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Isaiah Berlin om utbildning och indoktrinering
Jag har tidigare refererat till ett långt stycke där Isaiah Berlin behandlar utbildning och skola. Det gör han tyvärr på väldigt få ställen, men nu har jag i alla fall hittat ytterligare ett. Likt brevet till George Kennan handlar följande passage om vad som skiljer västerländska demokratier från totalitära staterna.
This violent contrast emerges most clearly in the conception of education: Western education since the earliest times has consisted in teaching men the techniques of answering for themselves the questions which most tormented men – what to be, what to do, how to treat others, what to seek above all other things.
Much blood has been shed by the schools of thought and religions advocating different ways of seeking replies to these questions. But even those most despotic in practice have paid at least lip-service to the idea that men must be so taught as to want to seek the right ends freely, because they believed in them and not because they were socially or morally conditioned into believing nothing else.
But the task of a Communist educator is not to supply knowledge and develop the faculty of assessing critically, but principally that of Stalin’s engineer – of so adjusting the individual that he should only ask those questions the answers to which are readily accessible, that he shall grow up in such a way that he would naturally fit into his society with minimum friction. History decrees how the society must behave if it is not to be destroyed. Only those are happy who are not self-destructive. There is, therefore, only one nostrum for happiness and this the ‘social engineer’ applies in creating those human arts or limbs and organs of which the ‘progressive’ social mechanism or organism must consist.
Curiosity for its own sake, the spirit of independent individual enquiry, the desire to create or contemplate beautiful things for their own sake, to find out truth for its own sake, to pursue ends because they are what they are and satisfy some deep desire of our nature, are henceforth damned because they may increase the differences between men, because they may not conduce to harmonious development of a monolithic society.
Isaiah Berlin, ‘Democracy, Communism and the Individual’ (s. 5-6), The Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library.
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i will try that 2 methods
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While family may be the foundation of society, when families are affected by historical events, political events, or even environmental events, societies evolve. That evolution often puts people, and families, in situations that they would otherwise not have chosen. Here, we look at how some sectors of Khmer society have had to adapt to those changing situations. For better or for worse.
Little Angels: A Journey of Hope by Amy Foo Featured
Cambodia is a land of many stories, and one of contradictions. The Khmer people are incredibly warm, friendly and ever-ready to chat with strangers, despite the country's recent dark chapters. Drivers of the ubiquitous auto-rickshaws (endearingly called "tuk-tuks" because of the noise the engines make when idling) learn English and often speak it fluently, largely thanks to YouTube videos they watch in their free time; necessity forces them to do so in the face of mounting competition from the relentless onslaught of a tourism boom.
Violence and the Civilising Process in Cambodia by Roderic Broadhurst, Thierry Bouhours, Brigitte Bouhours
In 1939, the German sociologist Norbert Elias published his groundbreaking work The Civilizing Process, which has come to be regarded as one of the most influential works of sociology today. In this insightful new study tracing the history of violence in Cambodia, the authors evaluate the extent to which Elias's theories can be applied in a non-western context.
Human Trafficking in Cambodia by Chenda Keo
Reporting the findings of a comprehensive study of human trafficking in Cambodia, this book focuses on the characteristics and operations of the traffickers. It provides a theoretical framework that explains the emergence of the phenomenon, and the role of moral panic and western hegemony in the war on human trafficking.
Women and Sex Work in Cambodia by Larissa Sandy
Prostitution is strongly embedded in local cultural practices in Cambodia. Based on extensive original research, this book explores the nature of prostitution in Cambodia, providing explanations of why the phenomenon is so widely tolerated. It outlines the background of the French colonial period, with its filles malades, considers the contemporary legal framework, and analyses the motivations for sex work, examining in particular how women become locked into debt bondage.
Security and Women in Post-Conflict Societies by Anuradha Rai
The study has assessed the reconstruction programs in the post-conflict societies of Cambodia and Rwanda in the context of existing security challenges to women compared to their pre-conflict role and status. It has examined the causes of violence against women and how much the political stability, democratic form of government and economic progress helps to ensure security to women.
The White Building by Guy Singer
This is the story of the residents in a decaying slum in Phnom Penh called the White Building. It is a gritty dark story, full of the true struggles they face - hopelessness, unemployment and poverty. It is the story of the relationship between the honest, hard-working members of society and some on the seedier of the Building's inhabitants - gangsters, drug users, child abusers, pimps and prostitutes. This is a story based on the truth. Because as they say, the truth can often be stranger and more brutal than fiction.
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If it tells you a version of Python '''greater than or equal to 3.5''' then you're good to go. If not, you need to do a quick package install to get it up and running. Using yum, it's just <code>sudo yum install python35; sudo alternatives --set python /usr/bin/python3</code>.
If it tells you a version of Python '''greater than or equal to 3.6''' then you're good to go. If not, you need to do a quick package install to get it up and running. Using yum, it's just <code>sudo yum install python36; sudo alternatives --set python /usr/bin/python3</code>.
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Languages like Java and C++ have lots of rules regarding variable types, syntax, return values, and so on. These can be cumbersome when you are trying to write short, quick scripts to perform tasks. This is where a scripting language comes into play.
Python is a language well-suited to rapid prototype development. It is generally an interpreted language, which means that, generally speaking, a Python program is converted line by line into instructions for the computer to execute as the program runs, instead of having a separate compilation step beforehand [1]. The syntax is clean, and it is usually clear at first glance what is going on when you write in Python.
Python may already be installed on your system. To see whether or not it is, enter the command
$ python --version
If it tells you a version of Python greater than or equal to 3.6 then you're good to go. If not, you need to do a quick package install to get it up and running. Using yum, it's just sudo yum install python36; sudo alternatives --set python /usr/bin/python3.
Python 2 vs Python 3
In 2008, a new version of Python – Python 3 – was released, with a number changes that made it incompatible with the previous version, Python 2. For several years, the Python community was slow to make the change to Python 3, but today, Python 3 is the standard for new code. The only reason to write Python 2 code today is because you have to work in an environment or with libraries that do not support Python 3, and that situation is becoming increasingly rare.
For CSE 330 (and this guide), you must use Python 3.6 or greater.
Linux distributions have package managers like Apt, Yum, and YaST. PHP has a package manager named PEAR. It's now time to introduce Python's leading package manager: pip.
You need to install Pip from Yum before you can use it. The package is called python-pip.
Once you have pip installed, you can use it to install Python packages. Use the pip-python command:
$ pip-python install package_name # RHEL
$ pip install package_name # Debian
Running Python
There are two common ways to run Python code: via the console, and via a Python script file.
The Python Console
The Python console enables you to experiment with code without opening a text editor. To enter the Python console, simply type the python command at the terminal:
$ python
To leave the interactive console, either type quit() or press Ctrl-D (on both Mac and Windows).
Python Script Files
You can also save Python script files for later use. The extension for Python scripts is *.py. To run a script file, simply feed its path as an argument to the python command in Terminal:
$ python my_script.py
Python Syntax and Language Components
This section contains a very brief overview of Python syntax. For a more comprehensive introduction, see the Python docs.
Python's Type System
Python is a dynamically-typed, strongly-typed, and duck-typed language. What does that mean? Well, let's take those categories one by one:
1. Dynamic typing, in contrast to static typing means that the types of objects can be changed. In Java, for instance, if you tried to write the following code:
int c = 2;
c = "fish";
Your code would fail to compile, because the Java compiler wouldn't allow you to change the type of the variable c from int to String.
Python, however, is just fine with that. You can write:
c = 2
c = "fish"
And Python will happily do what you ask.
2. Strong typing, in contrast to weak typing, means, roughly, that a language won't implicitly convert types for you. So far, you've used a lot of PHP, which is very weakly typed. For example:
echo "10" . 2;
In PHP, this works just fine. The PHP interpreter sees that 2 is an int, and silently converts it to a string for you, so that "10". 2 equals "102". The problem with weak typing is that it can make it unclear to the programmer why things are happening the way they are. For instance, in PHP, the expression "10" == 10 is true, which can be less than obvious. Python, however, tries to disallow that sort of thing:
"10" + "10" # Allowed – concatenates the two strings.
10 + 10 # Allowed – adds the two ints.
"10" + 10 # Not allowed – raises a TypeError
Perhaps the one exception to this rule is the relationship between numeric types; it's perfectly fine to add a float to an int, for example.
3. Duck-typing is a little bit different than the other categories, because it doesn't really have a direct opposite. Essentially, duck-typing is the philosophy that "If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck." In programming terms, that means that we often don't care what type an object is, as long as it can do the things we ask. Let's look at an example:
# This function doubles the value it's passed.
def double(thing):
return thing + thing
double(10) # Returns 20
double("fish") # Returns "fishfish";
If this were Java, we'd have to write two different methods here: one for things of type int, and one for things of type String. Since this is Python, though, we don't have to do that. Instead, Python lets us say, essentially: "This function uses the + operator, so you can pass whatever object you want to the function, as long as the function supports the + operator".
To quote Alex Martelli, one of the key people in the Python project,
Basic Types
In Python, the basic scalar types are:
1. str – a string.
2. int – an integer object with unlimited digits.
3. bool – a Boolean value.
4. float – a floating point number; generally equivalent to double in Java.
5. bytes – represents a collection of bytes; you're unlikely to use this often.
Casting is done in the C style - to parse an int from a string, for instance, you'd write int("123").
Basic Control Flow
In Python, blocks of code are delineated using colons and indentation instead of curly braces. That means that proper indentation is mandatory. Every time you use a colon, you must indent one step further, and every time a block ends, you must unindent a step.
Conditional statements are done using the if, elif, and else operators, like in the example below - pay attention to the indentation:
cookies_left = 10
cake_slices_left = 3
if cookies_left > 10:
print("Lots of cookies!")
elif cookies_left > 8:
print("Plenty left!")
elif cookies_left == 5:
print("Halfway done!")
if cake_slices_left == 3:
print("Lots of cake!")
elif cake_slices_left == 2:
print("One slice gone!")
print("Little to no cake left!")
An Example Python Script
In my mind, there's no better way to learn Python than to be immersed in a simple example script.
print("Hello World")
fruits = ["apple", "banana", "cherry", "date"]
for fruit in fruits:
print(f"I always love to eat a fresh {fruit}")
# Map the fruits list over to a new list containing the length of the fruit strings:
fruit_size = [len(fruit) for fruit in fruits]
avg_fruit_size = sum(fruit_size) / len(fruit_size)
print(f"The average fruit string length is {avg_fruit_size:.2f}.")
Some things to notice:
• Printing is achieved using the print() function.
• Comments start with a pound symbol #.
• We can transform/map a list to a new list in just one line!
For some more examples, see the Python wiki.
A Few Gotchas
Here are a few things you may not expect when starting out with Python:
1. Strings can be delimited using either single quotes (') or double quotes ("), so 'Python' is the same as "Python"</code. You can also use three sets of quotes (<code> or """) to delineate a multiple-line string, like so:
long_string = """This
is my
very long
2. To compare the equality of two objects, use the == operator. To compare the identity of two objects (i.e. whether or not they are literally the same object, at the same place in memory), use the is operator. These correspond, respectively to .equals() and == in Java.
3. The / operator performs floating-point division, not integer division, even when both its arguments are integers. If you want to do integer division, use the // operator. Let's look at an example:
9 / 10 == 0.9 # Floating-point division
9.0 / 10.0 == 0.9 # Floating-point division
9 // 10 == 0 # Integer division
9.0 // 10.0 == 0.0 # Integer division, even though the resulting value is a float
4. As discussed in the section Python's Type System, you can't combine strings and numbers using the + operator. Instead, you'll have to use one of the following methods of string formatting:
# Technique 1 – printf-style Formatting
# This is a classic style of string formatting, used in many programming languages, including in Java's String.format.
"You scored %d out of %d!" % (score, questions)
# Technique 2 – str.format
"You scored {} out of {}!".format(score, questions)
# Technique 3 – f-strings
# These were only introduced in Python 3.6 but they're very convenient.
f"You scored {score} out of {questions}!"
# Technique 4 - String Concatenation
# This is fine for small things, but for more complicated stuff, use one of the other techniques.
"You scored " + str(score) + " out of " + str(questions) + "!"
Define functions using the def keyword:
def hello(name):
print(f"Hello, {name}!")
Invoke functions using parentheses:
Functions can have optional arguments; however, these must come after any required arguments:
def hello(name="User"):
print(f"Hello, {name}!")
hello() # Prints "Hello, User!"
hello("Sarah") # Prints "Hello, Sarah!"
Functions are just regular objects in Python, meaning you can do stuff like this:
def hello(name="User"):
print(f"Hello, {name}!")
greeting = hello
greeting("Siwei") # Prints "Hello, Siwei!"
Collection Types
Python has a few basic, built-in collection types. They each have their own special use cases, but they share a lot of similarities. All built-in data structures in Python are zero-indexed, for instance.
To obtain the number of elements in a collection, use the len() function, like this:
pets = ['Dog', 'Cat', 'Fish'] # This is a list; you'll learn about them below.
len(pets) # Returns 3
To check if a collection contains an item, use the in operator:
'Dog' in pets # Returns True
Helpfully, the Python Software Foundation maintains a page containing the asymptotic complexities of important operations on major Python data structures. It's available here.
Unlike languages like Java and C, Python's array-like type doesn't have fixed length. Instead, a list is a dynamic array (like Java's ArrayList) of objects of any type. Here's an example:
fruits = ["Apple", "Pear", "Orange"] # Lists can be creating by placing their items between square brackets
random_items = ['Apple', 12312, 2.0, [1, 2, 3]] # Lists can contain objects of different types - even other lists!
pets.append('Turtle') # Adds 'Turtle' to the end of pets
For the next few examples, we'll be using the following list:
pets = ['Dog', 'Cat', 'Fish', 'Turtle', 'Lizard', 'Snake']
To access or assign elements of a list, use the [] operator.
pets[0] # Returns 'Dog'
pets[1] = 'Cow' # Sets pets[1] to 'Cow'
pets[1] = 'Cat' # Sets pets[1] back to 'Cat'
You can also access or assign lists using negative indices, which will return elements starting from the end of the list:
pets[-1] # Returns 'Snake'
pets[-2] # Returns 'Lizard'
You can also use 'slice notation' to obtain or assign subsets of lists:
pets[start:end] # Returns items from index start to index end - 1.
pets[start:] # Returns items from index start to the end of the list, inclusive.
pets[:end] # Returns items from the beginning of the list to index end - 1.
pets[:] # Returns every item in the list
There's also a third, optional argument: step, which lets you jump over values:
pets[start:end:step] # Returns items from index start to index end - 1, jumping step values at a time
# Examples:
pets[1:5:2] # Returns items from index 1 to index 4, jumping 2 at a time, so ['Cat', 'Turtle']
pets[::3] # Returns all items in the list, jumping 3 at a time, so ['Dog', 'Turtle']
pets[::-1] # Returns all items in the list, jumping -1 at a time. This reverses the list, so ['Snake', 'Lizard', 'Turtle', 'Fish', 'Cat', 'Dog']
Lists have all the performance characteristics you'd expect of a dynamic array - constant-time indexing, amortized constant-time appends, and so on.
Python has a special data type called tuple, which is exactly the same as a list except for the fact that it cannot be modified, so you can't append or replace items.
cities = ('St. Louis', 'Los Angeles', 'Seattle') # Tuples are defined using parentheses.
numbers = 1, 2, 3 # You can also omit the parentheses if it's unambiguous
single_item_tuple = (1,) # To make a tuple with only one item, put a comma after it
Tuples also enable you to have multiple return values from a function:
def compute_length(string):
str_len = len(string)
if str_len < 5:
return str_len, "short"
elif str_len < 40:
return str_len, "medium"
return str_len, "long"
length, description = compute_length("Four score and seven years ago")
print(f"The {description} string is {length} characters long.")
The above example also demonstrates Python's if...elif...else conditional structure.
Python has another datatype called a dictionary (or dict, for short), which are like Maps in Java, associative arrays in PHP, and object literals in JavaScript (coming up soon in Module 6). Essentially, they enable you to use any immutable object as the key in your data structure. dict objects can be created using either the dict function, or by placing items between curly braces, separating keys and values using colons:
fruits_in_bowl = {
'apple': 4,
'banana': 2,
'cherry': 0,
'date': 12
apple_count = fruits_in_bowl['apple'] # Equals 4
fruits_in_bowl['pear'] = 9 # Sets 'pear' in the dictionary to 9.
for fruit, num in fruits_in_bowl.items():
print(f"There are {num} {fruit}(s) in the bowl." % (num, fruit))
If you only want the keys from a dictionary, you can just iterate over it directly, like this:
for fruit in fruits_in_bowl:
If you want only the values but not the keys from a dictionary, use my_dictionary.values().
A set is an unordered collection of unique items, with constant-time membership checking.
fruits = {'Apple', 'Apple', 'Apple', 'Pear'} # The set removes duplicates, so it will only contain {'Apple', 'Pear'}
fruits = set(['Apple', 'Apple', 'Apple', 'Pear']) # This line transforms a list into a set
print('Apple' in fruits) # Constant-time!
In Python, while loops are written like this:
i = 0
while i < 10:
i += 1
For loops are written like this:
for pet in pets:
To iterate over a range of numbers, you can use the convenient range function, like so:
for i in range(20, 30): # If you omit the first argument to range, it's assumed to be zero.
Note that range provides a closed-open range. That is to say, it is inclusive of its lower bound and exclusive of its upper bound. To be very explicit about it:
list(range(3, 6)) == [3, 4, 5]
Unlike in other languages you may know, the following is not good practice in Python:
for i in range(len(pets)):
pet = pets[i]
Instead, if you need to access both a variable and its index, use the enumerate function, which allows you to iterate through a group of items, along with their indexes, like so:
for index, pet in enumerate(pets):
print(f"{pet} at index {index}")
Generator Expressions and Comprehensions
A generator is a special kind of object that, basically, represents a collection of items using a value and a function for generating the next value in the collection. In other words, it's a way of creating something that behaves like a list, but which only generates one value at a time, and discards a value when it's done with it. Say, for example, you wanted to do an operation on 10,000,000,000,000 numbers. You could put them all in a list, then iterate over the list, but that would take a lot of memory, plus you'd have to create and fill the entire list before beginning to actually work on your problem. Instead, you'd probably be better off using a generator; telling the computer, essentially: “The starting value is 0. When I ask for the next number in the collection, add 1 to current value and give me that.”
A generator expression is an expression that is evaluated to create a generator. They're super useful. Generator expressions can take two forms – they can be used with and without a condition:
For our purposes, you can think of an iterable as anything you can do a for loop over. Let's take a look at a generator expression in use:
double_even_digits = (number * 2 for number in range(10) if number % 2 == 0)
That line says that double_even_digits is every even number between 0 and 10 multiplied by two. Simple enough, right? If we wanted to use all of the numbers, not just the even ones, we could simply remove the if statement at the end of the expression.
Here's the thing, though: if you were to print double_even_digits, instead of a nice bunch of numbers, you'd get something that looks like this:
<generator object <genexpr><code>at 0x107fc92b0>
That's because generators are lazy! They don't generate their values until those values are needed, and they discard values once they're no longer needed. As a result, you can only iterate over a generator once. In this case, you can't print out the whole generator, because it hasn't generated all the values yet. You can, however, iterate over the generator, and print its values one at a time, like so:
for number in double_even_digits:
You can also make a list out of the generator, which will go through all the items in the generator and put them in a list, like so:
even_number_list = list(double_even_digits)
That's actually a great segue to the second topic of this section: comprehensions. A comprehension is just a prettier way to make lists, sets, and dicts out of a generator expressions.
# If you want a list:
list(i for i in range(10) if i % 2 == 0) # Don't do this
[i for i in range(10) if i % 2 == 0] # Use a list comprehension instead!
# If you want a set:
{i for i in range(10) if i % 2 == 0} # Use a set comprehension instead!
# If you want a dict:
dict((i, i + 1) for i in range(10) if i % 2 == 0) # Don't do this
{i : i + 1 for i in range(10) if i % 2 == 0} # Use a dict comprehension instead!
# If you want a tuple:
tuple(i for i in range(10) if i % 2 == 0) # Unfortunately, there's no better way to do this
In general, generators and comprehensions should be used whenever possible - they're the fastest and easiest way to build collections. If you ever see yourself writing code like this:
digits = []
for digit in range(10):
Don't do it! Instead, use a generator expression or comprehension, as appropriate. A good way to decide whether a generator expression or comprehension is better for this situation is that, if you're just going to be iterating over your collection once, you should use an generator expression. If not, use a comprehension.
Sorting in Python is frequently performed using the sorted function, which takes two arguments: an iterable (anything you can do a for-loop over, including lists and tuples) and a function used to evaluate each item. If the function is omitted, Python will try to sort the lists by value.
The following example demonstrates using an inline function, which Python calls a lambda.
fruits = ['apple', 'banana', 'cherry', 'date']
# sort the fruits by string length
new_fruits = sorted(fruits, key=lambda v: len(v) // 2)
print(new_fruits) # ['date', 'apple', 'banana', 'cherry']
Alternatively, you can sort a list using the .sort method. This is faster than calling sorted, but it modifies the list in-place and returns None.
If you want to use functions from other libraries (including ones that you install using pip), use import:
import time
current_time = time.localtime()
print(time.strftime('%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S', current_time))
If you want to pull the functions out of their namespace, you can use from ___ import ___ syntax:
from time import localtime, strftime
current_time = localtime()
# Be aware that this technique, although convenient, may cause unexpected behavior if the function names that you're pulling out of the namespace are already used for other purposes in Python.
File I/O
You can read an entire file into a variable like this:
f = open("example.txt")
file_contents = f.read()
f.close() # free up memory when we're finished with the file
A better option is to use a with-block, which handles opening and closing the file for you automatically:
with open("example.txt") as f:
file_contents = f.read()
You can read a file line-by-line like this:
with open("example.txt") as f:
for line in f:
print("Read line: %s" % line.rstrip())
You can write to a file like this:
Command-Line Arguments
Command line arguments are accessible in the variable sys.argv.
The following example shows a program that expects a filename as its argument, and it prints a usage message if the argument is not present (source).
import sys, os
if len(sys.argv) < 2:
sys.exit(f"Usage: {sys.argv[0]} filename")
filename = sys.argv[1]
if not os.path.exists(filename):
sys.exit(f"Error: File '{sys.argv[1]}' not found")
Object-Oriented Programming
You can define and use a class like this:
class Food:
# constructor:
def __init__(self, name):
self.name = name
def format_name(self):
return f"Gotta love to eat {self.name}"
class Fruit(Food):
def format_name(self):
return f"{Food.format_name(self)} (fruit)"
fruit = Fruit("Cherry")
This is the same example as in the PHP guide.
Some things to notice:
• Instance methods always take self as their first argument, followed by any number of additional parameters. This can be misleading for programmers familiar with other languages, because the number of arguments you feed to the method is actually one less than the number of declared parameters. Whenever you call a method on a class instance, that instance is implicitly fed into the explicitly-declared self parameter of the method.
Note that the self variable has the same purpose as the this variable in languages like PHP, Java, JavaScript, and C++.
• There is no need for a new keyword in Python.
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1. B25 with enhanced co-pilot functionality = 😁 Me-410
2. I went Oculus Rift > Odyssey > Vive Pro (lens mod) > Pimax 5k > Vive Pro (Lens Mod) > Index = No regrets. Bear in mind that cost wasn't a major factor in any of this.
3. Have you ever even used the index in il2? I would hardly call it a shambles. There is a compelling argument that for the money, the rift s can get you through until any next year headsets.
4. Christ man! What does it all mean? Translate! If they add game pad support that will resolve a ton of issues.
5. I think one of the elephants in the room is that "Battle of Britain" would be insanely popular; but the CLOD cloud will keep them from making such a great choice.
6. We already know it’s going to be Battle of France. Or did I dream that?
7. I am able to help in any of the areas but would submit for the VR section. Our group only flies in VR and have been doing so for two years. I have had a Rift, odyssey, Vice pro, Pimax 5k, and currently use the Valve index with slanted screens. I have an I7 running a 2080ti. I also beta tested for you when we did the 1918 offensive campaign in Rise of Flight... oh so many years ago. I also fly in real life, as well as spent many years as mech infantry in the US Army. (I was a platoon commander and maneuvered armored vehicles in formations) -If you want some of us for group multiplayer TC WIS-Redcoat WIS-ArthurBrown WIS-Vain
8. Fantastic. So many people appreciate their work on this. Such great community members.
9. I appreciate your enthusiasm but I think only a couple of the anointed lads get to do official work. But by all means see what you can do.
10. ICDP, What would it take to bribe you to finish these for the in game default skins?
11. What ICDP said. When you first launch the game and the dark background has the bright words appear, you can’t miss it. I mainly only flight sim and you won’t notice the glare doing that. I have read that playing a game like beat saber really brings out the glare... I don’t know. All in all it hasn’t been a big deal and I still prefer the index over anything I have tried yet.
12. Literally tonight I looked over at my left engine and made a wish that the 4K boys would get these textures updated for the official game.
13. Our squadron is new to the server and one of our guys was shot down in a 110. He respawned as a gunner of one of the remaining flight and he was kicked. He then waited five minutes and spawned in his 109 and it kicked him and said he had a 20 hour time penalty. Does anyone know why this is?
14. With the games current controls? It would literally be my keyboard and mouse.
15. I feel like the reliance of third party solutions is not a winning strategy for getting people into the game. I will pray for salvation and wait.
16. They are very aware of the short comings... I keep hoping for one of those random surprise updates when they announce that they are rebuilding the tank/turret controls and multi-crew turret control functionality. Seems like the same sort of tech would even allow greater multi-crew items like dropping bombs and being a true co-pilot. I really think they just don't want to promise something that they cannot guarantee to deliver. For years they kept saying that the 10km view distance was too hard to expand (even somewhat recently)... then all of a sudden they announced that it'll be expanded very shortly.
17. Well known and probably one of the biggest issues with solid VR play (the other being forced to use the keyboard rather than other input devices).
18. I am VERY excited to get into this game; but they really need to get the controls sorted out and better VR use (head tied to the hull rather than the turret basket and gunsight use). Its exciting to get into these machine and see all the detail work. I have faith it'll get there.
19. I was in this exact scenario. I use the index now, but my VivePro with the lens mod was phenomenal looking. I was a preorder Pimax 5k guy and sold it immediately after I used it. In in my opinion, (and I have never used the reverb), my Vive pro was the best looking even to this day. If you switch headsets, it has to be for other reasons.
20. Given the scenario you gave, You can’t go wrong with this advice. You could probably find a lot of used 1 generation headsets for sale this summer, but for the money, Rift S over used rift / Vive
21. Oddly I haven't had an issue with this. I agree many others don't seem to be able to achieve this but I am getting great frames at 120Hz, SS at 150%; both here and in DCS. I cannot begin to explain why, I have a 2080ti and a great computer but nothing "crazy" good.
22. That was a joke Fenris, not an "attack", you should relax a little. It's tiring to see in every index related thread three or four people give good opinions on the Index and you will almost always post some weird Reddit post about thumbsticks or a video on scary glare that is all but discounted in the sim by... everyone. Using phrases like "deeply disappointing", or build quality statements as "bullshit", or describing your let down as "astounding". You are essentially the only person I have seen speak of the index as a giant pile of failure. If you are going to use such dramatic rhetoric you should expect some poking drama. I used the Pimax and the experience was (for me) terrible yet I don't go into every pimax thread and continuously bash the hell out of its flaws because everyone clearly knows what those flaws already are. To do so would look like I had an axe to grind.
23. * The above ad has been paid for by PIMAX inc. 🤑 We get it; the index is a notoriously subpar cheap product with bad company support and a house of hype lies, and you own the best manufactured Pimax with all its pixels included, super clear FOV lenses, great fast customer service, and fantastic controllers with no name. You and like seventy other dudes agree on this. I bet you think apple sucks too and Microsoft. I literally used Pimax 5k for a day and saw none of the greatness you see. There are enough people using these headsets to get varied opinions without spamming hate and discontent. Make your point and let it go man.
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Heliophysics Integrated Observatory
Science of Heliophysics
Heliophysics is the study of the effects of the Sun on the Solar System; it addresses problems that span a number of existing disciplines – solar and heliospheric physics, and magnetospheric and ionospheric physics for the Earth and other planets. The discipline is closely related to the study of Space Weather, which can affect the technology on which we all depend, however heliophysics is more generalised covering all parts of the Solar System rather than just the Sun-Earth connection.
In order to undertake a search for things that are scientifically interesting in heliophysics, we need to understand the origins of phenomena and how they propagate through interplanetary space, i.e. the path they follow and the time scales involved. This requires the ability to track things in 4-dimensions, but the solution allows us to determine which effects will be observed when and where.
Most effects are caused by different types of emission that are produced by solar activity, although some are related shock fronts associated with propagating phenomena. Whether and when an effect is observed depends on the nature of the phenomenon, the type of emission and the location of the observer. As illustrated, it is possible for very different effects to be observed from vantage points that are relatively close in terms of the scale of the Solar System as a whole – the figure compares the emissions seen at Earth and by the two STEREO spacecraft.
The figure shows how important the location of the observer is: the STEREO-B (behind) spacecraft is affected by the CME while STEREO-A (ahead) is affected by particles from the flare rather than the CME. Figure courtesy of the STEREO Team, NASA
Effects caused by photon emissions require a line-of-sight view of the source and any delays are related to light travel times. Effects that are caused by particles occur with much longer delays since the velocities are lower and the particles follow a curved path; in some cases the effects are only experienced if the propagating phenomena passes the observer. The location of observer in relation to the source and with respect to a planet determines what is observed; the presence of magnetic field and/or atmosphere influences how a planetary environment is affected.
At the Earth, the effects due to photons occur after approximately 8 minutes; the delay related to energetic particles travelling at near relativistic velocities can be tens of minutes. The effects caused by plasma (low energy ionised material) take much longer – tens of hours. For planets further out in the Solar System, the effects take longer to start and the spread of the delays between them is greater. Typical solar wind velocities can be a few hundred km/sec; Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) can travel at up to 2000 km/sec.
Typical times for different effects are shown for the Earth – the delays depend on the type of solar emission. Effects due to electromagnetic radiation occur quite quickly while those caused by particles occur with much longer delays. (Figure courtesy of NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center.)
Charged particles follow a spiral path (known as the Parker Spiral) as they move outwards from the Sun along the lines of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). The curve of the spiral depends on the particle velocity and the velocity structure of the quiet solar wind is determined by the configuration of the surface magnetic field of the Sun; high velocity portions of the wind are associated with areas of open field called coronal holes. CMEs drive through the spiral at high velocity causing severe distortions – energetic particles and Type II radio waves are emitted from the shock front created ahead of the body of the CME.
Output from the Hakama-da-Akasofu-Fry model (HAFv.2) showing the spiral of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) – the Parker Spiral – distorted by propagating CMEs. The locations of the inner planets are shown; the spacing of the spokes is an indication of the solar wind velocity. (Image courtesy of Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska USA.)
At the distance of the Earth from the Sun (1AU), the spiral has typically curved through around 60°, but by the orbit of Saturn it will have wrapped by more than 360°. At this distance, the delays before the onsets of effects caused by photons (which follow a straight-line path) are significantly less than those caused by particles (which follow the spiral).
When emissions or propagating phenomena interact with a planetary environment, the effects depend on whether the planet has a magnetic field and/or an atmosphere. The magnetic field of the planet acts as a screen and affects how and where charged particles can enter the planetary environment – the aurora are cause by particles entering near the poles and are observed on the Earth and on several other planets. As phenomena are tracked down into the planetary environment, we need to be able to follow them in models and in-situ observations as they cascade down from coordinates that are related to the Sun to those that are centred on the planet.
Once in the vicinity of a planet, the location of the observer in relation to its magnetic field is important. (Image courtesy NASA)
There is a growing fleet of missions scattered throut the Solar system than can provide observations of these phenome
The growing fleet of missions making observations of the heliosphere. (Image courtesy NASA)
The Heliophysics Integrated Observatory (HELIO) is deploying a distributed network of services that can be used to address the needs of researchers in this new discipline. It will also coordinate access to the resources that are required and provide tools to mine and analyse the data.
HELIO will use metadata from the different domains to identify observations of interest; a propagation model will be used to help determine which observations, where and when may be of interest in order to satisfy the user's search criteria. Using HELIO, the research community will be able to mine the rapidly increasing volumes of heliosphysical data stored in archives around the world. !-- -->
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What We Think
hypnoOur thoughts are a major factor in how well we get along in life. We are eaten up by doubts, lost confidence, fears, and upsets we still mull over in our mind. While there are a lot of that we may find it hard to control, the thing we can control about our health is our belief system. Gravity will still be gravity and up will not be down or vice versa. If we decide we are sick or not good enough it is not long until we are not good enough or sick. We do not have any friends on TV as the FTC allows Big Pharma to say whatever they want with the backing of the FDA. How are we supposed to get ahead or win and being healthy with so much against us?
We are conditioned by the media via Big Pharma think that we are ill, will be ill and will always be ill. The only choice the want us to make is, with what drug would we like to be using while we are ill? The monopoly of Modern Medicine is a mega corporation; it fears nothing and for all intents and purposes is the only game in town. To them they are not worried if you are too busy to be healthy. The fact is they are betting on this lazy attitude.
Until we change our mind by learning how our body works, what the importance of detox and diet change are, we will remain ill. We will also remain ill if we keep buying the drugs and poisons sold as food that have been making us ill for more than 50 years. We must get off our drugs, give up the idea we have diabetes and instead call it what it is, a weakness in the kidneys and liver. Finally we must give up White Sugar, Salt, Processed Sodium and Alcohol or there is very little we can expect to do to be healthy.
End Game of Health
End Game of Health
Raw FoodThe end game of health is health right? Well, that is what you think. The end game of Big Business regarding your health is dependency. The end game of your health as seen by surgery is you getting surgery. The end game of Big Junk Food regarding their bottom line is you addicted to there “offerings.” They do not care how they do it and they do not have many limits to attaining that end. The end game of the FDA is to take money from big payers and to protect them under the guise of protecting our public interests or good. You may see the above as a quagmire of subtle and not so subtle attacks on your pocket book and health. You would be right.
How can you survive in a world where moderation is encouraged? What is moderation? It is the idea that a little of a lot of poisons or irritants are not then toxic or life threatening. This is a marvelous concept but it makes no sense what so ever. If it was true, a little dirt would make you clean, a little black would make you white, and little hot would make you cold, a little up would be down and a few yeses would be a no and vice versa.
The best we can do to protect our health is to know what it is. What is it is simple it is a thrust to survive and we do not survive better by being a little dead. If awake an unaffected is our goal, how do we get there? We embrace the antithesis or opposite of death which is life. We embrace foods that are alive not recreated to mimic life. We do not eat foods that come from bags or boxes we eat foods that come off trees and plants. You may have noticed I offer a book called the Ancient Raw Food Diet. It is the pinnacle of perfection and answers exactly what we should be eating that supports the health and healing of our body. | <urn:uuid:acc433da-ff7e-4d79-a10e-bded783b2138> | https://herbscancleanse.com/tag/fda/ | en | 0.972245 | 0.064159 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Marc Philipp is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience in developing business and consumer applications, as well as training and coaching other developers. At Gradle Inc., he pursues his passion for software builds and open source. He is a long-time core committer and maintainer of JUnit and initiator of the JUnit Lambda crowdfunding campaign that started what has become JUnit 5.
