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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47394 | January 3 I Friday
Genesis 7-9
Matthew 3
“May my prayer be set before You like incense; may
—Psalm 141:2
When asked what is one of the key ingredients to any relationship, we will find that the answer is always communication. Every time human relationships fall apart, it is almost always because of a breakdown in communication. When marriages run into trouble, the number one reason for marriage breakdown is poor communication. When we stop talking, we also stop listening; in fact, when we stop listening, it is probably more crucial than stopping talking. Even friendships dry up because we stop spending time together.
I have had some people come to me with this concern many times saying, “I am a Christian. I believe in God and I love Jesus Christ. But what I can’t seem to understand is why my Christian life feels so dry. God seems distant to me.” I would then follow-up with a question asking, “How much time do you spend alone with God?” And the response I almost always receive is, “That’s my weak spot.” Of course God is distant if they do not spend time listening and talking to Him. Prayer brings us into relationship with God, that is, it brings us into communication. Hence, when the Christian life becomes dull, when God becomes distant, when our Christian experiences become dry, we can be very sure that there is very little prayer going on.
When we pray, we are journeying into the heart of God. In Bill Hybels’s book Too Busy Not to Pray, he explains how for twenty-odd years he had not taken time to pray with any discipline or regularity. Yet, when he began to restructure his life so there was time to pray, he recounts, “…my prayer life has been transformed. The greatest fulfillment has not been the list of miraculous answers to prayers I have received, although that has been wonderful. The greatest thrill has been the qualitative difference in my relationship with God. And when I started to pray, I didn’t know that was going to happen.” For Hybels, his motive to pray was that there are a lot of things he needed to bring God into, such as his life, church and nation. But the greatest thing he discovered is that suddenly, he began to love and enjoy God in a new way.
For us, prayer is like the oxygen of the soul—when we deny ourselves of the oxygen we need, we will begin to starve. If we are experiencing dryness in our relationship with God, will we make a commitment to spend time daily in prayer? Believe me, the greatest change we will find in our life from praying is the quality of our relationship with God.
Prayer: Almighty God, thank You that my relationship with You is where I find the deepest needs of my heart being fulfilled. Help me commit to spending time daily with You in prayer.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47398 | Rectal Diseases: Pathological developments in the RECTUM region of the large intestine (INTESTINE, LARGE).Telemedicine: Delivery of health services via remote telecommunications. This includes interactive consultative and diagnostic services.Hospitals, Voluntary: Private, not-for-profit hospitals that are autonomous, self-established, and self-supported.Hospitals, Proprietary: Hospitals owned and operated by a corporation or an individual that operate on a for-profit basis, also referred to as investor-owned hospitals.PennsylvaniaOrganizations, Nonprofit: Organizations which are not operated for a profit and may be supported by endowments or private contributions.Remote Consultation: Consultation via remote telecommunications, generally for the purpose of diagnosis or treatment of a patient at a site remote from the patient or primary physician.Ulcer: A lesion on the surface of the skin or a mucous surface, produced by the sloughing of inflammatory necrotic tissue.Proctoscopy: Endoscopic examination, therapy or surgery of the rectum.Rectal Prolapse: Protrusion of the rectal mucous membrane through the anus. There are various degrees: incomplete with no displacement of the anal sphincter muscle; complete with displacement of the anal sphincter muscle; complete with no displacement of the anal sphincter muscle but with herniation of the bowel; and internal complete with rectosigmoid or upper rectum intussusception into the lower rectum.Colonoscopy: Endoscopic examination, therapy or surgery of the luminal surface of the colon.Crohn Disease: A chronic transmural inflammation that may involve any part of the DIGESTIVE TRACT from MOUTH to ANUS, mostly found in the ILEUM, the CECUM, and the COLON. In Crohn disease, the inflammation, extending through the intestinal wall from the MUCOSA to the serosa, is characteristically asymmetric and segmental. Epithelioid GRANULOMAS may be seen in some patients.Rectum: The distal segment of the LARGE INTESTINE, between the SIGMOID COLON and the ANAL CANAL.Privacy: The state of being free from intrusion or disturbance in one's private life or affairs. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed, 1993)Confidentiality: The privacy of information and its protection against unauthorized disclosure.Internship and Residency: Programs of training in medicine and medical specialties offered by hospitals for graduates of medicine to meet the requirements established by accrediting authorities.Computer Security: Protective measures against unauthorized access to or interference with computer operating systems, telecommunications, or data structures, especially the modification, deletion, destruction, or release of data in computers. It includes methods of forestalling interference by computer viruses or so-called computer hackers aiming to compromise stored data.Informed Consent: Voluntary authorization, by a patient or research subject, with full comprehension of the risks involved, for diagnostic or investigative procedures, and for medical and surgical treatment.Anal Canal: The terminal segment of the LARGE INTESTINE, beginning from the ampulla of the RECTUM and ending at the anus.Manometry: Measurement of the pressure or tension of liquids or gases with a manometer.Fissure in Ano: A painful linear ulcer at the margin of the anus. It appears as a crack or slit in the mucous membrane of the anus and is very painful and difficult to heal. (Dorland, 27th ed & Stedman, 25th ed)Pressure: A type of stress exerted uniformly in all directions. Its measure is the force exerted per unit area. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed)Fecal Incontinence: Failure of voluntary control of the anal sphincters, with involuntary passage of feces and flatus.Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: Chronic, non-specific inflammation of the GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT. Etiology may be genetic or environmental. This term includes CROHN DISEASE and ULCERATIVE COLITIS.Colitis, Ulcerative: Inflammation of the COLON that is predominantly confined to the MUCOSA. Its major symptoms include DIARRHEA, rectal BLEEDING, the passage of MUCUS, and ABDOMINAL PAIN.Colitis: Inflammation of the COLON section of the large intestine (INTESTINE, LARGE), usually with symptoms such as DIARRHEA (often with blood and mucus), ABDOMINAL PAIN, and FEVER.Colon: The segment of LARGE INTESTINE between the CECUM and the RECTUM. It includes the ASCENDING COLON; the TRANSVERSE COLON; the DESCENDING COLON; and the SIGMOID COLON.Intestinal Mucosa: Lining of the INTESTINES, consisting of an inner EPITHELIUM, a middle LAMINA PROPRIA, and an outer MUSCULARIS MUCOSAE. In the SMALL INTESTINE, the mucosa is characterized by a series of folds and abundance of absorptive cells (ENTEROCYTES) with MICROVILLI.Whipple Disease: A chronic systemic infection by a gram-positive bacterium, Tropheryma whippelii, mainly affecting the SMALL INTESTINE but also the JOINTS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; and the CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. The disease is characterized by fat deposits in the INTESTINAL MUCOSA and LYMPH NODES, malabsorption, DIARRHEA with fatty stools, MALNUTRITION, and ARTHRITIS.Tropheryma: A genus of gram-positive bacteria in the family Cellulomonadaceae.Jejunum: The middle portion of the SMALL INTESTINE, between DUODENUM and ILEUM. It represents about 2/5 of the remaining portion of the small intestine below duodenum.Adnexa Uteri: Appendages of the UTERUS which include the FALLOPIAN TUBES, the OVARY, and the supporting ligaments of the uterus (BROAD LIGAMENT; ROUND LIGAMENT).Actinobacteria: Class of BACTERIA with diverse morphological properties. Strains of Actinobacteria show greater than 80% 16S rDNA/rRNA sequence similarity among each other and also the presence of certain signature nucleotides. (Stackebrandt E. et al, Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1997) 47:479-491)Internal Medicine: A medical specialty concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the internal organ systems of adults.Adnexal Diseases: Diseases of the uterine appendages (ADNEXA UTERI) including diseases involving the OVARY, the FALLOPIAN TUBES, and ligaments of the uterus (BROAD LIGAMENT; ROUND LIGAMENT).TennesseeNeoadjuvant Therapy: Preliminary cancer therapy (chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormone/endocrine therapy, immunotherapy, hyperthermia, etc.) that precedes a necessary second modality of treatment.Rectal Neoplasms: Tumors or cancer of the RECTUM.Chemoradiotherapy, Adjuvant: Combined chemotherapy and radiotherapy given to augment some other form of treatment such as surgery. It is commonly used in the therapy of cancer.Combined Modality Therapy: The treatment of a disease or condition by several different means simultaneously or sequentially. Chemoimmunotherapy, RADIOIMMUNOTHERAPY, chemoradiotherapy, cryochemotherapy, and SALVAGE THERAPY are seen most frequently, but their combinations with each other and surgery are also used.Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems: A concept, developed in 1983 under the aegis of and supported by the National Library of Medicine under the name of Integrated Academic Information Management Systems, to provide professionals in academic health sciences centers and health sciences institutions with convenient access to an integrated and comprehensive network of knowledge. It addresses a wide cross-section of users from administrators and faculty to students and clinicians and has applications to planning, clinical and managerial decision-making, teaching, and research. It provides access to various types of clinical, management, educational, etc., databases, as well as to research and bibliographic databases. In August 1992 the name was changed from Integrated Academic Information Management Systems to Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems to reflect use beyond the academic milieu.Treatment Outcome: Evaluation undertaken to assess the results or consequences of management and procedures used in combating disease in order to determine the efficacy, effectiveness, safety, and practicability of these interventions in individual cases or series.Megacolon: Dilatation of the COLON, often to alarming dimensions. There are various types of megacolon including congenital megacolon in HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE, idiopathic megacolon in CONSTIPATION, and TOXIC MEGACOLON.Hirschsprung Disease: Congenital MEGACOLON resulting from the absence of ganglion cells (aganglionosis) in a distal segment of the LARGE INTESTINE. The aganglionic segment is permanently contracted thus causing dilatation proximal to it. In most cases, the aganglionic segment is within the RECTUM and SIGMOID COLON.Suction: The removal of secretions, gas or fluid from hollow or tubular organs or cavities by means of a tube and a device that acts on negative pressure.Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ret: Receptor protein-tyrosine kinases involved in the signaling of GLIAL CELL-LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR ligands. They contain an extracellular cadherin domain and form a receptor complexes with GDNF RECEPTORS. Mutations in ret protein are responsible for HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE and MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA TYPE 2.Enteric Nervous System: Two ganglionated neural plexuses in the gut wall which form one of the three major divisions of the autonomic nervous system. The enteric nervous system innervates the gastrointestinal tract, the pancreas, and the gallbladder. It contains sensory neurons, interneurons, and motor neurons. Thus the circuitry can autonomously sense the tension and the chemical environment in the gut and regulate blood vessel tone, motility, secretions, and fluid transport. The system is itself governed by the central nervous system and receives both parasympathetic and sympathetic innervation. (From Kandel, Schwartz, and Jessel, Principles of Neural Science, 3d ed, p766)SOXE Transcription Factors: A subclass of closely-related SOX transcription factors. Members of this subfamily have been implicated in regulating the differentiation of OLIGODENDROCYTES during neural crest formation and in CHONDROGENESIS.Mucus: The viscous secretion of mucous membranes. It contains mucin, white blood cells, water, inorganic salts, and exfoliated cells.Biopsy: Removal and pathologic examination of specimens in the form of small pieces of tissue from the living body.Histocytochemistry: Study of intracellular distribution of chemicals, reaction sites, enzymes, etc., by means of staining reactions, radioactive isotope uptake, selective metal distribution in electron microscopy, or other methods. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47399 | A long, long time ago and far, far away, there was a TV series in the 1960’s originating in the US about a horse called Mr. Ed and his human owner whose name was Wilbur.
As it turned out, only Wilbur could hear his horse speak. And speak he did! The rest of his family thought that their family bread winner was a little peculiar…but they loved him anyway. Poor Wilbur was left trying to explain how he knew the things he did. And Mr. Ed refrained from offering his assistance.
Mr. Ed was able to tell Wilbur what foods he liked to eat, what ways he liked to sleep and more importantly, Mr. Ed offered his opinions about almost everything. He had something to say about his sleeping arrangements, his food choices, his human’s crazy life and all the situations he found himself in thanks to his equine cohort.
Do you have a horse (or cat or dog or bird, etc.) who is like Mr. Ed?
Do you receive words in your head about their wants, needs or desires or even dislikes?
Do you taste what they like to eat on the tip of your tongue?
Are you almost certain that your pet disapproves of something you have said, thought or imagined? (Mr. Ed used to have a much more practical horse way of looking at the world.)
If this resonates with you, try writing down in a notepad what you believe you are hearing or seeing or feeling. Do this for a month or two and then look back through your notes. You may find that although each individual day of scratching’s may not have made complete sense, when you look at all the information together, you will begin to receive a more complete picture.
Need assistance? Ring Lynn Overhill on: 0414999849 for an appointment @ Lotus for help with your talking pet. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47420 | User tutorials
This guide explains how users can publish their own tutorials for the MakeCode editor.
There are 2 ways of sharing a tutorial: use a shared script or publish it in a GitHub repository.
Author the tutorial content in a Markdown file in your project. The format is the same as what’s documented in tutorials.
The dependencies are used when starting the tutorial project, but code content (main.blocks, main.ts) is ignored.
You can access in the editor. Switch to JavaScript, go to Explorer, and then click on
The easiest way to share a tutorial is to first share the program. Then, use the shared project url combined with editor url and the #tutorial: specifier.
https://[editor url]/#tutorial:[shared project url]
• where editor url is the editor domain, like
• where shared project url is the url give to you by MakeCode after sharing,
The complete shared url is formatted like:
Tutorial caching
MakeCode uses a local caching policy for tutorials to reduce interaction with website services. On first use, tutorial content is retrieved from a MakeCode website and then reused from the local cache when a tutorial is run another time. A requested tutorial will refresh from the website when its cache retention period expires.
This caching policy can present a problem if you’re developing a tutorial and want to review the recent changes. When you run the tutorial to check your changes, they might not appear and you only see content you viewed the first time. In order to see and test new changes you’ve published for your tutorial, it’s recommended that you view them in a new anonyomous / incognito browser window.
GitHub repository
If you plan to update your tutorial over time, we recommend storing your project in a GitHub repository. With a repository, the URL to open the tutorial takes the full GitHub repository URL:
https://[editor url]/#tutorial:[GitHub repository url]
For example,
Multiple tutorials per repository
You can override the markdown file from the project used for the content of the tutorial (default is by adding the path to the query argument (.md not needed)
https://[editor url]/#tutorial:[GitHub repository url]/[filename]
where MakeCode will load the file from the project. Don’t forget to add this file in the files list in pxt.json.
For example,
You can also use the #example route similarly to #tutorial to load a markdown example into the editor.
https://[editor url]/#example:[GitHub repository url]/[filename]
In Context Tutorials
In context tutorials, sometime referred to as “recipes”, are tutorials that are loaded into an existing project, preserving the code the user has already written. They use the #recipe route to load into the editor. Make sure that the editor (that is, “Arcade”, “Minecraft”, “Microbit”, etc) has in-context tutorials enabled in the settings–you may need to contact the editor maintainer to check if this is the case.
https://[editor url]/#recipe:[GitHub repository url]/[filename]
Click on the lab icon in the Explorer view to open any markdown file (.md) as a tutorial in a new tab.
Cloud caching
To increase performance, the MakeCode websites may “cloud cache” the release version of a previously used extension and tutorials hosted in a user GitHub repository. This means that if you commit changes to a tutorial you have in a repostory, those updates might not appear when you try to test the tutorial in MakeCode. The MakeCode cloud cache will not reflect your changes until you create a new release version for your repository. Makng a new release will force the cache to clear the prior version and refresh to the new version the next time it’s requested. See GitHub releases for more about creating a versioned release.
Localized copies of the tutorial can be added to a subfolder _locales/[isocode]/[filename].md where filename is the name of the tutorial in the default locale. icocode can be the region specific language code or language neutral. MakeCode will pick the best match.
Repository as extension
If the tutorial repository contains JavaScript files (.ts), it will automatically be added to the dependencies of the program used during the tutorial. This allows you to package custom blocks in your tutorials or teach your extensions via tutorials.
Report abuse and approvals
By default, all tutorials opened from a user shared project or GitHub repository will have a Report Abuse button. If you would rather not have this button appear, use the GitHub project approach and get the repository approved. |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47440 | Ka meanings in Urdu
Ka meanings in Urdu is کا Ka in Urdu. More meanings of ka, it's definitions, example sentences, related words, idioms and quotations.
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• (noun) : unknown god; an epithet of Prajapati and Brahma
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کاkaPanzers Kae Concerning Of
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Meanings of the word Ka in Urdu is کا - ka. To understand how would you translate the word Ka in Urdu, you can take help from words closely related to Ka or it’s Urdu translations. Some of these words can also be considered Ka synonyms. In case you want even more details, you can also consider checking out all of the definitions of the word Ka. If there is a match we also include idioms & quotations that either use this word or its translations in them or use any of the related words in English or Urdu translations. These idioms or quotations can also be taken as a literary example of how to use Ka in a sentence. If you have trouble reading in Urdu we have also provided these meanings in Roman Urdu.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47457 | [English Translation]
URBANGARDE "Utsukushii Kuni" (The sound "Utsu" using the kanji meaning 'depression')
Uniquely appearing on the cover of this latest release is [Gunjyo-zu '97] by Makoto Aida (, the renown 'handle-with-care' painter known for his artistic and sensational 'ero-guro' expressions,) but the album itself proves to be a comfortable piece drawn much closer to common appeal without altering any bit of their distinct style of slashing the society seen from the eyes of a 'girl' where criticism and humour coexist. The wealth of arrangements covering various categories from their original root techno pop, idol pop of the 80s, 'today' kind of city pop to dramatic progressive rock, as well as hard rock that welcomes the support of Japanese rock musician and writer, Kenji Ohtsuki (member of bands, Kinniku Shoujo Tai and Tokusatsu) is delightful in itself, but above anything, it is the melody that stands out distinguishingly. The striking play on words such as daringly reading 自撮 (normally reads jidori and means selfie) as 'jisatsu (meaning suicide)' is another element that makes this album completely unforgettable! Oh dear… |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47477 | The commands for fearing God and Satan’s System.
spiritualwarfare“The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to turn one away from the snares of death” (Proverbs 14:27). The fear of the LORD leads to life, and he who has it will abide in satisfaction; he will not be visited with evil” (Proverbs 19:23). Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; 6 Who also has made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life.
To obey Christ and battle disbelief
To battle unbelief effectively, we must press doubts and temptations into specific arguments. What specifically is being asserted or promised to us? Only then can we destroy the enemy’s false arguments with true ones. We destroy arguments. What are the satanic strongholds that spiritually imprison people, the strongholds that we seek to destroy? Arguments and opinions. Where is the battle raging? Where our thoughts are. And arguments are not merely strongholds, they are weapons of mass destruction. Adam and Eve (and all of us with them) fell because of an argument. They believed the serpent’s argument and stopped believing God. That is the deadly essence of sin: not believing God. To not believe God is to ally with Satan, whom Jesus said is “a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth… for he is a liar and the father of lies” (John 8:44).
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47492 | Our Investment in The Graph
January 28, 2019 | 3 Minute Read
I’m proud to announce that Multicoin has led a $2.5M seed round in The Graph. We believe that The Graph is going to be one of the most important protocols in the Web3 stack. But before jumping into the vision, allow me to provide some history.
Yaniv first reached out to me in February of 2018. He reached out cold via direct message (DM) on Twitter. This is precisely why I keep my DMs open.
First contact with Yaniv and the The Graph, February, 2018 Yaniv shared a concise 7-page deck. The deck eloquently described the key technical problem that The Graph is solving—that querying data out of the blockchain is both difficult, and re-introduces a layer of centralization—and explained how The Graph solved the problem.
During our first call, Yaniv showed me a few demos, including a compelling demo in which The Graph—via GraphQL subscriptions (basically a pub/sub on the Ethereum blockchain)—pushed live updates to the browser after submitting a transaction to the Ethereum chain via Metamask on another computer. I was immediately impressed with the elegance and the speed. As Yaniv expanded on that demo, it quickly became clear how important The Graph would be for every app building on the Web3 stack. I flew to San Francisco shortly thereafter to connect with Yaniv and his cofounder Brandon in person, and we committed to leading The Graph’s seed round shortly thereafter.
Since then, cofounders Yaniv, Brandon, Jannis, and the rest of the Graph team have been heads down, building (and shipping, if you just attended Graph Day!) world class open source software!
In the year since we first met, virtually everyone in the web3 development community has come to recognize how important and underserved this layer of the web3 stack really is. The Graph has emerged as the market leader, with dozens of teams using the service in closed beta right now.
The Team
I’ve had a chance to work with The Graph team for almost a year now, and they’ve been nothing short of exceptional.
First, they’re excellent communicators. In a market full of technologists who love to geek out about consensus algorithms, the value of the ability to clearly communicate cannot be overstated. This has been clear from the first deck Yaniv sent me, and continues to show in all of the Graph’s communications, both technical and non-technical.
They’ve done a superb job executing: building product, hiring, facilitating and interacting with the community, and more. Engineers, especially those in the crypto space, are notoriously poor at forecasting timelines. In our first call, Yaniv said they were going to roll out a limited beta service over Summer, and they did just that. I’d also like to highlight Graph Day, which they just hosted. Per community reception, it was one of the best technical events of the last year.
The last thing I’ll note is that they’re incredibly humble, they really believe in the power of web3 and what they’re building, and they’re focused on building something durable.
Addressing Bottlenecks In The Web3 Stack
We’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about where value is going to accrue in the Web3 Stack, and we’ve come to the conclusion that the query layer is going to capture a lot.
Without exception, every single team building on Ethereum—both centralized apps like Etherscan and decentralized apps like Augur—have the same problem: they need to query data out of the Ethereum blockchain. To date, everyone has solved this problem by building a haphazard, fragile, proprietary, centralized indexing server.
But why can’t developers just query Ethereum clients like Geth or Parity directly? They can, but neither Geth or Parity offers a robust indexing function, nor any way to scale to support queries at scale. As such, every team building on Ethereum to date has built a proprietary, centralized, fragile indexing function.
The Graph solves this problem by exposing both Ethereum and IPFS (and other data sources over time) to developers using a distributed, redundant, permissionless network via a GraphQL endpoint. Why GraphQL? Because it provides an elegant query interface—so much so that many web2 companies are transitioning away from REST to GraphQL—and because it’s extremely flexible. Given the breadth of data stored across Ethereum, IPFS, and other chains, this level of flexibility is essential.
So, how big is this problem? Although the Ethereum network is logging under 1M transactions per day, developers are querying Infura, a centralized key:value lookup service (Infura does not provide indexing and query services) over 10B times per day. As web3 adoption grows and consumers generate millions and eventually billions of web3 transactions every day, usage of The Graph will exponentially increase.
As part of a decentralized network, why would anyone voluntarily host a Graph node? The short answer is: because they can be paid for doing so. The Graph will adopt a work token model, among some other mechanics to allow developers to parameterize the data they’d like The Graph to index.
Building A World Class Query Layer
The Graph team just hosted Graph Day, and they’re launching the 1.0 version of their service in the next few weeks. Later this year, they’ll launch a decentralized network, allowing developers to choose the right trust model for their applications.
We couldn’t be more excited to support The Graph, and are looking forward to seeing all of the amazing applications that developers build on it.
The problems that The Graph is solving are immense and foundational to the future of web3. If you’d like to help make that happen, The Graph is hiring. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47493 | Monday, July 27, 2020
From the sky fell three apples (Following folktales around the world 166. - Armenia)
100 Armenian Tales and Their Folkloristic Relevance
Susie Hoogasian-Villa
Wayne State University Press, 1966.
The book contains a total of one hundred Armenian stories, organized into chapters by genre: fairy tales, myths, legends, humorous tales, anecdotes, and "anti-feminine" tales. The author is an American researcher of Armenian descent, who collected the stories from Armenian immigrants (including her own family) living in Delray, Detroit, in the 1940s. The texts are a part of the Wayne State University archival collection that also contributed a few tales to the book from other sources. The tales were recorded in Armenian and then translated into English, keeping close to the original wording; the collector made sure the stories came from the oral tradition, and not from books the tellers might have read. The introduction gives ample information about the Armenian community of Delray, Armenian society and family structure, history, cuisine, and other cultural elements that appear in the tales. It also gives information about Armenian folklore research, and the cultures that have the most similar tales (Russian, Greek, Turkish, Georgian, Azerbaijani, Siberian, Roma, Hungarian, Italian, Persian, Basque, Israeli, Scottish, Arabian, and Polish). These parallels from other traditions are listed in detail in the notes at the end of the book, along with tale type numbers, the names of the storytellers, and interesting additional information. This book is not only an entertaining read, but also a very useful source for researchers.
Side note: Storytellers around the world love to use "three apples fell from the sky..." as a story ending formula; it is associated with Armenian tales first and foremost. Interestingly enough, the version that keeps showing up in this book says "From the sky fell three apples: One to me, one to the storyteller, and one to the person who has entertained you." Turns out, all three apples belong to the storyteller...
The best tale in the book is the very last one: Sunset Lad is about a man who complains about the sun, so Mother of the Sun curses him. He dies at sunrise every day, and comes back to life at sunset. Eventually he sets out to find Mother of the Sun and apologize. Beautiful, symbolic story.
Nourie Hadig was a lovely Snow White variant, involving a "false bride" who became friends with the heroine, and when said heroine fell into fake death, the best friend and the prince watched over her body together. In another cute love story it was the work of the genii that made a match between a young man and a young woman; when they got separated, the woman dressed as a man and accidentally married a princess, and in the end, the three of them found happiness together. Turtle Skin was a similarly cute animal bride tale, where the hero married a very pretty turtle (who eventually turned into a lady). I liked it because of how kind and gentle he was with the turtle. Also, talking about love stories: There was one about a princess locked in a tower who eventually made herself a prince out of dough. When her father was angered by the secret affair, she took her case to court, arguing that love and companionship was "nature's way," and it should not be punished.
I loved the story of The halva-maker, in which a magical dervish did not only help a poor man start a successful pastry business which led to a meet-cute with a princess, but also came to the rescue when the angry king wanted to hang the pastry maker. Due to the dervish's magic, when they tried to hang the guy he fell to pieces, and there was nothing to put the rope on... so the king gave him permission to marry.
I liked the moral of The soul-taker: three girls found a pot full of gold and ran away screaming that it would take their soul. Six robbers heard them and laughed at their folly, taking the gold for themselves... and then then promptly killed each other for it, proving the girls right. Money also paid an important role in The test, where a beggar (who was secretly rich) asked the suitor of his daughter to go and beg for money, making sure he would be willing to do so if he ever needed to support his family that way. Talking about suitors: I was happy to see a recent favorite tale type again, about a Patient suitor who went town to town, collecting the mysterious stories of strangers to win the hand of his beloved. It took him years to collect all the embedded tales.
Among supernatural creatures the strangest was the elk, a goblin that takes out people's liver, washes it, and eats it, causing illness and death. In the story of The curse, a man stopped an elk from stealing a young woman's liver, and held on to the creature as a servant. When the elk was finally set free, it promised that the worst curse it would ever put on the family would be that their wooden spoons break easily...
