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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8103 | What is Cost Saving? - Definition & Examples
Instructor: Douglas Stockbridge
DJ Stockbridge is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Accounting.
In this lesson, we will discuss the term cost savings - what it is, and examples that you may come across. Cost savings is an incredibly important concept in business, and it is much more nuanced than one would expect.
Shoe Stores
Imagine you are the CEO of a chain of shoe stores in your hometown and the next few towns over. You've been the CEO since you took over the business from your father 20 years ago. Since then business has been good, but recently there has been increased competition from online shoe retailers. They have been able to undercut even your legendary low prices. Something needs to change. If things do not change you may need to close the business down in 2-3 years. Luckily, you read this lesson and now know what cost savings are, and how the concept can be applied to your business to make noticeable improvements in the company's bottom line (i.e. profit/loss).
In this lesson, we will define the term cost savings and then give several examples that apply to the shoe retailing business but the examples can be extended to many different industries.
Cost savings, also known as cost reductions or 'hard' cost savings, are savings that directly impact the company's bottom line (i.e. profit/loss). These are the savings you most likely think of when you hear the term cost savings. Examples include switching from expensive color printing to inexpensive black/white or reducing salaries paid by giving employees every other Friday off. These cost savings are easily quantifiable, and as a result they get a great deal of attention because, as the saying goes, 'you can't manage what you can't measure.' Well, you can measure cost savings, and they are managed as a result.
There are several different ways you may see cost savings in the business world. We'll run through several ways you (as the CEO of the shoe retailing chain), can increase your cost savings.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8107 | 7 Common American Beauty Ingredients That Are Banned in Other Countries
7 Common American Beauty Ingredients That Are Banned in Other Countries
If there’s one thing beauty lovers know (and, who are we kidding—beauty lovers know approximately everything), it’s that there are huge (like, Grand-Canyon-levels huge) discrepancies between American beauty products and foreign beauty products—specifically, the vast number of ingredients allowed in US formulations compared to the incredibly restricted formulations of beauty products overseas. And when it comes to cosmetic ingredients here, quality is definitely not favored over quantity, especially when we tell you that Americans are currently slathering thousands of chemicals onto their bodies every single day that are totally and completely unregulated. Yup.
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Of course, when compared to the US, it may seem like other countries have gone a little overboard in their regulations. The European Union (EU), for example, has banned or restricted over 1,300 chemicals, many of which would never even appear in beauty products (jet fuel, anyone?), but even still, the US has only banned 11. It’s not that the US is slacking off per se, but unless a cosmetic contains an ingredient classified as a “drug” by the FDA, the product doesn’t need FDA approval before hitting the market. It’s up to the manufacturer to determine a product’s safety (which sounds as sketchy as it is).
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Photo: ImaxTree
What it really boils down to is a straight-up difference in strategy. The EU is more into taking preventative measures, so even though not every ingredient banned or restricted is necessarily harmful, the EU requires more information on ingredient safety before clearing them for use. The US, however, prefers to ban ingredients only when there’s enough scientific evidence to deem it necessary. Think of it like a helicopter mom (the EU) versus the mom who doesn’t open the screen door for anything less than a broken limb (the US).
And this is why the following seven hotly disputed ingredients are probably sitting in your makeup bag—or on your face—right now, despite having spurred a ton of (somewhat unsubstantiated) controversy over the years. But don’t freak out; we went to the experts to find out just how harmful these ingredients are, and whether or not they’re worth avoiding. But just in case you’re not into taking chances, or if you’re just feeling very European, we also found a ton of safe and equally awesome product alternatives to help you avoid the unknown, without compromising your beauty routine.
TYPICALLY FOUND IN: Skin-care products, makeup, shampoo, conditioner, shaving products
Petrolatum—also known as petroleum jelly—is the grand poobah of moisturizers, and is classified by the FDA as a skin protectant. “Petrolatum is completely insoluble in water, so once it’s applied to dry or irritated skin, it forms a seal that locks in the skin’s natural moisture while also sealing out air, allowing the skin to heal faster,” says cosmetic chemist Joseph J. Cincotta, PhD.
But because the gel is derived from petroleum (crude oil), it runs the risk of containing trace levels of the cancer-causing agents found in crude oil, called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), he notes. The thing is, you’re not actually slathering crude oil on your face, and only the highest-refined grades are allowed in cosmetics.
“Petroleum has a reputation for being dangerous due to a misunderstanding of the EU classification of toxicity,” says Al-Nisa Ward, cosmetic chemist and founder of Cosmetic Science Innovations in New Jersey, explaining that all grades of petroleum in the EU—from cosmetic to industrial kinds—fall under the same chemical registry number, giving people the misconception that petrolatum is carcinogenic. But in reality, the EU is totally cool with cosmetic-grade petrolatum being used in beauty products. Which makes sense why the FDA has also deemed petrolatum as safe and harmless for daily use in American beauty products.
Even though there’s no need to break up with your go-to lip balm or hand cream, you can still find natural alternatives that are, without a doubt, safe, like Avalon Organics Nourishing Lip Balm (contains essential oils and beeswax to protect your moisture barrier), Bite Beauty Multistick (uses sugarcane-derived squalane to hydrate skin), or Weleda Pomegranate Regenerating Hand Cream (formulated with organic shea butter to reduce moisture loss).
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Photo: ImaxTree
TYPICALLY FOUND IN: Face and body cleansers, moisturizers, shampoo, conditioner
Parabens are a common preservative used in a bevy of cosmetics to help prevent bacteria, fungi, and yeast growth, which ultimately extends a product’s shelf life, says Ward, noting that parabens are almost always found in water-based products, like cleansers and lotions, because they discourage the growth of microbes.
Although parabens are generally used in products at concentrations of 0.3-percent or less, according to Health Canada, many organizations have voiced concern over whether or not cumulative exposure can eventually cause hormone disruption and reproductive toxicity, says Ward, which has led to the banning of certain parabens in the EU, Southeast Asia, and the Philippines. But because there’s currently no information that definitively shows that parabens mess with human health, the FDA considers them safe to use in US beauty products.
Ultimately, ditching parabens for greener pastures (get it?) is totally up to you, though we will say that we truly love these paraben-free alternatives: Original & Mineral Shampoo and Conditioner (uses phenoxyethanol as a preservative, which is derived from natural sources and, bonus, doesn’t release formaldehyde), Yes to Carrots Daily Facial Moisturizer (uses the preservative phenethyl alcohol, which is known for its antimicrobial properties), and Kiss My Face Body Lotion (uses sodium benzoate as its main preservative).
TYPICALLY FOUND IN: Face and body cleansers, facial moisturizers, skin-lightening creams
Hydroquinone is pretty much the most-famous skin-lightening ingredient on the market. Not only does it does it break up the melanin in your skin to fade age spots, dark spots, sun spots, and every other spot as soon as you dab it on, but it also starts working within just a few months. Sounds cool, right?
Eh, not so fast. “Some initial studies of hydroquinone deemed it was a potential carcinogen—meaning it may cause cancer—and cytotoxic—which means toxic to living cells,” says Cincotta, though there are no reputable studies that can definitely prove this. As a precaution, though, the ingredient has been banned from cosmetics in the EU and is restricted in Canadian beauty products. The FDA, however, continues to monitor its use, and recommended in 2006 that additional studies be conducted before making a final determination for its regulation. Still, for now, the FDA believes hydroquinone is safe to use as prescribed. “In the US, topical treatments in up to two-percent doses can be sold over-the-counter, and up to four-percent can be prescribed by a doctor,” says Cincotta.
So long as you follow the directions on the label, there’s no real need to fret. But if you want to make the switch, you can still fade dark spots with Meladerm for Hyperpigmentation (uses natural extracts from mulberry, licorice, and bearberry plants to lighten skin within two weeks), SkinBright Skin Brightener (uses alpha-arbutin and kojic acid to decrease melanin production and gradually lighten skin), or Revitol Skin Brightening Cream (uses arbutin, an antioxidant extracted from the bearberry plant, to effectively fade skin discoloration).
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Photo: Getty Images
TYPICALLY FOUND IN: Skin cleansers, hair-smoothing treatments, hair gel, nail polish
Even if you’re not quite sure what formaldehyde is, you’ve probably heard it being touted as an incredibly dangerous beauty ingredient found in hair-straightening treatments. And though it can definitely be harmful (it’s a known carcinogen, according to the EWG), it’s not just hanging around in your beauty products, or even in your hair treatments, says Kelly A. Dobos, cosmetics technical manager at Sun Chemical Corporation in Ohio.
Because formaldehyde is a gas, it’s not technically found in any of your hair treatments or cosmetics—it’s just the byproduct of a bunch of ingredients and preservatives mixing together to slowly produce trace levels of formaldehyde in a given product. And though research suggests that beauty products can release small amounts of formaldehyde into the air after they’ve been applied, the levels would be far below what’s considered hazardous, according to the American Cancer Society. “The levels of formaldehyde in beauty products are lower than what naturally occurs in fruits, like apples and pears,” says Dobos.
To be safe, formaldehyde has been banned from use in Japan and Sweden, while the EU and Canada enforce concentration restrictions. The FDA, though, doesn’t restrict the amount of formaldehyde used in cosmetics (since, technically, pure formaldehyde isn’t even used in cosmetics); however, an American ingredient safety panel has voluntarily issued guidelines saying that no more than 0.2-percent formaldehyde should be allowed in beauty products, which is the lowest possible amount that still has an effective anti-microbial effect.
Whether you decide to stick with your current cosmetics or not, you can still try these formaldehyde-free hair and skin alternatives: Farmacy Skin Savior Kit (the entire line uses natural preservatives, such as phenoxyethanol and citric acid), Bumble and Bumble Straight Blow Dry (uses phenoxyethanol, a natural preservative that doesn’t release formaldehyde), and Yuni Flash Bath No-Rinse Body Cleansing Foam (uses sodium benzoate and citric acid as preservatives).
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Photo: ImaxTree
TYPICALLY FOUND IN: Skin cleansers, hairsprays, nail polish, scented products
Phthalates are commonly used as fixatives in fragrances to make scents last longer, and as flexible plasticizers in nail polish and hairsprays to keep nails from cracking and hair from morphing into cement. So, you know, all seemingly excellent things.
However, studies have suggested that phthalates may disrupt how your hormones operate (which, among other things, can cause problems for your immune system and reproductive functions) and possibly lead to cancer, which is why EU has decided to heavily restrict them. But because most of the research on phthalates has been done on either animals or in vitro, the FDA still hasn’t issued a firm, final stance on the family of ingredients, though it asserts that it’s still continuing to follow the issue.
“Even though the science isn’t conclusive, the use of phthalates in the cosmetic industry has dramatically declined due to negative consumer perceptions,” says Dobos, giving us some extra hope—or maybe fear?—to cling onto. For safer swaps, try Verb Ghost Hairspray (uses copolymers to set hair), Pacifica Beauty Spray Perfume (uses its own blend of natural oils, like grapefruit and orange, for fragrance), and Zoya Nail Polish (uses acetyl tributyl citrate as its plasticizer of choice).
TYPICALLY FOUND IN: Sunscreen, skin-care products, nail polish
Primarily found in sunscreens, oxybenzone (also known as benzophenone-3) helps prevent sunburns by absorbing both UVA and UVB radiation, says Jim Hammer, cosmetic chemist and president of MIX Solutions in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. You might also find it hanging around your SPF-infused cosmetics or nail polishes, since it’s frequently used to protect products from deteriorating or fading in the sun.
When it comes to safety, though, oxybenzone is a bit of a tricky outlier. Although it’s been linked to hormonal disruption and skin cancer, most of the research has been conducted in vitro or on rats fed very high concentrations of oxybenzone—way higher than anything you’d ever find in cosmetics—so the jury’s still out on how it may truly affect human health, especially in low doses.
Thankfully, even though the research is inconclusive, precautions have been put in place: The US and EU currently restrict concentrations of six-percent or less in sunscreens and 0.5-percent or less in other types of cosmetic products, according to the Personal Care Products Council (PCPC). Additionally, the EU also requires that any product with more than 0.5-percent oxybenzone be clearly labeled as such.
If the fact that your sunscreen or nail polish doesn’t have a glaring label on it freaks you out, try the Kiss My Face 3-in-1 Sunscreen (uses zinc oxide to shield skin from UVA and UVB rays), AquaSport Natural Sunscreen Face Stick (contains zinc oxide as an alternative), or Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Nail Lacquer (uses titanium dioxide to protect colors from fading), instead.
Photo: Getty Images
Photo: Getty Images
TYPICALLY FOUND IN: Anti-aging products, sunscreens, moisturizers, foundations, acne products
If you’ve ever had zits or wrinkles, you’ve probably encountered retinyl palmitate before. Retinyl palmitate is a type of retinoid (a vitamin-A derivative) that increases cell turnover to restore elasticity, decrease wrinkles and dark spots, and also improve the texture and look of damaged hair. Kind of a miracle ingredient, right?
Sort of. Though retinyl palmitate is often found in sunscreens, the EWG suggests that it may (ironically) speed up the development of cancerous skin tumors when exposed to the sun. However, this claim was made based on one study on rats, not humans, that used plain vitamin-A cream, rather than a sunscreen containing vitamin A, so, again—not the most reliable data. The FDA, Norwegian, and German health agencies have also raised concerns that applying any form of vitamin A (like retinol) to your skin while pregnant could potentially prove toxic to a developing fetus, but, like many of the ingredients on this list, it’s a judgement call.
Until more conclusive studies are done on humans, the Skin Cancer Foundation has issued a statement saying retinyl palmitate is not a concern, says cosmetic chemist and blogger Randy Schueller. But if you’re already concerned, try Nature’s Gate Aqua Block Sunscreen (uses zinc oxide), Yes to Tomatoes Clear Skin Deep Pore Scrub (uses salicylic acid to battle acne), and RMS Beauty “Un” Cover-up (uses tocophenol for its anti-aging properties).
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Whether or not you subscribe to the notion that every risky-seeming ingredient is, actually, harmful, you can still totally avoid these seven ingredients without hugely destroying your current beauty routine. But just like most things in life, sometimes it’s better to just do your thing until told otherwise. And based on the sheer number of murky, rat-based studies, it looks like we still have a few more years (or decades) until science course-corrects us. So until then, you do you, OK? |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8120 | Knowledgebase: Image Gallery
How do I add a new image to my gallery?
Posted by Elite Answers Support on 24 November 2006 10:38 PM
To add images to your image gallery go to Emails > Image Gallery and click the link labeled Select Image which will allow you to upload from your computer.
You can also add images by dragging and dropping images where it reads, "Drop files here to upload".
When everything is finished processing you will see a status message informing you that the files were uploaded successfully.
The newly added images will now appear in your image gallery on the right side of your screen and can now be inserted into your email campaigns!
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8138 | Who is John Boyd?
…and why is he talking about my work???
My son is Air Force, so I had heard of the OODA loop several times and thought it boring—too simple! I ran into this book 51dU1i1+AiL._AA160_at a used book store. A quick glance through the chapter titled “OODA Loop” convinced me that it sounded too simple because others had made it simple by linearizing it.
Over the next couple days, I have read that chapter four times, both marking it up & taking notes. That gives it 5 stars on my scale. Then a quick Google search brought up 5 blogs and pages (example) that should give me starting points. I’ll be spending some time with this, and writing up points I think I understand.
What genuinely struck me on the first reading was that, decades before me, he was describing the same four qualities as I had described in my dissertation (2004) and later conference papers. The difference is that I defined them as measurable Performance Dimensions. That will be my first topic, because I’m feeling a bit like Mandelbrot when he asked “How is it you have my illustrations up before my lecture?”
As a late-life grad student, I was not interested in starting a faculty line, or really even a corporate career, so I continued designing and teaching. I had always felt like my work was obvious enough that others had done much of it, though I could not find evidence of that. I see here that I did not find Boyd’s work in academic forums for the simple reason, as Coram says, he never really wrote anything. Thank you, Robert Coram, and Chuck Spinney, for offering me a thread!
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Everyone has needs, whether they want to admit it or not. What makes a need painful is when we think we can't get what we need. And often the reason we think we can't get our need met is because we think we have to meet the need ourselves by ourselves, as if it is possible to be an island unto ourselves. The river doesn't drink itself my friends. Many times the empowering thing is not just to meet a need ourselves, it is to take action to get up and go find someone to meet the need; or to open up so someone can meet the need.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8149 | Android Build a Simple Android App with Java Testing and Debugging Writing to the Log
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this log does not recognise msg even after adding private string msg Log.d(TAG, "FunFactsActivity" "We our logging from
Log.d(TAG, "FunFactsActivity" msg,"We our logging from OnCreate() method!");
package com.teamtreehouse;
public class TreehouseActivity extends Activity {
public static final String TAG = "TreehouseActivity";
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
Log.d(TAG, "TreehouseActivity", msg "Activity created! OnCreate()");
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Hi there,
You want to pass two things into the Log.d. First is the TAG itself, and second is the message stipulated in the challenge, "Activity created!". So, pass TAG in, then separate the next message with a comma and put the string message after the comma.
That looks like:
Log.d(TAG, "Activity created!");
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8174 | Life is Movement!
Life is a movement of energy – a Polarity Process of opposites seeking to attain unity
with source. This movement must be present in order for there to be health.
Nature supports this movement by generating self-sustaining patterns that propagate through toroidal dynamics, as well as other factors which are both known and unknown
to us. This dynamic model of energy is the underlying current to all of nature.
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In so many ways, to be honest. But one of the most blatant oddities of Los Angeles is its local news scene.
It’s so bizarre, in fact, that I’ve been DVRing the local news every time I see something unbelievable. The next steps are to record it off the TV, post it on YouTube, and finally place it here for you, dear reader, because this is local news you have to see to believe.
Of course, all local news sucks no matter which city it originates from. But only in L.A. will you find a reporter interviewing Barney about how he foiled a bus-jacking in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater:
And only in the City of Angels will a meteorologist suddenly burst into dance during the middle of a newscast because they happen to be playing Estelle’s “American Boy” in the studio:
Oh, yes… L.A.
Like most of my ex-girlfriends, you’re so fucking mental, I kinda love you.
Stay tuned for more.
This just in,
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8178 | Is it Lust or Love?
In the early stage of a relationship the sex hormones are raging and your brain is fueled by idealization and projection. In this state you see what you hope someone will be, or need them to be, rather than seeing the real person. This intense sexual attraction can be notorious for obliterating common sense and intuition in the most sensible people. It is an altered state of consciousness programmed by the primal urge to procreate. This is called lust. Lust is solely based on physical attraction and can affect your brain like a drug.
On the other hand, love is all about caring and forming an emotional connection beyond sexual attraction. Giving yourself entirely, fully, without any question to another person for a long time.
However being in love doesn’t exclude lust. In fact, lust can lead to love. Real love is not based on idealization or projection it requires time to get to know each other.
Signs of lust
• You are solely focused on physical attraction.
• You are interested in sex not conversations.
• You are keeping the relationship on a fantasy level and don´t discuss feelings.
• You want to leave soon after sex rather than cuddling.
• You are lovers not friends.
• You don´t have plans for the futrue.
Signs of love
• You want to spend quality time with he/she, other than sex.
• You get lost in your conversations and forget about time and space.
• Attraction grows as you know each other.
• The thought of he/she makes you happy.
• He/she motivates you to be a better person.
• You feel content and fulfilled with the that person.
• You want to meet his/her family and friends.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8202 | I miss letters
On October 8, 1946, legendary singer/songwriter Woody Guthrie wrote an eight-page letter to Charlotte Strauss. The two had been corresponding since 1945, after Strauss read Guthrie's autobiography Bound for Glory and wrote him a fan letter. That eight-page letter went up for auction on January 15, 2009 at Freeman's, as part of the Manuscript Archive of … Continue reading I miss letters |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8238 | It seems like it was as early as fourth grade in Port Arthur's old DeQueen School that we first learned we weren't the only planet in the solar system, the sun was actually a star and occasionally the moon would swing around and block off some of the sunlight reaching earth in a solar eclipse. Now and then the earth puts itself in the way of the sun and moon and casts a shadow on the moon and creates a lunar eclipse.
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Seriously, Do Not Look At This Bare-Eyed
But of the two, Mrs. Hilly warned us that looking directly at a solar eclipse could leave us with serious eye damage or even totally blind. In those days 'welding goggles' were the recommended way of viewing an eclipse, nowadays some companies are selling eclipse viewing glasses that are hopefully dark enough to prevent damage. Of course you can damage your eyes called Solar Retinopathy at any time by letting too much sunlight flood the back of your eyeballs. Eclipse damage happens because people think, 'it's kinda dark so it's ok to look directly at the sun" NO! Here's an article on the condition.
Even with welding goggles or viewing glasses, I'm not one to trust my eyesight to these appliances and will not be looking directly at the sun. Of course, at our latitude we're not getting the full effect, but enough to do damage. That's why I will be building a simple box camera obscura.
Believe It Or Not I Drew This
Since light travels in straight lines, ever notice the image of a car or other object on a wall inside a building passing by outside? That's because the reflected light of the auto came through the window and was projected onto your wall.
Get yourself a cardboard box with one side open. I drew a kind of a guide (I'm no artist) above. Place a piece of white paper on the bottom of the box, and drill a small 1/16" to 1/8" hole in the center on the opposite side from the white paper. Place it on the ground and observe the eclipse by looking at the white paper. The paper will be on the bottom, the hole on the top and the open side of the box facing you.
You'll get a virtual image on the paper that you can photograph if you like. As well, as the sun moves across the sky the image will move across the paper - build one a few days early and test it out. If I actually get off the couch and do build one I'll post a photo of it, the last time I made one was to observe a series of eclipses we had in the early 90's.
NASA has an instructional video (Solar Viewing Projector) on this as well, but their engineer uses a set of binoculars to better focus the image using two pieces of white poster board. If your hole in the top of the box is 'clean' enough your image should be fine.
Update: OK... I realized my hand drawing and written instructions may not have been clear so I got off the couch and made a camera obscura.
See the big hole in the top of the box? It was just the biggest bit I had, the small hole in the BBQ lid is a 1/16th. I will experiment the next few days as the little hole may need to be bigger. I used the plastic lid to get a better cleaner hole for the light to pass through. It's off the cheesy crappy pulled BBQ you buy in the stores. I'm a widowed bachelor that can't cook. Don't judge me.
Now the sun can be seen at the lower left side of the paper. I need more paper for this size box, but you can 'adjust' the image by moving the box.
Here's how the whole thing looks assembled. It's better to position the box so the paper is somewhat shaded to give you a better image of the sun.
I still need to 'clean up' the holes I drilled for a sharper image so I'll be looking around for the exacto knife later on. |
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What is it?
A branch of computer science that focuses on the development of software agents, also known as cognitive technologies, capable of performing tasks that would normally require human intelligence, such as finding, interpreting, and manipulating visual and textual information.
Why is it important?
Artificial intelligence is producing cognitive technologies that are radically changing, and even automating, many traditional communication tasks. Technical communicators need to adapt accordingly.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8284 | Famous New Englander – Alan Shepard
220px-Alan-shepardAlan BartlettAlShepard, Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998), (RADM, USN), was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, flag officer, one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, andbusinessman, who in 1961 became the second person and the first American to travel into space. This Mercury flight was designed to enter space, but not to achieve orbit. Ten years later, at age 47 and the oldest astronaut in the program, Shepard commanded the Apollo 14 mission, piloting the lander to the most accurate landing of the Apollo missions. He became the fifth and oldest person to walk on the Moon, and the only astronaut of the Mercury Seven to walk on the Moon. During the mission, he hit two golf balls on the lunar surface.
These were his only two space flights, as his flight status was interrupted for five years (1964–69) during the Mercury and Gemini programs by Ménière’s disease, an inner-ear disease that was surgically corrected before his Moon flight. Shepard served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from November 1963 – July 1969 (the approximate period of his grounding), and from June 1971 – August 1, 1974 (from his last flight to his retirement). He was promoted from Captain to Rear Admiral on August 25, 1971.[2] He retired from the United States Navy and NASA in 1974.
After leaving NASA, he became a successful businessman. He died of leukemia on July 21, 1998, five weeks before the death of his wife of 53 years.
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Early life and education
Shepard was born on November 18, 1923, in Derry, New Hampshire, to parents Lieutenant Colonel Alan B. Shepard, Sr. (1891–1973) and Renza Shepard (née Emerson; 1900–1993).[3] He attended primary and secondary schools in East Derry and Derry, including Pinkerton Academy. As a young boy, after helping to clean an aircraft hangar, he was given his first flying lesson by Arnold Sidney Butler, a local owner and operator of the Daniel Webster airport. He graduated from the Admiral Farragut Academy with the class of 1941.
He was active in the Boy Scouts of America. He earned the rank of First Class.[4]
Shepard was one of many famous descendants of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren.[5]
Navy service
—Shepard’s description of his test pilot career.[6]
Shepard began his Naval service after graduation from the United States Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1944, and served on the destroyer USS Cogswellwhile it was deployed in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. He subsequently entered flight training at NAS Corpus Christi, Texas, and NAS Pensacola, Florida, and received hisNaval Aviator wings in 1947. He was assigned to Fighter Squadron 42 (VF-42) based at NAS Norfolk, Virginia, and NAS Jacksonville, Florida, and served several tours aboard aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean Sea with the squadron.
He logged more than 8,000 hours of flying time, 3,700 hours in jet aircraft.
NASA career
Mercury Seven
Main article: Freedom 7
Shepard in the Freedom 7capsule before launch
In 1959, Shepard was one of 110 military test pilots selected by their commanding officers as candidates for the newly formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Project Mercury, the first U.S. manned space flight program. Following a grueling series of physical and psychological tests, NASA selected Shepard to be one of the original group of seven Mercury astronauts.
Shepard during Freedom 7 flight on May 5, 1961
On May 5, 1961, Shepard piloted the Freedom 7 mission and became the second person, and the first American, to travel into space.[8]” He was launched by a Redstone rocket, and unlike Gagarin’s 108-minute orbital flight, Shepard stayed on a ballistic trajectory—a 15-minute sub-orbital flight which carried him to an altitude of 116 statute miles (187 km) and to a splashdown point 302 statute miles (486 km) down the Atlantic Missile Range. Unlike Gagarin, whose flight was strictly automatic, Shepard had some control of Freedom 7, spacecraft attitude in particular. The launch was seen live on television by millions.
Shortly before the launch, Shepard said to himself: “Don’t fuck up, Shepard …”[9]
According to Gene Kranz in his book, Failure Is Not an Option, “When reporters asked Shepard what he thought about as he sat atop the Redstone rocket, waiting for liftoff, he had replied, ‘The fact that every part of this ship was built by the lowest bidder.'”[10]
Recovery of Alan Shepard, 1961
After a dramatic Atlantic Ocean recovery, Commander Shepard observed, “… didn’t really feel the flight was a success until the recovery had been successfully completed. It’s not the fall that hurts; it’s the sudden stop.”[11] After his successful return, Shepard was celebrated as a national hero, honored with parades in Washington, New York and Los Angeles, and received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal from President John F. Kennedy.[12]
Later, he was scheduled to pilot the Mercury-Atlas 10 Freedom 7-II three-day extended duration mission in October 1963. The MA-10 mission was cancelled on June 13, 1963. After MR-3, Shepard served as capsule communicator (CAPCOM) for the flights of Grissom and Glenn. He was the backup pilot for L. Gordon Cooper for the Mercury-Atlas 9 mission.
Project Gemini: Chief astronaut
After the Mercury-Atlas 10 mission was cancelled, Shepard was designated as the Command Pilot of the first manned Project Gemini mission. Thomas P. Stafford was chosen as his Pilot. In early 1964, Shepard was diagnosed with Ménière’s disease, a condition in which fluid pressure builds up in the inner ear. This syndrome causes the semicircular canals and motion detectors to become extremely sensitive, resulting in disorientation, dizziness, and nausea. The condition caused him to be removed from flight status for most of the 1960s (Gus Grissom and John Young were assigned to Gemini 3 instead).
During this period, his secretary had several head shot photographs taken of Shepard, posed with various expressions on his face. She would post these on the door to his private office, with a sign which said “Mood of the Day.” Visitors could then look at the photo to decide whether it was a good time to talk to him.[citation needed]
Apollo program
Main article: Apollo 14
Shepard was restored to full flight status in May 1969, following corrective surgery (using a newly developed method) for Ménière’s disease, making him the only remaining active astronaut from the Mercury Seven (althoughDeke Slayton would be restored to flight status two years later). There was also a general sentiment at NASA that at least one of the original Mercury astronauts should get to land on the Moon. He was originally assigned to command Apollo 13, but as it was felt he needed more time to train, he and his crewmates (Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell and Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa) swapped missions with the then crew of Apollo 14 (James Lovell, Ken Mattingly, and Fred Haise). Shepard encountered some controversy because of his relatively advanced age (47) and lack of spaceflight experience. NASA had made it policy that all Apollo missions have at least one veteran crew member on them (the lone exception would be Skylab 4), but Shepard had had a mere 15 minutes of flying time almost ten years earlier and had also missed the entire Gemini program. As he recalled in a 1991 interview, “There were already critics wondering if I wasn’t too old to fly and on top of everything else, I was going up there with two guys who’d never been in space before while I hadn’t flown anything in a decade. They joked that we were an all-rookie crew.”
Shepard made his second space flight as Commander of Apollo 14 from January 31 – February 9, 1971, America’s third successful lunar landing mission. Shepard piloted the Lunar Module Antares to the most accurate landing of the entire Apollo program. This was the first mission to successfully broadcast color television pictures from the surface of the Moon, using a vidicon tube camera. (The color camera on Apollo 12 provided a few brief moments of color telecasting before it was inadvertently pointed at the Sun, ending its usefulness.) While on the Moon, Shepard used a Wilson six-iron head attached to a lunar sample scoop handle[13] to drive golf balls. Despite thick gloves and a stiff spacesuit which forced him to swing the club with one hand, Shepard struck two golf balls; driving the second, as he jokingly put it, “miles and miles and miles.”[14]
Later years
Shepard’s memorial stone in Derry, New Hampshire; his ashes were scattered at sea
In 1984, he and the other surviving Mercury astronauts, along with Betty Grissom, the widow of astronaut Gus Grissom, founded the Mercury Seven Foundation to raise money for scholarships for science and engineering students in college. In 1995, the organization was renamed the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation. Shepard was elected president and chairman of the foundation, posts he held until October 1997, when he turned over both positions to former astronaut Jim Lovell.[16]
In 1994, he published a book with two journalists, Jay Barbree and Howard Benedict, called Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America’s Race to the Moon. Fellow Mercury astronaut Deke Slayton is also named as an author.[17]The book generated some controversy for use of a staged photo purportedly showing Shepard hitting a golf ball on the Moon.[14] The book was also turned into a TV miniseries in 1994.[18]
Shepard died of leukemia near his home in Pebble Beach, California, on July 21, 1998 at the age of 74, two years after being diagnosed with that disease. He was the second person to die who had walked on the Moon (Jim Irwin was the first in 1991).
His wife of 53 years, Louise Brewer (born 1922 or 1923), died five weeks afterward at the age of 74 or 75. Both were cremated, and their ashes were scattered together by a Navy helicopter over Stillwater Cove,[19] in front of their Pebble Beach home.[15]
Their children include daughters Laura (born July 2, 1947) and Juliana (born March 16, 1951), and stepdaughter Alice (born in 1951). Alice was Louise’s niece, but raised as their own daughter, after her mother (Louise’ s sister) died.[20] The Shepards’ also had six grandchildren.
Shepard was a member of many organizations. He was a fellow of the American Astronautical Society and the Society of Experimental Test Pilots; member of the Rotary, the Kiwanis, the Mayflower Society, the Order of the Cincinnati, and the American Fighter Aces; honorary member, Board of Directors for the Houston School for Deaf Children, Director, National Space Institute, and Director, Los Angeles Ear Research Institute.
Awards and honors
Statue of Shepard at theUnited States Astronaut Hall of Fame in Titusville, Florida
Gold star
Gold star
Bronze star
Bronze star
Bronze star
Bronze star
Bronze star
Bronze star
Bronze star
Bronze star
Navy Astronaut Wings
Navy Distinguished Service Medal
Distinguished Flying Cross Combat Action Ribbon
with one star
Congressional Space Medal of Honor
NASA Distinguished Service Medal
with one star
NASA Exceptional Service Medal Presidential Unit Citation
American Defense Service Medal American Campaign Medal Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
with four stars
Eastern Campaign Medal
World War II Victory Medal Navy Occupation Service Medal
National Defense Service Medal
with one star
Korean Service Medal
with one star
Presidential Unit Citation
Presidential Unit Citation
(South Korea)
United Nations Korea Medal Philippine Defense Medal
Philippine Liberation Medal
with two stars
Korean War Service Medal Navy Rifle Marksmanship
with Expert Marksman Device
Shepard also received the Golden Plate Award for Science and Exploration in 1981; the Langley Gold Medal (highest award of the Smithsonian Institution for Aeronautics and Astronautics) on May 5, 1964; the John J. Montgomery Award in 1963; the Lambert trophy[disambiguation needed]; the SETP Iven C. Kincheloe Award; the Cabot Award; the Collier Trophy; and the City of New York Gold Medal for 1971.
He was awarded an Honorary Master of Arts degree from Dartmouth College in 1962, an Honorary D.Sc. from Miami University in 1971, and an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Franklin Pierce College in 1972.[21]
In 1962 he was elected as an honorary member of the New Hampshire Society of the Cincinnati.
