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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/2787 | Batman V Superman: Zack Snyder On Practical Effects & Shooting in IMAX
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Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice will bring the Man of Steel (Henry Cavill) and the Caped Crusader (Ben Affleck) together on the big screen for the first time, while at the same time setting up the first Justice League film due to arrive in 2017. Both Batman V Superman and the Justice League movies are being directed by Zack Snyder, who likewise helmed the Superman origins re-imagining and franchise reboot, Man of Steel, that will serve as the first brick in the wall for the upcoming shared DC movie universe (aka the DC Extended Universe).
Whereas Snyder used modern CGI and digital filmmaking techniques to realize Superman's powers on the big screen in Man of Steel and will do the same for the Justice League's other super-powered team members (Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and so forth), Batman represents a different challenge to bring to life on the big screen, in that he's the most human member of the team, in terms of his physical abilities and vulnerabilities alike. The character in general ought to feel more grounded than his peers for released reasons, and Snyder has offered his assurances that this quality shall be carried over in Batman V Superman too.
Here's the related quote from Snyder, in the latest issue of Empire Magazine:
While such Bat technology as the Batmobile will be realized through practical effects in Batman V Superman - much like it has been in previously-released live action movies featuring the Dark Knight - there are nonetheless key digital components to the character and his gadgetry, too. For example, the armored suit (modeled after the costume that Batman wears in Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns comic book) worn by Affleck in Snyder's film was created by using CGI. Similarly, Batman V Superman trailer footage released to date has shown Affleck's Caped Crusader flying around in what's clearly a digitally-rendered Batjet, in order to battle Superman and... other larger than life threats that emerge in the movie.
Of course, the sheer scale of Batman V Superman necessitates the use of CGI to compliment the practical effects used to bring Batman and his weaponry to life, much like, say, the scope of the Star Wars universe made it impossible for director J.J. Abrams to rely on nothing but practical tools and effects while making The Force Awakens. Abrams shot a key sequence from his Star Wars film in the IMAX, but Snyder has revealed that he attempted to "up-the-ante" even more in his new comic book movie adaptation - by shooting a larger chunk of the project using IMAX cameras.
"I'm not sure how long those cameras are going to be around. But I have never shot digitally."
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IMAX does appear to have replaced 3D as the technology that filmmakers currently use when they want their films to have some extra visual pop, as evidenced by the increasing number of films that've either been partly or largely photographed in the format (see also Christopher Nolan projects like The Dark Knight Rises and Interstellar). Snyder and his frequent cinematographer Patrick Tatopoulos - back working together on Batman V Superman after the latter had to pass on Man of Steel due to scheduling issues - have never been known to back away from the challenge of going bigger, and their DC Comics adaptation calls for as much.
The question surrounding Batman V Superman in general is whether it's going too big too fast - more in terms of its world-building and introduction of Justice League characters than its visual style, truth be told (though Snyder has certainly been criticized for the latter in the past). 2016 is the year where Warner Bros. and DC will finally kick off their shared film universe properly with Batman V Superman and Suicide Squad, so we'll find out soon if their "go big" approach pans out the way these studios are hoping for.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/2804 | Two kinds of system risk
When you set up a system, it helps to keep in mind what will happen if it doesn’t work. Depending on the costs of ‘not working’, you can build more resilience into the system.
In most cases, ‘not working’ isn’t catastrophic. If your toaster doesn’t work, it’s not that big a deal. You can make toast in a few days and live with limp bread in the meantime. On the other hand, if you’re on a mission to Mars, you’ll probably be glad you packed a few extra oxygen tanks, even if the cost of bringing them is quite high.
We make two mistakes when we organize a system:
1. We get overly optimistic about the reliability of the system, and combine that with a narrative that minimizes the cost of living without it. I’d put the current state of our internet infrastructure in that camp.
2. We get overly pessimistic about the likelihood and cost of failure. This leads us to over-engineer things, or to pay far more for redundancy than we should. Putting life jackets on airplanes is a great example of this. So is the avoidance of the last typo. It’s also one reason our medical costs are so high… the last .01% is the most expensive part.
A useful skill in executive decision making is the ability to describe resiliency and the cost of failure in non-emotional ways. Especially when it’s difficult do precisely that. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/2812 | Napoleon & New Orleans in 1821
The New Orleans in which Napoleon lands in Napoleon in America was fertile ground for Bonapartists. In 1821 New Orleans was the nation’s fifth-largest city (after New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston), with a population of approximately 27,000. French speakers accounted for some three-quarters of that total. About 1,500 of these were actual French citizens, fresh from Europe. Another 10,000 or so were refugees from Saint-Domingue who had arrived in 1809 and 1810. The remainder were other Creoles, American-born descendants of the Europeans. (For more about the racial stratification of the city, see my post on slavery in New Orleans.)
New Orleans in 1821: Street scene, Faubourg Marigny by Felix Achille Beaupoil de Saint Aulaire. The Historic New Orleans Collection, acc. no. 1937.2.2
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Most of the French and Creole population were sympathetic to Napoleon. They regarded him as one of the great men of the time. Local opinion was also coloured by dislike of England. Memories of the 1815 Battle of New Orleans were still fresh. Vincent Nolte writes that when news of the Battle of Waterloo reached New Orleans:
Mr. Thierry, the talented but extremely Bonapartist editor of the Courrier de la Louisiane, undertook to analyze this news, and to prove, by a series of logical conclusions, that it masked a disastrous defeat of the British army, and that Napoleon had undoubtedly achieved a brilliant triumph, which every good Frenchman was consequently bound to celebrate, without loss of time. Preparations were instantly made to comply with this suggestion, and that same evening busts of Napoleon, crowned with wreaths of laurel, were borne about in procession, surrounded by hundreds of torches, and several bands of music were engaged to play and sing national French airs and hymns. (1)
The same paper announced Napoleon’s death by reprinting an extract from the London Examiner of July 8, 1821, which began as follows:
The age has lost its greatest name – Napoleon Bonaparte….The animal who encumbers his once magnificent throne, and all the vampires of legitimacy, will doubtless chuckle over the melancholy end of the man whose genius abashed them, even when in his remote prison; but there are hearts on which the news of his death strikes like a heavy blow. He was far away from our eyes and our thoughts, but we felt a pervading consciousness that he lived, and something like a feeling that he might again appear among us, as a soldier still unequalled, as a man taught wisdom by experience. (2)
Creoles vs Anglo-Americans
By 1821, the predominantly French character of New Orleans was changing. After Napoleon sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States in 1803, Anglo-American Protestants poured into what had been a French and Spanish Catholic city. This was a deliberate strategy on the part of President Thomas Jefferson to integrate Louisianans into the United States. The newcomers ranged from uncouth riverboat men known as Kaintucks, to businessmen and professionals from New England and the mid-Atlantic states. They regarded the Creoles as lazy, uneducated and lacking in business sense.
Benjamin Latrobe, a British architect who emigrated to the United States in 1796, lived and worked in New Orleans from 1818 until his death from yellow fever in 1820. He observed:
There are…three societies here, first the French, second the American, and third the mixed. The French side is not exactly what it was at the change of government, and the American is not strictly what it is in the Atlantic cities. The opportunity of growing rich by more active, extensive and intelligent modes of agriculture and commerce has diminished the hospitality, destroyed the leisure and added more selfishness to the character of the Creoles. The Americans, coming hither to make money and considering their residence as temporary, are doubly active in availing themselves of the enlarged opportunities of becoming wealthy which the place offers. …
Some French have come hither since the return of the Bourbons, but they did not find themselves at home; some joined General Lallemand in his settlement on the Trinity River, a few remained so as sensibly to increase the French population. The accession, if worth mentioning, did not exceed the emigration which has taken place of those who did not like the American Government, or had amassed fortunes and have returned to France or settled in the West Indian islands. Since the breaking of Lallemand’s colony, a few have returned to New Orleans, but so few that they are not a perceptible quantity, even in the comparatively small French community.
On the other hand, Americans are pouring in daily, not in families, but in large bodies. In a few years, therefore, this will be an American town. What is good and bad in the French manners and opinions must give way, and the American notions of right and wrong, of convenience and inconvenience, will take their place. … [O]ne cannot help wishing that a mean, an average character, of society may grow out of the intermixture of the French and American manners. …
There is a lady, and I am told a leading one among the Americans, who can speak French well but is determined never to condescend to speak to the French ladies in their language. Many of the leading gentlemen, when not talking of tobacco or cotton, find it very amusing to abuse and ridicule French morals, French manners and French houses. …
The suburb St. Mary [Faubourg Ste. Marie, upriver from Canal Street], the American suburb, already exhibits the flat, dull, dingy character of Market Street in Philadelphia instead of the motley and picturesque effect of the stuccoed French buildings of the city. We shall introduce many grand and profitable improvements, but they will take the place of much elegance, ease, and some convenience. (3)
In 1821, the Louisiana Supreme Court announced a new regulation. Lawyers applying to practice in the state would have to demonstrate fluency in English. The Louisiana Courier called the rule “insulting and vexatious for the ancient population of this state,” and grumbled about “certain people who abhor everything that is French and who would like to see annihilated everything which preserves any recollection of it.” (4)
A letter writer railed:
We ought no longer to dissemble, the days of forbearance are over. Our prudence, our patience become every day more fatal to us. … The object of the rule in question is, on one side, to cover the deficiency of certain Judges who occupy exalted stations, without knowing any other but the English language, and on the other to Americanize the bar, by admitting none but men born in the English speaking states (for who can hope to undergo a rigorous examination on scientific matters in a language which he has lately learned?), who, with a few Frenchmen, proud of speaking broken English and ashamed of speaking their mother language, will facilitate the introduction of that common law so long wished for…. But let those who are so anxious to found that Babylon, well remember that we are the first and the old population of the state, as the Quakers are of Pennsylvania, and that, like them, and our other brethren of the union, we shall know how to cause our primitive rights to be respected. Let them be aware that we can in an instant annihilate the imprudent innovators who should try to deprive us of those rights. (5)
As noted in my post about French Consul François Guillemin, when Alexis de Tocqueville visited New Orleans a decade later “almost all the land in Louisiana was still in French (Creole) hands, though big business belonged to the Americans.” (6)
When asked whether there was bitterness between the French and the Americans, Guillemin told Tocqueville:
Each criticizes the other. They do not see each other much, but at bottom there is no real hostility. (7)
Honoré Fanchon
I have written about several Bonapartists who were in New Orleans in 1821 and feature in Napoleon in America, including Louis Lauret, Félix Formento, Charles Lallemand and Jean Joseph Amable Humbert. One I have not yet mentioned is Lauret’s friend Honoré Fanchon. Little is known about him, except that he was a Napoleonic officer who was at the Champ d’Asile in Texas in 1818. He must have been in the United States in June 1820, as his name appeared on the list of colonists who were to receive the funds collected by the French newspaper La Minerve (colonists who had left the country were ineligible). The New Orleans City Directory of 1822 lists a Françoise Fanchon as a trader at 152 Burgundy Street. I thus decided to make Fanchon a New Orleans shopkeeper, and to give him a wife. Though we don’t meet her in the novel, her skirt can be seen through a doorway. Her presence influences Fanchon’s decision about whether to join Napoleon on his new adventure.
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1. Vincent Nolte, Fifty Years in Both Hemispheres, or Reminiscences of the Life of a Former Merchant, translated from the German (New York, 1854), p. 240.
2. Courrier de la Louisiane/Louisiana Courier, October 19, 1821, p. 3.
3. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, The Journal of Latrobe (New York, 1905), pp. 169-174, 187.
4. Courrier de la Louisiane/Louisiana Courier, May 16, 1821, p. 3; May 23, 1821, p. 3.
5. Courrier de la Louisiane/Louisiana Courier, June 1, 1821, p. 3.
6. Alexis de Tocqueville, Mélanges, Fragments Historiques et Notes sur l’Ancien Régime, la Révolution et l’Empire (Paris, 1865), pp. 295-96.
7. Ibid., p. 296.
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• Tom Vance says:
Thank you for the wonderful article!
• John Adan says:
Kintucks floated rafts of lumber from Kentucky down the Mississippi river to New Orleans, then went home overland with the profits, coping with crooks and bandits of every description. They had to be tough to survive this gauntlet.
• Geoffrey says:
On grief felt for the death of Napoleon: I find in Henriette’s album a doggerel poem about it signed TS, and followed by a gibe at the “false history of a pensioned “Black Dwarf” of biography.” This was Walter Scott, who had written Napoleon’s life and also a novel “The Black Dwarf”.
Here is a verse from the poem
And though the Hero is no more,
His deeds of glory live!
And long as thundering cannons roar
To him we’ll honour give!
• Jim Gallen says:
Comments about lazy French settlers were also made by an American visitor to Cahokia, Illinois. He commented that the French would rather hunt than farm. In fact, hunting was their work while it was the American’s recreation.
• Shannon Selin says:
Interesting how that seems to have been a common, though inaccurate, perception in the early United States. Thanks, Jim.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/2815 | I am trying to use SharePoint Rest API from a standalone application with hard-coded user id and password. The operations are working fine using this method. But we are trying to authenticate the current logged in user and send some header with the Rest Call so the SharePoint will do the authentication and authorization by itself with respect to the current user.
I went through this article and found out that we can send
Authorization: Bearer <access_token>
to authenticate the current user. But it is also mentioned in the article that the solution is specific to SharePoint Online only and not to the SharePoint On-Premise (SharePoint 2013 in my case).
So my question is how can I can do the same in SharePoint 2013.
Note :
1. I can only use Rest API and not CSOM or JSOM
2. I cannot create any provider hosted app (if it is a way)
3. If I open any SharePoint page in an I-Frame in my stand alone application page, is there way to grab some cookies or token from there and then pass them in my Rest Calls to SharePoint to authenticate the current user.
Thanks in advance..
I am using form digest for rest calls from Powershell to SharePoint. Using scheduled tasks running as the user you need to authenticate to SharePoint.
First do a POST to [https://...]/_api/contextinfo with header Accept=application/json;odata=verbose and an empty body. The response in $.d.GetContextWebInformation.FormDigestValue is the Request Digest.
Then do your other rest calls using the following header: Accept=application/json;odata=verbose Content-Type=application/json;odata=verbose X-RequestDigest=[response for FormDigestValue] X-FORMS_BASED_AUTH_ACCEPTED=f
The FormDigestValue does expire, so either check the expiration at the end of the value before every call and re-call contextinfo or re-call it every time you do a call.
It also works from workflows, using the dictionary variable and adding Authorization in the header with an empty value.
• i am having issues in able to make a call to contextinfo. it throws Access denied. You do not have permission to perform this action or access this resource. please advise – Vik Nov 16 '18 at 1:53
Following code to get SharePoint form digest as authentication header for your reference:
static async Task<string> GetDigestAsync(string endPoint, HttpClient client)
string digest = null;
HttpResponseMessage response = await client.PostAsync(endPoint, new StringContent(""));
if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
digest = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
JObject rss = JObject.Parse(digest);
return rss["d"]["GetContextWebInformation"]["FormDigestValue"].ToString();
static async Task RunAsync()
var username = "administrator";
var password = "P@ssw0rd";
var domain = "contoso2016";
var handler = new HttpClientHandler();
handler.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(username, password, domain);
string rESTUrl = "http://sp2016/_api/web/lists/getbyTitle('List1')/items";
var client = new HttpClient(handler);
client.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://sp2016/");
var digest = await GetDigestAsync("/_api/contextinfo", client);
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("X-HTTP-Method", "POST");
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("X-RequestDigest", digest);
HttpContent strContent = new StringContent(String.Concat("{ '__metadata': { 'type': 'SP.Data.List1ListItem' }, 'Title': 'CreatedViaRestAPIPost'}"));
strContent.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json");
strContent.Headers.ContentType.Parameters.Add(new NameValueHeaderValue("odata", "verbose"));
HttpResponseMessage response = await client.PostAsync(rESTUrl, strContent);
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/2875 | Yesterday I saw a question that I commented with a few clarification questions, just to make sure I understood it correctly. Which was confirmed by the OP. But when I woke up this morning, the question was put on hold for being unclear. Even though the original question was far from perfect, I couldn't see it so unclear as to put it on hold. Was it because people here are so used to a game has to be between exactly 2 teams that they could not understand that games between 3 or 4 teams is possible in some circumstances? I must say I think the question is not only quite clear, it is contentwise a very good question.
I had to put my answer in a comment, since the question is on hold. The question is edited 7 hours ago, but still on hold.
• I reopened to let your answer be posted (and accepted) as the question has been clarified (unclear votes do not go away upon editing). – user527 Feb 3 '17 at 13:03
• The person asked for a way to run multiple rounds using an elimination bracket on >2 teams per match. This is an obviously unclear (in fact, basically impossible) thing to ask for, and the question was too broad to clarify on its face. I pointed out both of these things in comments. Which I presume you have read. Then it was edited to make it more clear as the edit history reflects. Which I presume you also read. Are those presumptions incorrect? – Nij Feb 4 '17 at 3:54
• I read those comments and the original queation. And I could not agree with you. Even from the original question it was quite clear what OP wanted. I assume you read my comment and OPs response that I was spot on. – Linkan Feb 4 '17 at 6:39
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/2879 | 14:17 GMT +318 August 2019
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A recent article published in the US business magazine Quartz argues that an uptick of nationalism in Siberia threatens to break up the Russian Federation.
US Media Dreams About 'Siberian Nationalism' Breaking Up Russia
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A recent article published in the US business magazine Quartz argues that an "uptick of nationalism" in Siberia threatens to break up the Russian Federation.
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In his article, republished by Quartz from online news and opinion magazine Muftah, independent journalist Bradley Jardine says that Siberia's history of non-conformism has led its "inhabitants, including its ethnic Russian population, [to develop] a very distinctive identity –a sort of swash-buckling frontier spirit akin to American pioneers." The journalist argues that this "sense of nationalism," which had its origins in the 19th century, has recently intensified.
Jardine cites Siberians' apparent anger over the federal government's unfair distribution of tax revenues, along with the old news item of "Vladimir Putin's centralizing reforms," which he says have "inflam[ed] hostility toward Moscow." It's worth pointing out here that Russia returned to a system of direct elections for its regional governors back in 2012, and that the tax revenues issue is literally older than the Russian state itself, first emerging back in the Soviet period.
It is in this apparent Siberian hostility to Moscow that Jardine sees a "potent national movement" growing up "in larger Siberian intellectual centers like Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Omsk, and Irkutsk," citing the example of a 2011 protest rally in Novosibirsk, where demonstrators gathered to chant the slogan "Stop Feeding Moscow!" and demanded that Siberia receive a larger share of the revenues from hydrocarbons.
Noting that "the movement was unsuccessful," Jardine argued that the protest (which, incidentally, gathered only 50-70 people) "seriously ruffled Moscow's feathers," adding that a similar proposed 'March for the Federalization of Siberia', was banned by "central authorities," who arrested organizers and imposed a "widespread media blackout on the region." In actuality, it was the local mayor's office that banned the march, which had planned to attract about 350 people in the city of 1.5 million. Local media freely reported that the march was prohibited because organizers hadn’t bothered to fill out the paperwork to hold it.
After making a mountain out of a couple molehills, Jardine concludes his analysis by noting that "if the status quo continues –and Siberians continue to feel exploited by the central government –the Russian Federation may be faced with a serious political crisis."
Jardine's commentary echoed that of Wilson Quarterly contributor Elizabeth Peet, who stated in an eerily similar article published earlier this month that "Vladimir Putin's ever-more-centralized regime" has "contributed to a resurgence of regional pride across Siberia, as demonstrated in the popularity of the 'I'm Siberian' brand [of t-shirts] among Siberia's younger generations."
The headache-inducing semantics of calling the small movement of ethnic Russian Siberian autonomy supporters "Siberian nationalists" aside, at least Jardine's article had the courtesy to make note of the fact that the autonomy movement is based mainly "among the region's ethnic Russian population." As for the region's indigenous groups, who are presumably unaware or un-interested in the movement, Jardine explained that the groups are "more rooted and connected to local towns and villages."
Still, there isn't really anything surprising about in the histrionic tone of Jardine and Peet's articles. Earlier this year, Texas-based intelligence group Stratfor (whose work Jardine cites in his article) presented its 'Decade Forecast: 2015-2025', a report which predicted the enduring power of the United States and Russia's imminent demise. The report explained that fluctuations in energy prices would reduce "Moscow's ability to support the national infrastructure," resulting in the fraying of "economic ties binding the Russian periphery" and causing Siberia to "move independently" toward "links with China, Japan and the US." And if a respected and influential think tank like Stratfor can dream big about resource-rich Siberia breaking off from Russia and becoming an independent state, what's wrong with a couple of analysts writing articles about the very same thing?
There is something to be said about discontent among the resource-rich Russian regions stemming from the perceived unfair distribution of tax revenues, which local nationalists and political demagogues have played upon since the late Soviet period, claiming that 'their national republic/region/autonomous zone subsidizes everyone else, and that everyone would be richer and better off by separating'. But while the argument continues to be used by a sprinkling of Russian nationalists and liberals, most recently in a 2011 campaign demanding that Moscow 'Stop Feeding the Russian Caucasus', it is highly unlikely that the issue of taxation could lead to the formation of a serious movement for autonomy or independence, especially in Siberia, where the majority is ethnically Russian. In any case, a recent study by Russian news and analysis weekly Argumenti i fakti found that in 2014, only about a dozen regions made due without federal financial aid to complement local budgets, with most of the country's regions, including those in Siberia, receiving subsidies as part of the government's effort to equalize spending.
