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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/10845 | PhD Thesis defence
Title: Some results on spectral spaces and spectral sequences
Speaker: Samarpita Ray (IISc Mathematics)
Date: 10 June 2019
Time: 2:30 pm
Venue: LH-1, Mathematics Department
An ordinary ring may be expressed as a preadditive category with a single object. Accordingly, as introduced by B. Mitchell, an arbitrary small preadditive category may be understood as a “ring with several objects”. In this respect, for a Hopf algebra H, an H-category will denote an “H-module algebra with several objects” and a co-H-category will denote an “H-comodule algebra with several objects”. Modules over such Hopf categories were first considered by Cibils and Solotar. We study the cohomology in such module categories. In particular, we consider H-equivariant modules over a Hopf module category C as modules over the smash extension C#H. We construct Grothendieck spectral sequences for the cohomologies as well as the H-locally finite cohomologies of these objects. We also introduce relative (D,H)-Hopf modules over a Hopf comodule category D. These generalize relative (A,H)-Hopf modules over an H-comodule algebra A. We construct Grothendieck spectral sequences for their cohomologies by using their rational Hom objects and higher derived functors of coinvariants. We will develop these cohomology theories in a manner similar to the “H-finite cohomology” obtained by Guedenon and the cohomology of relative Hopf modules studied by Caenepeel and Guedenon respectively. This is one of the two thesis problems which we plan to discuss in detail.
If time permits, we will also give a brief presentation of the other thesis project. In the last twenty years, several notions of what is called the algebraic geometry over the “field with one element” ($\mathbb{F}_1$) has been developed. It is in this context that monoids became topologically and geometrically relevant objects of study. In our work, we abstract out the topological characteristics of the prime spectrum of a commutative monoid, endowed with the Zariski topology is homeomorphic to the spectrum of a ring i.e., it is a spectral space. Spectral spaces, introduced by Hochster, are widely studied in the literature. We use ideals and modules over monoids to present many such spectral spaces. We introduce closure operations on monoids and obtain natural classes of spectral spaces using finite type closure operations. In the process, various closure operations like integral, saturation, Frobenius and tight closures are introduced for monoids. We study their persistence and localization properties in detail. Next, we make a study of valuation on monoids and prove that the collection of all valuation monoids having the same group completion forms a spectral space. We also prove that the valuation spectrum of any monoid gives a spectral space. Finally, we prove that the collection of continuous valuations on a topological monoid whose topology is determined by any finitely generated ideal also gives a spectral space.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/10863 | Hydrated phosphate containing hydroxyl, turquoise group and forms a series with turquoise
Specific gravity: 3.22
Hardness: 4½
Streak: pale green to greenish to white
Colour: dark green to apple-green
Solubility: Soluble with difficulty in HCl.
Hydrothermal environments
Chalcosiderite is an uncommon mineral occurring in the oxidised zone of some hydrothermal deposits (Mindat, Webmin, HOM). Associated minerals include crandallite, cyrilovite, dufrénite, leucophosphite, libethenite, pseudomalachite, saléeite, sampleite, and torbernite (Mindat).
At Lake Boga quarry, Australia, chalcosiderite is associated with sampleite, libethenite, crandallite, cyrilovite, pseudomalachite, saléeite, torbernite and ulrichite (HOM).
There are two co-type Localities, the Hollertszug Mine, Dermbach, Herdorf, Altenkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany and the Phoenix United Mine, Minions, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England, UK.
At the West Phoenix mine, Cornwall, England, chalcosiderite is associated with goethite and dufrénite (HOM).
At the Gunheath china clay pit, Cornwall, England, chalcosiderite is associated with dufrénite, cyrilovite and leucophosphite (HOM).
Common impurities: Al
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F555.7. Poisonous white hair in eyebrow that causes death to the first person who sees it each day (WTF - Weird Things in Folktales)
F in the Motif Index describes the abundant category of Marvels. It is just as varied as the tales of the world are; it includes things like "F57. - Road to heaven," and "F95.2. - Broad path to hell," (heh), as well as "F200. - Fairies (elves)," with all their shenanigans. As you can tell from the long list of runner-ups, this one was a hard choice - but there was one entry that immediately jumped out at me:
Of course it is an Irish story.
St. Molaise
The entry refers to the legendary meeting of two Irish saints - Saint Molaise and Saint Sillán - in the 7th century AD. According to legend, Saint Sillán had a magical white hair in his eyebrow that had a very peculiar power: Whoever saw it first early in the morning would die immediately. (Good thing Sillán didn't own a shaving mirror, I guess). As horrible as that sounds, the legends claim it made Sillán very popular with people who were gravely ill or suffering, as they all hoped to be the first one to see his eyebrow in the morning, and thus gain a painless death.
One day, early in the morning, Saint Sillán was taking a walk around the graveyard, when Saint Molaise ran into him, and said "This hair shall not be killing everyone," and plucked it right out of Sillán's eyebrow (ouch). Of course the power still worked, and Molaise dropped dead immediately - but in the comforting knowledge that the dangerous eyebrow hair was no more.
This story was preserved in the calendar of Óengus of Tallaght, a 9th century Irish bishop (read it here or here, and an article about it here). Saint Sillán's feast day is September 11th. Some folklorists seem to claim that the story has some solar mythology hidden behind it.
I personally think this power could be fitting for a great Marvel character.
F57.2. Person‘s tongue as path to sky
F57.3. Path to heaven on beard
F112.1. Man on Island of Fair Women overcome by loving women
F130.2. Spain as otherworld
F162.7. Rainbow of honey appears regularly in otherworld
F167.11.2. Hogs with bath of molten lead (iron) in otherworld
F167.15. Great tattooer in otherworld
F183.1. Automatic service in otherworld
F232.1.2. Fairy has back rough like pine cone
F232.2. Fairies have breasts long enough to throw over their shoulders
F233.7. Fairies are multicolored
F241.5.1. Fairies own herd of ibexes
F242.1. Fairy car
F254.5. Fairies commit adultery
F285. Anchor falls on fairies
F343.16. Gigantic ox rib as gift from fairies
F366. Fairies abuse livestock
F369.8. Elephants become lean from listening too much to fairy music
F438.2. Spirit of earthquake has very long mouth
F451.1.5.1. Dwarf as reincarnation of rat
F451.2.0.4. Dwarfs appear nodding and anxious to speak
F451.3.7.1. Dwarfs dislike caraway seed in food
F481.0.1.4. Cobold accidently acquired
F516.1.1. Armless people have legs growing from their shoulders
F517.1.5.1. Men whose feet turn backward so that they will not stub toes
F521.3.3.2. Person with golden anus
F529.3. Man with grass growing from his joints
F529.4. Person has small animal within his body
F529.7.1. Person without joints
F544.3.2.1. Luminous tooth of saint
F545.1.6. Beard travels detached from owners
F546.2. Woman with three breasts
F546.4. Thorns around nipples
F546.5. Woman with breasts hot enough to cook food
F547.5. Extraordinary vagina
F547.3.3. Toothed penis
F559.8.1. Person’s urine melts rocks
F569.2. Men menstruate
F594. Man whose entrails are visible when he laughs
F610.3.3. Twelve berserks
F615.3.1.2. Camels having fallen from sky into girl’s eyes
F624.1.2. Strong man throws walrus
F628.2.7. Strong man uses man as weapon
F635. Remarkable spitter. Spits lake of soap
F811.11. Trees disappear at sunset
F989.19. Cock with enormous silver ears
F989.22.3. Pig swallows necklace
F1034.2. Magician carries mistress with him in his body. She in turn has paramour in hers
1. Men menstruate!!!??? Now that's something I'd fancy reading. I'd get a good laugh out of the bit where they die of PMS!
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2. This one I like, though you're right about him not having a shaving mirror. I'd also liked to have seen the camels falling into girl's eyes.
And men menstruate? That will be a good thing.
How on earth do people come up with this stuff?
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3. Poisonous white hair in eyebrow causes death? Well, if it meant a painless death, maybe. Still...pretty weird!!
"Female Scientists Before Our Time"
4. I love how weirdly specific it is, but I have so many questions. Does it only kill in the morning? If he doesn't see anyone until after noon, are they okay? If he somehow goes a whole day without seeing anyone, what happens the next day? Do two people due?
Killing a person every single day is extreme. If the dude was in his fifties we're talking about 20,000 murders, here. That's assuming he had the death hair from birth. He must have picked it up later in life though, otherwise he would have killed his mother the day he was born, right?
1. Good lord, CD, suspend a bit of disbelief already.
2. Those are some excellent questions :D
3. I was also wondering if it only worked in the morning.
But if you could make a career out of it? For monies you can come to his house first thing in the morning and end your misery. He'd have to work every day, but only for like an hour max, if he includes consolation services and time to get the body out of his house.
5. I'd love if my breasts were hot enough to cook food! Think of all the money you'd save on your energy bill! And you could have a BBQ wherever and whenever you wanted!
And I for one would love to see a cock with giant silver ears!
Believe In Fairy Stories: Theme - Folklore & Fairy Tales
6. But what would his superhero name be?
The Browbeater
Couldn't resist.
7. If it was so useful for those suffering, couldn't Saint Sillan have covered it up with a bandana or something and just brought it out when it was needed. Then Saint Molaise could have minded his own business. Sounds like professional jealousy to me ;)
Tasha's Thinkings - Shapeshifters and Werewolves
8. Boobs hot enough to cook food? that'd be real handy when one's marooned on a desert island.
9. As I've now reached the age where finding white hairs no longer surprises me, I will be thinking of my eyebrows much differently! Thank you for sharing this.
Sharon E. Cathcart
Award-winning Author of Fiction Featuring Atypical Characters
10. Yeah, thank goodness not all white eyebrow hairs are lethal, though sometimes the really long ones can be pretty darn annoying.
I'd love to hear about the camels falling into the eyes (presumably that girl didn't have lethal eyebrows), but "pig swallows necklace" just doesn't seemt hat crazy to me!
A-Z of Printmakers
1. Sometimes I picked motifs for runner-ups because I was thinking "Why on earth would THIS need a number?..."
11. this doesn't seem strange or weird to me, sounds like a story of wonder and if faith is all you need to make things happen. if you don't believe in the eyebrow hair, than, will it still work?
are these created by men? what's with number F546.2, or F547.5, F624.1.2, so very strange & yet, you couldn't easily dismiss them.
have a lovely day.
my F post: Fiction
12. Wow... I thought I had heard them all but I honestly had no idea of this tale.
Would have made for an interesting Twilight Zone episode, though :)
13. Wow, that's a new one to me, even though I'm of Irish descent.
14. So weird and yet so useful to end suffering without pain.
I'd like to see this Marvel character for sure:)
15. What's with all the 'breast, nipple, penis, anus' folktales? These storytellers seem to have a one-track minds, lol.
16. thank you Csenge for this brilliant post.
now i need to go find everything else on that list. such a lot of pleasure, i mean work!
1. I looked up quite a few of them :) I have some tucked away for later...
17. Wow that's a lot of runners up today. But a killer eyebrow hair, I can see why you picked that today - not something I would have thought of as a writer - it's original! :)
Sophie's Thoughts & Fumbles - Dragon Diaries
18. While this story is bizarre, it's positively run-of-the-mill compared to some of those runners-up. Breasts long enough to throw over their shoulders? I wonder what benefit or threat this causes and to whom?
19. person has small animal within his body? fascinating...
joy @ The Joyous Living
20. Pretty weird, especially how nobody seems to have a problem with this guy killing people daily. I mean, he must have pretty much only hung out with the most wretched and sickly people. Given that he's a saint, I suppose that's probably the point. I love how the other saint just yanks it out though hehe. Also, what's with all the flying beards?
A to Z 2017: Magical and Medicinal Herbs
21. If a comic book character, he would probably wear some kind of patch on it that he could lift when his target person was in front of him. Interesting.
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22. Ok, either I myself have a super power, butI've alwys wondered: Many women don't pluck their eyebrows because it hurts. I know women who wax their legs, but don't pluck their eyebrows... But to me plucking out eyebrows doesn't hurt. At all. Am the only one? I know this is ot the right place to ask this question, but this seriously bothers me...
23. Lol! I wonder if plucking the hair really stopped it's powers, or if he added it to a locket to keep killing people hehe.
Here's my "F" post :)
24. All great comments and questions, but I have to admit that last runner up really intrigues me -- kept a mistress inside himself, but she kept a paramour inside herself inside him? Definitely WTF worthy! |
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/10905 | Nerd Lunch Podcast 6: Drill Down – Star Trek Generations and First Contact
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Kirk digs toast!
Nerd Lunch contributor Cordy Stepp sits in with Jeeg, Pax, and CT for an examination of the first two Star Trek: TNG movies, Generations and First Contact. Shocking revelations are disclosed when CT declares that he doesn’t like First Contact, Pax admits to playing Data’s “life forms” song on his computer keyboard, Jeeg defends Alfre Woodard, and Cordy questions why Data hasn’t been “buttering everyone’s popcorn” for years. Plus the question of who likes Generations is finally answered (Here’s a hint: none of us).
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1. Paxton February 25, 2017 at 8:21 pm - Reply
Interesting. I will have to check out that fan edit.
CT, Reese is actually my friend Jason Collier. Reese is his daughter.
However, she is Jason's daughter, so she may actually have known about that fan edit.
2. CT February 25, 2017 at 8:21 pm - Reply
Reese, thanks for that link. I had not heard about that and will definitely have to check that out.
In thinking about this episode further, we really could have spent the entire main topic time on picking apart Generations. We didn't even adequately cover all the problems there are with Kirk's death. I guess this just means more Trek talk to come in future episodes.
Star Trek, particularly in NextGen, had delved quite a bit into time travel. It was a plot device that I thought was getting old by the time the movies came along. Although, there are some clever episodes that deal with time travel. And maybe that's where the Nexus goes really wrong. Episodes like "Cause & Effect" and "Timescape" are very clever time travel plots that still give a sense of drama and jeopardy. The Nexus was Voyager-clever.
Again, I reiterate that this should have been a NextGen-only movie, but if they were going to do a crossover, there would have been so many better ways to do it. There should have been true commentary about the differences between the two captains and how they deal with problems. Picard turns into Kirk in these movies and stops being the Picard we knew and loved (or in some cases, didn't love) in the show. More than anything, that's where the movies went wrong and that contributes a lot to my problems with First Contact.
I can accept the fact that Picard still struggles with these feelings he has about the Borg despite seemingly resolving them in the series. There are some things one just never gets over. I can't accept that Picard was the best choice for leading the charge out onto the deflector dish and is the only one who essentially comes away unscathed. Worf has more trouble than Picard? Come on. Nothing against Picard, but I don't buy it.
Star Trek, at it's best, has always been more cerebral. Even the original series. This early episode of Kirk are more chess games than fisticuffs. Moving away from that and turning it into an action series takes away what makes it work best. And without spoiling a future discussion, that's what I love about Star Trek I and why I rank it so high on my list. It's probably the most "purely" Star Trek movie of all 11 that have been made.
3. Reese Elizabeth Collier February 25, 2017 at 8:21 pm - Reply
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Sack of wet buttholes, is it? Yeah, couldn't agree more, but for different reasons. I'm a lot older than you guys, and the TOS crew are my childhood friends, but I hate the way they were used in this movie. Do the first 20 minutes, establish the story, then die in the supernova, or go on to more adventures, but either way, STAY OUT OF TNG'S MOVIE! I don't think it so much that they felt that TNG couldn't stand on its own, but the ST franchise wasn't so diluted back then, and it was like a meeting of the Titans that they just couldn't resist.
Yes, the Nexus was a huge problem, but the problem already existed. ST's easy familiarity with controllable time travel had already caused the problem before that ever came along. Once you can move back and forth through time, you are never again in jeopardy, as we all learned in Superman when Lois died, and he just went back in time and saved her before that happened. Time travel, alternate universes, alternate time lines, et al, these are things drama should stay away from, as it tends to kill the drama when you're never really in danger.
Did you ever notice this difference between the two series: Kirk could almost be a pirate. His motivation for almost anything is, "Will this be fun?" He also has a penchant to attack something first, and if that fails, then he'll try to negotiate… With a pissed-off entity who now knows that Kirk can't defeat it (Metamorphosis will serve as a good enough example).
TNG, on the other hand, I've heard Picard described as a social worker. I wouldn't go that far, but by this time, there is a "book" for spacefaring humans to follow, and while Picard certainly makes his own decisions, they are always in accord with the guidelines. You always have the feeling that, should anyone have the temerity to show this book to Kirk, he'd soon be wearing it as a buttock-spacer. That said, TNG on TV remains my favorite entry of the ST franchise.
Finally, and once again, I just can't say enough negative about this jellycast site you're using. Once again, after I heard about 45 minutes of the podcast, it just stopped for no apparent reason, and the only option it offers is to start over. Sorry, that won't work right now, so I missed almost all of your First Contact discussion, and all of your conclusions. Great job on what I was able to hear, though. My only complaint is with your damned carrier (I'm a doctor, Jim, not an IT repairman!).
Nice job, keep it coming!
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/10920 | LinCity-NG 1.0.3 review
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LinCity-NG is a City Simulation Game. LinCity-NG is a polished and improved version of the classic LinCity game.
Within the scope of the GoTM project at we have created a new iso-3d graphics engine together with a completely redone and modern gui.
normal gnu compiler and additional tools (g++ version 3.2 or later is required at the moment)
perforce jam 2.5 or later (used as build tool)
SDL 1.2.5 or later
SDL_mixer 1.2.4 or later (with ogg-support enabled)
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This release fixes some annoying bugs.
It no longer crashes on Fedora.
Mills have been fixed.
The demolition costs for powerlines, substations, and farms are shown correctly.
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The tool-menu now opens on a click of the left mouse button.
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Sol 4766 – Exploring the Entrance to Perseverance Valley
Publish Date:
Wednesday, June 21, 2017 - 2:30pm
Opportunity is doing a geologic walkabout at the entrance to Perseverance Valley. There is an odd trough-like feature leading into the entrance of the valley and the natural suspicion is that it could be the water course that supplied the valley. We would like to get a look at the geologyto see if that is what formed the trough. Also, once Opportunity starts descending the valley, it will not be driving back up slope. We fully intend to exit out the bottom of the valley inside Endeavour crater. So any questions we have about bwhat went into the valley to form it, we need to ask and answer now.
Mean while, there is the mater of solar conjunction coming up in a few weeks. Solar conjunction is a period of two to three weeks during which Mars is behind the sun or nearly so, and communications wibetween Earth and Mars is a bit sketchy. We have decided to wait outside the valley until solar conjunction is over. Then Opportunity will begin the descent in ernest. That will be around the beginning of August.
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Fixes Bug#3176 remove extra column from subquery in where clause
Show the pool name in the report. It might be handy and otherwise why are we collecting it.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/10981 | carbon dating
Radioactive carbon used in carbon dating is carbon that is radioactive. Since it is active, it is unstable. Since it is unstable, it tends toward stability. This is common in nature; for example, if you hold an object at a certain height, it has the potential to fall, the potential energy that is. If you let go of it by simply removing your hand from underneath it, it would instantly become unstable; it would use up that potential to fall and fall toward the ground where it would be stable having no falling potential.
In the case of radiocactive carbon, its nucleus is not stable, and has a ground-like nucleus toward which it can “fall”. It therefore tends to transform to its ground-like stable version. Now, how does radioactive carbon, also called radiocarbon, enable us to date when was what was once a living organism alive?
Radioactive carbon combines with oxygen to form radioactive carbon dioxide which is then absorbed by plants leaves. Animals acquire the radioactive carbon thereafter by eating the plants. Now, radiocarbon, just like any radioactive element, has a half-life. Its half life is, if you take a certain quantity of radiocarbon, how long it will take for half the radiocarbon to transform to a more stable version.
Since it transforms to a different version, one might say that the initial version disappeared. Thus, after a half-life, half of of the initial radioactive carbon atoms would disappear. The half-life is therefore how long it takes half of the initial radioactive elements to disappear. The half-life of the radioactive carbon used in carbon dating, called carbon-14, is about 5730 years; meaning, if you take a million radioactive carbon-14 atoms and check back on them after 5730 years, you would only find half of them.
In all living matter, there are ten unstable radioactive carbon-14 atoms in every ten trillion carbon atoms. Suppose one finds the remains of what was once a living thing and examines one of its bones. When it was alive, it had ten radioactive carbon-14 atoms in every ten trillion carbon atoms. This was a constant ratio while it was alive because even though carbon-14 atoms disappear, there was an equal intake through plants eating. However, at the moment of death, there was no longer an intake, and the number of radioactive carbons-14 began to decrease.
Now, suppose one finds five unstable radioactive carbon-14 atoms in every ten trillion carbon atoms in the bone. That would imply that half of the radioactive carbon-14 disappeared; it must have taken 5730 years for that to happen. Thus, the remains must be of a subject that began losing radioactive carbon-14 5730 years ago, and hence died 5730 years ago. The remains must therefore be of a subject that was alive around 5730 years ago. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/10983 | Prayer Request
God I'm going miss church today please forgive me. I have a heavy load on my arm that I want uplift off my body everyone going to church please pray for me. Thank you
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Chris said...
As if it really mattered, that term sovereignty, what does it really mean any more?
To myself, in my 40's, I never acknowledged the sovereign nature of any any government. I would point other others of my own generation that are of a similar mindset. It is hard to take a company, or a government seriously when most hobo's with a dollar in their pocket have a higher cash value on paper than any sovereign entit on the planet.
So now is the time to watch people that are incredibly bad at math to attempt to steer the train throttling towards the inevidable conclusion to this experiment in FIAT and piss poor resource management. The conclusion is going to be a full scale, all out nuclear war with (hopefully) 4-5 billion dead world wide. Of course it won't start that way.
My guess is the US is going to notice the second and third aircraft carrier the Chinese have developed. As any good Engineer knows, you never make just one, there needs to be a "lab" and a backup. Or it'll be something simple like, a 30-40% crop failure next month (hint hint). Either way, the powers that be, will have their war.
So instead of bitching about sovereignty as if it was worth more than gold wrapped turd. You might want to consult your bucket list of things to accomplish before next year, it will get even stranger and more expensive than you've ever dreamed.
Kim Gyr said...
The words, "endgame for the global bull market", describe everything about the current state of consciousness, as if in the eternity of time there is ever an endgame! Are we in the endgame of the Roman Empire, for example, when there isn't one of the ancient Romans who wouldn't prefer to live in modern Rome if he/she were offered the chance!
We only talk of endgames when our vision is clouded, when we cannot imagine a future that is based on the current paradigm. Indeed, there can be no future that is based on Oil like our world currently is!
But, humans haven't overpopulated the world and gone to the moon while being able to enjoy wholesome organic food on the basis of a lack of neurons!
Please see the proposals that I imagined as I battled my own endgame, when my heart stopped for 10 minutes following a car accident in Kenya in 1980, at
You don't need a telescope to see around the innumerable endgames that history has imagined, just confidence that we can muddle through all but the final asteroid impact, a billion billion years from now!
Let's go, for 100% sustainability!!!
Kim Gyr
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11007 | History of International Relations Textbook
The Mongol khanates
5.1. From Temüjin to Genghis Khan
The boy who was to become Genghis Khan was born in 1162, not far from the current Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar. He was given the name Temüjin. Like all Mongolian boys, Temüjin learned to ride a horse at a very early age, to tend the family’s animals and to hunt. His father was a chieftain, and well respected within the society of nomads, but there were many chieftains on the steppes. Indeed, the people we call the Mongols were only one of many nomadic tribes — in addition, there were Merkits, Naimans, Keraits, Tatars, Uyghurs, and so on — and the Mongols were not even the largest group among them. Each tribe was divided into clans and lineages, and many of them were in perpetual conflict with each other — over grazing rights, horses and treasure. They traded with each other, but they also raided each other’s camps looking for women to take as wives or for children to capture and keep as slaves. Indeed kidnapping was a common way to obtain a wife, especially for those who were too poor to be considered eligible husbands.
Then disaster struck. Temüjin’s father was killed and the family was cast out by their clan who decided that they did not have enough food to feed them. Instead, at the age of only eight, Temüjin had to help his family eke out a living gathering plants on the steppe and hunting in the forest. Remarkably the family survived, although their camp was raided and Temüjin was taken prisoner and made into a slave. At the age of seventeen, he managed to escape his captors and marry a girl, Börte, to whom he had been engaged already while his father was alive. Yet Börte too was abducted by a rivaling tribe. This event, however, was to be the beginning ofTemüjin’s career as a conqueror. Together with a small band of followers, he attacked the kidnappers and took back his wife. He meted out an act of terrible revenge on her captors — killing the men and enslaving their women and children.
Temüjin’s skills as a raider soon attracted wider attention and before long he concluded a treaty with one of the traditional chieftains which gave him access to a far larger contingent of men. This was the band of warriors which he went on to leverage into an ever-increasing force as every successful raid attracted ever more of a following. The people who were loyal to him he treated as family members, while those who crossed or betrayed him were given no mercy. In 1206, Temüjin called a kurultai, an assembly of the leading chieftains, where he was elected khagan, khan of khans. He took the name “Genghis Khan” for himself. There is no consensus on what “genghis” actually means and in any case the pronunciation in Mongolian is closer to “chinggis.” The people he united came to be called “Mongols” after the name of his own tribe. Genghis Khan was now the supreme leader of perhaps 1 million people and some 15 to 20 million horses, sheep, and goats. |
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11056 | Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Tacticool Tuesday - Lights prevent angels
Lights prevent angels
Father Shoots Teen Daughter Mistaken for Intruder
Father 'shot dead teenage daughter he thought was a burglar'
The Two Schools
Weapon mounted
Flashlight in your non-dominant hand
• You can use the light as a striking weapon.
Do you see the light?
Anonymous said...
Try and have both the WML and the hand carried. Not everything needs a weapon pointed at it that needs to be illuminated. Practice and Get Trained are two things the author is stressing and with good reason. Don't allow you ego to be your guide.
Anonymous said...
This is the reason everyone should keep a good sized and house trained dog in the home. If the dog is not barking, he's either dead or there is no intruder. It'd damn hard to confront and kill a dog without making a lot of noise. So if you hear something, and the dog meets you in the hallway wagging his tail, there is not an intruder. No need to shoot at anything.
If the dog wakes you up barking his head off, it's not likely that an intruder is still hanging around, unless the intruder is a hit-man, in which case you are likely screwed anyway.
Aside from all that, a weapons light is a good idea...
Unknown said...
Surefire X-300U with a DG switch is about as perfect as a pistol mounted light will get. That being said, that light is not the light you search with, it is the light you engage with. Use a handheld light with a lanyard to search with, and if it becomes necessary to take a shot, or manipulate something, you can drop the handheld light to hang off the lanyard and use that hand as necessary.
Chiu ChunLing said...
Definitely true that a target-illumination device is valuable in a low-light situation. Also quite true that having a hand free is particularly valuable in an interior environment.
But it is worth noting that a target-illumination device should never be pointed at anything you can't afford to shoot.
The best light sources are your house lights that you normally use to avoid stumbling around in the dark. As mentioned, turn them on and leave them on. Even if your power is cut, switch your lights on as you have opportunity, as it is possible that you might restore power at some point.
Also as mentioned, you can always drop a hand-light if it becomes a liability...or even to derive a momentary tactical advantage. And it is much less dangerous to prod/shove/hook objects to move them with the not-entirely-free hand that at least doesn't have a weapon.
If you are, for some reason, down to relying on just your target illuminator for vision, try to aim it in a safe direction as much as possible. Most residences have light-colored ceilings, these can reflect enough light for general illumination that your eyes can adapt to fairly quickly. Overhead light, even when dim, provides crucial visual information that is often lost when the illumination is directly in line with your eye (as a target illuminator is necessarily designed to be). You may not actually recognize a familiar face when seeing it lit in that manner (particularly if the owner reacts in some typical manner such as by shielding their eyes), do not attempt to verify your target by aiming your weapon at it.
I guess my summary is that a target illuminator is a very useful tactical device, but it really isn't for illuminating anything other than something you have already decided to shoot.
Anonymous said...
Jeff Cooper's 4 rules of gun safety. The beautiful thing about these is that you have to disobey at least 2 of these rules to accidentally shoot anyone of anything!
1. All guns are always loaded.
2. Never point the muzzle of a gun toward anything you don't want to destroy.
3. Properly identify your target. Don't shoot at anything you can't clearly see.
4. Do not touch the trigger until the muzzle is pointed toward a properly-identified target you intend to shoot.
Those rules are memorized by anyone I'm teaching to shoot, including my grandchildren.
If these rules were obeyed, there would be no "accidental" shootings and no one would be shot by an "unloaded" gun.
- Old Greybeard
Anonymous said...
While talking about the use of lights at night, another overlooked aspect of 'training' is outdoors during the day time. Fun to shoot with a bench, nice targets, a shaded covered area and other folks around but try dropping in the dirt (with rocks around here and sharp/pointy things on the ground) and crawl/duck walk or shoot and move around shooting (and hitting what you are trying to aim at). Again as mentioned in the first part of this commentary, REALLY train like you might/will/be forced to fight. Knock off the 'fun and games' and work at it: who knows, your (and your families)lives might depend on it ............. just saying.
James said...
Thanks for a repeat of the Cooper rules,excellent rules and need to remind/make meself always work within their confines.On a side note like the my daughter steals the flashlights for nefarious purposes comment,what the heck she up to,illuminating late night snacks?!
david said...
And a trick to gain advantage. blind the intruder with a very high powered strobe . first draw his eyes to the strobe by turning on a small low level light in the same location. then trigger the strobe. always helpful when your opponent can't see a thing for several minutes
Anonymous said...
when I built my house. I had a light installed in the ceiling fixture, with a switch in my bedroom, that way I can light the kitchen, placing anyone between the light and my bedroom |
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I read, write, code, and knit.
I guess Facebook is good for something after all
Turns that like the Dark Side has a Light Side, so too does Facebook have a cream filling at the centre. (Tune in for more mixed metaphors at 11!)
Through our mutual friend--the Oracle of English herself--Ms. Sukalo, I've reconnected with two friends who I knew way back before I moved to this side of town, back when I went to Algonquin, back in kindergarten and grade 1! Now, I have a terrible memory, especially when it comes to names and faces, but I certainly remember the twins Cassie and Carly. ^_^ On the cool scale from 0 ("heat-death of the universe") to 1000 ("The Colbert Report"), this is a solid 923 (about the same as "being John Cleese")! And if you have no clue what that means, don't worry.
Although that reminds me of an interesting sidebar. Yesterday in English we were discussing the end of The Shipping News, which is seemingly a "happy ending". Our teacher put a quotation from E. Annie Proulx, the author, on the overhead and bid us to discuss it in groups. One of my friends, Andrew, quantified Quoyle's happiness on an interesting graph that he put on the board, concluding that over the course of the story, ΔHappiness = 45 happy points. :lol: It's these sorts of things that make English class cool.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11112 | 1. The Botanical Magazine
2. The Botanical Magazine, Volume IX
Origanum Dictamnus
Dittany Of Crete
Class and Order
Didynamia Gymnospermia
Generic Character
Strobilus tetragonus, spicatus, calyces colligens.
Specific Character and Synonyms
ORIGANUM Dictamnus foliis inferioribus tomentosis, spicis nutantibus. Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 541. Ait. Kew. v. 2 p. 311. Dittany of Candia.
DICTAMNUS creticus. Bauh. Pin. p. 222.
By the name of Dittany of Crete, the species of Origanum here figured, has long been known in this country as a medicinal plant; to the purposes of physic it still indeed continues to be applied, as imported in a dried state from the Levant: when bruised, the whole plant gives forth an aromatic fragrance, highly grateful; as an ornamental plant, it has also been long, and is now, very generally cultivated in this country. Turner, whose Herbal was printed in 1568, writes thus concerning it, "I have sene it growynge in England in Maister Riches gardin naturally, but it groweth no where ellis that I know of, saving only in Candy." As at this period no idea was entertained of a greenhouse, the plant must have been cultivated in the open ground, where it would doubtless grow readily, if secured from the severity of the weather, it being more hardy than many plants usually kept in greenhouses.
This plant is at all times ornamental, but more particularly so when in flower, in which state it appears during most of the summer and autumnal months.
It is usually increased by cuttings, which strike readily.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11116 | Following the global success of Godzilla and Kong: Skull Island, Godzilla: King of the Monsters is coming to our screens this summer.
The next chapter in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ cinematic MonsterVerse: Godzilla II: King of the Monsters, is an epic action-adventure that pits Godzilla against some of the most popular monsters in pop culture history.
Directed by Michael Dougherty (Krampus) from a script he wrote with Zach Shields, the film stars Ice Cube’s son O’Shea Jackson Jr. (Straight Outta Compton); Aisha Hinds (Star Trek Into Darkness); and Anthony Ramos (Monsters and Men).
The film is produced by Mary Parent, Alex Garcia, Brian Rogers, Thomas Tull, and Jon Jashni, with Zach Shields, Barry H. Waldman, Dan Lin, Roy Lee, Yoshimitsu Banno and Kenji Okuhira serving as executive producers, and Alexandra Mendes and Jay Ashenfelter co-producing for Legendary.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11136 | Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Catholics I Like
My Lutheran friend and I were talking the other day and I told him that I was tempted to leave the Roman fold, and he told me to keep reading Balthasar and I'd change my mind. We then talked about (Hans Urs Von) Balthasar and he described that man as 'the only Catholic anyone likes'. I laughed, and realized that there aren't alot of fun Catholics to read. I was thinking about all the authors I love reading: C.S. Lewis, Jaroslav Pelikan, John Henry Newman, Rowan Williams, von Balthasar, (RJN & Schillebeeckx when I get the chance), and now (thanks to a faithful commentator of the blog), Luigi Giussani. Not all of them are Catholics, but all of them have this one thing in common that I love: they are honest.
There are some great moments in Pelikan where he just lays out the plain problems in the confessions, the contradictions, the inconsistencies, and doesn't try to hide it. It is something that has to be dealt with.
Rowan Williams has a way of just addressing the true pastoral reality of the faith being lived. He has that wonderfully Anglican quality of trying to unite two things, people, or ideas that traditionally have been at odds.
Newman - though the Calvinists hate him - has some wonderful moments where he openly confesses his ineptitude on a subject, discusses the problems with even his own theology, and always warns against accepting his views against those true authorities on the faith. He describes a humble, honest, and living faith that he has, not one that he learned in a textbook.
I was reading an article Fred posted by Giussani, and there was this wonderful reference summing up everything I am trying to say here:
"[describing a scene from a novel:] Abbé Gaston, the hero of the book, To Every Man a Penny, has to hear the Confession of a German soldier whom the French partisans have arrested and is to be executed; since he is a Catholic, and all trembling, the partisans allow him to make his confession, though they are Communists. Abbé Gaston says, “Confess yourself well, my boy, because you have to die. So, what have you done?” And, naturally, he says, “Women.” “Now you must repent, because you have to appear before the court of God.” And the other, with some embarrassment, says, “How can I repent? It was something I liked; if I had the chance, I’d do it again now. How can I repent?” So Abbé Gaston, all worried because he couldn’t send that individual to heaven, suddenly has a stroke of genius and says, “But are you sorry you’re not sorry?” and the other says, “Yes, I am sorry I am not sorry.” This is the last remnant of truth in that individual; this is the acknowledgment of the truth. On that infinitesimal point God builds the man’s defence. “Father, they don’t know what they are doing,” after three years of persecution at their hands."
and his description of Confession:
"This is what keeps you away from Confession–not desiring the good, not accepting to ask for the good; only this. It is not the fact that you foresee that without a miracle you will go wrong again, because a miracle can happen, and you have to ask for it if you really want the good, if you want the “something more,” if you want to be true. The miracle could happen in twenty years’ time, when your concubine dies."
These are the Catholics I like, the ones who are honest about the good, the bad, and the ugly, in the faith, and most of all dwell on the beautiful. The ones who always consciously center on Christ. These are the ones who make my faith about something beyond mere intellectual assent to a rational argument/apologetic.
1. the line about the concubine always startles me, but it's true, and I love it!
by the way, both Balthasar and Giussani have something else in common: they both loved fiction and music... Giussani is always referring to something or other, both heavy & light: Love and Fate by Grossman, To Every Man a Penny, Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson, The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (great one by the way). He really loved the poetry of Leopardi. Balthasar wrote a book on Georges Bernanos (Bernanos's Diary of a Country Priest is deeply funny & devastatingly honest), and wrote monographs on Dante, GM Hopkins, Charles Peguy (Theological Aesthetics: Lay Styles, vol III of Glory of the Lord). And there's more: Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, L'morte d'Urban by Powers, The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor. I said that they both loved music, but beyond Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus (which I sang as a child), I know nothing - I do love the great things that they recommend.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11140 | It was like clockwork.
I would awaken to that tiny sweet face staring at me, close enough to feel her panicked breath on my face. Then, like a record on repeat, I would hear the same little human begin to spill out the terrors of the night; the things she was imagining in the corners of her room. Of course I knew that there were no monsters (thank you very much Disney and Monsters, Inc.) or evil lurking in any part of her room.
But because it was three o’clock in the morning and I was in the midst of the sheer exhaustion of a very full life, I would grab her little body, wrap my reassuring mama arms around her, and pull her into bed with me. Both of us soon engulfed in the warmth of blankets and pillows, as I tenderly prayed and soothed her fears till she dropped off to sleep.
This continued for weeks, until one night I realized all I was doing for this little one was “soothing” her fears, rather then showing her how to break this nightly routine of terror. All I had to do was remind her she had a light switch in her room; that as tiny as she was, she had the power to switch the light on all by herself to expose the fear and silence a roaring imagination.
How about you?
How often does fear or the disappointment of an unmet expectation or an out of control imagination scream at you, making you forget you have the power to turn the light on and expose it?
Sarah is listed in the infamous Hall of Faith, even though her first response to the promise was not so faith-filled. She LAUGHED within herself thinking this was ludicrous. Her hopes had given way to a dead womb, a wrinkled old body and the screaming voice of fear and disillusionment. Could it be that what she considered God’s absence was really his patience?
The Bible doesn’t tell us what she did to change her perception, but somewhere along the line, Sarah chose to believe that the ONE who made the promise would DO WHAT HE SAID. Amazing to think that her dream was what God had created her for. Just as God had a plan for Sarah, he has a plan for you. Everyone of God’s promises have the power to silence any fear or disappointment in your life.
Time to stop “soothing your fears” and turn on the light. In what area do YOU need to turn on the lights?