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Fast and reliable builds with Gradle and Maven
Having fast and reliable builds has a major influence on developer productivity. Faster builds make feedback cycles shorter by reducing wait times and context switches for developers. If a build is unreliable, developers may re-run the same build over and over again and when that fails, run a clean build and/or clear all the caches. Doing so removes many of the performance optimizations of the build tool, forcing every step of the build to be recomputed which takes much longer than an incremental build.
In this session, we will show you how Gradle Enterprise can be used for both Gradle and Maven to make builds faster and more reliable through build caching and build scans, respectively. The build cache, very different from the m2 cache, stores the outputs of each step of the build on a remote server. These cached outputs can then be used by both developer and CI builds. We’ll also dive into ways to increase the speed and reliability of each step of the build using build scans. Build scans provide insights into where bottlenecks occur and provide the data to optimize problems specific to your build. | <urn:uuid:89d28177-2327-414e-95cf-41b463596fe1> | https://jeeconf.com/program/fast-and-reliable-builds-with-gradle-and-maven/ | en | 0.941053 | 0.130041 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
MyARM - Application Response Measurement Tools
is a complete implementation of ARM, the Application Response Measurement Standard of The Open Group. It provides a platform-neutral, vendor-independent platform for end-to-end transaction and application response time monitoring and performance management.
As a co-author of the ARM 4.0 standard deep inside knowledge found its way into the ARM 4.0 compliant MyARM implementation.
On the right you see a screenshot of our web-based user interface for measurement analysis. See our screenshot section for additional views of our user interface.
To better understand how ARM (e.g. MyARM) works please follow the next steps:
• Identify and
• Instrument after that
• Test And Verify and finaly
• Deploy And Monitor and/or
• Analyse
• Identify and design 'Unit Of Work' of interest
identify unit of work step 1
identify unit of work step 2
identify unit of work step 3
To monitor and analyse an in production environment, the first and most important task is to identify the 'Units Of Work'. They are key indicators for the application in whole or an important part of the services offered by the application. Thus you should know the application domain very well in order to identify the appropriate 'work units'.
Once the important 'Units Of Work' have been (click to highlight), the application should be instrumented with calls to the ARM interface. Within ARM, an 'Unit Of Work' is called an ARM transaction.
The Find-Customer-By-Name unit of work (rendered in dark blue) is a performance key indicator for the n-tier communication from client to server and from server to the database.
The Receive SOAP Request unit of work (rendered in light blue) is used to measure the fraction of the time spent inside the server for the operation.
Note that for the measurements inside the client application with the measurement in the server application a so-called ARM Correlator needs to be passed from the client to the server.
In our example this can be done by passing the ARM correlator from the client to the server within the SOAP header. Read the instrumentation section to understand how to instrument with ARM.
Instrument client and server application to measure important 'Unit Of Work'
instrument application step 1
instrument application step 2
instrument application step 3
To instrument the client and server applications with ARM, appropriate application and transaction names () have to be defined:
Application Definition
Client-App (Client)
AppServer-App (Server)
Transaction Definition
Find-Customer-By-Name (Client)
SOAP-Request (Server)
The definitions have to be registered with the ARM implementation by using the appropriate API during application initialisation (e.g. for Java consult ArmTransactionDefinition interface to register a transaction name).
Once registered, they can be used to measure transactions by inserting calls. The ARM stop call expects a status which indicates if the transaction was successful (GOOD) or not (FAILED, ABORTED).
To the client and server measurements, the ARM start call creates an ARM correlator token (fcCorr) which will be passed to the server within the SOAP-Request. Within the server this ARM correlator token will be used as the parent correlator input argument for the SOAP-Request measurement. Thus the correlation between these two measurements is built.
Test and verify the ARM instrumentation
ARM concepts part 1
ARM concepts part 2
Make sure that your ARM instrumentation is correct and has all the information associated you need:
1. Provide a meaningful name (e.g. SOAP-Request for processing a SOAP request)
2. Verify that the measured response times are in a scale you would expect. Note: You should have an expectation how long a transaction measurement should take. If not, please make an estimate
3. Provide the appropriate status for transactions which are successful or failed due to some reason
4. Pass the correct parent correlator to children
5. Associate an user name or id on which behalf the transaction was executed, if available
6. If a transaction execution was not successful you can provide more information as a so-called diagnostic detail string (up to 4096 characters, e.g. a SQL command which failed)
7. If your transaction needs to wait for external events you can use the blocking concept of ARM to see the exact blocking conditions (in microsecond granularity)
8. In multi-threading environments you can associate the thread ID or name on which behalf the transaction was executed
9. Attach some metrics to associate current state of your transaction (e.g. level of a queue as a gauge)
10. Provide context information (e.g. customer ID) to measurements for further filtering and analysis
Deploy and monitor the ARM instrumented applications
deploy in production environment
monitor production environment
monitor production environment
1. The Client and Server applications running on their hosts use the ARM interface to measure the defined ARM transactions
2. The MyARM ARM agent implementation processes those measurements and forwards them to the myarmdaemon using an efficient protocol on top of TCP/IP
3. The myarmdaemon receives the incoming measurements and stores them in the configured database
4. We support MySQL®, MariaDB® and SQLite® databases
• The monitor overview displays response times statistics of our demo web-site of the last 12 hours at the time the screenshot was taken.
• It shows three response time groups:
1. HTTP request measurements of the web-site
2. Transaction measurements of our CDDB-Demo at
3. Overall HTTP request statistics of and web-site
• The last 12 hours monitoring view displays all HTTP request measurement statistics of the web-site
Analyse measured transactions
analyse measurements
analyse measurements
analyse measurements
First, you can get an overview of the complete transaction measurement tree using our response time tree diagram (click on the image to enlarge):
• In the diagram, the box under the mouse was clicked. This has displayed details of the appropriate transaction measurement on the right
The diagram shows which application running on a specific system calls functionality of another application running on a different system.
• On the right a pie chart is drawn which shows the distribution of the total response time regarding the transaction name
Digging further into the third view can be used.
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Microsoft will transform how you engage with your virtual assistant!
Microsoft will transform how you engage with your virtual assistant!
There are plenty of virtual assistants that we use through various devices. Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa, and Cortana are the most prominent examples. But what do all of these have in common? You need to talk to them in a fixed syntax to engage with them. This feels unnatural and odd. But, Microsoft is set to revolutionize the way in which we interact with these virtual assistants.
As per a recently published patent application, Microsoft has developed a system that will allow non-verbal engagement with virtual assistants. Imagine that you’re working on your PC, and you wish to listen to some music or open up your browser. As shown in the figure above, you will only need to look at the Cortana icon on your screen, without saying “Hey Cortana”. The system will use gaze detection to determine that you want to engage Cortana. Cortana will wake-up and greet you with phrases like “How may I help you?”. You can then proceed with your desired task.
The system will also consider contextual information from your device. For example, if you are watching a video and you suddenly say “What was that?” referring to something on your screen, the system will analyze your speech through Natural Language Processing (NLP), and given the context of the content playing on your screen, analyze your query to give you relevant results. The system will also be able to know if you are addressing your virtual assistant, or are talking to someone else. For example, while talking over the phone to your friend about a possible outing, you may suddenly ask “What is the weather forecast tomorrow”, and go back to talking with your friend. The system will confirm your question, with your assistant asking you ”Do you want to know the weather for tomorrow?”, and on receiving your confirmation, proceed to tell you the information.
This technology looks like it will make our conversations with virtual assistants seamless and natural. I can’t wait for Microsoft to roll this feature out in a Windows update, and other tech companies to follow suit.
Originally published at on July 15, 2019.
Patent Information
Publication Number: US20190187787A1
Patent Title: Non-verbal engagement of a virtual assistant
Publication date: 2019-06-20
Filing date: 2017-12-20
Inventors: Ryen William White, Andrew David Wilson, Gregg Robert Wygonik, Nirupama Chandrasekaran, Sean Edward Andrist
Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC
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If you want to reap the full benefits of dumbbell training, you must know how to lift them properly. Applying proper dumbbell lifting techniques will help you grow muscle mass and achieve your long-term fitness goals. It will also:
• provide and metabolic overload which result in muscle growth
• trigger greater muscle activation
• reduce your risk of injury
Whether your purpose for training with dumbbells is to add variety to your workout or correct muscular imbalances with unilateral training, knowing how to properly lift dumbbells is essential. Let me share with you several tips to help you do just that.
How to properly lift dumbbells overhead
Among the best overhead dumbbell exercises are the overhead dumbbell triceps extensions, single-hand dumbbell triceps extensions, dumbbell shoulder presses, Arnold presses, and single-arm dumbbell snatches.
When you perform overhead dumbbell exercises, try to maintain a neutral spine while executing the movement. Don’t be like some individuals who arch their lower back while doing dumbbell shoulder presses. The main drawback: you may compromise your lower back in the process. When that happens, you won’t be able to execute your other exercises properly.
When doing overhead dumbbell triceps extensions, keep your elbows close to your head so you can engage the long head of your triceps more. When you let your elbows flail out during the movement, it becomes far less effective.
As for dumbbell presses and Arnold presses, they are great options for working on your shoulders. When you’re about to lift the dumbbells overhead, ensure your upper arms and forearms form a 90-degree angle. Once you lift the dumbbells above your head, bend your elbows slightly and maintain a neutral back.
Single-arm dumbbell snatches are an effective unilateral compound movement which hits your shoulders, core, calves, glutes, triceps, and hamstrings. You will lift the dumbbell at the top of the movement. Try doing so in an explosive manner while gripping the dumbbell firmly. Extend your arm fully without overextending your elbow.
How to properly lift dumbbells sideways
Exercises where you have to lift dumbbells sideways—such as the dumbbell lateral side raise and the bent-over dumbbell raise—target your deltoids and shoulders.
The top of the movement of the dumbbell lateral side raise involves lifting both dumbbells
away from your sides simultaneously until they’re parallel to the ground. When you raise the dumbbells, try leading with your elbows so you can emphasize your delts. This also places less stress on your rotator cuffs, which is a delicate set of stabilizing muscles. Keep your elbows slightly bent during the movement to ward off potential injuries.
For the bent-over dumbbell raise, you need to make sure your hands are angled in such a way that your thumbs are lower than your pinky fingers prior to lifting the dumbbells. This helps target your rear deltoid during the movement. Maintain a neutral spine and keep your chest out. Bend your elbows slightly as you lift the dumbbells until they’re parallel to the floor.
How to properly lift dumbbells forward
A variety of the dumbbell lateral side raise is the dumbbell front raise. As the latter’s name implies, you simply have to lift the dumbbells forward. The dumbbell front raise works your deltoids, traps, and erector muscles.
When you raise the dumbbells for this exercise, do so simultaneously with your arms straight out in front of you until they reach your shoulder level. Make sure to bend your elbows slightly to keep injuries at bay.
How to properly lift dumbbells while lying or sitting on a bench
You can perform many dumbbell exercises while lying or sitting on a bench. For the former position, you can choose from dumbbell presses, dumbbell pullovers, dumbbell chest-supported rows, and dumbbell skull crushers.
Dumbbell presses and dumbbell pullovers work your chest muscles. The latter also works your back, lats, and triceps. During the lifting phase for these two exercises, you need to grip the dumbbells tightly and bend your elbows slightly when you reach the top of the movement. Refrain from locking out your elbows to avoid injuries.
As for dumbbell chest-supported rows, they target your back muscles. Once you lift the dumbbells and your elbows to your sides, you’ve reached the top of the movement. Make sure you squeeze your upper back when you’ve reached this phase of the exercise to place emphasis on this muscle group.
For their part, dumbbell skull crushers help you build your triceps. Here, you raise your arms simultaneously toward the ceiling with your palms facing each other while lying on a flat bench. You then bend your forearms until the dumbbells are next to your ears. Ensure your forearms are perpendicular to the floor.
You can execute some of the aforementioned dumbbell exercises while sitting on a bench. These include dumbbell tricep extensions, single-arm dumbbell tricep extensions, dumbbell shoulder presses, Arnold presses, dumbbell lateral side raises, and bent-over dumbbell raises. The same rules still apply, from the tight grip on the dumbbells and the neutral spine.
Tips for lifting dumbbells safely
You may have noticed several recurring themes while reading the previous sections. It is imperative to keep these tips in mind during your dumbbell training:
1. Bend your elbows slightly: Locking out your elbows whenever you lift dumbbells can result in injuries or discomfort. Always bend them slightly during your dumbbell workout.
1. Maintain a neutral spine: Doing so won’t compromise your lower back. Moreover, a neutral spin helps you stabilize your body so you can perform the exercises efficiently.
1. Brace your core: This will not only engage your core, but also stabilize your torso so you can get the most out of your workouts.
1. Pace your movements: Never rush through your dumbbell lifts. Doing so will compromise your form and give your muscles less time to expand and contract. Give the lifting phase of your exercise one count and the lowering phase one to two counts to reap the full benefits.
1. Breathe properly: Exhale as you lift the dumbbells and inhale as you lower them. Proper breathing technique helps supply working oxygen to your muscles. This, in turn, helps power your muscles through your workout.
1. Don’t lift heavy too soon: It bears repeating: going gung-ho on your lifts may backfire on you and result in injuries. Start with a light dumbbell weight. Once you’re accustomed to the lifting technique and resistance, progress to a slightly heavier weight.
1. Warm up and cool down: Begin your workouts with dynamic stretching or light cardio for 5 to 10 minutes. Once you finish your last rep, do static stretching for the same amount of time. When you ease into and out of your workout, you will keep injuries at bay.
1. Hire a certified personal trainer: A fitness professional can teach you the proper dumbbell lifting techniques. Plus, he/she can help spot for you when the need arises.
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Essential information for reducing the risk of falls among the elderly
Our Physiotherapist Katy regularly provides rehabilitation for people after they've had a fall. She recently went in to a local care home to do a talk on 'falls prevention', as a fall can have a significant impact on a person's life and health. There are simple changes that can be made within the home environment to reduce the risk of having a fall. Tailored exercises can also help to strengthen the muscles and improve balance. We have compiled our top strategies for falls prevention, to help you or a relative reduce the risk of falling.
Tips for preventing falls in the home environment:
-Remove any clutter / furniture covering floor area, that may make turning areas tight.
-Organise the room so that items are on a level where bending / stretching / leaning is kept to a minimum.
-Avoid any fraying carpets / rugs and trailing wires across the carpet.
-Using non-slip mats or rugs - particularly in the bathroom where the floor will become wet.
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-Avoid walking in socks or bare feet where possible – particularly on potentially slippery floors such as the bathroom floor, as socks have no grip. Also you may step on something sharp, which may be painful or cause an injury.
-Avoid wearing loose fitting, trailing clothes that may cause a trip, something more fitted around the ankle or shorter will reduce the risk of this happening.
-Wearing well fitting shoes that are in good condition, support the ankle and have a back to them. Slip on shoes are far more likely to move around when walking, and can be a trip hazard.
-Fit bright, high-wattage light bulbs into lamps and light fittings, to ensure you or your relative can see clearly.
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-Pacing when walking, to avoid rushing and becoming short of breath. Falls can occur when a person is rushing. Have regular breaks in between if required.
-Ensure the appropriate walking aid is being used, and is the correct height. A health professional can check this for you if you are unsure.
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I have recently carried some successful trials using saggars to produce cone 6 copper red reduction glazes in an electric kiln. I generated a reduction atmosphere by adding a small amount of black iron oxide mixed with powdered charcoal to the bottom of a saggar with a test piece painted with Selsor red copper reduction glaze (see formula in "The Complete Guide to Mid-range Glazes " by J. Britt pg 100). I started with a copper red cone 6 glaze because it is easy to see if there is reduction; red=reduction / green=no reduction. The iron oxide/ charcoal mixture reacted to produce a reducing carbon monoxide atmosphere within the saggar, as the electric kiln was fired to cone 6, which changed the glaze oxblood red (see attached photo). The atmosphere in the kiln remained oxidizing so that test patchs of the same glaze painted on the outside of saggar remained green.
I hope that by sharing these results I can generate feedback on this this technique.
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3 hours ago, Callie Beller Diesel said:
Im curious why the iron oxide?
I'll take a stab on why this procedure works to produce copper reds in an oxidation kiln:
The iron oxides and powdered charcoal provides a oxygen fugacity buffer where the dominant carbon gas form is carbon monoxide (CO). The CO reacts with the copper ions in the glaze to reduce the copper to the copper specie that produces the red colour. I haven't done the calcs, so consider this as an SWAG. Your question would make a good exercise for a Geo-PChem exam.
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I'm with Callie- why the iron? There should be plenty of CO produced by the charcoal. Iron is sometimes used in copper red glazes (although tin is much more common) to provide a nucleus for the growth of the red crystals. I'm not sure how it would affect the glaze by being in the saggar, though. Plus it'll goober up the bottom of your saggar, which should otherwise last for many firings. I would run the same test without the iron and see if there's a noticeable difference.
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This is interesting. Did you seal the saggar or is it just a loose dome over the bottom?Just curious because all together its interesting to think about saggars in electric. I know in the old days with wooden kilns people used to saggar fire porcelain to get perfect tea bowls etc, but never thought about it in electric to do the opposite.
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I got ^10 copper reds in Oxidation using silicon carbide for local reduction back in 1973. hadyn
red was the base. It was a common approach back then.
there are many solutions to challenges in glaze chemistry. I might add that the Selsor in Selsor red copper reduction glaze is me.- and I used this glaze for many years as did my students.
Marcia Selsor
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The saggar has a tight seal to prevent carbon monoxide from escaping which both ensures strong reduction and protects the kiln elements but it prevents oxygen , from the atmosphere , from entering so a source of oxygen must be provided. The iron oxide is added to provide a source of oxygen to react with the carbon . Black iron oxide was chosen because, at temperatures around cone 6, it reacts easily with carbon to produce carbon monoxide. Black copper oxide could also be used as an oxygen source but it's more expensive. Black iron oxide is cheap, readily available and comes as a very fine powder.
To protect the saggar, the iron oxide and charcoal are placed on a tile which sits in the base. Residue from the reaction can be easily scraped from the tile so it can be reused and it can be replaced if damaged. The aim was to make the saggar last as long as possible.
Thank you for your responses. Also my complements to Marcia Selsor for your excellent cone 6 copper red glaze!
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Building Chicken Nesting Boxes
Chicken nesting box designs come in all sizes and shapes. The suggestions for better designs also vary. The large variety of suggestions speaks so much about personal experiences and thereby the preference. In building chicken nesting boxes, there are designs that stand out in view of practicality and function.
First though, a good chicken nest box must be planned to get the chickens laying eggs in manners that are most productive. The basics are the same. You build a box, put in some straw or wood shavings and when the time comes so too the eggs. But when there is low egg production chances are something must be done to improve the nest box. For as much eggs as possible, here are suggestions:
Often, chicken nest boxes are built to house more than one chicken and there are practical management reasons for this. The fact though is that when the nest box is crowded, chickens prefer laying eggs on the floor where the eggs are dirtied, trampled on, and even eaten lowering production. Chickens are actually more productive when they nest on smaller boxes. A box that could house four chickens at a time is good. Smaller is better. When nesting boxes are smaller, there is also less room for the chicken to kick around the straw or wood shavings, creating less mess and keeping the straw where it should be.
The roof of the chicken nest boxes are sloped for the purpose that chickens do not roost on the roof. A roof not angled steeply will invite chickens to roost there and when that happens expect where the eggs will be. Inside the nest box, keep at least two inches of straw but if you could have wood shavings (pine is preferable) that is even better.
If you could provide a chute where the eggs will roll after being laid, and collected at a separate place, the added cost of the chute will be paid for in terms of more eggs that could be used. It will also be practical as frequent intrusions disturbs chickens and that destroys eggs in the process let alone the muck that you will help splatter around.
In place of the egg chute, construct the chicken nest box with doors constructed at the backside so that you could collect the eggs from outside the coop without disturbing the chickens very much. Build a lip at the opening to prevent the eggs from falling when the doors open. A two inch high lip is enough to keep the eggs safe. Likewise, build also a similar lip at the entrance to the nest boxes that serves as a chicken step. This will prevent the eggs from falling from inside the chicken coop as the chicken kicks around before laying more. The lips will also keep the straw inside the nest.
The sizes in building chicken nest boxes vary widely. In general though the height would be about 9" and if you intend to limit the chickens inside the box, a 12" square is sufficient and let the nest boxes be cave like, cold and dark.
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In the opening of Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, one of the series’ most joyously outlandish action sequences launches the film’s ensuing adventure. Harrison Ford’s timeless hero finds himself captured by Russian spies and brought to top-secret Warehouse 51 in the Nevada desert. Sexy Soviet villainess Irina Spalko, played by Cate Blanchett, demands Indiana Jones lead her cadre through an endless depository of crated government secrets to find an intricate freezer-casket. Inside is an alien corpse kept preserved since the Roswell UFO crash a decade earlier in 1947, and Spalko wants the extraterrestrial’s magnetized crystal skull, a cipher for untold knowledge and psychic powers. But in true form, Indy squeezes out of this tight spot through fisticuffs and a high-wire chase. He makes his way through dozens of Soviet goons, onto a rocket sled, and stumbles into the eerily empty neighborhood of a nuclear testing site. Alarms begin to sound. A bomb will go off at any moment. Thinking fast, Indy shuts himself inside a lead-lined refrigerator, and the atomic explosion lands him miles away, miraculously unharmed.
This is a sequence embodying everything we love about the Indiana Jones films: the hero narrowly escaping certain death, dastardly un-American villains, chases from one type of vehicle to another, a fantastical and historically significant MacGuffin, and impossible jaw-dropping stunts. And yet, since its release in 2008, the term “nuking the fridge” has developed into an aphorism for failure, as the fourth entry in director Steven Spielberg and producer George Lucas’ adventure franchise was a perceived disaster. Almost twenty years passed both on and off-screen between The Last Crusade and this film’s release. In the interim, Ford’s mane went gray, Spielberg’s talent had time to explore and evolve, and the filmmaking team toiled away on a years-in-development project for a franchise that had ostensibly ended with a satisfying conclusion back in 1989. Moviegoer nostalgia for the series and expectations for the much-discussed sequel also ballooned beyond any possible hope of being satisfied. And despite eventual, generally positive critical reactions and impressive box-office numbers, the film was met with a lukewarm response and subsequently dismissed by fans. What a baffling turn for an incredibly entertaining picture.
Kingdom of the Crystal Skullwas under scrutiny long before cameras started rolling, beginning in the mid-1990s with the first Hollywood reports that Spielberg and Lucas were talking to writers about a proposed sequel. Even though in the minds of the director and producer the film series had ended with The Last Crusade, the prospects of turning their back on the series altogether was not monetarily responsible from a Hollywood point-of-view. Lucas took the franchise to the small screen with The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles in the early 1990s, while Spielberg felt even on The Last Crusade that working again on an Indiana Jones film represented a step back in his maturation as a filmmaker, and so for years he resisted the idea of another film sequel. Nevertheless, Lucas wanted another film to follow their ongoing homage to Saturday matinee serials, but one set in the frequent serial genre of science fiction. Over the next decade, Lucas and Spielberg read scripts by various writers, like Jeb Stuart’s Indiana Jones and the Saucer Men from Mars and Frank Darabont’s Indiana Jones and the City of Gods, all featuring familiar elements: extraterrestrial artifacts, the progeny of Indiana Jones, and the marriage of our hero. Finally, a script by Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp was accepted by Spielberg, Lucas, and Ford, whereas in the past often one of the three’s concerns about this or that screenplay inhibited the production from moving forward.
As the filmmakers dove into pre-production, they were forced to adopt a high degree of secrecy about their closed-set project to safeguard the film’s secrets. False sub-titles registered with the MPAA were meant to confuse media insiders, ranging from The Destroyer of Worlds to The Lost City of Gold to The Quest for the Covenant. In 2007, when the undertitle Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was declared, internet news outlets began analyzing every aspect of the production and its history. Spielberg announced his intention to shoot in a style closer to the original films, and would resist today’s computer-generated imagery where possible. His longtime cinematographer Janusz Kamiński, who collaborated with Spielberg since 1993’s Schindler’s List, looked to the original films to follow Douglas Slocombe’s style. The production shot mostly in the U.S., so Spielberg could be close to his family; whereas previous entries featured exotic locales, this film shot many of its most complex scenes on the studio backlot. Meanwhile, every comment by the actors and crew involved was dissected and picked apart by the media and fans, promotional Lego toy sets were scrutinized by fans to determine elements from the hush-hush plot, and one thief broke into Spielberg’s office and stole a computer to retrieve details about the film.
Expectations ran rampant and out of control, as they often do, both about the production’s secrecy and because of it. By the time Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull arrived in theaters, anticipations were already curbed by the degree of skepticism toward the project. Some critics, like Leonard Maltin, called it the franchise’s best entry since Raiders of the Lost Ark; others said it was the worst. Still, after the initial wave of favorable reviews, the picture earned $317 million in domestic receipts alone and became the third highest earner of 2008, after The Dark Knight and Iron Man. Numbers aside, fan disapproval spread. Everyone seemed to turn on the film. Moviegoers voiced their disappointment in being only mildly entertained. The creators of South Park made an episode claiming Spielberg and Lucas “raped” the franchise. Costar Shia LaBeouf apologized to fans, saying he “dropped the ball” by agreeing to make the film, which he did without accepting the script. Ford later called LaBeouf an “ass” for making such a comment. Spielberg and Lucas defended the film. Suddenly this sure-thing sequel became a topic of much debate and dissent.
Among the most common arguments against Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is the feeling that Spielberg went too far in modernizing his technical approach to make this sequel. People seemed to expect that Spielberg and company would jump in a time machine back to the 1980s, make the film there, and return home with a result that would align with our fond memories of the franchise. But Steven Spielberg is not a time traveler, and 19 years passed between The Last Crusade and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Of course Harrison Ford would look older, new technologies would be used, and the production overall would appear slicker than what came before. This is part of making movies; as time goes by, new technical elements are introduced to make filmmaking easier and cheaper and safer. 450 CGI shots were employed to remove safety wires and render Amazonian jungle backdrops. After all, Spielberg’s cast and crew may have been able to survive dysentery from the exotic locales used twenty years ago when they filmed Raiders of the Lost Ark, but they’ve all since aged. It is crucial we understand this, just as we must accept that Harrison Ford is no longer a young man. But for an actor in his sixties, he still has all the magnetism, virility, and humanized flaws we expect from both the actor and character. What is it they say in Raiders of the Lost Ark? “It’s not the years, honey, it’s the mileage.”
The other principal argument against Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is the science fiction plotline and its inclusion of extraterrestrials, given that no outward sci-fi elements appear in the first three films. But first, consider the period in which Spielberg and Lucas have set their film. The 1950s marked the Atomic Age where Cold War and nuclear paranoia reigned supreme: politicians conducted Red Scare-fuelled witch hunts, families built and stocked bomb shelters, schools practiced daily drills in case the bombs began to fall, and moviehouses were packed with tales of giant insects and lizards spawned from irresponsible nuclear testing. Science-fiction was slowly becoming a reality, and ‘50s cinema the world over responded with B-movie entertainments that tapped into our worst fears, everything from The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) to Them! (1954) and Japan’s Godzilla (1954). In the same way that Temple of Doom evoked the horror genre to expand on the adventure-lined schematic of the Indiana Jones blueprint, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull employed components of Atomic Age escapism into a distinctive Indiana Jones setup. If the film was to take place in the 1950s—and logically it must to explain the passage of time since the originals—then an Atomic Age plot was not only appropriate but requisite. Now consider the historical “ancient aliens” theories now more popular than ever some forty years after Erich von Däniken’s seminal study, Chariots of the Gods, which has become a passionate hypothesis for many archeologists. From this perspective, the film simply creates an adventure scenario around an existing archeological theory and runs with it, as opposed to combining the “Indiana Jones adventure genre” with another unrelated genre altogether.
With this, that audiences failed to identify with the film because of the sci-fi elements remains as baffling as those 1984 audiences who could not connect with Temple of Doom because it was too scary. If this is the case, they are simply not “getting” the picture. But I will never understand the hatred for this film. As I wrote in my original review, “Much of your enjoyment of this latest entry resides in your ability to accept that the Indiana Jones series has always been about escapism, never realism.” And so, when detractors begin to complain that Indiana Jones would never survive a nuclear blast from inside a lead-lined fridge, one must laugh at the absurdity of the remark, because if this is the first time you’re questioning the reality of an Indiana Jones film, your concept of reality is out there. Those who went along with the series as Indy explored the catacombs of Venice (it’s a floating city!), ate chilled monkey brains with Indian royalty, and watched as Nazis instantly melted in the presence of holy spirits should have no trouble believing the wilder sci-fi eccentricities in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Those who cannot accept these traits, all tropes of not only sci-fi but the basis of adventure stories, have no reason to enjoy the earlier films.
What I appreciate most about the film is the way it enhances our view of Indy, and in doing so connects to The Last Crusade through the inclusion of Mutt Williams (LaBeouf), who we eventually learn is Indiana Jones’ son, conceived with his old flame Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen). Mutt, a ‘50s-style greaser straight out of American Graffiti or Rebel without a Cause, is to Indy as Indy was to his father, Henry Jones Sr. (Sean Connery, appearing only in photo form). During a motorcycle escape away from pursuing Russian spies on a college campus, Mutt drives as Indy hangs on, feeling old and disapproving of this impetuous hothead. Mirroring that classic scene from The Last Crusade where Indy flips a Nazi cycle and his father frowns, Indy’s role has been deepened by his age, but not entirely reversed. In contrast to his father and now his son, we see our hero as both a bookish scholar and adventurer, the best of both worlds. Although Mutt has left school, he remains bright and a quick study, and under Indy’s tutelage, we can imagine that he too will become like his father, an academic treasure-seeker. For all the characters comic throwback traits, Mutt reminds us that Indiana Jones is forever a man rebelling against the distant, purely studious example set by his father.
To be reasonable, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is not a perfect film. What film is? There’s always a detail or two that if changed would make the best films even better, but these are commonly superficial concerns. Perfection is a state of mind. What remains unfortunate about the production are minor details and passable moments quickly forgotten. The climax relies too much on CGI when an interdimensional alien seems to look into the camera, his craft spinning around in a flux of colors and imagery far removed from anything this franchise has seen before. When LaBeouf’s Mutt Williams swings from vines, no doubt the filmmakers’ nod to Tarzan serials, he’s accompanied in this iffy effect by CGI monkeys—it’s a silly moment, but in a fun way that those familiar with the Saturday serials should appreciate. Peruvian jungle scenes feature CG-thickened forests that resemble a cheaper production’s green screen work. But then there’s the “nuke the fridge” scene, which is so wonderfully over-the-top that I can’t help but love it. After all, moments like these would be right at home in the B-movie genres the filmmakers sought to emulate, and Indiana Jones has never been based in realism. In reality, Indiana Jones should be dead a hundred times over, having survived booby-traps galore, escaped impossible multi-vehicle chases, and transcended history (and fact) to preposterous degrees. But Indiana Jones isn’t reality.
What I love about the film are its simpler details. Take the bright comic-book characters straight out of an adventure magazine: the double-crossing “triple agent” Mac played by Ray Winstone, complete with devilish Errol Flynn moustache; Blanchett’s flawless portrayal as a rigid, domineering villainess whose hands emasculate even Indy when placed on his knee during his interrogation; Allen’s delightful reprisal as Marion, her head cocked with a grin and fists charmingly at her hips; John Hurt’s off-his-rocker archeologist. And then there are the action sequences. The most thrilling of them occurs mid-film where Marion crashes a vehicle into a hill of flesh-eating ants. Everyone runs as these critters chitter along, swarming over poor Russian saps with bad enough luck to trip and fall. As Indy engages a goon in fisticuffs, Spalko climbs off the ground away from the ants, but the hungry things stack onto one another to almost reach her. All the while we’re squirming and shouting eeek for the villain of all people! But Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is never better than that first scene, when the Russians pull Indy out of a trunk and push him to the ground. Spielberg shoots his silhouette against a car. We see that iconic image appear as Indy collects himself and secures his fedora. Yes, this is great filmmaking.
So many moments in this film make me want to holler out “You still got it!” to everyone involved, especially Harrison Ford, who 19 years later still encapsulates what it means to be an adventure hero. Conversely, only two or three significant moments feel out of place in the entire film, and they’re fleeting incongruities of dodgy CGI, in all amounting to about a minute of screentime in an over two-hour spectacle of blissful Atomic Age nostalgia, humor, and adventure. From Elvis on the soundtrack to Spielberg’s wonderful staging of action sequences, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull holds a deserving place amid its predecessors in the franchise, which, categorically speaking, could be ordered from best-to-worst in the order they were made. Then again, there is no “worst” here, not really. Each picture is great, while this fourth entry is simply the least great. This does not make it a bad film. It’s greatness is lessened only when compared to three films that epitomize the adventure genre, and when stacked against the inconsolable expectations of fans wanting a film shot in 1981 instead of 2008.
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This blog has posts by myself and guest writers, about a variety of topics of interest to our visitors. Here you can learn about different kinds of minerals and crystals, the mines and miners of crystals, the metaphysical power of crystals, new collections of Crystals and Jewelry, and many educational topics including Colorado locality gems and crystals, and Leonard Crystals news and findings. Come back soon to see new posts. Feel free to contact us to ask questions or suggest topics of interest you might like to see us blog about!
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By Bill Moulton
The mysterious electricity of crystals is something I have been wondering about and studying for years, with special attention to electrical phenomena. Funnily enough, it is both a mundane and an arcane subject full of mystery. Mundane in that science thinks it knows all there is to know about Quartz for example, but arcane in that much science has never been pursued with Quartz since it was early on typecast into the electrical oscillator role in technology. I found some very interesting early studies on Quartz and Tourmaline that mention a number of really unusual and exciting things about them that are not generally known.
Electromagnetism (EM) encompasses everything, but certain kinds of things couple more readily or resist more easily EM fields. I have always found the idea useful that in EM, the electric field component is an outward pushing pressure and magnetic field component is an inward pulling attractor, and with the tension between push and pull energetics balanced you get a dynamic EM field. Kind of like EM is a balanced masculine-feminine field, where masculine-electric is balanced with feminine-magnetic.
One goes with the other in balance, so the field lines of each are at right angles to each other – have a natural right angular coupling effect. What’s this have to do with crystals? Some crystals have the property to convert energy from one form into another, and EM is always involved at some level, either as an energy source, sink, or involved in the actual conversion mechanism.
I have successfully used what some have suggested about the correlation between the four elements and the four grand atomic forces in developing operational models as to why certain things behave the way they do in certain high tech inventions – in homeopathy, alchemy, energy medicine, radionics, masers, and polymer physics. What is suggested really makes amazing sense when you are on the borderline between metaphysics and physics.