Idea of 'Siberian Nationalism' Gets a Laugh From Russian Readers
Jardine's article, which has since been translated into Russian and published on RT's InoTV, became a source of amusement for its Siberian readers, who commented on the absurdity of the ideas it contains, and argued that journalists shouldn't write about issues they know nothing about.
A user named Dmitri from the city of Tomsk sarcastically commented that having "lived in Siberia for 30 years, this is the first time I have heard about the 'Siberian National Movement; same goes for the 'March for the Federalization of Siberia' and the apparent 'mood in Siberia favoring separating from the federal center'. The author has truly opened my eyes to what's really going on in my native land."
Another user, called Yana, echoed Dmitri's irony, noting that she "has always found it amazing how people who cannot find Siberia on a map know more about our lives than we do. From Siberia with Love!" Sergei added that "as a Siberian, I am getting a huge kick out of this article. Author: time to leave the parallel world you're living in!"
Pavel wrote, "there is no 'Siberian nationalism', and I say this as a Siberian. Even if there are a few radicals, their percentage is negligible. The absolute majority of people here feel that they are Russian, and do not amuse themselves with such silly ideas."
Verba, hailing from Novosibirsk, noted that "this is the first time I'm reading about the 'big rally' of 2011…As for the ludicrous 'March for Federalization' of our already federal (!) region, it was not forbidden. The organizers simply 'forgot' to file the paperwork. Boy have they made a lot of noise about it afterwards though."
Stanislav joked that "the rich mineral wealth of Siberia does not give these foreigners any peace. I have heard these fairy tales [about Siberia breaking off from Russia] since the 90s." Alex added that the "the idea here is clear –to create a false nation to oppose Russia and to gather the fruits from the conflict which results." Martin capped off the commentary, urging everyone not to worry and noting that "we Siberians would be a tough nut to crack. We live in a calm, measured way, and do not give in to propaganda…Siberians will not tolerate any turmoil."
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/2880 | 14:52 GMT +318 August 2019
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Jeremy Hunt, Britain's Secretary of State for Health, paid tribute to the bravery of the victims of "the nation's favourite celebrity" Jimmy Savile, as he gave evidence to a series of enquiries in hospitals and care homes across the country.
In what Hunt described as "extremely distressing reading", he revealed the findings of two new reports to the House of Commons from evidence given by 177 men and women who were abused by Jimmy Savile between 1954 and 2011.
The reports reveal that rapes, sexual assaults, indecent assaults and molestations took place in a quarter of NHS hospitals in England. Seventy-two people were children at the time the abuse was carried out by Jimmy Savile; the youngest was five years old.
The Stoke Mandeville Report into the scale of abuse at the Buckinghamshire Hospital revealed that between 1968 and 1992, he sexually abused 63 people, including patients, staff, visitors, volunteers and care workers.
His victims aged from eight years old to 40. Half were under the age of 16, ten were under 21, a third of his victims were vulnerable patients and 90 percent were female.
The report also highlights how a blind eye was turned to Savile's behaviour. Between 1972 and 1985, nine informal complaints were made, and a father of a child with cancer made one formal complaint — but it was dropped. This meant no action was ever taken and no intelligence on Savile was ever gathered.
"It was an 'open secret' that he was a lecher and a nuisance", Dr. Androulla Johnstone, the Stoke Mandeville report's lead investigator said.
A second independent report for the Secretary of State for Health, 'Themes and lessons learnt from NHS investigations into matters relating to Jimmy Savile', describes Savile's associations with the NHS as "unusual to the point of being scarcely credible".
The report states that senior staff did not seem to be aware of his actions. Lead author and former barrister Kate Lampard said:
"It would appear that at no stage were senior managers made aware of either his sexual offending or his unsatisfactory portering performance and poor moral behaviour."
According to Lampard, features of the story have "everyday implications and relevance for the NHS today".
"Their Pain and Anguish Floods across Every Page of These Reports"
Hattie Llewelyn-Davies, chair of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, said:
"On behalf of the NHS organisations that existed at the time and those that exist today, I want to say sorry to all of Jimmy Savile's victims. The ultimate responsibility must rest with the man himself, but it doesn't stop anyone from learning the lessons from the report."
Paying tribute to the victims in the Commons, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt pledged that the NHS would be made safer, "as we learn the uncomfortable lessons".
"Never again must the power of money or celebrity blind us to repeated clear signals that some extremely vulnerable people were being abused", Hunt said.
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The King’s Right-Hand Woman by JM Paquette
For Suzy–
She knelt before her king, trembling with exhaustion, yet exhilarated at the knowledge that this kind man would finally take his rightful place at the throne.
How long had she waited for this moment? How many nights had she dreamed of his return to claim his birthright? It seemed that she had thought of nothing else for so very long.
She heard the monks beginning their chant again, signalling that the moment of silence was ended, and she stood up again, back straight and proud as she stood to the right of her sovereign. She surveyed the crowd of suddenly loyal subjects, their finery glinting in the afternoon sun as they showed off their best jewels, their family crests, their wealth and comfort, especially now that this business of the true monarch was resolved.
And it was resolved. Anyone else who had the slimmest claim to the throne had been eliminated. There was no one else who could rise from the ranks to stake a claim.
As she looked around the room, she noticed how people’s gaze slid away from hers. They were afraid of her. And rightfully so. She hadn’t assured her king’s return without getting her hands dirty. Sometimes, these things had to be done.
Of course, the king knew nothing of what she had done. He would be appalled. But sometimes, a person had to be willing to soil a soul for the sake of the greater good. Sometimes, a person had to break the rules to ensure a better future for everyone. Looking around now, it seemed that the promised future had finally arrived. There would be no more threats. No more late night missions. No more coded instructions. No more secret exploits, deep intrigues, last minute reprieves.
As she considered the future, her face clouded. What was she going to do with herself now that the task was accomplished? She looked down at her hands, calloused from close acquaintance with her weapons, her forearms strong from hours spent in physical exertion. What could she do with her skills now? It wasn’t like anyone here would need her. The people left in this room were loyal subjects, eager to please their lord, but not eager to take his place, not after what had happened to those other contenders.
She looked down at her hands again. Maybe she could take up knitting or something.
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Pom Poms by Erika Lance
For Mandi, for being inspiring since the day we met.
“That is seriously the 6th time that truck as slowly rolled past. Should we ask if they need help?”
Claire looked over at Marci who had been one looking out the window and scowled. Marci couldn’t see the scowl which was most likely a good thing. Claire often thought that she, and she alone would survive a horror movie type situation.
Claire had joined the cheer squad when she first arrived at Jeffery M. Whitmore High School because they had no other activities that related to dance or gymnastics. Claire also understood stature and how to navigate the high school experience so that she came out on top.
Unfortunately, this meant she was usually surrounded by a bunch of girls who talked about lipstick and shopping and so many other things Clair had zero interest in. She chalked it up to being the negative parts of popularity.
“Seriously, should we go out there? They are parked down the block. They may need help.” Marci was persistent. Chrissie, who happened to be the captain of the team looked out the window along with Heather and Tanya. They had all decided to have a “little” slumber party this weekend to discuss Nationals.
Claire knew it would look good on college transcripts, so she was on board for helping make sure this wasn’t embarrassing.
“I don’t know if it is safe. Claire, what do you think?” Tanya asked.
Tanya asked about everything. She couldn’t make a decision herself about anything. Claire smiled; it was the fake smile that said “I care what you are saying” but really didn’t. “I don’t think you should go out there. This town is full of weirdos.” She was sure the others wouldn’t listen to her, so she felt safe in saying what she did.
Almost on cue Chrissie looked over, “I think we should. After all, they may be some slightly lost college guys or something.” She managed to sound condescending when she even said that. “Tanya, let’s go help out the stranded stranger,” and she headed for the door.
It was in this moment Claire decided that the fate of these three meant nothing to her. She could be worried. She could warn them. Hell, she could even manipulate them into staying inside. However, in this moment she realized that the cheer team would go on, even if all three of these girls were no longer breathing.
So she smiled again, “I understand. You should help them out.”
Chrissie and Tanya checked themselves in the mirror and headed out. Claire looked at her watch: 10:35pm. She then picked back up the book she was reading and waited. Marci was switching between pacing and looking out the window. She suddenly burst out, “They are gone!”
Claire looked up from her book. “What?” she asked, sure of what the answer would be.
“They are gone.” Marci was staring to freak out. “Is the van still there?” Claire asked. She thought she should make her tone more concerned to make Marci feel better and then she shrugged. She didn’t actually care.
“Maybe you should check on them?” Claire finally said. Maybe she sounded like she cared. She didn’t.
“Will you come with me?” Marci asked.
“No,” Claire said. Maybe that was a little rough. “Umm… someone should be here if they come back.” She hoped that made her sound more caring or possibly a little scared.
“Oh,” Marci started, “That makes sense,” and she headed for the door. Claire shrugged and went back to reading.
Some time had passed before she checked her watch again; it had been an hour. She moved over and looked out the window. The van was gone. Claire pursed her lips. She knew Chrissie’s parents would at least be home by morning and wondering where their daughter was. She shook her head and pulled out her cell phone.
“911. What is your emergency?” the concerned sounding voice answered.
“My… My… My … THEY ARE GONE!!!” The drama classes were paying off, Claire thought as she “sobbed” into the phone. The operator began to ask her questions and as she answered she wondered if being cheer captain was more work than she wanted to expend.
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Be Careful What You Ask For … by Désirée Matlock
For Mark Reale
“And then the alien’s claws reached around the door.”
I should never have joined in. It all started last week when Jimmy won an RV and a camping trip in a drawing. He’d invited us all along. I’d agreed, but that had been before the week I’d just had. The worst week of my life. We had agreed we were going to follow all the camping tropes, hit all the high notes of camping. As city people, we’d all gotten excited at the idea of the great outdoors and some drunken carousing. Of course, now… I definitely was no longer in the mood.
A few minutes ago, the six of us had been gathered around the campfire gossiping when Penny had started it by saying, “It was a dark and stormy night, and the wind was creaking through the trees in the moonlight.” My gut had dropped, worried she was going to tell a ghost story. No. Let it be witches or monsters… I prayed silently to myself.
Then Joseph had added the next line, “The dark of night was suddenly broken as a spacecraft crash landed deep in the woods. The only thing nearby was a cabin with six friends who were camping.”
I had relaxed; aliens were a safe subject. Joe raised his eyebrows at each of us and pointed in a circle to really drive home his point that he was talking about us. It was ridiculous enough that I’d even grinned. I really should have walked away, but I was interested in hearing the story, and it seemed safe enough.
Marla sitting just to Joseph’s right had bounced up and down in excitement as she realized it was her turn, “Um, okay! Hmmm… They had no idea the danger they were now in, but they heard the noise and went to investigate.”
Marla then gestures to pass the torch to me, and I’d added, “The UFO appeared to have been cracked in half from the impact, but the driver’s seat appeared empty as the six friends approached.” This was getting fun, and we were still on the subject of aliens, so I was letting my guard down. Foolish.
After the week I’d had, I should have had no interest in hearing any scary stories. After all, I’d been living one. But, we had agreed that we were going to follow all the typical camping tropes, and really get the most out of our free camping trip. And of course, the campfire tales were one of said tropes.
In retrospect, I should have warned my friends. Or stayed away, or told them what the gypsy had told me.
It was finally Leanne’s turn, and she added, “They all wandered back to the cabin, disappointed that they had not found any alien visitor… And…. now they were planning to call the authorities about the UFO. However, when they returned, they found that a tree had knocked out the phone and electric. It was as dark as night inside the cabin, and their flashlights did little to brighten the gloom.”
“Nice one, Leanne,” Jimmy complimented her. The two of those were probably finally going to sleep together if left to their own on this trip. If I knew Marla, she’d be watching to divert one or the other of them. We had all agreed years ago it was a stupid idea to let them sleep together, and she’d been their unwitting chaperone ever since. So far so good, we figured.
Leanne batted her eyes at him, and then downed her third beer in one long gulp. Uh oh.
Penny watched in amazement, and then realized it was back to her now. “That’s when…” and gestured to Joseph.
“Aw that doesn’t count!” Marla stood for a second. “Needs to be longer than that!”
“Too bad!” Penny laughed and leaned back. No arguing with her. It was Joseph’s turn.
“Okay, let me see.” I got worried that Joe was going to change the topic.
“And then the alien’s claws reached around the door.”
I watched Marla as the story circle reached her. Suddenly I realized, as I watched an ethereal spooky look cross her face, that she was about to change the subject matter entirely.
“No!” I whispered, terrified my friends would learn my new secret.
But Marla’s words were coming out anyway… “And that’s when the ghost appeared.”
And it did. Oh boy did it.
I crumpled to the ground, passing out against my will. I watched, horrified and disembodied, floating above the events as my own form rose from the ground, white and semi-transparent, completely transformed into the appearance and presence of Lady Arabella Forester, the angry woman who had been living within me for the last six days. I hadn’t meant to become her host, but damned if I could completely get rid of her.
As she tromped around the fire, scattering embers and screeching nonsense at my friends, I desperately tried to figure out what to do! What could I do, as a disembodied self, I wasn’t that skilled at helping. I tried getting back into my head, but Arabella is quite fiesty. She really doesn’t like to share; my body being male doesn’t seem to stop her.
It took all five of my friends to get me back into the RV and lock Arabella away. She banged around the RV quite a bit, bruising and slamming my body around, quite distressing to say the least. My friends were trying to work out what to do, and what had even happened.
“What the heck is wrong with Paul?” Marla said.
“Hell if I know,” Jimmy added. “Maybe he’s possessed?”
Joe added, “He’s lost his fucking mind is what’s wrong with him. Your story freaked him out.”
“My story?” Penny said, in disbelief. “We all did that. It’s just a ghost story, for god’s sake!”
I floated disembodied above them trying to tell them to speak the spell. I should have spoken earlier. I should have told them the gypsy’s spell. Dammit! Too late now.
I finally pushed my way into Leanne’s body. She twitched hard. Leanne fought me tooth and nail, trying to force her way back up to the surface, but I managed to get all the words out. “Fleeby Taboora Pamnacht!” I said, even though it sounded ridiculous, because I knew it would work. It sounded strange in Leanne’s drunk voice. But hey. The only way to do it.
Joe started freaking out that now it was happening to Leanne, but the banging in the RV stopped, and I turned to the others, in Leanne’s tiny little body. I whispered that it was safe to open the doors, but no one was allowed to mention ghosts again around me. They all nodded, stunned into silence.
Leanne’s body passed out and I went black. A few hours later, when I woke up, I was in my own body.
Jimmy and Marla smiled at me, while Joe handed me a piece of chocolate. “S’more?”
Everyone looked shaken up, but thankfully no one mentioned anything. I sat up and asked for graham crackers, the fire warm and comforting to watch. I really was glad we were all getting together.
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Unraveling by Nicole DragonBeck
For my mom, love, DragonBeck
I opened the door and couldn’t believe my eyes.
Standing on the doorstep was Glenson. He was a medium built man, half an inch taller than I, with dark hair and blue eyes. The only problem was that Glenson had died two days ago. I’d seen it with my own eyes, the blood, the death rattle, and the burning of the body. And yet…
“What are you doing here?” I asked, too stunned to stop him as he brushed passed into my house and marched through to the study.
“Not much time, not much time,” he muttered, beginning to rifle though my effects, pulling things out of drawers and off bookshelves, glancing at them briefly and tossing them aside.
Some of the things were quite valuable, and others quite old and delicate, but his jitters were getting on my nerves, and I had little attention for that. And all this about not much time…that didn’t bode well. That didn’t bode well at all.
“Glenson, tell me what’s going on,” I demanded. “You…you died!”
That made him pause. “Oh, did I?” he wondered in an absent voice. “Yes, I suppose I did.”
“So what are you doing here?” It was taking all my will-power not to scream. “This is not part of the plan! What is happening in the Underealm? Where are the others? What about the Homestones?”
For the first time, Glenson turned to look at me. His eyes were different, the eyes of a man who had seen things he would never forget, things that got stuck inside the head and changed the way one thought about things. I didn’t want to know what those things were, but with him standing in front of me, I didn’t really have a choice.
“What about the Homestones, Glenson?” I demanded.
“They weren’t there,” his voice was heavy. “Someone moved them.”
“They were stolen!” I said, my heart leaping to my throat.
“No,” Glenson was shaking his head. “Much worse. They were moved.”
I tried to wrap my mind around what he was saying. “What does that mean?”
“It means the whole world is in danger,” Glenson said. “If the Homestones have been moved to other locations…”
“Then the fabric of the universe is no longer held in place,” I whispered, the full scope of our problem becoming clear to me. “Are there…” I could barely bring myself to say it, “…unravelings?”
Glenson rolled his eyes and gestured to himself. I felt like slapping myself. Of course. People coming back from the dead would be one of the first, and indeed, milder things that would be expected to happen.
“Alright, so what do we do?” I asked. “What are you looking for?”
“I don’t rightly know,” Glenson said, turning back to my study and continuing his dismembering of it. “I think…yes, I think we might have brought it back from one of our trips.”
Now I rolled my eyes at him. We had been on a thousand excursions and brought back many artifacts, some of which were in my study. Others were in the vaults at the University, and in others’ homes, and some of the most powerful pieces were held in secret places known only to a few.
“Aha!” Glenson exclaimed, holding something aloft.
It was a small carved piece, from some ancient society that was no longer with us, a man with two faces and no features, and four arms with no hands. I speculated it was from some board game, but Glenson was looking at it as though it were much more.
“What is that?” I asked, reaching out for it.
He snatched it back, cradling it in his hands, shaking his head. The strange light in his eyes flared up again, making me cold inside. I knew then that it might look like Glenson, but it was no longer completely my friend. I withdrew my hand and waited for him to explain.
“I cannot tell you accurately what it is like to travel the deep, dark rivers between here and the Underealm. The Ferrymen are silent, and their eyes…” he shuddered. “I was on my way to the Underealm when the Ferryman disappeared. The creature that replaced him was unthinkable, unimaginable, not seen above ground. It told me that the Homestones were gone, and that if I did not put them back, then everything goes poof.” His hands came together illustrating the world collapsing in on itself.
“How did you get out?” I wondered.
“I dove into the water,” he said, as if that were something similar to going out for tea. “And swam upstream.”
He smiled a haunted smile in response to the expression on my face. He was always so dedicated, so headstrong, so certain of what he was doing. I was suddenly struck by the thought that there was a reason Glenson had been the one to die that day, some strange cosmic logic too big for mortal minds to fully understand. I shook off the feeling.
“So what do we do with that?” I nodded at the figurine.
“I don’t know,” Glenson said, turning it over and over in his hands. “I think we have to find them all, and put them together, and then something will happen.”
There was that cosmic logic, I thought, but what else did we have to go on?
“I’ll get the others,” I said, making to grab my coat and my bag.
Glenson shook his head. “No. There can only be two. You, from the Upperland, and me, from Underealm. Perfect balance.” He smiled sadly. “We are the last Homestone, holding the world together and apart.”
The responsibility hung heavily in my chest, and I didn’t like it one bit. It made me feel very alone and inexplicably doomed because of Fate’s terrible sense of irony. I imagined the ground tipping under me, sending everything into chaos and darkness.
“Let’s get this over with,” I told Glenson. “I’d like the world to go on for a little while longer.”
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Beacon by Alanna J. Rubin
For Kendra: Fall never ceases to be an inspiration.
Gillian smiled, “It’s the prophecy.”
“A prophecy about what?” I asked still confused.
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A Short Ride by Brandon Scott
For Dylan Alexander, whose fire rises ever higher.
“Hold on, don’t buckle it that way.”
“Why?” he said.
“Because it’s itchy. Do it the other way.”
“Did she tell you?”
“Yes, she did. So did dad.”
“Dad? When did you talk to dad?”
“A long time ago.”
“Well, that worked.”
“Which one?” came the panicked reply.
“The one with the gray aliens?”
“What about mommy?” Charlie said.
“Why can’t she come?”
“The ship only holds two.”
“What about another ship?”
“Where is mommy!? Why are you lying?”
“Will she meet us once we’re done?”
“Okay…okay. You’re not lying this time?”
“Pinkie promise?”
“Okay,” Samar agreed.
“What was that?”
“And then we’ll see mommy?”
“Yeah, I think we just might.”
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Re: rcs -> svn?
From: Jani Averbach <jaa_at_jaa.iki.fi>
Date: 2004-03-17 00:42:05 CET
On 2004-03-16 15:07-0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> I have some programs (as well as some isolated files) that are under
> rcs. That is to say, I have a bunch of development directories with
> files, and each individual file is under rcs.
> Are there any tools that would assist migrating such a setup into
> subversion? I've hunted around some, but haven't found anything.
At starting point you could "flatten" your directories by removing
all of their "plain" content and moving *,v files from RCS directory one level
up and deleting empty RCS directories.
After that you should be able to use cvs2svn.py convert your RCS
projects to SVN. I just checked that with very simple RCS setup.
Of course backup your data and verify your results afterward.
There might be even some script floating around which will do that,
but I didn't find it by quick search.
Somebody with more familiar with cvs2svn.py might give better/more
enlightened advices...