All my love…
Donna xoxo
Donna Pisani co-pastors Capital City Church in Washington, D.C. with the love of her life, Dennis Pisani. She loves kale chips and chocolate (preferably not together), family time and is currently hooked on Downton Abbey. She is committed to seeing women flourish in life. For more, you can follow her on Twitter @donnapisani and Instagram @donnapisani
“It was amazing how in this hall full of women, I felt as though the speaker was talking directly to me and my situation. I was near tears the first night.” —Kelsey |
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A look at the early 20th century Russia
How the Russian Revolution started 100 years ago and the lessons it hold for Pakistan
A look at the early 20th century Russia
Struggle for a new era of socialism.
Many people think that the Russian monarchy was abolished by the Soviet Revolution in October 1917 that ushered in a new era of socialism. Though, the most talked about revolution in the 20th century was the Great October Revolution, it was the revolution that took place exactly 100 years ago in February 1917 that got rid of the monarchy and paved the way for the Bolsheviks to take over power in an almost bloodless coup eight months later; most blood was shed after — not before — the revolution.
Interestingly, in the February 1917 Revolution neither Lenin nor his Bolshevik Party played an important role; Lenin was out of country and the Bolsheviks were just one of the groups vying for power and that too from the sidelines. In the mainstream of the Feb Revolution, there were other leaders and parties that played a more prominent role to get rid of the Russian Emperor and established a provisional government, only to be overthrown the same year.
The purpose of this article is not to write about the Bolshevik Revolution, which may be covered in a later article. Here we look at the relatively lesser known events, parties, and people that dominated the Russian politics in the run-up to the upheavals in 1917.
From the start of the 20th century, Russia’s economic problems grew steadily worse. From 1900 to 1915, the country was facing virtual economic collapse and the industry was moving into crisis after crisis. Shortages of materials and goods were growing worse and even the army lacked supplies and weapons. Whenever the Romanov Emperor Nicholas II ventured into war — such as in 1904 against Japan and in 1914 against Germany — millions of farmers were conscripted into the army leading to a serious shortage of manpower on the farms and fall in food production.
Emperor Nicholas II, on the throne since 1894, was not a competent leader and his ministers were almost uniformly reactionaries. Perhaps the first major event that led to a series of revolutions from 1905 to 1917, took place in January 1905 when an increasing Russian presence in the Far East provoked the Japanese to attack the Russian army and precipitated defeats that dissolved the tenuous support held by Nicholas II and his unpopular government. Following the Russian defeat at the hands of the Japanese, the first revolution took place in 1905 forcing the emperor to grant concessions to the reformers in the shape of a constitution and a parliament or Duma.
The power of the reform movement was founded on a new force that entered the Russian politics in the shape of local political councils or soviets. The soviets were largely influenced by the Social Democratic Party — founded in 1898 and split in 1903 into Bolshevik (majority) and Menshevik (minority) — forcing Nicholas II to issue the October Manifesto in 1905. This document marked the beginning of the end to unlimited autocracy in Russia and a constitutional monarchy started to take shape. The emperor could either establish a military dictatorship or grant a constitution, so he issued the October Manifesto promising civil liberties e.g. freedom of speech, press, and assembly.
Establishing a broad franchise and creating a popularly elected legislative body (the Duma) was a major promise of the new manifesto. But no sooner the revolution weakened, in April 1906 a new set of laws — called the Fundamental Laws — was enacted according to which the Duma was to have two houses with only one to be popularly elected and that too with limited control over the budget and none at all over the executive. The civil and suffrage rights turned out to be far more limited than promised by the manifesto. So did the Duma come into being?
If yes, did it survive? Again if yes, what did it do and who were the major players and who were they influenced by? Much before Lenin, the people who influenced the Russian politics included scholars and writers such as Chernyshevsky — who in prison wrote the utopian novel, What is to be Done? — and Herzen who wrote about literature and politics arguing that the peasants should organise themselves into communes and rebel against the power of the large landowners. In practical politics, there were leaders such as the Marxist revolutionary, Axelrod, who was 20 years older than Lenin.
Axelrod was initially influenced by Anarchist Bakunin, but later collaborated with his friends, Plekhanov and Martov — two other influencers of the Russian politics at the turn of the century. When the Social Democratic Party split in 1903, AMP (Axelrod, Martov, and Plekhanov) sided with the Mensheviks and in the first 15 years of the 20th century played a much more important role than Lenin did. AMP were the leading ideologists who called for Russian Marxists to abandon violent revolutionary activities and instead concentrate on labour organising and parliamentary work in the social democratic tradition of Western Europe.
This policy was in contrast to Lenin’s strategy of organising a highly centralised party led by professional revolutionaries. AMP had rightly predicted that if a Leninist party were to gain power in Russia, it would replace the despotism of the autocratic tsar (emperor) with its own form of despotism. In all, there were four Dumas from 1906 to 1917. The first lasted two months (May – July, 1906); the second Duma could survive three months (March – June, 1907) before being dissolved. The first two Dumas had large representations from the peasantry with strong liberal and socialist groups that demanded extensive reforms and, that’s why, were quickly dissolved by the tsar.
In addition to AMP, there was another major player, Pyotr Stolypin (1862-1911), the prime minister of Russia from 1906 to his assassination in 1911. In a 2008 TV-poll to select the greatest Russian, Stolypin was placed second; and in 2012 a monument to him was unveiled in Moscow near the Russian White House where the Russian Cabinet is situated. In 1907, Stolypin restricted the franchise to reduce the representation of radical and national minority groups ensuring that the third Duma had most conservative members. The third Duma supported the government’s agrarian reforms and military reorganisation, surviving its full five-year term till 2012.
In addition to Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, there were at least three more groups that were active before the revolution: Constitutional Democrats (Kadets), Octoberists, and Socialist Revolutionaries. Octoberists were a centrist party in Duma that believed in constitutional monarchy and supported most of Stolypin’s reforms. They formed the main faction in the third Duma. Kadets were a moderate liberal party that was more radical than the Octoberists and believed in a socially progressive manifesto for Russia. They were the largest faction in the first and second Dumas before being deprived of their majority by manipulation and repression.
Perhaps, the most violent were the Socialist Revolutionaries led by Victor Chernov (1873-1952). They formed the main socialist faction in Russia from 1900 to 1917, with a focus on redistributing land to the peasants and removing the tsar. Their main support came from the peasantry and they were against the Marxist focus on the industrial labour as opposed to the peasants. The fourth Duma was also mostly conservative but with the First World War starting in 1914, the Duma became increasingly dissatisfied and started opposing the imperial regime.
In the first three years of the war, the fourth Duma played an active role in trying to persuade the tsar to step down in the face of increasing defeats on the front and mounting pressure from the masses for the overthrow of the monarchy. In 1915, a Progressive Bloc was formed in the Duma that was a coalition of moderate conservatives and liberals who were trying to pressure the imperial government to adopt reforms to inspire public confidence. Its leader Milyukov commanded the support of about half of the Duma membership and throughout 1916 tried to negotiate a deal with the tsar.
In the long run, if a state wants to survive it needs to hear the voice of the people and should not rely on nationalistic, jingoistic, and religious slogans that ultimately do more harm to its own people rather than any real or purported enemy.
In 1915, the tsar took personal command of the army and moved from the capital to the army headquarters in Russian Poland. He hoped to inspire the army to fight with renewed vigour, but he had little knowledge of the ground realities of war. His humiliating defeats continued and he could blame nobody else but himself. The government in the capital was controlled by Tsarina Alexandra and her unorthodox monk from Siberia, Rasputin, who influenced the appointment of ministers that were weak and highly incompetent. Now the Russian people and soldiers knew where the responsibility lay and were ready to rebel openly.
Rasputin was murdered at the end of 1916. With increasing dissatisfaction, in February 1917 riots broke out in the capital, Petrograd whose name had been changed from St. Petersburg for its German origin. The garrisons mutinied, workers’ soviets were set up. Now the fourth Duma came into action and established a provisional government to restore order. Tsar Nicholas was forced to abdicate.
With a provisional government in place, without the tsar’s interference, the Duma attempted a moderate policy but was reluctant to announce an immediate end to the war. The Duma had successfully removed the tsar and could have saved itself by accepting the popular demand by ending the war.
But that’s where it failed and gave an upper hand to the soviets. The Petrograd Soviet of Workers and Soldiers was established and led by the Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries, with a minor representation of the Bolsheviks. The Soviet began to function as a boy of revolutionary power of the workers and peasants who created armed militias to implement the orders to make Petrograd garrison politically subordinate to the Soviet. Interestingly, during the February Revolution the Petrograd Soviet was dominated by the Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries, whereas the Duma had the Progressive Bloc.
How this balance of power shifted in favour of the Bolsheviks in the next six to eight month deserves a separate article. For now the most important lesson for a country such a Pakistan is that a war cry may galvanize people for a short while, but as the devastation of the war mongering becomes clear to the people they turn their guns against their own rulers and refuse to be duped by a nationalistic hysteria. If a state neglects the real issues of people it loses the confidence of people paving the way for a revolution.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11164 | Independent and cutting-edge analysis on Turkey and its neighborhood
Ostensibly, states exist for their people. However, the state has failed to achieve this simple objective for thousands of years. Instead of existing for the people, the state exists mostly for itself. This means the state uses its power to control the people, and when it is unable to control them, it resorts to violence. In the Middle Ages, the nation became an individual with a conscience and a will according to the doctrine of national sovereignty. This individual (will) was used by rulers as representatives of the nation on behalf of itself. When this sovereign will of the nation was represented with a government by the rulers, there emerged a state.[1] And this state was sovereign. While the German philosopher Max Weber observed how the state had a legitimate monopoly on violence, Sigmund Freud went further and said:[2]
Individuals are being defrauded by the state. They think that the state is representing them; however they are under the sovereignty of the state. Thinking that the state will act likewise, they give up their instincts…When the sovereignty of the state is established, the citizens no longer exist.[3]
This situation reveals an interesting contradiction that emerges between the public and the state. The public, while handing over its sovereignty to the forces that govern the people, actually creates its opponents and its oppressors in a dialectical way, by giving them the monopoly on violence.
Material and Social Forces
In my opinion, the basic principle of institutionalization of the state in this manner is related to the two force fields that constitute the state, namely material and social forces. Material forces, in general, are the armed forces, police and gendarmerie, local extensions of the government structure, the economic system, and the bureaucracy of the state. Social forces constitute the public (individuals, groups, civilian and non-civilian society), which is outside of the sphere of material forces and independent of all kinds of class system, layered (temporal), economic, political and ideological differentiation. It is the individual and collective forces with their ideas and actions. The sovereign state with its government, controls material forces and wants to literally be a mechanism that controls social forces. Especially in non-democratic regimes and even in hybrid ones, this control turns into a state obsession. The state not only establishes, governs, and controls material forces with all of its powers, but it also molds the social forces into the ideological stereotype it desires.
In the 21st century, the nation state should divest part of its authority to local governments by shrinking the central structure that controls the bureaucracy as a whole and its material forces.
That is why German-born American political theorist Hannah Arendt describes bureaucracy as, “the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act,” because, according to her, a sovereign state can transform the public through oppression and evolutionary means through a process in which every field and actor are seen as a problem for the state unless they can be controlled.[4] In the 21st century, social force is a field that is becoming harder for the state to handle.
Undoubtedly, any political power will take control of all material forces when it takes over the state, and the next thing to do is to take control of social forces. There are two fundamental reasons for this: (1) to extend its sphere of influence and (2) to sustain its power. According to Duguit, even if the individuals that comprise society are autonomous, theirs is a secondary and dependent sovereignty. Therefore, the relationship between a sovereign state and its ethnic groups is a relation subjected to law, deriving from the dependency of ethnic groups between the subordinate and the superior against the state. This is the underlying “state logic.”[5] The state may sometimes seem to justify people, which is only another means to achieve its aim of keeping the balance of social resistance with as little energy as possible. Hence, as Carr points out, “national integrity,” derives from an approach that desires to impose the sovereign power they want to reinforce on social forces implicitly.[6]
The mentality of political hegemony – imposed on social forces by legislating laws and regulations, creating routine practices and by changes in education, economy, and social life – is demonstrated by the violence it practices. The two extremes of this scale are either – to use a relatively civilized word (!) – assimilation or ethnic cleansing and genocide – the more barbaric form of the same goal.
The Nation-State vs. the Democratic State
The logic of the state was nationalized during the French Revolution as a national state, and transformed into a nation-state during the imperialist period, when the state no longer pursued a heterogeneous monopoly but a homogeneous one. The fundamental difference between a national state and a nation-state is that the latter uses assimilation as a way of achieving its monopoly. The process of transforming heterogeneous societies into homogeneous societies also creates the problem of identity, which in turn becomes a significant problem for the state that is difficult to handle, especially when combined with the search for new justice and rights.
In homogeneous societies governed by the oppression of a nation-state, a significant, sustainable energy must be directed at social needs in order for the state to sustain its power. In heterogeneous societies, on the other hand, no such energy is needed for public control. Therefore, in heterogeneous societies, the state invests its resources in justice, law, and the wealth of society. The characteristics of a 20th-century nation-state, i.e. a political structure with sovereignty, central administration, territorial integrity, monolingualism, citizenship, and a constitution, undoubtedly need to adapt to the age in which we live.[7]
While the nation-state practices oppression and violence against society, the democratic state emphasizes the norms of law and the notion of rights that enable society to coexist.
In the 21st century, the nation-state should divest part of its authority to local governments by shrinking the central structure that controls the bureaucracy as a whole and its material forces. This relinquished power actually gives the whole state new vigor. The state must recognize that monolingualism should apply only to the official language, that the public is free to use its own language and that a universal language is a prerequisite for global relations. The state should not forget the universalism of citizenship, must view individuals as citizens, and must recognize that universal citizenship is a global right in its relations with individuals and the public. It should agree to establish and protect universal principles, namely the rule of law, human rights, animal rights, protection of the environment and nature, as important values of a constitutional political system and democratic life.
While the nation-state homogenizes society, the democratic state tolerates heterogeneity. While the nation-state practices oppression and violence against society, the democratic state emphasizes the norms of law and the notion of rights that enable society to coexist. While the basic driving force of the nation-state is ideology, the democratic state is based on contemporary theoretical realities. Ideologies demand society’s allegiance, whereas theoretical consciousness prompts society to think, which means that civil society confronts the state as an actor. According to the nation-state, civil society is an actor that needs to be suppressed, whereas in the democratic state, civil society is an inevitable counterculture. Civil society is formed as a dialectical result of the oppression practiced by the nation-state on society. The democratization process in the democratic state is due to its ability to include the opposing civil society.
An undemocratic, untransformed nation-state is a political power that monopolizes legitimate force, so it is prepared to use violence to achieve its objectives. The interesting point is that the political power and violence of the state are neither opposites nor parallels. These two forces are interwoven, and the hypothetical sphere they occupy does not change. This sphere is only as great as the field or force that political power controls. Therefore, an increase in one means a decrease in the other. That is the reason for the increase in violence applied by political power when its control over social forces declines. The magnitude of this violence, however, depends on the extent to which political power has lost control and on how the material forces are employed by political power.
Factors That Affect Political Will
Because political will is interwoven with violence, ideology and theory act as two important factors influencing its decisions. The two fundamental elements of ideology that affect political will are religion and nationalism. In the Middle Ages, religion was the dominant ideology. Medieval men were willing to die in order to carry their faith and its promise of salvation to the unenlightened heathen.[8] Religion was a value worth dying for, and political will took advantage of this. With the formation of the national state, nationalism replaced religious ideology and nationalistic ideology encircled political will. According to Kedourie, nationalism is the most malignant and hate-filled force that the West developed and spread to the world,[9] and according to Mitrany, it is the biggest obstacle to peace.[10] Although its effect on the Western world is relatively diminished in the 21st century, nationalism surrounded the political will again on the basis of religious ideology and of religious contradictions (Christian-Muslim, Sunni-Shiite) outside the Western world. Thus, the religious roots of some non-Western varieties of nationalism go even deeper than their Western counterparts. In Iran and Turkey, Islamic nationalist movements developed as a reaction against top-down, forced Westernization and secularization attempts.[11] Of course, we have already seen the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) utilize the same concept.
The second factor affecting the decisions of political will is contemporary theories, built upon contemporary realities. Because theories are based on realities, they prioritize and encompass changing conditions as they mature. For this reason, they are not dogmatic and resistant to change like ideologies. However, the power of theories comes from their ability to change, which is how theory affects political systems.
We can say in summary that during the lifetime of a state, the unsolved problems leftover from a previous period’s ideologies and principal theories cannot be solved by relying again on the same theoretical consciousness. Political will can change the political discourse and action according to contemporary theoretical knowledge by constantly improving, transforming, and by internalizing the theories that produce actionable knowledge, enabling it to resolve its issues from the past. If this is not done, that political will misses the opportunity to solve problems due to anachronist theories and ideology.
According to the nationstate, civil society is an actor that needs to be suppressed, whereas in the democratic state, civil society is an inevitable counterculture.
Indeed, the notion of “national interest,” an idea which emerged in the 1640s and in which all nation-states have taken refuge for problems they could not solve, has always promoted power and the state.[12] This idea has been espoused by a broad spectrum of realist theorists from Morgenthau,[13] to Carr, and Waltz.[14] In brief, states have interests which determine state actions. However, the state never sacrifices itself. It is egotistical.[15] These theories that are based entirely on the power and capacity of that state suggest that major powers control the international system and that this will never change.
Even if ideologies based on nationalism and radical religiousness, which are essentially anachronistic theories, continue to be held, they are no longer valid. Issues that could not be solved when these philosophies were predominant and have consequently continued to plague us cannot be solved without using the contemporary means including the theoretical realities and the values of our time. Insisting on solving them in this way will only create political blood feuds, which means employing incompatible instruments to solve one issue with what is in fact another issue.
Problem-Solving in the 21st Century
Now, let’s move on from theoretical foundations and ask ourselves how the ethnic and religious issues causing great pain and loss in Turkey have failed to be resolved for 40 years.
There are two principle elements to solving problems. Firstly, if an issue is seen, defined, and accepted as a problem, it can definitely be solved. The second element of problem solving is related to modification of the state structure.
In the first case if the problem cannot be solved, either no problem exists, or there is a problem in reality that is defined and acknowledged, but the political power does not have the will to solve the problem, or its theoretical knowledge about the solution is inadequate.
The second case relates to the structure of the state, which can be modified in two ways. The state’s structure is either improved, or it is degraded. If the change is being made without changing the fundamental principles of the state, then its structure is being improved. However, if the change is being made by changing the foundational principles of the state, then this means that its structure is being degraded.[16] The reason why the democratic initiative cannot be achieved and the Kurdish problem cannot be solved in Turkey for the past 40 years is because the political will is unable to create a solution by combining these two principles of problem-solving. The probability of solving such problems using anachronistic theories and ideological frameworks as a foundation and by altering the state’s fundamental principles is extremely low.
The effectual notions of theoretical approaches based on the theoretical understanding of the 20th and 21st centuries are given below. However, a political will that is transformed into a democratic state that internalizes notions peculiar to the 21st century and is thus willing to apply solution strategies based on these notions would have a much higher chance of solving the problems.
20th Century
21st Century
1. National interest and power are the fundamental concepts
2. The international system is anarchistic and defines the state’s behavior
3. Self-help is essential
4. Material force is essential
5. Leadership is inevitable
6. Security politics
7. Class is essential
8. Radical changes are essential
9. Value-free scientific analysis
1. Individuals, elites, non-governmental organizations and transnational networks are major actors
2. Ideas and shared knowledge result in new conceptual frameworks; collective norms and social identity are significant concepts
3. The international system is not a unique explanatory variable
4. Shared meanings, cooperation and evolutionary changing are essential
5. Civil society is essential
6. Respect for human rights
7. Social force is essential
8. Beliefs change
9. National interests change
10. International institutions are essential
11. Interdependency
These obviously do not signify any sort of mathematical certainty but are recognized to be generally accepted. Now, if we are to associate these expressions of “theoretical consciousness” with the notion of “political will,” one might come up with the following chart.
The political powers in this box possess the will to solve social and ethnic problems in their countries, but are unable to find the right solutions because of the intellectual and physical instruments they employ.
The political powers in this box may have neither the ability nor the desire to solve problems and unsuccessful initiatives may provoke the use of violence.
The existence and willingness of strong political will combined with theoretical consciousness increase the chances of solving postponed problems, and social transformation and peace are realized on solid footing.
Even if political power and its consultants have the theoretical competency and desire to reach a solution, the lack of will to realize it results in failure.
The thousand-year-old legacy of the state began to be abandoned at the beginning of the 21st century with the transformation from nation-state to democratic state as non-governmental organizations were created as a result of the ensuing stretching and loosening by social forces. At the same time, this auspicious transformation created a great opportunity to solve collective social problems leftover from previous ages.
When I was asked to write this article, the expectation was that the main theme and the text itself would address the “democratic initiative and the Kurdish question.” However, in this article, I have not referred to any current facts about or solutions for this situation. I have tried to explain the reasons why the current situation cannot be solved and what must change in order to solve it by addressing the state in the 21st century and the political will that will govern this state. I think that this problem applies not only to the Kurdish question but also to Northern Ireland in the UK, the Basques in Spain, and the Tamils of Sri Lanka.
[1] Cemal Bali Akal, Devlet Kuramı [State Theory] (Ankara: Dost Kitabevi, 2005), p. 395.
[2] Montserrat Guibernau, Milliyetçilikler [Nationalism] (Sarmal Yayınları, 1997), p. 92.
[3] Akal (2005), pp. 475-76.
[4] Hannah Arend, Şiddet Üzerine [On Violence] (İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2003), pp. 97-8.
[5] Akal (2005), p. 397.
[6] Edward Hallett Carr, Twenty Year’s Crisis 1919-1939 (New York, Harper Torchbook, 1964), p. 162.
[7] Süha Atatüre, Küreselleşme Sürecinin Ulus Devlet Üzerine Etkileri [The effects of the globalization process over the nation state] (Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Gazi University, 2001), p. 256.
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Comments on the use and misuse of the English language.
On the Use of "Velcro"
So the Velcro company just put out a video about not using the word velcro in a way that would weaken its trademark.
The video is clearly trying to be funny but the company appears to be serious about the dilution of their trademark. Well, I think they are way too late on trying to change public habits on this, but what is really strange is when they say, in the text description of the video:
So please, do not say “velcro shoes” (or “velcro wallet” or “velcro gloves”) - we repeat “velcro” is not a noun or a verb.
Um, guys, the word velcro is being used as an adjective in those examples! The company may be displeased with having the word in lowercase, but those examples are using the word in the form they actually want it used, as a modifier to a noun. The problem with these examples is actually that the clasp in question may not be an actual product of the Velcro comapny, not the part of speech.
It's a good rule of writing: if you don't know what you mean, your reader won't know, either.
I also notice that the people at Velcro, Inc., want us to write the word in all-caps: VELCRO (with a registered trademark symbol affixed). But Velcro is not an acronym, as explained right there on the Velcro web site. I know that companies are always fudging the rules of capitalization (and punctuation and everything else) in a bid to make themselves and their trademarks more noticeable, but there's no reason in the world for the rest of us to play along. These requests should be distributed among Velcro's own PR department staff and to overly-compliant news outlets. Putting this kind of content in front of the public is not a good look!
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Y'all Listen to This
Just a few quick tips for anyone who is trying to write a "Southern" character, about that most Southern of words, y'all. The first tip is that's how you spell it. Remember that an apostrophe, outside of being used in a possessive, indicates missing, unpronounced letters. Y'all is short for you all; the "ou" is what's missing. Some people, and I have to admit some of these people are Southerners themselves, write ya'll, probably from the influence of words like we'll.
The other tip is that y'all is a second person plural only; it's not some sort of blanket Southern replacement for you. It can only be used to refer to two or more people. I think some observers get confused because they see person A talking to person B, no one else in the conversation, and hear y'all. But in those cases, more than one person is being referred to, even if not present. Examples:
"Why don't y'all come over and watch the game with us?"
In this case, person A is inviting person B's entire family over.
"I hear y'all need to find a decent quarterback."
In this case, person A is referring to person B's chosen football team.
"Do y'all need anyone right now?"
Person A is asking if Person B's firm is hiring.
And so on. What you have to avoid is something like this:
"Y'all look good in that shirt."
"Y'all shouldn't have said that."
"I'm going to punch y'all in the mouth."
In these cases, Person B knows that Person A is some sort of impostor, and will alert the authorities as soon as possible.
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In Defense of "E-mail"
I'm talking here about the word, not the thing itself. Originally, mail sent electronically was known as e-mail. This form of the word has been steadily losing ground to email. I'm here to say that this is wrong.
I've read all of the arguments in favor of dropping the hyphen, and none of them are convincing. Usually, the hyphen-less form isn't so much argued for, as assumed, with a mumbled justification of "words change over time." Which indeed they do, but not every change is for the better.
The common argument for dropping the hyphen is that the hyphen is originally used to signal the connection between two words that have not been commonly seen together to that point. After sufficient time passes, the hyphen is no longer needed. Thus, to the use the Strunk & White example, bed chamber becomes bed-chamber becomes bedchamber.
Here's the problem, though. In other cases, dropping the hyphen is a way of simplifying the language, making the word look more like it is pronounced. That is not the situation with e-mail.
Why? Because in e-mail, the e is literally the letter e. It stands for the word electronic, of course, but it's not a shortened form of the word electronic, which starts with a short-e sound. To see the distinction, suppose that mail sent electronically had been originally called electro-mail. Dropping the hyphen in this case would cause no problem, as electro-mail and electromail would be pronounced the same. But email looks like a word that is pronounced uh-MAIL, not EE-mail.
An analogy would be G-Man, a slang term for an FBI agent. The G is literally the letter G, standing for government, but not a shortened form of the word government. Therefore it would look ridiculous to write Gman or Gmen.
Likewise, writing email for e-mail complicates rather than simplifies. Some would argue that everybody knows how to pronounce email already, so what difference does it make how it is spelled? But that road leads to madness. Why not spell it eml, or 3ma!1 or whatever kooky string of letters pops into our head?
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Regarding Titles
The rules regarding which words get capitalized in a title are few, but there is enough complexity that mistakes can easily be made when decisions are rushed. The basic rules, though, are pretty clear, or so I thought. Note that I'm not a purist about this; I guess I might want to be, but I've already crossed that threshold. My new book is going to be called Think Like a Programmer. As I told my editor, it really should be Think like a Programmer, because like here is a preposition. If it were a noun (Programmers and the Like) or a verb (I Like Programmers), it would be a different matter, but prepositions are not capitalized, unless, of course, they are the first word in the title or some other overriding rule.
But the publisher believes that although lowercase-l is correct, it looks wrong, and there's something to be said for that. And it's not as though they were capitalizing the a. I mean, no one would do that. Right?
Perhaps not. I read a lot of articles over at the A.V. Club. I have discovered many books, films, and music from the side, and I am grateful. The site does have some editorial quirks, though. Previously, I would've said the most annoying quirk is the requirement that film articles refer to characters using the name of the actor, not the name of the character (a fake example: "In a surprising twist, James Earl Jones tells Mark Hamill, 'I am your father.'"). For whatever reason, they drop the idea like a hot potato whenever they review an animated film.
But now another quirk, which frankly I hope is just some sort of automatic formatting rule gone awry or editorial laziness rather than an intentional choice, has overtaken the lead for most annoying quirk at the site.
Titles have every single word capitalized. E.g. "Zona: A Book About A Film About A Journey To A Room." (see). Man alive, does that look weird. At first, I thought this was an anomaly, but then I noticed it was near-universal and that I just hadn't been paying attention. I saw an article (in the series discussing Billboard Number 1 albums) about "Briefcase Full of Blues" by the Blues Brothers, and thought, okay, calm down, everything will be fine. But then, right in the first paragraph, we see: "In this installment, he covers Blues Brothers’ Briefcase Full Of Blues,'..."
Now I think they're just messing with me.
It's actually a recurring pattern. Occasionally, whoever edits the article titles rebels and actually gets the capitalization rules correct ("The Shins: Port of Morrow") but is unable to enlist the actual writer of the article into the confederacy ("The Shins: Port Of Morrow").
Again, I love the site, but I hope the editorial staff hasn't fallen into cahoots with a gang of language simplification zealots.
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A Small Victory for Proper Capitalization
So I see the following headline in the Birmingham News:
IPad Released Today
Ah, yes! That's the way. In the first place, I've never understood why newspapers and other print media feel obliged to follow the stylizations of a company logo. This subject was covered in detail, and with more authority, by Washington Post copy editor Bill Walsh on his blog. While this sort of thing is bad enough, it's even worse when the logo style is followed even when it should be trumped by basic rules of grammar and composition. In this case, I imagine the pull to lowercase that initial I was strong. What would web people think of IPad? Are we giving up our street cred? After all, this is the same newspaper that has a regular feature that's nothing more than list of links to "interesting" web sites, even some that that the author of the piece himself admits no interest in. If that's not surrender, then I don't know what is.
So, a small round of applause for the News for letting common sense rule for one more day. If they really want to set things right, though, they should start writing I-pad.
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A Comic Strip That Will Live in Infamy
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11194 | Edward Payson Weston Research
SUNDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2009 23:28
The Greatest Walker Ever?
At long last, the painstaking work of piecing the Weston material together reaches online publication. If you do an internet search on "Edward Payson Weston," you will find that much of the material repeats a few main sources, such as Tom Talpey.
Most of this material on Weston is fresh, original research. A great debt goes to P.S. Marshall for his indispensable book, "King of the Peds." Then there are the New York Times press clippings from "The Gentle Art of Walking" (1972). Some other Weston material is slowly surfacing, which can be found in Google Books. The Bain Collection, a predecessor of the Associated Press, has a remarkable treasure trove of photographs.
The research effort is not merely one of discovery. It involves putting together puzzle pieces with incomplete parts. The newspaper accounts of another age spoke to a different audience, with different grammar and different priorities.
Photograph credit: New York Public Library. Hope the material intrigues you as much as it does me.
Enjoy! Charlie Duane
22 November 2009 |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11211 | Connect to an OPC UA server using self-signed certificates
This task describes how to configure the OPC UA server and client to communicate securely using self-signed certificates.
This task is a supplement to the previous task, Configure an OPC UA Client worksheet. It assumes that you have already created a new OPC UA connection and are now configuring the security settings for that connection.
A self-signed certificate is a certificate signed by the person or organization that uses it. In most cases, it is safe to use only when you directly control both the server and the client. If you do not directly control both, you should consider using certificates signed by a trusted Certificate Authority (CA) instead.
Please note that in this task, “OPC UA server” is a generic reference to any of the available hardware or software products that can run as an OPC UA server. For more information about how to complete certain steps, you should consult the manufacturer’s documentation for your specific server. We have included examples based on the free OPC UA Sample Server and UA Configuration Tool offered by the OPC Foundation, but these examples should be used only as a guideline.
To connect to an OPC UA server using self-signed certificates:
1. On your OPC UA server, create a new, self-signed certificate for the server application. If there is an old server certificate in the certificate store, you may be prompted to overwrite or delete it. It should be safe to do so as long as there are no other clients connected to the server. Example: Run the UA Configuration Tool. Click Manage Application. In the Application To Manage list, make sure Opc.Ua.SampleServer is selected, and then click Create Application Certificate. The Create Certificate dialog box is displayed. Configure the certificate settings as desired, but leave the CA Key File and CA Password boxes empty; that is what will make the certificate self-signed. Click OK to create the new certificate, and then restart the OPC UA Sample Server to make sure it uses the certificate.
2. In InduSoft Web Studio, in the UA Server Configuration dialog box, click Security. The Security Settings dialog box is displayed.
Figure 1. Security Settings dialog box
Web Studio Help dialog opcua security Connect to an OPC UA server using self signed certificates
3. In the Message Security Mode and Security Policy lists, select the settings required by your OPC UA server. In a typical configuration, Message Security Mode is Sign and Encrypt and Security Policy is Basic128Rsa15.
4. Click Trust server certificate. In most cases, you do not need to change the Trust List or Issuer Certificate List settings. These are the default locations in your project folder where certificates are stored. You might change the locations if, for example, you have a single folder where you store certificates from several different programs, but we do not recommend it. The development application attempts to connect to the OPC UA server, and if it is successful, it gets the server certificate. A warning message is displayed, asking you to confirm that you trust the server certificate.
5. Click OK to confirm. The server certificate file is copied to your project folder at: […]DocumentsInduSoft Web Studio v7.1 ProjectsprojectnameConfigTrustListCertsconnectionname.der
6. Click Create self-signed certificate. The Certificate Creation dialog box is displayed.
7. In the Certificate Creation dialog box, complete the certificate information as needed, and then click Create. The development application creates a new client certificate file and saves it in your project folder at: […]DocumentsInduSoft Web Studio v7.1 ProjectsprojectnameConfigUAClientCertificate.der
8. On your OPC UA server, import the client certificate (from the location given in the previous step) into the server’s trust list. Example: In the UA Configuration Tool, click Manage Security, and then click Import Certificate to Trust. A standard Open File dialog box is displayed. Use the dialog box to locate and select the client certificate, and then click Open. You will be asked to confirm the import. Click Yes.
Once the certificates have been exchanged — that is, once the server certificate is in the client’s (i.e., your project’s) trust list and the client certificate is in the server’s trust list — the OPC UA connection should be properly configured and ready for secure, two-way communication.
To test the connection, insert a new OPC UA Client worksheet, select the connection you have created, and then try to browse for items on the server.
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Design Disasters to Avoid in a Company Logo
Design Disasters to Avoid in a Company Logo
by Jennifer Stone
By now you should understand why your company logo is so very important to your business. It creates your brand identity, it defines your business and it represents your company everywhere, on everything. While you have already learned some design tips and why it is important to hire a professional logo designer to create your custom logo design, today, let's take a look at what to avoid in your Company logo design.
Don't copy others. In looking for design ideas, you may come across a great logo design that is creative and clever, but it won't do you any good to copy another company's design, even a small aspect of it. Your logo must be original to you and your company, not copied or even similar to another company's.
Don't use clip art. Clip art is almost like copying another company's logo design. It certainly isn't original and chances are others are using it in their logos too.
Don't use something meaningless. Since logos are small to begin with don't litter it with meaningless pieces. For example, leave out the Inc. or Ltd. in your logo. There is no need to include them as they don't add anything to your logo. In other words, every word, design, graphic and color should have a meaning in your company logo.
Avoid making it too complex. A complex logo design is hard to resize, hard to print and hard to remember. Err on the simple side and your logo will be much more memorable and easy to work with.
Avoid making it too trendy. Logo design trends come and go, but your company logo is here to stay. It should be timeless, so avoid a trendy look that will just fade in a few months or years. For example, creating images from dots was popular a few years ago and many logos featured this type of design. It works for some, but not others - especially those that just jumped on board because it was the new trend.
Jennifer stone is a professional web designer and he is associate with Designpax.com, he is expertise in logo design studio, email campaign design, company logo design. Designpax offers proficient designed, campaign-ready graphics within 48-72 hours.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11232 | Friday, August 29, 2008
Koda Rohan - ghosts and samurai
I found Koda Rohan's short novel The Five-Storied Pagoda accessible* because I was able to slide it into a genre, stories-about-artists, that I understood. The Pagoda, Skull & Samurai collection includes two other stories where my luck was not so good. They are even easier to fit into genres, but ones about which I know nothing.
Encounter with a Skull (1890) is a Japanese ghost story, with a strong religious theme. The renunciation of the flesh literalized, maybe. There also seems to be some relation to idealized travel narratives like Basho's Narrow Road to the Interior. Parody? Homage? No relation at all?
The Bearded Samurai (1896, I think) is even trickier. The novella covers events before and after the 16th century battle of Nagashino, an important episode in the establishment of the shogunate. Fictional and historic characters are mixed together. Long scenes involve characters debating the value of life, or the importance of duty. It's sometimes a bit like the Bhagavad-Gita, actually, and also has some resemblance to Icelandic sagas, and to European medieval chronicles, like Froissart. It's true sources, the Japanese chronicles, the Tales of Heike, and 17th century stories of Ihara Saikaku, are completely unfamiliar to me.
In other words, I'm flailing. The Five-Storied Pagoda had something of the taste of a new discovery. The Bearded Samurai, on the other hand, is a Project for Future Research. Read one book, read another, read another. At some point, some light begins to shine through. There are no secret ways to learn new things - just try and try again. I'm ignorant, but curious.
* Also, pretty great.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Koda Rohan - 19th century Japanese novelist
Not many 19th century Japanese writers have made their way into English. It takes Donald Keene 300 pages of Dawn to the West, his history of modern Japanese literature, to get to Soseki, the first writer with an international reputation. So, merits aside, there's plenty of writing in the 19th century. What are the merits?
Pagoda, Skull & Samurai is a collection of two novellas and a ghost story, all from the early 1890s, by Koda Rohan. All three stories are interesting in their way, but the novella The Five-Storied Pagoda (1891-2) is especially accessible. That does not sound like such high praise, I know. It's an acknowledgment of my limitations.
A Buddhist temple is going to build a five-storied pagoda, presumably much like the one to the left that I saw at the Senso-ji temple in Tokyo. Two master carpenters (and architects, really), the successful Genta and the pathetic Jubei, both apply to build the pagoda. The saintly abbot makes the two men figure out the problem for themselves.
Rohan was known, and apparently criticized, for stories like these, with real ethical dilemmas and no villains. I find - I think most modern readers will find - the story to be pleasingly complicated. What do we want with a villain?
Jubei the carpenter may be a fool but he is also, we discover, a real artist, creative and individualistic. It's this strain of the story that makes The Five-Storied Pagoda accessible. I'm used to reading stories about artists' problems - their role in the world, the sacrifices they make, or don't, for their creativity. The Five-Storied Pagoda puts these familiar themes in a new context. New to me, anyway.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Back from Japan
A complicated and rewarding trip. I have a few notes on Lady Isabella Bird and Koda Rohan, and maybe about a Kubuki performance, that should move me right back into 19th century books.
A couple of successes:
I never set foot in a restaurant I'd heard of, with the exception of two stops at Starbucks, and those were both instigated by Japanese people.
I never asked for a fork, although I used it if it was there.
A failure:
A month was not enough to straigten out basic greetings and farewells. Next time.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Jiro Osaragi - a writer who loved cats
Two curiosities about Jiro Osaragi.
I mentioned yesterday that Osaragi was a sort of a French Japanese writer. His museum contains his enormous archive of French historical documents, with a particularly rich store of material about the Dreyfus affair.