The Element of Water is connected with the Electromagnetic force, however I do find that EM in and of itself seems to involve a balanced synergy between masculine and feminine energy principles that are natural orthogonal attractors to each other – balancer and attractors like the Golden Mean ratio – a discussion on resonance physics could be had on this alone – where the actual physics of the Golden Mean in vibrating oscillating media or mediums is that the frequency ratio actually permits “co-existence of diversity in unity”. That is, a complex frequency tone with its associated harmonics and another tone with its harmonics, when different from the first, by 1.618 ratio of frequency difference, exhibits the least possible entrainment or signal loss. So what?
Meaning, the Golden Mean is the perfect ratio that allows two different energies to coexist without entraining to a single frequency, or without destructively sharing/losing energy between. In other words the Golden Mean is the ratio of peaceful coexistence between diversity. It is a resonance of permission to exist in proximity together, that is, closeness, without the integrity of either being compromised. In a sense it is the ratio of the union of opposites. Informational wholeness/fusion without energetic competition/ dilution. When translated from vibration and dynamic motion into static form and structure, you get things like golden mean approximation spirals in pine cones and sunflower seed layout patterns. Golden mean approximation is the nearest whole number ratio pair of two numbers in the Fibonacci series (1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55…) to the ideal Golden Mean ratio the higher up in number you go. But back to topic…
What some have suggested about the connection between the Elements and Forces has born extremely useful concepts in figuring out effective ways to describe how something physically “miraculous” is actually physically or metaphysically “plausible”. I enjoy finding the connection together between physics and metaphysics – the alchemical philosophers stone type stuff. Not to find ways to reduce the miraculous to reasonable, but to find ways to uplift the merely reasonable as being actually miraculous. Discernment doesn’t stop the magic, it helps qualify and acknowledge it.
Piezo-electricity is where a crystal can convert mechanical pressure into electrical pressure and vice versa. All crystals vibrate and electricity can make piezoelectric crystal vibrate more, and alternatively, a mechanical pressure change can produce an electric charge release. Quartz is piezoelectric. It forms the basis of all our electronics today when used as a frequency reference or clock or oscillator. The piezoelectricity is highest across the width of a standing quartz point and hardly any piezo effect exists along its length from tip to base (called the ‘C’ axis). So when we hold a crystal point like a stick in the hand, the squeezing by the hand does it across its width.
Pyro-electricity is where a crystal can convert temperature or heat into electricity. Tourmaline is both piezo and pyro. Thats why in the middle ages they used rods of tourmaline as pipe cleaners, since when heated up, one end of the tourmaline becomes negatively charged, the other positive charges. The negative charged side picks up ash and dust, hence pipe cleaner. There is no piezo or pyro electric effect across the width of tourmaline, but there is plenty along its length (just the opposite of Quartz). That is why to enjoy the best negativity transmuting effect of a Tourmaline, you squeeze the Tourmaline rod from end to end with finger and thumb, and that does it.
Opto-electricity is where a crystal can convert light into electricity and vice versa. Certain crystal under certain conditions show that have this property, including quartz. A research study decades ago found that when a Quartz crystal was stimulated by certain mechanical and electrical pressures utilizing its piezoelectric effect, they were surprised to find that when they reached a certain point of resonance between the crystal lattices and the input stimulating frequencies, that a round cylindrical rod of quartz produced rings of visible light along its C-Axis length that modulated and moved in time with the energy injection.
I personally feel that, for example, crossing to metaphysics, that when we put etheric light (and love) into a crystal, that its electrical properties (not frequency or amplitude, but magnitude) increases. I imagine a forest cave of crystals that light up and change and move the colors and light based on what I sing or intone. Makes me remember how everything physical is trapped light. Rubies make Lasers, and one reason is because they have this opto-electric feature (electricity IN – Laser light OUT).
Since sound is a form of pressure, mechanical pressure, then vocal singing and intoning to piezoelectric crystals like Quartz, can increase overall magnitude of the crystal field at the etheric level.
I have seen a warmed up, squeezed Quartz crystal face, when put down on a table, vibrate with such coherence that it almost blows out a candle two inches away. Flickers that flame like a breeze when there is no wind in the room. That is called piezoelectric wind.
I have seen a warmed up, well squeezed Quartz crystal, when placed on a piece of plain bond paper, crawl slightly uphill against gravity, because the crystal face cut was just right to create a sawtooth racheting mechanism that as it was naturally vibrating, would lattice edge expand, grab on leading edge, and pull itself up and across the paper. It certainly spooked the houseguests. It moved at a constant microspeed, like it was ‘sliding’ up the table real slow! (over 2 inches a minute).
I have seen a large quartz point in a dark light tight room with only illumination being indirect baffled black lights (UV) with high and low UV frequency coverage, and saw an etheric ghost crystal extend beyond the physical crystal as much as a foot. There is some kind of light-sabre like laser-like extension coming off crystal points in the same direction as the point. It is barely seeable, like auras, but is definitely there to be seen. That etheric aura or plasmic-like energy extension coming off crystals is maybe what we feel when we wave an awakened crystal in front of our palm of our hand. I have always wondered whether that etheric extension energy can be changed in size or magnitude if we warmed the Crystal up on all levels.
But I think the most interesting aspect of mysterious electricity with crystals, is how things like sound of voice, warmth, light physical pressure, light, color and EM fields (not to mention emotion!!!) all work TOGETHER to have it become electrically more alive and dynamic and powerful, and how ALL these things we can do are the NORMAL things we do with crystals without any special training. The intuitive side serves up good things. Its as if this mysterious electricity of crystal couples to our own electricity, our own EM (as well as the larger environmental EM), our own warmth and touch, in a way that automatically synergizes to become a wholeness of electrical and EM resonance and vibration that is so much more than either alone. AND DOES IT AUTOMATICALLY.
Electricity is like a difference of potential, a tension between supply and demand, a potential of the flow between the state of imbalance and the state of balance, from a positive supply (have extra electron) pole to a negative demand (need electron) pole. It is the metaphysical Element of water seeking its own level. Where there is “difference” there is available power/energy.
Crystals have the ability to convert the different four forces of nature. I personally believe we will find a new clean energy resource available when we discover how to resonantly skim energy off of the strong force and convert it into EM, or weak force into EM, or gravity into EM, and vice versa. For example, vibrating a slice of quartz near the limit of Young’s Modulus of elasticity on a optimal piezo angle cut could under the right conditions could produce continuous electricity skimmed off from the strong atomic crystal molecule lattice bonding force. This would be coherent atomic energy rather than diffusive atomic energy as we have today. It would move energy directly from the strong force (in the crystal, fed in turn by something else, like solar rays) into EM and electrical force without having to bridge the conversion through heat, like conventional nuclear reactors. Maybe in the next couple decades.
A crystal ball built into a molded structure like a pyramid so sunlight can heat up and expand the crystal just right (not too much, or too little) under the mold pressure, when connected to the right set of electrical tap-off contacts, ground and circuitry could provide a new kind of solar power in the future. We think we have discovered all the things we can physically do with Quartz (apart from metaphysically), but I would suggest we have only just gotten to first base.
Some Caveats:
Metaphysically, though, I should mention that there are plenty of crystals out there that are not piezo-electric, pyro-electric or opto-electric but are conductive or semiconductive of electricity, or hold electric capacitance (like copper spheres do), and connect and interact with Electromagnetic energies. Thus, a crystal that does not have any overt physical electrical properties like Quartz or Tourmaline, can still have majestic and powerful properties in transmuting or converting or tuning energy, it just does it in a less obvious manner.
What I find is that many non-piezo crystals have just as much energy movement capacity, but manifested on a different level – the etheric level, or emotional level. Could it be there is “ether electricity’? Or put differently, etheric energy of crystals couples with our etheric and emotional energies and when coupled and then down-stepped, effects our dimensional world of physical electrical energy and potential. So just because a crystal isn’t physically piezoelectric, does not mean it is not ether-electric!
Ether-electricity – where an etheric energy potential (e.g. emotion) coupled with crystal can affect crystal to change the attractor basin for how physical electricity moves and builds around it in its environment. Thus a non-piezo-electric crystal can do great things electromagnetically or electrically for us.
Soon we might talk in some detail of the connection between crystals and radionics and homeopathy and energy medicine – there are whole new sacred sciences just waiting to be discovered, and some awfully good stuff already developed and technologically fielded.
There are many books on crystallography of quartz. The best source was this 1920’s book that summarized all the quartz experiments for the last 100 years before that. I have copies out of the book but not the original title any longer. Anyway, I gathered all the interesting stuff into printed copies and hand written notes and put it all into a big yellow binder I call my Quartz binder.
As to “spectrum”… well if I understand what you are asking, which I may well not, you are referring to the vibrational spectrum, which encompasses DC and sound and ELF EM at the far left (slower) end of the spectrum and cosmic rays at the other end, with visible light in the middle. The key here is the understanding of “octaves”. The octave of visible light and color can be overlaid with an octave of sound frequencies (where the music note ‘C’ corresponds to red, and so forth through the diatonic scale with the higher frequency music note ‘B’ corresponds to the color of violet. The octave of ‘C’, ‘C2’ corresponds to red again but a lighter hue.
The octaves of smell, touch, heat, infra-red, ultraviolet, even mechanical rhythm (DC pulse) can also ALL be overlaid and synchronized up altogether. Then all the different octaves which support different energetic media vibration types or levels, can all resonate together to become powerful a modulator. Imagine a medical pen that had five or six octaves of energetics all harmonized coming out and being used to treat arthritis or cancer or pain. Or a metaphysical tuning device that assisted in programming and creating resonance, like a symbol talisman can effect.
I think the key around all of the interesting ‘technological’ angles of healing, whether allopathic or homeopathic or radionics or herbology, or otherwise, is that single word “complimentary”, as in complimentary medicine. The idea is that you synergize the best of all treatment approaches together into a functional, harmonious blend. With metaphysics we just take it one step further and add to the physical complimentary techniques and approaches, the use of Power of Will, feeling, resonance, visioning, flowing and running energy, love, suspension of space-time, and a myriad of other things that are treatment actions from the higher octaves of reality.
So yes, definitely that is the whole idea, that consciousness itself, the soul, (stuff at the highest reality octaves of our larger multi-dimensional reality), can impact and augment the energetics of physical healing technology, no question about it. Or at the very least consciousness can augment and ‘tune’ the impact of the technological energetics or substances with our body (which means make it better for our physical or emotional or mental or intuitive bodies).
But I tend to think our consciousness can change the actual energetics of electronics or light or vibrations or food and herb based remedies. We have resonance that has impact more than we often admit. Right down to how molecules behave and how fields and forces of physics behave, BASED on their natural connection to the metaphysical Elements of Water, Fire, Air and Earth. It is all connected, above and below, inside and out. And crystals are part of the way to discover and experience these amazing connections.
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Sainte-Anne (English translation)
• Artist: Fauve ≠
• Song: Sainte-Anne 5 translations
• Translations: Chinese, Dutch, English #1, #2, Russian
English translationEnglish
Saint Anne
Versions: #1#2
I don't even know where to start in fact
at the same time this is the first time I'm doing this
so please excuse me
if it goes off in all directions
or if I'm quite disjointed
I must say that by now
I had quite a time putting my thoughts in order anyways
I have a hard time finding the words
finally there you are I'll lay it on the table flat out
I was born into a pretty well off family
I've always been privileged
I was never short on love, or anything else for that matter
although my mother who comes still and all from a rather low class environment
was sometimes a bit harsh with my brothers and me.
At school I was a good student, at home I was polite
I don't remember doing a lot of wild shit being young
quite the contrary, I did the right studies
and today I know my course is more or less carved out
let's say that I know where it'll take me if I stay on my path
I'll probably have a wife and beautiful children
a loan to pay, an english spaniel and a hardtop convertible
And yet you see
it's been almost 6 months now that I can't get any sleep
that I can't grab a single bite for two days
without even noticing
and when I look myself in the mirror I see there a strange guy
pale, translucent, so blanched
to make a genocide chuckle
Doctor, I'm not kidding
you must do something about me
it doesn't matter what
take a hammer and bang my fingers, I don't know
because there I really can't go on anymore
I can no more go out in the street
I can no more set foot in the offices
in any case I became unable to take the subway
it stinks of death, it stinks of piss
it makes me claustrophobic and touchy
besides I really look like a prick in my suit which is enormous
and badly cut so even if I wanted to pretend otherwise
there would always be a "foot soldier"1 roughly stamped on my forehead
besides all these people who are absolutely going after squishing each other
who jostle, who sweat, who hiss through their teeth like snakes
Come on you pussy, get on, get on, you're right
anyways, you'll be fine to be the first to arrive
at the key we're all be getting the same harsh day
Eyes glued to the computer screen
you'll harm your pupils reading at an angle
about things that get in your way zilch
"Nah but you know, it's super important this file
the client, he puts up 300 the per hour
come you'll do fine, you're gonna google it if needed
but finish this for me tout de suite"
Yes, you're perfectly right
it's my fault I'm not that energetic
Ah it's funny yes, slap me silly
and if you're going to better put some doorknobs on your arse to see?
I'm tired of typing to lunch
some mixed salads at 12 euros
or barbecue in carton
of eating on a table corner
then to spend crappy afternoons splitting hairs
and finishing by embarking on afterworks between colleagues
But what a letdown to think that we love so much
getting fed up during the day that we ask for more in the evening
But fine, I must also say that we meet babes there
or even better "unattacheds"
that goes to say chicks that like us have emotional problems
we present ourselves, we shower them with fibs
we tell them we're partners then we're at the university
and to be true that we spend our time
wearing out our arses on pretty narrow benches
listening to bald guys blathering away
all day long
blathering away about everything and especially about anything
Fortunately, our days always end the same way:
we go and we make ourselves beautiful for the evening
we put our polo shirts collar turned up
then we meat up again at QG
to soak up some middies2 at 5 euros
What's more, when we're a bit off our tits
we often want to play the rebels
and shout at the barkeep:
"Hey there, who do you think you are, scumbag?
Don't you think your beer's a bit stiff?
We would do it if we had a little grit in our veins
but prefer to keep it shut
and we keep on wasting our dough
to waste our breath about nothing in particular
and smoke like chimneys
History of getting totally wasted before getting old
to build up the bags we already have under our eyes
Other than that we mostly talk about the girls we saw on the net
and then about those we'd like to pick up the evening
'cause tonight, like every other night, we'll try to fuck
but certainly not to make love
because love is for fags
nothing that shocking after all:
some guys talking about the girls they shag
some girls shag around to say that they're shagging
Fuck, we often get regrets
sometimes diseases
all in all we're doing it with no pleasure
no real desire
that's mainly to get our minds off it
This hides the open wounds but it's a secret
in fact we're lost, disaffected, disillusioned
alone like wounded animals
we're sad and our hearts bleeding
but we're hiding behind our big mouths and our harsh words
between us we call each other "dawg", "slut", "bastard", "wuss", "bitch", "dyke", "jerk"
because without meaning it, the others are a constant battle
Absolutely doctor, we're living peachy times
and in a peachy city as well
Paris the necropolis
Paris which smells of carrion
Paris which bit by bit is leading to its downfall
the fragments of our lives
Paris is awfully sound, and we're good people
so awfully good that we're too good for our neighbours
to whom we don't pay more attention
than we do to the piss behind the toilet
Sometimes I just want to scream:
"Don't get near me! Don't touch me!"
Doctor, I need something
doesn't matter what
otherwise I'm gonna break down
I might hit some elder, some passerby, some little punk
and it will be ugly
it will be really ugly
• 1. Also meaning arse
• 2. Half pints
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Has anyone invented a new technique?
Discussion in 'General Martial Arts Discussion' started by Kobudo, Jul 29, 2011.
1. Kobudo
Kobudo Valued Member
I'm curious, can anyone give an example of a technique or philosophy that they themselves have invented, created, watever you want to call it?
I personally don't think I've seen anything new ever. I've seen things that are new to me, but not new in the bigger picture.
In fact, even when I've been training and have adhoc'd something I like, when you break it down all of the compnents are held in traditional arts somewhere.
I'm throwing the guntlett out there, can anyone give an example of anything they've come up with.
If someone can, can other people confirm that they haven't come across it somewhere else?
I'll put my normal proviso, please don't flame, I think this could be a good conversation if people feel comfortable to come forward
2. Simon
Simon Moved on Admin Supporter MAP 2017 Koyo Award
There are no new techniques.
3. caveman
caveman Threadkiller
I've invented a few actually. Only to discover later on that they already existed.
4. Kobudo
Kobudo Valued Member
Isn't that statement a little too absolute?
As I said before, I haven't seen anything new myself, but to say there are none full stop is a bit too full on for me. I couldn't imagine to know what someone may come up with in the future, or have come up with that I haven't seen.
Kind of like saying, we are definitely alone in the universe.
5. ap Oweyn
ap Oweyn Ret. Supporter
Meh. I think it's going to come down to what you regard as a new technique. I'm going to make the assumption that Simon is coming from a similar view to me, as we both came up in eskrima, which tends to talk more about broad concepts than precise details.
So would an outside parry with my right foot forward be a different technique than if I'd done it with my left foot forward? If I'd used the butt of my stick rather than the "blade" of my stick? If I'd checked the opponent's hand afterward or simply launched my counter without checking?
To me, I'd say no. But others might feel differently.
From that perspective, the criteria for something being a "new technique" is really pretty high. It would have to be something conceptually and mechanically unique. And I'm having a hard time imagining anything like that.
6. Freeform
Freeform Fully operational War-Pig Supporter
7. robertmap
robertmap Valued Member
Well since I invented the Universe, I guess I must take credit for inventing ALL martial arts - no money required, just a few sacrificial virgins (Pretty ones only please).
(Yes it HAS been a long week).
8. Convergencezone
Convergencezone Valued Member
I inveted the internet
9. robertmap
robertmap Valued Member
You are SOOOO going to pay for doing something as naughty as that...
10. Smitfire
Smitfire Cactus Schlong
There are plenty of techniques in BJJ named after people.
However even those tend to be because the person in question took an obscure or niche position and worked it until they became known for it.
11. ap Oweyn
ap Oweyn Ret. Supporter
That's precisely the origin of "ap Oweyn's ineffectual guard"
12. Hannibal
13. Late for dinner
Late for dinner Valued Member
Only in Canada eh ;' )
14. Fish Of Doom
Fish Of Doom Will : Mind : Motion Supporter
no match for fish of doom's hairy rolls...
...that sounded wrong...
15. Hannibal
yes, yes it did :)
16. Rider
Rider Everybody loves cakes! :D
I would dis agree
people now are different to people 200 years ago...and in a few generations time things will be very different i believe...people for instance...new weapons are invented...
and to use them, new techniques are made...also techniques to counter the weapon itself
to add people might be fighting alot different too...we never know what future holds...for instance...jeet kune do constantly as bruce lee wanted it too, throws away techniques that are believe unpractical, and adds one that are practical
Further more...jeet kune do, karate, tae kwon do...ect
they were not all created at the same time, so they obviously had in themselfs, new techniques and philosophy
some would argue...that (im not trying to rip on any martial arts here)...traditional martial arts has not new techniques...but it does, teachers will show you techniques that are not always on syllabus, sometimes in martial arts the syllabus even changes or might incorporate new techniques while still remaining true to its root, background and way of teaching
In a way i guess this part is more opinion that anything but...To me, there are new techniques...with martial arts there is always something you dont know, there is always more out there so in a personal perspective...these to me are, new techniques
Alot of this is opinion based but i strongly believe there is always something new...if not new itself...new to you as a person
17. ap Oweyn
ap Oweyn Ret. Supporter
The fact that any given person doesn't know something doesn't actually make that thing new.
18. ap Oweyn
ap Oweyn Ret. Supporter
Several varieties of wrong, in fact. :)
19. Rider
Rider Everybody loves cakes! :D
im not in the context you mean
Its "new" to "you"...not new it itself
Not the main point of what i mean however...times change and the way people think, fight...ect change, and new ways to deal with this are made...new weapons new ways to counter or use them...people think and fight different and new ways to counter this are made...you cannot for certain at all 100% predict that all techniques will work in the future, so new ways of doing things if they dont work, are invented...it all comes down to human psychology, humans will never be happy with something unless its 100% efficent and in the future things might not be as effective as they are now, and as humans always looking for that efficentcy and making things better...we will create what ever is efficent...for example the creation of new guns, we already have good ones...but future ones, will be better and more efficent...look at how many different sword types there are in the world, man always whats the most efficent thing for its time, and in general and will always aim higher than we have already got...old weapons are a good example, if the sword is efficent because it is a good slashing weapon, someone will make a better one that is efficent at both slashing and stabbing which in a way...a katana is the perfect example of man taking what he has and making it better, more efficent...nowadays its not used in war guns are, they are efficent...the way people fight and think, everything with time but basic psychology changes i believe and with that, new techniques that people believe are efficent...are created
Last edited: Jul 29, 2011
20. ap Oweyn
ap Oweyn Ret. Supporter
I don't think that efficiency is a primary drive in human psychology. I think we could all point to examples in which aesthetics took precedence over efficiency in the human decisionmaking process.
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How to Flirt Online - Howcast
How to Flirt Online
Learn how to flirt online in this flirting lesson from Howcast.
Rachel: Flirting online.
Hunt: Got to do it.
Rachel: It's an awesome forum.
Hunt: Exactly. A lot of people look at it as so odd or taboo. "Well I'm not going to go online." Why not? When one more place that you can meet somebody. And of course, you're going to run into the same share of interesting people, shall we say. But if you're not there, you're not going to meet anybody there.
Rachel: And that's the nice thing about, you know. There's different types of online flirtations. We can talk about email and Facebook and Twitter and online dating. In all of them, though, you have to remember that you're flirting just like you would in real life. And you have to say the right things and say it in good context. Because the biggest thing with any online flirtation is that it's typing. So, it's all black and white. There's no gray area. As opposed to in person where I can be, like, "I hate you." And it doesn't sound the same.
Hunt: Right. Yep. Sarcasm is so difficult to come across. Even a sense of humor. Because if I have a dry sense of humor and I put that down and they have a playful sense of humor, they're not going to read it in that way. So, as much as humor is good one on one, you have to be very careful when you're using it only in text. Because you're never sure how it's going to be.
Rachel: And also, the other thing with online flirtations is don't be so direct. You're going to find yourself "Okay so, I can't be sarcastic, I can't be funny. So what am I going to be? I'll just tell them 'Hey, you're hot.'" No, that doesn't work, either. There's a little nuance involved in online flirtation.
What I suggest people to do is find something to talk about that's not a sexual-related comment. So, if you see an online dating profile and you see she loves dogs, you're like "Hey, I just wanted to reach out. I love dogs, too. How old is yours?" Or if it's on Facebook, the same thing. You can take something that they talked about and use it to flirt with them.
Hunt: For guys, that's the biggest thing. When we're looking at people from Facebook and into online dating and anything. What's the first thing we do? And what's the sometimes the only thing we do? We look at the pictures.
So, they're so used to just "Oh, you look so hot. Oh, you're so pretty." Don't talk about that. Take a minute and read what they've taken the time to put down. And exactly, like you said, the easiest way, comment on something that they talk about in their profiles. The easiest way to let them know that you've read, you've spent more than 30 seconds looking at them. And it lets them know that you're interested, at least, a little bit, too.
Rachel: Exactly. There has to be some nugget of "I'm paying attention to what you have to say" moment. Because, like we've talked about, in real life, you can just go up and be like "Hi, my name is Rachel. So nice to meet you." You can't do that online. You have to put a little more effort into it. But you don't have to go over the top. I say two or three sentences should be the absolute max of an introduction to say "Hey, I saw your profile. I loved that you love Aruba." Or whatever it is that gives you something to tie it in, but make it something concrete instead of just "Hi, sexy."
Hunt: Right. And number two is a way to allow people to get to know you online. And so many people say like "What do you like? I like camping, canoeing and being outside." I can make lists, too. It doesn't tell you what there is, but if you say "I love the solitary ability to be outside and nature." Like, "Oh, I understand now why you like it." If you like sports, say, "I like the competitive nature. I like to always have that good-natured rivalry." Let them know so that people can comment on it and say "Oh, cool. I see you like this."
Rachel: Exactly. And that's the thing you have to keep in mind. Your profile or even your Facebook. If you're single and you're expecting to meet people on Facebook, what you put out there should be your initial flirtation with the public. So, it's got to give them a stepping point to talk to you.
Hunt: It's that image like we were talking to, too. It's how you want the world to perceive you. If you're a stranger looking at your things, take a look at yours again and make sure somebody would find you interesting. Somebody would find you someone that they'd want to approach in real life.
Rachel: Absolutely.
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What is pancolitis?
What is pan-ulcerative colitis (pancolitis)?
Pancolitis is a form of ulcerative colitis (UC) which affects the entire large intestine. It is a life-long chronic condition which cannot currently be cured and is part of a group of conditions known as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
It is thought that around 20% of people with UC have pan-ulcerative colitis.
Some people start with another form of UC - proctitisproctosigmoiditis or left-sided colitis - but over time the inflammation spreads throughout their colon resulting in pan-ulcerative colitis.
It's full name is pan-ulcerative colitis, though is often referred to as just pancolitis, total colitis or universal colitis.
What is ulcerative colitis?
UC causes inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract (gut).
In UC small ulcers can develop on the colon’s lining which produce pus and mucus. This can cause abdominal discomfort and frequent emptying of the colon (diarrhoea).
What are the symptoms of pancolitis?
Typical symptoms of pan-ulcerative colitis include:
• Abdominal pain and cramps
• Diarrhoea with blood, mucus and/or pus
• Urgency to go to empty your bowels
• Tenesmus - feeling the need to pass stools despite bowel being empty
• Fatigue
• Weight loss
• Fever
• Night sweats
What treatments are there for pan-ulcerative colitis?
Treatments currently include medication and surgery. Some people have severely inflamed or damaged parts of their colon surgically removed. This can reduce or eliminate the symptoms of pan-ulcerative colitis, however it does not get rid of the disease and there is a risk that it will return to another area of the colon in the future.
What complications can occur with pan-ulcerative colitis?
• Cancer: People with pan-ulcerative colitis have a greater risk of developing bowel cancer, particularly if they have been suffering with UC for a number of years
• Colectomy surgery: It is also associated with a higher instance of colectomy (where all or part of your colon is surgically removed). This is because there is a greater risk of developing sudden and severe inflammation that requires urgent surgery
• Toxic megacolon: The colon can acutely dilate when the inflammation becomes very severe - known as toxic megacolon. Symptoms include fever, abdominal pain and distention, dehydration and malnutrition. With toxic megacolon there is a risk of colonic rupture
• Anaemia: Blood loss from the inflamed intestines can lead to anaemia which can be treated with iron supplements or sometimes blood transfusions
• Fulminant colitis: Fulminant colitis is a rare but severe form of pancolitis. People with this condition can suffer from dehydration, severe abdominal pain, protracted diarrhoea with bleeding and even shock. They are at risk of developing toxic megacolon and colonic rupture (perforation)
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Jim Newton & Fmr. Gov. Brown Discuss: 'Man of Tomorrow: The Relentless Life of Jerry Brown'
With the exclusive cooperation of Governor Brown himself, Jim Newton, former Editor of the LA Times, has written a definitive account of Jerry Brown's life, “Man of Tomorrow”. As Senator Diane Feinstein notes: “His book captures the complexities of a man who is both a bold visionary and a practical leader, someone who transformed California into the model for fighting climate change while building the fifth-largest economy in the world.” TPR excerpts here, a May 12th Los Angeles World Affairs Council & Town Hall featuring Newton’s interview of former Governor Jerry Brown on, among other issues, the current status of COVID-19 in the US context and its impact on national politics. Watch the full conversation here.
Jim Newton: Governor, I don't want to monopolize you this morning but I did want to ask you a couple of things to get the ball rolling, and also give you a chance to address some of what's going on in the world at the moment.
We're in this period of international crisis and particularly at this inflection point where there's an ongoing and accelerated debate about how to balance the health imperatives of this crisis with the economic desire to see things return to some kind of normal. Dr. Fauci was testifying this morning in Washington and said that he fears that some states may move too quickly in defiance of the guidelines and risk a spike in the virus.
Man of Tomorrow: The Relentless Life of Jerry Brown by Jim Newton
You've obviously weathered your share of crises; how do you balance the imperatives here, in particular the desire to see the economy move again and the need to take care of the public health imperatives?
Jerry Brown: You do it in the same way that the successful countries have—looking at perhaps the most successful country, Taiwan. They've had very few cases and very few deaths. They took action as soon as China sent out a message, right around the beginning of this year. Taiwan heard it; Mr. Trump and the people in Washington didn't. Taiwan jumped on it; they started testing, tracing the people who tested positive, and quarantining them, which really dampened the spread in a very dramatic way.
We didn't do this; we had denial, delay, and obfuscation. The big hurdle here, which is being overcome, is the inability of testing, and to me that goes right back to the President and in some ways his enablers, starting with Mitch McConnell. We can’t test because the federal government has not used the powers that it has to mobilize the industry to make tests. Nobody can tell me that South Korea or China can make tests better than America, this is a great manufacturing powerhouse, and an innovative biotech powerhouse as well.
The fact that we don't have the tests we need—not by the hundreds of thousands, but by the tens of millions every day—is leading to the problem we’re at now. It's getting better slowly, and over the next couple of months, we'll have enough tests.
One of the biggest causes of spreading in Wuhan was isolation at home and the spread in families, so it's pretty simple: you test in massive numbers. California is doing maybe 30,000 and now it's got a ramp up to a several hundred thousand if you really want to be careful. You want to open up the schools? You better test a lot of these kids, otherwise you're not going to know. There's no conflict between an energetic creative testing program—with tracing and quarantining—and opening up the economy. The longer you wait, the harder it is and the more people get sick, suffer, and die.
That's where we are and we can't just look backwards, we’ve got to look forward. First of all, Congress should be demanding—because Trump's not doing it himself—that they mobilize the industry. Now, the industry is doing something but you can't leave it to the fragmented decision-making of all these different people. I think back to Roosevelt on some day in 1941, he said no more private cars; Americans are making tanks, planes, and liberty ships and that's exactly what happened. They could put out planes and ships in a matter of days, so why can't we put out tests. We're going to get there, but we're going to get there over a lot of totally needless suffering and death, and it all goes back to Washington in my opinion.
Jim Newton: One of the things Donald Trump has said is that he would like to condition federal aid on certain policies in states. For instance, the federal government might withhold aid from states that have sanctuary policies for illegal immigrants. What do you think about linking aid to other policies, and what's the role of the federal government in aiding states in this crisis?
Jerry Brown: The first Justice White, in the 19th century said, “to state the proposition is to refute it,” and I say that because if you want to return the country to vigorous activity, you don't go around and saying, ‘California, I don't like what you're doing’ or ‘New York, I don't like your politics’.
To get the whole country back, you need us unified, and you need to follow the spirit of Roosevelt: try something, and if it doesn't work, try something else.” We need bold, persistent experimentation, not partisan rancor, petty politics, or halfway measures. To get this economy going with so many people sequestered at home requires massive federal spending and investment, for two clear objectives.
One, income maintenance: to supply the purchasing power that millions of Americans no longer have. They need that for their families, themselves, their food, and for their basic sustenance.
Two, investment in infrastructure: whether it's roads, high-speed rail, highways, or extending the internet to rural areas, schools, or community hospitals that are closing. There are trillions of dollars of good spendable projects.
It’s very simple. The economy is the function of supply and demand, and demand has collapsed because of the virus. That demand is the basis of an economy; you need supply, but you also need to have somebody seeking the supply and paying for it. percent of American demand is from consumers, and many of those consumers are not exercising their capacity. Therefore, the federal government must come in and supply that. So, I would call this a Rooseveltian moment, and it ought to take into account all the problems we have, whether it's the maldistribution of income and opportunity or the impending challenge of climate disruption. All these things are on the table, and unfortunately if we can't do them right in calmer days it's going to be very difficult.
The country has to step up—starting with the president and going down—and there’s been some cooperation. We're getting more testing in California—and President Trump is cooperating in some ways—but we need something much bigger. Roosevelt did not rise to the occasion at the level that the economy required. In the late thirties, a second way of unemployment came back, the recession intensified, and it wasn't until World War II—with mass mobilization of the entire economy for war material and soldiers—that we really got the economy going.
What Roosevelt did in the ‘30s and early ‘40s is what is required—certainly not a war—but hopefully a domestic campaign, intervention, and mobilization of the very best that America stands for. Anything less than that is muddled, isn't entirely predictable, and the odds will not be pretty.
Jim Newton: You talk about this as a Rooseveltian moment, do you have any reason to believe that Trump is capable of a Rooseveltian moment?
Jerry Brown: Well, I don't put anything passed him, but it doesn't look that likely. Not only he but his so-called base has a quasi-theological belief in this thing they call ‘the market’. The market, as its most beloved acolytes say, does not function well if there is interference or more than a minimal role for the state.
What I'm calling for—what Roosevelt did—was a great intervention, and he was looking to Keynes as opposed to Hayek. Right now, we're more in the Hayek realm than we are on the Keynesian, and I think that will cause us great heartache in the months and years ahead.
Jim Newton: Let me ask you about one aspect of this crisis and climate change that seems to run in common: denialism. There's at least some segment of this country that really doesn't accept that this is a serious health crisis; what do you make of that and what's responsible for that? In terms of climate change, there's also a streak at denialism. Where does this come from and how do we deal with it as a policy?
Jerry Brown: We’re in an increasingly polarized country—not that we haven’t been there before; we had a Civil War. We had a lot of people that hated Roosevelt—and Roosevelt had his own antagonisms—but it has gotten far worse.
First of all, what are the characteristics? If you're a Republican in California, you’re only 23 percent of the voting population, and 80 to 90 percent inclined to believe in President Trump. If you're a Democrat, that’s probably under 10 percent.
According to a poll that I heard from Republican writer, John Fund, only 37 percent of Republicans are worried about the health aspects. Whereas, if you ask Democrats, 97 percent are worried about the virus and the health aspects; There, we have a fundamental difference.
What caused it? Well, I'd say it’s a function of the income maldistribution, the propaganda that we see coming out of the spending in climate denial and the views promoted by Fox News and the right. But also, I'd say that the emergence of people of color and the assertion by women for a greater and equal role in the different countries of the world, taking on a greater role in every way, is causing angst and identity anxiety, particularly on the part of people who are in my bracket: people who are male and white.
You saw it with the antagonism to Obamacare by the Republicans. It became an article of faith that indicated not so much medical spending by the state, but more something new and different. the Republicans were able to characterize it as something un-American; a threat to the well-being of people, even those who were getting the benefits of the Affordable Care Act. There are a lot of factors that historians and analysts can come up with, but suffice it to say the changes in America are being felt disproportionately by different groups—whether people are Latino, African American, European Caucasian, male, female, rich, poor, rural, urban. We're seeing through different lenses and that is causing tremendous polarization. The election—it's very close, the betting odds are on Trump, and the polls are showing Biden by three to six points.