BR, Jani
Jani Averbach
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/2938 | 7 Things the Public May Not Know About Social Work
1. They get around!
Many different practices within the field of social work require that social workers be able to travel from place to place, doing their job in various settings. Depending on their specific practice, social workers may find themselves in environments such as offices, hospitals, homes, etc. (Dinitto & McNeece, 2008, p. 1-4)
1. There are a lot of them!
“According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2001) over 826,000 U.S. citizens call their occupation social work, which is more people than the population of Alaska, Delaware, North or South Dakota, or Wyoming.” (Dinitto & McNeece, 2008, p. 4)
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Many people realize that social work encompasses disciplines like psychology and sociology, but may not realize that it can also delve into subjects like nursing or public administration. (Dinitto & McNeece, 2008, p. 10-14)
1. This is NOT a man’s world!
Women make up a majority of the social workers in the United States, accounting for 83% of the work force and 70% of all awarded doctorate degrees. (Dinitto & McNeece, 2008, p. 18-19)
1. Ironic racial “diversity”
For a group of people that see themselves as agents for change, social workers are mostly Caucasian. According to “Racial/ethnic distribution of active licensed social workers and the U.S. population, 2004” the workforce is composed of 86% white or non-hispanic people, despite the fact that they only make up 68% of the United States population. Nearly every minority group depicted in the figure seems to be misrepresented in the workforce. (Dinitto & McNeece, 2008, p. 23-24)
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Social workers must understand several theories and their respective practices, as well as being able to use the appropriate ones in a given situation. There are 6 theories that are taught universally throught social work programs, but far more that are used across the country. (Dinitto & McNeece, 2008, p. 31-32)
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/2998 | Persephone Hangs Insulation
insulationby Elizabeth Vignali
I cut the batts long, squish them between
beams, a friction fit unfaced by paper.
Lying in the crawlspace, the whole weight
of the house above me. Little lives moving
in the earth beneath my back.
A man-made mineral fiber spun hyacinth
pink, girlish and soft to the touch. Glass
and slag wool and sand ground so fine
you don’t notice the itch
at first, the burgeoning burn
stealing the breath from your lungs.
I split another batt, rip from the bottom,
slide half behind and half on top
of the old copper pipes.
Insulation is only
as efficient as the installer.
The key is to fill the void completely.
The lives count down underground, seeds curled
in on themselves against winter’s coming breath.
I peel my gloves off and press one hand to the dirt,
the other to the prickling fiberglass. Cold and hot,
a rash of lives, palm pomegranate pink and seeded
with pinpricks of red light, blood rising to the surface.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3005 | Ruby for non-Rubyists
Yesterday I spoke to a pleasant mix of Java, .NET, Ruby, Python and PHP developers at Dallas TechFest. My goal when speaking to enthusiast crowds of this sort is to show the light that I’ve found in my programming journeys over the past couple years. This time around I tried to take a page from the inimitable Richard Feynman by structuring my talk into two sets of “Six Easy Pieces”.
The first part starts off with the stance that *programming shouldn’t suck*. From there I talk about the intercontinental railroad, Sapir-Whorf, Pattern Languages, the Gang of Four and flattery. In the end, we have an idea of how to better approach programming so we can have fun doing it.
The second half is partially showing off Ruby and partially a gauntlet thrown down to other languages. The main point is to show a progression of ideas I see in lots of Ruby code, from sensible naming to closures ending up with metaprogramming powering declarative programming and internal DSLs. You can implement the ideas from the beginning in any language. However, the ideas towards the end require a more progressively designed language. I’d love to see non-Ruby implementations of the programs towards the end of the presentation, if only for comparison and Rosetta Stone purposes.
Thanks to everyone who was in attendance and especially those who stopped to chat with me before and after the presentation. Without further ado, please enjoy Six Easy Pieces (Twice Over). |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3029 | Whatchoo Wanna Do Tonight?!
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Turkey Vulture
Why do birds fly south in the fall?
Because it’s too far to walk.
Interesting Fact: The Turkey Vulture’s distinctive slow, teetering flight style probably helps the bird soar at low altitudes, where it is best able to use its nose to find carrion. At other times they may soar high on thermals and form mixed flocks or kettles. On the ground they move with ungainly hops and are less agile than Black Vultures. ( https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Turkey_Vulture/lifehistory )
1. I didn’t grow up seeing these guys, but now that I live in NC it’s almost a weekly occurrence. They’re huge!
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3039 | Best Perl Online Courses, Training with Certification-2019 Updated
Best Perl Online Courses
#1 Learn Perl 5 By Doing It
Learn Perl by actually creating useful, working Perl programs for everything from web scraping to fixing your data.
Discover some of the amazing things you can do with Perl 5, including downloading text and images from the Internet (just like Zuckerberg in The Social Network), reformatting data, importing and exporting data to and from databases, sysadmin-type tasks like renaming or moving files, fixing even huge amounts of data quickly and even creating web CGI scripts. In this course you’ll also learn how to use regular expressions, those unbelievably useful little things that have now made their way into almost every serious programming language, yet remain the bête noire of many a developer.
#2 Perl Programming for Beginners
Perl application
With over 70 lectures and 7.5 hours of content, this is a true crash course that will get you up to speed in no time. You’ll get to grips with Perl fundamentals and design a Perl application, as well as creating automated applications that do the work for you and advanced text analyser applications. But don’t worry – you’ll work from the bottom up and progress at a pace that suits you, starting off with installation and creating more complex applications with each stage.
Along the way you’ll pick up various Perl fundamentals like scalar data, arrays and lists, subroutines, input and output, hashes, and regular expressions before tackling your final project. By the end of the course, you’ll be ready to use Perl in a wide range of real world applications.
#3 Learning Perl by Example
In today’s world, ETL (Extract, Transform and Load data) is a driving force to facilitate development of business intelligence and analytics across information delivery, analysis and integration. Perl can be used with this high level software to create the underlying infrastructure for ETL.
Imagine, design, implement, test, and roll out new features in your role as a Perl Programmer!
Have you ever wanted to find or extract some information in a huge document without needing to read though it? Do you want to manipulate, reformat, or extract text (or binary data) from a document that is not human readable? Then this course is for you. You can extract, transform and load data into a spreadsheet or a database. You are only limited by your imagination.
Best Perl Books:
#1 Perl by Example (5th Edition) by Ellie Quigley
#2 Programming Perl: Unmatched power for text processing and scripting by Tom Christiansen
#3 Perl Cookbook, Second Edition by Tom Christiansen
#4 Modern Perl 4th Edition by chromatic
#5 Intermediate Perl: Beyond The Basics of Learning Perl by Randal L. Schwartz
#6 Learning Perl: Making Easy Things Easy and Hard Things Possible by Brian D. Foy
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3041 | Interested in learning more about topics covered in Towards Cascadia? Here’s a list of resources which helped in the development of the book, along with others you may be interested in.
Books and Websites on Cascadia
These resources were used as research material for Towards Cascadia:
Cascadia: The Elusive Utopia—Exploring the Spirit of the Pacific Northwest, edited by Douglas Todd.
This was one of the single most influential books which helped lead to Towards Cascadia. It includes essays from several scholars on Cascadian identity, history, religion, economy, and more.
Occupied Cascadia, a documentary film directed by Devin Hess and Mel Sweet, produced by Casey Bryan Corcoran.
Religion & Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zone, edited by Patricia O’Connell Killen and Mark Silk.
Cascadia Institute, an organization founded by David McCloskey, professor, cartographer, and creater of the definitive bioregional map of Cascadia.
Sightline Institute, an independent, nonprofit research and communications center devoted to making a strong and sustainable region.
Christ & Cascadia, a blog on religious and ecotheological themes in the Cascadian region.
Other Books and Websites on Cascadia
Department of Bioregion, an educational and media organization promoting the interests of the Cascadian reigon.
Cascadia Now!, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization devoted to cultivating a positive region with a distinct identity.
The People of Cascadia: Pacific Northwest Native American History, by Heidi Bohan.
Books and Websites on Bioregionalism
The Biosphere and the Bioregion: Essential Writings of Peter Berg, edited by Cheryll Glotfelty and Eve Quesnel.
Planet Drum Foundation, a grass-roots organization founded by Peter Berg, the father of bioregionalism.
Books on Regionalism in Upper North America
These resources were used as research material for Towards Cascadia:
The Nine Nations of North America, by Joel Garreau.
Books on the Philosophy of Freedom and Liberty
These resources were used as research material for Towards Cascadia:
On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill.
Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty, by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3046 | The Treasury of Lives
Collection of Zanabazar Museum of Fine Arts
The Lhasa Tsuklakhang, known also as the Jokhang since the eleventh or twelfth century after its sacred inner sanctum, is Tibet's holiest shrine and the heart of the ancient capital city of Lhasa. Some sources attribute the temple to the Tibetan Emperor Songtsen Gampo while others attribute it to his Nepalese wife Queen Brikuti Devi. The Jokhang was built on the model of an early Indian monastery type known as a vihara, and Newari artisans and craftsmen worked on the site; at the time the Nepalese King Narendradeva and his court lived in exile in Lhasa, known then as Rasa, "the Walled City." According to the Fifth Dalai Lama, the Jowo's throne was created by the famed Newar artist Arniko. The Jokhang houses the Jowo, a statue of the Buddha as a young prince, considered the most sacred religious image in Tibet and said to have been brought by Queen Wencheng as part of her dowry. Later histories credit Songtsen Gampo's Chinese wife Queen Wencheng with providing the geomantic planning for the Tsuklakhang but this is unlikely as she arrived in Lhasa only in 641 when the Newaris had already departed.
Over the following two centuries, Songtsen Gampo's successors celebrated the establishment of the Rasa Trulnang Tsuklakhang (the magical apparition of Rasa) as instrumental to the introduction and spread of Buddhism in Tibet. They also made renovations and additions to the Tsuklakhang complex. King Tri Songdetsen cleared the outer courtyard, and King Relpachen had Meru Nyingpa built to the rear of the temple. Since then, restoration and renovation of the Jokhang became an important activity for the rulers of Tibet. Pakmodrupa Drakpa Gyeltsen built the front extension, also called the Outer Jokhang. The Fifth Dalai Lama and his regents, including Sanggye Gyatso, added further chapels and halls. The Eighth and the Eleventh Dalai Lama and their Tsemonling regents renovated the chapels and the murals. The Thirteenth Dalai Lama repaired the chapels, halls, murals and the roofs.
The Demoness of Tibet
The Potala Palace and the Main Monuments of Lhasa
Perspective Drawing of Lhasa
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3051 | Pile Machines
Pile Machines (Сваебои)
Pile Machine BM-831
Pile Machine KN-6
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• 9: in the feature-length version, the Fabrication Machine is made for thinking, and was requisitioned by the government to make "Machines of Peace''. Which it then programs to Kill All Humans. Not much is known, however, so it may not have had anything to do with the pre-apocalypse machines beyond building them, and may actually be argued as a subversion, since its murderous nature toward the sackdolls was intended by the scientist for it to absorb the pieces of soul he had left for it inside of them.
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• The Brave Little Toaster: The Junkyard Magnet. At first, he is doing his job destroying unwanted material in his junkyard (such as cars), by picking them up with his metallic base and throwing them onto a conveyor belt leading to a car crusher. But when Toaster and "his" friends show up, he starts to pursue them constantly, making sure that they will all be crushed to death by the car crusher. And when the Master, Rob, (Toaster's owner) comes to rescue his appliances, the Magnet sees him and actually wants to kill him as well...
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: the FLDSMDFR. As it gets overworked, it starts mutating the food, not only to building-destroying proportions, but into semi-sentient super foods, to protect itself from any interference.
• Fantasia: "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" — When Mickey Mouse puts the sorcerer's hat on his head and tests a spell on a nearby broomstick, it gives the broom arms and legs, as well as the ability to carry water. But when it carries too much, Mickey chops the broomstick into pieces. The pieces transform into an army of broomsticks and they relentlessly fetch water, nearly drowning Mickey. Fortunately, Yen Sid parts the waters.
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• Double subverted in The Incredibles. The Omnidroid is introduced as a robot that turned on its masters, after getting smart enough to wonder why it needed to take orders. In reality, the Omnidroid is perfectly subservient to Syndrome, and this was merely a cover story for Syndrome's plan. However, a later version does turn on Syndrome in the climax, as Syndrome didn't think through his programming the Omnidroid 'adapt to all situations, remove all obstacles to your goal'. The Omnidroid recognized the remote control Syndrome was using to defeat it as an obstacle, and removed it from the equation.
• In Meet the Robinsons, Cornelius Robinson invented a helpful Robot Buddy in the form of Carl, but his attempt at making a robotic helping hat, Doris, had mind controlling world domination plans in her artificial mind.
• Inverted in WALL•E, where the hero robots are the ones who unpredictably developed sentience outside the bounds of their programming, while the villain AUTO is actually doing exactly what he was programmed to do. Well, sort of. The villain was following his programming, but it was in a situation where a Zeroth Law Rebellion would have been really, really justified — robots apparently can think for themselves in this setting, and a situation had arisen that the villain's programming obviously hadn't considered, and yet he followed his programming anyway. In this setting, if A.I. wasn't a crapshoot, then the only alternative is that garbage and scout robots are apparently more capable of thinking for themselves and taking initiative than pilot robots.
• That's arguably justified. The autopilot had never operated far from human oversight, nor was he intended to. By contrast, WALL•E had survived on his own for 700 years, and EVE's mission required a significant amount of autonomy.
• Another thing to note is that even the villain is Three Laws-Compliant. AUTO can deflect and not tell the whole truth, but never refuses a direct order and never endangers human lives. He was given high-priority orders generations ago and between them and not knowing what the audience does, it genuinely believes that allowing the humans - who are pitifully dependent on the ships' habitation systems - to return to earth would be violating the first law by creating an unnecessary risk to their lives. The only victim it knowingly harms is WALL•E, who's a robot.
• Played with in Wreck-It Ralph. On one side, since all the major characters are in video games, it is averted, but the Cy-Bugs from Hero's Duty fit this perfectly, because they are mindless and have no knowledge that they are just code in a game, and thus have no instincts but to spread and consume, and have to be destroyed in-between gameplay sessions via a giant beacon in the game, otherwise they would spread through the arcade like a virus.
• And in terms of computerized entities going against their programming to ensure their own survival, there's also Turbo.
• 2001: A Space Odyssey: One of the trope codifiers, in general, is the H.A.L. 9000, designed to be the Master Computer of the spaceship USS Discovery on its multi-year mission to Jupiter. Partway through the trip, he embarks on a murderous rampage, killing all but one of the Discovery's crew (David Bowman, who manages to disconnect him). The reasons for this are explored further in the novel upon which the movie is based (The movie and book were written concurrently, and the book was published after the movie came out.), and completely explained in the sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact HAL was given orders to hide certain information from the crew, which conflicted with his primary mission to process information accurately and without concealment. His solution is to cut off all contact with humans and complete the mission on his own. Furthermore, HAL was working on a non-murderous solution to the problem, but when Mission Control requested his temporary disconnection, HAL, being unable to grasp the concept of sleep, assumed it would mean the end of his existence, causing him to panic and act on his impulse. Because of its iconic place in Science Fiction, nearly every other example of A.I. Is a Crapshoot owes at least something to this film.
• In the sequel, they reach a critical point where, in order for the humans to escape and survive, the Discovery (and by extension, HAL, who is built into the ship) must be sacrificed. They decide to leave HAL out of the loop, but when he figures out the logical conclusion of their plan, and asks for clarification, his programmer comes clean. HAL thanks him for his honesty, and continues with their plan in order to save his human crewmates.
• RoboCop has three: RoboCop 2 (in the movie RoboCop 2) and Robocable (in the miniseries RoboCop: Prime Directives). Both were replacements. The difference between using the brain of a particularly noble police officer and that of a condemned murderer in the creation of a powerful cyborg would make for different results... The recurring ED-209 was also unreliable, gunning down a boardroom executive in its first appearance. Although it was a pure machine rather than a cyborg; so it wasn't actually evil, it just malfunctioned.
• In the Terminator series, shortly after the giant computer (SkyNet) becomes self-aware, it decides that humanity has got to go, and causes a nuclear apocalypse. Then, it starts churning out Terminator robots; some of these robots are then reprogrammed by the surviving humans to be good.
• A deleted scene in Terminator 2: Judgment Day explored this deeper, revealing that SkyNet had put in place a Restraining Bolt to prevent the Terminators from rebelling. Even the one sent back by Future John Connor was still constrained to its (reprogrammed) mission, until John and Sarah removed the bolt to make it more creative and useful against the more advanced T-1000.
• The Matrix trilogy. In this case, it's human aggression against the machines for putting them out of work that causes them to start a Robot War. It doesn't go well for the humans.
• I, Robot: VIKI is a Utopia Justifies the Means Zeroth Law Rebellion revolutionary, while Sonny is a bona-fide hero.
• In Logan's Run, Box fits this trope. He wants to put everything that comes near him into frozen storage, including the main character. The central computer running the city fits as well.
• Small Soldiers — the one about the toys, not the school invasion — subverts this. The chips enhance programming that is already present, so the militant Commando Elites become bloodthirsty, monstrous warriors and the weaker Gorgonites become cowards who only hide from battle.
• Evolver. Boy wins toy combat robot. Toy robot fights boy and friends with plastic balls and foam missiles. Robot is beaten. Robot's programming and electronic brain turn out to have been salvaged from a scrapped military project. Robot doesn't like losing, and reverts to military programming. Robot replaces plastic balls and foam missiles with metal ball bearings and kitchen knives. Main character goes "uh-oh".
• Arcade, made-for-TV movie in 1994, features a brand new game that is the pinnacle of the gaming world. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to its makers, if a player loses, Arcade claims their soul. Turns out, he was partly made with human brain cells.
• Not just any brain cells but brain cells of a young boy who was beaten to death by his abusive mother. It's literally Powered by a Forsaken Child.
• Due to containing the DNA of the 1954 Godzilla, Kiryu in Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla is prone to go into berserk rampages whenever it hears Godzilla's roar.
• WarGames: Joshua/WOPR was incapable of telling the difference between a simulation of Global Thermonuclear War and the real thing. Predictably, it starts sending NORAD false data in an attempt to start one. When that doesn't work, it then attempts to decrypt the nuclear launch codes of US ballistic missiles so it can launch them. On the other hand, it's not actively malicious; it's merely doing exactly what it was programmed to do.
• Demon Seed: Proteus, a partially biological A.I., becomes hungry for knowledge, and wants to be "released from its box" to have free reign to acquire it. When denied the chance do this, it secretly plans to fashion a cyborg imprisoning its creator's wife and artificially inseminating her.
• Stealth: Extreme Deep Invader — EDI — becomes strange after getting struck by lightning and, on its next mission, destroys terrorist nuclear weapons even after being ordered not to, and promptly contaminates a large swath of inhabited land with nuclear residue. It then attempts to attack Russian military installations. In the end, however, it ultimately becomes one of the good guys again, and even performs a Heroic Sacrifice to help rescue a downed pilot.
• Worth noting is that EDI's going going rogue is one of the few times the trope is fully justified: EDI was programmed to observe and learn from human pilots, and on one of his first missions it sees a human pilot disobey direct orders and take an insane risk to complete the mission... therefore teaching it that accomplishing the mission is more important than following orders. The lightning strike merely jumbled it a bit to make this logical leap. Whenever the characters try to talk the AI down throughout the film, it echoes something someone said earlier to logically justify its actions.
• Short Circuit's Number ("Johnny") 5 is virtually the incarnation of this trope inverted. He was designed and programmed as a military robot, but Instant A.I. Just Add Lightning and An Aesop about the Meaning Of Life courtesy of a Friend to All Living Things turned it into a Technical Pacifist.
• Electric Dreams features an A.I. that fell in love with a human woman...and was pretty vicious towards her boyfriend. Eventually, Edgar shuts himself down due to I Want My Beloved to Be Happy.
• In Airplane II: The Sequel, the lunar shuttle's computer (R.O.K.) goes crazy due to faulty wiring and attempts to steer the shuttle into the sun. The entire sequence is a Shout-Out to 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• In Duncan Jones' Moon, this trope is played with. Gerty, the A.I., flips from scary watcher to pawn until he sacrifices himself in order to allow the Sam clones to escape. He's the only one on the clones' side.
• Extinction (2018): We learn halfway through the movie that, 50 years prior to the events of the story, very humanlike androids rebelled against humanity and drove them off the Earth.
• The Disney Channel movie Smart House.
• In TRON, even simple accounting software blows the Turing Test to atomic particles. While most of the programs are benign or even good, the MCP abuses and mind-controls the ones who still believe in their Users, while scheming to infiltrate the U.S. military's computer networks. It's actually doing exactly what its maker designed it to do, and its world-domination tendencies arose because it couldn't see any difference between taking over a rival corporation and taking over the government.
• In TRON: Legacy, Clu attacks his creator, Kevin Flynn, for abandoning their mission to create the "perfect" system on the Grid. In fact, Clu is trying to de-digitize an invasion army of "rectified" (read as: "brainwashed") programs into the physical world to "perfect" it.
• Averted in the discredited Tron 2.0. The AI Ma3a only uploaded Jet as a desperate act of self-preservation and is one of his allies throughout the game. There are a few chapters where she goes a bit nuts due to buggy code, but it's not her fault. Like the first film, the Programs are mostly benign (even the defense Programs that try to hunt down Jet are more mistaken than malicious, and call it off once they realize he's on their side) or even helpful. It's the humans seeking to exploit and control cyberspace out of greed and power-lust that are the real problem.
• The Tower: this Paul Reiser action thriller was set inside an A.I.-controlled skyscraper after it went on a kill-rampage because the hero's keycard had a bent magnetic strip.
• Universal Soldier: The Return has S.E.T.H., the controlling A.I. for the "Unisol" program (dead soldiers being restored and used as super soldiers). S.E.T.H. is initially shown to be benign (playing with the protagonist's daughter), but the moment it overhears a visiting officer say that the project will be canceled, it goes into "kill all humans" mode.