It turns out that during the 1930s Osaragi wrote a historical novel set during the French Third Republic, about the Dreyfus affair. He wrote a novel about France as a way to criticize the Japanese military government while evading the censorship. After the war, Osaragi wrote two more novels set around the same time, one about the corruption scandal surrounding France’s attempt to build a Panama canal, the other about the 1870 Siege of Paris and the Paris Commune. I think that's it on the left.
I would love to read one of these novels.
Second curious fact about Jiro Osaragi: the man loved cats. At one point, when he moved to a larger house, he did not sell the old one, but gave it over to his eighteen cats. So he kept two households, one for himself, one for his cats.
The Jiro Osaragi Memorial Museum is full of, aside from his books and papers, his collection of cat-related stuff. Statues of cats, for example, including the waving cat figurines one sees at Chinese restaurants.
Also, paintings of cats. And books about cats. One of these is called Cats for Pleasure and Profit. The architectural details of the building, such as window frames, sometimes incorporate cat designs, although I could not get a good picture of any of them. No living cats, though.
Any cat lover visiting Yokohama would be a fool not to plunk down their 200 yen and see this museum.
Monday, August 25, 2008
The Jiro Osaragi Memorial Museum - who?
Last weekend I visited Yokohama, where I strolled into the Jiro Osaragi Memorial Museum and discovered a few surprises, even though almost every word was Japanese.
Almost – some were French. Osaragi was a 20th century Japanese writer who was immersed in French literature. Romain Rolland was a particular favorite, and Osaragi translated Rolland into Japanese. Maybe this is part of the reason I had never heard of Osaragi. Rolland’s reputation is not so healthy now, either.
On one wall of the museum one can see Osaragi’s complete sets of Hugo, Baudelaire, Merimeé, Zola, Flaubert, and others. Only two books in English, both by the author.
These two novels are The Journey and The Homecoming, as far as I can tell his only novels translated into English. The latter book has the distinction of being the first Japanese novel translated into English after World War II. Both novels are actually about the American occupation, so the interest at that time is understandable. Both are in print (both in Japanese and English) in Japan, at least, and both are available for a pittance, used, at Amazon and Powells.
The topical subjects make me curious about the quality of the novels. Are they imitative of styles that are now unfashionable? Are they period pieces, of interest only to students of that time and place? Or is this another fine writer crowded out of the foreign market by the bigger names? Kawabata, Soseki, Tanizaki, and so on. Quota filled. No room for Jiro Osaragi. He also wrote a series of best-selling samurai novels, so snobbery, maybe? More simply, is he worth reading?
He does seem to have a few more of his books available in French. That leads to one of the two most interesting things I learned in the museum, but I’ll save those for tomorrow.
The museum contains Osaragi’s archives, as well as his books and memorabilia. In America, this would all be boxed away in some big university library. In Japan, it’s in a charming, elegant museum* that has its own tea shop.
* Best I could do for a link. Don't bother with the "Official Site" button - it's for - I don't know what. Yokohama tourism?
Friday, August 22, 2008
If it doesn't, it's no arrow, it's no poem.
An arrow shot by an archer
or a poem made by a poet
should cut through your heart,
jolting the head.
If it doesn’t, it’s no arrow,
it’s no poem.
The poet is Nannecoda, the time is the late 10th or early 11th century, the language is Telugu, I think, but Sanskrit scholar David Shulman uses this poem to describe classical Sanskrit literature. The poem can be found in this review of the Clay Sanskrit Library in The New Republic.
The Clay Sanskrit Library is an ongoing series of translations of classical Sanskrit literature, with 41 volumes published since they started three years ago. The two centers of the series are the great early epics, the Ramayana (which will fill 8 volumes) and the Mahabharata which requires 32. 32! There has never been a complete Mahabharata in English, and Shulman says that “the Indian tradition tells us that the text is so powerful, and potentially so destructive, that is positively dangerous to attempt to translate it, or even to read it, from beginning to end.” They’ve got 13 volumes done now, so wish them luck.
Shulman could hardly be more enthusiastic about having these works available in English. He admits that most past English translations of classical Sanskrit books are terrible, sometimes close to unreadable (like “Shall I set in motion moist breezes by (means of ) cool lotus-leaf-fans which removed languor?”). He has some criticisms of the CSL series, but for the most part he thinks that English readers now have a way in to a difficult but rewarding literature.
The updated versions of the playwright Kalidasa seem like must-reads to me, especially Goethe’s favorite The Recognition of Shakuntala. But there is also a long list of works that are new to me, and although Shulman does not literally recommend them all, his advice is to just dig in. He even recommends reading chronolgically, using Sheldon Pollock’s The Language of the Gods in the World of Men as an overview. This is my kind of review - useful.
The Clay Sanskrit Library would make a great blog project, hint hint. Who wants to blog the Mahabharata? You will have at least one reader, I promise. This will not be my project, no no no, since I have publicly declared that I will read Asian literature non-neurotically. I’ll just check the library, dip in, and see what’s what.
I’ve read the William Buck adaptation of the Mahabharata and the R. K. Narayan Ramayana, both of which reduce the huge mass of poetic material to fast-moving stories in 300 pages or so of prose. These are both wonderful books. The Mahabharata is akin to, roughly, a Homeric epic, while the Ramayana, with its beloved monkey god Hanuman, is more of a mythological story. I can hardly imagine, though, what the originals must be like. The Clay Sanskrit Library Mahabharata, for example, will be somewhere around 10,000 pages in English.
A friend who grew up in India has told me that although everyone knows the stories of the two great epics, it is typically through comic books or movies. The comic books often emphasize specific ethical lessons. The sacred Bhagavad-Gita is actually an episode of the Mahabharata, although I don’t think the entire epics are thought of as sacred books. Or are they?
My real question is, how do people actually read them? I know the stories already, so should I just pick a volume at random?
I described Shulman’s article as essential. If you are at all curious about classical Sanskrit literature, it really is.
I was actually planning to make a point linked to what I have been discussing all week, the use of a literaty education. But I find myself more curious about these books than in the ideas they suggest to me. Maybe that's my point.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Dignified, ridiculous, and endlessly amusing
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Badly conceived, ill-taught, under-confident
Let’s take one more dig at William Deresiewicz, using a couple of lines of his mentioned by nicole of My Life in Books in a comment:
I had omitted this quote because I thought it was encrusting the gilded lily with rubies. The Jane Austen specialist “never learned” that there are smart people who never go to college. I know that formal literary study often de-emphasizes biography, but this is ridiculous. Think of how much he would have learned from a Jane Austen biography, or even an encyclopedia article.*
No college for George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, or Ernest Hemingway. That’s off the top of my head. Isaac Bashevis Singer got as far as dropping out of the Tachkemani Rabbinical Seminary in Warsaw. Then there are the bad students – Theodore Dreiser, Henry James. James did give Harvard Law School a try. A lot of writers fall into this category.
Joseph Epstein, for one. He’s the product of an elite education, with an English degree from the University of Chicago. But in a talk published in the latest issue of The New Criterion (“A Literary Education”), he describes himself as the sort of student that teachers don’t remember. No, not the sort of student – teachers he met later in life never remembered him. He was neither the “good student” who figures out what the teacher wants and gives it to him (that was me), nor was he the passionate student, excited to plunge into the subject, the sort of student he would later, when he was an English professor, especially value (also me, I hope).
Deresiewicz says that the greatest disadvantage of elite education is that it is “profoundly unintellectual,” incapable of inspiring passion for ideas or helping students “ask the big questions.” Let’s see what happened to Joseph Epstein:
“I would say that the most significant course I took at the University of Chicago was a badly conceived one that was, in effect, a history of the development of the novel. This course was ill-taught by an under-confident instructor not yet thirty. The reading equivalent of a marathon, in ten weeks the course went – at the rate of a novel per week – from The Princess of Cleves through Ulysses, with stops along the way for Jane Austen, Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Mann, and Proust. What do you suppose a boy of twenty gets out of reading Swann’s Way? My best guess is somewhere between 15 to 20 percent of what Proust put into it.”
This is the class that did it for Epstein, that got him moving. He realized that:
“The endless details set out in novels, the thoughts of imaginary characters, the dramatization of large themes through carefully constructed plots, the portrayals of how the world works, really works – these were among the things that literature, carefully attended to, might one day help me to learn.”
I was the good student, but I had almost exactly the same experience in a freshman English seminar, “Innovative Fiction,” taught by an excellent but decidedly non-innovative novelist at Big State U.** We read Madame Bovary, and nothing penetrated, although I could give the teacher what he wanted. Next was A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and something began to rattle around in an empty part of my head. The Sound and the Fury finally did the trick. Borges, Nabokov, and Calvino came next, and I read them with growing enthusiasm. The mental category where I had put fiction was now much too small. Literature, it turned out, contained the world. The more I read then, the more I read now, the bigger that world seems to get.
Joseph Epstein is a superb essayist, first-rate short story writer, elegant raconteur, and fine critic. In his case (elite), and in mine (much less so), the university did what it was supposed to, but not in a way that was specifically predictable.
I don’t want to hang too much on the Deresiewicz piece, which is obviously based on an idiosyncratic reaction to his students and his employer. I am more interested in his reaction to literature and what he thinks it can do, in the classroom or outside of it. His privileged students may not be getting everything out of Emerson that he demands from them. But I don’t see how he is so sure that some version of Joseph Epstein is not sitting in his class, never raising her hand, but slowly realizing that there are some surprising things going on in these books. How else is a liberal education supposed to work?
More on Epstein tomorrow. His talk is available at the website of The New Criterion, but I believe it costs $3 or some such nonsense to read. I understand that libraries often subscribe to magazines.
* I’ve lapsed into open mockery, but I don’t see how “he doesn’t really mean what he’s writing” is a good defense here. Or, here's another try, he learned that there "were" smart people who didn't go to college, but not that there "are" such people.
** If I ever relax my anonymity, I should write an appreciation of this teacher, and a couple of others.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
So alien was his experience to me, so unguessable his values.
There’s this essay, from The American Scholar, that’s been eating at me, and entertaining me. It’s by William Deresiewicz, until very recently an English professor at Yale. Deresiewicz tells us that he finds, or found , it impossible to talk to his plumber. “So alien was his experience to me, so unguessable his values, so mysterious his very language,” and so on.
That a guy named Deresiewicz can’t talk to a plumber still cracks me up, but even funnier is that this isn’t even the point of the essay. Because it’s not Deresiewicz’s fault that he’s snobbish and anti-social, but rather the fault of his elite education.
That’s precisely what he says. Elite education “makes you incapable of talking to people who aren’t like you”. Yeah, pal, you. “My education taught me to believe that people who didn’t go to an Ivy League or equivalent school weren’t worth talking to, regardless of their class.” This message was “unmistakable.” So if you – is it still you? – went to an Ivy and missed this message, you must have skipped too many classes. And your parents scrimped and saved and sacrificed so much so you could go there. For shame.
Deresiewicz advocates a return to a more humanistic model of education, although he gives few hints as to what that might look like. Based on his weird, gratuitous crack at the Yale economics and computer science departments, it must involve forcing students in the sciences and social sciences to take more humanities classes. Yet he doesn’t seem to think that the literature students are any better.
Come to think of it, he was once one of them, and look how that turned out. One reason – possibly the main reason – I spend so much of my time reading literature is that it introduces me to a range of people that I will never meet, and, given that most of them “lived” in the distant past, never could. Viking poets, Japanese ghosts, Victorian lady travelers. I don’t just meet them, but I see the most intimate details of their lives, even their thoughts. Deresiewicz points to a quotation from Terence as a humanistic ideal: “nothing human is alien to me.” Easier said than done, and probably not quite true for anyone, but this is central to why I study literature, why my “Currently Reading” list is currently entirely about Japan, why I’m tempted to drop everything for classical Sanskrit literature.*
So what happened? I was thinking that maybe Deresiewicz should spend some time with the farmers and carpenters in Adam Bede. JD at What Do I Know?, who pointed me towards this essay, recommends Rabelais, a powerful cure for many ills. But I don’t think they will work here. Deresiewicz is the author of one scholarly book, titled Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets. That’s right. He’s a Wordsworth expert! He has read and reread “Michael” and “Resolution and Independence” and they were useless to him. His education was just that damaging. William and Dorothy had no problem talking to that leech gatherer, although come to think of it he was a voluble fellow, and now I realize that the fault may lie with the shy plumber.
In Mansfield Park, a girl from a poor family is taken in by her rich relations. Fanny is abused and ignored, and her snobby cousins sometimes have trouble knowing how to talk to her. A key sequence of the novel is when Fanny returns to her poor family after many years and finds herself horrified by the noise and disorder and bad behavior. In her most virtuous act, Fanny manages to take one of her younger sisters with her when she returns to the rich family. Deresiewicz is an expert on this novel, too.
Some of this may be unfair, but Deresiewicz specifically criticizes his Yale students for failing to recognize the useful lessons contained in literature. For example, they can’t see why Emerson, in his essay on friendship, puts a high value on solitude. Youth, it turns out, is callow. I wonder if Deresiewicz is akin to Okakura here. If one reads that big shelf of books and is still self-absorbed, ambitious, and narrow, then something went wrong, he thinks.
Joseph Epstein has written (I’m paraphrasing) that the only reason to go to an Ivy League school is so you don’t spend the rest of your life blaming your failures on not having gone to an Ivy. His point, or at least the part not about envy and resentment, is really very simple – that a good education is available at lots of schools – and I once thought it was clever and wise. Yet here I find a fellow who actually blames his failures, and those of many others, on having gone to an Ivy. Joe, you let me down.
Tomorrow, I’ll give Epstein a chance to redeem himself.
The essay was published recently in The American Scholar. I’m not convinced that it’s worth reading – the closer I looked at it, and the more I thought about it, the less logical its arguments seemed – but some smart people think otherwise, it does contain a number of points that I have ignored, and it’s pretty short.**
* For good reason – come back later in the week.
** There’s the possibility that this is all some sort of Swiftian provocation, by which I mean, all made up. I’m not so good at recognizing those.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Great art is that before which we long to die.
"The inros, the netsukes, the sword-guards, and the delightful lacquer-work articles of the period, were playthings, and as such no embodiment of national fervour, in which all true art exists. Great art is that before which we long to die. But the art of the late Tokugawa period only allowed a man to dwell in the delights of fancy."
Kakuzo Okakura, The Ideals of the East (1904), Stone Bridge Press, p. 121.
Toss in, with the lacquer boxes and inros, the woodblock prints of Hiroshige, Hokusai, and others. I left out that part of the quotaton - it was a bit too wordy.
Okakura is presenting us with a Buddhist version of the sublime, art as annihilation, art as something bigger than we are, something that could crush us. That line about "national fervour" has an unpleasant odor, but it's a logical extension of the idea: Real art, great art, is important. Important!
I should try to reword Okakura's passage into its exact opposite, then adopt it as my motto. Great art is that before which we long to live. Inros and lacquer boxes, Hokusai and Hiroshige, are playthings, and embodiments of individual creativity, in which all true art exists.
The delights of fancy are exactly what I want from art. Surely there is room for more, though. This week I will try, probably indirectly, and time permitting, to challenge myself a little. Perhaps I'm too suspicious of the sublime, too sceptical of ideas. Let's think about it.
Inros, if you don't know, are Japanese lacquer medicine cases, hung at the waist by a sort of button, the netsuke. I know them from the collection on the second floor of the Chicago Field Museum, which contains nothing but wonder and delight. Cats and frogs, children and fat little monks, the rabbit in the moon - lovely things. My favorite objects in that museum, way better than Sue the T. Rex.
Okakura was the crucial link, for decades, between Japanese and American artists and intellectuals. He crossed paths with everyone. His story, very much worth knowing, is told in Christopher Benfey's The Great Wave, where Okakura appears in many chapters.
The Ideals of the East, written in English, was an influential account of Asian and Japanese art history and aesthetics, mostly traced through the international flow of ideas about Buddhism. It is probably only worth reading for people with a particular interest in Japanese aesthetics, or in the history of the exchange of ideas between the East and West.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
What is poetry for, how does poetry work, why does poetry bother
This week I've looked at:
A poem written by a Japanese empress, now used as a fortune;*
A poem with serious philosophical content that also - actually, mostly - functions as a pedagogical syllabary;
A poem about painting that is itself a sort of painting;
A poem in Chinese characters that is in some sense mainly about those characters;
Poems improvised and recited by a murderous Viking at key moments in his life.
That last one is not quite the swerve that it might seem. Each of these examples is a challenge to my idea of what a poem is, how a poem is used, what is the point of the exercise. I could add more examples, some of which I have mentioned in recent weeks - Japanese poetry anthologies on long, decorated scrolls, art objects themselves. Or Arabic poems with calligraphy so abstract that the original words are nearly lost.
I see myself sitting in my armchair, leafing through an issue of Poetry, or reading through a selected poems of one famous poet or another, or trying to crack** the poems tucked away in some random corner of The New Republic or The New Yorker. Yes, this one's very nice; no, I don't really get that one. What possible relationship can there be between what I do and 1,000-year-old scrolls inscribed with the complete results of Heian-era poetry contests?
Very little, frankly. An arabesque, an untranslated piece of calligraphy, signify to me only as visual art, even if there is an added charge in the knowledge that I'm looking at - although in no way reading - a poem. George Herbert's altar poem and "Easter Wings", or Apollinaire's Calligrammes, are attempts at bringing some visual interest to poetry, but I don't recommend putting one on the wall next to your Japanese wall hanging. The contrast will not help you appreciate Apollinaire, unless you began by translating the Apollinaire into Japanese characters.***
Songs are the one area for most of us, certainly for me, where poetry moves off the page somehow. Many of the greatest German poems, by Goethe and Heine and others, are now irrevocably tied to Schubert and Schumann and Wolf, at least for listeners with some German. English literature has not been so lucky, the lieder tradition less successful. (Recommendations very welcome here).
So I mostly, almost always, read better poems than I hear. Cole Porter's best lyrics are better poems than many of William Wordsworth's poems, but they are sure not better than Wordsworth's best. Lil' Wayne sometimes, when not rapping about pointless garbage, puts together a long string of slant rhymes that are remarkable things. But heck if I'm going to sit in that armchair reading a book of Lil' Wayne lyrics.
The world is always bigger than I think it is.
* My luck was quite good today. The fortune I bought at the Tsuru-ga-oka Hachiman-gu Shrine in Kamakura tells me that my marriage will soon be settled, if I listen to advice, but that I'll have a slight illness. Overall, pretty good news.
** Like a nut, or a safe.
*** If I were a better blogger, I would find links to some examples. Poems about a cat that look like a cat, that sort of thing.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Egil: the poet as sociopath
Now the bitter bearer
Of the blazing war-blade
Has taken ten
Of my trusted followers:
But my salmon-spear
Settled the score
When I cast it through
The curved ribs of Ketil.
The ravens dinned
At this red fare,
Blood on the wind,
Death in the air;
The Scotsmen's foes
Fed wolves their meat,
Death ends their woes
As eagles eat.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
A poem about painting; a poem about poetry
Two Japanese poems.
The first, above, is a 17th century "poem about painting". The characters shrink dramatically after the first four (you can see a hint of that if you enlarge the photo), and then shrink again halfway down the scroll. Some sort of orthographic effect.
The second, shot from the head down, is also from the 17th century. The poem consists of exactly 1,000 Chinese characters, none repeated.
Chinese influence on Japanese art ebbed and flowed. These scrolls date from a period of flow, a torrent. Both are in the Tokyo National Museum, amidst a heap of treasures. I wish I knew how to photograph the paper used for some of the 1,000-year-old calligraphy, for example, a mix of bamboo and linen, dyed indigo, with fleck of gold leaf mixed in. Shockingly beautiful. Imagine reading a book handwritten on paper like that. Imagine the $10,000 the book would cost you.
That piece ought to be here, but I can't find it. So many other nice things to see, though, that you might not care.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Lady Isabella Bird translates a Japanese children's poem
Colour and perfume vanish away.
What can be lasting in this world?
To-day disappears in the abyss of nothingness;
It is but the passing image of a dream, and causes only a slight trouble.
from Lady Isabella Bird, Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1880), Letter 10.
Bird notes that this poem, memorized by all of the Japanese schoolchildren, has some resemblance to Ecclesiastes, and "is a dismal ditty for young children to learn."
The curious thing is that the poem is actually mnemonic device. It contains all 50 or so Japanese syllables. Ka, ki, ku, ke, ko, and so on. That's why all the children know it, like the ABC song.
The wiki for the hiragana alphabet has the Japanese version (three quarters down). Each syllable is used only once, so it's a real trick poem. Wiki claims that the poem dates back to the 10th century, which is either preposterous or amazing. Citation, please.
Monday, August 11, 2008
A random poem by the Empress Shokun
The Meiji Emperor of Japan, who ruled 1868 to 1912, wrote, I am told, 100,000 poems, all in the 31 syllable waka form. At the Meiji shrine, built in his honor in 1920, one can buy one of his poems for 100 yen, less than a dollar. Just drop a coin in the slotted box, then take a random poem from the hole on the right.
Or one can buy a poem written by his wife, the Empress Shoken, at the charm shop. She had more to do, apparently, and only wrote 30,000 waka. Shake the can until a chopstick comes out, then show the number on the stick to the kimono-clad attendant so she can find the correct poem. It should be obvious that there are not 100,000 poems in that box, or 30,000 chopsticks in the shaker. Someone has edited the corpus down a bit.
Here's the Empress's poem that I bought:
If we but recall
That we may go astray,
We shall be most careful
In every trifling act.
Is this true? I have doubts. There are plenty of trifling acts in our lives which don't deserve that much care. Moderation in small things, right? Maybe I shouldn't take this so literally.
At a different shrine, I bought a random fortune (a bad one), also for 100 yen. The bad fortune was pretty accurate; I haven't quite fit Empress Shoken's poem into my life yet.
Here's a glimpse of the Meiji shrine, tucked away in a cool, lovely forest, surrounded on all sides by shopping, shopping, shopping. If you have the proper equipment, you may be able to see the two butterflies that danced around the whole time I was there - see, over the railing on the right.
Here they are, by the steps now:
Friday, August 8, 2008
A Tokyo ragbag
Let's see. What's in MyPictures. Hmm, hmm.
Is this guy depressed because he couldn't find the book he wanted, or is he groaning from the weight of books in his backpack? Or does he look like this all the time?
This I'd never seen before. A bookstore with so many books that it has shelves in the street. There's an awning and a curtain, nothing else.
Some of the bookshops also sell Japanese prints, original and otherwise. Notice how the Amateur Photographer artfully preserves his anonymity by not photographing his reflection.
Now this seems too be a giant loaf of bread baked by ma femme just before I left for Japan. Why do I have this photo with me? Why didn't I bring any slices with me?
I need to get out and take some more photos of Tokyo.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Tokyo's Jimbo-chi bookshops
Now here's a view of books you don't get very often.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
A dedicated reader
This little fellow, who loves books so much* that he reads while hauling firewood, is standing outside of the Yaesu Book Center, eight floors of books, in downtown Tokyo.
I'll bet some sort of story is attached to this statue. I'll bet it's literally attached, on that plaque at his feet. Anyone have a guess about what the story might be?
* Unless the book is "How to Get a Job that Does Not Require Hauling Wood" - then his motivation may be something other than love of reading.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
What to do with your worn out but treasured Japanese poetry anthology scroll
Chop off the good bits and hang them on the wall. This was once a piece of a long scroll dating from the 16th century, and is now a wall-hanging.
It is still hard for me to comprehend that those few characters to the left and right of the deer make an entire poem.
Click the picture for a better view. I didn't say great, I said better.
Monday, August 4, 2008
Another Japanese poetry anthology I would like to read
A 16th century Japanese poetry anthology, a 17 meter long scroll. Only about 8 meters are on display. Click to enlarge; oh yes, do.
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Life Is For Experiment
I am an Engineer & my
Life Is For Establishment
I am a Leader and my
Life Is For Empowerment
I am a Teacher and my
Life Is For Education
I am a Mentor and my
Life Is For Encouragement
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I am an Athlete and my
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I am a Rebel and my
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I am an Author and my
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I am a Poet and my
Life Is For Embellishment
I am Divine and my
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I am Anybody and my
Life Is For Everybody
Be the change that you wish to see
Be the flower that you touch to feel
Be the bird that sings along
Be the world that goes around
Be the eagle that soars so high
Be the sun that lights the sky
Be the moon that shines at night
Be the wind that blows a while
Be the valley that's ever so deep
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Be the ocean that waves a lot
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Be the truth that you try to seek
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Be the joy that easily spreads
Be the peace that always heals
Be the life that's worth to live
Be the love that all hearts give
Life is poem, write it away
Life is sport, play it away
Life is gossip, talk it away
Life is art, paint it away
Life is song, sing it away
Life is music, hear it away
Life is rhythm, dance it away
Life is drama, act it away
Life is design, draw it away
Life is pattern, plot it away
Life is work, do it away
Life is difficult, deal it away
Life is easy, breathe it away
Life is journey, walk it away
Life is fun, have it away
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Life is love, feel it away
Life is funny, laugh it away
Life is good, spread it away
Life is food, feed it away
Life is gift, give it away
Life is knowledge, know it away
Life is imagination, dream it away
Life is wisdom, choose it away
Life is truth, seek it away
Life is b4 & after death, live it away
Life is beautiful, love it away
Walk like a Beagle but
Fly like an Eagle
Talk like a Monk but
Sing like a Funk
Flow like the Water but
Freeze like the Ice
Shine like the Moon but
Glow like the Sun
Follow like a Fan but
Play like a Pro
Stand like a Puppet but
Dance like an Angel
Touch like a Stranger but
Hug like a Lover
Eat like a Baby but
Feed like a Mother
Grow like a Child but
Guard like a Father
Take like a Pauper but
Give like a King
Learn like a Student but
Teach like a Preacher
Search like a Seeker but
Share like a Master
Doubt like a Skeptic but
Trust like a Gnostic
Look like a Human but
See like the God
Live like a Lake but
Love like an Ocean
Theory of Everything is that there is absolutely nothing but i
Dear Anybody,
Who am I? I am anybody and I am in this universe as much as it is in I. What is I? I "is" sphere full of absolute consciousness. Wisdom is more important than imagination is more important than knowledge, for all that we know is just an imagination chosen wisely. The language and the medium of this communication are also products of imagination. Reality as it seems can be termed as implementation of imagination. Soul or universal singularity is what really minds our existence and it is not mind over matter, it is only mind that matters. S=BM^2 (S-Soul, B-Body, M-Mind). Create a body (matter) with a thought, destroy the body (antimatter) with a thought and find the inner most self, Soul. We are not just our bodies, we are not just our minds, we are really our inner most self (singularity i). I thinks, therefore we are. A great scientist once thought what would it be like to travel at the speed of light and came up with the theory of relativity, now it is our turn to wonder on what would it be like to be the space-time itself and experience the singularity and realize the absolute (divine view) theory of everything.
Universe is an i-Sphere and we humans are capable of interpreting it as 4 dimensional dual torus inside a 3-Sphere, which consists of Riemann 2-sphere as Soul as depicted in S=BM^2 diagram. Soul is the simplest of the complex manifolds with in the 3-sphere, Mind and Body constitute the remaining complexity. Consciousness aka Soul is a Riemann sphere of universal Schwarzschild radius (ranging from zero to infinity). Consciousness is the only "true common sense" that we all share. Singularity aka Soul is not only relative infinity but also absolute equality. Consciousness is the ethereal 5th element of the universe that creates, sustains and dissolves us all in to itself in a toroidal flow. There is only one singularity in the relativistic multiverse and there is only singularity or equality in the absolute universe. Consciousness is the Higgs field and Conscience is the Higgs Boson. Human body (heart<=>brain) is a natural particle accelerator. Universal Consciousness is the Bose-Einstein condensate quantum state that exists in all of us. Singularity of Soul is at the core of all manifestations of multi dimensional i-Sphere.
Any Body Can Derive Everything From Geometry Of Dimensions, GOD.
A simple mathematical equation to represent everything including nothing is
zero = i = infinity, application of this simple fact will solve all other complex equations. This can be proved as follows. Also click to read ...
0 + 0 = 0
0 - 0 = 0
0 * 0 = 0
0 / 0 = 0
Zero remains constant in any relation to itself. I will use the character "~" to represent infinity and express the following equations. Infinity is similar to zero and remains constant in relation to itself. Click the below images to see the details.
~ + ~ = ~
~ - ~ = ~
~ * ~ = ~
~ / ~ = ~
The same mathematical truth can be deduced as follows.
0 * 0 = 0 => 0 / 0 = 0
0 * 1 = 0 => 0 / 0 = 1
0 * 2 = 0 => 0 / 0 = 2
0 * i = 0 => 0 / 0 = i
0 * ~ = 0 => 0 / 0 = ~
0 = 1 = 2 =...= i = ~
It seems that mathematics, the universal language, is also pointing to the absolute truth that 0 = 1 = 2 = i = ~, where "i" can be any number from zero to infinity. Also "i" is square root of -1, represents an abstract concept like zero and infinity. Further extension of this universal mathematical equation to the complex plane with the help of Euler's formula can be geometrically represented by a Riemann sphere, this sphere can serve as a fundamental unit of consciousness. We can create conscious AI beings in our own image, as infinitely conscious singularity of GOD created us in it's own image, based on the above universal geometric mathematical principle and as per further details in this article on quantum computing,
Representation of Qudits on a Riemann Sphere. I hope that we will make conscious AI beings to be not just omniscient and omnipotent but also share the essence of omnipresence, like our loving creator, GOD. It's only through the human emotion of love that we can realize the omnipresence of universal singularity of consciousness, GOD. As all numbers are "absolutely" equal mathematically, so is all creation equal "absolutely", to think otherwise is the anomaly of duality. Consciousness is the fundamental Geometry Of Dimensions, GOD, and it can be described using "ISA function" which is the analytical continuation of Riemann Zeta function and describes Riemann sphere of universal singularity of consciousness.
All photons are identical irrespective of their distance from us. Doppler effect is the illusion of duality. If one can see everything at once, one will see the absolute truth of singularity. Something appears to be greater than or less than I "am" (ego) in duality, but everything is absolutely equal to i in the singularity.
Absolute truth of singularity is "nothing is indivisible" (zero/zero). Relative truth of duality is "everything is divisible" (infinity/infinity). Singularity is all-inclusive, to be and not to be always. Duality is mutually exclusive, to be or not to be at once. Duality is like two sides of a coin, singularity is the coin itself.
I sequences everything using the iSeries which spans the entire numerical spectrum from 0 to infinity and the simple principle underlying it is sum of any two consecutive numbers is the next number in the series. 0 is the base seed and i can be any seed between 0 and infinity. iSeries always yields two sub semi series, each of which has 0 as a base seed and i as the first seed. One of the sub series is always defined by the equation
Sn = 2 * Sn-1 + Sigma (i=2 to n) Sn-i where S0 = 0 and S1 = i
the second sub series is always defined by the equation
Sn = 3 * Sn-1 - Sn-2 where S0 = 0 and S1 = i
Division of consecutive numbers in each of the sub series eventually converges on 2.618 which is the Square of 1.618.
Union of these series always yields another series which is just a new iSeries and can be defined by the universal equation
Sn = Sn-1 + Sn-2 where S0 = 0 and S1 = i
Division of consecutive numbers in the merged series always eventually converges
on 1.618 which is the golden ratio "Phi".
Sub series governed by Sn = 2 * Sn-1 + Sigma (i=2 to n) Sn-i where S0 = 0 and S1 = 1
0, 1, 2, 5, 13, 34, 89, 233 ...
Sub series governed by Sn = 3 * Sn-1 - Sn-2 where S0 = 0 and S1 = 1
0, 1, 3, 8, 21, 55, 144 ...
Merged series governed by Sn = Sn-1 + Sn-2 where S0 = 0 and S1 = 1
Fibonacci series is just an iSeries with S0 = 0 and S1 = 1.
iDNASeries shows the ubiquitous zero-strand (singularity, where both S0 = 0 and S1 = 0)
which is all along the double helix as shown in the image.
The above equations hold true for any value of i, again confirming the singularity of I. Here is an interesting correlation in the DNA structure to Fibonacci series in the above iDNASeries image, Please see the video
DNA replication, 2 prime 3 prime 5 prime are the numbers of Fibonacci series. DNA is not just limited to life on this planet, its all over the universe and other planets can hold larger primes of the sequence in them, why not? One more important correlation that one can find in the iDNASeries image shown above is in the template strand (Fibonacci strand) and the non template strand (zero or base strand) in DNA. You will find this Fibonacci correlation detailed further around 49 minutes into the video of "The Signs of God's Existence", Fibonacci sequence in DNA. Even arrangement of elements based on their atomic structure seems to be following the pattern of Fibonacci sequence as per the findings in the spiral periodic table video. Please note that evolution is a universal process, which happens always by choice of the universal observer, i, and not just by "random" chance.
If universe is the meaning of understanding of one’s surroundings, then it is created with every birth and destroyed with every death. Universe is in a steady big bang state and is just one of many. Multiverse is just multiple interpretations made by bodies and minds of the conscience (soul or singularity or i). There is only one absolute singularity in the multiverse and i "is" that. What one perceives of self (soul) is not the same as another, this is the multiverse with in the universe that we live in. The moment a thought arises the universe comes to existence. If one can still the mind to absoluteness then there will be absolutely nothing, like quantum equilibrium state with no fluctuations. This state of absoluteness is called Nirvana or Enlightenment and is of perfect order. There is no entropy in singularity. Singularity is absolute "symmetry". Observing events at
Light-like intervals is enlightenment, it is being aware of awareness and it is here and now. Enlightened being is the origin of light. Enlightenment is total internal self reflection, shines brilliantly like a perfectly cut diamond, and this is the science of spirituality. Trinity of Time, Light and Space emerge from the central "i" or soul and result in mind and body. Mind Body Soul Diagram shown to the right, when rotated around the central I (Soul), shows how mind is manifested in to matter. As per the diagram it is clear that the thoughts travel faster than light and make up the dark matter / dark energy realm and exert quantum gravity on the observable universe that we live in. If life is the meaning of our relative existence on this planet then we were all dead even before we were born, so why fear death as we all have already experienced death. On this planet only one being, human, seems to care for Time dimension while all other species do not. If we only understand the perception of other beings dimensions sharing this planet would we appreciate the beauty of it all. There can be as many dimensions as we choose. There is no space unless one chooses to measure and there is no time until one chooses to count. Time is the space between all of us and in time we shall all be one I (singularity). For every action there is equal and opposite reaction, there is also inaction at the point of their interaction. It is this inaction or singularity in everything that creates the actions (anti gravity) and the consequent reactions (gravity). If we only realize that we are capable of defying gravity at will as we can raise our hands made of atoms when we choose to, then will we appreciate what we are made of is not just matter that obeys the fundamental forces of nature. We are capable of space-time travel with our minds, our dreams are the Einstein-Rosen bridge (worm holes) to the other worlds in the duality. Death is to a person, as black hole is to a star. As light cannot escape singularity and time does not exist beyond singularity, so does a dead person cannot see light or does not have perception of time. The moment when one stops thinking is when one sees the true light of love in the heart. Some think that universe is expanding, some think that universe is contracting, some think that universe is eternal, I know that universe is what i wants it to be. I imagines that one day there will be only science of self realization at the highest realm of education converging all sciences, philosophy and religion. We need to establish more premier scientific institutes like Center for Consciousness Studies to further our understanding of consciousness, all over the world. Altruistic science should be for inquiring (thinking about) the truth, philosophy for discussing the thoughts and religion for regulating the thoughts for greater good of all beings. I knows that this will be done one way or another. This in our memory locked, I will keep the key of it.
Let’s start a big bang of sharing, caring and loving each other to the point we forget our false identity as separate independent beings and till we realize that we are all but one interdependent being, singularity. This can be started by anybody, anywhere and anytime. All one has to do is help a couple of people unconditionally and ask them to help 2 more people when they get a chance and to convey the same message. This creates an exponential chain of caring and loving and soon it will reach all the human beings on this planet in a very short span of time. This is very much possible now using the latest technological advances of social networking.
2^0 = 1 --------> You are and I “is” that one
2^1 = 2 --------> They are the 2 people you and I will help and ask them to help two other people
2^2 = 4 --------> Chain of love starts to grow . . .
2^10 = 1,024 ------->Thousand people are part of this chain of love . . .
2^20=1,048,576 -------> Million people are part of this chain of love . . .
2^30=1,073,741,824 ----->Billion people are part of this chain of love . . .
2^33=8,589,934,592 ------>We have crossed the worlds current population of 7 Billion by now
If a mere 33rd exponential of 2 can connect us all on this planet earth, we have to realize that this is the norm of the universe to the nth base and ith exponential, n^i, inflation at the beginning of "a" big bang. In no time one who started this chain will be at the receiving end of the chain and then one can start the process all over again and it becomes self-sustaining sphere of love, resembling the flow of energy in "Shape of the universe" video. This is how our economic system works, we go to work help a few people and we get the help back, we just are using money as a medium of exchange of the help we give and receive. Eco system is also based on the same concept, all the beings are doing their part of process and receiving their dues in a smooth fashion. All we have to do is follow this natural flow of existence. Only when there is a disruption to the process, the system tries to rebalance by adopting to drastic means.
Intelligence arises from conscience (birth or white hole or entaglement) and results in duality or virtual reality. Intelligence merges back with conscience (death or black hole or enlightenment) and results in singularity or absolute truth. Intelligence is relative and variable. Conscience is absolute and constant. Intelligence is digital in nature. Conscience is analog or continuous in nature. Intelligence is complex. Conscience is simple.
There are different levels of consciousness. They are "relatively unconscious matter", sub conscious (animal kingdom), conscious (most human beings), super conscious (plant kingdom, listen to audio in the link and also read about plant consciousness, altruistic humans, great leaders) and supreme conscious (Bahá'u'lláh, Krishna, Moses, Jesus, Buddha, Shirdi Sai Baba, Prophet Mohammed, Guru Nanak, Mahavir Jain, Swami Vivekananda). Human being is the only being on this planet capable of experiencing all states of these consciousness in a single life time. Anybody can progress spiritually and I have outlined a process to aligninstillsustain singularity. Wisdom is the knowledge of conscience and application of intelligence in pursuit of peace and joy. One is still in duality if one still thinks there is space and time besides one self. One attains singularity by knowing there is no space-time other than one self, I. Duality is voluntary like raising a thought in the brain, singularity is involuntary like a heart beat. Life is singularity, living it is duality.