This is a divided and overextended society that is borrowing in a very exuberant way. I'd say we have a lot of challenges and probably the biggest is building trust by our leadership, which is now being done better by the governor than by those who are occupying the power pole position there in Washington.
Jim Newton: There's polarization, but what strikes me as different about this moment is that it seems that belief in science itself has become a matter of partisan difference rather than a common base upon which to disagree in terms of policy solutions. How does this polarization contribute to our different understandings of what science itself would say.
Jerry Brown: I don't know that people are thinking about science. Let's just take climate change, for example. There is a lot of denial, and it's more found among business Republicans and more conservative-type people, that's just a fact. I don’t know if it's the science or if it's the belief and trust in this magic of ‘the market.’ The market faces a totally new world when climate change requires a government-induced price on carbon or certain zero-pollution standards to eliminate carbon emissions for cars so that we can avoid the worst of the climate changes.
Is it a scientific matter or is it this belief in wealth and the economy? Why is tax the central pillar of the Republicans? Now, there are some religious ideas and other moral issues, but there's nothing so unifying as tax: less tax good, more tax bad. It’s money going from a private pocket to the public wealth. Democrats don’t want to pay more taxes than are needed, but I would say that there is a magical belief that you can reduce taxes and therefore gain government support, far more among most Republicans than among independents and Democrats.
Whatever it is, you’ve got this belief that’s different for Democrats and extremely different from Republicans, with independents shuttling in between in some fashion.
The issue for politicians is working through this divide in order to find common themes that can bring people together, because the world is certainly getting more dangerous for natural reasons—like pandemics and climate change—the interdependent financial system, all the new technologies that have so much power, and the weapons business that is accelerating. Even in the midst of the COVID crisis, Congress is considering tens of billions of more dollars to confront China, Iran, Russia, and all the other adversaries that are certainly different, but are being magnified in order to boost the defense industry and fan the flames of widespread fear and anxiety. I think we're in a very difficult political environment that will take great skill and a fair degree of luck to get through, without even greater disasters than we've seen more recently.
Jim Newton: Look ahead—beyond this virus or to a point where things seem to have settled down—how does life seem different to you? What are some of the ways in life will be different? Does life go back to normal as it was six months ago, or does life look different two or three years from now?
Jerry Brown: That's a difficult question. It's not clear we’re getting a vaccine anytime soon in the next year or two, and even when we get it, it's going to be hard to distribute it. If we don't get a vaccine, the airlines aren't going to come back to normal. Restaurants are going to come back, but there's going to be a change.
Behind your question is a larger point: are we going to learn something from this pandemic about how we want to live or how we must live? This is not a one-off story for a week or two; this is the persistent new reality that is going to induce more reflection. People will probably spend more time at home cooking and sharing meals with their family and friends than they have years before.
It wasn’t that long ago, when I grew up in a middle-class family—you might say it was a little better than that as my father was a lawyer and then the elected District Attorney of San Francisco—we might have gone out once or twice a year, maybe a few more times, but nothing like what is standard practice todat. I didn’t go to Europe until I was in law school, yet today many families, middle-class and above, are flying all over the world.
Things have not been the same as they have been the last decade or two, so they will change. I think there could be some good out of that, but mostly I think what I'd like to see society learn is that when you see a threat, you’ve got to take it seriously. Taiwan responded because they acted on a small amount of information, but they inferred that this pandemic would spread if they didn't take very drastic action. On the part of Italy, many European countries, and the United States, we didn't want to act; we wanted more certitude. Well, they're going to be more pandemics.
We have things like the danger of war. Can the United States make China a more hostile and more hated enemy month after month without having a war? Can we do that? I have my doubts. I think we're going to have to learn from the pandemic that you must take danger seriously and you have to listen to science. This world is not me versus you—it’s not a linear, zero-sum give and take—it's mutual, and it's interdependent.
The virus did not come from nationalism. It didn’t come from the way all politics is oriented with winners and losers. We are on a planet, and we share among 7.7 billion people this atmosphere, the soil, and all the human systems we created. We have to find mutuality and commonality, and that doesn’t mean we have to mean agree all the time, but—just as in a war—in a crisis, people unify.
This is a crisis not of China versus America, but it is human beings who live in China, America, Russia, and India all facing some very common threats—including climate change. We've got to merge out of ‘We win, you lose,’ to a world that is more collaborative. That might sound like pie in the sky, but we can adopt some form of a more shared world, or more of a win-win situation, or we really do face a high prospect of extinction or at least many horrors beyond those which were encountering today.
Jim Newton: It sounds a little like Schumacher, Small is Beautiful.
Jerry Brown: Well, I’m not saying small is beautiful; we have Google, high-speed rail, airplanes and vaccines, and that's not a ‘small is beautiful’—there’s a hundred vaccine companies out there. I think it is a recognition that we are not isolated, but that the air, the carbon emissions, financial system, the germs, and viruses spread around the world; we have to find the common way forward that would link Russia, China, the US, India, and Iran.
They're going to be big differences, but doesn't mean we can't coexist. In some ways, we coexisted with Russia, and we were in absolute antipathetic positions. World communism or the freedom of the West was going to dominate, and somehow, we invited a nuclear war and a lot of conflict and skirmishes on the periphery.
We've got to find a way of containing the worst of our nationalistic senses, feelings, and fears. If we don't, the world is small enough and dangerous enough that I would see a very dark future if we can’t wake up and take this broader, what I call, planetary realism. Look at the world from the totality, the interdependency, and the interacting, not from it’s either us or them. In truth, if China's economy declines, it affects us the same way our economy or the European economy declining hurts China. We've got a lot in common even though we have profound differences, and it's the wisdom to negotiate those differences in the context of embracing the commonalities that the future lies.
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Selling Change
Question! How scared are you of change? How easily will you embrace it or what is likely to trigger your acceptance of change?
It is often the hidden factor in any campaign and one that is easily overlooked. As an analogy take any product which you regularly purchase and have for several year, you have therefore placed your faith and trust in that product. Now say that an alternative product comes along, what would it take to convince you to try that instead? What sales pitch would work on you as an individual? And how would a change of recipe/formula/quality of your trusted product factor into your decision?
Now apply those thoughts to someone other than yourself to whom you are trying to sell the merits of an iScotland over remaining under UK governance. One thing is for sure an aggressive/derogatory approach isn’t going to succeed.
Always remember that you are a salesperson for Yes and an ambassador for the future iScotland. Together we are team Scotland.
#Yes #AChangefortheBetter
– Martin
Yes- Change for the Better
Farming Matters: Less equal than others
Farming Matters
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Let me ask you all something today. How valued and equal are you feeling right now”
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ForumsCategory: Resident Evil 2 Classic REbirthTranslate Language to Spanish
AvatarJorge Neomouse asked 1 year ago
I already read in answers that there’s no need to create a DLL for other languages, just edit in XML to translate (at least) the file text docs. Would you please tell us which are the files of the folder where this can be done and any tool suggested to edit them.
¿Is there any posibility to add subs for the game, where the characters got conversations? How can be this done if its possible to someone with basic HTML/XML knowledge.
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Reality Check on Amway: Is It a Scam?
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What is Amway?
Amway, founded in 1959, is an American company which focuses on manufacturing and selling primarily health, beauty, and home care products. Its product lines include home care products, personal care products, jewelry, electronics, Nutrilite dietary supplements, water purifiers, air purifiers, insurance, and cosmetics. Amway was ranked No. 26 among the largest private companies in the United States by Forbes in 2012.
Reality check:
Despite the seemingly stellar reputation, Amway uses multi-level marketing (“MLM”) to market its products throughout the world. MLM is a controversial marketing strategy and any companies who use it are subject to criticisms and lawsuits.
Robert Kiyosaki’s Cash Flow Quadrants
Do you want to build a family, own cars, and own landed house? Do you long for financial freedom? How much do you earn annually as an employee? It’s not much, isn’t it? Then, when would you realise your dream if you continue working as an employee? You waste your time and effort, mate! Let me show you below framework to open your mind.
Robert Kiyosaki's Cash Flow Quadrants
Robert Kiyosaki’s cash flow quadrants describes how individuals generate their income:
• Employees work for company and they exchange their time and energy with fixed-income salary determined by their employer.
• Self-employed persons work for themselves and has the ability to determine their worth. It is generally a one man act.
• Business owners create their own businesses and have smart people to run the companies for them.
• Investors own assets that generate money for them. This is also called passive income.
Employees and self-employed persons work hard to make the business owners and investors richer! How does that make you feel as an employee? The only way to attain financial freedom is to move from the left quadrants (E & S) to the right quadrants (B & S). One easy way to do that is by joining Amway!
Reality check:
Having a family consists of mostly entrepreneurs, I am a firm believer that you have to run your own business to become rich. However, it requires capital, skills & expertise, and network to run a business properly. You are also exposed to various risks by becoming a business owner. Examples: lower demand of products, naughty suppliers, default customers, defective products, and labour turnovers. Many businesses fail and have to be shut.
Despite what the prospectors insist and the cool title Independent Business Owner (“IBO”), I do not consider joining Amway or any other MLM businesses as becoming an entrepreneur. You do not own any system. You also do not employ any people. Your downlines work independently and are compensated by Amway, not you. You are self-employed, direct-selling Amway products on a freelance basis. You are still on the left quadrants.
Amway’s Business Model: 30% Chunk for You
Amway sells a wide range of every day products with globally well-known brands. Assume a household spends $100 every month for their daily needs. Revenue of $100 per month does not sound very much, right? However, imagine if there are 200 households. You will generate revenue of $20,000 per month! Moreover, this revenue recurs because each household needs to replenish their stocks.
Amway's Supply Chain Model
In a conventional supply chain model, wholesalers and stores take a big chunk of margins before the products eventually reach the end consumers. As Amway’s IBO, you replace the role of wholesalers and stores; thus, qualified for that big chunk of 30% per products. All for yourself!
Back to our previous assumption, you can generate net profit of 30% * $20,000 = $6,000 per month. Doesn’t this sound attractive?
Reality check:
To increase profitability, you can either increase revenue, or cut costs. As an IBO, your costs cannot be adjusted because Amway supplies its products at fixed prices. How could you increase revenue then? You can either mark up the selling prices, or increase the quantity sold. Marking up would lead you to losing consumers because the market is efficient. i.e. Amway sets the suggested retail price (“SRP”) for the world to see. Therefore, you are left with the sole option to sell more products.
Theoretically, the explanation above is sound assuming you can easily tap into 200 households with average spending of $200 per month. However, in practice, can you? You should do more research about the products and the target market before diving in:
• What are the selling points of Amway products? Are they appropriately priced and would you buy them at SRP?
• How many people currently use the products? Would they switch buying the Amway products from their existing distributors to you? Would they switch from their current brands?
• How much in average will people spend to buy Amway products each month? Do not just swallow what the numbers blurted by the prospectors.
From my observation, Amway does not sell a very large range of products. I only use its Glister toothpaste which costs approx. $10 for 2~3 months usage. I will not use its make up products because my skin is sensitive and I will not bear risks of switching brands. I have no interest in consuming their supplements. Since I am not thoroughly convinced with the Amway products, I decide not to join them.
Are you convinced with the products’ marketability? Does it worth the effort selling door-to-door?
Entrepreneur, Smart Shopper, and Consumer
You can be one of the following 3 options:
• Consumer who buys stuff from the entrepreneur and getting ripped off 30% for every products bought.
• Smart shopper who can buy products at distributor’s price (30% off SRP).
• Entrepreneur who makes profit by directly selling the products to consumers.
Now, let’s make a summary of the 3 options:
Product Discount Income Cost (USD)*
Entrepreneur $7.6
Smart shopper $7.6
Consumers N/A
* Estimated joining fee in Indonesia as at Jul-16
Reality check:
Conveying the differences in above manner makes the consumer option unfavourable. If you are the customer of Amway and constantly buy their products, becoming the smart shopper is more sensible choice. Why would you want to get ripped off by the entrepreneurs?
However, let’s see from the other perspective. If all customers want to become at least smart shoppers, what are the benefits of becoming an entrepreneur? I have yet to digest the complex compensation structure of Amway. However, I am pretty sure you will be compensated for how many people you have signed up. There is the catch, though. To be eligible for compensation, your downlines need to fulfil many requirements, one of which is volume requirement.
With this arrangement, each IBO ends up focuses on recruiting people rather than actually selling the products.
Network 21: The Support System for Aspiring IBOs
Network 21 is a training and support method for distributors working with the Amway business. It was founded in 1990 by Jim and Nancy Dornan, Amway distributors. It is an independent entity from Amway.
Network 21
According to Network 21, there are 6 steps towards success:
1. Your dream. Why do you join Amway?
2. Potential customer list (family, neighbours, and friends)
3. Make an appointment
4. Presentation
5. Use the products
6. Tools (CD, books, meetups)
Reality check:
See where the toxicity lies? You are encouraged to create potential customer list out of your family, neighbours, and friends. Furthermore, Network 21 also teaches you to make an appointment under guise of business opportunity because MLM gets such a bad rap. I would suggest you not to contact your closest ones under any guise and approach them extra carefully. You can do whatever you want to strangers (subject to your conscience).
Do not listen to argument that said good family and friends must support your business, thus it is fine to burn bridges with those who do not support you. It is easier to burn bridges than to regain the trust you lost. I personally blacklist all acquaintances who set me up to an MLM introductory session under the guise of catching up or the so-called business opportunity. It is really a waste of time and energy!
Burn Bridges!
You will be encouraged to purchase the tools regularly in order to be successful. I do not believe that you have to purchase all the CD and books; as well as attend all the meetups regularly to succeed. CDs are released every month. They will charge subscription fees for the CDs. Be real! It is hard to believe that they would have fresh materials every single month for 20 years since their founding. Similar case with books and meetups. Materials are recycled just to rake in continuous money. My friends who attended one of the meetups told me that he felt like in a brainwashing session.
Do you want to learn how to make a pitch to your prospect clients? You do not need Network 21. I was approached by Amway distributors twice. Despite how I feel that the pitch is great initially, this pitch feels memorised and nothing is original the second I listen to it. Network 21 craft the script and distribute it across IBOs. I can recite most of the pitch without having to attend any of Network 21 meetups.
Their final goal of the 1st appointment is to invite you to one of Network 21 meetups. They would not force you to join Amway immediately. Note that joining Network 21 is actually not compulsory!
Nothing is Impossible: Financial Freedom!
You can be successful and here’s why it is a sensible decision to start a business with Amway:
• Capital ↓
Costs only $7.6 for year 1, $3.8 p.a. for year 2 onwards.
• Risk ↓
No need to manage the manufacturing, R&D, logistic, inventories, and setting up a store.
• Skill ↓
It can be anybody! No worries you can learn in no time through Network 21.
• Flexible working hours and workplace.
Reality check:
Despite you are not exposed to above mentioned risks, you are still exposed to single supplier concentration risk. The future of your business is essentially controlled by Amway. Any change in compensation structure, product pricing, distribution rights could affect your income stability adversely. Would you call that financial freedom?
Skills are definitely required to become a successful IBO. Not technical skills, but social skills. Just like a salesman, you need to know how to approach people, pique their interests, and pitch confidently. Capital, in some sense, is also required. Impressive background and good appearance build instant credibility when pitching.
Network 21: Continuously Raking in Profits
It is hard to believe that Network 21 would have fresh materials every single time a tool is released. From my view, it is just their way of raking in profits with the constantly recycled materials. Holding meetups frequently are also very profitable for them.
See below 4 types of meetups:
1. Infonite conducted weekly. Attended by 100 participants.
Provides information for new joiners about Amway and Network 21 in a comprehensive manner.
Ticket: $2/pax
2. Business Building Seminar (“BBS”) conducted monthly. Attended by 1,000 participants.
Ticket: $6/pax
3. Network Building Training (“NBT”) conducted monthly.
Ticket: $2/pax
4. Leadership Seminar (“LS”) conducted 1x in 4 months. Attended by 7,000 participants.
Ticket: $50/pax
Looking at the price tag of LS, we can easily imagine how massive and profitable the meetup is. Every 4 month, Network 21 would generate $350k of revenue which could easily cover all the expenses required to hold the event. The profits most likely being enjoyed by all the high achievers in the organisation.
Verdict: Is Amway a Scam?
In my opinion, it is not a scam. Amway has a legit business model, or otherwise it would have been shut down. However, many IBOs sugarcoat facts and lead you to burn money in unnecessary motivational products. Some people consider this as a scam, especially when they are not successful. I agree it is an unethical practice.
If you want to join Amway, you should be fine if you have conducted due diligence and prepare a strategy. Do not join if you do not have the “IT” to survive in the scheme. No one can ever succeed in any kind of roles.
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Susceptibility to the Coronavirus? No One is Talking About This
Can your immune system stand up against the coronavirus? Watch this video to find out what you need to know about this pandemic. DATA:……………
Timestamps 0:09 Coronavirus news 0:35 How viruses spread 1:19 Virus and coronavirus facts 1:45 The purpose of a virus 2:15 Viruses and coronavirus explained 5:15 Coronavirus susceptibility 8:02 Nutritional deficiencies 9:10 Coronavirus outbreak and age 10:00 Coronavirus fatality percentages compared to other viruses 11:00 Key nutrients for viruses
Today we’re going to talk about coronavirus susceptibility and susceptibility to other viruses. When someone sneezes, about 20,000 little droplets containing viruses are projected through the air. For viruses like COVID-19 to spread, it has to be propelled in the air, and you have to come in contact with it. Certain viruses have targets for certain tissues.
The coronavirus targets the lungs. Viruses are everywhere. One liter of seawater contains over 100 billion viruses. So, it really all comes down to susceptibility. The purpose of a virus is to deliver its DNA or RNA into the host cell to be copied so it can continue. Viruses go through 5 stages: 1. They attach to the cell wall (this is easier for it to do if you’re susceptible) 2. They penetrate the cell wall 3. They go into the nucleus and replicate 4. They assemble 5. They are released Some viruses go dormant and wait until you’re older, weakened, nutritionally deficient, or stressed, and then they come out. This could be why many people get a virus outbreak during stress states. Certain viruses can also activate the release of sugar.
Susceptibility factors: 1. Age 2. Nutritional deficiencies 3. Genetics 4. Weak immune system 5. Chronic disease 6. Stress Out of all of these factors, you have the most control over the nutrients you get. Getting the right nutrients can also influence your immune system and even stress. Two things happen when you have nutritional deficiencies:
1. It weakens your immune system
2. It makes viruses stronger If we take a look at the fatality rate of the coronavirus pandemic and age, the fatality rate is much higher as the age group gets older. For example, people in their 80s and older may have a higher risk of death than people in their 50s and younger. COVID-19 also has a much lower fatality percentage than other viruses like ebola SARS and MERS. Key nutrients for viruses: 1. Vitamin C 2. Vitamin E
3. Selenium
4. Zinc
5. Vitamin D
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Finding the Right Gift for Everyone You Know
Luggage Gift Ideas for Frequent Travelers
If a friend or family member is an avid traveler, consider treating them to a piece of luggage as a special gift. No matter if they prefer casual road trips across the country or adventurous flights around the world, they can benefit from a new bag or two to hold all of their personal belongings.
If you're not sure what type of luggage to buy, you can't go wrong with a soft-sided carry-on bag, which is convenient in that it can expand to hold a lot without taking up too much space on an airplane or another tight area. A carry-on size will ensure that the recipient can have the bag handy on any flight.
On car adventures, carry-on bags are ideal for holding road trip essentials such as books, magazines, snacks, and small pillows. The bags are also perfect for bringing toiletries, including shampoo and conditioner bottles, face washes, shave gels, and combs and brushes, into and out of hotels.
Luggage makes an ideal present for any special occasion, such as birthdays, holidays, housewarmings, and weddings. It's also the perfect gift for a new graduate who is about to travel for a few months before working.
While a carry-on bag by itself is a thoughtful gesture, you can round out the gift with a few more travel essentials. Here are some ideas to get you started:
1. Eye Mask
When traveling at night, an eye mask will come in handy and allow your friend to arrive at their destination refreshed instead of dragging. Along with the bag, treat your friend or loved one to a high-quality eye mask that will keep the light out under any circumstances. You can also include a pair of earplugs and a soft neck pillow as added sleep-inducing bonuses.
2. Filtered Water Bottle
For the recipient who likes to travel to foreign countries and in off-the-grid locations, a filtered water bottle will make a useful gift. These bottles take impurities and event bacteria out of the water to keep travelers healthy and hydrated when they're not able to find bottled water.
Filtered water bottles will also come in handy for urban travelers as they can make city water taste better by removing chlorine taste and odor.
3. Passport Holder
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TBD on Ning
There's a new book out titled "Payback: The case for revenge". It was written by a law professor at Fordham. In it, he promotes the idea of vengence. I tend to agree with him in that the victim of a crime should be involved in the punishment.
QUESTION: How do you feel about this concept?
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Boy, not sure yet; but I definitely want to read the book, thanks for posting, Michael.
While we all feel, from time to time, that there are people in our lives who really deserve to have their spleens ripped out and force-fed to their own children, I find that allowing those people so much control over one's own time and imagination can be....unproductive.
I allow them, at most, the occasional brief pleasant fantasy - Like, when seeing a thoroughly flattened and decaying bit of roadkill and thinking, "Yeah...That's about what Charlie deserved, for stealing my stuff, moving out without telling me and leaving me stuck with an unaffordable lease."
Because, if your life is already so empty that "stewing in a vat of simmering rage and lust for revenge that you can barely function" describes your average day, then the object of your need for retribution is still wrecking your life without even lifting a finger.
Mornin' Snagg,
Thank you for posting and you are absolutely right in your comments. However, the professor is not addressing the simple anger that one might feel in every day life but instead is thinking of crimes like kidnapping and murder, etc. Those crimes that you read about in the paper that are so awful that it makes you cringe and you can't get them out of your mind. For example, how would you feel if someone you loved were kidnapped, tortured, murdered, dismembered, and dumped? Wouldn't you feel justified in seeking revenge when you discovered that the criminals sentence was 25 years to life but that he had gotten out in 10 due to good behavior and overcrowded prisons? If the criminal was living in your town, driving a nice car, etc., how would you feel?
The point is to NOT justify vigilantism, which sounds like what the professor is trying to peddle.
We all hear of storties of justice denied or perverted, but I notice that not too many of those so outraged by such inequities get all bent outta shape at the idea of somebody that they don't know being revealed to have been unjustly incarcerated because of prosecutorial misconduct, police corruption or bungled, exculpatory evidence; They just shake their heads and go "So Sad, but what can we do ?" - When "What can we do ?" is apparently reserved for taking justice into their own hands and slaughtering someone who personally aggrieved them.
That's the problem with the professor's idea - That it's it okay for the person arguing the pro-revenge point to enact their revenge, but it would be wrong for anybody else to do it, because that would be against the rule of law and would be the first steps into anarchy and social chaos. It's the professor having his cake and eating it, too.
No, the professor is advocating that the victims of crimes be allowed to speak during the trial and during the sentencing phase. He is not advocating street justice.
Okay, that's different from your description up top.
Still, it requires us to consider that the victims may not be the best possible choices for making reasoned, fair punishments. A particularly vindictive or emotionally-traumatized victim could demand a far more onerous punishment than the crime committed actually deserves. The death penalty for stepping in their flower garden, or something similar.
Yes, not giving the victims a say in choosing the punishment can make SOME feel excluded and marginalized - But since when (excluding the republican party and religious nuts) do we Americans allow the personally-affronted to make decisions that could affect all of the rest of us ?
Giving the still-angry a voice during the sentencing procedure may grant them some small sense of personal retribution, but if a judge or penal code is going to override whatever punishment that they request, then is anything really being accomplished ? Justice is blind and is symbolized by a set of scales for a reason, after all.
(I use this argument because I was reminded over the weekend of an incident in my youth, in which a senile elderly woman, whose flower garden was wrecked when some other kids rode their bicycles through it, took a shot at me as I rode past, even though I'd had nothing to do with her flower garden's destruction. This was all learned after I'd called the cops and her family had come over and relieved her of the rifle she'd used. Angry, upset people, no matter how "victimized" and justified they may feel, are NOT the people who should be making permanent, life-altering decisions for other people.)
Perri, that is a perfect example of 'victims choice'. Your brother chose not to attend the trial and to leave it up to the jury and the judge. The professor is only suggesting that the victim be 'allowed' to speak during the sentencing phase, it is not a requirement.
the victims ARE allowed to speak during the trial. usually they are questioned by the prosecutor and questioned by the defense. if the person is judged guilty of the accused crime, in many many jurisdictions, they now let those victims speak at the sentencing to factor in the impact of the crime in the sentence imposed. so his book actually might be a part of the publish or perish part of teaching
My ex worked at the State Appellate Defender's Office, which did the investigative back-work to make sure that anyone receiving the death penalty had gotten a fair and impartial trial. I read more than a few victim's families statements, and the range of human emotions they displayed made me aware of one thing in particular: Many of them were too distraught to be considered capable of sound judgment on anything.
There was, in fact, an unsettling feeling that some courts which were considering the possibility of victim's sentencing statements, were heading in a "bread and circuses" direction, a crowd-baiting red flag to a virulent and ugly, punishment-freak segment of the public - That it really had nothing to do with "justice", and had more to do with the judge's re-election campaigns.
in fact, carried to an extreme it sounds kinda like 'sharia law' ala the case in saudi arabia doesn't it? one youth paralyzed another by some action, whether car accident or whatever is not the point...the verdict of the court? that offending youth gets to have a surgeon snip his spinal cord to extract justice....
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Beginners Guide to Curry
An Overview of Indian Curry
India’s culinary traditions have resulted from various foreign impacts. Colonial influences are notable in many different parts of India as India has been invaded several times in history. The region of the northern plains of India has been highly affected by the Persian and Mughal cooking style.
Mughal cooking impacted greatly on the traditional techniques and therefore introduced the Indian cuisine to many new and delicious dishes by combining the two food styles. The Mughals brought with them their rich and aromatic dishes which have now become a part of the Indian cuisine. Besides the invasions leading to culinary influences, religions played a major role too. Except the northern region, the influences of the Muslim cooking styles can also be found in certain parts of south India like Hyderabad and Kerala.
The invasion by Timur in the fifteenth century was responsible for a large part of Muslim influence on the cooking techniques of the Indian cuisine. The introduction of butter sauces, cream meats and rich delicacies with nuts and dates has led to the modern dishes of korma and butter chicken over time. Besides the Indian spices the Mughals used spices they brought from their native region, hence leading to the introduction of these spices in the culinary arts of the Indian cuisine. The non-vegetarian dishes like the kebab are also due to the invasion of the Mughals.
Perhaps the most notable dish introduced by the Muslim rulers was the Pullao, a rice dish where rice is cooked with various vegetables, meat and occasionally fruits and dry fruits too. Within many Muslim communities, the cooking of pullao is considered an art form.
The nizams of Hyderabad on the other hand developed Biryani as their signature style of cooking. They introduced a style of marinating which involved putting chicken or some other meat in a large pot or cooking vessel filled with spices and vegetables. This was then placed on top of hot coal. The pot was then sealed with dough to keep the flavours of the spices and vegetables intact and hence infuse the meat or chicken with the flavours. Hot coal was then also put on top of the dough. This style is called Dumphukt and is essential to preparing the traditional Dum Biryani.
The the Mughlai cuisine is a very important part of the Indian cuisine. The cuisine is available all over the country but the centres of Delhi and Lucknow are home to his cuisine and arguably serve the most authentic Mughlai food. The influence of the Mughal cuisine is incredible. The coming of the Persians and Zoroastrians and also the spreading of Islam by the Muslim rulers brought with them their cooking styles and delicacies which were then blended with the Indian cuisine and have now been immortalised into one of the yummiest and richest cuisines of India. | <urn:uuid:a18321db-1843-4a6a-b29d-aaca781710ec> | http://www.curryfix.com/beginners-guide-to-curry/ | en | 0.969414 | 0.179812 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
News Detail
Event Title: Senate Implementation Committee in its meeting
Event Date: 2019-10-29
Senate Implementation Committee in its meeting was given a briefing on the matter of issuance of Pakistani Origin Cards to Pakistanis staying in European countries by Ministry of Interior Ministry of Foreign Affairs and NADRA. The Committee members observed that the departments should work out a mechanism to deal with cases of those people who took asylum in European countries declaring them as Afghan nationals and have now applied for Pakistani Origin cards while at the same time taking all the precaution and carrying out all due diligence in formulating the mechanism so that the name of country doesn’t get affected and the people also don’t get treated badly.
The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Senator Dilawar Khan here at the Parliament House on Tuesday and was attended among others by Senator Aurangzeb Khan, Mouli Muhammad Faiz, Khanzada Khan, Sajjad Hussain Turi, Naseebullah Khan Bazai, Director General Foreign Office, Joint Secretary Interior, Director NADRA and officials from relevant departments.
While discussing the matter of problems faced by pensioners in Levis personnel who performed duties in Kurram and Orakzai Districts in erstwhile FATA, the Committee was told that some officers worked beyond the age of superannuation and were being given salaries as well pensions so the ministry of SAFRON had to recover some amount from the ones overpaid and had to be diverted to other retired employees. The case is subjudice in Supreme Court so the committee decided to wait for the court decision before giving any directions.
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Slow and Steady Wins the Race!
英语教学：课外英语阅读计划 Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
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Reading Guide for Jacob Have I Loved
Jacob Have I Loved is a story about jealousy. The title comes from the Bible story of Jacob and Esau, Isaac's twin sons. Although Esau was the older son, Jacob was favored by his mother and when Isaac was dying, Jacob disguised himself as his brother and received the blessing meant for the eldest son. Both in the Old Testament story in the Book of Genesis and in the New Testament allusion to that story in Romans, the suggestion is that God, too, favored Jacob and ignored or even hated Esau.
Louise Bradshaw grew up on a small island in the Chesapeake Bay where the Protestant church was very important, as it is on Smith Island today. She knew this story and she could connect it to her own situation as the ordinary, ignored older twin. As a reader, you should keep the story in mind and look for ways that Katherine Paterson has woven it into the book.
"Rass Island"
In this chapter the adult Louise thinks back to the island where she spends her childhood and imagines returning there. As you read, try to visualize this island. What are the specific details she uses to create a sense of this place in the reader's mind?
Chapter 1
This chapter introduces 3 main characters: Louise, her twin sister Caroline, and McCall Purnell.
What are three or four important traits you discover about each of these characters?
Chapter 2
Louise introduces her parents and tells the story of her birth. Who was ignored? Who got all the attention? How did that continue through the Bradshaw twins' childhood? How is that like the story of Jacob and Esau? (You may want to find that Bible story and find more details.)
Chapter 3
World War II begins for the U.S. with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. How does Louise feel about that? Does anyone care how she feels? How does Louise think her parents feel about her? How does she want them to show their love?
Chapter 4
Louise and Grandma are alone until her mother and Caroline return on the ferry from the mainland where Caroline has been to the doctor. Notice who else gets off the ferry. He will be important. Louise's consuming jealousy is obvious in this chapter. Find a memory and an event which feed that jealousy.
Chapter 5
Hiram Wallace's story is told, and Auntie Braxton is introduced. What is her distinguishing characteristic? What is his? Call and Louise think he is a German spy. Do you? Does this story seem like one that will be a spy story? Why or why not?
Chapter 6
Louise dreams that her sister is dead and makes plans to make money. Why?
Chapter 7
Louise and Call visit the Captain, and Call volunteers to make that regular. What is Louise jealous about in this chapter?
Chapter 8
Lyrics Unlimited turns out to be a scam. How does Louise figure that out? Auntie Braxton has collapsed and when Hiram Wallace sends Louise to get help he calls her by her full name. Why was that important to her? (She asks this question in the book. What do you think?)
Chapter 9
They try to get rid of Auntie Braxton's cats. How does Caroline score again? At the end of the chapter Louise is reminded of the story of her birth again. Why?
Chapter 10
Hurricane. Who is brave and who is not?
Chapter 11
Louise pushes the Captain to go see what effect the storm had on his house. What did they find? Why do you think she responded so strongly to the hug in the boat?
Chapter 12
Louise cannot seem to control own imagination and her Grandmother makes her feel worse. The Captain finds another place to live. Why did Louise get so upset when her sister used her hand lotion? What did it stand for in her mind?
Chapter 13
The Captain solves his housing problem by marrying Trudy Braxton. Louise decides she's crazy and thinks this has advantages; what are they?
Chapter 14
Trudy Braxton dies. Grandma accuses the Captain of poisoning her and Louise of helping. Why do you think she says this kind of thing? Call goes to work for Louise's father and the Captain offers money for Caroline to go to boarding school in Baltimore. Where does this leave Louise? What does her Grandmother say that makes Louise feel even worse?
Chapter 15
Call goes into the Navy and Louise quits school to work on her father's boat. Why does she decide that God hates her? Do you think this is reasonable or crazy? Notice what Louise says happens to "ordinary, ungifted" female crabs. What is she saying about her own life? Why, then, do you think she is so happy, suddenly.
Chapter 16
The war is over. Call comes home but he is going to marry Caroline. How does Louise feel about this? Louise's grandmother is worse than ever. What is she accusing her mother of?
Chapter 17
Louise is left alone with her grandmother again while her parents go to Caroline's wedding. What does she discover that makes her pity her grandmother? When Hiram Wallace comes for Christmas dinner he asks Louise what she really wants to do. Why do you think she hasn't figured this out before?
Chapter 18
Louise's parents return. She has a long conversation with her mother about what brought her mother to Rass Island and why she is comfortable there. Her mother, too, tries to convince her to leave. What has kept her there?
Chapter 19
Louise goes to the University of Maryland. This is the late l940s and a time when there aren't many places in medical schools for women so she transfers to a nurse-midwife school. When she graduates she goes to a mountain village. Why does she pick Truitt and why does it remind her of the island?
Chapter 20
Louise is married. Her first son arrives just after her father dies; she doesn't go home for the funeral. At the end of the chapter (and of the book) she delivers another pair of twins. How does this delivery differ from her own birth story? What does she do for the weaker twin? How does this show she has changed?
Many readers have been caught off-guard by the ending of this book. Prepare for your discussion of the book by thinking about why you think this is, or isn't an appropriate ending. If you like it be prepared to defend it. If you don't, how would you have ended Louise's story?
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Dry Cat Food is not Good for a Nursing Momma Cat
Opal Went From Being a Straggly Stray Cat to a Healthy Beauty
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The effects of a raw diet on a cat's health never ceases to amaze me. If you've ever seen a colony of stray cats, you'll see cats that look a bit scrappy or unhealthy. Even stray cats that have been spayed or neutered, vaccinated and are being fed every day typically look scrappy and unhealthy. I know--I used to be a feeder with a non-profit group for a cat colony of about 80 cats. The fur is thin, separated, dull, and sheds a lot. They are either very skinny with hip bones showing, yet have large bellies, or they may be very overweight. These cats will often have frequent or intermittent upper respiratory infections, lots of fleas, and very often diarrhea. This story is not meant to take away from all the wonderful volunteers who so generously give their time, money and emotional energy to caring for these innocent and homeless cats. Like I said, I did this for a number of years. While dry cat food is not the best option for any cat, it is especially not good for a nursing momma cat. Why? Because dry cat food is slow and difficult for a cat to digest. When a mother cat is nursing, she needs milk as soon as possible to feed those hungry babies. Opal was a stray, with a litter of kittens, eating a diet of dry cat food.