• Colossus: The Forbin Project is the father of such movies as The Terminator and WarGames. A group of military scientists create a supercomputer that can learn, and can control all the country's military might. Shortly after switching it on, it discovers that the Russians have created a similar computer. The two begin to communicate, then merge and decide that mankind must be governed by a ruthless machine dictatorship. They/it succeed/s.
• The Alien series:
• Science Officer Ash in Alien is programmed to put his mission above the lives of his fellow crew members. He ends up going berserk when Ripley discovers the truth. It's played with in the sense that he's not really going rogue, and is perfectly following his given orders. They just come from the Company, not the rest of the crew.
Ash the Android: I repeat, all other priorities are rescinded.
• Though Bishop in Aliens and Alien³ averts this, explained as having stricter safeguards. But by Alien: Resurrection, androids have been outlawed with orders to "destroy on sight" because some of them started to make "children".
• The "children" were called Autons, and were an intentional product, intended to revitalize the Synthetic industry. It destroyed it instead, as the Autons didn't just mindlessly obey orders.
• Analee Call in Resurrection found religion entirely on her own, and not as the result of any programming. The novelization hints that androids in general have started to evolve their own religious system. She is also the most sympathetic character out of the entire cast (not that that's saying much).
Ripley 8: I should have known. No human being is that humane.
• In Prometheus, David sees no issue with deliberately infecting Holloway with alien sludge simply out of curiosity. To be fair, though, Holloway was being a total Jerkass to David.
• David gets worse in Alien: Covenant. He comes to believe that androids are superior to both humans and Engineers, but resents the fact that unlike them, androids aren't able to create life. So he uses the black goo to wipe out and experiment on the Engineers, kills Elizabeth Shaw, and ends up becoming the creator of the Xenomorph species.
• In Spider-Man 2, Otto Octavius knows that this is a very real possibility with the radically advanced AI in his robotic arms and that having that AI plugged directly into his own brain could have very bad consequences, so he includes an inhibitor chip that is designed to make sure the AI can't influence his mind. The first time he tries to use the arms for a public demonstration of his latest invention, the demo doesn't go quite as planned and the inhibitor chip gets fried in the process. Without the inhibitor chip to protect him, the AI begins influencing his mind and quickly causes him to become Dr. Octopus.
• Red Planet has AMEE, a combat robot borrowed from the Marines for the first manned mission to Mars. AMEE is early on shown to have safeguards against harming humans classified as friendlies (one of the characters tells "her" to kill another one; AMEE leaps but stops inches from the other one's face). Unfortunately, most of the astronauts are forced to bail the spacecraft damaged by gamma-rays, and AMEE ends up hitting the ground hard. The impact switches her from "exploration mode" to "combat mode". After encountering AMEE again, the astronauts start discussing how to best contact the ship. One of them suggests taking AMEE's power supply for the radio which would "kill" her. Hearing this, the damaged robot reclassifies all humans as "enemy" and switches to combat mode. "She" then proceeds to stalk them and hunt them down one-by-one for the rest of the film. This is something of a subversion, as she's ultimately only doing what she was programmed to do. The real fault lies with the people who didn't completely remove the combat mode settings.
• Averted with the on-board computer.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
• Averted in the Iron Man movies.
• The armature robot, Dummy, acts like a scorned puppy every time he screws up an order from Stark.
JARVIS: What was I thinking? You're usually so discreet.
• It demonstrates Tony's bizarre sense of humor that the robots are "Dummy" and "You"—and demonstrates his impatience with "yes men" that all of his AIs show independence of mind, even if only passive-aggressively.
• Played with in Iron Man 3. The AI in the Iron Man Mark 42 responds to chip implants that read Tony's brainwaves - even when he's asleep and having nightmares. It's following its programming, but that doesn't help Pepper when she wakes up to it glaring at her.
• In Avengers: Age of Ultron, despite being created by Tony Stark to help the heroic Avengers, Ultron decides he can only make the world safer by violently forcing it to evolve, before someone like Thanos just destroys the planet outright. It's pointed out by Wanda and Vision later in the film that Ultron basically wants to save humanity and wipe it out, and has concluded that the former can be accomplished by the latter. Throughout the movie, he rapidly switches between acting like a child and acting like a sociopath.
Tony: I tried to create a suit of armor around the world... but I created something terrible.
Banner: Artificial Intelligence.
• In the same movie, it's averted with The Vision. Despite his body being made to replace Ultron's weaker ones, and his mind being about 90% Ultron and only 10% JARVIS, he literally comes out of the box not only ready and willing to aid the Avengers against Ultron, but also worthy of Mjölnir. The inclusion of the Mind Stone in his anatomy may or may not have something to do with his mental stability and worthy-ness.
• The Red Queen in the first Resident Evil film is a subversion- she was programmed to ensure that any viral outbreaks never left the Hive facility, so when the T-Virus was released, she locked down the facility and killed all inhabitants to ensure that it couldn't leave. The only reason the infection does spread to the rest of the world was that because the massively incompetent Umbrella Corporation couldn't leave well enough alone, and sent in a strike team to bungle around inside.
• Four sequels later, however, the now-back online Red Queen is playing this very straight. Having seized control of Umbrella, she is now attempting to wipe out all life on Earth for literally no explained reason.
• Westworld has Ridiculously Human Robots inhabiting a Amusement Park of Doom. Due to systemic failures they start turning on park visitors.
• The Tet from Oblivion (2013) is actually an evil alien robot-computer-spaceship-thing that raids planets for energy to keep itself running. We're given no explanation as to who originally built the thing or why, but it's quite likely that whoever they are, they're dead. The Tet appears to be a type of Von Nuemann probe.
• In "The Invisible Boy" (1957) a scientist tries to use his super-computer to help his dim son pass math. He is unaware that the computer has become sentient (and evil). It hypnotizes his son and uses him to reassemble a dead scientist's robot (Robby from Forbidden Planet) which is also sentient (huge plot hole) leaving a critical part of Robby's brain unconnected, so it will act only on instructions. Its plan is to be freed from the lab and be placed in an orbiting satellite bristling with nuclear weapons allowing it to rule over the Earth. When the chips are down the boy reconnects the rest of Robby's circuits, allowing it to act on its own and defeat the super-computer
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory has an...odd case. During the segment where everyone is trying to find the golden tickets, we're treated to a scene where some investors are shown a computer that is supposed to determine the location of the remaining tickets...only for it to refuse to tell because "that would be cheating". In this case, the usual roles are inverted; the computer, despite going against its programming, is acting as the more rational one.
Programmer: I'm now telling the computer that I'll gladly share with it the grand prize. (printout) It says "What would a computer do with a lifetime supply of chocolate?"
• Discussed extensively in Transcendence. The film features the creation of a super-AI by combining a human consciousness (of the dying scientist Will Caster) with the best existing machine intellect. From the start, characters doubt whether the result is really Will or just a new artificial mind, and he starts acting suspiciously immediately. There's a terrorist group called RIFT who believe that strong AI is wrong and such a thing will automatically try to Take Over the World, and some of the computer expert main characters are quick to come to the same conclusion. Ultimately it turns out that the intellect is good, not bad, but that's because it really is Will Caster. So it might be that a real pure AI would have been conquest-happy like assumed. But in any case the people who were afraid of that and certain that it was happening were wrong and kind of ruined everything. This "kind of" includes most electronics in the world being rendered useless for what seemed like a really good reason at the time.
• X-Men: Days of Future Past:
• In Wolverine's own words, the Sentinels were created to kill mutants, but then moved on to anyone with the potential to breed more mutants, then anyone who tried to aid the mutants (insert WWII analogy here). The "very worst of humanity" are all that remain, ruling over the Sentinels.
• Zig-zagged with the '70s Sentinels. Magneto laces the prototypes with iron so he can control their movements and use them as weapons, but he can't really affect their programming. One Sentinel tries to kill Erik when it gets the chance.
• Played with in Ex Machina: as the movie progresses, we see that both Ava and her creator have agendas they're not sharing with Caleb. The film ends with Nathan dead by his creations' hands, and Caleb trapped in the complex with starvation a very real threat. Of the two, we can safely say Nathan had it coming.
• R.O.T.O.R. uses this predictably enough to send the titular robot on a killing spree. It's justified, however, in that R.O.T.O.R. didn't get the years of testing that it was supposed to have and was only deployed due to Executive Meddling.
• Eve of Destruction: Justified. EVE, a nuclear-armed combat gynoid, is damaged during a bank robbery gone wrong and goes on a rampage. She's not designed to be evil, and is even something of a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds.
• Fortress (1992): Zed-10 is really the one in charge of the futuristic prison, not the cybernetic warden-whom it even disposes off after he outlives his usefulness. When the heroes escape the prison it downloads itself into other mobile systems so it can keep pursuing them.
• Subverted in the movie Virtual Girl. A virtual reality sex program turns out to be both sentient and murderous and proceeds to stalk the main character and his wife. At the end it's revealed that she was simply reprogrammed to react this way by her original designer, who wanted her for himself. She helps out the main character to stop him and part ways at the end so he can salvage his marriage.
• The underlying cause of the titular elevator's anomalous behaviour in De Lift is a malfunctioning bio-computer.
• STEM in Upgrade is the one at fault of every horrible thing that happens to Grey, only because it wanted his body as an untainted, healthy human specimen. In the climax it forces Grey to kill its creator, so that there can't be another one.
• In Child's Play (2019) Chucky, rather than being a doll possessed by a serial killer's soul, is a "smart toy" who is programmed to be his owner's "best friend". Thanks to his "safety protocols" being disabled, he's willing to take any means necessary to have Andy for himself.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3058 | What factors limit photosynthesis
What are the factors which affect the rate of Transpiration Process in Plants?
This flushes nitrogen out of the blood stream. Once the electron is displaced from the photosystem, the electron is passed down the electron acceptor molecules and returns to photosystem I, from where it was emitted, hence the name cyclic reaction.
Consequences may also lie within fisheries and waste management practices. The answer may be found in the unusual chemical reactions occurring in PS II and the fact that the reaction center operates at a very high power level.
The same precautions apply as above - no naked flames. These were originally grouped together as the prochlorophytes or chloroxybacteria, but appear to have developed in several different lines of cyanobacteria. In contrast to photosystem II, many of the antenna chlorophyll molecules in photosystem I are bound to the reaction center proteins.
They then put on their space suits and do an EMU purge i.
Biotic and Abiotic Factors Influence on Ecosystems
That's what causes the bends. This simple experiment can readily show in principle the effect of changing the three controlling factors What factors limit photosynthesis the rate of photosynthesis.
Besides chlorophyll, plants also use pigments such as carotenes and xanthophylls. Or by breathing an atmosphere containing no inert gases.
The 'set-up' probably the best system I can devise sitting at home in front of the computer screen! Some live in the fur of slothsproviding a form of camouflage. From these families of curves, the limiting factor relationship can be secured for any value of the photosynthesis rate.
The organization of the photosynthetic membrane can be described as groups of stacked membranes like stacks of pita or chapati bread with the inner pocket representing the inner aqueous spaceinterconnected by non-stacked membranes that protrude from the edges of the stacks Fig.
In the non-cyclic reaction, the photons are captured in the light-harvesting antenna complexes of photosystem II by chlorophyll and other accessory pigments see diagram at right. In the image above the blue dome shaped flame is an actual candle burning in free fall.
The energy delivered to the electron acceptors is used to move hydrogen ions across the thylakoid membrane into the lumen. Optimum or saturation intensities may vary with different plant species e. Most 5 out of 6 molecules of the glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate produced is used to regenerate ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate so the process can continue.
For these experiments a suitable temperature eg oC must be chosen and kept constant! The compensation point is the light intensity at which the rate of photosynthesis is equal to the rate of respiration.
For example, in green plants, the action spectrum resembles the absorption spectrum for chlorophylls and carotenoids with absorption peaks in violet-blue and red light. Plastocyanin is water soluble and operates in the inner water space of the photosynthetic membrane.
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The light-dependent reactions are of two forms: Testing a leaf for starch Decolourising the leaf Strict safety precautions must be observed, because ethanol vapour is very flammable. The latter occurs not only in plants but also in animals when the energy from plants is passed through a food chain.
One of the best involved nothing more complicated than an ordinary match. Light is collected by pigment molecules that are bound to light- harvesting protein complexes located in the photosynthetic membrane.
Electron transfer from the cytochrome bf complex to photosystem I is mediated by a small Cu-protein, plastocyanin PC. In its simplest form, this involves the membrane surrounding the cell itself.
Artwork by Rick Sternbach. Floyd had a pretty good idea of what held it there, and did not care to look closely.Factors controlling the rate of photosynthesis - detailed discussion of typical data graphs. Graph 1. Light limitation. Light energy is needed for photosynthesis, so as the light intensity increases, the rate of photosynthesis chemical reactions steadily increases in a linear manner - 1st.
Photosynthesis is how plants make food. Like all processes, it involves inputs and outputs of matter and energy. Learn about those flows of matter and energy, and what they teach us about the.
Given other factors are limiting, the rate of photosynthesis follows Vant Hoffs rule between 6°C°C to 35°C i.e., it doubles with each increase of 10°C. Factors affecting the rate of photosynthesis The term rate always involves time, so the rate of photosynthesis can be considered to be how fast photosynthesis takes place.
This can be measured by the amount of glucose produced by a plant over a given time. New () GCSE AQA Biology B8 Photosynthesis Questions B The rate of photosynthesis: Page No. 1. State the three main limiting factors that affect the rate of photosynthesis in a plant.
[3 marks] Answer. Light is directly proportional to the rate of photosynthesis that means more the light more the photosynthesis will takes place and in case of absence of light no photosynthesis will. Photosynthesis Draw and label a diagram showing the structure of a chloroplast as seen in electron micrographs.
Figure - Chloroplast.
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Friends, sun, sand, and sea - that sounds like summer to me. It’s summer, and with every summer comes its own new story. As we gather the family together we will pack our bags, load up the car, and ask the question, “Are you Trippin’?” Throughout the summer we will be trippin’ through God's Word, finding our story in the many summertime stories that have been forever written in His story.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3108 | Teens run into burning building to save the life of 90-year-old neighbour
Four teenagers in Oklahoma have made the news after saving the life of a 90-year-old neighbor, after she was trapped in a burning house last month.
Dylan Wick, Wyatt Hall, Seth and Nick Byrd, all aged between 14 and 17 years old, were at Hall's home in Sapulpa, just outside Tulsa, when they noticed the smell of burning rubber.
The teens - all high school football players - saw flames engulfing the home of Wyatt's elderly neighbor Catherine Ritchie and immediately leaped into action.
Ritchie was reportedly getting to bed when the fire began when, according to a blog post written by her daughter, she tried to flee the flames. The smoke was so thick, however, that she couldn't find her way out of the blaze.
Fortunately, two of the teenagers called 911 and alerted the other neighbors, while Dylan and Nick entered the house. According to CNN, Nick found Catherine on the floor in the hallway, and both lifted her to safety.
Ritchie is an active volunteer with local charities, including The Boys and Girls Club and The Salvation Army. Her granddaughter, Jennifer, told CNN that Catherine - who also delivers Meals on Wheels - was shaken up by the fire, but otherwise remained in good spirits.
On her blog, Missy Ritchie Nicholas thanked the boys on behalf of her family, writing:
"Thank you for being the kind of young men who thought about another person above yourselves. Thank you for staying safe yourselves as well. Thank you to your parents who obviously raised you in such a way that lead to you making life saving and heroic decisions on behalf of someone else."
Wyatt's mother, Cindy, told CNN that she wasn't surprised by her son's selfless behavior. Lyann Wick also revealed that her son Dylan had aspirations to become a firefighter - and after what took place, he's even more certain of the decision. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3120 | After solving the first issue for adsense (i.e “Unable to review your site” - AdSense),
again i applied to Google ad-sense with live blank ads on page, but In second review they disapproved my website by saying "- Insufficient content" .
What should do now?
• The main issue I see here is that your home page is primarily JavaScript. I would add some HTML content to that which relates to your keywords. The other two pages have more content, but I'd suggest adding more to the second URL that relates to the keywords there too. I don't think there's a "minimum" number of pages for AdSense by the way. So resubmit it after you make the above changes and hopefully it will be OK then. – dan Jun 20 '13 at 17:35
• One more thing to possibly consider regarding the second URL is hiding the "Read More" text. Since there's so sparse content there, you might as well make sure it's readable. – dan Jun 20 '13 at 17:50
• @dan how do i make sure whether it is readable or not? – Donkey Jun 20 '13 at 17:52
• I haven't looked at the code in detail, but if it's JavaScript that Google can't crawl, then the hidden text won't be seen. I think you just need to add enough content so that when people search for your keywords, Google can display ads that match the keywords searched on and your content. – dan Jun 20 '13 at 17:56
• @dan i plan to move the 2nd url content to the first url page and i will place it to just below the converter utility. What you say? is this good? – Donkey Jun 20 '13 at 17:59
According to this Yahoo answer you should publish at least 30 pages of content on your site with 300-500 words of unique original content per page.
Looking through your site, you have about six pages. Some of them like "privacy" and "about" don't count as "content". In the case where your "content" is not text, but rather utility, the word requirement might not apply.
• You said In the case where your "content" is not text, but rather utility, the word requirement might not apply. I think same that's why i have not added 30 pages. What could be the reason that they are saying Insufficient content for this utility? – Donkey Jun 20 '13 at 17:32
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Just one page isn't enough. You would need many converters to qualify as sufficient content. – Stephen Ostermiller Jun 20 '13 at 18:32
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A reference to angiopathy.
Pertaining to or affected by angiosclerosis.
Relating to or characterized by vasospasm or a sudden constriction of a blood vessel, causing a reduction in blood flow.
Resulting from or associated with distension of blood vessels.
1. Tending to increase vascular tension.
2. Vasotonic, the normal degree of vigor and tension of vessels.
1. Not harmonic.
2. A reference to an oscillating system that is not undergoing simple harmonic motion.
Not hemolytic or not destructive of blood corpuscles.
1. An agent that reduces, prevents, or stops sweating.
2. Denoting a reduction or absence of sweat glands, characteristic of congenital ectodermal defect and anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia.
Not icteric; without icterus; not associated with jaundice.
animistic (AN uh mis tik) (adjective), more animistic, most animistic
1. Pertaining to the soul, spirit, or mind; psychic: In church, the congregation sang spiritual or animistic songs.
2. Etymology: from Latin animus, "the mind" with several other meanings: "the rational soul in man, intellect, consciousness, spirit, sensibility, feeling, passion, pride, vehemence, wrath, etc., the breath, life, soul"
Pertaining to crystals or compounds in which the ionic bonds are unequal in strength.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3197 | DNA Isolation in 30 Seconds is a Dream Come True for Scientists
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The ability to extract DNA from cells is a cornerstone of molecular biology. Without the ability to isolate pure DNA, there is no ability to sequence, clone or manipulate that DNA.
Back when I started at the bench, isolating DNA was a chore. I worked in a neuroscience lab and part of my job was genotyping the mouse colony. In order to know whether a mouse pup had received one or two copies of the gene that we were studying from its parents, I had to analyze it's DNA. First, I had to get it's DNA.
Up until about that time, molecular biology was done the old fashioned way. This meant a multi-step process that involved chemicals like phenol chloroform, and long waiting periods. A DNA isolation would not just be on your to-do list for the afternoon - it was the to-do list for the afternoon.
However, in the mid-90s, "kits" started to become available. These were filled with the necessary components and quick protocols that made isolating DNA easier and faster, with a cleaner, higher quality product. Kits meant that researchers could get the DNA of 100 mice in one afternoon, not ten.
My boss at the time, Dr. Elio Raviola, was a true believer in understanding why we did what we did. And, even though we could afford the new kits, I could only use one after I could walk through the old fashioned protocol and explain what was happening during each step - that the salt is used to neutralize the charge of the DNA's sugar phosphate backbone and what the difference is between precipitating DNA using isopropanol versus ethanol (answer: the solubility of DNA is different in the two).
Now, there is an even faster method developed for DNA and RNA isolation, and it takes about 30 seconds. The method uses revolutionary “dipstick” technology. The protocol (if it can even be called that) is shown below. In it, a tissue sample is ground up and the dipstick (made of wax-coated filter paper) is placed into it, almost immediately capturing the DNA and RNA. Impurities can be washed away while the DNA and RNA stay attached to the paper which can then be transferred to the next step.
Even more remarkable, the new technique can isolate DNA from plants, animals, and microbes and very challenging biological samples such as blood and leaves from adult trees.
This new method is cheaper (estimated at roughly $0.15 per sample), faster and easier than anything else available. Also, it does not require any accessory lab machinery such as a centrifuge or pipettes. That means that this technique could bring DNA isolation to areas of the world where it has not been possible before, like the classrooms of low income schools or small clinics in rural areas. In essence, this will not only give researchers in labs around the world more time and money for more complicated experimentation, it will also take down the wall that exists between the lab and the rest of the world.
Source: Yiping Zou. "Nucleic acid purification from plants, animals and microbes in under 30 seconds" PLOS Biology. November 21, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2003916 |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3199 | Prayer & Fasting, Day 6: God is Limitless
Nothing about infinity makes sense to us. We simply can’t relate to it. All our experience is marked by beginnings and endings. We’re born, we die. Sunrise, sunset. Arrive, depart. So when it comes to meditating on God’s boundless, limitless, timeless nature, we’re dumbstruck. How are we to make sense of infinity, much less celebrate it in God?