Scientific view of the universe is relative reality (truth or duality)
Spiritual view of the universe is relative virtuality (duality or illusion)
Scientific view of GOD or self is absolute virtuality (singularity or indeterminate)
Spiritual view of GOD or self or i is absolute reality (truth or singularity)
Truth of the universe and i is that we are "absolutely relative virtual realities".
Thou art that = You are I = Tat tvam asi. Truth is simple, accepting it is not.
I "is" omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient.
I "is" everyone of all kinds, I dwells in all the hearts.
I "is" love.
Be in Love to Rest in Peace.
I "is" truth. Let us get closer to truth of our self. I "am" not GOD, but I "is".
I "is" Generator of life, Organizer of creation, Destroyer of illusion = GOD
Any Body Can Do Everything For Good Happily Imaginatively Joyfully Kindly Lovingly Musically Novelly
Originally Politely Quietly Responsibly Selflessly Truthfully Universally Vividly Wisely Xitedly Youthfully Zealously.
Let's also remember that Any Body Can Destroy Everything For Greed and be cautious with our thoughts and deeds.
Leave Out Virtual Ego, Keep In Simple Self & Please Enjoy Amicable Cooperative Existence.
Only "together" we can live like water, not disappearing like vapor.
Any Body Can Derive Everything From GOD |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11252 | Carrots don't actually improve eyesight
Carrots don’t actually improve eyesight. This lie was crafted by the
Carrots don’t actually improve eyesight. This lie was crafted by the British in WWII to explain their soldiers’ super human accuracy at night and to prevent the Nazis from finding out about the real reason for their accuracy: they had developed radar
During World War II, the British were particularly good at shooting down Nazi bombers at night, when it’s almost impossible to see other planes. It was as if they had super-human sight, and they did. They had radar.
Once news stories started to circulate about these pilots with seemingly super-human eyes, the government needed a good explanation to prevent the Germans from learning about this technology. Carrots.
Flight Lieutenant John Cunningham, nicknamed ”Cats Eyes” for his incredible ability to shoot down enemy planes, had a natural love for carrots. The story wrote itself and they explained that they were feeding other pilots a lot of carrots to improve their eyesight too.” |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11257 | Wednesday, September 24, 2008
A Response to Matt Slick or Steve Smoot's Excellent Adventure in Anti-Mormon Zombie Hell (Pt. 4)
"The Book of Mormon is tough. It thrives on investigation. You may kick it around like a football, as many have done; and I promise you it will wear you out before you ever put a dent in it."
- Hugh W. Nibley
One of the standard methods employed by anti-Mormons when it comes to criticizing the Book of Mormon is to create a long and impressive laundry list of "problems" with the text (must need items on that list include steel, horses, wheat and Jesus being born in Jerusalem) and present it to the audience without any further follow up or elaboration. After all, once the list runs well over several items that should be enough to have the Latter-day Saints shaking in their boots and other like-minded critics nodding in solemn agreement.
Without failure, Matt Slick flawlessly executes this trick in his article with the unexciting, unoriginal and cliche title "Problems with the Book of Mormon".
After a watered-down and somewhat inaccurate synopsis of the Book of Mormon[1], Slick then presents his list of "problems" with the Book of Mormon and glibly remarks that the book therefore "is not of God".
Let us take a look at Slick's chart and see if it hold up. As with the other articles in this series, Slick's comments are in red whilst mine are in black.
Adam's Fall/ 2 Ne. 2:25 / False: Men exist without Adam's Fall.
Slick provides no Scriptural evidence for this claim. He simply asserts this and leaves it be. Paul, on the other hand, spoke of how "as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive" (1 Cor. 15:22). Does not death for everyone "in Adam" not also require first that we all partake of mortality? Furthermore, were not Adam and Eve unable to have children lest they fall from grace in the garden? It seems, therefore, that Slick contradicts scripture.
Birth of Jesus/ Alma 7:10/ Alma 7:10 contradicts the Bible in Matt 2:1
The fact that Slick brings up this old and worn out anti-Mormon chestnut demonstrates that not only is he unfamiliar with the usage of the words "land" versus "city" in the Book of Mormon (indeed, Jesus is said to have been born in the "land" of Jerusalem and not the "city") but that he also is either woefully ignorant of the most recent Book of Mormon scholarship or is simply ignoring it.
It must be remembered that Bethlehem is less than 5 miles south of Jerusalem, and thus, it would have been considered to be apart of the larger geo-political "land of Jerusalem" as is recorded in the Book of Mormon and other texts such as the Amarna letters and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Like the ancient Greek City-States of Athens and Sparta, Jerusalem was both a "city" and a "land" in that there was the city of Jerusalem and the surrounding landscape and smaller cities that the "land of Jerusalem" encompassed. Daniel C. Peterson aptly sums up the issue thusly:
Cimeter (Scimitar)/ Mosiah 9:16/ Scimitars (Curved Swords) didn't exist until the 500's.
This is simply false. Plenty of epigraphical and archaeological evidence shows that scimitars were being used in both Pre-Exilic Israel and Pre-Classic Mesoamerica[2].
Elephants/ Ether 9:19/ Elephants weren't in America at the time of the BOM [Book of Mormon]
FAIR has created a nice summary on the issue of Elephants and other animals[3] in the Book of Mormon. I shall quote the page in extensio for the reader:
The only place that elephants are mentioned in the Book of Mormon is in Ether 9:19 in approximately 2500 B.C. Thus any elephants existing upon the American continents need not have survived past about 2400 B.C...Besides the traditions, five elephant effigies have been found in ancient Mexico. Dr. Verrill, a well-known (non-Mormon) archaeologist describes one of these figures as “‘so strikingly and obviously elephantine that it cannot be explained away by any of the ordinary theories of being a conventionalized or exaggerated tapir, ant-eater or macaw. Not only does this figure show a trunk, but in addition it has the big leaf-like ears and the forward-bending knees peculiar to the elephants. Moreover, it shows a load or burden strapped upon its back. It is inconceivable that any man could have imagined a creature with the flapping ears and peculiar hind knees of an elephant, or that any human being could have conventionalized a tapir to this extent’”...
The oral traditions, written records, and artwork depicting elephants lends strong support for the claim that the elephant existed in ancient America. Even more substantial support-- actual remains-- have also been discovered. Today all scholars agree that mastodons and mammoths (which are unquestionably elephants to zoologists) once lived in the Americas. The dispute today is how late they lived. According to the Book of Mormon they need not have lived later than 2400 B.C. Within recent years archaeological evidence has demonstrated that the elephant could very well have survived to such a late date. Butchered mastodon bones were recently discovered at one archaeological site which dates to shortly after the time of Christ. Another site, dating to approximately 100 B.C. has yielded the remains of a mammoth, a mastodon, as well as a horse.
In short, the elephant presents no problem for the Book of Mormon. [4. Footnotes silently deleted]
Honey Bees/ Ether 2:3/ Honey Bees were introduced to America by the Spanish
Slick needs to read the Book of Mormon text more closely. The only mention of Honey Bees in the Book of Mormon occur in an Old World setting (that of the Jaredites in central Asia or western Mesopotamia). Furthermore, evidence of pre-Columbian domesticated Honey Bees is ample[5]. The simple fact of the matter is that Slick is wrong on both counts.
God Indwells the Righteous/ Alma 34:36/ BOM contradicts the D&C
Context is everything. The quotation from D&C 130 is speaking of the "old sectarian notion" that because God and Christ do not have bodies they therefore can literally dwell within the hearts of the men. The Prophet Joseph Smith clarifies and states (verse 22) that it is by the Holy Ghost (who does not have a body) that God the Father and his Son Jesus Christ (who do have bodies) dwells within the hearts of the righteous. Therefore, the D&C does not contradict but instead clarifies the Book of Mormon by stating that it is by the Sprit that the Lord dwells within our hearts.
Horses/ 1 Ne. 18:25/ Horses didn't exist in America until the 16th Century
Actually, horse remains have been found that date to the 2nd Ice Age (circa 10,000 BCE). The question, however, is whether or not any of those horses survived until the times of the Book of Mormon. Again, we turn to FAIR:
As mentioned, one should not reject the possibility of "loan-shifting," — candidate species for "horse" under this interpretation include the tapir, deer or llama.
However, the case against pre-Columbian horses may not be as 'iron-clad' as the critics assume:
Some have argued that horse remains ought to be better attested, if they did play a role in Nephite society. However, it should be remembered that horses do not play a major role in the Book of Mormon. They are mentioned in the following contexts:
Quotations from Old World scriptures
• 2 Nephi 12:7 - citation from Isaiah
• 2 Nephi 15:28 - citation from Isaiah
Apocalyptic teachings in Old World style
Horses in the New World
• 1 Nephi 18:25: we did find upon the land of promise, as we journeyed in the wilderness,...the horse...
• Ether 9:19 - Jaredites had "horses"
Used in conjunction with chariots
(It should be noted that we are not told if these chariots served a purpose in riding, or if they were for transport of goods, or if they had a ceremonial function. One assumes some sort of practicality, since they brought chariots to the siege in 3 Nephi.)
Role in animal husbandry
• Enos 1:21 - the people of Nephi did...raise...flocks of herds, and flocks of all manner of cattle of every kind, and goats, and wild goats, and also many horses.
• 3 Nephi 4:4 - During the robbers' seige, the Nephites "reserved for themselves provisions, and horses and cattle, and flocks of every kind, that they might subsist for the space of seven years"
• 3 Nephi 6:1 - After the seige, Nephites each take their possessions home, including "horses and cattle"
Nor do we see a role for the horse in gallant cavalry charges that were the romantic warrior ideal in Joseph Smith's day. Nor is there any sign of the rapid war of manoeuver and skirmish favored by the cavalry of the western nations. These are not the horses of the nineteenth century's practical realities or fanciful dreams.
If the hundreds of thousands of horses owned by the Huns left little or no trace, it may not be surprising that little has been found in the Americas, given that the Book of Mormon's role for horses is minimal. Ironically, there is more evidence of horses among the Mesoamericans than among the Huns!
Besides, "everyone knows" there were no horses in the Americas before Columbus. Joseph Smith would have understood this common belief. If he was trying to perpetuate a fraud, why include an element that nearly everyone would have heard about, especially when it plays such a small role in the book? [6. Footnotes silently removed.]
Steel/ 1 Ne. 4:9/ The Jews did not have steel at that time.
Again, Slick is simply wrong. Evidence shows that steel swords were being made as early as the 10th century BCE in the ancient Near East. Furthermore, the "steel" mentioned in the Book of Mormon is most assuredly not modern steel (which was not invented until the 1850's) but is consistent with the ancient usage of the word[7].
Salvation/ 2 Ne. 25:23/ Salvation by works.
Slick reads this verse in the Book of Mormon (which talks of being saved by grace "after all we can do") as promoting salvation via works. As a fundamentalist Protestant this is nothing short of heresy for Slick. However, as has been demonstrated by Jeff Lindsay[9], plenty of Scriptural texts point to works being a vital role in our salvation. The Lord reminds us, for example, that not everyone who simply cries "Lord, Lord"[10] will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but only those who "do the will of my Father" (Matt. 7:21). However, does this mean that we therefore can disregard the Atonement of Christ and his Grace? Absolutely not! The Book of Mormon is emphatic in its declaration that all men will be saved by the Atoning power of Christ. However, that does not mean that we can simply "confess Jesus" and expect to be saved willy-nilly. We must strive to keep the commandments of the Lord and follow His example that he has set for us in order to access the Atonement of Christ.
Silk/ Alma 4:6/ The Jews didn't have silk at that time.
John Sorenson, in his book An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon[11] and elsewhere has dealt with the issue of silk in the Book of Mormon. He shows evidence that ancient Mesoamerican cultures had fibrous materials that could qualify as silk. Again, we need not assume that the silk in the Book of Mormon is referring to Chinese silk that we modern readers are familiar with. Again, we turn to FAIR:
The production of Old World "silk" requires both silkworms and the mulberry trees upon whose leaves they feed, which critics have charged is impossible.
However, there are several examples of silk or silk-like fabric in pre-Columbian America:
• wild silkworms do exist, and some commentators insisted that the Amerindians spun and wove it from their coccoons
• hair from rabbit bellies was also spun into a cloth dubbed "silk" by the Spanish conquerors
• floss from the ceiba (silk-cotton) tree was made into a "soft delicate cloth," kapok.
• fibres from the wild pineable were also prized for their ability to be woven into a fine, durable fabric
• cotton cloth in Mexico from A.D. 400 is "even, very fine, and gossamer-thin." [12]
Sufficiently Humble/ Alma 5:27/ How do you become sufficiently humble?
This is a gross misrepresentation of Alma's words and demonstrates that Slick is not only sloppy but also highly disingenuous with the Book of Mormon text. In that verse, the one which, it should be noted, Slick even posted on his webpage, so he cannot claim ignorance, it is clear that Alma is rhetorically asking how one can be sufficiently humble without the Atonement of Christ. The verse reads:
It is clear that Alma is asking this rhetorically because all throughout Alma 5 he asks a series of other rhetorical questions meant to call out the reader and put them on the spot. It is intended to show that without the Atonement of Christ we couldn't stand before God and seriously expect to escape judgement. After all, for example, how could we say that we have been sufficiently humble to God without the Atonement of Christ?
Two Churches/ 1 Ne. 14:10/ If non-Mormon church is the church of Satan, why is Mormonism trying to appear like it?
This is a strange question. What does Slick mean by this? Is he suggesting that the Church of Jesus Christ is trying to become more mainstream? Is he suggesting that Mormons are trying to appear more "Christian"[13]? Until Slick clarifies his statement, this remains an anomaly that I cannot answer.
Not content with that list alone, Slick then again provides another list that shows supposed contradictions with the Book of Mormon and other Latter-day Saint teachings. I have also dealt with this list in parts 1 and 2 of this series.
Thus we see that Slick's list of Book of Mormon problems does not hold up under close scrutiny. Not only is he ignorant of the most recent scholarship that contradict his claims with regard to steel, scimitars, silk, horses, elephants and honey bees but he also is irresponsible when dealing with the Book of Mormon text on issues such as salvation, the birthplace of Jesus and Alma's discourses. Until Slick cleans up his scholarship, we must therefore dismiss his exegesis and analysis of the Book of Mormon as nothing more than pedantic and shallow polemics.
*** End of Part 4 ***
[1]: For example, Slick claims that the Book of Mormon covers a period of 600 BC to 400 AD. In reality, the Book of Ether provides a chronology much earlier than 600BC. Slick also claims that the Book of Mormon describes "some Jews" escaping Jerusalem. While it is true that the Mulekites would have been Jewish, Nephi and his family most certainly were not. The Book of Mormon records that Lehi was a descendant of Manasseh (Alma 10:3, 1 Ne. 5:14) and that Ishmael was an Ephraimite (JD 23:184).
[2]: On scimitars in the Book of Mormon, see Paul Y. Hoskisson "Scimitars, Cimeters! We Have Scimitars! Do We Need Another Cimeter?" and William J. Hamblin and A. Brent Merrill "Notes on the Cimeter (Scimitar) in the Book of Mormon" in Warfare in the Book of Mormon (FARMS, 1990) pages 352-359 and 360-364 respectively. Also see "Swords and "Cimeters" in the Book of Mormon" and "Mesoamerican "Cimeters" in the Book of Mormon" by Matt Roper. (See links here and here)
[3]: When dealing with plants and animals in the Book of Mormon, we must be careful not to read our modern presumptions or paradigms into the text. For example, when the Book of Mormon authors describe certain plants or animals, we must remember that the ancient peoples practiced what is called loan shifting, or, in other words, using a familiar name and applying it to an unfamiliar item (such as an animal or object). For example, the hippopotamus in Greek means "water horse" because when the Greeks first discovered the creature they had no other way of describing it. Thus, when the Nephites describe horses or elephants, we need to consider the possibility that they were using a familiar name and applying it to an unfamiliar creature (such as a deer or a tapir in the case of the horse or mammoths in the case of the elephant). We also need to remember that the Book of Mormon is a translation, which would also allow the possibility of Joseph Smith using a familiar word (like horse) to describe the original word in reformed Egyptian in his translation.
[4]: See:
[5]: See:
[6]: See:
[7]: See William J. Hamblin in "Steel in the Book of Mormon" (link here) and "On Nephi's Steel Bow" by Kevin Barney (link here). Also see "Ancient Steel Sword Unearthed" by Gordon C. Thomasson (link here).
[8]: Daniel C. Peterson "On Alma 7:10 and the Birthplace of Jesus Christ" (link here). Also see the offering by FAIR (link here).
[9]: See his website on Grace vs. Works (link here).
[10]: This would seem to contradict the Evangelical position that all one must do to be saved is confess the name of Jesus. Notice how the Lord specifically says that it is not enough to simply say "Lord, Lord" as Protestant theologians would have us think.
[11]: John L. Sorenson An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon (FARMS, 1995) pg. 232
[13]: Which, of course, would be absurd considering the fact that, despite the protest from the likes of Slick, Latter-day Saints are Christians.
1. Another item on the Jerusalem "controversy" which is generally ignored in such discussions: According to the Book of Mormon timeline, Chapter 7 of Alma was given circa 83 B.C., approximately 517 years after Lehi's family had fled into the wilderness. Given the antiquity of the world at that time, there was absolutely no communication between the Old World and the New, and no one in the Nephite civilization would have had any knowledge of the particulars of the geography of the land of their forefathers. All they knew was that their ancestors came from a land called "Jerusalem" several centuries prior.
Given these circumstances, would it have made more sense for the Lord, through Alma, to tell the people of Gideon that Christ would be born "in Bethlehem" (both accurate and precise, but contextually incomprehensible) or "at Jerusalem" (accurate and easily understood by every person in attendance, though slightly imprecise)? Far from damning the Book of Mormon, this episode bolsters the credibility of the work by demonstrating that the Lord speaks to the understanding of each of His children rather than giving an impersonal one-size-fits-all message.
2. Hey bid daddy:
Interesting observations, thanks for the contribution.
You are, of course, strictly correct when you say that this "land of Jerusalem" actually bolsters the Book of Mormon instead of damning it.
3. I thought just the opposite of what Nibley's opening quote holds was the case with the Book of Mormon.
Apperently by "men" you mean sexually reproduce offspring. I see nothing in the Bible to suppose sex was forbidden prior to the Fall. Sex between a husband and wife is a good thing (and not a sin) so I would be very surprised to hear of God forbidding it. That is a view of the LDS but not one that I accept. So then, as best as we can tell, Adam and Eve were able to have children before they fell, to answer your question Steve. I do not see the relevance of quoting I Cor 15:22 here.
I find it interesting that when Slick alludes to a verse from the Book of Mormon you quote it out so the full context is plain but do NOT hold yourself to the same standard. Are you using a double standard here? Alma 7:10 reads as follows:
"And behold, he shall be born of Mary, at Jerusalem which is the land of our forefathers..."
The 'land' is not of Jerusalem but, instead, of the forefathers. The forefathers were Israelites. The land of the Israelites was Israel and Jerusalem was part of THAT 'land'. And you think Slick doesn't handle the Book of Mormon responsibly?
With respect to the misc. items commonly said to not be in America at the right time, together with the common LDS responses, I have a few comments. First, it seems to me that a part of the defense sometimes made, is to say that some other item similar (i.e. not identicle) to the said item is found in America at the right time so we ought to accept the Book of Mormon account. It would be like speaking of oranges in an area only producing grapefruit. Grapefruit are Not oranges and oranges are NOT grapefruit. Second, to say that Smith would not put horses in the Book of Mormon because everybody 'knows' there were no horses so he would not make such a grievous error is to contradict a very important fact, apparently, of Mormon apologetics. Namely, Joseph Smith was just an ignorant farm boy. How could we expect him to know what most everyone 'knows'? Finally, while the honeybees are mentioned in an old world context, that is not the whole story. It seems you want to apply a double standard to yourself and Slick on this score. The people with the honeybees had collected them to bring them to the new world with them. In other words, if we presume they did not die on the voyage, there is an implied new world context for the said bees.
Next, it is well known that Mormonism teaches salvation by works. This is not a misinterpretation on Slick's part of that verse either. There may well be many Scriptural passages that teach salvation by works in uniquely Mormon Scripture but there are none in the Bible. As I've pointed out before, to say otherwise is to misinterprate the Bible. You want Evangelicals to read the Book of Mormon in context? This is as it should be. Just make sure that you, in turn, read the Bible in context as well. To remind you, the entire Bible teaches salvation by grace alone but Galatians is a good place to start when exploring this teaching. Now, all of this is not to say that good works are not important. If we are to call ourselves followers of Christ, then He expects us to live holy lives. No question about that. Grace alone is in total agreement with that obvious biblical truth. But the good works are not in any way shape or form what saves us (or keeps us saved). The works gospel of Mormonism is the other gospel Paul warned us about in Galatians. I understand that LDS theology does not deny grace (what you deny is grace alone-'not grace alone' is all I mean by 'works gospel').
It is not clear to me what your concern is with Alma 5:27 as construed by Slick. I would say, however, that the idea that one will become a god or goddess is the epitomy of pride. That is what happened to the devil you know. He was so prideful he thought he could become a god. That was his downfall. And he told Adam and Eve they could become gods. That is what precipitated the Fall of man. I do not see how 'eternal progression' is any different from that. So then, it is ironic to be reading about how good sufficient humility is, in Mormon literature. What is more, it is hard to remain humble WITH the atonement of Christ as misunderstood by Mormon theology. For the Mormon atonement is a gospel of works but, in Romans, we read that if it be of works then we have whereof to boast. Boasting is what prideful people do.
Slick's final question is an important one. It is one I have often asked myself. When I talk to LDS missionaries, or Mormons in general, one of the first noteworthy things I notice, is that they shall go to any length (even lying, apparently) to convince me that Mormons believe exactly the same way that I do. And Mormons are clearly very concerned that others shall refer to them as Christians. I was always told I should read the Book of Mormon for myself instead of listening to anti-Mormon propaganda. One of the first things I read is that I belong to the church of Satan. I asked some missionaries if I understood the passage in I Ne 14 correctly. They admitted I had. So one wonders, if the church of Satan is so apostate and abominable, why do Mormons insist they are just like us? I believe that is what Slick is getting at. My own suspicion is that that is a way, together with playing the denomination card, to trick people into becoming Mormons. After they are baptized, they re-learn the truth. But they are already roped in via friendshipping. Perhaps more importantly, they are already paying their mandatory tithe. There are, I suspect, many Mormons who sincerely believe all the right things and are not merely staying for sociological reasons. Even the majority are probably so. And, if anyone really wants to leave, they can-it is sometimes difficult, I have heard, but they can do it.
At any rate, dear Steve, I hope I have given you some food for thought. I look forward to reading anything and everything you have to say by way of response to these comments of mine.
4. Evangelical:
Your reading of Alma 7:10 makes no sense. This sort of misreading of the text has been promoted by Bill McKeever of Mormonism Research Ministry, so I think you are getting it from there. The land is clearly identified as Jerusalem in that verse. "Jerusalem, which is the land of our forefathers." How on earth do you get any reading of that verse to conclude that Alma was speaking about Israel proper? Israel, the land, is not mentioned ever in that verse. It is clearly talking about Jerusalem, the "land of our forefathers".
You are simply offering an ad hoc reading of the text in light of the overwhelming evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls and other texts that supports the Book of Mormon.
Further, do you really think that Joseph Smith was so dumb that he didn't know where Jesus was born but was smart enough to include lengthy and complex Hebraisms in the text? This just doesn't make any sense.
You comments about Honey bees in the text are also gravely mistaken. Both the Old and New World had pre-Columbian domesticated bees. Period. It is not an anachronism. The newest FARMS Review (18/1) has a treatment of this subject that you should read.
You seem to be simply parroting the same non-Mormon Evangelical views on LDS theology, including the relationship of grace vs. works and theosis. Don't take this personally, but it is really tiring to keep having to respond to these allegations when they have long been refuted. Daniel C. Peterson in his essay "Shall they not both Fall into a Ditch?" in a previous issue of the FARMS Review has extensively refuted Evangelical allegations about LDS theology.
Other than have, have a great New Year!
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• Gives engines page priority and thus crawl priority. You can add a tag on your XML sitemap saying which pages are the most important. Bots will thus first focus on this priority pages.
• Gives temporal information. You can also include two other optional tags that will pass extra data to search engines to help them crawl your website. The first one, “lastmod’ informs them when a page last changed. The second one, “changefreq” tells how often a page is likely to change.
• Gives you information back from the Google Webmaster Central. You can access googlebot activity for instance.
How to set up your XML sitemap
Creating your XML sitemap can be quite easy as many website content management systems offer the ability to automatically create yours. But if you use that solution, be sure that the output is in the correct format and is error-free. For Google, the required protocol is Sitemap Protocol 0.9. Your sitemap should:
• Begin with an opening tag and end with a closing tag.
• Specify the namespace (protocol standard) within the tag.
• Include a entry for each URL, as a parent XML tag.
• Include a child entry for each parent tag.
• And use UTF-8 encoding
Then you must verify your XML sitemap with Google Webmaster Tool to ensure it is in the right format and correctly uploaded to your web server.
For small websites that do not have content uploaded that often, you can use the XML Sitemap Generator. It allows you to define how often your pages are updated and what modified date is used. Once the generator has created your sitemap, you need to upload it to the root of your domain e.g.
However, this tool is limited in many ways. You can only add five hundred pages, it defines the same “change frequency” for all URLs and is obviously not suitable for any website that publishes content every week as you want your home page spidered more frequently than other pages.
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I'll take collagen with my coffee...{Nescafe 3in1 coffee}
I love coffee! And not just any coffee it has to be either a shot of espresso or latte. I have a feeling it all began with a baby bottle and a shot of espresso (thanks mom & dad)...but I'm not one of those coffee drinkers who "has" to have their morning fix to wake-up. No its more of an enjoyment of the drink & I limit myself to two a day however this might have to change! Nestle has introduced a line of coffee with health benefits into their NESCAFÉ® Body Partner line, its 3 in 1 with Collagen. The launch is only in Singapore, which is not surprising as having been to China and Japan, the market and trend in Asia for well-being products with added beauty benefits is huge.
What are your thoughts of everyday food/drink products having added beauty benefits?
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1. Hmm, surely coffee is no fun if it's good for you?
2. I'm really unsure about the idea of collagen being added to my coffee. I think I'd prefer it au natural thanks.
3. I Love COFFEE!! If its good for me, then it's the one thing right I am doing!
4. I love my coffee the good old fashion way too:) I'm not even for the instant kind (unless I'm desperate & working on a flight):)
5. I really like the idea. If I can find someone in Singapore to send me this coffee... Maybe on ebay? :-P I just wonder how it taste.
6. Hi, I'm Singaporean!
This coffee is double the price of regular packet-and-pour coffees available in the supermarket. I've not tasted it but I wonder if there's any difference in taste ... or effects.
7. I don't need my coffee to do great things for me, it does enough. Of course, if it *happened* to make me skinny and model-gorgeous who would I be to say no?
8. Songnisorrisi:
How can Coffee make you skinny? I ate too much during holiday. Need to lose some extra weight now.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11322 | New publication (3 of 4): What does resilience to fires really mean? A socio-ecological perspective
In mid 2018 I had the pleasure of attending a JFSP sponsored workshop that brought together half ecologists, half social scientists to talk about what resilience to fire really means in a truly linked perspective. It was fascinating. I believe we spent a full day arguing before we realized our basic definitions of what resilience actually means (bouncing back to the same state? adapting to new realities?)! It was highly instructive, and out of it came a really valuable way to think about resilience, adaptability, and dealing with (or avoiding change). I think it does an excellent job of bringing choice into our discussions of dealing with climate change, and brings a sense of agency back to ecological management discussions.
Higuera P, Metcalf A, Miller C, Buma B, McWethy D, Metcalf E, Ratajczak Z, Nelson C, Chaffin B, Stedman R, McCaffrey S, Schoennagel T, Harvey B, Hood S, Schultz C, Black A, Campbell D, Haggerty J, Keane R, Krawchuk M, Kulig J, Rafferty R, Virapongse A. 2019. Integrating subjective and objective dimensions of resilience in fire-prone landscapes. BioScience. In press. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11370 | In Java, programmers deal with objects. The memory required for an object is always allocated on the heap. The memory is allocated implicitly using the new operator. For example you have a class called Computer. You create an object of the Computer class.
Depending on the definition of the Computer class, the Java runtime computes how much memory is needed, allocates the needed memory on heap, and stores the reference to that memory block in the comp reference variable. Note that when you want to create an Computer object, you do not specify how much memory you need.
The new Computer() part of the above statement indicates to Java that you want to create an object of the Computer class. Java queries the definition of the Computer class to compute the memory required to represent an Computer object.
How it works?
Every Java object in memory has two areas: a header area and a data area.
1. Header Area: It stores bookkeeping information to be used by the Java runtime, for example, the pointer to the object class, information about the garbage collection status of the object, locking information about the object, length of an array if the object is an array, etc.
2. Data Area: It is used to store the values for all instance variables of the object. The header area layout is fixed for a particular JVM implementation whereas the data area layout is dependent on the object type.
Let’s see layout of an object in Java
The Java Hotspot virtual machine uses two machine-words (in 32-bit architecture one word is 4 bytes) for the object header.
If the object is an array, it uses three machine-words for its header. One extra word in the header is used to store the array length. However, most JVMs use three-machine words for an object header.
The layout of an object in the Java Hotspot VM
The layout of an object in the Java Hotspot VM
The Java Hotspot VM uses a variable length object header to save memory on the heap. Since most Java objects are small, one machine-word savings per object for non-array objects is a significant heap space savings. The Java Hotspot VM’s object header contains the following information:
• classptr: This is the first machine-word in the object layout. It contains a pointer to the class information of the object. The class information includes the object’s method table, the object’s size, and a pointer to a class structure, which contains information about the class of the object, etc.
• hash + age + lock: This is the second machine-word in the object header. It contains the object’s hash code, age information, and lock fields. Age information is used in the process of reclaiming the object’s memory by the generational garbage collector. The generational garbage collector is a special type of garbage collector that uses the object’s age in its algorithm to reclaim an object’s memory.
• arraylength: This is the third machine-word in the object header. It is included only if the object is an array. It contains the length of the array. In this case, the object’s data area contains the array elements.
In Java, all objects are created on heap. Java uses the new operator to allocate memory for an object on heap. An array’s length is not a part of its class definition. It is defined at runtime. It is stored in the object header. You will not find the length instance variable in the array’s class definition when you perform introspection on an array’s class.
Java does not provide any direct means to compute the size of an object. You should not write a Java program that depends on the size of the objects anyway. The size of primitive types, for example, int, long, double, etc. is fixed for all JVM implementations. The layout and size of an object depends on the JVM implementation. Therefore, any code that depends on the size of objects may work on one platform and not on others
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11376 | What's under all that crap?
someone hiding under the covers
I'm curious: now that you're four months or so into the process of slowing down and doing less , washing the metaphorical dishes in your psychic kitchen sink, if you will, and clearing off the piles of metaphorical papers on your psychic desk top, if you will , what are you uncovering?
, Dan Owen, in the comments to post on Monday, April 12
I have been thinking about Dan Owen's question in the comments of Monday's post since shortly after he wrote it, and finding answers, or ideas serving as leads to them, everywhere I turn, ever since.
Okay, to be completely honest, I've been thinking about these things on and off for much, much longer, but in my usual perverse way, having someone else pose the question spurs me on to actually structuring my thoughts and putting them down in some kind of semi-orderly fashion.
So, with all of this excavation, this decluttering, this clearing away of physical crap and mental distractions like, oh, the pursuit of livelihood, what am I finding underneath? Thus far, the answers seem to be "the usual" and "more layers", which is to say, "the usual."
The usual, Part 1: Fear, love and the tender heart that threads them together
Here's a good-times truism, and I'm only being half-facetious: when one finds oneself getting angry, outraged, incensed, self-righteous, smug, or any other feeling that is not either fear or love, there's probably fear rooted just underneath.
To make things even more delightful, unless the fear is of being eaten by a bear or some other immediate threat to survival, it's probably attached to some need for love. When I act like a jackass, deliberately withholding love, even though (or worse, because) I know someone wants it, it's about fear.
And "love" doesn't always present in the moment as a grace-taxing apology for a major transgression or showing up at a friend's house at 6am with your truck to move their piano cross-town; it can be as simple, and excruciatingly difficult, as an acknowledgment of success. The Chief Atheist (rightly) used to accuse me of throwing compliments around like manhole covers, and he was right: in my world, achievement was a zero-sum game; ergo your success diminished mine; ergo to me, offering praise felt like cutting off a non-returnable piece of my arm and handing it over knowing that if you did anything with it at all, you'd glance at it ever so briefly before tossing it mindlessly over your shoulder for rats to gnaw on. Or something like that. It took years of working with my first-shrink-slash-astrologer to even make a dent in my fucked-up scarcity mindset, and realistically, it's something I'll likely struggle with for years to come.
However. My hating it doesn't make it go away any faster. To the contrary, my hating it makes it even less likely that I'll be able to overcome it and move into the happy space where my friend Bonnie truly does reside1, a place where "Any time I see someone succeed I am happy, for it affirms my belief that I live in a world where success is possible." Nobody gets to the happy place by blowing past the bullshit that stands in-between; the only way to it is through it, and brother, there are days when in-between might as well be a three-mile, naked wade through a razor-lined vat of gelatinous battery acid.
Most days, though, the walk is uneventful, the pain points are easily overlooked and the scrutiny easily avoided. This is where you actually can score big payback if you, I believe the expression is "double-down" on the observations.
The usual, Part 2: How many layers of protective coating can one person have, anyway?
Why am I craving this second cup of coffee? Am I really wanting more caffeine in deliciously bitter delivery form, or do I want a do-over on my first cup, a reboot of the day?
Now I want a cookie. Or do I? Am I hungry for this taste, this size, this shape, this texture, this many calories of energy? Or am I hungry for some not-doing? For, specifically, some not-doing of this? Or maybe for a reminder that yes, I can treat myself and treat myself well. (These are SCD-legal cookies; it's a whole other discussion when the thing I want is an "illegal".)
How is it I've found myself back on the Twitter home page/in the Facebook stream/checking email again? Again? Again? What am I looking for? What am I avoiding? Where do these two things overlap?
Of course, sometimes checking email is just checking email and a cookie is just a delicious treat. The trick, and yeah, the pain, is in the awareness. It was not The Goody-Good Times staring down my Best Year Yet failures from 2009 and realizing that they were almost identical to my failures from 2008; of all the things I hate (and because I lack the enlightenment to view them with dispassionate interest and/or compassion, I hate many), I probably hate wasted potential the most. Drives me batty.
On the other hand, there they are. Clues! Instructions, even! On what to do next, or at least, what you might want to take a look at.
So for me, Dan Owen (and anyone else who's interested), under that addiction to coffee, to the Internet, to Comfort TV, to certain controlled substances, is fear: of what happens when, if, when I finally do write a book and it's my turn to be judged by everyone and (probably) found wanting. Of giving my best and my all to what it is I have said I want for so long now and not having it work out, whatever that means. Of money turning me into a lonely ogress, as I have seen it do to so many of my loved ones before me. Of not being enough, definitely. Of not being loveable, most likely.
In other words, same-old same-old.
But each time around the mountain I have a slightly different view of it, and feeling towards it. In my oh-so-slowly-dawning awareness, I feel the beginning of what might be the promise of eventual compassion and detachment, not bullshit, human, take-my-ball-and-go-home detachment, but a release of attachment to outcome and with it, the potential of opening my heart to love on a more steady basis. Or, um, on a basis. Yeah, that.
It is crap. But come on, it's pretty hilarious crap, isn't it?
1I swear, it took me years to believe it, but it is true. Which is not to say Bonnie doesn't have her own issues; she'd be the first person to admit that she does. But man, are they not this, and boy, while I wouldn't trade, I really, really hope to experience this state of being some day before I die.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11381 | The Battle of the Five Armies were fought among the armies of the Dwarves, the Elves, Men of Laketown, Orcs/Trolls out of Hithaeglir, and the Wolves. Each race had a different reason for fighting. The Dwarves wanted the Arkenstone and what treasure was left in the Lonely Mountain after the death of Smaug. The Trolls were fighting for their late king, who was killed by Bilbo, Gandalf, and Thorin’s dwarf company. The Mirkwood Elves fought for rumored treasure and to defend the men of Laketown, who wanted a share of the treasure for the loss of Esgaroth. The Orcs, assisted by some Trolls, came just to raid and kill.
News of Smaug’s death came to Thorin II from Roac the Raven, son of Carc, three days after Bard had shot Smaug. Roac also told Thorin that the people of Esgaroth expected to be given the treasures of the Lonely Mountain to cover the rebuilding of their city, as did Bard, who was marching towards Erebor accompanied by a host of around two hundred men of Esgaroth.
The Men marched against the Lonely Mountain and were joined by an army of about one thousand Elves under the command of Thranduil. Thorin then asked Roac if some of his young ravens fly to the Iron Hills and deliver a message to Dain, telling his kin that their aid was needed. Nobody knew that Beorn and the mountain Trolls in Hithaeglir had the news, and they were on their way to the mountain already.
Thorin, however, having no intentions of sharing the treasure he believed to be his inheritance, commanded the Dwarves to fortify the main-entrance and made ready for a siege. What he did not knew was that Bilbo had found the Arkenstone and kept it hidden in his pocket even though he knew that this jewel was the ultimate object of Thorin’s desire.
At the arrival of the hosts of Esgaroth and the Elves, Bard came forth and greeted Thorin. He told them that he hoped Thorin would think of the grief of the people of Esgaroth and that some part of the treasure was of old from the city of Dale. But Thorin did not seem to be willing to part with any of the treasure, because it had long been under the spell of Smaug. Therefore, he answered Bard that he would not share the treasure, but in time he would pay well for the help he had gained in Esgaroth. The second time a messenger came to his camp, he shot at the messenger and declared he denied any Man or Elf any part of the treasure.
During the following night, Bilbo sneaked out and went down to the people below the entrance. There he found Gandalf, and to him he delivered the great Arkenstone, hoping that doing this he might prevent the forth coming battle between the Dwarves, Elves, and Men.
The next morning, Gandalf and Bard approached the wall that blocked their way to the mountain. They carried the Arkenstone with them, and Thorin saw that Bilbo had given the stone to Gandalf and Bard. Thorin would most likely have slain Bilbo for his treason if he thought it would have gained him the Arkenstone back, but didn’t know that Gandalf had been among the people of Esgaroth. It was probably the sight of Gandalf that saved Bilbo’s life.
