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Top 10 Fruits That Help Relieve Constipation
Fruits That Ease Constipation
Constipation or uneasy, infrequent bowel movement is a bane because of the toxins it builds up in the body. Eating fruits is an all-natural remedy, in fact, a sweet way of relieving constipation. Best high-fiber fruits that work as natural laxatives include ripe bananas, passion fruit, avocados, berries, pomegranates, guavas, pears, kiwis, and apples. To maximize the benefits, eat the whole fruit including the skin if it is edible.
One of the most recommended remedies to ease constipation is to consume fruits. Most fruits are rich in fiber, which helps prevent constipation. What some fruits lack in fiber, they make up for with their high water content. So, in any case, the fruits listed below are your best bet to ease constipation problems.
1. Passion Fruit
Fruits that help relieve constipation
Passion fruits contain some of the highest levels of fiber among all fruits. In just 100 g of passion fruit, the fiber content is 10.4 g! That’s a lot of fiber when compared with other fruits. So, go for it to ease constipation woes.
2. Avocados
Fruits that help relieve constipation
Avocados are also called as butter fruit. They contain 6.7 g of fiber in a 100 g serving. They also have more potassium than bananas and help lower cholesterol and triglyceride levels.
3. Raspberries
Fruits that help relieve constipation
Raspberries contain antioxidants that fight against cancer, heart, and circulatory diseases and taste wonderful. 100 g of raspberries contains 6.5 g of fiber. They also have anti-inflammatory properties.
4. Guavas
Fruits that help relieve constipation
Among the finest of fruits, guavas were once underrated. In fact, they fare much better than apples and can indeed keep doctors away if eaten regularly. A 100 g guava holds 5.4 g of fiber. Hence, they facilitate easy bowel movement.
5. Blackberries
Fruits that help relieve constipation
Blackberries contain one of the highest antioxidant levels and are rich in bioflavonoids and vitamin C. Up to 5.3 g of fiber is found in 100 g of blackberries.
6. Pomegranate
Fruits that help relieve constipation
Pomegranates are a rich source of fiber, vitamin C, and antioxidants. They also help protect against certain cancers and Alzheimer’s disease. A 100 g serving contains 4 g of fiber. They can be easily included into various breakfast cereals.
7. Pears
Fruits that help relieve constipation
Pears contain dietary fiber, antioxidants, minerals, and vitamins. They reduce the cholesterol level in the body and protect us from heart diseases. A 100 g serving of pears contains 3.1 g of fiber.
8. Kiwi Fruit
Fruits that help relieve constipation
Containing one of the highest amounts of vitamin C, kiwi fruits are a great source of minerals and contain up to 3 g of fiber in a 100 g serving.
9. Bananas
fruits that help relieve constipation
Just 100 g of ripe banana contains 2.6 g fiber that helps bulk up stool and relieve constipation. Green or unripe bananas, on the other hand, have a high level of starch, which can cause constipation. So, ensure that you consume only bananas that are ripe.
10. Apples
Fruits that help relieve constipation
Like other fruits on this list, apples are rich in important antioxidants, flavonoids, and dietary fiber. Just 100 g of apple contains 2.4 g of fiber content.
Almost all fruits enable the digestion process and hence help ease constipation. A fruit salad consisting of all these fruits is not only delicious but also beneficial in preventing diseases and ensuring good health. Go ahead and indulge!
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/14277 | To celebrate our new Curio Blueberry Gin, we’re running a competition with Cornwall Living.
Curio Blueberry is a refreshing gin full of fruity blueberries and zesty lime, with a pleasing personality and depth of flavour to be sipped neat or with the ever-present accompaniment of premium tonic or mixer such as Fentiman’s Rose Lemonade or Luscombe Lime Crush.
Curio alchemist and head distiller William said: “Blueberries contains anthocyanin. This gives blueberries both their blue colour and health benefits that include heart health and bone strength.”
Here’s one of our favourite Blueberry Gin cocktails:
Curio Blueberry Sweet and Sour
1. 50ml shot of Curio Blueberry Gin
2. 25ml shot of hibiscus (monin)
3. 25ml shot of lime juice
4. 50ml shot of pineapple juice
5. 25ml shot of cranberry juice
1. Pour ingredients above into glass in above order
2. Fill the shaker half way with ice
3. Shake hard for 10 seconds
4. Pour into serving glass add crushed ice
5. Garish with pineapple leave/flower/cherry
To win a bottle of Curio Blueberry Gin – or any other Curio spirit, just answer the following question.
Where is the Curio distillery in Cornwall?
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/14302 | Microsoft SQL Server Manager | Allow network drives for Restore and Backup
Being forced to work with the MS SQL Server Manager is very tiring. Most time I can accomplish all the tasks using the IntelliJ Database Tools but sometimes there is no way around Microsoft management tool.
Problem: No network disks available
One thing that always annoyed me was the missing access to network drives while restoring or backing up a database. The list provided only the physical hard drive and ignores all the network drives configured in my explorer. When you try to browse the backup files from SQL Server Management Studio, you will find only the local drives are shown as shown below.
At first I copied the backup files to the machine running the sql server but this was a very nerving work around.
To make the network drives available in the SQL Server Management Studio you have to go trough the following steps:
Add network
1. Map a network drive using windows that should be visible for the SQL Manager. You are able to create/connect a network drive using a path in you network using the windows explorer window.
2. To make the newly created network drive available in for the SQL Server, we have to use the xp_cmdshell command. You need to make sure that the command is enabled in your SQL instance (it's disabled by default). To enable the command you have to execute the following script
3. as a query in your management studio:
-- To allow advanced options to be changed.
EXEC sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1;
-- To update the currently configured value for advanced options.
-- To enable the feature.
EXEC sp_configure 'xp_cmdshell', 1;
-- To update the currently configured value for this feature.
1. Now we can use the enabled xp_cmdshell command to tell SQL about the network drive and to verify the accessability:
-- Create the shared drive for SQL
EXEC XP_CMDSHELL 'net use W: \\remotePath'
-- Verify that the added network drive is accessible
Thats's it! Now you should be able to access the network drive within the SQL SERVER Manger
Removing the network drive
If you would like to remove the mapped network drive you can use the following command:
EXEC XP_CMDSHELL 'net use H: /delete' |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/14307 | What does sket mean?
Familiar with slut, skank, ho, or floozy? Well, add sket to the list, as it’s yet another slang term for a promiscuous woman in the UK.
Unrelated is the 2000s Japanese manga series Sket Dance. Sket, in this case, is short for Support, Kindness, Encouragement, and Troubleshoot.
Examples of sket
Examples of sket
I cant stand girls that openly tweet about sex. Ur not cool n u sound like a sket
@conorpg35, September, 2014
So I'm not a sket when I'm showing skin while abroad but when I do it in the UK certain people want to have a bitch fit loooool
@ChunZee_, August, 2018
Where does sket come from?
Sket originated in the UK during the early 2000s in the slang of Multicultural London English. Its source is obscure, but it may be related to the Jamaican English skettel, or a woman who dresses in dancehall fashion. When you’re going dancing, you move your body. To get better movement, you wear fewer clothes. And, as double standards go, when women move their bodies and wear less clothing, you get called slut, apparently, or in this case, sket.
Sket is most familiar, and notorious, in the UK. In 2014, Manchester United Football Club player Rio Ferdinand was fined £25,000 and suspended for 3 games after tweeting the word sket. He had gotten into a Twitter fight with a critic, eventually insulting the user’s mother as sket to his 5.9 million followers.
In 2011, a London-set thriller film, called Sket, followed an interracial girl gang as they dealt drugs, dealt with family, and dealt revenge.
Who uses sket?
As an insult for “slut,” sket specifically means “dirty” and “trashy,” true of its sister abuses like whore. Urban Dictionary entries for the term uses modifiers like scabby and crusty.
Sket may also demean a woman not only for sexual promiscuity but also for being manipulative and contemptible more generally. Both women and men may use the term in this way.
As true of some other gender sluts like bitch, some women have reclaimed sket, using the term positively as a sign of solidarity, camaraderie, or sexual liberation.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/14339 | What to Do about Your Dog’s Gas - dummies
What to Do about Your Dog’s Gas
By M. Christine Zink
If your furry friend’s flatulence has you thinking about investing in a gas mask, it may be time to think about changing your dog’s diet. Diet is the main reason for farting. A sudden change in diet after a long period of the same food can produce gas, as can sensitivity to certain dog-food ingredients.
Many dogs are sensitive to soy or other grains or meats found in dog foods, for example, so switching diets may be the solution to your dog’s gas problem.
If your dog’s flatulence is caused by an inability to adequately digest certain types of foods, such as proteins or carbohydrates, try giving her probiotics (nutritional supplements that contain beneficial bacteria such as Lactobacillus acidophilus that can help with the digestive process).
Sprinkling your dog’s food with digestive enzymes may also help control gas expulsion. These enzymes predigest the food before it reaches the bowel. Check with your veterinarian for the best kind of probiotics or digestive enzymes to buy.
Exercise is a great gas passer. Get your canine companion out for some fun and games every day to help get that gas out of her system. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/14346 | Magic Reindeer Food
It's the Christmas season! That means Santa and his reindeer are getting ready for the big trip. Here is a quick and easy activity to get ready for the arrival of Santa's reindeer. This magical mix will be a great treat for Rudolph and his pals as they travel around the world!
What You'll Need
• A bowl or bag
• Oats (plain oats, porridge oats, quick oats)
• Edible glitter
• Make sure you don't use craft glitter, that could hurt the reindeer.
• Use the same type of glitter you would use to decorate a cake.
• The small green or red sugar crystal sprinkles work great.
What to Do
1. In a bowl or a bag, mix together about 1 cup of oats and around 1 to 2 tablespoons of edible glitter (not too much, or the reindeer might get sick!).
2. Sing a Christmas carol to activate the magic in your magic reindeer food.
3. Wait until Christmas Eve and then spread your magic reindeer food across your yard. (Make sure not to do it before the night of Christmas Eve so that other critters don't eat your special mix!)
4. Wait for your reindeer mix to work its magic. Before you know it, Santa and his reindeer crew will have come and gone, leaving you and your family with holiday cheer!
Ask Yourself
• What other animals do I see that look like reindeer when it isn't Christmas time?
• Do reindeer have horns or antlers?
• What are some of my holiday traditions? Maybe spreading magic reindeer food on Christmas Eve can be one of them! |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/14361 | Helsingin Sanomat Foundation
The Helsingin Sanomat Foundation was formed when the Helsingin Sanomat Centennial Foundation merged with the Päivälehti Archive Foundation in December of 2005.
To promote and support high-level research and the implementation of freedom of speech.
Geographic Focus
Finland, Europe, US, Japan and South Korea
Programme Areas
The foundation is active in the fields of communications, communications technology and interdisciplinary studies.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/14366 | What Is The First Thing A Food Handler Should Do When Preparing A Three Compartment Sink?
what is the first thing a food handler should do when preparing a three compartment sinkIf you’ve ever walked into a kitchen where there is food preparation for public consumption, you will most likely notice a three-compartment sink.
Sometimes you will see two or four-compartment versions, but it depends on the volume of dishes being washed and how big the establishment is.
These are generally made from stainless steel, and each sink is side-by-side. Your first thought is most likely that it just gives the workers more room for washing the dirty dishes, but this is not so.
Food safety standards require that each compartment is used for different purposes.
The first thing a food handler should do when preparing a three compartment sink is to clean it. When using the sink for dishwashing, it should always be clean and sanitized before use.
It may have been used to thaw veggies or raw meats during preparation, so to minimize the risk of cross-contamination, the sink must be thoroughly cleaned, which is simple to do.
You can use hot water to rinse out each sink and use a sanitizing agent for commercial use that is designed for use in the food preparation area to wash all surfaces. This includes the drain boards and all three of the sinks.
You should also clean the handles on the faucets as well. Rinse the whole sink with clean water and let it drain without drying.
The sink is now ready for use. |
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Multidisk game problem
Tue Feb 27, 2018 7:51 am
Hello guys! I've got a problem while playing a multidisk game. The game automatically swapping from disk1 to disk2 but somehow disk1 disappears from desktop so I can't return to it in the game. I can solve this problem with "disk first aid" utility but only after quitting game and losing my game state.
Is there any way to do this without quitting the game? To show menu bar or something?
Re: Multidisk game problem
Tue Feb 27, 2018 5:14 pm
Which game are you playing? Which OS are you running it on? Does command-tab switch applications? Can you mouse to the top of the screen to reveal the menu bar and select the application manager?
But the biggest question is: can you load the disk images into the BII disk image and mount them using Virtual Disk, Shrinkwrap or Disk Copy? This might work better than loading them in as BII volumes.
Re: Multidisk game problem
Wed Feb 28, 2018 2:43 pm
The game is Crystal Skull. I'm playing with Basilisk emulator on Android device. OS 8.1. The only hotkeys I managed to use was Command-option-esc (to quit the game) and there is no menu bar in game when I mouse to top.
The biggest question is too hard for me to do it on Android device((
Re: Multidisk game problem
Sat Mar 03, 2018 1:24 pm
I did forward your question at Macintoshgarden.
http://macintoshgarden.org/forum/the-cr ... ing-advice
In short, you may mount all three ISOs with VirtualCD Imager from a Mac volume, set the monitor to 640x480, run the installer and play the game. I was using MacOS 7.5, but I don´t think thats an issue.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/14373 | Things in Space
February 25, 2019 Alix Paultre
By all accounts, we have been living in the space age for quite some time. Even if you think the moon landings were faked, we’ve been throwing tons of material into orbit for decades. Space science is so intrinsic to our modern society, we often forget how instrumental the space program was. In fact, many don’t recognize how important space still is to us.
Using Earth’s orbital space for communications was first published by Arthur C. Clarke in 1945, and that place in geosynchronous orbit is named after him. Today we use near space for more than just communications, using satellites for everything from surveillance to navigation to astronomy. From the high ground of space, many applications can be easily addressed (Figure 1).
Figure 1: From the high ground of space, many applications can be easily addressed.
Getting to space, however, isn’t very easy at all. The term “rocket science” as a metaphor for the difficulty of a task was coined in the days of development when “catastrophic systems failure” meant thousands of pounds of highly-volatile rocket fuel blowing up on the launch pad. It is amazing how far we have come from those days, as rocket science is an applied technology, and prices have fallen to the point where any dedicated organization can put several pounds into low orbit for cents on the dollar compared to what it cost as short a time as 20 years ago.
From an orbital perch, everything is line-of-sight, and wireless systems can take full advantage of that. Normally constrained by terrestrial features, moving the RF conversation to space takes away constraints like mountains and the horizon. This enables the creation of solutions not normally possible when all information must travel over the surface of the globe. In the area of Cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT), there are already a couple of companies that have thrown their hats into the ring.
Fleet Space
Fleet Space is a company out of Adelaide, South Australia, that already has four of their LoRaWAN-based wireless IoT NanoSatellites (Figure 2) in Low Earth Orbit, with the first million devices already booked in their system. Fleet is opening additional capacity for just $10 per year per device. LoRaWAN is a low-power wide area network specification using Semtech's LoRa modulation scheme.
Figure 2: Fleet Space has four LoRaWAN-based wireless IoT NanoSatellites in Low Earth Orbit.
One of the more interesting things the company is doing that highlights the benefits of space-based IoT is the work they are doing with Sensing Value exploring the impact of technology on agriculture for the Maori people of New Zealand. Based out of the Manawatu Valley, the team has been trialling various ways to automate the farm operation to define a blueprint for the Maori farm of the future.
In this video, Fleet Space CEO Flavia Tata Nardini talks about the small but growing fleet of microsatellites the company is placing in orbit to provide global IoT solutions. The company has recently released the Fleet Portal, a fully integrated Satellite/LoRaWAN gateway (Figure 3). An Edge Server, LoRaWAN gateway, satellite modem, and antenna in one integrated package. The Portal can manage up to a hundred LoRaWAN sensors within 15km (~10 miles).
Figure 3: The Fleet Portal is an Edge Server, LoRaWAN gateway, satellite modem, and antenna in one integrated package.
Lacuna Space
Another space startup that also has four satellites in orbit, Lacuna Space comes out of the European Space Agency’s Business Incubation Center in Oxford’s Harwell Campus, with an office in the Netherlands where they work closely with The Things Network in Amsterdam. The company also has developers and collaborators working in France and Switzerland.
The system uses low-cost, battery-powered sensors to transmit a signal directly to a passing cubesat (about the size of a shoe-box) in a 500km orbit satellite using LoRaWAN. Circling the Earth 14 times a day, the satellites store data for a short time until they pass over one of the company’s network of ground stations, which relay the information automatically to Lacuna’s cloud platform. Data can be viewed on a web-based application, or relayed to your own system or terrestrial network.
In this video, Rob Spurrett (CEO) and Thomas Telkamp (CTO) of Lacuna Space talk about their LoRa Space Gateways in orbit to provide global coverage for those with international and/or remote assets that need to be connected. The encrypted network also provides the security needed today for safe and secure operations.
The company is creating the Lacuna Network, a not-for-profit foundation where Lacuna Space invites other satellite operators to use their LoRa Space Gateways and join in an open message exchange, enabling operators to leverage of each other’s satellite infrastructure. All messages will be securely encrypted and those messages detected by one satellite, but intended for another operator, will be relayed.
Rob Spurrett, CEO of Lacuna Space said, “The challenge with satellite IoT is that there are a lot of companies attempting to provide IoT connectivity, each with a small number of satellites, and attempting to raise funding to scale-up their infrastructure. By using a common standard, that is entirely interoperable with terrestrial networks, we can all benefit from sharing resources so we can deliver a better service to our customers with lower capital investment.”
Onward and upward
These and other companies newly entering the industry underscore the new opportunities and application solutions that can be created by using space-based systems. Using orbital systems as the foundation for a wireless IoT network can address applications unable to be served with any other approach.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/14383 | English to Telugu Meaning :: appendage
Appendage :
- చేరినదిఅనుబంధాంగాలు
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Noun(1) an external body part that projects from the body(2) a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant(3) a part that is joined to something larger
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(1) The feather is a skin appendage , like hair, that grows as a unique hollow tube from a follicle by the controlled proliferation of cells in a ring.(2) they treat Scotland as a mere appendage of England(3) The damage to the car itself is settled between insurers, apart from the excess on the motorist's policy, which he may not trouble to pursue except as an appendage to a larger claim.(4) The word compromise had no place in her vocabulary - she lived on her terms and when she could no longer do so, she preferred to die rather than become an appendage to someone else's life.(5) Instead, she presented herself as an appendage to her husband and talked about her role as consort.(6) The High Court, he said, was not an inessential appendage to the new constitutional structure.(7) He pushed away tall grass and went into a new clearing that was an appendage to the lake.(8) For Scott, the school became an indispensable appendage to the mosque.(9) Some critics regard the didactic second part as an appendage to an earlier secular poem; others see the whole as an allegorical representation of human exile from God on the sea of life.(10) The claim of self-sufficiency cannot be contingent upon an appendage to another human being considered superior.(11) Consequently, feathering will not be able to produce the asymmetry necessary for the rowing appendage to generate net thrust.(12) One of the ways that management continues to be defined, then, is as an appendage to a technical specialism, or as a technical specialism in its own right.(13) He deeply dislikes the implicit idea that a wife is a lesser appendage to her husband.(14) Are individualism and stardom necessary to the dramatic work, or are they supplemental, a mere appendage of modernity?(15) The college-distance 3-pointer always has seemed an illogical and unnecessary appendage to a wonderful game.(16) The tiny structure was an appendage to a larger house Matt had bought, intending to use the lesser quarters as a rental property.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/14384 | If you live in a metropolitan area such as Los Angeles, you are probably familiar with urban smog—the dark yellow or brown haze that builds up in a large stagnant air mass and hangs over populated areas on calm hot summer days. Smog is made up mostly of ground-level ozone (O3), but it also contains numerous other chemicals, including carbon monoxide (CO), particulate matter such as soot and dust, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as benzene, butane, and other hydrocarbons. The harmful ground-level
ozone should not be confused with the useful ozone layer high in the stratosphere that protects the earth from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays.
thermodynamics_engrzOzone at ground level is a pollutant with several adverse health effects. The primary source of both nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons is the motor vehicles. Hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides react in the presence of sunlight on hot calm days to form ground-level ozone, which is the primary component of smog (Fig. 2–64). The smog formation usually peaks in late afternoons when the temperatures are highest and there is plenty of sunlight.
Although ground-level smog and ozone form in urban areas with heavy traffic or industry, the prevailing winds can transport them several hundred miles to other cities. This shows that pollution knows of no boundaries, and it is a global problem.
Ozone irritates eyes and damages the air sacs in the lungs where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged, causing eventual hardening of this soft and spongy tissue. It also causes shortness of breath, wheezing, fatigue, headaches, and nausea, and aggravates respiratory problems such as asthma. Every exposure to ozone does a little damage to the lungs, just like cigarette smoke, eventually reducing the individual’s lung capacity. Staying indoors and minimizing physical activity during heavy smog minimizes damage. Ozone also harms vegetation by damaging leaf tissues. To improve the air quality in areas with the worst ozone problems, reformulated gasoline (RFG) that contains at least 2 percent oxygen was introduced. The use of RFG has resulted in significant reduction in the emission of ozone and other pollutants, and its use is mandatory in many smog-prone areas.
The other serious pollutant in smog is carbon monoxide, which is a colorless, odorless, poisonous gas. It is mostly emitted by motor vehicles, and it can build to dangerous levels in areas with heavy congested traffic. It deprives the body’s organs from getting enough oxygen by binding with the red blood cells that would otherwise carry oxygen. At low levels, carbon monoxide decreases the amount of oxygen supplied to the brain and other organs and muscles, slows body reactions and reflexes, and impairs judgment.
It poses a serious threat to people with heart disease because of the fragile condition of the circulatory system and to fetuses because of the oxygen needs of the developing brain. At high levels, it can be fatal, as evidenced by numerous deaths caused by cars that are warmed up in closed garages or by exhaust gases leaking into the cars.
Smog also contains suspended particulate matter such as dust and soot emitted by vehicles and industrial facilities. Such particles irritate the eyes and the lungs since they may carry compounds such as acids and metals.
Reference: Thermodynamics – An Engineering Approach
5th Edition
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/14395 | Non Conventional Loans
as part of Arch’s suite of mortgage risk solutions, its integration with Arch MI and its strong capitalization relative to net insured exposures, moderated by meaningful uncertainty about prospects.
So if your mortgage is insured by the government, it’s non-conventional. The most popular of the government loans is the FHA loan, which is a mortgage backed by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), an arm of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Office of Housing.
Jumbo Mortgage Limits Super Jumbo Mortgage Lenders Best Mortgage Lenders for Jumbo Loans | – That means if you require a mortgage higher than those limits, you'll need to apply for a jumbo loan. These types of loans can have different.Still, before opting for a jumbo loan, know their limits. Compared to conforming loans, interest rates tend to be higher because the larger loan amounts are riskier for lenders. Also, a recent change in tax law now allows home buyers to deduct interest payments on only up to $750,000 in mortgage debt.
Loans with DTI Ratios Above 43% Might Be Non-QM. In other words, many loans can still exceed 43% DTI and get the QM seal of approval. However, loans that are in the jumbo realm (loan amounts above what the aforementioned agencies accept) and above 43% DTI are most likely non-QM territory.
Non-Conventional loans, sometimes called unconventional, are often recommended for individuals with a lower income, bankruptcy, or insufficient cash resources. Non-conventional loans are also good loan options for specific groups, like active military or veterans.
A conforming mortgage follows the guidelines put in place by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, including loan limits. Non-conforming These mortgages include both "jumbo loans" which exceed the loan limits imposed by government-backed agencies, niche products for unusual circumstances and riskier products that are much less common these days. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/14403 | Kids Night Out
Every 3rd Saturday night, starting at 5:30 p.m. Maybe we should call it Parent’s Night Out!
Give your kids a great Saturday night (and have one yourself). Kids Night Out at Etown Fitness Club in Evanston, IL is a fun evening of physical activity and games, followed by pizza, popcorn, and a movie.
While you’re relaxing or having a night on the town, they’ll be having a great time, too. Our coach-led classroom ensures that your child is fully-engaged, learning, and socializing for the entire evening.
Kids Night Out! goes from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., with late pickup available until 10:00 p.m. Whether you’d like a short night out or a long one, we’ve got you covered.
• Coach-led (and totally fun)
• Gym time and games, followed by pizza, a movie, and popcorn.
• 3 hour Kids’ Night: $60 per child, with 50% off each sibling
• Late Pickup: $25 per child
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/14423 | By Alex, 6/8/2019
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Pringles Can Solar Cooker
About this Science Experiment
Hope you brought your appetite, because today we're cooking... with science! A solar cooker is a type of oven that captures and heats food using only the energy from the sun. Most solar cookers are pretty low tech, but some technologically-advanced cookers can actually cook for hundreds of people. Solar cookers are super cool because they reduce the need for electricity, the burning of fuels, and deforestation (from firewood).
Solar cookers work by concentrating sunlight, converting the light into heat, and then trapping the heat. In this demonstration, we're going to see exactly how we can accomplish all three and, if it's sunny enough, make some lunch in the process.
1. To start off, we need to cut a hole in the side of the Pringles can. Use the picture to get an idea of how big your hole should be. It's a good idea to draw where you want to cut on the can first, then use the scissors to cut it out. The shiny, curved inside of the can is going to redirect the sunlight towards what we want to cook.
2. Being extra careful, poke a small hole in the centers of both the lid and the bottom of the Pringles can. You may need to ask an adult for help with this part.
3. Push the skewer through the hole in the lid and into the hole in the bottom of the can.
4. Next, we're going to create something called glazing, the part of our cooker that will allow sunlight to come in, but prevent heat from going out. Tape a piece of plastic wrap over the hole in your cooker. The idea is to prevent outside air from easily entering the can and cooling it down through convection (although it doesn't have to be perfectly air tight!).
5. And now, the part you've been waiting for: we're ready too cook! On a sunny day, take your cooker outside and place it so that the hole is directly facing the sun (you may need to place it on something, so it doesn't roll away). We're going to start with the marshmallows. Remove the skewer from your cooker and use it to skewer a couple marshmallows, lengthwise.
6. Place the skewer, with marshmallows in the middle, inside of your cooker and close it up. The marshmallows should start heating up pretty quickly if it's sunny enough outside. Check back in about ten to fifteen minutes.
7. Take the marshmallows out of the can, and while you're enjoying your solar-cooked treat, use the thermometer to measure the inside temperature of your cooker. If possible, the best way to do this is to put the thermometer into your cooker, close it up again, and wait a few minutes. If your thermometer is reading 70°C or more (this takes a very hot day, so don't feel bad if it isn't), you're ready to try cooking a hot dog!
8. Like in the picture, again take the skewer from your cooker and skewer a hot dog right down the middle. Put the skewered hot dog into your cooker and let the sun work its magic (err, science). Check on your hot dog in about thirty minutes. To make sure it's safe to eat, it's best to heat your hot dog to at least 60°C.
Analysis and Conclusion
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A FairMormon Analysis of: Journal of Discourses 11: OPPOSITION ESSENTIAL TO HAPPINESS, a work by author: Brigham Young
Summary: Remarks by President BRIGHAM YOUNG, made in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, June 3, 1866. REPORTED BY G. D. WATT.
I wish the few remarks which I may now make to be comprehensive and instructive.