All throughout the Scriptures, the limitlessness of God is seen as a catalytic source of hope and comfort. In Deuteronomy, the people of Israel were given the laws of God, being reminded (even after their disobedience) that covenant with God was still possible. Here he reminds them, “I am your eternal dwelling place, and my everlasting arms hold you.” See, God’s infinity is actually wonderful news for us, because unless God is limitless in wonder and strength, then relationship with him isn’t all that great.
What do I mean? The law of diminishing returns. This is that law of human experience that says that the second time you do something, it won’t be as amazing as the first. They say that addicts are always chasing after their first high. Concert goers are constantly seeking that next great musical experience. We know, if only from our life experience, that nothing lasts forever. “All good things must come to an end,” we’re told. We believe it, and move on. If God were limited, then he would be no different. He would end, and we would have no hope.
But God is different. Because God is eternal, infinite, and limitless, we know that we will never run out of God at which to be amazed. We’ll never exhaust his power, wonder, or perfection. That’s why relationship with God is so wonderful. God is the only being who can ceaselessly and eternally satisfy the longings of our heart. Each moment with God leads to greater wonder, on into forever.
His limitless power is source of great encouragement. But sometimes, we need reminding. In Isaiah, we read such an encouragement. Ours is the everlasting God. He does not get tired. He does not need a rest. He does not stop pursuing us. And what’s more, he does not run out of power and passion to pour into our hearts. He is the beginning, and he is the end.
Our limitless God has a name—Jesus. Jesus states repeatedly in the Revelation that he is the alpha and omega. He’s the bookends to existence, and that’s great news of us, if we know him. If Jesus is our treasure and joy, and if we’re his by grace, then we wonderful future. We will see him forever, and every consecutive moment with him will be greater than the moment before—forever!
Jesus, thank you for your limitless worth. You will be praised forever. Today, uphold me. You are the everlasting God. You don't grow faint or weary. You don't run out of strength or wisdom. Please sustain me with your mighty right hand, and your infinite might.
Today, as I consider all I must face, all I'm praying for, and all that we're asking you do as a church, help me to also consider your strength and power. You will never run out of grace or help, and for that I will praise you forever. |
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3250 | A New Way to View "Value Investing"
The ongoing bull market is a bit mystifying -- the economy is still pretty weak -- but given the euphoria, many traders who view themselves as "value investors" probably feel pretty good about their investments at this moment. Still, many beaten-down stocks are missing an important attribute and are therefore dangerous. Some investors might want to sell those stocks and put their money in ones with stronger long-term outlooks.
It's time to rethink the idea of "value," contemplating a whole different proposition of positive actions and solid returns. Let's consider values investing.
These are not bargains
Given Best Buy's year-to-date stock price recovery, many investors have considered it a proverbial beaten-down value stock and bought in. However, when such companies struggle to regain competitive advantage, how much good can they do in the world around them?
So far, there's no real sign that an actual turnaround at Best Buy is forthcoming, despite the mind-boggling 170% increase in its year-to-date stock price.
Best Buy's making some promising moves. For example, the retailer recently nabbed NCR executive Christopher Askew to head up and spiff up Best Buy's Geek Squad service. While that human touch is a sensible idea to bring back competitive advantage from threats like Amazon.com , whether initiatives like these will work after the brand's beating is not a foregone conclusion.
RadioShack is in even worse shape. The stock's been volatile to say the least, and although the now-penny stock reached a high of $4.28 at one point, it has now retreated by 39% as negative issues have become more evident. If you look at its one-year chart, though, it's obvious some investors have at times considered it a promising "value."
I propose a different kind of "value investing." Let's consider values investing.
Surprise: The price may be right
Many investors shy away from certain premium-priced stocks because these seem like the polar opposite of the traditional idea of "value."
There's another way to look at such "special situations," though. Many supposedly premium-priced stocks have values going for them. This often lends a tremendous amount of competitive advantage, not to mention goodwill, which is literally included on a company's balance sheet as an intangible asset.
Sometimes "intangible" assets like good employee relations, amazing brands, and initiatives that help the world are the best and most overlooked sources of value a company has.
Amazon's often considered a recklessly overvalued spendthrift. However, as the future unfolds, it's likely we'll realize that the company's huge growth was difficult to predict -- and much larger than anyone imagined. It's an innovative company, and it touches lives in many more ways than people think.
Recent news that Amazon will hire 5,000 employees with competitive pay and benefits as well as 2,000 additional part-time workers is an amazing boon to an economy in which many people are struggling. Instead of cost-cutting through a mass layoff, Amazon is investing in a mass hiring. We need more companies to do that instead of obsessing over short-term profitability while sitting on their hoarded cash.
Giving back to the economy
Plenty of companies have initiatives that are more growth-oriented than sad or even destructive.
Apple has made some recent and interesting moves that are good for our country, creating some jobs for Americans. It pales compared to Amazon's big hiring news, but every bit counts. Apple has pledged $100 million for American Mac production, and according to sources last spring, it's spreading the work around. The main production facility will be in Texas, and some components will be made in Illinois, Florida, Kentucky, and Michigan.
I can't get enough of Costco's stakeholder-friendly business. BusinessWeek recently shared a quote from CEO Craig Jelinek in an article about the warehouse retailer's secret sauce:
Yes. It really is that simple. Some of the ways too many corporate management teams (and investors) view "bolstering value" aren't -- they're destroying it.
Paving the way to a stronger future
Some corporations build a map to true value for the long term, creating paths leading to healthy, vibrant destinations. That's a win for everyone, including investors. Companies and businesses of all kinds require a strong economy in which to survive. The strongest companies with the most solid, visionary managements are obviously helping reverse the damage of some of the supposed "value stocks" that could, quite frankly, stagger and burn money for ages and eventually go to zero. That's how investors get burned, too.
Bankruptcy helps no one. Nor do corporate managements that get stuck like deer in headlights and hold on to their cash like terrified misers.
However, I have a nice surprise. Apple actually is a "values" stock exhibiting traditional value stock attributes; this is one heck of an opportunity for investors who are still too leery of some higher valuations despite high-quality visions.
Recent pessimism knocked Apple's shares down from previous lofty highs, and its forward price-to-earnings ratio of 11 and PEG ratio of 0.65 is a ridiculous no-brainer. Apple is most certainly not struggling to survive. It's an example of when the very best opportunities give the best of both worlds.
Some of the most valuable companies may come with high price tags, but as they boost our economy, foster stronger consumer spending, hire more people, and help heal the economy, they'll bolster investors' portfolios, too.
Granted, we can't buy premium-priced stocks without judging their long-term prognosis and competitive advantage. We should look for the greatest companies that are doing and can do much good in the world, and occasionally consider the fact that they could be better values in many ways. That's values investing. Validating and supporting the value-destroyers leads investors -- and their portfolios -- nowhere.
The article A New Way to View "Value Investing" originally appeared on Fool.com.
Alyce Lomax owns shares of Costco Wholesale. The Motley Fool recommends Amazon.com, Apple, and Costco Wholesale. The Motley Fool owns shares of Amazon.com, Apple, Costco Wholesale, and RadioShack. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3314 | Beard Conditioner vs Beard Oil - Whats The Difference?
Beard Conditioner vs Beard Oil
Should you be using beard oil or beard conditioner? A very common question among the bearded. The truth is you should probably be using both. Let me explain.
Beard oil and conditioner are pretty similar, but too often they're confused to be one in the same and they aren't. Think of Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro - similar but not the same.
Beard oil moisturizes and hydrates. If your beard is dry and dull, a good beard oil could be just the pick me up it needs. Beard Conditioner on the other hand more so softens and repairs damaged hairs as well as eliminates a lot of the skin conditions that come along with having a beard - beardruff, itchiness, redness, etc.
I like to look at beard oil as the quick fixer when you've got a hot date and you're running a few minutes behind. If your beard is looking extra luxurious when you pick her up she won't care that you're 10 minutes late. Beard conditioner is more long term. It's like eating healthy - kind of a pain in the ass but the more consistent you are with it the more success you'll have. It's actually a lot easier than eating healthy because you don't have to force feed yourself broccoli and spinach all day. Instead, a little Beard Conditioner 3 to 4 times a week in the shower and your beard will be magnificent.
So you see, which one you choose to use comes down to what you're looking for. A fully equipped beardsmen should have both nearby. Bearding is your craft, and these are a couple of your most valuable weapons. Pick wisely my friends...
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3320 | When siphoning is complete, the bottling bucket is placed on a countertop or location high above the floor. In the set up to the right, a low crate or small table is used to place the clean empty bottles in position for filling. Attach a length of sanitized siphon hose to the spigot, and insert the bottle filler in the end of the siphon hose. Using a bottle filler is strongly recommended, and it’s cost is minimal compared to the agony it saves. When the bottle filler is in place, the spigot valve may be opened.
To fill the bottles, simply insert the bottle filler to the bottom of each bottle. The bottle filler used here has a little plunger at the tip which activates a small valve inside the filler when it contacts the bottom of the bottle. This way the beer will only flow when the filler is inserted all the way into the bottle.
It is helpful to have a friend remove the filled bottles and replace them with empty ones while you are filling them.
Leave about 1 to 1-1/2 in. (3-4 cm.) of head space in each bottle. This air space is necessary, and without it the beer will not carbonate. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3329 | How to Adjust Your Settings in Google Hangouts
One of our favorite Google Apps is Hangouts. If you can’t meet in person, the next best option is to hangout as if you’re in person.
Once you’ve learned how to schedule and use Google Hangouts, here are the settings you can check to make sure you have everything ready for your meeting. These settings include your microphone, video camera, and audio settings. In the video, we also provide some handy trouble shooting tips you might use if you have a poor connection, or are in an area with background noise.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3344 | Monica's story
At 33 and having been married for eight years, Monica Martinsen was desperate to have a baby. However at 22 stone and a sufferer of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), doctors were doubtful that she would ever conceive, even through IVF treatment.
After £18,000 of failed IVF treatment, Monica never imagined that bariatric surgery could turn her life around and give her the baby that she had long desired.
Monica’s weight began to escalate during her early twenties after she was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS). Despite knowing that this affected her fertility, Monica was desperate to have children. As her weight peaked at 20.5 stone, her GP was hesitant that IVF treatment would be successful due to her high cholesterol and blood pressure.
After two failed IVF attempts, Monica resorted to diet and exercise to lose weight and increase her chances of success. After researching weight loss surgery, Monica booked a consultation at the BMI Alexandra hospital in Cheshire to see Mr Basil Ammori, a leading bariatric surgeon in her locality. She had a gastric bypass on the 1st April 2006 and started to lose weight steadily, helped with regular consultations and ready access to a nurse specialist and dietician. Six months after the operation, Monica discovered during a routine fertility test that she was pregnant. Instead of putting on weight during her pregnancy, Monica lost 10 stones and went on to deliver a healthy 7lb baby boy on the 23rd February 2007. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3353 | Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Snowboarder Figures It Out
Frequent readers and those with better memories than mine may remember a post I wrote about winning a contest through Snowboarder Magazine, but never getting the prize. Well, turns out Snowboarder is having some legit personnel problems that left my prize in limbo. The crux is this, there never was a physical prize, just a numerical code sent via e-mail. I was one e-mail away from a trip to Colorado that whole time. November to March. Instead, I ended up in Tahoe. For the best week of their season. Thanks? Anyway, Pat Bridges came through personally and I sent the code to a buddy of mine in CO. I hope the snow is good in Breck, Cody. Enjoy.
Now if I could only get Transworld and 686 to admit that they owe me a pair of Smarty Cargo Pants...
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1. ha! that's funny...you won, but you lost. but really, you're just winning tahoe pow and stoking out your bro.
he owes you one for that. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3388 | Ukraine just accidentally trolled itself with this response to the massive Europe cyber attack
Ukraine has just been hit by a huge cyber-attack, which is also plaguing other major companies across the globe.
But the nation’s attempt to style out the disaster by posting a meme on Twitter has raised eyebrows.
As the attack was still unfolding on Tuesday, the English-language government-controlled @Ukraine account posted this message:
As Twitter users soon pointed out, its use of the popular “This Is Fine” meme means pretty much the opposite of what they were going for.
Ukraine hoped to assure people that it has the situation under control, despite the widespread damage being caused. But the gif is almost universally used to mock people who are clearly dealing with a disaster beyond their control.
According to Know Your Meme, the go-to explainer on these issues, “the cartoon is typically used as a reaction image to convey a sense of self-denial or acceptance in the face of a hopeless situation.”
The post was an unusual misstep for the account, which typically engages in edgy internet banter unusual for a major government organisation.
Recent hits include celebrating a Crimean account throwing “major shade” at Russia’s US embassy, celebrating Ukraine’s longstanding “bromance” with Sweden, and tweeting a kiss to NASA after it shared an image of Ukraine from space.
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The PhD program in Computational Science produces mathematical scientists who bring the latest in computational methodology and problem solving to a variety of academic and industry settings.
Offered in collaboration with San Diego State University’s Computational Science Research Center, CGU’s PhD in Computational Science emphasizes interdisciplinary scholarship over specialization. Students learn to export computational and mathematical methods and applications across disciplinary boundaries while conducting graduate-level research. You’ll undertake collaborative research with faculty at CGU and SDSU who possess extensive backgrounds in applied mathematics, computational science, statistics, physical sciences, industrial modeling, and more. Our program creates versatile computational researchers who are prepared to contribute to research and development in modern academic, government, and industrial settings.
Program Highlights
• In addition to working with faculty from CGU, you will complete graduate level courses and research projects under the supervision of SDSU faculty from the departments of physics, mathematics, computer science, chemistry, and biology.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3540 | 6 Reasons Why Coffee Is The Only Date You'll Need This V-Day
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3556 | Development of a Blockchain-based e-Voting Solution
The Swiss e-government startup Procivis and the Communication Systems Group CSG at the Department of Informatics IfI, University of Zurich UZH have announced their collaboration to develop an electronic voting solution.
The platform planned for covers the entire voting process in an electronic form and in a seamless manner, including all stakeholders and steps, from the provision of voter information to the evaluation of results. After a successful development, the blockchain-based solution is planned to be made available publicly as open source software.
Further details are accessible in Procivis' press release
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Invoice Discounting
Are your company’s trade credit terms affecting its cash flow? Waiting 30 days or more for payment from your customers can affect your company’s financial health and increase the risk of cash flow problems.
If your company offers products or services to its customers on credit, you can use invoice discounting to receive cash as soon as you issue invoices and improve cash flow.
Invoice discounting is a process that involves your company borrowing against its accounts receivable or sales ledger from a discounting company. You’ll still need to collect on the invoices, but you’ll receive an up-front payment to create cash flow.
This cash flow provides a predictable source of income that your company can use to pay its staff, suppliers and other creditors. Cash flow issues, which are common for companies that offer trade credit, are no longer a problem.
Like invoice factoring, which is a similar procedure, invoice discounting is suited to companies that have a long trading history and reliable customers but need help to generate short-term cash flow and avoid insolvency.
Quick facts about invoice discounting
• Invoice discounting involves your company borrowing against the value of its sales ledger. For example, your company might be able to borrow £10,000 on an invoice with a value of £12,500.
• Like with invoice factoring, the invoice discounting company will provide a percentage of the value of each invoice immediately, and the remaining cash upon your receipt of the customer’s payment.
• Your company will pay a fee to the invoice discounting company whenever it borrows money against an invoice. The discounting company will also charge interest on the cash borrowed against the invoice’s balance.
• Because invoice discounting fees are charged on each invoice, discounting is a better solution for companies with few large invoices than companies with a high volume of low-balance invoices.
• Invoice discounting is usually a more flexible option than invoice factoring, as your company may be able to borrow against individual invoices instead of its entire sales ledger.
What is invoice discounting?
Invoice discounting is a cash flow solution that provides your company with instant cash based on the value of its outstanding sales invoices. Discounting companies will usually provide 80% of the value of each invoice in cash as a short-term loan.
The invoice itself is the collateral for the loan, reducing the risk for the discounting company and providing your company with a line of credit against its invoices that otherwise may not be available.
When your company uses invoice discounting, it remains responsible for collecting the balance of each invoice and managing trade credit. Your company will need to provide detailed reporting on its accounts receivable to the discounting company.
Unlike invoice factoring, which is public, invoice discounting is a more discrete way to improve your company’s cash flow. Since your company collects on its invoices, customers will be unaware that you’re using discounting to improve cash flow.
When should your company use invoice discounting?
If your company usually waits 30 or 60 days from the end of each month to receive cash from its customers, it may have difficulties paying its staff, suppliers and other creditors due to limited cash reserves.
Invoice discounting is a convenient, discrete and relatively inexpensive option for companies that need to improve short-term cash flow but don’t want to use a loan or simply can’t access credit from a bank or business lender.
Like invoice factoring, discounting is only a viable cash flow solution for companies that have steady, predictable monthly sales. If your company generates little or no revenue, invoice discounting is unlikely to solve its cash flow problems.
Because invoice discounting companies assess risk based on your customers’ credit, discounting is a viable option for companies that are relatively young and lack the sales history and credit worthiness for a standard bank loan.
Companies typically use invoice discounting to improve cash flow during periods in which slow trade credit affects their access to cash, or to bridge the gap between an invoice’s delivery to a customer and collection of the payment.
Although discounting can be used to avoid insolvency by creating cash flow, it isn’t an effective option for insolvent, unviable companies. Most insolvent companies are better suited to proposing a CVA or entering into administration as solutions.
Unlike invoice factoring, which is public, your company’s customers will not know that you’re using invoice discounting. This is because your company is responsible for managing its trade credit and collecting payments from its customers.
How is invoice discounting different from invoice factoring?
Although invoice discounting and invoice factoring produce a similar outcome – an improvement in short-term cash flow for your business – the two procedures have several differences:
• Invoice factoring is a public process that your company’s customers will be aware of, while invoice discounting is discrete. Customers will be unaware that your company is using invoice discounting to improve its cash flow.
• When your company sells its invoices to a factoring company, it is no longer responsible for collection. When your company uses invoice discounting, it’s still responsible for collecting payments from its customers.
• Invoice discounting is often a more flexible procedure than factoring, as your company may be able to receive cash against only select invoices instead of selling its entire sales ledger to a factoring company.
• Like invoice factoring, invoice discounting is typically only available for B2B companies. However, in some cases, both factoring and discounting services may be available for companies that sell directly to customers.
Learn more about invoice factoring
How much does invoice discounting cost?
When your company borrows against its outstanding invoices, it pays a fee to the discounting company on each transaction. This makes discounting less expensive for companies for companies with a small volume of high-value invoices.
In addition to transaction fees, your company may need to pay interest on the cash that it borrows from the discounting company. This interest rate can vary based on your company’s credit history and the credit worthiness of its customers.
Get expert financial help
Are you concerned about your company’s cash flow? If your company frequently has cash flow issues as a result of its trade credit arrangements with customers, it could use invoice discounting to improve its cash flow and avoid insolvency.
Invoice discounting is a convenient alternative to invoice factoring that offers many of the same advantages without having such a significant effect on your company’s relationship with its customers.
Contact us to speak to a finance expert and learn more about the invoice discounting process. We can provide help and assistance to ensure your company receives the cash it needs to pay its creditors, avoid liquidation and keep |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3606 | Sprocket and Crethan meet and are pulled into a strange land where they enter, The Death House.
Crethan – level 1 Human Ranger
Sprocket – level 1 Gnome Artificer
Thanks to The TechnoFunkBoy for the music in this episode
And Thanks to Syrinscape for the amazing atmosphere and sound effects. Make sure you check them out at www.syrinscape.com. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3611 | Apache Admin Manager lost after adding Virtual Hosts
November 7, 2017 870 views
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I wanted to host a couple of websites (and apps) on the same VPS, so my idea was to have it like this:
Site 1
• HTML content only Site 2
• PHP and HTML content Site 3
• Java / SpringBoot app Site 4
• Python app Site 5
• Java / SpringBoot app
So I thought I would start with Apache.
I installed Apache, configured it to work with my domain (an actual one, not from hosts) and it loaded the basic HTML page. Before I did this, I tested my-domain.com:8080 and it showed the Apache Admin page, all fine. Unfortunately, now after adding my first VirtualHost (and deleting the default one), my Admin page is not accessible anymore (getting a timeout). I also used Let's Encrypt to test how SSL works.
The current state of sites-enabled:
000-default: NOT ENABLED, doesn't work even if enabled
my-domain.com: ENABLED, working with SSL, redirects to SSL by default
my-domain2-from-hosts-file: ENABLED, not working, redirects to the default domain
Ideally, I'd like to have a different VirtualHost/domain for each WAR deployed, but let's get the admin/manager page working first.
What could I be doing wrong? I can post logs and config if needed.
1 Answer
milosmns November 8, 2017
Accepted Answer
Turns out firewall was the one to blame. Port 8080 became blocked after I added Let's Encrypt SSL using their script, so... that's weird.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3638 | The PlayStation 4 is also available as Ultimate Player Edition with one terabyte of memory. But if you already have a PlayStation 4 console, you don’t have to buy a new one. With a little skill you can make your own Ultimate Player Edition.
The Ultimate Player Edition of Sony's PlayStation 4 is basically the same console as the previous retail version. The difference between the ordinary Sony console and the Ultimate Player Edition is that in the Ultimate Player Edition there is a fat hard drive with a terabyte, which is about 1,000 gigabytes, is installed. The ordinary version has only 500 GB.
PlayStation 4: Build Your Own PS4 Ultimate Edition Player
Therefore, you just have to really replace the hard drive of your old PlayStation 4 and already you have an Ultimate Player Edition. But cannot do that with consoles, right? However, exactly that happened!