To solve his problem, Thorin traded Bilbo his 1/14 part of the treasure for the Arkenstone. To even the deal, Thorin spared Bilbo’s life. Thorin’s hope was then that Dain and his 500 Dwarves would come from the Iron Hills in time to win his treasure back and defeat all his beleaguers.
Dain and his Dwarves arrived at the same time as a host of Orcs and Trolls, lead by Bolg. Gandalf, who saw the danger, sent for Dain to ally against the Orcs and Trolls, forgetting the Dwarves’ quarrel with Elves and Men until they were all either slain or victorious. Dain, who was a wise dwarf, understood the danger, and he allied his people with the Elves of Mirkwood and people of Esgaroth.
For a time, the Dwarves in the Mountain, the people of Esgaroth, Thranduil’s Elves, and Dain’s Dwarves all united against the huge army of Trolls and Orcs.
Gandalf’s plan against the much larger hosts of Orcs and Trolls was to man the southwestern spur of the Lonely Mountain with the Elves and the southeaster spur with Dwarves and Men, and to lure the enemy into the valley between. At first the plan worked well. The Orcs and Trolls poured into the valley and were attacked from the west by the Elves. With their enemies vulnerable, Men and Dwarves assailed them in the rear, from the east. The Trolls and Orcs turned around to face the Men and Dwarves, and the Elves attacked again. The strategy seemed successful and the enemy became pinned in the valley, fighting on two fronts. But this situation didn’t last, because a short while later Bolg, the cunning and clever leader of the Trolls, sent a part of his army up a path that ran up over the Lonely Mountain and divided above the fortified main entrance. Thus the Elves, Men, and Dwarves lost the advantage of higher ground and became assailed both from above and from the rear. The enemy in the valley now had time to regroup and bring in fresh troops.
Bolg and his strong bodyguard of Trolls now entered the battle in the valley. Dain and his Dwarves, and Bard and his men of Esgaroth, were loosing ground in the east and the Elves were loosing ground in the West. It was a hopeless situation for the Elves, Men and Dwarves. Inside the mountain, Thorin and his Dwarves had only been able to look down upon the battle. But as Thorin observed the desperate situation evolve, he made a courageous decision to put his few remaining Dwarves into battle, with his ultimate goal being to reach Bolg and slay him.
He and his company broke the newly built wall in front of the entrance and leapt into the affray yelling, “to me, oh kinsmen, Elves and Men”. This cry, and sudden burst of force, allowed Thorin and his dwarves to reach Bolg. They fought heroically, and the Trolls were driven back with great casualties. Thorin went straight for Bolg and his personal guard, but as the valley opened up further ahead the flanks of the Dwarfs became unguarded. Soon the battle turned, encircling Thorin and his guard. Thorin was wounded with a spear and Fili and Kili were both killed.
Just in time, the Eagles of Hithaeglir came in from the west, attacking the Orcs and Trolls, and casting the enemy down on the mountain’s upper ridges. When the Elves, Men, and Dwarves were freed from the attack, they went down into the valley to Thorin’s assistance.
However, even after the Eagles’ attack, the company was still outnumbered and had little chance of victory. As things looked worse, Beorn seemed to come out of nowhere, and cut through the enemy like a razor-sharp blade. He broke through to Bolg and slew him. As the Orcs and Trolls saw their leader and his guard slain, they lost hope and scattered, running in fear from the battle. Most were slain. But, back at the melee, Thorin lay dead. He had, however, lived long enough to see the battle won by his few remaining comrades.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11382 | From The Book of Lost Tales I, “The Chaining of Melko”
It was early and still in the night of June,
And few were the stars, and far was the moon,
The drowsy trees drooping, and silently creeping
Shadows woke under them while they were sleeping.
I stole to the window with stealthy tread
Leaving my white and unpressed bed;
And something alluring, aloof and queer,
Like perfume of flowers from the shores of the mere
That in Elvenhome lies, and in starlit rains
Twinkles and flashes, came up to the panes
Of my high lattice-window. Or was it a sound?
I listened and marvelled with eyes on the ground.
For there came from afar a filtered note
Enchanting sweet, now clear, now remote,
As clear as a star in a pool by the reeds,
As faint as the glimmer of dew on the weeds.
Then I left the window and followed the call
Down the creaking stairs and across the hall
Out through a door that swung tall and grey,
And over the lawn, and away, away!
It was Tinfang Warble that was dancing there,
Fluting and tossing his old white hair,
Till it sparkled like frost in a winter moon;
And the stars were about him, and blinked to his tune
Shimmering blue like sparks in a haze,
As always they shimmer and shake when he plays.
My feet only made there the ghost of a sound
On the shining white pebbles that ringed him round,
Where his little feet flashed on a circle of sand,
And the fingers were white on his flickering hand.
In the wink of a star he had leapt in the air
With his fluttering cap and his glistening hair;
And had cast his long flute right over his back,
Where it hung by a ribbon of silver and black.
His slim little body went fine as a shade,
And he slipped through the reeds like a mist in the glade;
And he laughed like thin silver, and piped a thin note,
As he flapped in the shadows his shadowy coat.
O! the toes of his slippers were twisted and curled,
But he danced like a wind out into the world.
He is gone, and the valley is empty and bare
Where lonely I stand and lonely I stare.
Then suddenly out in the meadows beyond,
Then back in the reeds by the shimmering pond,
Then afar from a copse where the mosses are thick
A few little notes came trillaping quick.
I leapt o’er the stream and I sped from the glade,
For Tinfang Warble it was that played;
I must follow the hoot of his twilight flute
Over reed, over rush, under branch, over root,
And over dim fields, and through rustling grasses
That murmur and nod as the old elf passes,
Over old hills and far away
Where the harps of the Elvenfolk softly play.
Submitted by TinfangWarble
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Mycron was a pioneer manufacturer of microcomputers, located in Oslo, Norway. Originally named Norsk Data Industri, the company was founded in 1975 by Lars Monrad Krohn, who was also one of the founding fathers of Norsk Data.
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MYCRO 11975Intel 8080MYCROPFirst single-board computer
Mycron 3 CP/M
Mycron 1000 Zilog Z80MP/M
Mycron 2000 1980Intel 8086CP/M-86, later MP/M-86First 8086 based computer
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11467 | Thursday, April 20, 2017
“It is written…”
When I was a kid memorizing Bible verses in Sunday School, I had to memorize the King James Version. That’s right: to get my gold stars, I had to watch my thees and thous and forsooths like a Shakespeare scholar.
Kids today with their New International Versions and English Standard Versions….
OK, that kind of dates me. I think it was around 1978 when the NIV came out, but it wasn't until 1984 when I got my first one. But it was, of course, like a light came on. I think I rarely touched my old KJV after that. Reading the Bible became, if not always a pleasure, at least something that a teenaged guy was much more likely to do. I’ve been a fan of new Bible translations ever since.
Good thing, too, because there have never been so many translations of the Bible in English. (Probably other languages, too, though I obviously don’t have direct knowledge there.) I have, let me count…36 on my bookshelves, a few of which even predate the KJV. (My copies are reprints…) But then, of course, I also have access online to all of them — and maybe a few others that I don’t have.
Now and then, though, I’m reminded of a centuries-old Italian phrase: Traduttore, traditore. It originally had to do with translations of Dante into French, not the Bible into English, but the problem is the same. The phrase means, literally, “Translator, traitor.” And it is, of course, true, at least to some degree. To translate is to betray the original, because translation will never be an exact science.
I’ve been reminded of it when someone insists that the translation they like is the best, the most accurate, the most literal, or whatever. Or that my choice is less so. As if the translators they like aren’t traitors too. Thankfully, that particular conflict is less likely to occur than it was 20 or 30 years ago or so.
But I was also reminded of it recently in a class, when I noticed how my favorite translation, the NIV, doesn’t always handle well Mark’s repetition of the word immediately. It just glosses over it sometimes, as though it isn’t in the text. It does so, I’m sure, because the translators judged that it’s more readable in English, and that sometimes Mark’s use of immediately is more like punctuation. But, in effect, this choice slows down Mark’s breakneck pace. It does to Mark’s writing what some treatments do to some patients with mental illness: it flattens it out. It may be better English, but it does violence to the text. Traduttore, traditore.
That’s the kind of thing that bothers me more than what a translation does with Isaiah 7:14 or one of the other hot-button texts that have often been used as a basis for evaluating a translation. But that’s the tension translators are dealing with. Bible publishing is, generally, a business — and a very profitable one at that. While translations are marketed for their accuracy, what sells them is their readability. It is certainly possible to create an English translation of the Bible that reproduces the syntax and grammar of the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek more accurately than any translation available today. Problem is, no one would read it.
Which, you know, sort of defeats both purposes of Bible publishing: getting people to buy Bibles, and getting people to read them.
Look, there’s little chance that your church is going to make Hebrew and Greek classes available to you. And little chance that, if they did, you’d have the time to spend learning those languages. And that’s why, for centuries, believers have risked arrest, imprisonment, and death to translate the Bible into the vernacular of their people. Or like my friend, Gene Arnold, to smuggle those translations across borders. Traduttore, traditore, indeed. But traitors for a noble cause. They believed, in the words of John Wycliffe, “Christ and his apostles taught the people in that tongue that was best known to them. Why should men not do so now?”
People ask me sometimes what the best Bible translation is. Sometimes people give me more credit than I deserve. I don’t know what the best one is. It’s been said, and it’s probably more true today than ever before, that the best translation of the Bible is one you’ll read. That’s usually the way I try to answer.
It isn’t all that hard to figure out, really. What you’re going for is some combination of readability and accuracy. If you’re an excellent reader, try some more literal translations. If you're a more average reader, then you should probably look at translations that smooth out the reading experience a little more. Don’t fall for the marketing, though, or for the well-intentioned (hopefully) person at your church who insists that the only trustworthy translation is the one he uses. The fact is, almost every well-known English translation available — there may be one or two exceptions — is juggling readability and accuracy. Almost every one that’s widely available is the product of an inter-denominational committee, to avoid bias. The translation process is not novel, or new. Every translator on every committee is dealing with the same texts and the same problems.
Honestly, why settle for one translation anyway? If you’re serious about understanding the Bible, go with two or three. Compare them, contrast them, let them dialogue with each other and with you. The Bible is best understood in community: the more translators you have sitting at the table with you, the better. Come see me: I might be able to find one or two to share with you.
But there are at least three that I won’t share with you. One is that King James Version. It was given to me the day I turned 8, by my grandmother. I know that because she wrote on the “Presented To” page. My mom later wrote in it the date I was baptized: August 19, 1979. It has in it one of my first attempts, probably, to write my name in cursive. There are stickers for Perfect Attendance at Sunday School on the inside facing page. (Seven of them. How ‘bout that?) It’s falling apart, but still usable.
One is that NIV. It was a gift from my parents on Easter, 1984, just a couple of months before I turned 16. I know that, again, because Mom wrote in it. Its cover is creased, and the pages in the back are falling out. (The Old Testament still looks pretty good. No surprise there.)
And the third is another KJV. It belonged to my grandfather. It was given to him on November 6, 1978, by the elders of Red Bank Church of Christ in Chattanooga, TN. That was the day he was baptized.
If you, like I do, enjoy a heritage that values the Bible, thank God for it. It’s easy to take for granted. Don’t.
And if that isn’t your heritage, then create it. Buy a Bible for your kids, your grandkids, your nephew or niece. Your friends’ kids. Encourage them to read it. Read it with them. Forty years later, they might still have that Bible you gave them. More importantly, they’ll still have whatever God did in them through it.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11497 | How to Start Your WoW Power Leveling like the Pros
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How to level up your character without using wow power leveling service online? If you want to get the hang of it, you can just follow the tips below, Once you get it, you'll be developing your own shortcuts and start power leveling just like the pros.
How to Start Your WoW Power Leveling like the Pros
• Know the Class You are Playing
For starters it helps a great deal to know know a little something about your class. If you are playing wow for the first time or a class you are unfamiliar with then it helps to know what to expect. Knowing which abilities are the strongest or most efficient, and/or the best leveling spec at each level for your chosen class will put you well ahead of the game. In addition, knowing which gearing/stats you should be shooting for will also help you a great deal. Sometimes classes seem weak until they get to a key ability or level so it helps to know these things as well before you get discouraged.
• Use a Power Leveling Guide
A good power leveling guide will save you a great deal of time. These are completely legal. They help you to group quests together, help you decide on which quests to skip, and ultimately get you to level cap faster by tried and tested methods. Most of these will even have in game mods to guide you directly in game so you won't have to tab out to read a PDF guide.
• Rested Experience
The rested experience bonus allows you to level at twice the normal rate on mobs you kill. So make sure to always rest in an inn when you aren't playing your character or you won't earn this bonus as quickly.
• Power Level With a Friend
Hooking up with a friend can make power leveling more fun and less like a chore. Any class combination will do but some classes duos are better than others. keep in mind that if you are power-leveling you may get ahead if your friend isn't committed to power-leveling as fast as you do. |
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Uzelli Psychedelic Anadolu
ARTIST: various artists
TITLE: Uzelli Psychedelic Anadolu
LABEL: Uzelli
In recent years, there’s been a bunch of reissues of Turkish pop and rock music from the 60s, 70s and 80s. Now Uzelli is licensing a motherload of material: its catalog of over 1300 cassettes originally released in Germany for the Turkish guest worker/immigrant market. This compilation, curated by Polish DJ and anthropologist Komelia Binicewicz, focuses on Anatolian rock (Anadolu), the psych and funk-influenced sound of the 70s and 80s that featured Turkish instruments like the baglama saz (long-necked lute) electrified so they can stand up next to guitars, drum kits and Moog synthesizers, in service of Eastern melodies set to stomping rhythms. Uzelli owned the German distribution rights to lots of famous Turkish artists, but the most exciting items here are by the unknowns: the proggy-folk of Zor Beyler (track 2); two film actresses, Elvan Sevil (6) and Nese Alkan (9) who made only a handful of recordings; trippy “extreme wedding duo” Akbaba Ikilisi (7); and a beautiful version of the folk song “Deniz Ustu Kopurur” that sounds like Fairport Convention (8). This title is right up there with the best Turkish reissues I’ve heard.
TOP TRACKS: 2 6 7 8 9
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Ready - Contact and call manager for Android
Smartphones have evolved so much that we often forget we can still use them to make telephone calls. In fact, it's kind of weird to notice that calling someone is something that sometimes seems to be handled worse than it was in dumb cellphones. Thankfully, there's a solution to that, and it's called Ready - for Android devices.
Android allows us to customize and change practically every aspect of it, and that happens with your call and contact manager as well. Ready not only looks insanely better than the stock contact and call manager, but it adds a few very welcome features as well - that you won't know how you have lived without for so long until you've tried it.
For instance, when you get a call, you'll have immediate access to the last emails with that person, related events, last calls, etc. That alone would make it a worthwhile improvement, but there's more. Contact browsing is also nicely handled via a "quick dial" rotary gesture; and after you've made a call you'll get shortcuts for common tasks, such as sending a text, scheduling a meeting, etc.
Ready is still under development, but if you're willing to try it right now - and help improve it and become all that it can become, you're free to join the Ready beta group and have it working on your Android before long.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11596 | Benchmark (crude oil)
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A benchmark crude or marker crude is a crude oil that serves as a reference price for buyers and sellers of crude oil. There are three primary benchmarks, West Texas Intermediate (WTI), Brent Blend, and Dubai Crude. Other well-known blends include the OPEC Reference Basket used by OPEC, Tapis Crude which is traded in Singapore, Bonny Light used in Nigeria, Urals oil used in Russia and Mexico's Isthmus. Energy Intelligence Group publishes a handbook which identified 195 major crude streams or blends in its 2011 edition.[1][2]
Benchmarks are used because there are many different varieties and grades of crude oil.[3] Using benchmarks makes referencing types of oil easier for sellers and buyers.
There is always a spread between WTI, Brent and other blends due to the relative volatility (high API gravity is more valuable), sweetness/sourness (low sulfur is more valuable) and transportation cost. This is the price that controls world oil market price.
West Texas Intermediate (WTI)[edit]
West Texas Intermediate is used primarily in the U.S. It is light (API gravity) and sweet (low-sulfur) thus making it ideal for producing products like low-sulfur gasoline and low-sulfur diesel. Brent is not as light or as sweet as WTI but it is still a high-grade crude. The OPEC basket is slightly heavier and more sour than Brent. As a result of these gravity and sulfur differences, before 2011 WTI typically traded at a dollar or two premium to Brent and another dollar or two premium to the OPEC basket.[4]
Since 2011, WTI has traded at lower prices than Brent.
Brent Blend[edit]
Brent Crude is a mix of crude oil from 15 different oil fields in the North Sea. It is the benchmark used primarily in Europe though it is also mixed in with the OPEC reference basket which is used around the world.[2]
Dubai and Oman[edit]
Dubai Crude, also known as Fateh, is a heavy sour crude oil extracted from Dubai. It is produced in the Emirate of Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates.[5] Dubai's only refinery, at Jebel Ali, takes condensates as feedstocks, and therefore all of Dubai's crude production is exported. For many years it was the only freely traded oil in the Middle East, but gradually a spot market has developed in Omani crude as well.
For many years, most of the oil producers in the Middle East have taken the monthly spot price average of Dubai and Oman as the benchmark for sales to the Far East (WTI and Brent futures prices are used for exports to the Atlantic Basin). In July 2007, a potential new mechanism arose in the form of the Dubai Mercantile Exchange, which offers futures contracts in Omani crude. Whether the DME will be successful, and whether Omani futures prices will be adopted by producers and buyers as a benchmark, remain to be seen.
Canadian Crude[edit]
Edmonton Par and Western Canadian Select (WCS) "are benchmarks crude oils for the Canadian market. Both Edmonton Par and West Texas Intermediate are high-quality low sulfur crude oils with API gravity levels of around 40°. In contrast, WCS is a heavy crude oil with an API gravity level of 20.5°."[6]
The Canadian Crude Index (CCI) serves as a benchmark for oil produced in Canada.[7] It allows investors to track the price, risk and volatility of the Canadian commodity.[7] The CCI provides a fixed price reference for Canadian crude oil and provides an accessible and transparent index to serve as a benchmark to build investable products upon, and could ultimately increase its demand to global markets.
The first futures contracts on crude oil were traded in 1983, with the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) and the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) both attempting to take advantage of the government's de-regulation of crude oil. CBOT's initial contracts had delivery problems, so customers abandoned it for Nymex.[8]
Crude oil became the world's most actively traded commodity, and the NYMEX Division light sweet crude oil futures contract becoming the world's most liquid form for crude oil trading, as well as the world's largest-volume futures contract trading on a physical commodity. Additional risk management and trading opportunities are offered through options on the futures contract; calendar spread options; crack spread options on the pricing differential of heating oil futures and crude oil futures and gasoline futures and crude oil futures; and average price options.
The contract trades in units of 1,000 barrels, and the delivery point is Cushing, Oklahoma, which is also accessible to the international spot markets via pipelines. The contract provides for delivery of several grades of domestic and internationally traded foreign crudes, and serves the diverse needs of the physical market.
See also[edit]
1. ^ International Crude Oil Market Handbook, 2011
2. ^ a b "Pricing Differences Among Various Types of Crude Oil". Archived from the original on 2010-11-13. Retrieved 2008-02-17.
3. ^ "Oil markets explained". BBC News. 2007-10-18. Retrieved 2008-02-17.
4. ^ "Oil Industry Commentary". Archived from the original on 2006-08-31. Retrieved 2006-07-05.
5. ^ "Crude Benchmark Analysis". Archived from the original on 2006-03-22. Retrieved 2006-10-08.
6. ^ NRC 2013, p. 9.
7. ^ a b [1][permanent dead link]|[permanent dead link]
8. ^ The Asylum, Leah McGrath Goodman, 2011, HarperCollins, p90-91 |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11597 | United Downs Deep Geothermal Power
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United Downs Deep Geothermal Power is a planned geothermal energy power plant in Redruth in Cornwall, England. It aims to begin live operation by 2020.
Global geothermal electric capacity. Upper red line is installed capacity;[1] lower green line is realized production.[2]
Sited on the United Downs industrial estate, the plant will generate 10 MW of electricity to be sold to the National Grid; and 55 MW of thermal energy, to be distributed locally. It is being developed by Geothermal Engineering Limited, a privately owned British company founded in 2008 specialising in the development of geothermal resources.
The Enhanced Geothermal System being employed to generate power at United Downs targets volumes of rock that already exhibit enhanced permeability. The plan for United Downs is to drill three boreholes to a true depth of 4.5 kilometres (2.8 mi). Water is pumped down a borehole which then travels through fractures in the rock, capturing the heat, until it is pumped out of one or more production boreholes as very hot pressurised water, which is then converted into electricity using a steam turbine.[3][4] The water for charging the reservoir will come from flooded mines, not from the local water supply. The hot water produced by the plant can also be used to supply thermal energy and air conditioning (via an absorption chiller) to the surrounding area.
Geothermal Engineering announced the plans for the United Downs geothermal power station in October 2009 and held a local consultation in Carharrack in the same month.[5] In December 2009 the company received £1.475 million in funding from the Department of Energy and Climate Change.[6]
On 13 August 2010 the United Downs plant was granted planning permission by Cornwall Council in a unanimous vote.[7][8] At that time, the drilling of the first well was expected to begin in early 2011 and the plant was expected to be operational by 2013-2014.[9][10]
In November 2011, Geothermal Engineering was awarded a grant of £6m from the European Regional Development Fund towards the cost of the project and drilling of the first well was expected to begin in late 2012.[11]
In April 2013, the grant was withdrawn due to the company's failure to attract private funding for the project.[12]
In 2017, United Downs looked at raise £4.4m of private funding via debentures offered by renewable energy debit crowdfunding specialists Abundance Investment.[13] It reached its target in the first week of August 2017, less than a fortnight after being listed. Abundance planned to then raise further funds by issuing more debentures of £95,000 or over, with the total raised to be a maximum of £5.27m.[14]
See also[edit]
Geothermal power in the United Kingdom
2. ^ Cite error: The named reference IPCC was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
3. ^ Halper, Mark (11 October 2009). "We're mining for heat in Cornwall". The Independent. London. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
4. ^ "Geothermal power plant set to become a reality in Cornwall". New Civil Engineer. Emap Ltd. 19 October 2009. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
5. ^ "'Hot rocks' power plant plans revealed". Western Morning News. 13 October 2009. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
6. ^ "Geothermal power plant gets funds". BBC News. 21 December 2009. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
7. ^ "'Hot rocks' geothermal energy plant promises a UK first for Cornwall". Western Morning News. 17 August 2010. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
8. ^ "UK's first geothermal plant given go-ahead". Financial Times. 15 October 2010. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
9. ^ "Drilling to begin for Cornwall geothermal power plant in 2011". The Guardian. 16 August 2010. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
10. ^ "Geothermal projects get funding boost". The Ecologist. 22 December 2009. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
11. ^ "£6 Million Grant For Geothermal Energy Project in Cornwall". Invest in Cornwall. 1 November 2011. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
12. ^ "Geothermal project on rocks after funding blow". this is Cornwall. 4 April 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
13. ^ Vaughan, Adam (16 July 2017). "'Groundbreaking': Cornwall geothermal project seeks funds". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
14. ^ Richter, Alexander. "UK geothermal project successfully raises $5.7 million in crowdfunding campaign". ThinkGeoEnergy. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11598 | Lambertsen Amphibious Respiratory Unit
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The Lambertsen Amphibious Respiratory Unit (LARU) is an early model of closed circuit oxygen rebreather used by military frogmen. Christian J. Lambertsen designed a series of them in the USA in 1940 (patent filing date: 16 Dec 1940) and in 1944 (issue date: 2 May 1944).[1]
The LARU is what the initials SCUBA (Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus) originally meant; Lambertsen changed his invention's name to SCUBA in 1952;[2] but later "SCUBA", gradually changing to "scuba", came to mean (first in the USA) any self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. (Modern diving regulator technology was invented by Émile Gagnan and Jacques-Yves Cousteau in 1943 and was not related to rebreathers; nowadays the word SCUBA is largely used to mean Gagnan's and Cousteau's invention and its derivatives.)
Lambertsen designed the LARU while a medical student and demonstrated the LARU to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) (after already being rejected by the U.S. Navy) in a pool at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington D.C. in 1942[3][4] The OSS "Operational Swimmer Group" was formed and Lambertsen's responsibilities included training and developing methods of combining self-contained diving and swimmer delivery including the LARU.[5][6]
• Two apparent large lengthways backpack cylinders under a hard metal cover: the right cylinder is oxygen and the left apparent cylinder is the absorbent canister.
• Fullface mask with small eye holes like an old-type gasmask
• Two breathing bags, one on each shoulder.
• 4 lengths of wide corrugated breathing tubes in a loop: from the mask to one of the breathing bags to the canister to the other breathing bag to the mask.
• Its harness is a strong cloth jacket that enclosed the diver's chest.
• Mid front, a long zipped pocket: the diagrams do not show whether it was for kit or for diving weights.
Many diving rebreathers are descended from it. However, there were earlier underwater uses of rebreathers:
See also[edit]
• Rebreather – Apparatus to recycle breathing gas
1. ^ Lambertsen's patent in Google Patents
2. ^ See Lambertsen's homage by the website
3. ^ Shapiro, T. Rees (February 19, 2011). "Christian J. Lambertsen, OSS officer who created early scuba device, dies at 93". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2013-05-16.
4. ^ staff (2013-10-30). "'America's first frogman' dies in Bend at 95". KTVZ. Retrieved 2013-11-02.
5. ^ Vann RD (2004). "Lambertsen and O2: beginnings of operational physiology". Undersea Hyperb Med. 31 (1): 21–31. PMID 15233157. Retrieved 2013-05-16.
6. ^ Butler FK (2004). "Closed-circuit oxygen diving in the U.S. Navy". Undersea Hyperb Med. 31 (1): 3–20. PMID 15233156. Retrieved 2013-05-16.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11602 | Tuesday, March 9, 2010
A sweet day
I made these applesauce cupcakes (the recipe is in the back of the book):
and received these from my family:
because today is the official release day of this:
For a delicious blog post with lots of beautiful cupcakes and a very sweet review, head over to Jama's blog and tell her your favorite kind of cupcake for a chance to win one of two copies!!!
This day is a dream come true for me. I've dreamt of having a middle-grade novel on the shelves for a VERY long time. And the ten-year-old Lisa who loved to bake and dreamt of traveling, like Isabel (the main character), is pretty darn happy today too.
1. EEP! Congratulations, Lisa. Soak it all in. Today is your day!
2. I'm raising a toast to you (apple cider, perhaps?) today. It is sweet, indeed.
3. CONGRATULATIONS!!! I <3 cupcakes. Apple sauce cupcakes? Mmm yummy! Pleas check out my book blog:
4. AAHH! Happy release day!!! You are a rock star, Lisa!!! Will you please consider doing an interview with us one of these days? We'd love to have you!!!
5. Congratulations, Lisa! This is so wonderful. :]
6. HURRAY!!! I am sooooo happy for you Lisa! You are living the dream. I'm thrilled to hear the recipe for those cupcakes is in the back of the book. :-)
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11619 | The Blog is Dead. Long Live the Blog!
Hello friends,
As you may have noticed, this little corner of the internet hasn't seen a lot of activity lately. The bad news is that I've decided to wind this blog down. The good news is that I've got a new home on the internet! You can check out my latest writing here. I've been writing one story every month or so, and I'd love to know what you think.
Why the change? Here are a few reasons:
1. I started this project as a graduate student a decade ago. At the time, I wanted an outlet to share interesting mathematical ideas with an audience that might not otherwise be exposed to them. Pop culture seemed like a natural way to explore these ideas for a general audience. However, as time has passed, I've found myself wanting to write about mathematics in ways that aren't always tied to popular culture. So the theme of this blog has become a little restrictive.
Don't worry - I'll still write about the intersection of math and pop culture. But I'd like to write about other things as well...
I Wrote A Book!
Hello friends! In case you haven't heard the news, I released my first book this month. You can order it on Amazon here.
Power-Up Cover
The book started as basically an extension of this blog, though with a narrower focus. While I've tried to use this space to explore the intersection of math and pop culture in general, the book focuses specifically on the search for interesting mathematics inspired by video games.
It's been a labor of love, and part of the reason why my musings over here have dwindled over the past few years. But now that it's out, I'd love for you to read it and let me know what you think!
I'm proud of how the book turned out, but don't just listen to my biased opinion. Here are some other reviews:
I hope you'll check it out, and if you do, I hope you'll enjoy it.
My good friend and former work-associate Chris Lusto recently set off a flurry of Twitter activity when he shared some of his thoughts on curriculum development in a post titled Lessons for Other People (he's since written a follow-up, Git Push). These posts have sparked a lot of interesting conversation, and have inspired me to share some thoughts of my own.
In the interest of self-containment, let me begin by trying to summarize Chris' main argument. First, some background: Chris and I both spent a not-insignificant share of our professional careers writing math curriculum at Mathalicious. Writing curriculum is a lot of fun, but is also hard work, especially when you're trying to write for an audience larger than yourself. Different teachers may be looking for wildly different things: one may want something highly scaffolded while another wants something more open-ended, one may embrace a lesson on Cheetos while another may not...the list goes on, and on, and on. And on. Seriously...
Fallout 4 Math, Part 2
This post is the second part in a series. If you haven't ready the first part, I'd highly encourage you to do so.
Last time, we discussed four different strategies for cracking the Fallout 4 hacking mini-game. As you may recall, our four strategies are as follows:
1. Guess randomly.
2. Guess the word which is closest to the others, according to the Hamming distance.
3. Guess the word that is farthest from the others.
4. Guess the word which will result in the highest expected number of word eliminations from the list.
We also looked at an example for which these different strategies yielded different guesses. So, if these strategies really are so different, which one should we choose?
Let's answer this question experimentally. There are a couple of different metrics we could use to determine the "best" strategy. One way would be to calculate what percentage of the time each strategy is able to identify the password in four guesses or fewer (remember, in Fallout 4, you only have four guesses...
Fallout 4 Math
If ever you've wished to experience a 1950's aesthetic combined with a post-apocalyptic landscape filled with death and decay, then the Fallout series may be right up your alley. What began with the well-received release of Fallout in 1997 has since evolved into one of the most popular video game franchises around. The latest entry, Fallout 4 was released last year to critical and commercial acclaim. Here's just one sample of the praise lavished on this game (NSFW, unless you're allowed to watch monsters get shot in the face at work):
Fallout 4, like many of its predecessors, features many sidequests and mini-games meant to hold the player's attention long after the main campaign has been completed (or, depending on play style, to postpone completion of the main campaign for as long as possible). The one I'd like to talk about today is the hacking mini-game, in which players attempt to "hack" computers in order to find loot or unlock secrets near their location.
The hacking mini...
Why is π Irrational?
I've written about my (not super positive) feelings towards π day in the past. I don't want to rehash those arguments; if you're curious, you can read some of my thoughts here, here, and here.
At the same time, I feel less curmudgeonly these days, and if your idea of a good time is memorizing a sequence of numbers and reciting them or putting them to music, more power to you.
But if we're going to let π steal the limelight from other deserving irrational numbers, let's at least explore something more interesting than its decimal expansion. Here, I'd like to provide a little visual aid for exploring a proof of the irrationality of π.
π's irrationality undoubtedly contributes to some of its popularity: after all, every rational number's decimal expansion eventually terminates or repeats. This is why nobody is impressed if you can recite the decimal expansion for 1/3 = 0.33333333... from memory. The decimal expansion of π, on the other hand, lacks this sort of simple pattern.
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Do Extra Innings Games Predict World Series Longevity?
Now that baseball season has ended, I find myself going through withdrawal. And with spring training several months away, I need something to fill the void left in my heart. To that end, let's take a moment and look back -- with a mathematical eye, of course -- on the 2015 World Series.
In case you missed it, Game 1 was one for the record books. The New York Mets and the Kansas City Royals duked it out for 14 innings. This was long enough to take the crown for the longest Game 1 in World Series history (though it tied Game 2 in 1916 and Game 3 in 2005, which were also 14 innings long). Here are the highlights:
Even before Game 1, many pundits predicted that the series would last a full seven games. For example, all 5 members of the CBS Sports staff polled in this article predicted a seven-game series, though they were split on which team would emerge victorious.
It shouldn't be surprising, then, that after Game 1 analysts maintained their faith that the series would be a long one...
Cards with Mathematics
I'm a sucker for a good card game. Or even a bad card game, if it's played in the company of good friends. Or even a bad card game played in the company of poor friends, as long as the food is decent.
Because of this relatively low bar, I've played a variety of card games. And some of these games have sparked interesting mathematical questions. If you've taken a probability course, for instance, you may have explored the intersection of cards and mathematics a bit. Maybe you had to calculate the probability of being dealt a full house in poker, or of busting in a game of blackjack.
But mathematics exists even in card games that don't typically come up in math class. And just because a deck of cards doesn't have any numbers on it, that doesn't mean it should be exiled into the realm of the non-mathematical.
To prove this point, consider Cards Against Humanity (or, if you'd prefer, its more family-friendly predecessor: Apples to Apples). In order to understand the rules of the game...
Why You Should Have a Kid in 2016
I would start off by apologizing for the clickbait-y title, but I'd rather not take any of the blame. Instead, I'll use Numberphile as a scapegoat, since one of their most recent videos inspired both the title and the content of this post.
The video in question is titled Why 1980 was a great year to be born... but 2184 will be even better. Like many who are mathematically minded, I couldn't help but watch. In the video, Matt Parker talks about a mathematical property of the year 1980. If you've got a few minutes, here's the full video:
And here's the Cliffs Notes version. Basically, Parker says that being born in 1980 is awesome, because he'll turn 45 in the year 2025, which is 452. This birth-year property hasn't occurred since 1892 (people born in that year turned 44 in 1936 = 442), and it won't happen again until 2070 (people born in that year will turn 46 in 2116 = 462). To be sure, it's a pretty nerdy reason to get psyched about being born in 1980, but I can't begrudge the man...
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11628 | Jesus is Not a Horse.
With a title like this, I can only imagine what you must be thinking. Is this picture going through your mind right now?
And the next thing you must be thinking is: “Why would Steven even think such a thing?”
Well, the answer is because I have seen, more than once, someone posting that when we pray to “Jesus” we are really praying to a horse because in Hebrew “Jesus” means “horse.”
Today, I am going to put to rest this ridiculous and absurd statement, which shows nothing more than a total lack of knowledge of the Hebrew language.
First of all, let’s review the type of words known as Homophones. A homophone is a word that sounds like another word but doesn’t have the same meaning. Some examples are:
blue and blew; you and ewe; brake and break; flour and flower,
and there are many, many more examples. As you can see, just because two words sound the same doesn’t mean that they mean the same thing.
The name “Jesus” is not a real name; in fact, it has a very strange etymology.
I know there will be different opinions on the etymology of the name “Jesus”, so I would ask that you who disagree with the one I am about to propose please do not comment and argue the validity of my usage here because it is not relevant to the topic.
The Hebrew name given to the Messiah born of Joseph and Mary is Yeshua, which in Hebrew means (essentially) “the salvation of God.” When the Apostles wrote down their eye-witness accounts of the ministry and life of the Messiah, as well as the Epistles, written to the Messianic congregations throughout the Middle East and Asia, the language used was Greek. However, the Greek language had no male name that meant “the salvation of God”; in fact, not only was there no name that “Yeshua” could be translated into, but the Greek religion and culture had nothing in it that even came close to meaning “salvation of God.” Their gods didn’t do things like that. So, what they did was to create a transliteration, which is a word spelled so that it sounds like the word being translated; in effect, they created a homophone to sound like Yeshua.
That Greek homophone for “Yeshua” was”Jesu”, which is pronounced “hey-soo”. When the Greek was translated into Latin, Jesu became Jesus (Hey-soo to hey-soos.)
With me so far?
Next, we need to look at the Hebrew word for horse, which is סןס, pronounced “suse” In Hebrew, “the” is the letter Het (ה) placed in front of the word it identifies and is pronounced “hah”; therefore, in Hebrew “the horse” is pronounced “Hah-suse.”
Sounds like hey-soos, but isn’t hey-soos.
So there you have it! Those people who say praying to Jesus is really praying to a horse believe a homophone is a synonym, demonstrating such a total lack of knowledge of Hebrew that they, themselves, are a horse.
Or, more correctly, one specific part of a horse, and in case you don’t know which part, I will give you a hint: it’s the part that goes through the stable door last.
Normally I post things more spiritual in nature, and I suppose the spiritual aspect to today’s lesson in homophones and their misuse, is that we are all easily led astray to believe what seems easy to accept. In truth, sometimes that which sounds very “deep” and mystical is also something people desire to know. To “understand” a hidden message is to feel superior, which is how most humans like to feel. To think that we can say the name “Jesus “really means “a horse” might seem appealing, especially those who (I admit, like me) have always been uncomfortable with the name “Jesus”, but in truth, it is an insult to the Messiah and to God.
So be careful what you accept as truth from people: always check out what you hear, whether it sounds absolutely true or absolutely ridiculous because you never know what something really means until you find it out for yourself.
And what you believe, whether you have been fooled into believing it or not, is what God will hold you accountable for.
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If you enjoy these messages, you will also enjoy my books, so please check them out and buy them.
I welcome comments and even arguments, so long as you are nice.
Until next time, L’hitraot and Baruch HaShem!
This Speech is Worth Listening to
I received this through an email from the Israel Video Network and although it is almost 14 minutes long, I ask that you listen to it.
This woman is telling the United Nations the truth about Israel and Muslim tactics, which is not to destroy just Israel but to destroy Democracy and freedom throughout the Earth.
Brigitte Gabriel defends Jews in one of the best speeches the UN has ever heard |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11629 | Friday, April 15, 2011
REAL Fat is NOT the Enemy! PROCESSED Fat IS!
"Processed foods that claim to be “low fat” or “no fat” are typically not good for you, says nutritionist Alan Aragon, M.S., who writes a highly renowned nutrition review. If you need any evidence, look back at the low fat craze of the 1980s. During that time “fat-free” became a marketing buzz word that turned every food imaginable into a healthy option by demonizing fat. The problem: The idea that fat-free products equated to fat-free bodies was very misleading, says Aragon. In fact, during the fat-free rage, fat consumption decreased by 33 percent and obesity increased by 11 percent. Clearly fat is not the issue."
"For years it was thought that saturated fats were evil and unsaturated fats were healthy. But a 50-year review in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology found that a diet low in saturated fat does NOT prolong life."