Among the tales of wit my favorite Happened in the bath, where a poor man accidentally took the place of the king's jester (who looked a lot like him, and dropped dead while bathing). He used a lot of very clever tricks to find out who he was supposed to be. I also enjoyed Matching wits, where two robbers (one nighttime and one daytime robber) found out they share the same wife, and started a contest to see who deserves her more. I don't usually like these tales, but this one was funny and not crude at all. The same goes for the story of the Robbers, where a man raised his nephew to be a good criminal. The boy outwitted the king multiple times, and in the end even managed to kidnap the Russian tsar, proving his skills on an international level.
Next to wits, justice was also an important part of the stories. In one, a young shepherd-turned-treasurer came Under suspicion for stealing diamonds, and skillfully managed to prove he had been falsely accused (and that the court officials are corrupt). In The servant at the monastery, a man with magic powers turned an annoying rich youth into a donkey. When the rich father attacked the monastery in revenge, the magician used his powers to repel the attack and save the monks.
Among the legends the most memorable was that of Lochman Hehkeem, a legendary healer who spoke the language of plants and found the secret of immortality. He managed to make his servant immortal, but when it was his turn God sent an angel to destroy his notes.
It doesn't appear in this book, but I also want to give a shout out to my favorite Armenian tale, Queen Anait.
The book contains many familiar tale types; according to the collector, most stories have parallels in other cultures, only a few of them were "typically Armenian." A few examples for types that appeared: Animal brothers-in-law (The ogre's soul), raven brothers (The seven giant brothers), magic flight (Abo Beckeer), puss in boots (The miller and the fox), the magic bird's heart, Fortunatus (The magic figs), The hunter's son, Dreamer's dream (combined with some extraordinary helpers), Aladdin (The magic ring), All-kinds-of-fur (The golden box; they executed the evil father in the end), Cinderella (with cannibal sisters), Golden-haired twins (with lots of helpful women), handless maiden (Mariam), animal-brother (Stag-brother), stolen apples (The world below, with the obligatory emerald bird), three stolen princesses (Son of the Grey Horse, a long, elaborate multi-generational tale), Rumpelstiltskin (Buzz-Buzz Aunty, where the girl got away by pretending to be crazy), Godfather Death (here with Gabriel, The soul-taking angel), poor woman and the devil (The talkative wife), "no news" cumulative tales (From bad to worse; Munuck), and a golden-haired gardener (The monster's hairs). In the latter three princesses chose their husbands by shooting arrows into a crowd of young men, and they used watermelon divination to see if they were ready for marriage.
The magic box was the tale type where a man seeks his luck (here: child) and carries many questions to God with him. On the way home he ate the magic fertility apple that made him pregnant... I also once again encountered the tale where a princess is married to a poor man, but manages to find happiness through wits and hard work, and magic pomegranate treasures Wisely spent. I also recognized The ashman's money as the tale type where someone trusts his money to a rich man who does not want to return it; a clever woman once again came to the rescue. In the end, even the rich man agreed it was a good trick.
There were multiple motifs that were similar to Greek mythology. The magic horse was a parallel to the Argonauts, with mountains smashing into each other, and a king killed by a "rejuvenating" bath. The prize bull was the story of Europe, with a prince instead of Zeus.
I once again encountered the motif of a hero striking the monster only once, because the second hit would bring it back to life.
Where to next?
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1. Nourie Hadig is one of my all time favorite fairy tales. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47516 | Translation Method to change string without doing any code
Language is an interesting part of human life. Someone love to call his Mother like Mom or another one loves to call “Mummy or Ma”. Similarly when you are running a website with lots of English words which was written by the plugin/theme author which can be different or you might not like that wording.
Let me give you an example- When the user is not selecting any address on the checkout it shows this message- No shipping method has been selected. Please double check your address, or contact us if you need any help.
Now, the website owner needs to change this text and he is not a developer or he does not want to modify any code inside the plugin. Now the question is how it can be done?
How to change a string without modifying code in the Same Language?
Your website default language is English. Now, you need to change the above sentences from WooCommerce plugin without modifying the code. How you can do it?
Yes, you can apply my own titled “Translation method” 😀
By following my method you can keep your site language in your Default Langauge but the string which you need to change would be changed.
Applying the Translation Method
When you translate any WordPress plugin that time you just need to translate the plugin POT file and you need to insert the .po and .mo file. You can get help from this post.
Now, our problem is we need to keep the website in English, not to any other language.
When WordPress translate a plugin that time it reads the translated file name and then it replaces the translations file of the plugin with the file which is similar to the selected Langauge Code. Like if you set the website Langauge to Bengali then the language code is “bn_BD”. WordPress will check if the plugin has the translated file in bn_BD inside the language folder of the plugin. If the system gets the file then it will show all the strings inside the Translated file.
By using this method of WordPress, we will change a String and keep the website in English.
Our Target to change ” No shipping method has been selected. Please double check your address, or contact us if you need any help.” from WooCommerce and replace with “Hello! this is Nazmul Hassan”.
1st Step -> Install POEDIT on your local PC
2nd Step -> Open the woocommerce.pot file via your POT file-
Opening POT file of WooCommerce
Step-3 -> Now, find the string you want to translate and insert your translation like below-
Translating the string
Step-4 -> After translating just save the file as & woocommerce-en_GB.po inside the wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/i18n/languages folder or you can insert it on wp-content/languages/plugins folder.
Now, when I have renamed the translation file to en_GB that means I need to set my WordPress language to English (United Kingdom) version. No need to worry, your all the strings will be same as before because you did not translate or change anything inside the .po/.mo file rather than a single string.
WordPress will read the file name and it will fetch all the strings from your file 🙂
How it looks now?
Before applying the translation method it was like this-
Before Translating
After applying the translation method-
Applied Translation method
Change “Vendor” to “Seller” in Dokan
3 thoughts on “Translation Method to change string without doing any code
1. You have to follow the same method. Translate dokan-lite and paid version and then insert the language file as I mentioned on this blog.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47520 | [Obelisk Press] ANDERSON, Robin
Four Schools
Paris: Obelisk Press, 1935
Small 8vo, pp. 118. Original red stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black on front panel and spine. Light chipping to spine ends, production-fault creasing to spine paper, a little bumping to corners. A very good copy of a very fragile item.
First edition. A tirade against the English public school system, published when its author was still only twenty-one years old. Anderson's targets include Marlborough College (here re-christened 'Knarlesborough') and L'Ecole de Commerce in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
The Obelisk Press was an English-language, Paris-based imprint, run by a Mancunian expatriate called Jack Kahane. Kahane specialised in the publication of books which either had been banned in the USA or England, or which were unable to find a publisher in their home countries for fear of prosecution. Four Schools shares the same cover design and typeface as Henry Miller's Aller Retour New York, also published by Obelisk in late 1935. Anderson's book, dull both in subject matter and execution, may have been taken on by Kahane as a piece of paid-for vanity publishing, printed at the same time as Miller's book to save money.
The extreme scarcity of Four Schools suggests a tiny print run. A very good copy of one of the rarest of all Obelisk titles.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47528 | How Often Should You Email Customers?
How Often Should You Email Customers?
You have some important news to share with your customers and you want to get it out as soon as possible. So you send an email, timing be damned– the most important thing is that they see your message. Rinse and repeat for any other important pieces of news, advice, announcements, etc. Simple, right?
Sadly, the preponderance of emails (and spam) today means that everyone is dealing with an chronically full inbox. It’s startlingly easy to interpret a well-meaning email as just one more in a long line of messages meant to cajole and badger. How are you supposed to make sure you aren’t flooding email accounts and losing subscribers, with them grumbling about your company all the while?
As is the case with many of life’s quandaries, the answer to this question depends on your goals, the nature of your product, and your customers. What works for one company may not work for you, and figuring out your ideal send ratio often requires experimentation and constant tweaking. In short, you need a plan.
That’s where this article comes in. In this post, we’ll go over tips to help you refine your approach to email frequency. Read on to learn more!
How email frequency affects your bottom line
B2B marketing emails are one of the best ways to generate revenue and awareness: they engage your customers, boost sales, and build your brand’s credibility. Plus, every $1 spent on email marketing means $38 back (source). Not a bad investment!
It seems like a no-brainer to think that more emails doesn’t always equal more revenue– we’ve all received our fair share of annoying messages and unsubscribed to them immediately. What you may not realize is that sometimes more does equal more. On the other hand, the more messages you send, the more likely you are to annoy your customer.
Just check out these statistics:
• 69% of customers unsubscribe if they receive too many emails (source).
• But one company increased its email revenue by 45% after upping its email marketing cadence (source).
These two stats seem to be at odds, but they’re indicative of the fact that email marketing is a balancing act. Sending the minimum number of emails can leave your customers wondering who you are when your name pops up in their inbox; send too many emails, on the other hand, and they’ll report you as a spammer quicker than you can say “lost revenue.”
With all this in mind, how in the world are you meant to figure out how often to send an email?
Deciding on an email frequency
Again, there’s no one-size-fits-all approach. Here are a few places to start when deciding on the perfect send frequency for you and your customers.
Decide on your email’s purpose
Figure out what your email is meant to do or inspire before you hit send. For instance, is it promotional, or an email to celebrate a subscriber’s birthday? Is it urging customers to make a purchase, or are you looking to build brand loyalty? Is this a one-off email or part of a campaign? Maybe you want to hit on more than one of those goals at once.
Here are a few suggested email frequencies based on the type of content they feature:
• One-offs: Welcome emails
• Daily: Tips and tricks, content updates, etc.
• Weekly: Newsletters or advice features
• Sporadic emails: Seasonal campaigns, event invitations, etc.
If you have an end goal in mind for your email before you send it, you avoid wasting time and resources that would have been better spent elsewhere.
Check out your competitors
Don’t copy their strategy exactly, of course– but examine how they send their emails. Do they send messages out weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly? How many subscribers do they have? What’s the goal of their email campaign? By using your competitors as a litmus, you’ll have a better idea of how to measure your metrics of success.
Best of all, it’s easy to do this: simply sign up for a competitor’s newsletter or other email program. From there, you can track and analyze the features of the email you’re most interested in, such as send frequency, visuals, or cadence.
That’s much better than starting at square one.
Keep your customer’s expectations in mind
Ask yourself why you want customers to subscribe to your mailing list, and keep in mind the type of content you’re offering. Do customers want to keep track of any new discounts, or are they tuning in to your weekly newsletter for tips and tricks?
This is where the industry you’re in comes into play: a fashion boutique will send out many more emails than a software as a service company. Keep the subscriber’s expectations at the forefront of your mind: it won’t help to inundate a SaaS customer with daily emails, but the fashionista or tech news guru will look forward to them.
Track your engagement metrics
Click-throughs, open rates, and other metrics will be your guiding light. If open rates are high, keep doing what you’re doing. If you see a spike in unsubscribers or a decline in your open rates, that’s a clue to try another approach. You may be sending out far too many (or too few) emails.
In general, these are the numbers you should be aiming for (source):
• An open rate between 15-25%
• A click-through rate of 2.5%
• A click-to-open rate between 20-30%.
These numbers will differ according to your industry, but those are good metrics to aim for as you start adjusting your technique.
Segment your audience
A/B tests are another tactic you can use to track and improve your mailing habits. These tests give you some room for experimentation. Since you’re not emailing your entire list at once, there’s a low risk of alienating your whole audience with content that doesn’t resonate.
To segment, divide your subscribers into groups based on their activity, then test an increased or decreased email frequency. Whatever gets the most engagement should be used on a larger scale. You can also segment your subscribers by demographics, geographics, past purchases, and more.
Pay attention to your domain reputation
If you can’t reach someone’s inbox, you might as well not be sending them an email at all.
Send too many emails and you may be reported as a spammer. This red flag signals to service providers that your messages should be sorted straight into the spam folder. That worsens your domain reputation, which makes it more likely that your emails will be sent to the junk folder, and so on…
Paying attention to your engagement metrics helps to counteract this problem; you can take action sooner if you notice a dip in the number of subscribers who are opening your emails.
Given the complexity of email marketing, it can take some time to reach a point where you feel 100% confident in your email frequency. Your approach will be (and should be) different from your competitor’s, so it’s important to keep testing and adjusting your tactics to find the perfect method. Eventually, you’ll tune in to the right frequency and grow your mailing list.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47545 | Strange white orb spotted flying ‘over NORAD military base’ in Colorado
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A strange white “orb” has been hailed as evidence of aliens by UFO believers after a stunned witness caught it on video.
In the video, said to have been recorded above NORAD military installation near Colorado Springs, Colorado, US, a spherical-looking object flies above the tree-line at a distance difficult to gauge.
“Where is it, what the f*** is that?” someone asks while the camera darts around.
The video is a bit blurry, but a deep rumbling sound is audible over the noise of birdsong.
In the final few seconds of the video, the orb appears to flicker before disappearing behind the foliage of a tree.
The weird object moves at a steady pace and appears to be reflecting the light
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The weird clip was shared on the ET Data Base YouTube channel and has been watched more than 1,500 times since it was uploaded on May 22.
According to the anonymous witness who filmed it, the object is a UFO and they saw it “while out on a walk”.
Describing what they saw, they continued: “The orb disappeared shortly after my video ended.
“NORAD is right below the UFO at the start of the video.”
A believer wrote: “Alien ship!”
“Tic Tac UFO if legit video,” said another, in reference to the USS Nimitz UAP.
“It’s NORAD’s Extraterrestrial Alien UFO obviously,” said another fan.
But it is likely the orb, and the rumbling sound accompanying it, is just a helicopter, which is what some other commentators thought.
The mysterious clip of a 'UFO' caused a stir on YouTube
The mysterious clip of a ‘UFO’ caused a stir on YouTube
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A doubter said: “It’s a helicopter you can see the lights flashing.”
“Orb over a NORAD military installation… I would say military,” reckoned another.
This comes after the sky mysteriously turned neon pink in the dead of night as filmed by a baffled mum.
And a family caught a flashing “UFO” on camera when the object flew above their home, with witnesses saying that “not even helicopters” could manoeuvre like that.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47552 | Node Weekly
August 3, 2017 #199
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47578 |
Did you know that Google knows everything about you? (No, seriously.)
How do we do know?
Simple: from the moment you do one of your many daily Google searches, Google tracks what you type and where you navigate online. From the moment you do a YouTube search, Google tracks what you click and watch. From the moment you go from Point A to Point B using Google Maps, Google tracks where you go. In fact, they can find out where you are right now if you still have the Google Maps app switched on.
Google My Activity (Google Icons)
This doesn’t even take into account other Google features.
What type of phone do you have? If you have an Android, think about what Google might be able to track: your contacts, what online apps you use, etc.
Which web browser do you use? If you use Google Chrome, think about all of the cookies Google saves while you’re on that web browser. For those who don’t know, cookies are small amounts of data collected from websites to remember information about you. For example, if you log into Facebook using Google Chrome, guess what: Google has your Facebook’s login information and can most definitely access data from there (public or private).
Google knows everything about you.
Google knows so much about you that they can give people customized ads based on your online behavior. In fact, in 2016, Google added a new feature called Google My Activity. It tracks nearly everything you do online.
How Google My Activity Tracks Your Online Behavior
Google My Activity
Here’s a little fun activity for you or your child to do.
Type in the following link:
(Google My Activity (Step 1
What do you see? A beautiful representation of most of the things you’ve done using Google applications. This includes your browsing history (if you use Google Chrome), YouTube videos you’ve watched, location history, and even voice/audio activity!
(Do you use Google Now? You know, the smart device where you say “Okay Google” before searching for anything? It tracks your voice so that the device only understands you.)
We need to reemphasize this point: Google knows everything about you.
So, why exactly do we need to talk about Google My Activity now?
Google My Now Enables Opt-In Change for New Accounts
In the second half of 2016, Google switched its default setting for all new accounts to opt-in to ad tracking features.
What does this mean?
Let’s say you’re renting an apartment in Dubai with your family, and you’ve saved up enough money to buy your own house. You do a Google search on ‘houses for sale in Dubai,’ you watch a couple of YouTube videos about the steps you need to take, etc.
Google will track that information and push out customized ads on their search engine directly related to the things for you. This will not just be based on what you search, but it will be based on everything they know about you: your age, your gender, your hobbies, where you work, etc. (Do you work in al Barsha or Deira? It makes a difference.)
It sounds innocent, but if someone had malicious intentions, people could socially engineer and manipulate people.
Google My Now Tracks Your Kids, Too!
Let’s take it a step further. Let’s say your child is using the Internet more. They do research for school projects using Google search, they’re on social media (which means they’re on YouTube), and Internet consumes more of their free time.
Google now tracks your child’s activity, and they will eventually come across ads directed towards them. Again, these ads will be based on their own interests and Google My Activity history associated with all their Google-related profiles and applications.
What You Can Do about Google Tracking You?
According to Internet consultant Phil Bradley, there are a couple of take-home points people should be aware of regarding Google and Google My Activity.
Google My Activity 2
He starts off by saying that Google is not just a search engine company; it is also an advertising company. The way Google makes money is to display advertisements to people who are more likely to click on the links they show us in their search results. If you opt-in to Google My Activity, you will get customized ads based on what Google thinks is useful for you. You can opt-out if you wish; just go to your Google My Activity page and go to Activity Controls.
This leads to the second point:
Keep in mind that Google can still track what you do as long as you still use Google products. You can opt out of the customized advertisements made for you, but that doesn’t mean you won’t still be tracked.
The best advice he (and anyone else) gives is to stop using Google. This is extremely hard to do, as Google has pretty much become embedded in our society and the way we efficiently do things. Plus, their products are free for consumers.
Unfortunately, the trade-off of preventing Google from tracking you is to prevent yourself from getting access to all the useful products Google provides us all.
Online privacy matters a whole lot to us as digital citizens, and Google learns more about us every day as we insert more information into their applications. Not only do they track what we type in their search engines, not only do they know all their browsing history, but they are making decisions that move away from our interests (i.e. privacy) and more towards companies who are paying them. Sure, this helps them grow as a company, but what does this mean morally?
What do you think?
• Where do you draw the line with Google, in terms of what personal information they obtain? (Should they know your passwords? What you search? Nothing at all?)
• What else do you think we can do to impede Google from learning too much and taking advantage of us?
• Would you rather live a life where Google knew everything about us, or a life where Google products (and other major social networks and corporations) didn’t exist at all?
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47600 | Journey Poem
In Verse
‘Poets’ Cape say, and André Deutsch
‘poets must have a single voice
though like a painter periods might do.
So bard remember ’tis a fight
for insight yes and measured woof
and warp of words but the real proof
is afterwards imprimatur
of honorable foreign house…’
So we look out and bless and curse
our outwardlooking; so we verse
ourselves in that plantation twin-
ingness of view, our primal sin.
God, what a trade to ply
distilling cris de Coeur with one
sly eye on metropolitan
market conditions.
JourneyPoemCover_smallReviews of Journey Poem
Braithwaite, Kamau.”Pam Mordecai’s Journey Poem, by Kamau Braithwaite.” JSTOR: Caribbean Quarterly. 1990. JSTOR. 5 Sept 2013.
Creighton, Al. “Fine Lines of Commitment and Responsibility: Edward Baugh’s A Tale from the Rainforest and Pamela Mordecai’s Journey Poem.” Digital Library of the Caribbean .1989. Kyk-over-al.
Fleming, Carrol B. “Pamela Mordecai, Journey Poem. Kingston: Sandberry Press, 1989. 56 pages.” The Caribbean Writer. 2010. The Caribbean Writer. 5 Sept 2013.
Robinson, Jeffrey. “Journal of West Indian Literature. Vol 4, No. 1 , January 1990. Journey Poem by Pamela Mordecai.” JSTOR. 2000-2013. 5 Sept 2013.
2 thoughts on Journey Poem
1. Thank you. Kudos to Claire Grady Smith who set it up…
2. Never heard of that happening before. She should write a poem or a story about it!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47604 | MGMT 312 M8 Review Question
Analysis of income effects of additional business Calla Company produces skateboards that sell for $50 per unit. The company currently has the capacity to produce 90,000 skateboards per year, but is selling 80,000 skateboards per year. Annual costs for 80,000 skateboards follow.A new retail store has offered to buy 10,000 of its skateboards for $45 per unit. The store is in a different market from Callaâs regular customers and it would not affect regular sales. A study of its costs in anticipation of this additional business reveals the following:? Direct materials and direct labor are 100% variable.? Thirty percent of overhead is fixed at any production level from 80,000 units to 90,000 units; the remaining 70% of annual overhead costs are variable with respect to volume.? Selling expenses are 60% variable with respect to number of units sold, and the other 40% of selling expenses are fixed.? There will be an additional $2 per unit selling expense for this order.? Administrative expenses would increase by a $1,000 fixed amount.1. Prepare a three-column comparative income statement that reports the following:a. Annual income without the special order.b. Annual income from the special order.c. Combined annual income from normal business and the new business.2. Should Calla accept the order? What nonfinancial factors should Calla consider? Explain.3. Assume that the new customer wants to buy 15,000 units instead of 10,000 units. It will only buy 15,000 units or none and will not take a partial order. Without any computations, how does this change your answer to part 2? |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47687 | The War Inside
We found the enemy staked out in a cell
The inner cosmos that multiplies and divides
at some unnamed force’s will
You are mostly empty space
the absence of growth or decay
It is the accidental cauldron of
molecules that make it you,
and how we kneel with gratitude
for the most of them
and apologize for the war inside
but the enemy is a stranger here
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47704 | π in Fortran
AmazingMech2418 (941)
@TheForArkLD recommended that I make a pi approximation in Fortran, so here it is! This is specifically Fortran 90. This is one of my multiple pi approximations in various languages.
Here are the other approximations:
I'm also thinking about doing BASIC soon since I've already made Pong and Snake in it and have a good idea on the language now.
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56 pings since last evening T~T
Good work!
AmazingMech2418 (941)
@LizFoster I'm going to post one in QBasic soon too.
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@AmazingMech2418 Oh sweet! I actually used to know how to write in QBasic, though it has been years, ha ha ha. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47707 | Telangana SSC Results 2016
Telangana SSC Results 2016 will be released on the official website after 5th May 2016. Directorate of Government Examinations Telangana conducted SSC Exam on the month March 2016 and students in telangana can go to official website to check their results after the official Announcement from Telangana SSC Board. Telangana tenth class results 2016 |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47712 | My Favorite Character in Perished
It stands without controversy that my favorite character in my book Perished is God Himself. I could write page after page about Him.
However, the purpose of this blog is not to preach, but to teach writing. So my favorite human character is the subject.
It is not that easy to identify which one. So let me take a look at the top five characters.
• ADAM
• The very first human being. That alone makes him special. He is also the first to sin. But there is more to Adam than that. When you study him out using facts as well as one’s imagination he is a faithful man who truly regrets his act of sin. This dominates his thoughts and actions for the rest of his life.
• ENOS
• This is a man that the Bible says taught men to pray. Such a statement identifies him as someone very important. In Perished he teaches men how to approach God, how to properly worship Him, and to obey Him.
• Aside from being a preacher of righteousness he is raptured. This makes him both an historical person and a revelation of the future rapture of all men and women who have been born again.
• He lived longer than any man in history. We are not told much about him other than his age and that he died the same year as the Flood. God used him as a sort of landmark. To have lived that long it is possible he was very rich and very powerful. It is also possible (I think probable) he was a worshipper of God. Why would God preserve his life so long and tie his name to the Flood? Because he was used to help Noah?
• NOAH
• A farmer by trade he was called by God to preach and to build an Ark neither of which he was qualified (by human standards) to do. In Perished he realizes he needs help and goes to Methuselah. By faith he preaches to an unbelieving populace; by faith he builds an Ark; and by faith he and his family enter the Ark.
Everyone of these men could be my favorite character. Perhaps because I knew so little about him before I wrote the book and perhaps because of biblical hints I have chosen Methuselah. Exploring his character was exciting and challenging. And intriguing.
When you write, who is your favorite character? It doesn’t have to be the hero or heroine, it can be another character altogether. Your readers will have their favorites, so why not you?
This means personal involvement. As you mold the character you invest something of yourself in that character. Oh, and by the way, just because you are a man or woman does not mean your favorite character is the same sex. For instance, I could have added Naamah (Noah’s wife) and other women who were heroic in their own right.
Another way to look at this is to make every character your favorite. How? By investing your time and emotions in them. That character may be only part of the supporting cast as in a movie, but when you invest yourself in them they take on an importance far exceeding their actual role.
If you do this your readers will find the characters believable.
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His eBook Perished: The World That Was can be found on Amazon Kindle. The paperback edition is found on Amazon.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47714 | Cover Reveal – Shear Madness
Today’s post is the cover reveal for my upcoming novel, Shear Madness. I had so much fun with this cover, and working with the designer was an amazing process! The book is expected to be available in July. 🙂
Melanie Hogan is anything but your average beauty salon owner. She’s created a life for herself that’s an exact contradiction to that of her wanderlust, absentee mother who bailed on her when Melanie was four years old. She has gone above and beyond to make sure her life is stable, predictable, and…boring. While deciding to add some spontaneity to her life, she learns an important lesson: Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it. And she does.
Velma Johnson, the town busy body, keels over in Melanie’s stylist chair just as she’s about to reveal a secret to Melanie. As details emerge around Velma’s death, Melanie enlists the help of her best friends and business partners, Claire Davis and Jack Dancy, to find the killer. Could it be one of the three girls who work side by side with Melanie at the salon, all of whom were present when Velma died? Or one of their clients that were present as well? Or what about Buford Woods, the client who threatened to have the last laugh when Melanie refused to date him and who suspiciously shows up outside the salon right after Velma died?
It’s a race against time as Melanie finds herself prey to a stalker intent on ruining her life, and one who’s behavior is escalating. As Melanie sets out to solve the puzzle that has become her life, someone is dead set against letting her discover the truth, much less live to tell about it. And as she discovers the truth, she finds a missing piece to an unfinished puzzle from her past.
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1. I don’t know what I love more… the synopsis, the cover as a whole, or the individual pieces of the cover! I love how the H is a scissors (or shears) and I love how her shirt fades into the sky and becomes the backdrop for the chairs. Congratulations! 😀
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47728 | My “Sour 17” Surprise Party with all the Saffrons
June 10, 1964, Wednesday. I’m 17, It’s my Birthday. I want to weigh 115 lbs.
Woke up to a table filled up with presents and cards. Granddaddy left me 25 dollars. At school everyone sang “Happy Birthday.” After school I laid in the sun and talked to Nana. I Couldn’t believe it, but, Mom and Dad got me my own phone. Then I got the surprise of my life. While I was opening my presents, Chris Drinkard came to the door, followed by all the Saffrons! I got a real Surprise Party. We had cake, Spaghetti and salad. The Saffrons gave me the best thing ever. “A Barbie Doll,” and a watch band with Saffrons engraved on it. We had so much fun. Mom, Dad and Nana were so bitchen. It was the best Birthday I’ve ever had. I had a “Sour 17 Party.” All my friends had a Sweet 16 Party and I was crushed I missed mine because Mommy was in the Hospital. It was the worst Birthday ever. This Surprise meant, oh so much more to me this year.