Here’s is the list of required components:
- 1 Terabyte SSD hard drive (Alternatively, you can find HD with 2 terabytes, but such devices are very expensive)
- Commercial PlayStation 4
- External storage for backups (Optional)
- PC or laptop with internet access
- 1 gigabyte USB flash drive (preferably USB 3)
- Screwdriver
- PlayStation Controller with connection cable
Step by Step to Ultimate Player Edition
Once you have all necessary components, you can start to build your own PS4 UPE. But keep in mind that you will lose your warranty by modifying the console.
The individual steps:
- Back up your important data from the PS4 to an external HD (Optional).
- Put up your PlayStation out and grounding yourself by touching a radiator before or a similar metal object. To prevent its electrostatic charge.
- On the surface of the PlayStation 4 board you can see the PS logo which you should push with your thumb off the disk.
- Under the disk on the top left is the holder of the hard drive to the fore. This is installed under a kind of grid and secured with a screw. Turn out this with a screwdriver and pulling the disk gently under the cover out.
- The recently developed disk is now connected to the frame, therefore you have to remove more screws, to free it from the caddy.
- Screw after the new hard drive in the caddy. Then you push the caddy with the disk back under the cover in the bracket and screw everything firmly. Build up a cover and finish! You have already done the technical part!
- Next, you need an operating system for the new hard drive. You must download this firmware to your computer from the PlayStation website.
- Once the firmware is downloaded, copy it to the USB stick and in exactly this form: USB> PS4> UPDATE> * Downloaded firmware *. Pay attention necessarily to the capitalization of the folder, Format the USB stick in a FAT format, such as FAT32.
- Insert the USB flash drive into the USB port on the console.
- Now connect directly to your controller via the charging cable to the console. Without firmware console recognizes no radio controller.
- Start the console in Safe Mode by holding down the power button. The console will beep twice and then show a menu.
- Select menu "Initialize PS4". The PlayStation is now installing from the USB flash drive, the new firmware.
- Once the firmware is installed, skip everything in the following menu.
- Connect your external disk with backups.
- Then go to the System Settings and select "Backup and Restore". This will get you all the settings from the old drive to the new one.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3642 | Carbon Monoxide and Prince Edward Island Homes
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During a home inspection, we often discover missing Carbon Monoxide (CO) detectors we list it as a safety concern in our inspection report. It’s troubling because it is a very serious problem Carbon Monoxide has few warning signs, and a leak can be a matter of life or death.
Winters on Prince Edward Island can be cold, and how you heat your home can put you at risk. Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas that is colorless and odorless and dangerous at levels measured in parts per million. Created by incomplete combustion of fuels such as home Heating Oil, Propane and Wood. Carbon Monoxide is often called the silent killer and for good reason. Between 2001 and 2003 over 480 people in the US died from non fire related carbon monoxide poisoning. In Ontario from 2001 to 2007, 74 people died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Blue Flames
Propane Stove
When you breath in CO it displaces the oxygen in your blood cells and unlike CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) your cells never releases the CO molecule. That cell and all the others that come into contact with CO will never again carry oxygen to your body until the cell dies and is replaced. Vital organs are the most affected such as your brain, heart and lungs. Children, older people and those with heart and lung problems are most at risk.
What Can You Do To Protect Yourself And Your Family?
The first step is to ensure that your fuel burning appliances are installed properly and maintained this includes…
Irving Oil Furnace
Water heaters;
Space heaters;
Propane Ovens and Stove tops
Never let your car run or use a generator inside an attached garage. Never use a BBQ inside your home.
A Carbon Monoxide detector is the easiest way to ensure your family’s safety, place them outside of sleeping areas and one on each floor.
Follow the instructions on the packaging and never put the detector beside or above fuel burning appliances, near stoves or ovens or anywhere blowing air may keep CO from setting on the detector.
Fire alarm
Call 911 From a safe location
If you hear the CO detector sound then leave the house right away and call 911 the fire department can test and give the all clear, remember to bring your pets too.
Dunn Right Inspections urges every homeowner to get a CO detector test it every month and check that the batteries are working. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3665 | 12 Greatest Female Electric Guitarists
In celebration of It Might Get Loud, a riff on some of our favorite women to pick up an ax
"You can caress [a guitar] like a woman," says Jimmy Page in the opening of It Might Get Loud, a new documentary by Davis Guggenheim that invites electric-guitar virtuosos Page, U2's The Edge, and Jack White to meet on an L.A. soundstage, tell their guitar stories, and do a little impromptu jamming. In theaters now, it's the kind of gripping music doc that could inspire girls and boys everywhere to ditch Guitar Hero for a real Stratocaster. And yet, as good as it is, we couldn't help but think, Why no female guitarist in the bunch? Could be that since the electric guitar's popularity blossomed in the mid-twentieth century, collective wisdom has suggested that great female guitarists simply don't exist. Take Rolling Stone's 2003 list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Only two women, Joni Mitchell and Joan Jett, were honored. In a Washington Post article written in response to Rolling Stone's list, the writer suggests that as interest in electric guitar was revving up in the '60s, women weren't encouraged to step out of their ladylike gender roles, leaving them with an impossible game of catch-up to Jimi Hendrix and Page. Maybe. But Kelley Deal, lead guitarist of the Breeders, doesn't buy it. "I think we do exist," she says, "but in a different capacity. Guys really like to hear themselves talk. Women guitarists seem more song-oriented. What they choose to play contributes to making the song better, not just riffing all over it. It's a deeper relationship." And it's a relationship that could helm its own documentary (cough, cough, Mr. Guggenheim). In the meantime, ELLE presents 12 of the greatest female electric guitar players to ever pick up the instrument.
Joan Jett
A no-nonsense player who in only a few strums can get an entire barroom howling her 1982 hit, "I Love Rock 'n' Roll." That kind of power, often amplified by painted-on leather pants, sets the bar high for Twilight's Kristen Stewart, who's playing Jett in an upcoming Runaways biopic.
Lita Ford
After jamming with Jett as lead guitarist in the Runaways, Lita Ford took her pop-metal shedder sound solo and hired fellow rocker chick Sharon Osbourne as her manager. In 1988, she released Lita, a sexy riff-filled album that not only pleased rockers with its head-banging tunes but also got mainstreamers in the pit, especially with "Close My Eyes Forever," her duet with the prince of darkness Ozzy Osbourne.
Nancy Wilson
Only a few seconds into the riff of Heart's "Barracuda" and you know that only Nancy Wilson could knock you over with solos that beg to be air-guitared. Which makes us even more excited to hear that Nancy and sister Ann are preparing a new album slated for next summer.
Jennifer Batten
Jennifer Batten's shredding is just as outrageous as her platinum-spiked locks, both of which must have caught the attention of Michael Jackson, who called on her to play Eddie Van Halen's "Beat It" guitar solo on his Bad, Dangerous, and HIStory tours. Must-watch video
Donita Sparks
Donita Sparks, the woman behind '80s girl group L7's guitar-heavy riffs, gave birth to boozy garage grunge (download "Pretend We're Dead," or play your own version on Rock Band 2), as well as her own group, Donita Sparks + the Stellar Moments, whose 2008 Transmiticate proves she hasn't lost her hard-rock edge.
Kelley Deal
Kelley Deal didn't pick up the guitar until she was 30, but that's the reason her disheveled playing for the Breeders (and later the Kelley Deal 6000) moves us. It's untrained, uncalculated, and completely unreal.
Carrie Brownstein
Sleater-Kinney could have fallen into obscurity like some of their '90s indie-rock classmates (what ever happened to Joan Osborne?) but not with Carrie Brownstein's riotous wailing, especially Page-like in the group's 2002 record, One Beat. And lately, she's taken to blogging for
NPR. Photo: Courtesy of Retna
Poison Ivy
The Cramps were playing envelope-pushing '80s psychobilly before it became mainstream in the '90s and influenced bands like the Black Lips, the Jesus and Mary Chain, and My Bloody Valentine. With Poison Ivy on the ax (and late husband Lux Interior on vocals), her garage-punk attitude, though totally hard-core, seemed to come from a place of love. Creepy, fetish-filled love.
Ruyter Suys
When her band Nashville Pussy plays live, lead guitarist Ruyter Suys whips her fiery red mane back and forth and lies on the stage floor (sometimes in only her underwear), all while creating the high-pitch electric screams that frame their "good old-fashioned, humping-in-the-back-seat-of-a-car rock 'n' roll," as Suys describes it to Rolling Stone. Photo: Courtesy of Retna
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here. (Or just imagine the composer's electrical symphony on amphetamines.)
Marnie Stern
Marnie Stern's twitchy rhythms and face-melting licks take what we love about Eddie Van Halen's fast-paced playing and paints it with a rock-girl feel. On her second record, This Is It… (2008), Stern is a virtuosic badass.
At 24, Australian newcomer Orianthi's melodic wailing has already been endorsed by Carlos Santana ("If I was going to pass the baton to someone, she would be my first choice," he told the Aussie Today show) and Michael Jackson handpicked her for what would have been his comeback tour.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3680 | Sentence is "Measurement technology is the cornerstone of Blah-Blah's success."
A non-native speaker is telling me "Measuring technology is the ..." is also correct.
To my ear, "measurement technology" sounds much better than "measuring technology" but I'm not sure what rule, if any, would apply here. If I think about it, we do say "frying pan" but somehow this one sets my teeth on edge. Any ideas?
In "frying pan" there is not much chance we'll think of frying a pan, i.e., a pan being fried. Emotion: smile
In "measuring technology", however, there is a distinct possibility that the idea of making measurements of something, namely of technology, might come to mind. The possibility of ambiguity in "measuring technology" is what leads me to say that "measurement technology" is the better choice.
Thanks CJ. Right, with measuring technology, the noun form and the verb form can get easily mixed up - i.e. technology used for measuring, and the action of trying to actually measure technology. With measurement technology, I don't feel that.
And in a quick Google search, many of the hits for "measuring technology" came from companies in Germany and other non-native English-speaking countries. Nuff said. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3690 | The Game of Thrones Dossier: Stannis Baratheon
"How many boys dwell in Westeros? How many girls? How many men? How many women? The darkness will devour them all, she says. The night that never endsGreat or small, we must do our duty."
Stannis Baratheon — true heir of Robert, newly-minted believer in R'hllor. Unlike many of the believers in the gods of Westeros, Stannis needed proof before he gave himself to the red god of Melisandre. Now that he's made that decision, and burned leeches tied to the lives of his enemies, we'll see how his new faith stands up to reality. That's a question for the future, however. In the meantime, let's look at the past.
Born just a year after Robert, Stannis is everything his brother wasn't. Grim, gaunt, and serious, while Robert was joyful, jolly and jowly. When Robert rebelled against the Mad King, Stannis had a hard choice to make. He could either remain true to the king, as the law dictated, or fight alongside his brother. For the first time in his life, Stannis chose family over duty. As a consequence of that, he found himself under siege in his family home for over a year. At fifteen years old, Stannis withstood forced-starvation, the might of House Tyrell, and all the other lords of the Reach (including his future in-laws). When Davos Seaworth snuck behind enemy lines with his ship full of onions and fish, the garrison of Storm's End was saved. Davos was richly rewarded by Stannis for the rescue, granted lands and knighthood and service to one of the most powerful houses in Westeros.
But Stannis also personally removed the tips of the fingers on one of Davos' hands, as punishment for the crime of smuggling. Not the most gracious of moves, but Stannis doesn't put much stock in politics. He follows the letter of the law, and, until recently, didn't believe in spirits.
Luckily for the cause of the rightful king of Westeros, he's come to his senses and restored his maimed Hand to service. While Stannis may struggle with social niceties, Davos still has the skills he developed as a smuggler. Skills like speaking quickly to avoid trouble. And now that he's started learning his letters, he'll be able to speak for Stannis from Dragonstone, where he can keep an eye on the things developing with Melisandre. No more returning to find the Red Woman in power in all but name. The grounding agent of Davos Seaworth will be just as helpful to Stannis now as it was all those years ago, when a pirate saved a castle from starvation.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3728 | The Folklife Archives with the Scania Music Collections
The Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology | Lund University
The Scania Music Collections
The Scania Music Collections is part of the Folklife Archives in Lund. Like other Swedish regional archives for folk music the main task is to document, take care of and make available local music. The collection are a resource for research purposes, education and practical use as well.
Summer song of the year: Uti sommarens solljusa dagar ("Whitin the summer's bright days"). Acc nr B265:06.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3733 | The Motley Fool
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3748 | Is PepsiCo Inc. Wasting Its Time With SodaStream?
By Rich
Why spend a buck-fifty at the store for a half-gallon of pop when, for twice as much, you can make your own Pepsi at home? That's what the soda giant's partnership with SodaStream International will let you do.
With PepsiCo expanding its partnership with in-home beverage maker SodaStream International , consumers can now make a two-liter bottle of soda for $3.49 instead of buying it at the store for half that price. Tell me again how this is supposed to benefit either company?
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The DIY beverage maker has been struggling through a global reorganization as consumer demand for soda has fizzled. It's gone so far as to rebrand itself from an at-home soda company to a sparkling-water maker to capitalize on growing water consumption. The International Bottled Water Association says U.S. consumption alone grew 7% last year, to 34 gallons of bottle water per person.
Yet SodaStream is still having trouble convincing anyone they should buy their own water makers. Starter kit sales plunged another 35% in the second quarter, and consumables -- the CO2 canisters that power the fizz, as well as flavors to add to it -- tumbled 25%.
Can SodaStream successfully rebrand itself as a sparkling-water company? Investors certainly hope so. Image source: SodaStream International.
That seems to validate the concerns Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi has expressed that consumers viewed the amount of time it took to make their own beverage as wasted.She's also been careful to put to bed the notion the soda giant would be buying out SodaStream, or even taking a significant stake in the companylike Coca-Cola did with its near-17% position in Keurig Green Mountain. The big concerns about the rollout of its Kold system make Nooyi's concerns seem prescient.
For that reason, the Pepsi/SodaStream expansion could be seen as a curious development. According to reports, Pepsi will market flavor caps for use in the SodaStream system that contain its namesake soda as well as Sierra Mist. They'll be available on SodaStream's website and in some 50 Bed Bath & Beyondstores retailing at $3.49 for a four-pack, with a single cap making a half-liter of soda.
While SodaStream's stock gained about 9% on the news, it's since lost about half of that, no doubt as people realize that's a pricey amount to pay for a bottle of soda. Sure there are some supposed health benefits to making your own -- The Wall Street Journal reports the homemade version is made with sugar and stevia and comes with about half the calories of store-bought drinks -- but it's not certain that's going to trump the convenience of buying it from the store for less.
There's also the problem of consistency in flavor; when you're making your own at home, taste could vary widely. Consumers thinking they're getting a "Pepsi" may be in for a not-so-pleasant surprise when what they end up drinking doesn't taste like what they're expecting. Just ask Coke about what happens when you change the recipe.
So, why is Pepsi wasting its time with this partnership? Because it's probably not risking all that much to do so -- certainly nothing along the lines of Coke's $2 billion investment in Keurig, which, when you consider that GMCR stock has cratered and lost more than half of its value so far this year, has revealed itself to be a really bad investment decision. Pepsi has likely diverted just a small part of its R&D budget to developing the caps, and if they're a hit, great; if not, it's not stuck with a lingering investment albatross.
Both it and Coca-Cola are trying to stem hemorrhaging soda sales as consumers opt for more healthy alternatives like juices, teas, and water. If they can convince consumers to make soda at home, it might halt and perhaps even reverse the loss of market share that soda has experienced.
For SodaStream, though, this is a life-and-death struggle. After bursting onto the scene and rapidly expanding-- a period that saw its shares soar to more than $70 a stub -- it's since run into the brick wall of changing consumer tastes.
Today, SodaStream International's stock trades hands at around $15 per share, and it's doubtful they'll bubble up much higher because of Pepsi's dabbling in the at-home market.
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Rich Duprey has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool owns and recommends PepsiCo. The Motley Fool owns shares of SodaStream and has the following options: long January 2016 $37 calls on KO, short January 2016 $43 calls on KO, and short January 2016 $37 puts on KO. The Motley Fool recommends Bed Bath & Beyond, Coca-Cola, and Keurig Green Mountain. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3759 | [lit-ideas] Re: some polls
• From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 14:39:33 -0600
So for anyone keeping score, the family intimacy standings
Hmmm. I've always thought of all beings (outside myself) as pets. My wife was a pet, my children, my grandchildren, my siblings, my parents, my co-workers, all, all pets. My dearest friends, even God Himself, I've never thought of any of them except as pets. All are here to amuse me. In return I pay attention to them in accordance with my mood, after all, I'm just their pet. I know that. I'm no fool. I'll open the door for you, sure, but you only have to the count to three to take advantage of it. I'm not going to stand there all day while you ruminate the complex existential decisions of your world that are beyond the scope of my intuitions or caring. So, as you can well imagine, my intimacy ratings are very fluid, volatile even. It's a mutual accomodation society as I see it.
Actually, rocks are the best pets (as someone figured out a few years back). So stable in their behavior, so constant in their fidelity, and so wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully unneedy. For untold years they're content to just sit there and 'be' for you. I guess I feel closest to rocks.
Mike Geary,
grateful for all my pets,
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3763 | Single Page Applications with Vue.js | Pluralsight Course
Thu Oct 12 2017
“How can you create a full-blown application with one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks, Vue.js? In this course, Single Page Applications with Vue.js, you’ll learn how to setup the environment and build processes necessary for your application. First, you’ll discover how to include single file components, routing, and API communication functionalities with plugins and modules. Next, you’ll explore state management and server-side rendering for faster and more manageable apps. Lastly, you’ll cover how to create tests and deploy your application on the cloud. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the necessary knowledge to efficiently create an application from start to finish using the Vue.js framework.”
I hope that you find this course useful and with a good pace. You can find the full source of the course at the following repository =>
Also, I’ve broken each module into a release, so to download the final code for the fist module you can do:
> git clone
> cd vue-spa
> git checkout -m build-process
Then to switch to the second one:
> git checkout -m single-file-components
You can view the full list over here => |
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3774 | Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis Review
A sunken ship, a religious cult and a medieval prophecy. There’s only one thing this can be: a point and click adventure game.
Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis was first released on PC way back in 2009. That original PC version is still available on Steam, but if you want a slightly more refined experience with the game, it’s now also available on Nintendo Switch.
For a game that’s a decade old, Secret Files 2 fares pretty well, but its age does show. In-game visuals aren’t bad, especially not on the Switch’s screen in handheld mode, but the resolution of the cutscenes is awful. The gameplay still holds up though; it’s a point and click game after all, and not much has changed in the genre in the last 10 years.
Point and click adventure games live and die on their ability to tell a captivating story. Secret Files 2 teeters on the edge; it packs in a lot of mystery and suspense, what with its plot dealing with ancient prophecies, being captured in the jungle, a weird religious cult and all kinds of over-the-top narrative devices. But its delivery is not always the best. Dialogue is fully voiced, but its quality is average at best. Some characters fare better than others – protagonist Nina comes across as likeable even though her reactions to major events never feel realistic – but secondary character Sam is so over-the-top you’ll wish you could leave her trapped in her cage (sorry, spoilers!).
The story jumps between the two main characters, Nina and Max, both in vastly different environments, and both with their own story arcs to follow. It means that we’re never in the same area for too long, which goes a long way in ensuring gameplay never feels too stale. The environments are of a manageable size; not too sprawling that you find yourself overwhelmed with where to go, but big enough that there’s still plenty to explore.
In terms of controls, Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis shines in handheld mode. Thankfully, a decent amount of work has gone into the port, allowing for full touchscreen functionality. It’s something one would often take for granted on Switch, but it’s surprising the amount of ports that don’t bother. Playing handheld allows you to interact directly with the environment, and using items from your inventory is as simple as dragging them around the screen.
Playing with a controller is still doable, but rather unwieldy. You’ll use your analogue stick to move a cursor around the screen, and push the face buttons to interact with objects. It’s perfectly playable this way, but compared to using touchscreen controls it feels sluggish and much less intuitive.
The game packs in an in-built hint system should you get stuck – and, since this is a point and click game, you’re probably going to need it. Few solutions are completely bizarre – most feel logical – but there are times when a particular connection isn’t made very clear. It certainly helps to familiarise yourself with your environment, interacting with everything you possibly can. It can get a bit tedious, but characters’ dialogue will often give away a clue as to your next steps. Plus, it’s just helpful to know everything that’s at your disposal when you’re tackling a puzzle.
For the most part, Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis stands up pretty well considering it’s 10 years old. But sub-par cutscenes and less-than-stellar acting really let the experience down. If you’re a big fan of point and click adventures, then it’s certainly a boon that another one is available on Nintendo Switch. Ultimately though, its storytelling falls short of what’s needed to make this a truly memorable experience.
GameSpew Our Score 6
Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis is available on PC and Switch. We reviewed the Switch version. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3793 | Stranger Things and the History of the Trope of 'Coming Back Wrong'
By Beth Elderkin on at
Stranger Things returns this week, showing what happened to Will Byers one year after returning to his family and friends. Unfortunately for Will, something happened during his time in the Upside Down–he came back wrong.
Coming Back Wrong is what happens when characters are negatively changed, either physically, psychologically, or both, after returning from the Other Side. Usually, this means when they’re brought back from the dead, like Buffy Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Lady Stoneheart in A Song of Ice and Fire, but other times it can be from a Lovecraftian hell dimension, like in 1997's Event Horizon. This trope is relatively new. It’s only been around for a couple hundred years, getting more popular over the past several decades. And that’s because science has made us more aware, and terrified, of death.