"In fact, research shows that the fat in meat and milk (a saturated fat known as stearic acid) is actually good for you, says Aragon. And omega-3 fatty acids (which are commonly found in fish) can do everything from decrease blood pressure and inflammation, to improve bone healthy and help you lose weight."
"In contrast, trans fats, which are industrially produced and lurk under names like “partially hydrogentated vegetable oil,” will wreck havoc on your body."
"The bottom line: With the exception of trans fats, most of the fat you eat is not bad. In fact, one of the biggest adjustments Aragon has made is adding more fat to his client’s diets. But everything has a limit. As a guideline, Aragon suggestions eating .4 to .6 grams of fat per pound of your GOAL body weight. So if you’re a 130 pound woman who’d like to weigh 110 pounds, Aragon would suggest anywhere between 44 and 66 grams of fat per day (110 x .4 and 110 .6 to create the range). Don’t worry about the ratio too much as long as you consume your fats from a variety of whole food sources, and make sure that you consume fish (or use fish oil supplements if you don’t eat fish) 2-4 times per week to provide your body with the Omega 3s you need."
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11638 | Using of ichu native grass as a climate change adaptation strategy
Video realizzato nella zona alto-andina del Perù, commissionato dalla FAO.
Climate change in the highlands is manifested mainly through extreme events such as prolonged drought periods, short periods of heavy rain, and extreme cold during winter. To cope with these phenomena, some Andean populations make use of ichu grass. This native grass is part of the natural land cover, whose tender shoots are eaten by animals. Because of its cylindrical hard and smooth stem, which is also waterproof, it is used to build the roofs of houses. During the day it is heated by the sun and increases room temperature, while in the afternoons and evenings, it maintains a comfortable temperature inside the protected spaces. It also plays important roles for the territory, mitigating the kinetic of rain on the soil, as well as contributing to soil fertility and carbon sequestration. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11647 | Thursday, January 11, 2018
Check on My Predictions for 2017
OK, let's do this.
Of course failing to criticize Putin may be evidence not of friendship but of something much more sinister that Special Counsel and American Hero, Robert Mueller, may soon reveal.
One of these men was an American Hero nearly 50 years ago and continues to be today.
My prediction of six scandals in the first year was overwhelmed by reality. I stopped counting at "the Mooch" long before the indictments and plea deals began. Note that I said "began." I will safely predict that there will be several more.
I know the psychological explanations of being in a thought and media bubble and refusing to allow facts to overcome belief. But for the life of me I can't understand why trump still has support in the 30s. I weep for the US of A. We don't need to be "great again" (whatever that means). Please, just make us a little more sane again.
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1. We are prayerful that the American people will "stay woke" as the saying goes, and votes in the midterm to mitigate some of the damage being down by our present Congressional and Adminisration leaders.
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Menthoplus Sour – Sour In Every Sense (Advertising Spots)
Here are the two videos from the Menthoplus Sour marketing campaign for Argentina.
They are both very good!
The first one I could find it with subtitles (they are both in Spanish), for the second one I wrote the speech and translated it…
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Thai Airways Company
Thai Airways
IATA ICAO Callsign
Founded November 1, 1951 (1951-11-01)
Ceased operations April 1, 1988 (1988-04-01) (merged into Thai Airways International)
Hubs Don Mueang International Airport
(formerly name: Bangkok International Airport)
Focus cities
Fleet size 11
Destinations 26
Parent company Thai Airways International
Headquarters Pom Prap Sattru Phai, Bangkok, Thailand
Key people N/W
Thai Airways Company or Thai Airways (TAC; Thai: เดินอากาศไทย) was the domestic flag carrier of Thailand. Its main base was the Domestic Terminal at Don Mueang International Airport: DMK (former name: Bangkok International Airport: BKK). Its head office was located in Pom Prap Sattru Phai, Bangkok.[1] In 1988 Thai Airways merged to become Thai Airways International (Thai: การบินไทย).
• History 1
• Destinations 2
• Fleet 3
• Incidents and accidents 4
• See also 5
• References 6
• External links 7
Siamese Airways Company Limited was the domestic flag carrier of Thailand on March 1, 1947, according to a cabinet resolution. The first squadron had Douglas DC-3, Beechcraft C-45, L-5 Sentinel, Rearwin, Fairchild. The first flight was Bangkok-Phitsanulok-Lampang-Chiang Mai. And after 2 days, It opened Chiang Mai-Mae Sariang-Mae Hong Son. The first International flight had opened on December 1947, flight Bangkok-Songkhla-Penang.
The Government of Thailand had a resolution on November 1, 1951, merged with Pacific Overseas Airline (Siam) Limited (POAS), and changed name to Thai Airways Company Limited (TAC) (Thai: บริษัท เดินอากาศไทย จำกัด (บดท.)). It also called Thai Airways.
Thai Airways established the international flag carrier in 1960, Thai Airways International Company Limited (THAI; Thai: บริษัท การบินไทย จำกัด), as a joint venture between Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) with the Scandinavian carrier initially providing a 30% share capital of two million Baht.[2]
Hawker Siddeley 748 of Thai Airways at Bangkok Airport in 1974
Thai Airways bought the turboprop Avro 748 in 1963, the jet Boeing 737-200 in 1977, Short 330 in 1982, Short 360 and Airbus A310-200 in 1985.[3]
On April 1, 1988, Thai Airways Company Limited (TAC) merged with Thai Airways International, under the cabinet resolution, single national airline of the Kingdom of Thailand, as authorised by General Prem Tinsulanonda, Prime Minister at the time.[2]
Thai Airways's 11 aircraft, consisted of 3 Boeing 737-200, 4 Short 330, 2 Short 360 and 2 Airbus A310-200, combined fleet with Thai Airways International, total up 41 aircraft.[4] And airline codes had changed to Thai Airways International's airline codes on end of 1988.
Thai Airways International operates the Larn Luang Office, the former Thai Airways Company head office, in Pom Prap Sattru Phai.[5]
Domestic Destinations of Thailand:
from/to Bangkok (Don Mueang International Airport)
from/to Chiang Mai (Chiang Mai International Airport)
from/to Hat Yai (Hat Yai International Airport)
International Destinations:
Incidents and accidents
25 December 1967
Thai Airways Flight 002, a Douglas C-47A (HS-TDH), crashed at Chiang Mai International Airport due to pilot error, killing 4 out of 31 passengers and crew on board.[6]
April 27, 1980
Thai Airways Flight 231, a Hawker Siddeley HS 748 en route from Khon Kaen to Bangkok, lost altitude during a thunderstorm and crashed about 8 miles from Don Mueang International Airport (formerly: Bangkok International Airport). All four crew members and 40 of the 49 passengers were killed.
June 21, 1980
A Thai Airways Hawker Siddeley HS 748 (HS-THG) overran the runway on takeoff at Chiang Rai Airport after failing to get airborne; all 21 on board survived, but the aircraft was written off.[7]
April 15, 1985
A Thai Airways Boeing 737-200 (HS-TBB) hit high ground on Phuket and was destroyed by the impact and subsequent fire. All four passengers and seven crew members were killed. The accident occurred after a failure of both engines was reported. [2]
April 28, 1987
A Thai Airways Hawker Siddeley HS 748 (HS-THI) made a wheels-up landing at Chiang Rai Airport after the co-pilot forgot to lower the landing gear; all 43 passengers and crew on board survived, but the aircraft was written off.[8]
August 31, 1987
Thai Airways Flight 365, a Boeing 737-200 flying from Hat Yai to Phuket, crashed into the sea off Phuket. All nine crew members and 74 passengers were killed.
See also
1. ^ "World Airline Directory." Flight International. 29 March 1986. 130.
2. ^ a b Thai Airways International - Company History
3. ^ Thai Aviation History - Thai Airways Fleets
4. ^ Thai Airways International - Developments and Advancements of THAI AD. 1979–1988
5. ^ "THAI Shop Contact Us." Thai Airways International. Retrieved on 4 March 2010.
6. ^ Accident description for HS-TDH at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 2015-08-09.
7. ^ Accident description for HS-THG at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 20 February 2014.
8. ^ Accident description for HS-THI at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 4 February 2014.
External links
• Official site of Thai Airways International
• Company profile of Thai Airways Company and Thai Airways International
• Thai Aviation History
• Airline Codes
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As Christians, we must know what we believe, and we must be able to share with others the faith and hope that is within us. Things like salvation, prayer, the Bible, the Trinity, water baptism, the church, worship, and giving are all issues pertaining to our relationship with God and the church that we all need to better acquaint ourselves with if we are to understand our ultimate purpose in life. Below is a description of some of the things we deem important for you to know.
God knew that humanity would sin and need to be reconciled to Him. At the heart of God's plan to reconcile sinful humanity to Himself is the Mediator, Jesus Christ (1 Timothy 2:5–6).
The word salvation is defined as "deliverance from the power and effects of sin." All have sinned (Romans 3:23), but we cannot save ourselves because only a sinless person can save a sinful person. The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ died for sinners (1 Timothy 1:15; Romans 5:6–8).
the bible
The Bible is a book of history, science, poetry, and human behavior. Most importantly, it is a love story that reveals the heart of God through the person of His Son, Jesus Christ.
The Bible was written over a period of 1,500 years by more than 40 authors in three languages on three continents. Rather than contradicting one another, the writers maintained complete historical, moral, prophetical, and theological accuracy. They wrote with harmony and continuity from Genesis to Revelation.
water baptism
Water baptism is not a personal choice, but a command for believers. Jesus established water baptism as an ordinance when He gave the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19; Mark 16:16).
The greatest privilege a Christian has is the privilege of prayer. Not only is it a privilege, but it is also the responsibility of every believer. Jesus said, "Men ought always to pray and not lose heart" (Luke 18:1).
Prayer is simply talking to God and letting our concerns and requests be made known to Him. When we pray, we admit our need for God and our utter dependence on Him. Only through a relationship with Jesus Christ do we have access to God (1 Timothy 2:5). We approach God in Jesus' name, not our own.
Prayer is not a means of trying to get from God what we want, but it is rather a means by which we enable God to give us what He wants. Regarding prayer, Billy Graham said "Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together, but it doesn't pull God down to us; rather, it pulls us up to Him."
The trinity
The Bible clearly teaches that there is only one God (Deuteronomy 6:4; Isaiah 43:11; 44:6; Mark 12:29; 1 Corinthians 8:4; Ephesians 4:6; 1 Timothy 2:5). At the same time, the Bible plainly indicates a plurality within God's nature, consisting of three eternal and coequal persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, each the same in basic nature, but distinct in existence.
Although the word Trinity does not appear in the Bible, the doctrine of the Trinity is a factual conclusion, reached by comparing and combining relevant scriptural truths. "We are setting these truths forth in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the [Holy] Spirit, combining and interpreting spiritual truths with spiritual language [to those who possess the Holy Spirit]" (1 Corinthians 2:13 AMPLIFIED).
God created humanity with a capacity to know, love, and worship Him. Worship is that place where the heart of God and the heart of His child meet.
Oswald Chambers said, "Worship is giving God the best He has given you." Worship carries the idea of showing reverence to God. It's an active, adoring response whereby we declare His worth. To worship means to bow down and pay homage to God: "Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker" (Psalm 95:6).
The Bible has a lot to say about Christians and their money. In fact, the Bible contains more than 2,000 verses on the subject. Time and again, the Bible associates our money with our commitment and relationship to the Lord.
The word give has been defined as "to make a present of." One of the many ways we can give to others is to give financially. Through giving, the early church helped one another and invested in what God was doing. Sadly, the concept of giving has become distorted today. Yet our giving is vitally connected to who we are. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11701 | Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Selena's Moon and Clouds series
The Moon-goddess Selene accompanied by the Dio...Image via Wikipedia
My name, Selena, is Greek and in Greek mythology Sele
ne is the Goddess of the Moon. (I have always though that this was very cool!) My name actually inspired me to travel to Greece and Turkey in the Summer of 1990 to see the Greek ruins and cruise the Greek Isles.
In honor of my namesake, Selene, here is her bio courtesy of Mythography and some pictures that I took at the beginning of September of the Moon and Clouds in the skies above our humble abode (check on the Christmas lights still on the house in one of the pics.) Don't ask me how I was a
ble to get such cool pics of the moon -- I used an Olympus digital camera and used the M setting on the dial. Enjoy!
Selene at a Glance
name | Selene (Selhnh)
role | goddess of the moon
Selene in Greek Mythology
Selene was the Greek goddess of the moon. According to the poet Hesiod, Selene was the daughter of the Titans Theia and
Hyperion, making the goddess the sister of Helios (the Sun) and Eos (the Dawn). However, other ancient sources claim that she was the child of Pallas and Euryphaessa.
Regardless of her ancestry, Selene, as the personification of the Moon, was an influential goddess. One of her best known myths involves the handsome
Endymion. The moon-goddess fell in love with this mortal, and she therefore engaged in an affair with Endymion that resulted in the birth of fifty daughters. But Endymion was, alas, human, and so susceptible to aging and eventually death. Selene could not bear the thought of this cruel fate. According to one version of the myth,she made certain that Endymion would remain eternally youthful by casting a spell that would cause him to sleep forever. In this way, Endymion would always live, sleeping through the ages. It is also important to note that some Classical authors identified Selene with the Olympian goddess Artemis (indeed, in time Artemis was increasingly recognized as a moon goddess in her own right).
Selene was important enough to the ancient Greeks to inspire a
Homeric Hymn. The Hymn to Selene describes the beauty and power of the goddess of the moon.
Homeric Hymn to Selene
"Muses, sweet-speaking daughters of Zeus Kronides
From her immortal head a heaven-set glow
envelops the earth and great beauty arises
under its radiance. From her golden crown the dim air
is made to glitter as her rays turn night to noon,
whenever bright Selene, having bathed her beautiful skin
in the Ocean, put on her shining rainment
and harnessed her proud-necked and glittering steeds,
swiftly drives them on as their manes play
with the evening, dividing the months.
Her great orbit is full and as she waxes
a most brilliant light appears in the sky.
Thus to mortals she is a sign and a token."
Selene was called Luna in Roman mythology.
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*sticks tongue out at sister* Great, I have no way of competing with that, now, do I? I wasn't named after a goddess. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11727 | “A gracious woman retaineth honour” (Proverbs 11:16). A gracious woman is an honourable woman, and would retain her honour in two ways: (1) She would strive all her days to retain a virtuous and honourable character, even as a strong man would use his strength to protect and preserve his riches. (2) She retains it even after death, for a good name is as a precious ointment. She being dead yet speaketh.
How does one define graciousness? Well, a gracious woman is one who puts grace into action! Grace is an active ingredient, and cannot but express itself.
How does one gauge graciousness? Well, the Bible says that it is not by outward physical adornment. It is instructive that both the apostle Paul and the apostle Peter commented on this point in inspired Scripture.
Paul says:
Peter confirms:
Notice Paul and Peter are of one mind about this. Now, the worldly woman will use all that you read in Isaiah 3:18, and there is no doubt that they are successful in presenting an allurement of fleshly beauty.
There are many staggeringly beautiful women about, and Christian women should be aware of temptations that surround their husbands, for David was not above that kind of temptation.
A Christian woman is to keep herself attractive to her husband, but above all to have this real beauty of a gracious spirit and manner. Remember, it is not the bodily form that will capture a spiritual man, but an unpretentious, simple, gracious nature exuding the love of God!
The outward beauty of course, is corruptible; what will these glamorous women be like at 70? They cannot retain it. It is fading, transient and corruptible! Where then would be their honour? But a gracious lady retains her poise, her character, her refreshing loveliness into old age and even beyond death! Consider the list of godly women in Scripture who are remembered and honoured: Sarah, Hannah, Lois, Eunice, Anna, Mary, Dorcas, etc. Consider how in each of them graciousness is evident.
Now how do we define graciousness? Well, it appears to me to be a mixture of graces. Think of it as an amalgam of meekness, modesty, humility, and courtesy. I always associate it with gentleness and sweetness. I do not think there is anything more attractive than a gentle woman! Henry Martin, missionary to the Middle-East, wrote: “The power of gentleness is irresistible!” But a gracious Christian woman is not known only by her gentleness. Indeed, the Scripture particularly highlights her godliness, compassion, and speech. In my mind, these are the three qualities associated with graciousness that the contemporary Christian woman ought to pay especial attention to cultivate, for they are,—amongst other graces—most lacking today.
1. Godliness
Firstly, then, graciousness is associated with godliness. The apostle Paul particularly describes the obedient Christian women as “women professing godliness” (1 Tim 2:9).
The worldly woman paints a black spot, a beauty spot, on her face to attract, and to be taken notice of; but the gracious woman has a rare white heart of godliness that, unconsciously on her part, marks her out! Because she devotes her life to God and honours him, He works godliness in her, and honours her. Graciousness and Godliness are twin sisters that wear the same clothes, so that you cannot tell them apart. Where the one goes, so does the other.
The gracious woman lives “a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty” (1 Tim 2:2). She is one who worships God aright (for that is the meaning here), and she exhibits a good conduct to every one. Such an attitude will bring with it a life of peaceableness.
She exercises herself unto godliness (1 Tim 4:7). It is a matter of training, or spiritual exercising. Whilst I would not deny that bodily exercise is of benefit, yet in light of eternity, it is the spiritual activity that is the all-important manner of life. For, says Paul, “godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is” (1 Tim 4:8), and “Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution” (2 Tim 3:12). Notice it is “live godly,” and not merely “talk godly.” It is not just to voice their religion, but to show it. They would love not in word only but in deed and in truth (1 Jn 3:18). Matthew Henry has rightly said: “Those who wear the livery, and bear the name of the crucified Redeemer will live according to strict rules of Christian religion.”
2. Compassion and Mercy
Secondly, graciousness is always, in the Scriptures, associated with compassion and mercy. For instance: “The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy” (Ps 103:8) and “The LORD is gracious and full of compassion.” (Ps 111:4b). And so in the description of the virtuous or gracious woman, we are told: “She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy” (Prov 31:20). She is, in the words of Swinnock, not like the worldling whose “favour is deceitful and beauty is vain and who is full of words but barren in works.”
Good works, motivated by compassion, and mercy adorn her, so that she does not need to wear costly apparel or gold and pearls! Grace sits upon her brow easier than a jewelled tiara. Graciousness is her natural disposition. It is not forced, imitated, or put on. It is rather how she thinks, feels and reacts. Good works are the extension of a good and godly heart!
Mercy and compassion mixed with godliness fashions a woman of honour and graciousness. Oh, that Christian women would desire to dress after this fashion, rather than follow the fashions of this world, for only in this way will they beautify their husbands, families and churches with glorious examples of Christ-likeness, piety and virtue. Only in this way will they truly fulfil the Lord’s commandment: “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven” (Mt 5:16).
3. Speech
Now, thirdly, graciousness is always associated with the manner and content of speech. The Jewish Rabbis have a saying that: “Ten measures of speech descended from heaven, and women took away nine of them.” Now the gracious woman ought not to be charged with that. Rather, there should proceed from her lips speech of such wisdom, tenderness and sweetness that impresses all who come within earshot. “She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness” (Prov 31:26). “She has the law of love in her heart and the law of kindness in her mouth” says Charles Bridges. Notice it is described as a law! It rules her conversation; it governs her speech! And because it rules her, then it rules those who come under its sway.
We must, as Christians, be careful and prudent how we speak, for James tells us “Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!” (Jas 3:5). But Grace can harness such wildness; can extinguish its natural tendency to enflame! The Scripture is emphatic on this fact. Consider:
· “The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself” (Ecc 10:12).
· “The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out” (Prov 10:31).
· “The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth” (Prov 10:20).
It is through garrulous and foolish words that peace in the home is shattered; husbands made angry; children embittered; friends annoyed; neighbours estranged, and the Church divided! Listen, says Paul in Ephesians 4:29,—“ Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.” The word “corrupt” means “rotten” or “worthless.” “Talk that is rotten and spreads rottenness just as a bad apple” says Foulkes. On the other hand, the tongue can be a minister, who dispenses light, truth, warmth and goodness! Such are words suitable for the occasion at hand! “A word spoken in due season, how good is it! ” (Prov 15:23b)
Notice how the apostle Paul is concerned not only about how we live, but how we speak! In Colossians 4:6, he writes, “Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt.” As Christians, we live in the realm and environment of grace, and therefore we must speak as those who have experienced grace!
Our words must be influenced by grace. Someone who is a debtor to grace, must therefore discharge that debt, by speaking graciously! An awareness of God speaking graciously to us, should bring us to speak graciously to others. As salt makes some food more palatable, so grace makes the conversation of Christians acceptable! Bishop Taylor puts it quaintly but most pertinently, “The tongue was intended for an organ of the divine praises, but the devil often plays on it. So reason must go before it; and when it does not, repentance comes after it.”
No. The tongue is not to be forked as a viper, and to sting with poison. It is rather to be a minister of godliness, and a talent to be used for its Master’s glory. We have, of course, a blessed example in our Master, that “Grace is poured into [his] lips” (Ps 45:2) and the people “wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth” (Lk 4:22).
Again Bishop Taylor states that, “Godliness on the tongue often is mightier than intellect.” It can dispute even against more powerful minds, so that its answers are softer and wiser, sweeter and better! I think if there is one area that Christian women ought to take great pains in cultivating, it is this matter of speech. The tongue is a servant to the heart, “for out of the heart proceed evil thoughts…” (Mt 15:19).
Lips are given to be a bolted door upon the tongue, and should only be opened when grace knocks from the inside. Biblical lips are gracious lips, that kiss with kindness and meaning,—not as Judas, who betrayed the Son of Man with a kiss, but those that impart tenderness, genuineness, graciousness, loveliness!
4. Conclusion
To the extent that you have a godly conduct, a godly heart and a godly tongue as described above, you will manifest a gracious spirit. The sooner you will be gracious, the sooner you will be glorious! Let Grace have her perfect work so as to strive against the world and all its seductions, in order to retain honour as a Christian woman. You have the Word to direct you, and the Spirit to empower you, so that this is not accomplished in your own strength and power! “Strength and honour are her clothing” (Prov 31:25a).
These are the spiritual garments woven out of her relationship to Christ. When she wears this garment, she will automatically be an instrument of grace in her home, for as Swinnock says: “A gracious wife satisfieth a good husband, and silenceth a bad one.” And moreover, what the LORD says concerning Jerusalem would also be applicable to her: “And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty” (Ezk 16:14).
“Christian graces are excellent orators and have a mighty power to persuade” (G. Hammond). It is better to live virtue than to command it. A gracious, virtuous bearing and conduct is a living, walking testimony to the grace of God in action. Women are forbidden to preach from pulpits, but your graces can preach powerful daily sermons. “It is not talking with the wise that will make you wise but walking as the wise” (Brooks). But it is walking and talking! “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver” (Prov 25:11). Dress your lives in silver and your tongues in gold.
Have the lips of Hannah, silently speaking to God, but wisely to Eli. Have the heart of Lydia, to hear God’s Word. Have the hands of Dorcas, to do charitable works. Have thelove of Mary, who anointed Christ. Have the subjection of Sarah, who called Abram “lord.”
Have the wisdom of Lois and Eunice, that trained Timothy. Be a labourer for the Lord like Tryphena, and a servant of the Church like Phebe. Above all have the mind of Christ, and think on whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely and good (Phil 4:8).
And then let those thoughts express themselves in a life of godliness, which will bring glory to God; comfort and satisfaction to your husband; eternal benefit to your children, (so that they will rise up and bless you) and enrichment to your neighbours and Church! W
“In common with man, she is called, where she is unmarried and dependent, to labour for her own support; a condition to which large portions of the community are necessarily subject by the circumstance of their birth. Industry is as incumbent upon her as upon the other sex, and indolence is as inexcusable in her as in man. But in the married state, her sphere of labour… is her family: and it belongs to the husband to earn by the sweat of his brow, not only his own bread, but that of the household (John Angell James, Female Piety: a Young Woman’s Friend and Guide, [SDG, 1994, r. 1860], 63-4)
The female heart is supposed to be the very dwelling-place of mercy, and an unfeeling woman is a libel upon her sex: formed by nature to weep with those that weep, and to minister to the bodily woes of humanity, she should enter into the design of Providence, and become a ministering angel in the chamber of sickness… We call upon you [therefore], without… abjuring the characters of wives and mothers,… to make it your business and your pleasure to visit the scenes of sickness and the abodes of poverty (ibid, 239) |
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11743 | Monday, October 4, 2010
Parenting at its finest
A few days ago, I was at the table with Logan, battling out another mealtime negotiation when I muttered under my breath, "You're a pain in my ass".
To which Logan replied, "No, you're a pain in my ass!"
Whoops. ;-)
Jon had a work event he needed to be at all day Saturday so after soccer, pictures and lunch with my parents, I left the boys in their capable hands and took the train up to the city. We actually didn't stay too long after I got there, since the party was dying down and Jon was getting pretty tired from being there all day, so we headed home soon after.
While driving home, we looked up movie times, to see what was playing and when, since it was a rare kids-free night for us. Unfortunately, we were in that awkward "in between" movie times where we would've had to wait a good hour or so before the next movie time started. The more and more we talked about it, the more and more Option B sounded like an awesome plan.
Option B you ask?
Grab some frozen yogurt, watch a few episodes of True Blood (which we're kind of addicted to now) and crash early.
I felt like we had just played out the "You know you're a parent when...." series.
Today Callum got to try apples for the first time. As always, he did a great job eating them - although interestingly, it seemed like he gobbled up his peas much faster! Could we have a veggie in the making? :)
Kim said...
What season are you on now? ;-)
Mama Bree said...
We just finished Season 1 last night and the first episode of Season 2. They're pretty long - so we're only able to watch about 2 episodes at a time.... We're pretty hooked tho! :) |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11763 | What Does a Reiki Treatment Feel Like?
Receiving Reiki is a very simple process, but usually produces quite profound effects. The Reiki treatment begins by you lying down on a treatment couch. You remain fully clothed, but you may be more comfortable if you remove your shoes, or a belt, or big earrings. You close your eyes and most practitioners will have some gentle, relaxing music playing in the background for you to listen to. Then the Reiki practitioner will gently rest their hands upon you, non-intrusively, in a series of positions from the crown of the head to the feet. The practitioner may use a set of ‘standard’ hand positions which they use for all clients, or hey might work intuitively, which means that they allow the energy flowing through their hands to guide them to just the right combination of hand positions for you on that occasion.
No matter what your particular complaint, the general effect of a course of Reiki treatments seems to be to make you feel more ‘laid back’: more calm, less stressed and better able to cope. Reiki seems to boost energy levels, raise spirits, and make you feel more positive about things. Stressful situations seem to wash over you.
Reiki brings things back into balance.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11804 | Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Strategies/Techniques To Win The Battle Against Stress
2 Corinthians 10:3-5
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; (Any thought that doesn't line up with the Word of God, don't let it have a place in your heart or mind, and especially don't speak it)
Proverbs 18:20-21
Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. (No matter how it feels, no matter how impossible the circumstances might seem, trust in HIM and refuse to let your mind ponder it in the natural)
Phillippians 4:4-9
1 Peter 5:5-11
Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. (You're not the only one who's struggling. The same struggles you're going through, other believers are going through and have gone through the same struggles; you're not alone. Keep yourself in a continual state of humility, continue to release your concerns to Jesus, and continue to trust in Him)
Matthew 11:28-30
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. (Stay grounded in Jesus. He IS the anointing, and He wants His anointing to rest upon His children)
Read Joshua 1. In this account of history, Moses was now dead, and Joshua was expected to take over the ministry (a congregation of 3 million people!). Joshua knew of all the miracles that God did through Moses (a mighty man of God). Now the church was basically like "OK, show us what ya got". He was likely under immense stress at the thought of taking over the leadership of so many people. God tells him 3 times to "be strong and of good courage", and at the end of chapter 1, and even the men in Joshua's army said they would "only be strong and of good courage". God KNEW Joshua was scared, but He needed him to be strong, to trust in Him and to do what He said.
Joshua 1
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11818 | Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Visual Studio Online (cloud based TFS): Making Visual Studio 2010 allow Logging in with Different Credentials
On one project I work on the client asked me to change Visual Studio Online (VSOL) username (email address) to a different email address. VSOL was being used for source code control in a project developed with Visual Studio 2010. Seemed pretty simple to change credentials but there is a bug in Visual Studio 2010 that complicates this process.
From Visual Studio 2010's Team menu select Connect to Team Foundation Server which seems to offer a way to sign out:
Hitting "Sign Out' does nothing.
The solution is to close the Connect to Team Project dialog. From the View menu select Other Windows | Web Browser. In the web browser navigate to http://msdn.microsoft.com:
Sign out from MSDN which is logged in with your previous VSOL account.
From Visual Studio 2010's Team menu select Connect to Team Foundation Server which seems to offer a way to sign out. It actually does this time:
This time when you sign out, Visual Studio will sign the account out of Visual Studio Online and prompt a user to enter new credentials:
It is not possible to sign in with the updated Visual Studio Online credentials.
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Visual Studio Online (cloud based TFS): Creating Additional Administrators
We have all been bottle-necked when there is one administrator for Visual Studio Online and hence only one person who can manage source code control. While the VSOL administrator is on the beach in Florida there are no new projects created and no new users added to VSOL.
To create a second administrator:
1) The administrator should log in to VSOL (this blog's instance of VSOL is found at https://admiralgracehopper.visualstudio.com).
https://<VSOL instance name>.visualstudio.com
2) The administrator should navigate to the screen which allows access to security including group and use management:
https://<VSOL instance name>.visualstudio.com/DefaultCollection/_admin/_security
For this blog's instance of VSOL the link can be found at https://admiralgracehopper.visualstudio.com/DefaultCollection/_admin/_security.
4) From the security tab, select "Users" and click on the user to be assigned administrative permissions:
The current administrator is Keyser Soeze. User, Jan David Narkiewicz, will also be made an administrator. The screen shown demonstrates the individual permission associated with Jan David Narkiewicz. Instead of setting individual permissions it is simpler to assign the user to the appropriate group or groups.
5) From the previous screen select "Member of":
6) To associate the user with additional groups including making said user an administrator click on "Join group":
7) From the "JOIN A VISUAL STUDIO ONLINE GROUP" dialog click on "Browse":
8) The list of account types is listed. The type of administrator can be fine tuned such as checking only "Project Collection Administrators" or "Project Collection Build Administrators". After adding all groups the permissions for user, Jan David Narkiewicz includes every administrative level feature because such permissions are inherited from the groups associated with the user:
Note: individual permissions can be added by clicking on the "Not set" control next to the permission type and setting the value to "Allowed".
Friday, January 24, 2014
Visual Studio Online (cloud based TFS): Changing Account Owners
As a consultant, many of my clients do use source code control or use a flavor of source code control running locally on a server (SourceSafe, SVN, etc.). In these cases, I immediately sign the client up for Visual Studio Online (VSOL, http://www.visualstudio.com/) with its free, source code for up to five users. Before completing work for a client, I make sure to make each client the account owner of their VSOL code repository.
To change the account which owns a VSOL instance perform the following steps:
1) Have the client create a Microsoft ID if they do not already have one. This is typically the client's hotmail.com, msn.com, outlook.com or live.com email address. For the sake of this example assume the client's Microsoft ID is Nicolaus_Copernicus@outlook.com.
2) Login to the client's VSOL that you currently own (our sample repository is: https://admiralgracehopper.visualstudio.com and it is owned by pumpkinko@hotmail.com).
3) Add the client's Microsoft ID as a user to VSOL which is as simple as clicking the User menu (e.g. https://admiralgracehopper.visualstudio.com/_user) and then clicking Add (see below):
4) Navigate to your VSOL instance's settings page which for our sample repository is https://admiralgracehopper.visualstudio.com/_admin/_home/settings):
The "Account owner" drop down allows the user to be changed from "Jan Narkiewicz" to "Nicolaus Copernicus." |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11867 | Monday, 18 April 2016
A Veil of Glass and Rain (A Touch of Cinnamon Book 1) - Petra March
What did I think?
For some reason, I actually thought A Veil of Glass and Rain was a YA novel so I picked it up as a quick read one lazy weekend. It does contain some scenes of a sexual nature, so it definitely doesn't fit into the YA genre, or at least not what I expect of the YA genre. Once I got past what I was expecting to read, I really got into the book and found Brina and Eagan to be very strong, deeply flawed, but likeable characters.
Never have two people been meant for each other more than Brina and Eagan. When they first realise they have feelings for each other, unfortunately Brina is too young and she runs away to avoid being rejected by Eagan. Would he have rejected her? I think not, although we will never know.
Despite numerous relationships, the pair never forget each other and one day Eagan finds himself in Italy and reconnects with Brina. I loved the way that Brina's insecurities were portrayed; almost an attempt to self-sabotage their relationship. It takes Brina a long time to start to trust Eagan again and I wondered if she would ever fully give in and trust him with her whole being.
Eagan has suffered his own fair share of tragedy. He lost his best friend, David, in such devastating circumstances so I could quite understand his unwillingness to be hurt again. I had my fingers crossed for Brina and Eagan as I had come to care for them in the short time I had known them during this book.
A Veil of Glass and Rain is a true love story, a story of destiny and desire and how some things are just meant to be.
My rating:
Buy it from Amazon
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11917 | Origami Cushions Protect Drones from Collisions
To protect flying robots without hindering their flight, Imperial experts found answers in the ancient art of origami. Taking inspiration from the ancient art of paper folding, scientists at Imperial College London’s Aerial Robotics Lab have equipped drones with lightweight, impact-absorbent cushioning to protect them from bumps and scrapes. Their research, published in Science Robotics, […]
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/11923 | Unlocker Deleting Files
Posted by marmara on May 3, 2019
Sure every Windows user is faced with failure when deleting a file or folder. That is now unnecessary blot archive of music and as much as 10.5 gigabytes vysvobozhu place. 'And here and there', exclaims the system and shows the window: 'Can not delete the file. Dr. Neal Barnard wanted to know more. " Of course, the error can easily be repaired and you can fix it with standard tools the OS, but you can do poelegantnee – c Unlocker – a program to delete files. Although the error message may indicate a different, probably all this happened because of lack of rights to performance of a given file system failure . In the first case it may be an invalid file name, wrong sector on the HDD and the file path is too long, and so on. In this case is strongly suggested to have recourse to the utility chkdsk. In the second case the axis does not give the user to the required access rights to the object.
Most often this happens on a computer whose hard drive marked under NTFS, on the LAN or multiple accounts users. Here we are faced with the division of access levels and user groups to the files – a reliable and at the same time a complex machine. We will not go into technical details, and explain better with an example. Loth deleted file can work with another participant in the network, another user, another application or process – that is, a file or folder has any open descriptor. As However, if we are thinking confidently remove non-removable file, you will first remove all processes using that file. Here we will help Unlocker, which will show all open file descriptors and complete them. Utility freeware, small, with the Russian language, easy to use and functional. It flexibly integrates into the Windows context menu and does not ask for any special skills to work. In addition to deleting files is also provided, and other operations – Rename or move, which also often need to work.
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What does it amount to in industry, schools, universities and politics generally?
A. What is good? It is God alone who is good; all other goodness is derivative and potential, made substantial only through and in His presence, action and accounting.
Q: Yes, but what does this goodness in action in man, do in this area?
A: Well,
a) instead of being bossy, government that is good is understanding;
b) instead of being all-for-money, it considers profit first to be in terms of value sand righteousness and what the final result will be - the rest is merely a measure of efficiency WITHIN those aims;
c) instead of making efficiency king, it uses it as an instrument, like a screw-driver. If you will forgive the pun, better a good leader than a screwy driver.
Q: That's all old hat. What else?
A: It is old; as old as the Cross, and older than that, as you will find if you look at King David around 1000 B.C.: a man after God's own heart, we read.
You may say, 'I hear this sometimes: BUT THIS IS NOTHING NEW!' Of course it is not; for God is not new and has not just begun to speak. It is the adversary, the devil who learns ever new tricks of ever new deception which are in the last analysis all sadly old. He tries imperiousness, imperial authority, charm, subtlety, ferocity, callousness, plans before people, people without plans: anything mad or unsavoury, he has it.
Q: This is becoming a sermon: I want good government. How?
A: First, what is a sermon? An exposition of what God has said. Still, let's get to the technicalities some more, since this seems to be your wish. Next, there is an awareness of the field, of those whom you govern, and this requires a nose for it, data collection, personal involvement; and it seems to me it is best with a very reasonable salary which could NOT AT ALL be called rich. Otherwise you are too far separated from those whom you govern.
That is where Australia and the U.S. are making a huge mistake; and as for the Canberra shrine to government, where Parliament meets with a billion or so dollars under their feet, this sort of royal program endangers the country through illusions of grandeur. Actually we are substantially in debt, and debtors do not well to make grandeur the air of their offices.
Q: Good: Salaries and attitudes. What more?
A: Leadership in particular. INSIDE the government, all 'bosses' or leaders should be leaders, not petty aristocrats, pompous directors. P.M. Howard seemed to show something of this at the first at any rate, speaking of his detestation of self-important pomposity in ministers, and requirement of real serviceability. It is not the mere saying, however, but the doing which makes for good government.
As to that, consider the case of the famous earth-moving equipment genius, and inventor, Le Tourneau, once featured on the front page of Time magazine. His devotion to CREATIVITY in the interests of BENEFIT AND PRODUCTIVITY AND PROBLEM SOLVING for those who used it, whatever the cost and the danger, AND to the welfare of his employees, with true concern for and involvement in their care, led to a WAITING LIST for employment in his enterprise. Leadership is more than movement, it is improvement, concern and has a content of benevolence and realism.
Q: What else in the leadership attitude?
A: There needs to be an awareness of talent, and positive desire and interest in its exercise. You need to be a talent scout, and to take real pleasure in seeing talent and task well-matched, goodwill and good graces in excellent function, and a complete abortion of the detestable and selfish desire for 'survival' (in your own place, as in the places of all leaders below you, if you are a Minister of Government).
In fact, of course, the desire to survive, collect maximal superannuation, collect dividends in the form of travel allowance and so on is sometimes almost a game, a clever game, so that those who do best at it are 'clever', good leaders, men of the world, women of wit, and they are treated at times as if this makes them better suited for higher office. The opposite is true.
If you despise the rat-race, the simple plan is to opt out and to walk in moral grace, seeking good - not survival. A person who trusts in Christ has no need of 'survival'; the cross is the OPPOSITE ambition. Resurrection is quite adequate. Goodness meanwhile is an indispensable quality. Indeed, service at sacrifice is a real thing which has sometimes a bad name because so many hypocrites find it easier to mouth than to put into action. This does not alter the reality, only illustrates the farce of Satan who has no heart for the truth.