The subject upon which Brother Wells has spoken this afternoon is a very intricate one to define. It is very difficult to convey even the ideas which we may have respecting the operations of, to us, invisible spirits upon the hearts of the children of men; and it is very difficult to frame in the mind a system of thinking and reasoning upon this subject that is at all satisfactory. It is very difficult
to form in the mind an even, and unbroken, and correct thread of ideas which will truthfully and satisfactorily explain the variations which we see in the motives and actions of mankind, and to understand the varied motives and feelings of the people, and what they design in performing such and such acts. There are some who have a correct and clear thread of ideas framed in their minds relating to this subject, but cannot convey them to their fellow-beings. This is a weakness that I believe is inherent to a greater or less degree in each and every one of us.
The opposition which we find in the hearts of the children of men to the Gospel of life and salvation, Brother Wells has been setting before us this afternoon in a very able manner. Upon this subject I have my own reflections, and my own way of revealing those reflections to others.
The opposition which we see manifested against the truth in this our day has been manifested in every day and age of the world wherein the Gospel of the Son of God has been preached to the children of men. There is no difference to-day in this respect from what it was formerly. Our opponents tell us that were it not for the doctrine we believe, teach, and practice, there would be no difficulty—no strife between the Latter-day Saints and those who call themselves Gentiles We are all Gentiles by birth who are not of Jewish descent. We who are called Latter-day Saints are Gentiles by birth—we are nationally so. The opposition which we have to meet is not because we believe in polygamy. That principle is not the real bone of contention, but it is the power of Satan against the power of Jesus Christ here upon this earth. It is no matter what the doctrines are; it is no matter by what name they are called, in what manner they are presented, or by whom they are believed; it is the power of God on the one hand, and the power of Satan on the other. We can see the workings of the two spirits upon the hearts and dispositions of the children of men. Opposition to the truth is made manifest by those who render themselves servants to obey false principles or false ideas, and their actions are directed by the power of Satan against the truth of heaven in the persons of those who love and advocate it.
We have been told that when error is introduced it is generally done in a most genteel, religious, scientific, and most refined and civilized manner. The servants of sin should appear polished and pious. It is necessary they should be learned, and be able to call to their assistance the accomplishments and elegancies of science and art, and the subtle, persuasive power of rhetoric. Jesus Christ describes this class of deceivers very forcibly in the following words:—"But all their works they do to be seen of men; they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, and love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi." This external polish is really necessary for them as a covering to make successful the introduction of false theories and false principles, and to cover up licentious and wicked lives.
The servants of God have truth, and nothing but truth, to present to the world, that the world may be sanctified by the truth. The truth needeth no polish to make it lovely and desirable to those who love it. The principles of truth and goodness, and of eternal lives and the power of God are from eternity to eternity. The principle of falsehood and wickedness, the power of the devil and the power of death are also from eternity
to eternity. These two powers have ever existed and always will exist in all the eternities that are yet to come. Although in relation to this earth, some time in its future history there will be no death, and him that hath the power of death will be destroyed. It is written in the Book of Mormon, "For it must needs be that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, righteousness could not be brough[t] to pass; neither wickedness; neither holiness nor misery; neither good nor bad."
When man is born into the world he is at once subject to the influences of life and death, and to the innumerable and varied vicissitudes which he meets in his passage from birth to the grave, to give him an experience which will prepare him to enter into and enjoy life everlasting. He is endowed with agency to choose either life or death, and must abide the consequences in the next life of the choice which he makes in this. Were it not that evil exists with good, man could not have been an agent unto himself. When the spirit of man enters the earthly tabernacle, it is as pure as an angel of God. When man, as a child, is brought forth to the light, and begins to live, move, and have a visible and an individual being in this world, he is brought in contact with the principle of evil—he receives the mark of sin, and as passes the usual stages from infancy to manhood, he learns to become disobedient to the requirements of heaven, disobedient to the laws of man, and disobedient to the laws of his own nature; he engenders the spirit of hatred, malice, wrath, strife, and all that class of evils which render him unfit to return again to the presence of his Father and God; but if he will obey the Gospel and walk in the ways of the Lord, his mortal existence and his proneness to sin, which he has inherited through the fall, become profitable and essentially necessary to the full enjoyment of salvation and eternal life.
These ideas may be profitable to the Saints and aid them in understanding to some extent why things are as they are.
Then the opposition to the truth is not because we have no wife, because we have one wife or many wives; it is not because we are Socialists and have all things common; it is not because we believe in or practice this or that doctrine as individuals and as a people; but it is the spirit of him who is an enemy to all righteousness that is in the hearts of those who yield themselves to obey false principles. Paul, in his writing to the Romans, says, "Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin; but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God." "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?" When truth comes, error comes also. When the Gospel of the Son of God is introduced among the children of men, it comes with light and intelligence, with pure and holy principles It embraces all morality, all virtue, all light, all intelligence, all greatness, and all goodness. It introduces a system of laws and ordinances, and a code of moral rectitude which, if obeyed by the human family, will lead them back to the presence of God. As we were exhorted this morning to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, be baptised for the remission of sins, receive the laying on of hands for the reception of the Holy Ghost, receive the spirit of prophecy, the spirit of discerning of spirits, the gift of healing, and, in short, all the gifts, and graces, and laws, and ordinances of the Gospel, which are for
life and salvation. Now, the power of Satan is opposed to all this.
Now, let me state somewhat the reason why the devil appears as a gentleman when he presents himself to the children of men. The children of men have good principles dwelling within them. When their spirits came into this mortal flesh, they brought with them the love of all truth, virtue, and goodness; but the sin that has contaminated the mortal tabernacle through the fall creates what the Apostle Paul, when writing to Timothy, calls a "warfare." When Joseph Smith first preached the Gospel to this generation the Spirit of God attended it, and that Spirit met an opposing spirit, which was the spirit of Satan, exerting his power to lead away mankind from the truth to everlasting ruin; while the Spirit of the Gospel, the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, sought to lead to exaltation and everlasting life. Here are the two powers in opposition to each other.
Now, remember that it is not because we are called "Mormons," or Latter-day Saints, that we meet opposition; there is nothing odious in mere names and titles. Joseph Smith has as good a right to his name as John Smith has to his. There is nothing criminal in the simple name of Joseph Smith; yet, he being a servant of God and a preacher of righteousness, his name became odious to the wicked, and the three simple words, "Old Joe Smith," were sufficient to arouse in their hearts every vindictive and blood-thirsty desire. It was not, however, this simple name that aroused the worst feelings of the human heart against those who loved and obeyed the truth; but it was the spirit of Satan working in the hearts of the children of disobedience against the truth. Why was Joseph Smith, and why are his brethren, so odious to those who are not of us? Because we have the words of eternal life to offer to the world. The devil is opposed to this, and offers resistance to the progress of the spirit of the Gospel by arousing the wicked, who are under his influence, to hate, and persecute, and annoy in every possible way, the true followers of the Lord Jesus.
Let me say to you, my friends (and if I have foes here I say it also to them), there is no spirit inhabiting a mortal tabernacle (that has not sinned away the day of grace), but what naturally loves and adores the truth, and would bless and honor all those who seek to walk in the way of the Lord, were it not for the influence and power of evil by which they are controlled. There is a constant warfare between the good and the evil. The mortal tabernacle is of the earth earthy, and came forth for the express purpose of being prepared to serve as a dwelling for the eternal spirit; and the spirit has come here for the express purpose of getting a tabernacle; and the sin that is in the fleshy tabernacle is against the good that is in the spirit. The Apostle Paul, when writing to the Romans, says, "For I delight in the law of God, after the inward man: but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members."
It is not the name of a man or the name of a sect which inspires this warfare, but it is a war which has always existed, and will always continue to exist, between the good and the bad, between the power of God and the power of the devil. To those who are not instructed in the things of God it appears to be a warfare between sects and parties. The votaries of the bad excuse themselves for their persecutions of the good by supposing that they, themselves, as individuals, or their nations, are about to suffer
some great wrong from the upholders of the good. As an example of this I will quote from the Gospel according to St. Luke:—"And the whole multitude of them arose and led him (Jesus Christ) unto Pilate. And they began to accuse him, saying, we found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying, that he himself is Christ, a king." This is the cunning of the devil, and a means by which he leads down to destruction great numbers of the human family. He gets the political world to believe that they are, or are going to, be infringed upon; he makes the religious world believe that the sanctity and rights of their holy religion are in danger, and thus he gets them to make his cause their own; they are lashed into a frenzy of excitement and hatred against the Saints; every high-toned, honorable and truthful feeling of the human heart is blunted or entirely subdued in them; they plan for the destruction of God's people, and, in many instances, the blood of the Saints—the blood of innocence—has been shed by their hands. It is written in the book of Revelation: "And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels with him."
Paul in view of the power of this great deceiver and his host exhorted the Saints anciently to "Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." A great number of those who oppose the truth, and mob and rob and kill the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, know not what they oppose, but they are moved to commit depredations against the people of God by men who are desperately wicked; these are among the bitterest enemies of the truth. The multitude in the days of Jesus cried out: "Crucify him." The chief priests had delivered him up from envy. Pilate knew this; "but the chief priests moved the people that he should rather release Barrab[b]as unto them. When Pilate inquired what evil he had done, they cried out more exceedingly: crucify him." They know not what they did.
Wherever the Gospel of Jesus Christ has been preached, either in these or in former days, it has met with a class of men to whom the truth looked lovely and God-like, and the spirit within would prompt them to embrace it; but they find themselves so advantageously connected in the world, and have so many interests at stake if they should embrace it, they conclude that it will not do, and here comes the warfare again. Some few will overcome the reasonings of the flesh, and follow the dictates of the Spirit; while the great majority of this class of persons are won over by sordid considerations and cleave to their idols. The good spirit tries to overcome the wayward will of the flesh, and the flesh, aided by the cunning and power of the devil, maintains a strong warfare; but, notwithstanding this great power against which the spirit has to contend, the power of God is greater than the power of the wicked one; and unless the Saints sin against light and knowledge, and wilfully neglect their plain and well understood duties, and the Spirit of God is grieved and it ceases to strive with them, the Spirit is sure to prevail over the flesh, and ultimately succeeds in sanctifying the tabernacle for a residence in the presence of God.
The spirit which inhabits these tabernacles naturally loves truth, it
naturally loves light and intelligence, it naturally loves virtue, God and godliness; but being so closely united with the flesh their sympathies are blended, and their union being necessary to the possession of a fullness of joy to both, the spirit is indeed subject to be influenced by the sin that is in the mortal body, and to be overcome by it and by the power of the devil, unless it is constantly enlightened by that spirit which enlighteneth every man that cometh into the world, and by the power of the Holy Ghost which is imparted through the Gospel. In this, and this alone, consists the warfare between Christ and the devil.
It is not in my being called a Quaker, a Methodist or a "Mormon" that is the true cause of contention between these two great powers—Christ and Belial; but it is in the fact that God has established His kingdom upon the earth and restored the Holy Priesthood, which gives men authority and power to administer in His name.
It has been told us this afternoon, and was this morning also, that we must be baptized in order to be saved. Much remains to be said on the means necessary to effect salvation in its completeness. We might as well say that a beautiful temple could be built and all its details completed and finished in a day, as to say that we can tell all we know about the plan of man's salvation in a short hour and a half or in a day. It is plain to every enlightened person that the Lord has introduced fit and proper laws by which he will save His children and exalt them into his presence. If these laws are not obeyed by the human family, they cannot be saved, nor be exalted to the presence of God. What will become of all those who will not obey the laws of salvation? Will they be confined throughout an endless eternity in that bottemless [bottomless] pit, where their worm dieth not, and where their fire is not quenched?
It is necessary that men should become acquainted with the laws of God, and the ordinances of His kingdom, and receive of the power of the world to come in order to fit them to become angels of the devil, and that the devil may have full power over them; and these are the only ones who are cut off from every every degree of salvation. Jesus said, "now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me."
He has been lifted up, and He will save every son and daughter of Adam and Eve, except the sons of perdition, in some kingdom where there shall be no more death, no more aches and pains to afflict and torment them; and let me assure you that none of those kingdoms will be any worse than the one we now inhabit. Jesus Christ will draw all men unto him, except those who contend against the power of God and against his kingdom until they have sealed their own damnation.
followers of Jesus Christ. Yet the little good, if any, that is in them, they have received from God. Lucifer, the son of the morning, has not got a good principle, does not say a good word, perform a good act, or present a good idea to any people upon this earth or any other earth that he has not received from that God whom you and I serve. Every thing that is good, every thing that is lovely and truthful, virtuous and kind, everything to be admired and desired by the pure in heart comes from God, our Father, who dwells in heaven. The most wicked person that ever dwelt upon the earth, the Lord supports; He gives to him the breath of life, and causes His sun to rise upon that poor miserable wretch, who would, if he had the power, destroy everything that is good. The Lord our God sends His rain upon the just and upon the unjust, and gives food and raiment to the good and to the evil; He parcels out the earth among his children, and his mercy and loving kindness are over all the works of his hands. Though the Lord is thus kind and merciful to all, yet he saith, "them that honour me I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed."
In the days before Noah's flood those who served God and kept his commandments were prepared to receive glory, immortality and eternal life, according to the law of the Gospel. When this law was given to the people in any age, the kingdom of God was established, and the devil and his hosts were made mad even as they are at this day.
We are told that if we would give up polygamy—which we know to be a doctrine revealed from heaven, and it is God and the world for it—but suppose this Church should give up this holy order of marriage, then would the devil, and all who are in league with him against the cause of God, rejoice that they had prevailed upon the Saints to refuse to obey one of the revelations and commandments of God to them. Would they be satisfied with this? No; but they would next want us to renounce Joseph Smith as a true prophet of God, then the Book of Mormon, then baptism for the remission of sins and the laying on of hands for the reception of the Holy Ghost. Then they would wish us to disclaim the gift of prophecy, and the other gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit, on the ground that they are done away and no longer needed in our day, also prophets and apostles, etc.
They want us to yield all these points, transgress the laws God has revealed for the salvation of the world, and change all the ordinances of God's house, and conform to the dogmas of modern Christianity and to the corruptions of the age. Will the Latter-day Saints do this? No; they will not to please anybody. Shall we have a warfare? We shall; we will war and contend for the right, and trust in our God until righteousness is established upon the earth, until peace shall reign everywhere, until the children of men shall lay down the weapons of their warfare and cease to exhaust their ability and ingenuity in forming weapons of destruction to slay their fellow men, until the minds and affections of mankind shall be turned unto the Lord their God, and their energies be directed to beautifying the earth and making it like the garden of Eden. We calculate to struggle on, and continue to exercise faith and enjoy our religion, keeping all the commandments of God, observing the ordinances of his house, trying to fulfill all his words, trusting in him, and we shall see what this course will come to.
I can tell the whole world that we shall preach the gospel of life and
salvation and call upon the children of men to cease their wickedness and their warring against God and one another, and embrace those saving principles that will lead them to life here and to eternal life hereafter. We shall preach on, we shall struggle on until the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our God and his Christ. To be gentle and kind, modest and truthful, to be full of faith and integrity, doing no wrong is of God; goodness sheds a halo of loveliness around every person who possesses it, making their countenances beam with light, and their society desirable because of its excellency. They are loved of God, of holy angels, and of all the good on earth, while they are hated, envied, admired and feared by the wicked.
What, then, is the mission of Satan, that common foe of all the children of men? It is to destroy and make desolate. When this house was built, every principle, every desire that prompted the putting of these materials together, had good for its object in making the people comfortable and happy. The desire to build cities, open farms, set out orchards and adorn and beautify the earth in every possible way is of God. But you say that those who do not believe in religion at all do that. Very good, are not their lives as much in the hands of God as yours and mine? Does He not prompt them day by day to do good, and blessed are they who resist not the Spirit. There is a spirit of truth gone forth to all the inhabitants of the world. The book of Job says, "but there is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding." Again, it is written of Jesus, "that was the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." "For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God."
There is that in all men which prompts them to do good and forsake evil; then there is another principle which prompts them to do evil and forsake the good. The few who have moral courage enough to yield obedience to the promptings of the Spirit of God, bringing themselves in subjection to his will, are the ones who compose the church and kingdom of God on the earth, so far as they have opportunity. Whatsoever is good is of God, no matter by whom possessed or presented. If the devil presents principles that are good and pure and lovely, they are not of him, but they are of God.
The devil delights in the work of destruction—to burn and lay waste and destroy the whole earth. He delights to convulse. and throw into confusion the affairs of men, politically, religiously and morally, introducing war with its long train of dreadful consequences. It is evil which causeth all these miseries and all deformity to come upon the inhabitants of the earth. But that which is of God is pure, lovely, holy and full of all excellency and truth, no matter where it is found, in hell, in heaven, upon the earth, or in the planets. Let us live in obedience to the good; let us live live our religion.
I do not know that I have explained these things sufficiently clear to you. The thread of the whole subject is clearly defined in my mind. I know what the children of men are when they come upon the earth, and the influence that attends them, and the power of satan who lives upon the earth by permission like the wicked and ungodly do. Will we live our religion? I hope so. It was asked
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Well, as I mentioned above when the digestive system is off this affects your moods. If you're like most other people right now you are most likely scratching your heads. Wondering how gut health has anything to do with serotonin which is a brain chemical. Here's the surprising part!
Recent discoveries have revealed that some of the body's serotonin is made in the digestive system and is believed to help with moods, gastrointestinal motility, and blood platelet function.
There is something in our body's called the brain-gut axis, serotonin is the chemical that allows this communication between the brain and gut. If the balance is out of whack in the digestive system from eating too much sugar and or taking medications it can change how the body reacts to stress and it slows down digestion which causes poor nutrition and a build-up of waste. A build-up of waste translates into too many toxins (which causes inflammation) and not enough good nutrition. Which in turn causes you to not feel good...and so on.
(The above is a very simplified explanation of the brain-gut axis and how serotonin affects moods)
Toxic buildup can lead to depressed emotions and a weakened immune system
Ohh...and one more thing that I'll write about at a later date. This brain-gut axis works both directions. Meaning what we think affects how our gut works too.
This is why when you are wanting to get healthy you need to look at your whole being, Mind, Body, and Spirit. And that is why I developed the 5 Pillars of Health using the acronym P-R-A-N-A. These courses give you tools so your whole being can heal and stay healthy through
P- Positive Thoughts
R- Rest
A- Alignment
N- Nutrition
A- Action
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Below are reference links to the studies I wrote about.
2016 Harvard Probiotics Symposium_DAY 2
Know your serotonin: An interview with gut-brain axis researcher Elaine Hsiao
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/14506 | The other week, in re Princess Jellyfish, I wrote that comedy's deceptively hard to do well. The same goes for horror, because while it's easy to make someone jump, or gross them out, it's far harder to get under their skin and make them uneasy. Jolts are of the moment; creeps are forever. Shiki creeped me; ditto Perfect Blue, Paranoia Agent, Tetsuo: The Iron Man. And ditto Junji Ito's Tomie, because it takes a devilish concept and uses it as a springboard for launching one little nightmare after another, all of them wicked commentaries on the weak hearts of men (and women).
Bad romance
A young woman who calls herself Tomie appears somewhere in this world — preternaturally beautiful, always with a "weeping mole" below one eye. Vain, haughty, selfish — but somehow irresistible to men, in the way moths throw themselves at a flame. Sometimes she throws herself at them as well, the better to get them to fall for her. Eventually, she drives them into a murderous rage, where they slaughter her and sometimes even mince up the corpse. But no matter how she's killed (short of, perhaps, being incinerated in a blast furnace?), the corpse always comes back to life. Or the individual pieces do, each one becoming a full Tomie in its own right, each going its own way to begin the cycle anew.
Tomie began as a one- or two-shot story, among the very first works Junji Ito created for his manga career, presumably with no intentions of it becoming an ongoing thing. Those first couple of chapters in the Tomie anthology, published by VIZ, trace her origins at a high school, where she comes back from the dead after an accident, proceeds to seduce teachers and students alike, and passes her infection (as it were) on to a hapless patient in a hospital. From this we learn not only her modus operandi, but the mechanics of her transmission: a transfusion or a transplant from her will take root in a host. And any piece of her at all — even a discarded hunk flung out to sea — can regenerate.
Those early chapters have all the hallmarks of a budding artist still finding their voice and vision, with muddy art and storytelling noticeably less pointed than is normally the case for Ito. But the end of each of those chapters feels like the full-blown Ito we know from his best works — both in the lingering dread that ends the first part, and the body-horror capper for the second. The third chapter also follows close behind, showing how an organ donated by Tomie reproduces her in toto. The doctors there have ambitions to use her as some kind of universal cure, but Tomie eyes the (male) doctors and has other ideas ... and that's apart from the way the patient they use as their test subject manifests a weeping mole and begins behaving flirtatiously ...
The rest of the book resurrects Tomie in a variety of settings and circumstances, many of them linked tentatively to each other — e.g., with a particular instance of Tomie escaping from one episode of seduction and death into another, sometimes with a character from the last episode reappearing in this one. The only real continuity, though, is Tomie as a concept, rather than as a person. After all, every instance of her is exactly the same; all that's new is the various opportunities that come her way to seduce, spawn, mutate.
Her infinite variety (and ours, too)
My first exposure to Ito's long-form storytelling was through Uzumaki, his other now-legendary work, about a town that becomes obsessed with the concept of spirals. Half the fun of that story was seeing how Ito would try to work the concept of a spiral into one progressively more outré storyline after another. Tome is the same way; no stone of permutative possibility remains unturned. There is never any attempt to explain where she came from, but that's fine: it's the effect she has on others, not her origins, that are the real story here anyway.
In one episode reminiscent of classic monster-in-the-castle-keep Gothic horror, a tormented Tomie in a dungeon attempts to divide of its own accord, and turns into a ghastly, shambling, multi-faced monster, like a bodhisattva from hell. In another, Tomie's blood impregnates a plastic carpet runner, and in time new Tomies rise from it like fungus out of a Petri dish. In another, a mere hair from her head — preserved by (who else?) a man who pined for one of her previous incarnations — becomes transplanted onto the head of a plain girl, whose looks and personality soon begin changing in a dismayingly familiar way. Sometimes the absurdity of Tomie's powers is the entire point, as with one grimly funny episode where her body's disposed of by being rendered in a saké fermentation vat, and what will happen to the masses when they drink the resulting product is hinted at when we see firsthand what a swig of her does to the mind.
Tomie's affects also span the generations. She plays murderous surrogate mother to a child (until Dad steps in ... and since we know how that is likely to end, the story ends right there too); she becomes "daughter" to a bizarre couple who take in children and torment them, and have no idea how badly the tables have been turned. And in the last story, Tomie ends up in the hands of a couple who try to break her by robbing her of her beauty in a way that I can only describe as a lifetime project.
What Ito always keep in sight is how to connect the gruesome convolutions and goings-on back into the themes Tomie exposes by simply existing. The hair episode, for instance: the locks are discovered by the man's daughter, and her friend grows increasingly jealous of how Tomie seems to have passed her up. When women envy Tomie's beauty, they find the only way to acquire any soupçon of it is to become her. The war-of-the-sexes spell Tomie weaves is toxic to both male and female alike, much as misogyny cripples both women and men albeit in different ways. But they never notice their own evil, only Tomie's allure.
Horror (and science fiction, and fantasy) have long been vehicles for cultural criticism designed to get past peoples' deflector shields. The Twilight Zone tackled Cold War paranoia, xenophobia, prejudice, and a host of other societal ills by way of dark fantasies that shaded over into horror or comedy. With Tomie, and with Ito generally, the moral lessons take a back seat to the fiendish ingenuity of the author. But only a back seat — and the back seat is the perfect place for some thing to rise up from and devour you when you're not looking.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/14511 | Top 10 greatest programmers of all time
Greatest programmer of all time
A programmer is a person who can create and modify computer programs. No matter what each and every programmer contributes something to the society. Yet, there are those few who have contributed beyond what a single programmer usually does in an entire lifetime. These programmers are pioneers in their respective areas and have each contributed something that has completely changed the way human's access information and media. So without further ado, here we present the 12 greatest programmers of all time:
10. Donald Knuth - Donald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. He Donald Knuthis the author of the multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming. Knuth has been called the "father" of the analysis of algorithms. He contributed to the development of the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms and systematized formal mathematical techniques for it. In the process he also popularized the asymptotic notation. Knuth is the creator of the TeX computer typesetting system, the related METAFONT font definition language and rendering system and the Computer Modern family of typefaces.
9. Niklaus Wirth - Niklaus Emil Wirth is a Swiss computer scientist who is regarded as a pioneer of computer programming among other fields in software Niklaus Wirthengineering. He is best known for designing several programming languages, including the highly popular Pascal, Euler, Algol W, Modula, Modula-2, Oberon, Oberon-2, and Oberon-07. He also designed the simple programming language PL/0 to illustrate compiler design which formed the basis for many university compiler design classes. Niklaus had previously worked on part of the design and implementation team for the Lilith and Oberon operating systems as well as the Lola digital hardware design and simulation system. Wirth's pioneering work and development of innovative computer languages helped him win the prestigious Turing Award in 1984.
8. Bill Gates - Arguably one of the most popular computer programmers of all time, Bill Gates is an American business magnate, computer programmer, PC Bill Gatespioneer, investor, and philanthropist. He is the co-founder, ex-executive officer and current chairman of Microsoft, which is the world's largest personal-computer software company. He is the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution and helped develop Windows, which is the most used operating system in the world.
7. James Gosling - James Arthur Gosling is a Canadian computer scientist and an officer of the order of Canada. He has coded quite a number of programs but is James Goslingwidely known for his creation of the highly successful and commonly used Java programming language in 1994 as well as its original virtual machine and compiler. He credits his creation towards his graduate student days where he created a p-code virtual machine for the lab's DEC VAX computer, so that his professor could run UCSD Pascal programs and then realized that the architecture-neutral execution for widely distributed programs could be achieved by a similar technique. James has also made major contributions to several other software systems, such as NeWS and Gosling Emacs. Due to his extra-ordinary achievements Gosling was elected to Foreign Associate member of the United States National Academy of Engineering.
6. Guido van Rossum - Guido van Rossum is a Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language. In theGuido van Rossum Python community, Van Rossum is known as a "Benevolent Dictator For Life" (BDFL), meaning that he continues to oversee the Python development process, making decisions where necessary. He was employed by Google from 2005 until December 7th 2012, where he spent half his time developing the Python language. In January 2013, Van Rossum started working for Dropbox.
5. Ken Thompson - Kenneth Thompson commonly referred to as ken in hacker circles is an American pioneer of computer science. Having worked at Bell Ken ThompsonLabs for most of his career, Thompson designed and implemented the original Unix operating system. He also invented the B programming language, the direct predecessor to the C programming language, and was one of the creators and early developers of the Plan 9 operating systems. Since 2006, Thompson works at Google, where he co-invented the Go programming language.
4. Brian Kernighan - Brian Wilson Kernighan is a Canadian computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs alongside Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. He is the co-creator and developer of UNIX. He is Brian Kernighanalso co-author of the AWK and AMPL programming languages. Kernighan is currently a Professor and the Undergraduate Department Representative at the Computer Science Department of Princeton University. Kernighan became famous by co-authoring the very first book on the C programming language and by authoring many UNIX programs such as ditroff, and cron for Version 7 Unix. His other notable work include his popular criticisms for Pascal called "Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language".
3. Tim Berners-Lee - Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee is a British computer Tim Berners-Leescientist who is renowned all across the globe because of his creation of the World Wide Web as well as the implementation of the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet in November, 1989. He is also the holder of the Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
2. Linus Torvalds - Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish American software engineer, who was the principal force behind the development of the Linus TorvaldsLinux kernel. He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel, and now acts as the project's coordinator. He also created the revision control system Git as well as the diving log software Subsurface. He was honored, along with Shinya Yamanaka, with the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize by the Technology Academy Finland in recognition of his creation of a new open source operating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux kernel.