Benefits of a Raw and/or Canned Diet for Cats
The point of this story is to drive home the benefits of feeding a diet of raw and/or grain-free canned food.
Using a stray cat is a perfect example. Meet Opal. AKA "Opo Mopo" (it means nothing, just me being silly). She lived in my former neighborhood, which has quite a few community cats. Opal had at least one litter of kittens prior to my moving into that neighborhood. Her new litter was four lovely kittens--three males that looked like her and one black female. A very nice woman was feeding Opal a diet of dry cat food, an inexpensive grocery store brand full of corn, by-products, artificial colors and flavors. Opal was and is very feral, meaning she is very skittish and will not allow human touch.
Several people had tried to trap Opal and her kittens without success. One kitten was asleep on the woman's patio table. A neighbor quietly approached and scooped up the kitten, who became tame and part of their family. I took a turn trying to trap, and had all three kittens and Opal within six days. It was a great success.
You can see the condition Opal was in by the photo below. She had recently returned from being spayed, so she is still a bit groggy in the photo. But you can see the condition of her fur -- and how the veterinary clinic did a botch job on her ear. The other community cats all looked pretty scrappy too, even though they were provided plenty of dry cat food and water and had bedding and shelters to sleep in.
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Despite having daily access to food and water, she was severely anemic and very thin. When I brought her home from the vet, still groggy from anesthesia, I was able to look in her mouth. Her gums and tongue were white from anemia and she was full of fleas. Her kittens were also anemic and full of fleas.
Dry cat food is not an ideal diet for a pregnant or nursing momma cat or for kittens Why? Because dry food is very difficult and slow to digest. It is more difficult than canned wet food for the nursing mom's body to turn into milk for her kittens, and does not provide adequate energy or protein. Dry cat food does not contribute to a healthy immune system, thus making cats, especially stray cats, more prone to infections and even more delectable to fleas. Her body was starving for the vital nutrients she required, especially during nursing. The kittens were eating some dry food at this point and still nursing.
It pains me to think of all the thousands upon thousands of stray cats having litters and being in such poor condition to provide their babies with vital nutrition for their thriving health. If you are ever in the position to be feeding a stray cat that is pregnant or nursing, please feed them canned food. (And thank you for taking the time and having a heart to feed them!)
Despite cat food manufacturers claiming that dry food cleans their teeth, her teeth were full of tartar. Tartar leads to inflamed red gums. If not taken care of, eventually one of two things will occur. The cat's mouth will be in pain from rotting teeth which may fall out. Or the tartar will lead to painful bacterial infections that can leach into the bloodstream, then the organs, and causing illness or and even lead to death. Sometimes all of these occur.
Opal's recovery after surgery was slow. She took about 24 hours to come out of the anesthesia, probably due to being so anemic. A bit off subject...I kept Opal indoors for four weeks in the hopes of taming her. I have had a lot of success taming feral cats. She is my only failure to date. Opal hated human touch, hated being inside, and could not trust us. She wanted nothing to do with her kittens, which confused them. We watched the spirit leaving her eyes. So back outdoors she went. She stayed around with me and my roommate, and we provided food and water, a litter box, and bedding for her. I found homes for her three kittens.
Opal after just two months eating raw and dry cat food
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Fortunately, Opal easily made the transition to raw food. At first, I fed her one meal of dry cat food and one meal of canned cat food per day.
Then I started adding raw meat to the canned food. For a few days, the ratio was 25% raw meat and 75% canned.
Then, a few days of 50% raw meat and 50% canned.
Then we went to 75% raw meat and 25% canned. Until it was 100% raw for one meal.
Eventually, I felt so bad about still feeding her dry food for about 4 months just "because she was a stray" while my indoor cats were off the junk food. So, I quit giving her dry cat food. Opal went to one meal of raw and one meal of canned per day. There were no complaints from her!
Opal one year later being fed a diet of raw and canned cat food...
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These photos are 13 months since we started feeding her. Isn't she a beauty? Her coat is filled in and thick. Even though I could not touch her, it is obviously soft and silky. Her healthy diet makes her much less attractive to fleas and improved her skin. She does not scratch all the time. I know she has fleas and I see her scratching at on occasion, but she has no bare spots from frantically scratching at fleas, which stray cats typically have. She even looks like she gets brushed, but doesn't. She used to have a little bit of intermittent creamy-colored eye discharge. That cleared up too. I started adding an herbal immune booster formula to her food to help protect her from infections.
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UPDATE January 2017:
My former roommate successfully trapped Opal and took her with him to her new home. She is acclimating to indoor living, albeit very slowly. She hides in a cubby most of the time. She receives pets (but does not like it). After about four weeks, he heard her running around in the house with the other two cats. She goes into his bedroom at night and meows. One night, he heard a lot of commotion, got up and turned on the hall light, and there were three cats stopped in their tracks, staring at him.
>>The herbal formula immune builder product that I gave to Opal is Primalix Immune Functional Food Drops. I mix them into her food. I do this three weeks on, one week off. The reasons I like this company's pet products so much are 1) they are liquid, which are easier to absorb than tablets or capsules, 2) they contain no alcohol as a preservative, which is toxic for cats and dogs, and 3) they are truly 100% natural and safe. You can check it out here: PRIMALIX IMMUNE
Do you have a feral cat turn-around story from ill health to thriving health that you'd like to share? Do tell in the comments below!
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About the Book
Table of Contents
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V
Part VI
Part VI: Cain's Wife: and the Penalty of Incest
Chapter 1
Cain Marries a Sister
IN PRIMITIVE societies it is a general rule that brothers do not marry their sisters. The strictest of taboos are applied to this particular form of incest. Yet, from certain points of view, close inbreeding -- especially within a family of prominence -- has something to commend it when considered from the social and economic point of view: both material wealth and wealth in the form of rights or privileges are by this means kept closely within the family. An excellent example of this was to be found among the Incas, where the right to marry within the clan, and indeed to any who were first degree relatives, was reserved for the chiefs primarily to protect the interests of the royal house. According to Felip Huaman Poma de Ayala in his El Primer Nuevo Chronica Y Buen Gobierno, published in Paris in 1926, the formal Inca statement was: (1)
We, the Inca, order and decree that no one shall marry his sister or his mother, nor his first cousin, nor his aunt, nor his niece, nor his kinswoman, nor the godmother of his child, under penalty of being punished and of having his eyes pulled out . . . because only the Inca is allowed to be married to his carnal sister. . . .
In "modern" times the maintenance of rights within a family by this means is best exemplified in the royal families of Europe, the right in this instance being the right of holding dominion rather than material wealth per se -- since many royal families are impoverished. But as is well illustrated in the case of the Spanish royal family, close inbreeding has had a very deleterious effect. Charles Blitzer, writing of this family, spoke of Charles II in the following way: (2)
1. Felipe de Ayala: quoted by Victor W. von Haggen, Realm of the Incas, Mentor Books, New York 1957, p.125
2. Blitzer, Charles; "The Age of the Kings," in Great Ages of Man, Time Inc., New York, 1967, p.168.
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Charles II of Spain, the most grotesque monarch of the seventeenth century, had been a travesty of a king. Generations of royal intermarriage had culminated in Charles in a creature so defective in mind and body as to be scarcely even a man. He was born in 1661, the product of his father's old age, and his brief life consisted chiefly of a passage from prolonged infancy to premature senility.
He could not walk until he was ten, and was considered to be too feeble for the rigours of education. In Charles, the famous Hapsburg chin reached such massive proportions that he was unable to chew, and his tongue was so large that he was barely able to speak.
Lame, epileptic, bald at the age of 35, Charles suffered one further disability, politically more significant than all the rest: he was impotent.
The Medici family -- beginning with Giovanni di Bicci de Medici (1360-1429) and ending, in one line, with Catherine de Medici (1519-1589) who married Henry II of France -- provides us with another instance where inbreeding clearly affected viability. The members of the family for successive generations traced through two lives lived shorter and shorter, with the notable exception of Catherine herself. These two lines are given below with their life spans indicated by years rather than dates, to simplify the figures (3).
3. Hale, John R, "The Renaissance," in Great Ages of Man, Time Inc., New York, 1965, p.165.
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Other branches of the family seemed to have done very much better, a fact which suggests that marriages further afield led to the birth of quite normally viable offspring.
While it is customary to assume that close inbreeding has always a damaging effect, this is not strictly true -- as is evident in the case of the Inca rulers, whose royal prerogative it was to marry sisters. Indeed there could conceivably be a connection between a ruling house and incestuous marriage, for genetic reasons. In antiquity and during periods when ruling houses were first establishing themselves, only such families as produced a line of particularly energetic and forceful individuals would be likely to come to power. It might very well be evidence of exceptional breeding (in the genetic sense) that a line could survive the potential hazards of inbreeding such as are involved in a series of brother-sister marriages. That a particular "house" could so inbreed successfully might quite rightly establish that house as an exceptional one from the genetic point of view. A Royal House may therefore have been any house which could successfully mate in this incestuous way and not witness any ill effects, while at the same time accumulating and consolidating its wealth and prestige.
At any rate, the Incas were a notable royal house and certainly practiced incest over a considerable number of generations without ill effect. As Murdock said:
The long line of Inca emperors reveals only one man of mediocre talents; all the rest displayed exceptional energy, resourcefulness, tolerance, and magnanimity in the conduct of affairs. Certainly no dynasty with a higher average order of capacity has graced a throne in the whole of human history.
It is well known that the Ptolemies also married their sisters in order to maintain the integrity of material wealth and rights, and the experiment was not without success if Cleopatra is any indication. This notable woman represented the seventh generation of such brother-sister marriages. There is some evidence, I believe, that her young brother was showing signs of mental deficiency, a circumstance which, if it is true, might be an indication that the inbreeding process was just beginning to break down and the line was at the end of its genetic good fortune.
Other royal families, the Alii among the Hawaiians, for example, and the Singhalese
(5) must be counted among those who practiced this principle of brother-sister marriages. Against this background
4. Murdock, George P., Our Primitive Contemporaries, Macmillan, New York, 1951, p.417.
5. Alii of Hawaiians: according to Dr. Gorden Brown, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Toronto; Singhalese: Edward B. Tylor, Primitive Culture, Murray, London, 1891, vol. 1, p.50.
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one may remember that among the common people such marriages were taboo. Primitive people are highly observant and quickly learn to avoid doing things which reduce the viability of their community as a whole. Experience taught these that the children of brother-sister matings were in one way or another apt to be less healthy than the children of those who married more distant relatives.
But it seems likely that these people also observed rather quickly that the wealth of a family was dissipated when the various children married at too great a distance in terms of blood relationship. Hence almost all such people laid down rules which, while forbidding marriage to a brother or a sister, also frowned on marriage to anyone who was only remotely related; in the latter case, the bride price paid by the groom or the dowry brought by the bride tended to pass out of the family's control. They therefore bracketed the range of relationship within which one might marry, avoiding the extremes. Indeed, in most cases the relationship considered ideal was the marriage of cousins, a practice almost universal among primitive people.
Now, the judgment made by the general public in such a case might very well have been firmly founded upon fact: namely, such a family was, in their genetic makeup, truly an outstanding one. This observation makes perfectly good sense when it is realized that through the centuries we have accumulated individually so much low-grade genetic material that when brothers and sisters marry, the same particular kind of low-grade material finds expression in the offspring in a reinforced way, in a way which will be examined a little more fully subsequently; the end result is that such children are apt to be much below average in many different ways. As we shall show, experience fully bears this out, and theory has reached such a point of refinement that geneticists can often predict quite accurately the degree of probability of detrimental traits that will appear in such children. Thus, when brothers do marry sisters without such deleterious effects, we have to all intents and purposes good evidence that quite by chance they have inherited a less damaged genetic constitution.
Although I do not have available all the information that would be required to substantiate what I wish to propose below, I think we may well have in recent times a good illustration of these general principles. I have in mind a very primitive people in South India known as the Toda,
(6) who practice polyandry -- that is, several men
6. Murdock, George P. ref. 4. p.106.
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(normally brothers) share one woman who becomes wife to them all. In writing of these people, George Murdock referred to them as a "race of superb men and hideous women." Elie Reclus, in his work on comparative anthology titled Primitive Folk, also refers to the splendid character (within the context of their culture) of Toda males. And he added this remark, which is apropos: (7)
Marriage between relatives has had no dire consequences in this tribe, which, though it has practiced the closest endogamy (marriage within the family) for centuries, possesses an athletic constitution and pleasing exterior, and is famed for the gentleness of its manners, and the peacefulness and tranquillity of its way of life.
Although toward the end of the last century the Toda were apparently beginning to decline as a consequence of their contact with more highly civilized people and the breaking up of their own native customs, we have sufficient evidence from the studies of W. H. R. Rivers and others that close intermarriage had not proved detrimental to these people in the way that it habitually does among other peoples, whether primitive or highly civilized. Some fortuitous circumstance had therefore preserved among these people a genetic strain less damaged with the passage of time than most of us share. It is apparent, therefore, that not only so-called royal families but even whole tribes may closely intermarry with impunity upon certain occasions, while others cannot do so without disastrous results.
Let us therefore examine the factors which determine when brother-sister marriages will be harmful and when they will not: and in what form the degeneration is likely to show up. And let us consider why this effect results. It will be necessary to attempt to do this without becoming too involved in the jargon of the geneticists; thus some statements may be somewhat unsatisfactory from the point of view of the experts, an ever-present danger when oversimplification is required.
Inherited Potential
When a man and a woman are mated, each passes onto their children one half of the inherited potential they themselves have received from their parents. Present indications are that the characteristics which each will contribute to the child are carried by genes. For each character that a man or a woman may contribute to his offspring, there are usually two alternatives -- or to put it another way, the potential is in duplicate and at the present moment chance appears to govern which of the two alternative contributions the
7. Reclus, Elie, Primitive Folk: Studies in Comparative Ethnology, Scott, London, no date, p.200
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individual will pass on. For example, a brown-eyed parent may pass on to his children that which will give them blue eyes instead of brown eyes like his own.
There are a very large number of alternatives, as for example the control of hair colour (fair or dark). Modern research into the nature of these controlling genes (and there are thousands of them in each individual) has shown that for one reason or another, these genes get damaged and appear in a condition which is called mutant. Normally a gene once mutated remains mutated, i.e., damaged, as it is passed through each successive generation. The inevitable conclusion of this finding is that the amount of material controlling inheritance becomes increasingly damaged in its nature with each successive generation. In other words, each generation may be expected to be less viable in some way than the preceding one, even though the damage may be so small as to be, to all intents and purposes, of little consequence.
Now, if a parent with a particular damaged gene complex passes onto a son and a daughter this damaged material, these offspring will both share damage at the same point (or locus) in their own gene complexes. Should these two marry, in their mating the particular segments of damaged material are bound to be brought together in a way that enormously reinforces their power to effect the growing embryo detrimentally. On the other hand, if such a son marries a girl from some other family who, although suffering genetic damage like the rest of us, has not inherited damage at the same place in the gene chain, the effect of bringing the two "damages" together is likely to be much less serious, for the areas of damage do not coincide. For this reason, marriages are safer from the physiological point of view when the two parties do not share the same kind of damage in their genetic make-up at the same locus.
At the beginning of this grossly over-simplified statement, I said that the amount of damaged material increases with each generation. It follows logically, therefore, that each previous generation has suffered less genetic damage. We can extrapolate backward in time until we begin to reach a point at which damage to the genetic material would be vastly less than it now is: logically, if we go back far enough, it would not exist at all. It is true that this may not be a straight line function, that the improvement in reverse may follow a curve which slows up in its approach to perfection and never quite reaches it. This is possible. There is no need to make this assumption, however. There is no reason at all why the first human beings may not have had a perfect constitution, in which case brother-sister marriages at the time would be absolutely harmless.
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Before we return once more to this aspect of the paper, let us look briefly at some of the present evidence for the detrimental effect of close-relationship marriages. The underlying causes for the deleterious effects of incestuous matings are pretty well understood and have been variously expressed. For those who have some knowledge of and interest in the more basic principles of human genetics, the following miscellany of quotations will perhaps be of value and, taken as a whole, state the case clearly enough. For example, Bentley Glass, in a paper which gives some consideration to the possibility of "improving" the human stock by inbreeding in the way this is done with plants, made the following observation: (8)
Within the past three centuries human populations have increased enormously in size, and an approach to panmixia has become characteristic of the major races of the world population. The result of this has been to render man a highly heterozygous animal. Beneath the facade of dominant traits expressed in the phenotype of each individual, there lies concealed a great number of unmanifested recessive genes, kept in a heterozygous condition within the population. From studies of mutation in man, mouse, and Drosophila it is apparent that the manifestation of the majority of these recessives would be deleterious in most, if not all, environments. In fact, one quarter to one third of them are lethal when homozygous.
New lethal and deleterious mutations arise in each generation at an average frequency that is estimated to be of the order of 1 in 100,000 per locus per gamete, or higher. The number of different genes (i.e., loci) in man may be taken as 10,000 or perhaps even 40,000. It follows that at least one gamete in ten will bear a new mutant, nearly always of a lethal or detrimental sort. The effect of these is not normally evident, since they are kept heterozygous. Any return of the human population to closer inbreeding may be expected to bring these recessive traits to the surface. . . .
Human pure lines selected for (say) intelligence would most probably be weak in vigour, low in fertility, and beset by numerous hereditary defects.
From a mathematical point of view, the situation may be put in this way: matings among first cousins (as in Darwin's case, for example, or his sister Caroline's case) result in the offspring having identical genes in a ratio of 1 to 7. (9) Many of these genes will be recessive mutants and therefore detrimental to the possessor when inherited homozygously. Mating of uncle to niece, or nephew to aunt, raises this ratio to 1 to 3. Matings among brothers and sisters raises this ratio, often disastrously, to 1 to 1.
Willard F. Hollander, in an article significantly title, "Lethal Heredity", commented on this situation as follows: (10)
8. Glass, Bentley, "A Biologic View of Human History," in Scientific American, Dec., 1951, p.367.
9. Darwin's family: see Donald W. Patten, The Biblical Flood and the Ice Epoch, Pacific Meridian Publishing Co., Seattle, I966 , p.244, fn.16.
10. Hollander., Willard F.; "Lethal Heredity," in Scientific American, July, 1952, pp.59-60.
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Sometimes a mutation is so radical that nothing can be done to prolong the animal's life to maturity. This is what is known as a lethal mutation. Often it kills the animal while it is still an embryo. Most lethal mutations are recessive, however, and are carried unsuspected by normal appearing animals. . . .
The quickest way to expose lethal traits is by intense and continued inbreeding. In man such matings are generally illegal or tabu; the experience of the race indicates bad results . . . the outcome is generally detrimental. When inbreeding begins, the heredity seems to be breaking down. All sorts of defects and weaknesses appear. The average life span decreases. After a few generations the family often becomes extinct.
We shall have occasion to return to this latter aspect of the problem, but we may just note here Hollander's conclusion: (11) "The abundance of hidden lethals and hereditary defects exposed by inbreeding must be seen to be believed. It seems safe to say that very few individuals of an ordinary mixed population fail to harbor one or more. Whence came this multitude of skulking malefactors?" To this last point we must likewise return subsequently, for the perceptive reader may already have noticed that animals are afflicted with these imperfections as well as man and they cannot therefore be attributed in a direct way (at least insofar as animals are concerned) to a fallen nature. The fall of man may be the originating cause, but this cause cannot be applied directly to animals unless animals are included among sinners -- though Scripture has intimations even for
this. . . .
Under normal circumstances inbreeding, therefore, leads to a decline in overall vigour for a number of generations. In many cases the detriment is so severe that the line becomes extinct. However with very careful management such inbred lines, if they can be preserved through ten or twelve generations, tend to settle down in a modified form, i.e., with a somewhat different character. This different character may turn out to be a desirable one from the breeder's point of view, having lost certain of its former strengths and
11. Ibid., p.60.
12. The wording of Genesis 3:14 ("above all cattle . . .") may quite justifiably be taken to imply that other animals for some reason were involved in this judgment, a conclusion which would presuppose at least some moral responsibility on their part. It could be argued that in Jonah 3:8 it is assumed that the animals were partly involved in Nineveh's wickedness, the animals also being dressed in sackcloth. The lamb for the sacrifice on the Day of Atonement was to be a lamb of the first year, which again might suggest something analogous to an "age of accountability." The ox that gored a man was to be stoned to death, not merely slaughtered. It is conceivable that this was merely to punish the owner by rendering the slaughtered animal unfit for food, since it would not be properly bled: and the hide itself would probably be marred. On the other hand, it might be argued that the ox itself was being punished. Such passages as these are certainly not unequivocal, but they provide interesting possibilities for further discussion.
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accumulating many new weaknesses, but having also acquired some new quality which the breeder had particularly in mind. This is true of corn, for example. (13) If the inbreeding can be arranged from widely separated lines, the hybrids generally turn out to be more vigorous. This sounds like a contradiction. What is actually meant is that -- by inbreeding one line in one geographic locality until it is highly degenerate and perhaps barely surviving, and at the same time inbreeding another line in another geographic location until it too is degenerate -- if the two inbred degenerate lines are now crossed, the resulting breed may be more vigorous than it would have been if the originals had merely been crossed without first producing the degenerate types. It is not necessary to go into the causes of this somewhat odd but most useful discovery, it is necessary only to include it in this discussion because one commonly hears the statement made that inbreeding produces superior stocks. This is true of plants and of some animals, and it is conceivable that it might be true of human beings. But in the process, the lines degenerate seriously or may die out completely.
On the basis of this theoretical understanding of what is happening, it might be supposed -- and the supposition is borne out by experience -- that in a small population which is multiplying there may appear at first an extraordinary diversity of types. Not all mutations expressed homozygously are lethal, but they are all likely to be more or less effective in substantially modifying the bearer's physical type. As Lebzelter pointed out, a small group of people will share a basically homogeneous culture but show great physical diversity, whereas a larger community of people (because mutant genes are less likely to appear homozygously) will show greater uniformity of physical type but allow a larger measure of cultural variability.
(14) This may very well account for the fact that early man seems to have proliferated types (forerunners of races) in a remarkably short time while at the same time witnessing an amazing measure of cultural conformity. This heterogeneity of physical type appears even within single families, as for example, in the Upper Cave at Choukoutien. (15) Early human history may have quickly witnessed the emergence of all the racial types which we now think we can recognize in the modern world. There is no need to postulate tremendous eons of time. I prefer the word emergence: most people
13. Inbreeding of corn: Gordon W. Whaley, "The Gifts of Hybridity," in Scientific Monthly, Jan., 1950, p.12.
14. Lebzelter Viktor, Rassengescichte de Menscherit, Salzburg, 1932, p.27. University of Chicago Press, 1948. p.80.
15. Choukoutien diversity : see Franz Weidenreich, Apes, Giants, and Man, University of Chicago Press 1948, p.86.
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would prefer the word evolution, and on the basis of the above reasoning they would say, as Franklin Shull said, (16) that "if a population is very large . . . evolution must be slow under these circumstances," and on the other hand if the population is too small and inbreeding too frequent, the population is likely to die out, being overwhelmed by its own defects. Several royal families have suffered virtual extinction by this very process, and all because they sought to preserve family lines intact.
In some parts of the world there are isolated communities in out-of-the-way villages, even in otherwise densely populated areas in which inbreeding has proceeded for many years. In such communities there is a high incidence of deaf-mutism. W. L. Ballinger reported in one case that forty-seven marriages between blood relatives produced seventy-two deaf-mutes.
(17) In the same connection E. B. Dench remarked, "Consanguinity of the parents is among the most common causes (of diseases in the ear), and the great frequency of deaf-mutism among the inhabitants of mountain districts is probably to be explained by the fact that intermarriages are much more common among such people." (18) Similarly in Lajous' Analytical Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine, it is noted that "several statisticians have proved that the closer the degree of relationship between parents, the larger was the number of deaf-mutes born." (19)
In The Lancet, a discussion was reported on the risk taken by parents who decide to adopt a child born of an incestual relationship It was observed that,
. . . medical practitioners are sometimes asked about the advisability of the adoption of a child born as the result of incest. Such children will have an increased risk of being affected by recessive conditions. In order to get an estimate of the extent of this risk, in 1958 I invited Children's Officers to let me know prospectively of pregnancies or of new births in which it was known that the pregnancy or birth was the result of incest between first degree relatives.
These children were followed prospectively and anonymously through the Children's Officers. The children were known to me by number and correspondence referred only to the child's number. Thirteen cases of incest (6 father-daughter and 7 brother-sister) were reported to me in 1958 and the latest information on them was in midyear 1965 when the children were all 4 to 6 years old. I summarize here the information on these 13 children.
16. Shull, Franklin, Evolution, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1936, p.146.
17. Ballinger, W. L., Diseases of the Nose, Throat, and Ear, Lea and Febiger, Philadelphia, 8th edition, p.823.
18. Dench, E. B., Diseases of the Ear, Appleton, New York, 1921, p.694.
19. Lajou, Analytical Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine, p.450: the documentation is unfortunately incomplete.
20. "Risks to Offspring of Incest," in The Lancet, London, Feb. 25, 1967, p.436.
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Three children are dead: one at 15 months of cystic fibrosis of the pancreas, confirmed at necropsy; one at 21 months of progressive cerebral degeneration with blindness; and one at 7 years, 11 months of Fallot's Tetratology (this child had an IQ of 70). One child is severely sub-normal, with much-delayed milestones, and was considered non-testable at age 4 years, 9 months, when she had a vocabulary of only a few words. Four children are educatively subnormal; the known IQ of 3 are 59, 65, and 76. The remaining 5 children are normal.
The risk of parents sharing a recessive gene will be four times greater in cases of incest between first degree relatives than it would be between first cousins.
So much, then, for the evidence. Incest today is clearly detrimental in a very large percentage of cases, the risk of defective offspring being so high that every civilized country legislates against the marriage of brothers and sisters. Yet it is a risk rather than a certainty, an important fact which shows that under certain circumstances it might be quite safe -- though the circumstances under which such a union could be predicted safe are not known at present. Current genetic theory does, however, indicate that the number of recessive and damaged genes increases rather than decreases with each generation. It might be thought that if there is a steady increase, the complement of genes in each individual would be by now all damaged in one way or another. Indeed, if the factors which lead to such damage (certain types of natural and artificial radiation and some poisons, and so forth) have always been with us -- a fact which seems likely enough for a very large part of human history -- and if current theory about the vast antiquity of man are really sound (which I don't believe they are), one would have to suppose that the damaging process must by now have almost completed its task. But evidently, even in comparatively recent times, this is not the case, for as we have already noted, both Hawaiian and Incan chiefs successfully married their sisters, and somewhat before that the Ptolemies did so.
It seems to me, therefore, that the evidence does not on the face of it bear out the concept of man as already having thousands of successive generations behind him. The biblical record actually shows only 77 generations from Adam to Christ,
(21) and if we add to this the two thousand years since, we have something like 100 to 120 generations covering the whole of human history. Since the accumulation of defective genes is meaningful only in terms of their effect on succeeding generations, it is not altogether unlikely that the first human beings (namely, Adam and Eve) were indeed perfect, and
21. See "Genealogies of the Bible," Part V in Hidden Things of God's Revelation, vol.7 of The Doorway Papers Series.
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that the damage started to be done following the Fall and has accumulated ever since at what seems to be a reasonable rate during these 120 generations, until we reach the present situation in which there are still some possibilities of successful brother-sister matings, though the odds are against it. At the rate at which these mutations occur in each generation, according to current genetic theory, one would not expect to find any undamaged segments of the individuals inherited stock of genes if the human race had been multiplying for thousands upon thousands of generations. We would all be so badly damaged by now that no brother-sister marriage could possibly succeed any longer.
On the other hand, taking the biblical story as it stands, Adam's sons and daughters (Genesis 5:4), of whom Cain was one and his wife another, need not have been carriers of any more than a mere token of damaged genetic stock. Such a marriage need not have endangered the offspring.
There is, surprisingly enough, direct evidence in Scripture that this interpretation of the events is strictly true. We are first of all presented with a list of immediate descendants for some ten generations from Adam to Noah who enjoyed what must be described as magnificent viability. Consider for a moment what was happening during this period of time. Prior to the Flood, man may well have been shielded against at least one source of danger to the genes, namely, cosmic radiation, by the existence of some kind of barrier in the upper atmosphere. There are many who believe that this barrier disappeared at the time of the Flood and could indeed have been related to that event. The pre-Flood population (both men and animals, be it noted) may therefore have suffered little damage to their genes throughout each succeeding generation while these environmental conditions existed.
Added to this is the fact that the population was multiplying during this time so that, even if some damage was occurring, it would become less and less necessary for any man to marry a near relative, thereby avoiding any reinforcement of such gene damage. For this reason, there is little or no evidence that man, physiologically considered, was becoming an inferior creature -- at least, insofar as his inherited vigour was concerned: and the same may well have applied to the animal world.
But then came the Flood, which reduced the world's population to eight souls, all of whom had now accumulated some damaged genes and were also first-degree relatives, i.e., Noah and his three sons. The sons and daughters of the next generation would therefore
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be also marrying near relatives, and one could only expect as a consequence that evidence of decreased viability would begin to show up, while the potential hazard from cosmic radiation would greatly increase. This could be the answer to Hollander's final query: inbreeding of a greatly reduced population, and exposure to cosmic radiation at a new level -- both as a consequence of the Flood. This is, of course, precisely what did happen and precisely at a rate commensurate with the discovery of modern genetics resulting from experimental inbreeding. Within ten generations (compare Glass's figures) the life span of post-Flood individuals, insofar as they are represented by those whose ages are given in the Bible, had rapidly declined until it was only about one eighth of the pre-Flood period, thereafter slowly leveling off first to 120 and later to three score and ten. (22)
All this makes perfectly good sense and accords very satisfyingly with modern findings, provided that one accepts the whole biblical record just as it stands.
It has been proposed by some who have due regard to the Word of God that Cain married the offspring of some other human creatures who were not descendants of Adam. (23) They argue this on the ground that Cain would not have expressed any fear of being killed by people who might find him unless there really were people outside his immediate family in Adam. But this assumption need not be made at all, because Cain would not necessarily have knowledge of whether there were or were not other people in the world; even if he had never seen any, he might very well suppose that there were, the supposition being all that was needed to make him afraid. He was simply a man living in fear of suffering at someone else's hand what he had caused his brother to suffer. He had no way of knowing whether there were or were not other people in the world: his conscience served to people it even if no other people had existed.
At the same time, very serious theological problems would arise if Cain had married outside the family of Adam, since his children and his descendants would no longer be strictly "in Adam." This difficulty has been met by some writers by proposing that the Flood destroyed all except those who belonged to Adam's family. It is possible, of course, that this is so, but this vast population must still presumably come to the judgment with all those whom the Flood destroyed, and how then will they be judged? It does not appear to
22. 0n this see "Longevity in Antiquity and Its Bearing on Chronology," Part I in The Virgin Birth and the Incarnation, vol.5 of The Doorway Papers Series.
23. See the
next chapter, "Was Cain's Wife of the Line of Adam?"
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me that the Bible allows for such a contingency. As I see it, the redemption that is in Christ was as applicable to Adam and Cain and all the rest of the patriarchs as it is to ourselves. Would we not then be faced with a kind of half-applicability to Cain's children, and a quarter-applicability to his grandchildren, and so on as the line was diluted -- until there is no applicability at all? The very statement of the situation itself points up the theological problem that such a circumstance would bring about.
To some extent the above interpretation of the identity of Cain's wife has been held as an accommodation to anthropological theory which postulates sub-humans and near-humans at a period in time far antedating the "traditional" date for the creation of Adam. I do not know the answer to the present conflict between secular and biblical anthropology, although I am sure we shall see the answer in due time: but I believe that the Bible itself has gone out of its way to try to make it clear that Adam really was the only man at the time of his creation and Eve the only woman at the time of her formation. Genesis 2:5 tells us that there was not a man to till the ground. Genesis 2:18 tells us that Adam was quite alone and that this was not good for him. Then in Genesis 2:20 we are told that although God brought creatures to Adam who might have been a potential mate for him, there was not found one that was suitable. Finally, as though the point had still not been made quite clear, we are told in Genesis 3:20 that Eve became (so the Hebrew) the mother of all living.
Almost any one of these statements by itself might be thought by some people sufficient to settle the issue. But surely their cumulative effect is about as conclusive as to the intent of Scripture as any such series of statements could possibly be. I believe, therefore, that the only position one can reasonably take in the matter of Cain's wife is that she was one of Adam and Eve's daughters, i.e., a sister of his for we are told that Adam and Eve had daughters as well as sons.
(24) From there on, everything makes good sense if one accepts the record as it stands.
One further point only remains to be underscored. This is the perfectly proper absence (if all that we have said thus far is true) of
24. 0ne further scriptural reference may be mentioned. In Acts 17:26 we are told that God derived all nations that dwell on the face of the earth "from one." In the usual Authorized version rendering the verse reads, "of one blood," but the best manuscripts do not have the word blood. This could therefore be taken to mean in the most literal sense that all nations have had their ultimate origins, not merely in Adam and Eve, but even more specifically -- since Eve was taken out of Adam -- in one man, Adam. This would leave even less room for any multiple-origins theory. I was interested to find this view reflected in the Jesuit commentator Henricus-Rencken's book, Israel's Concept of the Beginning, Herder and Herder, New York, 1964, p.225.
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the slightest indication that Cain was contravening any existing prohibition against a brother-sister marriage. His action in destroying his brother is condemned in no uncertain terms, but there is no reference whatever to the existence of any prohibition against incest as appears several thousands of years later in the Book of Leviticus. This not only suggests that the prohibition did not exist, not at that time being required, but that the writer who recorded the events of Cain's life lived at a time when brother-sister marriages were still not viewed as sinful at all.
This absence of any condemnatory note, in a record which elsewhere judges its "heroes" in no uncertain terms when they contravene the laws of God, can only be reasonably accounted for on the grounds that this record as we have it is a contemporary or near-contemporary one and not something concocted by a self-righteous priestly community living some thousands of years after the event. Had they been members of such a hierarchy and had they been knowledgeable enough to realize that the prohibition was not necessary in Cain's time, one might reasonably expect they would have added in parenthesis at the appropriate place in the record some little note to the effect that "at that time there were no laws against incest." As the record stands, one gets the feeling that the writer was totally unaware of any potential hazard in brother-sister marriage.
In conclusion, it seems to me that the circumstances surrounding the identity of Cain's wife have a significance in the light of Christian faith for the following reasons. First, we know from modern genetics why incestuous relations are most likely to be damaging to the offspring. But we also know that by chance such relations may not be damaging, a fact which demonstrates clearly that under certain circumstances brother-sister marriage might be not merely acceptable but greatly to be preferred from certain points of view.