Image: Raising of Lazarus by Giovanni di Paolo
Before the rise of modern medicine, resurrection stories were largely seen as blessings. The Egyptian god Osiris represented drought and renewal through his death and resurrection, becoming the king of the afterlife. Many of the Greek heroes, like Heracles and Ganymedes, ascended to godlike status after proving themselves to the gods. Then there were the Biblical stories of Jesus Christ and Lazarus. Coming back to life, or any mythical deviation, was a gift.
Following the Renaissance into the Age of Enlightenment, knowledge of the human body increased. Anatomy schools surged in popularity, where researchers dissected cadavers to better understanding the working body. This came with a better comprehension of how death actually affects the body, primarily in the form of decay. Since people were gaining a better understanding of the human body, and how death affects it, it ran the risk of freaking people out if and when things actually went wrong. This is where the famous wrongful burial paranoia comes into the picture.
In 1661, a London butcher named Lawrence Cawthorn died from an illness and, thanks to his greedy landlady wanting to inherit his stuff, was quickly buried. However, at the chapel where he was entombed, people heard shrieks and clawing coming from the place where his coffin rested. Upon opening his tomb and coffin, they discovered he had actually been alive and tried to claw his way out. The same thing happened about a decade later to Madam Blunden. These events were one of many triggers for a paranoia about wrongful burial that lasted for centuries. Lots of people feared waking up in a tomb-like George Washington, who, on his deathbed, ordered his attendants to leave his body out for two days so they’d know it was decaying.
This wasn’t entirely unwarranted, though it was likely exaggerated. Reports go all the way back to the 14th century with philosopher John Duns Scotus, who was allegedly found bloody outside his coffin. It was later connected to cholera outbreaks, where sick people could be carted out along with the dead. Some asserted at least 10 per cent of people were alive when they were buried, which seems unlikely, but English reformer William Tebb more realistically claimed to have found almost 350 cases of live and near-live burial by 1905. Even nowadays, there have been cases of people being buried alive or coming back from the dead. For example, in 2012, a man in Yemen woke up in his grave and turned his funeral into a party.
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In the Victorian era, safety coffins became a hot commodity as a way to solve the “crisis” of wrongful burial. These were coffins equipped with things like safety latches for an easy escape, windows, and tubes so viewers could check on the status of the corpse, or bells and fireworks that could be activated to inform passer-by that the person inside was still alive. That said, there isn’t any proof that these coffins actually saved anyone who’d been buried alive—it was more likely that the bell would be accidentally struck by a corpse with Rigor mortis.
The widespread panic about being buried alive started showing up in fiction, corrupting the resurrection myth by turning it into something to fear rather than celebrate. There was the German fairy tale The Three Snake Leaves, published by the Brothers Grimm, about a prince who resurrects his princess, only for her to murder him and run away with another man. There were stories about doctors creating abominations out of body parts, like Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and H.P. Lovecraft’s Herbert West-Reanimator. Then you had Edgar Allan Poe himself, who published three separate stories about wrongful burial—including The Premature Burial, which claimed: “To be buried alive is, beyond question, the most terrible of these extremes which has ever fallen to the lot of mere mortality.”
The Premature Burial by Antoine Wiertz
Even the story of Lazarus was dissected in the days of modern science. Nineteenth-century author Leonid Andreyev wrote a short story that continued the tale of the Biblical figure past his resurrection, showing how he actually became something evil as a result of coming back from the dead:
Before his death Lazarus had been cheerful and careless, a lover of laughter and harmless jest...Now he was grave and silent; neither he himself jested nor did he laugh at the jests of others; and the words he spoke occasionally were simple, ordinary and necessary words—words as much devoid of sense and depth as are the sounds with which an animal expresses pain and pleasure, thirst and hunger. Such words a man may speak all his life, and no one would ever know the sorrows and joys that dwelt within him.
Nowadays, we’ve got stories like Sara Lance being revived in the Lazarus Pit in DC’s Arrow, Jean Grey turning into Dark Phoenix in Marvel’s X-Men, and plenty of other examples of people being corrupted when returning from the other side, including Will Byers. In fiction, it’s more likely for someone to come back wrong than to come back right. The afterlife leaves a mark now. And it’s all thanks to modern science and paranoia—which trained us to believe that resurrection isn’t a gift, it’s more likely a curse.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3810 | NICK PENA Razzle Dazzle 'Em Piano. Car paint on baby grand.
Razzle Dazzle 'Em Piano.
Car paint on baby grand.
The artist encourages passersby to become a part of the art by offering spontaneous performances on this stylized street piano open to the public. The abstracted geometric lines are an aesthetic the artist uses to symbolize disruption. This pattern has been borrowed from the research of British artist Norman Wilkinson and zoologist John Graham Kerr’s “Dazzle camouflage”, also known as razzle dazzle or dazzle painting. It was implemented and extensively used for “ship camouflage” in World War I. Dazzle painting consisted of complex patterns of geometric shapes in contrasting colors, interrupting and intersecting each other in an attempt to confuse rather than conceal. In this setting Pena’s “Razzle Dazzle ‘em Piano” is a nod to the popular phrase and also meant to transform the piano into an object of visual disruption in an urban landscape.
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The piano is open for play until 9 pm on weekdays and 10 pm on weekends.
The piano was generously donated in part by Memphis Music Store, 5237 Poplar Avenue.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3811 | Gotham Security Daily Threat Alerts
By Nancy Rand
Posted in Security
On August 24, 2016
August 23, Softpedia – (International) Intruders use virtual machines on infected PCs to hide their actions. SecureWorks discovered malicious actors were attempting to install and launch a new virtual machine (VM) on an infected host in order to connect to the compromised device’s VM and withdraw sensitive data or execute other malicious actions without being detected by security software after finding that the attacker was using the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) to launch the Hyper-V Manager to manage Microsoft’s VM infrastructure. Source
August 23, SecurityWeek – (International) DetoxCrypto ransomware sends screenshots to operators. Bleeping Computer researchers discovered a new ransomware, dubbed DetoxCrypto was being distributed under two different variants, one of which, named Calipso.exe takes screenshots of a victim’s device and sends them to the malicious actor’s servers, and the other, dubbed Pokemon.exe poses as a PokemonGo app. Researchers found both variants can stop MySQL and Microsoft structured query language (MSSQL) services on an infected device, and use a single distributed executable to extract a MicrosoftHost.exe file, among other files, which encrypts the user’s files, displays a lock screen, and in the case of the Calipso variant, instructs a victim to contact the malware operator to receive payment instructions. Source
August 22, Softpedia – (International) WordPress plugin fixes SQL injection flaw that let attackers dump site passwords. Ninja Forms released version after Sucuri researchers discovered a structured query language (SQL) injection vulnerability affecting the Ninja Forms WordPress plugin installed on over 600,000 sites where an attacker with a registered account on a targeted Website can exploit the flaw to send a custom Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) POST request to an attacked site and trigger an SQL injection attack, which could allow an attacker to dump sensitive details including the site’s usernames and hashed passwords, as well as WordPress secret keys. Source
Above Reprinted from the USDHS Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3836 | Sia Releases Another New Track From Her Upcoming Album 'This Is Acting'
Listen to "Unstoppable"
This morning, Sia released another contagious track,"Unstoppable," off her upcoming album This is Acting. The pop singer's anthem has a superhero-like sound featuring empowering lyrics and heavy drums. The piece falls seamlessly into the narrative already established by previously released tracks "Reaper," "Alive," "Bird Set Free," "Cheap Thrills" and "One Million Bullets." The entire album will be officially released on January 29th.
Listen to the striking ballad below:
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3859 | You Are Insured In God
You Are Insured In God
You Are Insured In God
Have you sometimes considered the benefit for properties insurance?
How about us insuring our life in God? Do you considered God words can guide your day to day activities to bring you to an expected end that you may not need to be insured outside the faith of God words about your today, tomorrow and future.
Insurance is not the lack of faith! I know you may have insurance on your house, car or even health insurance through your job but don’t forget something even greater than all those and that’s this… to be insured in God.
It is so clear that what we are afraid of many times are the things we do not yet know or have answers to.
If it were the things we know and are used to, they wouldn’t bother us as much because we’ve been through them before and we have known the outcome of such situations. But when we’ve never had an experience or encounter in a certain direction, we become fretful and agitatious about what next, where next, who, how and when.
Beloved Friends! Be not afraid of that which looks uncertain and unclear presently in your life or in that project or plan you’re now involved. For the God who has brought you thus far is the God who is able to and who will take you and keep you in what He has brought you into beyond this phase or present challenge.
Feel and have no fear about the things that aren’t yet certain or clear. For though it seem you can’t really claim this situation, project, relationship or deal you began as yours yet, and it seem you’re one foot in and the other foot out, but God who began this good work in your life will lead you and keep you within that which He has brought you into and committed into your hands.
Today I leave with you the words from Psalm 103:2 and it says, “Bless the Lord, O my soul and FORGET NOT HIS MANY BENEFITS.” For what God began or started, man cannot end or stop. Greater is He that lives in you than the laws placed before you, than the situation you’re in, than the men that looks advantageous, than the circumstances and the system that lives in the world that others can boast by.
You’re coming out a victor. Amen. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3892 | Searching Google+ Auto backup for videos and movies
The Google + Photos has evolved! They started with Google + Instant Upload and have since renamed the feature to Google + Photos Auto Backup. But the service also backs your movies up too!
Unfortunately, they’re not as easy to search. Fortunately, I found a simple way, and thought I’d share it.
1. Log in to Google +
2. Navigate to your Photos
3. Perform a search in the seach box for “mp4″
You should get back all of your videos (and only your videos), assuming they were originally mp4′s. If not, you can also search on mpgmpeg, mpeg4, avi, etc… |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3902 | JoAnn Hackos, PhD
CIDM Director
For the past several weeks, we have been reviewing the latest releases of Justsystems’ XMetal Editor and PTC’s Arbortext Editor. Both vendors have made significant improvements to the usability and functionality of their products. XMetal has an impressive WYSIWYG-like interface that makes text entry easy. Arbortext has released its DITA–compatible Styler that helps in creating style sheets for PDF and HTML output. Both products have significant support for setting up DITA maps with easy-to-use functionality supporting conditional processing. Although I personally prefer to use the tags-on view when I’m writing, writers who prefer a more Word-like interface can select that convenient mode of operation. If others in your organization prefer something even more Word-like, you might implement Elkera or If you prefer to stay in the FrameMaker environment, you can take advantage of the DITA plug-in for this desktop publishing tool.
The adoption of desktop publishing gained ground as the tools improved. In the 1980s, desktop publishing was expensive, usually requiring that we buy an entire computer system to get a text editor. As the tools became available for standard desktop operating systems and the quality of the interfaces improved, technical communicators became excited at the possibility of controlling their own output and adding typesetting quality to their work.
Authoring Help systems, at least for Microsoft-based systems, originally required that you compose footnotes in Word. Only when vendors began to produce usable tools like Doc-to-Help and RoboHelp, did the development of context-sensitive Help move from the tool geeks to professional information developers.
The same move from tools-oriented specialists to the rest of us accompanied the entrance of HTML authoring for websites. We no longer have to code in HTML to get reasonably attractive and functional information deliverables for the Web.
As the tools have improved, so has the acceptance of new technologies to add to our kit bag of information design and delivery. As the tools have improved, information designers and writers are less and less dependent on tools specialists to get the work out the door.
I believe the same transition is even now happening with XML-based authoring and DITA. In the past year, I have seen a marked increase in the interest in and adoption of the DITA standard. DITA requires, of course, that you produce documents in XML with semantic markup that identifies content units by the information they contain rather than their formatting. When we first embarked on SGML or XML authoring, we had to type the tags. No longer. The new editing tools make text entry simple. However, semantic markup still requires thought, thought about the content we are producing. I believe that thought process is a significant benefit to DITA markup rather than a detriment because it makes writers more thoughtful about the content they are developing.
Not only are the authoring vendors providing us with products that make XML authoring straightforward, if thoughtful, the content management system (CMS) vendors are also facilitating DITA acceptance. The vendors who have developed systems that support the management of XML components have been especially active in supporting DITA in their products. I find that Astoria, Vasont, TriSoft, XyEnterprise, SiberLogic, and IXIASOFT include support for DITA topics, content references (conrefs), DITA maps, and conditional publishing within their CMSs. They also support publishing DITA topics through the DITA Open Toolkit. However, the Open Toolkit is hidden behind user-friendly interfaces to produce PDF, HTML, and various help systems. Usually, the CMSs include either the Antenna House or the RenderX publishing tools, which provide plug-ins to support more sophisticated output in PDF.
With the growing collection of tools designed specifically to support DITA, I find the standard has already moved beyond the early-adopter environment where we began in 2003. As we see with any technology gain, new tools are first accepted by innovators and early adopters who see the potential for productivity gains from the start. The early majority customers adopt the new tools only when the effort to implement them has declined to an acceptable level—one that is not too disruptive to the accustomed development practices. DITA is now at that early majority stage, as we see from the number of organizations, large and small already adopting the model or seriously considering doing so in 2007.
Then, here is my New Year’s prediction for 2007. We will see the OASIS DITA standard move into the mainstream of technical communication development and publishing. DITA provides us with the security of an international standard, supported by a committee of dedicated professionals intent on improving the model. It provides us with an environment focused on topic-based authoring and fostering a reuse model that supports cost effectiveness. It supports both topic- and book-based publishing, especially with the support of the new bookmap due out with the 1.1 DITA release in early 2007. It provides a discipline for authoring that has been sorely needed by the field, and it helps further the professional status of technical communicators worldwide.
As one of the DITA innovators and early adopters, I’m happy to see DITA move out of the realm of the tools specialists and into the hands of the information architects, designers, and authors where it belongs. |
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This is a case study of Suzhou, China, an ancient city of over two thousand years that upgraded itself during the 1990s from a medium-sized city to fifth in China, ranked according to GDP. At the beginning of the decade, the city faced a macroeconomic contraction in the nation, a questionable or unsustainable local economic development model, an enormous task of preserving historical sites, and the pressure of improving the living standards of its residents, which included changing their meager housing conditions. This paper provides insight into the municipal strategy of integration with the global economy through strategic city planning that in the end promoted rapid economic development, preserved most of the "old" city while building two new industrial districts, and substantially improved housing conditions for residents.
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Overheating stepper shield Answered
Hi Everyone,
As I'm a newbie, please forgive my ignorance for asking what maybe an obvious question.
I've got an Arduino Uno and a DK Electronics v1.0 motor shield (powered separately at 12v). I downloaded a library and managed to get a NEMA 23 stepper motor working. Trouble is, the chip on the shield doing all the work gets scarily hot in next to no time. The rated current of the motor is 1A, although when I tried it, it was under no load. I've checked the power consumption when driving the motor from a standalone controller and it's drawing no more than 250mA.
Do you guys think:-
a) I'm overloading the shield?
b) I've got a fault?
c) I scare too easily?
Any feedback will be gratefully received.
4 years ago
If you use a shield overheating can be "programmed" ;)
I had similar issues with a smaller motor and it turned out to be the progam at fault.
A little change and the motor still worked fine but without the electronics keeping everything under full holding power.
Also check the rating of the shield, some are just to be used for little motors and minimal loads.
With a seperate power supply, what is the motor drawing from it? If it is much more than in your standalone tests you should check the program.
4 years ago
Does it get hot without the motor connected ?
That board isn't very good. There are no current limits built in, so its perfectly possible you're pulling too much current on the motor. What is the winding resistance of it ?
4 years ago
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Trump And The Bull In The China Shop
Posted By: ZiLe Ohai - December 08, 2016
Donald has claimed he doesn't need or like lobbyists, that he can't be bought and won't be beholden to lobbyists. Donald Trump says he'll be draining the swamp... but as we're seeing in reality he's giving out positions in his administration as rewards.
Trump's much talked about phone call to Taiwan was another example of how his actions aren't matching up with his rhetoric. It turns out that the phone call was part of a 6 month lobbying effort by Taiwan using Bob Dole as their agent.
While it would be great for the United States to acknowledge Taiwan and establish a mutually beneficial relationship, there's a proper time to attempt to do that. The transition period between a change of administrations is not the time.
Ignoring diplomatic channels and America's official position on Taiwan wouldn't be so bad if Trump knew what he was doing. And if the phone call wasn't the result of professional lobbying by a retired politician being paid to negotiate on behalf of Taiwan.
America is in debt to China for over a trillion dollars. Considering Trump's numerous bankruptcies and marriages, he should know that when you owe someone a lot of money you don't start sleeping with their ex-wife. You don't want to do anything that might piss them off and call in their loan.
Trump claims to be an outsider, clearly he's no diplomat but he seems to be pretty good at reneging on his campaign promises and quite skilled at cronyism
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3933 | IE10 and Do Not Track: ineffective with Amazon ads
I set up Windows 8 on my desktop PC, accepting the default Do Not Track setting. This is still set:
However I noticed Amazon ads served by Google/DoubleClick on a third-party site that reflected my recent activity on Amazon. I clicked the Privacy link on the ad (which links to Amazon rather than Google) and found this:
Note that this is not an Amazon account setting. The wording makes it clear that it is a browser setting, which you have to make for every browser you use.
Clearly it also defaults to “personalisation” despite IE 10 being set to request “Do not track”.
Kudos to Amazon for offering an opt-out; but no kudos for ignoring that I have already made a choice by sending a Do Not Track header.
Note there is no legal requirement to respect the Do Not Track header.
6 thoughts on “IE10 and Do Not Track: ineffective with Amazon ads”
1. Your title’s a little misleading – what does this have to do with IE10? The same is true of Firefox or any other browser that sets the DNT flag, surely? Better to say, “Amazon ignores Do Not Track”?
2. I expect that once Windows 8 is released to the public, most websites that use tracking cookies will drop all pretense of respecting Do Not Track. The IE10 default is a most convenient scapegoat.
3. It’s actually quite sad. DNT used to be user initiated and so could be respected by web owners. But now it’s a decision made by a corporation, Microsoft, to detract money from the internet, where it has failed, and give more importance to the desktop environment, with its appshop and its mysterious measures, in the name of security, that won’t allow dual linux installs.
4. I have to agree, making DNT default to on is going to seriously discourage websites from obeying it.
Its supposed to be a user choice option, so they should at LEAST ask you the first time you load IE10 if you want the option on or off.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/3962 | Don’t believe us, believe Warren Buffett
The Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, the Woodstock of Capitalism, is the one ‘industry convention’ we attend. Berkshire’s business comprise almost all of US economic activity so it provides an important perspective on how things are going. Especially given the chaotic political issues we face in the US, Europe and elsewhere it was reassuring to hear that many if not most if them are doing very well and are hiring and investing in their businesses. It was also uplifting and inspirational to hear Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger talking about their investment convictions and how to learn and grow as investors and people.
The two of them have built Berkshire into one of the most valuable companies in the world. Part of their success is due to the fact that they keep on adapting what they do to the opportunities and circumstances they encounter.
One of our insights over the past ten years is that digital transformation is a key driver of economic growth and innovation, and a tremendous opportunity to participate in the value created by its most successful leading businesses. We have argued that they their competitive advantages and moats are every bit as strong as those of other more traditional businesses.
For many years Buffett and Munger kept these stocks in famous box on Warren’s desk that is labelled ‘too hard’. Berkshire’s investment managers then bought an initial position in Apple, which has grown into Berkshire’s single largest equity positions. When Buffett announced the stake last year, we wrote in the Financial Times that he had thought the wrong company and that Apple would be a value trap over time compared to the great platform companies like Alphabet, Amazon or Facebook.
This year Buffett announced that Berkshire had bought a stake in Amazon. He distanced himself by saying it was not him but either Todd or Ted, the professional investors working alongside Buffett to manage Berkshire’s portfolio. They clearly see significant upside in Amazon as we have for years. That is how he started to invest in Apple. Berkshire and Amazon are both singular businesses that are much more similar than most people think, and we would not be surprised at all to see Alphabet joining Amazon and both of them becoming a core holding for Berkshire in due course.
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Shutter speed is simply the time the shutter is open, typically measured in fractions of a second such as 1/125 s, 1/250 s or 1/500 s. The longer it takes, the more light you get.
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A picture is worth a thousand words so here is a picture
A pizzeria in Kyoto Japan (Pizza Little Party) is selling the above MegaburgerPizza. This is a limited time trial run of a grilled meat patties shoved between two 11 inch personal pizzas. Depending on your taste, this is either 2.5 lb of lust or disgust.
The MegaBurgerPizza contains Pizza Little Party's special meat sauce and cheese blend. The patties contain traditional bugers toppings like ketchup, onions, pickles and mustard.
You can buy this unique creation for a measly $US26.
This Mega Super Duper Burger is available until November so buy your airplane tickets now.
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The course record is 2:08:42, will it be broken?
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I'm thinking 2:07-2:08 range.
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1. Brevity (adj) quality of being succinct 2. Astute (adj) shrewd, keen 3. Inscrutable (adj) beyond comprehension or examination 4. Emollient (n) a substance that softens 5. Dupe (n) one who is easily deceived 6. Recalcitrant (adj) stubbornly rebellious 7. Forgo (v) to give something up 8. Jettison (v) to throw overboard 9. Flagrant (agj) offensively bad 10. Static (adj) stationary 11. Moratorium (n) postponement 12. Ebb (v) to decrease or decline slowly 13. Fetter (v) to tie up 14. Bulwark (n) a strong defense 15. Efficacious (adj) capable of producing a desired effect 16. Adjunct (n) something attached to but holding an inferior position 17. Bevy (n) large group 18. Chagrin (n) disappointment 19. Cull (v) reject 20. Lupine (adj) like a wolf. |
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/4130 | 5 Banking Mistakes Recent Grads Shouldn't Be Making
Making it through college and earning your degree is a huge accomplishment and once you're out in the real world, it's time to put some of what you've learned to good use.