Saffrons Rule Sour 17 Cakd
Happy Birthday Sharrie “Sour 17”
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12 Saffrons all together to Celebrate my 17th Birthday
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Nana in the background and me at the head of the table. You can see I was getting very tan to be ready for Summer, once I lost 10 lbs looked good in my bikini.
Saffrons Rule Sour 17 Cakd 003
My sister Donna’s friend Teri Thompson drew this picture of me that said For Byron.
Saffrons Rule Sour 17 Cakd 004
Teri drew this one of me for Dave
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Here is one of Dave and me at Toes.
This was my song that Summer of 1964.
The Beatles – I saw Her Standing There (with lyrics)
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47739 | Конспект урока Ими гордится страна
Тема урока: "Ими гордится страна"
Цель урока: познакомить учащихся с жизнью и творчеством знаменитых людей России и Великобритании.
Задачи урока:
Ознакомление учащихся с новой лексикой и использование ее в своей речи.
Развитие языковых, интеллектуальных, творческих способностей учащихся.
Формирование положительной мотивации учения, готовности воспринимать культуру другого народа. Воспитывать учащихся на примере жизни и деятельности знаменитых людей России и Великобритании.
Оснащение: мультимедийный проектор для демонстрации слайдов в программе PowerPoint, CD-презентации, магнитофон, аудиозаписи.
Ход урока
I. Начало урока.
T. Good morning, children. Glad to see you. And you?P. Good morning, glad to see you too.
T. How are you?
P1 I’m fine, thanks.
T How is your mother?
P2 She is fine, thanks.
T. How is your father?
P3 He is fine, thanks.
P4 And how are you, EM?
T. I’m fine, thanks.
P5 How is your family?
T. They are fine, thanks.
T. Well, children. Today we are going to have an unusual lesson. We’ll speak about famous people of Britain and Russia. At the lesson we’ll learn new words, read the text, listen to music, and meet very interesting people.
II. Фон. зарядка.
First of all we’ll try to learn new words People of different professions can be proud at any country. What are these professions?
A composer, an astronaut, a musician, a scientist, a playwright, an architect, a dancer, a sportsman, a warrior, a politician, a cosmonaut.III. Развитие навыков устной речи и чтения.
Работа с текстом упр.1 стр.148 проводится с учетом уровневой дифференциации.
Учащиеся прослушивают запись текста.
I уровень. Учащиеся читают текст
T. Guess, who it was.
P1. Horatio Nelson (1758-1805)
P2. Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
P3 .Lady Diana (1961-1997)
P4. William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
II уровень. Answer the questions.
T. What kind of man was Horation Nelson?
P. He was one of the greatest warriors. He was a brave and skilful admiral. He won the battle of Trafalgar.
T. Can a nurse be a national heroine?
P. Of course, she can. Florence Nightingale for example was a nurse in the army and she was a person to look up to.
T. Why did people love Lady Diana?
P. She was attractive and helpful. The British respected and adored her.
T. What do you know about William Shakespeare?
P. He was the world’s most famous playwright and poet.
III уровень. (учащиеся делают сообщения)
P. Horatio Nelson was an English admiral who lost his right arm, and the sight in his right eye during the war against France in the 1790s. He became a national hero after winning several victories at sea, the most famous was the battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
P.Florence Nightingale was an English nurse who became a national heroine during the Crimean War, when she set up a hospital for soldiers. She became known as the “Lady with the Lamp” because she used to walk round the hospital in the evening with a lamp, to check that everything was in order.
P. Princess Diana (born Lady Diana Spencer) the former wife of the heir of the British throne, Charles, the Prince of Wales. The mother of Prince William and Prince Henry who are the second and the third (after their father) in the order of succession to the British throne.
P. William Shakespeare is an English writer of plays, the most famous ever. He also wrote poetry, especially the sonnets. His most famous plays are Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, Twelfth Night.
Scene from the tragedy “Romeo and Juliet”
(Act II, Scene2: Capulet’s orchard)
(Enter Romeo)
Romeo: He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
(Juliet appears above at a window.)
But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Be not her maid, since she is envious,
Her vestal livery is but sick and green,
And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off.
Juliet: O, Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou will not, be but sworn my love
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
Romeo: Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?
Juliet: Tis but thy name that is my enemy.
Музыкальная пауза.
T. You are tired children. Let’s sing our favourite song.
If you are happy and you know, clap your hands} twice
If you are happy and you know and you really want to show,
If you are happy and you know, clap your hands.
Clap your fingers
Step your feet
Clap your legs
Say OK
Do all fives
T. Somebody is knocking at the door. Come in, please. You are welcome. Children, we have a guest. Let’s get acquaintance with him.
(Входит корреспондент газеты “The Times”)
P1. What is your name?
C. My name is Tom Black.
P2. Where are you from?
C. I’m from Great Britain.
P3. What is your nationality?
C. I’m British.
P4 What is your profession?
C I’m a journalist.
P5.Do you speak Russian?
C. Just a little. You see children, I’m a journalist from the newspaper “The Times”. I’m going to write an article about famous people in Russia. Can you help me?
P1. I want to tell you about V. Vysotsky. V.V. was an actor and a poet. He wrote many popular songs. His roles made him famous.
P2. Yuri Gagarin was the first person to orbit the Earth. It was on the12th of April, 1961.
P3. V. Tereshkova is the first woman cosmonaut in the world. She orbited the Earth in 1963.
P4. Nikita Mikhalkov is the only Russian film maker to get an Oscar for his film. He got an Oscar for his film “Burnt by the Sun” in 1996.
C. Oh, thanks a lot, I’ll write a fine article about these famous people. Good-by, see you soon.
Тест для проверки домашнего чтения. Reader стр.74.1. All the mothers of the town … him.
a) loved
b) hated
c) admired2. Tom … Huckleberry, his life of freedom.
a) envied
b) lent
c)ignored3. Huckleberry always had … clothes
a) nice
b) dirty
c) big4. He did not have to go to …
a) park
c) school5. He never had to … or put on clean clothes
a) swim
b) wash
c)cook6. He could swear …
a) wonderfully
b) badly
c) early
7. This was the opinion of every … boy.
a) clever
b) nice
c) good
Работа в группах
There are people who are widely known in Russia.
What do/did these famous people do?
IV. Подведение итогов работы
Рефлексия: Did you like our lesson?
What did we do at the lesson?
What new have you learned?
V. Домашнее задание: подготовить сообщение об одном из знаменитых людей Великобритании и России.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47765 | Nathaniel – “Tear It Up” Ft. Casanova
Brooklyn singer/songwriter Nathaniel keeps the Summer ’18 energy going with Casanova on “Tear It Up,” produced by King James. This song is currently available on iTunes, Spotify and all digital platforms here:
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47769 | This was a commission for my brother-in-law Rick Ouimet, pastor of Mosaic Church here in Lynchburg. It’s a summation of his most often used (and beloved) catch phrases! His wonderful wife wanted to surprise him with it for his birthday and I appreciated being a part of it. You could probably string together an entire sermon series off of these phrases alone! 😅 Happy Birthday!
Wilson Community Church Children’s Ministry
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47808 | Bahlea was a female Rutian Twi'lek Pilgrim who lived on Tython during the Cold War between the Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic.
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A Twi'lek female, Bahlea was one of many Pilgrims who followed Matriarch Kolovish to the planet Tython in the aftermath of the Great Galactic War. Assisting in the establishment of Kalikori village, Bahlea married and bore a child named Rusa.
Along with her husband, Bahlea raised their child until she fell ill with a feverish sickness. Setting out to retrieve a medicine derived from manka cat teeth, Bahlea's husband was killed by Flesh Raiders during his search. Later, her husband's final mission was completed by a young Jedi Padawan from the nearby Jedi Temple who brought Bahlea and Rusa the necessary teeth for the medicine.[1]
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47809 |
The title of emperor (feminine empress) was used by the ruler of a government, such as an empire. The Atrisian Emperors of Kitel Phard were a type of emperor,[2] Leeya of the Regency Worlds utilized the title of empress.[1]
Darth Sidious, known publicly as Sheev Palpatine, masterminded the Clone Wars and completed the Great Plan of the Sith. At the end of the war, he transformed the Galactic Republic into the Galactic Empire and declared himself its Galactic Emperor.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47830 | This is the British Literature review guide. The first 5 sections are covered in the midterm. Put together by Victor Lourng (@lablayers) with content pulled from my notes and my classmates guides.
If you think you can improve this, pull requests are open! Enjoy and good luck on your exams!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47861 | Why Your Startup Should Join an Accelerator
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Constance Freedman is the founder and managing partner of Moderne Ventures, an early-stage venture fund and accelerator investing in technology companies in real estate, mortgage, finance, insurance, and home services – all multi-trillion dollar industries that make up well over 20 percent of the US GDP and are ripe for innovation. Prior to launching Moderne Ventures, Constance was the head of strategic investments at the National Association of Realtors where she launched and managed its investment arm, Second Century Ventures (SCV), and founded its accelerator program, Reach.
In 2014, Constance was recognized by Crain’s Business in its prestigious “40 under 40” awards and was also named on Crain’s Chicago “Top Tech 50”. In both 2014 and 2015, Constance was recognized on Swanepoel’s “Power 200 Most Powerful Individuals in Residential Real Estate” and in 2015 named in Inman’s “Top 101 in Real Estate”. In an episode of Tech in Chicago, Freedman joined us to talk about the reasons why some startups should join an accelerator.
In this episode of Tech in Chicago, you will learn:
• The most exciting tech developments for Moderne Ventures;
• Why venture capital firms start accelerators;
• How important an accelerator is for the deal flow;
• What the decision making process looks like for the accelerator and investments;
• Where they find the best companies for their accelerator;
• How to break into venture capital; and
• How to find the right limited partners (LPs).
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47863 | < Projects | Oxygen | namingSpec
Revision as of 00:12, 22 October 2007 by Jpetso (talk | contribs) (Renamed the gearheads!)
Note that there are only 22x22 versions of the Oxygen emotes.
Specification compliance of icon names
face-angel OK
face-cool Needed
face-crying OK
face-devilish OK (was named face-devil-grin in 0.8 of
the spec, but is now renamed there)
CVS version, no need to draw this emote
face-embarrassed OK
(not in the spec) **
face-smile-gearhead-female OK **
face-smile-gearhead-male OK **
The new spec defines face-cool instead
of face-glasses for B-), which might
mean that this one doesn't fit as well?
face-kiss OK
already specified for face-smile-big)
(not in the spec) **
face-monkey Needed
face-plain OK
face-sad OK
face-smile OK
face-smile-big OK
face-smirk Needed
face-surprise OK
face-raspberry OK
face-wink OK
* suggesting this for inclusion into the icon naming specification
it's not really suited to be a standard icon
To do for Oxygen
The icon used for the B-) emote.
The icon used for the :-(|) emote.
The icon used for the :-! emote.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/47877 | 1. Rob
Very interesting post, but I think you are missing something: Every once in a while if you change font sizes, the line height is not adjusted – resulting in large space between two lines. Maybe you could comment on that as well in this post? It would fit nicely…
• Rob
% Normalsize text
% Scriptsize text with normalsize line spacing
% Scriptsize text with scriptsize line spacing
% \par does the trick as well
2. Humberto Munoz
Hi Tom, How I can change the font type in LaTeX for parts/elements of a document?
Thanks Humberto Munoz
3. Juan Luis Varona
The line height is assigned at the end of the paragraph.
So perhaps the solution for your doubt is to use
{\tiny Foo foo foo ... foo \par}
{\Huge Foo foo foo ... foo \par}
4. Smufos
Thanks a lot for this article and especially for the hint to use \par to adjust line spacing. Could you please add a short explanation on *why* this fixes the spacing?
• Hi Smufos,
Thanks for your question! The command \par ends the paragraph, that’s for sure. Now why \par does the trick, I’m not entirely sure. Apparently, TeX reads the whole paragraph first for optimal space adjustment between words. And manually ending the paragraph seems to also adjust \baselineskip when the font size is changed, whereas standard paragraph ending (blank line) does not. “The TeXbook” by Donald E. Knuth would be the right place to look for an answer :-).
Cheers, Tom.
5. Homa
Thanks for the article, but how can one adjust font size of all equations globally? I mean a global math size which differs from global text font size?
II seems ridiculous to change the math font size in big projects manually!
6. Michael A. Peters
Hi, I’m dealing with a monospace type 1 font that is not part of CTAN, I used the fontinst instructions and they work well but it is a little too big when used inline with another font.
I noticed some fonts have a scale option that can be passed to their usepackage command that corrects this issue but I have no clue how to go about adjusting my .sty for that.
This is the extent of my lucimono.sty file:
\ProvidesPackage{lucimono}[2007/01/31 v.0.3 lucimono (Lucida Mono) package]
and it has worked well for years when used with lucida bright (I don’t like the monospace font that comes with lucida bright – I think it’s Lucida Typewriter, different than Lucida Mono) but when I use it with Times – it just is a little too big.
Any clue on where I need to look to find out how to add a scale option to my lucimono.sty file?
Thank you.
• Hi,
Thanks for your question. I’m not an expert on fonts really. However, what I read while trying to better understand your problem is that people recommend using luximono instead, which supports scaling through an optional parameter (see code below). You can download and install the luximono font as described here. In case you really need to use lucimono fonts, take a look at the luximono style file and how the scaling is done.
Best, Tom
7. Abhik
I want to write my Ph. D. Thesis in Gulliver font of latex. What should be the document class and commands for the font?
• tom
Hi Abhik,
Thanks for this interesting question! You can find an informative discussion on the Gulliver font here. Briefly, the Gulliver font is proprietary and no similar free font exists. In case using this particular font for your thesis is a university requirement, they should have a license and be able to tell you how to install it on your system. Otherwise, you might want to take a look at the LaTeX font catalogue and pick another font you like. Sorry for the “bad” news.
Cheers, Tom
8. Abhik
I want to write my ph. d. thesis in the font Gulliver. Is there any package in Latex for it ? Kindly inform me.
9. John Ford
Very useful post. I’ve been using TeX for 35 years, and LaTeX for the last 20 or so, creating lecture notes with Beamer. I’ve frequently found the available font sizes limiting. The anyfontsize package solves that beautifully. Thank you.
10. Hi sir,
In some standard templates like sage even though using \documentclass[12pt]{sage} font size won’t change. Is any solution for that in order to change font size..?
• Kanchana
Hi Tom sir,
I have modified the theme I want to upload it to net so that it might useful to new theme seeker. Do you know the procedure to upload it.
• tom
Hi Kanchana,
Thanks for getting back to me. By theme, do you mean the modified template? Perhaps you can post the code as a comment below. If it’s not too long and may be useful to other people, I’ll be happy to publish your code.
Thanks, Tom
• tom
Hi Ayed,
Please specify what “normal” means. Helvetica, Times, or Arial are frequently used fonts. The default font in TeX/LaTeX is Computer Modern. Also, sometimes the university defines the font to be used for a thesis.
• Anonymous Coward
If he wants Times, then he could just add `\usepackage{times}`.
But, personally, I dislike this font. For now, my choice is on kpfonts (`\usepackage{kpfonts}`), which is a very good looking font.
11. Zainab
I am writing my thesis. Some chapters have different font size – larger than others. How can make all the chapters have the same? May you help me please?
• tom
Hi Zainab,
This should not happen. You can set the normal font size globally as an optional argument to documentclass.
Whenever you use a macro to modify the font size locally, make sure you properly close it.
% or
{\small ...}
12. Adrian Dusa
Thank you Tom, wonderful resource that led me to solve the problem I had. Sometimes, it is not only the font size but also the space between the lines has to be adjusted (in my case for a verbatim environment), and doing so globally was quite a challenge.
Following your post, this is the solution I came across:
This reduced the space between the lines to 90% (if I understand it right), and sets the font, in my case Menlo, to the desired size according to your advice. This might also answer Michael Peters to whom you recommended the luximono package.
13. infinitebuffalo
Is there any way to say “whatever the parent grouping’s font size is, make this group’s one size {larger|smaller}”, akin to CSS’s “font-size: larger/smaller”?
14. Gula
How do I make this font size thing into a macro?
I mean, allover fontsize is the default size while certain texts are a size depending on what I put in the macro.
Hello, {\large World}! How are {\large You} today? I, I am {\large fine}, thank you.
The way I want to do it:
Hello, {\aMacro World}! How are {\aMacro You} today? I, I am {\aMacro fine}, thank you.
What I’ve come up with so far is:
\aMacro{\footnotesize}% originally I wanted \large but now I want \footnotesize
… but this doesn’t work.
The purpose is of \aMacro is so that I can change those certain text ‘automatically’ (instead of manually) if I happen to want another size.
Thank you.
15. Yeom
Thank you for your post.
I am writing my thesis and its format in Latex.
My university has given the reference format which is made by Hancom office (this program is only for Hangul in South korea).
So, I am changing it to Latex format.
But, I have a problem.
How do I change length of the text which have a fixed height.
I did not find this option. (In Hangul office, it is intuitively possible to adjust this option)
Thank you
16. richardpaulhall
I am very new to Latex.
Where do you put that line?
Experimenting with it, I see no change in the document.
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Drink that sweater!
By | 2018-03-21T18:19:20+01:00 June 1st, 2005|First Person|
Maybe, whispers my inner Neville Chamberlain, she was merely being clever.
ating over age 40 reminds me of a 1960s song called “I Saw Her Again Last Night.” The band — sit still, kids — is called the Mamas & the Papas. As John Phillips sings the refrain for a 10th time (“I saw her again…”) he skips a beat after “her,” dropping the word “again.” It’s a winsome omission.
Welcome to my world.
In it lives Charlotte. Charlotte is introduced to me on Christmas Eve. “Go talk to her,” says a male friend.
“Why?” I ask.
“She’s a girl.”
Clarity of purpose defines the insightful man. I thank him.
Turns out Charlotte is from Belgium — “Which is up there,” she explains, twirling her index finger provocatively. She lives on the “AH-tikka,” which I gradually understand is not Indian chicken but the Appian Way, the ancient Roman road that winds its way to the Mediterranean coast. She “associates closely” with a United Nations agency.
“So how does American think of the movie?” Charlotte whispers conspiratorially.
Bewildered, I mention recent films I’ve seen, including “The Aviator.”
“This is wrong,” says Charlotte, who explains that she hates flying, is recently divorced, and has contentious custody of her ex-husband’s cat, known as “Charlton Peston.” (“When you are confused, you know this is the cat,” she says; clueless, I nod and smile.)
Charlotte has trim brown hair and green eyes. “I had a kind of man in Alaska on my trip once,” she announces.
A kind of man? What kind?
No answer.
Her ex-husband, she continues, liked “to drink the black sweater.” This I do not touch.
But the best is yet to come.
“Are you,” she asks finally, “little in Rome?”
I’m now in serious trouble. No, I reply, I am long in Rome, as in older. I was “little” in Paris and Washington, “bigger” in London, “big” in Prague, and now over 40 in Rome.
“This is why you stay?”
I tell Charlotte the truth: I adore Rome. I even like cats.
“And you associate closely with?”
No one, I say.
No, no, whines Charlotte. Wrong answer. Who do I work for?
For myself, I say. I make a magazine.
This baffles Charlotte, who defaults. “Do you like food?”
I unwisely take this as a cue. “Would you like to have dinner with me?” I ask.
Very bad choice. She pauses.
“Too much food is wrong,” Charlotte announces, which I gather is a Belgian refusal.
“So what happened with Charlotte?” my male friend wants to know later. I tell him about Alaska and the husband who drinks black sweaters.
“Oh, dude,” he says.
Then comes Carrie.
I’m more hopeful. She is 30, grew up in Vermont, and wishes to discuss family values, which she favors.
“You have to believe in what you believe so long as you really believe it,” says Carrie on our first date.
I like her immediately. I tell her that I also want to believe.
“In what?” she asks.
“In you.”
“You’re so smart,” says Carrie.
I’m proud of myself. Progress.
On Date Two I hold Carrie’s hand over dinner, tantamount (for me) to Neil Armstrong’s stepping on the moon.
“What are you doing?” asks Carrie. I sense a trick question.
“Holding your hand?”
Carrie stares at me skeptically.
“Don’t be so sure,” she says.
Carrie retracts her hand. What if there were things I didn’t know about her, and those things might make me not know her and might make me like her less if I really knew them? She says this in one swoop. Also, by the way, how can I be so sure I understand the concept of her being?
“I have scope,” Carrie explains, “and I might not be here soon.”
Is she ill? Is she traveling?
No, explains Carrie, she is speaking from her “book of life.” She is divorced from a famous sous chef who works in Chicago, owns a manicured boutique island on Lake Erie (with ice defrosters in winter) and when they were together always criticized her wine choices.
But you’re divorced now, I offer.
“Don’t be so sure.”
I finally decide to insist — we’re on Date Three.
You’re nice to be around, Carrie, I tell her. Really.
She has to think about that, she says.
Soon comes a text message informing me I am “not a scope of choice.”
“Bummer,” says my male friend.
But he has an idea: Try again with Charlotte.
And be “little” again? No thanks.
But I get a reprieve.
I meet a sculptor at a dinner for journalists covering the papal death. She is 32, Californian. Veronica is fit, smart, with a probing, ironic smile. She’s lived in Rome for six years, teaches at a local college, and is divorced from an Italo-Iranian astronomer whose speciality was “medium-sized black holes” that he probed from an Irish observatory. He insisted they marry on the beaches of Normandy.
I’m again hopeful; astronomers like stars and I like romance. And Normandy isn’t so bad, unless you’re at war.
At the end of the meal I summon the courage to ask her if I might be in touch.
Veronica just smiles.
Later, I send a more formal request via email. I don’t have her phone number: “Would you like to have dinner with me?”
I wait patiently. I try not to think about Charlotte and Carrie. Today’s a new day. After an Italo-Iranian astronomer what better choice than me? I’m a natural.
“Dude,” says my erudite friend, praising her undefined “cool” factor, “I have a good feeling about this one.”
Veronica, however, doesn’t. “I don’t like attention,” she writes back. “I am flattered, but I cannot accept.” I do the hunting, she adds.
Oh, and can she ask me a question: Was I the one who left lewd messages on her answering machine? “Don’t be offended.” If so, would I please stop.
No, I say. No. No. No.
Later, Veronica calls to apologize. She is gracious.
Maybe I merely misread her email, I think to myself (my female radar is as effective as England was in gauging Nazi German intentions between the wars). Maybe, whispers my inner Neville Chamberlain, I didn’t know how to recognize her cleverness. The conversation expands pleasantly; appeasement is working. I assure her I did not leave vulgar messages and appreciate someone who shies from undue attention. I tell her I make a magazine and like pets and sweaters.
Chastened by Carrie, I pay homage to scope. I cherish scope, I say. Good conversation, I add earnestly, should precede any good relationship. She agrees. She tells me of the Normandy wedding. Someone’s distracted uncle wore no shoes. We talk for an hour. She doesn’t seem to dislike the attention.
The time has come for the dreaded question… So when can I see you?
“Oh, Christopher, Christopher,” sighs Veronica, as if I’d misplaced a medium-sized black hole. “I told you I do the hunting.”
My head is suddenly filled with images of Xena, the Warrior Princess. I see Veronica foraging in a glade of wine bars amid dozens of miniature Italian men in designer thongs. I say goodbye.
“Totally bad week, bro,” my keen male friend observes, poignant as ever.
Dating over age 40 reminds me of another 1960s song, this one by Bob Dylan. He kicks it off with a sneer: “This one is called ‘It’s all right, Ma, I’m only bleeding,’ ho, ho, ho… It’s a funny song.”
Funny indeed. Like drinking the black sweater.
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In a past post I said that I believe that Hip Hop is the Modern Day Psalms. Over the next twelve weeks I will be making a Modern Day Psalms Mixtape. Every Monday I will add a new song to the mixtape with an explanation of why I find it powerful. This is track 1.
In my humble opinion there is not a better band in the world, not just in hip hop, then the Roots. This song in particular I find very powerful. Hip Hop is the home of the remix, taking something, and remolding it and reworking it into a new piece of art. This song is no exception, a reworking of the folk super group (yes, such a thing exists) Monsters of Folk’s song Dear God (sincerely MOF). This is a great song in its own right, but the Roots take it and go darker. Exploring the long asked question of why God allows suffering. Here Black Thought (the Roots MC) doesn’t give us an answer but also doesn’t give up. You don’t get the feeling that God is on trial in this track, for he makes sure to say “it’s still me, one of your biggest fans…” but he has real questions. “Why’s the world ugly when you made it in your image, and why is living life such a fight to the finish…” There are no easy answers to these questions, for theologians have been struggling with this forever. My prayers often reflect this struggle, why is there so much hate in world created by the God of love? Why do God’s followers so often perpetrate this hate? I don’t listen to this song for answers to these questions, but rather to join my prayer with his.
For a bit of an extra treat, here is the Roots performing the song live on Jimmy Fallon with guest singer Jim James (Monsters of Folk, My Morning Jacket).
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Part 1: Apologetics for Everyone
Part 2: The Cosmological Arguments
P rofessional philosophers commonly regard the Ontological Argument as the best single logical argument in favor of God’s existence. In fact, many secular philosophers have conceded that the Modal Ontological Argument (the version of the argument under consideration in this article) holds up under even the most rigorous scrutiny. This is particularly impressive when we consider just how many years critics have had to find fault with the argument. It was Anselm of Canterbury who first discovered and defended a version of this argument in his work Proslogion in 1078 AD.
Yet in spite of the tremendous effectiveness and age of the argument, it remains one of the more obscure arguments, especially to the average theist. But why would perhaps the oldest and best argument in favor of God’s existence be the least known? The answer appears to be two fold:
1. The scope of the argument can be challenging to defend.
2. Many people find the argument difficult to understand.
Let’s start with the scope of the argument.
What is the scope of the Ontological Argument?
One of the misunderstandings about the Ontological Argument is that the Ontological Argument claims to prove that God exists. This is false. All that the argument attempts to accomplish is to show that if the idea of God is not logically or metaphysically incoherent, that is, if the idea of God is not irrational, then God does exist. Understanding this is critical to utilizing the argument correctly. For the time being we will not worry too much about this fact, but we will return to this idea in our discussion time. Now, let’s look at the second reason the argument is unfamiliar to many theists.
Many people find the argument difficult to understand. But Why?
1. Part of the reason is that the argument requires some training in the construction of philosophical reasoning.
2. The argument acts almost like a mathematics problem, which some find daunting.
3. Many casual observers think the argument seems “fishy” and then they see the volumes of pop-philosophical criticism of the argument and choose to ignore the argument altogether.
So, my objective in this article is to demystify the Ontological Argument, to break it down in simple terms that anyone can understand. My hope is that everyone will gain a mastery of this argument and will make it a utility in the defense of their faith.
Although the Ontological Argument comes in many forms, in this article we will be examining Alvin Plantinga’s Modal Ontological Argument. I have chosen Plantinga’s version for two reasons:
1. It is relatively simple.
2. It uses modal logic, which if you have read Article 02: The Cosmological Argument you will already be familiar with. If you haven’t, no problem. We’ll cover it again here.
So let’s cover modal logic now and go through some of the definitions that are necessary to understand the argument, including the word Ontology itself.
