legal to name with Runed Halo. Naming Tarmogoyf won't be terribly useful though, but it will get you major props from me.
New Answer: The side effect of this rule, though, was that if you used a perfectly clear shorthand like "Shackles" for Vedalken Shackles in Modern or misspoke and said "Searing Spear" instead of "Lightning Strike" in Standard, you got hosed. To reduce the chances of semantics blowing you out rather than misplays, the rules allow you to name only a card that is legal in the format you're playing - so there is very definitely still a chance to shoot yourself in the foot, but it's smaller.
Q: Can I use Tel-Jilad Stylus to kill a token my opponent got from my Hunted Horror?
A: Old Answer: Your opponent may think those are his tokens, but as far as the Stylus is concerned, they're all yours. The owner of a token is the player who controlled the effect that created it. You controlled the Horror's triggered ability, so you can etch those tokens into oblivion.
New Answer: One of the relatively minor M10 rules changes was to change who owns tokens. The owner of a token is the player who controlled it at the moment it entered the battlefield. While we all here at Cranial Insertion love shenanigans, the game has quite enough of them without quirky ones like this was.
Q: The Saviors of Kamigawa Player's Guide says that if you splice Evermind onto a Glacial Ray, the Ray is blue. But I read somewhere else that that's not true. Which is correct?
A: Old Answer: The guide is wrong. An overexcited editor slipped it in before the Wizards rules team got to the question. The official ruling is that characteristic-setting abilities are *not* copied during splicing, so your Ray is still a red spell.
Old New Answer: And not too long after the SOK FAQ said that the guide was wrong, the guide turned out to be prophetic. This must have been with either the 9ED or RAV rules update, but there's nothing special about CDAs being copied: Evermind's is copied on just fine.
New New Answer: And then along came Innistrad, with its color indicator technology for double-faced cards, which removed Evermind's CDA entirely. Bereft of that ability, there's nothing to be spliced onto the Glaciay Ray other than "Draw a card." and the now-pointless splice ability itself, and no reason at all for Glacial Ray to become blue.
Q: If I flip up Assault // Battery for Dark Confidant, do I lose 5 life or do I get to choose a side?
A: Old Answer: Split cards are very strange beings indeed. Except on the stack, they literally have two sets of characteristics. When Dark Confidant asks Assault//Battery what its converted mana cost is, it gets two answers, 1 and 4. It makes you lose "1 and 4" life, so you lose 1 and 4 life and end up 5 life below where you were.
New Answer: We used to have to say "1 and 4 is 5, so you lose 1 and 4 life, but you don't lose 5 life." That's a headache to envision and explain. Thanks to Living Lore, it's also no longer the case. If an effect asks for the converted mana cost of a split card to bind a variable, it gets the sum of them, and you lose 5 life, no messing around with "1 and 4 at once" or anything.
Comparisons continue to work as before, where "Is CMC less than 3?" gets "yes" and "no" and "yes" overrules the "no." But it's a lot easier on humans to be told "1 is less than 3, so it's true" than "1 and 4 is not 5."
Q: Can Spell Crumple really get rid of my commander? I can't choose to put it in the command zone?
A: Old Answer: You can only bop your commander over into the command zone by replacing it going to a graveyard or replacing it being exiled. Spell Crumple's self-replacement effect, which modifies what it means for it to counter the spell, immediately shunts your commander over to your library , and then the commander-to-command replacement effect can't kick in. It's mean, but it's a valid trick.
New Answer: It's so mean, in fact, that it's no longer a valid trick. Starting with Dragons of Tarkir, hand and library are added to the list of zones that let you shove your commander into the command zone.
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Q: Can I cast a double-faced card sunny-side up (or down?) with Illusionary Mask?
A: Old Answer: No such luck. Double-faced cards can never be face down according to rule 711.4, so trying to cast one face down is an illegal action.
New Answer: This moved down to 711.8 and got an overhaul to deal with manifest, and one of those changes was allowing a double-faced card to exist or be cast face down. You can't turn one face down once it's gotten to the battlefield, so Ixidron still gets to cower in fear of Werewolves. Those Werewolves may just now wear a funky mask to conceal their true identity.
Q: What happens when I use a Phantasmal Image to copy my opponent's Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre?
A: Old Answer: Both of them will wind up in the graveyard due to the legend rule, but you probably know that. What might be surprising is that only the real Ulamog will be shuffled into its owner's library. Triggered abilities that trigger when an object is put into the graveyard from the battlefield will look back in time to see what should've triggered, but things that trigger when an object is put into the graveyard "from anywhere" like the legendary Eldrazi only trigger from the zone they're in. When the Phantasmal Image of Ulamog is in your graveyard, it's just a Phantasmal Image, so it doesn't have the "shuffle me back in with everything else!" ability.
New Answer: The legend rule won't take out either of them anymore. I really have to include that somewhere in this article, as many times as I'm reading "the legend rule kills them" on old articles. Post-M14, the legend rule only applies within the context of what a single player controls. I chose this one to put in here because the rest of the answer is still correct for when either or both of the Ulamogs die, and that's pretty awesome.