Shepard was enshrined in the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1977.[22]
Shepard was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame in 1981.[23]
He was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 11, 1990.[24]
His hometown of Derry has the nickname Space Town in honor of his career as an astronaut.[26] Following an act of Congress,[27] the post office in Derry is designated the Alan B. Shepard, Jr. Post Office Building.
His high school alma mater in Derry, Pinkerton Academy, has a building named after him; and the school team name is the Astros after his career as an astronaut.[28] Alan B. Shepard High School, in Palos Heights, Illinois, which opened in 1976, was named in his honor. Framed newspapers throughout the school depict various accomplishments and milestones in Shepard’s life. Additionally, an autographed plaque commemorates the dedication of the building. The school newspaper is named Freedom 7 and the yearbook is entitled Odyssey. Its television news show is called NASA – News About Shepard Astros.
On May 4, 2011, the U.S. Postal Service issued a first-class stamp in Shepard’s honor, the first U.S. stamp to depict a specific astronaut. The first day of issue ceremony was held at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.[32]
Shepard Technology Award
In media
• 1965 – The character of Alan Tracy in the Thunderbirds was named after him.[33]
• 1983 film The Right Stuff – played by Scott Glenn
• 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon – played by Ted Levine
• 2001 opening montage, Star Trek: Enterprise
• 2002 film Race to Space, played by Mark Moses
• 2004 – He is briefly mentioned in Metal Gear Solid 3 when he is said to be piloting a Lockheed M-21 in game.
• 2005 BBC TV series Space Race – played by Todd Boyce
• 2007 – The player character in BioWare’s sci-fi video game series Mass Effect is surnamed “Shepard” in his honor.
• 2011 – Alternative music band They Might Be Giants briefly referred to him in the song “Can’t Keep Johnny Down” from their album Join Us, in the following lyric: “Some dude/Hitting golf balls on the moon/Bathroom in his pants/And he thinks he’s better than me …”
• 2015 ABC TV series The Astronaut Wives Club – played by Desmond Harrington.[34]
Physical description
• Weight: 170 lb (77 kg)
• Height: 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
• Hair: Brown
• Eyes: Blue
Shepard as Mercury astronaut in 1963
Shepard at Houston’s Mission Control during Gemini 6 in 1965
Shepard (right) with Apollo 14 crewmate Ed Mitchell in 1970
Shepard in 1970
1. Jump up^ “Astronaut Bio: Alan B. Shepard, Jr. 7/98”. NASA. September 1998. Retrieved August 15, 2013.
2. Jump up^ “Alan Shepard Becomes Admiral”. The Blade (Toledo, OH:Block Communications). Associated Press. August 26, 1971. p. 12. Retrieved August 15, 2013.
3. Jump up^ Al Shepard’s parents
4. Jump up^ Alan B. Shepard, Jr. at scouting.org
5. Jump up^ “Mayflower-L archives”. RootsWeb.com. Ancestry.com. Retrieved February 10, 2011. Email from Susan E. Roser. Subject: Fw: [MFLR] Alan B. Shepard Jr. – Warren Descendant. Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 09:36:09 -0500.
6. Jump up^ Alan Shepard at New Mexico Museum of Space History
7. Jump up^ Swenson et al. 1989
8. Jump up^ Swenson et al. 1989, Chapter 11.4: “Shepard’s Ride”
9. Jump up^ Shepard & Slayton 1994, p. 111
10. Jump up^ Kranz 2000
11. Jump up^ “Events of 1961: U.S. in Space”. UPI.com. United Press International. 1961. Retrieved April 18, 2011.
13. Jump up^ “Apollo 14”. Apollo to the Moon. Washington, D.C.: National Air and Space Museum. July 1999. Retrieved August 15, 2013.
14. ^ Jump up to:a b Jones, Eric M., ed. (1995). “EVA-2 Closeout and the Golf Shots”. Apollo 14 Lunar Surface Journal. NASA. Archivedfrom the original on May 24, 2011. Retrieved May 29, 2011.
15. ^ Jump up to:a b “Alan B. Shepard, Jr.”. astronautscholarship.org. Astronaut Scholarship Foundation. Retrieved August 15, 2013.Shepard biography on the official website of the Mercury 7 astronauts, United States Astronaut Hall of Fame.
16. Jump up^ Founding of the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation
17. Jump up^ Shepard & Slayton 1994
18. Jump up^ Drew, Mike (July 11, 1994). “TBS’ ‘Moon Shot’ Rises Above Other TV Fare”. Milwaukee Journal (Journal Communications). Retrieved August 15, 2013.
19. Jump up^ Stillwater Cove, Del Monte Forest, California 36.564306°N 121.942667°W
20. Jump up^ Thompson 2004
21. Jump up^ Al Shepard’s awards and honors .history.nasa.gov
22. Jump up^ “National Aviation Hall of fame: Our Enshrinees”. National Aviation Hall of Fame. Retrieved February 10, 2011.
23. Jump up^ Alan Shepard inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame Hall of Fame
24. Jump up^ Alan Shepard inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame
25. Jump up^ Goldfarb, Greg (October 14, 1994). “Dome’s memory will linger as a monument several activities are planned to honor the beach’s now-razed former civic center”. The Virginian-Pilot(Norfolk, VA: Landmark Communications, Inc.). p. 4. Archived from the original on March 19, 2008. Retrieved August 15,2013.
26. Jump up^ “Derry, NH”. NewHampshire.com. Union Leader Corp. Archived from the original on August 30, 2010. RetrievedAugust 24, 2010.
27. Jump up^ “H.R.4517”. Library of Congress. Retrieved May 29, 2007.
28. Jump up^ Gray, Tara. “Alan B. Shepard, Jr.”. 40th Anniversary of the Mercury 7. NASA History Program Office. Archived from the original on December 8, 2006. Retrieved December 29, 2006.
29. Jump up^ “Cocoa Beach Review”. Fodor’s. Retrieved August 15, 2013.
30. Jump up^ “Space Foundation Survey Reveals Broad Range of Space Heroes; Early Astronauts Still the Most Inspirational” (Press release). Colorado Springs, CO: Space Foundation. October 27, 2010. Retrieved August 15, 2013.
31. Jump up^ Mirelson, Doc (April 19, 2011). “NASA Honors Pioneer Astronaut Alan Shepard With Moon Rock” (Press release). Washington, D.C.: NASA. Media Advisory: M11-077. RetrievedAugust 15, 2013.
32. Jump up^ Pearlman, Robert Z. (May 4, 2011). “New U.S. Stamps Honor Astronaut Alan Shepard and Mission to Mercury”. Space.com(Ogden, UT: TechMedia Network). Retrieved August 15, 2013.
33. Jump up^ Marriott 1992, p. 23
34. Jump up^ Ausiello, Michael (March 19, 2014). “ABC’s Astronaut Wives Club Casts Dexter’s Desmond Harrington as Alan Shepherd”.TV Line. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
• Kranz, Gene (2000). Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-0079-9. LCCN 00027720. OCLC 43590801.
• Marriott, John (1992). Thunderbirds Are Go!. Foreword by Gerry Anderson. London: Boxtree. ISBN 1-85283-164-2. OCLC 27642248.
• Swenson, Loyd S., Jr.; Grimwood, James M.; Alexander, Charles C. (1989) [Originally published 1966]. This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury. The NASA History Series. Washington, D.C.: NASA. OCLC 569889. NASA SP-4201. Retrieved June 28, 2007.
• Thompson, Neal (2004). Light This Candle: The Life & Times of Alan Shepard, America’s First Spaceman (1st ed.). New York: Crown Publishers. ISBN 0-609-61001-5. LCCN 2003015688. OCLC 52631310.
Further reading
• Shepard, Alan B.; Slayton, Donald K.; Barbree, Jay; Benedict, Howard (1994). Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America’s Race to the Moon. Introduction by Neil Armstrong (1st ed.). Atlanta: Turner Publishing Company. ISBN 1-878685-54-6. LCCN 94003027.OCLC 29846731.
• Wilford, John Noble (July 23, 1998). “Alan B. Shepard Jr. Is Dead at 74; First American to Travel in Space”. The New York Times.
External links
Portal icon Biography portal
Portal icon World War II portal
Portal icon United States Navy portal
Portal icon Spaceflight portal
• Shepard’s official NASA short biography
• Shepard’s official NASA biography for 40th Anniversary of Mercury 7
• Alan Shepard: 1st American in Space at the Wayback Machine (archived May 27, 2010) – slideshow by Life magazine
• Alan Shepard at the Internet Movie Database
• Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. at Find a Grave
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The theme of mission has not received the kind of focus and attention in our urban churches that it should. Having been seen largely as a work across the ocean in far flung corners of the world, we have failed to give it the kind of critical analysis that it deserves. From one vantage point, the entirety of the Christian faith could be seen as a response of mission, the call to go to the nations and proclaim Jesus of Nazareth as Lord and King of the reign of God. The NT is a collection of missionary documents given to churches that were founded by the apostles, the original missionaries of the Christian faith. God himself is the original missionary, coming to the world in Christ and reconciling it to himself (2 Cor. 5.18-21). Indeed, Christianity is mission.
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Lee you keep saying what UKentucky did but you actually don't know what UKentucky did, you only have Gaskell's claims as to what they did!
Thony C., the deposition covers both Gaskell's side of the story, and UKentucky's, so I'm not just extrapolating, or making this up.
What he said, too.
diandra wrote
... the judge, who looked through a lot more evidence than any of us have, refused summary judgments in either direction because he didn't feel either side had proved their case.
That's a mischaracterization of what a "summary judgment" means. To issue a summary judgment for one side or the other, the judge must interpret every fact or inference as being as favorable as possible to the side against whom judgment is requested, and in spite of that weight of favorable interpretation find that that side has no case. In this instance neither side could make that hurdle.
And if Kottner would bother to read the documents in the matter, he'd find that there was no "rush to judgment," and that the committee mostly looked at the (mis)match between what the job required and what Gaskell brought to it in making their decision.
And as to Kottner's claim that Gaskell merely brought Johnson's and Behe's books to the attention of his audience in an effort to 'meet them where they are,' note that he recommended them as illustrating how some biologists and geologists see the matter, ignoring the fact that neither Johnson nor Behe is a biologist or geologist and that they both routinely and purposefully distort the science in their books.
Oh, and another thing:
Apparently, I skipped past the last paragraph in the blog post. What a frankly disgusting false equivalency.
The "fear of the Other" demonstrated by "white supremacists, jihadists, and homophobes" is fear of the unknown. Religion is the opposite of unknown; it pervades society, exerting massive influence on public policy and cultural mores. Fear is not, by definition, irrational, and fearing irrationality is very rational indeed. No one is "tarring all spiritual seekers with the same brush of ignorance." Anyone who identifies himself or herself as a "spiritual seeker" is admitting to believing in things without evidence or despite evidence to the contrary, which is irrational. Rationality and irrationality are not equivalent, and apologizing for irrationality is not laudable.
Religion and irrationality are not equilvalent. I know that Kevin and others of the "extreme atheist" stripe aren't going to agree with that, for they've basically *defined* religion as irrational, by defining "rational" as "that which can be derived entirely from the scientific method."
As Lee points out, there is a wide range of religious viewpoints. There are the convinced fundamentalists, for whom there may be no hope, and there are folks like me who are practising scientists and who are, based on reading just this blog post, if anything more worried about Gaskell's religious language than non-religious Lee seems to be.
The *fact* is that the majority of the USA, at least, is made up of people with *some* religious connection. Many of them aren't very religious, many of them probably just have vestiges of it left over from their childhood. And, many of them, like Lee was, are people to whom science could reach out to. However, once you've written them off as fundamentally irrational-- well, you're never going to talk to them.
*You* don't have to accept any religion yourself. But by convincing yourself that those who aren't strict philosophical materialists must therefore have something wrong with their thinking, you're no better than the fundamentalists who have convinced themselves that those who haven't accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior must therefore be evil. This is what Lee is talking bout when she says tarring all spiritual seekers with the same brush of ignorance. You've draw a very strict line in the sand, and have said "anybody not on my side of this line is irrational, and deserves no defence." That's bad tactics, and it's also out of touch from the thinking nature of many of the people who don't strictly share your philosophy.
Where the facts are disputed, a detached observer usually refrains from making a judgment.
A key point of contention here is whether Dr. Gaskell is referencing creationist works to "pique the interest" of his religious audience and using this method to promote good science, or is he doing so in support of creationism and attempting to use UKentucky to help bolster his credentials.
What is his actual goal? That is very difficult to tell, even for the people directly involved in the case who have access to more details. It is also a very subjective issue as people often have shifting beliefs and intentions.
Which makes the emotional certitude displayed in this post very extraordinary - terms such as "bigotry", "discrimination" when discussing this specific case and "hysterical witch hunt", "skeptics and scientists crusading", " extremists in the the secular world", "cheap, petty, ignorant fear", "frothing at the mouth skeptic/atheists" when discussing about the wider context.
Moreover, any detail that supports the contrary view is either dismissed as irrelevant or ignored:
Dr. Gaskell's previous role as faculty advisor of the Intelligent Design Theorists of Nebraska at UNL is dismissed as irrelevant.
Dr. Gaskell referencing numerous works from prominent creationists and a discredited textbook from the Discovery Institute is "knowing your audience".
Personal opinion such as "none of Gaskell's talks sounds Creationist to me" is relevant, but the views of UKentucky Biology Department faculty who reviewed Dr. Gaskell's lecture notes and "expressed concern... about Gaskell’s 'creationist' views and the impact these views would have on the university" is not mentioned.
So Dr. Gaskell is "piquing the interest" or "finding common ground" or a "possible bridge with the Christian community" or "speaking their language" or "using references to God and creation as a lever to open the doors of blind faith".
This partiality is extraordinary.
Klar: Pot, kettle. You're no less partial than I am, just on the other side, and I never claimed to be detached (I'm hardly ever detached, and I think pure objectivity, scientific or otherwise, is largely a myth). I think that smoking gun email sort of speaks for itself. I agree that intention is difficult to pin down, but I'm basing my opinion on the interpretation of the text of Gaskell's talk, and that's what I do for a living. While it's true that that's just my opinion, I never said it was anything else but. I also spent nearly 30 years as a door-to-door evangelizer, so I have a pretty good sense of how you woo people from one set of beliefs to another, and that's how Gaskell's talk reads to me. This is a strictly editorial post, hence my emotional certitude, which you seem to consider a bad thing. Religious discrimination is religious discrimination, whether it's against Jews, Christians, or Muslims, and that's bigotry, and it's ugly. I dismissed Gaskell's advising of the ID theorists for two reasons: (1) it was six years ago and he's no longer at Nebraska and (2) the source was a badly written student blog, which counts as hearsay in my book. Show me a university document with Gaskell's name listed as advisor and that's another matter. The lecture itself, I might add, was given 13 years ago. That's a long time in anybody's intellectual development.
Kevin, Fear of the Other is the just fear of the unknown person--the person not like you and therefor unknown and often presumed unknowable and that's irrational. The ubiquity of religion does not mean you understand it, especially since you're claiming it's all entirely irrational. Being a spiritual seeker does not necessarily mean you believe in things without evidence; it usually means that you don't believe all the evidence is in, and you don't think humanity is smart enough to have all the answers.
RBH, first off, you got both my gender and my sex wrong. Secondly, if you mean Shafer's deposition, why, I have read that, actually. If you have links to others, I'd be glad to see those too. In it, Shafer's initial reaction to Gaskell is quite favorable (p. 6 of the PDF) until she becomes aware of his "evangelical" ties (her words), and she'd only "scanned" his lecture, not read it in-depth. That seems like a rush to judgment to me. I also think he's not recommending Johnson and Behe as biologists themselves but recommending the bibliography and the work of other Christian biologists and geologists, for whom he gives the names of societies where they can be found.
There is no accurate way to construe religion as rational. Once again, religion necessarily entails believing in things without evidence or despite evidence to the contrary. How can something be rational when it is done for no legitimate, i.e. objective, reason? Even a logical argument or sequence of arguments must predicate itself on evidence in order to apply to reality.
Where, exactly, do I write off all religious people as fundamentally irrational? Please, point it out if you can. Religion itself is irrational; a person who holds religious beliefs is thereby partially irrational, but certainly not wholly irrational just because of that. The jump that so many people make from "opposing a person's irrationalities" to "opposing the entire person because they're sometimes irrational" mystifies me.
Yet again, it's irrationality deserves no defense, not sometimes-irrational people. Trying to reach out and teach people critical thinking by appealing to their irrationalities is nonsense; it's like trying to teach someone to write by giving them unsharpened pencils. To say religious people have "something wrong" with their thinking makes an absolute moral judgment that I haven't come close to suggesting. If they value rationality, then they are not being entirely successful at achieving their values, and could do better. If they don't value rationality, fine, but they shouldn't expect me to take them very seriously. If we toss empirical and rational thinking out the window, then there are simply no possible objective comparisons, and anything goes.
This discussion continues to be baffling - once again I see argument by assertion. If Dr. Gaskell's intention is tough to pin down, what is the source of this certainty that it must be religious discrimination. Even the judge directly involved in the case does not have this certitude.
In addition, I don't understand this method of dismissing or omitting information. For example, what is the ground for omitting the UKentucky Biology faculty's view that Dr. Gaskell's lecture contains creationist views?
The passage of time by itself is definitely not enough. There could be creationists who maintain their beliefs for many years but instead have become better at disguising it. Such individuals will also reference creationist works while strongly denying that they are creationists.
I see the assertion that 30-year experience as a door-to-door evangelizer is used as a qualification to assess that Dr. Gaskell is not a creationist in disguise. But how about the rest of us who don't have that experience.
How to tell the difference?
Does the individual who is using the method of "common ground" to promote good science use different words, or different approach etc. from a disguised creationist? Any systematic difference at all.
Klar, the judge is paid to be impartial and examine all the facts. I'm stating my opinion, not his. And I'm basing my opinion on a reading of the facts that were available to me, as are the biologists, but we're coming from two different standpoints. One of the things I'm trying to point out is that there is a bias against anyone who even discusses different types of evolutionary thought with a public audience who isn't roundly denouncing it in no uncertain terms--and that that's not how to win converts. Because that's what I think Gaskell is doing in this talk. I think he's trying to make people aware of where the real hokum is by pointing out what's scientific, what's not, what's Biblical and what's not in contemporary pseudo evolutionary thought. You teach people discernment by pointing out discrepancies and getting them to ask questions about what they already know; only then do they start really questioning what they've been taught. As Mark Twain (or Will Rogers; I've seen it attributed to both) said: "It ain't what we don't know that hurts us; it's what we know that ain't so."
And by definition, you are not the audience for this talk, and neither are the biologists of UKentucky who stated their opinion about it. The audience is a group of Christians who are curious about the natural world, about science and about why there's such a huge fight between scientific and religious thought. They are already questioning and you don't want to turn them off entirely by telling them that everything they thought they knew is bullshit. I've worked with evangelizers like that, and they're never successful. The key to conversion (and conversation) is encouraging questioning, because a change of opinion can't be imposed from outside. It has to come from within.
Without the ability to honestly and openly discuss the ideas and issues without fear of being penalized, you can kiss goodbye the idea of getting more people to think rationally about evolution. Evolution must be taught in the schools to counter what a lot of kids, like me, get at home, but the only way to reach adults is through talks (and books) like Gaskell's. The man says he is not an IDer, or a young earther, or holding any other sort of pseudo-scientific idea of evolution. Are you accusing him of lying? Just because the Ukentucky biologists think they see someone who doesn't hew to their orthodoxy doesn't mean that's necessarily so. And this is what I mean by witch hunting. It's not too damn different from the Inquisition, except you won't actually be waterboarded or pressed to death or burned at the stake. But you may lose your job for encouraging people to think. That's just sad when it comes from a group of people who claim to have a headlock on rationality.
Of course all the evidence isn't in, and we don't have all the answers (although I would not accept that a lack of intelligence is the reason for that). However, for someone to identify himself or herself as a "spiritual seeker" or anything similar implies, at the very least, an expectation that future evidence will take a specific form, i.e. it will support spirituality. That expectation is quite obviously irrational; if we don't know what form new evidence will take (which is what makes it new evidence), then there's no reason to believe it will support spirituality over, or even alongside, anything else.
Having an active belief in something that's not supported by evidence (even if it's not contradicted) is irrational because it's arbitrary. I would imagine that you don't believe in the existence of fairies, unicorns, leprechauns, etc. because no evidence specifically promotes their existence, so there's no reason to believe in them. The exact same thing is true of religious concepts; the only difference is that people pass these things down as traditions, so they are not afforded the same critical thought.
"However, for someone to identify himself or herself as a 'spiritual seeker' or anything similar implies, at the very least, an expectation that future evidence will take a specific form, i.e. it will support spirituality."
No, it means the evidence, whatever it is, is not in, for everything. What came before the Big Bang? Hell, what started the Big Bang? Why is quantum mechanics so weird and what does that mean? I suspect that there's more to be discovered that we haven't even invented questions for, yet. This is the whole idea behind the two magesteria: Science tells you what is, spirituality tells you what it might mean for you, personally. Don't confuse religious dogma with a sense of the ineffable. A lot of self-respecting non-religious scientists, especially physicists, have a strong sense of the enormity of the universe, not just in its size, but in its possibilities. We know a little, teeny patch of it and have a tunnel-vision glimpse into its history. What else is out there, waiting to mess with our tidy little world views? I could resort to quoting Shakespeare at this point, but I won't, Horatio. But thinking we're the smartest beings in a ball park this vast? Wow.
If you think quantum mechanics is "weird," that's a problem with you, not a problem with it. Quantum mechanics is the theory that best describes a multitude of experimental results; in short, it is, to the best of our knowledge, how the universe works. I don't think it's particularly meaningful that the default human perspective differs from the quantum perspective, given that humans evolved around very little interaction with quantum scale phenomena. The universe has no duty to adapt itself to our preconceived patterns of thought. In fact, in order to be rational, we must adapt our thinking when we encounter evidence which demonstrates that the way we think about the universe isn't how the universe actually works.
You're taking the word "spirituality" beyond any reasonable definition. The word has a definite supernatural/religious connotation, and if you eliminate that you're hardly talking about anything at all, and certainly not the actual topic of discussion. If you say "we don't have all the evidence, so anything is possible" and use that as a justification for any specific unsupported belief, you are being irrational. For one, many things are not possible based on the evidence we currently have (at least to an overwhelmingly high confidence level), including many religious/supernatural truth claims. Furthermore, while absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, it's even more certainly not a reason to hold any sort of active belief. Appreciating the existence of an enormity of possibilities just means being willing to accept them if a reason presents itself. (See, for example, this YouTube video discussing open-mindedness.)
The "non-overlapping magisteria" thing is nonsense, and I'll let another blogger explain that (Sean Carroll, perhaps you've heard of him): Science and Religion are Not Compatible and the follow-up What Questions Can Science Answer?.
Kevin, now we are in the realm of opinion, yours vs. mine: i.e., the weirdness of quantum mechanics, but I've always thought J.B.S. Haldane nailed that: "the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose." Whether that has anything to do with our lack of previous interaction with it or not, it didn't match our first experiences of the world, nor the laws we "discovered" about it. Why else call something "spooky action at a distance"? Even Einstein thought it was weird--too weird. What was that you said about adapting our preconceived patterns of thought?
As for the definition of spirituality, Merriam Webster define its as "a sensitivity or attachment to religious values," not religious dogma. For example, I find the values of Buddhism--compassion for all, love, lack of attachment--worth considering and emulating, but don't swallow the dogma of reincarnation. The fact that we (humans) are still arguing about where morals and ethics arise from and what the hell consciousness is is a good indicator that this question is not solved, and probably won't be in the near future.
I'm not dragging Sean into this; he studied philosophy and came to his own conclusions. But I often think that scientists don't really grasp the function of the metaphor, story, or myth very well (though they're not the only ones; too many people take fiction literally). And that's one of the factors at the heart of this debate. But the real point of the debate is the freedom to discuss ideas--even erroneous ones--in the open without fear of reprisal, because that's the only way knowledge advances and learning takes place.
Lee, you hit that right on the head. Too many of these people in the atheist debates about whether religion is something that can be accommodated, or something that must be mocked, seen to think that the only thing that can be called "knowledge" is scientific knowledge, and that any other kind of thinking besides scientific thinking is just fuzzy and unrespectable. This, of course, would be news to the vast majority of the faculty of any university. However, the arguments against religion as being something that somebody who is intellectually honest or reasonable could do ultimately come down to arguing that nothing other than science is real thought.
If it is true that Dr. Gaskell is trying to promote good science with the "common ground" method, and if it's also true that this method is really more effective, then I hope this turns out well for him.
I understand the challenge of communicating science that is socially unpopular. However the "common ground" approach, while it may make the message more palatable (eg. using "theistic" evolution to convince the religious into accepting biological evolution, despite the reality that modern evolutionary theory has no theistic element), it might also end up popularizing deep misconceptions about the subject matter
Disturbing to see that I've been read as accusing Dr. Gaskell of lying, which isn't a charitable read since I've clearly stated I don't have enough information to make any such call, moreover Dr. Gaskell might just be undecided instead of deliberately lying.
Though this charge is significantly less harsh than what the UKentucky biologists got - "orthodoxy", "witch hunting", "not too damn different from the Inquisition" etc. - for stating their professional view about Dr. Gaskell's lecture.
The use of such attacking terms feels like a disproportionate response to me, but I concede this may be due to my inexperience, since I have barely done a decade of scientific research (dealing with molecules, not with interpretation of texts) and I've never been a professional evangelizer of any sort.
Jennifer, since your warning about the moderation policy, I will be able to say very little here:)
That essay by Gould is one of his more stupid and pusillanimous ones. Religion is irrational, superstitious, and
faith-based. Science isn't, or shouldn't be. I doubt that you would object to my being somewhat rude about, say,
homeopathy- but religion always gets a free pass because any atheist pointing out its faults is considered aggressive and rude.
Agreed that religion is superstitious and faith-based and science isn't, and shouldn't be. Since when is that at issue? Plenty of atheists have pointed out religion's flaws without being aggressive or rude; having a thoughtful discussion on the topic does not equate giving religion "a free pass." The same moderation policy applies to homeopathy and other contentious topics, incidentally.
The Magisteria essay was an absolute low point in Gould's output. It is craven in the sense that I do not think
he really believed his own words. It is the usual political correctness involved in not challenging religion as an irrational superstition. "Two separate Magisteria"---pretty grand (pompous) and totally meaningless. Sure, one magisterium is rational, leads to increased understanding of the universe, and results generally in improved quality of life. The other enshrines belief without reason. Having said that, I do enjoy his essays.
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I cannot properly express the privilege it has been to present the work of Joseph Alleine on this blog. This is not a book that you would most likely put on your must read list. I want to encourage all to present this book to the leadership of your church and challenge them to preach this from the pulpit or at least talk about it. Encourage everyone you know to read it including your leadership. I believe God will use this to reveal many deceptions among those that think they are right with God, but are not.
In an age where most churches feel the need to be relevant and courageous, biblical teaching on conversion and repentance is no longer en vogue, the greatest mission field today is sitting within the walls of “churches”. The greatest challenge in evangelism today comes from those that profess Christ. The preaching is watered down, so not to offend, and the gospel is compromised to keep the unregenerate in the seats. This should not be the case. I urge you friends to challenge them; it just might have them understand their desperate situation.
Do you remember the scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade when they make it into the room where the chalice of Christ is located? They must choose which cup and drink from the water to give them eternal life? What an interesting representation of our lives. We must choose wisely and live or choose foolishly and perish. The cross stands before us today to look to it and be saved or stay in our sin and die.
In the conclusion of A Sure Guide to Heaven, Joseph Alleine makes his final appeal to turn to Christ and live.
And now, beloved, let me know your mind. What do you intend to do? Will you go on and die, or will you turn and lay hold on eternal life? How long will you linger in Sodom? How long will you halt between two opinions? Have you not yet resolved whether Christ or Barabbas, whether bliss or torment, whether this vain and wretched world, or the paradise of God, be the better choice?
How long will you rest in idle wishes and fruitless purposes? When will you come to a fixed, firm, and full resolve? Do you not see how Satan cheats you by tempting you to delay? How long has he drawn you on in the way of perdition!
Well, do not put me off with a dilatory answer; tell me not later. I must have your immediate consent. If you are not now resolved, while the Lord is treating with you and inviting you, much less likely are you to be later, when these impressions are worn off, and you are hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. Page 141
Remember, you are now upon your good behaviour [sic] for everlasting; if you do not make a wise choice now, you are undone for ever [sic]. What your present choice is, such must be your eternal condition. Page 142
Hear, O ye drunkards, how long will you be drunk? Put away your wine. Though you have rolled in filthiness of your sin, give yourselves unto Christ, to live soberly, righteously, and godly; embrace His righteousness; accept His government; and though you have been vile, He will wash you (Rev i 5). Page 146
And now bear witness that mercy has been offered you. ‘I call heaven and earth to record against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that you may live’ (Deut xxx 19). I can only entreat you and warn you. I cannot otherwise compel you to be happy; if I could, I would. What answer will you send me with to my Master?
If you are not the despisers of grace, and would not shut the doors of mercy against yourselves, repent and be converted. Page 147
Alleine leaves us with the answer. Repent and be converted.
How simple… how easy…
But why is this impossible for the hardened human heart? The call is clear. Man is responsible for his failure to receive Christ. If you don’t turn and live you will die in your sins and trespasses. Today I appeal to your conscience, turn and live.
If you are a Believer, preach the word!
A Sure Guide to Heaven – Part 7 – The motives to conversion
This is my last full length article on A Sure Guide to Heaven. I will wrap up next week with the conclusion. This is a fascinating work and one that will benefit all that put the energy into reading it.
What motivates you?
A motive as defined by Merriam-Webster is something (as a need or desire) that causes a person to act.
Are you motivated by money, prestige, and respect, what gets you excited, what really trips your trigger? Are you motivated by the things of the world, or are you motivated to rid yourself of your bondage to sin? Are you motivated to win souls to Jesus Christ?
The things that motivate you define who you are.
Believer how do you see people? They are either a redeemed child of the King or someone headed to hell for eternal punishment. Do we have compassion for them? Do we desire for them to know the glories of being a follower of Jesus Christ? I hope you are stirred to speak and share the good news, it might be the only chance they have.
The motives to conversion
Men and brethren, heaven and earth call upon you; yea, hell itself preaches the doctrine of repentance unto you. The ministers of the churches labour for you. The angels of heaven wait for you, for your repenting and turning unto God. O sinner, why should devils laugh at your destruction, and deride your misery, and sport themselves with your folly? This will be your case, except you turn. Page 130
O rock! O adamant! What, not moved yet? Not yet resolved to turn forthwith and to close with mercy? I will try yet once again. If one were sent to you from the dead, would you be persuaded? Why, hear the voice from the dead, from the damned, crying to you that you should repent: ‘I pray thee that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house; for I have five brethren; that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment; if one went to them from the dead, they will repent’ (Lk xvi 27-28). Hear, O man; your predecessors in impenitence preach to you from the infernal flames, that you should repent.
O lay your ear to the door of hell. Do you hear the curses and blasphemies, the weepings and wailings, how they lament their follies and curse their day? How do they roar and gnash their teeth! How deep their groans! How inconceivable their miseries!
And of their moans and miseries this is the piercing, killing emphasis and burden, ‘For ever! For ever!’ Page 132
1: The God that made you most graciously invites you
His most sweet and merciful nature invites you. O the kindness of God, His boundless compassion, His tender mercies! As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways above our ways, and His thoughts above our thoughts. ‘He is full of compassion, and gracious, long-suffering, and plenteous in mercy’ (Ps lxxxvi 15).
Sinners do not fail in that they have too high thoughts of God’s mercies, but in that they overlook His justice, or they promise themselves mercy out of God’s way.
Are you willing to come in? Page 133
O melting, gracious words: the voice of God, and not of a man! This is not the manner of men, for the offended sovereign to sue to the offending, traitorous rebel. O how does mercy follow you, and plead with you! Is not our heart broken yet? O that today you would hear His voice! Page 134
2: The doors of heaven are thrown open to you
Let me say to you, as Paul to Agrippa, ‘Believest thou the prophets?’
O ye sons of folly, will you embrace the dunghill and refuse the kingdom? Page 135
3: God will give you unspeakable privileges in this life
He will give you grace and glory, and withhold no good thing from you. He will take you for His sons and daughters, and make you heirs of His promises, and establish His everlasting covenant with you He will justify you from all that law, conscience and Satan can charge upon you. He will give you free access into His presence, and accept your person, and receive your prayers. Page 137
4: The terms of mercy are brought as low as possible to you
God has stooped as low to sinner as with honour He can. He will not be the author of sin, nor stain the glory of His holiness; and how could He come lower than He has, unless He should do this?
He declares Himself to have received a ransom, and that He expects nothing but that you should accept His son, and He shall be righteousness and redemption to you. If you come in His Christ, and set your heart to please Him, making this your chief concern, He will graciously accept you. Page 138
O sinner, return and live; why should you die when life is to be had for the taking, when mercy entreats you to be saved? Page 139
5: God offers all needed grace to enable you
God commands you to know Him, and to fear Him. Do you say, ‘Yes but my mind is blinded, and my heart is hardened from His fear?’ I answer that God offers to enlighten your mind, and to teach you His fear.
God invites you to be made clean, and entreats you to yield to Him. O accept His offers, and let Him do for you, and in you, what you cannot do for yourselves. Page 140
My dear friends I hope that today you consider the powerful words of this book. If you know Christ, share the gospel with all you can. If you don’t know Christ, see yourself as a miserable wretch and know He is your only hope. Turn and live.