Modal logic is a method of forming arguments based on three types of objects. We ask, are the objects in question:
1. Impossible Objects: Impossible objects are objects that cannot exist rationally, like a square circle.
2. Contingent Objects: Contingent objects are objects that depend on something else for their existence, like apples depend on apple trees or eggs depend on chickens. In reality all space-time objects are contingent, they depend on physics to exist if nothing else.
3. Necessary Objects: Necessary objects are objects that depend on nothing for their existence. The number 3 might be a necessary object, for example.
In addition to these three types of objects we also need to add another modal logic concept to our repertoire, the idea of possible worlds.
A possible world is not another planet or a parallel dimension. In logical arguments possible worlds are simply descriptions of the way reality could be.
For example, in a possible world Adolph Hitler and the Nazis won World War II. In another possible world, we all pooled our money, bought a lottery ticket, won, and are all millionaires. Both of these examples are worlds which are plausibly true, they could exist. However, according to this definition, a possible world cannot be an impossible world. So there cannot be any world in which logically impossible objects exist. For example, there cannot be a universe in which 2 = 3 or there are 4 sided triangles or, as William Lane Craig puts it, there cannot be a world in which there are married bachelors. These things are logically absurd and cannot exist in any possible world.
Believe it or not, if you understand these four simple logic concepts: impossible objects, contingent objects, necessary objects, and possible worlds, you have all of the required information to reason through the Ontological Argument.
Next let’s define God.
That task might seem daunting, but fortunately the Ontological Argument does this for us. Anselm saw God, in simple terms, as what he called a Maximally Great Being (MGB). He noted that God would always be the greatest being that anyone could imagine. If someone could imagine a greater being, then that being would be God. He went on to say that God would have only great-making properties and no less-making properties. Here are a few examples:
Great-making Properties Less-making Properties
Timeless Bounded by time
Space-less Bounded by space
Immaterial Bounded by matter
All powerful Limitedly powerful
All knowing Limited in knowledge
Eternally living Mortal
All good Somewhat good
A maximally great being will have all great-making properties and have those properties to their fullest extent.
Finally, what does the word Ontological itself mean?
Of course, the root word of ‘ontological’ is ‘ontology.’ Although ‘ontology’ sounds like a fancy word, its meaning is actually quite simple: ontology is the study of the nature of being or existing.
So the Ontological Argument simply means a logical argument that, if true, argues in favor of the existence of God. What is so interesting about this argument is that it relies on nothing other than logic to show that if the premises are true, then God must exist.
So, now that we have an understanding of all of the pieces that go into the Ontological Argument, let’s look at the Ontological Argument itself:
Premise 1: It is possible that a maximally great being (MGB) exists.
Premise 2: If it is possible that a MGB exists, then a MGB exists in some possible world.
Premise 3: If a MGB exists in some possible world, then a MGB exists in every possible world.
Premise 4: If a MGB exists in every possible world, then a MGB exists in the actual world.
Premise 5: If a MGB exists in the actual world, then a MGB exists.
Conclusion 1: Therefore, a MGB exists.
Believe it or not, among professional philosophers premises 2 through 5 are incontrovertible; they simply follow from premise 1. In fact, the only premise in contention in the whole argument is premise 1.
Let’s examine the argument more closely to see how it works.
Premise 1:
The first premise makes a truth statement that can either be accepted or rejected. The claim is that it is possible that a maximally great being exists. This premise is quite interesting when we consider the fact that most atheists readily grant that it is possible that God exists, but they just don’t believe that God does exist.
Premise 2:
Premise two basically restates premise 1 using “possible worlds” vernacular. In fact, anything that is possible is possible in some possible world by definition. Nevertheless, utilizing “possible worlds” vernacular makes the rest of the argument simpler to understand.
Premise 3:
This is where things get interesting. Premise three states that if a maximally great being exists in some possible world, he exists in every possible world. But why? The answer is that he is maximally great. If creature A exists in only one possible world, that’s good. If creature B exists in two possible worlds, well, that’s even better. The more worlds that a being exists in, the better the being is. By this reasoning we come to see that a maximally great being must be great maximally and, therefore, must exist in ALL possible worlds.
Premise 4:
Now, in premise four everything begins coming together. For if a maximally great being exists in all possible worlds, and our world is not only a possible world but is the actual world, then a maximally great being exists in the actual world.
Premise 5:
And it only naturally follows that if a maximally great being exists in the actual world, then a maximally great being exists.
Conclusion 1:
Therefore, God exists.
Once this line of reasoning is understood, it is greatly empowering. We come to recognize that we have a logical confirmation of our own faith and a reason for our belief in God. Further, we have a tool for evangelizing.
Now, notice what happens here: if a person admits that it is possible that God exists, they have entered an inescapable syllogism, an air tight logical case that necessarily leads to the fact that God does exist.
But what if the person believes it is impossible that God exists?
Because of the Ontological Argument, most secular or atheistic philosophers find themselves forced into adopting the notion that it is impossible that God exists. However, in order to hold this position with intellectual honesty the atheist must show in what way the very notion of God is logically incoherent.
What does it mean to be logically incoherent?
Simply put, being logically incoherent is synonymous with being impossible. In other words, the atheist must argue in modal logical terms that God is not only not necessary but is also an impossible object. Under the strength of the Ontological Argument a failure to prove that God is an impossible object is the same as logical evidence that God exists.
The last millennium or so has shown just how difficult it is to demonstrate that the idea of God is logically incoherent.
It’s certainly not for a lack of trying, however. In fact, I have catalogued no fewer than fourteen major dissensions to the Ontological Argument. Some of these objections are rather sophisticated while others are really quite silly. Let’s take a look at some of them now.
Objection 1: Omnipotence Paradox
The Omnipotence Paradox is an attempt to show that the idea of God is logically incoherent. The objection goes something like this:
“Can God create a rock so big that even he cannot lift it? If he cannot create the rock, then He is not omnipotent. If He can create the rock and cannot lift it, He is not omnipotent.”
On face value, this seems like an interesting argument. But it turns out to be as empty as it is adorable.
The problem with the argument is that it is what is called a “straw man” argument. A straw man argument is an argument which attributes a statement or action to a person who never said that statement or never did that action, and then attacks them for it.
An example of a straw man argument might look like this:
Child: “Can we get a dog?”
Parent: “No.”
Child: “It would protect our home.”
Parent: “Sorry, no.”
Child: “Why do you want to leave us and our house unprotected?”
Not wanting a dog is not evidence that the parent wishes to leave the family and house unprotected. The accusation against the parent is a straw man.
But what does this have to do with Omnipotence Paradox?
Simply this, nowhere does the idea of being maximally great make the promise that a maximally great being can do logically absurd things.
Being maximally great does not give the maximally great being the power to, say, make square circles, or make 2 equal 3. All of these things are impossible objects, which are distinct from contingent or necessary objects.
From a Christian point of view, to give an example, the Bible tells us that there are many things that God cannot do.
1. He cannot lie.
2. He cannot be tempted with sin.
3. He cannot break a promise.
Simply put, maximally great beings must be self-consistent as a part of being maximally great. Doing things that are logically absurd is not consistent with a maximally logical being. Therefore, God is omnipotently capable to living consistent with His own character.
Objection 2: The Problem of Evil
The Problem of Evil is one of the most common attempts to show that the idea of God is logically inconsistent. The objection goes like this:
“Look at all the pain and suffering in the world today. If God is maximally powerful, and God is maximally good, then evil should not exist. But evil does exist. Therefore, the only conclusion is that God is either maximally good but not powerful enough to stop the evil or God is maximally powerful but not good enough to want to stop the evil. In either case a maximally great God is incompatible with the actual world, and, therefore, all possible worlds, and so God does not exist.”
Again, this might seem reasonable on the surface. However, because of the work of Alvin Plantinga and others, the Problem of Evil as an argument against God’s existence no longer works among serious philosophers.
Plantinga argues that God could not simultaneously give his creation free will and eliminate evil. Because God is good and humans are free, they are free to choose God and good or to reject God and what is good.
C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity imagined a world in which evil and suffering were impossible. His thought experiment imagined a world in which a sword turned to a flaccid noodle if you attempted to hit someone. You could not fall out of a tree if the branch broke. Just before thinking and saying something evil the thoughts or words would suddenly change to positive and uplifting words.
Just imagine what kind of physics the world would have to possess in order to make this a reality. It would be so utterly unpredictable that no science or technology could possible exist.
In the end the world would be logically incoherent. The obvious question would be, in this kind of world do we have free will? The answer is certainly, no.
However, because humans have freedom to choose or reject God and what is good, the world cannot be void of evil or suffering.
Objection 3: The Problem of Imperfection
Another common objection to the Ontological Argument is the Problem of Imperfection, which is in many ways similar to the Problem of Evil. The Problem of Imperfection objection goes something like this:
“If God is perfect, he could not create something imperfect. But this creation is imperfect. Therefore, God is not perfect and is not maximally great.”
This objection too has been largely abandoned in academic circles.
Three main problems plague The Problem of Imperfection.
1. The definition of “perfection” is not clear. What is perfect to one is not perfect to another.
2. Plantinga points out that perhaps a perfect universe would contradict God’s objective for the creation. For example, what if a perfect creation would bring fewer people to the knowledge of God.
3. Even atheists have pointed out that even if both items 1 and 2 above were solved, logically speaking nothing can be derived from an imperfect universe other than there is an Maximally Great Being that did not intend to make a perfect universe.
All of this, of course, says nothing about Christian theism which largely teaches that God created a perfect world and one or several beings ruined it.
Objection 4: Demand for Empirical Evidence
The Empirical Evidence objection goes like this:
“Only scientifically verifiable evidence can show something to be true.”
This is perhaps one of the most commonly held objections to the Ontological Argument and theism in general. As it happens it is also one of the weakest of all the arguments.
Why? Because the statement is self-defeating.
Does the statement “only scientifically verifiable evidence can show something to be true” itself have scientifically verifiable evidence? The answer is, no! In that case the statement itself is not true.
Further, we must remember that the Ontological Argument only requires that it is POSSIBLE that God exists, not that God does exist. In other words, any number of evidences could be forwarded to establish that it is POSSIBLE that God exists—any of the cosmological arguments, for example.
Objection 5: Reverse Ontological Argument
One of the more sophisticated objections to the Ontological Argument is the attempt to reverse the argument, which would look like this:
P1: It is possible that a maximally great being (MGB) does not exist.
P2: If it is possible that a MGB does not exist, then a MGB does not exist in some possible world.
P3: If a MGB does not exist in some possible world, then a MGB does not exist in every possible world.
P4: If a MGB does not exist in every possible world, then a MGB does not exist in the actual world.
P5: If a MGB does not exist in the actual world, then a MGB does not exist.
C1: Therefore, a MGB is impossible.
At first blush, this seems to work. But the problem actually occurs in P2:
The problem is that P2 does not logically follow from P1. If P2 is to logically follow from P1, it should be written thusly:
P2: If it is possible that a MGB does not exist, then it is possible that a MGB does not exist in any possible world.
However, to say that a MGB does not exist in any possible world, as we have seen, is the same as saying that a MGB is impossible. But the Reverse Ontological Argument has not in any way shown that the idea of a MGB is logically or metaphysically impossible. Consequently, the Reverse Ontological Argument fails in Premise 2.
Objection 6: The Maximally Great Unicorn
Perhaps one of the most common but, frankly, silliest objections against the Ontological Argument, is the Maximally Great Unicorn objection. It formulates the argument this way:
P1: It is possible that a maximally great unicorn (MGU) exists.
P2: If it is possible that a MGU exists, then a MGU exists in some possible world.
P3: If a MGU exists in some possible world, then a MGU exists in every possible world.
P4: If a MGU exists in every possible world, then a MGU exists in the actual world.
P5: If a MGU exists in the actual world, then a MGU exists.
C1: Therefore, a MGU exists.
Why does this argument fail?
The answer is that a unicorn is a physical object. And physical objects are contingent objects, not necessary objects. This is a problem because in some possible worlds space and time either never started to exist or rapidly collapsed into a singularity. A unicorn simply cannot live or even exist in such a possible world.
So in what premise of the MGU argument does this reasoning fail?
The answer is P1 through P3. All three have problems.
P1: Being a maximally great physical being is illogical because to be maximally great is to live without the limitation of physical existence.
P2: It is not possible that a MGU exists because to do so violates P1.
P3: If a MGU cannot exist, it does not follow that it must exist in every possible world. Even if it were possible that a MGU existed in some possible world, it would not follow that a physical being must exist in all possible worlds.
Redirect 01: Sometimes, a person will object claiming, “Your objections may be true for lions and bears, but a unicorn, like God, is mythical. I have a maximally great mythical being and so do you.”
Rebuttal 01: The mythology of a unicorn is that it is a physical horse with a horn. To confirm its mythology to be true would be to confirm that there exists a horse with a horn. Horses with horns are physical objects that exist in time and space. Therefore, a unicorn cannot be a necessary object.
Redirect 02: Oh, no. This is a very special unicorn, a unicorn that is timeless, space-less, immaterial, etc.
Rebuttal 02: Robbing a unicorn of all of the attributes that make it a unicorn and then giving it the attributes of God simply demonstrates that you admit that God exists and prefer to call Him a unicorn.
Objection 7: Multiple Maximally Great Beings
Finally, some atheists have argued that it is vastly more likely that we should find multiple maximally great beings existing than one maximally great being. However, this idea is full of problems.
Suppose that maximally great being A thought that unicorns were a most wonderful idea and wished for creation to be full of unicorns. Now, suppose, however, that maximally great being B hated the very idea of unicorns and wished to create a set of physical laws which would make unicorns impossible.
In reality unicorns either exist or do not exist. If they exist, then MGB A is greater than B. If, however, unicorns do not exist, then MGB B is greater. Both cannot be maximally great.
However, those who argue for multiple maximally great beings are not entirely off in left field. It is impossible for multiple maximally great beings to exist, unless they are in perfect agreement. Ironically, for those who object to a maximally great being in favor of multiple maximally great beings, they fall very much in line with Trinitarian theology.
According to Trinitarian theology there is one God in three persons, each fully God, each distinct one from another, each maximally great, each in perfect agreement with one another.
Digging Deeper
To get a deeper understanding into the logic behind the ontological argument it’s important to understand logical corollaries. A corollary is a fact that must be true because another fact is already proven. Let’s look at an example:
1 + 3 = 4
4 – 3 = 1
Is there any logical difference here? No.
Is there a perceptual difference here? Yes. We might well perceive them differently, but logically the corollary follows necessarily from the initial fact.
Logic like mathematics uses facts and corollaries.
Logical Fact:
A → □ ◊ A
◊ = possible or possibly
□ = necessary or necessarily
→ = implies
A = axiom exists
English Translation:
If something exists, it must be necessarily possible for it to exist.
A dog exists; therefore, it is possible that a dog can exist.
This is a plain fact of logic that is so basic that it is taken as axiomatic, that is, it is a statement that is assumed to be true in every logical argument and does not have to be proven. In fact, it is formally called Axiom B:
Axiom B:
A → □ ◊ A
English Translation:
If something exists, it is
necessarily possible for it to exist.
Just like 1+3=4, so Axiom B has a corollary:
Axiom B Corollary:
A → A
English Translation:
If it is possible that a necessary object exists, it exists.
This corollary was known to philosophers, but no one had put the implications together. In 1974 Alvin Plantinga published his Modal Ontological Argument. As soon as it was published there was an uproar in nearly every philosophy department the world over. Atheist philosophers were horrified. Why? Because Plantinga had just shown that Axiom B, a completely undisputed and critical axiom, had a corollary that demonstrated that if it is even possible that God exists, He exists.
A Deep, Deep Dive
So if you’re still wondering how and why this works from a logical calculus point of view, this section is for you. The purpose of this section is not in any way to explain propositional calculus, the underlying logic of formulating and proving the theorems of modal logic. What follows, therefore, is my best attempt to consolidate and state in relatively simpler terms what I understand to be true about the flow of the logic that necessarily leads to the conclusion that what is possibly necessary must actually exist—the foundational axiomatic corollary of Plantinga’s Modal Ontological Argument. This is not at all to say that what follows is my opinion; rather, it is based upon (and where possible directly quoted from) primary sources. Nevertheless, because it is at times my understanding of the primary sources, errors might exist. I expect that many who read this document will have a greater understanding of the topic than I do; I expect and welcome feedback, corrections, and citations which will improve the accuracy of this section.
In order to explain how the Modal Ontological Argument functions in any meaningful way, we must have a basic understanding of the foundational principles of modal logic—what makes modal logic work and how ideas can be derived from logical axioms. Let us first take a very cursory glance at the syntax of logical language as well as the systems which under-gird modal logic. Once we have taken a quick look at modal logic we can turn our attention toward matters that bear more directly on Alvin Plantinga’s Modal Ontological Argument, which itself is based on a corollary of System S5: Axiom B.
To speak purposefully, about modal logic we first need to understand its vocabulary, the symbols and meanings of the specialized logical calculi of modal logic. What follows is an abridged glossary of terms:
¬ = negation
◊ = possible or possibly
□ = necessary or necessarily
Ʌ = and
V = or
→ = implies
↔ = is equivalent or vise versa
~ = not
P = proposition exists
A = axiom exists
R = accessible
For the most part, though not entirely, an understanding of these symbols will allow us to read the language of modal logic as plain English. You will, however, in short order find symbols that are not included here. You can go to the link below for a longer list of symbols, although this list too is abridged:
Let us look at a few examples, so that we might understand how the symbols relate to colloquial speech.
1.1 Logic Syntax:
◊P ↔ ~□~P
1.1 Literal Syntax:
Possibly (◊) Existing (P) is Equivalent (↔) to Not (~) Necessarily (□) Not (~) Existing (P).
1.1 Colloquial Syntax:
Saying something possibly exists is the same as saying that the thing does not necessarily not exist.
1.1 Corollary:
If something possibly exists, then it is possible that the thing exists.
Let us try another example:
1.2 Logic:
□P ↔ ~◊~P
1.2 Literal:
Necessarily Existing is Equivalent to Not Possibly Not Existing.
1.2 Colloquial:
Saying something necessarily exists is the same as saying it is not possible that it does not exist.
1.2 Corollary:
If something exists necessarily, then it has to exist.
The 1.1 Logic and 1.2 Logic above are not merely examples but also show what is called unary or first place modal operations and their negations. On the left of the ↔ is the operation, and on the right of the ↔ is the negation. Thus, according to the definitions in the glossary above, 1.1 and 1.2 can also and should be written respectively as follows, where ¬ means negation:
◊P ↔ ¬ □¬ P
□P ↔ ¬ ◊ ¬ P
Change of Quantifier Rule
Negations are very important in modal logic because they aid in understanding equivalence and, consequently, corollaries. For example:
¬ □¬ P ↔ ◊P OR in colloquial English: not necessarily not existing is the same as possibly existing.
¬ ◊ ¬ P ↔ □P OR in colloquial English: not possibly not existing is the same as necessarily existing.
Notice in the above examples that the terms ¬ □¬ is the same as ◊ and also that the terms ¬ ◊ ¬ is the same exact thing as □. We can begin to see how corollaries can be derived. Here are some further definitions in logical syntax to help in this understanding:
~□P ↔ ◊~P OR in colloquial English: not necessarily existing is the same as possibly not existing.
□~P ↔ ~◊P OR in colloquial English: necessarily not existing is the same as not possibly existing.
Notice in these examples we see that ~□ inverts to ◊~ and also that □~ inverts to ~◊. These types of changes are called the Dual Rule, and these types of operations are critical to understanding in what way the Modal Ontological Argument is sound.
You can see the article below (and the website in general) for more information on the topics discussed above:
Before we move on, however, we need to look at one other logic rule, which bears on this study.
Rule of Contraposition:
Contraposition is a method of restating an assumption such that it inverts the operators and order of the terms. Although this sounds complex, in practice we do this all the time effortlessly. By way of example:
2.1 Assumption: All students are participants.
2.1 Contraposition: No participants are not students.
Notice how the order of the terms ‘students’ and ‘participants’ are reversed, how the quantity ‘all’ became ‘none,’ and the status ‘are’ became ‘are not.’ This is the operation of the Rule of Contraposition. Importantly, contrapositions can also be stated schematically. Consider the following example.
2.2 Assumption: No participants are not students.
2.2 Schematic Contraposition: No non-participants are not non-students.
2.2 Double Negative Reduction: All students are participants.
Notice in 2.2 that the Assumption is already in the negative form as seen in 2.1 Contraposition. In order to simplify 2.2 Assumption to a positive form we must use schematic contraposition. The schematic contraposition introduces double negatives into the system such that a negative might be converted to a positive. Consequently, the schematic contraposition is reduced through the elimination of the double negatives ‘no-non’ and ‘not-non’ to the original positive 2.1 Assumption. Notice that throughout the entire operation the meaning of the original sentence as stated in the 2.1 Assumption never changes. 1
Everything that we have seen so far is first order modal logic, but modal logic has an entire landscape of systems and axioms. Earlier in this article we mentioned Axiom B—the statement that what what exists implies that it is necessary that it possibly exists. But where is Axiom B in the modal logic landscape? Here is a very brief overview of the modal logic landscape:
First, one point of clarification is that modal logic is distinct from modal logics, the latter of which is a family of logical systems which include Modal (logic of possibility), Deontic (logic of ought), Temporal (logic of tenses and time) and Doxastic (logic of belief). In this appendix we will only be looking at the Modal system, the study of logically follows from something being necessary or possible.
System K
System K is named for Saul Kripke, who developed modal logic’s calculus. System K is the most basic form of modal logic, is not particularly powerful in itself, is not at all controversial, and contains the following rules:
Necessitation Rule:
A → □A
Literally, A exists implies necessarily A exists.
If A is an axiom of K, then so is □A. This is to say that the laws of logic are necessary and are, therefore, true in all possible worlds. It is also to say that whatever is true axiomatically necessarily exists. This is a critical point in understanding the Modal Ontological Argument.
Distribution Axiom:
□ (A → B) → (□A → □B)
Literally, A implies B necessarily implies necessarily A implies necessarily B.
This means simply that necessity distributes to all participants of an implication statement. This will be a rather simple concept to anyone with any experience in algebra.
Definition of Possibility:
◊A ↔ ¬ □¬ A
We have already explored this with propositions above, but it bears repeating here.
System D
System D is everything that System K has plus one additional axiom.
□A → ◊A
Literally, necessarily A implies possibly A.
So this adds to modal logic the idea that whatever is necessary is possible.
System T (aka System M)
System T is System K with Axiom M, and is simply a stronger version of System D, and, in fact, D is contained within M as a corollary. System T/Axiom M acts as follows:
□A → A
Literally, necessarily A implies it is the case that A.
Or whatever is necessarily true is true.
System S4
System S4 is Systems K and T plus Axiom 4. System S4 and System S5, which we will cover in a moment have come to be seen as controversial because of some of the “unintuitive” corollary arguments which follow naturally from them. Intuitiveness of axioms or corollaries of axioms does have a role to play in logic; however, the limiting factor of intuitiveness is not the degree to which an axiom or corollary is immediately obviously true, as we might expect, but whether or not it can be explained or exemplified. Let us take a look at System S4:
□A → □□A
Literally, necessarily A implies that it is necessary that necessarily A.
In other words, if A is necessary true it is necessarily necessary that A is true, and A cannot be otherwise only possibly true. System S4 also has the corollary:
◊◊A → ◊A
Literally, possible that possibly A implies possibly A.
Notice how the right and left sides of the equations are related between Axiom 4 and its corollary. It is possible that in the formulation of modal arguments long strings of ◊◊◊◊◊A or □□□□□A might occur. S4 culls these additional possible or necessary terms as long as the terms are identical, that is all ◊ or all □ within the implication statement.
System S5
System S5 is simply System T plus Axiom 5, which is itself a stronger form of Axiom 4. Just as was the case in S4, S5 allows for us to limit the number of redundant mixed terms ◊□. So instead of ◊□◊□◊□◊□P, we simply use ◊□P. Instead of going into all of the work necessary to show Axiom 5 in this appendix, we will simply look at the difference between Axiom 4 and Axiom 5, which is known as Axiom B. We come to see, therefore, that Axiom B as we discussed earlier in this article is the axiom which is formed from the difference between Axiom 4 and Axiom 5. It is this difference which has caused so much controversy in the last 40 years or so. Let’s examine it here again:
A → □◊A
Literally, A implies that it is necessary that it is possible that A.
This axiom, of course, carries the controversial corollary:
◊□A → A
Or, literally, possible that necessarily A implies that A exists.
In plain English, if it is possible that a necessary objects exists, it exists. We see, therefore, from S5 Axiom B corollary the basis of Plantinga’s Modal Ontological Argument.
Now we are all up-to-speed on the context and requisite logical syntax and rules which play into a proper understanding of the Modal Ontological Argument for the existence of God. Let us now turn our attention toward understanding in what way the corollary of Axiom B in S5 follows the rules of modal logic.
As we have already seen modal logic uses as its most basic axiom rules for dealing with necessary objects. Consider System K above, which denotes as its first order axiom:
A → □A
Whatever exists axiomatically, necessarily exists. This fact is important as we noted before because necessary propositional objects must exist necessarily. Therefore, where proposition P is a necessary object p, p must necessarily exist. This is important: p below is a necessary object P, as shown here:
p → □p
What is interesting, however, is what happens when we start playing with this assumption. Let’s first use our Rule of Contraposition on this assumption to get:
~□p → ~p
Here what we have done is shown that through contraposition for any necessary propositional object p, if p is not necessary, then p does not exist. This is very interesting. Any necessary object, therefore, exist necessarily or not at all. There is no possibility of contingency. However, when we examine not necessarily p implies not p more closely, we have an interesting opportunity to apply the dual rule to the left hand side of the equation, as follows:
◊~p → ~p
This is a very interesting statement. Not only does not necessarily p imply not p but also possibly not p implies not p for all necessary objects. The ramifications of this implication statement are that if it is even possible that a necessary object p does not exist, it does not exist. This is a strong statement to which we will return later. If possibly not p, then not p, where p is a necessary object by means of definition p → □p. But it also opens up a very intriguing logical operation. We now have negative necessary propositional object p on both sides of the implication statement. That means that we can now apply a schematic contraposition to the implication statement:
◊~~p → ~~p
Schematic contraposition as we have seen is a first step in converting a negative propositional implication statement to a positive statement. How might this be done? By canceling double negatives. To do so gives us the following implication statement for all necessary objects:
◊p → p
In colloquial English if it is possible that necessary object p exists, necessary object p does exist. Therefore, necessary object p exists. And finally we can connect this as a corollary of Axiom B:
(◊p → p) ↔ (◊□P → P)
(◊p → p) ↔ (◊□A → A) is derived from the first order modal logic System K axiom, A → □A, which is the base of S5 Axiom B, A → □◊A, and thus is a corollary of Axiom B.
Trent Dougherty in his article A Defense of the Modal Ontological Argument describes not only all of the above on page 3 but goes on to describe why the Modal Ontological Argument trumps any version of atheism, the affirmative statement that God does not exist.