Q: I've got a 3/3 Centaur token, and my opponent casts Traitorous Instinct to steal it. In response I cast Rootborn Defenses to get another Centaur for blocking; will the one I keep be indestructible? What about the one my opponent takes with Traitorous Instinct?
A: Old Answer: Your Centaur will be quite indestructible, while the one your opponent gets will be quite... well, not. First of all, you always carry out the instructions in a spell's text in order. So with Rootborn Defenses, first you populate, then your stuff gets to become indestructible. And being indestructible is kinda weird: while most effects that do something like pump your creatures' power/toughness or give them abilities will "lock in" what they apply to at resolution, an effect that makes things indestructible doesn't. What it actually does is temporarily modify the rules of the game, which means the set of things it affects can and does constantly update as necessary. So as soon as it's no longer a creature you control, that Centaur is also no longer indestructible.
New Answer: Rootborn Defenses was worded carefully with full knowledge that indestructible would become a keyword, so in the normal-use case, it'll work the same. The question above? Not exactly normal use. You'll get your little pony, both will gain indestructible, one will be dragged away in a touching dramatic scene with violins and outstretched hands, and the traitorous one will still have indestructible. When it suddenly and inevitably betrays you and attacks, its twin can block it and both will survive to help you counter-attack next turn.
Q: Before I declared attackers, my opponent cast Frost Breath targeting two of my creatures. In response, I cast Ranger's Guile to give one of them hexproof. What happens?
A: Old Answer: Fun things happen! First, Frost Breath resolves, because it does still have at least one legal target: the non-hexproof creature. It taps that creature, and that creature won't untap during your next untap step. Now, suppose you go ahead and attack with the one that gained hexproof (and that it doesn't have vigilance)... now it also won't untap during your next untap step!
The basic issue here is that we often treat "illegal target" as being identical to "can't be affected", but that's not true; it can still have an effect on the illegal target, it's just much more restricted in what it can do. Rule 608.2b tells us that when a resolving spell or ability has at least one illegal target, then (deep breath) "the part of the spell or ability's effect for which it is an illegal target can't perform any actions on that target, make another object or player perform any actions on that target, or make that target perform any actions." So Frost Breath can't tap the illegal target (that would be performing an action on it), but can say that creature won't untap during its controller's next untap step.
New Answer: That's a whole lot of words. It caused quite a few arguments among people who like to argue, and some serious discussion (and also arguments) among people who like to actually solve problems. The answer that came down was that the interaction was beyond ridiculous, and boom, 608.2b changed with Born of the Gods to also strike out continuous effects affecting game rules from affecting the illegal target.
Q: I've heard about a play/draw rule based on Swiss standings. Does that apply to the top eight of everything?
A: Old Answer: Nope, it's only mandatory at PTQs and higher events, and is optional if announced before the event for others. For those who might not know the rule in question: With it in effect, the player with the higher Swiss finish chooses whether to play or draw for the first game of each top eight match rather than the players choosing randomly.
New Answer: Turns out that this change was extremely popular. As of Fate Reforged, it's become the new universal rule for all single-elimination top-eights. As a happy side effect, it oh-so-slightly reduces the appeal of intentionally drawing.
Q: So what happens if I turn Heliod, God of the Sun into a Frog?
A: Old Answer: First, Heliod is subject to public ridicule and mockery, the likes of which shall surely result in his wrath splashing mercilessly upon the populace at some point in the future. Next, we walk very slowly and carefully through the layers.
In layer 4, Heliod might cease to be a creature. If he doesn't, he becomes a Legendary Enchantment Creature—Frog. If he does, he does not become a Frog and is just a Legendary Enchantment.
In layer 5, Heliod becomes blue. How sad.
In layer 6, Heliod loses all abilities, causing his "creatures have vigilance" ability to not apply at all and removing indestructible and token-making. It won't undo his not-a-creature ability if it applied earlier, though. That's been worked in and isn't relevant anymore.
In layer 7b, if Heliod is still a creature, he becomes 1/1. If not, he can't have a power or toughness and this part of the effect is ignored.
Like most ugly layer situations, the answer is again to walk slowly through them, and then they're not so scary. What's scary is the fury of Heliod, because man, that guy's a jerk.
New Answer: The answer hasn't changed, but this happened, making my idle joke sort of creepy. "Coastal polis," blue spells, hmmm. Things have been very stable since 2014, except for...
Q: In a tournament, if I win the game and my opponent fails to reveal all their face-down creatures, do I also win the next game?
A: Old Answer: Well, first of all it's important to note that the penalty for failing to reveal face-down creatures at the end of the game (the rules require you to do this, as a way of verifying you played them legally) is only a Game Loss at Competitive and Professional enforcement levels. At Regular enforcement, which is used for FNM and most other events in local game stores, there's no Game Loss — instead, a judge should simply educate the player on the correct procedure, and only threaten penalties if the same mistake is repeated multiple times.
Second, the tournament-policy update for Khans of Tarkir specifically explains that the Game Loss penalty for this (at Competitive and Professional enforcement) should be applied to the game in which the failure to reveal occurred, even if the player who did it lost that game. This keeps it from turning into an effective Match Loss if there's another game left to play in the match.