1. Dennis Ritchie - Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist who is credited for shaping and pioneering the digital era. He created the most commonly used C programming language that is used today in various Dennis Ritchiesoftware applications, embedded system development, operating systems, and has influenced most modern programming languages. Dennis also co-created the UNIX operating system. For his work, in 1983 he received the Turing Award from the ACM, the Hamming Medal in 1990 from the IEEE and in 1999 the National Medal of Technology from President Clinton. He was the head of Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department when he retired in 2007. He passed away on October 12, 2011 causing the Fedora 16 Linux distribution to be released in his memory.
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Amazon’s Echo Dot. (Amazon Photo)
Amazon is rolling out an update to its Alexa app that lets users of its voice-calling feature block specific people from calling them using the company’s voice-activated assistant.
The update comes about a month after the company rolled out the feature for making calls between Echo devices. Some users were surprised to find that they couldn’t keep specific contacts from calling them when the feature was enabled, if those contacts had their phone number and had enabled Alexa voice-calling themselves.
An Amazon spokesperson told GeekWire this afternoon: “Starting today customers will begin to receive an updated Alexa app, which includes the functionality to block contacts. Android and iOS customers can expect to get this update over the coming days.”
Here’s how the blocking works, according to Amazon.
1. Select the Conversations icon
2. Select the Contacts icon
3. Scroll down and select Block contacts
4. Find the contact you want to block and select the “Block” button
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Changing Geography of the Dead Sea
We’ve all seen the pictures- tourists floating in a picturesque lake surrounded by a mountainous desert environment, calmly reading flipping the pages of a newspaper with no fear of sinking. What is this strange phenomenon? This geographic anomaly is the Dead Sea, located between the countries of Israel and Jordan […] |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/14517 | responding to
The 4 Best Responses to a Hurting Friend
On my way to meet a girlfriend for an afternoon tea yesterday, I turned the radio on and was immediately pulled in to the last 15 minutes of an interview on Fresh Air with Allie Brosh, the author and artist of Hyperbole and a Half. Her honest voice talking about her very real and dark journey with depression held my attention.
The Wounded Shouldn't Be Pressured Into Becoming the Encourager
Listening to an interview with Allie Brosh, the author of this book--based on her famous blog--moved me, especially when she shared about journey with depression.
And one statement has stuck with me. When she was asked about why it had been so hard to reach out to her mother or husband for help during her journey, especially when she was struggling with thoughts of suicide, Allie's answer haunted me. Her answer was along the lines of, "Because I knew that once I told them, I'd have to deal with their emotions, and I knew I couldn't handle that. Seeing them get all upset, hurt, or fearful would have put me in the place of comforter; comforting them, trying to assure them that I wouldn't kill myself, etc. I was barely able to hold my own thoughts, let alone worry about receiving theirs." The result? Someone who was suicidal suffered in silence for far too long.
Her profound answer resonated with me because that is indeed what so often happens when we confess our hidden/dark/shameful thoughts to friends and family. Automatically, instead of the attention staying on the person sharing, the person who is hearing it is filtering it through their brain, basically trying to answer the question, "How does this information affect me?"
Here are some examples:
• She tells me she had a miscarriage and I feel guilty for having kids.
• She tells me she's been having an affair and I feel mad at her because my own family has been hurt by these types of actions.
• She tells me she's depressed and I feel scared or responsible for trying to fix her.
• She tells me she's been fired and I feel worried that our planned vacation together is going to have to be cancelled.
• She tells me she's going through a divorce and I feel scared for my own marriage.
It's not selfish or malicious as much as it's the default response we feel through much of life: "What does this mean to me and my life?" We do it with nearly every piece of information, including when we're watching the news, and are relieved when we can say, "Oh that's so sad... glad it doesn't affect me" and move on. But when it's our friends, people we love and know, it more often than not will affect us. It just will. That's the truth of being in relationship: we are connected and we impact each other.
But what maturity does for us is give us the awareness to whisper to ourselves, "Don't make this about me right now... stay present for her. I will process my feelings later." And later you should. So this isn't an issue about ignoring your feelings, but an issue of knowing when it's the right time and with whom you to ought to be processing them with. (I wrote a relevant post to this subject that gives you a visual to remind you that it's not the person whose story it is that should be turning around and becoming your comforter or counselor.)
The Four Best Responses to Keep the Attention on the Story-Teller
I know that my default is to try to fix, encourage, share my own stories, or any number of other things that are done with good intentions. But I also know that in this moment-- it's less important that I feel like I fixed something and more important that she feel heard. So my mantra is "Keep this about her. Keep this about her. Keep this about her."
So all this got me thinking about sharing the four things I try to remember to do whenever someone is sharing their pain with me:
1. Affirm: Depending on the situation, appropriate affirmation can be as simple as "Thank you for having the courage to share that with me," or it can be as bold as "Thank you for telling me this... I hope you know that I absolutely adore you and love you and this doesn't change that one iota." But affirmation after vulnerability is so important-- it reminds the revealer that their honesty was heard and valued.
2. Ask Feeling Questions: And then this is where we so often go awry because we usually start going into problem-solving mode (i.e. "My mom had someone who was diagnosed with that and she said that x helped her."), encouragement mode (i.e. "No don't feel that way! It's all going to be okay!), or, if we do ask questions it's often about the story and the details that really aren't that important (i.e. "When did the affair start?"). When the very best thing we can do is let her keep talking and sharing about her experience. So favorite questions of mine, include anything that asks her to keep sharing her feelings: What did you feel when you first found out x? What has your experience been so far? How has this impacted your identity? What are you most scared of? What has been the most surprising part? What part of it do feel like is hardest for those around you to understand?
3. Validate: To validate is to "demonstrate or support the truth or value of." It doesn't mean you have to support their decisions, agree with their assessment, or think you'd feel the same way in a similar circumstance. This isn't you voting; you're not saying "Yes, I think you have reason to commit suicide," or "Yes, I'm in favor of divorce." It's you demonstrating that you have heard them and that their feelings are valuable. The goal then is hear their feelings (as opposed to the details/circumstances), tap into your own empathy with similar feelings, and try to say back to them what you heard them say. It can as simple as, "I ache with you and for you. I'm so very sorry you're going through this." Or it can be as detailed as saying, "Your feelings are totally valid! It makes sense that you'd feel betrayed."
4. Ask how you can help: And then a crucial and meaningful step is to ask, "How can I best support you right now?" If it's someone you know well, you can offer as much as you're comfortable extending: "How can I best support you right now? If you could ask for anything, what comes to mind? Do you need tangible things like rides to the hospital or a place to stay? Do you need me to call you regularly during this time? I know it's hard to ask for detailed help... but I'd so appreciate you telling me what I can do that will be the most meaningful to you if you ever know it. I want to journey this with you."
As always, I cherish hearing your feedback, your own stories, what part spoke you, or advice on this subject that you want to share with others.
Other relevant posts:
How To Respond to a Friend in Crisis
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/14521 | Leave it to Lauren Conrad to find a charming way to get us excited about braids again. Or, rather, leave it to her clever longtime hairstylist, Kristin Ess.
Ess calls this cool twist a "messy macrame braid" in her Instagram caption, and pulling one off is easier than you'd think (visit that link for a how-to straight from Ess). I have to say, it's been a while since I've wanted to attempt a braid on myself, but this one is almost cute enough to make me try. Maybe for Valentine's Day!
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/14525 | Broken Chains
When an Eagle Knight goes missing while investigating an underground slave operation beneath the dilapidated Twilight Gate district, it’s up to the PCs to delve an abandoned (but hardly uninhabited) qanat beneath Katapesh and discover her dire fate. Yet not everything is as it seems in the dank slave caverns under Twilight Gate, and clues hint that the slavers may have even more loathsome connections than initially suspected. Can the PCs recover the missing Eagle Knight before her fate is sealed? Or will the monstrous slavers lairing under Katapesh succeed in their malevolent designs? |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/14537 | Home > God
Biblical Evidences: Testimony of the Father and Son
This is part of a complete series of evidences for the major claims of the Bible Testimony of the Father and the Son as Evidencethat God exists, the Bible is God's word, and Jesus is God's Son.
I. The Testimony of Jesus
The significance of Jesus' testimony
John 5:31-40; 8:13-18 - Jesus acknowledged that His own testimony was not conclusive by itself, since He was only one witness. So He listed other witnesses: John the Baptist, His miracles, the Father, and the Old Testament Scriptures (prophecy).
Jesus is only one witness; nevertheless, He is one witness! A defendant is allowed to testify on his own behalf. If Jesus made supernatural claims, additional witnesses would be needed to confirm His claims; nevertheless, He Himself would be one witness to begin with.
If Jesus is Who the Bible writers claim Him to be, surely we would expect Him to personally make and accept those claims. If He denied such claims, that would settle the issue. If He neither affirmed nor denied them, we would have doubts. But if He Himself testified in favor of the Bible claims regarding Him, then He would constitute one more witness to add to our evidence.
The only way to learn what claims Jesus made is from the Bible.
Only Bible writers give us eyewitness testimony of Jesus' life and teachings. If we do not accept the Bible record as valid history, then we cannot possibly know what to believe about Jesus. But we have already cited evidence that Bible writers are honest and accurate eyewitnesses. See again John 15:27; Acts 1:8,21,22; 2:32; 10:39-41; John 21:24; 20:30,31; 1 John 1:1-3; 2 Peter 1:16-18; 1 Corinthians 15:1-8,14,15.
So consider the eyewitness testimony regarding what Jesus claimed.
A. Jesus' Testimony
Jesus made, or allowed others to make, for Himself the following claims.
The Christ, the Son of God
"Christ" is the New Testament word for the Messiah, the anointed ruler predicted in the Old Testament. "Son of God" refers to Jesus' special relationship to the Father - a unique position no one else has - the only begotten Son (John 3:16). Did Jesus claim such positions?
Matthew 16:13-18 - Jesus rejected as inadequate the claims that He was just a prophet. But when Peter confessed Jesus to be the Christ, the Son of the Living God, Jesus said that the Father Himself had revealed this to Peter. [John 6:69]
John 4:25,26 - Jesus acknowledged to the Samaritan woman that He was the Messiah (Christ).
John 9:35-37 - He told a blind man whom He had healed that He was the Son of God.
Matthew 26:63-66 - During His trial in the presence of His enemies, Jesus acknowledged that He was the Christ, the Son of God.
In addition, He allowed various other disciples to make such claims for Him (John 11:27; Matt. 14:33; John 1:29,34,49).
Did any other true prophet ever make such claims? Did God ever give approval to any other man to make such claims? John the Baptist expressly denied such claims for himself (John 1:19-22; 3:28).
What kind of man would Jesus be to make and allow such claims, if He knew they were not true? Yet He not only allowed others to make such claims for Him, He praised them for making them, and He made them Himself.
[Cf. Matt. 8:29; 12:41,42; 22:41-46; John 12:13.]
God in the flesh
John 1:1-3 - Bible writers repeatedly claimed that Jesus is God along with the Father from Creation [cf. Colossians 2:9; Philippians 2:5-8]. Remember that mere men were rebuked or even killed for allowing such terms to be used for themselves. Did Jesus allow people to use names of God in referring to Him?
"My Lord and my God" - John 20:28,29
After he saw proof of Jesus' resurrection, Thomas addressed Jesus as "my Lord and my God." If Jesus did not possess Deity, Thomas' statement would have been blasphemy, and Jesus should have rebuked Him. Instead, Jesus praised Thomas and pronounced a blessing on everyone who believes the same (v29)! Then John proceeded to claim that His record of Jesus' miracles gives us all reason to believe in Him (vv 30,31).
"The First and the Last, Alpha and Omega"
These are terms for Deity emphasizing God's eternal self-existence (Rev. 1:8; 21:6,7; Isaiah 44:6; 43:10; 41:4; 48:12). But note Jesus' use of these expressions:
Revelation 1:17 - "I am the First and the Last." Vv 10-20 show that Jesus is speaking.
Revelation 2:8 - "These things says the First and the Last, who was dead, and came to life."
Revelation 22:13 - "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last." Jesus is speaking, as shown by vv 12,16,20.
Hence, "First and Last," "Alpha and Omega," "Beginning and End" are terms for Deity, yet Jesus used them to refer to Himself.
"I Am"
Exodus 3:13-15 - When God called Moses to lead Israel from captivity, He said, "I AM WHO I AM." He told Moses to say that "I AM" had sent him. This expression also describes the eternal, self-existing nature of God. (See also Deut. 32:39; Isa. 41:4; 43:10,13; 46:4; 48:12.)
John 8:58 - When asked how He could be old enough to have seen Abraham (vv 56,57), Jesus said, "...before Abraham was, I AM." His statement claims eternal existence, just like God used "I am" in Ex. 3:14. The Jews recognized this significance and tried to stone Jesus (v59).
So here is another unique name of God that Jesus used to refer to Himself. Again, what mere human would dare speak of himself in this way? Did Moses or Elijah or Paul? Such would have been blasphemy. [Cf. John 5:18; 10:30]
The Savior of the world, the Way to eternal life
Many other people claimed these things on Jesus' behalf, but we will consider cases where it was claimed by Him or in His presence. (See John 4:42; Luke 2:11; Eph. 1:7; 5:23; Acts 5:31; Titus 1:3,4; 2:13,14; 2 Peter 1:1,11; 2:20; 3:18; Col. 1:13,14; Acts 4:12.)
Jesus claimed that He came to save mankind from sin.
Mark 2:3-12; Luke 7:48,49 - Jesus claimed to have power to directly forgive sins. This is a work only God can do.
Matthew 20:28 - He came to give His life a ransom for many.
Matthew 26:28 - He shed His blood for many for remission of sins.
John 8:24 - People who do not believe in Him will die in their sins.
[Luke 24:47; John 1:29,36; 12:47]
He claimed that men can have fellowship with God and eternal life only through Him.
John 3:13-15 - Jesus claimed He came down from heaven so that whoever believes in Him can have eternal life. [6:40]
John 10:27-29 - My sheep hear my voice and I give them eternal life; they shall never perish.
Jesus does not class Himself with sinful creatures in need of salvation. He is the Savior! He claimed He could forgive sins and would die to give people remission of sins and eternal life. What true prophet or angel ever claimed such power?
[John 6:35,40,51; 8:51; 9:5; 11:25; 15:5]
Supreme authority and Judge
Jesus possesses supreme authority.
Again, His disciples repeatedly claimed this for Him, but we will note cases where He was personally involved in the claims. (See Phil. 3:20,21; 2:9-11; Col. 1:16; John 3:31; Rom. 9:5; 10:12; Acts 10:36; Eph. 1:21; Isa. 9:6.)
Matthew 28:18,20 - Jesus claimed to possess all authority in heaven and on earth; therefore, men should obey all His commands.
John 14:15 - He expects men to love Him, and this requires them to keep His commands. Compare this to the claim of God in 1 John 5:3.
Matthew 10:34-37 - We must love Him more than we love our closest family members, else we are not worthy of Him.
Revelation 19:16 - Jesus wears the name "King of kings and Lord of lords." He has authority above the highest of kings and rulers. [17:14]
Imagine what kind of person would make such claims, if He were merely a man!
[John 16:15; 17:10; Matt. 7:24-27; 5:21-48]
Jesus will judge all men and determine their eternal destinies.
Again, this is a work only God could do (see Isa. 33:22; Psalm 50:6; 96:10,13; Rom. 2:3,5,16). Yet the gospel often claims that Jesus will do it. We will focus on passages where Jesus was present when the claim was made. (See 2 Cor. 5:10; Acts 17:31.)
John 5:22 - He said that the Father has given all judgment to Him.
Matthew 16:27 - He will come in glory and reward all men according to their works.
Matthew 25:31-46 - All nations will be gathered before Him, and He will send them into eternal punishment or eternal life.
Again, if the claims are not true, what kind of man would Jesus be to make them?
[John 12:48]
Worthy of worship and glory like God
As studied earlier, Jesus and other Bible teachers taught that only God deserves to receive worship. Men should not receive religious honor such as is reserved for God. (See Matt. 4:9,10; Acts 10:25,26; Rev. 22:8,9; 19:10; Rom. 1:25; Ex. 34:14; Isa. 42:8; 48:11; Rev. 9:20; 14:9-11; Ex. 20:3-6; Deut. 6:13-15 Matt. 23:8-12.)
Yet Jesus often allowed people to worship and honor Him religiously in ways such as should be done only to God.
Matthew 14:33 - After Jesus had calmed the storm, the disciples worshipped Him saying He is the Son of God.
John 9:38 - The man, whom Jesus had healed of blindness, worshipped Jesus.
Matthew 28:9,17 - After His resurrection, His disciples worshiped Him.
Luke 24:52 - After He had ascended back to heaven, they continued to worship Him.
So Jesus accepted worship as an act of religious honor. If He was just a man, even if He was a great prophet, Jesus' own teachings would absolutely forbid this.
[Matt. 8:2; 9:18; 15:25; Mark 5:6; Heb. 1:6; John 20:28,29]
Glory and Honor
John 5:23 - All men should honor the Son "just as" they honor the Father. To fail to so honor the Son is to fail to properly honor the Father.
John 17:5 - Jesus asked that, after He died, the Father would glorify Jesus with the glory He had with the Father before the world was. Jesus was glorified with the Father in eternity.
What prophet or faithful religious leader ever made such statements or received such glory with God's approval? Either Jesus is far greater than just a man or just a prophet, or else He is a fraud, a cheat, and a liar.
[John 16:15; 17:10]
Eternal existence
Once again, numerous Bible passages state that Jesus existed eternally in the past. He is not a created being - as are mere humans - but is eternal because He is Deity. But we will note passages where He was personally involved in those claims. (See John 1:1-3; Micah 5:2; Isa. 9:6; Psalm 102:24-27 cf. Heb. 1:8,10-12; Col. 1:16).
"The First and the Last, Alpha and Omega, the I Am" - We already listed passages where Jesus used these terms for Himself. But all these names of God imply eternal self-existence.
John 17:5,24 - Jesus had glory with the Father Who loved Him before the world began.
John 3:13; 6:38; 16:28 - He said He came down from the Father in Heaven and came into the world. [John 8:23]
Jesus did not acknowledge that He was a created being. Rather, He claimed to be eternal. What mere man could rightly make such a claim?
B. Explanations for the Testimony
How do we explain the fact that Jesus made these claims and allowed others to make them with His knowledge and in His presence? Surely He knew whether or not He was God in the flesh, the Son of God, and a prophet sent from God. If He spoke what He believed to be true, then His statements must be accepted as serious testimony on His own behalf.
The alternatives would be that He is a liar or a lunatic. We cannot be neutral or ignore Him. We must accept His statements as serious testimony, or else we must reject him as a liar or a lunatic or both.
Was Jesus a liar?
He and His disciples warned against false teachers.
Matthew 7:15-20 - Beware of false teachers. Just as bad fruit proves that a tree is bad and should be cast out, so false teaching demonstrates the basic nature of the teacher. If Jesus' was a false teacher, there should be fruit of it in His life and teaching.
Matthew 15:13,14 - If the blind leads the blind, both fall into the ditch. God will root up all such leaders.
Would Jesus have so opposed false religious teaching knowing His whole ministry was based on false claims? Does the character of Jesus imply He would tell such lies?
[2 Cor. 11:13-15; 1 Tim. 4:1-3; Acts 20:28-30; 1 John 4:1; 2 Tim. 4:2-4; Titus 1:9-14; 2 John 9-11; Romans 16:17,18; Gal. 1:6-9; 2 Peter chap. 2]
He repeatedly rebuked lying and hypocrisy.
Matthew 23 (especially vv 3,4,25-28); 6:1-18; Luke 18:9-14 - Many of His firmest rebukes were addressed against the hypocrisy of religious leaders.
If Jesus made false religious claims and sought to exalt Himself improperly, then He would stand condemned by His own teaching. He would be an incredible hypocrite as well as a liar! Does the pattern of His life fit that of a religious hypocrite?
He revealed the greatest moral standard known to man.
Matthew 5:21-37 - He repeatedly taught that men must be right, not just in outward conduct, but also in inner attitude.
His moral teaching is universally recognized as of the highest level. Could a man who was nothing but the basest liar and hypocrite be the source of such an incredibly high moral standard? Note Matthew 7:17,18; 12:33-35.
People who knew Him repeatedly confessed that He was sinless.
John 8:46 - He challenged the Jews to convict Him of sin.
Mark 1:24; Luke 1:35 - Both an angel and a demon confessed Him to be holy.
Hebrews 7:26; Hebrews 4:15; 1 Peter 2:20-23; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 John 3:5 - His disciples repeatedly declared Him to be sinless. They claimed He was guilty of no guile (deceit).
Matthew 16:13,14 - The people in general, even those who did not recognize Him as the Son of God, yet viewed Him as a great prophet.
People who agreed with His teachings and people who disagreed both held Him to be holy and godly. None ever accused Him of being a liar or a hypocrite.
Those most deeply involved in condemning Him to death could not produce evidence of sin in Him.
Note the evidence during Jesus' trials that He was innocent.
* Jews - Mark 14:55-64. The witnesses produced by Jewish leaders could not convict Jesus of any crime (their testimony did not agree), yet the Jews condemned Him for claiming to be the Son of God. But that assumed He is not the Son of God - it assumed the point to be proved! If He is the Son of God, how can He be condemned for acknowledging His position? (Cf. Matt. 26:59-66; Luke 22:66-71; John 18:19-24.)
* Judas - Matthew 27:3-5. The one who betrayed Jesus acknowledged Him to be innocent.
* Pilate - Luke 23:4,14,22. Jesus faced several trials before Pilate, the Roman governor, who had the ultimate authority to judge His guilt or innocence. Pilate repeatedly declared Jesus to be innocent, yet he condemned Him to death to satisfy the Jews. He knew the rulers wanted Jesus killed because they were jealous of Him (Matt. 27:18). (Cf. Matt. 27:18-26; Mark 15:1-15; Luke 23:1-5,13-25; John 18:28-40; 19:4-16).
* Herod - Luke 23:15. Pilate sent Jesus to Herod, a King among the Jews. He also found no guilt in Jesus (cf. vv 6-12).
* One of the thieves - Luke 23:39-43. Two thieves were crucified with Him. Even one of these acknowledged Him to be innocent.
* The Centurion - Luke 23:47 (Matt. 27:54). The man in charge of Jesus' crucifixion concluded that He was a righteous man.
There were those who claimed He was guilty of sin, but they could not prove it. No one in His day could produce evidence of guilt in Him, and no one even claimed He was a liar or a hypocrite.
[Acts 3:14; 4:27,30; 13:35]
If He knew His claims were false, why did He die for them?
As extreme as His claims were, He would surely know if they were not true. If so, why not recant, admit the deceit, and hope to save His life? Yet even as He stood trial, knowing the danger He faced, He made some of His boldest declarations - Luke 22:70.
Where is the evidence that Jesus knew His claims were false? Did His life demonstrate the character of one who was, at His very core, a liar and a hypocrite?
Was Jesus a lunatic?
Even on trial for His life, He calmly refused to answer those who falsely accused Him.
His enemies repeatedly made extreme, radical charges against Him, yet He calmly refused to answer. See Matthew 26:62,63; 27:12-14.
We would expect someone who is mentally deranged to react to such treatment with anger, vengefulness, or loss of self-control. Yet even when facing His worst opposition and mistreatment, Jesus was in complete mastery of Himself and of the situation. Would we expect this of one who was beside Himself?
As He died on the cross, He expressed calm concern for others.
Luke 23:27,28 - He told women who watched to grieve for themselves, not for Him.
Luke 23:34 - He prayed for the forgiveness of those who crucified Him.
Luke 23:39-43. - He promised one of the thieves that he would be in Paradise that day.
John 19:25-27 - He made provision for the care of His mother.
Would a lunatic show such concern for others even as He Himself was dying a totally unjust, vicious death at the hands of His enemies?
Compare the life and death of Jesus to other men who made false or fanatical claims. Joseph Smith was killed for his claims, but he died with his guns blazing trying to slay his attackers so he could escape. After murdering millions of innocent people, Hitler committed suicide when he saw his plans would fail.
Where do we see in Jesus the kind of conduct that we would expect from a liar or a lunatic? Who dares to produce serious, convincing evidence to convict Him? Yet if He was neither a liar nor a lunatic, then His claims must be accepted as His sincere conviction. He surely believed His claims to be true, and surely He would know whether or not the claims were true. How could He have been mistaken about such claims?
II. Testimony of the Father
On at least two occasions, the Father directly endorsed Jesus as the Son of God in a way that people could personally witness.
Jesus' baptism - Matthew 3:17; Mark 1:11; Luke 3:22
At Jesus' baptism, the Father spoke from heaven saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."
The Father here audibly testified to Jesus' identity. The speaker must be God the Father, since He spoke from heaven and identified Jesus as His Son.
This event is recorded by three separate historians.
At the Transfiguration the Father again spoke from heaven saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." He said this is why we should listen to Jesus.
Note that three apostles were present to witness this event: Peter, James, and John. And Matthew's account clearly states that they heard the voice that spoke (as well as seeing Jesus' face shine).
Finally, note that Peter was a personal eyewitness of the event. He expressly confirmed the event. He stated that they were eyewitnesses of it, quoted what the voice said, and affirmed that they actually heard the voice. He argued that this demonstrates that the apostles were not following cunningly devised fables.
Three other writers, acting as historians, record the event, which they no doubt heard repeated from those who were eyewitnesses.
So the testimony of the Father becomes an additional witness to confirm that of Jesus. This gives, not just one, but two witnesses regarding who Jesus is. This meets the criteria for historical evidence (John 8:13-18).
If Jesus' claims are false, how do we explain God's confirmation of Him on these occasions?
This is part of a complete series of evidences for the major claims of the Bible that God exists, the Bible is God's word, and Jesus is God's Son. To continue with the next article in the series, please go to /god/evidences-prophecy.php To start at the beginning of the series, please go to /god/evidences.php.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/14651 | Cooking Off the Cuff: Maybe the Best Way to Cook Peas
The easiest ways to cook freshly shelled peas are (1) to boil or steam them; and, much better and actually quicker, (2) to put them in a pan with butter, salt and very little water, cover the pan and cook until done: they steam in that bit of liquid plus their own juices -- which combine with the butter to form a light sauce. And with young early-summer peas that's about all you need to know (unless you want to get into the more elaborate à la française method, with little onions and bacon and strips of lettuce, which is one of the world's greatest dishes and well worth the effort).
But this spring, during an exhilarating dinner at Jean-Georges in New York, Jackie and I learned that one additional step -- also simple -- can turn those plain butter-gilded peas into something new and even more wonderful: something with that same clear pea-and-butter-and-salt flavor, but with a whole new consistency, which the restaurant's executive chef, Mark Lapico, rightly described as almost like that of a riceless (and less creamy) risotto.
That step is to crush the peas, roughly, before cooking them. Just put them in the food processor and pulse until most of the peas are broken up. For about two cups of raw shelled peas, this took me eight brief pulses, but let your eyes be your guide: A few should remain whole, most should be in halves or other pieces of various sizes and some should be finely chopped. You can do this a little while in advance, but the actual cooking takes almost no time and should be done at the last minute.