Second, our present understanding of the processes of mutation, whereby the gene make-up of two proposed marriage partners has become damaged, also allows us to extrapolate backward into the past and say, with some measure of assurance, that the further back we go, the less likely are the offspring to suffer the consequences of inbreeding.
Third, the Bible supplies us with a piece of historic information -- namely, the account of the Flood and how the world's population was reduced to eight souls -- which provides a key to the sudden loss
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of vitality in terms of longevity which Scripture states immediately followed the re-peopling of the world.
Fourth, the events recorded in the first few chapters of Genesis indicate that inbreeding was either comparatively harmless or was carried out with decreasing frequency as the centuries rolled by from Adam to Noah. In the case of Cain and his sister, both of whom were siblings in Adam and Eve's family, the amount of genetic damage carried in the genes must have been very small indeed. At least this is true if we believe, as I do, that Adam and Eve themselves were created perfect at first, with no damaged genes.
In short, the circumstances are all of a piece. If we allow the record to speak for itself, and if on the basis of this record we draw these quite reasonable conclusions, there is a ring of truth which accords perfectly with the assured findings of modern human genetics; and this is illuminatingly illustrated from the subsequent history of, not only single families, but whole tribes of both civilized and primitive peoples, in both modern and more distant times.
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• Not entirely correct as Oracle Text uses domain indices. – Roy Sep 4 '16 at 23:55
Oracle Text provides tooling that enable so called "full text" searching in chunks of unstructured data - the term commonly translates to some amount of text stored in a table column using CLOB (Character Large OBject) or some similar datatype.
Oracle Text creates token list based indices for any sort of text resource and is commonly used to provide full text search in office documents, web pages, e-mail messages and XML data, but also things like comments or descriptions that come attached to otherwise structured data objects.
These days, and particularly for use cases that focus on full documents, it is more common to use some sort of external search index better suited to deal with unstructured data, such as the Apache Lucene which is not only a market leader by it's own right, but also sit at the core of several other leading products including Elastic (former Elasticsearch) and Apache Solr.
In the context of Oracle database, the term "local text index" does not really bring anything to mind. If you mean something like a local index on a VARCHAR2 field, those are great for short strings, such as book titles and author names, but horrible for working with larger chunks of text such as reviews of those same books, or even their content.
To comfortably navigate such data your search need things like the ability to judge relevancy, disregard unimportant words such as pronouns, include alternative spellings or consider words with similar meaning. In short, it needs to understand context.
That last is also the the name of the primary type of domain index used by the Oracle Text, and the feature itself is also formerly known as Oracle ConText.
As such, Oracle Text is almost beyond comparison in terms performance alone (and the dedicated search products even more so), but a basic document search could easily be several orders of magnitude faster, with the difference only increasing as you increment the complexity of data, queries, filters and presentation.
Oracle offers a range of options for creating, updating, optimizing, rebuilding or otherwise maintaining the indexes, allowing you to choose a design and maintenance strategy based on your specific requirements and acceptable tradeoffs.
In brief, the simplest answers that can still be said to hold some amount of accuracy, to each of the initial questions, may all be: 42 (considered by many as the traditional and everlasting symbol, representative of an answer that fully depend on specifics not defined in the question)
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A Life On Fire
Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke was principally known for his Great Gospel Crusades throughout Africa. The son of a pastor, Reinhard surrendered his life to Christ at age nine, and heard the call to the African mission field before he was a teenager. He attended Bible College in Wales and was ordained in Germany where he and his wife, Anni, pastored a small church until 1967 when, in obedience to his childhood call, they embarked on missionary life in Africa in the small mountain kingdom of Lesotho. When, in 1974, the Holy Spirit spoke to Reinhard in a recurring dream about “a blood-washed Africa,” he founded Christ for All Nations, becoming the inspiring visionary who always spoke of “plundering hell to populate heaven,” a dedicated preacher who saw “signs following” as the necessary evidence of the power of the Gospel to save, heal, and deliver.
Evangelist Bonnke began holding meetings in a tent that accommodated just 800 people, but, as attendance steadily increased, larger and larger tents had to be purchased, until finally, in 1984, he commissioned the construction of the world’s largest mobile structure at the time — a tent capable of seating 34,000 people! Soon, attendance at his meetings exceeded the capacity of even this huge structure, and he began open-air Gospel Campaigns with an initial gathering of over 150,000 people per service! From then on, he conducted city-wide meetings across the continent using towering sound systems that could be heard for miles. The largest recorded attendance in such an open-air meeting was in the city of Lagos during the “Millennium Crusade in November, 2000, when over 1.6 million people thronged the field to hear the Gospel!
Reinhard Bonnke held the first Fire Conference in Harare, Zimbabwe, in 1986. Since then these events have taken place around the globe, equipping church leaders and workers for evangelism. He was also the visionary behind a program to mail a compelling Gospel message, written by him, to every home in many countries around the world. It was known as ‘Minus to Plus’. As always, he sought every opportunity to reach and save the lost!
Christ for All Nations continues to be committed to linking new believers with the local church and integrating them into a life of discipleship. As part of the follow-up program, over 185 million copies of the CfaN booklet, “Now That You Are Saved,” have been published, in 103 languages and printed in 55 countries. Both these Gospel booklets Evangelist Bonnke gave to CfaN royalty free, a gift that keeps on giving! There is a great hunger for the Word, and millions of other teaching books have been produced for free distribution, and “seeded” into nations around the world. He also spent several years developing the "Full Flame Film Series" – eight inspirational films aimed at activating the church to Holy Spirit evangelism. These are made available free of charge in many languages online. In the almost 50 years since he founded the ministry, CfaN has opened offices across the globe, staffed by team members who all display the same call to soul-winning that he was known for.
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South Texas College of Law
Describe your job in 30 words or less.
Provide legal services to City Council, City Manager, Departments, Boards and Commissions. Supervise other staff attorneys including the prosecutors to ensure that the City's legal needs are met.
You started off as an intern for the City of Sugar Land. When did you intern? Which department did you intern for?
September 1997 - May 2000 in the Legal Department
What attracted you to join the City of Sugar Land's team?
Family history of working for municipalities. My father worked at the Houston Police Department (as a civilian) and my grandfather worked at the St. Louis Fire Department as a fire fighter. At the time I was hired as an intern, I was working for the City of Houston in Public Works and wanted to work for a smaller and more dynamic City.
When/how did you move into a full-time position?
May 2000. I graduated law school and passed the State Bar exam and was hired as an assistant city attorney. Fun fact: at the time the city only had one attorney -- hiring me doubled the size of the department!
How did your internship experience prepare you for the transition to a full-time role?
It allowed me to learn about the duties of the position, the people and the culture of the city while providing a safety net of having a hands on supervisor to show me the ropes.
What is your favorite part of your job?
Two favorites: my co-workers and driving around the city and seeing the incredible things that my coworkers have accomplished. From bridges to parks to ball parks, we have accomplished some pretty incredible things.
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Vacuum Technology Book, Volume II
4.1.1 Classification of vacuum pumps
Vacuum pumps are categorized as gas transfer pumps and gas binding or capture pumps. While gas-displacement vacuum pumps can be used without limitation, gas-binding vacuum pumps have a limited gas absorption capacity and must be regenerated at certain process-dependent intervals.
Gas-displacement pumps, which are also referred to as gas transfer pumps, are classified either as positive displacement pumps or kinetic vacuum pumps. Positive displacement pumps displace gas from sealed areas to the atmosphere or to a downstream pump stage. Kinetic pumps displace gas by accelerating it in the pumping direction, either via a mechanical drive system or through a directed vapor stream that is condensed at the end of the pumping section. Gas-binding vacuum pumps either bind the gas to an especially active substrate through gettering or condense the gas at a suitable temperature. Chemisorption is performed technically by a pump type known as getter pumps which constantly generate pure getter surfaces through vaporization and/or sublimation or sputtering. If the gas particles to be bound are ionized in an ion getter pump before interacting with a getter surface, they can at the same time clean the getter surface by sputtering and be buried by sputtered material. Non evaporable getters (NEG) consist of highly reactive alloys, mainly of zirconium or titanium, and have a very large specific surface. Gases can penetrate into deeper layers of the getter material through micropores and be bound there into stable chemical compounds.
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The History Of Mineral Rights In Texas And California
Consider the amount of oil and gas that is currently being produced from the site. The other common cause for heavy white smoke, especially in mid-size Briggs and Stratton and Kohler engines, (12-20hp) is from contaminated oil. These two items are the most common causes of a lot of white smoke. The most common types of Jet fuel are Jet A and Jet A-1. Other breathers are screen or filter type and when they become too fouled or broken down to function, same result, lots of smoke. It was produced in great quantities during the western world’s Industrial Revolution, so we shouldn’t complain when the third world countries are doing exactly the same thing in their current Industrial Revolution. Organic wastes, after all, have the same atoms as the ones that make up fuels. The effects of pollution have become increasingly apparent over the past fifty years. Examine all the records carefully for the last fifty years and look for language anywhere in the deeds that state that the seller of the property reserves all or part of the oil and gas minerals under the property. The enormous oil spill that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico and lasted for more than 3 months testifies to that statement.
Some breathers are nothing more than a reed valve that opens and closes as the pressure changes inside the crankcase from the piston’s movement. Gas can also get into the crankcase from a fuel pump that’s leaking, so if you have a pump, that needs to be checked as well. The crankcase breather vents the gases and excess pressure from the crankcase and sends them through the carburetor to be burnt in the combustion process. Snow and cold not only have an effect on the carburetor and fuel they also affect the ability of the bar oil to do its job. If this reed breaks, bends or otherwise fails, then excess oil is pulled into the carburetor and the result is a lot of smoke. This helps keep snow and saw dust out of the fuel and bar oil. Good snow pack lots of day light time to go to work.
Each year new innovations are created and evolved to reduce energy consumption, reduce hazards at the work site and reduce the impact on the environment. A pipeline engineer may work with natural and/or liquid gases – heading projects; working with operations and marketing; selecting pipeline routes; reviewing construction sketches; conducting financial tracking and reporting; and provide technical training to other members of the staff. From 2010 through 2017, additional pipelines were proposed and their construction begun, but building was interrupted several times by environmentalists, Native North Americans, and various other protest groups. The Toronto Stock Exchange (abbreviated TMX after its parent company) is the third largest stock exchange in North America, behind the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq. However, if you have an oil stock in your portfolio which has an increase in growth potential then you need to stay away from oils stocks with trust units. It should have little to no smell of gasoline and should not be overly thin or muddy brown, gray, white or chunky like spoiled milk.
Gasoline is obtained by the fractional distillation of crude oil between 40 ⁰C (104 ⁰F) and 205 ⁰C (401 ⁰F), which is its boiling range. Diesel is mainly used as a vehicle fuel and engines using diesel are considered to be more energy efficient and have better fuel economy than for example, gasoline. Following the Industrial Revolution in the 1700s, deforestation and coal-burning have increased the CO2 levels in the atmosphere. Coal produces the most CO2 upon combustion and is very commonly used in power stations as fuel because it is found in abundance in many parts of the world and because it is the least expensive. Once the crack has been found or created, it is extended by means of the internal fluid pressure and it allows the crack to run down to the other end of the rock. The next step is to check the inside of the dishwasher and make sure it is draining properly at the end of the wash cycle. | <urn:uuid:57748973-b1ac-4028-9537-4ecd6f3e1b59> | http://www.bookmarkking.info/tag/california/ | en | 0.962216 | 0.165123 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
UK Speed Cameras
Speed Cameras in the UK
Pretty well every motorist across the country is more than aware of the presence or speed cameras on our roads. Some welcome them, some are anti-them, all of us, however, have, broadly speaking come to accept them as part of today’s roadside fixtures and fittings.
The first to make an appearance in the early 90’s was the Gatso with a radar technology to determine the speed of the vehicle as it passed and if the speed triggered it, to snap a photo of the rear of the vehicle and number plate, in a flash of light.
It snaps “rear-facing” to prevent startling or even fleetingly blinding the driver with the flash mechanism.
The photo also includes part of the three white lines painted on the road as background in the shot as a secondary method of proving the speed claimed.
The photographs taken on a traditional roll of film, could of course run out, although the mechanism still “flashed”, film loaded or not, certainly a deterrent.
Originally the cameras were grey, often melding into the background until in 2001 laws were passed ensuring all cameras were painted bright yellow to increase roadside visibility.
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The other original roadside mainstay is the Truvelo camera, now equally familiar, but using quite different technology.
This is a forward facing camera, but the hi-tech stuff is embedded in the road surface on the approach. These are four piezoelectric sensors which virtually instantly recognise the speed of the vehicle as it goes over them, and activates the camera.
It is forward facing, that is, it takes the snap directly at the front of the vehicle, taking not only the number plate, but the driver as they sit behind the wheel also.
This is possible because the camera is designed to “flash” in infrared, not visible to the human eye, but lights the subject perfectly for the camera.
With this type of photo shot, there can be no dispute as to who the driver at the wheel was at the time.
As with the Gatso, it also has a white line background on the road as a legal requirement of a secondary method of speed calculation.
Both these “stalwarts” of the system have, over the last few years begun to upgrade to rather different pieces of machinery.
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There Are Ways To Maintain Kitchen Countertops Based On Their Materials
A kitchen countertop or countertop must always be used every day. Put raw food ingredients, food processing, sometimes even used as a base for cutting food. When processing food any kitchen table is also exposed to liquid ingredients that can damage the layers and texture. Such as sauce, soy sauce, salt, vinegar. For this reason, countertops need to be regularly maintained and cleaned. In addition, if you want a countertop that can be maintained easily, we suggest you check out dallas granite countertops.
So that the countertop’s surface can be maintained well, you can carry out the following maintenances based on the material:
Granite countertops must be coated at least once a year. Granite is a porous substance and covering it with a layer that can protect it from the effect of absorbing the liquid that is on the table. You can do a simple test to see if granite countertops need to be sealed. Drop a few drops of water on the granite table and see if there is foam. If not, it must be coated immediately.
The laminating countertop layer does not require a certain sealer or protection. However, the kitchen table material must be cleaned regularly from stains and oil buildup that can damage it.
Be careful not to use too much water or acid cleaners. Leaving stains and hard materials for a long time can damage this material quickly.
Butcher Block
The countertop butcher block needs to be oiled regularly. Make sure the oil used is safe for food. Routine proper cleaning will make this table more durable. However, if you don’t have the time to clean it yourself, as long as you have a budget, don’t hesitate to hire cleaning services for the sake of maintaining its durability and cleanliness.
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choose a suffering
Yesterday in the assembly I saw my
soul inside the jar of the one who
pours. “Don’t forget your job,” I
said. He came with his lighted
face, kissed the full glass, and as
he handed it to me, it became a
red-gold oven taking me in, a ruby
mine, a greening garden. Everyone
chooses a suffering that will change
him or her to a well-baked loaf.
Abu Lahab, biting his hand, chose
doubt. Abu Huraya, his love for
cats! One searches a confused mind
for evidence. The other has a
leather sack full of what he needs.
If we could be silent now, the
master would tell us some stories
they hear in the high council.
from The Soul of Rumi: a new collection of ecstatic poems translation by Coleman Barks
Thank you for practicing,
4 thoughts on “choose a suffering
1. That’s right, Barry. You are the only one who is suffering. You are just making the assumption that “others” suffer.
We don’t.
• Thanks, Willie. I wasn’t sure how to break it to him.
Barry, you do realize you chose your suffering by discovering me, right? [bwahahahahaaa]
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14 Ways Your Body Recovers as Soon as You Quit Smoking Cigarettes
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Everyone knows that smoking terrible for your health. Severe damage happens to your lungs and heart with smoking and the longer you do it, the worse things get.
What most do not realize, however, is that when you quit, your health situation begins to improve much faster than you expect. It’s never too late to benefit from quitting.
The Timeline to Recovery Is Faster Than You Think
Your body starts to repair the damages of smoking almost as soon as you quit. Within twenty short minutes, positive changes start to happen. The first are subtle but worth noting, as they begin the path to healing and a healthier you.
After twenty minutes: The circulation in your extremities improves.
After two hours: Your heartbeat, pulse, and blood pressure normalize.
After eight hours: The levels of carbon monoxide within your body are reduced, which means oxygen can efficiently reach your cells again.
After one day: Your risk for heart attack drops.
After two days: All nicotine that you inhaled has been expelled from your body. You will also notice that your sense of taste and smell return after the two-day mark of quitting has passed.
After three days: Because the small hairs in your lungs (responsible for transporting particles from your lungs) have been able to heal, you will notice that your breathing significantly improves.
After one week: Your blood pressure drops to within normal healthy ranges again. You will be coughing more, but this is a good sign because this allows more dirt and toxins to be expelled from your lungs.
After three months: Any shortness of breath will be noticeably reduced because lung capacity increases by almost 40 percent. You will also notice improvements in your skin tone.
Between three and nine months: Between three and nine months, the smoker’s cough will start to fade, and your susceptibility to infections will decrease. Your lungs are now beginning to clean themselves and the length of time to do so will depend on how long you smoked and the amount of toxins to expel.
After one year: Your risk for heart disease will have been cut in half.
After five years: Your risk for lung, throat, esophageal, mouth, and stomach cancer is halved.
Between five and ten years: During this timeframe, your risk for heart disease and stroke reaches the same level as non-smokers.
After ten years: Any precancerous cells in your body will have been replaced by now and your risk for lung cancer as well as other smoking-related cancers continues to decrease.
After fifteen years: Having stopped smoking for fifteen years, your risk of cancer will be the same as a non-smoker and you will be and feel healthier once again.
Smoking and Your Health
While your lungs are primarily impacted by smoking, the truth is that your entire body is affected. Smoking has long-term effects on your health and increases your risk of serious diseases. Sadly, the effects of smoking can impact those around you too, as second-hand smoke causes the same problems.
Lung cancer: Your risk for lung cancer is significantly increased with smoking as well as other serious lung diseases like pneumonia and emphysema. Lung cancer is the most common cause of death in smokers.
Respiratory problems: Outside of lung cancer, you are likely to have to deal with COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and asthma.
Sensory changes: Your senses of taste and smell deteriorate with smoking, and it also causes increased risk for eye problems, such as glaucoma, macular degeneration, and cataracts.
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Heart disease: Regularly smoking increases your risk for heart disease and overall poor cardiovascular health. Smoking increases blood pressure, as it causes blood vessels to tighten.
It also triggers increased levels of cholesterol, which can clog arteries. Smoking significantly increases your risk for heart attack and stroke.
Impaired immunity: Smoking lowers your body’s natural ability to defend itself. A weakened immune system puts you at greater risk for opportunistic infections, and you are more likely to catch common colds and flu viruses.
At least the cold and flu have a few simple treatments that help with symptoms.
Diabetes problems: Diabetes already increases your risk for heart disease. When you also factor in smoking, though, the situation gets much worse. Smoking increases insulin resistance, elevating blood sugar levels.
This can worsen diabetes symptoms and increase your risk for heart disease as well as kidney failure.
Blood complications: Apart from increasing blood pressure, smoking also increases your risk of blood clotting. Frequent blood clots contribute to heart attack, stroke, and pulmonary embolism.
In addition to this, your risk for blood cancer (leukemia) also increases.
Infertility: Men and women are both affected by smoking when it comes to reproduction. Erectile dysfunction is more common among male smokers, and women experience higher risks for miscarriage and premature birth.
The Bottom Line
We all know that smoking is bad for our health, but the addictive nature of the habit makes it challenging to quit. Many people also believe that the damage is already done, so there may be no point in quitting.
Your body starts to recover as soon as you throw those cigarettes away so it is possible to return to good health. Quitting will be one of the best decisions you ever make, and your body will recover much quicker than you think.
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Yato is a god, well, at least he has some traits of one. But he has no followers and seems to lack respect for his actions. One day, Yato helps a student to get rid of a phantom, one sols stuck between the world of the living and the afterlife.
But Yato can’t fight alone, he uses a shinki -or a sacred treasure- but once the job is done, Tomone rebels and asks to be freed from Yato’s command. Tomone simply can’t stand working for a god without a shrine.
Yato lets Tomone go and begins to search jobs to raise money for his shrine, but as a god, he is supposed to charge five yen per wish. At this rate he will never have a place to be worshipped.
Yato receives a phone call asking for a wish, he has to find a cat, and without hesitation he starts the search.
Meanwhile, a girl named Hiyori Iki and her friends are walking and they spot a poster with the cat tracked by Yato. Suddenly, Hiyori and Yato cross as the referred cat is in the middle of the street.
Yayo jumps to catch the cat, followed by Hiyori. Unfortunately, she is hit by a bus as she saves Yato. Somehow, Hiyori begins to scold Yato and he says nothing as he sees her body in the ground.
Hiyori has suffered a strange phenomenon, but she doesn’t realize yet. At the hospital, she recovers consciousness and begins to forget about Yato and the incident between them.
At night, Yato visits Hiyori, he is still amazed a human has saved his life, as he confirms she is better, he leaves and begins searching for the cat once again.
At school, Hiyori suffers to stay awake, and as the day comes to an end she sees the poster with the cat once again and remembers Yato. She thinks if she can find the cat, she will be able to remember everything and find Yato.
Yato is able to find the cat, which is chased by a huge amount of phantoms, suddenly, Hiyori appears and fights alongside Yato. Once again, she has saved the god.
Yato tells her that she is split between two worlds, and that she should get accustomed in some time, of course, Hiyori panics and aks for help, after all Yato is a god. But a wish is not free and Yato asks for money, five yen is all they needed to begin an adventure together.
Noragami (ノラガミ)
Is a fantasy manga series by Adachitoka that began serialization in Kodansha’s Monthly Shounen Magazine in January 2011’s issue.
An anime adaptation by Bones began in Japan on January 5, 2014.
OP: “Goya no Machiawase” by Hello Sleepwalkers
ED: “Heart Realize” by Tia
War God
Hiyori Iki
High School Student
OP ~ “Goya no Machiawase”
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Saar Protectorate
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The French Saar Protectorate (German: Saarprotektorat; French: Protectorat de la Sarre) was a short-lived protectorate (1945–1957) partitioned from Germany after its defeat in World War II; it was administered by the French Fourth Republic. On rejoining West Germany in 1957, it became the smallest "federal state" (Bundesland), the Saarland, not counting the "city states" (Stadtstaaten) of West Berlin, Hamburg, and Bremen. It is named after the Saar River.
French Saar Protectorate
Saarprotektorat (German)
Protectorat de la Sarre (French)
Borders of Allied-occupied Germany in 1949; Saar Protectorate is in purple.
Borders of Allied-occupied Germany
in 1949; Saar Protectorate is in purple.
StatusProtectorate of France
French: Sarrebruck
Common languages
GovernmentProtectorate under control of French Fourth Republic
Historical eraCold War
• Established
15 December 1947
• WEU referendum
23 October 1955
27 October 1956
• Joined West Germany
1 January 1957
19472,568 km2 (992 sq mi)
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Allied-occupied Germany
West Germany
Today part of Germany
The region around the Saar River and its tributary valleys is a geographically folded, mineral-rich, ethnically German, economically important, heavily industrialized area. It has well-developed transportation infrastructure, and was one of the centres during the Industrial Revolution in Germany. Around 1900, the region formed the third-largest area of coal, iron, and steel industry in Germany (after the Ruhr Area and the Upper Silesian Coal Basin). From 1920 to 1935, as a result of World War I, the region was under the control of the League of Nations as the Territory of the Saar Basin. Near the end of World War II it was heavily bombed by the Allies as part of their strategic bombing campaigns.
Geographically, the post–World War II protectorate corresponded to the current German state of Saarland (established after its incorporation into West Germany on 1 January 1957). A policy of industrial disarmament and dispersal of industrial workers was officially pursued by the Allies after the war until 1951 and the region was made a protectorate under French control in 1947. Cold War pressures for a stronger Germany allowed renewed industrialization, and the French returned control of the region to the government of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1957.
The region had been previously annexed by France (« bailliage de Sarrelouis », 1685) or occupied during the Revolution (1790–1798) and the Napoleonic Wars, when it had been included in the First French Empire as the département de la Sarre between 1798 and 1814.
Post-World War IEdit
Under the Treaty of Versailles, the Saar was occupied initially by combat units from the United Kingdom and France. In 1920 Britain and France established for the League of Nations mandate of the Saar a nominally independent occupation government was set up to control an area as to the greater part carved out of the Prussian Rhine Province and supplemented by two Bavarian districts (Homburg and St. Ingbert), ceded from the Palatinate. This was sanctioned by a 15-year League of Nations mandate which stationed League of Nations troops from Italy, Sweden, and the United Kingdom in the Saar until 1935. The Saar's coal industry, the dominant industry in the region at the time, was nationalized and directly administered by France, in compensation of the destruction of French mines by the retreating Germans in 1918.
Post-World War IIEdit
View of steel and ironworks in the Saar, c.1950
In July 1945, two months after World War II had ended in Europe, the Allied forces were redeploying from the areas they had conquered into their respective zones of occupation. On 10 July 1945, US forces left the Saar and French troops established their occupational administration. On 16 February 1946, France disentangled the Saar from the Allied zones of occupation and established the separate Saar Protectorate, which was no longer under the joint Allied jurisdiction by the Allied Control Council for Germany.
French officials deported a total of 1,820 people from the Saar in 1946 and 1947, most of whom ultimately were allowed to return.[2] However, France had not agreed to the expulsions approved (without input from France) in the Potsdam agreement by the Allies, so France refused to accept war refugees or expellees from the eastern annexed territories in the Saar protectorate or the French zone.[3] However, native Sarrois returning from Nazi-imposed removals (e.g. political and Jewish refugees) and war-related relocations (e.g. evacuation from air raids) were allowed to return to the areas under French control. France aimed at winning over the Saar population for a future annexation.
In the speech Restatement of Policy on Germany, given in Stuttgart on 6 September 1946, the US Secretary of State James F. Byrnes stated the US's motive in detaching the Saar from Germany as "The United States does not feel that it can deny to France, which has been invaded three times by Germany in 70 years, its claim to the Saar territory".
Constitution of Saarland 1947/48
Under French rule, pro-German parties[5] were initially banned from contesting the elections. Much support was given to the Mouvement pour le Rattachement de la Sarre à la France, a Francophile movement founded by Saar exiles in Paris in early 1945, with many of the exiles having returned after the war. However, a French annexation did not gain the support of a majority of the Sarrois. In the general election of December 1952, 24% of the voters cast blank ballots in support of banned pro-German parties (while the majority still voted for one of the legal parties who wanted the Saar to remain autonomous).
Referendum and the little reunification with GermanyEdit
100 Saar franken coin
On 27 October 1956 the Saar Treaty established that Saarland should be allowed to join West Germany, as provided by its Grundgesetz constitution art. 23, and so Saarland did on 1 January 1957. West Germany had to agree to the channelization of the Moselle. This reduced French freight costs in the Lorraine steel industry. West Germany was also made to agree to the teaching of French as the first foreign language in schools in the Saarland; although no longer binding, the agreement is still in the main followed as the practice is well-established.
As a footnote to the creation of the European Union, the territorial dispute over control of the Saarland was one of the last between member states and led to the European flag being given a politically neutral ring of twelve stars rather than the originally proposed 15 (one of which was to represent a nominally independent Saar as a member of the Council of Europe).[7]
Prime ministersEdit
• 1947–1952: Johannes Hoffmann (CVP), first term
• 1952–1955: Johannes Hoffmann (CVP), second term, resigned after the Saar statute failed in the referendum
• 1955–1956: Heinrich Welsch (independent), led the government till the end of his term
• 1956–1957: Hubert Ney (CVP), resigned after the reunification due to party quarrels
High Commissioner of the French Republic in the SaarlandEdit
• Gilbert-Yves-Edmond Grandval 10 Jan 1948 – 5 Mar 1952
Chiefs of the diplomatic mission of the French Republic in the SaarlandEdit
• Gilbert-Yves-Edmond Grandval 1 Jan 1952 – 8 Jul 1955
• Charles-Marie-Eric de Carbonnel 8 Jul 1955 – 27 Oct 1956
The Saar competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, and the Saarland national football team participated in the qualifying section of the 1954 FIFA World Cup, but failed to qualify after coming second to the West German team, but ahead of Norway.[8] Helmut Schön, later World and European champion with West Germany, was the manager of the Saarland team from 1952 until Saarland became a part of West Germany in 1957.[9]
The Amateurliga Saarland was the local league within the German Football League System. 1. FC Saarbrücken took part in the first ever European Cup in 1955.
Postage stampsEdit
Postage stamps were issued specially for the territory from 1920 to 1935, and from 1947 to 1959 (see postage stamps and postal history of the Saar).
See alsoEdit
1. ^ Revilla, Angel David (2017-12-11), National Anthem of the Saar Protectorate (1947-1957) - "Land der Saar", retrieved 2017-12-15
2. ^ Long, Bronson (September 2015). No Easy Occupation: French Control of the German Saar, 1944-1957 (First ed.). Rochester, New York: Camden House. pp. 44–47. ISBN 978-1-57113-915-3.
3. ^ Cf. the report of the Central State Archive of Rhineland-Palatinate on the first expellees arriving in that state in 1950 to be resettled from other German states. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-08-21. Retrieved 2010-03-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
7. ^ Murphy, Sean (January 25, 2006). "Irish Chiefs: Memorandum on the Role of Irish Chief Herald Slevin in the Design of the European Flag". Archived from the original on April 23, 2007. Retrieved November 8, 2011.
Further readingEdit
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It’s Logical!
“It should always be remembered that the behavior of persons with schizophrenia is internally logical and rational: they do things for reasons that, given their disordered senses and thinking, makes sense to them!” -Torrey, E. Fuller. Surviving Schizophrenia. 1983. Page 49.
“The ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.” -John Forbes Nash Jr.
My friend J read a draft of my memoir. He was surprised that my story was not chaotic or filled with confusion. He made me want to tell my story even better, even more, to show that my experience did all made sense to me. I took very deliberate steps to make sense of what was happening to me and around me.
Let’s start with hearing my first voice Joe. For the 30 years of my life before that moment, I had trusted my ears without any problem. I have pretty good hearing. When I first heard Joe talking, I looked for where the talking was coming from, for someone, for speakers, or anything that might broadcast the voice. I did not understand how “he” was able to talk to me that way. So I continued to investigate. I thought that there might be some smart technology being used. I heard the man talking! That was real to me! I tried to understand what “he” wanted! That’s usually why someone talks to another person.
Another example is that my senses became super acute. I noticed so much more from my surroundings. You can relate to this. Someone coughs loudly in front of you and makes sure that you see her. We do this all the time! Could be for fun, for joke, for giving you a hint by saying something while coughing. Another example. Someone puts up a V sign with their fingers at a sport game. We all know that means victory! So, when I start noticing everything around me, it felt like they should mean something. More people were coughing around me, so I thought, is this a bad winter? I did not say to myself, why am I all of a sudden hearing more coughing. I just did. Everyone did. I wondered why! I tried to understand what they or that meant!
Is it really logical to say “I hear someone talking” or “so many people are coughing” then conclude that “I have schizophrenia?” Ironically, to me it felt more like taking a leap of faith later, when I was told to take a pill and not being told why and what it would fix.
My strategy of dealing with things that I don’t understand is to use my brain to logically break down and solve the problem. Similar to what Nash said, I was the same person when I triggered schizophrenia. I tried to solve schizophrenia with logic. I am glad other people’s experience and perspectives described in Surviving Schizophrenia echoed mine and why they don’t think they were crazy or mad either.
Instead of thinking that people with schizophrenia would typically behave abnormally, I suggest we think of it as people being presented with and experienced abnormal things first. These things could be visual, auditory, or sensory. Think of these as “external” stimuli, not internal! That’s the perspective I am asking you to have. Schizophrenics are just trying to make sense of it all like everyone else with life. Sometimes, to deal with things that don’t make sense, you might have to do something different or unusual. Having reactions are appropriate and expected human behaviors!
Really, it’s a broken brain in charge!
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Legion Expansion II
Dolan Springs
This time we will explore the amazing town of Dolan Springs and the highway all the way there! I have two cozy abodes in the Mojave, one in Sandy Valley and one in Dolan Springs. I guess you can say one in NCR territory and one in Legion territory.
On my fancy map, this area is #2.
Dolan Springs is the largest town along Highway 93 between the Hoover Dam and Laughlin. And “largest” I mean about 3000 people. The town is comprised of a long stretch of land along Pierce Ferry Road, east of HWY-93.
Back on Highway 93
Moving past Willow Beach, soon there will be a left hand turn off to Temple Bar Road, or Mohave County Route 143. The county’s name is spelled with an “h” instead of the normal “j” for some reason. From the other direction (northbound), there is a sign that says Hoover Dam/Las Vegas and Temple Bar.
Arizona Last Stop
The Arizona Last Stop is gas station, general store, and what I can really only describe as a weird place that is along Highway 93 as one journeys to Dolan Springs. It has all these bizarre murals centering around guns and aliens. There is a place you can go to fire guns, and a restaurant. I will just leave a collection of photos instead of trying to explain, my words will not do it justice.
Across Highway 93 (west side of the road) is another restaurant called Rosie’s. And further down on the eastern side airplane hangars and a sign that says Triangle Airpark. As one would expect, there are small airplanes all over the place. The area is locked up, though, so I could not poke around like usual. Some airplanes are in disrepair, others take off and land from the eastern side of the highway.
White Hills Monument
South from Arizona Last Stop is the White Hills monument on the east side of the road, along Mohave County 145. The only thing down 145 is a racetrack for dirt bikes. It has a name but I can’t remember it off hand. You can tell when they are racing because it kicks a huge cloud of dust across the highway.
Dolan Springs
Finally we get to the turn off for Dolan Springs! There is a modern gas station on the corner, and next to it, is the huge propane tank that is quintessentially “Dolan Springs.” I have always adored it because behind it, there is a fenced area with rows and rows of “baby” propane tanks.
Sometimes the road is called county road 25 but out here, we call it Pierce Ferry Road or just Pierce Road. There is a tiny general store opposite of the road, which is bright teal.
It is a very, very long stretch of road with not much to look at on either side, but of note there are many advertisements on each sides of the road but they are all in Spanish, which is normal around here. Not to brag, but I know enough Spanish now to sort of speak in broken sentences, or to read the signs around town.
I take it back, there are some things to see on this long stretch of road. In the desert, when someone moves out of a home or business, or if there is a fire or something causes a building to be uninhabitable, it is not torn down or replaced. It is just left as-is, and seeing buildings in this state is common. Since there is little to no precipitation, nothing decays, or does so very slowly. It is like the entire world is a quiet, time capsule. Several houses like this line the road on each side.
There is also a huge junk yard that is filled with pretty cool looking classic cars. And a car that has been on the side of the road, selling for $2000 for as long as I have lived here.
Once the actual town of Dolan Springs begins, it only lasts a few blinks of an eye. It is right before the road curves to the north. That is where all the main businesses are congregated. One of the city signs is here too, on the right hand side of the road.
You can see to the southeast, Mt. Tipton, or as the kids around here call it, Mt. Mitton. It is practically in my backyard, giving me a few extra minutes of shade each day.