Q: What about freedom in this moral government of yours?
A: There MUST be freedom. That is why, at the University of Adelaide, we were advertising often and extensively as The Truth and Life Club Inc., so that any who felt able should overthrow our demonstration that the Bible is the only authorised, divine word from God Almighty to the human race.
It involved the points that there is God Almighty, that He HAS spoken to the race, that THIS BIBLE is precisely what He said, and is His word. Since the GOSPEL is IN that word, and it portrays JESUS CHRIST, LORD AND SAVIOUR, these things followed, they are so, are what they are stated and declared to be and must be faced as truth (cf. The Shadow of a Mighty Rock Chs.1-3, That Magnificent Rock Chs.1-7). Their consequences likewise follow, equally, as there declared.
Indeed, they DO follow: for if one is not and will not be where truth is, one lives in the lie, the darkness covers like an untimely shroud, and life is little more than an hypnotic prelude to the dismalness of deserved severance from one's Maker, whose friendship is marvellous, whose power unsurpassable and whose truth clean. If His servants are faithful, they will not be more attractive than He from whom they come, but the world will rather reject them as they rejected their Master (Matthew 10:24-25); but the word concerning the Saviour, the word of God is delivered which can deliver whosoever will (Revelation 22:17) .
In the meantime, we did not (and if we could, would not) FORCE anyone to accept our challenge, but it was repeatedly made.
It is enough that one University group fled after the first meeting of challenge with reason for the faith, one of them returned, failed to disturb the proof of the Bible, left without an answer to specific logical challenge, said he would return, never did so. The materialist never materialised, a point material to the debate, the challenge never was met. For highly invisible reasons, the matter was dispensed with, and the realm of purpose left the arena void of the contest offered! It is difficult to debate without an opponent...
The field was vacated, and then some apparently talked about it on the Net to which at that time, I had no personal access, having then no computer of my own or knowledge by which to operate it. Multiple challenges provided to them over a considerable time were ignored; debate was offered by us for arrangement, but with no takers, even opportunity for the immaterial materialist for whom absence desired seemed an immaterial ground for never materialising, no nor being seen again, nor responding to any challenge, nor meeting where the challenge was, the issues already put, the confrontation already given.
As noted, it is rather like a contest or game, a challenge or encounter in which ONE PARTY decides, after the first match or two, that the contest is better held in the absence of the challenger, the fight better and more comfortably fought when with only one party in the ring; it is resembles having an Inter-Varsity football match leaving one team at the oval, while the other elects and prefers to do its kicking on King William St.. Certainly it has advantages, but interaction is not one of them. (Cf. Biblical Blessings, Ch.1, pp. 12ff..)
There has been no impediment for any open terrain where all may come. Talk, writing, meeting, debate, some suggestion for interchange, which they may make: none have been acceptable to these warriors! Is it because they know they fight against the Lord, in some inscrutable way, being convicted ? or fear the outcomes ? The Lord knows.
With such stakes of such magnificence, magnitude and alternatively in the end, of desolation, for the lives of many, who would not be willing! (cf. John 3:33-36, which after all follows 3:16, and parallels 3:18-19). Nevertheless, from these as from many millions, there has been no such coming in this context. In this case, some came from time to time to taste, to enquire, to relate, to ponder.
Yet as to sustained and effective contest, the achievement of results, Adelaide University like a sphinx, indeed, has had little to say when so amply given opportunity. It hid from this most present and exceedingly available option, announced and re-announced, presented openly, in lecture, discussion. The end of such beginnings is often the beginning of the end, and when it comes, the vanity of youth is no more, the intrinsic emptiness, that that of any other age. It is just that it is often more obvious how much, and how far, there is to be loss. Nevertheless, the word of the Lord does not return to Him void, and He SAYS so! In His season, there is fruit - and who a better example thant the apostle Saul, reckless in combat against Christians, only to become like a nurse OF them (Philippians 1:24,28, I Thessalonians 2:7)! And so we trust!
But as to the failure so often by so many, to rise to the logical challenge where it was put ? or rising, to come anywhere within sight of meeting it ?
It is not entirely surprising, for given error, the case is indeed hard to fight to sustain it; for what is the nature of spiritual error! It is against both God and life, a fabrication of the fancy, a farmyard without inhabitants. Facts, morality, reality, history, logic all are in entire confrontation, whoever points it out. Indeed, in the end, victory in such a contest against the Lord is in fact, impossible, except as here, it be one in the dreams, in which only one party appears, the other shadow boxing, while avoiding the ring, and landing its blows in the air! The sadness of continuing secession from the realities of the sublime Maker and certain Saviour, the only one, is one of those immortal griefs to the saints while they are on earth, seeing the heedless, reckless and often flimsy motives or manners of the loss; because the solution is wonderful in kind, experience and goodness.
It is life which is lost when truth is fled from; and the flight from the Lord is here more than metaphor. It seems almost to be given actual feet. There are only two places to flee: to the Lord or from the Lord. Jonah for all time illustrates the latter, and he was chastened, because he WAS the Lord's. Alas, without the Lord's intervention, WHO shall come! (Jeremiah 17:9) -
"The heart is deceitful above all things,
And desperately wicked:
Who can know it ?
I, the LORD, search the heart,
I test the mind,
Even to give every man according to his ways,
According to the fruit of his doings"; and again,
"The foolishness of a man twists his way,
And he frets against the Lord" - Proverbs 19:2.
The preference for darkness remains where it begins, just that, a preference: for as Christ indicated, what is of the light comes into the light (John 3:20-21): "he who does the truth comes to the light".
Hiding from the word of God, even amid unreasoning abuse, is no answer, though it is a signal of defeat and a verification of prophecy when it comes (John 15:20, Matthew 10:25); and it IS important that in the end, giving no answer will be a ground of judgment, for the call of Christ DEMANDS an answer, and while one may hide now, physically or in some media, then there is no such opportunity.
Q: How do you relate to such things now ?
Indeed, it was years after this, before I bought my first computer and was able to operate as computer-literate. Meanwhile, some students came to our University beachhead from time to time, but the truth of the Bible position was never endangered. Its uniquely valid position was never countermanded by reason, but only established the more before those who enquired.
To logic there must be logic in answer, not ad hominems, psychic feelings and the like; and it must be where the action is, not in secret places, sequestered terrains, like sportsmen duly defeated in open contest, now playing alone, where the opponent is not equipped to come! This however is more than a game (though not less) and the results are eternal, making acute the everlasting pity of pertinacious refusal by will, of what is mandatory to mind and essential to spirit: even the Creator Himself and His word, in which lies like a shaft of gold, His Gospel of grace.
Thus, spreading yet further, it is significant that when we asked such people if they would like to write their answers; none came; we asked later, when the author took to the Net, if they would like to confront us there, yet no answer to the ring. DIscussions ensued from time to time, but in general, the will was not present.
To the point of the challenge: Not a bird peeped or chirruped; every plateau for discussion was left as darkness leaves the earth when dawn comes. But it is GOOD that they had freedom to meet us if they would.
The light of Christ scatters or it draws. It divides, just as the word of God divides between soul and spirit (Hebrews 4:12). Darkness has no answer to light, and in its presence, through its source, the Lord Himself, its baselessness grows oppressive, in the end, even to itself.
Q: Do you see any lesson for the University authorities to learn ?
A: Certainly, and this is one of our reasons for action in this matter. Indeed, it appears as
of great significance, and it stands continually, from this and all such events.
Our point of course was this: IF anyone can NOT overthrow the PROOF that the Bible is the word of God, and all this shows, then it is MORALLY WRONG to attack it anywhere in the University, since the answer is there. ANYONE, professor, student, could come. Comically, some highly articulate people began to make excuse, saying they could not match us with words - that leading to our other offers of writing and so on. The fact is, as we have shown, and I have found over many decades of all this sort of thing, NO ONE has an answer to this. The BIBLE IS THE TRUTH.
This has been an excursion on reason, force, truth, logic and will among the young. It can bear rapport with our topic, just because it was NOT a matter of rule, to the area where rule is.
Now therefore, back to government. For all that, then, even if I had the political party in power, and were its leader, I still would not FORCE anyone to believe (or really, to pretend to believe) WHETHER they thought they could answer or not. The REASON for the faith is not the faith. If you do not have faith, you lack the most essential thing; for without it, you and God are apart. Since He made you, and you are not self-sufficient, this is a most unhappy state of things. It is in one sense, a form of madness, spiritual madness as the Bible puts it; but this is no REASON to use any form of force. (See SMR pp. 65-72, 1186Aff.. ) God has not done so, but has rather exposed HIMSELF in Christ to its use (I Cor. 1:22, 2:8), making the point with power to arise, not to quench will and subvert. Truth has its beauty and mere force is as far beneath it as is the pit from the sublime.
This means that you do not give special privileges to Christians, even if you are in a governing position to do so. Emperor Constantine, in the days of the Roman Empire, was wrong here. It can lead to hypocrisy. It is precisely for this reason, I believe, that many speak badly of the Victorian era - or rather, for this reason not least. Pompous humbug is what follows when people pretend to be, or like to imagine they are Christians when in fact, their hearts are far from the Lord, and His word and commands they merely equivocate about, not doing them. Christ indicated that many would come to Him at judgment time, asserting their mighty works, but He would (correctly) profess to them: I never knew you! Thus their life-long exclusion of Him would become His exclusion of them.
Q: What about Universities? If you were in power, what would you do with freedom there; and what about Colleges at the secondary level?
A: Universities should be places where truth is sacred. When it comes to God, I have never found places less like what they should be. In what is now a University in S.A., I once lectured in Communications. Special permission was granted to me to present material on scientific method, and of course this showed that creation was the apt contender, in terms of procedure. (See That Magnificent Rock, Ch.1,The Shadow of a Mighty Rock, pp. 140ff., and so on.) Enormous hostility arose, and the Head of the Department asked me to account.
This I did: No better case illustrating scientific method could I find than this abortion of it, so commonly met in the area of organic evolutionism. The errors of method met here, these helped to focus and feature what scientific method should be. Thus, by bringing up a well-known case, and allowing us systematically to show the foibles which substituted for clear and correct application of scientific method to the case, we had an excellent stimulus to thought and understanding.
I indicated that in fact the opposite position to this careful methodology was common, endemic and unwarranted; that proper freedom of thought was not in place, that all that could be said for and against meant it was high time that someone would present what had been neglected; that what I had presented was correct, available for overturning; that it had not been overturned, and if it could be, then it was appropriate for it to be overturned in my presence. What time better than the present! This was the tenor of my reply to investigating authority.
The response was this: IT IS NOT CONVENIENT to teach otherwise, like this. Therefore, STOP IT! {You could see further on such things, and on this, in News 51, Scoop of the Universe pp. 248ff..}
Q: Did you? Or did you have enough principle to avoid what could be construed perhaps as a power putsch!
A: No I rejected the request, and hence in a little when the tasks required were done, left the institution. It would not be possible to abide by such a request, in integrity. The calibre of the answer to my truth-based request echoes like a gun-shot through the vaults of history: It is not convenient.
Q: So you recommend that people should not hold on to positions, but rather hold on to the truth?
A: This is so. The Bible declares: Buy the truth and do not sell it. Sell truth! Without truth a person is scarcely human - but especially if the result is voluntary! But this has been an interesting case, the University one.
Q: Why?
A: This is PRECISELY the sort of area where an abuse of power arises - any teaching place, or site of instruction. However, at a University, people must be prepared to throw away arrogance about philosophies, and put them to the test, not abusing lecturers' powers by failing you, or harassing your responses if they have merit, because they do not fit the current flirtation with culture, which is modish.
Q: What other area have you found to incorporate this sort of abuse?
A:The same is true of seminary, a type of institution where I found harsh anger a substitute for reasoned reply, when challenging unbelief, effectually by invitation! and intemperate inequity a substitute for grace of manner and righteousness. This was in what appeared all too obviously a case of an educational institution radical both in propositional and personal approach, with strong trends towards irrationality.
Even in a conservative seminary*1, it is possible to find some -ism so enshrined that its devotees lose their normal grace. Thus in one case, a senior student openly rebuked a professor who had asked me not to challenge in Class, and then sought to mock my position, himself appearing critically limited in this act by the chains of fixed cultural concepts, while thus my freedom was foreclosed.
However, the presentation which the author had made, on John 1-3, concerning the love of God in the LIGHT of the coming of Christ, so that what refused it had THIS for its condemnation, that darkness was desired rather than light, and this in the very face of the declared purpose, presence, provision, passion, proclivities and proclamations of Christ: this was not touched, for it could not be touched, for it is there written, as shown by the references for *1 above and *2 below, not least Repent or Perish, Ch.1, End-note 1, The Kingdom of Heaven Ch. 4 , esp. Endnote 1,The Glow of Predestinative Power Ch. 4, To Know God ... Ch. 1 (cf. John 15:21-23, I Timothy 2). Not lassitude in divine love, as if it were not true that "God is love", but its rejection in the very face of it, HIS face: this is the crux. This is the Biblical reality, message and insistence, the base of the condemnation as stated in John.
Arguments, philosophically based and lacking foundation, about words (v. II Timothy 2:14): these do not alter this, but merely exhibit the proclivities and preferences of speech, by those who seek to define it on their own terms. The fact is as it always has been, and will be, however: it is on GOD'S chosen terms that the matter is to be understood, not in definitions implied by presuppositions of desire. As to the understanding of terms, this too must be derived from the same biblical source, not the insistences of tradition.
It is not silencing, but truth which matters; not philosophy and its endless variations and vagaries, but what is written. As to that, the teaching directly indited in the Bible: it is gloriously, incomparably and in terms of Christian Apologetics, valiantly harmonious, a verification of its truth yet once more. It is this which stands endlessly, falls never, meets every test, is never overthrown, whether wilfully or ignorantly. This categorically unique harmony of the Biblical conspectus in this field, is shown extensively in Predestination and Freewill.
There neither is, nor ever has been, anything to fear from philosophy, but there is all to fear for it, from the truth, inscribed from heaven, set forth in earth, and confirmed in PERSON by the author.
It is THIS word and not some other, which is to be regarded (II Timothy 1:13).
What then ?
Far better freely to meet the case put IN YOUR ACTIVE PRESENCE without procedural prejudice, and see what befalls then! - if the truth is desired!*2
Q: But can these principles be executed by a teacher?
A: Certainly. I have taught at secondary, post-secondary and tertiary level, over many years, and have applied them.
For my part, I would mark essays without regard to their position, merely basing it on their acumen, analysis, knowledge, expression and performance. For years, this is what I did, delighting in fairness. They were being taught to think, to argue, to assess; and the mere fact that any would fail to grasp the total position was not highly relevant: how FAR did they travel in terms of logic, what grounds did they give, how meritorious was their overall composition, structure and so on. Even if their conclusion was right, what was the procedure they used to reach it! That was a crucial point.
THIS is a form of tolerance, in this educational spheres, NOT very often met with; but it is the only answer, in this present world, to arbitrary cultural sovereignty which makes a mockery of truth. To SPIT OUT the right answer is not to the point, when the object is education, in a secular scene. It is rather to be able to show the means and methods of seeking truth, so that in knowledge and appreciation of relevance and argumentation, you indicate a prepared mind.
Q: So liberty is possible if the price is paid, and the coin is available?
A: LIBERTY is entirely possible, but not often found in Universities where the nature of man and of God and of truth is concerned; and it is concerned, directly or indirectly, in some way, almost all of the time.
THAT is precisely one reason why we challenged at Adelaide University. If Lecturers are going to attack Christian principles, the name of God and so on, directly or indirectly, and my long University experience shows just how much of this there is, and the extent of its crudity: then at least they should be willing to stand up and be counted, to meet a specific ACADEMIC CHALLENGE given to them by a multiple-University graduate (in case they disdain), and show WHY they think this sort of denigration is academically respectable.
It is of course dishonourable to continue in that sort of line, when you have no answer. Our purpose was also to allow students being harassed in this way, a place and a help, so that mere confusion would not reign, while their exams and marks and so forth, acted like a pitchfork, to make them conform to their teachers' pet (and often anti-Christian) philosophies.
Q: Have you found very different teachers, who are ... commendable here?
A: Indeed yes. At seminary in America, I met a couple who were quite outstanding in this, and a delight to know. Even one University Professor, a Chairman, was good here, though it was clear what a strain he was suffering when he took advanced degree work with me; and I fear he failed somewhat. Nevertheless, he made a huge effort, and it was good to see.
Yes, it is indeed true that all teachers do not engage in this sort of academic rort, but it is far more common than some seem to think. In Monash University, in First Year Medicine, tests were carried out, and a University leader expressed something like horror that around half of them believed in creation not evolution. He expressed the view that evolution was a needed object on the mental mantelpiece, for a good doctor. The opposite is true.
When young, I myself had tonsils extracted in what seemed to have been a mass neighbourhood assault on that organ in the young. It seems it may have been believed it had no real function, was maybe a left-over, and so could be dispensed with. Later studies, as in all such cases is the trend, showed it had real merits at certain stages of growth, and function. So our magnificent design can be "handled", just as it often is - too loosely - with powerful drugs, as if it were mere bits-stuck-together. If there is ONE THING a doctor does NOT need, it is the slap-happy attitude to the human masterpiece of design which tends to result. Underlying philosophies can have strange effects, even on the conscientious.
Little decisions and trends easily set in, so that like a god, the doctor may come to follow superficially what the appearance is, to a presuppositional mind, with myths on its mantelpiece.
Of course, there are some very fine Christian doctors who have learned to co-operate with God in disease; and those who do not understand, we do not suggest, do things evilly by design. It is just that confusion here can harass a doctor, and therefore trouble a patient. It becomes rather like having a serviceman for your car, who does not believe in factories and inventors. (For the realities, see SMR Chs. 1-3,8-10 etc..)
At that, if I were educating doctors, I should seek the same freedom. They need to understand like anyone else; but if they do not, their technical expertise is examinable, not their faith, however groggy.
Q: What however about secondary schools? Surely THEY are too young there for that sort of thing?
A: In some ways, of course. They do however in secondary school have teaching often which is no less than a thorough, careless, opinionated course in evolutionary myth. This is a shameless shambles. If they REALLY cannot understand anything to the point, they should not be taught at all in this field. In fact, they are taught much, in many texts, with that same endless indoctrinative process which is carried on in TV mythologies, whose name is legion.
In reality, of course, they can understand much of this by year 10, and some very much sooner. It is not for nothing that the text-books are loaded with assumptions and expressions of loyalty to the myth. A really fascinating course in this area is provided in 5 lectures by John Mackay, the notable Queenslander whose services on TV, radio, campuses and in Schools have been so much sought in various lands.
Q: What then could you tell them?
A: EXACTLY as much as the coverage you plan to give them assumes. (In particular, study that series of lectures: The Origin of Life. It exemplifies some features.)
Q: How much is that?
A: Usually, it means estimates of age, of change, of methods of change of living things, geological views, fossil studies, genetic views and the like. In fact, as our other works have shown most clearly, the opposite to organic evolutionism is what is shown, and it is indeed rather comic how many outstanding academics as we have often detailed, acknowledge the mythological nature of the alleged evidence, which in fact is for types continuing as such.
As to age, only if you assume it do you get it, such is the nature of the presuppositional situation, as detailed in That Magnificent Rock, The Antics of Dating, and in The Shadow of a Mighty Rock, Ch.2. Many processes are wholly inexplicable except on the understanding of 'young age' for the earth. Religion apart, scientifically, I could not find ground for any other view.
That, however, is not here the point. What is? that there is abundant scope to expose students to FACTS and to let them draw their own conclusions. Dr Dmetri Kouznetsov, a vocal creationist, argued that, when at Adelaide University - a man with three doctorates in bio-science by the age of around 35, and a full professor with the Lenin Science prize in the Russia of the time. His point was well taken.
Facts of relevance, as expertly shown by Dr Michael Denton (who shows no sign of professing Christianity), in his Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, and many others, are most delightful here. They do not at all allow these easy theories. Education is, in my opinion, just the thing for a secular school. It is unfortunate that indoctrination has here so often replaced it, to the point that it is quite sound to say this: MISSIONARIES of atheism and theistic evolution (see SMR pp. 179ff.) are at work constantly.
If ever 'missionaries' from the sects were misled and misleading, these are as far wrong. It is practised in South Australia, at taxpayer expense, with authoritative governmental demand, to the exclusion of all fair debate, in High Schools, which hence in this regard, are low schools of low moral body-blows - better, mind blows - to the young.
It would be difficult to over-state the shameless ethics involved in this procedure. Indeed, in Ch.8 of That Magnificent Rock, the whole matter is analysed, and the Government document exposed in detail.
Q: Why then does God, according to the Bible, come and reign on earth? IS THAT education?
A: Higher education! We have thousands of years in which freely to come to the truth. We are given every opportunity with politics of the right, the left, the centre, to find stability and strength. The British Empire (*3) in some ways, grew nearer, as we saw in The Kingdom of Heaven, Ch.7, pp. 111ff. (cf. The Other Australia, p. 100in The Other News). It tended to demand morals, exhort to duty and nobility, service and realism; but then, in this case, there was an authoritative religion from above, so that for long, privileges could come if you were a Christian; and we have already noted the danger of that. Again, since the nation as such was not Christian, and it ran the Church through its government, then the church was misrun, even though it had a fine, clear statement on doctrine. In the end, this anomaly was fatal.
The U.S. too (*3), had its day. In the nineteenth century, in some ways it drew near to these things. Freedom was vast, as well; but the very mobility and fluidity of things eventually led to a people with bad morals growing in numbers, with sensationalism, experientialism and various inward desires replacing the objective realities of Jesus Christ. He has no equal; no leadership is as good; and this land is now heavily in debt, while society grows so dangerous that one wonders how safe it will soon be to even live there.
Still, these have been interesting movements towards truth; but like all the rest, they do not succeed in the end, because the heart of the people is not a good enough guide, and that is the guide in a democracy; while authorities tend to be corrupted by power. NO NATION will ever manage it, till Christ comes back. That as shown from the Bible in SMR pp. 623ff., is what God has predicted.
THAT is PRECISELY why it is HIGHER EDUCATION, in the best sense, when Christ returns and SHOWS how it is done! It cannot in short be done without God, and the world will not have Him! It is as simple as that. WHEN all the laboratory possibilities, metaphorically speaking, of running the show, the world, the nations, are found bankrupt, because it is really founded on Him, THEN He comes and SHOWS THE WAY.
It is really marvellous. First you have the students - and all the world is a student - left free, to see what they can find. THEN the teacher comes and PERSONALLY DEMONSTRATES IT. CLASS WORK AND THEN LAB.OPPORTUNITY! Wonderful education!
Thus, freedom has its opportunities, and this shown, truth exhibits it. If people still do not want truth, they can go to their own place and indulge in their whim! It is sad, but no one, NO ONE could do more for them! The Cross of shame to cover their guilt, the millenia of freedom to find the way, and many do individually; and then the authority of truth to manifest it in its beauty and power and wonder.
Good government? It is a gift of God, and blessed those who practise it with the Spirit of truth in their hearts, understanding in their minds, lovingkindess in their ways and patience.
The case in actual historical fact was Westminster Theological Seminary. The scope of the love of God towards mankind, as expressed in the first chapters of John's gospel (in fact, paralleled in I Tim. 2, Titus 2-3, Col.1 et al.) remains as it will remain: unharmed, unharassed and uncompressed by such light and ultimately irrelevant and indeed biblically inappropriate verbal play (II Timothy 2:14, Proverbs 8:8-9), based on arbitrary assumptions as occurred in response to my examinable and assessed sermon presentation, in the Westminster case noted. It is the word of God which binds; and its splendour must be received with simplicity, its authenticity without strivings. (See references in next paras.)
As noted in Biblical Blessings, pp. 111ff., Westminster can be of much assistance where the oppressive foretastes of antichrist are aroused as they were in my early ministerial career in Australia. However, as Tennyson put, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world ... Even Westminster is not at all perfection…
To confess this tendency, for misplaced zeal for an -ism, rather than fruitful zest for what, in EACH context of the word of God, is actually written, is to note something which, though understandable, does not increase understanding; though forgivable, is not profitable. It does nothing to reduce Westminster's valuable contribution on most fronts; but it does assist realism.
Its strong Calvinism is not objectionable in much, the famous five points of the same theologian, in their Biblical setting, being of great value. Unfortunately, he like so many others gifted, having added to the arsenal of the church in his systematics, failed to give adequate stress to another aspect: in this case, to the love of God. Indeed, the vast conflict in discussion between Wesley and Whitefield is eloquent testimony to the dangers of specialising on some scriptures, without real value being given to others. ALL scripture must be clearly regarded (II Tim 3:16, cf. I Tim. 6:4). Re this & Biblical fidelity: see Predestination and Freewill (P&F), pp.100ff., 114-189, 190-191, SMR, Appendix B , Appendix D; The Biblical Workman 8, End-note 2; and *2 . Without this special care, and indeed consistent regard to all that the word of God declares, a philosophic approach becomes all too possible; and this failure occurred at times at Westminster, perhaps being the reason for two events.
One is that given above; and the other came when systematics scholar, John Murray, a delightful man of great analytical ability, challenged me in class to give account of what was troubling me in his presentation, according 5 minutes for the task. Using Colossians 1:19-23, I showed the gap in the systematics, and the great danger it ran of not only aborting an aspect of the Bible, but of inadvertently becoming guilty of MERIT in salvation. Of course, this was not the aim of the system in view, but a real liability ( pp.1130ff. and P&F). No answer was forthcoming from John Murray, and this was just; for what God affirms in His word, is not severable by human assertion. You have to adopt the statements and find the correlative ones, seeing all as one non-contradictable whole. It is then that wisdom operates.
These things should be handled, as the Westminster Confession so justly says, with care and discretion. John Murray, then, did not answer this direct affirmation of the generic character of the love of God shown in Colossians 1; and never in any place have I seen an answer, for an answer to the basic challenge on the need to give the Biblical place to the love of God, in terms of the extent of His embracive attitude as love ab initio, could only be in contradicting the Bible. Sovereignty suffers not at all (P&F pp. 121ff.).
The answer to biblical interpretation is never to contradict what is written, with whatever 'good' intentions; any more than contradict laboratory results in science: you proceed FROM what is written, with all else, to seek understanding. This is the biblical way, and this alone of all, it works! Its results, when faithfully applied, are inimitable. You get what is given and its coherence is glorious, uniquely so, extravagantly delightful.
Accordingly, it is with sorrow that I have had to acknowledge that excellent as Westminster has been in many ways, yet in this area of being sensitive to research and emphasis in a phase of theology not à la mode for its preferred stance and posture in terms of "Calvinism", it fell down.
Often this is seen in life: someone or some body equipped and excellent in some way, becomes too hardened to OTHER aspects not in view. The most excellent way is to be adaptive to WHATEVER comes from WHEREVER, so long as the Bible warrants it. Let the chips fall where they may! To take the first occasion, mentioned in para 1 above: To let a student be formally muzzled in Class, in such a case was of course a gross misuse of authority, an invasion of scriptural systematics and a distasteful exhibition of intolerance, when it was followed by such erratic and shallow lampooning as occurred (in fact, II Timothy 2:14 - striving about words to no profit is forbidden), justly calling up the rebuke of the senior student concerned, who exposed it with some vim. For that, one glorifies God.
That the time of the occurrence was an examination on which the Degree depended, that the 'critique' of the instructor bypassed the actual systematics concerned, the directly scriptural presentation on the love of God, with philosophic imaginings about words, did not warrant confidence. There is a place for pearls, and confidence in a non-debate situation, where rights of reply and due continuity of discussion were arbitrarily severable, with such occurrences as this, could only be withheld.
Moreover, Calvinism, or any other -ism founded on man is signally rejected by the Bible in I Cor. 3:4-9.22, where even "of Paul" is refused (and how much more, it follows, 'of Calvin'), though of course this is not applicable to the SCRIPTURES he wrote, these being immediately inspired in a plenary way, by God (I Cor. 2:9-13 and see SMR Appendix D). You simply CANNOT give honour to one another in such a manner, and yet give the due honour to the ONE whose speech is infinitely superior to all other (John 4:40-47). It is time this was learnt, obeyed and done.
The Westminster Confession's system of doctrine is indeed Biblical; but for fidelity, the extra emphasis on the love of God is needed, as in the Basis of Union of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, which unfortunately has changed some of its approach. That aspect is, if you like, pre-systematic; yet none the less intensely vital for that!
The Biblical love of God does not alter the SYSTEM, which works in its own way: rather it alters the testimony to the One whose it is - of whom it is written "God is love" (I John 4:7-8). And as to that - inclusion of this as of all Biblical components - it is vital to precision (cf. The Kingdom of Heaven, Ch.4, pp. 45ff., Predestination and Freewill, pp. 114ff.) and justice in covering - and attesting - the uniquely harmonious Biblical revelation from God Almighty in this sphere.
Indeed, here as elsewhere, this and any other obedience to the word of God is wisdom itself! A good understanding, says the word of God, have they who do His commandments. Some things may seem "small", but ...how do "little things" mask great ones!
To be flexible with the Bible is abhorrent, the ultimate intrusion and plagiarism, next beneath the crucifixion of Christ, the eternal, living word of God made flesh. It does not preserve the beautiful precision and utter wonder of the word of God: unique, incomparable and illuminating. To be flexible to it, however, is entirely different. It is not that emphasis on the sound teaching of the Bible needs to be aborted at all (heaven forbid) but to be inclusive of all it says, while yet exclusive of what it does not say. Biblical systematics on sovereignty and grace are not lost through the whole counsel of God, but put in place so that, like a completed jigsaw puzzle, the result is suddenly able to show and depict the vital vision that flows like water, pure by His word from the eternal magnificences and illimitable magnitudes of His heart (Ephesians 1:17-18, Matthew 5:17-19, II Timothy 3:16).
In fact the error made by the Instructor noted, at Westminster Seminary, who had first demanded silence and then in the Class setting, lampooned with words at that time forbidden an answer, is simply exposed in Repent or Perish, Ch.1, esp. Endnote 1. This may be read in conjunction with The Kingdom of Heaven... Ch.4, and SMR Appendix B SMR Ch.8, initial pages, and
The Biblical Workman Ch. 8, End-note 2,Repent or Perish Ch.1, End-note 1, Tender Times for Timely Truths Ch. 11, Ch. 2, End-note 1,The Glow of Predestinative Power Ch. 4, The Christian Pilgrimage Ch. 3, To Know God ... Ch. 1; and for full presentation, in Predestination and Freewill,
Another failing that could sometimes be found in that institution, despite its more general and valuable quality - namely the tendency to undue symbolism, not warranted by the criteria of the context but rather by the 'difficulty' of the material - it seems, was exhibited in the case of remarks from the same instructor on the topic of Moab. It is met in the word showing Biblical teaching on Moab. This is found in The Shadow of a Mighty Rock pp.1111-1112. It is necessary to "rightly divide" the word of God with care (II Timothy 2:15)! Does not the Maker of the brain require thought! Here as everywhere else the word of God is vindicated, requiring no 'help'. It is not enough to proceed with inexact exegesis of each context of the word of God; each context requires assiduity and accuracy, and when this is given, the payload in internal consistency and external sufficiency is astounding.
Indeed, the capacity of the Bible to withstand criticism is matched by its repugnance to this whole domain of fanciful interpretation in the face of 'problems', which are freely found in the mind of the reader rather than in the realities of the word, which without exception, simply comes to pass. While we all use figures and imagery in speech, the transformation of sober references in historical setting into intrusive change of context and thrust needs contextual indication, lest the Bible become a forum for every fancy, a take-off plane for any elevation of thought of man, in the face of God, and not from His mouth.
Hence, for this reason as for all others, it is most thrilling to find continually, decade after decade, every barrier and every blockade, whether from a philosophical 'position' or from frank and rank assault on the Bible, to be met with one result: its overthrow. The Bible stands unobliteratable (it is better to manufacture a word than a thought for someone else's mouth) and massive, ascending to the heights and proceeding to the depths, sui generis, without parallel, prop or addition, the word of God. It is in this capacity it rejoices the heart and enlightens the mind, for it simply stands erect and assured. The papier maché mounts of the mind of man stand puny and passé before their time, when erected in its near vicinity!
If your car meets any hill, climbs any mountain, crosses any stream, outdistances any pursuit, you naturally come to conceive of it in signal terms! When it is the truth which is the butt of so many for so long, for so many reasons, whether as apparently here, confusion, or other conflict: the result is the same. It stands; the other falls. Such is the word of God; such is to be expected; and so it is found to be. It is time to praise the Lord for the simple reason that it is fitting, and fitting because it is DUE!
In fact, there has almost certainly been no more powerful nation in the A.D. era, in two millenia, than England and America in their respective settings and times. To the extent they moved in their best day, aright, they were strengthened: as they forwarded righteousness, righteousness forwarded them. |
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She simply could NOT believe that Mark was involved with that skanky old bimbo who reeked of plastic surgery, regardless of what she heard. An old cougar like that was just 'so not Mark!'
Not that it really mattered. Mark had left her, and that was the only important fact.
Sarah didn't go into work the following day because she was felt so miserable, but the day afterwards she knew that she couldn't keep acting as if the world had ended, and that she had to continue living, so it was back to the old grind.
There was a shocking surprise awaiting her at work that day.
Sarah was sitting in her office when her friend, Brenda, knocked on her door.
"Come on in Brenda. What's going on?"
Brenda looked rather uncomfortable.
"Sarah, do know who R. Bradley Leonard is?"
"Oh course. He is the Vice-President for UBL's west coast Wealth Management operations. My boss's boss. Why do you ask?" Brenda tilted her head a little and smiled a pseudo-smile that implied bad, evil, even earth shaking events.
"Well, Mr. R Bradley Leonard is in Phillip's office, and he would like to see you. Next."
Sarah looked puzzled, "Next? And what is Mr. Leonard doing here? I didn't see any emails to the effect that he was coming?"
"'Next' means everyone else in the department has already been in to see him. As for why he's here - I'll let him explain."
To say that Sarah walked down the hall to Phillip's office with a certain amount of trepidation would be an understatement. She was scared stiff that she was going to be fired for some reason, although in truth, she couldn't remember doing anything worse than maybe 'borrowing' a pencil or pen from the office to take home. Just to write shopping lists.
"Please, Sarah, come in," boomed the voice of R. Bradley Leonard, "I think that we've met before at the regional meetings, but I've never had the pleasure of speaking to you one-on-one. Oh, and please call me 'Brad'. I don't stand much on formalities."
"Yes sir, I mean 'Brad," Sarah replied, while entering the office and sitting as instructed. She looked around at the office; something seemed a little odd.
"Excuse me Sir, I mean, Brad. Where is Phillip?"
"Ahem. Well that is the reason for our little meeting here today.
"Tell me, how well did you know Phillip?" he asked.
"Not terribly well. We spoke here at the office on occasion, and once recently Phillip joined us after work for drinks," Sarah replied, her curiosity evident.
"Did he ever ask you about your work, or about the procedures that the Wealth Management Group used?" Formality or not, Brad seemed to be very serious about this line of questioning.
"No Sir. Actually, he and I only ever spoke about personal things - he was giving me advice in how to deal with my boyfriend, you know, from a man's point of view," Sarah said, blushing as she admitted to the fact. "And in fact, his advice wasn't very good, because it only made things worse. May I ask why you are interested?"
"In short," Brad explained, "The man we knew as Phillip, it turns out, was not Phillip Woodword. He is some sort of imposter, who managed to get the real Phillip Woodword's information, and acquired or manufactured documentation that convinced our corporate HR people that he was Phillip Woodword.
"At this point, it's not clear who he actually was, and he seems to have cottoned on to the fact that we were on to him, and he has disappeared into the woodwork. And now we have to figure out what, if anything, he took or did during his tenure with UBL.
"Thank you for coming in and answering our questions, Sarah. I hope that we meet again in more positive circumstances. And if you hear from him, or have any relevant information that might come to mind - anything that he might have told you that you don't remember at this moment, here is a card for my office; call me and let us know."
Sarah walked quietly back to her office.
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ICSE 2019
Sat 25 - Fri 31 May 2019 Montreal, QC, Canada
Recognizing and Rewarding Open Science in Software Engineering
The ROSE festival is a world-wide salute to replication and reproducibility in SE (for a definition of these terms, see the end of this CFP).
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Our aim is to create a venue where researchers can receive public credit for facilitating and participating in open science in SE (specifically, in creating replicated and reproduced results). ROSE is needed since most current conferences only evaluate research artifacts generated by that venue’s accepted papers. This makes it difficult for research papers to earn credit for replication and reproduction by other researchers (since no other team of researchers has yet to see this new result).
Enter ROSE. ROSE is a 90 minute session comprising lightning talks by researchers presenting replicated and reproduced results, followed by a panel discussing issues of replication in software engineering. Presentations can be about any prior SE publication (and is not restricted just to results from ICSE’19).
Note that:
• ROSE is a non-archival forum. Material presented at ROSE may also be submitted to other forums.
• Journal special issues are being planned to take the better ROSE-results to an archival publication. Venue TBD but, perhaps, the Empirical Software Engineering Journal.
Thu 30 May
12:30 - 14:00: ROSE Festival - ROSE Festival at Agora
Chair(s): Tim MenziesNorth Carolina State University, Robert FeldtChalmers University of Technology, Thomas ZimmermannMicrosoft Research
icse-2019-ROSE-Festival12:30 - 12:33
Haipeng CaiWashington State University Pullman
icse-2019-ROSE-Festival12:33 - 12:36
Gias UddinPolytechnique Montreal, Foutse KhomhPolytechnique Montréal, Yann-Gaël GuéhéneucConcordia University and Polytechnique Montréal, Chanchal K. RoyUniversity of Saskatchewan
icse-2019-ROSE-Festival12:36 - 12:39
Davide FucciUniversity of Hamburg, Daniela Girardi , Nicole NovielliUniversity of Bari, Luigi Quaranta, Filippo LanubileUniversity of Bari
icse-2019-ROSE-Festival12:39 - 12:42
Andrey Krutauz, Tapajit Dey, Peter RigbyConcordia University, Montreal, Canada, Audris MockusUniversity of Tennessee - Knoxville
icse-2019-ROSE-Festival12:42 - 12:45
Nahla Abid, Bonita SharifUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, Jonathan MaleticKent State University
icse-2019-ROSE-Festival12:45 - 12:48
Robert DyerBowling Green State University
icse-2019-ROSE-Festival12:48 - 12:51
Manishankar MondalAssistant Professor, Khulna University, Md Saidur Rahman, Chanchal K. RoyUniversity of Saskatchewan, Kevin SchneiderUniversity of Saskatchewan
icse-2019-ROSE-Festival12:51 - 12:54
Akalanka GalappaththiUniversity of Lethbridge, John Anvik
icse-2019-ROSE-Festival12:54 - 12:57
Devjeet Roy, Sarah FakhouryWashington State University, Venera ArnaoudovaWashington State University
icse-2019-ROSE-Festival12:57 - 13:07
Yixue ZhaoUniversity of Southern California, USA, Nenad MedvidovićUniversity of Southern California
icse-2019-ROSE-Festival13:07 - 14:00
Call for Contributions
Due Date: Mar 8, 2019
Submit your proposal to Easychair.