To make my own clumsy approximation of the Jean-Georges dish, I put the peas in a pan that was wider than it was deep -- though using a really shallow skillet would carry the risk of peas flying across the room as you stir them -- and, over medium-high heat, added salt, one tablespoon of butter and two of water. When the water began to boil, I used a heat-proof silicone spatula (a spoon would be fine, of course) to stir constantly and fairly vigorously. This agitation created a light emulsion consisting of water, butter and the finest-chopped, almost pureed, peas; the larger pieces of pea were surrounded by this near-sauce. Hence the somewhat risotto-like feeling in the mouth. Once the water boiled, the cooking took about a minute; if your peas are more mature or starchier than mine were, it could take longer, in which case you'd want to guard against burning and might need to sprinkle in an extra few teaspoons of water to keep the mixture moist and risotto-like. At the very end, I stirred in another scrap of butter, still vigorously.
We ate ours as a dish in itself, along with young carrots and crusty bread and butter, but this would be wonderful with a poached egg or two -- or of course as an accompaniment to a light meat or fish dish. Pretty soon, just a little later in the season when the peas can take longer cooking, I'll go back to the bacon-onion-lettuce method and will probably describe it in a future "Cooking Off the Cuff." But for now I can think of nothing much better than a dinner of plain crushed peas.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/14653 | Creating a Top 100 Workplace through Constructive Leadership and Culture
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More than a decade ago, longtime Human Synergistics client SaskCentral set out to achieve meaningful and sustainable culture change. SaskCentral and their consultant, Ken Curtis from MNP, used the Organizational Culture Inventory® and other assessments from Human Synergistics' integrated system to build Constructive leadership and cultural norms. In this presentation, you will learn how creating a Constructive culture enabled SaskCentral to become the Great Place to Work® Institute’s #1 Workplace in Canada, and how you can do the same for your organization or the organizations you support.
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From and Reply-to Addresses
The Global Settings page includes a setting that lets you set the address for sending email notifications in YouTrack. This sets the value for the "From:" field in the email header. However, this is not the only location in YouTrack where you can specify a value for this field.
A "From:" address has two components. The first part is the sender name. The second part is the email address itself. These two components are written in the format sender name <>. In many email clients, only the sender name is displayed. Others discard the sender name and display only the email address.
The "From:" address helps the email recipient recognize where the notification comes from. For a conventional email message, the recipient is also able to use this email address to send a reply.
With notification from YouTrack, you don't really want to encourage this behavior. All of the back-and-forth conversation between your users should be posted as comments to your issues, not buried inside an email thread. Unless you use the Mailbox Integration, use your "From:" addresses for identification purposes only (for more on this topic, see Addresses for Mailbox Integrations).
Consider the following general guidelines when you specify a "From:" address for YouTrack email notifications:
Sender name
If you do not specify a sender name, YouTrack uses the full name of the user who performed the action that triggers the notification. Simply enter the email address as The email is sent from the specified address, but email clients that display sender names show the name of a real person. There are a few advantages to this approach:
• The notification has more personality. Recipients see the names of their colleagues instead of the cold and impersonal Server.
• Recipients immediately recognize who applied changes to the issue in the message preview.
There is also a disadvantage:
• Recipients are more likely to send a reply to an unmonitored inbox. These replies are not copied to the issue that generated the notification.
If you choose to specify a sender name, use a name that helps recipients identify the source of the notification.
• If you're only sending notification to internal users, consider setting the sender name to YouTrack. This directs recipients back to the application that sent the message.
• If you send notification to clients or other external users, use your company name.
Email address
Always use a valid email account for the "From:" address. This doesn't mean that you have to monitor its inbox for replies, but it must be able to receive incoming mail.
You also need to use a domain that is authorized to send email. Use email validation mechanisms like the Sender Policy Framework to ensure that your email messages are not rejected.
Global Addresses
The default From address for YouTrack is defined on the Global Settings in the Administration area. For YouTrack Standalone installations, you provide the default From address for your server.
This From address is used as the default email address for sending notifications and all other server-related messages. Invitations to register an account, verification emails, and password recovery instructions are sent from this address.
The From address for issue-related notifications can be overridden on a per-project basis, as described below.
The Global Settings page also has an input field for the global Reply-to address. This sets the value for the "Reply-To:" field in the header for email messages that are sent by YouTrack. Use this setting when, for example, the address that you use to send email notifications cannot receive replies. When the Reply-to address is empty, replies are sent to the address from which the message was sent.
Project-specific Addresses
You can override the default From address for your server on a per-project basis. You set this value independently for each project on the General tab of the Edit Project page. For more information, see Configure a Project.
The same general guidelines for setting a "From:" address apply here, with a few more things to consider:
• A custom "From:" address helps you highlight that a notification for an issue belongs to a specific project.
• If you don't set the From address at the project level, the default server From address is used in notification for issues that belong to the project.
Addresses for Mailbox Integrations
The Mailbox Integration transforms incoming email messages into issues and comments in YouTrack. This integration is set up on a per-project basis.
The mailbox integration uses the Reply-to address for the integrated project to send as the email address that is used to reply to incoming email messages. If the Reply-to address for the project is empty, replies are sent to the address from which the message was sent.
• If the project uses a dedicated From address, replies are sent to this address.
• If the From address for the project is empty, replies are sent to the address that is set as the global default.
To help recipients recognize how to react to messages in their inboxes, follow these guidelines:
• When you use the mailbox integration to manage support and feedback requests, you want your interactions to be as personal as possible. If you omit the sender name, the recipient sees the name of the agent who responded to the request.
• To ensure that your issues are created in the right project, use unique email addresses for each project.
• Avoid using a generic email address like info@ or postmaster@. Use an address that highlights the purpose of the email message in the preview. For example, or
For more information, see Configure Your Project.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/14857 | Diary of a Hookup from Hell
Abby and Peter spent a drunken night together. Awkwardness ensued. Here's how each saw it.
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SHE SAID Abby, 26, editor, New York City
SATURDAY 8 p.m., friend's place: Having a drink before we head to a birthday party for Peter, a guy I used to date. We have friends in common, so I see Peter every couple of months. When we drink, we hook up. But the last time we did, it was pretty clear that he thought I felt it meant more than it did.
11:30 p.m., Peter's place: Already tipsy. Head to the roof, where the party is.
2 a.m.: Peter decides it's time to break out the scotch. He pours two glasses.
3 a.m.: Things get fuzzy. People go home. Kissing with Peter commences.
4 a.m.: Clearly I'm sleeping over....
SUNDAY 8 a.m., Peter's bed: Naked Peter jumps out of bed as his alarm goes off. He mumbles something about sticking to a sleeping routine, throws on clothes, and runs out of the room.
9:30 a.m.: I'm up. My head hurts. And I can't find my purse, which means I can't leave his apartment. Ugh.
10 a.m.: I head up to the roof, where I figure Peter is hiding. He's cleaning like a madman. Refuses to make eye contact and insists we get some food. Then he mutters something hostile about having to buy me breakfast because I can't find my purse. What a gentleman.
11 a.m.: We text a friend to see if she accidentally grabbed my purse.
12 p.m.: Friend doesn't have the bag. Finally find it in Peter's dresser drawer.
12:30 p.m.: I make to leave. Peter goes in for a casual high-five. Nice.
TUESDAY 12:00 p.m., work: Send jokey e-card to Peter. "Happy Birthday to someone I feel incredibly close to when intoxicated." Figure this will help make things less awkward next time I see him.
12:30 p.m.: Get angst-filled e-mail back. Peter thanks me for the birthday wishes, apologizes for the weekend, blames the alcohol, and says it can't happen again. I hate that he feels the need to tell me all this. As if I'm to blame.
1 p.m.: Send sarcastic e-mail back: "I always have drunken sex with my good friends. I did that with Jenny last weekend!" I have to let him know I didn't think what happened meant anything. Which I thought was clear from my first e-mail but obviously wasn't. Ugh. Guys.
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SATURDAY 11:30 p.m., roof: I'm celebrating my birthday, and the party's going strong. Abby arrives. She's a girl I dated about a year ago and have hooked up with a couple times since — often thanks to alcohol. The last time we did this, I had to avoid her for a week to make sure we didn't have to talk about it.
12 a.m.: Talk to Liz (a girl I'm interested in) and her friends. Try to charm them....
1:45 a.m.: Liz is leaving.
2 a.m.: The beer's gone, so I go down to my apartment. Abby's there. We talk. I get myself a scotch. She wants one too.
3 a.m., roof: Abby sits next to me. Her plans are clear, so I kiss her. She always was a good kisser. I may regret this in the morning, but it's my birthday and nobody else got me a present.
3:30 a.m.: Set the alarm clock for 8 a.m. It'll be a good way to get her up and out.
SUNDAY 8 a.m.: Alarm goes off. I tell Abby she can go back to sleep but I need to get up because Dr. Oz says you should keep to a sleep schedule.
8:15 a.m.: I take a shower. She's not leaving, so I don't know what to do. I go up to the roof and start cleaning.
10 a.m.: Abby comes up and offers to help me clean, but I tell her it's fine. She can't find her purse. Which means she can't leave. I hope she doesn't ask to shower; I don't want to have to wash an extra towel.
10:15 a.m.: I'm starving, so I ask if she wants to eat. No brunch, because then we'd have to spend the meal talking. So we grab bagels. Since she doesn't have her wallet, I pay, grudgingly.
12:15 p.m.: Abby finds her purse. In my underwear drawer. I'm starting to think she "lost" it on purpose.
12:30 p.m.: At the door, Abby goes in for a hug. I give her a high-five. Figure it's a clear signal.
TUESDAY 12:00 p.m., work: It's my actual birthday. Abby sends me an e-card. The message suggests that she plans on more Saturday nights together. I do not.
12:30 p.m.: I write back. I apologize and tell her that Saturday has to be the last time anything like that can happen.
1 p.m.: She replies with a joke, so she must be cool with it ... but at the same time, she seemed cool with our breakup before. I don't respond. There's really not much else to say. Still, I realize that if I hook up with her again, I'm a jerk.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/14919 | MoboReader> Billionaires > The Mafia Lies
Chapter 22 Warning
The Mafia Lies By magbmara Characters: 11996
Updated: 2018-01-28 19:03
Alessandra woke up and looked at the wall clock. They have been asleep for almost six hours. Its already afternoon. She looked at the godly handsome man beside her and smiled. Whenever she looks at him, she still wonders how fate can be so kind to her to give her this man despite all the horrible things she did in the past.
Marco stirred and hugged her legs with his. He snuggled closer to her neck and she felt his hot breath. His hands that were resting on her waist travelled up to massage her soft mounds and caressed her nips with his thumb.
"Marco. . . You know where we are." Alessandra wanted to stop him but her body betrayed her.
"I don't care. Just one round promise." Marco hurriedly stood up and locked the door. His raging manhood evident on his pants. He almost tripped while removing his pants. He took of his shirt as he walked back towards her. He looked at her amorously as she stood up on top of the bed and slowly removed her clothes as if teasing him. With every article of clothing removed, he pulled her to him. He bent down so he's faced to face with her core. When he lifted her leg to his shoulders and started his sweet assault to her womanhood, Alessandra moaned with desire. Her sweet moans were enough to make Marco crazy with want and need. The one round he promised turned to three. Two at the bed then another round at the showers.
When Marco and Alessandra emerged from her room, it was almost five in the afternoon. Alessandra wanted to go to the garden, which was her favorite place when she was still living at the mansion. There they saw the two elderly couples playing with Liam.
"Hey Liam!" When the boy saw Marco, he giggled and walked hurriedly towards him.
"Un-tle. . ." Marco kneeled down and waited for his godson to reach his arms before hugging him and lifting him up. The boy kept on laughing as he was tossed higher in the air.
"Baby boy, you've grown so big! Uncle Marco missed you so much!" He kissed his neck and armpit playfully and Liam laughed non-stop.
Alessandra watched in amazement. She's happy to see Marco's playful side. He looked more handsome when he's laughing and playing with Liam. She wondered how it would feel if it was their son who was hugging and giggling with Marco.
She didn't realize that someone was already beside her.
"He's really good with kids. I'm sure he'll make a good father." Alessandra saw a gorgeous and petite woman beside her. She looked familiar. She smiled at her and held out her hand.
"I'm Cassie. You must be Alessandra. Granny told me about you." Alessandra shook her hand and smiled back.
"Nice to meet you. You can call me Alex." She felt awkward with the way Cassie looked at her. It's like she's trying to figure her out.
"Sorry to stare. I'm just really happy that Marco finally found someone special. You're the first girl he ever introduced to us."
"Technically Cassie, I haven't introduced her to you yet." Liam was on top of Marco's shoulders. The cute boy was pulling his godfather's hair.
"No need. We're already friends aren't we Alex?" Alessandra smiled at Cassie.
"Ma-ma." Liam wanted to go down to go to his mother so Marco transferred the boy to Cassie. Then he pulled Alessandra closer to him.
"Babe, this is Cassandra Lopez Montgomery. She's also a singer and composer. Cassie, this is my girlfriend Alessandra Bellini."
"Oh. So that's why you looked familiar!" Cassie just laughed when she heard Alex's remarks.
"You might have seen that hideous billboard on your way here. I was asking Lance to have that removed but you k
y were out of danger.
"Aleeeex!" Another black vehicle sped its way towards them and Alex swerved just in time to avoid collision but they crashed at the metal barrier on the side of the road. Cassie felt the impact of the crash. She was already shivering in fear. But Alex would not give up. She continued driving despite the condition of the car. The car followed them.
"Cassie! Get my phone and call Marco. Cassie!" Alex saw Cassie's panicked state from the rearview mirror.
"You! Get my phone and call Marco. Go to the backseat and help Cassie." She motioned at the driver. Alex knew now that they were stupid for not letting at least one guard with weapon accompany them on their car trip back to the house.
"Sir Marco. Yes." The driver placed the call on loudspeaker.
["Alessandra. We're on our way. I'm tracking your phone. The guards who were with you called and reported the incident, they're also on their way now but they're having some troubles. I'll explain later. Hold on baby. We're coming."]
"Just hurry! I think Cassie needs help. She's not physically hurt but she's in panic."
["Shit! Go faster!"] She heard Lance curse and was urging Marco to drive faster.
"Marco, another car is following us. They're trying to overtake our car. I can't shake them off as I'm losing speed. We're badly hit. We've been running flat."
["Keep on driving. Don't stop."]
"Ma'am I smell gasoline. I think the gas tank has been shot."
"I know. I was trying to ignore that fact though it's pretty evident with the way the fuel gauge is blinking. Marco, we're almost empty. How far away are you?"
["Just fifteen fucking minutes more!"] It was Lance.
"I'll try to give you fifteen minutes but if you can make it around ten or even five, it would really be great."
["Shit! Babe, just hold on. Please don't do anything to endanger yourself."]
"I'll survive for you don't worry." The car stopped slowly and she signaled for the driver to drop the call. They would know it anyways since Marco was tracing them.
Alex saw two men emerged from the black car that flanked them. They were different from the hooded ones she ran down a while ago. They weren't carrying any weapon. She knew why because she recognized them. Alex dreaded this meeting but her hatred towards them was more than enough to fuel her excitement to greet them. This would be a fun reunion.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/14946 | What can I do if my child is facing suspension or other significant discipline at his school?
• If your child is charged with a significant or serious violation of the student code of conduct, or even a crime, and is facing serious disciplinary action (such as expulsion), you are entitled to an appeals process that has three separate steps.
• The first step is appealing the discipline decision to the Superintendent, who will give you an informal hearing.
• The second step is an appeal to the School Board, that will conduct a meeting that gives you the opportunity to confront actual witnesses, get access to all relevant documents, and to make your argument for overturning the action.
• The third and final step is taking them to court. Proving your case in court is very difficult; you must prove that the Board’s action was “arbitrary and capricious.”
• Because of this, it is critical to have knowledgeable counsel to guide you and represent you. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/14948 | 10 Interesting Word Facts
Saturday, June 3rd 2017. | Science
You will be informed with the smallest element in linguistics on Word Facts. A word is different from a morpheme. The latter one is defined as the smallest unit of meaning. However, it cannot stand on its own. The examples of a morpheme includes –ed, un-, -ly, and –ness. The word contains some morphemes. The words, which only have one morpheme, include run, quick, red, expect and rock. Let us find out other interesting facts about word below:
Word Facts 1: the complex word
A root and affixes make up a complex word. For instance, the word unexpected consists of two affixes and one root.
Word Facts 2: a compound word
The examples of a compound word include sandbox and blackboard. Both contain more than one root.
facts about words
facts about words
Word Facts 3: larger elements
The larger elements of language can be created from words. The phrase contains more than one word. The examples of phrases include a beautiful girl and a nice house. You can also create a clause and sentence using words. Get facts about German Language here.
Word Facts 4: word
Word can be used to identify a written word and a spoken word. Phonemes are units of sounds, which make up the spoken words. Graphemes are the symbols of written words.
Word Facts 5: the language
The type of language will define the level of difficulty to decipher a word.
Word Facts 6: length of word
You can decide the length of a word by checking on its morphemes and syllables.
Word Facts 7: the meaning of a word
The meaning of a word may create discussion and debate since it may involve various definitions according to the opinion of writers.
Word Facts 8: “Minimal Free Forms”
In 1926, “Minimal Free Forms” concept was presented by Leonard Bloomfield. It defines a word can stand on its own. Moreover, it is the smallest meaning unit for speech. Word is a structure, which has meaning and form. Look at facts about Spanish Language here.
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word pic
Word Facts 9: how to identify
The word can be identified according to the number, semantic, category, and phonological features.
Word Facts 10: the forms
The form of a single word stem is varied according to the synthetic language. For instance, love may be transformed into loved, loving, and loves. The word can be created from some morphemes, which can be determined according to an inflectional suffix, optional suffixes and root.
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14TH International Youth Conference-Invitation for Participation
Youth Alliance-Krusevo invite you on our 14th International Youth Conference “European Values for the Future of the of Southeastern European countries”.
The International Youth Conference brings together the most valuable young leaders, workers and activists from the region for the past 14 years. If you are with a passion for SEE regional issues and a track record of making a significant impact, we welcome you to apply to attend on the Conference.
Deadline: 15th of September 2016
Who can apply: young leaders aged 18-30 from 16 countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, France, Greece, Germany, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Turkey)
Venue: 22nd to 26th of September 2016, Krusevо, Republic of Macedonia
The application form is available on our web site. You can find the application on the following link: <>
Attached you can find the official invitation of the Conference.
You can find this year program on the following link: <>
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Skype: krusevoyouth;
E-mail: <>;
Regarding the selection criteria, applicant’s background and her/his interest for participation on the Conference will be very essential. One of the main selection principle that will be evaluated are their opinions reflected on the essays.
Also we will respect the rule "first come – first served”.
Participation costs:
The participation costs for 58 selected applicants will be covered by the project (accommodation, food and 80% of the travel costs).
YAK Organizational team of the International Youth Conference |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/15021 | Albuterol Teaching 2065
SN instructed patient / caregiver on albuterol. SN explained that albuterol is a bronchodilator indicated in COPD for opening of the airways and decrease shortness of breath. SN explained that side effects include: nervousness, restlessness, tremor, chest pain, palpitations, headache, insomnia. SN instructed to notify physician immediately if shortness of breath is not relieved or is accompanied by diaphoresis, dizziness, palpitations, or chest pain. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/15045 | Can Europe Make It?
The politics of French-bashing
Bashing everything French is in fashion these days, but one would be better advised to take these attacks by the US and UK media with a pinch of salt.
Vahid Nick Pay
29 January 2014
The Economist. All rights reserved.
The Economist. All rights reserved.
The Economist. All rights reserved.
The Economist. All rights reserved.
In the English-speaking media, a significant number of outlets apparently devote most of their European coverage to contempt for south European countries such as Italy or Greece. But France seems to inspire unmatched opprobrium. As the US TV presenter and comedian Bill Maher once averred, labelling a politician (or an idea) as “French” appears to be the ultimate clincher against that current of thought.
A week does not go by without major British and American news outlets such as the BBC, The Independent, Newsweek, The Economist, or The Guardian to name only a few, dedicating considerable space to a critical analysis of various aspects of French society, from scrutinizing the body shapes of French women, the cleanliness of the French or their sexual habits, to the national economy or the internal and external policies of the state. Even on a more mundane level we are bombarded with depictions of this proclaimed Frenchness - from ads to depiction of French characters in American movies such as Sex & the City. The underlying assumption of such analysis is that France is made up of one single monolithic state of ideas with an impressive internal homogeneity and a fundamental incongruity with all external world values.
Moving between London and Paris for numerous engagements in the political and media circles of both countries, I never cease to marvel, not only at the sheer extent of “French-bashing” practices within the British media, but most surprisingly by the near total absence of reciprocity in the French media.
Some scholars attribute this to the competing universalist roles that the US (and by extension the UK) political and economic models on the one side and the French one on the other, claim to be representing. Others insist on cultural underpinnings in societies which at times have perceived themselves as occupying diametrically opposing poles.
A combination of all these factors might for instance account for the momentous public media efforts to amplify all economic ratings of the French economy by neoliberal evaluation agencies, which are promptly picked up and magnified in authoritative economic reviews. French-bashing even extends to domestic policies, like the French government’s proposal to tax high revenues at a 75 percent rate. This gave rise to a furious barrage of comments and derision from British circles, for example when London mayor Boris Johnson announced that the French government is overtaken by the sans culottes, mocking the French business model and prophesying a largescale flight of capital from Paris to London.
David Cameron even went so far as officially proclaiming at a G20 summit that the UK would “roll out the red carpet” for French firms escaping the unfriendly economic environment of their country. In the absence of actual evidence that such mass exodus has in fact occurred, one would expect a more open-minded approach towards the possible social benefits of this basic solidarity contribution in a time of economic hardship for all western economies and beyond. No need to add that exorbitant disparities between individual salaries, including the ones enjoyed by many in the British media, indeed provide evidence that the neoliberal order leads to distributive injustice.
Rival worldviews
There also appears to be a wide gap at the political level. In many respects, France has continuously tried to pursue a relatively independent international diplomacy. The French government’s refusal and even denunciation of the US-led, UK-backed invasion of Iraq in 2003 is a good example. While other countries also refrained from supporting western intervention, the severity with which the French stand was treated by the Anglo-Saxon media was indeed memorable. More recently similar patterns could be observed in the coverage of the UN-endorsed French intervention in Mali and the Republic of Central Africa which were promptly connected to, or at least evaluated against, a backdrop of French new-colonial campaigns in Africa and so-called Françafrique policies.
Now whether France actually does represent an alternative “republican” system of values to the liberal world is yet to be fully explored and studied in its numerous aspects, but it is evident that significant French normative, social and economic policies do indeed go against the prevailing trends of global capitalism. Think for instance, of the French government’s insistence on subsidizing art and culture in the face of a global onslaught by hegemonic multinational entertainment corporations. This very fact has brought France into head-on confrontation with proposals such as the creation of a European and North American common market which France, and indeed only France, insists should be mindful of the local cultural aspects, and not leave them at the mercy of the international business markets.
At a more social level, France, like most other European countries, is grappling with the challenge of multiculturalism. It has to be acknowledged that a considerable part of the current French Government is composed of people of north-African descent who could prove beneficial to giving a voice to the whole range of societal values and convictions. Nevertheless, social policies on the ground (e.g. the headscarf ban) are yet to be fully tested, not only in France but also in Germany and the UK. One might argue that this is but the necessary trial and error process that a republican state should undertake to actively promote the so-called “politics of belonging”. Again, and unsurprisingly, the Anglophone media went out of their way to interpret these as the symptoms of a French social malaise, a sign of closure to external values and even as an outright attack on individual freedom.
We might all one day wake up to the sudden revelation of the superiority of laissez-faire policies, but till then it would be unwise to overlook the basic values of human rights and solidarity. These must be universal, actively promoted and assertively implemented. Take, for example, the horrendous practice of female genital mutilation. This is one of many subjects which the British media have chosen to conveniently ignore as it poses significant challenges to the liberalist “respect for difference”. Nevertheless, the data speaks for itself and a quick comparative study reveals that the French system has had more success in fighting such medieval practices, judging by the number of cases brought to justice. Thus, before embarking on the English-speaking public media band-wagon for an overall assault on a certain worldview, wouldn't people be well advised to take such claims with a pinch of salt, and evaluate the actual impact of 'republican' policies in a long term perspective?
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/15078 | BlackBerry 10 Demo
BlackBerry 10 is coming tomorrow. If RIM's new OS succeeds, it'll be the biggest comeback story mobile tech has ever seen. Once the dominant smartphone OS in the USA, BlackBerrys are down to 1.1 percent market share.
No other first-generation smartphone leader has been able to pull off this kind of rebirth. Palm and Symbian are dead and Microsoft is struggling. But RIM has a chance to carve out its own market with tomorrow's launch of BlackBerry 10. In descending order of importance, here are the six things I think RIM needs.
1. Why?
BlackBerry 10 can't just be good: it needs to explain why people should buy it rather than the safer, more dominant Android and Apple OSes. What's so different and compelling about BlackBerry 10 that you're willing to give up having the same phone as your family and friends? If the OS is too strange, it'll scare people, but if it isn't different enough, buyers may decide that they can get a similar experience from bigger players.
2. The Top 100 iOS Apps, Every Month
RIM has been doing a good job of nurturing small developers with its BlackBerry Jam events, but small, exclusive apps aren't why people buy a new platform. BlackBerry OS needs to have the top iOS apps that are most talked about, and it needs to have them every month. That means securing the full cooperation of a limited group of large developers. As Windows Phone has found, people don't want "Where's My Hydrogen Dioxide," even if the gameplay is the same as "Where's My Water." They want the brand-name app their friends have, and they don't want to feel like they're giving anything up.
3. Nearly Immediate Availability
4. A Wicked Portrait QWERTY (Maybe Even a Slider)
The No. 1 thing existing BlackBerry owners ask me about the new phones is, "how's the keyboard?" When they hear that the Z10 is supposed to have no hardware keyboard, they're baffled. RIM needs to fix this, stat. While hardware keyboard lovers are a niche market, they're very over-represented among the kinds of messaging-focused multitaskers that RIM is targeting. The most beloved BlackBerry hasn't been the Storm; it's the Bolds and Curves that people are still hanging on to. Need a big touch screen? Give the Torch 9810 form factor a try.
5. Ongoing Carrier Promotion and Growth
Windows Phone 7 suffered from a burst of promotion at launch time, followed by steadily flagging carrier and developer interest. RIM needs all four major U.S. carriers, and it needs all of those carriers not to lose focus after 90 days. RIM needs the carriers to still be promoting BlackBerry 10 when the iPhone 6 comes out. The first year of a new OS is like pushing a heavy rock up a hill: if you stop pushing at any point, it'll start rolling back down.
6. CEO-Friendliness
Give free BlackBerry X10s (or whatever the QWERTY model is called) to the CEOs of the Fortune 1000, with VIP tech support. BlackBerry has been losing ground in the enterprise to phones seen as sexier, more fun, and easier to use. RIM needs to reclaim business not just by selling BlackBerrys on their manageability, but making it clear that this is the phone you use to get things done. The BlackBerry Bold hit its height in 2009 because it made the iPhone look like a toy. The next BlackBerry should do the same.
For more, see PCMag's Hands On With RIM's BlackBerry 10. Also check out 6 Intriguing Features in BlackBerry 10 and our evolution of the BlackBerry slideshow above. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/15081 | Some of us are looking at the stars
The alarm clock burst into a discordant racket.
It managed to rattle itself across the top of the bedside cabinet, past the half-empty glass of rum and the trashy novel, and tipped over the edge before she had a chance to slam it into silence. It landed in a tangled heap of clothes and Turkish Delight wrappers, where its screams were muffled.
A tattooed arm snaked out from under the covers. Fingers daubed with chipped blue polish groped for the clock, finally choking off the awful sound.