There are many hiking trails in the area around the base of the mountain, including some that have rock art. It is kind of cool to see randomly in a clearing while out on a hike. The view from the summit of Mt. Tipton is very cool. Looking northwest, you can see both Malpais Mesa and Lake Mead in the foreground.
One of the more eye catching is the Dolan Springs Baptist church, which is bright pink. The picture on the right is from just recently, as I noticed they had done some painting and added some pink accents. Someone told me at the cafe once that the building is in the movie Mars Attacks. I have yet to confirm this, but what a claim to fame, eh?
The other businesses include the Canyon Cafe (the lady there is mean).
Several little general stores like B&B, Star Country, Wishing Well, Hot Diggity Dog, and the Trading Post. There is no large grocery store though. Once a month I go to Laughlin to stock up on everything, but I support the little businesses as well when I run out of candy bars mid-month.
There are a few municiple buildings of sorts, like an elemetary school right at the curve of Pierce Ferry, a post office, and a can’t-miss-it Chamber of Commerce building that is bright yellow.
It was really pretty out the other night so I took a bunch of pictures from my front porch, driveway, and road. Enjoy the sunset of Dolan Springs!
There are a few other places of interest around Dolan Springs – let me know if any of these interest you and I can get some shots:
Hualapai Valley Observatory
Peach Springs (they have a real fallout shelter)
Helicopter emergency/fuel station
Magma mine
Dolan Springs substation
Buffalo Buck’s campground
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For weeks I have been living in the In-between.
A life between normalcy and aberration.
I live on Long Island. Outside of the city, but not far enough outside to escape the horrifying number of COVID-19 cases.
As an essential employee who is also an introverted work-a-holic, my routine has remained relatively unchanged. I’ve still been going to work—a lot. Especially on nights and weekends when others might be out congregating in large crowds.
But work hasn’t been exactly the same. No humans but us are allowed in the building. We adapted; FaceTiming people or doing exams in the lobby so a pet’s family could watch through the window. It was different…but not.
Everything was different…but not.
And I felt lucky. Because I still had a job—more work than I wanted perhaps. And an emergency fund in case I had to take time off. I had focus, and purpose. But everywhere around me others were losing their jobs, or getting their hours cut when they were already living paycheck to paycheck. Business owners I knew were at risk for losing the businesses they’d built and nurtured from the ground up.
But I was okay. And a part of me felt lucky. And a part of me felt guilty. Why should I be okay when so many others weren’t? I felt conflicted.
And as the week wore on and the number of confirmed COVID cases rose as I continued to work, I became resigned to the fact that I would eventually contract the virus. But I was sure I’d be okay. I’m young, and healthy. I have type O blood. I live alone. The risk factors were in my favor.
But who would I infect? Would the risk factors be in their favor? Would they get sick? Would they die? I felt lucky…but scared.
And now, as I sit writing this, I am in limbo once again
Not quite sick, but not quite well.
I have a cough—but just barely. Is it really a “cough” or just a mild increase in the need to clear my throat?
I feel tired and flushed, but I’ve got no fever…and I worked 80 hours last week so tired is not unexpected.
My chest feels a little tight but not painful.
“Stay home if you feel sick” they say. But what is “feeling sick?” Is it a headache? A slightly stuffy nose? A tickle in the back of your throat? Normally no. But now—now those not-quite-symptoms could mean so much more. And so, though I am essential, I’m not essential enough to not stay home.
Do I get a test? My symptoms are mild, at best. And we need to reserve medical resources for those who need them most. But I’ve been in contact with a known COVID positive person. And there are sick pets counting on me.
It could be so much worse, I know. Things could be decisively bad. But this waiting for the other shoe to drop…of wondering if and when it will all fall apart; this sense of everything being fine, but one step away from total disaster…it’s not so great either.
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...feeling okay Sarah @sarahuk
Looks, coping
Bizarre twist! My psoriasis has become more active on my lower half of my body than my upper half. Maybe it is migrating?! Tops of feet (in a perfect line pattern, quite mesmerising) and knees, and on the bum. Anyone get this? Upper half is calm! 🤔
Theme Psoriasis on the Feet
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Linda @justicejones
It certainly has a mind of its own!
You will find the answers you need to get it back under control.
Bev @bev43
Weird Sarah. P does know-how to confuse us
Linda @Linda1009
I have almost always had psoriasis on the lower half of my body only. I do have slight scalp P but mainly it appears on my legs only
Susan @godcares
Hmmm. Interesting. Never had that. Maybe now that you have food stuff under control take the next step. Therapy helped me in my mind control for stress along with guided meditation. Just a thought.
Rosey @sue2023
Yep but only midriff is totally clear?? Waist down including bum cheeks been real bad as for face,scalp controlled now,arms fading and lovely spots on feet. Ohh your lucky your feet are lined ,mine just randomly dotted
Oh p keep the surprises up,where will it land no-body knows
rachel @wynnegee
So have you never had psoriasis on the lower half of your body before? I have it all over, quite symmetrical! Its coming back now after the UVB and summer sun, mostly on my torso. I'm hoping that because of diet and lifestyle improvements it won't come back to the same extent. Fingers crossed, for us all! x
Justin @justin1
I found mu Psoriasis cleared COMPLETELY when I was on a kibbutz in Israel!
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Natural Cotton Newborn Outfits a More Healthy
by：Jalofun 2020-07-12
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World Yoga Day June 21st
Yoga is an Indian form of physical, mental and spiritual practice. It involves breath control, meditation and the adoption of certain body postures.
Though considered as a mode of physical exertion in the Western countries, Yoga is actually a meditative and spiritual way of living.
The term “Yoga” is a Sanskrit term which literally means “to join” or “to unite”. Most of the Yogic scriptures have been written in Sanskrit which is believed to be one of the oldest Indo-European languages.
Yoga is said to have emerged during the pre-Vedic and Vedic times though it is still a matter of debate for many philosophers. It is believed that it was around 500 BC when the philosophical schools of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism started taking form, that a coherent system of yoga began to emerge. It has always been a part of the Indian culture and was only introduced to the West by Swami Vivekananda in late 19th and early 20th century.
Yoga is beneficial to a person in many ways. It helps you control your breathing and increases concentration, it improves flexibility for it acts upon various joints in the body which are generally ignored, and also helps in achieving harmony and initiating the mind to work in sync with the body.
A very important aspect of Yoga are the “Yoga Sutras“. These Sutras were compiled by Patanjali who took certain elements from the older traditions of Yoga and composed them into 196 Sutras. The interest in Yoga around the globe increased massively during the late 19th century when the Yoga Sutras started being recognized as the “Science of Yoga”.
They are various “asanas” (physical postures) along with the breathing techniques that make up the the physical aspect of Yoga. There are 84 classic asanas and innumerable variations of the basics. The Sutras never really mentioned any particular asana, merely specifying the good characteristics of one.May it be any asana, the only requirement is it to be steady and comfortable.
Not only does Yoga help attain spiritual well being, the asanas also help reducing health problems and stress and making the spine flexible and supple.
With the increased popularity for Yoga, come the various myths about Yoga. One of the most common myth is that Yoga is a religion. Yoga has nothing to do with religion. It is a spiritual way of living and accepts all religions for the way they are. Another myth to come across is that Yoga is for people who are flexible. It doesn’t make a difference what your age is, Yoga can be practiced at any point in life. Also, Yoga does not help in achieving a perfectly toned body. Instead, it helps in connecting your mind to your body.
Various educational institutions try to inculcate Yoga into their curriculum to allow its students to achieve peace with oneself and also to increase their concentration. Students are motivated to indulge in Yoga to understand their mind and body. World Yoga Day is being celebrated on 21st June, 2015. | <urn:uuid:babb697e-09e7-4d74-bbe4-d3a1b090d3be> | https://www.trendmantra.com/world-yoga-day-june-21st/ | en | 0.969607 | 0.041527 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Contract Research: Thermally Active Clothing for Building Carbon Footprint Reduction
A paper produced jointly as a contract research project between Winchester Innovation Ltd, Simon Bramwell and Southampton Solent University on a contract research basis.
The paper explored the carbon dioxide reductions made possible through use of thermally active clothing in conjunction with more traditional building heating systems.
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Friday, 30 January 2015
Life hack & slash
During my unemployment period I've alarm clocked myself up early, leaving 5-6 hours sleeping time, but it didn't went that well and now I have to say that I need at least 7-8 hours of sleep. Maybe I'm getting old. Since I'm a kind of person that can't go to sleep early I have to oversleep. It doesn't even matter since I don't have a job. But I've set the alarm to wake me up 10:00 just to make sure I don't sleep too much.
The second hack is coffee. When I quit drinking coffee almost six months (or whatever) ago the problems with my prostate condition started. What is quite ironic is that coffee works better than alfusozin, a medicine designed for prostate diseases. I can't get over it how funny it is. However the effect of coffee is somewhat amplified in my case, because I'm a highly sensitive person. Also, I have to watch out drinking too much coffee, it's not good either. Two or three cups a day.
I'm still working on Level class. I knew it takes some time to sort it out, but it's a special case of course since so much is going on in Level such as dungeon generation and interactions between creatures and everything else. Creating some kind of rough versions of level themes is the next big task. More on that maybe on the next blog update.
Friday, 23 January 2015
Mushroom patch simulator
Every modern roguelike that respects itself should have a mushroom patch simulator or MPS. In Kaduria it's only a fractional part of the entire dungeon generation and plant simulation scheme, but it's good to have.
The idea in MPS is that generation of mushroom depends on host plants, usually trees. This is what happens in nature and even we think plants are scattered "randomly" in nature, it's the opposite. Plants as well as animals live in a world where they fall into ecological "slots" each depending on their skills to survive in that environment. We humans also have our slot, it's just quite large. But if we think of it there are environments we can't live in like extremely cold or hot areas or water. And if we think the bigger picture our slot starts to look small when we include our solar system or even the galaxy.
Random generation that depends on some other factor could be called dynamic random generation which is less predictable than older static random generation where each part of the generation process has very little to do with another one or there is no connections between them at all. But rather than following strict rules of nature it's often better to use random components to produce pseudo-natural results. The main reason for this is that if you would follow strict rules your simulation would have to be extremely detailed including realistic plant growth and environmental conditions. It's little bit too heavy in context of a computer game I think.
But let's return to previous issue with role-playing system. I still have problems with it and that's why I have returned to dungeon generation with another iterative process to find and store todo-items for the main todo list I was talking about. The supermassive Level class certainly needs lot of work even to detect all problem areas, not to mention how to fix them later. So I have plenty of work to do before I have to think about the RPG system.
Friday, 9 January 2015
Real world
The problem I have with the RPG system is how to combine somewhat "realistic" physics of game world with character stats and creatures as game objects that have to follow the same rules of physics. It's been always a thing to talk about "more" realistic games, but actually it's strange when you try to design a game like that. Using simple numbers and calculations as in tabletop RPGs is both easier to program and also easier to understand as a player.
Well, maybe it is possible to use simple stats, but derive something more complex out of them. Maybe stats can just be hidden from the player to avoid unnecessary confusion. I know I'm confused right now, but I have to solve this problem, preferably soon.
Sunday, 4 January 2015
Todo: todo
I've began to create a class/function level list of things that either need some simple fix or require more design and thinking. This far my project management skills have been limited to a bug list and some random todos both in a external text file and source code "notes". It has been quite messy to be honest and now that I have scanned through some of the files I'm already convinced that this new todo list was a great idea. What I probably should do is not try to create a full list in one go, but first check smaller files, fix problems in them and then continue to larger files down the class hierarchy.
A recurring issue I'm quite often detecting is the way small data type classes don't have as much code (functionality) as they could. There are even classes that have a list (enum) of things and Get_Name(), but nothing else. Yet this is not a simple thing to fix, because the multitude of ways you can implement something. It's possible to use a really simple data class and just code the relating functionality elsewhere. The somewhat ironic notion is how increasing the data type class functionality often means the member functions literally become more functional as in functional programming paradigm. But it's not always a bad thing.
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To bring into the present
the wisdom of the past.
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Health by Eastern philosophy
Energy balance
within the body.
In Japan, "Hi, how are you ?" translates into "the energies of Heaven and Earth are they in harmony ?"
« When human beings lose touch with nature, with the heavens and the earth, they are no longer capable to nurture their environment, nor to administer their world; they destroy their ecology while they destroy themselves. In this view, the healing of our society must be effected together with the healing of our personal and elemental link with the phenomenal world. »
Chögyam Trungpa
According to Eastern philosophy, health is primarily the result of an energy balance within the body, as well as a harmonious relationship between the body and the environment. Health is a state that encompasses both the physical, psychological, emotional and social well-being. It is therefore a holistic approach that considers human beings as an integral part of the universe, born from the blending of the energies of Heaven (Yang) and Earth (Yin).
According to the Nei Jing Su Wen (the first of the medical classics) every human being at birth has a balance of the virtues of Heaven and Earth. To learn how to live is to take care of this potential to live happily and healthily as long as possible. In this context, Shiatsu is an invitation to come into contact with this innate potential and to feed it by harmonizing the flow of vital energy through the body (the "Ki"). | <urn:uuid:0028ae16-cc1e-4545-a9c8-1f3ecdb54ee0> | http://shiatsu-ki.be/en/shiatsu-eastern-philosophy.php | en | 0.939587 | 0.030317 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
The Phillies As Jurassic Park (3-D!) Characters
Written by Justin Klugh. He's the man behind a great Phillies blog--That Ball's Outta Here; he's also a sports producer for a little thing known as Philly.com (don't tell anyone but I'm trying to hire him away from those losers). The following is his spin on a classic, recurring ZWR premise, "The Phillies As..."
Chances are, you spent another Friday night wondering where all the cool kids went. Well, as a jealous co-worker revealed for all of Twitter to see, we were all doing what cool kids do when we aren't making web sites or coming up stuff to put on our web sites: seeing movies in 3-D.
Now, I know what you're thinking. "Hey, guy--I live my life in the third dimension. Why should I pay $15.50 to wear some goggles in the dark?" And the answer is, you shouldn't.
Regardless, in celebration of Jurassic Park coming out in 3-D, here are your Philadelphia Phillies as cast members of 1993's greatest film. #1993 #phillies #illuminati
Jimmy Rollins as the Dilophosaurus
Charming, non threatening, playful - but hang around too long and he'll spit paralyzing goo into your face. Only the goo is a late-inning home run that almost wins you the game.
Mostly, the parallel here is the swag. Jimmy will peacock with the best of them, strutting around charity events and locker rooms with all the fashion sense of an extinct reptile. Dilophosaurus, penchant for devouring Newman aside, is the most stylish of the beasts, showing off its glorious, slithery mane to anyone willing to hang around in the rain.
Come to think of it, both of these fashionistas may have their finest performances during inclement weather.
Roy Halladay as the Brachiosaurus with a Cold
The massive mainstay of the group; the legend, quietly taking care of himself. But even 50-foot monsters and 6 and a half foot monsters get sick and old and hard to watch in their decline. If he's gonna go out, he's gonna go out on his own terms: Sneezing in a little girl's face.
Chase Utley as Dr. Alan Grant
In a park full of turncoats, cowards, monsters, and thieves, these guys are both the only ones who seem to have any idea what they're doing. They didn't want to be in the situation they're in, but they'll be damned if they're not going to survive it.
Also, despite a gruff exterior, both have shown charming empathy toward cute animals/annoying children.
Cliff Lee, Mike Adams, Antonio Bastardo, and Phillippe Aumont as the Raptor Pack
Slick, smart, and menacing, this quad of killers has pitched a combined 14 innings, allowing zero earned runs, and four hits, leaving a trail of 15 victims in their wake.
Aumont has walked three guys in two innings, though. He can be the doofy raptor that gets trapped in a meat locker by a nine-year-old.
The Nationals as That Twerpy Little Kid Says Raptors are just "Six-Foot Turkeys"
If only Dr. Chase Utley would explain to these pompous little dorks with disturbing precision the method with which they would be delicately eviscerated and devoured by Cliff Lee.
It's been a few days since I've seen the movie, but I am 100% positive that kid was wearing a Nationals hat. At least he went on to be not a creepy adult at all. [WARNING: Extreme creepiness]
Dom Brown as Ray "Hold Onto Your Butts" Arnold
He's rebooted the system, and now, with a streak of optimism, he's ready to give it another shot.
"I got this guys!" Dom says with the bases loaded. **Is devoured by raptors**
Delmon Young as the Triceratops who Pooped Too Much
Go ahead, picture Delmon Young right now. What's he doing? Staying on top of an intense rehab program? No. He's lying on the ground in a heap, huffing and moaning while a team of Phillies trainers in a gas-powered jeep take turns saying "Well I don't know what the [BARGLE!] is wrong with him. He's just lying there, occasionally asking for another bucket of West Indian Lilacs and giving B.J. Rosenberg angry glances."
Ruben Amaro as John Hammond
One is a delusional old man, driven by a desire for control over the uncontrollable. The other doesn't think walks are important when trying to score runs. Both seem to undervalue a key aspect of the respective leadership: that getting on base is part of offense, and that dinosaurs do whatever the [FARGLE!] they want no matter how many dudes in hard hats with little glowy sticks are surrounding them.
I mean one guy gets chewed up by a raptor in captivity, and Hammond has to call in a bunch of scientists to prove the park is safe - and then they spend the weekend trying not to get chewed up. Hammond spends about four hours in Jurassic Park without everything descending into life-threatening chaos, all while watching his top three staffers slowly disappear one by one.
Rube's maintained the illusion of control as well, inheriting Pat Gillick's masterpiece, acquiring star players, and assembling what has become a rotation with three studs in it. Those studs seem to put him in good standing, but they're overall health doesn't care if it's a contract year.
Charlie Manuel as Robert "Clever Girl" Muldoon
A proven expert, he's worked in a wide variety of locations with a very specific set of skills: hitting/big game hunting. And while it's gotten him to the top of his field, it would only take one conversation with a scientist/statistician to broaden his effectiveness.
With Muldoon, that conversation would have been with Dr. Grant, who described the very method raptors use to hunt at the beginning of the film; a method Muldoon was not aware of, or he would still be uneaten by raptors. With Charlie, that conversation would have been with @Phrontiersman, who so graciously offers a counter point to Charlie's insistence on using certain pitchers during certain innings.
Michael Martinez as That Chunk of Goat-Meat that Lands on Top of the Car
For the 3D version of the film, they actually dubbed in the sound of Michael Martinez hitting the DL to more accurately portray a slab of goat landing on a car
1. Although Speiberg is credited as director for JP I find it hard to believe he was involved in the day to day production of that film for it has none of the feel or character of his other masterful or pedestrian film features; I found this film boring and poorly acted,
Even tough Rubes was given a World Series winning team he has manage to run it to the bottom of the division through a few exorbitant contracts and mediocre fill ins while depleting the farm system for must win now trades. This feature sucks.
1. But it's in 3 dimensions, you dope!
2. ....making it all the more painful to watch.
Ruben, ... We haven't been able to see how Delmon runs " because he hasn't been getting on base a lot ."
I can't wait to see this in 3-D,
3. Baumann is that you?
Leave a comment, or whatever.
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Bold Content 3 Fashion Brands Using Video Marketing Effectively
As a site with over one billion users, YouTube provides a massive platform for fashion brands to showcase their products. However, most people don’t go to YouYouTube FashionBrands Video MarketingTube to watch advertisements that feel like advertisements. Therefore, it is not effective for brands to just post their TV ads onto YouTube.
Some fashion brands have figured out that that they need to elevate their video content to feel like they are not about selling a product. They are creating videos that are designed to purely entertain their audience –branded content.
Subconsciously, the person watching is being exposed to the brand name, the logo and key marketing messages which would be placed in a regular ad. Brands following this approach are the ones that are gaining a larger following and a higher amount of views on their videos.
Here are 3 Fashion Brands that are using YouTube video marketing effectively:
1. Chanel:
Chanel’s channel has over 400,000 subscribers, more than any other fashion brand, giving it the top spot for YouTube reach. They fully embraced the idea of making branded content for YouTube, like a 7-minute film they posted called “Reincarnation”, made by Karl Lagerfeld that starred Cara Delevigne, Pharrell, and Geraldine Chaplin. Over three million people watched the film. Another film, called Chanel no5: The One That I Want, got over ten million views. Chanel also used music very well in their ads. Revealingly, in the comments under the video, one person said that they watched the video solely to listen to the music.
Chanel also used many celebrities in their videos, not just models. They capitalized on people’s interest in certain people, for example, Pharrell after his song “Happy” came out. Chanel also does well because they have many different products to work with, bags, perfume, etc. They have more opportunities to make interesting videos. Their imagination with their videos has given them an edge over the other fashion brands that hold YouTube channels.
1. Christian Dior
Like Chanel, all of Dior’s most viewed videos are videos with big stars (Robert Pattinson, Rihanna, etc.) Dior did a very good job with their “J’adore Dior” films with Charlize Theron. The video got over 27 million views, more than any of the Chanel videos. Dior has teaser videos, which is a smart move because it brings people’s attention to videos that will be coming out soon. They make sure to look out for them when they are on YouTube and are probably likely to watch it if the video has a star they know well or care about.
Like Chanel’s The One That I Want Video, Dior’s “J’adore Dior” has a song in the background that many people commented on. The first five seconds can make a big difference in terms of a user’s decision whether to watch a whole video or stop it in the middle. The beginning shot of the Dior ad, the long hallway with the glistening chandeliers, mixed with the instrumental beginning of the song, and the clicking of Charlize Theron’s heels, gives enough mystery that people want to continue watching more than if it was a very obvious ad with a boring song.
1. Up and Coming Fashion Brand on Social Media: Net-A-Porter
An up and coming YouTube channel is Net-A-Porter. Although they do not have as many followers as either Chanel or Dior (around 68,000) they are doing a very good job through what they call “Edit TV”. On their account, they state that Edit TV “brings you exclusive celebrity interviews, unmissable styling tips, beauty advice, fitness and lifestyle videos, every week.” The weekly update is a smart way to keep people interested in the channel as they know when new videos will be up and can check them every week for new tips, some of which come from celebrities. Also, hosting celebrity interviews is very smart because they get a lot of people viewing their videos that did not actually care about finding fashion videos, but instead wanted to see celebrity interviews. The end of the interview has the Net-A-Porter logo and there is a chance that people will check out the channel to see more videos like the one they just saw.
Net-A-Porter also does How To videos, which are very popular on YouTube. The how to videos range from how to wear certain articles of clothing, to how to make a specific kind of smoothie. Here is an example of one of the how to videos:
Net-A-Porter is doing a good job at trying to reach a large audience, through not only fashion videos, but also helpful workout tips and having interviews with celebrities that are mainly loved by teenagers around the age of 15. Net-A-Porter seems to be a fashion brand that will continue to have a growing presence on YouTube.
Fashion brands should continue to capitalize on YouTube and its far-reaching power. The videos circulate the brand name around extremely fast and help people become interested in buying the product. Using YouTube is extremely smart but also hard to do correctly, which is why hopefully this list will help with deciding how to make marketing videos for YouTube. | <urn:uuid:2ae44fca-94ba-44f1-9edd-6e3782fa700d> | https://boldcontentvideo.com/2015/07/30/3-fashion-brands-using-video-marketing-effectively/ | en | 0.955089 | 0.124367 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
[RUDE Japanese] Do Not Say “NO” – Speak Japanese Like a Native
There are some cases in which your Japanese accidentally sound rude.
I will introduce one of the example of this mistake, and tell what you should say instead!
Let’s say if somebody offer you a cup of coffee, you can easily speak like “No, thank you.” in English, right?
However, it is not natural to say “No, thank you.” in Japanese actually.
A literal translation of “No, thank you.” is
“いいえ、結構です。(Iie, kekkou desu.)” in Japanese.
but Japanese hardly use this phrase when we refuse something politely.
Because this phrase is too straight forward and sound cold expression.
Especially when we talk to friends, we never use “いいえ、結構です。(Iie, kekkou desu.)” as refusing phrase. It’s too chilly.
By the way, only “いいえ (Iie)” is not common use for refusal actually.
It’s still too straight forward.
So how should we refuse without being rude or cold?
Instead of saying “いいえ (Iie)” which is negative way, we often use positive way. I mean we refuse very softly.
Positive way means, it’s kind of “I’m fine” or “I’m good” in English.
OK finally!! Let’s talk about how to say “No” in positive way.
Let me start with this Tip.
The easiest phrase for “I’m fine” or “I’m good” is this!
What does “ちょっと (Chotto)” mean?
“ちょっと (Chotto)” means “a little”, however, it doesn’t exist as “a little” in this sentence. It is used for showing your refusal here.
If Japanese people hear “ちょっと (Chotto)” from you after they recommend something to you or invite you to something, they would understand you don’t want to accept it.
I mean, by using this phrase, “ちょっと (Chotto)” you can convey your refusal, at the same time the expression will not be cold. It sounds soft.
What does “いいです (Iidesu)” mean?
“いい (ii)” means “good” or “OK”.
“です (desu)” means polite form of “to be” or “is”.
So “いいです (Iidesu)” means “I’m good” or “I’m OK” , and we abbreviate the subject by the way.
Actually, “いい (ii)” can be used both negative and positive way.
It’s just like the word “OK” in English.
In English, if you say “It‘s OK!”, It should mean “alright” or “good”: positive meaning. On the other hand, if you say “I’m OK”, It could be “No thank you”: negative meaning.
Therefore, this is very important point!
If you don’t add “ちょっと (Chotto)” in front of “いいです (Iidesu)”, Some people might get confused if you are accepting or refusing an invitation.
I mean, only “いいです (Iidesu)” could be ambiguous expression.
So don‘t forget to put “ちょっと (Chotto)” in front of “いいです (Iidesu)”.
Let’s move to second TIP now.
Using only Tip 1: “ちょっと、いいです。(Chotto, Iidesu.)” is fine.
But in order to make the phrase more polite, I recommend to use this second tip too.
Don’t worry, it’s super easy!
Just put “Thank you” or “I’m sorry” after “ちょっと、いいです。(Chotto, Iidesu.)”
You can choose “thank you” or “I’m sorry” according to your feeling.
If you feel like “Oh, thank you for inviting me” or “Thank you for your recommendation”, please say “ありがとうございます (Arigatoo gozaimasu)”, after “ちょっと、いいです。(Chotto, Iidesu.)”
On the other hand, if you feel “Sorry” about your refusal, like you cannot accept somebody’s request or something. Please say “ごめんなさい (Gomennasai)” after “ちょっと、いいです。(Chotto, Iidesu.)”
By the way, if you are talking to your friend, you can say “ありがとう (Arigatoo)” which is more casual way.
Also, instead of saying “ごめんなさい (Gomennasai)”, you can just say “ごめん (Gomen)”. It’s more casual.
By using this tip, even though you refuse some invitation or request, it doesn’t make someone uncomfortable.
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One-stage Revision for Periprosthetic Joint Infection Gains Traction
A one-stage revision technique for periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) after a total hip replacement or total knee replacement may offer lower cost, quicker restoration of function, and lower morbidity than a two-stage revision; further, it may also lead to equivalent infection eradication compared to a two stage revision, according to a new study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. The research will be presented at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, March 12-16 (poster #514)
"In our study, we have shown no significant difference in terms of infection cure rate at a mean of two years postoperative, in our select group of patients, between the one-stage and two-stage revision," said lead study author Michael B. Cross, MD, an orthopedic surgeon specializing in hip and knee replacement at HSS. "This study provides good preliminary data to support a randomized trial and that is ongoing [in the U.S.]."
PJI is one of the most devastating and frequent complications after lower extremity joint replacement, often requiring revision surgery. "Infection is the hardest complication of joint replacement for both surgeon and patient," said Dr. Cross. For the patient, infection requires additional surgery and time off work, and there is a constant fear that the infection won’t be cured. Revision surgery can be tricky for surgeons.
Traditionally, surgeons have treated infected knee replacements with a two-stage approach, by removing the implants and inserting an antibiotic spacer to treat the local infection. After the knee is retested and free of infection, the knee implant is reinserted. The infection cure rate with this technique is 85%, and the process takes roughly three months at a minimum, which is a long time for patients to be out of work and not active. Another option used more frequently in Europe and for select cases in the United States, is a one-stage process, where the implant is removed, the knee joint is depleted of infected tissue and the knee replacement is put back in with a whole new set of sterile instruments. Critics of the one-stage technique have suggested that infection eradication is inferior to the historically successful two-stage revision.
To shed light on the issue, researchers at HSS conducted a retrospective, case- control study to compare infection-free and all-cause revision survival between a matched cohort of one-stage and two-stage revisions for PJI. They identified 41 patients who underwent a one-stage revision for a PJI after a total hip or knee replacement through an IRB-approved database at HSS. Patients were matched (1:2) to controls treated with a two-stage revision, based on joint, sex, and body mass index.
With an average follow-up of 2.6 years, infection-free survival was not statistically or clinically significant, 80.5% in the one-stage group and 87.8% in the two-stage group (P=0.28). All-cause revision survival was 70.7% for one-stage and 75.6% for two-stage revisions (P=0.56), but 31.7% of two-stage patients had a history of revision in the affected joint compared to none of the one-stage patients (P<0.01). To control for this, survival was assessed for 41 one-stage and 56 two-stage patients with no history of revision in the affected joint. Infection-free survival (80.5% vs 92.9%; P=0.07) and all-cause revision survival (70.7% vs. 80.4%; P=0.27) were not different between subgroups. The reduced duration treatment and a single operation with the one-stage revision reduces cost and morbidity, in addition to being more convenient.
To the authors’ knowledge, the study is the first to compare one-stage and two-stage procedures, while controlling for previous replacement procedures and also the first to control patient population between two groups at a single institution. "It’s usually a hospital in Europe publishing data on a one-stage and a hospital in the United States publishing data on a two-stage, but obviously there is different bacteria and different hospital settings, so the comparison between the two is not as good," said Dr. Cross. "On average, there was a better success rate to treating the infections with the two-stage revision, but statistically it was not different between the two groups."
Dr. Cross noted that joint replacements are becoming more common, as the baby boomer generation ages and starts requiring more care for hips and knees. "The baby boomers are more active in their generation, and as a result of that, there is a huge influx in demand for hip and knee replacements," said Dr. Cross. "Knee replacements are growing exponentially, and they will continue that way until 2030." | <urn:uuid:17c5c85d-a888-4ae4-84b8-97db950d38e6> | https://news.hss.edu/one-stage-revision-for-periprosthetic-joint-infection-gains-traction/ | en | 0.942141 | 0.036254 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Senility in Dogs
Date Published: 08/14/2013
Date Reviewed/Revised: 10/06/2017
This dog experienced CDS for the last year of her 15.5-year life and spent much time standing in front of corners, seemingly unable to get out of them. Photo by VIN.
Cognitive behavior issues include difficulties with spatial orientation (a sense of direction while moving around); problems with memory, learning, housetraining; and difficulty in recognizing and reacting to human family members.
Pet owners have long been frustrated by age-related behavior changes, including house-training problems, apparent memory loss, disorientation, confusion, staring, wandering, getting stuck in corners, sleep disturbances (waking at the wrong time, sleeping unusually deeply, night pacing), restlessness, barking, separation anxiety, panting, drooling, obsessive licking, etc.
Progression of clinical signs is so gradual that most owners fail to recognize the early stages.
These changes are often written off as being due to normal aging. A recent study at the University of California-Davis School of Veterinary Medicine demonstrates how common these observations are: out of 69 dogs participating, 32% of the 11-year old dogs were affected by this syndrome and 100% of the dogs 16 years of age older were affected.
In another study of 180 dogs aged 11-16 years, 28% of 11-12 year-old dogs and 68% of 15-16 year old dogs showed at least one sign consistent with cognitive dysfunction. Ten percent of 11-12 year old dogs had signs in two or more categories and this rose to 36% in the 15-16 year old group.
Still, the high frequency with which the syndrome is seen in older dogs does not make the behavior normal.
Increasing age results in some or all of the following changes in the brain:
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2. There is an increase in beta amyloid plaques. Beta-amyloid is a protein that accumulates in the brain and damages neurons. The greater the beta-amyloid accumulation is, the greater the cognitive impairment. In dogs, errors in learning tests were strongly associated with increased deposition of beta-amyloid.
3. Numerous micro-hemorrhages (bleeds) and infarcts (places where blood flow has stopped or been disrupted) occur. These likely compromise overall blood flow and result in hypoxia (a reduced availability of oxygen).
4. Changes in neurotransmitter levels. Monoamine oxidase B (MAOB) has been found to increase in older dogs. MAOB metabolizes dopamine, a neurotransmitter, resulting in decreased dopamine levels.
Treatments that may help improve cognitive dysfunction (CDS) include selegiline, dietary changes, SAM-e, environmental enrichment, and cerebral perfusion (an improved blood flow to brain cells).
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L-Deprenyl helps prolong dopamine activity. This may account for part of its efficacy (power to be able to produce an effect) in treating cognitive dysfunction. In addition, since dopamine breakdown results in free radicals, L-Deprenyl also helps reduce the amount of free radicals in the brain.
Of the 69 dogs mentioned in the above University of California-Davis study, approximately 76% showed improvement on L-Deprenyl after one month of therapy. Some dogs improved in the first few days or weeks; some dogs did not show improvement until the second month. Often dogs continued to improve during the first three months. Anecdotally, the earlier L-Deprenyl is started, the better the result.
When using L-Deprenyl to treat cognitive dysfunction, if no improvement is seen after the first month, your veterinarian may recommend doubling the dose for an additional month before deciding the drug may not be useful in that individual pet.
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Some commercial therapeutic diets contain antioxidants, mitochondrial cofactors, and omega-3 fatty acids. These diets have been shown to improve the performance of a number of cognitive tasks when compared to older dogs on a non-supplemented diet. Improvements have been seen as early as to 2 to 8 weeks after therapy begins.
S-adenosylmethionine SAM-e was found to be effective in improving clinical signs associated with CDS in a double-blinded, placebo controlled trial.
Environmental Enrichment
Just because they're old doesn't mean your dogs can't learn new things. Use their intelligence to improve the quality of their lives.
If your old dog's vision is still good, teach signals. This will serve as a back-up if hearing fails, which it often does. Signals are fun for dogs and are a more natural language for them than words.
Grooming (touch) will help your dog cope with vision and hearing loss. Your touch will help guide your dog.
In a laboratory study of older dogs over a 2-year period, environmental enrichment (e.g., housing with another dog, playing daily with toys) was shown to be effective tool for task learning. In fact, the combined effect of a special diet and enriched environment provided the greatest improvement in learning ability when compared to the dogs who did not have either dietary or environmental enrichment.
Improved Cerebral Perfusion
Drugs that increase cerebral perfusion may have some benefit in CDS.
• Propentofylline (Karsivan) is licensed for use in some European countries for dullness/lethargy in old dogs. This drug exerts its beneficial effects by improving blood flow to the brain.
• Nicergoline is an alpha-1 and alpha-2 adrenergic antagonist available in the United Kingdom for age-related behavior problems.
With proper care, senior dogs can be helped to manage the cognitive changes they will encounter. Old age is not a disease.