New Answer: Third, an off-schedule policy update in mid-December got rid of the morph Game Loss. And good riddance. If you forget, it's a Warning; if you reveal and misplayed your Island as a morph, it's still a Game Loss. If the Head Judge thinks you chose not to reveal because you realized you cast an Island face down, it's still a Disqualification. If your Island actually has morph, you're in an alternate timeline and since Island is even better I am forced to assume that this is the darkest timeline.
But back here, where Islands emphatically do not have morph, the timeline is much brighter. That's our journey through the history of Cranial Insertion, and I hope you'll stick around with us for some many more years - thank you all, readers and co-writers and editors and translators over the last decade, for this spiffy little thing we've built.
Until next time, may all your spiffy things include monkeys!
- Eli Shiffrin
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/46396 | I just published updated project on GitHub
It is Arduino based converter for processing Mavlink telemetry data and send them in Duplex format (Ex but also old text one) into your receiver (and down to earth)
Features :
- sending data over Ex protocol
- sending data as text to even old Jetiboxes (include messages)
- Alarms
Here is wiring, it is really simple : Mav2DuplexWiring Code using one hardware serial for reading telemetry from Mavlink board (ArduCopter or MegaPirateNG) and output data into Jeti as software serial. Here is video to show Alarms
16 thoughts on “Mav2Duplex
1. Hi,
I’m very impressed about your work! Congrats. I have two questions
1) What’s the difference between Jetibox.ino and MAVlink.ino?
2) Did you connect a PPM Jeti Receiver to APM 2.6? I have connectet an old Rsat receiver, and cannot get channels in right order to APM. what receiver type do you use?
1. Hi
1 – jetibox.ino is communication layer, mavlink.ino parsing data from source and fill values for jetibox.ino
2 – I am using MPNG firmware with PPM Jeti. So maybe it will not be fully same but what I did is channel order Graupner or MultiWii (not sure now) and what was really necessary, I switched RSat to emit only 8 channels instead of full 12. Without this change I was not able to get RC signal into copter
2. Hi, first of all: Thanks,for your great work!
I am using mav2duplex with megapirate and a Jeti DS 14. The only thing that is a little bad is the huge delay betwen the Mavlink and the Jeti-telemetry. Do you have any idea how to speed things up?
1. I will try to speed it up in next release for some important data (like ARM/DISARM status) but telemetry protocol is slow (9.6K non duplex) so there is not too much way to improve
3. Hello! i also have trouble with the update rate on my DC16.
Where can i find your latest release? The version on github is 9months old.
1. Latest release is on github but I have planned update for next few weeks. And yes, update rate is one of issues. Unfortunately it is not possible to speed it all (protocol is slow) so I will probably split it into priority groups and each will be send with different update rate.
4. Hi, thnx for this nice little tool ;)
i just have a question. im using an APM 2.6 with FW 3.2.1
it seems to work so far with the MAV2Duplex, but a few things are strange.
i had to connect hte Mav2Dupleyx not to RX of the APM but to TX, which made
sence to me since i want to receive data from the APM so APM has to transmit.
Well, im getting some data, e.g. that im missing a 3D Fix, YAW, Roll, PIT aso
also the Flight modes are displayed, but what im not getting is battery voltage and current (power -1V, -1A 0mAh). But in the Mission Planner its been shown propperly
when i connect via USB
So i dont know if those values are simply not transmitted, or its not beening processed by Mav2Duplex
Ill have a look in the code too, but maybe you already know what might be the problem….
1. well, after i amed tho copter once, im getting now voltage an current, so mabe its just working during flight ?!
But what im missing atm is the GPS data, everything 0 but my gps led tells me it has a 3D FIX …
5. Hi, ive still little trouble with the telemetry data. If i start the copter there is no telemetry
coming through. I always need to connect it to USB to my PC after i disconnect there is
some telemtry coming through until next power up.
Im using a DC-16 and APM 2.6. The DC16 reports 15 Sensors, is this correct ?!
The virtual JetiBox of my DC-16 shows some more Infomation like fligkt mode, where i cant find a sensor for. Sometimes the JetoBoxrandom symbos like ? and ° in places
where is does not belong .
I think im missing some information about the settings i need to do at the APM
has someone a working setup and can tell me which parameters are important for the mav2duplex to work propperly ?!
1. Telemetry output needs to be enabled. You can do it with “Enable OSD” in Mission Planner as OSD using same data as Mav2Duplex. 15 sensors is correct. Can you send pictures of problem symbols to ?
Parameters are problem because each person prefers different set of them.
Look at , there is discussion about parameters and also other users with DC-16 so you can discuss it with them.
6. Hi, I’m trying to compile but getting lots of errors. I was using Arduino 1.8.2 and I revive a simple message of :- can not compile for this board…
Installed Arduino 1.0.6 and I receive pages of errors.
Board= Teensy-LC
Any chance of a hex file please?
1. Teensy-LC using completely different processor than small duinos. Unfortunatelly this processor is not supported. I am working on support for AtMega32U4 as it started to be common in small ones but CortexM0 is not on my list
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