She exhaled.
After a long, quiet moment, she hauled herself from the bed, dragging a voluminous bed-sheet with her. Her bare feet, curiously grubby, padded across the cigarette-burned carpet. Her face was screwed up in a sleep-crumpled snarl as she yanked on a cord, and the blinds spun open to reveal a sun that was already high in the sky. Rubbing sleep dust from her eyes with the back of her hand, she looked down at the city spread out beneath her, bustling and buzzing, huffing and honking.
'For God's sake,' she croaked. 'Everyone's so damned busy.'
She turned and made her way towards a kitchenette in the corner of the room, still clutching the sheet tightly about her shoulders. She filled the kettle, set it to boil, and slammed about in the cupboards as she assembled a mug, a jar of instant coffee and spoon. She turned to grab a bag of sugar, but then stopped.
She had completely forgotten about him. But there on the counter top, already soiled with grease and crumbs, was his card. She picked it up, oblivious to the whistling kettle, and examined once again the curved, swirly lettering.
'Sirocco. Astrologer, by Royal Appointment.
Some of us are looking at the stars.'
She flipped the card over and ran her eyes over the phone number he had carefully written out for her in spidery handwriting.
She bit her lip, her gaze wondering off into the middle distance. Today, she thought. Today's the day. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/15088 | TokuDB Installation
Percona Server is compatible with the separately available TokuDB storage engine package. The TokuDB engine must be separately downloaded and then enabled as a plug-in component. This package can be installed alongside with standard Percona Server 5.7 releases and does not require any specially adapted version of Percona Server.
Only the Percona supplied TokuDB engine should be used with Percona Server 5.7. A TokuDB engine downloaded from other sources is not compatible. TokuDB file formats are not the same across MySQL variants. Migrating from one variant to any other variant requires a logical data dump and reload.
libjemalloc library
If the libjemalloc wasn’t installed and enabled before it will be automatically installed when installing the TokuDB storage engine package by using the apt` or yum package manager, but Percona Server instance should be restarted for libjemalloc to be loaded. This way libjemalloc will be loaded with LD_PRELOAD. You can also enable libjemalloc by specifying malloc-lib variable in the [mysqld_safe] section of the my.cnf file:
malloc-lib= /path/to/jemalloc
Transparent huge pages
$ cat /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
[always] madvise never
[root@centos ~]# yum install Percona-Server-tokudb-57.x86_64
root@wheezy:~# apt-get install percona-server-tokudb-5.7
Enabling the TokuDB Storage Engine
ps-admin --enable-tokudb -u <mysql_admin_user> -p[mysql_admin_pass] [-S <socket>] [-h <host> -P <port>]
* See for more installation details
* See for an introduction to TokuDB
Percona Server has implemented ps-admin script to make the enabling the TokuDB storage engine easier. This script will automatically disable Transparent huge pages, if they’re enabled, and install and enable the TokuDB storage engine with all the required plugins. You need to run this script as root or with sudo. After you run the script with required parameters:
ps-admin --enable-tokudb -uroot -pPassw0rd
Following output will be displayed:
Checking if Percona server is running with jemalloc enabled...
>> Percona server is running with jemalloc enabled.
Checking transparent huge pages status on the system...
>> Transparent huge pages are currently disabled on the system.
Checking TokuDB plugin status...
>> TokuDB plugin is not installed.
Installing TokuDB engine...
>> Successfuly installed TokuDB plugin.
Enabling the TokuDB Storage Engine Manually
If you don’t want to use ps-admin script you’ll need to manually install the storage engine ad required plugins.
INSTALL PLUGIN tokudb_file_map SONAME '';
INSTALL PLUGIN tokudb_fractal_tree_info SONAME '';
INSTALL PLUGIN tokudb_fractal_tree_block_map SONAME '';
INSTALL PLUGIN tokudb_locks SONAME '';
INSTALL PLUGIN tokudb_lock_waits SONAME '';
INSTALL PLUGIN tokudb_background_job_status SONAME '';
| TokuDB | ACTIVE | STORAGE ENGINE | | GPL |
| TokuDB_file_map | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | | GPL |
| TokuDB_fractal_tree_info | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | | GPL |
| TokuDB_fractal_tree_block_map | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | | GPL |
| TokuDB_trx | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | | GPL |
| TokuDB_locks | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | | GPL |
| TokuDB_lock_waits | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | | GPL |
| TokuDB_background_job_status | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | | GPL |
TokuDB Version
TokuDB storage engine version can be checked with:
mysql> SELECT @@tokudb_version;
| @@tokudb_version |
| 5.7.10-1rc1 |
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/15089 | Preparing a Full Backup with innobackupex
After creating a backup, the data is not ready to be restored. There might be uncommitted transactions to be undone or transactions in the logs to be replayed. Doing those pending operations will make the data files consistent and it is the purpose of the prepare stage. Once this has been done, the data is ready to be used.
To prepare a backup with innobackupex you have to use the innobackupex --apply-log and full path to the backup directory as an argument:
$ innobackupex --apply-log /path/to/BACKUP-DIR
and check the last line of the output for a confirmation on the process:
150806 01:01:57 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 1609228
150806 01:01:57 innobackupex: completed OK!
If it succeeded, innobackupex performed all operations needed, leaving the data ready to use immediately.
Under the hood
innobackupex started the prepare process by reading the configuration from the backup-my.cnf file in the backup directory.
After that, innobackupex replayed the committed transactions in the log files (some transactions could have been done while the backup was being done) and rolled back the uncommitted ones. Once this is done, all the information lay in the tablespace (the InnoDB files), and the log files are re-created.
This implies calling innobackupex --apply-log twice. More details of this process are shown in the xtrabackup section.
Note that this preparation is not suited for incremental backups. If you perform it on the base of an incremental backup, you will not be able to “add” the increments. See Incremental Backups with innobackupex.
Other options to consider
innobackupex --use-memory
The preparing process can be sped up by using more memory in it. It depends on the free or available RAM on your system, it defaults to 100MB. In general, the more memory available to the process, the better. The amount of memory used in the process can be specified by multiples of bytes:
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A power point overload occurs when you exceed the maximum amperage of the electrical circuit you are using. This can be caused by plugging too many appliances into the one power point or running appliances that draw high amps at the same time. The result of an overload can be a short circuit and quite possibly a fire.
Too many appliances
Many older style homes have only one or two power points per room, so the temptation is to plug in a double adaptor or power board to increase the number of outlets. This is quite acceptable, providing they are used in moderation.
The problem occurs when people piggy-back one double adaptor on top of another, or plug double adaptors into power boards and even power boards into power boards. This is guaranteed to exceed the circuit’s amperage and is a house fire waiting to happen.
The alternative is to only use appliances one or two at a time, to turn appliances off or unplug them when not in use, or ideally to have an electrician install another power point in the room.
High amp appliances
Some appliances draw more amps than others. A battery charger, for example, draws very low amps, while an electric kettle can draw very high amps. If you only have one power point in your kitchen, avoid running mixers, kettles, toasters, blenders and other such power-hungry devices at the same time, or you will probably exceed the amperage of the power point. Similarly in the bathroom, try not to use hair dryers, electric razors and heaters all at the same time.
Overload protection
Every household meter box contains a series of overload protection devices, designed to cut the power to particular circuits when their amperage has been exceeded. The two main devices are:
These are ceramic holders containing thin strips of wire which are designed to melt when too much current passes through them. The thickness of the wire determines how much current is required before it will ‘blow’.
Circuit breakers
These are the modern equivalent of fuses. Instead of wire, they have highly sensitive switches that are activated when too much current passes through them, causing them to ‘trip’ and break the circuit.
Power boards also have built-in overload protection. This is usually in the form of a small circuit breaker which trips when more power is drawn than the board is rated to carry. The board also contains a reset switch to return it to normal use after the circuit breaker has been tripped.
Overload precautions
If a fuse or circuit breaker blows or trips in your meter box, it usually means there is a problem in the circuit. You are either running too many high-amp appliances, or there is a fault somewhere in the circuit. Before you replace the fuse or reset the circuit breaker, check for a problem. If you can’t find a reason and it happens again, have an electrician inspect your wiring, because when electricity is involved, small faults left unrectified can turn into large and dangerous problems very quickly.
Safety first: power boards
Take a moment to read our blog post, Adding Safer Power Boards to Your Home. We detail the difference between generic power boards, power boards with surge protectors, power boards with insurance, and ultimately, the safest power boards you can invest in for your family.
Incorporate passive design
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This 48-Million-Year-Old Fossil Has an Insect Inside a Lizard Inside a Snake
8 SEP 2016
Palaeontologists have uncovered a fossil that has preserved an insect inside a lizard inside a snake - a prehistoric battle of the food chain that ended in a volcanic lake some 48 million years ago.
Pulled from an abandoned quarry in southwest Germany called the Messel Pit, the fossil is only the second of its kind ever found, with the remains of three animals sitting snug in one another.
"It’s probably the kind of fossil that I will go the rest of my professional life without ever encountering again, such is the rarity of these things," palaeontologist Krister Smith from Germany’s Senckenberg Institute told Michael Greshko at National Geographic. "It was pure astonishment."
Smith and his team suspect that the iguana ate a shiny insect meal, and then two days later was swallowed headfirst by a juvenile snake.
It’s unclear how the snake ultimatey died, but what we do know is it got too close to the deep volcanic lake that once bubbled in the Messel Pit, and was either poisoned or suffocated by the toxic fumes.
Its corpse likely slid into the lake after death, where the Russian doll of skeletons was preserved perfectly for millions of years.
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"To see this kind of trophic scale recorded within the gut of a snake is a very cool thing," UK palaeontologist Jason Head from the University of Cambridge, who wasn’t involved with the study, told National Geographic.
While the combination of snake-lizard-bug is entirely unique in the fossil record, this isn’t the first time a prehistoric turducken has been discovered.
Back in 2008, Austrian researchers found a 250-million-year-old fossil that had preserved a shark that had eaten some kind of amphibian that had eaten a small fish.
It’s far more fragmentary than the Messel Pit fossil, but it was the first real indication that the food web of the time was far more complex than researchers had thought.
If anywhere is likely to be harbouring more of these types of fossils, it’s the Messel Pit, which in the past has served up the now notorious Darwinius masillae fossil, a fossilised beetle with its turquoise iridescence largely intact, and two turtles caught in the middle of doing, erm, turtle things...
The best-preserved fossils in the world from the Eocene epoch, which ran from around 56 to 34 million years ago, have been found here, and Smith and his team are already planning another trip back.
"This fossil is amazing," says one of the researchers, Agustín Scanferla. "We were lucky men to study this kind of specimen."
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Total time : 120 minutes (A-1, A-2 & B)
(Total Marks : 180)
The quantity [(nh)/2qB]1/2 where n is a
positive integer, h is Plank's constant, q is
charge and B is magnetic field, has the
dimensions of (A) area
(B) speed
(C) length
(D) acceleration
Consider the expression for the energy of a
quantum E = hv to get the dimensions of h as
those of (energy X time). Again the expression for
the force F acting on a charge q moving with
velocity v in a magnetic field B is qvB sin . This
gives the dimensions of qB as those of
(force/velocity). Use these to determine the
dimensions of the quantity under consideration,
nothing that n is a dimensionless quantity.
In vernier calipers, m divisions of main scale
coincide with (m + 1) divisions of vernier
scale, If each division of main scale is d units,
the least count of instrument is (A) d/ (m 1)
(B) d / (m +1)
(C) d /m
(D) md / (m + 1)
Since m divisions of main scale are equivalent to
(m + 1) divisions of vernier scale, one division of
vernier scale is equivalent to [m/(m+1)] divisions
of main scale. Now, use the definition : least
count of vernier = one division of main scale
one division of vernier scale.
Vectors a and b include an angle between
them. If (a + b) and (a b) respectively subtend
angles and with a, then (tan + tan ) is
(A) (ab sin ) / (a2 + b2 cos2)
(B) (2ab sin )/ (a2 b2cos2)
(C) (a2 sin2 ) / (a2 + b2cos2 )
(D) (b2 sin2 ) / (a2 b2cos2 )
b sin
where is
Use the relation : tan =
a + b cos
the angle made by the vector (a + b) with a.
b sin
Similarly, tan =
where is the
a b cos
angle made by the vector (a b) with a. Note that
angle between a and ( b) is (180 ).
A small bob attached to a string of length l is
suspended from a rigid support and rotates
with uniform speed along a circle in a
horizontal plane. Let be the angle made by
the string with the vertical. Then the length of
a simple pendulum having the same period is (A) l/cos
(B) l sin
(C) l/sin
(D) l cos
The period of revolution of conical pendulum is
T = 2
l cos
. This can be compared with the
expression of period of a simple pendulum.
Acceleration time graph of a particle moving
along X axis is as shown. The particle will
have the velocity same as its initial velocity at
(A) 10 s
(B) (10 + 3 ) s
(D) (10 + 2 3 ) s
(C) (10 + 5 3 ) s
Let A be the acceleration at t = 0. Change in
velocity in first 10 second will be 5A + (1/2) 5A
= 15A/2 which is equal to the area under the
curve. To have velocity same as the initial
velocity, the net change in velocity should be
zero. For this the area under the curve has to be
. Note that the area below the X axis is
negative. Slope of straight line after t = 5s is
( A/5). If point (10, 0) is used as origin,
equation of the line will be given by
y = ( A/5)x. At x = t1, y = ( A/5)t1. Now, area
between x = 10 and x = t1 will be [(1/2)t1 X
( A/5)t1] = ( t12A)/10. This can be equated to
( 15A/2) so as to get t12 = 75 or t1 = 5"3s. this is
the time from 10 s and hence the total time is
(10 + 5"3) second.
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A block of mass m is placed on a inclined plane
with angle of inclination . Let N, fL and F
respectively represents the normal reaction,
limiting force of friction and the net force down
the inclined plane. Let be the coefficient of
friction. The dependence of N, fL and F on is
indicated by plotting graphs as shown below.
Then, curves (1), (2) and (3) respectively
(A) N, F and fL
(B) F, fL and N
(C) F, N and fL
(D) fL, N and F
The normal reaction N (= mg cos ) and the
frictional force fL(= mg cos ) vary as cosine of
the angle of inclination . The net downward
force is given by [mg sin mg cos ]. Note
that the downward force is zero up to the angle of
repose, that is, till the frictional force has not
attained its limiting value.
When a solid sphere rolls without slipping
down an inclined plane making an angle with
the horizontal, the acceleration of its centre of
mass is a. If the same sphere slides without
friction its acceleration a is
(A) (7/2) a
(B) (5/7) a
(C) (7/5) a
(D) (5/2) a
The acceleration of the sphere when it slides
without friction is (g sin ). When the sphere rolls
without slipping, the acceleration is (5/7) (g sin )
and hence the answer.
A 2 kg cylinder rests on a cart as shown in the
figure. The coefficient of static friction
between the cylinder and the cart is 0.5. The
cylinder is 4 cm in diameter and 10 cm in
height. Taking g = 10 m/s2, the minimum
acceleration of the cart needed to make the
cylinder tip over is about
(A) 2 ms2
(B) 4 ms2
(C) 8 ms2
(D) 6 ms2
Consider the cart moving to the right with
acceleration a. Then, a pseudo force ma acts on
the cylinder (of mass m) to the left. In the
limiting case, taking the moments about a point
of contact of the cylinder with the cart on the
left, clockwise moment (ma X h/2) =
anticlockwise moment (ma X d/2) where h and d
are the height and diameter of the cylinder
Water flows out of the hole on the side of a
bucket and follows a parabolic path. If the
bucket falls freely under gravity, ignoring air
resistance, the water flow (A) follows a straight line path relative the
falling bucket
(B) follows a parabolic path relative the falling
(C) decreases but continues to flow
(D) stops
Under a free fall the water head above the hole
does not exert any pressure. Then, the pressures
on the two sides of the hole become equal and
hence the flow stops.
A spring has length l and spring constant k. It
is cut into two pieces of lengths l1 and l2 such
that l1 = nl2. such that l1 = nl2. The force
constant of spring of length l1 is
(A) k (l + n)
(B) k (l + n) / n
(C) k
(D) k/(l + n)
The length l1 = [n/(n + 1)]l. Noting that the
elongation is proportional to the length, the force
constant becomes [k (n + 1)/n].
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Consider two hollow glass spheres, one
containing water and the other containing
mercury. Each liquid fills about one tenth of
the volume of the sphere. In zero gravity
environment (A) water and mercury float freely inside the
(B) water forms a layer on the glass while
mercury floats
(C) mercury forms a layer on the glass while
water floats
(D) water and mercury both form a layer on the
Note that cohesive force among mercury
molecules is greater than adhesive force between
glass and mercury molecules, Also, adhesive
force between water and glass molecules is
greater than cohesive force among water
A uniformly thick plate in the shape of an
arrowhead has dimensions as shown. The
centre of mass lies at a point
6 cm
A disc of radius R = 10 cm oscillates as a
physical pendulum about an axis perpendicular
to the pane of the disc at a distance r from its
center. If r = R/4, the approximate period of
oscillation is (A) 0.84 s
(B) 0.94 s
(C) 1.26 s
(D) 1.42 s
Use the expression for the periodic time of a
physical pendulum : T = 2
where I is
the moment of inertia of the disc about the axis
under consideration. In this case it is (mR2/2 +
mR2/16) = 9mR2/16. The distance of the centre
of mass from the point of suspension is h = R/4.
(A) 1.5 cm to the right of O
(B) 3 cm to the right of O
(C) O itself
(D) 1 cm to the right of O
Note that the centre of mass of a uniform thick
triangular sheet is at the centroid which divides a
median in a ratio 2 : 1. The required center of
mass must be on the line of symmetry passing
through O and the vertex to the right. Consider
the shape of arrowhead to be obtained by cutting
the triangular part to the left (with base 6 cm and
height 3 cm) from the uncut triangular sheet with
base 6 cm and height 9 cm. The ratio of masses of
these two is 27 : 9, the thickness being uniform.
Sachin (55 kg) and Kapil (65 kg) are sitting at
the two ends of a boat at rest in still water. The
boat weighs 100 kg and is 3.0 m long. Sachin
walks down to Kapil and shakes hand. the boat
gets displaced by (A) zero m
(B) 0.75 m
(C) 3.0 m
(D) 2.3 m
Kapil and the boat can be considered as one body
of mass mb = (65 +100) = 165 kg. Note that the
centre of mass of the system remains unchanged
since no external force acts on the system. Let
mS be the mass of Sachin and xs,xb be the
displacements of the combined body of mass mb
and Sachin respectively with reference to the
centre of mass. Then use the equation msxs +
mbxb = 0, to get the answer.
A uniform solid disc of radius R and mass m is
free to rotate on a frictionless pivot through a
point on its rim. The disc is released from rest
in the position where the diameter through the
pivot is along horizontal. The speed of its
centre of mass when the diameter through the
pivot is vertical is
(A) (2/3)(gR)1/2
(B) (gR)1/2
(C) (2gR)
(D) 2(gR/3)1/2
Moment of inertia about the axis through the
pivot on the rim of the disc is (mR2/2 + mR2) =
3mR2/2. using the principle that change in
potential energy (mgR) is equal to the gain of
kinetic energy (I2/2) gives the answer. Also use
v = R.
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A 40.0 kg boy is standing on a plank of mass
160 kg. The plank originally at rest, is free to
slide on a smooth frozen lake. The boy walks
along the plank at a constant speed of 1.5 m/s
relative to the plank. The speed of the boy
relative to the ice surface is (A) + 1.8 m/s
(B) 1.2 m/s
(C) + 1.2 m/s
(D) + 1.5 m/s
The system is not subjected to any external force
and hence conservation of momentum can be
used. Let mb and mp represent the masses of the
boy and the plank. Let vbi, vpi and vbp be the
velocity of the boy with respect to ice, that of the
plank with respect to ice and that of the boy with
respect to the plank respectively. Then, mb vbi +
mp vpi = 0, also vbi = vbp + vpi.
When a soap bubble is given an electric charge,
(A) it contracts
(B) it expands
(C) its size remains the same
(D) it expands or contracts depending upon
whether the charge is positive or negative
For an unelectrified soap bubble force due to
excess pressure from inside is balanced by the
force due to surface tension. When it is given an
electric charge, there is an outward normal force
(2/20 per unit area, where is the surface
charge density) that expands the bubble.
A wooden block floats in a liquid with 40% of
its volume inside the liquid. When the vessel
containing the liquid starts rising upwards with
acceleration a = g/2, the percentage of volume
inside the liquid is
(A) 20% (B) 60% (C) 30 % (D) 40%
When the vessel is stationary, the weight of the
wooden block is balanced by the upthrust, that is
Vwood g = Vliqliqg, where V is the volume of the
block and Vliq is the volume of the liquid
displaced, wood and liq are the densities of wood
and liquid respectively. This gives (Vliq/V) =
(wood/liq). When the vessel moves up, the net
upward force is (upthrust weight). The upthrust
is [(Vliq)' liqg] where (Vliq)' is the volume of the
liquid displaced in this case. The net upward force
is [V woodg/2]. This gives [(Vliq)'/V] = (wood/liq).
From this we see that the same volume of the
wooden block remains inside the liquid.
A metal wire of length L1 and area of cross
section A is attached to a rigid support.
Another metal wire of length L2 and of the
same cross sectional area is attached to the free
end of the first wire. A body of mass M is then
suspended from the free end of the second
wire. If Y1 and Y2 are the Yong's moduli of the
wires respectively, the effective force constant
of the system of two wires is (A) [(Y1 Y2)A] / [2(Y1L2 + Y2L1)]
(B) [(Y1 Y2)A] / (L1 L2)]1/2
(C) [(Y1 Y2)A] / (Y1L2 + Y2L1)
(D) (Y1 Y2)1/2 A / (L1 L2)1/2
Using the usual expression for the Young's
modulus, the force constant for the wire can be
written as k = F/l = YA/L where the symbols
have their usual meanings. Now, the two wires
together will have an effective force constant
(k1k2/(k1 + k2)]. Substituting the corresponding
lengths and the Young's moduli we get the
Four moles of carbon monoxide are mixed
with four moles of carbon dioxide. Assuming
the gases to be ideal, the ratio of specific heats
(A) 15/11 (B) 41/30 (C) 4/3
(D) 7/4
Use the expression for the ratio of specific heats
n1C pl + n 2 C p 2
. Also note
of a mixture : =
n1C v l + n 2 C v 2
that Cp and Cv for diatomic gas are 5R/2 and
7R/2 respectively, whereas those for a
polyatomic gas are 3R and 4R.
The equations of two sound waves propagating
in a medium are given by y1 = 2 sin (200t)
and y2 = 5 sin (150t). The ratio of intensities
of sound produced is (A) 4 : 25
(B) 9 : 100
(C) 8 : 15
(D) 64 : 225
The intensity of a wave is proportional to square
of amplitude as well as square of frequency. The
amplitudes are in the ratio 2 : 5 whereas the
frequencies are in the ratio 4 : 3.
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String A has a length l, radius of cross section
r, density of material and is under tension T.
String B has all these quantities double those of
string A. If fA and fB are the corresponding
fundamental frequencies of the vibrating
strings, then
(A) fA = 2 fB
(B) fA = 4 fB
(C) fB = 4 fA
(D) fA = fB
where the symbols have their usual
l A
Note that the frequency of the vibrating string
The temperature of n moles of an ideal gas is
increased from T to 4T through a process for
which pressure p = aT1 where a is a constant.
Then, the work done by the gas is
(A) nRT
(B) 4 nRT
(C) 2 nRT
(D) 6 nRT
Use the relation pV = nRT with p = a/T (given).
This gives V = nRT2 / a, so that dV = (2nRT / a)dT.
Now integrate pdV between T and 4T to get the
For a monatomic ideal gas undergoing an
adiabatic change, the relation between
temperature and volume is TVx = constant
where x is (A) 7/5
(B) 2/5
(C) 2/3
(D) 1/3
For an adiabatic change in case of a monatomic
gas, TV1 = constant. In this case x itself is ( 1)
and = 5/3 giving the value of x.
A system is taken from a given initial state to a
given final state along various paths
represented on a p-V diagram. The quantity
that is independent of the path is
(A) amount of heat transferred Q
(B) amount of work done W
(C) Q but not W
(D) (Q W)
The only quantity (Q W) which itself is the
internal energy of the system is independent of
the path.
An ideal gas confined to an insulated chamber
is allowed to enter into an evacuated insulated
chamber. If Q, W and Eint have the usual
meanings, then
(A) Q = 0, W 0
(B) W = 0, Q 0
(C) Eint = 0, Q 0
(D) Q = W = Eint = 0
This is a case of free expansion of a gas. Note
that due to insulation, Q = 0. Since the gas
expands against no counteracting pressure (that
is in vacuum), W = 0. This gives no change in
the internal energy.
Read the two statements (1) When a solid
melts an changes to liquid state, its volume
may increase or decrease. (II) As a result of
increase in pressure, the melting point of a
solid may be raised or lowered.
With reference to these statements, the only
correct statements out of the following is
(A) (I) is true but (II) cannot be true
(B) (I) cannot be true but (II) is true
(C) (I) and (II) both are true and (I) is the
cause of (II)
(D) (I) and (II) both are true and they are
independent of each other
An increase in pressure tends to compress the
substance. On melting if volume of a substance
decreases, an increase in pressure will help the
process of melting, so that melting point will be
lower. On the other hand if volume of a
substance increases on melting, then an increase
in pressure will oppose the process of melting.
hence, melting point will increase. Thus, the two
statements are true and (I) is the cause of (II).
A magnetic field directed along Z axis varies
as B = B0x/a, where a is a positive constant. A
square loop of side l and made of copper is
placed with its edges parallel to X and Y axes.
if the loop is made to move with a constant
velocity v0 directed along X axis, the emf
induced is
(A) (B0v0l2)/a
(B) (B0v0l)
(D) (B0v0l3)/a2
(C) (B0v0l2)/2a
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Note that change in flux in one second is equal to
the emf induced. Use d = B.dA. Since
B || dA. d = BdA with dA = l dx. Integrae d
between 0 and l to obtain the initial flux which
comes out to be (B0l3/2a). In one second the lop
covers a distance of v0, so that the final flux can
be found by integrating d between v0 and
(v0 + l). This flux comes out to be [(B0v0l2/a) +
(B0l3/2a)] and hence the change in flux per second
can be determined.
An object is placed in front of a spherical
mirror of focal length f. If x and x respectively
represent the distances of the object and the
image from the focus, then (A) f = x + x
(B) f2 = x x
(C) f = | x x |
(D) f = x x depending upon whether image
is real or virtual
Note that the object distance can be written as (f + x)
whereas the image distance can be written as
(f + x2). Use the mirror formula to get the answer.
Different objects at different distance are seen
by the eye. The parameter that remains constant is (A) the focal length of the eye lens
(B) the object distance from the eye lens
(C) the radii of curvature of the eye lens
(D) the image distance from the eye lens
The image formed by the eye lens is always one
the retina and the image distance is fixed.
A body in the form of a right circular cone of
dielectric material with base radius R and
height h is placed with its base on a horizontal
table. A horizontal uniform electric field of
magnitude E penetrates the cone. The electric
flux that enters the body is
(A) ERh/3 (B) ERh (C) ERh/6 (D) 2ERh
Note that the flux through an area is (E dA).
Here the flux through the cone is the same as that
through the triangular section of the cone by a
vertical plane passing through the vertex. The
area of this triangular section is [1/2(2R X h)] and
is perpendicular to the direction of the field E.