A Sure Guide to Heaven – Part 6 – Directions to the unconverted
I finished my prep work this afternoon before starting to write and I sent my cousin a text message “A Sure Guide to Heaven should be required reading for anyone that thinks they know Christ.” What else could I say, why won’t the places that call themselves churches preach like this anymore?
Do they teach like this?
Do people understand their wretchedness to a Holy God? Would they require this book in the newcomer orientation classes? I almost laugh myself silly when I think about the pizza, Pepsi and “oh here you go, we want you to read this book…” “Say what?”
As I was reading the sixth chapter and attempting to digest the truth pouring off the pages my head was swimming, am I really saved? And I believe that I’m saved… I can still remember how I felt when I came to the realization I’d been a false convert my whole adult life. What should I do? Can it be true, have I really just been saved? Did God really show me my sin? What else could I do, but fall to my knees and praise Him for His grace and mercy.
To my dear friends and readers, if this study has not made an impact on you, there is something wrong and I hope you will examine yourself in that light.
You’ve either taken my admonishment to read this book or you haven’t and I’ve either inspired you to want to read it or I’ve lost you by now, so if you have stuck with me, I praise God for your diligence and I trust you have been blessed.
Directions to the unconverted
Before you read these directions, I advise you, yea, I charge you before God and His holy angels, that you resolve to follow them, as far as conscience shall be convinced of their agreeableness to God’s Word and your state; and call in His assistance and blessing that they may succeed. Page 100
Again Ailleen appeals to God’s Word as the source of truth as he lays out sixteen directives for the unconverted.
1: Set it down with yourself as an undoubted truth, that it is impossible for you ever to get to heaven in this your unconverted state
Can any other but Christ save you? And He tells you He will never do it except you be regenerated and converted. Page 101
2: Labour to get a thorough sight and lively sense and feeling of your sins
Till men are weary and heavy laden, and pricked at the heart, and quite sick of sin, they will not come to Christ for cure, nor sincerely enquire, ‘What shall we do?’ Page 101
The loathsome carcase does not more hatefully swarm with crawling maggots, than an unsanctified soul with filthy lusts. They fill the head, the heart, the eyes and mouth of him. Look backward; where was ever the place, what was ever the time, in which you did not sin? Page 102
The least sinful word or thought lays you under the infinite wrath of God. Page 103
3: Strive to affect your heart with a deep sense of your present misery
Read over the previous chapter again and again, and get it out of the book into your heart. [emphasis mine] Remember when you lie down, that for all you know, you may awake in flames; and when you rise up, that by the next night you may make your bed in hell. Page 105
4: Settle it in your heart that you must look out of yourself and away from your own doings for help
Do not think your praying, reading, hearing, confessing, or amending, will effect the cure. These must be attended to, but you are undone if you rest in them. You are a lost man if you hope to escape drowning on any other plank but Jesus Christ. Page 106
5: Henceforth renounce all your sins
If you yield yourself to the practice of any sin, you are undone. In vain do you hope for life by Christ, except you depart from iniquity. Forsake your sins, or you cannot find mercy. You cannot be married to Christ except you be divorced from sin.
Your sins must die, or you must die for them. Page 107
6: Make a solemn choice of God for your portion and blessedness
Take up your rest in God. Sit down under His shadow. Let His promises and perfections turn the scale against all the world.
Poor sinner, you have fallen off from God, and have engaged His power and wrath against you; yet know, that of His abundant grace He offers to be your God again in Christ. Page 108 & 109
7: Accept the Lord Jesus in all His offices as yours
Sinner, you have undone yourself, and are plunged into the ditch of most deplorable misery, out of which you are never able to escape; but Jesus Christ is able and ready to help you, and He freely tenders Himself to you.
The Lord Jesus calls you to look to Him and be saved.
I tell you, nothing can undo you but your own unwillingness. Speak, man; will you give your consent? Page 113
8: Resign all your powers and faculties, and your whole interest to be His
In a word, you must give Him yourself, and all that you have without reservation, or else you can have no part in Him. Page 115
9: Choose the laws of Christ as the rule of your words, thoughts and actions
This is the true convert’s choice. …there is no getting to heaven by a partial obedience. It is not enough to take up the cheap and easy part of religion, and let alone the duties that are costly and self-denying, and oppose the interests of the flesh; you must take all or none. Page 115
10: Let all this be completed in a solemn covenant between God and your soul
Set apart some time, more than once, to be spent in secret before the Lord – in seeking earnestly His special assistance and gracious acceptance of you – in searching your heart, whether you are sincerely willing to forsake all your sins, and to resign yourself, body and soul, unto God and His service; to serve Him in holiness and righteousness all the days of your life. Page 117
11: Take heed of delaying your conversion, but make a speedy, an immediate surrender of your heart to God
Remember and tremble at the sad instance of the foolish virgins who did not come till the door of mercy was shut, and of a convinced Felix who put off Paul to another season, but we do not find that he had another season. Page 120
12: Attend conscientiously upon the Word, as the means appointed for your conversion
Come to every sermon you hear with this thought: ‘O I hope God will now come in; I hope this day may be the time this may be the man by whom God will bring me home.’ Page 121
13: Strike in with the Spirit when He begins to work upon your heart
When He works convictions, O do not stifle them, but join in with Him, and beg the Lord to give you saving conversion. ‘Quench not the Spirit.’ Do not reject Him, do not resist Him. Page 121
14: Set upon the constant and diligent use of serious and fervent prayer
He that neglects prayer is a profane and unsanctified sinner. Page 122
15: Forsake your evil company, and forbear the occasions of sin
You will never be turned from sin till you decline and forego the temptations of sin.
And, of all temptations, one of the most fatal and pernicious is evil companions. Page 122 & 123
16: Set apart a day to humble your soul in secret by fasting and prayer, to work a sense of your sins and miseries upon your heart
…so make a catalogue of your sins, and with shame and sorrow spread them before the Lord.
Thus, I have told you what you must do to be saved. Will you now obey the voice of the Lord? Will you arise and set to the work? O man, what answer will you make, what excuse will you have, if you perish at last through very willfulness, when you have known the way of life? Page 124
Ah! Wretched man that I am! What a condition have I brought myself into by sin! Oh! I see my heart has deceived me all this while, in flattering me that my condition was good. I see, I see, I am but a lost and undone man, for ever undone, unless the Lord help me out of this condition. My sins! My sins! Lord, what an unclean, polluted wretch I am! More loathsome and odious to Thee than the most hateful venom or noisome carcase can be to me. Oh! What a hell of sin is in this heart of mine, which I have flattered myself to be a good heart! Lord, how universally am I corrupted, in all my parts, powers, and performances! All the imaginations of my heart are only evil continually. Page 125
I can’t imagine most evangelical pastors standing up and giving this type of a message today. Can you just see the place emptying before your eyes? It would have the same effect as Jesus when he preached His sermon from John 6:32-68. Then Peter said “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.”
Do you understand these are the words of eternal life?
A Sure Guide to Heaven – Part 5 – The miseries of the unconverted
As I continue to study this book by Joseph Alleine, I stand in awe of the power of this man’s words. These are not the powerful words of a man that talks because he loves the sound of his own voice. You know the type don’t you?
This is a man that is passionate for unbelievers to see their misery. I think of the words of the Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 5:20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.
He is pleading and begging for them to see their state of unbelief. Do we do this with the one’s we love? Do we do this with anyone? If you are a believer, unbeliever, unsure or unwittingly deceived, I hope you will spend some time and contemplate these words. Alleine does not rely on his own strength, but the power of God’s Word to convince, rebuke and exhort with all longsuffering those in opposition. (2 Timothy 4:2)
So unspeakably dreadful is the case of every unconverted soul, that I have sometimes thought if I could only convince men that they are still unregenerate, the work were more than half done. But I find by sad experienced that such a spirit of sloth and slumber possesses the sanctified that, though they are convinced that they are yet unconverted, often they carelessly sit still. Through the love of sensual pleasure, or the hurry of worldly business, or the noise and clamour of earthly cares and lusts and affections, the voice of conscience is drowned, and men go no farther than some cold wishes and general purposes of repenting and amending.
It is therefore of high necessity that I not only convince men that they are unconverted, but that I also endeavour to bring them to a sense of the fearful misery of this state. Page 80
But I must proceed, as I am amble, to unfold that misery which, I confess, no tongue can unfold, no heart can sufficiently comprehend. Know therefore that while you are unconverted: Page 83
1: the infinite God is engaged against you
As much as heaven is above the earth, omnipotence above impotence, so much more terrible is it to fall into the hands of the living God, than into the paws of bears and lions, yea, furies or devils. God Himself will be your tormentor; your destruction shall come from the presence of the Lord (2 Thess i 9). Page 84
[1] His face is against you. ‘The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them’ (Ps xxxiv 16)).
[2] His heart is against you. He hates all the workers of iniquity. Man, does not your heart tremble to think of your being an object of God’s hatred?
[3] All His attributes are against you. His justice is like a flaming sword unsheathed against you. ‘If I whet my glittering sword, and my hand take hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, and will reward them that hate me; I will make mine arrows drunk with blood’ (Deut xxxii 41-42).
So exact is justice that it will by no means clear the guilty. God will not discharge you, He will not hold you guiltless, but will require the whole debt in person from ou, unless you can make a Scripture claim to Christ and His satisfaction. When the enlightened sinner looks on justice, and sees the balance in which he must be weighed and the sowrd by which he must be executed, he feels an earthquake in his breast; but Satan keeps this out of sight and persuades the soul, while he can, that the Lord is all made upo of mercy, and so lulls it asleep in sin. Divine justice is exact; it must have satisfaction to the utmost farthing. It denounces ‘indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish to every soul that doeth evil’ (Rom ii 8-9). Page 85
The holiness of God is against you. He is not only angry with you – so He may be with His children – but He has a fixed habitual displeasure against you. God’s nature is infinitely contrary to sin, and so He cannot delight in a sinner out of Christ. Page 86
He sees how you will come down mightily in a moment, how you will wring your hands, and tear your hair, and eat your flesh, and gnash your teeth for anguish and astonishment of heart, when you see you are fallen irremediably into the pit of destruction. Page 87
2: The whole creation of God is against you.
The very air would say, ‘Lord, must I give this man breath, to set his tongue against heaven, and scorn Thy people, and vent his pride and wrath, and filthy talk, and belch out oaths and blasphemy against Thee? Page 89
3: Satan has his full power over you.
Not that you intend to do him homage. They will be ready to defy him, and him that should say so of them; but all this while they serve him, and live under his government. ‘His servants ye are to whom ye obey’ (Rom vi 16). O how many then will be found to be the real servants of the devil, who take themselves for no other than the children of God!
If he forbids you to read or pray, you hearken to him, and therefore his servants you are. Page 90
Do you live in the willful practice of any known sin? Know that you are of the devil. Do you live in strife, or envy, or malice? Verily he is your father. O dreadful case! Page 91
4: The guilt of all your sins lies like a mountain upon you.
However you may make light of it now, you will one day find the guilt of unpardoned sin to be a heavy burden. Page 92
5: Your raging lusts miserably enslave you.
Who would serve such a master, who work is drudgery, whose wages are death? Page 93
6: The furnace of eternal vengeance is heated ready for you.
If the burning furnace heated in Nebuchadnezzar’s fiery rage, when he commanded it to be made seven times hotter, was so fierce as to burn up even those that drew near to throw the three children in, how hot is that burning of the Almighty’s fury! Surely this is seventy times seven more fierce.
In a word, when the smoke of your torment shall ascend for ever and ever, and you shall have no rest day and night, no rest in your conscience, no ease in your bones; but you shall be an execration and astonishment, and a curse and a reproach, for evermore (Jer xliii 18)? Page 94
7: The law discharges all its threats and curses at you.
Its words are as drawn swords, and as the sharp arrows of the mighty. It demands satisfaction to the utmost, and cries, Justice! Justice! It speaks blood, and war, and wounds, and death, against you.
8: The gospel itself binds the sentence of eternal damnation upon you.
Hear the terror of the Lord. ‘He that believeth not shall be damned.’ ‘Except ye repent, ye shall all perish.’ ‘This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light.’ (MK xvi 16; Lk xiii 3, Jn iii 19). Page 95 & 96
O sinners, do you make light of the wrath to come? I am sure there is a time coming when you will not make light of it. Why! The very devils believe and tremble. What! are you more hardened than they?
Awake! Awake! O sinner, arise and take your flight. There is but one door that you may flee by, and that is the narrow door of conversion and the new birth. Page 97
If the Lord has not spoken by me, regard me not; but if it is the very word of God that all this misery lies upon you, what a state you are in! Page 98
Oh, do not then contend with God. Repent and be converted, so none of this shall come upon you. ‘Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon’ (Is lv 6-7). Page 99
Friends if God does not punish unrighteousness then He is not righteous. I find much hope in these words and I hope you do as well. You will either be affirmed or convicted. Humble yourself today under His mighty hand.
1. Gross willful ignorance (Hos iv 6)
2. Secret reserves in closing with Christ
3. Formality in religion
4. The prevalence of wrong motives in holy duties
5. Trusting in their own righteousness
6. A secret enmity against the strictness of religion
7. The resting in a certain degree of religion
8. The predominant love of the world
10. Unmortified pride
11. The prevailing love of pleasure
12. Carnal security
Make a mistake here, and you perish.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8348 | Using gitflow for code control
git best practices
When you work with a team to develop some program/package/solution is it a must to have some kind of version control system. It is even a really good idea if you are working alone. One of the most common solutions is git. It is not limited to control code you can also use it to control documentation or any kind of files that can have different versions.
Please use git you will be much more happy in the long term!
If you are using git from the command line you should check this guide out.
1. Using 'git flows'
There are some famous 'git flows' in the industry such as:
I strongly recommed using gitflow since is the more complete solution and will give you more flexibility. In this post I am going to explain how it works.
2. Gitflow
With gitflow there are two main branches which are the master and develop. The master branch is a snapshot of the code that is in production. If you add code to this branch it must be deployed to production. The develop branch is where you test your code before adding it to production. This is the branch that will have a snapshot of the development server if you have one.
2.1. Features
To add new functionalities you can create a feature branch. Those start from the develop branch since it has the latest stable code. Once they are finished they get merged to the develop branch.
Feature branches can have any name preceded by feature/
2.2. Releases
Once you want to add new things to production you can do a release. By defition they start from the develop branch. When they are closed they must merge the new changes to the master branch and the develop to ensure that master and develop are aligned.
After closing the release it will add a tag to the master branch with the version like X.X.X.
To add the correct tag release branches should have the name of the new version you are creating preceded by release/ like release/x.x.x
2.2. Hotfixs
Hotfixs are created if and only if there is a thing in production that needs to be fixed before doing a release. This usually means that there is some blocking problem to fix. This is way they are created form the master branch. When closing a hotfix it will be merged to both master and develop like a release.
3. Using code revision
Since you are probably working with a team it is a good idea to have code revision at some point. This way everybody can check other's people code and it will be easier to see if there are errors/problems. This is usually created by pull requests. Those are a way to 'ask' the team to merge a branch to another branch.
I suggest that all pull requests are made instead of finishing a feature. That means that when you finish a feature you should create a pull request to merge that feature into the develop branch. After everybody (or a portion of the team) has checked the code it can be merged.
It is important to merge features into the develop branch, not the master one.
If you want you can also create pull requests to close a release or a hotfix but you need to make sure to do some things:
4. Using gitflow with some git programs
If you use git from a terminal check this guide for using gitflow.
If you are using sourcetree you can use the gitflow button on the top right corner or simply press CTRL + SHIFT + F. This will suggest you the next gitflow action.
If you are using sublime merge you can press CTRL + P to open the command box and type gitflow to performe the action you want.
5. Conventions
When you are working with gitflow you are creating branches with some preffixes which can be customized. If you change them remember to specify it in the README. For example I usually use those preffixes since are shorter:
5.1. Version numbers
As said before releases and hotfixs should be named with the new version you are deploying like for example 1.2.0. Version numbers are usually three numbers separeted by . where they represent:
1. Major version. This should be changed when there is a change in the code that will break backwards compatibility
2. Minor version. To track new features
3. Fix version. This will be increased when the changes are only to fix bugs and not to add features. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8355 | Vitalware 2.2.01
Release Date: 15 June 2011
pdfDownload a document containing these release notes and associated documents.
New Features
Multiple Group Support
Multiple Group support allows a user to be a member of more than one group. The Vitalware Registry entry that defines the group into which a user is placed has been extended to allow a semicolon separated list of groups to be specified. For example:
User|vw|Group|Counter;Mail Room
The above entry indicates user vw is a member of two groups, Counter and Mail Room. If a user is a member of multiple groups, the Vitalware Login screen provides a drop-list with the groups that the user is a member of:
The group selected becomes the active group and is used to determine permissions until another group is selected. The Security tab in the Options dialogue allows another group to be chosen:
When the active group is changed, a dialogue displays allowing the user to indicate how opened modules should be handled:
Any module left open will remain in its existing group. Hence it is possible to have two (or more) modules open, each in a different group. The permissions used for a given module are dictated by the group in which the module exists. The module's group is displayed in the status bar at the bottom of the module window.
A complete description of the support for multiple groups can be found in the pdfMulti-group Support documentation.
Encrypted connections
Encrypted connections support allows all data transmissions between the Vitalware client and server to be encrypted. As part of the login process, X509 based certificates are exchanged allowing Vitalware clients to ensure they are connecting to the correct Vitalware server. TLS v1.0 (Transport Layer Security) is used to provide the encryption. System Administrators may choose the encryption cipher used, allowing different levels of compression and security to be configured. The Vitalware server may be configured only to accept encrypted connections, otherwise encryption is optional.
Encrypted connections are also supported for:
• Java connections (TexJDBC)
• C/C++ connections (TexAPI)
• perl connections (
A complete description of the support for encrypted connections can be found in the pdfEncrypted Connections documentation.
Read-only Modes
A new Registry entry allows System Administrators to make part or all of Vitalware read-only. The format of the new entry at a system wide level is:
At a table level the format is:
where value is either:
• true - read-only functionality is enabled.
• false - read-only functionality is disabled.
A complete description of the support for read-only modes can be found in the pdfRead-only Modes documentation.
Field Help Display
A new option allows the field level help for a given field to be displayed below a module's Status bar. The help display area may be re-sized to suit:
The Show Field Help in Module Window option is located on the General tab in the Options dialogue:
Fields which fail validation may now have their background highlighted in a particluar colour
New functionality has been added which uses the following Registry setting:
System|Setting|Show Validation Errors|true
When this entry is set to true and the column ValValidationFields is prsent in a module, any column listed in this field will be highlighted with the background colour selected for Validation Errors on the Colours tab of the Vitalware options:
Ability to generate a sample of records from a set of records
A new Samples module has been added to record information about a sample of records. Users with sufficient privilege can monitor the progress and authorise the completion of each batch:
The Lot Sizes Registry entry is used to configure sample options. This entry is in the format:
System|Setting|Lot Sizes|Record Type|Sample Type|sample config; sample config;...
The sample config part of the entry defines lot sizes and conditions. Using the first sample config in the example below, if the number of records to base the sample on is 25 or less, then the generated sample for these records will contain five records. In order for this sample to be successfully processed, the sample may only contain a maximum of one error:
System|Setting|Lot Sizes|Registrations|Normal|25-5-1;90-20-2;150-32-3;280-50-4;500-80-5;1200-125-7;
Functionality has been added to the POS and Registration modules to allow for generating and processing samples. A sample may be generated by selecting the Generate Sample menu option found under the Tools menu and processed by selecting the Sample menu option under the new Process menu.
See the latest version of the Vitalware Help for full details.
Ability to attach communications directly to Registration or POS module records
A new Communications module has been created to record individual communications between the registry and its clients. An additional tab has been added to the POS and Registration module to track the communications associated with a record. New communications may be added to a record by selecting the Communications menu option under the new Process menu:
New Call Centre Module
A new Call Centre module has been added to the client, containing summary information from Registration and POS module records. This can be used to provide staff in a call center with reduced record access to respond to first level enquiries.
Edit Resource command
A new command has been added to the Multimedia Repository allowing a user to invoke an external editor to modify the multimedia resource (image, document, etc.). The Edit Resource command downloads the resource from the Vitalware server, invokes an editor and monitors the file for any changes. It also looks for any other files created with the same name as the resource file but with a different extension (file type). When Vitalware receives focus the user is asked whether the modified file should be re-imported into the Multimedia Repository. An affirmative response saves the resource on the Vitalware server and generates any resolutions, etc. The new command streamlines the process of modifying multimedia resources:
XMP and IPTC upgraded
The Multimedia Repository has been upgraded to support the latest versions of the IPTC and XMP metadata standards. The standards implemented are:
• IPTC Core Version 1.1
• IPTC Extension Version 1.1
• XMP July, 2010
Login details on a per client basis
The Host/User/Service/Group login values are remembered on a per client basis. If an institution runs multiple clients, the details displayed in the login dialogue are the values from the last time that particular client was run, rather than the values for the last time any client was invoked.
Change password utility uses SSH
The administration task allowing a user to change their password now uses SSH (secure shell) to effect the change. Previously TELNET was used, requiring the TELNET service to be enabled on the server for the utility to work. By using SSH, the TELNET service no longer needs to be enabled, rather the SSH service is required. Most sites enable SSH to allow secure access to the Vitalware server.
ICS support for notifications
The Vitalware notification system, used to generate email notifications and HTML pages for upcoming activities (registrations, tasks, etc.), now builds an iCalendar (.ics) file containing upcoming dates. The iCalendar file may be imported into a large number of products, including:
• Google Calendar
• Apple iCal
• IBM Lotus Notes
• Microsoft Outlook
Once imported, the upcoming dates, along with a detailed description, are incorporated into the user's calendar.
Reverse scheduling of tasks
The Task tab functionality has been extended to allow the completion and start dates of each task to be computed by specifying the overall completion date. The new functionality allows a user to set the date on which all tasks should be completed and have Vitalware calculate the start and completion dates for each task.
Modifications to vwperiodic
The vwperiodic server-side command is used to run tasks on a regular basis. In particular, it is used to generate the raw data for the Statistics module. The command has been extended to allow:
• Individual scripts to be specified, restricting the scripts executed.
• Execution of local scripts only, via the -l option.
Read-only records in List View
The display of read-only records in List View has been changed. Read-only records are now displayed with a grey background and black text, rather than the harder to read, grey text on a white background:
vwsecurity run automatically when required
A new Audit Trail handler has been added that monitors the Vitalware Registry for changes where a user's settings have been modified. Where settings have been changed, vwsecurity is executed to update the security settings for all Vitalware databases. The following events are handled:
• Addition of a new user.
• Deletion of an existing user.
• Changing the group(s) of an existing user.
• Altering database security via the Security Registry entry.
There should be no need to run vwsecurity manually.
Image Quality available for JPEG 2000
When generating JPEG 2000 based images, the Image Quality may now be defined. The Image Quality determines the level of sampling used when creating the image. The value is between 1 and 100, where 100 implies full sampling, that is no lose of image quality, and 1 represents the least amount of sampling, resulting in a much smaller file size, but with image degradation.
Assign Till number for invoice and zero total amount records
When records are inserted the Till is assigned to the POS, Ledger and Orders records. Two exception to this were when an invoice was created and when no payment was required for an order. In these cases the Till was not assigned until a payment was made for the record. This presented a problem for batch processing because each batch was processed by querying for all POS records on the current Till. The Till number is now assigned to all POS records at their time of creation.
The ability to continue with batch printing when an error occurs
A new Registry entry has been added to allow batch printing to continue after an error has occurred. The entry is:
Group|Default|Table|epos|Continue Batch Print After Error|true
When this is set, each error is shown and then the printing continues from the next record.
The invoice module updated to handle multiple payments entered at any one time
At times it is possible for a customer who has received an invoice to make the payment using two payments and on occasions both payments may come in at the same time. The invoice payment processing only expected one payment and so only processed one. A change was made so that each added payment would be processed in turn thus allowing either one or multiple payments onto an invoice at the same time.
POS module updated to recalulate the invoice amount as new products are added rather than waiting until the record is saved
When additional products were added to a invoice transaction that had not yet been invoiced, the total amount was updated but the invoice payment amount was not. This was confusing for the operator who would try to adjust the total. The calculation for invoice amount has been adjusted so that it is updated when products are added.
Resending of failed NRS messages
If for some reason an NRS message that should have been sent was not sent (e.g. as a result of a logic error), there was no trigger to enable the message to be sent. The vwauditdump script was modified to allow audit records to be scanned to find the appropriate audits so these could be passed back through the NRS mechanism. An additional script vwnrsreprocess was created which takes the found audit records and generates the expected XML files.
Event type correction when the barcode scanning process inserts a certificate audit record
An invalid event type error could be shown when an event was not linked to the order that generated it. A change was made to check the Products module based on the product ordered to determine the correct event type.
New Process Menu
A new Process menu has been added to the Registration and POS modules. The new Communications and Sampling functionality (see above) can be found under this menu. It was decided to move some other functionality under the Process menu: the Adoption (Births) and Image menus (Registration tables and POS) have been moved under the Process menu.
Improve efficiency of date range queries used in generation of statistics
The following statistics generation scripts were also updated to utilise the new stats method:
Issues Resolved
Issue Resolution
If a multi-term query is performed on an attachment field where the field searched in the attached module has Also Search Registry entries associated with it, the query generated may not be the most efficient one possible.
The query generated for multi-term attachment queries where the attached column has Also Search Registry entries is now efficient.
For systems running in UTF-8 mode, the Audit Trail mechanism will drop audit records containing invalid UTF-8 characters. As the audit records are not posted to the Audit Trail table a "gap" may appear in the audit trail. The issue only occurs where invalid data is stored in a record (normally as a result of bad data when importing into Vitalware).
The Audit Trail mechanism now replaces invalid UTF-8 characters with the invalid UTF-8 character (0xFFFD). The substitution allows the audit record to be processed without error.
The View>Attachments command, used to show all records attached to the current record, displays modules the user does not have permission to use. While it is useful to see whether any records in the module attach to the current record, the module cannot be invoked without displaying a permission denied error.
The View>Attachments command has been modified to show only those modules the user has permission to access. A check box has been added to Show all modules, allowing the old behaviour to be selected.
The vwlutsupdate server-side script does not update Lookup List files in local/luts/default if it exists. Files in the luts/default directory are always updated. The issue means that localised versions of Lookup Lists may not be updated correctly by Vitalware upgrade scripts.
Local versions of Lookup List file are now updated by the vwlutsupdate server-side command.
Data in reference fields, that is fields displaying data from another module, may not contain the correct values after certain operations are performed. The affected operations are:
• Discard Record
• Replace (Global Edit)
• Export Records
• Merge Record
• Sort
• Delete Record
Data in reference fields now displays the correct values after the listed operations are performed.
The value in a read-only combo-box may be cleared using the backspace key the first time data is viewed. The backspace key will not clear the value when viewing subsequent records.
The backspace key is disabled when a combo-box is read-only, regardless of when the data is viewed.
Random Access Violation messages may display indicating an error has occurred in mshtml.dll. The error message may even appear when a user is not at their machine.
The error message is no longer displayed.
When performing a spell check on a RichEdit control that has multiple lines of text, the highlighting of the words spelled incorrectly may be out by a few characters.
Words spelled incorrectly are now highlighted correctly.
The View Attachments button next to a read-only grid may not be enabled when a single row is displayed in the grid. The button is only disabled for grids displaying data from another module (a reverse reference column).
The View Attachment button is now enabled when a single value is in a read-only grid.
The default value for the Gender field in the Parties module is set to Female. Ideally the default values should be Unknown.
The default value for the Gender field is now Unknown.
When changing the colours for various attributes (e.g. mandatory fields, etc.) via the Options dialogue box, the new colours selected will not take effect in modules already open. New instances will display the correct colours.
Existing modules now update their colours correctly when the Options dialogue box is closed.
When switching to the Details view of a record on a tab that contains an HTML control, the input focus is set to the HTML control, rather than the first control on tab.
The input focus is set to the first control on a tab when switching from Details view, even if the tab contains an HTML control.
A List of Values failure: fail to get values message may be displayed when generating a Crystal Report that contains dynamic parameters.
The error message is no longer displayed for Crystal Reports containing dynamic parameters.
The Audit Trail facility does not flush logging information when the processing of a record has been completed. The lack of flushing means the log file contents may lag behind the processing of records.
The Audit Trail facility now flushes logging information after each records processed.
The auto filling of values for the upper levels of hierarchies may be slow where the controls that form the hierarchy appear on a number of tabs.
The speed of auto filling of values in hierarchies has been improved dramatically.
Not all of the certificates from different versions of a registration were showing in the historic tack grid.
All certificate records from the different record versions now show in the historic grid.
Trying to reprint a certificate while logged on a batched Till could result in the reprint not being sent to the printer.
The reprint is now correctly sent to the printer.
Running the special + and !+ reference queries in POS did not return the correct results.
Using the + or !+ reference queries returns the correct results.
Nightly jobs did not complete successfully because record updates are failing due to the fifo server not running.
The nightly jobs now ensure the fifo load is running so that all jobs are successfully completed.
When running logging through vwlogger, the logs disappear when the directory specified to log to does not exist.
The logging now creates the directory so that no logs are lost.
When trying to add an invoice payment on a day that was not the day a transaction was inserted, the payment type was disallowed.
Invoice payments can now be made to under transactions on days other than when the POS record was inserted.
When using undo maintenance the status of the record could sometimes be reset incorrectly.
The status of all records is now correctly set when using undo maintenance.
When a duplicate Registration number error was thrown, a duplicate Registration could be created when the record was saved.
A duplicate record is no longer created after a duplication Registration number error is shown.
The nightly matching process could generate an invalid query when running over historic records.
The nightly matching process no longer generates invalid queries.
Background loads fail if the fifo load is not running.
The fifo load is always started before any other load starts so that all other loads now correctly start.
When selecting Cancel from the Reprint Quantity box, certificates still print.
Certificates no longer print if Cancel is selected from the Reprint Quantity box.
The entire invoice payment could be assigned to the final POS transaction if the initial save of invoice payment failed.
The correct amount is now assigned to each POS transaction.
The end of month report appears to be missing data from newly added Till locations.
The cashbook now correctly shows the data from the new Till locations.
When attempting to delete a record the user may not be allowed to if a backend database does not exist (e.g. in a web environment).
The record now may be deleted provided no reference links exist.
Previous field on the Maintenance tab did not correctly show previous record version.
The previous field now correctly shows the previous record version.
Users can access Registration tables via POS searching when they do not have access to the Registration tables.
Users can no longer access the Registration tables unless they have permission to do so.
The MoneyChanged flag is not cleared on a cancelled edit, resulting in the possibility of receipts printing when they should not.
The flag is correctly cleared and so receipts only print when they should.
Work Hours is not correctly calculated when insertion and completion time is outside of business hour.
Work hours are now correctly calculated for times outside of business hours.
Upgrade Notes
The upgrade from Vitalware Version 2.1.02 to Vitalware 2.2.01 involves a number of steps. Please follow the instructions below carefully.
Do not skip any steps under any circumstances.
Before proceeding with the update please ensure that a complete backup of the Vitalware server exists and is restorable.
There are four components that require upgrading:
• Texpress (the database engine)
• TexAPI (web services)
• Vitalware Server (the application)
• Vitalware Client (the client)
The notes below detail how to upgrade all systems. Check the Releases table for Client specific notes. Upgrading comprises the following steps:
In the notes below, clientname refers to the name of the client directory for the current installation. The term ~vw is used to refer to user vw's home directory. This is normally /home/vw.
Stopping Vitalware services
1. Log in as vw
2. Enter client clientname
3. Enter ls -l loads/*/data* local/loads/*/data*
4. Check each data file is empty and no data.t files exist.
If this is not the case, please wait for the loads to drain before proceeding.
5. Enter vwload stop
6. Enter vwweb stop
7. Enter texlicstatus
Make sure no one is using the system.
The upgrade will not complete successfully if users are accessing data.
Record Session
Each step in the upgrade process produces detailed output. In most cases this output will exceed the size of the screen. It is strongly recommended that the output of the upgrade session is recorded, so if errors occur, the output can be examined.
1. Enter script /tmp/output-2-2-01
A new shell will start and all output recorded until the shell is terminated.
Installing Texpress
Installing Texpress 8.3 is only required for the first client upgraded to Vitalware 2.2.01. Once Texpress 8.3 has been installed, this section may be skipped for subsequent upgrades.
1. Enter cd ~vw
2. Enter mkdir -p texpress/8.3.001/install
3. Enter cd texpress/8.3.001/install
4. Obtain the appropriate Texpress version for your Unix machine via the Texpress hyperlink at the top of the page.
Save the release in ~vw/texpress/8.3.001/install, calling it
5. Enter sh
The Texpress release will be extracted.
6. Enter . ./.profile
7. Enter bin/texinstall ~vw/texpress/8.3.001
The Texpress installation script will commence.
8. Enter cd ~vw/texpress/8.3.001
9. Enter . ./.profile
10. Enter bin/texlicinfo
Obtain your Texpress licence code and place it in a file called .licence.
11. Enter bin/texlicset < .licence to install the licence.
12. Enter \rm -fr install
13. Enter cd ~vw/texpress
14. Enter ln -s 8.3.001 8.3
Upgrading KE TexAPI
Installing TexAPI is only required for the first client upgraded to Vitalware 2.2.01. Once TexAPI has been installed, this section may be skipped for subsequent upgrades.