In logical argumentation the rules which govern which of the two disputing parties has the burden of proof is as follows:
Actuality bears the burden of proof.
Possibility gets the benefit of the doubt.
To state, therefore, that God does not exist is to state an assumption of actuality. To state that God possibly exists is to state an assumption of possibility. Therefore, the burden of proof is on the atheist not the theist, assuming, of course, that the theist understands the underlying modal logic. The argument for the knowledgeable theist is: it is possible that God exists, so God exists, which is the Modal Ontological Argument.
Interestingly the argument for the knowledgeable atheist is: it is not possible that God exists, so God does not exist. This is as close as the atheist can get to a rational position, and unfortunately it is not close enough. But why? Let’s examine the Reverse Modal Ontological Argument as formulated from System K, which incidentally varies from the Reverse Ontological Argument that we covered earlier, which fails at Premise 2. Let propositional object G be a necessary object, God.
G → □G
¬□G → ¬G
◊¬G → ¬G
This logic is sound and seemingly produces a stalemate between the possibly existing p Modal Ontological Argument and the possibly not existing G in the Reverse Modal Ontological Argument. However, there is one imbalance with this stalemate. There exists, in logical terms, a Symmetry problem between the arguments.
Let us refer to the Modal Ontological Argument as MOA and the Reverse Modal Ontological Argument as ROA. In the case of MOA a person conceives of the possibility of God. In the case of ROA a person conceives of the possibility of no God. Now consider the following statement:
For any sentence S and agent A, if A can conceive ¬S, then A can conceive S.
What this statement tells us is that anyone who can conceive of God not existing—a statement of absence—can also conceive of God existing—an affirmative statement of presence. A couple of ideas bear on this realization. First, the opposite is not at all clearly true. In other words, just because someone can conceive of God does not necessarily imply that someone can conceive of no God. And second, and more importantly, Dougherty says,
“…the opponent of the ontological argument clearly wants ¬ G to be conceivable in support of the main premise ‘¬G’ of the atheological ontological argument. However, [this] entails that if that is the case then G has prima facie support. Once that is recognized, then we have reason to believe G and thus ¬¬G which defeats the prima facie justification of ¬G. I think this asymmetry gives more than a merely procedural advantage to the ontological argument.”
As is the case with every line in this section, there is a great deal more that could be said about this argument. In the end, however, we as Christians should not expect that we should find out God apart from God Himself. What we do have, however, is a perfectly rational basis for our belief in God; indeed, a more rational basis than the atheist has for believing that there is no God, which as Alvin Plantinga quipped, “is all anyone could hope to have.”
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I write code with Vim and find no better alternatives to it, but when writing blog posts, it doesn’t feel right. I haven’t thought about the deep reason on this feeling yet, perhaps engineering code and blog writing take different logic or structure.
My blog is built with Jeykll and Markdown, so I explored many Markdown editors including gedit, Typora, MarkText, just to name a few. Well, I use Ubuntu, so the choices are pretty much limited.
There are plenty of superior Markdown editors on macOS, but I don’t think I would use them even if I switched to macOS. Because another most important factor affecting my choices is open source. Then obviously I won’t switch to macOS neither.
I don’t use Visual Studio Code on programming, because I’m so used to Vim for almost 15 years. However I already have Code installed on my Ubuntu just in case I could use it occasionally, like opening some Code projects from GitHub.
Yesterday, when I made a decision on writing daily, I found no proper editors, because I have uninstalled them after tried out. Then I opened Code by accident, and thought why not give this high-performance editor a try. After all, I have tried to write Markdown with Atom.
Then I modified some preferences solely for writing purpose and I was totally amazed! It’s flawless as butter. Open source, high performance, good spell checker, easy shortcuts, beautiful interface, outline navigator, and even git integration! What else do I want?
Typora should obviously not be in my radar, as it’s not open sourced. However it is one of rare macOS programs that have Linux port, so I have tried it for a while. But its performance is not comparable to Code, and I’m not so accustomed to its configurations, maybe it’s a macOS software or a editor designed for writers, that is to say not engineer friendly.
MarkText is open source, but it always have weird behaviors, e.g. it will delete blank lines which I want them there, and it doesn’t even show a confirmation dialog. A good editor should never modify content without informing users.
Atom was too slow, so I didn’t even write much with it.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48013 | Welcome to the Vizome documentation
URL: https://vizome.readthedocs.io/
Source: https://github.com/ohsu-heme/vizome_docs
Vizome is an interactive, context-aware knowledge discovery platform created by Libbey White, Beth Wilmot, Dan Bottomly, and Shannon McWeeney at Oregon Health & Science University.
There are three datasets currently available in Vizome:
The links in this documentation point to the Beat AML Vizome, but the information is similar for the other two datasets.
Much of this documentation can also be accessed in Vizome by clicking the info_button button on each page.
Summary of Modules in Vizome
samples_bar 1. Sample attributes view
This view provides several methods to define a global filter that will limit browsing in Vizome to a subset of samples.
This page presents options for defining global filters based on variant properties, as well as options for searching for variants.
genesets_main 3. Gene sets
mosaic 4. Mosaic view
This view displays data related to samples, including clinical and variant, and fusion data (if applicable).
individual 5. Individual view
This view displays variants and inhibitor results for an individual, one patient at a time.
compare 6. Compare gene variants view
This view allows you to compare a set of genes selected via DNA variants found in either individual samples or groups of samples.
expression 7. Expression stratification view
This view displays RNA-Seq expression for a given gene and various sample attributes.
chronology 8. Chronology view
genemodel 9. Gene model view
This view displays gene models, variants, DNA coverage, miRNA, CTCF, target regions, DNase, H3K27ac, and, if applicable, RNA coverage, fusions, splicings, and a heatmap of RNA-Seq expression.
protein 10. Protein view
For a given gene, this view displays Pfam domains of the protein it codes, and variants in the study population.
inhibitor 11. Inhibitor view
Results from inhibitor testing, variant data, and normalized RNA-Seq expression data appear in this view.
hitwalker 12. HitWalker
This view provides an interface to the HitWalker program, which ranks genes containing variants with respect to functional data or supplied gene sets.
Getting Started
See tutorials page for instructions and examples. |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48055 | Debian Ciel 2
Author: Amir Dizdarević and whoever else joins...
Ciel means sky in French, which is sort of the motto of this theme with its aim to be light on the eye. The theme provides wallpapers for both 4:3 and 16:9, as well as a gdm, bootsplash and grub background, a kdm theme, a ksplash theme and a dark grey debian icon with instructions what icons to replace to achieve Debian branding. Screenshots and mock-ups will show the 16:9 version. The theme is public domain, so do with it whatever you want. Note however that the Debian logo used in it has its own license ( The kdm and ksplash themes are basically rip offs of other themes and have to therefore be GPLed.
I would kindly ask anyone to contribute, as coding boot splash and similar endeavours are not my kind of thing. See TODO section. Thank you! :)
Get the archive from here: 2.82 MB
Please mirror the file if you are able to do so. Thank you!
The previous version was very depressing with its rather desaturated blue, thus the new, happier version. You can still find the old version in the link below. I have orphaned it and left it to rot :) 2.06 MB
A semi-official discussion board can be found here:
Last update: 13th Oct 2010
The file names and folders should be self-explanatory.
2.0 - 2010.10.13
1.2. - 2010.09.17
1.1. - 2010.09.17
1.0. - 2010.09.16
Wallpaper / grub / GDM Background
I've joined these three in order to simplify the theme and make for a more seamless boot transition
Notes for GDM:
I've changed the logo you see when GDM start up from computer to the start-here.png icon to suit the theme. But that is not all -- I presume that this icon in Tango has the usual bordeaux Debian logo by default and think we should substitute it for the dark grey one. See the screenshots for reference:
Boot Splash
There is no bootsplash/plymouth/usplash/splashy code, but feel free to make it from the image provided:
The idea is for the logo to "pulsate" (this could be achieved by making an animation with the dark shadow growing/retreating).
KDM Theme
This is a rip off of the default KDM theme with just the background changed to the proposed wallpaper.
SLiM Theme
Coming soon... I will make an entire SLiM theme. The folder Slim in the archive is just a placeholder.
A simple splash image for Gnome. Since this is not used by default anymore, I didn't bother to update this one.
This is a rip off of the default KDE splash with just the background changed to the proposed wallpaper.
I've changed the default theme to ?MurrinaAquaish to make Ciel brighter. Metacity was changed to Murrine Rounded. Gnome-brave was sort of too blue, so I changed it to Tango. The mouse cursor is the standard dmz white. I think the theme changes demand the standard Gnome notification-daemon instead the initially proposed notify-osd. They are all available in vanilla Debian with these dependencies:
The panels are using the system theme.
No changes to the theme, thus the default Oxygen themes and icons. The KMenu icon has been changed to the proposed dark grey Debian icon. KDM and Ksplash themes are above.
The panel has been changed to system theme. I also made a new logout splash. The default LXDE icon was changed to the proposed dark grey Debian logo. GTK and icons should be as in Gnome and the Openbox theme should be Clearlooks.
Debian Icon
This dark grey icon is provided to achieve branding.
CD Cover
A front cover has been provided.
Debian Installer
A nice installer banner
Public Domain, except for the Debian Logo:
and the KDM and KSplash themes (see their README).
Please add your e-mail if you participate.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48062 | Catholics, academics, and some protestants view the Reformation launched by Martin Luther on October 31, 1517 as being a less than helpful historical development. Prior to the posting of the 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Chapel, seemingly one unified Christian church existed. Our Christian friends in the East who assemble under the banner of the Greek Orthodox Church take issue with this Western view of church history. Almost five hundred years before the Reformation, they broke with the Bishop of Rome on July 16, 1054. But the great schism did not destroy the unity of the Western Churches. Luther and the second generation of Reformers deserve the credit or the blame for that development. Baptists have a president, Methodists have bishops, and Presbyterians have presbyters in part because Luther walked off the field and refused to play with the historic and unifying expression of Christendom, the Roman Catholic Church.
Did Luther and Sola Scriptures Destroy the Church?
But is this truly what happened? Did Luther’s quest for a purer church destroy “The Church,” dividing that which God has always intended to be unified?
Those who view the Reformation to be primarily schismatic in nature, point to the most famous line of the Reformation. At the Diet of Worms in 1521, the representative of Pope Leo X demanded that Luther recant of his errors and his teaching. His errors included such things as Thesis 36 which stated, “Any truly repentant Christian has a right to full remission of penalty and guilt, even without indulgence letters.” Luther asked for an adjournment of the meeting to form his response. When he returned to the hall the following day, he replied:
Here I Stand
Protestants champion Luther’s statement because it encapsulates the idea of Sola Scriptura, Scripture alone. Instead of looking to Rome for truth, protestants can scan the Bible and discern God’s truth through plain reason. Luther had shifted the authority of the church from the Pope’s throne to the pew. Protestants rejoiced.
Christendom quaked. The democratization of the church’s authority threatened to destroy all authoritative claims. Any man or woman with access to the Bible could reason himself or herself to a variety of doctrines that may have no relation to the doctrines proposed by other Christians. Essentially Luther and the Reformers who followed the pugnacious monk had turned theology into a subjective experience that seemingly undermined the idea of truth, leaving no place for cultural much less spiritual unity. Interpretive anarchy reigned.
What Did Luther Really Do?
Though Luther and those in the Reformed camp turned the world upside down, they were not seeking to create a new church, modeling a theological paradigm of unending evolution and progress. The Reformers were inherently theological conservationists who wished to lead the Church back to the historic, apostolic faith. Luther had said his 95 Theses aligned, “with what is in the Holy Scriptures…and then what is in…the writings of the church fathers.”
Luther had not advocated for theological anarchy. He and those who followed him believed that the Holy Spirit that had inspired the New Testament text, converted the lost and sustained the church as the caretaker and protector of the evangelical witness. Christians were free to interpret the text according to their own conscience as long as that conscience aligned with the Scriptures and the testimony of the historic church that affirmed the apostolic witness. Theologian Kevin Vanhoozer correctly noted that for the Reformers, “Tradition was not the Word of God; it is the testimony to that Word.” Luther took issue with the Pope not because the Vatican championed tradition. He took issue with Rome because it advocated for theological positions that ran counter to the Scriptures and the testimony of the historic apostolic faith. Vanhoozer helpfully describes what Luther did, writing,
Protestantism is not the virus that divides and attacks the body; it is the antibodies that set to work attacking the body’s infection (e.g. late medieval Roman Catholicism).
Luther had not protested the authoritative nature of apostolic tradition as taught in the Scriptures. He protested against the commands of the Pope because the Pontiff, “distorts the Holy Scriptures.” He was not an theological anarchist. He was theological purest, Sola Scriptura.
Why Is the Church Fractured?
The church lacks unity not because the reformers protested the authority of Rome but because men and women of every age refuse to acknowledge the Scriptures and the apostolic tradition of the Church as Rome has done. The ancient church father Irenaeus whom Luther knew well described schismatics as follows:
When we refer them to that tradition which originates from the apostles, which is preserved by means of the succession of presbyters in the Churches, they [the schismatics] object to tradition, saying that they themselves are wiser not merely than the presbyters, but even than the apostles, because they have discovered the unadulterated truth.
The unity of the church fractures when men and women walk away from the apostolic witness of the Scriptures preferring new sources of authority ranging from prophetic dreams, to religious traditions, to personal feelings. Regardless of their claims, the new traditions always produce schism.
Luther did not infect the church with schism. He reintroduced the church to the cure for division, the gospel once delivered for all and attested to be all true believers. May we be wise stewards of the cure.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48094 | profession vs occupation
What's the difference between
*PROFESSION* is an activity when a person is paid for his
particular skill and his deep knowledge.
PROFESSION needs a specialised training and
Example: Doctors, Engineers, Teachers, Lawyers, Chartered
Accountants etc.
*OCCUPATION* is an activity when a person is not paid
for their knowledge, but only for what they produce.
OCCUPATION doesn't need any special training.
Example: Drivers, shopkeepers, clerks, accountants, etc.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48101 | Facebook logo in currency symbols photo
Human trafficking is the trade in human beings, most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor or for the extraction of organs or tissues… – Wikipedia
Every year thousands of women and men become victims of human trafficking, millions are being forced into labour and get exploited by private agents. And although here it is not physical, human trafficking also exists on the main social networks, most prominently on Facebook, where millions of people are being sold to private businesses just to be exploited by them later on. So let’s tweak our definition a little bit:
Facebook like trafficking is the trade in human beings, most commonly for the purpose of Facebook page slavery, forced engagement or the extraction of attention, time, money and intelligence… – Adomas Baltagalvis
How does it happen, you wonder? 🙂
It starts in the exact same way: something wonderful is promised to the victim by tapping into her deepest desires. In real life, that might be a very well-paid job abroad, on Facebook – some breaking news about a celebrity (“VIDEO: Justin Bieber vomits on the stage!!!”), includes some nudity (“EXCLUSIVE: Britney Spears is seen completely naked!!!”), sometimes violence (“A fifteen-year-old girl is beaten to death by her father.”), humour (“The funniest video of the year!..”) and many others… In both situations, the traffickers are great psychologists who know how to manipulate the emotions of their victims very well.
What’s next? You click on the link but (surprise surprise!) you cannot watch it until you do something what they ask first. No, you don’t need to give away your passport, but you will need to type in some numbers, use their Facebook application, or simply click on the video – and here, my friend, is the moment when you lose the ownership of your life (or your like, to be exact). 🙂
What’s even worse is that these Facebook like traffickers can use social evidence to reach more victims and sell them to the companies. Every time you were fooled into liking a page, the same link will become visible to all of your friends on your Facebook wall. As you’ve just checked it out and shared the link, your friends will feel less threatened to click on it as well… Add the curiosity factor into the equation, and that’s a killer combination for you!
So, your like (AND your Facebook feed, AND attention, AND time, AND money…) had just been sold to some untrustworthy company – are you interested in how much they paid for you?
Prices vary from one seller to another, but, by using these dirty techniques, you can easily buy one like for less than 3 dollar cents – that’s how much they value your following!.. Considering the value they extract from you, it’s rather disappointing, right? 🙂
Anyway, there’s no time to be sad!
You have two options: a) you don’t do anything, keep receiving crappy promotional messages, are exploited by those companies for their financial gains and even kill your brain cells because of all the nonsenses that you keep seing every day… OR b) you take action against the Facebook like traffickers, you never click on such links again, and when you see them, you report the page as SCAM or SPAM.
Now, please go to your Facebook profile and check the pages that you currently like. I am very confident that you will be very surprised about what you find there (and if you see something that shouldn’t be there, report it as SCAM). 😉
Take control of your like and stop being a victim of Facebook human traffickers.
Let’s clean it from all the social trash and make Facebook more valuable for us, our friends and everyone the entire world, shall we? 🙂 |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48131 | How To Store Cryptocurrency Safely in 2020
In the process of learning how to invest in Bitcoin or how to trade altcoins, you will encounter the term "cryptocurrency wallet." Although you can not physically hold digital currencies in the same way that you hold traditional money, you will still need to have any of the following: paper, mobile, web, or desktop wallets for altcoins and bitcoin so that you can properly secure, manage , and maintain your digital assets. Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies have earned a reputation for being prone to scams and hacks therefore we created this guide to learn how to secure your Bitcoin and other tokens for cryptoghraphy.
How to store cryptocurrency safely overview:
1. What Are Crypto Wallets
2. How Does a Crypto Wallet Works
3. Why do we need public and private keys in crypto wallets
How to store cryptocurrency safely
How to store cryptocurrency safely #What Are Crypto Wallets
Cryptocurrency wallets are mere tools that you can use to access your digital assets through a blockchain network. Through crypto wallets, users are enabled to receive and send cryptocurrencies, monitor their balances, and keep digital assets. The majority of crypto wallets are based on software, while some are of the hardware or paper types.
How to store cryptocurrency safely #How Does a Crypto Wallet Works
For most people, the term wallet conveys a simple thought: that it stores a valuable item. However, this may not be true for cryptocurrency wallets.
Even if you have the best bitcoin wallet or a popular cryptocurrency wallet app, still that won’t physically store your digital assets. But why would you still need crypto wallets if they don’t store cryptos?
If you plan to hold cryptocurrencies for a long time or desire to engage in daily crypto trading activities to earn Bitcoin, you will need a crypto wallet to have a record of your crypto transactions which is stored in the blockchain.
Your crypto wallet stores only your public and private keys that would allow you to interact with the corresponding blockchain so that you can hold, send, or receive, or spend crypto as you wish.
(To refresh your mind about what is cryptocurrency, you can read our blog article describing what are cryptocurrencies.)
How to store cryptocurrency safely #Why do we need public and private keys in crypto wallets
Both public and private keys are essential in crypto transactions basically because digital currencies depend on cryptography. The information regarding your assets can only be opened or read with the right key that would decrypt them. Public keys, as the term suggests, are publicly known and are essential for identification. In contrast, private keys shall be kept secret and are only used for authentication and encryption.
Your public and private keys determine your Altcoin or Bitcoin wallet address. A crypto wallet address is an alphanumeric identifier that identifies the specific location on the blockchain. It is associated with the crypto wallet balance and is used for sending and receiving funds.
If someone wants to send Bitcoins or altcoins to you, you can share the address with them. The address is a shorter representative form of the public key. This would allow you to receive cryptocurrency in your wallet address from anyone who sends coins through that address.
Remember to never share your private key with anyone - no matter what the circumstances are. Even when your computer crashes down or when your smartphone gets compromised, it is wise to keep your private key solely to yourself because this will keep the integrity and security of your assets. For as long as you have the private key or seed phrase, you will still be able to access your funds using a different device. This is possible because of the very nature of cryptocurrencies - it never leaves the blockchain.
Transactions only allow coins to be transferred from one address to another.
In the next article, we will discuss the different types of crypto wallets - software wallet, paper wallet, hardware wallet, and mobile wallet for cryptocurrencies.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48133 | Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Speak Softly and Say Eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh
It's time for a revolution, Drunkards.
I'm not talking about a political revolution or a social revolution or even whatever revolt against our collective sanity caused Donald Trump to get 14 million primary votes.
No, I'm talking about a dolphin revolution.
It's become clear to me that most forms of communication are failing in our modern world. Civil discourse has given way to petty bickering. Entire philosophies are based upon logical fallacies that are supposed to disprove them, yet somehow they thrive. People on the Internet are just dicks to each other. And the media have all but thrown away any pretense of impartiality. The whole world seems like one long commercial where companies threaten to burn down your house if you don't buy their product. Only shoutier.
I say we need to find a new way to communicate. A better way. A much, much cuter way.
Enter dolphin sounds.
Dolphin sounds are happy sounds. Even the angriest dolphin you can imagine still sounds more like a cute little rascal than, say, Sean Hannity on a bender.
Just listen to these smiling, happy bastards:
You're happy, right? That's why I think we should emulate our dolphin brethren (who are, if you believe Douglas Adams, superior beings from another world to begin with). Go ahead, practice making a dolphin sound. Especially if you're reading this on a bus or in a crowded restaurant. Just do it. As Karen Carpenter once sang, don't worry if it's not good enough for anyone else to hear. Just ehhhhhh - eh - eh - ehhhhhhhhhhh.
Once you get used to the unique squawking cadence of dolphin-speak, I think you'll find there are all kinds of scenarios in which dolphin sounds are far more effective, and less offensive, than human speech. Here are just a few:
If someone complains that "America has become a welfare state," ask them if they're on welfare. Or if any of their friends or loved ones are on welfare. Whatever they say, respond by making dolphin sounds.
If a person approaches you and demands your wallet/money, respond with dolphin sounds.
If you're in a relationship and you feel your partner is taking you for granted, state your case in dolphin sounds. Preferably in a public setting.
If you decide after a first interview that a job isn't right for you, but the company invites you back, conduct the second interview entirely in dolphin sounds. If they still want you, hey, maybe it's a good fit after all.
If an acquaintance talks smack about a candidate you support, smile, nod...and give a 10-minute rebuttal in dolphinese.
If your boss makes a passive-aggressive comment that hurts like a bitch, spend the next few days conducting all business with his top clients via dolphin sounds.
If your internet goes down for long periods of time with no explanation, call your service provider and calmly express your dissatisfaction with dolphin sounds.
If you can't think of anything nice to say, say it with dolphin sounds.
Also, this happened on Twitter:
Shit. Now what do I do?
Eheheheheheheheheheheh *qlunq*
1. I love this entire post. I'm actually a bit surprised (and more than slightly disappointed) that I didn't think of this a long time ago. I shall put my new happiness to use immediately.
2. All I can think of is the Spongebob episode where he and Patrick learn to swear...in dolphin sounds.
And the recent story about a dolphin stealing a woman's iPad because they really are that smart.
And the movie Day of the Dolphin which, at the end, had me sobbing like an eight-year old. But then I was eight years old at the time.
None of this is relevant, though, because you're in the big leagues now. I just hope you don't forget us little people.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48151 | Public Views of Arts and Entertainment
What are the basic principles of the meaning of life and happiness ? First, understand that I genuinely believe that happiness is this is of life. To understand that you then need these three: interact with the Grand Consciousness, change your feelings thereby, column your enjoyment in to the world. What’s the thing that a large proportion of people on the planet look for in life ? Happiness. Families are created, food and protection is gained, careers are pursue to supply and shelter families. All of this is done therefore that men and women is likely to be happy. They’ll live their description of why is them happy.
The problem can be these exterior points and activities don’t make for happiness. Why? They change. They may be taken away. If they change for the worse, depression, identified by anyone enduring through the modify, results. When a family member dies, specially a son or child, agony could be the result.
The Heavenly Mind is the only “individual” who won’t, possibly, provide you unhappiness. That All-Pervasive Soul is totally out for your good. It won’t make any requirements on you. The Supreme Nature never demands that you worship It. It generally does not require your worship. It only requires that you allow Supreme Nature love you.
The God/Universe allows you and your life just as you are. You join with this particular unconditional love and overall acceptance through meditation. A method to start, throughout meditation, is to see a fantastic order of gentle flooding your spirit. This column comes to you from the All-Pervasive Spirit. Let it bathe your soul and to help you experience loved and accepted. With time you may find the deep, serious happiness of being liked and accepted
For the initial several years of babyhood, contained and entertained becomes the get of the day so that the business of life may continue. Today matter how much we prize and enjoy our time kissing child feet and enjoying peek-a-boo, (my personal favorite), you can find however simple human wants that must be met for one other people of our individuals and actually, heaven prohibit, for ourselves.
Teeth must be brushed, properties cleaned and food prepared. None of which will be actually probable, if one or more parent isn’t active at are well. This may be enough to do if perhaps parents did not suffer with any particular one pervasive quality that undermines the efficiency of also the best-laid plans. Parents are people! Scandalous news, I understand, but it’s true. You can find actually some parents who desire to be able to possess some time and energy to themselves, to see, to exercise, even to reconnect with their partner. Whoa!
This is exactly why the included and amused items are very useful. In many cases they are sanity savers and solitude protectors. (Have you actually tried to utilize a toilet having an infant in your hands?) While several of those products may not be completely essential atlanta divorce attorneys household, how great it’s to have a selection and know that when one does not work very well for your circumstances, you can find actually a huge selection of alternatives. Simplicity is really a lovely goal and I completely acknowledge, I just suggest so it may affect the objectives in addition to the baby gear we all collect.
When you yourself have really acknowledged that you are recognized and accepted that you will be liked unconditionally, you have the energy to change your thoughts. Modify them to the positive. Yes, it will take effort. But now you have the energy to add to your thought-resume all the benefits you can appear with.
Transformed ideas are the key to adding happiness in your life. Yes, you’ll carry on to possess negative thoughts. We cannot get a handle on what ideas enter into our heads. But we do have control around what ideas we entertain. Allow negative thoughts go by exchanging them with positive ones. That last standard stage is many important. Do not neglect it. If you have found your happiness inside, some name it satisfaction, you ‘ve got to beam that paradise to the outside.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48185 | Why new parents need an estate plan
| Jun 27, 2020 | Estate Planning
The whole purpose of estate planning is to protect your wealth and make sure you control its distribution during your lifetime and at your death.
Last Will and Testament
At the very least, you and your spouse each needs a Last Will and Testament. In them you specify who inherits from you, and in what proportions, when you die.
Of more importance with regard to your child, however, is the fact that your will can also state who you want to rear him or her in the event you and your spouse both die in a car crash or other catastrophic event before he or she reaches the age of majority. Remember, state law precludes children from owning property in their own right. Your will should therefore specify that the person(s) you designate as your child’s guardian(s) have the right and duty to distribute the assets for his or her benefit during his or her minority. Make sure to update your will whenever you welcome a new child into your family.
You can also establish one or more trusts as part of your estate plan. For instance, if your child has special needs, you may want to set up a special needs trust for him or her. The trust document names him or her as the beneficiary, and you can name yourself as the trustee if you wish. Keep in mind that the trust owns whatever assets you place in it, not your child personally. By naming yourself as the trustee, however, you can continue to manage the assets as you now do, spending the income the assets produce for your child’s benefit. Be sure to designate a successor trustee who will take over your duties should you become too ill, injured or otherwise incapacitated to fulfill them. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48186 | Petition: Longnecks to replace stubbies in Australian Bottle-Os.