A sounding body emitting a frequency of 200
Hz is released from a height. One second after
its release, it crosses a balloon rising with a
constant velocity of 2m/s. Let the speed of
sound be 300 m/s and acceleration due to
gravity 10 m/s2. The change in frequency
noted by an observer in the balloon at the
moment of crossing is (A) 10 Hz (B) 8 Hz (C) 16 Hz (D) 4 Hz
Use the relation : the apparent frequency
v + v0
n2 = n
where v is the speed of sound,
v vs
v0 is the speed of the observer and vs is the speed
of the source of sound. The speed v0 is to be
considered positive or negative depending on
whether the observer is moving towards or away
from the source. Similarly, vs is to be considered
positive or negative depending on whether the
source is moving towards or away from the
observer. Using this convention, determine the
apparent frequencies before and after the
crossing and then the difference between them.
Refer to the figure. The number reflections
from mirrors M1 and M2 are
(B) 6 and 5
(D) 6 and 6
(A) 5 and 5
(C) 10 and 10
Consider the point at which the incident ray
strikes M1 for the first time. let its distance from
the lower end of the mirror be x, so that tan 5 =
(x/1) giving x = 0.087 (approximately). If n is the
number of spacings accommodated in the mirror
length of 1 meter, then nx = 1, giving n = 11.49.
Thus, n is greater than 11 but less than 12. This
gives 6 reflections from M1 but 5 from M2.
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A ray of light is incident at angle on the
boundary separating two transparent media. It
is transmitted. If the angle of incidence is
increased very slightly, the ray gets reflected in
the same medium. The difference between
angles of deviation in the two cases will be
close to (A) 2
(B) 90
(C) 180
(D) 180 2
When the ray is incident at the critical angle ,
the angle of deviation is (90 ) whereas just
after this (that is at an angle slightly greater than
the critical angle) the angle of deviation is (180
Two particles A and B having equal charged
after being accelerated through the same
potential difference, enter a region of uniform
magnetic field and describe circular paths of
radii R1 and R2 respectively. The ratio of mass
of A to that of B is
(A) (R1/R2)2
(B) (R1/R2)1/2
(C) (R2/R1)
(D) (R2/R1)
The work done by the electric field on both the
particles is the same and hence the gain in kinetic
energy for both is the same. This gives
. Note that the centripetal force
necessary for the circular motion in the magnetic
field is qvB. Using this for both the particles, we
m v
get 1 1 = 2 2 . From these two relations, we
get the answer.
A Sound wave traveling through a medium of
bulk modulus B is represented as y(x, t) = A sin
(kx t) where symbols have their usual
meanings. Then, the corresponding pressure
amplitude is
(A) BAk
(B) B (A/K)1/2
(C) B
(D) B(AK)1/2
From the equation of the sound wave, we get
= kAcos (kx t). Now use the expression p =
where B is the bulk modulus. This gives an
expression for the pressure change p = BAk
sin [(kx t) /2], also indicating a phase lag
of /2 with respect to displacement.
A conductor is bent in the form of concentric
semicircles as shown in the figure. The
magnetic field at the point O is :
0 a
(A) zero
(B) 0i /6a
(C) 0i/a
(D) 0i / 4a
Magnetic field at the centre of a semicircular
current carrying conductor is given by the
i(a ) 0i
expression B = 0
where a is the
4 a 2
radius of the first semicircle. Note that the
current in all the turns is the same but its sense is
alternately opposite and the radii are in the
proportion 1 : 2 : 4 : 8 Then, the net
i 1 1 1 1
magnetic field = 0 1 + + ..... .
4a 2 4 8 16
The terms in the bracket form a geometric
progression which adds to (2/3) and then the
answer follows.
A capacitor and a coil in series are connected
to a 6 volt ac source. By varying the frequency
of the source, maximum current of 600 mA is
observed. If the same coil is now connected to
a cell of emf 6 volt and internal resistance of
2 ohm, the current through it will be
(A) 0.5 A
(B) 0.6 A
(C) 1.0 A
(D) 2.0 A
The maximum current is obtained at resonance
where the net impedance is only resistive which
is the resistance of the coil only. This gives the
resistance of the coil as 10 ohm. Now, this coil
along with the internal resistance of the cell gives
a current of 0.5 A.
Two radioactive substances X and Y emit
and particles respectively. Their disintegration
constants are in the ratio 2 : 3. To have equal
probabilities of getting emission of and
particles, the ratio of number of atoms of X to
that of Y at any time instant is :
(A) 2 : 3
(B) 3 : 2
(C) e : 1
(D) (e 1) : 1
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Note that (X/Y) = 2/3. To have equal
probabilities the rates of decay must be equal, that
is, XNX = YNY at any instant. The gives the
ratio (NX/NY) 3/2.
In a certain particle accelerator, electrons
emerge in pulses at the rate of 250 pulses per
second. Each pulse is of duration of 200 ns and
the electrons in the pulse constitute a current of
250 mA. The number of electrons delivered by
the accelerator per pulse is :
(A) 8.00 1010
(B) 5.00 108
(D) 9.60 1010
(C) 3.13 1011
The charge in a pulse dq = I dt = 5.00 X 108C.
Divide this by 1.6 X 1019 to determine the
number of electrons per pulse.
Let v(t) be the velocity of a particle at time t.
(A) |dv(t)/dt| and d| v(t)|/dt are always equal
(B) |dv(t)/dt| and d| v(t)|/dt may be equal
(C) d|v(t)|/dt| can be zero while |dv(t)|/dt| is not
(D) d| v(t)|/dt 0 implies |dv(t)/dt| 0
[B, C, D]
Note that |dv(t)/dt| is the magnitude of
acceleration, while d|v(t)|/dt is the time rate of
change of speed. These two may not be always
equal, hence (a) is not correct. In fact, the two are
equal when the motion is along a straight line. In
case of uniform circular motion, speed remains
constant but not the velocity. Again if speed is not
constant the velocity cannot be constant.
A hollow double concave lens is made of a
very thin transparent material. It can be filled
with water (refractive index w) or either of
two liquids L1 or L2 with refractive indices 1
and 2 respectively (2 > w > 1). The lens
will diverge a parallel beam of light incident on
it, if it is filed with (A) L2 and immerses in L1
(B) L2 and immersed in water
(C) water and immersed in L1
(D) air and immersed in either water or L1 or L2
[A,B ,C]
Use the lens maker formula :
1 1
where L
f m
R 1 R 2
and m represent the refractive indices of the
liquid filled and the surrounding medium
respectively. Note that for a double concave lens
is negative. Now, for the lens to act
R1 R 2
as a diverging lens, that is, for f to be negative,
the first bracket on the right hand side of the
relation must be positive. This requires L to be
greater than m.
Referring to the circuit diagram, the tap key is
pressed at time t = 0. After sufficiently long
(B) VR = 0
(D) VR = V
(A) VC = 0
(C) VC = V
[B, C]
After sufficiently long time the charging current
reduces to zero. Then all the voltage appears
across the capacitor and no drop across the
As shown in the figure, a front coated mirror
M produces an image S2 of a source S1 of
monochromatic light. Then,
(A) Point P will be a point of maximum
intensity if the path difference = (2n)/2
for n = 0, 1, 2, 3.
(B) Point P will be a point of maximum
intensity if the path difference = (2n + 1)
/2 for n = 0, 1, 2, 3..
(C) Point P will be a point of minimum
intensity if the path difference = (2n)/2
for n = 0, 1, 2, 3.
(D) there is no such condition for the path
difference as there is no interference
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[B, C]
Note that there is an additional phase change of
red or a path difference of (/2) when a ray gets
reflected from the mirror.
Two point charges (Q each) are placed at (0, y)
and (0, y). A point charge q of the same
polarity can move along X axis. Then,
(A) the force on q is maximum at x = y / 2
(B) the charge q is in equilibrium at the origin
(C) the charge q performs an oscillatory
motion about the origin
(D) The equilibrium is not a stable equilibrium
[A, B, D]
At a point with coordinates (x, 0) the force is
. For F to be maximum,
4 0 ( x + y 2 ) 3 / 2
to zero gives x = y/ "2. The
charge is obviously in equilibrium at the origin.
However, the equilibrium is not stable since the
force is repulsive and hence will not be able to
restore the charge at the origin. The charge
therefore cannot perform oscillatory motion.
(A) potential at point D is V/2
(B) current between points A and C is the same
as that between F and B
(C) current between C and D is half that
between points C and F
(D) current between points E and F is one third
that between F and B
[A, B, C, D]
Note that points D and E are coincident and the
circuit is symmetric about this point. Consider a
current i entering the circuit at point A and
leaving it at point B. If current i1 flows between A
and D, a current (i i1) flows between A and C.
By symmetry current between D and B is i1 and
that between F and B is (i i1). The current (i
i1) gets branched at C and (1/3) (i i1) flows
between C and D and continues upto F. This is
because there is no branching of current at D.
Obviously (2/3) (i i1) flows between C and F.
Note that total resistance between C and F is half
of that along the path ADF.
A concave lens is placed in the path of a
uniform parallel beam of light falling on a
screen as shown. Then,
The network of identical resistors as shown
between points A and B is connected to a dc
source of emf V. Then,
(A) intensity of light will be the same every
where on the screen
(B) intensity in region AB will be smaller than
what is would be in the absence of the lens
(C) in the region AC and BD, the intensity will
be smaller than what it would be in the
absence of the lens
(D) in the region AC and BD, the intensity will
be greater than what is would be in the
absence of the lens
[B, D]
Note that the intensity of light in the region AB
(when the lens is absent) now gets distributed
over the region CD. In the regions AC and BD
light intensity is due to both the direct beam and
the diverged light from the lens.
A hydrogen atom and a doubly ionized lithium
atom are both in the second excited state. If LH
and LLi respectively represent their electronic
angular momenta and EH and ELi their
energies, then (A) LH > LLi and | EH | > | ELi |
(B) LH = LLi and | EH | < | ELi |
(C) LH = LLi and | EH | > | ELi |
(D) LH < LLi and | EH | < | ELi |
For both the atoms the second excited state
corresponds to n = 3. Therefore, the angular
momentum for each of them is 3(h/2). The
energy, however, is proportional to Z2 where Z is
the atomic number and hence numerical value of
energy for hydrogen is less than that for lithium.
Refer to the circuit diagram and the
corresponding graph. The current rises when
key K is pressed. With R = R1 and L = L1 the
rise of current is shown by curve (1), while
curve (2) shows the rise of current when R =
R2 and L = L2. Then,
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(B) R1 > R2
(D) L1> L2
time t
(A) R1 = R2
(C) L1 < L2
[A, C]
Consider the expression for the current rising
exponentially in the LR circuit. The time constant
is (L/R). In this case the curve (1) is rising faster
than curve (2) indicating that (L1/R1) < (L2/R2).
However, in both the cases the maximum current
is the same and equal to (V/R1) or (V/R2).
Let the energy, magnitude of linear momentum
and angular frequency of an electron in
hydrogen atom be E, p and respectively. If n
be the corresponding quantum number, then (A) (E/) varies as n
(B) (E p) / is independent of n
(C) (p ) varies as n1/2
(D) (E p ) is independent of n
[A, B]
Note the proportionalities : energy E 2 ,
angular momentum L n, radius of orbit
r n2, periodic time T n3, angular
frequency 3 and speed of electron in
an orbit v
and get the result.
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* All questions are compulsory.
* All questions carry equal marks
A solid wooden cube of side l and mass M is
resting on a horizontal table, as shown in the
figure. The cube is constrained to rotate about
an axis through D and perpendicular to the face
ABCD. A bullet of mass m moving with speed
v strikes the block at a height 2l/3 as shown.
Let the line along which the bullet moves be in
the plane passing through the centre of mass of
the block and parallel to the face ABCD.
Determine the minimum value of v that topples
the block.
Let be the angular velocity of the cube
(just after the bullet strikes) about an axis passing
through D. Conservation of angular momentum
about this axis gives mv(2l/3) = I where I is
the moment of inertia about the axis through D.
This is [(M l2/6) + (M l2 /2)] = (2M l2/3) From
the above equation = (mv/M l). The cube will
topple if the centre of mass is just able to rise
from (l/2) to (l/"2). In such a case, the rotational
energy must be equated to the change of
1 2
I = Mg
Using the values of I and , we get the
expression for v that will just topple the cube :
potential energy. Thus,
M 2 1
v = 3gl
m 2
1/ 2
Consider flow of heat from an inner sphere of
radius a at temperature T2 to an outer
concentric sphere of radius b at temperature T1
through an insulating material filled in
between the two spheres. Obtain expressions
for the total heat current H and the temperature
T at a distance r from the centre, when a
steady state is reached.
Consider a concentric spherical shell of radius r
and thickness dr where a < r < b. Let k be the
coefficient of thermal conductivity and
the temperature gradient at this shell. Then, the
heat current (that is the amount of heat flowing
per unit time) is given by
H = 4r2k ()
where the negative sign indicated a
fall of temperature with increase of radius. From
this we get. Integrate this between limits a and b
for r and between T2 and T1 for T. This gives an
expression for the heat current. Now, use to find
the indefinite integral with a constant of
integration c. The constant of integration c comes
out to be where temperature T2 corresponds to
radius a. Using this we write an expression in
terms of temperature T at a radius r in general.
Solving this we get an expression for the
temperature T at a distance r from the centre :
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A double convex lens of radii of curvature 10
cm ( = 1.5) and a double concave lens of radii
of curvature 12 cm ( = 1.6) are separated by a
liquid of refractive index 1.2, as shown. Find
the effective focal length of the combination.
The convex lens with a plano-concave liquid lens
on left can be taken to form one group of lenses.
Similarly, a plano-convex liquid lens with the
concave lens can be taken to form another group
of lenses. The liquid layer of width 4.8 cm in
between will then be equivalent to an air slab of
thickness (4.8 1.2) = 5.76 cm. Note that this
distance (d) is the distance of separation between
the two lens combinations described above. The
focal length of the given convex lens can be
determined using lens maker's formula and it
comes out to be 10.0 cm. Similarly the focal
length of the adjacent plano-concave liquid lens
turns out to be ( 50.0) cm. The focal length of
this combination 12.5 cm. Use the relation. in this
case the distance of separation d is zero.
Similarly, the focal lengths of the plano-convex
liquid lens and the concave lens on right come out
to be 60.0 cm and ( 10.0) cm respectively. The
focal of their combination turns out to be ( 12.0)
cm. Now, the two lens combinations are of focal
lengths 12.5 cm and ( 12.0) cm separated by a
distance of 5.76 cm. The relation written above
can again be used to get the effective focal length
as 28.49 cm and acts as a converging lens.
Refer to the figure in the question paper. Let the
front lower edge of the wedge to be along X axis
so that left extreme of the edge can be taken to
be at x = 0 and the other extreme to the right to
be at x = L. Choose an element of the wedge
perpendicular to this edge at a distance x and of
width dx. This section will have a height, so that
the area of cross section of this element will be
WX. Now, the resistance of this element can be
written as dR. Integrate this between x = 0 and x
= L. The expression for the resistance of the
wedge comes out to be R.
Show that the capacitance of parallel plate
capacitor filled with a dielectric whose
dielectric constant increases linearly from one
plate to the other, is
C = [0A(K2 K1)] / [d ln (K2/K1)]
where A is the area of each of the plates, d is
the separation between them, K1 and K2 are he
dielectric constants near plate 2 respectively.
Let the relation for variation of dielectric
constant be K = mx + K1 where x is the distance
from plate l. At x = 0, that is, at plate l, K = K1
while at x = d, K = K2. With this we get m = (K2
K1)/d. Now, we use E =. The potential
difference V between the plates of the capacitor
V = + "dV where dV = E dx. Note that E is a
function of x. Limits of integration for x are 0
4.8 cm
and d. Then use C = Q/V where Q = A. The
final relation for the capacitance is C.
A material with uniform resistivity is formed
in the shape of a wedge as shown. Determine
the resistance between face A and face B of
this wedge.
face B
face A
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/15319 | Show @ El Rio - 4/4/2007!
So it's still short notice, but we have yet another gig and a variation on our line-up. Details:
Dolores Park Movie Night Viewers' Choice Party
El Rio
3158 Mission St. (just South of Cesar Chavez)
$5-$20 sliding scale, all are welcome.
This is the Dolores Park Movie Night Viewers' Choice Party - in other words, this is where you get to pick which movies are shown during the upcoming season.
You can also meet fellow Dolores Park Movie Night-goers and participate in fabulous raffles!
3 bands, 2 djs and food provided!
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/15324 | Tutorial: Multi-Phase Flow – Water Fall
Multiphase Analysis type enables you to simulate the time dependent behavior of 2 fluid mixtures, for example air and water. This tutorial provides a step-by-step guide on how to set up an internal multiphase flow simulation using the New Material Library for Fluid Dynamics analysis.
The material library provides pre-defined Fluid materials with the required properties at standard conditions. It will be shown, how these can be easily added and used. The user may modify these properties based on the requirements.
The tutorial project is a sample Water Fall case setup. The Channel is enclosed by walls on all sides with an open boundary for the top face. Initially there will be column of water in the fall area, while water enters from an Inlet and discharges into the column. The rest of the domain is filled with air as the base medium.
The link below provides the tutorial project.
Import the tutorial project into workbench
The project already has an uploaded mesh, which was created in a normal manner without any special assignments. So, the tutorial starts with creating a new simulation set-up for multiphase flow. The two different phases are defined and assigned in the simulation setup to follow.
Import tutorial project
• To start this tutorial, you have to import the tutorial project into your ‘Dashboard’ via the link above.
• In the workbench, you will be in the ‘Geometries‘ tab as shown below
CAD geometry
Create a Multiphase simulation
• To create a new simulation click on the ‘+’ option next to the ‘Simulations’ tab
• Select the Multi-phase analysis type and click ‘Ok’
• After clicking ‘Ok’, a new tree will be automatically generated in the left panel with all the parameters and settings that are necessary to completely specify such an analysis.
• All parts that are completed are highlighted with a green check. Parts that need to be specified have a red circle. While, the blue circle indicates an optional settings that does not need to be filled out
Creating a Multiphase simulation
• We use a Laminar model and transient analysis
Simulation properties
Creating a Mesh
• Select the mesh option and set the parameters as shown in figure below
• We use the automatic ‘Hex-dominant’ algorithm and set the fineness to ‘Fine’
Mesh Parameters
• Next, we define additional primitives of type ‘Cartesian Box’ that will be used for mesh refinement
• Click on the ‘+’ option next to Geometry Primitives and select the Cartesian box from the drop down menu, as shown in figure
Creating a cartesian box
• Set the parameters for the box as shown below and save it
Cartesian box
• Now we move on to the “Mesh Refinements”.
• To add a refinement click on the ‘+’ next to the Refinements and select the required refinement from the drop down menu
Creating a new refinement
• Select Region refinement from the drop down menu
• Set the parameters as shown below
• Select the cartesian box created earlier for this region refinement
• and then save the operation
Region refinement
• Go back to the mesh option and hit the generate button to start the meshing process
Start the meshing operation
• After some time, the mesh will be finished and we can review it via the 3D viewer
Resulting Mesh
Creating Topological Entity sets
• Here we basically group of faces together under a common name, this helps while assigning boundary conditions
• Select the Inlet face, then click on the ‘+’ option next to the ‘Topological Entity Sets’
• Name the set as ‘Inlet’
Creating a Topological entity set
• Similarly, do the same for the Outlet face
Outlet Face
• the remaining faces are grouped together under the entity set ‘Walls’
Walls- Entity Set
Creating a Geometry Primitive
• Create a Geometry Primitive of type ‘Cartesian Box’ as shown below.This will be used to define the initial distribution of the column of water in the channel.
Creating a Geometry Primitive
• The gravity force and surface tension are set as below
Adding materials to the domain and assigning phases.
• Here we will add the materials from the ‘Material Library’, assign a ‘Phase’ to each and assign the materials to the simulation domain or mesh. This would then determine the materials that will exist in the flow domain and be used for the simulation. First, we start with clicking on sub-tree “materials”. Click on “+” from the options panel as shown.
• Select ‘Air’ and click ‘Ok’.This will then automatically load the standard properties for air.
Adding a material
• As our domain/mesh will have two fluids for this simulation, we must select their “Associated phase” and assign them to a volume mesh region.
• So, we change the “Associated phase” for air to ‘Phase 0’ to set it as the primary fluid phase and assign it to the mesh volume called ‘1’ (volume of the chosen mesh) and click ‘save’.
Defining the properties of the Material
The associated phase of ‘Phase 0’ means that the fluid material will be the primary fluid phase. This is then represented by a ‘Phase fraction’ of value 0 that corresponding to 100% of this fluid. Further, Every fluid material must be assigned at least 1 volume (and vice-versa).
At this stage, we are only defining the properties of the two fluid materials that will be present in the domain/mesh and assigning them to the corresponding mesh volume (in this case the same one). As for the initial distribution of the fluid materials, it will be defined later under “Initial Conditions” sub-tree entry (under “Model”) with the help of “Geometry Primitives”.
• Similarly, now add the secondary fluid material named ‘water’
Adding water as the secondary fluid
• Now select the options as indicated in the figure below, assign it as ‘Phase 1’ and assign it to the mesh volume ‘1’.
Assigning fluid to the domain
“So now as water is assigned ‘Phase 1’, it will be represented by a phase fraction value of 1”.
Initial Conditions (Defining initial flow variables and distribution for fluid phases):
• The next tree item “Initial conditions” allows to define the initial velocity, pressure and “phase fraction” (in other words, initial phase distribution) for the fluids. For pressure and velocity we keep the default values. Then click on ‘Phase fraction’ keep the default Global phase fraction value of 0 ( that is air ) and click save. This means for now all the volume is filled with air.
Global phase fraction
• Now click on ‘+’ next to ‘Subdomains’ to add a new subdomain. Enter the settings as shown in the figure below (phase fraction value of 1 means water phase) and assign the previously created geometry primitive to this sub-domain and save.
Initial conditions for water
• So, the common region of the geometry primitive and the volume mesh will now define the initial distribution of the water phase.
Remember: “Under Initial Conditions the initial distribution (before start of simulation) of the fluid materials is defined (by using geometry primitives)”.
Boundary Conditions:
Now, we come to define the boundary conditions.
• To create a boundary condition, click on the ‘+’ option next to the Boundary conditions and select the required boundary condition from drop down menu, as shown in figure.
Creating a new boundary condition
• First, select the ‘Velocity Inlet’ for the Inlet face. Set the properties as shown below and assign this to the ‘Inlet’ face from the topological entity set created earlier
• the phase fraction value is set to 1, meaning only water enters through this face
Inlet boundary condition
• Add another boundary condition ( as before ), re-name it as “outlet” and specify the settings as shown in figure below and save it.
Outlet boundary condition
• Lastly, add the 3rd boundary condition, re-name it to “walls” and specify the settings as shown in the following figure. Assign this to the ‘Walls’ Entity set created earlier
Wall bounadary conditions
• Based on the type of problem, we now modify some of the numerics as is illustrated in the figure below. This includes specifying the number of solver iterations per time step in “Number of correctors” and selecting the solvers based on the flow variables. These changes will help in better stability and convergence on the simulation. Leave the remaining values as default
Simulation Control:
• Next, in simulation control we define some main control settings such as start and end times, time step size, auto time-stepping and number of processors for this simulation run. Follow the figure below to set up as shown and click save.
Simulation Control
Start a simulation run
• The new run is created by clicking on the ‘+’ symbol next to ‘Simulation Runs’
• Give a name to the run and start the run
Creating a new simulation run
• Once the simulation is finished, select the ‘Solution fields’ under the Run to post process the results on the platform. Or they can be downloaded and post-processed locally (e.g. with ParaView)
• Some post processing images from the SimScale platform post processor are shown below.
• Go to the last simulation step by clicking the last step button (highlighted in figure)
• Select ‘Results’ and switch the flow variable to ‘alpha.phase1[node]’ as shown.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/15337 | Simplify & Speed Up Offboarding Simplify & Speed Up Offboarding
Simplify & Speed Up Offboarding
Product Specialist
When an employee leaves your district, there are a number of important steps that need to be completed. This is no time to risk miscommunication. You can eliminate phrases like, “Sorry, I thought you were doing that” and “I didn’t realize you were waiting for me!” by using Skyward’s Task Manager to create a task process.
With Task Manager, you can keep tabs on the offboarding process online by creating a custom sequence of steps and assigning them to specific people or departments. Let’s take a look at how this works.
Offboarding Example
To get started, look at the screenshot below, which shows a task process created for offboarding employees. It shows each step of the process, who that step is assigned to, and where in Skyward it should be completed (the reference program).
If you decide to create a task process for offboarding, you’ll want to include steps like the ones we included above: entering the employee to terminate, updating benefit & ACA information (this is an important step to remember since you don’t want to overpay benefits), calculating the employee’s final payout, taking care of expenses, removing security access, collecting district-issued items, and, finally, inactivating the employee’s profile.
Creating a Task Process
When building a task process, here are some suggestions to keep in mind:
• You can assign a task to either an individual or a group of people.
• We recommend you don’t simply copy the text from the Summary field and paste it into the Instructions box. Instead, give detailed instructions about the task, so the person assigned to this step knows exactly what needs to be done.
• If you’re using a custom form and want employees to check off their tasks as they complete them, put a reminder to do so in the Instructions box.
• Use the Reference Program to link a step directly to the part of Skyward where that task will be completed. That way, the person assigned to the task can jump straight to that part of Skyward as they complete the step.
• Consider checking the box to send notifications for the final step, even if you don’t want notifications for every step, so you’ll know when offboarding is complete.
Using Task Manager
Every task process you create will be listed under the Task Processes widget on your main dashboard. When you’re ready to assign a task, this is where you’ll go to start the process.
After you’ve assigned a task, your staff will see their specific responsibilities under Task Manager.
When they click on the task assigned to them, the first step will appear. For the first staff member in the process, that step should be entering the name of the employee who is leaving the district, as is seen in the image below.
If you’ve created a custom form with a checklist, they can open the list and check off steps as they go.
Your staff member can add any notes and attachments as needed. When they’re finished, they can click the button for the next task (in the case of the image below, Update Benefit and ACA Info) to assign it to the next person/department in line.
Pro Tip: You can set up task processes to start based on the results of data mining reports. When the report runs, if it picks up on a terminated employee, it will start the offboarding process automatically.
Task Manager can help you speed up and simplify the offboarding process. It will help you keep everyone on the same page so you can better ensure no task goes unfinished.
Follow-Up Resource: Quick Hits –Task Manager
Check out our 2-minute Quick Hits video for an overview of using Task Manager.
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Transferring terms from the dictionary
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Transferring terms from the dictionary
Tooltip about the different key combinations that allow you to insert terminology with simple keystrokes while translating in Transit's translation editor. Saves time, helps avoid typos, boosts translator productivity.
Welcome to a new tooltip about Transit NXT. This time we will learn how to transfer terms automatically from the dictionary, rather than typing them manually. Having one or more dictionaries has two main advantages: you will not spend time searching for terminology in the target language (you should be happy), and you will be using the terms that you are expected to use (the client should be happy). However, a dictionary can be used in different ways. Let's see the simplest procedure.
For TermStar dictionaries to be useful for the translator, they must have pairs of terms in the source and the target languages. When a new segment contains a term that is in the dictionary, by default it will be displayed in the Terminology window and it will be highlighted in yellow in the segment as shown in the figure below:
Terminology window
To insert the target language equivalence of the term in your target language text, position the cursor just before the highlighted term in the target segment (or anywhere between the boundaries of the term) and press the key combination Alt+T. The target term will replace the source term in the target segment as shown in the figure below (compare the figure below with the one above to clearly see how the term from the dictionary was inserted into the target language segment):
Transfering terms
The dictionary normally normally includes the dictionary form of terms, so after you insert the target term in your translation, it might need to be inflected, conjugated, declinated, etc. as applicable. You can also can change the initial letter of the term or expression (from lower case to upper case or vice versa) pressing the shift key (i.e. Alt+Shift+T).