1. Enter cd ~vw/texpress
2. Enter mkdir 6.0.003
3. Obtain the appropriate TexAPI version for your Unix machine via the TexAPI hyperlink at the top of the page.
Save the release in ~vw/texpress, calling it
4. Enter sh -i ~vw/texpress/6.0.003 (expand the ~vw).
5. Enter \rm -f texapi
6. Enter ln -s 6.0.003 texapi
7. Enter \rm -f
Upgrading Vitalware Server
1. Enter cd ~vw/clientname
2. For Unicode based clients only.
Enter vi .profile-local
Change langcode=utf8 to langcode=utf-8 and save the change.
3. Enter mkdir install
4. Enter cd install
5. Obtain the appropriate Vitalware server version bundle via the Vitalware Server hyperlink at the top of the page.
Save the release bundle file in ~vw/clientname/install calling it
6. Enter sh
The Vitalware release will be extracted.
7. Enter . ./.profile
8. Enter bin/vwinstall -u clientname
The Vitalware installation script will commence.
9. Enter cd ~vw/clientname
10. Enter cp .profile.parent ../.profile
11. Enter . ../.profile
12. Enter client clientname
13. Enter vwreindex
14. Enter vwbldinstall
15. Enter vwbldlinks
16. Removal of the temporary directory (and its contents) is recommended:
Enter \rm -fr install
17. Enter upgrade-2-2-01
The client will now be upgraded to Vitalware 2.2.01. If you are upgrading from a version prior to Vitalware 2.1.02, you must run the upgrade scripts for all versions after the old version before running the Vitalware 2.2.01 upgrade.
Starting Vitalware services
1. Enter vwload start
2. Enter vwweb start
Record Session
The recording of the upgrade session may now be terminated.
1. Enter exit
The session output is available in /tmp/output-2-2-01.
Upgrading Vitalware Client
When upgrading to Vitalware 2.2.01 the Windows client should be upgraded on each individual machine. The client upgrade installs new DLLs on each individual machine in order for all reports with dynamic parameters to function correctly. To upgrade the Vitalware Client follow the Installing Vitalware Client notes.
Perl Packages
If the administration utility to change a user's password is used, the perl Net::SSH::Expect package must be installed. If the password utility is not used, this step may be skipped. To install the package:
1. Log in as root
2. Enter perl -MCPAN -e shell
3. Enter install Net::SSH::Expect
4. Enter quit |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8363 | My good friend Caroline was devastated when the “love locks” were removed from the 19th century Pont des Arts. She had placed the token of her great love for Ross Turnbull on the bridge, the only time they managed to be in Paris together, and it meant the world to her, as it did for many other visitors to the city of light who left their symbol of love behind, locked to the railings. But this pedestrian bridge spanning the Seine between the Louvre and the Institut de France just got too heavy and was in danger of collapsing, so in 2010 the 42 tonnes of padlocks were removed, and sadly replaced with “padlock-themed graffiti”. Not to be deterred, lovers have started to hang “love locks” on the Pont de l’Archeveche, the narrowest road bridge in Paris. Caroline’s love for Ross certainly continues.
Pont Alexandre III
Like many other cities in France, Paris grew along the banks of a river and if you look at any aerial picture of the city, you can see that there are many bridges over the Seine. In fact there are 37. Images of these bridges are almost as iconic as images of the Eiffel Tower, making Paris instantly identifiable, each with its own unique stories.
• The 17th century Pont Neuf, (between the western tip of the Ile de la Cite and rest of Paris) although translated as “new bridge” is actually the oldest in Paris – Henri III started building it in 1578.
• The 17th century Pont au Double must have the quirkiest name – named for the toll amount (a double denier) charged to pay for the bridge used to carry patients from the Hotel-Dieu on the Ile de la Cite over the Seine.
• The 18th century Pont de la Concourse (made of stones from the Bastille) connects two of the most important events in France’s history – the Place de la Concourse (where King Louis XVI lost his head) and the French Senate building where the new Republic began.
• The 19th century Pont Alexandre III is the most ornate, extravagant bridge in the city, with its Beaux-Arts style, exuberant Art Nouveau lamps, cherubs, nymphs and winged horses at either end.
• The 19th century Pont au Change, although named after the moneylenders who settled on it in the 12th century, is remembered most because this is where Victor Hugo’s Police Inspector Javert (with a guilty conscience after Jean Valjean saved his life) throws himself in to the Seine.
• Also forever to be remembered in celluloid, thanks to the film “Inception”, the 20th century double decker Pont de Bir Hakeimwith pedestrian access to the Ile aux Cygnes and views of the Statue of Liberty.
Taking a break on the Pont Neuf
Some historians say that the devilish faces on the Pont Neuf are caricatures of men that Henri XIV Cuckolded.
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Interesting Facts About Dolphins
The dolphin is a marine mammal that it is easily recognized by it long snout, curved body and fluke. The dolphin is related to both the whale and the porpoise and these animals share many similar features. There are close to forty species of dolphins throughout the oceans and rivers of the world today. They prefer to live in the shallower water and hunt for fish, squid and other small crustaceans. Dolphins are a very popular animal with humans due to their intelligence and friendly nature.
Interesting facts about dolphins
• Most dolphins have a life expectancy of between 40 and 50 years.
• Despite their name the killer whale (orca) is actually a species of dolphin. There are also five other whales that are actually dolphins these are the melon-headed whale, the pygmy killer whale, the false killer whale, the long-finned pilot whale and the short-finned pilot whale.
• Dolphin comes from a Greek word which means “fish with a womb”
• The bottlenose Dolphin is the most common and most often seen of the dolphin species.
• Not all dolphins are found in the ocean, four species of dolphin live in freshwater rivers. These are the Boto or Amazon River dolphin, South Asian river dolphin, Ganges river dolphin and the Indus river dolphin. These species are critically endangered due to habitat destruction and pollution.
• The different dolphin species are able to mate and bear offspring resulting in numerous hybrids in the wild and in captivity.
• Not all species of dolphin have a dorsal fin some only have a small hump where a dorsal fin usually is.
• Dolphins navigate by sending out high frequency clicks and squeals and processing the returning sound waves when they bounce back off objects. These clicks are one of the loudest sounds made by marine animals.
• Dolphins can hear frequencies at least ten times higher than those hear by humans. The dolphin uses its lower jaw to hear through a cavity connected to the middle ear.
• Dolphins breathe through a blowhole on the top of their heads and are able to stay underwater for up to 30 minutes. However, they usually surface to breathe every 6- 8 minutes.
• Unlike many other mammals they do not have hair and instead have smooth skin with a thick layer of blubber underneath.
• Dolphins have the ability to heal very quickly and are able to recover from serious injury such as a shark bite. The wound will heal in such a way that it maintains the body shape of the dolphin.
• Most species have excellent eyesight, although some species which are totally blind. They also have an acute sense of taste, but no sense of smell as they have no olfactory nerves.
• Dolphins live in pods of up to 12 or more individuals and show care for those within the pod.
• Dolphins have been seen to assist other living creatures such as guiding lost whales and protecting humans from shark attack.
• Dolphins are able to learn cultural behaviors and long term observation has discovered that some dolphins use tools. Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins use sponges to protect their mouths while foraging for food. This skill is passed down from mother to daughter. The river dolphins in Brazil use sticks and weeds as part of a mating display.
• The baby dolphin is born tail first and is nursed by the mother. Male dolphins are called bulls, female dolphins and cows and baby dolphins are called calves.
• Dolphins use both herding and corralling to capture their prey. They often work as a team to ensure that everyone is able to get enough to eat.
• Groups of Dolphins in Laguna, Santa Catarina and Brazil engage in cooperative fishing with humans. They drive the fish towards the fishermen’s nets and signal the fishermen to contract the nets. The dolphins then feed on the fish that escape.
• They enjoy playing and have been studied playing with seaweed, play-fighting with each other, harassing other sea animals and blowing and manipulating bubble rings.
• When sleeping only one side of the Dolphins brains enters sleep patterns at any one time. This allows the dolphin to stay on alert for predators and keep the blowhole above water to breathe.
• In some countries around the world, such as Japan and Peru, dolphin meat is eaten as a delicacy. It is very dark in color due to the high blood content.
• The US and other countries have made use of dolphins as part of military operations.
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Fall 2001 General Information
In the MSU "Description of Courses" catalogue, Phy 451 is described as follows:
"General research techniques, design of experiments and the analysis of results based on some historical experiments in modern physics." Our approach is to study a small number of experimental systems or techniques in depth, so you really get some idea of how experimental physics is done. Students work in pairs, and perform three different experiments in the course of the semester.
This is mainly an experimental class with only a few lectures. Each student spends 6 hours/week in lab (room 112 P/A) designing, assembling and doing experiments. In addition he/she will spend several hours each week studying the appropriate physics and experimental techniques. The class meets one hour each week for lectures, or to discuss problems students are having and their possible solutions. During the first few Wednesdays we will talk in a general way about the various experiments and will have a lecture on Radiation Safety from a member of the MSU ORCBS (Office of Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Safety). After the first experiment is over, each student will give a short talk (5-10 minutes) on the physics or technology of that experiment.
Each student will keep a bound laboratory notebook in which all of your ideas, designs, data analysis, graphs and mistakes will be kept. (See the handout on lab notebooks for more detail.) Periodically, I will inspect your lab notebook, discuss it with you and enter a current grade (this is a sort of "snap quiz" on how you keep your notebook and what you have been doing.)
Near the end of the semester each student will give a 20 to 30 minute talk about some aspect of experimental physics which interests her/him. It could be the results of one of your experiments, some neat experimental technique which you "discovered" or whatever. You will be expected to hand in a written report on your talk (no more than 10 +/- 2 pages) by your last lab period.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8383 | I want to look back at comments I have made to a specific Facebook page for the past 3 years. It is a business's page, not a group. None of the efforts I have made searching the Activity Log have borne fruit. Are you able to help?
• What are the ways you already have tried? If you will mention, it will be helpful to us to provide different answer. – serenesat Nov 2 '18 at 12:26
Try a Facebook search using an intersection of the stories by the page against comments made by you.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8384 | I find that some RSS feeds are more useful if they were sent to me as email messages instead. Are there any good services that will monitor an RSS feed and send the new posts as email messages?
closed as not constructive by Eight Days of Malaise, ChrisF Sep 23 '11 at 12:17
• good question :), why webservices? – systempuntoout Aug 6 '10 at 14:40
FeedBurner can do this, create a 'burnt' version of your feed then enable 'Email Subscriptions', then subscribe to the feed. It's a little more complicated than FeedMyInbox but doesn't have a 5 feed limit
• Note: It only sends daily digest. – tic Aug 31 '11 at 19:32
You might want to have a look at http://ifttt.com/ (If This Then That).
You create "tasks" from ifft "channels" that can be used as both sources and sinks ("triggers" and "actions" in ifft parlance). The RSS and email channels are enabled by default; others are available by opting in.
The RSS channel used as a trigger can activate when either a new item is added to a feed URL or a new item appears that matches a key word or phrase that you define. The email channel used as an action can use "addins" from the trigger source in the message (e.g. the entry title, content, etc., in the RSS case). The default addins for the RSS channel are reasonable for an email action.
Each of your tasks is checked every fifteen minutes. Note that you being subscribed to a particular feed is not a prerequisite to use the feed URL in a trigger.
If you are interested, and sign-ups are closed, I do have a few invites to give out.
http://blogtrottr.com/ is doing the same as feedmyinbox.
It allows the user to choose the frequency it sends emails. From realtime to daily: enter image description here
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Blogtrottr, IMO, is the simplest to use out of all recommendations here so far. All it needs is an RSS feed and an email address. – galacticninja Oct 7 '12 at 9:52
• Very similar to Blogtrottr but with RSS feeds grouping: Feedspot. – orschiro Dec 12 '13 at 10:28
FeedMyInbox does this, although you have to pay if you want to subscribe to more than 5 feeds.
• Note: It only sends daily digests. – nic Jul 29 '10 at 9:33
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8408 | Monomorphism by annotation of type variables
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Introduce the reserved word monomo for rendering type variables monomorphic:
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...would cause a type error - the type of undefined is also made monomorphic by the annotated type of newIORef, resulting in the type monomo a . IORef a for v, preventing its dual specialisation to IORef [Char] and IORef Int.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8430 | When I think about “bumble” I think first of bees. Flying striped puffs, mostly harmless, comically inept. Described by their friends and frustrated spouses as “all thumbs,” these bees that drone into the back of my mind when I hear this word accidentally bump into each other with many “whoops”es and “excuse me”s, they drop everything they’re carrying and end up just covered in pollen, they are sweet but dim.
My charming bees don’t swarm, they just slowly and erratically plow into each other and then veer off again, only to repeat the exercise with another apologetic and equally baffled bee. Bees! You have to just laugh and throw up your hands. For years and years, I thought everyone also called bumble bees “goblin bees” but apparently no one does. Really, I think that’s for the best, because bumble describes them so much better. They’re bumblers. In the old days they were called dumbledors which is also quite satisfying to think about.
As the soothing drone of the bees quiets, I begin to think of “bumble” itself. It’s a word that sounds exactly like someone nearly dropping a large stack of very full file folders. Or a juggler almost missing every catch. One who bumbles is not bad even if they’re bad at what they’re doing. It’s a clown word, without all the clown bullshit. Bumble isn’t the same as fumble. Bumble is a way of being. Fumble is something you do. Bumble is what you do around the kitchen waiting for the kettle to boil; you don’t think about it. Fumble is what you do when you’re in the checkout line and can’t get your credit card out in time; you are hyper aware of your ineptitude.
The older I get the more prone to bumbling I am. I’m comfortable enough with myself that being seen as mildly ridiculous isn’t particularly troublesome. Indeed, I suspect that not a lot truly bothers inherent bumblers. Life is a placid pool, an collection of small troubles, easily mended, sprinkled amid a vast, lilting existence. I aspire to bumble.
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We met a Frenchman and his wife in the Kruger who took extraordinary photos using a digital camera through a telescope on tripod. Couldn't really understand too much of his English, but it seems he made some sort of an adaptor to fix the camera to the telescope.
OK, ok, I know this is not a photographic forum, but maybe somebody has done something similar, or maybe there are suppliers who has already adapted telescopes to take a digital camera?
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There are a large number of adapters on the market which can do this for you, but check out this link
The problem with most digital cameras is the fact that keeping the shutter open for more than a few seconds (10 - 20) means the image becomes terribly noisy. Some people have had good results though, but the accepted norm is to use a film camera and scan the tranny or neg.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8451 | Camping in Cornwall for Families
People come to Cornwall for many reasons. Some come to explore the amazing local landscapes, some come to dine out. Other come to surf or walk or join an art class. But for most people, Cornwall is simply the destination of choice for the annual family holiday. With the family market being the most lucrative market to go after, exactly how do campsite owners go about attracting families to their Cornwall campsite? Well there quite a few ways to do this. First you should look into membership with VisitCornwall, perhaps advertising in their annual brochure or better still on their first-class website. Or go one step further and try to get a listing, accreditation or PR coverage through an association with VisitBritain.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8472 | Being the First
Being the First
Gender and Politics in Practice
Women Leaders in the Pacific Islands
"Women in the Pacific face many barriers women to participating in formal politics. Yet some defy these barriers, are elected to parliament, and achieve high office. This paper describes the experiences of three such women: President Hilda Heine from the Marshall Islands; the Honorable Fiame Naomi Mata’afa from Samoa; and Dame Carol Kidu from Papua New Guinea."
Source: Spark, C., Cox, J., and Corbett, J. (2018). Developmental Leadership Program and available from this link (open access). |
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Peter McNamara is Professor of Practice in the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University. His research and teaching focuses on American political thought, early modern political thought, and political economy. He is the author of "Political Economy and Statesmanship: Smith, Hamilton and the Foundation of the Commercial Republic" and the editor of "The Noblest Minds: Fame, Honor and the American Founding," and (with Louis Hunt), "Liberalism, Conservatism and Hayek's Idea of Spontaneous Order." He has written on a wide variety of other topics including Hayek’s moral theory, political opportunism, Jefferson’s federalism, and the intellectual origins of business schools. He has taught at Utah State University, Boston College, and Clemson University, where he was a Hayek Visiting Scholar. He has also worked as a research officer for the Australian Treasury. He has a Bachelor of Economics (with First Class Honors) from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and a doctorate in political science from Boston College.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8539 | Pass server side Array to JavaScript Array in ASP.Net
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I want a webpage that has two gridview one of them contain new image of and other one contain old image by draging and drop new image to old image i have to match both one
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8556 | 2018 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray
Prayers of sports car fans have been granted as another contender in the exotic coupe segment has barged onto the Philippine shore, and guess what? It’s Chevrolet’s legendary sports car, the 2018 Corvette.
If you can recall, the first-ever fiberglass-bodied Corvette was unveiled in January 17, 1953, at the General Motors Motorama exposition in New York City. Thanks to Chevrolet Philippines, the iconic sports car is taking the spotlight once again in the brand’s annual Motorama event that will be held at SM Megamall Fashion Hall.
Bearing the golden bowtie badge, the 65-year old nameplate is labeled as the world’s longest-running spots car and also the best-selling sports car in the US. While the Corvette is available in three variant in its home market, Chevrolet PH will only bring the Stingray model.
This powerful coupe is fitted with a 6.2L V8 engine that can deliver a maximum output of 460 hp, which can roar back to Ford Mustang GT’s 5.0L V8 powertrain that can put out the same horsepower.
Priced at P8,546,888, the 2018 Corvette Stingray is the latest iteration that has undergone various design revisions, better architecture, and updated safety features that significantly improved the sports car’s overall charisma and performance. These enhancements also established the Corvette’s position as the best-selling premium sports car in America. Despite the positive changes, some characteristics of the icon remained consistent, staying true to its roots.
As such, all Corvettes comes in two seats with a front engine driving the rear wheels, as well as a long dash-to-axle proportion that contributes to its aggressive aura. The entire Corvette models have always acquired bodies composed of composite materials, from fiberglass to a lighter and more updated materials including the carbon fiber today. Another constant feature of the Corvette is the small-block V8 engine. Moreover, this iconic nameplate still serves as a test-bed for new technologies transferred to GM vehicles.
Now, if you want to see this living legend in flesh, you can join the excitement at the Chevrolet Motorama 2018 and head on at SM Megamall Fashion Hall today. This event will run until November 28, 2018 so make sure to clear your schedule on one of those dates, if you can’t make it today.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8566 | ITIL 4: Connecting key concepts – Part 4
ITIL 4: Connecting key concepts – Part 4
The Service Value Chain, and Service Value Streams
This is Part 4. You can read part 1 here.
Welcome back! This post is the fourth (and last) in a series in which I connect the key concepts of ITIL 4.
In the last blog we briefly covered the service value system (SVS) and its five components. One of those components is the service value chain.
The service value chain is a set of loosely coupled activities (or archetypes) that any service provider undertakes at some point (or even repeatedly). Regardless of the size of the service provider, the industry, the geography, or even the level of automation, the organization will conduct the following activities at some point (perhaps even continuously):
• Engage: Interacting with external stakeholders to provide a good understanding of needs, to promote transparency, and to foster good relationships with all stakeholders
• Plan: Creating a shared understanding of the vision, status and improvement directions for all four dimensions and all products and services
• Improve: Ensuring continual improvement of products, services and practices across all value chain activities and the four dimensions
• Design and Transition: Ensuring that products and services continually meet stakeholder expectations for quality, cost, and time to market
• Obtain/ Build: Ensuring that service components are available when and where they are needed, and that they meet agreed specifications
• Deliver and Support: Ensuring that services are delivered and supported according to agreed specifications and expectations.
These activities can be combined and integrated in a myriad of ways to create a “journey” from demand to value that reflects how the service provider completes work. ITIL 4 calls this “journey” a value stream, and each value stream represents how the organization responds to specific scenarios or types of demand. Techniques like value stream mapping can help organizations streamline and optimise their value streams.
Value streams can be defined at any level of the organization, so there may be value streams at the enterprise level, and completely different (yet ultimately connected) value streams for each development or support team.
A value stream can be as linear or as waterfall (or not) as the organization requires. Equally, it can be as dynamic or as agile (or not) as the organization requires. There are two key points to always keep in mind about value streams:
• Value chain activities can repeat themselves over the course of a value stream – for example, a value stream to respond to customer incidents would have an Engage activity at the start (number 1, acknowledging the incident), and another at the end (number 6, verifying resolution and customer satisfaction). It might have additional Engage activities representing post-incident reviews or customer satisfaction surveys.
• Value streams ALWAYS start with Demand, and ALWAYS end with Value. Remember, the goal of a value stream is to convert demand to value.
Practices support value chain activities at various points in the value stream. For example, when engaging with a customer needing help (i.e. an incident), we might call upon the following practices:
• Service Desk: Provides us with the tools, techniques, and even an empathetic mindset and service-orientation to understand the customer’s needs
• Relationship Management: Provides us with the information and communication skills to manage customer expectations
• Knowledge Management: Might provide access to a knowledge base which the service provider can use to offer potential fixes
• Incident Management: Provides us with the tools, techniques, and workflows to register, triage, classify, prioritise and assign the incident.
The list of practices above isn’t meant to be exhaustive! It serves to illustrate that practices support and contribute to value chain activities. In ITIL v3 Incident Management has been seen purely as a Service Operation activity. By decoupling the service value chain and practices, practitioners can understand how a practice can contribute to several activities – in some cases to a greater extent, and in some cases a lesser extent. In the ITIL 4 Foundation book, the reader will find a colour-coded “heatmap” for each of the 34 practices that details the degree of interaction with the service value chain, for example:
The other interesting thing about a value stream orientation is that it allows organizations to define their common scenarios and workflows and map out the contributions needed from each practice.
In the example below, I have three value streams with seven identified contributions from the incident management practice – thus, it only needs to support these seven touchpoints, and no more.
To put it another way, the practices can be designed to only meet the needs of defined value streams and nothing more. This is a “minimum viable service management” approach and will hopefully push practitioners away from blindly copying or implementing process guidance found in a book. It’s a very Lean way of defining service management practices!
The result of the value stream is a live, functioning product or service – something that the service provider organization uses to co-create value with consumers…and thus we come full circle.
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This model provides power to organizations by designing each of their desired value streams using the most effective combination of Practices and SVC Activities.
An analogy from a soccer match would be - players of one side with varied skills like Defending/Attacking/Passing (Practices) work together (SVC Activities) to Engage - understand the opponent, Obtain/build - which players go into a formation, Design - the attack strategy, Deliver/Support - execute the attack, Improve - for next time if goal missed, to deliver the SCORE value stream.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8582 | Crab and chilli tagliatelle
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• 200g/7oz '00' flour (available in most supermarkets' baking sections)
• 1 free-range whole egg
• 6 free-range egg yolks
• 50g/2oz fine semolina flour
For the crab sauce
1. For the pasta, place the '00' flour, eggs and egg yolks into a food processor and process for one minute, or until everything is bound together and smooth.
2. Cover and place in the fridge to rest for 30 minutes.
3. Flour the pasta machine with semolina flour and divide the pasta into two equal pieces. Starting at the lowest (thickest) setting, feed one piece of the dough through the machine, turning the handle with one hand and holding the dough as it comes through the machine with the other. Change the setting on the pasta machine to the next-thickest setting, flour it again and feed the pasta sheet through the machine again, as before.
4. Repeat this process 3-4 more times, flouring the machine and changing the setting down each time. The pasta should be quite thin, but still easy to handle without tearing. Don't be tempted to skip settings or the dough may tear. Repeat with the other piece of dough.
5. Once the pasta sheets have reached the ideal thickness, trim the edges slightly. Attach the tagliatelle cutter attachment to the pasta machine, flouring it well with more semolina flour.
6. Run the sheets of dough through the machine once again, cutting them into tagliatelle of 5mm/0.2in. Dust with the remaining semolina flour and place in the fridge overnight.
7. For the crab sauce, heat a frying pan until hot and add the olive oil, shallots, chilli, lemongrass, ginger and curry powder. Fry for 2-3 minutes.
8. Add the white wine and bring to a simmer. Cook until the wine has reduced by half.
9. Add the cream and cook for a further minute before adding the crabmeat. Stir to combine and simmer for one minute.
10. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste, and add a little of the lime juice and coriander, saving a squeeze of lime to serve. Set aside, keeping the sauce warm, while you cook the pasta.
11. To serve, bring a large pan of salted water to the boil, add the tagliatelle and cook for 2-3 minutes until tender.
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The undertone guide for black women
The undertone guide for black women
I am super excited to be writing about something beauty related, it has been a while. Anyways, I will be discussing the power of knowing your undertones. This is a very underrated topic and I will tell you why it is important. Keep reading if you want to learn something new about looking effortless with the help of your natural God-given skin undertones.
Knowing your undertone matters because it helps you make better decisions when it comes to your style and accessory choices. Skin undertones are simply the colour underneath the surface. You and someone can have the same skin colour but different undertones. This is because there are three types of skin undertones Warm, Cool and Neutral (a mix of warm and cool undertones).
Let's reflect for a minute. You know that annoying moment when someone wears your dress and it looks ways better on them. It's not because they are prettier than you (Nobody is prettier than you!), a perfect explanation is a difference in undertones. The color of the dress probably suits their undertone more than yours. I can't overemphasize this because it matters in makeup, jewellery, hair colour and outfits.
3 tricks to finding your undertones:
1. Think about what jewellery you look better in. Don't focus on which you like more but which makes you look alive and radiant. People with warm undertones look better in gold/rose golds while people with cool undertones look better in silver and platinum metals.
2. What colour are your veins? Check your wrist to see if you have green or blue veins. Blue veins mean cool undertones while green veins mean warm undertones.
3. Does your skin look better in bright white and blacks or off-whites and nude/tan colours? If you look better is bright white and blacks you have cool undertones but if off-whites are more your style you are most likely warm tones.
Now that you have figured out your undertones, its time to know what colours to add and remove from your closet.
For people with warm undertones like myself, we need to treat ourselves with earth tones like peach, gold, olive, orange, yellow, brown, and copper. Toss out the eggshell whites, blacks, pinks and the likes. This also applies to hair colour, switch out the black for browns, golds and blondes. Just ensure you stick to ombre for an effortless look.
While people with cool undertones need jewel tones such as pinks, lavender, rose, purple, emerald and sapphire. Toss out the nudes, tans, yellow and the likes. Don't stick to only black hair, add some purple and blue to your hairstyles.
Colours for each undertone
Trust me, sticking to colours that suit your undertone elevates your style and makes you more approachable. People naturally gravitate towards you because you look put together and effortless.
Personally, it was a bummer to hear that black does not suit my undertone especially because black makes you appear slimmer. I still rock black dresses but I get away with it by pairing it with gold jewellery and makeup that matches my undertone. That gives a balance to my look.
I hope you learnt something new from this.
"Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you." - Shannon L. Alder
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When you run a WordPress website then most of the time it is possible that you can see some WordPress errors. Have you ever got “cannot modify header information” error? This is not one of the common errors in WordPress but still, when it appears, people freak out.
It’s obvious that when you see any type of the error in your WordPress admin panel or on your website then you fret. The internal server error, HTTP error, and many other WordPress errors are there which are common.
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When you see this error then the path of the file would be seen. You would know the error generation source. It may occur due to any extra space in the PHP code of that file.
It is possible that one of your plugins is creating the problem. In my case, a plugin was generating this error. This error may appear during following actions:
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2. When you update your blog post.
3. When you try to install any new plugin.
4. When you deactivate any existing plugin.
It means that whenever you take any action which will modify the information of that particular file then you will get “cannot modify header information” error.
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You may be thinking as the error appears in the response to every action you take from the WordPress area. This error may appear every time to do something new.
It can cause the login problem and you won’t be able to login to your WordPress admin panel.
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There are basically three things you can do to fix this error.
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2. Replace the WordPress file using the cPanel of your web hosting account. In the error, you would notice the path of the file from which an error has been generated.
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If you find something wrong then remove that and re-install the file in the WordPress directory. You can also do that using the FTP account.
4. Deactivate all the plugins and then activate each of them. If the plugin is the culprit then you would find it in this process. Make sure that you check the generation of the error after activating each and every plugin.
Don’t just activate two or three plugins at once. It would be hard to find the real culprit.
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Are you thinking about any other error of WordPress? You have to take care of your website by removing such errors.
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Duality in the Nature of Existence
Duality is built into the nature of life and existence. When you come to think of it, there has always been a point and a counterpoint - the obverse and the reverse to a coin. If there is light there is shade also. Alongside good there has been evil all the time and then after life there is death. In Christian faith there was nothing till God said Let there be light. The Hindu belief has it that the entire creation is an appearance of the grace of the Supreme Mother. Man, the crown of creation, is invested with power, skills, hear, mind, intellect, the passions and whims. He is capable of performing deeds both good and evil. He is given a conscience and judgement too.
Faith – A matter of Individual Conviction
Faith is a matter of one’s personality and in. a ‘free’ social, political environment, individual liberty has come to be a distinguishing mark of ‘modernity’. Things have come to such a pass where ‘deviant’ marriages are accorded sanction. But nobody can deny the need for discipline, more particularly in private lives. Our forefathers built glorious civilizations and as liberal minded freedom lovers we would do well to think of what our ancestors cherished, valued and stuck to to the best of their abilities. It is in this context that we have to look at their concepts of Good and Evil, Sin and Merit, Virtue and Vice and umpteen other dualities. Even those who reject concepts of Heaven and Hell wish their children and people around to be loyal, faithful and principled in various walks of life.
Predestination Vs Freewill
The knowing-ones tell us that man is the architect of his own fate. They also tell us that a man is a creature, a plaything in the hands of circumstances. The Hindu belief has it that Man is born with vasanas, acquired and inborn tendencies, and also gunas, qualities, Satwa, Rajas, and Tamo gunas. Is Man ruled by an unknown fate or by his own FREE WIILL? No one knows the right answer. Is there evil? What is evil? Are there paap and punya? Are there Sin and Merit? Yes and No. There is no definite laboratory tested and proven answer. The discussion whether it is all Predestination or Freewill goes on and on. Life continues. An answer will not be found. People grow more and more rationalistic, secular, fundamentalist or dogmatic. Life does not stop. Nor does the debate Is Religion essential? Is there is God? There are people, millions of them, who deny the existence of God. But not all deny the adjectives Good and Bad. Labels, Categories and details may vary but none can deny the existence of good and its opposite and that there are people wise and otherwise.
Envisioned God
God is envisioned as one above all duality and the Supreme Being is all pervading. This Supreme one transcends all, all dualities, and all qualities and all distinctions. A saint’s eye view is that
Sin is behovely.
All is well
All shall be well.
(St. Juliana of Norwich English Mystic of 14th c.)
This Being has infinite mercy and infinite understanding. If this were so, why Hell at all? Why that everlasting perdition for some? Is Hell a figment of imagination? Can Man do anything and get away with it? No, some believe that there are wages of Sin. Those in the past with no benefits of industrialization, mechanization and the myriad benefits of technology, perhaps, thought of keeping man within a fold of some disciplining and thought up the concept of Heaven/Hell, an intriguing duality. All civilizations worth the name had some kind of belief in this eternal, omnipresent duality. Arsha dharma, call it Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, the major religions believed that there are wages of Sin. In an earlier essay Hells as envisioned in Hinduism and Christianity are described. Here is a very brief appraisal of Hell as envisioned in Buddhism.
Depravity and Punishment
Varying depths of depravity lead to sins of varying degrees of heinousness and thus call for different intensities of retribution. Abstaining from sin would be possible by the sense of righteousness, which is another name for the moral sense given by faith in the Supreme Being. The righteous one practices restraint in word, deed and action. For those who have no faith either in god or righteousness, at least there should be fear of retribution to act as a deterrent. Organized religion is a mighty construct., mostly drawn from high intellect and intuitive inferences. These gave rise to scriptures, epics and several other genres of edifying literature.
Good, A Pristine Absolute
Good is older than the hills and evil came into being only much later. This is what both Hinduism and Christianity make us believe. Satyayug is the aeon of pristine virtue and Evil was the cause of Adam’s transgression, in the till then glorious Garden of Eden. In the Hindu perspective, sin is punishable by being thrown into hell for the soul to suffer torment. Mahabhagavat the scripture by Vyasabhagavan has been translated into many bhashas and of course into English too. Of the eleven hundred pages only four or five have been devoted to the description of the twenty-eight hells. In the Italian epic by Dante Divine Comedy, widely considered a Christian epic, Inferno, a whole Cantiche in thirty for cantos, is devoted to the description of various hells, its inhabitants and the tortures sinners are made to undergo there.
One wonders whether Man’s fear of hell was made a greater force attracting him to goodness and God. As civilization advanced the fear seems to be growing more and more.
The Buddhist conceptualization of hell closely followed the Hindu perspective. There are said to be eight hells, though some did say there were ten and even more up to a thousand. Some Buddhists seem to have revealed at a later stage that the tortures and hells are figments of imagination, mainly of the sinners themselves. Khenpo Konthar, the abbot of Karma Triyana Dharma Chakra, had said, “From the Buddhist perspective, such a thing as hell does not exist.” Though this is reassuring, Kshitigarbha Bodhisattva described hells extensively. Earlier, in Buddhism, we come across the description of eight hells.