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Its tough to pin point exactly what makes drinking a longneck beer that fucking good. Is it the glorious feeling of having a giant glass vessel in hand? Is it the increased quantity of beer you get at a slightly cheaper rate? Or is it quite simply the fact that you’re drinking a fucking longy.
Whatever it is, longnecks are pretty hecking neat.
So what the shit happened? Why did Australians drop from the magnificent clutches of the longneck into petty grips of the stubby?
As any old browser will tell you, longys used to be the stock standard Australian beer size. Prior to 1966 (and the introduction of the metric system) 750mls were the standard in Bottle-Os. Heck, it was not uncommon for some beer companies to push quantities of up to 2L per bottle. So I’ll ask again, what the shit happened that we're left with stubbies occupying all our shelf space?
As always, my strong suspicion is that the criminals at the ALP and the scumbags in the Australian Liberal party put their meddling hands in this.
“The government meddled with beer sizes in the 60s”
The governments have always tried to take shit we like. Remember when you used to be able to drink on trams? What about being able to go out in Sydney later than 7pm? Or the ability to ruin venues by smoking inside?
Yep, the governments always tried to sap our joyful freedoms and you can only assume they had some say in reverting Australias common beer size to the stubby.
Despite the meddling governments, the long neck has never lost the support of the people. Just ask the “20 to 8 in the fucking morning” guy. This old cobber amassed millions of views on social media drinking a longy in the wee hours of the morning. Better yet, ask the 20k community ‘Arvo longys’ who are urging cunts to tip em in every god damn day of the week. It’s the peoples beer size and always has been.
"The longneck is the peoples beer”
So how on earth do we get the longy back to dominate Bottle-Os shelf space? Sure, i'll concede there is a sparse quantity of long necks at the moment in an average Bottle-O. But how can we get back to the glory days of the 60s? How can we get every browser on the corner drinking a 750ml on Friday afternoons?
I propose we demand the government to publicly denounce regular sized stubbies in bottle shops in favour of the longneck.
The demands are simple
1.Scott Morrison to name the official Australian beer size as 750ml.
2.The stubby to be renamed as a ‘novelty sized beer’ and all shelf space occupied by stubbies to be replaced by longnecks.
3. Longnecks to be served in slab sized quantities. The price will remain the same as current day slabs.
We’re not solving a botched insulation scheme here - we just want the longnecks reinstated as the regular, standard, official, Australian beer size.
Join the cause and sign here:
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48191 | Understanding Asset Class Investing
Asset class investing is best explained within the framework of today’s investment management world, which can be divided into two broad categories, each reflecting a fundamentally different philosophy regarding how modern capital markets behave. These two schools of thought are generally referred to as active and passive.
Active management is the traditional way of building a stock portfolio, and includes a wide variety of strategies for identifying companies believed to offer above-average prospects. Regardless of their individual approach, all active managers selectively purchase securities, based on some forecast of future events.
In contrast, passive management makes no forecasts of the stock market or the economy, and no effort to distinguish “attractive” from “unattractive” securities. Portfolio adjustments are made only in response to changes in the underlying benchmark, or asset class.
Asset classes are groups of securities with similar risk and return characteristics, e.g., large company stocks, small company stocks, value stocks, growth stocks, US government bonds, real estate. For most asset classes there are long time series of historical data that allows us to form reliable estimates of their risk and how closely the behavior of that class correlates with the behavior of other classes.
Correlation is a measurement of the extent to which two variables move together over time. Combining assets which have a relatively low positive correlation – or are even negatively correlated – makes it possible to increase the overall return of a portfolio while at the same time reducing its risk. In contrast, assets which have a very high or perfect positive correlation (i.e., those that move in lock-step with each other) have little or no benefit as a diversification tool.
An asset allocation is the most appropriate mix of asset classes for an investor, given their risk tolerance, time horizon, goals and objectives, and other unique circumstances. Once an initial asset allocation has been established and implemented, it is maintained via periodic rebalancing, and amended as appropriate (e.g., when customer objectives or circumstances change).
We believe that passively-managed asset class funds are the most style-consistent, cost-effective and prudent method to invest in asset classes.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48192 | Making $173K but need to consolidate debt
Dear Dr. Don,
I have about $77,000 of debt in a variety of credit cards, lines of credit and home equity loans. I want to consolidate them into a single debt with a lower overall interest rate. Can you help?
— Rich Restructures
Dear Rich,
I understand that while you’re making a good income, you have real problems living within your means. Restructuring debt will consolidate the payments, putting less pressure on your monthly household budget. Until you get a handle on spending, you’re forcing yourself to get deeper in debt with another round of spending still to come.
I don’t think you can get to a point where you can consolidate all of your debts into one monthly payment without taking on costs and risks that make it a bad decision for you financially. I’d suggest concentrating paying off overdraft lines of credit on your bank accounts and paying down your credit card balances, ideally with the remaining draw on your line of credit. Then, you might ask your lender for an increase in your home equity credit line.
At my request, you have provided additional detail on your debts, income and credit score.
Home value: $350,000.
Credit score: 719.
Annual income: $172,978.
Roth IRA: $20,000.
This table summarizes your situation:
First mortgage $230,478 3.49% 30-year fixed rate
HELOC $24,552 4.99% Still in draw period
$255,030 72.87% Loan-to-value ratio
Credit card $29,211 8.9%
Auto loan $21,843 3.89% 84 months
Credit card $12,957 8.25%
Auto loan $6,747 2.99% 49 months
Overdraft line of credit $4,746 10.25%
Overdraft line of credit $1,402 15.9%
You also told me about a credit card with no interest charged paid off monthly from your checking account. It is covered by an overdraft line of credit carrying an interest rate of 15.9 percent. The credit card with no interest just carries you through the card’s grace period. You’re paying nearly 16 percent on the balances. While it’s a rewards card, you’re paying a high rate of interest to get the “payoff.”
You don’t say how much is left on the home equity line of credit, or HELOC. The typical homeowner who looks to restructure debt looks first at tapping the value of their home. That’s either with a cash-out first mortgage refinancing or a home equity line or loan. You have a credit line in place. So, how much of the consolidation can it facilitate? Don’t forget that when the draw period ends, you will be required to make amortized (more costly) payments.
A conventional first mortgage refinancing will require an 80 percent loan-to-value ratio, or LTV, to avoid the private mortgage insurance requirement and cost.
You have a great rate on your first mortgage. With only about 7 percent in equity available to stay under that 80 percent LTV ratio, that’s a little less than $25,000 to consolidate your $77,000 in debts. While higher LTVs may be available, the cost of PMI has to factor in to the decision to refinance along with the higher interest expense.
A cash-out Federal Housing Administration refinancing, or a Veterans Affairs loan if you qualify, has higher LTV ratio limits. You pay mortgage insurance premiums that make these options expensive alternatives. If you’re convinced that you want to have a single payment, these are likely to be your best options.
Your car loans are at reasonable interest rates. Consolidating car loans in mortgage debt means you would take up to 30 years to pay them off. The car won’t last that long. That represents over a third of your consumer credit balances that don’t need to be restructured.
Ask the adviser
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48273 | Trump Called Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas" In His NRA Speech
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On Friday, April 28, President Donald Trump gave a speech to the National Rifle Association (NRA), something that hasn't been seen in a very long time. Not since former president Ronald Reagan, back in 1983, has a sitting president delivered an address to the country's biggest and most powerful gun rights advocacy group, a hugely controversial organization thanks to its hard-line positions against virtually any gun safety reforms or restrictions. And yet, the most offensive thing the president said at the event had nothing to do with guns ― Trump called Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas" in his NRA speech, a racist attack on the leading progressive politician that he's used before.
If you followed the 2016 presidential race at all, then you've heard this one before. But it doesn't make it sting any less. Whenever Trump refers to the Warren, a progressive, popular Massachusetts senator, there's a pretty good chance he's going to call her "Pocahontas," an overtly racist joke about her family's claim to having Native American heritage.
It's not as though Trump hasn't been told he ought to stop saying this, derogatory as it is both to Warren and Native Americans. In fact, he was called out for it during a campaign appearance last year, but blithely ignored the urges for him to stop; he even repeated it later. In other words, the president seems to really enjoy this explicitly racist joke.
I have a feeling that in the next election, you're going to be swamped with candidates, but you're not going to be wasting your time. ... You'll have plenty of those Democrats coming over and you're going to say, "No, sir. No, thank you. No, ma'am." Perhaps "ma'am." It may be Pocahontas, remember that.
Trump reportedly made the same remark during a congressional meeting in February, an act that drew uncomfortable silence from the Democratic members in attendance. Minnesota Sen. Al Franken, who was not at the meeting, later said he wouldn't have stayed quiet if he'd been in the room, but rather would've told Trump he was being racist.
Needless to say, there's no reason to expect the 70-year-old Trump to change his behavior, because as in so many areas where he says deliberately inflammatory or hurtful things, he simply does not seem to care. Not even the knowledge that he's standing in front of an audience, and a bevy of cameras, seems to give him any pause. So what if people are watching? Time for a racist attack on a political opponent!
On the contrary, he often seems downright giddy and gleeful when he drops the "Pocahontas" line, as if he considers it one of his greatest hits ― which means you can expect to hear it over and over again at least for the next four years. Sadly for all of us, Trump isn't great at coming up with fresh material. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48332 | How to migrate Public Folders to Exchange or Office 365
There are different angles from which you can look at the Public Folders migration. For example, you can:
• migrate Public Folders to different target environments like Exchange or Office 365.
• choose to use native migration, PST import/export or third party tool for your migration task.
• migrate Public Folders to other Public Folders, to shared mailbox or to Office 365 Groups.
Depending on which way you choose, there will be different aspects to pay attention to. Here you will find some references to each of these, but the main focus is on aspects of Public Folders to Public Folders migration in on-premises Exchange or Office 365. You will also find Public Folders migration tools suggestions and links to other articles you may want to explore.
Public Folders Migration
Migrating legacy Public Folders
Native migration is an option that doesn’t cost you money but your time and effort. If that’s fine with you, the first step would be to go through planning before migrating Public Folders to Exchange or Office 365. The list below may come in handy to prepare for the task:
1. If your organization is still on Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2010 SP1, you won’t be able to do a direct move of Public Folders to the target server. The minimum requirement here for supported source environment is Exchange 2010 SP3 RU8 or later. In other words, you need to prepare for a double-hop transition.
2. Downtime is a must so that you can perform the final move and complete the migration task. Until it finishes, users will have no access to Public Folders.
3. The migration process is based on a set of PowerShell scripts you need to run in a correct sequence. Here you can download migration scripts required for the Public Folders migration.
4. You need to create CSV mapping files.
5. There is also a possibility to migrate Public Folders to Office 365 by using Outlook PST export. However, the size of the source Public Folders shouldn’t be greater than 30 GB. Otherwise, the auto-split feature in Office 365 won’t handle the massive unexpected growth and may stuck even up to two weeks before it completes the split.
If it doesn’t sound to you a straightforward migration then you can look for third-party tools that will make the process easier and faster.
Public Folders migration tools
Public Folders migration is much easier when using third-party migration tools. The application that securely links two environments, automatically matches source and target Public Folders and eliminates downtime, can be a great relief.
CodeTwo offers tools that you can use to simplify and speed up the migration of Public Folders. Depending on your migration scenario, you can use either CodeTwo Exchange Migration or CodeTwo Office 365 Migration. The first one lets you migrate Public Folders to on-premises Exchange Server and the second one allows for Public Folders migration to Office 365. The supported source server, in both cases, is Exchange, Office 365 or server supporting IMAP migrations like Google Workspace (formerly G Suite), IBM Notes or Zimbra.
Benefits of CodeTwo migration tools
If you use CodeTwo migration tools, you can expect a bunch of benefits. Here are a few examples:
1. The program automates the great part of the process. You can connect to source and target servers, where Public Folders reside, via intuitive built-in wizards. Once the connection is set up, the program will automatically find Public Folders and add them to the migration job. Prior to that make sure you created Public Folders on the target server.
2. You don’t need to worry about running a whole list of PowerShell scripts and carefully watch if you execute them in a correct order. No need to create CSV mapping files neither.
3. In cross-forest Exchange migration scenarios, especially when coexistence of source and target environments is not possible, the program overcomes that limitation and migrates Public Folders to the target with no middle steps.
4. No downtime. Users can work without interruption during the migration of Public Folders.
5. You can pause the migration process and resume it at any time. This will not cause any duplicates on the target server or any hiccups in the migration job performance.
6. The Scheduler feature lets you decide when you want the program to automatically start and stop the migration process. You can choose specific weeks, days of a week and even hours to have the migration scheduled.
Get first-hand experience
CodeTwo Exchange Migration and CodeTwo Office 365 Migration come with trial versions. The trial version will give you first-hand experience and ability to verify in your own environment the plus points from the list above. To download the trial versions, use the links below:
The trial versions are free of charge and they let you play with the software for 30 days. The only limitation is that you will be able to migrate up to 10 items per folder.
Other articles related to Public Folders migration
Feel free to explore other blog posts listed below to get more useful information on Public Folders migration:
Migrating on-premises Exchange Public Folders to Office 365 – it discusses the aspects of Public Folder migration to Office 365. You can find there a list of activities you need to do before migrating Public Folders from Exchange to Exchange Online.
How to migrate Exchange Public Folders to a shared mailbox in Office 365 – it contains a step-by-step guide on how to easily migrate Public Folders to a shared mailbox by using CodeTwo Office 365 Migration tool.
Migrating legacy Public Folders to Exchange 2013/2016 – it explains the character of Exchange-to-Exchange Public Folders migration and provides a brief of how to use CodeTwo Exchange Migration tool to complete this migration task.
Office 365 shared mailbox vs. Public Folders – it shows the differences and similarities between shared mailboxes and Public Folders in Office 365.
Migrate your Public Folders to Office 365 Groups – a Microsoft article which discusses the difference between Public Folders and Office 365 Groups, explains whether you should or shouldn’t migrate Public Folders, and gives migration instructions.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48334 | leawood, ks | model | shae
Why work so hard to fit in when you were called to be set apart? 2 Cor. 6:17
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48338 | Letters | More just war
It was good to see articles dealing with the just-war theory in Commonweal. I agree wholly with Peter Steinfels’s argument that just-war theory must be retained (“The War against Just War,” June 16) and that Gerald Schlabach’s call for getting rid of it is based on assumptions unsupported by history (“Just War?” June 16).
Schlabach’s article is replete with what the late Canadian Jesuit philosopher Bernard Lonergan would term “impoverished abstracts,” constructs that make everything perfectly clear by being shorn of all significant detail, not that Steinfels avoids them altogether.
Nuclear deterrence is the third rail that neither proponents of the just-war theory nor those who insist on “Gospel nonviolence” want to confront. (To my knowledge “nonviolence” is a word that, unlike “love,” appears nowhere in the New Testament.) The peace institutes flourishing throughout the land have “moved beyond” just-war theory, a very convenient progression since, if they ever dared to call an American war unjust, they would put themselves on a collision course with the Pentagon and the White House. As for those who hold to just-war theory, the vast majority of them, the editors of Commonweal included, don’t know quite what to say about it. (They have plenty of company, of course, Pope Francis being one of their number.)
As it happens, I had something to say about it in my 1987 Commonweal article “Sidestepping the Challenge of Peace.” I—who had some experience with the military mind since I had served as a paratrooper in Korea—contended that nuclear deterrence, given that intentionality was central to basic Catholic moral theology, was intrinsically evil because it depended on the firm intention of launch officers (daily communicants included) to set in motion on command, no questions asked, a process that would inevitably kill uncounted millions and leave us with a ravaged world in which, as Nikita Khrushchev put it, “the living will envy the dead.”
The pastoral on nuclear weapons, sad to say, was gutted by John Paul II and Joseph Ratzinger, who heeded the cries of anguish from the “NATO bishops,” who were more concerned about a Soviet armor assault through the Fulda Gap than they were about what Jesus might think about starting a nuclear war. So it was that the final version of the pastoral failed to condemn nuclear deterrence and dropped the provision implicitly condemning the use of nuclear weapons in response to an attack with conventional weapons.
The editors of Commonweal apparently agreed with the pope and the cardinal. The lead editorial in the next issue disagreed with me, insisting that there were “precious values” that had to be protected and called for the search for a “moral deterrent.”
That was a generation ago. Whether the current editors are carrying on that quest, I have no idea.
Michael Gallagher
Shaker Heights, Ohio
I wish to thank you for publishing, and Peter Steinfels for authoring, the brilliant, eloquent, and needed “The War Against Just War” in Commonweal.
I am heartened to learn Steinfels’s position in response to what sometimes seems to be Catholic absolutism in peacemaking that will not foster dialogue with those convinced that just-war norms remain crucial restraints on national use of force in legitimate defensive warfare.
Just-war norms, if followed, would have prevented the first and second invasions of Iraq under George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush respectively, and some of us demonstrated against those wars on those grounds.
Steinfels’s early study and engagement with French thinkers and his long-time, nuanced, balanced interpretation of a Catholic position on just war has led to this wonderful essay.
The cogency of his reasoning is indicated by the fact that he did not need to appeal to the sorry instance of Neville Chamberlain.
Thomas Hughson, SJ
Milwaukee, Wisc.
I find myself agreeing with aspects of both articles on so-called just war. Great dialogue! I agree with Schlabach that there has been enough talk of “just” war. In my sixty-three years as a witness to fairly constant war-making over my lifetime, that language does not fit any of my experience. Language does matter, as Steinfels notes. Call it “necessary war” if you must, but enough of the “just.”
I also agree with the likely irrelevancy of just-war pronouncements by Catholic hierarchy to what governments actually do with their military power as an exercise of national power. The gospels just don’t have much positive to say about the just use of political power, the coercive power of the Roman state having executed our God. It’s pretty tough to make a theological case for something as momentous and absolute as war on those sparse grounds. Still, that state-sponsored execution is a central part of our salvation story, grounded of course in faith and hope in the Resurrection. And, as Steinfels points out, there is the problem of evil in the world and how to respond to it. There is room for debate about how we respond to the problem of evil, and also to the evil of war.
The struggle to name, resist, and confront evil in all its forms is a part of the human, Christian, and Catholic story, a story in which we believe evil never has the last word. What is so encouraging to me about Schlabach’s article is his energetic call to make non-violent peace-making a more and more central part of the Catholic Christian story, not just leaving it to the Mennonites and Quakers among us. Debating just-war issues only, given the apparent irrelevancy of the debate to anything that actually happens, is not enough. We’ve got to act. There is much we can and should learn from the peace churches as well as from already committed Catholic peacemakers, about the prayer and spirituality of peacemaking as well as the day-to-day practice of how to live it, make it relevant, and make it work. Let’s do it!
Tom Crotty
Sinking Spring, Pa.
Thank you for the articles by Gerald Schlabach and Peter Steinfels in the June 16 edition of Commonweal.
As Schlabach states, “a just cause alone does not a just war make.” Often people of good will, including many Catholics, look only at the criterion of just cause to determine whether or not a war is justified. Church leadership does not effectively promulgate an understanding of the two parts of just-war theory: jus ad bellum (when to fight) and jus in bello (how to fight). Each of these categories is further subdivided into several principles, all of which must be carefully considered and satisfied in order for a war to be just. Schlabach states that just-war theory “overlooks and even undermines” alternative approaches. Yet last resort is an essential principle of jus ad bellum. How often do decision makers examine every possible alternative to settling a dispute before declaring war? The conscientious application of this principle of just-war theory would promote the non-violent peacemaking solutions that Schlabach recommends. He cites Pope Benedict XVI’s appeal to the principle of discrimination. This jus in bello principle states unequivocally that care must be taken so that non-combatants, their homes, and the infrastructure necessary for their lives are not destroyed. Too many Catholics dismiss the killing of civilians as “collateral damage.” Here again, careful study and application of this principle could shift the focus from conquest by any means to protecting human lives and rights with the least amount of destruction.
A prime example of misuse of just-war theory is the Second World War. From the perspective of many, if not most Americans, this war was justified. It has often been called “The Good War.” Hitler and the Nazis were running roughshod over Europe, killing millions. The Axis powers seemed poised to take over the world, as the shocking tragedy of Pearl Harbor verified. Congress then declared war. However, only three of the principles of jus ad bellum were met. The dominant rationale was just cause (attack by an aggressor). Right intention (stopping further aggression) and declaration by the legally constituted authority of a nation (U.S. Congress) were also satisfied. As far as I know, there was little or no discussion of two other ad bellum criteria, proportionality and last resort. In the case of the United States, the power to declare war is held by Congress. This declaration was the last time the principle of legally constituted authority according to the Constitution of the United States was met.
Once a war has begun, the second part, jus in bello, comes into consideration. It is no longer just the decision and action of government but is the responsibility of the military as well. Here is where the United States conduct of the Second World War often fails the test of just-war theory. The principle of non-combatant immunity was completely annihilated when weapons of mass destruction were used. One cannot call on a teleological argument that the end justifies the means. Some will attempt to justify the nuclear bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima as saving thousands of other lives; however, this violates just-war theory. Furthermore, the fire bombings of a number of Japanese and German cities ignored this principle. According to jus in bello, homes of civilians, undefended towns, hospitals, buildings dedicated to religion, art, science, charity, and historic monuments may not be destroyed. The bombing of the Dresden cathedral was a particularly egregious violation of this principle.
I hope this discussion will continue in Commonweal and other publications. My fondest hope is that it will be widely presented and discussed in parishes. Since the Second World War, we have used our military in Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, two wars in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and other smaller conflicts. I do not believe in any way that any of these conflicts met the criteria of just-war theory, either ad bellum or in bello. For American Catholics, this is possibly the most important issue of our era. Personally, I have often vacillated between pacifism and just-war theory. But I find myself more in agreement with Steinfels that a strict application of just-war theory, if fully supported by government and citizens, would put a stop to most wars.
Margaret P. Gilleo
St. Louis, Mo.
As these thoughtful letters indicate, Gerald Schlabach and I could have written much more, no doubt revealing points of agreement for fruitful dialogue. Just as he insists on an ethic that does not come into play only at the time of war, I would have liked to develop the line of thought opened by the late Jean Bethke Elshtain: Just-war thinking, she wrote, “presupposes a ‘self’ or citizen of a certain kind…attuned to moral reasoning…strong enough to resist the lure of…violence…laced through with a sense of responsibility…in other words, a morally formed civic character.”
Here I will confine my remarks to Michael Gallagher’s highly pertinent letter about the “third rail” of nuclear deterrence.
I do remember his 1987 Commonweal article. I had a hand in accepting, editing, and publishing it—and a hand in writing the editorial that disagreed with it.
Two factual preliminaries: First, was the American pastoral letter on nuclear arms “gutted” by John Paul II and Joseph Ratzinger? Did the Vatican’s intervention, pressing the worries of the French and German “NATO bishops,” keep the American drafters from condemning all nuclear deterrence and, in effect, calling for swift and unilateral nuclear disarmament? Or did the bishops, quite on their own, conclude that such a position would not only be politically unrealistic but internationally destabilizing? I believe the latter.
Second, the unusually long Commonweal editorial—“Is Deterrence Moral?”—did not appear in the next issue but four months later. It asked that question in the context of a host of issues, especially how to focus disarmament in the wake of hopes (and possibly illusions) stirred by the Reagan-Gorbachev meeting at Reykjavik and by Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (“Star Wars”) as a supposed replacement for deterrence.
Does nuclear deterrence depend on launch officers’ willingness, at every moment, to commit a grossly immoral act? That objection, raised by Gallagher and others before him, is a grave one. The American bishops struggled with it in a way that, as far as I can see, their French and German counterparts did not. Both Commonweal and Gallagher criticized that struggle. For Gallagher it should never have occurred. For Commonweal, although far more appreciative, it remained finally unresolved.
This discussion should be renewed. Unlike the case in 1987, Vatican officials are denouncing nuclear deterrence. In July the UN General Assembly approved a treaty to ban any possession of nuclear weapons. At the same time, amid talk of “fire and fury” (Donald J. Trump) and “enveloping fire” (North Korean military) many people are urging reliance on nuclear deterrence as the least dangerous policy. Morally and strategically, nuclear deterrence may be a terrible policy; evidently, it is not the worst one. My only plea is that those who condemn it recognize what motivates others who, in “fear and trembling,” as Commonweal’s 1987 editorial said, hesitate to do so. They fear that precipitous, one-sided, or unverifiable abandonment of these awful weapon systems, rather than very careful, reciprocal, and verifiable stepping away from this balance of terror, can actually increase the danger of what Gallagher, invoking Nikita Khrushchev, calls a “ravaged world” and the massacre of “uncounted millions.”
Every writer who labors to craft unambiguous prose worries that he or she is not being clear enough. As John Courtney Murray, SJ, once said so well, “disagreement is a rare achievement, and most of what is called disagreement is simply confusion.” If an argument has not landed well enough to at least achieve true and helpful disagreement, the thought nags: Could I have done something else to communicate more clearly? And yet, as I read responses to my article on “just war,” I wonder whether something else is going on. If so, it constitutes additional evidence that even when just-war discourse aims to limit war, it undermines its own best intentions with a meta-message of support for war.
At the April 2016 conference in Rome that issued the appeal urging the Catholic Church to “re-commit to the centrality of Gospel nonviolence,” I was actually a voice warning against the sort of blanket condemnation of just-war theory that alienates conscientious practitioners of just-war analysis who have often been allies in antiwar efforts and peacebuilding work. My Commonweal article reflected reasons for this warning as I laid out and implicitly affirmed the first two of three historic purposes to which just-war teaching has been put: First, it has offered a way to provide pastoral counsel for Christians in positions of power, and second, it has thus built up the framework of international law. Indeed, half of my twofold purpose for this article was to continue my warning to fellow Catholic peace activists lest they discredit every use of just-war categories and thus overstate our case.
It is disheartening but also telling that critics of my article (beginning with Peter Steinfels) seem to have read past the nuance with which I tried to make a “yes but” argument concerning just-war discourse, and lectured me about all the useful ways that stringent just-war practitioners have applied the theory to critique and hopefully delimit specific wars. I had already stipulated such points in order to underscore what I take to be the “unassailable” central argument of the Rome appeal, which led me to support it as a consensus statement despite misgivings. Namely, the just-war tradition has failed in its third purpose of forming the people of God to be peacemakers who put loyalty to God and love of neighbors in other lands above national loyalty when even just-war principles themselves would counsel resistance to war.
Hasty readings on the way to a counter-defense of the just-war system demonstrates my point. Beyond the granular application of just-war criteria in specific times and places, which seek to meet policymakers where they are for the sake of violence reduction, “just war” is a whole greater than the sum of its parts. The system as a whole evokes a loyalty in both populace and pews that tends to authorize war even when its conscientious application requires resistance to wars. And the logical principle that abusus non tollit usum (misuse of something is no argument against its proper use) is simply not convincing as applied to the just-war theory. For in order to override both the plain words of Jesus and early Christian scruples against all bloodshed, and to justify exceptional recourse to violence in order to prevent more violence, the best and perhaps only argument has always been some claim of greater realism. But as I argued, the persistent manipulation of just-war discourse is itself a data point concerning reality, a “hard fact” with which its advocates must grapple far more. To evade such grappling by insisting it could still work in theory is something of a bait and switch.