In addition to these shortcuts, you can also use the following two shortcuts which can be quite handy when working with a dictionary containing a lot of terms:
1. ALT + K, <letter>: Select the term from the dictionary to replace it in the target language segment when there are several dictionary terms. <letter> refers to the letter which is associated to the term, as you can see in the figure below. For example, the term setup has two translations, each of which has a letter associated to it (A - Configurar, B - configuración). The shortcut ALT + K, will directly insert Configurar in the target language segment. Use the shortcut ALT + K, SHIFT + <letter> to change the case of the term to be replaced.
2. ALT + G, <letter> Use this shortcut to insert the term in the target language without replacing the original target language term. The advantage of this key combination is that you can insert the desired target term in any position of the cursor, you don't need to locate the cursor within the boundaries of the source language term. For example, the term setup will be will be preceeded by the insertion Configurar by using the shortcut ALT + G, A as seen in the figure below. Use the shortcut ALT + G, SHIFT + <letter> to change the case of the term to be replaced.
Transfering terms from the dictionary with a shortcut will make your life easier and will increase the quality of your work. Shortcuts help you save time because pressing a key combination is always faster than typing text, however short the term is, and you will avoid typos simply because you do not have to type the term character by character. If you forget the shortcut, you could also double-click the letter to the left of the term in the Terminology window (each target term has one), with practically the same result.
And that's all beginners need to know/do to translate terms which are included in the dictionary. The moral of the story is that learning the important shortcuts can save you a lot of time. Also, the more populated your dictionaries are, the less searching and typing work you will have to do. I hope this helps you make a more efficient use of Transit NXT. Thanks for reading, and please do not hesitate to send your comments or questions or to ask for specific tooltips.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/15408 | Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Raspberry Pi - Setting a Static IP Address
Anyway, I needed to change my Raspberry Pi so it had a static IP address. I've got a typical network at home, wireless router in the cupboard under the stairs, a couple of powerline ethernet plugs and broadband provided by someone who offers little support for anything out of the ordinary and using dhcp to dynamically allocate the IP address to the Pi was causing a few headaches - just because it kept changing!
Setting the Pi to use a static IP address was the way forward.
Modify /etc/network/interfaces
The Raspberry Pi's network configuration is stored in the file /etc/network/interfaces, so this needs to be modified in order to change it from using dhcp to get an IP address to assigning a static one.
sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
First step is to comment out the line:
iface eth0 inet [dhcp]/[manual]
by placing a # at the start:
# iface eth0 inet [dhcp]/[manual]
Next step is to add the static IP configuration to the end of the file, this will be specific to your network setup, but for most 'home' users it will be pretty similar.
You will need to know the IP address of your router, it is probably or, but you can check by logging into your router and checking the configuration.
You will also need to decide on an IP address for your Pi that is within the range of your routers IP address e.g.
So in my setup, where I wanted to give the Raspberry Pi an address of and my router has the address; I added the following to the bottom of the /etc/network/interfaces file.
iface eth0 inet static
Ctrl X to save the changes
I found that using the raspbian distro I had to reboot the Pi for the network changes to take effect:
sudo shutdown -r now
I tested the change by making sure I could still ping my router
1. Hi, am new to all this so sorry if this is an obvious question, but how would I also set up the RPi with a host name eg "MyRPi" so i can reference it with something a little less clunky than using the ip address the whole time.
Many thanks
1. Alex, If you are going across OS (e.g. Windows -> Linux) and you dont have the appetite to setup a DNS service, you might find yourselves in a world of pain (for me it just seemed to much touble!), see the following posts of rPi forum., . Mart
2. How do you also specify a DNS server?
1. Ive never done this before, but 'the internet' tells me that you add dns-nameservers after the gateway tag.
3. when i save it says so sutch file or directory what do i do
1. Dont know... Type the name of the file properly!
4. Hi, how to change the static IP by a Python script ? Any help please. Thank you very much.
5. DNS entry goes in /etc/resolv.conf as:
6. this was completely useless to me, what do you mean within range of my routers ip address? what are those numbers after netmask, network and broadcast?!?!?!?!!?!?!?! can you explain this in idiot to me please
1. Apologies if the post was 'completely useless' and yet you ask for advice?!
7. I understand it, and it helped me. Thanks bro.
8. I understand it, and it helped me. Thanks bro.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/15424 | Introduction To Judicial Overview Of Administrative Motion In Malta
There are totally different sorts of legal guidelines, like administrative legislation, civil regulation, widespread regulation, relevant legislation, and so on. Soviet administrative law has the vital duties of making certain the further growth of cultural, public educational, and public health establishments, organizing science and analysis, implementing and defending residents’ rights and freedoms guaranteed by the structure, and bettering the legal guarantees of people in coping with state administration.administrative law
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/15439 | General discussion
clients contacting WSUS server
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I have successfully installed WSUS and downloaded updates.However I cannot get my client computers to connect.
I created the computer group in WSUS and created a gpo specifally for wsus settings and enabled client-targeting with computer group name
Please assist, thanks.
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my router cisco2600 is getting restarted frequently.can u help me to solve this problem.
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Have a look at the IOS version, there are a number of (older) versions that tend to spontaneously reboot, so it is best to ensure you have the latest available version that is stable.
Further, have a look at the resources: memory is still the one to upgrade if you want better performance....
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/15453 | Executor… Agent… Trustee… What are all these things???
Trustee… Executor… Agent… POA… Will… Trust…
When you have a Trust based estate plan you end up having a number of legal documents that accomplish different tasks; are usable at different times and the people who might act under them have different titles.
For your Trust – it is effective immediately – throughout your life & after your death. The person who has the “power” or authority to manage the assets in the trust is called the Trustee.
You should have a Will. A will has no effect until the day you die. When you have a Trust based plan the will should be a Pour-Over Will – or a safety net to the Trust. The person who can act under the will after your death is usually called the Executor.
You should have a Power of Attorney. A POA is ONLY usable in your lifetime – it dies when you die. The person who can act under this document is usually called the Agent – sometimes your Attorney In Fact…
Generally speaking when you have a Trust based Estate Plan you need to title the bulk of your non-tax deferred assets into the name of your trust and once you have done that it will always be whoever is acting as your Trustee who can do things with those assets – ie, sell them, change them, invest them.
Typically you are your own Trustee until the day you die or become incapacitated. Every once in awhile you might put someone else in charge right away or you might decide to resign and let someone else take over. But up until that point for all your assets in your trust – you as your own trustee are the only person who can manage those trust assets.
You should have a Durable Power of Attorney for Financial Matters. This document is only effective during your lifetime and the person nominated under that document is called your agent.
Your agent can handle all your NON Trust Assets and Debts.
Generally speaking your Agent under your Durable Power of Attorney has no legal authority to manage or take care of any assets titled in the name of your trust. To have that be the case BOTH documents must be specifically drafted to allow that.
Understanding these differences and ensuring your assets are properly titled is an important part of making sure your estate plan will work for you the way you will need it to when you need it and avoid frustration on your and your successor’s behalf.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/15498 | What Is a Decoction?
Masala chai
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(verb) Decoction is a method of making coffees, teas, and tisanes (especially medicinal herbal teas) that involves boiling plant material.
(noun) A decoction is a drink made by decocting plant material in water.
How to Make a Decoction
Most people usually make a decoction by doing the following:
1. Placing plant matter in a non-aluminum pot with cool water.
2. Bring the mixture to a boil.
3. Boil the mixture anywhere from eight minutes until up to two-thirds of the water has evaporated.*
4. Strain the mixture before consumption.
* The length of the boiling time depends on the type of plant material in question and the desired strength of the decoction. Seed "teas" are often boiled for as little as five to ten minutes. In Chinese herbalism, the plant material may be boiled for an hour or longer.
To Mash or Not to Mash?
Some decoction recipes call for mashing plant material prior to adding it to cool water and boiling it. If you're decocting plant materials that have previously been processed and/or dried (such as tea leaves, coffee beans, ground coffee or dried herbs), then mashing is unnecessary. If you're decocting fresh plant material, then mashing or chopping the material will help the plant release its oils, volatile organic compounds, and other chemical substances more quickly and completely.
Types of Decoctions
There are many types of decoctions out there. You've probably drunk some of them before. Decoctions include:
• Traditional Indian masala chai (and many other teas made in India)
• Most traditional Chinese medicinal herbal teas
• Tibetan yak butter tea
• Boiled ginger tea, as well as many other "root teas" (including those from rhizomes), such as chicory root tea, echinacea root tea, and astragalus root tea
• Medicinal drinks such as boiled garlic
• Most seed teas, including fennel, anise and cardamom seed teas
• Boiled cinnamon herbal tea
• Many berry "teas" (especially those made with dried berries)
• Indian filter coffee
• "Cowboy coffee"
• "Boiled coffee" in general (common in Nordic and Middle Eastern coffee cultures, and common practice in much of the world until the 1930s)
• Turkish coffee / Greek coffee
• Coffee prepared in the Ethiopian coffee ceremony
Decoctions vs. Infusions
Compare decoction to infusion, which is also a common way to prepare teas and tisanes. Decoctions release more essential oils and flavor from plant matter and are often used for plant matter with tough surfaces or smaller surface areas.
Leaf, flower and some seed tisanes are generally made with the infusion method. Bark, root, berry and some seed tisanes are generally prepared with the decoction method.
Like "decoction," "infusion" may also refer to the beverage that results from the process of decoction.
Drinks Similar to Decoctions
Worldwide, there are several types of drinks that are similar to decoctions. The most common are percolator coffee and variations on mulled apple cider and mulled wine.
Percolator coffee differs from decocted coffee in that it is not boiled down substantially. Since it is made in a chamber (rather than an open-topped vessel, like an ibrik), much of the liquid drips back down into the boiling mixture rather than evaporating off. Additionally, it is not usually boiled long enough to reduce the volume of liquid substantially.
Mulled drinks are similar to decoctions in that they are boiled with spiced to extract the flavor and properties of spices/plant material and are reduced in volume in the process. The main difference between mulled drinks and decoctions is that decoctions are water-based and mulled drinks are not. Additionally, most decoctions do not thicken much as they boil, but mulled drinks do.
The word "decoction" comes from the Latin word "decoquere" (meaning "to boil down"). The word "decoquere" comes from "de" (meaning "from") and "coquere" (meaning "to cook"). |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/15514 | 1965 Chronology
Sat 1
Kevin Bartlett debuts during the third quarter, replacing John Sheahan who comes off the ground with a sprained ankle.
Mike Perry breaks his jaw. Peter Hogan corks his leg and is replaced by Trevor Gowers.
Richmond played with 17 men in the last quarter.
Mon 25
Applications for the Richmond senior coaching job closes.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/15518 | New ancient primate species discovered in San Diego
Posted: 9:01 PM, Sep 05, 2018
Updated: 2018-09-06 18:31:13-04
SAN DIEGO - New paleontological findings show that small primates roamed San Diego roughly 45 million years ago.
Several new species of extinct primates were recently identified by scientists after sitting in a museum drawer for decades.
“A completely new branch on the tree of life,” said. Dr. Chris Kirk, who was one the scientists that made the discovery .
He and fellow scientist Amy Atwater are credited with identifying three new species from what had just been old bones in the archives of the San Diego Natural History Museum.
“It’s pretty rare in this day and age,” said Kirk. “In the 21st century anywhere in the lower 48 to come across not just one or two, but three new species of fossil primates found in a major metro area is amazing.”
The specimens were collected in the 1980's and 90s by paleontologist Stephen Walsh, Ph.D. while Mission Valley was being developed.
“When you’re walking around your local IKEA in San Diego under several feet of concrete beneath your feet there may be an amazing collection of Eocene fossil mammals,” said Kirk.
Kirk and Atwater identified the new species from jaw fragments and realized they had something special when nothing they had was on record.
“It just sort of dawned on us,” added Kirk.
The primates are called Omomyids and are closely related apes and humans.
“The direct fossil evidence for the earliest stages of human evolution are represented by omomyids,” said Kirk.
The new species are named Gunneltarsius randalliBrontomomys cerutt, and Ekwiiyemakius walshi (after Walsh and the Cuayamaca Native Americans).
Kirk says 45 million years ago these primates were among of a whole bevy of wildlife in San Diego when it’s climate resembled a tropical rainforest.
The fossils are at the San Diego Museum of Natural History. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/15521 | Ask Kara RDH: Do I really need to sterilize slow-speed handpieces after every patient?
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I read one of your articles regarding infection control. Do slow-speed handpieces really need to be sterilized after every patient when using a disposable prophy angles? We are currently sterilizing at the end of each workday.
Yes, slow-speed handpieces must be heat-sterilized in between every patient. Even though you use disposable prophy angles, and slow-speed handpieces are considered semi-critical devices, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains they are an exception to the rule regarding disinfection and sterilization of semi-critical devices. The CDC states, “Studies have shown that handpieces can become contaminated internally with patient materials and the next patient may be exposed to potentially infectious materials1-4.” The CDC goes on to state handpieces “should always be heat sterilized after each patient1,4.” Due to the possible internal contamination of handpieces, barriers and surface disinfecting aren’t enough.
According to the CDC Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Healthcare Settings, “Handpieces that cannot be heat sterilized should not be used4.” This applies to handpieces that cannot be removed from a dental unit.
Compliance with CDC recommendations is best achieved by purchasing multiple handpieces to allow time to heat sterilize each handpiece between every patient. Offices who are reluctant to invest in extra handpieces due to cost should remember that infection control and patient safety are top priorities, and buying multiple handpieces is the cost of doing business.
1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2016, March). Summary of Infection Prevention Practices in Dental Settings: Basic Expectations for Safe Care. Retrieved from
2. Chin J.R., Miller C.H., Palenik, C.J. (2006). Internal contamination of air-driven low-speed handpieces and attached prophy angles. J Am Dent Assoc. 137(9):1275-80. Retrieved from
3. Herd S., Chin J., Palenik C.J., Ofner S. (2007). The in vivo contamination of air-driven low-speed handpieces with prophylaxis angles. J Am Dent Assoc. 138(10):1360-5. Retrieved from
4. Kohn, W.G., Collins, A.S., Cleveland, J.L., Harte, J.A., Eklunt, K.J., Malvitz, D.M. Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Health-Care Settings – 2003. MMWR 2003; 52 (Report No. 17). Retrieved from
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/15568 | How are the roots growing in the earth? How fast? What is the move-ment strategy of worms in the soil? SOILINSIGHT® makes it possible to observe and measure root growth during the entire crop cycle. With the University of Lorraine, UGT GmbH has jointly developed a new method for observing undisturbed soil in its development. Here earth and biological elements such as plants or worms are placed in a mini cosmos.
The device can be connected to a Windows-based laptop or laboratory PC, and scans images of the physical structure and biological components (plant roots, worms etc.) of the soil.
In contrast to the traditionally deployed structure stability tests and soil sampling procedures, this new device permit the continuous observation of soil without disturbing it.
Images of the development of the soil over a specific period of time can be combined in a film, which enables better studies to be made of the dynamics of aggregation (using zooming, fast forwarding etc.).
• Automated high resolution image collection
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May is graduation month, and with it, school star party season is about to conclude. If you happen to be out this coming weekend showing the sky off to the public, keep an eye out for one of the top celestial sights that you won’t see at the eyepiece, as we’re in for a slew of good visible passes of the International Space Station worldwide.
Welcome to the start of what NASA refers to as “high beta angle season,” a time when the station enters a period of full illumination throughout the span of its orbit. This fortuitous circumstance is a direct result of the station’s orbit, inclined 51.6 degrees relative to the Earth’s equator. The station was deliberately placed in this orbit in order to make it accessible to international partners worldwide. This also makes the station visible to over 99 percent of humanity, from latitude 60 degrees north to 60 degrees south.
The path of the International Space Station on May 17th. Created using Orbitron.
Full illumination for the ISS occurs near each solstice, with June favoring the northern hemisphere for multiple bright passes every evening and December favoring the southern. This week, the International Space Station exits the Earth’s shadow on May 17th at 18:42 Universal Time (UT)/2;42 PM EDT, and doesn’t hit the Earth’s shadow until briefly on May 20th at 17:55 UT/1:55 PM EDT. Passes over central Asia also favor seeing another unique event: seeing the ISS enter, then exit the Earth’s shadow on the same pass.
This is also about as early as high beta angle season can occur, over one month prior to the June 21st solstice. On this date, the north rotational pole of the Earth is tipped its farthest towards the Sun, and the station’s orbit along with it. Viewers in the United Kingdom, southern Canada and the northern United States along latitude 45 to 55 degrees north can expect to see multiple illuminated passes of the International Space Station in one night.
The ISS crossing the Milky Way from February 2015. Credit: Dave Dickinson.
A friend of ours (@OzoneVibe on Twitter) has suggested that this phenomenon be known as a FISSION, for Four/Five International Space Station passes in One Night. Can you complete a FISSION in one all-night marathon session?
High Beta Angle season is a special time for NASA and the station, as well. During this period NASA generally ‘feathers’ the station’s huge solar panels, in order to create artificial shadow and avoid overheating key areas. Most exterior operations, such as scheduled extravehicular activities (EVAs) and arrivals and departures from the station are avoided if possible around this time as well.
The International Space Station on a pass on the evening of January 26th, 2019. Interestingly, the ISS seemed to track along the ecliptic here, made somewhat visible by the faint arc of the zodiacal light reaching up from the horizon at right and stretching across the sky to the upper left. The ISS coincidentally travelled parallel to, but just below the zodiacal light, which follows the ecliptic. Image credit and copyright: Alan Dyer/
When’s the next ISS pass near you? A multitude of apps and websites exist to track the station and other satellites; our favorite go to is the old standby, Heavens-Above. Moving at 17,100 mph (27,600 kph) and orbiting at an average of 250 miles (400 kilometers) above the Earth’s surface, it takes the station just over 92 minutes to orbit the Earth.
Observing the station is as simple as watching at the appointed time and waiting. The station will appear as a bright moving ‘star’. Unlike aircraft, the station shines by reflected sunlight and won’t blink, though it may flare up in brightness as the Sun glints off of a solar panel. The station can reach a brilliant magnitude -5.7 when it passes near the zenith, bright enough to cast a shadow. At 108.5-meters across, the International Space Station is the largest object in orbit ever constructed. You can even see structure in binoculars on a good pass. Depending how the station is oriented, it can look like anything from a miniature Star Wars TIE fighter, to a tiny box, to a flattened double star on a good pass.
An incredible image from May 14th, 2019, showing all of the spacecraft currently docked to the ISS. Image credit and copyright: Szabolcs Nagy.
You can also image the station by simply running a wide-field time exposure during a pass, and letting the ISS trail through the field. More challenging is to image the space station through a telescope. Several dedicated backyard observers employ sophisticated tracking and fine-guiding programs to image the ISS. We’ve gotten acceptable results by simply running video during a pass, roughly aiming the ‘scope and tracking the ISS, and seeing what turns up afterwards. Be sure to preset your focus and exposure time before the pass starts. A bright planet, star or passing aircraft make great targets to practice on beforehand.
Another technique is to aim at the Sun or Moon, and wait for the ISS to come to you. CALSky and Transit Finder are great resources to let you know when the next transit of the ISS across the Sun or Moon is occurring near you. These events are quick (often less than a second in duration) and often involve a bit of travel to get positioned at the precise location we’re they’ll occur.
The ISS transits the gibbous Moon. Image credit and copyright: Chris Becke.
Currently, there’s a full crew compliment of six humans aboard the ISS: three NASA astronauts, two Russian cosmonauts and one Canadian astronaut. The station has been continuously occupied since November 2nd, 2000. That’s right: we pass the 20 year mark for continuous human presence in space, late next year. A marvelous achievement worth noting as you watch the ISS pass overhead this weekend. |
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/15604 | How Ringworm Is Treated
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Most of the time, ringworm (tinea) can be successfully treated with an over-the-counter (OTC) or prescription cream, ointment, or other medication that's applied directly to the rash. In some cases a systemic drug—one that is taken by mouth—is necessary. There also are natural treatments that have shown promise in curing certain types of ringworm.
The treatment used for ringworm usually depends on the part of the body that's affected.
Ringworm that affects the feet (tinea pedis, or athlete's foot) may need to be managed differently than ringworm that affects the scalp (tinea capitis), for example.
Home Remedies and Lifestyle
According to the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD), the only way to cure ringworm is with antifungal medication. While using such a drug, whether it's a topical product you apply directly to skin or a pill or liquid, there are things you can do to relieve any discomfort you're feeling until the medication takes effect.
It's also important to do all you can to prevent the fungus from spreading to another part of your body or to another person. Some key tips for managing ringworm:
• To relieve itching, apply a cool compress to the uncomfortable area for 20 to 30 minutes at a time as needed.
• Fungi love warmth and moisture, so keep areas affected by ringworm clean and dry. After washing, use a separate towel to dry the infected body part.
• As much as possible, don't wear clothing or footwear that cause you to sweat.
• Always shower after you work out to wash away perspiration. Dry off thoroughly.
• Change all of your clothes every day.
• Wash everything you wear or touch in hot water before wearing or using it again. This applies to clothing, towels, and compresses.
• Don't cover ringworm with a bandage or other dressing.
• Always wash your hands thoroughly after touching an area affected by ringworm.
• Throw away any disposable items that might have been infected.
• Disinfect items you want or need to keep. For example, if you realize you were harboring a fungal foot infection while wearing expensive leather dress shoes, you can use an ultraviolet (UV) shoe sanitizer or ozone cabinet, both of which can be purchased online.
• To prevent the spread of scalp ringworm, never wear someone else's hat or cap. Make sure your child doesn't share sports headgear, such as batting helmets, with teammates.
• Shampooing with a selenium sulfide shampoo such as Selsun Blue may make ringworm of the scalp less contagious.
• If you suspect your pet has ringworm, see the vet right away. Ringworm can be passed between humans and animals. Cats are especially prone to the infection.
Over-the-Counter Therapies
For most cases of ringworm affecting the skin, the first line of defense is a non-prescription antifungal medicine. These come as creams, ointments, powders, or sprays. You're probably familiar with many of them: They're readily available in drugstores, the pharmacy section of supermarkets, big-box stores, and online.
Some examples of antifungal medications for treating ringworm on the skin include:
• Lotrimin cream, Cruex spray powder, Mycelex, Pedesil (clotrimazole)
• Desenex topical powder, Fungoid cream, Micatin cream, Lotrimin AF athlete's foot spray or powder, Lotrimin AF Jock Itch spray powder (miconazole)
• Lamisil (terbinafine)
• Xolegel (ketoconazole)
Topical antifungal medications often work quickly.
You'll probably notice that the scaly rash disappears before the general redness of your skin goes away, but most of the time ringworm on the skin will clear in a couple of weeks.
However, as with antibiotics, it's important to continue to treat the area for as long as directed, even if you feel you're totally fungus-free. This will help prevent the infection from coming back.
Ringworm on the scalp must be treated with an oral medication (as you'll read below), but often it can help speed up healing to also use a shampoo that contains a fungus-fighting ingredient. If you're prescribed a prescription drug to treat ringworm of the scalp, your doctor may suggest you pick up an OTC shampoo that contains ketoconazole, such as Nizoral. This product usually can be used every three or four days just as you would a regular shampoo (wash, rinse, and repeat) for up to eight weeks.
There are a few situations and types of fungal infections for which it's necessary to use a prescription antifungal medication to treat ringworm.
• Ringworm on the skin that doesn't respond to OTC treatment. If ringworm doesn't go away after using a topical medication for the full amount of time directed, see a dermatologist. A stronger prescription medication may do the trick. For infections that get worse or don't go away, there are prescription topical products such as Loprox cream (ciclopirox), Spectazole cream (econazole nitrate), and Oxistat cream or lotion (oxiconazole nitrate).
• Tinea capitas (ringworm on the scalp) or tinea barbae (ringworm of the beard). Fungal infections on the scalp must be treated with a prescription antifungal. Examples include Grifulvin V or Gris-PEG (griseofulvin), Onmel or Sporanox (itraconazole), terbinafine, and Diflucan (fluconazole). Sometimes a doctor will prescribe prescription-strength ketoconazole shampoo to treat stubborn ringworm on the scalp. It is used just once.
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Natural Remedies
For the moment, the best way to treat most types of ringworm is with medication. But there has been some preliminary research to suggest that there may be alternatives that will work in some cases, for some people. Note that the options below haven't been tested enough to recommend, but if you're interested in an alternative to drugs for treating a ringworm infection, it can't hurt to run these ideas by your doctor to see if they might be an option for you.
Tea Tree Oil
Some preliminary research has found that Melaleuca alternifolia, an essential oil known as tea tree oil that's widely used in aromatherapy, may help cure ringworm affecting the feet. For instance, a 2002 study published in the Australasian Journal of Dermatology compared solutions containing either 25 percent tea tree oil or 50 percent tea tree oil with a placebo to treat athlete's foot. Subjects applied one of the three options to areas affected with a fungal infection twice a day for four weeks.
At the end of the study, nearly three-quarters of the people who used the 25 percent solution had a significant improvement in their infection and more than half who used the 50 percent solution improved, while only 39 percent of the placebo group saw an improvement.
Garlic Extract
Ajoene, which is a natural compound extracted from garlic, shows promise in the treatment of ringworm. For example, a 1999 study from the German journal Arzneimittel-Forschung found that a gel containing ajoene helped treat tinea cruris (jock itch) and tinea corporisn (ringworm on the skin).
Similarly, in a small study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology in 2000, ajoene was more effective than terbinafine (which is the active ingredient in Lamisil) in treating athlete's foot. For the study, researchers divided 70 subjects into three groups. One group used a topical medication containing 0.6 percent ajoene, the second group used 1 percent ajoene, and the third group used 1 percent terbinafine.
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1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Fungal Diseases: Treatment for Ringworm. Updated August 6, 2018.
2. American Academy of Dermatology. Ringworm: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Outcome.
3. University of Michigan. Ringworm of the Scalp or Beard. Updated April 1, 2019.
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The forces of evil are on the rise. When the evil mastermind Sister Jill transforms one of her girls into the bestial Breast Claw and sends her minions out on a mission involving the group Panther Claw and a jewelry store heist, Honey Kisaragi departs from her Catholic girls' school to confront the threat as Cutie Honey. But that's exactly what Sister Jill wants, as she desires Honey's Airborne Element Fixing Device, which allows her to transform into Honey's seven different forms. Meanwhile, Sister Jill is also on the scene in disguise as Inspector Genet, trying to worm her way into Honey's confidence from a different angle.
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• In episode 41, Alexis uses this card during her duel against Titan. She summons this card via "Polymerization". Since Titan controls two monsters, this card's ATK is doubled. This card is then forced to attack "Archfiend Matador" due to the effect of "Dark Arena". Due to the first effect and second effect of "Archfiend Matador", it is not destroyed and Titan takes no Battle Damage. At the end of the Damage Step, the last effect of "Archfiend Matador" destroys this card. Later Alexis summons another copy via "Polymerization". Since Titan now controls three monsters, the effects of his cards are negated. This card then attacks and destroys "Archfiend Matador", winning Alexis the duel.
• In episode 50, this card appears in a series of flashbacks Chumley Huffington has when he sees his friends cheering him on and remembers all of the previous Duels his friends were involved in. Chumley then notes that there was something that all of his friends had taught him this year.