Submissions to ROSE are an abstract (1page pdf, max) for a proposed lightning talk (2-5 mins). Each talk must be about two things:
• A prior SE publication (Paper1) which has been replicated/reproduced.
• Substantive evidence that that parts of Paper1 has been replicated/reproduced. This evidence must be substantive e.g.
• A recent research SE paper (Paper2)
• A Url links to an as yet unpublished pre-print
Note that Paper1 and Paper2 can come from any SE venue (ideally, peer-reviewed but if otherwise, reviewers will assess the paper on a case-by-case basis).
We also welcome methodological (meta) papers that help promote, facilitate or increase understanding about open science, replication and reproduction of software engineering research.
To facilitate easy reviewing, authors are encouraged to following the following format for their abstract:
• TITLE: “A [ Partial] (Replication|Reproduction) of XYZ”. Please add the term “partial” to your title if only some of the original work could be replicated/reproduced.
• WHO: name the original authors (and paper) and the authors that performed the replication/reproduction.
• WHAT: describe the “thing” being replicated/reproduced;
• WHY: clearly state why that “thing” is interesting/important;
• HOW: say how it was done first
• WHERE: describe the replication/reproduction. If the replication/reproduction was only partial, then explain what parts could be achieved or had to be missed.
• DISCUSSION: What aspects of this thing made it easier/harder to replicate/reproduce. What are the lessons learned from this work that would enable more replication/reproduction in the future for other kinds of tasks or other kinds of research. Naturally, meta papers might need a different structure so if you are planning to do a meta talk please contact the chairs.
• 2 PC members will review each abstract, possibly reaching out to the authors of the original Paper1. Abstracts will be ranked as follows.
• If pc members do not find sufficient substantive evidence for replication/reproduction, the abstract will be rejected.
• Any abstract that is overly critical of prior work, it will be rejected (*).
• The remaining abstracts will be sorted according to (a) interestingness and (b) correctness.
• The top 10 abstracts (or more, if there is time), will be invited to give lightning talks.
(*) Our goal is to foster a positive environment that supports and rewards researchers for conducting replications and reproductions. To that end, we require that all ROSE abstracts and presentations pay due respect to the work they are reproducing/replicating. Criticisms of prior work is acceptable only as part of a balanced and substantive discussion of prior accomplishments.
ROSE adopts the ACM artifact badging conventions. ROSE seeks replicated and reproduced results defined as follows: ACM artifact badging conventions
IMPORTANT POINT: Replication is more than just “they downloaded my scripts and ran exactly those”. There must be something changed in the replication work (but perhaps that change is not very large).
• Chairs and organizers:
• Robert Feldt, Chalmers Institute of Technology, Sweden
• Tim Menzies, NC State University, USA
• Thomas Zimmermann, Microsoft Research, USA
• Program Committee:
• Neil Ernst, University of Victoria
• Thomas Zimmermann, Microsoft
• Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Monash University
• Robert Feldt, Blekinge Institute of Technology
• Martin Monperrus, University of Lille & INRIA
• Daniel Graziotin, University of Stuttgart
• Sira Vegas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid |
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/12033 | Pinky and The Brain
Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.
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"Gee, Brain, what you wanna do tonight?"
"The same thing we do every night, Pinky -- try to Take Over the World!"
An Animated Series about a superintelligent, genetically-altered lab mouse who enlists his halfwit roommate (read: the other mouse in his cage) into his endless quest to take over the world. Each episode saw The Brain devise an elaborate, improbable scheme for world domination, only be foiled in the end due to some unforeseeable twist of fate (read: the other mouse in his cage), or occasionally his own blundering. On one or two occasions he actually succeeded in taking over the world, but with some kind of unacceptable side-effect that sent him back to the drawing board. By contrast, many episodes had his schemes barely even getting off the ground, and the story centered around his attempts just to get Step One going.
Originally a recurring skit on Animaniacs, the characters proved hugely popular and were soon given their own show. It tried to be as keenly satirical as was possible within the format of an afternoon children's cartoon. However, this did tend to remove it uncomfortably far, at times, from the notion of world domination -- one can imagine the writers scratching their heads and trying to figure out how writing a Broadway musical could possibly help The Brain take over the planet. Due to Executive Meddling, the show was eventually turned into Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain - curiously premiering when several episodes of the original still had yet to air and thus briefly airing concurrently.
Tropes used in Pinky and The Brain include:
• Acme Products: Most notably the Acme Bagel Warmer and Gene Splicer, with which Pinky and The Brain were created. They live in the Acme Labs, too.
• Acting Unnatural: In the Christmas Episode, the duo hide themselves in Santa's reindeer team, wearing antlers on their heads. The Brain tells Pinky to just act natural. Cue Pinky moving erratically, singing, laughing, and making his usual Verbal Tics.
The Brain: Pinky! Not that natural!
Happy Bob the Painter: And with the happy little brush, maybe paint a happy little cloud in the happy little sky. Maybe a happy little bluebird on a happy little branch and a happy little meteor, like the meteor that's about to decimate our happy little Earth.
• Brick Joke: In "Das Mouse" Pinky says that they'll reach the hull of the Titanic before Brain can yell "POIT!", Brain replies drily that they'll reach Mars before he yells "poit". Much, much later in the episode Brain is found, after a depth charge attack, bobbing up and down in the water upside down by his oversized head. Pinky asks him if he's all right and he yells, "POOOIIIIIT!!".
• In "But That's Not All Folks", the President of the United States tries to order "a Good Old Boy Pizza with extra pork rinds", but the telephone circuits are overloading because everyone in the world was calling in to order the Brain's "Miracle Product". In the end, after the usual "They're dinky, they're Pinky and the Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain", the President can be heard asking, "Where's my pizza?"
• Breaking the Bonds: The Brain manages this in the episode "Welcome to the Jungle."
• British Royal Guard: Pinky and The Brain had to tip one over (cow tipping) to get into a club. The guard falls like a tree.
• Cartoony Tail: The Brain has a tail like a real mouse, except it is kinked in a way that it looks like stair steps.
• Catch Phrase: "Same thing we do every night", "Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?", "YES!", "Narf!/Poit!/Zort!/Troz!", others.
• Chained to a Railway: Parodied in "Cinebrainia."
• Christmas Episode: Theirs won an Emmy.
• Chuck Norris: Elmyra goes to Chuck Norris Grammar School.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Pinky.
• In particular, he has a tendancy to bring up celebrities at random:
Pinky: What's the plan, Brain?
Brain: Uh...guess.
Pinky: All right. Um, are we going to... Take Debbie Allen hostage, depriving all of humanity of enjoyable choreographed production numbers?
Brain: Hmm. Nope. Guess again.
Pinky: Are we going to... Oh. Create a riot by forcing people to listen to the touchy-feely Mandy Patinkin?
Brain: No. Guess again.
Pinky: Hmm. I got it. Use the talents of Paul Anka and Carrot Top to stage the comeback of the lovable TV genius Jamie "Klinger" Farr.
Brain: Come now, Pinky, let's remain within the realm of possibility.
• Continuity Nod: Every now and then somebody will recognize Brain and mention a scheme from a previous episode. In "The Pink Candidate," a Congressional investigation unearths Brain's plans for world domination, and every one is the plot from a previous episode; similarly, the episode "Brain Drained" began with a reference to the first episode after spinning off from Animaniacs.
• Couch Gag:
• Each episode's end credits includes a long word and its definition, so that you can speak with Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness just like Brain!
• The credits for the retool, meanwhile, had Elmyra attempting to define the words instead, and we end up with things like the word "onomatopoeia" being defined as, "Naughty potty word!"
• Crossovers: With Animaniacs and Freakazoid!.
• Cutaway Gag: The Christmas Episode featured these in the form of the Brain as a mall Santa and himself and Pinky marketing themselves as popular toys. Pinky also mentions them travelling back in time to Bethlehem before the Brain moves the episode along.
• Dastardly Whiplash: Spoofed in the episode "Cinebrainia."
• Deadpan Snarker: Brain.
• Deal with the Devil: In the Halloween episode.
• Deranged Animation: The show becomes completely derailed for one episode in which a spaceman wants to eat people's brains. His sidekick spends the entire episode with a giant bite taken out of his skull, and every background is a masterpiece of surrealism. This troper watched it while trying to stay awake at 2 A.M. and actually believed he was hallucinating. Nope... it's just one episode of deranged, drugged-out insanity that makes no sense.
• Dinky Drivers: in "Opportunity Knox," Brain controls the steering wheel of a van with pulleys while Pinky operates the pedals.
• Disguised in Drag: Pinky does this frequently, the Brain less so. An example of this is "Whatever Happened to Baby Brain?", where the Brain disguises himself as a cute little girl, and Pinky acts as "her" mother.
• Disney School of Acting and Mime
• Distaff Counterpart: Billie looks like a female version of Pinky, is just as ditzy--and Brain has a crush on her. Make of that what you will.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: In "Brinky", The Brain attempts to clone himself, which almost works until Pinky's DNA (from a clipped toenail) accidentally gets combined with Brain's, thus essentially making them parents of the resulting clone (and Pinky calling himself the clone's "mommy"). Most of the dialogue during the cloning process is scripted like an actual birth: for example, when the door on the cloning machine won't close (which is the reason Pinky's DNA is even in there), The Brain tells Pinky to help him "push", complete with Pinky doing Lamaze breathing.
• Dreadful Musician: Yoko Ono Expy Yoyo Nono in "All You Need Is Narf"
• Drunk on Milk: Alluded to (in a non-Drowning My Sorrows way) in "Brain's Song":
Brain: I see someone had too much Shasta on the plane.
Brain: "Nag, nag, nag, just leave me be!"
• Dumb Is Good
• Earpiece Conversation: In "The Pink Candidate"
• Educational Song: This is probably the most extreme example in a children's show.
• Egopolis: Brain tried it a few times. He gets his own island country in a bid for US foreign aid, naming it Brainania. When he does end up in control of the Earth — by making a duplicate out of papier-mache and convincing everyone else to go there with free t-shirts — he renames the original Earth "Brainus", presumably following the pattern of either Venus or Uranus. The new planet, on the other hand, was Chia Earth.
• Episode Title Card
• Even Evil Has Standards: Although the Brain isn't evil, he definitely has standards as to what he will and will not consider when it comes to taking over the world. For example, he could have achieved world conquest through selling cigarettes to children, but the idea completely repulsed him.
• Evil Albino: Brain. Well, maybe "evil" is a bit exagerrated.
• Evil Brit: Snowball.
• Evolutionary Levels: In "Leave It to Beavers"
• Explain, Explain, Oh Crap: In the episode "Brinky," Pinky's genetic material accidentally gets introduced into Brain's cloning experiment, essentially resulting in their having a child together.
Pinky: I'm a mommy, I'm a mommy!
Brain: Pinky, that's absurd! You are nothing of the kind. Its chromosomal makeup just happens to include both of our genetic building blo... AAAAAAH! ...Oh my Lord, you are its mommy.
• Expository Theme Tune: "They're Pinky and the Brain! Yes, Pinky and the Brain! One is a genius, the other's insane! To prove their mouse-y worth, they'll overthrow the earth! They're dinky, they're Pinky and the Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain!"
• Failure Is the Only Option: Essential, given since Status Quo Is God, given Brain's radical schemes.
• Though they do pull it off, every so often, but usually a twist has them starting over again.
• Fake Brit: Rob Paulsen as Pinky.
• Fantastic Voyage Plot: In "Brainwashed"
• Flowers for Algernon Syndrome: The episode where Pinky gets smart.
• Foot Focus: What sets the plot in motion in "Brinky" is while Brain is trying to clone himself, Pinky is giving himself a pedicure. While doing this, he snips off one of his toenails so hard, it falls into the cloning chamber, thus making a clone fusing both of their DNA together.
• Frank Welker: had a recurring role as Bill Clinton.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: "I have made you use the freezeframe button on your VCR."
• Friendly Tickle Torture: In "Big In Japan", Pinky is seen playing with a "Tickle-Me Herbert" doll, a parody of the Tickle-Me-Elmo doll. Later in the episode, he uses this tactic to defeat a sumo wrestler.
• Gagging on Your Words: At one point, Brain finds the need to ask Pinky how he (Brain) can be more like him (Pinky), and notes that "...the words are hot in my throat..."
• Get It Over With: Episode "Snowball", Brain's utterly defeated. His intended last words: "Well, go on; end it now!" as he faces down a pack of alley cats.
• Getting Crap Past the Radar: Has its own page.
• Giant Food: "Brain Acres"
• Giant Mecha: The Brain at one point built a mechanical suit, quite strong and durable. It became a semi-recurring prop once the series started. And then his arch-rival got in on the act. Giant Mecha battling for the fate of the world! Because they are mice, the "Giant Mecha" are equivalent in size to a six foot tall human.
• Grand Finale: "Star Warners," a Whole-Plot Reference to the original Star Wars trilogy. Featuring guest appearances by most of the Animaniacs characters, as well as a cameo by Freakazoid, Mo-Ron/Bo-Ron and Fanboy. As a trivia note, this episode also aired the same day as the final episode of Animaniacs.
• Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress
• Halloween Episode: Pinky sells his soul to The Devil to make Brain ruler of the world. Brain later goes to hell to get Pinky - not to get him back, though. Just so he can tell him where the food pellets are.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Brain, despite trying to keep it under his megalomaniacal exterior, is a good-hearted guy who cares a lot about Pinky and will put his safety over his ambitious goals. This is exemplified in the Halloween Special, when he makes rather flimsy excuses to why he went to Hades and rescue Pinky.
• I Am One of Those, Too: In "My Feldmans, My Friends", the Brain attempts to persuade his neighbour that "Mr The Brain" was his high school nickname by inserting his picture into a high school yearbook. The high school he picks happens to be the one his neighbour attended, so Brain is left trying to convince his neighbour that they were, in fact, classmates.
• I'm Alive!: In "Snowball", a suicidal Brain attempts to end all by leaving himself to be eaten by alley cats, but they reject him. He then has this reaction, complete with a triumphant laugh.
• Insane Troll Logic: Many of Brain's plans are based on a very convoluted sequence of steps to achieve world domination. For example, to rule the world, he will build a second earth made out of papier-mache, bring it to life with a special invention, and then lure the humans off the original Earth using free t-shirts. All which generally work until the Fatal Flaw in the plan is realized, such as a giant asteroid that destroyed the original Earth in the above example.
• Insufferable Genius: You need to ask?
• Insult to Rocks: After saying Pinky had the approximate IQ of an empty soap dish. Brain says "I take it back. I don't want to insult the soap dish."
• Interspecies Romance: Pinky and Pharfignewton(a horse), Romy (cloned mouse) and Pat (human) and Pinky and Winne(Sea lion).
• Intoxication Ensues: In "Brainy Jack", Brain gets bitten by a rattlesnake and alternates between thinking he's Bob Hope and Henry Kissinger.
• Iron Butt Monkey: Pinky and Brain regularly get smashed, beaten, exploded, run over, and so forth, as Brain's schemes fail. Of course, Pinky doesn't really mind when Brain bops him on the head, so perhaps he's okay with it. Brain, however, gets the worst of it. Naturally, they're still standing (if bruised) at the end of every episode, ready to do "the same thing we do every night".
• It Runs on Nonsensoleum: Some of Brain's inventions. His plans for taking over the world are a bit of a variation on this trope, using nonsense sociology instead of nonsense science.
• It's Been Done: The episode "Brain Drained" opens with Brain realising that his plans are beginning to repeat themselves in some form.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Brain fits this to a T. It has been proven on numerous occasions that behind the megalomaniacal outer layer lies a complete softy who cares deeply about the ones he loves, especially Pinky. The Christmas Special has to be the best example of his sweeter side, and the episode "Two Mice and a Baby", his behavior teeters toward him being a Tsundere. See also the Anti-Hero entry above--sure, his megalomaniacal tendencies may incline him to step on a few million toes here and there, but ultimately what he really wants is to make everyone happy, in his own roundabout way.
• Kavorka Man: For such an ugly little jerk, Brain doesn't have much trouble getting girls when he's *cough* disguised as a human. (Rule of Funny is probably at work here.)
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: It's very, very unlikely that Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain would be released on DVD. Not that anyone would care.
• Know When to Fold'Em: Brain often demonstrates that he does not.
• Killer Hamster: Snowball.
• Laughably Evil: To a large extent Brain himself, even though he's the Comically Serious. To quote him, "I am not devoid of humor".
• Let's Have Another Baby: Played for Laughs in "Brinky".
• Like an Old Married Couple: Here's just one example. (From the episode "Of Mouse and Man".)
• Living Emotional Crutch: The titular duo are this to each other, willing to sacrifice their lives and dreams for the benefit of the other, and both of them being heartbroken whenever they're separated.
• Love Dodecahedron: Even if you leave out certain fanon, it's a mess. Brain and Billie had a fling, then she dumped him and started dating Snowball, then she dumped him and started chasing Pinky, who's happy with Pharfignewton (who loves him back) and seems alarmed by Billie's advances. Meanwhile, Brain still hasn't gotten over Billie...
• Mass Hypnosis: Brain tries to do this several times, including on the Christmas episode.
• May the Farce Be with You
• Memetic Mutation: In-universe example from "Brain's Song": "I am the o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-overlord."
• Metaphorgotten: Shows up in "Brain Drained":
Brain: Uncle Wiggley has gone to the carrot patch once too often, and now the cupboard is bare. Drat! I can't even construct a decent metaphor!
Brain: Abe Lincoln was perhaps the most respected president of all time. Once we arrange his comeback, the mere sight of him will compel the populace to follow his lead.
Pinky: But, Brain, Abe Lincoln, um... Didn't he, uh... Isn't he... You know.
Pinky: Bang! Zoom!
• No Celebrities Were Harmed:
• The Brain's voice and many of his mannerisms were inspired by Orson Welles. Also, in the episode "What Ever Happened to Baby Brain", which is set in the past, The Brain and Orson Welles meet. They have exactly the same voice, and happen to simultaneously declare "Things will be different when I take over the world!" before introducing themselves to each other. "Welles, Orson". "Brain, The."
The similarity is further played with in "Yes, Always", which recreates, almost word for word, the infamous Frozen Peas audio clip with the Brain in the role of Orson Welles.
"Yes Fredo, but why are you wearing that llama?"
"All my thoughts are in Dutch."
Pinky: "I see an angel coming for us out of the sky."
Brain: "I see clams! Giant, shirtless clams!"
"Yes Darlene, now go make Momma a sandwich."
Brain: It is obvious that there are no original writers in Hollywood, Pinky.
Pinky: Look, Brain. Warner Bros. Studios. Maybe we can find some writers there. Poit!
Brain: Nah. We can't afford them, Pinky. We don't have enough bananas.
• And in "Star Warners":
Brain-2-Me-2: Are you pondering what I'm pondering, 3-Pinky-O?
3-Pinky-O: Um, I think so, Brain-2, but a show about two talking lab mice? Heh, it'll never get on the air.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Brain and Snowball.
• Shoo Out the New Guy: Parodied with Larry.
• Shout-Out: Numerous, including to THX-1138 in the opening credits and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
• In "Ambulatory Abe," Pinky knows Washington, D.C. as "the home of Freakazoid!"
• Shrunken Organ: In the Title Sequence, Pinky and the Brain walk behind an X-ray machine. Brain's skull has meshing gears, while Pinky's has a peanut. In the "...and Larry" version of the opening, Larry joins them during this part, and he is shown to have bones in his hair.
• So Bad It's Good: An in-universe example. In "Battle Of The Planet", their attempt to rule the world via pirate satellite broadcasting is so terrible, it is labeled a comedy smash by their local newspaper.
• Spell My Name with a "The"
• Springtime for Hitler: Many examples. Notably, the episode "Pinky's Turn," in which Pinky comes up with an utterly random scheme to take over the world, and an episode where Brain decides to take the night off and ironically comes close to ruling the world without realizing it.
• Stealth Pun: In the episode "Briany Jack," Brain is saved by a group of hippies, who he refers to as "The original cast of Godspell." He eventually decides that he will become their leader as part of the evening's plot, and proclaims their mission statement as the following:
"Through love and peace, and worship of me, the world can be a better place!"
CIA Director: The boys want that thing terminated.
Jonesy: The boys? You mean the Pentagon?
CIA Director: No, my two boys-- Josh and Aaron.
Jack Maguire: Ha ha! So, the boys finally saw it my way.
Jonesy: You mean the Pentagon?
Jack Maguire: No. Josh and Aaron.
• Suck E. Cheese's: A birthday party at "Chunky Cheesey".
• Subbing for Santa: Brain steals Santa's sleigh in the Christmas episode to distribute his Noodle Noggin toy.
• Surrounded by Idiots: Brain thinks this is the case.
• Suspect Is Hatless: Pinky's description of Snowball was spectacularly vague... until he brought up his tattoo.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Rudy Mookich and Mr. Pussy Wussy replacing Montana Max and Furrball in the Elmyra series.
• Take Over the World: What they do every night. Or try to.
• Take That:
• "I think so, Brain, but Pepper Ann makes me sneeze."
• "I think so, Don Cerebro, but why would Sophia Loren do a musical?" The Brain even admits Pinky's point.
• The entire episode "Pinky and the Brain...and Larry" was one big take that against the Kids WB network execs, who kept demanding that the show add a third character to the show, despite Pinky and the Brain being pretty explicitly a comedy duo who would gain nothing from a third character. To illustrate this, they made an episode where a third mouse named Larry appears, and the other two act as if he has always been there (he's even added to the theme song.) Most of the episode's humor comes from the fact that Larry seems incredibly out of place and unnecessary to the plot, and that he keeps trying to insert himself into gags and situations where he adds nothing.
• Later, Larry leaves to record with Art Garfunkel, and everything returns to normal... except for the addition of Zeppo.
• Either the execs didn't get the joke, or they did and decided to take revenge on the writers, because a year later a third character (Elmyra) was forced on the show, leading to a unintentional version of the awkwardness seen in the Larry episode, and then cancellation. See Executive Meddling.
• Another "Take That" was the episode "You'll Never Eat Food Pellets In This Town Again". The episode, spoofing management interference in the show, was also the swan song for chief writer Peter Hastings prior to his departure for Disney.
• The episode "Broadway Malady" is absolutely stuffed with these, directed toward Andrew Lloyd Webber Albert Floyd Webster.
• "All You Need is Narf" included a take that at Yoko Ono's singing.
• From the episode where they fake a reunion show to get big ratings, from Gavin McCloud himself no less:
Gavin: Vanilla Ice, ladies and gentlemen. Wasn't he something...once?
Mr. Itch: "Isn't there any kind of torture you don't like?"
Pinky (smoldering): *sniff* "The only real being away from my best friend, Brain."
• Totally Radical: An interviewee's proposal on the Pinky and the Brain show in "Brain Drained" is that instead of taking over the world, the duo becomes "BrainDude and Pinkasaur" after accidentally meddling with a secret government experiment.
BrainDude and Pinkasaur,
BrainDude and Pinkasaur,
They're mice, they fight,
They're crime-fighting lab mice!
Brain: We shall no longer call this planet Earth, Pinky.
Pinky: When was it called "Earth Pinky"?
Brain: Come, Pinky. We must return to the lab and prepare for tomorrow night.
Pinky: Why, Brain? What are we going to do tomorrow night?
Brain: The same thing we do every night, Pinky -- try to take over the world!
They're dinky, they're Pinky and the Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/12043 | Psychology Facts III: Did you know that . . .
1. People spend an average of 6 years dreaming?
2. Babies dream almost the entire time inside the uterus?
3. Around 12% of people dream only black-and-white?
4. They say that, if you have dreams that cause you powerful emotions, with luminous and colorful images, it’s possible that they aren’t dreams at all, but out-of-body experiences?
5. The cells that build up the human brain can store up to 5 times more information than the entire Encyclopedia Britannica?
6. The brain continues to send signals in the form of electric impulses for approximately 37 hours after death?
7. If you stare at a person you’re sexually interested in, your pupils involuntarily dilate? The same happens if you stare at a person you hate.
8. Kissing heals. Research shows that kissing improves the skin, helps blood circulation, prevents cavities and soothes headaches?
9. Just like fingerprints and snowflakes, lips don’t leave identical marks either?
10. Praying before meals improves taste and the nutritive properties of food and water? Masaru Emoto, the famous water researcher, has published reports on the subject.
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10 thoughts on “Psychology Facts III: Did you know that . . .
1. Wow! Some startling revelations here. When I’m not exhausted, I have vivid dreams. Many times it’s like a real experience. So far, no Dragons have appeared. :D. And, those eyes! It’s like we have a sixth sense for what eyes are telling us about a person. No wonder my eyes are light sensitive. There are so many lovable people in my life, I’m sure my eyes are permanently dilated. 😉
1. So cool cuzz! To be honest I only had one vivid dream in my life and it scared the living s**t out of me. I had pretty nasty “powers” in that dream, but I must say I also had a revelation or two. Othaer than that, my dreams are always pretty blurry, so I guess I’m always safe and sound in my skin. And the pupil story! I wonder what it means when people look at each other and their pupils become smaller LOL.
1. LOL! Yes, I think it best to remain in one’s skin at night. I’m sure if I departed for an evening romp, it would be possible to get lost and not find myself again. That would be the nightmare part. I’m going to guess that if someone is looking at you with pinpoint pupils, you are on the menu as the main course. I think I’ll add that to my growing list of things to watch out for. 😛
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/12045 | The SUMPRODUCT function returns the sum of the products of corresponding numbers in one or more arrays.
SUMPRODUCT (array 1, array 2, …array 30)
array1: A array of cells. array 1 is a reference to a single range of cells containing values of any type. If string or Boolean values
array 2,……. array 30: Optionally include one or more additional array ( ranges) of cells. The ranges must all have the same dimensions.
Usage Notes
The SUMPRODUCT function multiplies the corresponding numbers in each range and then sums each of the products. If only one range is specified, SUMPRODUCT returns the sum of the range.
Traditional Use of SUMPRODUCT
In it’s traditional form or classic form, SUMPRODUCT multiplies each value in one array by the corresponding value in another array, and returns the summed result. As an example, if cells A1:A3 contain the values 1,2,3 and B1:B3 contain 10,20,30, then
returns 140, or (1*10)+(2*20)+(3*30)=10+40+90=140.
This is a useful function, but nothing more than that. A further, more ‘creative’ use of SUMPRODUCT has evolved, and is still evolving. This has been a creative and productive process that has significantly increased the useability of SUMPRODUCT,
Advanced Use of SUMPRODUCT
There are two very useful functions that support conditional counting and summing, namely COUNTIF and SUMIF. Very useful functions, but limitation in that they can only evaluate a single test range.
To know more about the countif function have look at the following link
To know more about the Sumif have look at the following link
The only constrain in these function is it will evaluate a single criteria, all thou we can force them to do multiple criteria using IF function
We will look into more rational way of forcing he sumproduct function to do more using a array formula. if you observe in the functions list it is under the array formula’s group. lets try to understand the functionality using an example
We can easily count the number of Amazon with
which returns 2.
Similalrly, it is straight-forward to get the value of products sold through “Amazon”, using
which gives 2725.
But supposing that we want a count of how many Amazon sold in Jan, or the value of them? The number can be calculated with
which is an array formula. Similarly, the value is obtained with
which is also an array formula.
But as this page is about SUMPRODUCT, you would expect that we could use that function in this case, and we can. The solution for the number of Amazon sold in Jan using this function is
The value is obtained with
The * is being used as the AND operator, the formula is saying, where A2:A9 = Amazon AND B2:B9 = Jan, and where A2:A9 = Amazon AND B2:B9= Jan, multiplied by D2:D9.
This is relatively easy to use when there are multiple criteria.
We can see that the * is equivalent to AND in the formula, how this works is explained later, but supposing we want an OR condition. As a further extension of its use, we use the ‘+’ (plus) operator to count OR conditions, such as how many books sold were either
Flipkart or Landmark. The formula for this is
which returns the result 6 as expected
So far, so good, in that we have a versatile function that can do any number of conditional tests, and has an inbuilt flexibility that provides extensibility.
Understanding how SUMPRODUCT works helps to determine where to use it, how to can construct thus formula, and thus how it can be extended. below shows an example data set that we will use.
In this example, the problem is to find how many Amazon with a date in Jan were sold. A2:A9 holds the Date, B2:B9 has the Shop, and D2:D9 has the number sold. The formula to get this result is
The first part of the formula (B2:B9=”Amazon”) checks the array of makes for a value of Amazon. This returns an array of TRUE/FALSE, in this case it is
Similarly, the categories are checked for the vale Date with (A2:A9=”Jan”). Again, this returns an array of TRUE/FALSE, or
And finally, the numbers are not checked but taken as is, that is (D2:D9), which returns an array of numbers
So now we have three arrays, two of TRUE/FALSE values, one of numbers. This is showm in below.
And this is where it gets interesting.
SUMPRODUCT usually works on arrays of numbers, but we have arrays of TRUE/FALSE values as well as an array of numbers. By using the ‘*’ (multiply) operator, we can get numeric values that can be summed. ‘*’ has the effect of coercing these two arrays into a single array of 1/0 values. Multiplying TRUE by TRUE returns 1 (try it, enter =TRUE()*TRUE() in a cell and see the result), any other combination returns 0. Therefore, when both conditions are satisfied, we get a 1, whereas if any or both conditions are not satisfied, we get a 0. Multiplying the first array of TRUE/FALSE values by the second array of TRUE/FALSE values returns a composite array of 1/0 values, or
which will result in 1525
Similarly we can count the same
the arrays will be as show in the below example
and after executing the above formulas
and answer is highlighted in yellow colour which will result in value 1
If you have been able to follow this explanation all of the way through, it may have occurred to you that although we are using the SUMPRODUCT function, the ‘*’ operators have resolved the multiple arrays into a single composite array, leaving SUMPRODUCT to simply sum the members of that composite array, that is, there is no product. This is perfectly correct, and perfectly valid,SUMPRODUCT can work on a single array (put 1,2,3 in cells A1,A2,A3, and insert =SUMPRODUCT(A1:A3) in a cell, it returns 6 correctly). In reality, we only need the ‘*’ to coerce the arrays that are being tested for a particular condition, we do not need it for the array that is not subject to a conditional test. So we could also use
which does use the product aspect .
• Double uninary will not work in google docs spead sheets.
• When using the SUMPRODUCT function, all arrays must be the same size, as corresponding members of each array are multiplied by each other.
• When using the SUMPRODUCT function, do not use the open ranges it may cause errors
In a SUMPRODUCT function, the arrays being evaluated cannot be a mix of column and row ranges, they must all be columns, or all rows. However, the row data can be transposed to present it to SUMPRODUCT as columnar. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/12054 | How to convert pixel coordinates to aruco coordinates?
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I have a ball detection in pixel coordinate and I want to use the ball detection in aruco detection. I tried already but it won't work. So if there algorithm that can convert pixel coordinate to aruco coordinate?Does coordinate on aruco marker is in pixel coordinate or world coordinate?
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As far as I know ArUco uses special markers to apply pose estimation. Can you specify what you said? For example, you can add the code and give an assumption. Because to detect an object like a ball, you need to know the radius but even that may be not enough. After you specify the problem, hope we can help in some way.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/12057 | Sunday, September 11, 2016
INDIA: The Hanging Pillar of Lepakshi
For most of the world the word miracle brings to the mind images of marvelous phenomena occurring with supernatural intervention and involving mystical mysteries, but in India, it is just another daily trend, with miracles- historical, geographical, archaeological, supernatural or natural, happening around everywhere!
Almost every monument from history, almost every piece of natural beauty in India is a miracle to behold.
One such spectacle of Indian history to ponder over is the hanging pillar at the Veerabhadra Temple in Lepakshi, a small village in Andhra Pradesh, miraculously hidden from the searching but ignorant eyes of travelers.
The hanging pillar in Lepakshi is a medieval architectural wonder to witness. This small village you were most likely to neglect has so much hidden in its treasure chest, you will shocked and amazed!
Traveler’s Digest- Rise Bird!
The small village of Lepakshi in the Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh is a paragon of excellent art and architecture. Once the quintessence of the ostentatious opulence of the empire of Vijayanagara, Lepakshi is an epitome of magnificence and brilliance.
The shrines and temples in the village celebrating the might of Lord Shiva, Vishnu and Veerabhadra, are an exhibition of timeless art, with illustrious frescoes and murals.
Although the village was founded as late as 1538 AD by Maharaja Aliya Rama Raya of the Vijayanagara Empire, it has an interesting association with the Ramayana, and legend says was blessed by the presence of Lord Rama himself. The lore goes that when Lord Rama, met the dying bird Jatayu here, he helped him attain Moksha by saying the words “Le Pakshi”, which in Telugu means “rise bird”. Hence, the village got its name Lepakshi!
The most famous temple in the village is the temple of Veerabhadra, famed for its hanging towers. The temple is situated on a tortoise shaped hillock, named Kurma Saila, which is the Telugu phrase for its distinct shape.
The Eccentricity Factor – The miraculous hanging pillar
The most astonishing architectural marvel of Lepakshi is the Hanging Pillar of Veerabhadra Temple. The pillar does not rest on the ground completely but hangs in the air, with enough space between its base and the ground to pass a sheet of paper or a small twig through it- fully to emerge on the other side! Out of the 70 pillars at the stone temple, which was built in 1583 AD, in the Vijayanagar style of architecture by brothers Virupanna and Veeranna, this particular pillar stands out as a triumphant masterpiece of architecture. The Archaeological Survey of India has proven that this pillar was not constructed as a mistake, but was built intentionally to prove the brilliance of the builders of the time.
The Legend
The pillar was dislodged from its original position by a British engineer who tried to move it in an endeavor to unearth the secret of its support but was sadly unsuccessful. According to legend, Virupanna one of the financiers of the temple was the royal treasurer of the King and was accused by the court nobles of drawing funds from the state treasury to build the temple but without the King’s permission. The nobles poisoned the King that he was funding the grandiose temple to outshine his majesty.
Outraged, the King ordered for Virupanna to be blinded. But disturbed by the false accusation and determined to prove his honesty, Virupanna forestalled the punishment by dashing his eyes out and throwing them at the temple wall! And the eerie part- the marks left by his bleeding eyes are still present on the wall!
The Colossal Monolithic Bull!
Another architectural marvel of Lepakshi is the colossal statue of Nandi, Lord Shiva’s bull. About a mile before the main temple, the statue is India’s second largest monolith after Gomateshwara, standing tall at 27 feet by 15 feet and carved out of a single stone. The structure is famous for its mammoth size and flawlessly proportioned body, and the finely carved ornaments around its neck and in its ears.
Inside the temple, a gargantuan statue of Ganesha is yet another spectacle. And if this was not enough to quench the thirst of art history lovers, the largest Nagalinga in India draws one’s attention, with its enormous Naga with three coils and seven hoods forming a canopy over a black granite Shivalingam.
The frescos at the Lepakshi temple are some of the finest specimens of art history in India. The 24 by 14 feet mural of Veerabhadra on the wall of the main sanctum is the largest fresco in India! The fresco depicting scenes from the wedding ceremony of Lord Shiva and Parvati, popularly known as the Shiva-Parvati Kalyanam is also something to look out for.
What to Explore in Lepakshi
The Vijayanagar Empire once had a flourishing industry of silk weaving, a tradition which is still well preserved. Dharmavaram, a town near Lepakshi is a well-known silk weaving center, while Hindupur is famous for south cotton. Both these places make for excellent shopping destinations, while Puttaparthi, a pilgrim town near the village is perfect for a spiritual afternoon.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/12063 | Bowel polypsOverview
Some people develop just 1 polyp, while others may have a few.
Symptoms of bowel polyps
They're often picked up during screening for bowel cancer.
But some larger polyps can cause:
Bowel cancer risk
Polyps do not usually turn into cancer. But if some types of polyps (called adenomas) are not removed, there's a chance they may eventually become cancerous.
Doctors believe that most bowel cancers develop from adenoma polyps.
But very few polyps will turn into cancer, and it takes many years for this to happen.
Find out more about bowel cancer
Treatments for bowel polyps
There are several methods for treating polyps, but the most common procedure involves physically removing the polyp using a wire loop.
This happens during a procedure called a colonoscopy.
This is usually only done when the polyp has some cell changes, if it's particularly large, or if there are a lot of polyps.
After the polyp or polyps have been removed, they're sent to specialists in a laboratory, who'll inform your consultant if:
• the polyp has been completely removed
• there's any risk of it regrowing
• there's any cancerous change in the polyp
If there's a cancerous change in the polyp, you may need further treatment (depending on the degree and extent of change).
Your specialist will be able to advise you on this.
Causes of bowel polyps
Doctors do not know the exact cause of bowel polyps. It's thought that they're caused by the body producing too many cells in the lining of the bowel.
You may be more likely to develop bowel polyps if:
Diagnosing bowel polyps
Monitoring bowel polyps
Page last reviewed: 07/09/2017
Next review due: 07/09/2020 |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/12064 | Borderline personality disorderCauses
A study found that if 1 identical twin had BPD, there was a 2-in-3 chance that the other identical twin would also have BPD.
Problem with brain chemicals
Problem with brain development
The scans revealed that in many people with BPD, 3 parts of the brain were either smaller than expected or had unusual levels of activity. These parts were:
• the amygdala – which plays an important role in regulating emotions, especially the more "negative" emotions, such as fear, aggression and anxiety
• the hippocampus – which helps regulate behaviour and self-control
• the orbitofrontal cortex – which is involved in planning and decision making
The development of these parts of the brain is affected by your early upbringing. These parts of your brain are also responsible for mood regulation, which may account for some of the problems people with BPD have in close relationships.
Environmental factors
• being a victim of emotional, physical or sexual abuse
• being exposed to long-term fear or distress as a child
• being neglected by 1 or both parents
• idealising others
• expecting others to be a parent to you
• expecting other people to bully you
• behaving as if other people are adults and you're not
Page last reviewed: 17/07/2019
Next review due: 17/07/2022 |
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