Levels and Areas of Hell in Buddhism according to Kshitigarbha Bodhisatva
The first is the Hell of Repetition where murderers are sent. Those who kill for fun and pleasure inhabit this place. The second is the Black Rope Hell for those who kill someone while committing some other crime. It is important to note that in the group of killers each has to suffer though it is a sin committed by a group. In this hell big black birds would be plucking out the eyes, pulling out the tongues and pulling out the innards of the sinners. The tormented here are forced to drink molten copper would be stabbed again and again. Crowded Hell is for those who kill and steal and for those who are concupiscent libertines. Satyrs and nymphomaniacs suffer here for their transgressions. Fire Jar Hell is for those with sexual perversions and sins associated with sexual abuse. The organs of such are singed here. Those who indulge in sexual fantasies with others’ women will have their eyes scorched here. Those who are attached to the voices and laughter of others’ women will have their ears burnt here. The fifth is the Screaming Hell where there is a section called Great Screaming Hell too. Those who abuse intoxicants are thrown into this. The sixth hell is for those who make use of voice and make sound to sow dissension. For those who cause divisions and cause disharmony there is a special torment. Snakes and vipers would be gnawing at them continuously. People who hold false views are tormented in hell of burning heat. False views include the negating of the karmic law and God. Diamond Beak Hornet Hell causes extreme pain to the sinner for he is made to drink the spurting blood after the beaks stab them. The seventh hell would be the lot of those who defile religion. This hell is called the Burning Hell of Stinging Worms. The worms thrust by force into the anus would travel up eating everything on the way to emerge out of the scalp. Hell of No Interval is the eighth where five types of premeditated killers of father, mother, holy man, the sangha and Bodhisattva.
Lotus Sutra 3, Sutta - Nipata and Kshitigarbha Sutra besides the teachings of Gelgupa monk Tenzin Sherab and Trijang Rinpoche contain references and description of hells.
Most important of these is the naming of the hells by Earth Store Bodhisattava, also known as Manjushri and Khsitigarbaha Bodhisattva. In a reply to Universal Worthy Bodhisattva, mahasattva, Manjushri replied that there is the Hell of Ultimately Relentless and another hell called Avichi, un-spaced, with no interval. Along with these he listed forty-four various other hells. He concluded saying: “Each of these hells contains lesser hells numbering from one, two, or three, or four, to hundreds of thousands. Each of these lesser hells has its own name.” The Bodhisattva tells the queen Mahamaya, “To quote the names of hells, the types of punishment and instruments used would take a period of one kalpa (aeon).”
Practicality and a Resolution to the Riddle
Modern mind does not believe in unproven things. Yet, one is reminded often times of Dr Faustus who murmurs to himself “Why this hell, nor am I out of it.” Hell may be real or unreal really but more often than not it is one’s own making, irrespective of faith or reason. There could be no finite or final answer to many harrowing questions. Practicality of a rational outlook demands not a debate, or dialectic on the existence of hell with a capital ‘H’. One can find a resolution in living a ’good’ life. Dr Johnson’s mother taught him when he was a toddler that Heaven is a place where all good people went. In Sanskrit we have a wise simplification: parOpakaaraaya puNyaaya paapaaya para peDanam. Helping others is merit-acquiring; inflicting pain is sin, paap If this truly secular, rationalistic guideline to our conduct is accepted and followed, one can harmlessly say: “Hell! Go to Hell” and get done with it.
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Having lived in India as a child of missionary parents many years ago, and being somewhat conversant and interested in religious topics and visiting Boloji frequently, I wanted to thank you for this refresher on Hindu/Buddhist hells as well as the one described by Dante.
Not sure what i believe about hell...I sort of like the idea one reaps what one sows...but that maybe Mercy from above is greater than justice as many never had the chance to understand compassion or wasn't in their genes or home life.
Again, thanks for a lucid and informative article. Bill K
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8638 | Discovering Dexter: 1 Year
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1.2 Why Is Acuity Insurance a Great Place to Work?
1.3 Your Complete Guide to Employee Recognition
1.4 Why Is Employee Recognition So Important?
1.5 Why It Is So Important to Recognise Employees - and How to Do It
2.1 Examples of Employee Recognition Awards
2.2 Great Employee Recognition Cultures
2.3 Top 100 Companies to Work for in 2017
2.4 UK Top Employers 2017
2.5 Britains Top Providers of Employee Benefits
2.6 Employee Recognition in Action
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3.6 Google One of the Best Employee Recognition Systems in the World
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4.3 2015 Employee Recognition Report
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4.5 The 12 Employee Recognition Statistics to Know
4.6 The Secret of Employee Recognition
4.7 The Importance of Recognition: Rewards and Recognition Providers
4.8 Recognising across Cultures: China
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5.2 What you need for successful employee recognition
5.3 Linking Your Organisations Objectives with Rewards and Recognition
5.4 Five Tips for Effective Employee Recognition
5.5 The Ultimate Guide to Peer Employee Recognition
6.1 Showing the Value of Employee Recognition Programmes
6.2 Employee Recognition - Understanding the Construct
6.3 Recognition via Employee Suggestion Scheme Self-Assessment
6.4 The Problem with Measuring the ROI of Employee Recognition Programmes
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A study found that between 2000 and 2004, the rate of breast cancer diagnoses in white women between the ages of 50 and 70 went down, but this lower rate of diagnosis didn't happen in other ethnic groups. The rate of breast cancer diagnoses in African American women actually increased during the same time period.
Many doctors believe that a drop in the use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) explains the drop in the rate of breast cancer diagnoses among white women. HRT is used to ease menopausal symptoms. HRT use decreased dramatically when research showed a link between HRT use and breast cancer.
Other research suggested that African American women didn't have the same drop in breast cancer rates as white women because breast cancer in African American women is biologically different than breast cancer in white women. This could mean that cancers in African American women are more aggressive and may be less affected by HRT.
This study addresses another possible reason why breast cancer rates in African American women didn't drop like they did in white women. The researchers found that though African American women were less likely to use HRT than white women, the African American women who did use HRT were more likely to keep using HRT even after HRT was linked to a higher risk of breast cancer. White women were more likely to stop using HRT once the link to breast cancer was reported.
It's likely that cancer biology differences AND HRT use differences are the reasons for the racial differences in the rates of breast cancer diagnoses in recent years. What's not clear is why African American women are more likely to keep using HRT. It might be that African American women are less likely to be told about the risks associated with using HRT. Other research has shown that African American women tend to get less optimal care compared to white women. Lack of information is just one way care can be less optimal.
Whatever your race, menopausal symptoms can reduce your quality of life. If you're having severe menopausal symptoms, you and your doctor have to weigh the benefits of HRT against the risks. If you're considering taking HRT, talk to your doctor about your options. Ask your doctor about the pros and cons of different types of HRT. Estrogen-only HRT appears to cause a lower increase breast cancer risk than combination HRT (which contains both estrogen and progesterone). Together, you and your doctor can decide if HRT or another treatment for menopause might be right for you.
If you do decide to take HRT, try to use it for the shortest time possible. One study found that breast cancer risk didn't go up when women took combination HRT for fewer than 3 years. While you're taking HRT, you also can take other steps:
• eating a healthy that's low in fat and full of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains
• maintaining a healthy weight
• exercising every day
that can lower your breast cancer risk. Regular breast self-exams, annual exams by your doctor, and routine mammograms also are very important during and after HRT to detect breast cancer early, when it's most treatable.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8660 | Examples - work in progress
Many thanks to all of you who bought my new eBook - Simplifying Composition. It has been a great project for me to work on. I thought I'd let you know about the next title that I will be releasing. Titled 'Examples - the making of 40 photographs', I expect it to be out at the end of April.
This is of course, work permitting, as I have a workshop running on the isle of Eigg at the end of April, and one to one client time booked for this month.
But until it's finished, here are some tasters for the new book. It's got 40 high resolution images in it, so it displays beautifully on the largest of computer monitors.
The book contains images from my entire portfolio: Bolivia, Cambodia, Cuba, Easter Island, Iceland, Portugal, Patagonia, Scotland.... and is a combination of portraiture and landscape work.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8686 | Canadian Biomass Magazine
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A closer look at wood vs. coal emissions
Feb. 24, 2012 - There has been a lot of debate recently regarding if burning wood releases more or less CO2 emissions when compared to coal, and if it is indeed a "carbon neutral" alternative. FutureMetrics research delved into this topic, and may have emerged with an answer.
February 24, 2012
By William Strauss and Laurenz Schmidt FutureMetrics
FutureMetrics has published several papers regarding the efficacy of the Manomet Study and the methodology for modeling the carbon cycle. Our previous critiques were centered on assumptions regarding carbon debt and the timing of carbon recapture by growing sustainably managed forests.
In one of our papers we accepted the premise of the Manomet work; that combustion of wood releases more CO2 than coal by 34.6 percent. And what we have found with further research is that we were wrong for assuming that the Manomet data was correct.
Table 1 below shows the CO2 emissions per million BTU for a variety of wood species and Table 2 shows the data for four grades of coal. Although wood species densities vary, the output of CO2 per million BTU (MMBTU) is consistent. On a dry basis, coal and wood yield very similar results in terms of the CO2 produced (in terms of kilograms of CO2 per unit of potential energy).
Table 1
Click the image above to download a PDF of Table 1 and 2.
The results of our analysis shows that wood is generally about the same or slightly lower in CO2 emissions on a dry basis, but both wood and coal do not naturally have zero moisture content (MC).
The typical moisture content of coal is:
• Anthracite Coal : 2.8% – 16.3% by weight
• Bituminous Coal : 2.2% – 15.9% by weight
• Lignite Coal : 39% or more by weight
It is the water that causes CO2 emissions to increase over the dry weight. The underlying cause that drives this is “the enthalpy of vaporization.” In simple terms, it takes energy to evaporate the water in wood or coal and convert it to vapor, and all of that energy is sent out the chimney and into the atmosphere in the form of water vapor, unless a condensing boiler is used which may claim part of the escaping energy. To get a million BTUs of useful energy from the fuel, a larger mass of wood or coal is necessary to compensate for the losses from vaporizing all that water. And more wood/coal burned means more CO2 produced.
With coal, the higher water content grades also have lower carbon content and higher volatiles. The net effect of this is that, on average, CO2 outputs are relatively consistent across grades (see Table 2).
Table 3 below shows the CO2 production for wood from zero to 50 percent MC. The Manomet study used 45.
Table 3
Click the table above to download a PDF of Table 3.
At 45 percent, the combustion of wood yields about 9.0 percent more CO2 per unit of useful energy than an average of the coal grades’ outputs. While still more than coal, this is significantly less than the 34.6 percent difference that drives the Manomet “debt-then-dividend” model.
This also illustrates how each location will have different outcomes. Coal grades, wood species, moisture contents of both coal and wood, and boiler efficiency will all yield unique metrics.
While we stand behind our logic on the carbon neutrality of wood combustion (with the sustainability constraint as the essential foundation of that logic), we also have shown here that dried wood at MC’s below 20 percent have the same or less CO2 emission per MMBTU as most coal. Wood pellets under 10 percent MC result in less CO2 emission than any coal under equal circumstances.
Interestingly, it would appear that if a conventional low efficiency biomass power plant were to use what is otherwise waste heat from the condenser cooling loop to pre-dry the fuel, it would lower the net CO2 output per unit of useful energy produced. The same technology may also apply to pre-treat lower grade (wetter) coal.
In conclusion, wood in a low moisture content state has lower instantaneous CO2 emissions per unit of energy produced than coal. As we have clearly shown in our previous papers, with sustainable working forest management, the recycling of carbon from wood combustion is virtually instantaneous and continuous and therefore the net stock of CO2 in the atmosphere from the combustion of wood is not increased.
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Effect of Nitrous Oxide
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Factors affecting IR Spectrography
Nitrous oxide absorbs IR light.
Nitrous oxide absorbs IR light
Absorption is minimal at IR 4.3 µ m
Nitrous oxide absorbs IR at 4.3 microns
Collision Broadening Phenomenon
Water vapor absorbs IR light
Effect of n2o on C02 measurements
Use of 4.3 µ m IR light does not affect C02 measurements.
Collision broadening phenomena does increase C02 values.
Correction factors for the presence of nitrous oxide.
Percent Nitrous oxide
Corrected reading =
70 %
Observed PC02 x 0.90
Observed PC02 x 0.94
Because nitrous oxide absorbs IR (IR absorption spectra of N20 = 4.5 µm whereas C02 = 4.3 µm), the presence of N20 therefore can give falsely high C02 readings. This problem can be eliminated by using a narrow band IR filter that only transmits the the wavelength most strongly absorbed by C02 (about 4.3 µm). Another problem relates to n2o concerns the interaction between N20 molecules and C02 molecules. This produces a "collision broadening effect" that affects the sensitivity of the IR analyzer and causes an apparent increase in C02 reading. "Collision broadening" is a phenomenon in which the spectral absorption peaks of a gas (C02) are broadened owing to the collision or proximity of molecules of another gas (N20).1 The correction factors for the presence of various concentrations of N20 have been studied and range from 0.90 at 70% n2o (corrected PC02 = observed PC02 x 0.90) to 0.94 at 50% n2o.2 Most monitors provide some system of electronic compensation to reduce this effect. Alternatively, the simplest method of eliminating this error is to calibrate the instrument with a gas mixture which contains the same background gas concentration as that to be analyzed.3,4
1. Raemer DB, Calalang I. Accuracy of end-tidal carbon dioxide tension analyzer. J Clin Monit 1991;7:19-208.
2. Kennell EM, Andrews RW, Wollman H. Correction factors for nitrous oxide in the infrared analysis of carbon dioxide. Anesthesiology 1973;39:441-3.
3. Carbon dioxide monitors. Health Devices 1986;15:255-85.
4. Paloheimo M, Valli M, Ahjopalo H. A guide to C02 monitoring. Finland:Datex Instrumentaitrium, 1988.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8777 | G-Code Tool Changes and Tool Offsets
Is Manual Machining Faster than CNC for Simple Parts?
Tool Changes and Tool Offsets in G-Code
CNCCookbook’s G-Code Tutorial
G-Code Tool Changes
Most CNC g-code programs will have one or more g-code tool changes programmed into them. This will be true even if your machine doesn’t have an automatic tool changer. That’s because the tool change programming serves two purposes. First, in the case of a machine with an automatic tool changer (ATC), the tool changing g-codes tell the ATC to load a particular tool in the spindle or, in the case of a lathe, to rotate that tool into position on the lathe’s turret. The second role of these codes is to set up a different tool length offset. The tool length offset tells the CNC machine how much the length of the current tool differs from tool #1. It will adjust its notion of where the tool tip is when you make your next move based on this.
Accomplishing these two functions can require anywhere from one to several g-codes. Let’s go through each possible g-code and it’s style of use.
T Tool Select and M06 Tool Change
The “T” word is commonly used to select a tool. On a VMC with ATC, usually the “T” word tells the mill to select that tool, but it requires the M06 word to be executed before the tool is actually changed. This gives the ATC a little bit of advanced warning, allowing it to rotate the new tool into position while the machine is busy doing something else, which can make for a faster tool change. On most lathes, and even for some mills, the M06 is not needed. On those machines, it is likely an error to use an M06.
Sample tool change using T + M06
N10 T12 ( Select Tool #12 )
N20 M06 ( Change to selected tool )
If the machine doesn’t use M06, the sample would look like this:
N10 T12
If you wanted to take advantage of the separate T and M06 to give your machine maximum time to get ready in order to make the tool change faster, you’d do something like this:
(Machining with T12 in spindle, but T14 is ready for next M06)
(Now T14 is loaded)
T02 (Setting up T02 for later)
(Machining with T14)
(Now T02 is in spindle)
( etc. )
Random Memory Tool Selection
One trick some machines use to make tool changes go even faster is to set it up so tools don’t have to go back into a particular pocket on the changer. Instead, the machine just sticks the tool in the nearest pocket so it doesn’t have to take so long to rotate a pocket into position. The machine keeps track of which slot T02 is actually in, for example, and you can always refer to it as “T02”
no matter what slot it winds up in.
Tool Offsets: Geometry and Wear Offsets
Now what about that business of selecting a Tool Offset so the machine knows how long the tool is?
First thing to note is that there are actually 2 different length offsets–the Geometry Offset and the Wear Offset. The Geometry offset is associated with each tool by number and is the one that grossly determines tool length. The Wear Offset is a fine tuning change to the overall tool length that is used to compensate for wear and to give the machinist the ability to fine tune what’s happening from part to part. For example, you may be turning a part to diameter and discover that after measuring the diameter with a micrometer it is slightly off. Perhaps it is 0.0013″ too large. To correct, you can enter a wear offset of -0.0013 to cause the machine to come out much closer to the desired tolerance.
Let’s ignore the Wear Offset for the moment. When you do your tool change, your machine controller will automatically apply the Geometry Offset based on the information contained in its tool table about each tool.
Fanuc-Style Combined Tool Number and Offset for Turning
Now that we know about these offsets, let’s take a look at specifying a toolchange on a lathe using Fanuc’s syntax. It’s pretty simple. To select tool #2, we’d use:
“Why is the “02” repeated twice?” you wonder. That second “02” can be any 2-digits, and it selects the wear offset to use. By convention, most programs make the wear offset the same as the tool number so you don’t have to worry about matching them up.
G-Wizard Editor/Simulator Tool Change and Offset Post Options
This is all pretty simple to set up in the G-Wizard Editor / Simulator’s Post Options:
You have the ability to specify the range of T#’s as well as how many digits at the end of the T# are used to specify the offset.
1. Get out your CNC controller manual and set up GWE to match your control’s way of doing Tool Changes.
2. Write a sample g-code program containing a tool change and verify during GWE playback that the tool was changed.
3. For some extra credit, check out our 2-part article on Tool Data Management and start thinking about how you will manage your tool data.
Next Article: Basic CNC Lathe Programming
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8800 | 1958 C1 Corvette – Common Issues
1958 C1 Corvette
1958 C1 Corvette – Common Issues
1958 Corvette Overview Specs VIN/Options Issues Gallery
The following list of common issues is intended for individual reference only, and may not reflect the specific issues of every 1958 Corvette. While the intent of this page is to identify the common issues pertaining to the 1958 Corvette, it is not an all-inclusive list and should be used for reference only.
Mechanical Issues
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8822 | Gracing the river Seine, Rouen is picturesque, cultured and vibrant, its skyline crowned by the iconic spires of the Cathédrale Notre-Dame made famous by Claude Monet. This historic capital is where Richard the Lionheart was crowned Duke of Normandy and where Joan of Arc remains a symbolic figure. Rich with medieval history and vestiges of its English occupation during the 100 Years War, explore its cobblestoned pedestrian centers to see Gothic churches including Saint-Maclou and Saint-Ouen.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8834 | 'winforms' tag RSS
The ImageBox control is already a versatile little control and I use it for all sorts of tasks. One of the features I recently wanted was to allow users to be able to select a source region, then adjust this as needed. The control already allows you to draw a selection region, but if you need to adjust that ... well, you can't. You can only draw a new region.
This article describes how to extend the ImageBox to include the ability to resize the selection region. A older demonstration which shows how to drag the selection around has also been incorporated, in a more tidy fashion than the demo.
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I recently had a requirement where a user was able to perform an action externally to my application, and my application then had to detect this for processing.
I could of course just had a poller running away in the background to check, but as the requirement also needed user input, why not just wait until the user switched back to my application, then check and deal with accordingly?
This article describes how to intercept the WM_ACTIVATEAPP message from your C# application and put it to good use.
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Sometimes you may wish to create an application that sits running in the background but doesn't actually display an initial user interface. However, the user can interact with the application and so therefore its not appropriate to be a service. Often such applications are accessible from a system tray icon. Another viable requirement might be for multiple top level windows, for example recent versions of Microsoft Word, where each document has its own application window.
By default however, a normal Windows Form application displays the start-up form which definitely isn't desirable, especially as hiding this form isn't as straightforward as you might expect. Fortunately however, the framework provides us with the ApplicationContext class that can be used by Application.Run.
This article describes how to use application contexts to create an application that initially has only a system tray icon to which further functionality can be accessed.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8847 | Meeting Moses in the Desert
Origionally published in Record Magazine (on Dec 4, 2010)
I recently met Moses in the outback.
I spent a week in Western Australia at the Karalundi Aboriginal Education Community telling faith stories to the students. Moses is a tiny five year old student who has the uncanny ability to appear in front of you at the slightest wiggle of a lens cap. I now have a sizable collection of photos of Moses’ amazing smile! What he lacks in stature, he makes up for in joy!
Meeting Moses was not the only inspirational thing I experienced at Karalundi. There were so many beautiful people with wonderful hearts. Students who love life. Teachers who exude a clarity of purpose. Staff members who care deeply. Karalundi, an oasis in the desert, truly nourished my heart and soul.
The Aboriginal people are a storytelling people. I spent hours sitting at a picnic table or in a conversation-circle on the ground with students. I learned so much and laughed a lot. And I answered a lot of questions: “Pasta, where ya from? Who ya mum? Who ya wife? Who ya kids? Where ya been? Where ya go?”
I was particularly blessed by one special questioner. At the Friday night program, I invited anyone who wanted to pray or to know more about Jesus to come forward and sit next to me on the stage after the meeting. After nearly everyone had left, nine year old Kelly sat next to me and wiggled her head under my arm so that it draped over her shoulder. She looked up at me for some time before asking two deeply beautiful questions.
“How Jesus be up in Heaven and be here too, one like us?” This question still brings tears to my eyes (even now as I write, I’m dabbing my eyes!). One like us... Me and Kelly. Us. How do you explain the all embracing love of a child? I squeezed my arm tightly around her little shoulders.
“How God be way far up there and still He hear us when we pray?” I’m not sure if it’s the questions (they were good ones!) that bring the tears or if it’s the memory of the truly pure heart I was so privileged to sit next to. The questions were easy. I answered them with one word each: “Incarnation. Omnipresence. Run along now!”
Not even close. Kelly and I sat there for a long time as I told her stories about a God big enough for both of us and more all-embracing than we can hope to imagine or begin to imitate. She was gracious and listened. Then she rushed out to get the evening snack from the kitchen. Did I mention the cooks? Wow!
I suppose, the desert experiences in life are meant to teach us. But I was caught by surprise. When I landed in Perth and began the eight hour drive, I knew I was going to the desert. But instead, I found the promised land, or at least a brief snapshot of it. Thanks, Moses. Thanks, Kelly. And thanks God, for Karalundi.
Dave Edgren ~ Story: Teller, Author, Trainer ~
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Hiroshi Agasa
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Japanese name: 阿笠 博士
(Agasa Hiroshi)
English name: Hershel Agasa
Age: 53[1]
Gender: Male
Height: 160 cm (5'3")[2]
Date of birth: Unknown[3]
Relatives: Kurisuke Agasa (great-uncle, deceased)
Teiko Agasa (great-aunt, deceased)
Unnamed cousin
Unnamed cousin's granddaughter
Occupation: Engineer
Status: Alive
Nicknames: Professor (Ai Haibara)
Professor Agasa (Conan Edogawa, Detective Boys), Professor Sunshine (Yusaku Kudo)
Aliases: Professor Agasa
Dr. Agasa
First appearance: Manga: File 2
Anime: Episode 1
Appearances: Chapters: 282
Episodes: 231
Movies: 23
OVAs: 11
Specials: 5
Openings: 28
Closings: 4
Keyhole number: Volume 5
Japanese voice: Kenichi Ogata
Kazunari Tanaka (young)
English voice: Bill Flynn
Drama actor: Ryosei Tayama
Hiroshi Agasa (阿笠 博士 Agasa Hiroshi?), most commonly referred to as Professor Agasa (阿笠博士 Agasa-hakase?), and known in the Funimation dub as Hershel Agasa, is a character in the manga and anime franchise Detective Conan. Agasa is Shinichi Kudo's next door neighbor and family friend. The first person to learn that Conan Edogawa is actually Shinichi, he invented all of Conan's special gadgets as well as the Detective Boys' badges and flashlight-watches.
Agasa's house
Hiroshi Agasa is an inventor and Shinichi's next-door neighbor. He makes his living with a wide number of patents and inventions, including video games (of which the Detective Boys are enthusiastic test players). While many of his inventions are useless or have even damaged his in-house research laboratory, Agasa has been successful enough to live in a large house and even rebuild it when necessary. He has been a friend of Shinichi and Ran since their childhood years.
After Shinichi was shrunk by the APTX 4869, the first person he met and entrusted himself to was Agasa. After having been convinced that the little boy was Shinichi, Agasa was also the first one to advise Shinichi to exercise caution in his pursuit of the Black Organization. He also helped Shinichi in establishing his new identity as Conan Edogawa, including constructing several gadgets which help Shinichi in carrying on his detective work surreptitiously. In order to perfect Conan's cover, he also enrolled him in Teitan Elementary and thus came to know the children who would form the Detective Boys. When Shiho Miyano fled the clutches of the Black Organization, she fled to Shinichi's house but collapsed from exhaustion near Agasa's doorstep. Agasa subsequently took her in, learned about her true identity and helped her establish her new identity as Ai Haibara. He also entrusted Shinichi's parents with the secret about what has happened to their son.
Ever since these beginnings, Agasa has been an invaluable friend for Shinichi and the Detective Boys as a confidant, paternal friend, and someone to hang out with. He often takes the children on trips, most of which turn into criminal cases instead.
Agasa owns a Volkswagen Beetle for at least 10 years, but it is quite unreliable and often breaks down in trips. At one point, he owns a Persian rug which can be sold for money to replace his Beetle, but since the rug was involved in a theft, the police is investigating and Agasa hasn't been able to sell it.
By knowing Shinichi and Shiho's identity, Agasa is aware of the existence of Black Organization as well as their crimes. While not confronting them directly, Agasa has been quite active in helping Shinichi and his allies planning against them. Agasa is entrusted by Shinichi when it comes to such cases.
Childhood and relatives
Agasa went to Teitan Elementary[4] and then Okuho middle school.[5] He met Fusae Kinoshita during sixth grade, though she moved away during the fall term and his family moved from Tokyo to the countryside soon after the term ended.[6]
Agasa has a rich accountant uncle named Kurisuke Agasa who died 50 years before the present timeline at the age of 38.[7] The uncle liked gadgets. Kurisuke's sister, Teiko, was alive until a year ago when she passed away at age 76.[8] Agasa’s cousin’s granddaughter is of the right age to be introduced to Takagi.[9]
Hiroshi Agasa is a jovial, caring and outgoing person and has many friends in his community, a fact which helped him in his covering up of Conan's and Haibara's true origins (he simply claims that they are the children of his friends and acquaintances). Agasa is highly intelligent, having achieved at least one advanced degree and managing to invent a slew of useful gadgets. He is especially proud of his inventions, and their quality must have been recognized, since they have already been used during official events[10]. While a bachelor, he is very paternal and enjoys the company of the Detective Boys. Agasa has a special love for pasta and tomato juice.
Agasa is an average size man with slightly-overweight frame. Looking somewhat older than his actual age, he is bald on the top of his head with the rest of his hair silver. He sports thick eyebrows and a mustache and a somewhat bulbous nose. He wears round glasses and is regularly seen in his lab attire
Plot overview
The Great Detective Turned Small (Manga: 002-005, Anime: 002)
Shinichi Kudo confides in Agasa the secret that he has been shrunken. Shinichi takes the name Conan Edogawa and goes to live with Ran Mouri.
The Bloody Pop Idol (Manga: 006-009, Anime: 003)
Invents: Voice-Changing Bowtie
The Mysterious Shadowing Case (Manga: 010-012, Anime: 038)
Invents: Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes
1 Billion Yen Robbery Case (Manga: 013-016, Anime: 013)
Invents: Criminal Tracking Glasses
Hatamoto Family Murder Case (Manga: 020-025, Anime: 022-023)
Invents: Stun-Gun Wristwatch
Monthly Presents Case (Manga: 026-029, Anime: 007)
Agasa uses the Voice-Changing Bowtie in order to help Conan protect his secret identity from Ran.
Shinkansen Bomb Case (Manga: 033-035, Anime: 005)
Invents: Microphone
Conan Edogawa Kidnapping Case (Manga: 049-050 and 051, Anime: 043)
Agasa aids Yusaku Kudo and Yukiko Kudo in playing a prank on Conan to prove to him how dangerous of a situation he is in.
Mysterious Brothers Case (Manga: 056-058, Anime: 015)
Invents: Detective Boys Badge
Pro Soccer Player Case (Manga: 068-070 and 071, Anime: 010)
Invents: Portable Bento Box Fax
Night Baron Murder Case (Manga: 072-077, Anime: 068-070)
Agasa signed himself and a friend up for a mystery tour, but the friend's daughter becomes sick, so he sends Conan, Ran, and Kogoro Mouri in his place.
Trapped Ayumi Case (Manga: 081-083, Anime: 012)
Invents: Turbo Engine Skateboard
Library Murder Case (Manga: 097-098, Anime: 050)
Conan, after realizing that baijiu, a type of Chinese alcohol, has some effect on his shrinking, gets Agasa to buy him more, but they learn he has built a tolerance.
Mist Tengu Murder Case (Manga: 108-110, Anime: 052)
Invents: Button Speaker
Moon, Star, Sun Code Case (Manga: 111-113, Anime: 163-164)
Invents: Voice-Changing pen, Anime version: Kamen Yaiba Voice Changer
Agasa takes the Detective Boys to his uncles house to uncover a treasure he had hidden, however they discover a second code that leads to a hidden attic.
Gomera Murder Case (Manga: 128-130, Anime: 063)
First time that Conan uses Agasa's voice to solve a murder case using the Voice-Changing Bowtie.
Ski Lodge Case (Manga: 139-143, Anime: 084-085)
Invents: Earring Cellphone
Kaitou Kid and the Black Star (Manga: 156-159, Anime: 076)
At Conan's request, Agasa looks through Yusaku's files to find information about a phantom thief from 18 years ago. He discovers that a "young novelist" had played around with the thief's title "1412" and ended up naming the thief "Kid". Conan spends the rest of the case trying to stop Kid from stealing the Suzuki family's Black Star gem.
University Professor Murder Case (Manga: 179-180 and 181, Anime: 129)
A mysterious new student, Ai Haibara, at Conan's school reveals her self to be an agent of the Black Organization, Sherry (Shiho Miyano). She also claims to have sent Dr. Agasa to the next world. Conan races to Agasa's house to find him alive and distracted. It is then revealed that Haibara escaped from the Organization in by taking the Shrinking drug APTX and ran to Shinichi's house for protection, where Agasa found her and took her in. From this point forward she lives at Agasa's house.
Reunion with the Black Organization (Manga: 238-242, Anime: 176-178)
Conan and Haibara encounter Gin's car on the street and plan a tracker. Conan, Haibara and Agasa follow the signal. Conan and Haibara find themselves at a funeral party where a murder occurs. During the process of solving the case, Haibara is kidnapped by a member of the Black Organization!
The Desperate Revival: Dangerous Cave Case (Manga: 251-253 and 254, Anime: 188-190)
Agasa takes the Detective Boys on another camping trip. Conan, Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko wander off and end up exploring a cave where they witness some people disposing of a body. Conan ends up getting shot! Later, Agasa and Haibara end up realizing that the others are missing and contact the police.
Agasa and the Detective Boys board a bus and it is soon hijacked! Not only that, but Haibara senses that a member of the Black Organization is on board.
Kidnapped Tourist Case (Manga: 325-327, Anime: 258-259)
Agasa and the Detective Boys meet a strange tourist called James Black who gets kidnapped. At the same time Haibara and Conan notice they are being tailed by one of the men from the Bus Hijacking case.
English Teacher vs. Great Detective of the West (Manga: 341-343, Anime: 277-278)
Agasa calls Heiji Hattori in to help Conan. They begin to discuss all of the plot points so far. While Conan and Heiji go to investigate Jodie Saintemillion, Conan asks Agasa to search the internet for information concerning Chris Vineyard whom he suspects may be a member of the Black Organization.
Soccer Supporters Case (Manga: 344-346, Anime: 279-280)
Agasa reports to Conan on the information he discovered on Chris Vineyard. It turns out that the first time she stepped out into the public's eye was the day of her mother's, Sharon Vineyard, funeral. However, Agasa could not find much about the relationship between the mother and daughter.
Disappearing Mitsuhiko Case (Manga" 358-360, Anime: 289-290)
Mitsuhiko disappears and it's up to Agasa and the Detective Boys to track him down. They trace his steps all the way to a forest in the mountains. There the bump into Detective Yamamura, who tells them that a serial killer, Ki'ichiro Numabuchi, is on the loose in the forest as well! As it turns out, Haibara may know something about this serial killer!
Meeting with Vodka (Manga: 380-382 and 383, Anime: 309-311)
Invents: Anywhere Ball Dispensing Belt
Conan has obtained the digital diary of Suguru Itakura, someone who is connected to the Black Organization. He brings this digital diary to Agasa's place and discovers hidden text between entries. These hidden entries explain the interactions between Itakura and Tequila as well as a mystery woman who only spoke over the phone. They then discover that Itakura was planning to deliver a program to the Black Organization that week and decide to travel to Itakura's cabin to complete the transaction.
A Torn Friendship (Manga: 398-400, Anime: 329-330)
Agasa and the Detective Boys go on another camping trip. Conan questions Agasa more about the Itakura incident and whether or not he knew Atsushi Miyano, Haibara's father's name which he had recently just learned. Agasa reveals that he did know Dr. Miyano and his wife Elena Miyano who makes up the English side of Haibara's ethnicity.
Agasa has a birthday.
Poisoned Fisherman (Manga: 460-462, Anime: 366-367)
This case marks Agasa's 53rd Birthday.
Shinichi Kudo's Childhood Adventure (Manga: 570-573, Anime: 473)
Conan narrates Shinichi and Ran's adventure from ten years before the present story-line to the Detective Boys and Sumiko Kobayashi. Agasa had played a vital part in that adventure, driving Shinichi and Ran to the indicated places and helping them decipher the codes.