I do agree that it is unwise of nonviolence activists to claim that no just war is ever possible—and was unwise in Rome—if for no other reason than that a disputant need only supply a single counter-example to deflect one’s larger argument. I would be glad if we could at least “achieve disagreement” over exceptions, but can only repeat my invitation to that effect: “If just-war theorists wish to maintain the option of exceptional recourse to the ‘just war,’ they should join in the call to encourage the teaching and training of active nonviolence within a robust framework of just peace” since “the logic of just-war theory itself, implies that we can’t really know if warfare is necessary in the last resort unless we first resort to other strategies.”
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48356 | Symbolism In Sweat, By Zora Neale Hurston
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Although the author, Zora Neale Hurston, utilizes a varying array of symbolism, imagery, irony, and a magnitude of other literary techniques in the short story “Sweat”, it is the grim themes of marriage, abuse, and karmic irony that are the driving forces throughout the story. The protagonist’s role in her emotionally and physically abusive marriage was a reflection of the meager amount of self-respect and dignity she possessed. Furthermore, “Sweat” was a representation of the majority of African-American women in the early 1900s.
Like most authors and novelists, Hurston did not write to simply put words on a page. Hurston was a conduit for the muffled voices of the oppressed African-American people during the early to mid-twentieth century. While she did not lead over 20,000 people in marches through Selma or Washington, Hurston was an influential civil rights activist by her own merit. Laurie Champion states, “although critics initially objected to Hurston 's works because she failed to take a political stance that focused on the plight of blacks in a racist society, during the 1970s, her works were rediscovered and fresh critical interpretations pointed out social and political concerns she
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48376 | We’ve all heard stories about assassins who’ve used car bombs. But soon enough, assassins will be relying on computers and code, according to security experts.
A couple years ago, two men demonstrated with their computer that they could access the steering, brakes, and transmission of a Jeep from a remote location and take control of the car. Since then, other cars have proven to be vulnerable. Fortunately, only hackers on the side of Good have exploited these weaknesses.
But as more connected features are introduced, the complexity of technology increases potential points of entry and attack. As a point of reference, the Chevy Volt had 10 million lines of code just seven years ago. Today, cars have 100 million lines of code. And, experts believe that number will double before too long.
Now, just as technology companies are shoring up their cyber fronts, so are car manufacturers–paying hackers who let them know about flaws in their systems. And with that, auto makers are now hot to hire cyber researchers and white hat hackers. Their concern: “Any part of the car that talks to the outside world is a potential inroad for attackers.”
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In this life of the Buddha's personal attendant, Venerable Ananda, we see that in his character and outlook, Ananda was touchingly and movingly human. This was partly because of his simple and charming behaviour, and his ever-present readiness to help anyone who was in distress or difficulty. In spite of his administrative and organisational responsibilities as the Buddha's attendant, Ananda displayed a deep intellectuality and a profound grasp of abstruse philosophic concepts. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48407 | Noob question: What's the easiest way to edit code in a file hosted in a droplet on Digital Ocean?
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I’ve used the 1-click setup for a Ghost blog and I’m now trying to configure mail setup as explained here:
I’m using Windows 8 and wondering what is the easiest way to edit the config.production.json file.
Can I do it locally using a code editor like Visual Studio Code or Sublime Text or do I need to do it via the command line using PuTTY or something?
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There’s a few ways to edit a configuration file such as this one, on a Droplet.
• Log in via ssh and use a text editor right in the shell on the command line on the Droplet
Many of the tutorials in our community refer to using either the nano or vi editor directly on the command line in the terminal on the Droplet, including this one:
• Edit the text locally, and replace the contents of a file via the same text editors
Another simple way is to use your preferred local editor, and simply copy and paste the text to be changed into your local editor, make your changes, and copy / paste those back in via the nano editor in the ssh shell session on the Droplet. Quick and useful if the edits are likely to be infrequent or one-time.
• Edit locally and replace the file on the Droplet via secure copy
You can also copy a file you’ve edited and saved locally to your Droplet using scp (you’ll need a copy of the file saved locally first of course). This is something you do from the command line on your local computer. This answer explains how:
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I use ssh and vim to edit the text. I also edit my project locally using git and pull updates to my server.
I use SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) in the FileZilla FTP Client, using:
For the User: root
For the Host: the ip address of the droplet (i.e. 111.222.333.444)
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48436 | New fiction
Comings and goings (2)
Books & artsFeb 16th 2006 edition
TWENTY years ago in “Bright Lights, Big City”, Jay McInerney stylishly laid bare the pharmaceutical fast-lane of youthful New York in the 1980s. Yet his middle-aged characters in “The Good Life” are familiar literary fare: dividing between rich and richer, they have eating disorders and drink too much. Even the backdrop of the September 11th 2001 attacks cannot relieve the sensation of having read all this before. Indeed, the jarring contrast between the momentous historical context and the commonplace bed-hopping of the upper class that takes centre stage is embarrassing. While Mr McInerney does drop the odd ironic detail—an argument over whether Israeli or American military gas masks are more reliable—in the main he relates his story with po-faced earnestness.
A would-be screenwriter married to an editor who runs with Salman Rushdie's set, Corrine was left infertile by a bout of anorexia and has borne twins only with the help of her sister's implanted eggs. A wealthy ex-trader married to a vain socialite, Luke has taken early retirement to get closer to his all-too-grown-up teenage daughter, and to find himself. Instead, when the World Trade Centre collapses, he finds Corrine, as they both volunteer for a soup kitchen feeding rescue workers. Once the two begin an affair—justified, even over-justified, by much sordid behaviour by both their spouses—Corrine must choose between family stability for her children and true love.
There is nothing implicitly discomfiting about small personal stories told against the backdrop of grand tragedy. The problem here is style. Mr McInerney's prose is plain to the point of dumpy. Tear a stray page from this novel, and it could pass for the kind of over-obvious, middle-brow romantic fiction that gives women's writing a bad name: “If only she didn't love his scent and the feel of his sweat on her cheeks; if only his eyes weren't so beguiling, so boyishly innocent.” Or, “She wanted to strip herself naked before him, even as the ravening desire she felt for him was superseded by a tenderness that was almost maternal.” Descriptions of pawing the rubble of the twin towers are little more distinguished. A difficult subject, granted, but September 11th deserves better.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48437 | The idolatry industry
What Ganesha statues reveal about Indian business
Their construction, sale and destruction is a chaotic and innovative process
BusinessSep 20th 2018 edition
AT THE gate of an old warehouse in Lower Parel, in what was Mumbai’s mill district, a cannon fires a burst of confetti to celebrate the exit of a god. The Hindu deity in question is the smiling, elephant-headed Ganesha, who is thought to bring good luck and remove obstacles in people’s lives. This Ganesha is 20 feet tall and mounted on a blue cobra throne; he is pushed by a team of young men. Inside the gates, amid a fog of spray-paint, workers are putting the final touches to perhaps 50 more Ganeshas of only slightly more modest size. One rides a plaster tiger the size of a large horse, suspended in mid-leap.
Ganesh Chaturthi, the festival celebrating Ganesha, which started on September 13th and lasts 11 days, is one of the year’s biggest events in Mumbai. Modest Ganesha statues are brought into family homes and worshipped; bigger, gaudier ones are mounted in public spaces by community groups and firms. At the festival’s end, hundreds of thousands of idols are ceremonially carried into bodies of water and left to disintegrate. An entire industry exists to provide Maharashtrians (residents of the state of which Mumbai is the capital) with suitable gods. It offers insight into the chaotic, informal and fiercely competitive nature of much Indian business.
The warehouse in Parel is usually used to host weddings and other events; but from around June until mid-September it becomes a workshop. Arms, legs, torsos and heads made from plaster of Paris are brought in from factories in the countryside. In Mumbai they are bolted together rather like giant Airfix kits.
The workers, like the workspace, are temporary. Every monsoon season, hundreds come from other parts of India; most are farmers the rest of the year. “There is no work in the rainy season, so we come here,” says the auspiciously named Avinash Ganesh Kar, a 22-year-old who makes 500 rupees ($7) a day painting gods. While in Mumbai, workers sleep and eat as well as work in the warehouse.
The Ganesha industry is also almost entirely cash-based, with little credit involved. Many taxes go unpaid. And though permits are needed for almost everything—from electricity to the services of the fire brigade—they are easily obtained by Lord Ganesha’s munificence, meaning possibly a bribe or two.
At the same time, the entrepreneurs building gods are admirably competitive, innovative and sensitive to local tastes. These days, smaller Ganesha statues are often made more cheaply in China and shipped in. But the bigger ones are specialist products. A human-size Ganesha may start from 120,000 rupees. A 20-foot one costs far more. For that, customers expect a lot of say. “My customers are finicky,” says Krunal Patil, owner of the yard. Most orders come on Facebook, and nobody will buy a Ganesha in a style they have already seen somewhere else on social media.
Just as with the rest of the economy, the government would like Ganesha construction to be more formalised. This year business is tight, says Mr Patil, because of the introduction in July 2017 of the goodsand-services tax, an attempt to shift activity into the formal economy. The immortal himself is not taxed, but the new levy has raised the cost of inputs.
Other new regulations are having less effect. Officials in Mumbai have tried to make the business less environmentally damaging. But by September 16th some 43,000 statues had already been abandoned in the sea. The plaster typically used takes years to break up, and a lot of the paint contains lead, which ends up on beaches and in lakes.
Change seems to be on the way, more in response to customers’ worries than bureaucratic pressure. Some producers are making less polluting idols out of clay instead of plaster. A business has also grown up providing artificial ponds for gods to float in until they disintegrate. Given time, firms unwilling to make planet-friendly Ganeshas could end up lying idle.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline "The idolatry industry"
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48440 | Africa's elephants
To cosset or to cull?
Elephants are poached in central and east Africa but proliferate in the south
Middle East & AfricaMay 19th 2011 edition
THE elephant had been snared in the thick forest spilling down the slopes of Mount Kenya. She had struggled to break free, flattening vegetation, but the snare had cut deep. She died of thirst, in agony, one of seven being monitored with radio collars by Save the Elephants, a Kenya-based conservation group. Three of the other collared animals have also been killed in the past few months, their faces hacked off to get at the tusks.
But east and central African countries and well-financed animal-rights groups fiercely oppose this. They say an earlier decision to let southern African countries sell some of their ivory stockpile caused poaching to soar elsewhere: those handling the ivory often provide false labels of origin. In the end, as the Chinese get richer, it is probably only China itself that can determine the fate of Africa's elephants. Earlier this month, two Chinese engineers were arrested in N'Djamena, Chad's capital, with eight pairs of tusks. After producing diplomatic passports, they were freed. The fate of the tusks is unknown. That of the elephants isn't.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline "To cosset or to cull?"
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48477 | Kentucky Community Sued for Sexual Harassment
The complaint claims that the manager engaged in sexual harassment of female residents from approximately 2008 through 2016 by, among other things, demanding that female residents engage in sexual acts to keep their housing, engaging in unwelcome sexual touching, offering to reduce monthly rental payments in exchange for sex, making unwelcome sexual comments and advances, making intrusive and unannounced visits to female residents’ homes to further his sexual advances, and evicting or threatening to evict female residents who objected or refused his sexual advances.
“No female tenant should have to suffer sexual harassment as a condition of maintaining housing for herself or her family,” Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband said in a statement. “The Justice Department will continue to enforce the Fair Housing Act against property managers and owners who make illegal demands for sex and cause women to feel unsafe in their own homes.”
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48602 | People at risk for type 2 diabetes are also more likely to have brain abnormalities associated with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study from Japan.
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WEDNESDAY, August 25 ( — People at risk for type 2 diabetes are also more likely to have brain abnormalities associated with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study from Japan. The study is the latest evidence of a diabetes-dementia link.
The researchers found that men and women in their 60s with higher-than-average levels of blood sugar (glucose) or insulin—two signs of type 2 diabetes—are between three and six times more likely to have certain protein deposits in their brains a decade or more later, according to the study, which appears in the journal Neurology.
The deposits, known as plaques, don’t always lead to Alzheimer’s disease, but they do raise the risk of the memory-robbing condition.
If future research confirms that high glucose and insulin can in fact cause some cases of Alzheimer's, it may open the door to preventative drugs that target the insulin system, says William Thies, PhD, chief medical and scientific officer at the Alzheimer's Association, a nonprofit research and advocacy group.
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"That's ultimately why people are so interested in this relationship," says Thies, who was not involved in the new research.
Alzheimer's disease affects as many as 5 million people in the U.S., and the cause is largely unknown (although genes play a role).
About 24 million people in the U.S. have diabetes, and about 90% of those have type 2. Type 2 diabetes is caused by insulin resistance, a condition in which the body loses its sensitivity to the hormone insulin. The result is greater production of insulin—as the body struggles to overcome resistance—and high blood sugar, because the insulin that's produced can’t move the blood sugar into the liver and muscles.
Obesity and a lack of exercise raise the risk of type 2 diabetes, and several studies have shown that people with type 2 are at increased risk of dementia and faster cognitive decline as they age.
In the study, researchers autopsied the brains of 135 Japanese people from a single town who died between 1998 and 2003. (The average age at death was just under 80.) Ten to 15 years earlier, the researchers had given the study participants a glucose tolerance test, a common test for diabetes. They also measured other health factors such as blood pressure, cholesterol, and body mass index.
The individuals with the highest levels of blood glucose, insulin, and insulin resistance were more likely to have brain plaques, a distinguishing feature of Alzheimer's, compared to those with healthier levels. Although only 15% of the subjects developed Alzheimer's-type dementia, 65% had brain plaques. Another marker of the disease, brain fiber tangles, did not appear to be linked to glucose or insulin.
The relationship was strongest among the 20% of participants who carried the ApoE4 gene variant, a known risk factor for Alzheimer's. Compared to those without the gene variant who had low glucose, the people who had both high glucose and the ApoE4 variant had a 38-fold higher risk of plaques, for instance.
It's far from certain that insulin resistance actually causes Alzheimer's, however. The study wasn't able to rule out the possibility that an unidentified factor may contribute independently to both brain plaques and insulin resistance.
Still, a link between insulin resistance and Alzheimer's is plausible. Insulin resistance causes insulin levels to rise, which may interfere with enzymes that slow down the production of the protein found in brain plaques, says Ian Murray, PhD, an assistant professor of neuroscience at the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, in College Station.
"The brakes are turned off," Murray says.
The study had some important shortcomings. It was relatively small, for one, and the researchers did not track whether the participants were being treated for diabetes. And the rates of diabetes, insulin resistance, and obesity in the study were low overall, which makes comparisons to the U.S. difficult.
"It is likely that the levels [of insulin resistance] will be much higher in a Western society, where obesity and diabetes are more prevalent," Murray says. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48643 | Minecraft Tutorial: How to Make a Bucket in Minecraft
Learn how to make a Minecraft bucket with this gameplay tutorial.
All right, this one's really easy. So to make a bucket, you're going to need three iron. And you put them in a triangle, and you got a bucket. Nice and easy. So, why don't we look at what we can do with buckets? Obviously, you can pick up water with buckets, and put it back, and you can pick up lava with buckets and put it back. You'll notice the difference here is, when I pick up this lava, it's going to start flowing this way but, when I pick up this water, it's just going to refill itself, and it's going to become another source block. So, if I dig this out, it'll start flowing that way, but if I fill it back in, we still have four source blocks. This is a good way to have unlimited water.
Unfortunately, you can't have unlimited lava anymore. You'll see once I drop this here, it's going to start flowing, but I can't pick it up. And another thing that you can do is pick up water and pour it over lava, and pick that water right back up. And you're going to see you get obsidian on the source block, cobblestone on the moving blocks. And let's see if we put water down here, put lava there, come on, come on lava, move it. If we put lava here, once it starts moving, you'll hear a nice sound, and you get smooth stone. So, when water hits lava, you get cobblestone or obsidian, and when lava hits water, you're going to get smooth stone. And that's it for buckets.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48704 | Screencast: Ruby's Socket API From the Outside In
Published on October 24, 2012 by Jesse Storimer
One of the reasons I love Ruby is the elegant DSLs and wrappers it provides around complex constructs. Socket programing is no exception.
In fact, this becomes really apparent when you look at socket programming. The low-level details and intricacies of the Socket APIs can be complex, but Ruby provides nice high level wrappers on top of the hard stuff.
In this screencast I show a really high level wrapper that Ruby provides for making TCP servers. I take 3 lines of high level code and break them down into 25 lines of lower level code. The pretty 3-liner won't work in all cases, so I walk you through the layers of abstractions until we go as low as we can (in Ruby).
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48732 | Best Las Vegas Restaurants
Las Vegas boasts some of the best restaurants and chefs found anywhere in the world. And, they are here in abundance! Explore some of the best Las Vegas restaurants today!
Eater Las Vegas, one of our favorite restaurant review sites, just published “The 38 Essential Las Vegas Restaurants, Fall 2019” and it summarizes the variety and celebrity of their choices.
Here’s a link to their site and their top 20: 1. Pizza Rock, 2. Flock & Fowl, 3. Honey Salt, 4. Bazaar Meat by Jose Andres, 5. Eatt Gourmet Bistro, 6. Peppermill Restaurant, 7. Yui Edomae, 8. Abriya Raku, 9. Lamaii, 10. FukuBurger, 11. SW Steakhouse, 12. Mordeo Boutique Wine Bar, 13. Hobak Korean BBQ, 14. Costa Di Mare, 15. Wing Lei, 16. Chengdu Taste, 17. La Strega, 18. CUT By Wolfgang Puck, 19. Once, 20. Other Mama.
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I’m the kind of person who rarely has a room in silence. Growing up, my house was always filled with either Radio 2 or Classic FM, song or discussion a constant hum in our daily life. There is something quite personal about audio – the voices speaking directly to you without the visual distractions of […]
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Charlie Parker
It's a great concept. However, I can't find any actual tutorials from Van Cottem for creating a vertical, urban indoor garden.
For apartment renters, we'd need something easy to install in a variety of different wall types, something that would not have floating columns of water (likely to break, ruin the carpet, and take away our entire security deposit), and something easy to install and take down when moving. In first world urban areas, materials and even cost of such a system aren't the problem--it's time, technology, space, and cleanliness.
Kris De Decker
Van Cotthem does not give conveniently arranged step-by-step instructions, that's true, but if you follow the links above and read the stuff I think you know all you need to know to create an indoor garden. (and this link above comes very close to a tutorial, no? http://containergardening.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/gardening-ideas/ )
Not sure if the thing you are looking for will ever be possible, though. I mean, water will always be needed to grow food. And in this respect, his system seems to score better than the window farms.
levi civita
Plastic containers are problematic due to their chemical make up. http://www.energybulletin.net/node/51955
Use earthenware when practical.
Willem Van Cotthem
See (2)- Thanks for the appreciation, Amy. You are completely right: the description of the bottle rack I had in mind is for outdoors use, in particular in the drylands where water saving is a priority in horticulture. Therefore, I suggested to let the water percolating through the upper rows of bottles run into the row underneath. Of course, this can't be done indoors. However, I described another variant which can be used indoors too (inverted bottle in water tank). If the rack would be made of a transparent plastic plate, it could even be installed on a windowsill. With a bit of imagination one can develop variants for particular situations.
Willem Van Cotthem
See (3) - Sincere thanks, Kris. We will try to regroup the postings on my blog to make it less chaotic (in the meanwhile one can use the "categories" in the column at right hand side). At different occasions I described variants of bottle gardening, mostly to produce a maximum of biomass with a minimum of water. My preference still goes to "the inverted bottle in its water tank" (see my 2007/09/18 posting: Plastic bottles and bags: precious jewels for container gardening) on my containergardening blog. Herewith almost no single drop of water is lost and plant care is minimal. Just try it yourself.
Willem Van Cotthem
See (4) - I thank Levi Civita for this remark on the problems of the chemical make up of plastic containers. As a biologist, I agree fully with experts alerting us for the threats of certain components in certain plastics. But I don't agree with the overall doom scenario written by some journalists. Moreover, I don't believe that "dangerous" plastics will disappear within the next decades. They will slowly be replaced by "less dangerous", e.g. biodegradable ones. In the meanwhile, we are recycling some in the developed countries and the bulk of plastics is simply going to waste dumps where we cover it all up with a good top layer of soil.
However, in the developing countries most plastic objects are finally littered. Pots, bags and bottles are literally covering the streets or hanging in the trees as plastic flowers. That dirt causes more diseases than the plastics themselves, e.g. by being the preferred niches for a panoply of germs on the spots where the kids are playing in the dirt. "Recycling" plastic bags, pots and bottles by using them as containers for production of vitamin rich vegetables or seedlings of fruit trees is less dangerous than leaving them flying around in the environment. I agree with Levi that wealthy people, who can afford buying earthenware or glassware for gardening, shouldn't use the plastic trash. But for the poor people and school children in developing countries, gardening in plastic bottles is not only a contribution to food security, but also to public health. And it helps to keep the environment a bit cleaner and greener, particularly in the drylands.
Kris De Decker
Willem, thanks for your replies.
Concerning the chemical make up of plastic containers: sure, nothing new here. But, nearly all our food is packaged in plastic, and many food crops are grown in plastic containers, too (even in high-tech vertical farms http://www.valcent.eu/ ). Fish eat microscopic plastic that we throw in the seas, and we eat fish. And these are just some examples of plastic pollution.
Health risks due to chemicals in plastic don't seem to be a specific problem of the low-tech farm described above.
Secondly, I think it is telling that people make a distinction between technology intended for the rich world, and technology intended for the poor world. No problem if the poor grow their food in plastic trash containers. But when it comes to ourselves, we demand ceramic containers.
I am not sure why we are entitled to use extra resources and energy to produce ceramic containers (producing toxic substances in the process), while they can use the trash that we have produced (it's not African companies manufacturing plastic bags). Why not the other way around?
Also don't forget that a large part of the rich world is depleting its underground fossil water reserves at an alarming pace, the USA being a good example. The poor drylands that Van Cotthem originally designed his method for, might not be that far away:
If you are looking for a source of containers I recommend visiting your local restaurants and ask them for their empty glass jars. Some (such as the ones that hold pickles or sauces) hold more than 3 litres (0.8 Us Gal).
plastic soil?
The containers in Professor Van Cotthem's may not be low-tech at all but they merit something for the reuse of otherwise harmful trash. That's the least problem. What's the story with this trademark TerraCottem soil supplement??? The professor invented it, so his promotion of his proprietary product is understandable, but there's nothing low-tech about it. This product is described on www.terracottem.com as "consisting of a proprietary mixture each [sic.] of more than twenty components from different groups..." and the product's "crosslinked hydroabsorbent polymers of acrylamide and acrylic acid..." that's before saying anything about this medium's "carrier materials."
I don't understand half of this description. I only understand enough to say this is a high-tech product that one can only buy, not make at home.
Additionally, what with the polymer talk it sounds like plastic soil. Surely that's far worse and dangerous than the mere containers.
Does this plastic soil degrade? How long does that take? What are the fertilizers in it? More petrochemicals?
kris de decker
"What's the story with this trademark TerraCottem soil supplement???"
I don't get that either. That's why I left it out.
Mark Ridsdill Smith
Really interested to read about this. Is there anyone out there who has built one of these and is using it to grow food? Or plans to build one? If so, I'd love to hear about your experiences.
These bottle containers are clearly designed for food growing in countries with little water and I'd have thought the bottles are rather small (and fiddly) for productive food growing elsewhere? Other ideas like like this look more fit for for purpose: http://www.urbanorganicgardener.com/self-watering-containers/how-to-make-a-self-watering-container/
Mark (www.verticalveg.org.uk)
Kris De Decker
Interesting blog you have, Mark
Willem Van Cotthem
I appreciate the suggestion of "Observer 23" (#9) to use glass jars as containers for growing plants. However, be aware of the difficulty to drain the potting soil, when standing water in the jar can provoke acidity and development of fungi. Therefore, I prefer plastic containers (bottles, pots, bags). I perforate them twice at 2-3 cm above the bottom in order to keep a bit of irrigation water in the container, whilst evacuating the surplus through these little holes in the container wall.
Willem Van Cotthem
# 10 (Plastic soil) - High-tech, low-tech, no-tech? Are we heading for a discussion on semantics? What's in a word? The main objective of my search for simple ways of saving water when producing food crops in the drylands is to use cheap and simple materials, affordable for the poor local people. If these "low-tech" solutions are also applicable in the developed world, it's a "win" situation. Reusing otherwise harmful trash to help these hungry people to fresh food is partly solving a couple of the major world problems: hunger and child malnutrition.
The story of the TerraCottem soil conditioner is a completely different one. Yes, I am the inventor of this "high-tech" product but, for deontological and legal reasons, I am not involved in its marketing. Even if the scientific description of its content may seem very complicated to non-scientists, its general description makes the things very clear: it is a soil amendment to enhance the soil's water holding capacity and its nutrient content. It improves root growth and aeration of the substrate. The overall result of its application is: more plant production with less water. It's that simple, like the many other simple products we are only buying, not being able to make them ourselves at home or even to understand their composition.
It is not because the word "polymers" SOUNDS LIKE PLASTIC SOIL, that they ARE plastics! This sounds like "jumping to conclusions".
Finally, I don't think this Low-tech Magazine is the right forum to discuss the composition of a "high-tech" soil amendment, which has been developed to offer poor people in the drylands a chance to grow some food in their harsh environment (with external support, of course).
Willem Van Cotthem
See (11) - Dear Kris, I just read the article above again : "How to make your own low-tech vertical farm". Did I miss the word TerraCottem somewhere in the text ? Did you (the author of that text) made any allusion on my former scientific work on soil conditioners ?
Let us not mix apples and lemons. This idea of growing plants in plastic bottles on a vertical rack is only one of the results of my continuous efforts to help hungry people in the drylands to fresh food with a minimum of water.
I remain open to any discussion on TerraCottem, but not in your excellent Low-Tech Magazine, because that soil conditioner is most certainly NOT LOW-TECH.
G L Bansal
The idea is great and makes sense for growing freshies and vegies at home scale in little containers. It is more of hype than reality in use of plastics as pointed out. Sometimes ago, there was controversy over use of plastics in microwave ovens and there were divergent views. I think people may be affected more for the want of freshies and nutritional deficiencies than plastics. The produce is well balanced and without pesticides.
A small fish tank air pump could be used to slowly lift the water to the top. Here is an example.
Actually this year starting with window farming, I didn’t get into vertical farming yet, but having some success in sprouting and growing different kinds of peppers (bell, Chinese, lombok). The problem with vertical farming is the noisy aquarium pump and the fact that it wouldn’t do without electricity. The VanCottem setup inspired me to think of a passive pump system, bio clock like. Plants don’t only grow, but do become heavier while growing, and do need more nutrients. Actually the pump should work slow in the beginning and work harder (and make more noise) when it gets more leaf. A classic clockwork has a counter weight that actually makes the clockwork work (timed). A plant with a certain start-up weight could do as a counter weight, driving a clockwork like mechanical pump while growing upwards, becoming heavier and leafier. It would mean having only one plant vertically, and several horizontal. The pump would be a silent one, without the use of electricity.