• In episode 62, this card appears in one of the many flashback bubbles Jaden sees in as he travels into Neo Space.
• In episode 156, this card is shown in a flashback Alexis has when remembers her first Duel against Jaden and notes that even when he had a few Life Points and no monsters on his side of the field, he believed in the strength of his draws and stood tall.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/15724 | The Many Faces of Satanism
Serapis, the Serpent God of Ancient Palestine, Syria and Egypt, And his Roman Remake into Jesus shortly after the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus
Salaam To All,
This section is dedicated specifically to the many forms of Satanism. The images above represent an example of Satanism’s ‘Right Hand Path’ of religious conditioning for mass mind-control as practiced by the families of Titus (the son of Vespasian) and Philo of Alexandria (a Jew), who were joined in marriage and then embarked on a new Gnostic campaign.
The Romans constantly initiated new religious cults for this purpose and that which Constantine began was no different. He was never truly Christian or Catholic: all of it is/was a lie, which is part and parcel of the Right Hand Satanic Path of Political Science as per John Kenneth Galbraith:
That this is Satanic is empirically self-evident. If you wish to further understand the ages past as well as the present, I invite you to survey the various subtopics under this title page. Insh’Allah, I will post more as time goes by.
Tantric Sex Magic, the real origin of the Baphomet
13 thoughts on “The Many Faces of Satanism”
1. If the word of God was changed once; then how can you trust the Koran? Obvously if there’s a god, his words don’t change! Jesus never said the Old Testament was corrupt; that’s prophets like Muhammed and Joseph Smith, the founder Mormonisn said. Unlike them, Jesus said he is the Old Testament. Muhammed just pawned that off as manipulation because he was never indexed in scripture because he was never a prophet. You might not want to know this, but there’s many lost scriptures found to be from the Koran uncovered that are highly contradictory; not to mention how Muhammed was originally deceived by Satan into the worship of Allah’s 3 daughters. That right there is not only Mohamed’s lies, but his hypocrisie as well, so enjoy your so called salvation.
2. tom beron said:
Islam is a creation of the same ppl.(kikes) in order to attack Christians.Mohamed a sick and evil murderer,a thisf and pedophiel couldn’t get ANY dineve messages.The devil fooled him and the criminal religion was born
3. Thank you for your website.
I would like to ask where I can find more info about the union between the Titus and Philo clans. Thanks in advance.
All the best and good luck with your writing and studies.
Greeting from Holland,
Michel van Dijk
4. Thanks for gre8 knowledge 😀
5. Hey friend, I’ve been learning a lot on both Islamic beliefs & Christianity. I have been reading the Qur’an.
I was wondering if you could answer these questions:
▪Why does The Muslim tradition teach there was no crucifixion?
▪Were you saying Jesus didn’t exist with the Serapis example? Because there’s very little to prove for his Historicity.
▪Were The Gnostic writings before the other Gospels? Because I hear both sides debating either or. I know Paul’s epistles were before the Gospels, but it seems to make sense if The Gnostics were earlier than what apologetics claim & that shows The literalists using The other Canonical ones at time of Constantine. The Gospels don’t show up until late 2nd century. Marks being the 1st was embellished upon & so on.
• Hello Rapture …. sorry for the late response, just saw your query today. To be crucified, in the literal sense, means one has to die on the cross, not simply be nailed to it. The koran says he did not die.
No … Jesus existed, but he did not initiate Christianity. The Romans and Sadducees did that all on their own, and Constantine capped it 300 years later.
Gnostics were certainly earlier and are connected with the Magi of Babylon and other even more Oriental sects. They carried the mysteries that descended with the children of Cain after G’d abandoned him to his own devices.
If you read my book: Trinity, The Metamorphosis of Myth, you will clearly understand, especially the business about Paul.
Kind Regards,
6. truthteller said:
i guess imams from mecca fund your website…..u r nothing but a disease carrier
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The November Girl by Lydia Kang (1)
Chapter One
There’s a foolproof method to running away.
I know the wrong ones all too well. This time, there’ll be no mistakes.
I’d left my cell phone, fully charged, duct-taped beneath a seat on a Duluth city bus. If they track it, they’ll think I’ve never left town. Acting scared and paranoid is a giveaway. Wearing a hoodie is no good, either; they’ll think I’m a criminal. With my height and my brown skin, I get enough sideways glances as it is without more advertising. Nah. I make sure the clothes I’ve stolen from my uncle are clean and defy gravity, instead of sagging on my hips and shoulders. I carry a hiking backpack, not a high schooler’s version.
This khaki down jacket I got from the Salvation Army. It’s the nasty kind only worn by grown-ups with flat, worn-out souls. And I carry my armor of pleasantness like a plastic shield, pretending it’s the most normal thing in the world to board the ferry to Isle Royale on October 4, the last day it runs to the island.
I make them all believe I belong on this damned boat.
A line of people waits to board the Quest II at the dock. They’re all middle-aged, with that middle-aged sag that weighs them down. The air around Lake Superior is cold, but humid and acrid from the rotting wood of the pier. The sky hangs with clouds of pale gray. It doesn’t look like rain’s coming, but the color paints a thin gloom, and fog skims the lake. I zip my jacket up higher.
A bald white guy calls out names for passengers, his pudgy, callused hands gripping a clipboard. His belly’s softly round above his jeans. My name is fake, of course, and my fare paid in cash, to leave no trail.
“Goin’ alone?” he asks, friendly-like. The gap where he’s missing a canine tooth only shows when he smiles.
“No. Meeting my wife there. She works at the lodge,” I say, performing lines I’ve carefully rehearsed. Luckily, I’ve got a face that could be twenty-five or fifteen, depending on my clothes. So, I’ll let them think I have a real life. I’ve even got my dad’s old wedding ring on my fourth finger, but I hate how it feels on my hand. Confining. My palms get sweaty and I shove my ringless hand into my pocket.
“Don’t forget the last ferry leaves at one o’clock, tomorrow afternoon. It’ll be crowded.”
I nod, but my stomach dives into the center of the earth. I pray he won’t notice that I’m not on it. I try to walk by, when he points to my backpack.
“Hey. Next time you come, bring a different bag, will ya?”
I shift uncomfortably, conscious of the line of people growing on the dock. “Uh, why?”
“Black bags are bad luck. They sink ships.”
A passenger behind me yells through his beard, “Ignore him! Norm’s superstitious. He made my wife throw away a rose I gave her. Right into the trash, because they’re bad luck on boats. He won’t run the ferry on Fridays. Lucky they shut down in November, too.”
“Why November?” Ah, God, Hector. Shut up, shut up.
“The worst storms come in November,” Norm says quietly. “There’s a name for them storms, the ones that sink ships. The Witch o’ November.”
There’s something about how he says “witch” that bothers me. Some people love to say stuff for the drama of it. But this guy glances nervously at the lake, as if it were listening.
I nod at him. “Got it. No Fridays, no flowers, no Novembers. And I’ll bring my blue backpack next time,” I say with a smile, though the conversation is killing me. My hands are swampy with perspiration. The boat sways beneath my feet as I walk past the other passengers. This late in the season, they’re probably Isle workers helping to close up for the season. Because from tomorrow until late spring, the Isle Royale will be empty.
Except for me.
It’s the perfect hideout. No one will look for a runaway on an island that’s purposely deserted every winter. I’ve covered my tracks too well. I’ll hide out here until mid-May, when I turn eighteen. And then I’ll be free, and there will be no more leashes. No more living under that roof that punishes me with thoughts I can’t stand.
I’m doing my uncle a favor, really. He complains about the bills, how much it costs to raise me, how the money my dad sends is never quite enough.
But it’s not about the money. It’s what we never talk about that chases me from that house.
I’ve lived with him since I was six. I know he’ll report me missing when he finds out. I know that deep in his heart, he might hope I’m never found. By then, the island will be uninhabited. On Isle Royale, I’ll be where I don’t belong.
I’ll fit right in.
The two engines of the Quest II are already rumbling, water boiling to a hissing fury by the propellers. The mooring lines are cast off and the fenders secured. I sit in my corner seat inside the boat, itching to read the maps, notes, and pamphlets I stuffed into my coat pocket. I’m not supposed to look like a tourist. My phantom wife supposedly works on the island, after all. When the force of the engine pushes me against my seat, I glance up.
Lake Superior stretches out in liquid stillness, a yawning expanse of dark water that unsettles me and makes me sweat even more. Behind us, the sparse buildings of Grand Portage shrink farther away. The black forest swallows everything as the boat pushes us forward, until there’s no trace of humanity on the horizon.
For almost two hours, I fake like I’m asleep in my corner seat. It works; no one talks to me. The boat pitches up and down on the growing swells, the lake water occasionally spraying my face from one of the open windows, but I pretend I’m dead to the world. I’m hungry for sleep, but my mind is wrung too tight to relax.
I think of which part of the island I’m going to live on, how to stay warm, how to eat enough. Looking on the internet hasn’t been helpful. All I know is that pit toilets and leave-no-trace camping rules abound. Isle Royale isn’t exactly a popular or luxurious tourist destination. Then again, that’s why I chose it as my refuge.
Finally, a cramp in my thigh forces me to sit up and change positions. The second my eyes pop open, a voice chirps nearby.
“Takin’ a late vacation?”
I jump inside my skin. An older woman in head-to-toe khaki is sitting a little too close to me. There’s an Isle Royale National Park logo on her coat. Shit.
“Nah. Too late. Just meeting my wife. Maybe I’ll be able to spend more time next July.” I swallow dryly and my heart trills. What if she looks for me on tomorrow’s ferry, or asks who my wife is? What if she knows everyone on the island and catches my lie?
“That short a trip, eh? Well, not much to do now, anyway. Weather’s turning.” She shifts her large, square ass and motions out the window. In the distance, the dense clouds kiss the lake’s surface. “You make sure you get off this island before the witch gets ya.”
There we go with the witch again. What’s with these people? I give her a blank look, not wanting to engage, but she takes it for a question. Great.
“You know. The November storms. Where you from?”
She stares at me in that impolite way that makes my skin crawl. I know what she sees. She’s trying to guess what I am. Not who, but what. I’m some crooked puzzle piece that bothers them. Indian! No, Native? Oh, wait—Hapa, right? I have “double eyelids” that my Korean mom called sankapul. She was so proud of that little crinkle of skin. I made sure to cut my hair so the thick waves were under control. The lady studies the angles and colors of my face—pieces of my parents. I hardly recognize which parts belong to whom anymore. As if ownership ever mattered to either of them.
The lady narrows her eyes—she still can’t figure me out but doesn’t want to ask that question. What a relief. She tries again. “Are you from Grand Portage?”
“Oh. No, we’re from…” I can’t say Duluth, which is where I’m really from. But despite practicing the lie in my head on the bus ride, my brain is all DuluthDuluthDuluth. I stutter, remembering the small town on the shore I’d picked out on the map last week. “Uh. Um. Grand Marais.”
She keeps babbling on about places to visit next time I come, flashing an artificial smile of false teeth. Her upper plate keeps coming loose as she talks to me, so her S sounds are more like sh. She says things like, “Now that’s a nice place to shit for a view of Duncan Bay.” Normally I’d laugh, but nothing is funny now. I don’t want to be chatty. I need to be ignored.
After a few minutes, I can’t be polite anymore. I’ve taken three buses from Duluth to get to this damn boat, and I’m so close. Last thing I need is some square-assed lady committing verbal diarrhea all over me.
“Sorry. Where’s the men’s room?” I fake my best nauseated look and hold my stomach.
“Oh! Bathrooms are aft,” she says, thrusting her thumb behind her. “We have Dramamine on board. Scope patches. Sea bands?”
I nod politely and bolt past the other passengers, who give me plenty of room to pass.
I push through the door to stand on deck. Isle Royale is in view now, with Washington Harbor yawning open a passageway for the boat. Evergreens cling to the rocky shore on either side. There are scant houses and docks as the boat turns gently to enter the bay’s inlet. The water sparkles from the sun cracking through a slice in the clouds. We’ll be docking at Windigo soon. I’m almost there. As I inhale to empty the stale cabin air from my lungs, something on the shore catches my eye.
It’s a flash of amber, and at first I think it’s just sun reflecting off the water. But it doesn’t flicker like reflected light. It almost seems to glow, like the harvest moon beaming against the backdrop of dark evergreens—but it’s daytime.
It’s a girl, standing on the shore. She’s dressed in dark colors, which is why I could only see her face at first, and now, a dab of pale hands clasped together in front of her. She stares back at me, and her face changes—subtly, like when a blink changes sunset to evening. Though she’s far away, I swear she went from smiling to frowning. Or maybe it was frowning to smiling?
Something in her expression tugs at the center of me. It’s a terrible feeling, and wonderful at the same time—like waking up on Christmas, and realizing that, damn, the waking up part is already over. As I squint to get a better look, the door to the inner cabin swings open and that same chatty lady steps outside. Ugh. I can’t handle any more conversation. I shuffle toward the bathroom. But when I check over my shoulder for one last glimpse of the girl on the shore, the rocky beach is empty.
I try to push aside the vision of her face as I search for the bathroom. Inside, I lock the door with nervous fingers. There’s a stainless steel toilet that’s stained anyway, and the tiny compartment reeks of fake evergreen deodorizer and piss. The mirror is broken and divides my face on a diagonal.
The wind must be picking up, because the floor pitches me left, right, left, and waves slap the boat. I close the toilet seat and sit down, placing my bag on my lap. I unzip it. Half the space is taken by an old sleeping bag. The rest is crammed with beef jerky packets, baggies of bulk dried fruit, nuts, oatmeal, and a collapsible fishing rod I stole from Walmart when I worked there this past summer. Since my uncle took every paycheck, I couldn’t spend a penny without him knowing why. I push aside the food, touching the changes of clothes, thick winter gloves (also nicked from Walmart—it was a good summer), a sewing kit, all-weather matches, a tiny enamel cooking pot and water bottle, and some bathroom stuff. Folded within a flannel shirt is a good camping knife. And inside my jeans pocket is enough money to buy me a ferry ticket in May and a bus ride to someplace that isn’t Duluth. I’ve got the clothes on my back and the skin over my bones.
That’s all I have.
I’ll have to break into a few houses, maybe the park ranger’s quarters. On the bus up here, I realized I’d need an ax to chop wood, but it was too late. I couldn’t afford to buy one or risk stealing something that big, so I’ll have to find one on the island and a place with a wood-burning stove. There will be no electricity. No phones, either. Hopefully I’ll survive the five months and get out on the first ferry before anyone can find me. I zip my bag up and exit the bathroom. I can see the dock at Windigo now.
I might die before May comes. But if it happens, at least it will be on my terms. I watch, almost without blinking, as the shoreline grows closer and closer.
I’m almost there.
I’m almost free.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/15743 | Modeling and simulation of dynamic systems (MSD)
The goal of the course is to learn together how to build control-oriented mathematical models of complex dynamic systems. The focus will be on modeling techniques that can glue together subsystems from diverse physical domains. We will show that the concept of energy (or power), which is universally valid across physical domains, is the right tool for combining electrical, electromagnetic, pieozoelectric, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, thermal, thermofluidic and thermodynamic systems. Some of the methods presented in this course will be at least partially useful in the domains where the concept of energy is not so useful such as socio-economic or biological systems, in which the role of energy in coupling the subsystems is taken over information. We will go through three groups of modeling techniques, which are based on energy. First, analytical methods based on the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian functions well known from the studies in theoretical physics and/or mechanics. Second, object-oriented modeling (OOM) as an alternative to the more widespread block-oriented modeling that you know from Simulin. And, above all, an intuitive graphical techniques known as (power) bond graph modeling. Whichever methodology is used to create a mathematical model, one of the ways to analyze the model is through a numerical simulation, that is, numerical solution of the corresponding differential or differential-algebraic equations. In this course we will be exposed to the basics of numerical techniques for differential and differential-algebraic equations with the objective to understand the basic issues such as approximation errors, numerical stability and suitability of the common methods for different classes of models. |
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/15763 | Monday, February 04, 2008
Podcasts from PyCon 2007 are available
Some podcasts from PyCon2007 are starting to trickle in on this page. You can listen for example to the Web Frameworks Panel and to the Testing Tools Panel.
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Simultaneous Use of Linear and Nonlinear Gradients as Independent K-Space Variables for RF Excitation
Koray Ertan 1,2 and Ergin Atalar 1,2
1 Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 2 National Magnetic Resonance Research Center (UMRAM), Ankara, Turkey
Effect of nonlinear gradients on the RF excitation profile is formulated by using independent k-space variables. During pulse design, target excitation profiles can be calculated in order to eliminate the effect of B1 inhomogeneity. Use of independent k-space variable for nonlinear gradients leads to design technique for optimally combining linear gradients and nonlinear gradients. Optimizations have been performed in order to achieve target excitation profile. An example case demonstrates that simultaneous use of linear gradients and nonlinear gradients can achieve more accurate excitation profile in comparison with the only linear or only nonlinear gradients.
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[ascl:1103.008] Parallel HOP: A Scalable Halo Finder for Massive Cosmological Data Sets
Modern N-body cosmological simulations contain billions ($10^9$) of dark matter particles. These simulations require hundreds to thousands of gigabytes of memory, and employ hundreds to tens of thousands of processing cores on many compute nodes. In order to study the distribution of dark matter in a cosmological simulation, the dark matter halos must be identified using a halo finder, which establishes the halo membership of every particle in the simulation. The resources required for halo finding are similar to the requirements for the simulation itself. In particular, simulations have become too extensive to use commonly-employed halo finders, such that the computational requirements to identify halos must now be spread across multiple nodes and cores. Here we present a scalable-parallel halo finding method called Parallel HOP for large-scale cosmological simulation data. Based on the halo finder HOP, it utilizes MPI and domain decomposition to distribute the halo finding workload across multiple compute nodes, enabling analysis of much larger datasets than is possible with the strictly serial or previous parallel implementations of HOP. We provide a reference implementation of this method as a part of the toolkit yt, an analysis toolkit for Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) data that includes complementary analysis modules. Additionally, we discuss a suite of benchmarks that demonstrate that this method scales well up to several hundred tasks and datasets in excess of $2000^3$ particles. The Parallel HOP method and our implementation can be readily applied to any kind of N-body simulation data and is therefore widely applicable. Parallel HOP is part of yt.
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global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/15827 | The Editor's Back Fence
Bezerkeley Stories
Monday May 31, 2010 - 08:30:00 AM
These are the stories the metro papers love to write: Funny Stuff Going on in Quirky East Bay Town. Here at the Planet we're pleased that they're doing this so we don't need to bother. Think of these as our soft features.
From the brand-spanking new Bay Citizen:
From the old but still the same San Francisco Chronicle:
What would they ever do without Berkeley?
By the way, it's a topic we covered in 2005, but our civic arts commission is always good for a laugh. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/15843 | 15 October 2014
The last TrueCrypt 7.1a: cross checking hashes
TrueCrypt has had a good run, and the latest version was intentionally crippled so users can only read from but not otherwise use TrueCrypt volumes anymore. Internet drama aside, some people have hosted the last full-featured TrueCrypt version 7.1a.
When downloading such security software, you should always check the source of what you download, and this is especially the case with the aftermath of this particular incident. So I list below some sources to cross check the last version of TrueCrypt.
Open Crypto Audit Project started as a crowd funded way to get a full audit done on TrueCrypt. They have posted a link to a verified source and binary repository on GitHub under the AuditProject account. OCAP is explained a bit in this ArsTechnica article, noting that Thomas Ptacek is running Phase II, and Ptacek describes a bit more on this HN thread.
Of course, if you check the files from that repository against the hashes hosted on that repository, you'd expect them to match, even if it was maliciously set up. So let's cross check with other, hopefully independent and trusted, sources.
Gibson Research Corp. has hosted a TrueCrypt Final Release Repository as well. Gibson notes the same issue noted above, that you cannot check files against hashes hosted from the same location. He references a PGP signed file of hashes hosted at Defuse Security.
As discussed on another HN thread, TCnext is hosting another TrueCrypt repository. TCnext refers to a set of "Independent" hashes hosted by German IT-News Golem.de.
At the time of writing, in cross-referencing all hashes mentioned above, the SHA256 hashes were all identical. Further, the source and binaries hosted by AuditProject on GitHub matches against those SHA256 hashes. You should check for yourself when you download them, of course. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/15848 | 首页 > 应用开发 > IT综合 > about tune db cache
about tune db cache
原创 IT综合 作者：jametong 时间：2005-05-19 18:34:05 0 删除 编辑
i have 8174 db.
how can i know that i have the db buffer too small?
trick question.
you have to first make sure your SQL is as good as it gets (reduce the number of
LIO's your sql does).
Then, you need to understand if a sql cache of any size can cache some
percentage of your data (maybe it can, maybe it can't)
Then you can look at ratio to see if you have a satisfactory hit.
But basically, you want to look at what you system is waiting for. Not waiting
on physical IO? then your cache is at least big enough. Waiting on physical
IO? DO NOT INCREASE YOUR BUFFER CACHE FIRST, rather look at your top SQL, if
you have a query that is executed lots and returns like 2 rows but does 100
LIO's to do it -- you need to look at that ( i would hope for single digit IO's
for a popular query that returns 2 rows). do you have a popular query that just
does a ton of LIO's (regardless of the rows) -- why? can you do anything about
it? if so -- fix it.
Then, you might find that your buffer cache is just fine after all (watch the
LIO's and the PIO's will take care of themselves).
Increasing the buffer cache to help a PIO problem is the last step -- you want
to exhaust other avenues first (more efficient sql, better algorithms, quit
running stuff you don't really need to run, that sort of stuff -- they'll give
you the big payoff. increasing the buffer cache doesn't always have the same
potential as those approaches)
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No Comment
Comments in code are wonderful. They can clarify a bit of code that is otherwise quite obfuscated, allowing the reader to figure out what is happening. They can be used to generate pop-up help in code editors to give programmers help how to use a function or method. They can be used to indicate the history of a method or function and maybe some pitfalls to watch out for.
Consequently project managers and company policies often dictate that every function, method, parameter, property or class be commented by the programmers.
But this is not always a good thing. Coding is much more fun than writing comments about it; So the comments are often given much less attention than they deserve.
Instead you wind up with comments that make wish you had no comments at all.
The inappropriate comment
This is what happens when the comment is first put in place at the time the subject being commented is defined.
But, while the code evolves, the original comment rarely changes in concert with the code. After all the comment, by its very nature, is not a functional part of the program and is thus not tested for validity in normal unit testing. Sometimes the changes are quite subtle, sometimes they are quite drastic.
So as the life cycle of a project progresses, the comments become more and more divorced from reality.
With a lot of code exhibiting the divergence of comment with the code, the reader soon learns to never trust the comment, rendering it obsolete.
The ridiculous comment
Someone on the team, usually the one who cannot really program, will take the thou shalt comment all code commandment very much to heart and pepper the code with more lines of comment than actual code.
// i is counter
// iterate over all elements in array
// assign x to the ith element of the array
var x = array[i];
// test whether x is less than 10 and greater than 2
if (x < 10 && x > 2) {
// x is less than 10 and greater than 2
Here the author is commenting parts of the code that really have no need for a comment.
Any programmer should be able to read the above code and figure what is going on here without having to read the comments:
var x = array[i];
if (x < 10 && x > 2) {
In this instance the comments wind up being annoying, cluttering the code needlessly. Here the reader learns the lesson that the comments are not worth reading.
The meaningless comment
This is slightly different to the ridiculous comment.
The meaningless comment typically raises its head where some compiler option forces every function and parameter to have a comment.
The author, focused on implementing the code, will enter as little as possible to get past the compiler. This leaves a comment without any real or meaningful information:
/// <summary>
/// Finalises the script
/// </summary>
/// <param name="response">The WebGateResponse</param>
private void FinaliseScript(WebGateResponse response)
Here the description Finalises the script does not really tell us anything more than the method name FinaliseScript. And telling us that response is The WebGateResponse, really does not tell us anything either.
A reader encountering comments of this calibre soon learns that the comments provide no information and are best ignored.
If you don't have anything nice to say ...
So what is the solution? Comments are useful, but as we have just seen, can be confusing and downright misleading.
You might remember your mother saying:
“If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all”
This really also applies to comments in code, but the quote may need to be modified a little:
“If you don't have anything meaningful and appropriate to say, don't say anything at all”
Instead of insisting that comments are entered up front, it might be prudent for managers to only check for comments at the later stages of the life cycle, when the design has had some time to settle.
Comments should be part of the code review
By making the comments part of the code review, you can avoid several of the pitfalls mentioned above.
Comments are appropriate
As you are already reviewing the code, it should be not much extra burden to ensure that comments, if present, still reflect what the code is doing.
Check for meaning
Again, as you are already reviewing the code, it should be simple to check that any “required” comments contain more than just the stubs to get past the compiler.
Weed out ridiculous comments
If the code so blatantly obvious that it needs no comments, remove the comments now.
Cull dead code
Sometimes programmers will comment out the old version of a function. While this might be instructive to show how something was done in the past, it really does not help in reading the current code.
So make sure that the old code is indeed still of any relevance. For, if it is not, it merely becomes detritus that requires needless scrolling.
Following these simple steps should ensure that you have properly commented code. |
global_05_local_6_shard_00002272_processed.jsonl/15860 | Singapore wonders: is brownface racist?
I've had a crazy-busy-unstoppable week that involved the fantastic Sewanee Writers Conference, a little downtime in Nashville, then coming back to Boston to move apartments---in the midst of which, every morning I woke up to find that my phone had exploded with the latest (and increasingly ridiculous) developments in what I'm going to call the brownface saga in Singapore.
As the title of this blog post states, Singapore wonders: is brownface racist?
The longer version: In 2019, in the midst of its (neocolonial) bicentennial year and in the lead-up to its 54th (postcolonial) National Day, Singapore---ostensibly a democratic, modern, urban and multiracial society---is still trying to figure if brownface is racist.
More agile minds than mine have provided excellent commentaries on the brownface saga as it unfolded, so I'm just going to summarise the links (last updated 7 August 2019).
First, some handy primers on the meaning and implications of brownface in the Singapore context (it's tragic that these are still needed in 2019!):
A brief recap of what went down:
• Faris Joraimi documented the appearance of a NETS advertisement for epaysg.com using brownface (26 July 2019)
• As Visakan Veerasamy and Yogesh Tulsi have pointed out, this is at least the sixth brownface incident in the last seven years.
• The creative agencies involved in making the ad, but not the client NETS, apologised "for any hurt that was unintentionally caused." (28 July 2019)
• Singapore YouTube artists Preetipls and Subhas made a rap video, "K. Muthusamy", responding to the brownface advertisement (29 July 2019)
• Someone promptly made a police report about the video. As Kirsten Han observed, "A government initiative can employ a Chinese actor to put on brownface and just get away with a half-assed apology, but a satirical rap video by actual brown people in response gets investigated for allegedly containing offensive content?!"
• This comic at A Good Citizen also captures the preposterousness of the situation.
• Or as Ruby Thiagarajan observes, "the backlash against calling out racism turned out to be worse than the backlash against racism".
The backlash continued, focusing almost exclusively (as of 4 August 2019) on the rap video, not on the original brownface advertisement:
Some excellent commentaries on the situation:
Unrelated to the brownface saga, I happened to read two other commentaries on black-white race relations in the US that transpose somewhat if you substitute "Singaporean Chinese men" for "white men":
I'll keep updating this post as things develop. I'd like to think the situation is winding down, or at least people will refocus on the original brownface advertisement instead---but knowing Singapore in 2019, I'm not optimistic. |
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