Agasa boasts about his invitation.
Luna Memoria (Manga: 963-965, Anime: 887-888)
Conan, Haibara and Agasa get invited by Jirokichi to solve a puzzle box that is in Kaitou Kid's sights. When they arrive they are met by Kogoro, Ran and Sonoko. At the end of the case it is revealed that Kaitou Kid choose Agasa as his disguise.
Non-canon plot overview
Relationships analysis
Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa
Conan treats Agasa like an uncle. Due to the fact that they both share the secret behind Shinichi's transformation and knowledge about the Black Organization, Conan often comes to him when in trouble or seeking for help. Agasa creates the necessary gadgets for Shinichi to play Conan's role and works hard to ensure this secret identity is safe, even from Shinichi's close friends like Ran and Sonoko. Agasa has also acted as mouthpiece for Conan when deducing crimes if Kogoro Mouri is not around or it's not safe to tranquilize him. Agasa has been supportive of Shinichi and Ran's relationship.
In private, Agasa calls Conan by his real name Shinichi. Sometimes he tends to slip and nearly exposes Shinichi's identity to public.
Ai Haibara
The relationship between Haibara and Professor Agasa is rather unusual, if not humorous. Despite what their actual (and apparent) ages are, Haibara often times acts more like a mother to the professor, constantly reminding him to watch what he eats. On several occasions, she has removed fattening foods from his reach[21], and is attempting to help get him into better shape. There have also been instances where she'll instinctively step in front of Agasa to protect him from danger.[22] Out of all the people she's met, Haibara seems most comfortable about acting herself with Agasa; which might be attributed to the fact that he was the one who found her after she escaped the Black Organization, and took her in.
Though they only realized the fact some time later, Agasa knew her parents when they were still alive—especially her father, Atsushi Miyano—even though he didn't know at that time that they'd had children.[23][24]
Unlike with Conan/Shinichi, both in public and in private, Agasa calls Haibara by her alias name Ai, even though he knows her real identity as Shiho Miyano.
Yusaku Kudo
Agasa and Yusaku are good friends.
Juzo Megure
Since Agasa's trips with Detective Boys often lead them to crime scenes, Agasa has met Megure frequently. Megure trusts and listens to Agasa's deduction (which actually comes from Conan using Voice Changing Bowtie, but Conan doesn't have to tranquilize Agasa). They are in good terms with each other, but at one point Megure remarks that Agasa has become a corpse magnet like Mouri.
Wataru Takagi
For the same reasons, Takagi and Agasa meet frequently and are in good terms with each other.
Shuichi Akai/Subaru Okiya
In the story, Akai and Agasa meet for the first time after Akai fakes his death and becomes Subaru (Akai uses the Voice Changing Choker invented by Agasa to fake his voice as Subaru). Agasa eventually learns about Akai's secret identity and helps him with his disguise. On daily events, Subaru helps Agasa on his inventions or picking up the Detective Boys when he is not around.
Both in public and in private, Agasa calls Akai by his alias name Subaru.
Sixth Grade Agasa with Fusae Campbell
Fusae Campbell
Fusae Campbell, today a successful fashion designer, was Agasa's first love in their childhood years. Because of her half-American heritage she has blonde hair, which made her the target of ridicule among her fellow students and thus very shy; she usually wore a large hat to conceal her hair. Three months after meeting Agasa, her family abruptly moved away, but she promised to return every ten years to a special place to meet him again. However, Agasa could not figure out what location she meant, until the Detective Boys and Conan find the original note she left behind and help him realize the answer to her clues. While they did not openly talk about their feelings during their brief reunion, there is a hint that their relationship is now beginning to grow.
Character popularity
• eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Agasa placed 19th in the poll with 36 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.[25]
• In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Agasa placed 37th overall.[26]
In the non-canon movies, Agasa usually gives a multiple-choice quiz to the Detective Boys as a reward or just to test their knowledge. These are mostly based on puns or rearranging the strokes in a character to get the answer.
Name origin
Agasa's name comes from mystery writer Agatha Christie. His first name Hiroshi is a pun as it is written with the same kanji for hakase (博士 professor?). Agasa's English given name "Herschel" likely comes from the physician friend of V. I. Warshawski, Dr. Charlotte “Lotty” Herschel.
Additionally, his great uncle and aunt, Kurisuke (栗介 ?) and Teiko (定子 ?), get their names from the Japanese pronunciation of Christie (クリスティ Kurisuti?) (Kurisuke obviously comes from Kurisu (クリス), but Teiko comes from Tei (テイ), and alternate writing for Ti (ティ)).
Different looks
Episode 2
Episode 422
Episode 621
• Professor Agasa has a mole on his butt with a hair sticking out of it (which Conan revealed while trying to prove his real identity to Agasa).[27]
• In a fan poll, Professor Agasa was voted as the character most likely to be The Boss of the Black Organization. In an interview, Gosho Aoyama stated that Agasa is not the boss.[28]
• Professor Agasa has a built in television in his car.[29]
• Professor Agasa's car is a yellow Volkswagen Beetle.
In other languages
Language Given Name Family Name
Flag of Japan Japanese 博士 Hiroshi 阿笠 Agasa
Flag of Arab League Arabic Not given أگاسّا Agāssa
Flag of Indonesia Bahasa Indonesia Hiroshi Agasa
Flag of Catalonia Catalan Hiroshi Agasa
Flag of China Chinese 博士Buo Sh 阿笠A Li
Flag of US English Herschel (anime), Hershel/Herschel/Hiroshi (manga) Agasa
Flag of Finland Finnish Hiroshi Agasa
Flag of France French Hiroshi Agasa
Flag of Germany German Hiroshi Agasa
Flag of Hungary Hungarian Hiroshi Agasa
Flag of Italy Italian Hiroshi Agasa
Flag of North KoreaFlag of South Korea Korean 브라운 Brown Unknown
Flag of Malaysia Malay Hiroshi Agasa
Flag of Spain Spanish Hiroshi Agasha (anime dub, 1-77, 200+), Hakase (anime dub, 78-199), Agase (manga)
Flag of Spain Spanish Latin America Not given (anime dub, 1-123), Hiroshi (anime dub, 124+) Cardillo (anime dub, 1-123), Agasa (anime dub, 124+)
Flag of Thailand Thai ฮิโรชิ Hiroshi อากาสะ Agasa
Flag of Vietnam Vietnamese Hiroshi Agasa
See also
1. ^ Agasa starts the series at age 52 and has a birthday in the The Poisoned Fisherman Case
2. ^ In File 964 Conan says that Agasa is the same height as Ran, who is 160 cm tall.
3. ^ Conan Drill Page 52
4. ^ Manga Volume 40, File 7, Agasa's First Love
5. ^ Manga chapter 572 page 10
6. ^ Manga chapter 410 pages 08-10
7. ^ Manga chapter 111 page 06
8. ^ Manga chapter 111 page 07
9. ^ Manga chapter 208
10. ^ Episode 157: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 2 where his "Tropical Rainbow" explosive is used during a celebration to destroy the Haido City museum.
11. ^ Chapter 775 pg 13
12. ^ Chapter 775 pg 11
13. ^ File 843: A Parcel for Kudo-samakata (Volue 80)
14. ^ a b c d File 948: The Clenched Scissors (Volume 89) Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "file948" defined multiple times with different content
15. ^ a b File 950: The Clipped Letters (Volume 90)
16. ^ File 949: Sweet Scent (Volume 90)
17. ^ File 900 (Volume 85)
18. ^ a b c d Movie 13: The Raven Chaser
19. ^ a b File 422: Inescapable Target (Volume 41)
20. ^ a b Episode 309
21. ^ Movie 9: Strategy Above the Depths
22. ^ Movie 4: Captured in Her Eyes
23. ^ Manga Chapter 398: The Torn Friendship, Part 1
24. ^ Manga Chapter 423: A Mystery Left by a Visitor
27. ^ Episode 2: Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case
28. ^ 朝日新聞:「黒の組織ボス、もう登場」 コナン作者・青山さん (2014年1月6日16時53分)
29. ^ Manga: Volume 24, File 10, page 16
Main Characters
Protagonists Shinichi KudoConan EdogawaRan MouriKogoro Mouri
Detective Boys Ayumi YoshidaMitsuhiko TsuburayaGenta KojimaAi Haibara
Osaka Police District Heizo HattoriGinshiro ToyamaGoro Otaki
Nagano Police District Kansuke YamatoYui UeharaTaka'aki Morofushi
Other police districts Sango YokomizoMisao YamamuraJugo YokomizoFumimaro Ayanokoji
NPA Security Bureau Rei Furuya (Bourbon)
FBI Shuichi AkaiJodie StarlingJames BlackAndre Camel
CIA Hidemi Hondou (Kir)Ethan Hondou
Black Organization The BossRumGinVodkaVermouthChiantiKornShiho MiyanoAkemi MiyanoElena MiyanoAtsushi MiyanoTequilaPiscoCalvadosRikumichi KusudaKi'ichiro Numabuchi
Detective Boys
Members Conan EdogawaAi HaibaraAyumi YoshidaMitsuhiko TsuburayaGenta Kojima
Guardians Hiroshi AgasaSumiko Kobayashi
Gadgets Detective Boys BadgeWristwatch Flashlight |
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The nicotine in tobacco is a potent stimulant, but most athletes produce so much adrenalin before a competition that they don't need any more stimulation. When you smoke tobacco, the nicotine is absorbed from the lungs and travels undiluted directly to the brain so that eight seconds after you puff on a cigarette, almost all the inhaled nicotine is inside your brain cells to cause a sudden jolt that calms you down, makes you more alert, and even helps you concentrate better. If you take another puff before some of the nicotine has cleared from your brain, the dose is too great and can cause headaches, nausea, dizziness, flushing and shakiness.
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2) Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 1992(March);24:389-395
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It's normal to sweat more after you finish exercising than you do while you exercise. Your body temperature varies throughout the day, going from around 97 degrees in the early morning to about 99 degrees in the early evening. Exercise raises body temperature considerably. When you exercise, more than 70 percent of the energy that powers your muscles is lost as heat. Less than 30 percent drives your muscles. Athletic competition can drive temperatures as high as 105 degrees without harming the athletes.
To keep your body temperature from rising too high, your heart pumps large amounts of heat in the blood from your hot muscles to your skin and you sweat. The sweat evaporates and cools your body. The amount of sweat that your body produces depends on the temperature of the blood that flows through your brain. When the temperature of the blood rises, you sweat more. During exercise, your heart beats rapidly to pump blood to bring oxygen to your muscles and to pump the hot blood from the muscles to the skin where the heat can be dissipated. When you stop exercising, your heart slows down also, pumping less blood to the skin. The heat accumulates in your muscles, causing blood temperature to rise higher, so you sweat more right after you finish exercising than during exercise.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8952 | Elsevier and the Finnish Consortium Collaborate on the Open Access Agreement
Elsevier has been having disputes with several universities across the globe, such as Germany, South Korea and now Finland. Recently, Elsevier and South Korean universities entered into an agreement to gain access to ScienceDirect, Elsevier’s database of journals. The Finnish Consortium, FinELib, comprising universities, research institutions, and public libraries in Finland, have followed the South Korean universities. Elsevier and FinELib, jointly issued a press release outlining two exciting goals. In their three-year agreement, Elsevier and the Finnish consortium are:
• Providing Finnish academic organizations to Elsevier’s extensive research collection.
• Encouraging Finnish researchers to open access publish their articles in Elsevier’s journals by providing discounts.
Let us review the agreement between Elsevier and Finnish researchers.
Gaining Subscription Access
This agreement of the Science Direct Freedom Collection allows 13 Finnish universities, 11 research institutions, and 11 universities of applied sciences, and grants subscription access to around 1,850 journals on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect. These journals include over 1,500 Elsevier owned hybrid-journals and over 100 full open access journals. Elsevier society-owned titles (e.g., Cell) published by Elsevier are not included. Another bonus is Elsevier’s citation impact, which is “30 percent above market average .”
According to reports, Finnish research published by Elsevier increased by 37.5 percent between 2011 and 2015. However, the total number of Finnish articles published grew by 15.8 percent during that same period. These numbers demonstrate the value Finnish scientists attach to publishing in Elsevier’s high-quality journals.
Encouraging Open Access Publishing with Discounts
As for publishing open access, Elsevier’s Your Guide to Publishing Open Access states that open access allows FinELib-associated entities to access “published research, combined with clear guidelines for readers to share and use the content.” Gino Ussi, Executive Vice President of Elsevier, explained that the Finnish research community and Elsevier collaborated to aim at improving the already high standard of Finnish research. They wish to achieve this by paving the way for open access publishing and leveraging the full potential of Elsevier’s ScienceDirect platform. They believe this will improve the way researchers search, discover, read, understand and share scholarly research.
To encourage researchers even more, FinELib states that the Open Access agreement offers researchers a new opportunity to publish their articles. They will also be provided a 50% discount on article processing charges (APC). This discount is available for all corresponding authors in organizations that are parties to the agreement. The discount is offered for articles published in over 1,500 subscription journals and over 100 full open access journals. Researchers may check the FinELib website for more information.
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The agreement is an important development on the dispute of Elsevier with the different universities. In case you have missed the previous updates on this dispute, you can check the infamous events that made academia headlines in 2017 (part 1).”
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/8956 | A very short history of pop music
A very short history of pop music
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach
Bob Marley
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
Frank Zappa
Aldous Huxley
Where words leave off, music begins.
Heinrich Heine
To understand where pop music comes from we have to start from Blues. This is a genre and musical form that originated in African-American communities in the “Deep South” of the United States around the end of the 19th century. The genre developed from a fusion of traditional African music and European folk music, that incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The blues form, ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll, is characterized by the call-and-response pattern, the blues scale and specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common. The blue notes (or “worried notes”) which are often thirds or fifths which are flatter in pitch than in other music styles, are also an important part of the sound. Blues shuffles or walking bass reinforce the trance-like rhythm and form a repetitive effect called a groove.
Now we can pass to soul music. This is also a genre of African American popular music that led to many later genres, from funk and dance music to hip hop and contemporary R&B. It developed in the USA in the late 1950s from African American church music called “gospel music”. After slavery ended in 1865, African Americans weren’t welcome in the churches of white Americans, so they built their own churches and sang Christian songs with African-American vocal styles and rhythms. They sang joyful, up-tempo gospel songs while clapping and moving to the beat, and they sang slower gospel songs that expressed deep feelings like yearning for God’s love. These different styles led to the two main styles of soul music.
The first soul songs were created when gospel songs were changed into secular songs by rewriting the lyrics. Joyful, up-tempo gospel songs became up-tempo soul songs, while slower gospel songs became romantic love songs. An example of the up-tempo style is R&B artist Ray Charles’ 1954 song I’ve Got a Woman (Way Across Town), a secular version of the old gospel song I’ve Got a Savior (Way Across Jordan). Another example is Ray’s first crossover hit What’d I Say in which he uses a gospel-music call and response to exchange sexy “oohs” and “aahs” with the Raelettes, his female backing singers. An example of the slower style is former gospel singer James Brown’s 1956 song Please, Please, Please in which he changed a gospel song about yearning for God’s love into a song about yearning for a girl’s love.
In 1930s in Europe swing became popular. Benny Goodman and his Orchestra were the ‘King of the Swing’, as were Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw. The music was fast and frantically paced and led to dances being banned from dance halls, as the young women being flung into the air by their partners showed their stocking tops and underwear. Jazz continued to be popular. In 1940s, in Europe the Second World War brought fast, frantic (and often American) dance music – boogie-woogie or jitterbug. Dances were held in church halls, village halls, clubs, Air Force bases – everywhere! But slower, romantic songs were also popular as loved ones went away to fight, such as Vera Lynn’s ‘We’ll Meet Again’ and the song about coming home again, ‘The ‘White Cliffs of Dover’. After the war ‘skiffle’ bands became popular. These bands used household items, such as washboards and tea chests, as part of their set of instruments! Tommy Steele, who later became very famous, first played in a skiffle band.
Obviously we couldn’t imagine pop music without Soul-Jazz, which was the most popular jazz style of the 1960s. It differs from bebop and hard bop (from which it originally developed) in that the emphasis is on the rhythmic groove. Although soloists follow the chords as in bop, the basslines (often played by an organist if not a string bassist) dance rather than stick strictly to a four-to-the bar walking pattern. The musicians build their accompaniment around the bassline and, although there are often strong melodies, it is the catchiness of the groove and the amount of heat generated by the soloists that determine whether the performance is successful. Soul-jazz’s roots trace back to pianist Horace Silver, whose funky style infused bop with the influence of church and gospel music, along with the blues. Other pianists who followed and used similar approaches were Bobby Timmons, Junior Mance, Les McCann, Gene Harris, and Ramsey Lewis. With the emergence of organist Jimmy Smith in 1956, soul-jazz organ combos (usually also including a tenor, guitarist, drummer, and an occasional bassist) caught on, and soulful players became stars.
And now we can finally talk of ‘Pop’ that is the short term for popular music. There are different styles of pop music, but they all appeal to the general public. But when did ‘modern’ pop music begin? There were two significant moments. First of all Leo Fender invented the electric guitar in 1950. Then, in 1954, Sony introduced the transistor radio and after that, music was accessible to people in their homes and cars. In 1954 Elvis Presley released That’s All Right. He fused country music with black rhythm and blues to create rock and roll. At that time this was an innovation, and Elvis, who was young, attractive and exciting, became the first teen idol and made pop music a youth culture. Rock and Roll was born and it became soon very popular.
The 1960s was the decade of The Beatles, who dominated pop music from 1961 to 1970 with a new folk-rock sound. The Beatles were the first band to play in a stadium: Shea Stadium in New York in 1965. In June 1969 they had their seventeenth number one hit – two more than Elvis. The 60s also saw the first outdoor music festivals and popular music began to have a social and political message, for example, Bob Dylan. This was also the beginning of Motown and soul music with artists like Ray Charles, The Supremes and Marvin Gaye. The Beatles began their career. They leapt to fame in 1963 with ‘Please, Please Me’.
The Beatles moved through the late 1960s as favourites of the ‘flower power’ generation – many young people enjoyed ‘hippie’ music. Other teenagers preferred the music of the ‘Mods’ – ska music and The Who.
Next came the 1970s and several new genres of music appeared, like reggae (Bob Marley), glam rock (David Bowie), punk (the Sex Pistols) and heavy metal (Iron Maiden). When the Bee Gees recorded Saturday Night Fever, a new global dance phenomenon was born: disco. Michael Jackson’s Thriller video started the trend for using video as promotion and during the 1980s the influence of MTV meant that the video became as important as the song itself. Madonna exploded onto the scene, and with her ability to adapt to every trend, is now a pop icon. In England the first big new sound of the 1970s was “Glam Rock”, the main figures of this were David Bowie, Elton John and of course Gary Glitter. In the bleak political backdrop, these larger that life British bands and characters brought a welcome relief with their platform boots, sequins, nail varnish and colourful hair. This period also saw the spring of the punk movement of the late 1970s. Great British bands of this scene were The Sex Pistols and The Clash. The Punk style was Mohicans, bondage clothes, safety pins, piercings and bovver boots.
The 80s was the era of indie music from bands like The Smiths, The Cure and New Order. This decade also saw the first ‘raves’ when disco transformed into high energy dance music. The 1980s saw also the rise of hip hop and rap music, with American influences powerful once again in the form of such groups as Run DMC and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. It also saw the rise and fall of the ‘New Romantics’, typified by groups like Adam and the Ants, who dressed as pirates and highway men and wore huge amounts of makeup. From the late 80s, through the 1990s and into the first part of the 21st century, other musical styles appeared. Grunge (Nirvana), RnB (Beyoncé), rap and hip hop (Eminem, Ice-T), new rock (The White Stripes) showed that pop music is always evolving. The 90s onwards was also the era of boy bands and girl bands such as Take That and The Spice Girls. Britpop, this was the general name given in the 1990s to a new wave of successful British bands who made a big impact in the United States and Europe, as well as in England. The most successful have been Radiohead, Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Massive Attack and The Spice Girls.
Today pop is a global industry. CDs replaced records a long time ago and nowadays, downloading from websites is marking the end of these traditional music formats. It is now the age of digital music. In 2006 Gnarls Barkley with his song Crazy became the first artist to reach number 1 in the UK charts based only on download sales. In Europe, Britain is certainly more famous for pop music than it is for classical composers or jazz musicians. Names such as The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Elton John, George Michael and The Spice Girls are known world wide but little do people know of our other musicians not in the pop world. In Britain, most youths listen to punk, garage, house, rock, pop and R&B. (such as McFly, JLo, Xtina, Beyonce, Pink, Britney, Justin Timberlake, Mis-teeq).
Victor Hugo
If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare
Albert Schweitzer
The only truth is music.
Jack Kerouac
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
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I shot this on the Samsung NX1 (my first project on the camera) and certainly ran up against some of its limitations, like low light performance.
Anyway, I've never been particularly happy with my own colour grading, maybe its just me being too harsh on myself as I know many of us are a bit self deprecating creatively.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/9007 | The internet is full of speculation about the value of “bitcoins”, the so-called whole world currency. These bloggers might be surprised to learn that the world had a universally recognized coin over 2,500 years ago, used everywhere around the Mediterranean by famous Greeks including Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle. We now refer to this coin as the Athens Owl. Used for over 300 years, it opened the world to a new concept, conducting trade with money. Before the Owl merchants relied on barter when exchanging goods or services. With the Athens Owl coin a merchants from Egypt to Greece would take the coin in exchange for his own goods because he trusted the purity of its silver content and its uniform weight. The owl, which then as now is recognized for wisdom, was the symbol of Athens. The letters A?? on the coin are “Alpha Theta Epsilon” short for A?ENAI?N, means “of the Athenians”. This small species of owl, known as Athena Noctua, still range throughout the Mediterranean area. Standing 6-9” tall, it is often called the Minerva owl. The coin's reverse portrays Athena, goddess of wisdom and the patron of the city. In mythology Athena sometimes took the form of an owl. The silver owl coin changed the world forever and it is one of the finest surviving relics of ancient Greek culture. |
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Today we release Automise 5.
Automise 5 Beta
Automise 5 had been updated to use the FinalBuilder 8 engine. It now runs faster and leaner.
Brent was watching me fly through some FinalBuilder operations the other day and he suggested I write a blog post about the best keyboard shortcuts to use.
How to safely use relative paths in actions (for FinalBuilder and Automise.)
Avoiding the "XPath returned no node" error when working with XML files in FinalBuilder and Automise.
All of FinalBuilder and Automise's data is available to you via XML, if you need to dig around in it.
A day of releases today. FinalBuilder 5.5 is released today, and so is our newest product, FinalBuilder Server
Automise 2 Public Beta
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ISC BIND DNS Configuration
What is Discovered and Monitored
Protocol Information discovered Metrics collected Used for
SNMP Application type Process level CPU utilization, Memory utilization Performance Monitoring
Syslog Application type DNS name resolution activity: DNS Query Success and Failure by type Security Monitoring and compliance
Event Types
In CMDB > Event Types, search for “isc bind” in the Device Type and Description column to see the event types associated with this device.
There are no predefined rules for this device.
There are no predefined reports for this device.
AccelOps uses SNMP to discover and monitor this device. Make sure SNMP is enabled for the device as directed in its product documentation, then follow the instructions in Setting Access Credentials for Device Discovery to establish the connection between the device and AccelOps, and to initiate the device discovery process.
Configure the ISC BIND DNS Server to Send Syslogs
1. Edit conf and add a new line: include /var/named/conf/logging.conf;.
2. Edit the /var/named/conf/logging.conf file, and in the channel queries_file { } section add syslog local3;
3. Restart BIND by issuing /etc/init.d/named restart.
Configure Syslog to Send to AccelOps
1. Edit conf and add a new line: Local7.* @<IP address of the AccelOps server>.
2. Restart the syslog daemon by issuing /etc/init.d/syslog restart.
Settings for Access Credentials
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/9113 | Personal and Devotional Prayers
Troparia Of The Resurrection
Tone One
When the stone had been sealed by the Jews, While the soldiers were guarding Your most pure body, You arose on the third day, O Savior, Granting life to the world. The powers of heaven therefore cried to You, O Giver of Life: Glory to Your Resurrection, O Christ! Glory to Your Kingdom! Glory to Your saving plan, O Lover of mankind!
Tone Two
When You descended to death, O Life immortal, You destroyed Sheol with the splendor of Your divinity! And when from the depths You raised the dead, All the powers of heaven cried out: O Giver of Life, Christ our God, Glory to You!
Tone Three
Let the heavens rejoice! Let the earth be glad! For the Lord has shown strength with His arm! He has trampled down death by death! He has become the firstborn of the dead! He has delivered us from the depths of Sheol And has granted the world great mercy.
Tone Four
When the women disciples of the Lord Learned from the angel the joyous message of Your Resurrection, They cast away the ancestral curse And elatedly told the apostles: Death is overthrown! Christ God is risen, granting the world great mercy!
Tone Five
Let us, the faithful, praise and worship the Word, Co-eternal with the Father and the Spirit, Born for our salvation from the Virgin; For He willed to be lifted upon the cross in the flesh To endure death and to raise the dead By His glorious Resurrection!
Tone Six
The angelic powers were at your tomb; The guards became as dead men. Mary stood by Your grave, Seeking Your most pure body. You captured Sheol, not being tempted by it. You came to the Virgin, granting Life. O Lord Who arose from the dead, glory to You!
Tone Seven
By Your cross, You destroyed death! To the thief You granted Paradise! For the myrrhbearers, you changed weeping into joy! And You commanded Your disciples, O Christ God, To proclaim that You are risen, Granting the world great mercy.
Tone Eight
From on high You descended, O merciful One! You accepted the three-day burial To free us from our sufferings! O Lord, our Life and Resurrection, glory to You!
Matins Prokeimena of the Resurrection
Prokeimenon From Psalm 12
Tone One
Prokeimenon: I will now arise, says the Lord. * "I will set myself for salvation and not draw back from it!"
Verse: The Lord's words are pure words.
Prokeimenon From Psalm 7
Tone Two
Prokeimenon: Arise, O Lord my God, in the decree which You have commanded, * and the assembly of all people will surround You!
Verse: O Lord, my God, I have set my hope on You! Save me!
Prokeimenon From Psalm 95
Tone Three
Prokeimenon: Say among the nations that the Lord is King. * He has established the world so that it shall never be moved.
Verse: Sing the Lord a new song! Sing to the Lord, all the earth!
Prokeimenon From Psalm 44
Tone Four
Prokeimenon: Arise, O Lord, and help us! * Deliver us for your Name's sake!
Verse: We have heard with our ears, O God, and our fathers have told us.
Prokeimenon From Psalm 9-10
Tone Five
Prokeimenon: Arise, O Lord, my God, and let your hand be lifted up, * for you reign forever!
Verse: I will give thanks to You with my whole heart, O Lord! I will proclaim all Your wonders!
Prokeimenon From Psalm 80
Tone Six
Prokeimenon: O Lord, stir up Your might * and come to save us!
Verse: Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel ; You Who lead Joseph like flock!
Prokeimenon From Psalm 9-10
Tone Seven
Prokeimenon: Arise, O Lord, my God, and let your hand be lifted up! * Do not forget Your poor ones until the end!
Prokeimenon From Psalm 146
Tone Eight
Prokeimenon: The Lord will reign forever! * Your God, O Zion, will reign for all generations!
Verse: Praise the Lord, O my soul! I will praise the Lord as long as I live!
Kontakia Of The Resurrection
Tone One
As God, You arose from the tomb in glory, Raising the world with Yourself. Human nature praises You as God, for death has vanished. Adam exults, O Master! Eve rejoices, for she is freed from bondage, and cries to You: You are the Giver of Resurrection to all, O Christ!
Tone Two
Sheol became afraid, O almighty Savior, Seeing the miracle of Your Resurrection from the tomb! The dead arose! Creation, with Adam, beheld this and rejoiced with You, And the world, O my Savior, praises You forever!
Tone Three
On this day You arose from the tomb, O merciful One, Leading us from the gates of death. On this day Adam exults as Eve rejoices. With the prophets and patriarchs, They unceasingly praise the divine majesty of Your power.
Tone Four
My Savior and Redeemer As God rose from the tomb and delivered the earth-born from their chains. He has shattered the gates of Sheol And as Master, He has risen on the third day!
Tone Five
You descended into Sheol, O my Savior, Shattering its gates as Almighty, Resurrecting the dead as Creator, And destroying the sting of death. You have delivered Adam from the curse, O Lover of Man, And we cry to You: O Lord, save us!
Tone Six
When Christ God, the Giver of Life, Raised all of the dead from the valleys of misery with His mighty hand, He bestowed resurrection on the human race. He is the Savior of all, the Resurrection, the Life, and the God of all.
Tone Seven
The dominion of death can no longer hold men captive, For Christ descended, shattering and destroying its powers. Sheol is bound, while the prophets rejoice and cry: The Savior has come to those in faith. Enter, you faithful, into the resurrection!
Tone Eight
By rising from the tomb, You raised the dead and resurrected Adam. Eve exults in Your Resurrection, And the world celebrates Your rising from the dead, O Greatly Merciful One!
Lenten Prayer Of St. Ephrem The Syrian
Aposticha: Stichera accompanied by Psalm verses, usually occurring in vespers and matins.
Canon: A series of odes. The matins prayers included in this book use the nine Scriptural odes. Other canons use poetry, often based on themes occurring in the Scriptural odes, at other times based on other themes.
Chant: A mellifluous reading, something between speaking and singing. Compline: Night prayer, generally assumed to occur after supper.
Doxology: From the Greek for 'words of glory.' The Great Doxology is sung on Sundays and important feast days; the Lesser Doxology, page 86, is said "not sung" on ordinary days. Other doxologies, such as 'Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit... ,' occur frequently as well.
Fathers: (as in 'Through the prayers of our holy fathers . . . .") Refers to those men and women who precede us in the Faith, who inspire us to continue, and who pray for our well-being.
Festal Menaion: The book giving the hymnography for major feasts of the Church. For an English-language version, see the Bibliography.
Kathisma (plural kathismata): One of the twenty sections into which the Psalter is divided. Kontakion (plural kontakia): Originallya long poem written to be sung in church. Now generally a short sung stanza.
Lent: A period of preparation for Pascha. For more information see The Lenten Triodion and Great Lent in the Bibliography.
Lenten Triodion: The book giving the hymnography for the Lenten period. See the Bibliography.
Lectionary: A listing of the Scripture readings used at Liturgy during the Church year.
Matins: The office (service) of morning prayer.
Octoechos: A book containing the variable portions for the daily offices throughout the week, based on an eight-week cycle of tones.
Ode: Prayers or poetic compositions found in the Bible (other than Psalms) or subdivisions of the canon (see above).
Office: A rite or service of prayers, hymns and Scripture readings.
Pascha: From the Hebrew for Passover; Easter. Paschaltide: The period between Pascha and Pentecost.
Pentecost: The Sunday, fifty days after Pascha, on which the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles. See Acts 2:1-41.
Pentecostarion: A book containing the hymnography for the period from Pascha to Pentecost.
Prokeimenon: From the Greek for 'that which precedes.' In Orthodox liturgy, it is the verse that precedes Scripture reading. Generally taken from Psalms or other Old Testament songs (sometimes, though, from the Magnificat), it may relate to the significance of the lesson that follows it or the significance of the day.
Reader: Strictly speaking, 'Reader' is an office of minor clergy in the Orthodox Church. When I use the term 'reader' in the text of this book, though, I mean it only as a shorthand for "one who prays."
Septuagint: A translation of the Old Testament into Greek, completed in the third century before Christ (sometimes abbreviated 'LXX' 'seventy' because seventy-two scholars participated in the translation). Greek was the universal language at the time. Most New Testament quotes from 'Scripture' are from the Septuagint. Today, the Orthodox Church still accepts the validity of this version, but because there is not a widely accepted English translation available, we use the best we can find generally considered among Orthodox scholars to be the Revised Standard Version or the King James Version. (I used the New King James for this book because it has modern language and the flow of its language works well for chant.) See the Bibliography for a translation of the Septuagint that is available in English.
Sticheron (plural stichera): Stanzas inserted between Psalm verses.
Theotokos: Greek, 'God Bearer'; the Virgin Mary.
Tone: A melody. There are various sets of eight tones sung in a weekly cycle throughout the year.
Trisagion: Greek, 'thrice holy.' Basic prayers to the Holy Trinity. Troparion (plural troparia): A stanza of song that summarizes the liturgical theme of the day.
Vespers: The office (service) of evening prayer.
Bibles And Lectionaries
• The Orthodox Study Bible. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1993.
• Sir Lancelot C.L. Brenton, trans. The Septuagint with Apocrypha: Greek and English. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 1990.
• Johanna Manley, ed. The Bible and the Holy Fathers for Orthodox. Menlo Park, Calif.: Monastery Books, 1990.
Prayer Manuals
• Archimandrite Cherubim, comp. A Manual of the Hours of the Orthodox Church. Otego, N.Y.: Community of the Holy Myrrhbearers, 1993.
• Mother Mary and Archimandrite Kallistos (Ware), trans. The Festal Menaion. South Canaan, Penn.: St. Tikhon's Seminary Press, 1990.
• Mother Mary and Archimandrite Kallistos (Ware), trans. The Lenten Triodion. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1978.
• Stefano Parenti, comp.; Paula Clifford, trans. Praying with the Orthodox Tradition. London: Triangle, 1989.
Books About Prayer
• Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom). Living Prayer. Springfield, Ill.: Templegate, Publishers, 1966.
• Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom). God and Man. Crestwood, N.Y.: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1983.