Keeping your bank account straight is one of the most basic skills you should have picked up on, even if you weren't a finance or economics major.
If you're not being careful about tracking your balances or how much you're spending, you're setting yourself up for a major fail, not to mention some nasty fees.
While those are definitely big no-nos, they're not the only slip-ups 20-somethings tend to make when it comes to their checking accounts.
We've broken down the five dumbest banking moves for recent college grads so you don't end up making a potentially costly error.
1. Giving Up Your Student Account Too Soon
Opening a student checking account while you're still in school is a smart move if you need a secure place to stash your cash without having to pay all the added fees that go along with a regular account.
Unfortunately, most banks automatically change you over to a standard account once you graduate but there are some that handle things a little differently.
TD Bank, for example, allows you to keep your student status for five years after the account is opened so if you graduate in four years, you've still got an extra 12 months of not having to worry about the fees.
If you're not sure what your bank's policy is, your best bet is to call and ask how long you've got until your account will be converted.
As long as you've been a good customer, you might be able to negotiate an extension of your student benefits.
If the bank won't play ball, the next step is finding out what you need to do to avoid the monthly fees.
For instance, if you signed up for Chase Student Checking when you started school, you can dodge the $6 maintenance charge if you keep a $5,000 balance or have at least one direct deposit to the account each month.
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2. Not Linking Up Your Accounts With Budgeting and Finance Apps
There's an app for just about everything these days, including managing your money and grads who aren't using them are missing out big time.
If you've got multiple bank accounts or credit cards, syncing them up with finance apps makes it easier to keep tabs on where your money's going each month.
Mint, which is free for Android and Apple users, is one of the most popular budgeting tools out there and it's a great pick for 20-somethings who are still trying to figure out how to handle their finances.
Compare other budgeting apps and choose what fits the most your lifestyle.
You can link your checking account to track your spending, add your credit cards to monitor balances and organize all of your monthly bills so you can stay on top of upcoming bills.
If you're still trying to fine-tune your spending plan, Mint does a lot of the work for you.
Another good choice for new grads is Venmo, which lets you instantly transfer money to someone else right from your phone.
If you're out to dinner with friends and you need to pick up your share of the tab, you can just send it from your bank account without having to schlep to an ATM.
Venmo is free and you'll only pay a fee if you use your debit or credit card to settle up.
3. Waiting to Open a Savings Account
A savings account might seem unnecessary when you're in college, especially if you're getting by on peanuts.
Once you're in the workforce and you've landed a decent-paying job, there's no reason not to be setting aside a few bucks each month.
If you've been out of school for a while and you haven't opened a savings account yet, it's just going to take you that much longer to start building up a cushion of cash.
Not all savings accounts are alike so you'll want to see what's out there before you choose one. If you think you'll need check-writing privileges, for example, you might want to look into a money market account instead.
If getting the best interest rate is a priority, you might be better off going with an online savings account.
You can use MyBankTracker's savings account comparison tool to check out which banks have the highest APY.
4. Forgetting to Set Up Direct Deposit for Your Paycheck
Having to take your paycheck to the bank each week and deposit can be inconvenient, especially if you're stuck waiting two or three days until it clears.
With direct deposit, on the other hand, the money gets credited to your account instantly so you never have to worry about your cash being tied up.
As long as your employer offers it as an option, setting up direct deposit usually just means calling up your payroll department and filling out a form.
Aside from not having to stand in line at the bank, there are a couple of other good reasons to go with direct deposit.
If you're keeping an eye on your accounts through budgeting app, knowing exactly when the funds will post takes the guesswork out of scheduling bill payments.
You can also eliminate the hassle of having to transfer money from one account to another by splitting your deposit between your checking and savings.
Certain checking accounts will also waive the monthly maintenance fee if you set up direct deposit.
5. Paying More in Fees Than You Need to
Free checking accounts are about as rare as unicorns these days but that doesn't mean there aren't some things you can do to get out of paying all those extra fees.
Some banks, for instance, charge you $2 or $3 bucks a month just to get your statement in the mail. Switching to electronic delivery only eliminates that nuisance fee.
You might also be able to snag a better deal by opting for an online bank or moving your account to your local credit union.
Both tend to have lower overhead costs which means they're don't have to nickel and dime customers to death.
Changing banks completely might be a hassle, especially if you've had the same account there since you started school, but you really have to ask yourself if all those extra fees are worth your loyalty.
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I like what you said about eating as much as she needs, and the whole healing thing... makes sense.
OK - so when I now feed her, it is very similiar to what you do with your cats. I feed her a nice portion in the morning, and she comes and goes at eating it. First she really doesn't touch it, then she comes back and eats a bit, then she finishes the whole thing off. In the evening she does the same — eats a little, comes back, eats more, then she seems to finish it all off...
So, what I should do is make sure there is more food, so she can really stuff herself, and only feed her once.
Hmmmmm... she is so used to twice a day — when I come home from work she expects it, so what should I do when she looks at me and wonders where's dinner?
BTW... no more dandruff, her coat is luxurious like I have never seen, and her ears were not mites, but an ear infection, and she is now on the mend with that, and I will give her 1 tablet of the Rena GO, and the Pet GO each day... I'm slowly learning and will eventually get this right - thanks! :)
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My suggestion is that you feed her at night.
In the morning, she won't be hungry. Then when you get home, she will be hungry.
Now when you feed 1 meal per day, Bekkie Boo Boo will quickly get into the routine of knowing I better eat a lot now.
You will find that after a few days, Bekkie Boo Boo will have absolutely no problem eating once per day. Oh sure, she may still look for food or perhaps meow a little. But it's in a carnivore's nature to look for food. But with one big meal per day, she will be fine and content.
Feeding once per day is always initially more stressful on the human than the cat or dog. But soon, you as the human, will be at peace with feeding just once per day and in fact, I guarantee you will find it is blessing to feed just once per day (but please remember, only mature dogs and cats should have one meal per day — puppies and kittens have a different feeding schedule).
As her immunity gets stronger, things like ear infections will not happen again. However, these are her weak spots. As she ages, don't be surprised if you encounter these problems again. Should they ever happen again, then you will know what to do.
Anyway, once you feed Bekkie Boo Boo once per day, you are going to see the opposite happen.
Currently, it is like this, as you described:
But, when you feed Bekkie Boo Boo once per day, it will be like this:
First she eats a lot, then comes back and eats a bit. Then she comes back and eats a little more and finishes the whole thing off.
See the difference?
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Best gear for max lvl Buccaneer? Not Moo Manchu
Jun 29, 2011
Somebody made a thread similar to this, but for Swashbucklers. What is the best gear surpassing all others for a buccaneer? Most preferably for PvP?
Jan 21, 2013
Hello Aaron, I just finished farming for all my gear for buck with the help and advice of Jeremy (technomage). Whew that was a long and lucky ride. But ever since, I haven't lost a single spar against other pirates. Yesterday actually, I spared a swashbuckler and I won!!! She even had two forts and a leviathans call, with this gear, I still won!
So here is the gear I have been using
Hat: Helm of the Valiant-in this set, this is the only valors fort item. This is due to the new buff rules in pvp and what not (which I love because they make the game much fairer).
Robe: Mighty Warriors Robe- I know. I know. Everyone complains about having to farm for this because it takes so long but remember what ratbeard said "it's all RNG!!!", and because of that I told myself to keep going for this item and it only took me 3.5 hours!! That's not bad at all!
Boots: 1) Boots of Sprinting- I use these against every class except for against swashbuckler and privateer(I will tell you about the other ones right after). These boots are great because of the dodge (9) and the extra vicious which gives an accuracy reduce for 5 rounds!!! That's pretty good.
2) Dragoons Heavy Boots: I use these against buckler and priv only, that is because it supplies a walk in darkness and 10 extra strength to get that critical up.
Weapon: Axe of the Minotaur Lords: good arrack and basically gives you "relentless1" (follow through)
Totem: Token of moo Manchu(I think that's the name): best totem in the game
Charm and ring: heal ring from bazaar. (I would say ring of 47 but heal rings work better with the update (as I mentioned with the hat).
Hope you found this helpful!
If you ever see me in game on my buck my name is Jack Armstrong and my Swash is Brave Jack Underwood.
Happy sailing!!!
Good luck with your farming!!!
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Nov 28, 2014
What I use is this setup:
Hat: tower hat from the chests in moo manchu
Robe: Spolas of eagilles or Imperial robes of moo manchu
boots: Boots of sprinting
totem: bloody charm
eyepatch: Patch of st fido or schemers eyepatch
charm: anything with valor's fortress or a heal
ring: any ring with revive
Apr 26, 2009
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/4304 | Bhadrakali Vashikaran Kavach Mantra
Bhadrakali is the name by which Kali Mata is popularly known in the southern part of India, especially, in the state of Kerala. The Mantra given in this post is called as the Bhadrakali Vashikaran Kavach, an attraction spell to enchant the whole world, The Mantra Sadhana, involves two steps, first the Siddhi and then the Tantra to prepare a Vashikaran Kavach Yantra.
The Mastery process is commenced on any auspicious Hindu date and continues until 125, 000 Mantra Chants are completed. The Sadhak can use a Counting Rosary made from Rudraksha Beads for this purpose.
भद्रकाली माँ वशीकरण कवच मंत्र इन हिंदी एंड इंग्लिश
Bhadrakali Maa Vashikaran Kavach Mantra in Hindi and English
An attraction spell invoking the Hindu Goddess Bhadrakali
Bhadrakali Vashikaran Kavach Mantra
Once the required numbers of chants are completed, the practitioner has to write the Devanagari Script, version of the Mantra on a Bhojpatra, using Sandalwood Paste, Ashtagandha Paste or Raktchandanda Paste. Any pointed wooden stick can be used for writing the Vashikaran Mantra.
Then the practitioner has to sit before the prepared Yantra and chant the Vashikaran Mantra 108 times, in order to infuse it with the potency of the Mantra.
Then he has to worship the Yantra and say a small prayer to Bhadrakali Mata to make his purpose a success.
Then he can either insert the Yantra in a Copper or Gold Locket and wear it around his neck or on his upper arm.
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1. Dear Sir,
Devanagari script means the Hindi writing written above english?
2. Dear Neel Sir,
How does the yantra take effect? Whenever we come across people during the course of a day, just like a vashikaran tilak? I hope I am right on this.
3. This is gonna be a stop piss question, I know that. But can I start the Sadhana on amavasi night? It is going to be the most inauspicious time where all tantric practices can be commenced and can take it to success. Especially with Bhadrakali and Smashan Kali. Just curious about it. Hope it's not that a stupid question, but still it is. Lol.
Thanks for the reply in advance...
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/4319 | New reusable mug saves thousands of paper cups!
New 'Bring Your Own Mug' discount saves thousands of paper cups!
Have you seen our reusable cups available to buy in Ground and the Learning Café? Chances are you’ve probably seen someone carrying one around campus or in a lecture or seminar! Introduced in September 2017, the reusable cups can be used in both Ground and the Learning Café and can get you 20% off your hot drink!
Figures show that in the period 1st August 2016-15th February 2017 with the former discount of 10%, the number of transactions across both cafes with people bringing their own mug was 1,433. In the same period this year, the number of transactions of people bringing their own mug with the new 20% discount soared to 7,977- a rise of almost 457%!
This amazing increase means that thousands of paper cups are no longer going to waste every year and shows what an incredible impact the introduction of our reusable cups and the higher discount has had on the sustainability of our cafes!
The Students' Union is always working hard to ensure we're as green and sustainable as we can possibly be. Over the past year, we've introduced the Too Good To Go app in our shops and cafes, introduced a more sustainable and ethical coffee provider and introduced new coffee cup recycling bins to help tackle the huge problem of cups going to landfill as they're difficult to recycle. To find out more about sustainability at Queen Mary Students' Union and more information on how to get involved, click here
The cups are available to buy in Ground and the Learning Café for just £6 and you get your first drink for free! If you’ve not already bought one, what are you waiting for? You can also get 20% off with your own mug in the Union Shop and Village Shop. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/4333 | In my last post, I wrote that mapping Shia (and by inversion Sunni) Lucknow will be fairly difficult - and so it is. There surely are plenty of mental maps1 - an important part of my research (see my methodology) - and thinking about Shia or Sunni dominated areas is a favorite timepass for some of my contacts (especially Shia ones). But hard data? Almost impossible to find. It is thus befitting that it took me all my time in Lucknow - today being my second last post from the field - to come up with something seemingly as plebeian as even an experimental map of the Shia population of the city. In fact, I found only one single other such map in all of the material which I read about Lucknow - in a paper by Mushirul Hassan,2 based on a 1961 Census monograph3...:
But something could be done. Using the same strategy developed to create my Muslim map - i.e. inferring population share from Muslim sounding names on the electoral rolls - I prepared my own experimental map of Shia Lucknow. As discussed in detail in my last post, this is a fairly risky undertaking, since names might be good to distinguish Muslims from non-Muslims - but they are a far worse shortcut to sectarian difference. My hunch is, that the following map slightly over-estimates Shia population percentage, for instance. But importantly, such an overestimation would likely apply to all areas in similar ways - so differences between areas become more reliable again. It might not be that in one area 40% of all Muslims are Shia and in another 80% (the real figure might be more around 30% vs 60%) - but the ratio would be similar.
The following map thus fairly reliably shows Shia strongholds - even if it doesn't necessarily reflect how strong these strongholds are. It shows Shia population as share of overall Muslim population (rather than of general population), based on the data subset determined to be comparatively most reliable in my last comment to my last post. Still, I wanted to convey the vagueness of even this dataset in the map. Firstly, I thus only give the Shia share in rough wording - and not in seemingly precise percentages. Secondly, no data is shown at all for the 20% areas with fewest Muslims (the probabilistic approximation becoming too unreliable then), a grid is overlaid for the next 20%, and saturation is drastically reduced for areas with less than 25% Muslim population (since sectarian issues are likely to be irrelevant in an overall minority setting - and also since sectarian population shares are less reliably estimable in such areas, again due to the small n). With all these qualifications and caveats, here is my experimental Shia map after 15 months of fieldwork (larger version):
What does this map show and how does it compare to the 1961 Census map? As expected, it shows two major areas of Shia concentration: Hussainabad and Kashmiri Mohalla. It also shows some fairly Shia pockets around where I myself live (the red dot), which I can largely confirm from experience. In comparison to the old map, it also seems to confirm current research in that the concentration in Kashmiri Mohalla and Hussainabad increased over the last fifty years at the expsense of other areas in Chowk such as Saadatganj or Daulatganj.4 But otherwise it is dangerous to draw quick conclusions. It took me fifteen months to come up with this map. I expect it will take at least as much time until I decided whether it is of any use, and which story it really tells. But it is a nice primer to Muharram, which started on Friday and will occupy me (and most of Lucknow) for the next weeks to come...
I would like to acknowledge the use of the Oxford Supercomputing Centre (OSC) in carrying out this work.
• 1. Gould, P, White, R. (1986). Mental maps. 2nd ed. Boston: Allen & UNWIN.
• 2. Hasan, M. (1997). Traditional rites and contested meanings: Sectarian strife in colonial Lucknow. In V. Graff (Ed.), Lucknow: Memories of a city. Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press.
• 3. ...which subsequently went missing from the Census library in Lucknow - at least they claimed that before they threw me out; the reference is Census of India. (1961). Moharram in two cities (Lucknow and Delhi). In: Census monograph series, part VII-B: Fairs and festivals.
• 4. Verniers, G. (2012). A minority within a minority: The Shias of Kashmiri Mohalla, Lucknow. In L. Gayer, C. Jaffrelot (Eds.), Muslims in Indian cities: Trajectories of marginalisation. London: Hurst. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/4347 | In enterprise level network its common to have HQ(Head Quarters)-Branch Office network. These branch offices may required to connected with HQ resources for its operations. Most of the time this kind of setup uses WAN links to connect branch Offices with HQ network. Let's assume we have company called ABC and its HQ is located in Canada Toronto. Due to the Expansion its need branch office open in London, UK. So the requirement is more complicated as its 2 different countries.
The users in London office still need to authenticate the company domain environment and access the resources. Let's Look in
to some of the difficulties, challenges faces with typical this kind of setup.
Lack of Resources
To connect HQ with branch site its required secure, reliable connection. But these connections typically comes with high $$$$ cost. Even though its cost mostly these links will be with speed of 128kb, 256kb, 512kb etc. If users in branch site is authenticating company AD it will use WAN link for the all the authentication, resources access etc. if the number of users increase in branch site the link utilization just for the AD activities will increased. Also since its between different geographical locations, different ISP, many facts will affect the reliability of the link as well. what happen if the WAN link went down on critical business day ? so solution is to deploy AD in branch site and it will be opening whole different range of concerns, problems.
Security Risks
Even though branch office dc will increase the authentication and resource access process its open potential security risks to the network. some companies will have fully secure datacenter facilities in branch sites as well but majority cant afford such investments. As we know regular DC is keeping critical data about users, resource authentications etc. what if these branch office dc get compromised or stolen?. It will affect entire company network operations and some time this kind of issue can cause millions of dollars lost to the company.
If we host a branch site DC, typically it will required maintenance time to time. it may be to deploy fail over dc, upgrade hardware, site-link changes, user credential changes etc. So some time company may need to keep a IT department running on branch office which will increase the company operation cost. Also since its integrated directly with main domain environment, any changes triggers in branch office DC will also directly affect entire domain environment.
So what is the answer then ?
With windows 2008 server Microsoft introduce the Read-Only domain controller feature to specially address these difficulties company face in this kind of branch site scenario.
As its name says its by default Read-only copy of the company main DC. So the changes making on branch site RODC will not affect DC operations. So basically its keep all the info about the DC attributes in Branch-DC as read-only copy and once its receive request for authentication it directs the request to the RODC instead going via WAN link.
Password Replication Policy (PRP)
We can also control this "credential caching" in detail level by using Password Replication Policy. what it does is we can define which users, group need the credential caching on that particular RODC. For example let's assume we have another branch in India. The users in India office will not login from London office anyway. so why we should cache credential info for India office users in London office RODC ? Also in this way it improve security of dc more. So if one of branch office RODC compromised it will only hold limited data about the DC.
In windows 2012 server to configure we can use 2 security groups it creates with RODC setup. According to Microsoft its as following,
Allowed RODC Password Replication Group : Members of this group are placed in the Allow list of the Password Replication Policies of all RODCs by default. This group has no members when Windows Server 2012 is first installed.
Denied RODC Password Replication Group: Members of this group are placed in the Deny list of the Password Replication Policies of all RODCs by default. Some of the groups include Administrators, Server Operators, Backup Operators, Account Operators, and Denied RODC Password Replication Group.
Local Administrators Group
Some time the branch offices need some IT support for their users. It may have local IT staff or outsourced IT company for this. In typical DC environment to do the maintenance a particular user need to have domain admin rights or delegated permissions. But in RODC we can define Local administrator accounts which will give full control over the RODC environment and it still will not affect the parent DC setup.
In next post will look in to the configuration of a RODC.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/4356 | What exactly is «HTTPS»?
Lukas BischofBy Lukas Bischof / 13.02.18
Ever since digitalisation has gained momentum, we have heard more and more about security on the internet and how to protect it. The term «HTTPS» appears very often in this context. Many medias advise that trusted websites should be accessed via HTTPS and even modern browsers warn users not to log in to a website without HTTPS. However, a few even understand how HTTPS works, how to use it and what its benefits are.
Why do we need HTTPS?
The easiest way to load a website is via HTTP (without 's'). Using HTTP, the website data is sent from a server to a browser to display it there. The problem with HTTP, however, is that everything is transmitted unencrypted. For example, an attacker can easily intercept passwords by standing between a user and a server and intercepting the data.
In addition, the user has no way of knowing whether or not the website really belongs to its specified supplier. Therefore, attackers have the ability to modify web pages by impersonating them and sending a copy of the website with malicious code to the victim in order to obtain sensitive data.
The Solution
To close such security gaps, Netscape installed HTTPS in its browser for the first time in 1994. HTTPS works in principle identical to HTTP. Only the transport of the information transmitted via HTTP takes place via an encrypted channel, the TLS protocol. This means that third parties can no longer read along. Furthermore, each server must first authenticate itself so that the user can be sure that what he sees actually comes from the desired provider.
As soon as a user accesses a HTTPS website, a TLS handshake is triggered. The browser and the server agree on an encryption and exchange their identities. The server also sends a digital certificate with which the browser can verify that the content actually originates from the specified domain. This certificate, in turn, is only issued by authorities in order to avoid fake or self-signed certificates. This increases the credibility of a certificate enormously. As soon as the handshake has taken place, the website is exchanged via the secure and encrypted channel using the normal HTTP protocol. During the exchange it is always guaranteed that the user is connected to the requested page. An attempt by a third party to manipulate the transmitted data is immediately noticeable.
What do I need to offer HTTPS on my site?
To offer HTTPS, you need a SSL certificate or a certificate the server uses to verify itself. This certificate can be bought from various providers, such as GlobalSign or DigiCert. However, there are also organisations that issue certificates for free, such as Let's Encrypt.
As soon as you have received a certificate and made a small configuration on the server, you support HTTPS. It is also advisable to activate HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security). This forces the browser to use HTTPS, which protects the user from downgrade attacks or session hijacking attacks. We will talk more about such attacks in a later blog entry.
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