Actually, the roots are very sensitive to light. So the plastic bootles should be painted black.
Moshfequel Alam
Thanks for lovely initiative
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A eulogy is a speech given at a memorial service in memory of the deceased. One need not be a great writer or orator to write and deliver a great eulogy. The best eulogies are brief, heart-felt depictions of the loved one, full of stories and, yes, humor.
Decide on the tone. How serious or lighthearted do you want the eulogy to be? A good eulogy need not be uniformly somber, just appropriate. Some eulogy-writers take a serious approach, others are bold enough to add humor. Used cautiously, humor can help convey the personality of the deceased and illustrate some of his/her endearing qualities.
Consider the audience. Write the eulogy with the deceased's family and loved ones in mind. Dwell on the positive, but be honest. If the person was difficult or inordinately negative, avoid talking about that or allude to it gently, as in "He had his demons, which were a constant battle."
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Be concise and well-organized. Outline the eulogy before you start writing. Brainstorm all the possible areas (personality traits, interests, biographical info) to talk about and write them down. When you're ready to write, cover each area in a logical order. Give the eulogy a beginning, middle, and end. Avoid rambling or, conversely, speaking down to people.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48949 | You’ve just found out you’re pregnant. Sure, you’re excited, but it’s equally understandable if you’re just a little bit nervous. You’re not sure how you’re going to manage some of the less exciting pregnancy symptoms like nausea, exhaustion, loss of sleep, and more.
We’ve got some pregnancy tips to help. They’re from experienced moms who’ve been there before and know what makes things easier. You’ll probably find that these pregnancy life hacks are lifesavers, and each of them will become an essential part of how you enjoy the coming months of pregnancy that you’ve got left.
Surprising pregnancy lifehacks for nausea
Nausea is a common symptom of early pregnancy, and doctors will tell you its a good sign. It means you have more than your share of the hormones that are essential for a robust early pregnancy. As reassuring as that may be to hear, it still isn’t fun to experience.
A lot of people suggest using a range of basic starches like plain crackers to settle your stomach. But believe it or not, some pregnant women swear by using atomic fireballs. They’re full of cinnamon, which is a time-honored spice used for settling stomachs.
Women who want to take things a step further can also try some over-the-counter Unisom tablets, pregnancy anti-nausea lollipops, ginger, or even a simple hard candy can all help. If nothing else works, pregnant women may need to request a prescription from their doctor.
Hacks for pregnancy pee problems
It’s a fact of life that when you’re pregnant, you’re not always in control of when you need to pee. You may need to go when you’re in the middle of an important meeting at work, in a car sitting in traffic, or when you’re juggling other tasks that you can’t break away from.
Luckily, some moms have leaned some essential hacks that can help. Surprisingly, using light touches on your arm can stimulate endorphins, suggests Doula Bailey Gaddis. You can also actively re-focus your mind by enjoying music or talk radio, or trying to re-focus on an aspect of the meeting or activity you need to be involved in.
While needing to pee when you’re in the wrong place can be an issue, the polar opposite can also happen. You can’t seem to pee when you need to. While this issue can be hard to talk about, it is important to know that there are things you can do about it. Simple relaxation exercises may do the trick. If that doesn’t work, try putting some peppermint in your toilet bowl.
Keep comfortable on an airplane or long car ride
One of the most challenging experiences for pregnant women can involve travel. There’s nothing like endless hours in cramped airplane seats or in a car on the highway to bring out the most annoying body aches, low-level nausea and even anxiety possible.
If you have to travel for extended amounts of time, be sure to get up out of your airplane seat or request a car pit-stop every once in a while. Not only is the walking medically suggested, but it will also keep you from being overly focused on how contained you are. Another tip: be sure to bring along a book, magazine, audiobook or music to provide a distraction.
Use meditation for interrupted sleep, painful digestion and more
If you’re able to get into a meditation habit early in your pregnancy, do it. You’ll be glad that you did. The practice of meditation before meals has been known to help relax pregnant women and smooth their digestion. Incorporating meditation into your bedtime routine can help you relax which may help you to sleep more deeply and to avoid intense and disruptive pregnancy dreams.
Meditation has a host of other benefits too. It can curb any pregnancy-related anxiety and as you relax and breathe, your baby will benefit from a more serene environment. Meditation can also help you prepare for a smoother, less painful labor and will pair well with the other kinds of breathing techniques you’ll learn in birthing class.
Meditation not helping digestion? Try this instead.
Meditation is just the start of a suggestion for easing pregnancy digestion. As you might expect, it isn’t going to help with everything. Bloating, heartburn, constipation, and acid reflux are all common pregnancy digestive issues that happen as your little one takes up more room in utero.
There are lots of over-the-counter medicines that can help with these kinds of issues include tums, GasX, or fiber tablets. Common sense suggestions, such as drinking enough fluids, eating meals in smaller amounts, and being sure you are having balanced nutrition will also go a long way to help.
Build an exercise habit to strengthen against aches, help with labor
Developing an exercise habit early in pregnancy can help with more than just keeping the baby weight from creeping up. It can also hedge against anxiety and help you to build the muscles and stamina that you’re going to need on birthing day.
If you’re having trouble motivating yourself to hit the gym you’re not alone. Some moms pick up an audiobook they’ve been looking forward to reading and promise themselves they can only have access to it during workouts. Other moms work out with a friend or decide on a treat (or multiple treats) that they’ll only allow themselves post-workout. Eventually, you may find that as working out helps you feel better, it is a lot easier to get yourself to start moving. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/48999 | Horizons: November/December 2018
<i>Horizons</i>: November/December 2018
Global Faces of Christianity
2018 Churchwide Gathering: A Celebration
Following the 2018 Churchwide Gathering, we heard over and over that one of the most meaningful aspects of the Gathering is the coming together of a sisterhood of believers from all over the world. Presbyterian women appreciate the diversity and the chance to form relationships across borders, relationships built on our oneness in Christ.
We often find that as we put together an issue of Horizons, the Holy Spirit is at work. There develops a synergy between the articles that can only be God-given, in which grace weaves the articles together. Each author reveals truth that supports the truth of others.
In this issue, the scripture that inspired the theme of the 2018 Churchwide Gathering, “Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you” (Is. 60:1), inspires our writers, as well. Whether in their presentations for the Gathering or articles written specifically for this issue, each author derives inspiration from that scripture. Ruth Santana-Grace and Roula Alkhouri specifically describe the choice presented in Isaiah 60: faith in God’s presence and goodness, or darkness and despair.
Anita Coleman, too, grapples with choice. She describes her experience of the choice Christians face between God’s ways and the ways of the world. She experienced Christianity first in India, where she was born, then in the United States, where she has lived for most of her adult life. She describes putting on the identity of Jesus Christ, confronting the culture of busyness in the U.S., its distractions from a life of the spirit, and choosing to stay centered in faith.
Jieun Han speaks of the culture of Christ as clothing we put on to extend hospitality to others. She says we are called to reflect the Light of God to others. Cleda Locey, the first moderator of Presbyterian Women, also describes this reflection of God’s goodness as our call in Isaiah.
May we each choose the culture of Christ, wearing the cloak of hospitality and reflecting God’s goodness to all.
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Radical Hope
Marisol Jiménez speaks from first-hand experience of the immigration crisis in the U.S. She examines the global economic system that exploits workers and endangers the environment while benefiting a few, calls us to radical hope in the face of a broken system, and shows us that this conversation is about much more than borders.
Honoring Tradition: Christian or Native?
Danelle McKinney describes the ever-changing space between Native tradition and Christianity in Native American Presbyterians’ lives. She points to the Doctrine of Discovery and the church’s repudiation of the doctrine, noting that Presbyterians, Native and non-Native, are just beginning to grapple with its impact.
Rise Up!
Ruth Santana-Grace’s Gathering plenary presentation, adapted for the magazine, calls us not only to rise to the challenge of darkness in trying times, but to “Sigue, sigue” (“Keep going”).
More than Food and Drink: My Culture Is the Culture of Christ
Anita Coleman traces the arc of her Christian faith from her childhood in India through the doubt of young adulthood in a competitive U.S. culture to her reclaimed identity in Jesus.
Global/Local Mission and Agendas of Church Women: Indonesian Perspective and Experiences
Sylvana Apituley, both a church and government leader in Indonesia, is particularly situated to view progress on both fronts in the campaign to empower women and improve their status in society. She describes goals and progress on both fronts in Indonesia.
PW Resources
Reflecting the Light of the 2018 Churchwide Gathering
Celebrate the Gifts of Women Liturgy for 2019
The Grace of God Has No Boundaries
Jana Childers
Bible Study Resource
Roula Alkhouri offers reflections and questions for use in studying Lessons Five and Six of the 2018–2019 PW/Horizons Bible study, God’s Promise: I Am with You by Amy Poling-Sutherlun.
Fellowship of the Least Coin
Executive Secretary of the Fellowship of the Least Coin, Liza B. Lamis, explains the hallmarks and history of this prayer movement and announces the programs receiving grants funded by least coins given around the world.
Christianity’s Global Face
Cecilia Amorocho Hickerson
Unpacking the Theme: Scripture Study
Your Light Has Come! Clothe Yourselves in Welcome
Jieun Kim Han
Faithful Parenting
Stronger Together
Amy Starr Redwine
Stories from the Ages
Finding (and Knowing) the Way
Hillary Moses Mohaupt
What One PW Is Doing
Quilted with Love
Carissa Herold
Working for Justice and Peace
Sustainable Development Goals: Presbyterians Connecting with the Global Community through Advocacy
Sue Rheem
Strengthening the PC(USA)
A Good and Pleasant Gathering: Building Connections and Community
Vilmarie Cintrón-Olivieri
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/49005 | List Of Man-Made Objects Left On The Surface Of The Moon & Question 74. The Fire Of The Final Conflagration: Article 1. Whether The World Is To Be Cleansed?
List of man-made objects left on the surface of the Moon:
1. Luna 2
2. Ranger 4
3. Ranger 6
4. Ranger 7
5. Luna 5
6. Luna 7
7. Luna 8
8. Ranger 8
9. Ranger 9
10. Luna 9
11. Luna 10
12. Luna 11
13. Luna 12
14. Luna 13
15. Surveyor 1
16. Lunar Orbiter 1
17. Surveyor 2
18. Lunar Orbiter 2
19. Lunar Orbiter 3
20. Surveyor 3
21. Lunar Orbiter 4
22. Surveyor 4
23. Explorer 35 (IMP-E)
24. Lunar Orbiter 5
25. Surveyor 5
26. Surveyor 6
27. Surveyor 7
28. Luna 14
29. Apollo 10 LM (Snoopy) descent stage
30. Luna 15
31. Apollo 11 LM-5 (Eagle) descent stage
32. Apollo 11 LM ascent stage
33. Apollo 12 LM-6 (Intrepid) descent stage
34. Apollo 12 LM ascent stage
35. Luna 16 descent stage
36. Luna 17 & Lunokhod 1
37. Apollo 13 S-IVB (S-IVB-508)
38. Luna 18
39. Luna 19
40. Apollo 14 S-IVB (S-IVB-509)
41. Apollo 14 LM-8 (Antares) descent stage
42. Apollo 14 LM-8 ascent stage
43. Apollo 15 S-IVB (S-IVB-510)
44. Apollo 15 LM-10 (Falcon) descent stage
45. Apollo 15 Lunar Rover
46. Apollo 15 LM-10 ascent (Falcon) stage
47. Apollo 15 subsatellite
48. Luna 20 descent stage
49. Apollo 16 S-IVB (S-IVB-511)
50. Apollo 16 LM-11 (Orion) descent stage
51. Apollo 16 Lunar Rover
52. Apollo 16 LM-11 (Orion) ascent stage
53. Apollo 16 subsatellite
54. Apollo 17 S-IVB (S-IVB-512)
55. Apollo 17 LM-12 (Challenger) descent stage
56. Apollo 17 Lunar Rover
57. Apollo 17 LM-12 (Challenger) ascent stage
58. Luna 21 & Lunokhod 2
59. Explorer 49 (RAE-B)
60. Luna 22
61. Luna 23
62. Luna 24 descent stage
63. Hagoromo / Hiten
64. Hiten
65. Lunar Prospector
66. SMART-1
67. Moon Impact Probe (MIP) / Chandrayaan-1
68. SELENE Rstar (Okina)
69. Chang'e 1
70. Chandrayaan-1
71. SELENE (Kaguya) main orbiter
72. LCROSS Shepherding Spacecraft
73. LCROSS Centaur
74. GRAIL
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According to Catholic Dogma ALL the works of men will burn up in the Fire of the Final Conflagration at the end of days.
This Fire of the Final Conflagration will rise up from the bowls of the Earth to burn up ALL the works of men at the end of days.
This Fire of the Final Conflagration will rise up to a level no higher than the Waters of the Deluged reached during the time of Noe in order to cleanse ALL the works of men - which is a height of 15 cubits above the Mountain Tops or about 29,050 ft.
If this Catholic Dogma is True, then that means The Fire of the Final Conflagration will burn up only those works of men that are under this 29,050 ft.boundary - because the fire will go no further.
If this 29,050 ft boundary is true then that would mean that any work of man that occupies a place higher than 29,050 ft will escape the Fire of the Final Conflagration.
This of course is ridiculous.
Catholic Dogma states that ALL the works of men will burn up in the Fire of the Final Conflagration.
This means that ALL the works of men that occupy a higher place than the 29,050 ft boundary will have to be brought back below this boundary in order to burn up in the Fire of the Final Conflagration.
Which means ALL the works of men that were shot up into space will come back one day to below this 29,050 ft boundary in order to burn up in the Fire of the Final Conflagration.
Brought back by the Agency of the Angels.
Question 74. The fire of the final conflagration
Article 1. Whether the world is to be cleansed?
Objection 2. Further, according to Divine justice cleansing is directed to the removal of the uncleanness of sin, as instanced in the cleansing after death. But there can be no stain of sin in the elements of this world. Therefore, seemingly, they need not to be cleansed.
Objection 3. Further, a thing is said to be cleansed when any foreign matter that depreciates it is removed therefrom: for the removal of that which ennobles a thing is not called a cleansing, but rather a diminishing. Now it pertains to the perfection and nobility of the elements that something of a foreign nature is mingled with them, since the form of a mixed body is more noble than the form of a simple body. Therefore it would seem nowise fitting that the elements of this world can possibly be cleansed.
On the contrary, All renewal is effected by some kind of cleansing. But the elements will be renewed; hence it is written (Apocalypse 21:1): "I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth was gone." Therefore the elements shall be cleansed. Further, a gloss [St. Augustine, De Civ. Dei xx, 16 on 1 Corinthians 7:31, "The fashion of this earth passeth away," says: "The beauty of this world will perish in the burning of worldly flames." Therefore the same conclusion follows.
I answer that, Since the world was, in a way, made for man's sake, it follows that, when man shall be glorified in the body, the other bodies of the world shall also be changed to a better state, so that it is rendered a more fitting place for him and more pleasant to look upon. Now in order that man obtain the glory of the body, it behooves first of all those things to be removed which are opposed to glory. There are two, namely the corruption and stain of sin--because according to 1 Corinthians 15:50, "neither shall corruption possess incorruption," and all the unclean shall be without the city of glory (Apocalypse 22:15)--and again, the elements require to be cleansed from the contrary dispositions, ere they be brought to the newness of glory, proportionately to what we have said with regard to man. Now although, properly speaking, a corporeal thing cannot be the subject of the stain of sin, nevertheless, on account of sin corporeal things contract a certain unfittingness for being appointed to spiritual purposes; and for this reason we find that places where crimes have been committed are reckoned unfit for the performance of sacred actions therein, unless they be cleansed beforehand. Accordingly that part of the world which is given to our use contracts from men's sins a certain unfitness for being glorified, wherefore in this respect it needs to be cleansed. In like manner with regard to the intervening space, on account of the contact of the elements, there are many corruptions, generations and alterations of the elements, which diminish their purity: wherefore the elements need to be cleansed from these also, so that they be fit to receive the newness of glory.
Reply to Objection 1. When it is asserted that every creature of God is clean we are to understand this as meaning that its substance contains no alloy of evil, as the Manichees maintained, saying that evil and good are two substances in some places severed from one another, in others mingled together. But it does not exclude a creature from having an admixture of a foreign nature, which in itself is also good, but is inconsistent with the perfection of that creature. Nor does this prevent evil from being accidental to a creature, although not mingled with it as part of its substance.
Reply to Objection 2. Although corporeal elements cannot be the subject of sin, nevertheless, from the sin that is committed in them they contract a certain unfitness for receiving the perfection of glory.
Reply to Objection 3. The form of a mixed body and the form of an element may be considered in two ways: either as regards the perfection of the species, and thus a mixed body is more perfect--or as regards their continual endurance; and thus the simple body is more noble, because it has not in itself the cause of corruption, unless it be corrupted by something extrinsic: whereas a mixed body has in itself the cause of its corruption, namely the composition of contraries. Wherefore a simple body, although it be corruptible in part is incorruptible as a whole, which cannot be said of a mixed body. And since incorruption belongs to the perfection of glory, it follows that the perfection of a simple is more in keeping with the perfection of glory, than the perfection of a mixed body, unless the mixed body has also in itself some principle of incorruption, as the human body has, the form of which is incorruptible. Nevertheless, although a mixed body is somewhat more noble than a simple body, a simple body that exists by itself has a more noble being than if it exist in a mixed body, because in a mixed body simple bodies are somewhat in potentiality, whereas, existing by themselves, they are in their ultimate perfection. |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/49052 | Nadasaki, Okayama
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Nadasaki (灘崎町, Nadasaki-chō) was a town located in Kojima District, Okayama Prefecture, Japan.
As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 15,872 and a density of 514.32 persons per km². The total area was 30.86 km².
On March 22, 2005, Nadasaki, along with the town of Mitsu (from Mitsu District), was merged into the expanded city of Okayama. |
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3When she could not hide him any longer, she took a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.
4And his sister stood far off to see what would be done to him.
5Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her servant girls walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her slave girl to get it.
6She opened it and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
8And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the young girl went and called the child’s mother.
10And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”
Moses in Midian
11It came to pass in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers and looked at their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
12And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one around, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
13And he went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, “Why are you striking your neighbor?”
14But he said, “Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?”
Moses was afraid and said, “Surely this thing is known.”
15Now when Pharaoh heard of this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.
16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
19They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and he even drew water for us and watered the flock.”
21Moses was willing to dwell with the man. And he gave Zipporah his daughter in marriage to Moses.
22She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have lived as a sojourner in a foreign land.”
23It came to pass in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel groaned because of their slavery and they cried out. And their cry came up to God because of their slavery.
25And God saw the children of Israel and God knew….
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/49057 | Humility doesn't hide!
Has God called you to Nations and you are struggling with where to start?
God called me to Nations at 15 years old and for years since I struggled with how and what exactly the call looked like. It wasn’t till years later that I understood that every global call must start with a local impact. I actually run a livestream on my app where I explain this in greater detail which you can download here
The call to Nations always begins with identifying your Jerusalem.
A global call always begins with a local impact. The power of the bomb is not measured by the explosion but by the impact. Your National and international call is a direct consequence of your local stewardship. This is a truth a lot of people don’t wish to hear. They want to go to the ends of the earth but they have not yet determined their Jerusalem.
Humility is the disposition for which God will promote you to the Nations.
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Mark 5:5
God doesn't need our help to be God. And He gives grace to the humble. If grace is the supernatural endowment of the Holy Spirit upon the every day believer then it is your and my job to live every day letting God be the super in our natural lives. When we try to be super for God, we strain soulish muscles in an attempt to be something that God can be all by Himself. The more natural I am, the more super God is.
Pride is being more than or less than who God says you are. Living above yourself is just as proud to God as living beneath yourself. Most people are proud in the 'living beneath yourself' kind of pride. We call this pride false humility. It is more dangerous and more difficult to deliver someone who underestimates themselves than it is to deliver someone who overestimates themselves.
'Underestimating pride' is one where the person opts for complete and total subservience in a sacrificial way all stemming from a martyr spirit. They sacrifice, sacrifice sacrifice not realising that God is calling for obedience not sacrifice (See 1Samuel 15). Once a person has convinced themselves that this is humility, a spirit of witchcraft comes to drive them to delusions to which any attempt to castigate them is treated as an attack to their humility. In 1 Samuel 15, Saul who opts for this form of pride is called an idolater and a witch because it is possible to worship your own sense of humility. It is possible that one can be so aware of their pride that they overcompensate with a sacrilegious form of humility which comes off as arrogant to God.
The 'who am I' and 'I am not worthy' crowd is not pleasing to God. Yet people who opt for this stance, hide themselves in the background saying things like, ' I don't want to be seen!', 'I just want God to be glorified' and in their hiding they turn all the attention from God as people now become a search party for them. The so-called 'nameless faceless' generation seems harmless and profound but if you hide yourself and call that humility, everyone who you intend to be searching for God are now searching for you and there's nothing humble about taking the attention from God!
1 Samuel 10:21
Humility doesn't hide, it shows!
Do you believe the Lord has called you to the Nations? Would you like to know more about how you can answer the call to Nations and avoid the pitfalls of so many. Download the app here
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/49092 | Little Wingsters
Little Wingsters is a courier company on the tiny planet Winghaven, from where the mighty Moya sends four angels to help children everywhere, but …when they mess up, who will un-mess the messengers?
There are many good reasons why children sometimes feel ready to give up. It’s the Little Wingsters’ job to remind them that they can always choose their reaction to any event. They are never alone.
The main reason for producing this story is to personify children’s own inner strengths; to let them pause and imagine their favourite angel(s)…
In that moment when they ‘hand it over’, their own minds can come up with a solution in a more relaxed state.
Genre: Rescue adventures | 3D animated series | 26 x 11 min | Age 6 – 8
At the core of Winghaven dwells Moya, a playful swarm of tiny lights who listens via the planet’s earphones to the requests and yearnings of children everywhere. She selects the best angels for the situation, matching the special ability of each, with the kids’ issues.
Once Moya has made a plan, the postbox spews instructions which the angels try to reach before their mischievous gardener. The screen shows the latest situation encountered by two siblings, Trevor and Casey and their friends in each episode. The series focuses on this family as the human component.
The feathers on the Slynaps tree catch star-seeds, forming cocoons to hatch new angels, like Coco. In the first episode we accompany Coco as she hatches, meets Moya, learns the Rules and enters her apartment in the Keep.
At the beginning of each episode, Moya summons the angels via an announcement from the red postbox. Usually there’s a short video of the child in the situation on the screen. The Wingsters then locate the child by thought and are there instantaneously.
In each episode, one or two of our chubby heroes will be assigned to a specific child in its situation. They communicate among themselves by thought too, so they all grasp a situation instantly. Or so they think…
Predictably this leads to chaos, e.g. with Punki bringing a creative idea, but Inga must bring the child the patience to carry it out. Until she arrives, Xuki may zoom in to fix it with his clever logic but sometimes only Coco can bring the necessary dose of joy. Soon they’re all trying. Then Moya must rescue the rescuers with coincidences and odd occurrences and a sparkle here and there. But they do try never to disappoint her…
Moya’s Singing Planet
As you’ll hear in their song: ‘Sometimes we may get it wrong, but our Moya makes us strong!’
I first heard Stuart Ziegler’s music live at an exhibition by Katherine Glenday. Two musicians performed with stones, shells and various other objects from nature. Stuart then mixed these with music he supplied. Sadly it’s no longer online.
I hope to collaborate with him to supply the track for Moya’s mashups which will probably include many more everyday sounds. Here is an example. I imagine the planet floating through space emitting music that Moya puts together from the sounds of Earth. Another inspiration is the work of Felix Laband who also incorporates everyday sounds, like a bath draining, bits of conversation etc.
Here’s the ‘Song of Wings’ which plays out each episode, can be used as the base for general theme music and as part of Moya’s mashups. I’m no musician, so this was done with ScoreCloud, (like a speech-to-text app for music).
It definitely awaits an expert’s touch. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/49146 | Coach: Okay guys, come here. Don't make it obvious that I'm asking this but which basket are we shooting at? I got turned around for a second.
Player 1: Not this again.
Player 2: (Subtly nodding towards one side of the court) That one, coach.
Coach: Are you absolutely sure? Because it would be super embarrassing to put the ball in the wrong hoop with all these people watching.
Player 2: Pretty sure, yeah. But now I'm doubting myself. Aw geez.
Player 3: Coach! [Player 4] is making that face at me again!
Player 4: I'm just smiling over here. Am I not allowed to smile?
Player 3: You know what you're doing you antagonistic son of a bitch. That's the classic "durr" face. And it's aimed. At. Me.
Player 4: Maybe that's just how my face is. In which case that would have been an insulting thing for you to say.
Coach: Focus! (Holds up a small whiteboard with a diagram of a basketball court) A basketball court has two baskets. From what I can tell they are practically identical. How are we going to figure out which is ours and which belongs to the bad guys?
Player 2: Maybe they aren't identical. Like, what if the net on one basket is slightly looser in one spot. Or frayed.
(Silence as everyone takes turns squinting at both nets)
Player 5: Hey can I get some hot chocolate?
Player 1: Dude, we've got plenty of water and Gatorade. No one wants hot chocolate.
Player 5: Well I want hot chocolate. If this is about money I'll pay for it.
Player 2: Coach, how do you keep losing track of our basket? We run all over the place and jump and spin but you stay in one spot. All you need to remember is whether it's on your left or right.
Coach: (Shakes head sadly) You've got a lot to learn, kid. As the coach I have to envision the entire court in my mind from every angle. It's like I'm a dang god.
Player 1: It's not about money, [Player 5]. Drinking a hot rich beverage while you're running back and forth for two hours is a bad idea.
Coach: (Continuing) Besides, we have to switch baskets at the beginning of every quarter. I don't know how they expect us to keep track. Remembering which basket we're aiming at is like 80% of my job.
Player 2: Isn't that specifically what the assistant coaches are for?
Assistant Coach 1: Dude, no. We're designated survivors. If a bomb goes off and coach gets atomized we step in. Smooth transition of power and all that.
Player 2: Shouldn't you be in a bunker, then? Instead of literally right next to coach?
Assistant Coach 2: If we were in a bunker when he got blown up it would take too long to get to the court. We'd risk a delay of game penalty.
Assistant Coach 1: Yeah. Let us coaches worry about the thinking, muscle guy.
Player 5: (Spit-take) This water doesn't have a single marshmallow in it! What is this, a Gulag?
Player 3: Coach! [Player 4] flipped me off again!
Player 4: I had an itch. Am I not allowed to scratch my eyelids?
Player 3: With your middle fingers?
Player 1: Coach, why don't you just ask the ref which basket is ours?
Coach: Oh my god you can't be serious. That would be a disaster. What if you go ask him, but don't let him know you're asking for me? Tell him I definitely know.
Player 2: The more I think about it, the more I'm coming around on the hot chocolate.
– Dennis "Corin Tucker's Stalker" Farrell (@DennisFarrell)
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