• Alexander Schmemann. Great Lent. Crestwood, N.Y.: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1974.
• Alexander Schmemann. For the Life of the World. Crestwood, N.Y.: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1988.
• Constance J. Tarasar. Poets and Hymnographers of the Church Syosset, N.Y.: Department of Religious Education, Orthodox Church in America, 1982.
• Bishop Kallistos (Ware). The Orthodox Way. Crestwood, N.Y.: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1993.
• Nicholas Uspensky; Paul Lazor trans. and ed. Evening Worship in the Orthodox Church. Crestwood, N.Y.:
• St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1985.
• Timothy Ware. The Orthodox Church. New York: Penguin, 1992.
This text is available in print in a book named "Daily Prayer for Orthodox Christians" published by St. Ignatius of Antioch Press
The Fruits of True Prayer
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/9120 | InstructionApril 6, 2012
Weekend Tip: Like Yani, set up for power
So much has been written this past week about players at the Masters, and with social media, you just can't get away from it. For example, teacher Gary Gilchrist Tweeted Friday about one of his students, Peter Hanson, when he tied for the lead midway through the second round. But Gilchrist has a more-famous student, and here's what you can learn from her:
In the new May issue of Golf Digest (Butch Harmon on the cover), which is in subscribers hands and on some newsstands starting today, Gilchrist analyzes Yani Tseng's full driver swing. Yani is so far ahead of the other LPGA players in the Rolex World Rankings that she could take the rest of the year off and still be No 1! Check the video of her full driver swing below (she led 2011 in driving distance with a 269.2-yard average).
One of the key points that you can use in your driver game this weekend is how Yani sets up with a lot of spine tilt to her right. She takes a fairly wide stance, her right shoulder noticeably lower than her left. As Gilchrist says in the article, "She's setting up with her right hip lower now, which causes more restriction in her hip turn, helps get her chest over her right knee at the top, and stops her left arm from getting too high."
Try this on your own driver setup. It will result in a more powerful, ascending approach into the ball, and longer shots off the tee.
Good luck with your game this weekend. And don't forget to tune into the Masters. Peter Hanson might still be in contention!
*Roger Schiffman
Managing Editor
Golf Digest
Twitter @RogerSchiffman *
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/9145 | For those who travel very short distances, the Toyota Prius Plug-In could almost be thought of as an electric car. With a battery pack that's about 5 kW-hr—many times that of the standard Prius—it can, within reason travel at highway speeds on electric power alone, or up to 14 miles or so as an EV.
Not quite, actually, but almost. First, you only have an EV as long as you're willing to watch the dash displays and not press on the accelerator too hard; and second, even if you're really careful about driving style, and even if you have the Plug-In switched to Eco Mode, the gasoline engine turns on for periods.
It is a little puzzling as to why even in EV Mode the gasoline engine needs to run periodically—sometimes for many minutes. Three of the four 'cold starts' we've done in the Prius Plug-In have prompted the gasoline engine to come on.
EV button would let you ration battery power
But for that first issue—the gasoline engine coming on when you need to press harder on the accelerator—the regular-production Prius Plug-In that will be available for purchase next year will get one useful feature our test car doesn't have: an EV Mode button that lets you lock out EV Mode and run as a normal Prius. That way, if you have a long mountain pass, or a higher-speed stretch on the Interstate, you won't quickly burn through the electric range, and could instead save it, for instance, for some lower-speed suburban driving.
All Cars Electric is fortunate to have, for a week, a Prius Plug-In to test, and we're starting to rack up some observations on what life with a plug-in hybrid would be like. Over the first nearly three days, we've done one partial charge and two full charges, and covered a total of just 38.4 miles.
As you might guess, most of that distance has been covered in the Plug-In's EV Mode, which engages automatically when you start the car and stays on until the larger battery pack is exhausted. From our two full charges, we've seen close to 12 miles from a charge, but we've yet to drive it only in very slow-speed city driving, where the EV Mode would likely shine.
The uncalled-for starts of the engine are still perplexing, and in a few cases if we knew they were coming, or going to be so long, we would have driven in a different manner. In our most recent cold start, the engine started for four minutes in all (and the first mile of driving at low speed). And moving along at about 55 mph with traffic, the gasoline engine came on for about 90 seconds, beginning just after cresting a gradual grade (with the battery only about half depleted).
98 mpg so far
Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid prototype, tested in November 2010
Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid prototype, tested in November 2010
That said, we've gone 38.4 miles so far and averaged 97.8 miles per gallon (plus about 2.5 charges) with what we'd consider a normal Prius driving experience. That's extremely impressive.
With many more miles to cover over the next several days, we'll keep you posted, and we'll do our best to keep the Prius charged up. |
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/9161 | Ocasio-Cortez: GOP Trying to Turn U.S. 'Into a Far-right Christian Theocracy'
U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks during a press conference to announce Green New Deal legislation, Washington D.C., February 7, 2019.
Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed the Republican Party over the weekend as multiple GOP-led states pass laws limiting access to abortion.
“To the GOP extremists trying to invoke ‘the unborn’ to jail people for abortion: Where are you on climate change? OH right, you want to burn fossil fuels til there’s hell on Earth. If they were truthful about their motives, they’d be consistent in their principles. They’re not,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted to her 4.2 million followers.
Ocasio-Cortez has been pushing a “Green New Deal” legislative initiative to slow the effect of climate change and often frames the debate around protecting future generations.
“What angers me about the GOP’s attempts to turn the United States into a far-right Christian theocracy is how dishonest they are about it,” she wrote. “At least be forthright about your desire to subvert and dismantle our democracy into a creepy theological order led by a mad king.”
Reuters contributed to this report |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/9167 | Feeling worried, fearful, or nervous from time to time is quite normal for most people. These are typical reactions to atypical moments in everyday life.
Some people experience anxiety frequently. Symptoms can move beyond feelings of concern or worry to other physical reactions. Occasionally, these symptoms are mistakenly associated with other conditions.
As an example, chest pain is sometimes a symptom of anxiety. Often the result of a panic attack or heightened reaction, chest pain is a concern because of the possible connection to heart attacks and other heart conditions.
If you experience frequent anxiety, learning to understand your chest pain can help you find symptom relief and identify when you need additional medical help.
Anxiety symptoms are rarely the same from person to person. Some days, symptoms aren’t even the same for the same person. Anxiety presents itself in a variety of ways, and that makes detecting or understanding symptoms difficult.
Chest pain associated with anxiety feels different for each person. Some people may experience chest pain on a gradual basis. For others, the pain may be sudden and unexpected. Anxiety chest pain can be described as:
• sharp, shooting pain
• persistent chest aching
• an unusual muscle twitch or spasm in your chest
• burning, numbness, or a dull ache
• stabbing pressure
• chest tension or tightness
If you don’t have a history of chest pain with anxiety, you may be alarmed. Many people assume they’re having a heart attack and go to the hospital’s emergency department for treatment.
Read more about the warning signs of a heart attack »
In one study, researchers found that anxiety disorder was prevalent among people with nonspecific chest pain (NSCP). NSCP is described as atypical chest pain with other symptoms that aren’t the result of a cardiac event.
If you visit a hospital emergency room and the doctors don’t find a specific cause for your chest pain, consider consulting with your doctor about other possible causes, including anxiety.
Anxiety chest pain vs. heart attack chest pain
Chest pain can be a warning sign for a heart attack. Here are some tips to help you determine if your chest pain is caused by anxiety or a heart attack:
SymptomHeart attack Anxiety
chest pain brought on by exertion
chest pain while at rest
increased heart rate
chest pain that accompanies anxiety
constant chest pain
sharp, stabbing chest pain that only lasts 5–10 seconds
shortness of breath
radiating pain that travels from your chest to other areas, like your arms or jaw
If you suspect you may be having a heart attack, call your local emergency services. They can evaluate you and determine whether you’re having a cardiac event or if there’s another reason for your chest pain.
When you’re anxious, your body can and often does produce physical reactions like sweating or shortness of breath.
When you become anxious, your brain and body set off an immediate stress response. This includes a physiological change. Your body may tighten up or grow tenser.
A stress response can also include a psychological or emotional response. You may become aggressive or upset more easily. These responses are referred to as the fight-or-flight response. When you become stressed or anxious, your body prepares to fight back or run away.
If you experience this fight-or-flight stress reaction infrequently, your body should fully recover within 30 minutes. If you experience it too frequently, it can’t. This can lead to increased muscle tension, and in your chest this tension may become painful.
Likewise, in an even more stressful moment, your heart rate may increase, and the force of your heart beats can grow stronger. That combined with tight chest muscles can make you feel unusual pain.
If you feel anxious, you can take control of your mind and body with simple techniques. These techniques may not work every time, but they’re a great starting point when you need help controlling your anxiety.
Practice deep breathing
Focused, deep breaths can calm both your mind and your body. Find a quiet room or area, and inhale for a count of 10. Hold for a second, and then exhale for a count of 10. Repeat this several times as you feel your heart rate fall.
Take stock of the situation
Accept your feelings of anxiety, recognize them, and then work through putting them in perspective. Are you worried about something you can’t control? Are you fearful of an outcome that’s unlikely? Are you dreading a situation you can’t control the outcome of? Talk your way through your feelings to find the source, and then work to put it into perspective.
Picture a beautiful scene
If you’re feeling anxious, try visualizing a place that instantly calms you. This can be especially helpful if you’re feeling anxious while in a situation you can’t avoid, like a stressful meeting. Practice deep breathing while you envision this location.
Use a relaxation app
Smart phone apps for anxiety can walk you through stress reduction techniques and exercises. There are also meditation apps that may help you quiet your mind when you’re feeling anxious. Many of these apps are free, so you can try out several to find one that works for you.
Learn more: Best anxiety apps of the year »
Be proactive about your physical health
Are you taking good care of your body? Are you getting enough sleep? Are you eating well? Taking good care of your body is also taking good care of your mind. While this won’t help treat anxiety chest pain, it may help you reduce your risk for anxiety and subsequent chest pain in the future.
If your anxiety and chest pain are severe or chronic, you may need to consult with a therapist. They can talk you through situations that cause anxiety and help you learn coping techniques. These techniques may not come naturally to you if you’re often anxious. This is where a professional or an instructor can help.
A therapist or doctor may be able to teach you coping techniques that let you feel in control and secure. When you begin to regain a sense of calm, your symptoms, including the chest pain, will subside.
If coaching techniques or mental exercises aren’t successful, you may need to consider a prescription. Antianxiety medications have side effects and risks. But using them as a stopgap while you learn to cope with symptoms can be helpful.
Identifying anxiety as the cause of your chest pain is an important step in treating your condition. As you learn to manage the side effects of anxiety, you’ll also learn to manage unintended complications like chest pain.
While you can’t know for sure if or when you’ll experience anxiety chest pain again, preparing yourself with coping techniques and practices will help you feel more prepared and in control. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/9216 | Interesting Facts About Birch Trees
Whether grown as single specimens or tucked in a group against a hillside, birch trees (Betula spp.) are characterized by their distinctive markings and slanting growth habit. Besides their appearance, they provide useful raw materials that are not limited simply to their bark. Acclimated to cold, harsh northern winters, birch trees share the woods with other deciduous trees as well as evergreens in many parts of North America.
Aspen Hillside in Fall Color
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The trunks of birch trees with gold foliage in the fall.
Visual Effects
Painters and poets have memorialized the sight of the day's first sunlight striking the pure-white bark of the paper birch (Betula papyrifera), which is hardy in USDA zones 2 through 7. Classified as deciduous trees, which shed their leaves in fall, birches stand in stark contrast to their surroundings, whether against a bright-green lawn or interspersed among trees with less distinctive markings. The bark of young paper birches is usually golden brown, but the bark turns white with age. The leaves of paper birch, also called white birch, silver birch and canoe birch, emerge greenish-yellow in spring, are bright green during summer and turn yellow in fall.
Historical and Modern Uses
The bark of the paper birch was widely used by American Indians to build canoes and wigwams. They also used it to produce baskets, arrow quivers and decorative items. The paper birch gets its name from another common use of its bark: as a medium on which to write. Considered a moderately dense wood by the U.S. Forest Service, paper birch wood is now used as fuel, a building material and chipped for pulp and paper manufacturing. Though less sweet than the sap of sugar maple (Acer saccharum), hardy in USDA zones 3 through 8, paper birch sap is used to make wine, beer and table syrup.
Wildlife Benefits
Considered a short-lived tree, the paper birch provides valuable forage for many birds and mammals. Moose consume large quantities of birch leaves by browsing from the trees while deer eat large numbers of leaves that drop in fall. Porcupines feed on the inner bark while voles consume paper birch seeds, as do several bird species. Chickadees and nuthatches nest in the trunk cavities created by woodpeckers, and hummingbirds and red squirrels feed in holes created by sapsucker woodpeckers. Thick stands of young trees provide shelter for wildlife, a feature that diminishes as the trees age and grow taller.
Other Species' Traits
The bark of the gray birch (Betula populifolia Marsh.) is white but does not pull away from the trunk like the bark of paper birch. Also a short-lived tree, the gray birch is hardy in USDA zones 3 through 8, where it often colonizes burned-out areas and other disturbed sites. The river birch (Betula nigra), hardy in USDA zones 4 through 9, is characterized by salmon-pink bark that curls and peels. The sweet birch (Betula lenta), hardy in USDA zones 4 through 7, has shiny, reddish-brown outer bark; its inner bark has an intense wintergreen scent, and furniture made from the wood darkens to a shade of mahogany.
Rachel Lovejoy
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Which of the apostles was martyred first?
James, son of Zebedee.
Lesson 2
HOW TO BE Saved!
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Millions have been led to think they are saved, who are only deceived, and don't know it! - Here is a frank, daring article, making the truth PLAIN! It's difficult to believe, but it's true - in today's religious confusion millions have supposed they had salvation spiritually - they have believed on Jesus Christ - and are not saved! Would you suppose one could actually worship Christ - and all in vain? Can One Worship Christ - IN VAIN? Do you know what Jesus Himself said of these people who want to worship Him without obedience to God's Commandments? Listen to His words: "Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. For, laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men... Full well do ye reject the Commandments of God, that ye may keep your own tradition" (Mark 7:6-9).
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Hypnotic Glossary
Hypnotic Glossary 1
Abreaction -:- An involuntary release of emotion, often related to a negative experience in the client’s past, which releases pent-up feelings and can provide relief from the earlier trauma.
Affect Bridge -:- A technique hypnotherapists use to access a previous instance of a patient’s problem by accentuating the disturbing feelings in the present. This allows their current adult resources to resolve the source of the problem.
Affirmations -:- Positive statements about how you want to think, feel and behave.
Age Progression -:- Also known as FUTURE PACING, involves suggesting the client imagines themselves in the future.
Age Regression -:- The hypnotherapist suggests the subject imagines a particular time or event of their past, regressing them to an earlier age.
Alpha Brainwaves -:- 8 Hz to 12 Hz (cycles per second) This is the slow brainwave activity of hypnosis. It is also known as hypnoidal. Alpha is slower (deeper) than Beta, the awake state, and faster than Theta, which is a deeper hypnotic state. . Alpha brainwaves are dominant during quietly flowing thoughts, and in some meditative states. Alpha is ‘the power of now’, being here, in the present. Alpha is the resting state for the brain. Alpha waves aid overall mental coordination, calmness, alertness, mind/body integration and learning.
Amnesia -:- Forgetting events. Some people who have a talent for achieving deep states of trance may have spontaneous amnesia for the session. A hypnotherapist can give a post-hypnotic suggestion to forget what has been discussed during the hypnotherapy.
Anaesthesia -:- Absence of pain, either psychologically or physically.
Analgesia -:- Removal of all perception of pain.
Analysis -:- Turning out the illogicality of the subconscious.
Anchor -:- A specific stimulus such as a word, image or touch that through association evokes a particular mental, emotional, or physiological state.
Anxiety -:- Fear of most things that give rise to feelings of uneasiness and distress about future uncertainty; apprehension; worry.
Association -:- A process by which a subject comes to respond in a desired manner to a previously neutral stimulus. This is achieved by repeatedly presenting it along with a stimulus that elicits the desired response. This is also known as Pavlovian conditioning. In an experiment, Pavlov would ring a bell and feed dogs at the same time. After a short while, dogs associated food with the bell, so that they soon began salivating at the sound of the bell, even though no food was present.
Auto Dual -:- When a hypnotherapist gives suggestions in the first person, and the client repeats those suggestions, either out loud or internally.
Auto Dual Induction -:- An induction usually given to ‘Intellectual Suggestibles’, where the patient believes they are hypnotizing themselves. While feeling their own pulse, the patient repeats what the hypnotherapist is saying.
Auto Hypnosis -:- Hypnotising yourself. More commonly known as SELF-HYPNOSIS.
Auto Suggestion -:- Giving suggestions to yourself. This is also known as SELF-TALK. Although it does not involve a formal trance, these messages are absorbed by the unconscious mind. Always aim to give yourself positive self talk, and encourage you clients to do the same, for this reason.
Autogenic therapy -:- A form of relaxation and light self-hypnosis based on the repetition of six suggestion commands e.g. ‘My legs and arms are heavy.’ followed by an appropriate positive affirmation to promote change.
Autonomic or Involuntary Nervous System -:- The nervous system that maintains vital functions of the body without the need for conscious thought, keeping the body in harmony.
Autosuggestion / Coueism -:- Concept similar to autogenic therapy where it is the person’s own imagination stimulated by the hypnosis. A famous Coueism or positive affirmation, is the mantra, ‘ every day in every way IT is getting better and better.’ By using “IT” the unconscious mind will determine what IT is.
Aversion Therapy -:- Giving your client suggestions that focus on negative aspects of a habit. E.g. Feeling sick when smoking, or associating a bad taste when nail biting.
Behaviour -:- All that is done by an individual throughout his/her life.
Beta Waves -:- 12 Hz to 38 Hz (cycles per second) Normal waking brain wave activity. Beta brainwaves are further divided into three bands; Lo-Beta (Beta1, 12-15Hz) can be thought of as a ‘fast idle’, or musing. Beta (Beta2, 15-22Hz) is high engagement or actively figuring something out. Hi-Beta (Beta3, 22-38Hz) is highly complex thought, integrating new experiences, high anxiety, or excitement. Continual high frequency processing is not a very efficient way to run the brain, as it takes a tremendous amount of energy.
Body Syndrome -:- A physical manifestation of an emotional trauma. An unreleased, repressed emotion can be expressed in physical discomfort.
Brainwaves -:- At the root of all our thoughts, emotions and behaviours is the communication between neurons within our brains. Brainwaves are produced by synchronised electrical pulses from masses of neurons communicating with each other. Brainwaves change according to what we’re doing and feeling. When slower brainwaves are dominant we can feel tired, slow, sluggish, or dreamy. The higher frequencies are dominant when we feel wired, or hyper-alert. For more detail see: Delta Brainwaves (.5 TO 4 HZ), Theta Brainwaves (4 TO 8 HZ), Alpha Brainwaves (8 TO 12 HZ), Beta Brainwaves (12 TO 38 HZ), Gamma Brainwaves (38 TO 42 HZ).
Breathing -:- Correct breathing is essential for good health; it also reduces levels of stress, as well as its signs and symptoms. Slow and deep breathing influences the unconscious processes of the body and accompanies relaxation into the hypnotic state.
Cataleptic -:- A state in which the subject appears unconscious yet their muscles become rigid, and remain in whatever position they are placed. Hypnotists sometimes use this as a proof to a client that she is in hypnosis.
Clinical Hypnotherapy -:- the therapeutic use of hypnosis.
Compound Suggestions -:- A technique used for increasing the effectiveness of a suggestion through repetition or looping. E.g. “Your right foot is relaxed and as your right foot relaxes your calf is relaxed and as your foot and calf relaxes your leg muscles relax…”
Compounding -:- In the context of this hypnosis glossary, compounding refers to techniques that multiply the depth of a subject’s state. This is typically done by bringing a subject out of trance with finger snapping and re-inducing them with the suggestion that “when you close your eyes again, you will go twice as deep as you are now.” Done several times in rapid succession, compounding will take a subject very deep in a very short period of time.
Compulsion -:- Irrational behaviour a person is compelled to do, in order to convince himself that a certain thing is true or has been done to his satisfaction. Behaviour that prompts repetition of an act until satisfied it has been done.
Conscious -:- The logical, reasoning, decision making part of the mind. The conscious state is that which we use in our normal waking state. This part makes up less than 5% of total mind.
Convincers -:- “Convincers” are an important part of the hypnotic process because they answer the question many people have during hypnosis “Am I really in hypnosis?” With convincers such as eyelid catalepsy below, the subject is able to stop analyzing and relax in the knowing that they are in deeper state. That confidence and deeper relaxation helps the hypnotherapist do their job Eyelid Catalepsy: Eyelid catalepsy is often used as a “convincer” to help the subject realize he or she is hypnotized because they are unable to open their eyes. This state is created by hypnotic suggestion with full cooperation of the subject. For example a hypnotist might say to their subject: “Let your eyelids be so relaxed that the muscles are for now, switched off. Let your eyes be so relaxed that in a few moments when you try to open your eyelids , the harder you try, the more they relax and stay closed. It is as if they are glued shut.”
Critical Factor -:- The divider and regulator between the conscious and unconscious minds. This works as a filter taking information from the conscious, deciding what information should be accepted and stored in the unconscious, and what should be forgotten and discarded. This is thought to take place during sleep, and may be the reason why we ‘sleep on’ a particular problem, and feel better about it in the morning.
Deepener -:- Suggestions which deepen the hypnotic state, often by counting down.
Deepener -:- A technique used to deepen the level of hypnotic trance. There are many techniques, such as going down stair cases, deep breathing etc.
Deepening Methods -:- Deepening methods are only limited by your imagination. An experienced hypnotist will use what is naturally available in the environment to help their subject go deeper and get more relaxed. Common deepening methods include the suggestion of going “deeper with each breath,” using environmental sounds (the hum of the air conditioner, a phone ringing, birds singing,) rotating the head, pumping or dropping an arm, confusion counting, counting backwards, fractional relaxation, music and imagery. For actual examples of deepening and other techniques/ scripts beyond this hypnosis glossary, see our extensive list of methods in the navigation panel on the left side of the page.
Delta Waves -:- 0.5 Hz to 4 Hz (cycles per second). The slowest and deepest brain wave activity. This happens during sleep, and the deepest levels of hypnosis. Delta brainwaves are slow, loud brainwaves (low frequency and deeply penetrating, like a drum beat). They are generated in deepest meditation and dreamless sleep. Delta waves suspend external awareness and are the source of empathy. Healing and regeneration are stimulated in this state, and that is why deep restorative sleep is so essential to the healing process. 4 Hz to 8 Hz (cycles per second)
Direct Suggestion -:- Giving a direct suggestion to do something, as opposed to a covert suggestion.
Dissociation -:- A ‘splitting off’ of the self so as to protect the mind from something undesirable. A hypnotised client can then distance himself from an otherwise disturbing event. This is commonly achieved by suggesting that the client can see themselves in the third person: often on a TV or cinema screen.
Double Bind -:- When a subject is given two alternative suggestions within a sentence, they will more
Ego -:- The part of you that decides how you will react to your environment and situations within your environment.
Ego Boost -:- A hypnosis session that aims to give general feelings of calmness and well being. Ideal first session for most therapies.
Endorphins -:- The bodies own pain-relieving chemicals, which are produced in the brain, inhibit the appreciation of pain and give a feeling of euphoria. Stimulated by hypnosis, as well as sweet fatty foods, exercise and sex. Makes you feel good!
Erickson, Dr. Milton H -:- Acknowledged to have been the world’s leading practitioner of medical hypnotherapy. His ‘strategic therapy’ used hypnotic techniques with or without actually inducing trance.
Ericksonian Hypnosis -:- A branch of hypnosis named after Milton Erickson.
Esdaile State -:- This is thought to be the deepest state of hypnosis currently known. It was named after James Esdaile. The state is said to be extremely peaceful and deeply relaxing.
Eye Accessing Cues -:- Studying the movements of the eyes which indicate visual, auditory or kinesthetic thinking when moving in certain directions.
Eye Fixation -:- An induction which involves staring at something, such as your hand or a swinging watch.
Forensic Hypnosis -:- Legal applications of hypnosis. Although hypnosis cannot be used for testimony, it is sometimes used by police to gather evidence by improving the recall of witnesses.
Fractionation -:- Bringing a client in and out of hypnosis during the session either as an induction or to deepen the level of hypnosis. This is often used with clients that are a little nervous of the hypnotic process.
Freud -:- Psychiatrist invariably associated with hypnosis but did not develop his interest, probably because his personality was too authoritarian.
Gamma Brainwaves -:- 38 Hz to 42 Hz (cycles per second) Originally dismissed as ‘spare brain noise’ until researchers discovered it was highly active when in states of universal love, altruism, and the ‘higher virtues’. Gamma is also above the frequency of neuronal firing, so how it is generated remains a mystery. It is speculated that gamma rhythms modulate perception and consciousness, and that a greater presence of gamma relates to expanded consciousness and spiritual emergence.
Gestalt Therapy -:- Therapy involving role play.
Glove Anaesthesia -:- A technique whereby the hypnotherapist numbs the hand by giving suggestions that it feels numb like wearing a leather glove when touched. This numbness can then be passed on to another area of the body.
Hartland’s Ego Strengthening Script -:- The first ego boosting script which, although still useful, is generally thought to be out dated.
Hetero-suggestion -:- Is what others tell you about yourself and which influences you.
Hypnagogic State -:- The naturally occurring hypnotic condition when one is about to wake up.
Hypnoanalysis -:- A psychoanalytic technique in which hypnosis is used to elicit unconscious material from a client.
Hypnoanalysis -:- Using hypnosis to get to the root of an issue.
Hypnobirthing -:- The use of hypnotherapy to aid in a painless, yet drug free birth.
Hypnogenic -:- Objects (watch, pendulum, spinning disc, etc.) used to assist in inducing a hypnotic state.
Hypnogogic -:- The state where a person is going into a hypnotic trance.
Hypnoid -:- Resembling hypnosis or sleep.
Hypnoidal -:- A light trance state.
Hypnopomic State -:- The naturally occurring hypnotic condition when one is about to fall asleep. Excellent for inducing self-hypnotic suggestions that are ‘slept on’, and upon waking, are realised.
Hypnopompic -:- The state where a person is leaving a hypnotic trance.
Hypnosis -:- A trance-like state induced by suggestion in which the mind readily accepts ideas, resulting in a focusing of attention and a reduction of the ability to make conscious decisions; a state of total mental concentration, yet complete physical relaxation. An alternative state of consciousness.
Hypnosis -:- The act of introducing a person into a hypnotic trance. Hypnosis is like daydreaming, a form of relaxed concentration. Definitions of hypnosis vary, and there is no single accepted definition.
Hypnosis Download -:- Where a pre made hypnosis session can be instantly downloaded from a computer, usually for the purposes of therapy.
Hypnotherapist -:- One who performs hypnosis for therapy; a specialist in hypnotherapy.
Hypnotherapy -:- Treatment for mental or physical illness based on or using hypnosis.
Hypnotherapy -:- Hypnotising someone and then using psychotherapeutic techniques for the goal of positive change.
Hypnotic Induction -:- The process that narrows a subjects focus of attention and gets them into a hypnotic trance Hypnotic Integration: A process whereby the subject integrates their insights emotionally, physically and spiritually.
Hypnotic Patter -:- Suggestive verbiage used to deepen trance and/or bring on desired states such as “You always enjoy this pleasant, relaxed feeling… your blood pressure is normalizing and you feel better and better.”
Hypnotic Trance -:- A state of (usually) relaxed, yet focused awareness.
Hypnotic Tunnel -:- Using the same words, phrases and speech patterns as your client.
Hypnotisability -:- A person’s individual susceptibility to hypnosis.
Hypnotism -:- An earlier word for “hypnosis.”
Ideo Motor Response (IMR) -:- Involuntary unconscious physical movement. This is commonly used to communicate with the unconscious mind e.g. “Raise the left index finger for yes, raise the right index finger for no.”
Imagery -:- Production of mental images or pictures. See visualisation. Induction: There are three main methods used to relax a person into hypnosis: instant (impressive in demonstrations, cannot be used for selfhypnosis), rapid (effective, overloads the mind, useful for inducing hypnosis quickly in a person who has already experienced hypnosis before) and progressive (slow and soothing, most reliable and is the one normally used for hypnotherapy and self-hypnosis.)
In Vitro -:- In reality.
In Vivo -:- In the mind.
Indirect Suggestion -:- Using permissive suggestions such as “Whenever you wish, you may allow your eyes to close”.
Induction -:- The process of guiding someone into hypnosis.
Initial Sensitizing Event (ISE) -:- The original memory responsible for causing the symptoms in which the client is suffering from.
Law Of Compound Suggestions -:- It uses the idea that a first suggestion is weak; a second suggestion strengthens the first; and a third suggestion strengthens the second, which in turn strengthens the first, and so on.
Meditation -:- Ancient Eastern technique, similar to self-hypnosis, in that it relaxes the mind and the body.
Memory -:- The recall of events, conversations and general topics that have been experienced.
Minds Eye Deepener -:- A deepener which suggests that your mind also has an eye which can close, causing a deep state of relaxed concentration.
Mirroring -:- A hypnotherapist might align himself in a similar position or posture as the subject order to establish rapport.
Modelling -:- Studying and imitating the behavior of others who excel in order to try and replicate their success. This provides the basis for Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).
Negative Hallucination -:- When a hypnotised person cannot see what is really there.
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) -:- Devised by Americans Grinder and Bandler who modelled the work of Erickson. Under hypnosis it shows the client a new perspective or image of themselves.
Neuro Pathways -:- These pathways within our mind are created with every thought and new memory we have.
Pacing -:- Mirroring someone’s posture, behavior, and/or language in order to help build rapport.
Parasympathetic System -:- Deals mainly with the digestion, fights off infection, controls the immune response and tri trance:
Parts Therapy -:- A therapy in which specific egos or personalities within the unconscious are addressed and worked with.
Past-life Regression -:- Taking one through the memories and events of their possible past-lives. It is open to debate as to whether these are actually past lives or created metaphorically in the mind. What is known is that these past-lives have proven useful in therapy for many clients of hypnotherapy.
Patter -:- Refers to the form of speech that the hypnotherapist will use whilst communicating with the subject during a hypnotic trance.
Perceptual Positions -:- See Self hypnosis terms.
Positive Hallucination -:- When a hypnotised person sees what is not really there.
Post Hypnotic Suggestion -:- This is an hypnosis term for a suggestion given to a subject immediately AFTER he/she comes out of trance. When someone first comes out of a trance a subject is still open and susceptible to suggestion. A good post-hypnotic suggestion is specific, time referenced, positive and simple such as “when you go to bed tonight you will find that you sleep better than you have slept in years. Deep, peaceful, relaxing, healthy, consistent sleep…”
Post Hypnotic Suggestion -:- A suggestion made while a person is in hypnosis to be acted upon after the session. This may include stopping smoking, exercising more etc.
Pre-Induction -:- Conversation hypnotist has with subject before induction rto create comfort, rapport and release the need to be analytical
Pre-Induction -:- The interview which takes place before the actual trance work. This time is usually spent gaining rapport and easing any concerns the patient might have.
Progressive Relaxation -:- A technique used to progressively relax the entire body by focusing on isolated areas, and then relaxing them.
Rapid Reactional Hypnosis -:- When a person is taken in and out of a hypnotic trance to accomplish a much deeper state of hypnosis.
Rapport -:- Refers to the communication between the hypnotist and the subject before trance work has commenced. A good sense of rapport between the client and the hypnotherapist is essential for a su |
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Housing, A Series: Part 77 - Housing is defining politics and the repercussions are dreadful
It is frequently noted that American politics have become more angry and more bifurcated. The housing supply problem has its fingers in many of our problems, and I believe it includes this. Bear with me here. This might become a long post, but I think the implications may be surprising.
First, I will note that we are clearly seeing a massive out-migration from LA, Silicon Valley, and New York City that is a product of high costs of living. The Census Bureau's new Supplemental Poverty Measure points to much higher poverty rates in places like California and these constrained cities. Here is a BLS report about income inequality among metro areas (MSAs), and again, the west coast and Northeastern cities fare poorly.
The blue state/red state divide is largely about closed access vs. open access. Closed access cities and states are experiencing rising costs and rising poverty, and this is leading to a massive migration of poor households from blue states to red states to escape those policies. I think the different experiences of people within these two parts of the country explain much of the trends we see in politics.
Take immigration. As I have been pointing out, in the open access part of the country, we live in a classical economics world. If a city has opportunities, it leads to population inflows which cause incomes to moderate back toward equilibrium with the rest of the country. Housing supply pretty efficiently rises in these cities to increase housing without skyrocketing costs (unless there are extreme temporary fluctuations such as in the North Dakota oil fields). In closed access cities, opportunity leads to a bidding war for housing, so that incomes can remain elevated, but costs become elevated also.
The differences between these two types of cities are stark. You can tell what type of city it is just by looking through the newspaper. In open access cities, people complain that poor people are moving in and taking away jobs, pushing down wages. In closed access cities, people complain that rich people are moving in and bidding up rents.
People in red states have been taking in an inordinate amount of low income migration, both domestic and international. But, poor people are fleeing the closed access cities. So, to someone living in a closed access city, it seems racist for people to focus their ire on Mexican immigrants. Poor people are struggling just to get by as it is.
Los Angeles has a foot in both worlds. It takes in a lot of Hispanic and low income workers, but it also has sharp housing constraints, so it has high cost and moderate incomes. There tend to be anti-immigrant sentiments in southern California. Meanwhile, San Franciscans proudly proclaim that they are a sanctuary city. In Los Angeles, 44% of households speak Spanish as a first language, compared to 40% who speak English. In San Francisco, only 15% of the population is Hispanic. It's easy to be a sanctuary when you've made your city so costly that even middle class professionals can't afford to live there any more.
There has been a noticeable shift in immigration stances since the days of Reagan and the elder Bush. How much of that shift has come from the economic stresses and migration flows caused by the closed access cities? The open access areas are taking the bulk of the low income immigrants, and in addition the worst limited access cities attract high income immigrants, leading to net domestic migrations of 10% of their populations per decade, or more.
These different experiences, which are the result of different local policies, affect many political sentiments. Think of the different reactions to poverty. Red state voters seem indifferent to the problem of poverty and inequality. But, because their local policies are open access, most of them don't experience an unusual level of inequality or poverty. Locals with high income potentials move away to the closed access cities to capture the high incomes that closed access creates, so those areas lose some of the top-end of their income distribution, and their open access policies don't lead to extreme gains in gross incomes for those who stay. Meanwhile, they see poor households moving in because their cities represent opportunity.
On the other hand, people living in closed access cities see family after family failing to make ends meet. It seems to demonstrate a lack of information when someone like Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren complains that Americans are working harder and harder to take home less and less. Statistically, it is clearly the opposite. Households have fewer earners, typically working fewer hours, and earning more. But, that is really an open access phenomenon. The ever speeding treadmill really is the experience of voters in closed access cities. This is something I intend to post about soon. Much of the rise in aggregate US income inequality is due to rising gross incomes in places like San Francisco. But, once rent expenses are factored in, median households in those cities are actually losing ground. Much of the measured increase in income inequality is a mirage created by using household specific income figures but using nationally averaged cost of living adjustments. To someone in Silicon Valley, it really does seem like an $80,000 household income is unsustainable.
And, in those cities, because there is a continual inflow of high income households and an outflow of lower income households, for any individual household, there is a constant ratcheting of housing expenses until you become that next marginal household that can't make it work anymore and moves away to an open access city. And, the fact that there are too many rich people really would be a legitimate problem to you. To people in open access areas, you would just sound envious and vindictive. But, rich people really did force you to leave your home. Your life would have been better without them, and you would still be able to afford to live a middle class life if they hadn't moved in.
But, the worst repercussions are for those pockets of the most poor, dysfunctional neighborhoods in the closed access cities. If I look at a map of New York City, or Los Angeles, or Washington, DC, one of the things I find striking is how in these cities where housing is so expensive and the demand to get access is so high, there will be pockets of very low value real estate and very poor neighborhoods. Why, for instance, didn't the Bronx gentrify decades ago? And, the sad reason is that the only possible way to live affordably in those cities is to live in a neighborhood that is so crime ridden and rotten that any reasonable outsider with any other options would be too frightened to live there. Think about the implications of that, and the horrors that many low income urban people live through because of this whole complicated state of affairs.
Because, think about what happens if you do live in a rotten neighborhood and you manage to do all the hard community work to make it somewhat functional. In a city as desperate for housing as New York or Los Angeles, the minute that neighborhood becomes safe, the lots that hold those $100,000 duplexes will be worth $500,000, and the neighborhood will gentrify. Here again, we can see how people's own legitimate experiences lead them to the wrong conclusions. What could be more infuriating? If you belonged to that neighborhood? If you had organized and fought and probably even put yourself in danger to do what probably at times seemed nearly impossible, and make your neighborhood livable again? And immediately all these high priced outsiders come in and take that away from you? I cannot imagine the anger I would feel. And yet, the only natural response one would feel is the response that created the unwinnable situation to begin with. Get these damn developers out of my city. The only natural response is the response that dooms the marginalized populations of that city to the choice of living in fear and distress or escaping.
The overwhelming reaction of locals in these cities seems to be to keep putting thumbs in the dike - fighting and scraping to save one little neighborhood at a time while the pressure of a world that wants in just keeps pushing. It is an unwinnable battle. In fact, I would say that even winning will be losing. Possibly, the worst outcome will be if those pressures ever cease, because the benefits of the local professional networks these cities hold will not fund the economic rents that feed the high incomes and high housing rents forever. The world wants in, but the world is also competing. And the day that you stop worrying about the gentrification of your neighborhood may be the first day on the road to being the next Detroit, where everyone still wants their share of economic rents that couldn't keep up with the rising costs any more.
I don't know how we fix this. The natural reaction to these closed access policies is to double down on them locally and to try to impose them nationally. And as the policies keep failing us along the way, closed access advocates become more angry and betrayed, and less capable of recognizing the source of the problem. As I have outlined obsessively, this is at the heart of the recent housing bust and recession. We blamed the lenders and the builders for the housing boom because we just have this blind spot about the problem of access and supply, and in housing we have already gone a long way toward making the entire country a closed-access area. And, one result is that rent expenses across the country have risen by nearly a quarter since the crisis. And yet even now so many observers are complaining about lenders and demand.
I try not to be overwrought in these posts, but it really is frightening to me how strident people can be about inflicting harm on ourselves, and when issues like the overwhelming collapse in the development of housing stock and the clear disequilibria that accompany it can go practically unnoticed, I don't see how the vicious cycle of self inflicted harm and anger ends. The solution is so seemingly simple. Build. Lend. But, in our anger, we can only imagine solutions that are punitive. And our experiences are such visceral confirmations of that anger.
Here is a follow up post.
1. Interesting post. I sometimes wonder if you are middle class and living in a wonderful place anywhere in the world, whether you can stay there through another generation or two. Places like Perth, Australia, Vancouver, Los Angeles, San Francisco simply become too expensive. The same applies to Santa Barbara and Orange County. Hawaii?
I suspect the middle class could still live near the ocean and California, but it would take hundreds of high-rise condos. And near the beach, the homeowners do not want that.
2. Did you know that automobiles have not risen in price since 1998? I mention you in my latest blog at Historinhas.
3. You couldn't ask for a better example of your argument than what just happened in Seattle. The voters re-elected openly Socialist City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant.
The Sawant election night party at Melrose Market Studios served not just as a celebration of Sawant, but a recruiting ground for socialism, replete with literature and publicity for Socialist Alternative, an organization dedicated to electing socialist politicians.
“Socialist politics are here to stay,” Sawant announced during her speech, which rebuked media criticism of her candidacy and what she called “corporate politicians” — namely City Council President Tim Burgess, who led by a 16-point margin in his own race Tuesday night.
Invoking the popular presidential candidacy of socialist U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sawant declared this year a “new chapter for the American Socialist movement.”
“There has never, ever been a better time to become a socialist,” Sawant said. “… We have shown how working people can stand up to the billionare class and its establishment. We can and must rely 100 percent on our own strength as working people.”
Sawant ticked off a number of issues she intends to pursue in her first full term on the City Council: a Bill of Rights for tenants, $1 billion for affordable housing, 12 weeks of paid family leave, “world class” mass transit paid for by millionaires and stopping officer-inflicted police violence.
Thank you, voters, may I have another.
1. Oy.
Bill of Rights for tenants:
1) You have the right to move to Houston.
4. And more from Seattle;
The “Move Seattle” levy was sold in glossy mailings, financed by such major corporate givers as Amazon, Vulcan and the Downtown Seattle Association. It used the slogan: “Reject Gridlock. Yes on Seattle Prop 1″ even though the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is removing vehicle lanes from arterials in all corners of the city.
City Hall has mastered the “latte argument” in marketing big increases in levies, usually explaining that the extra cost will amount to a latte or two each week. Discussing how a $365 million levy morphed into a $930 million levy, SDOT director Scott Kubly found a way to low-ball costs to property owners: “Because it’s a renewal of a levy, it’s only $150 or $140 a year.”
Even 81 year olds weren't spared opprobrium;
“Move Seattle” did a last-minute hit mailing against an 81-year-old woman. Aurora Avenue business owner Faye Garneau put money into a “no” campaign, for making property tax boosters take to an even playing field. Prop. 1 backers struck back by tying her to unpopular initiative promoter Tim Eyman.
The latte argument has worked, and worked again.
Seattle, where 'compassion' thrives on other people's money.
5. A Chinese friend used to tell me how their government solved the similar problem basically through the avenue you mention-- by building. The problem is, here, it's more attractive to profit from an asset bubble than to anticipate rising consumer demand-- when it will obviously continue to stagnate or fall-- and build more houses for the broke. Don't blame organizers trying to save their neighborhoods just because the scope of their efforts is limited by lack of power. They want the developers out of their city because they develop the city *for other people;* it's perfectly rational.
1. "They want the developers out of their city because they develop the city *for other people;* it's perfectly rational."
And in the meantime, their friends that used to live in the building that was torn down are complaining about rents and your landlord is more difficult. If you own, on the other hand, it's bitter sweet, your renter friends are unhappy but you're happy as you ride the wave in increasing home values, and why sell the house now when prices are increasing so fast?
7. I think you're doing exactly what needs to be done to fix this. It's tremendously important to many people living in closed access cities to be able to perceive themselves as progressive. Currently, it's socially acceptable to claim to be an advocate for the poor because one supports building 300 affordable housing units in a city of 700,000 people. The day that San Francisco anti-building lefties get routinely called out as the ruiners of the poor and oppressors of minorities that they are is the day something will change.
1. Thanks. This topic really is an extreme challenge to POV's that treat economic outcomes as antagonistic (99% v 1%, etc.). It is clear that the first order effect of open access is to reduce the value of existing assets and reduce costs for consumers.
The problem is that "trickle down" sorts of characterizations tend to focus on capital vs. labor dynamics. But, housing puts the focus on where it should be. Since housing is consumed almost purely as capital, it creates a pure picture of the dynamic between capital (or producers in general) and consumers. And, "trickle down" doesn't even come close to describing it. Open access means capital loses its rents and consumers win. There is no trickling. Rentiers lose and consumers win. And, it's not even close. And, it is obvious.
The problem is that us vs. them ideology is so prevalent because it is a lazy way for factions to feel accomplishment. So, there are large constituencies who simply don't accept that there could be any positive outcome from letting capital compete in an open context. The only set of conceivable positive outcomes is the set that includes "regulation" or "redistribution". There could be no more effective and sustainable redistribution than simply opening the doors to the Bay area or New York City and telling builders that new development would be welcomed. It seems impossible, but then I remind myself that many cities have this policy - in fact, LA had this policy not very long ago. That's how it came to be. Maybe the zeitgeist can be nudged slightly back the other direction. |
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TitleQuantum Implementation of Parrondo Paradox
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2005
AuthorsGawron P, Miszczak J.A.
JournalFluctuation and Noise Letters
AbstractWe propose a quantum implementation of a capital-dependent Parrondo's paradox that uses O(log2(n)) qubits, where n is the number of Parrondo games. We present its implementation in the quantum computer language (QCL) and show simulation results. |
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/9273 | Connecting Systems, Combining Worlds
Intershop Synaptic Commerce API
Your processes are built around two key goals: growing the business and enhancing the customer experience. Achieving them, however, requires the successful synthesis of a wide range of systems, platforms, and services. By the time a commerce platform has been combined with an ERP system, content management tools, custom applications, and touchpoints, as well as external providers, the result is often a very extensive and diverse system landscape. For many businesses, the major challenges include reliable data exchange between the various systems, integration of business-specific applications, and consistent presentation of data and content. Most integrations are still project-specific and require considerable development input, which means significant investment and longer time-to-market. Often, the dream of delivering a seamless customer experience across multiple touchpoints remains a distant vision.
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The Intershop Synaptic Commerce API creates a bridge between these worlds. You can use it to integrate commerce platforms, third-party systems, and service providers using clearly defined interfaces and with no additional development effort. It’s also easy to incorporate customer-specific modifications or new touchpoints via the relevant interfaces. Migrations and upgrades are fast and risk-free, with minimal cost and workload. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/9282 | Halloween Quiz... if you dare!
Halloween is celebrated on what day?
Which country did Halloween originate in?
Where was Abraham "Bram" Stoker (the creator of Dracula) born?
What Celtic feast day inspired modern Halloween?
Barmbrack is the traditional cake of Halloween but what can one expect to find inside?
All of the following were originally used to carve jack-o'-lanterns except?
Pumpkins can be orange, white, green and what other color?
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/9292 | Celebrate Beaufort's 300 years at gala
Beaufort's 300th birthday will be observed with "Time & Tides: A Celebration of 300 Years" by the Historic Beaufort Foundation from 6:30 to 11:30 p.m. April 30.
The event will be at Tidewater, a historic home at 302 Federal St. overlooking the Beaufort River. The celebration, timed to coincide with high tide, will be catered and include toasts, live dance music and an open bar, according to the foundation. During a silent auction, guests can bid on an overnight hunting trip and various other excursions and gifts.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/9299 | Microsoft refuses to comment as .NET developers fret about Windows 8
There is a long discussion over on the official Silverlight forum about Microsoft’s Windows 8 demo at D9 and what was said, and not said; and another over on Channel 9, Microsoft’s video-centric community site for developers.
Pretty much everything that runs on Windows today will likely still run on Windows 8, in its Classic mode. However, the Tiled mode has a new development platform based on HTML and JavaScript, exploiting the rich features of HTML 5, and the fast JavaScript engine and hardware acceleration in the latest Internet Explorer.
Program Manager Jensen Harris says in the preview video:
We introduced a new platform based on standard web technologies
The fear of .NET developers is that Microsoft’s Windows team now regards not only Silverlight but also .NET on the client as a legacy technology. Everything will still run, but to take full advantage of Tiled mode you will need to use the new HTML and JavaScript model. Here are a couple of sample comments. This:
and this:
We are not Windows developers because we love Windows. We put up with Windows so we can use C#, F# and VS2010. I’ve considered changing the platform many times. What stops me each time is the goodness that keeps coming from devdiv. LINQ, Rx, TPL, async – these are the reasons I’m still on Windows.
Underlying the discussion is that developers have clients, and clients want applications that run on a platform with a future. Currently, Microsoft is promoting HTML and JavaScript as the future for Windows applications, putting every client-side .NET developer at a disadvantage in those pitches.
You all saw a very small technology demo of Windows 8, and a brief press release. We’re all being quiet right now because we can’t comment on this. It’s not because we don’t care, aren’t listening, have given up, or are agreeing or disagreeing with you on something. All I can say for now is to please wait until September. If we say more before then, that will be great, but there are no promises (and I’m not aware of any plans) to say more right now. I’m very sorry that there’s nothing else to share at the moment. I know that answer is terrible, but it’s all that we can say right now. Seriously.
While this is clearly not Brown’s fault, this is poor developer communication and PR from Microsoft. The fact that .NET and Silverlight champion Scott Guthrie is moving to Windows Azure is no comfort.
From the outside, it still looks as if Microsoft’s server and tools division is pulling one way, and the Windows team the other. If that is the case, it is destructive, and something CEO Steve Ballmer should address; though I imagine that Steven Sinofsky, the man who steered Windows 7 to launch so successfully, is a hard person to oppose even for the CEO.
Update: Journalist Mary Jo Foley has posted on what she “hears from my contacts” about Jupiter:
Jupiter, presuming her sources are accurate, is the managed code platform for the new Windows shell – “Tiled mode” or “Tailored Apps” or “Modern Shell – MoSH”; though if that is the case, I am not sure whether C++ in this context will compile to managed or unmanaged code. Since Silverlight is already a way to code using XAML, it is also not clear to me whether Jupiter is in effect a new Windows-only version of Silverlight, or yet another approach.
53 thoughts on “Microsoft refuses to comment as .NET developers fret about Windows 8”
1. @Vic: “Eventually”. That’s the problem. You might have some insider info regarding the path MS will actually make us walk on. But do we need a company full of teenagers engaging in “It’s all for the good. We have secret plan hidden beneath all those partner-company-destroying revelations we spit out”. This code smells. Whatever political / marketing reasons are currently running, something went wrong in the first place and we don’t like our intelligence to be insulted by a bunch of kids playing with teddy bears. I.e. this situation is silly and destructive and this means: the actors let it come to a point where a situation can only be fixed with silly, irritating and destructive games. I don’t like that. It’s not wise. Makes me feel worried about future operations of MS.
Best regards,
Kasimier Buchcik
2. You all that think MS won’t drop a technology should go back and read the comment by Fortis Bonitas again. Not only VB but remember ASP and how that was dropped for ASP.Net with no sort of bridge. I really don’t know why some people cling so tightly to MS. MS doesn’t innovate. They follow. And when they start getting to far behind they will cut you and your technology off at the knees to do catch up to what everyone else is doing. Right now Google and Apple are racing a bottom up race changing the landscape starting from phones into a tablet market that MS never could get going and both heading into the desktop in their own ways. MS has to cut them off and this is it. The hottest development these days is not going on in .Net or really any other desktop technology. If you want to get developers flocking to you it better be with HTML 5, Javascript etc. Thats what MS is trying to do.
None of this should worry you if you don’t tie yourself into exclusively into MS technology. There are many other systems, platforms, IDE’s etc that are just as good and better. I know because I work with them side by side with MS tools all the time. I welcome this whole change by MS because one way or another this will usher in a lot more openess and cross platform application development.
3. @Kasimier: No inside information here. I understand that you are angry about the lack of information and agree that anger is reasonable. I’m just offering a hypothesis that might explain the thinking behind it.
FWIW: I’ve been working with SL/WPF for the last 3+ years. Am I going to drop that? And move to what? If I really had to switch, I could re-write the UI in WinForms, or even native Win32. I’m sticking with SL/WPF because it’s a reasonable platform for now. Frameworks come and go, but the core functionality of an app is what’s really important.
4. Dude, you can run .NET and Silverlight in an HTML container. If your app needs to do anything with the PC run it as a service, etc. The Tiled mode DOES HAVE .NET SUPPORT, now the real question is will they make it easier for us then everyone else. But even as is, this won’t be a difficult platform for me to code against. 😛
5. As i know MS newer did leave developers behinde, remember Visual Basic now for the today market you use VB Net, before you use Java then Microsoft came with C# and so on. My point is that MS will come with some enhancment to the platform so existing languages we cane use to build HTML 5 and Javascript like (Script#).
Sorry for my bad english
6. Well, you hang around software development with Microsoft products long enough you see this scenario play out over and over again. About every 10 years or so, Microsoft makes radical changes to their software development platform.
In the late 80’s at the start of my programming career, I used QuickBasic, along with C and MASM. Then Windows and tools like VB came along in the early 90’s. Next, in 2001, here comes .NET which is quite different from classic VB and has a sorta new language that MS is pushing C#. Now, here we are 10 years later and, surprise, another big change is brewing in Microsoft’s development tools division.
7. Microsoft’s future is dev. Silverlight isn’t going anywhere. With Azure taking center stage, attention is turning from infrastructure and IT pros to apps and developers. And with the current emphasis on Silverlight and WPF, and Microsoft’s own products being built on Silverlight, I find it hard to believe that Microsoft would turn their back on it. The toolset needs to continue to grow, becoming increasingly rich and robust, which will probably mean new tools. But that is a good thing, and I’m with @8r13n…no one said Silverlight won’t work or that you can’t use. I expect Silverlight will continue to be a great tool for Win8 platforms and beyond.
8. Windows needs some answer to the iPad and Android tablets.
Windows needs its APIs to appeal to developers other than just C/C++.
Windows needs to make sure its APIs can be adopted on day 1 of shipping – not to depend on some 3rd party framework like .NET.
Windows got burned by .NET in the Vista era and doesn’t care for .NET – it’s irrelevant.
Windows needs an application store which usually means that the applications must be written in some sandboxed technology, not native.
Windows 8 = 5 birds killed with 1 stone.
9. If you’re the Windows team then .NET is very much a 3rd party framework because you don’t own it, or its ship schedule or its feature list.
.NET is sandboxed so would work in an application store but it’s not as popular as HTML/JS and Windows doesn’t like it so…
10. That there appears to be such hostility and internal competition between the Windows and Dev divisions at Microsoft is cause for concern. How can they expect to be successful if they don’t have a joined-up strategy? It’s one thing for directly competitive projects to clash – remember Lisa vs Mac back in the early Apple days – but quite another for divisions which *ought* to be symbiotic. Windows provides the platform, DevDiv provides the tooling. If that’s broken down then the organisation itself is fundamentally broken.
Sinofsky ships stuff, he gave us Office and Windows 7, so I find it hard to condemn him, but this apparent war against all things .NET will only damage the brand for the one community that still genuinely likes Microsoft – its developer community. Were Ballmer a truly savvy CEO then he’d have Sinofsky on the carpet right now and there’d have been a hasty post-Muglia style ‘clarification’, and several hundred thousand developers and interested parties would not be at reading all about how much Microsoft currently sucks. It’s a PR disaster, at least within that community. And it’s not a community Microsoft can just ignore, no matter what the Windows team thinks. Are they really that deluded?
Fine, Microsoft, become disliked – or at least nothinged – by everyone; become the new IBM. You can stil be financially very successful, just like IBM is. But you will no longer be in the driving seat, or in with a shot of taking it back from Google and Apple. And when Windows dies, even if it’s thirty years from now, you’ll become irrelevant.
Wow – I’m surprised how angry this whole thing is making me, even though I’m a Web developer by trade and in theory this move should make life easy for me if I want to develop ‘new’ Windows apps. Haven’t felt this annoyed with Microsoft for a *long* time 🙂
The difference over here is that I’m doing WPF/SL development for *free* now. I cannot find any customers who want to pay for WPF/SL apps; they are all too scared wrt the future. I don’t understand what MS is doing here. MS is producing headlines with big neon HTML/JS letters. This is what customers read and understand; they won’t listen to subleties related to Jupiter. MS is not *that* naive to know that, thus it is responsible for the mess. I’m located in Kiel, Germany. Currently, and partly, I earn the most of my living by refactoring a WinForms/ASP.NET monster and we’re planning to go full ASP.NET in the future; which will cost our customers much more than a WPF Fat Client. WPF/SL is just a hobby now, which I enjoy more than everything else, but it’s just a hobby and this is really, really sad. It makes no sense to me and should not make sense to anyone else beside specific braindead and please-to-be-transferred-to-a-lonely-island MS executives.
Best regards,
Kasimier Buchcik
12. @Vic: I should replace all occurrences of “braindead” in my writings with “irresponsible”. Those guys are sadly not braindead (easily recognizable) but just irresponsible children who need some weeks of hard real work at a shop in order to f*** the decadence of out of them and calibrate their reality processor.
Best regards,
Kasimier Buchcik
13. @Neil:
I agree the handling of this and the conflict within MS is disturbing. I recently read an article which suggested that replacing Steve Ballmer wasn’t really what was necessary. Rather it was finding a replacement for Gates (which probably is as unlikely as replacing Steve Jobs at Apple). MS rose to power with Gates as a unifying technical lead, but now it seems we are left with multiple, unsupervised power centers (eg. WinDiv/DevDiv) pulling in different directions.
So why should we continue to invest in learning about and working with SL/WPF? Because although the technology isn’t perfect, and it _may_possibly_ not receive a lot of future investment from MS, it is here now, fairly complete, and fairly well supported (documentation, samples, etc.). These new hypothetical frameworks that will be introduced with Win8 will presumably have some technical advantages (like better perf in some use cases), but also be immature. Look how long it has taken to get the SL/WPF tooling and supporting control classes to where they are now. If I need to deliver a rich client application in the next 1-2 years on Windows, I’d prefer to do it with a semi-mature toolset and framework.
14. I think everyone seems to be missing an important point here. Microsoft makes money selling Windows and Office which runs on Windows. Most people run Windows because that’s what all the apps they use run on and because they’re used to it.
If Microsoft move completely to a dev model based on HTML/JS then the apps that are created will run on any OS. That means in a few years time when legacy apps are obsolete then nobody needs to run Windows anymore – they just need to run an OS with a browser.
If they put in a load of hooks to underlying Windows functions they’re back where they were years ago being slated for not being standards compliant.
I think this is all a poorly managed PR exercise by Microsoft to show how committed they are to HTML5. There will be an announcement at BUILD that as well as supporting HTML5, Silverlight will be used to develop rich apps for W8 (the Jupiter project). There will also be a new app store to buy all the fancy new apps, and hopefully a new app deployment model that doesn’t mean a load of registry entries, files dumped all over the filesystem, a secure sandbox, and a simple drag-to-recycle-bin method of deleting an app.
It’s a good thing I think and .NET and Silverlight is not going anywhere. WPF will die but in a way that sees it merged with Silverlight. Let’s just hope this PR blunder doesn’t scare off all the Microsoft devs in the meantime.
15. Microsoft will not abandon it’s bread and butter it’s just trying to attract more gravy.
You guy are overreacting.
16. @tim
“While I agree with you, it is not surprising that .NET developers worry when Microsoft comes out and says the new Windows client platform is for HTML and JavaScript. It would have been easy to add that there is a great .NET story too but we are keeping it under wraps.”
Just terminology wise I think its worth being clear, even if they did go fro HTML/JS on client its quite possible server side would be .NET (including for example using JQuery/ASP.NET MVC).
17. Take a business rather than developers perspective for a moment.
Microsoft’s core profits came from PC Applications, Operating Systems and some high end business packages, all PC oriented. “.NET” was concieved as, a better Java and a better Visual Basic/MFC for building desk-top applications, business applications and “software-as-a-service” frameworks. Windows CE development was a travesty of mismanagement, as support for “.NET” technology was imposed on it, when thin-clent technology was the only thing that meant sense.
In the meantime Apple copied the games industry model of digital distribution (pioneered by Valve’s “Steam”) matching it with attractive portable hardware. Cloud technology based on linux/Unix, emerged as the dominant “Software-as-a-service” technology. The battle grounds are (a) thin client/portable hardware (b) specialist games consoles, and for the business sector (c) cloud services/applications. Microsoft has an edge only in one of these.
So.. move Scott Guthrie to Azure, at least try and claw back come ground on Cloud, try to leverage the existing “.NET” base. However “.NET” is not the solution to the thin-client/portable hardware problem.
The result? For desktop applications “.NET” becomes the new MFC. For Azure, expect a “Cloud.NET”. For the consumer market, Appstores and thin-clients without the overhead of “.NET”. However these are areas where Microsoft cannot catch up. NOt technologically, but because its brand is inextricably linked with the Desktop PC, and Desktop PC development.
We can stay a “.NET” developers and maintain “legacy” systems… or…
18. I think Microsoft has NOT been given the credit I think it deserves for this ploy; designed to achieve three things:
1) Finally killing the competition: Adobe Flash+Air – browser plug-ins are NOT required if HTML5 is de rigueur. Silverlight is already dead in the public space anyway – so the death of public Silverlight is irrelevant (to Microsoft) AND get brownie-points for being standards compliant into the bargain.
2) Hurting established app stores: by defining HTML5 as the “open standard” for ALL apps – ie. run your apps NOT just on your iPhone – thus making native (ie. non-HTML5) apps a “legacy” approach now. Windows Phone Marketplace is the Sacrificial Pawn to take the opponents’ Queen: Apple App Store or Google Android Market.
3) Keeping Microsoft Windows relevant: “everyone” has an iPad and so Windows needs tablet+slate form-factors with excellent UX. Offering Tiled+Classic is brilliant: Microsoft Office (cash cow) can still work in Classic + it’s a portable-ish Tablet when undocked … AND the light 7/10-inch portable slate just runs Tiled on ARM for days/weeks between charges.
I’m sure there are more reasons but I see this as Microsoft facing-up to reality and about time.
Pity about Silverlight though – can’t see it appealing any more if it’s just for Intranet apps – I feel this will lose out to HTML5 as well even in this space – who wants to have developers split with such close BUT ultimately totally different skill sets?
19. re: “Microsoft will not abandon it’s bread and butter it’s just trying to attract more gravy.
You guy are overreacting.”
Yup. That’s what they said about VB7 as well. Good luck guys. BTDT. Trust me, there is life after MS.
Dan (former VB MVP)
20. Is it not possible that at this Build conference, a new fancy compiler is announced, that will convert your windows forms/wpf/SL applications to HTML/JS?
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Welcome to my home page, I currently reside in Las Vegas, NV working as a Gameplay Programmer at Human Head Studios. I'm also the organizer of a local game showcase called Indie Arcade. When I'm not sitting in front of a computer, I like to get out and explore nature or think about sitting in front of computers. You can find my various social media links below or my resume upon request. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/9359 | Lumbosacral Supports
Lumbo-sacral supports help to relax the sacro-spinal muscles to modify pelvic inclination and lumbar lordosis, and provide support for lower back injuries. These supports are often used in conservative treatment of back problems and for postoperative lumbo-sacral support and post-op work-hardening therapy programs. Many industries require employees who perform lifting tasks to wear special lumbosacral supports.
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Do you like listening to stories? Do you like making things? How about snacks? If you answered “Yes!” to any of these questions, join us at the library for an afternoon of reading, crafting, and noshing. As you nibble or create, listen to chapters or short stories from titles in that month’s genre. Perhaps you’ll hear something new or get ideas for your next great read! For grades 3-5. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/9402 | What Is Egg Donation?
Couples around the world find their dream of starting a family difficult because getting pregnant becomes an almost impossible task. However, with the advent of egg donations, women whose ovaries do not produce healthy eggs can now become pregnant using donor eggs.
Donor eggs are taken from donors and fertilized in the laboratory using sperm from the father in question. After the eggs are fertilized, they are placed in the womb of the intended mother, where she will take the child for months.
You can contact the professionals for egg donation at https://eggdonationsouthafrica.co.za/ to give the best care to donor and recipient.
While different fertility clinics and programs may have different requirements for egg donors, there are several criteria that remain fairly standard throughout the industry.
Usually, egg donors must be between 21 and 31 years old. The younger the donor, the healthier the eggs, hence increases the chance of pregnancy. The minimum age requirement of 21 is to ensure that a woman can legally enter into a contract.
The maximum age requirements can vary slightly between programs but generally between the ages of 31 and 34 years. The older a woman is, the less responsive her body is to fertility drugs and the quality of her eggs decreases.
Using abnormal or unhealthy eggs increases the chance of birth defects or does not result in pregnancy at all. Some programs may also require a number of physical and intellectual requirements.
You must complete the application and most likely have to submit many tests before the clinic agrees to accept you.
Such tests include gynecological exams, physical exams, and psychological evaluations. You may also need to give a family and social history test, blood, urine, and medication. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/9426 | Tips for Greater Enjoyment of Your Prius Hybrid
New Toyota Prius Hybrid (fourth generation) interior
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You love your Prius. But maybe you'd love it more if you could have a little more control? How about turning off that irritating backup beeping? Or resetting the maintenance/oil change light?
Your Prius Is Susceptible To a Dead Battery
You would think with a Prius having such a massive bank of batteries there would always be enough juice to get things going, right? Sadly, this is not the case. Your Prius uses the same type of 12-volt battery that other gas hogs use to start the engine but hopefully needs a jump start less often. Those big banks of batteries your thinking of (the ones that make your Prius a hybrid) are commonly referred to as “traction batteries” because they serve the sole purpose of powering, or being charged from, your wheels.
Running the AC
Did you know that you can keep your Prius cool while you’re sitting, without worrying about killing the battery? The Prius is equipped with a remote (via the key fob) activated Air conditioner which uses the traction battery rather than the 12-volt battery. To activate it, you need to be sitting in the car with the doors closed. Hold the AC button down for a few seconds and things will launch into motion. The doors will lock (apparently a security feature) and the AC will start to cool you off. It won’t work if the car thinks it’s not hot enough, but you can override this by setting the climate control to LO.
Maintenance Light Reset
You maintain your Prius religiously. Don’t you? Whether you do or you do not (that’s your business), there are times when you really, really, really want that maintenance light on your dash to turn off. Some people can simply ignore it. For others, it glares at them, mocking them and haunting them from the dashboard. Here’s how to turn the thing off:
1. Turn the car on using the power button, but don’t step on the brake pedal.
2. Move the electronic odometer to the normal mileage setting (odometer display).
3. Turn the car off using the power button.
4. Press the trip meter reset button, holding it down for 5 seconds. While you have it pressed, tap the Power button twice.
At this point, you should see the mileage flash to all zeros then switch to showing your actual mileage. The light should now be reset. Remember to stay off the brakes during this process.
Turning off the Beeping Reverse Alarm
If your Prius has the very annoying reversing beep, you can turn it off at home, from inside the vehicle. Here’s how:
1. Turn the car on to the IG-ON setting.
2. Touch the trip meter control until it just says ODO, displaying your car’s actual mileage, not the trip meter mileages.
3. Turn off the car using the Power button.
4. With the brake pedal depressed Power the car to the READY setting.
5. Quickly (within 5 seconds of power-up!), hold down the Trip/ODO button for 10 seconds, but don’t let go.
6. While still holding the Trip button, use the gear shift to put the car in Reverse, then back into Park, and then let go of the button. The display will say “b-on” or “b-off.”
7. Use the Trip/ODO button to change the b-on to b-off (the “b” stand for beep!).
8. Turn the car off using the Power button and then do a test run to see if it stuck. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/9468 | A pensioner died following a head-on collision.
The 83-year-old man, from Lostock, Bolton, was hurt after the Nissan Micra he was driving crashed into a Toyota Rav 4 on the A6 Blackrod bypass in Bolton just after 7pm on Saturday.
It was thought at first he had suffered only a broken ankle but later it was discovered he had suffered fractured ribs and a damaged lung.
He deteriorated and died in hospital on Sunday afternoon.
His wife, 82, who was a passenger, was not badly hurt in the crash. |
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