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Contentious Lives examines the methods renowned protests are skilled and remembered, separately and jointly, via those that perform them. Javier Auyero makes a speciality of the jobs of 2 younger women, Nana and Laura, in uprisings in Argentina (the two-day protest within the northwestern urban of Santiago del Estero in 1993 and the six-day street blockade within the southern oil cities of Cutral-co and Plaza Huincul in 1996) and the jobs of the protests of their lives. Laura used to be the spokesperson of the picketers in Cutral-co and Plaza Huincul; Nana used to be an activist within the 1993 protests. as well as exploring the results of those episodes on their lives, Auyero considers how every one woman's studies formed what she stated and did in the course of the uprisings, and later, the methods she recalled the occasions. whereas the protests have been responses to the results of political corruption and structural adjustment regulations, they have been additionally, as Nana’s and Laura’s tales exhibit, quests for acceptance, appreciate, and dignity.
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They are doing something utterly new in the history of both towns and of their own lives. How do they make sense of it? The brief opening narrative condenses the main themes, or better, the questions I want to explore about the contentious episode as lived experience. How does Laura, a divorced mother of three, an underemployed private tutor with no history of previous activism (in fact, with a visceral disdain for anything political) become the ‘‘representative’’ of hundreds of picketers and, by extension, of the two towns?
He used to go to the club, to hang out with his friends, but now he doesn’t go because he needs money for that. You need to buy a drink, put some money down for the food, or sometimes invite everybody for a round. ’’ In their seventies, María Esther and Kelio have their house—the house where they lived for more than forty years, where they raised their sons and grandchildren, and where they generously put me up for more than a week—up for public auction because of an outstanding debt to the provincial bank: ‘‘I think we are going to lose it,’’ María Esther tells me in frustration.
More than half of the population of both towns lives below the official poverty line (Favaro et al. 1997, 17). Nowa44 CONTENTIOUS LIVES days only 35 percent of those 7,408 are subsidized by federal or provincial ‘‘work plans,’’ receiving an average of $150 per month. ’’ Most of the ‘‘work plans,’’ as they are called, have to be renewed every three to six months. ‘‘And every time one plan is canceled, we have to bring two cops to the office because people get really mad, really violent .
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Lease or licence? What’s the difference and what is the best option for you?
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Understanding the difference between a lease and a licence in property is important when considering what type of arrangement is best for you and your business. Whilst both allow another party to operate from a premises, there are key differences between the two. If you’re thinking about creating or being bound by a lease or licence, here are a few things you need to know.
What is a lease?
A lease is a formal contract between an owner of a property (the landlord) and the occupier of the property (the tenant) which details the specific obligations of each party in the arrangement. A lease outlines the key terms of the occupation of the premises such as the rent amount and length of occupancy, along with the responsibilities of each party to keep the premises in working order.
There are three elements which need to be satisfied in order for it to be considered a lease:
1. The landlord and the tenant must have a mutual intention to enter into a legal relationship;
2. The tenant must have exclusive possession of the property; and,
3. There must be a fixed term of occupation with a fixed rent/rent review process.
What is a licence agreement?
A licence agreement is a contractual agreement between a licensor and licensee commonly used when the licensee uses only a specific part of the property or has temporary access to the licensor’s property.
There are two elements which need to be satisfied in order for it to be considered a licence agreement:
1. The parties have a mutual intention to enter into a legal relationship; and,
2. The licensee doesn’t have exclusive possession of the property.
Pros and cons of a lease
The key advantage of a lease is that it offers tenants far greater rights and protections. For example, if the landlord decides to sell the premises, the tenant’s rights are protected. A lease also offers security of tenure for the tenant through an option period. In addition, tenants may also be protected under legislation, for example, if it is a retail lease, the Retail Leases Act will provide extra protections. However, under a lease, the tenant is obligated to restore the premises to its original state once the lease has expired.
Pros and cons of a licence
If the licensee only requires access to part of a property on more casual terms, a licence is far more beneficial and simple to operate. A licence is also much easier to control if you are a licensor due to less onerous obligations placed on each party. However, a licence agreement offers far less protection for the licensee compared to a lease since the licensee doesn’t have a legal interest in the property.
Which is best for you?
Deciding whether to enter into a lease arrangement or a licence agreement can be a tricky task If a tenant only needs access to a property on more flexible terms and/or only part of the property, a licence is far more favourable. However, if a tenant requires exclusive occupation of a property along with more concrete protections, a lease is the best option. A lease also includes more rights and obligations, and is usually the more common arrangement in a property occupancy arrangement.
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It’s Time for an Event Planning Moment
Early Days with Spreadsheets
In 1980, as a junior in high school, I bought an HP scientific calculator to help with my math and science classes. While it helped with my trig and physics homework, what really fascinated me were its programming capabilities. Over the course of several months, I learned how to write dozens of programs for it and, in doing so, discovered my passion for technology. By mid-year, I had decided to quit my yearlong architectural drafting class in order to take the first ever computer programming class offered at our school. My architecture teacher spent an entire lunch period trying to convince me that switching classes would be a big mistake, but I’ve never regretted that decision.
Later that same semester, I found a part-time job at a local computer store, The Byte Shop, which sold several brands of personal computers, including the Apple II and Commodore PET. Home computers were still a novelty at that time, and customers were curious how these machines might be useful. Ads in those days suggested using computers for balancing your checkbook, checking stock prices, organizing recipes, and playing games. But productivity software, especially for word processing and spreadsheets, provided the strongest justification for purchasing a personal computer.
Indeed, only a year earlier, the first spreadsheet program for a personal computer, VisiCalc, had debuted exclusively for the Apple II computer. For the first time, consumers could use personal computers to construct digital models of their paper-based worksheets of numbers and calculations. My co-worker at The Byte Shop, an energetic college student, could hardly contain his excitement over VisiCalc. He would attempt to solve just about any problem a customer described using some form of spreadsheet. He experienced what I call a “spreadsheet moment.” This is a tipping point in time when a user realizes how much more effective using special purpose software is compared with their own traditional methods.
Over the next several years, VisiCalc helped legitimize personal computers as serious productivity tools, beyond hobby uses and games. While VisiCalc led the market on the Apple II, two new entrants, Lotus 1-2-3 and Microsoft MultiPlan quickly captured the dominant spreadsheet positions for the new IBM PC, released in 1981. When Apple released the original Macintosh computer in 1984, Microsoft recognized the long-term potential of its graphical user interface (GUI) and developed Excel, the first GUI spreadsheet, released first for the Mac in 1985, followed by a version for Windows in 1987. After graduating with a B.S. degree in computer science from UC Irvine, Microsoft hired me as a software design engineer to help develop new versions of their applications, Word and Excel. I was fortunate to have had early exposure to spreadsheets in high school and just a few years later work on a what would become the industry’s #1 spreadsheet application, with over a billion users worldwide.
The point of my spreadsheet story is that it provides a good analogy for the digital transformation that event planning is now experiencing. Over the past four decades, personal computers and software have revolutionized traditional paper-based analog models resulting in easier creation, manipulation, duplication and distribution of information. Among the first software categories to emerge were word processors and spreadsheets, transforming writing and accounting. Other categories to follow included design, education, reference, messaging, scheduling, gaming and other forms of home entertainment. Like spreadsheets years ago, event planning is now experiencing its own moment, thanks to recent advancements in cloud computing, wide adoption of smart mobile devices, and new specialty software specifically designed for event planning.
Event Planners Deserve Better
In my last article, ”Help! Event Planning is Driving Me Crazy,” I shared my experience planning monthly events for my son’s Scout troop. The time and effort required for this seemingly simply task was driving me nuts. Eventually, I decided to do something about this problem and developed Eventene, an online software solution to simplify event planning. My goal from the outset was to identify and streamline the planning process by combining the essential elements from spreadsheets, emails, and online survey services, that organizers have relied upon to plan and run group events.
However, while designing Eventene, I realized that the event planning industry in fact needed its own revolutionary moment; that tipping point in time where event organizers realize they could achieve major productivity gains by using special purpose software rather than using a combination of traditional tools. We launched Eventene version 1.0, or “MVP” (Minimal Viable Product) in January 2018, and encouragingly, since then many of our early adopters tell us they have experienced their own moments.
Just as spreadsheets proved invaluable for working with numbers and data across many vertical markets, we designed Eventene to handle a range of event complexity, from simple dinner parties to weeklong city tours and larger scale events. By identifying the essential building blocks, Eventene captures the core components of an event, including its details, description, participants, itinerary, imagery, and assignments. Once in digital form, organizers can make changes to their events and easily copy and repeat them.
Of course, planning for social events with less than 15 people can be handled quite simply by sending out a few emails. For events that small, it might not seem worth the effort to spend the time to set up an event in a digital framework with automated sending and tracking. As soon as the invitation count climbs to 15 or 20, however, it’s more efficient to leverage software as a “third hand” to automate the sending, tracking and distribution of the event information. And so, for any event planner that manages events of different sizes, the small time-investment in learning special purpose software can lead to massive long-term savings in time and effort. Eventene can easily handle invitations and tracking for dozens, hundreds or even thousands of people, making it a powerful tool for event planners at any scale. Inevitably, the more people in the event, the greater time and effort saved for the organizer and the more powerful tools like Eventene become.
So, it is clear that we have reached a unique moment in the event planning industry. Event organizers deserve better software solutions to become more productive and save time and energy. The time is right to create a service for organizers to take a substantial step up in productivity, just as users across the globe have experienced with spreadsheets over the past four decades. With that goal, we are building Eventene to revolutionize event planning, to provide our customers with a better software solution to make event planning more efficient and fun. Each time I observe one of our customers experiencing their own moment, I smile and recall my job in high school, watching our customers’ faces light up with wonder and awe upon seeing a spreadsheet for the first time.
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Just in time for a new remake hitting theaters today, we’re talking about the original 1933 Universal Monster movie The Invisible Man. Much like the film itself, it’s a bit of a shorter episode, but still one that sees us taking delight in the film’s cackling villainy. John also offers some insights into how it compares to the H.G. Wells book, as well as a rundown of some of the other more notable “invisible man” movies that have popped up over the years.
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At Last, Engineers Solve the 15-Year Mystery of the Spinning Huygens Probe
What caused the probe to spin in the wrong direction as it plummeted toward Titan's surface?
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• The European Space Agency’s Huygens probe landed on the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan 15 years ago today.
• As it dove toward Titan's surface, the probe suddenly started spinning in the direction opposite to what engineers had planned.
• New wind tunnel tests and computer simulations have finally revealed why.
For two hours and 27 minutes, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Huygens probe spun swiftly as it hurtled toward the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. The mission was risky, and scientists weren’t sure what to expect. When Huygens successfully stuck that landing on Jan. 14, 2005, it became the first probe to land on a world in the outer solar system. You can actually watch footage of the landing below.
As Huygens hurtled toward Titan’s surface, the probe unraveled mysteries about the bizarre moon, taking critical measurements of its atmospheric pressure, density, and temperature. But in the 15 years since it landed, a mechanical mystery has plagued scientists and engineers who worked on the probe.
Researchers expected the probe to spin in a counter-clockwise direction—and it initially did, at a rate of 7.5 rotations per minute. But then, about 10 minutes into its fall, it suddenly switched directions and began rapidly spinning clockwise, perplexing engineers back at mission control. They had anticipated that Huygens would spin upon descent, and thus equipped the probe with 36 angled vanes, intended to stabilize it on the way down. But they weren’t expecting such a dramatic shift in direction.
Now, new wind tunnel simulations conducted by researchers at the University of Orléans in France have shown that two of the probe’s most important instruments were responsible for the shift. When the scientists tested a 1:3 scale Huygens replica, they discovered the Separation Subsystem and the Radar Altimeter antennae produced an “unexpected torque opposite to that produced by the vanes,” according to an ESA statement. The effect of this “negative torque” was made worse as the 36 vanes pushed gases past the probe until the torque produced by the vanes was nullified.
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Researchers from the University of Orléans, France, tested a 1:3 scale Huygens probe replica in a wind tunnel to better understand how it could have flipped directions.
Based on evidence provided at the time of the descent, researchers also suspect another instrument, the Huygens Atmospheric Structure Instrument booms, might not have been fully deployed. So they conducted their experiments to account for three different scenarios where the booms were either tucked away, partially deployed, or fully deployed.
Fortunately, the swapped spin direction didn’t impact the quality of observations conducted on the way down. Huygens snapped pictures and captured samples of gases in the moon’s atmosphere, such as methane and nitrogen. It revealed that some of the moon's east-west-sweeping winds can actually rotate faster than the moon itself and found evidence of cryovolcanism and a subsurface ocean.
Understanding what went wrong with Huygens will help scientists better optimize plans for the next mission to Saturn. In 2026, NASA plans to launch an ambitious mission to the ringed planet and its moons. This time, a quadcopter called Dragonfly will explore Titan’s skies. Hopefully everything will spin, roll, and rotate according to plan.
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The patron PC experience
The patron reservation site
MyPC for library staff
The Patron PC experience
Where did the countdown clock go?
MyPC does not use a countdown clock. It has an icon in the system tray that changes as time elapses. Patrons will get warning messages at 10 minutes, 5 minutes, and 3 minutes before the end of their session. A minute before the session ends, the MyPC icon starts to blink.
How do users log out of MyPC?
Users can log out of their MyPC session in 3 ways: 1) click the "Restart PC for your privacy" icon on the desktop, 2) click on the Windows button in the lower left and select "Log Off," or 3) click the "Lock or End Session" icon on the desktop and select End Session.
What's the difference between the 3 ways to end a MyPC session?
"End Session" first ends the MyPC session, then restarts the PC. "Restart PC for your privacy" and the Windows button -> Log Off (or Restart) first restarts the PC, then as the PC starts back up again it ends the patron's MyPC session. So, "End Session" is the quickest way to let the MyPC server know a session is done.
What does the MyPC logon screen look like when there's a reservation?
If there is an impending reservation, the MyPC banner at the top of the screen will say "Reserved." If there is a reservation later in the day and the PC can be used until the reservation, the MyPC banner will say "Available" and list the amount of time the PC can be used.
Can a patron put the PC into Standby to use the bathroom or make a phone call?
Yes. The patron can click on the "Lock or End Session" icon on the desktop, choose "Lock Session", and their session will be locked for 10 minutes. The patron must re-enter their barcode and PIN to resume the session. If they do not resume the session before the 10 minutes is up, the patron is logged off, and the PC reboots and becomes available again. Any unsaved work will be lost.
Does MyPC detect inactivity?
Yes. If there is no activity for 5 minutes, the user's session will be locked and the PC status will show "In Use." The patron may log on again using their barcode and PIN to resume their session. If the patron does not resume their session within 10 minutes, the patron is logged off, and the PC reboots and becomes available again.
A patron is watching a YouTube video that's longer than 5 minutes. How can that patron keep MyPC from locking the PC because of inactivity?
To prevent MyPC from thinking the PC is inactive, the patron should periodically (at least once every 5 min) wiggle the mouse or click on the screen or hit a key on the keyboard.
What is the "Switch User" button on the patron PC's logon screen used for?
The "Switch User" button on the patron PC logon screen is used only by SCLS staff when they do work on the PC. When a user logs into MyPC, they will enter their Barcode Number and PIN in the boxes, and either hit the "Enter" key or click on the arrow to log in.
Will MyPC kick patrons off at closing time?
Yes! (Provided MyPC has your library's correct hours. If it doesn't, please contact the SCLS Help Desk.)
How does MyPC handle No Shows?
MyPC registers missed bookings as No Shows, but No Shows do not prevent a patron from using computers. The amount of time the booking is held while waiting for a patron to log in IS deducted from that patron's allotted time for the day.
The patron reservation site
What is the URL for patrons to book a PC themselves?
The URL will be
If a patron checks the box to email a booking receipt, what happens?
An email will be sent to the email address that the patron has on file in the ILS. If no email address is on file in the ILS, no email will be sent.
Will MyPC remember the patron's preferred library?
Yes. The first time a patron logs into the public reservation site, the patron will need to select the library at which they'd like to make a reservation. The next time they log in to make a reservation, MyPC will remember their previously selected library.
MyPC for library staff
Will library staff be able to take screenshots of sites the patron is visiting and save them? (i.e. as evidence if they are doing something not appropriate for public viewing)?
No. For technical reasons, SCLS will not be implementing the iSpy feature of MyPC at this time.
Many libraries will need to revise their Acceptable Use Policies before or after moving to MyPC. Will we be able to have control over the policy field?
Yes, with help. Each library will be able to determine their own library's Acceptable Use Policy. The library will submit the AUP (in .rtf format) to SCLS, and SCLS staff will put the policy into place.
Can a booking made through the Quick Booking menu have a duration of 120 minutes? The demo on Quick Booking showed only 30 or 60 minute durations.
Yes! In our webinar example, our PCs were set up for 60 minute bookings using the "Maximum Booking Duration" setting. Each library will be able to choose what the Maximum Booking Duration is for each of their types of PCs. More on the "Maximum Booking Duration" setting here.
In the demo, it looked like the booking could only be made on the hour or half hour. Could you make a booking that starts at 3:15 or 3:25?
Yes! In our webinar example, our PCs were set up for a 30-minute "Minimum Slot Time." Minimum Slot Time can be 5, 10, 15, 20, 30 or 60 minutes. Each library will be able to choose what the Minimum Slot Time is for each of their types of PCs. More on the "Minimum Slot Time" setting here.
Will MyPC have an option for Temp User passes? How do we create them?
Yes! MyPC uses "Guest Passes". Guest Pass documentation can be found here.
When do guest passes expire?
1-Day guest passes expire 12 hours after the user first logs into a MyPC computer (1-week passes expire 1 week after they are first used to log in, 1-month passes expire 1 month after they are first used). Any remaining unused guest passes do not need to be thrown out at the end of the night.
Can we look up infractions?
MyPC does not use infractions. It does allow library staff to ban patrons. There are 3 MyPC reports related to Banned Users: Banned Users Report, Currently Banned Users Report, and User Ban History Report.
Will staff be able to send messages to a computer user who is being disruptive or viewing bad websites?
Yes! More info here.
Who can change the amount of time a computer can be booked for?
SCLS will work with the library to change library PC configuration settings. For an individual patron's session, library staff can modify the length of the patron's booking.
Some patrons may use other people's cards. Can anything be done about this?
No. Until patrons log in with fingerprint or retinal scans, there is no way for the software to know if the person logging in is really the person whose card is being used.
Can library staff override patron time limits?
Yes! When library staff makes a booking for a patron, they can make it longer than the normal maximum time per day limit. Library staff also will have the ability to extend a patron's in-use booking to exceed the normal maximum time per day limit (provided there are no other bookings that follow).
We sometimes book PCs for after-hours events. Will this still be possible?
Yes. You will need to contact SCLS in advance of your event so SCLS can modify your library's MyPC schedule and nightly PC maintenance window.
Will MyPC have a real-time connection to the ILS?
Yes! This means if a patron has a new or replacement card, they will be able to use it in MyPC right away and won't need a temporary card.
Can I get MyPC statistics?
Yes! MyPC provides reports and allows you to schedule these reports.
Do Block Bookings count against a patron's time limit?
No. Even though the patron logs into a Block Booking with their card number and PIN, the Block Booking does not count against their time limit.
If we have an instance where the library is closing early on a particular day, can the individual library go in and adjust the automatic shut-down time? Or does this need to be coordinated with SCLS in advance? We sometimes have days where the library closes at 5 before a holiday and that may not be decided until a few days before the day.
Adjustments to a library's holiday schedule to reflect an early close time must be done by SCLS (after the library tells us about it).
In the example about banning, Brian was banned for 1 day. Is 1 day the current day only? Or is one day 24 hours? Or is one day a full day after the banning day?
It looks like one day = "calendar day," not 24 hours. Ex. I banned a user yesterday at 4:30pm for 1 day. This morning that user is no longer banned.
Does the patron see the text from the "ban reason"?
No. The patron does not see the text from the "ban reason." When a patron logs into the MyPC booking site, they will only see branches from which they are not banned. If they try to log into a PC at the location where they are banned, they will see a dialog box with the title "You are not allowed to use this computer" and the message "You are currently banned."
Does MyPC pay attention to blocks in the ILS?
If a patron has an expired card, what message will they get when they log into MyPC?
Title of message window: "You are not allowed to use this computer." Message text: "The specified user credentials were incorrect."
If a patron mistypes their card number and/or PIN when they log into MyPC, what message will they get?
Is there any way to give the patron different messages to distinguish between expired cards and cards/PINs that have been mistyped?
No, unfortunately.
If we renew a patron's expired card, will they be able to use MyPC right away?
Yes! Changes in the ILS are reflected the next time a patron logs into MyPC.
I sent a patron a message and they deleted it without reading it. Is there any way to make it stay on the screen for a certain amount of time?
Not that we are aware of, but we will submit this to the vendor for future consideration (no guarantees they'll pursue it).
What can I do to figure out why a patron can't log into MyPC?
Please see this document for help troubleshooting patron logon problems.
Can we log into MyPC computers using our staff credentials?
Yes. Logging into a MyPC patron computer with your staff credentials will give you a session with unlimited time. This will take precedence over any other bookings that may be made for the PC. The MyPC timer in a staff session will appear as a yellow circle with an "A" in it (for "Admin").
My library used to allow patrons to have more than 2 hours of time. Now the system-wide limit is 2 hours. What can we do to work around this?
There are a few options: 1) Time Extensions. MyPC can be configured to offer patrons more time as they near the end of their initial booking, as long as there isn't a booking scheduled immediately after theirs, 2) Guest Passes. A guest pass will give a patron an extra 2 hours of time, or 3) Staff intervention. Staff can manually override the system limits and create a longer booking for a patron.
Will we be able to print Guest Passes from all staff PCs?
Yes.The Guest Pass portal is web-based and is available from any browser. If you don't have a receipt printer installed on the staff PC (but you do have a regular printer), however, each Guest Pass will print on its own 8.5"x11" page.
Can guest passes be printed to a regular printer on a 8.5"x11" page?
Technically, you could print to a 8.5"x11" page on a regular printer, but we cannot make it put multiple guest passes on one page. Each guest pass would print on its own 8.5"x11" page. Because of this, our default will be to only configure the Guest Pass application on PCs with receipt printers.
How do I create a desktop shortcut to MyPC that opens in a specific browser?
2. Copy the text from one of the following
Browser MyPC shortcut path
and paste it into the Shortcut location box and click Next.
1. Type a name for your new shortcut (ex. MyPC) and click Finish
If I set up an automated monthly report in MyPC, is that sent out on the first?
Yes. Automated monthly reports will generate an email that is sent out on the first Monday of the month at 1:00am. The email will contain a link to the report, which will be held on the MyPC server.
Can I edit an existing ban in MyPC?
No. Currently you cannot edit an existing ban. You can only revoke a ban and create a new ban.
Can we save our staff login credentials?
No. The MyPC login screen is used by both staff and patrons to login, so it was designed to not be able to save login credentials.
Can you clarify for me? Is the 2 hour limit per day per location OR is it for all locations combined? My understanding was that it was per location (e.g. I could go to PDS and get 2 hours and then go to SKC and get 2 hours and then go to Lodi and get two hours). Is that correct?
The two hours that a patron gets a day is for all SCLS locations combined. Libraries have 2 options to work around this for patrons who use multiple libraries per day: 1) you can make a booking for the patron using the patron's card number and override the warning message(s) about the normal limit, or 2) you can give the patron a Guest Pass so the patron has an additional 2 hours.
The system setting that allows patrons to have 4 advance bookings is also a limit for all locations combined, not per-location.
Is there any one particular browser we should use with MyPC software, or does it work with Chrome, Firefox and IE?
It should work with all 3. If you run into any funny behaviors in a particular browser, please let us know!
Can we log into MyPC computers during our closed hours? (we have volunteers or staff who sometimes need computer access outside of normal open hours)
During closed hours, you can use your MyPC staff credentials to log into MyPC computers.
I ran a report in MyPC, but I don't see any resulting data. Where is it?
Check for blocked pop-ups. Be sure to set your browser to allow all pop-ups from
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Dave Grossman’s Bullet-Proof Mind
The NRA Carry Guard Expo’s value-add: training for the citizenry who choose to arm themselves. Dave Grossman, author of On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, gave a lecture on what he calls the “bullet proof mind.” It’s a holistic mindset (my words) that he deems necessary for people who must use violence– whether it’s for personal self defense, law enforcement or soldiers.
That mindset is not simply about preparing to fight and being alert for possible threats — although that’s certainly a significant part of it. It’s also about understanding human biology, how the body reacts to situations of extreme stress and trauma. Knowing, for example, how the human body will react to violence-induced stress and trauma, or the fact that people have reported a tendency to ‘forget’ or ‘misremember’ events that took place in the immediate aftermath of a violent attack.
Grossman recounted the story of a woman who was ‘freaking out’ after being involved in a defensive gun use who could not remember calling 911 — even after listening to the recording of her own voice.
Knowing how the human body reacts not just to violence, but to the aftermath, is critical, especially to help people avoiding psychological trauma later. Just as an inoculation teaches your body fight off a real disease later, going through the motions, feeling the stressors, the sights, the sounds, while in training, prepares the body and mind for dealing with those stressors while in a fight. Not to eliminate fear, but to keep it controlled. Never been in combat? Do force-on-force training. Never seen — or smelled — a dead body? Go witness an autopsy.
He also gave some practical advice: feeling panic set in? Take a drink of water. It slows you down, forces you to breathe more slowly. He even walked the attendees through a Zen-like breathing exercise to show how it reduces heart rate.
But, from Grossman’s point of view, the bullet-proof mind must look at trends in culture and society to predict what sort of crises to prepare for. This look must be unflinching and of the utmost intellectual integrity — denial, the former Light Colonel sniffs, is for sheep. And from his perspective, the cultural trends, as far as violence goes, are negative.
By exposing our children to sick, sadistic, twisted violence — in films, in television programs, in news media, and especially in video games, we are training via operant conditioning an entire generation to be cold, dispassionate, and effective killers. The Colonel runs through a litany of massacres perpetrated by juvenile murderers (“Don’t call them shooters!” he orders, “We’re all shooters. It’s our hobby. It’s fun. These people are murderers. Don’t let them steal our word.”)
The first double homicide in modern history perpetrated by a juvenile at school took place in 1975, in Canada. One followed in San Diego a few years later. A few more occurred, sporadically, in the 1980s, and typically involved only two or three victims at most, but in the 1990s, things changed. Three were murdered and five more wounded in Kentucky. Then five murdered and ten wounded in Jonesboro, Arkansas — Grossman’s own home town. Then thirteen were murdered in Littleton, Colorado. They proliferated, both in terms of numbers of incidents and numbers of people murdered, around the world. What changed?
From Col. Grossman’s perspective, it is front and center a cultural sickness. The violence prevalent in popular media both inoculates impressionable children to violence while giving them a narrative that encourages a nihilistic attitude toward police, government, and, indeed, society as a whole. Couple that with the operant conditioning from wildly popular first person shooters, and the outcomes are obvious. Predictable, even. Indeed, as Grossman notes with no false modesty, he predicted the trend of school massacres in the mid-90s, before Columbine or Jonesboro became household names.
Is this just another cultural conservative railing against the long-haired kids and their music? I don’t think so. This guy has the goods. Sure, Col. Grossman proudly wears his Christian faith on his sleeve, and couldn’t help himself from taking a dig at picture of President Obama pinning a medal on a civilian cop who stopped a terrorist attack in Texas, but in my judgment, he’s at heart a researcher who keeps digging until he finds the truth.
I found it instructive, for instance, that Grossman urged people to look behind the numbers when people say that homicides are dropping, and therefore we’re becoming a less violent society. Yes, it’s true, he says, that raw homicides are down, but that drop is due to improved technology in the medical, transportation, and communication sectors. A wound that would have a 90% fatality rate during World War II now has a 90% survival rate. With 1940s technology, the homicide rate would be ten times higher.
Despite that, the homicide rate is ticking up anyway, “And no — it’s not ‘just Chicago’,” he said before rattling off a variety of cities from across the nation, in states blue and red, with horrific gun control or with shall-issue laws and their year-over-year increase.
The trends are sobering, seeing as how the declining murder rate is also a standard argument in favor of ‘shall issue’ laws. Gun control is indeed ineffective, but perhaps ‘shall issue’ laws don’t necessarily send the rate down, either. Not by themselves anyway.
Grossman offered an ominous prediction for the future. People with massacres on their mind don’t hit hard targets, because they fear failure. And, increasingly, high schools are becoming hard targets. He predicts that the next wave of violence will be directed against targets like school busses, elementary schools, and day cares. “I pray that I’m wrong,” he said.
Impressively, Grossman held forth for four hours. Yes, that’s right, a four hour lecture. He did it extemporaneously, frantically creating his own visual aids with paper and markers in his color-stained hands. (He jokingly offered them to the audience as his ‘artwork’, and several took him up on that offer.) A person of not inconsiderable charisma, he pretty well held the audience in the palm of his hand throughout.
Can you take his data to the bank? Are his predictions worthwhile? I don’t know at this point. Data is what it is, and always has to be checked. I do know, though, that his ideas have intrigued me, and I’m coming home from the convention with a copy of his latest book, Assassination Generation.
1. avatar Kris says:
I train for a living (not LE/firearm related). There are serious problems with institutional reliance on “thought leaders” rather than field experience. I fall into this trap myself. My bosses are very convinced that it’s more important to have a good presenter than someone who’s been there and done it. Fortunately I’m both. Unfortunately, my counterparts are usually the former.
1. avatar Michael says:
^^^^^ THIS! I have coordinated deadly weapons training for law enforcement and while those “who have done it” might not always be the best, slickest presenters, they offer a more realistic view of it than those who talk a good game.
1. avatar The Duke says:
Fake news, Hollywood paid for tons of research that proves violence in media has no bearing on people actually commuting violence. And I’m sure we can trust unbiased Hollywood types to be straightforward and not put millions of dollars ahead of the truth….
Shooters makes murderers sound more like the typical gun owner so it’s makes us all look evil and the media loves that
2. avatar Manse Jolly says:
Soft Targets include Hospitals and Nursing homes as well.
3. avatar little horn says:
an interview with ICP comes to mind when subjects like this come up.
Violent J:” if you go cut off a rednecks head and strap to your car…and go bumping, YOU’RE FUCKED UP. thats not my fault. if it wasn’t my music that set you off it would have been the next movie you watched or the next game you played or so on.”
as the human population keeps growing, that means there are more people out their with malformed minds, therefore, psychos and killers are in greater numbers in the world. thats just pure mathematics.
a lot of people fundamentally don’t understand the Nature vs Nurture argument. they seem to think it means “which is stronger” when its actually an argument about which caused the situation at hand. creating psychos by nurture can be stopped. psychos by nature, are harder to detect because they learn to hide their behavior.
If guns were the death-machines liberals claim, then why do hardly ANY serial killers use guns? because they draw attention. so there goes the whole “guns make killing easier” argument.
would banning weapons/kinds of weapons stop shootings? of some kinds, maybe.
as someone pointed out a long time ago “why is it that we see our money, in banks, important enough to protect with firearms….but not our children?”
an outstanding observation that no liberal can answer (because they fought for gun free zones).
1. avatar barnbwt says:
And now ICP is hooked up with antifa & calling for street warfare & murder… Those guy’s “non-advocacy” of the crap in their trailer park lyrics is the biggest joke since OJ’s innocence. That doesn’t mean their music or anyone else’s encourages others to violence…but you’d have to be an idiot to claim that any transmission of words is incapable of moving humans to violence. ICP’s crap is just generic enough that they don’t run afoul of criminal laws & precedent that would nail them for specific incitement (i.e. a particular person or place/time) which puts them on equal footing with the Klan, Nation of Islam, and other hate groups who are dutifully protected from federal restriction.
They are, however, well within the laws & precedent for civil suits as a result of their advocacy if they actually owned up to it, which is where their insistence on “non-advocacy” of the contents of their lyrics comes from. They just don’t want to have to pay for the consequences of their actions, is all.
4. avatar Randy in Indiana says:
I read On Killing in college, after hearing Col. Grossman speak in Chapel (about a month before Columbine, if I recall correctly), and it was a powerful formative experience that changed the way I think. I attended the Bullet-Proof Mind seminar a couple years back, and found it quite helpful. If you want to talk about the ethics and morality of arming oneself, I think Grossman is required reading.
5. avatar Chris T in KY says:
If Lt Grossman is correct, that video games can teach kids to kill and desensitized them to violence, then was Tipper Gore correct when she said violent music lyrics would teach kids to be violent???
People can argue about the music they don’t listen to. Jewish people hate Wagner. They say it was Hitler’s favorite. So it’s banned in Israel.
I like Wagner. But I also think violent hard core rap music does promote violent actions.
Mein Kampf is just a book. But it’s banned by people who say you shouldn’t ban books. In fact they tell people not to read it. And they are the same people who want you to listen to violent rap music, and they want you to play violent video games.
I would not let my daughter play those games. And I would not buy her violent or curse word music.
And Yes, I did introduce her to shooting. And I’m glad I did.
1. avatar Chris T in KY says:
That should read LTC Grossman. My apologies sir.
2. avatar H says:
You may have left out violent hardcore metal. I’ve been in enough C&W bars and seen enough fights to question whether it’s chicken or egg. How do lyrics about I lost my girl, my dog, my pickup and my belt buckle stimulate the patrons to engage in brawls?
Oh it’s the alcohol. No wait it’s guns!
It’s parenting. Games and music are reflections of our inner demons. How we channel our emotions is the key. Parenting again. Do those media stir up the predisposed? Evidently. Most folks with good “home training?” Not so much.
3. avatar Cory C says:
Chris, that’s a fair question. I’ve read Grossman’s work and, while he makes a very compelling case that violent artwork desensitizes kids to violence and removes some of the mental blocks which make killing repulsive to human beings, he doesn’t seem to call for a ban on violent depictions. I get the impression that he’s merely arguing that exposure to violence (specifically inasfar as it is coupled with pleasure, i.e. watching a slasher film while eating popcorn) indeed affects people, not that it is the proximate cause of their real-life violent outbursts. It’s a factor, but not THE factor.
Think of it this way. If your kids hang out with kids who are sexually active or do drugs, some of the taboo is removed and your kids are desensitized to the notion of doing drugs or premarital sex. But hanging out with bad kids isn’t itself the one thing that will cause your kids to go off the rails. I think he’s more saying, “Violent artwork is another thing parents need to guard against and warn their kids about,” not that it’s something which should be banned.
6. avatar jwtaylor says:
After reading Sebastian Junger’s book, Tribe, for the third time (really short book) I went back and re-read Grossman’s first book, On Killing.
It was this quote from Junger’s book that caught my eye:
“A 2011 study of street children in Burundi found the lowest PTSD rates among the most aggressive and violent children. Aggression seemed to buffer them from the effects of previous trauma that they had experienced.”
I’ve been thinking of how that squares with Grossman’s hypothesis that PTSD at least partially results from people’s intrinsic unwillingness to kill other humans, especially in direct contact. The cognitive trauma that lingers is from that stark struggle of being forced to do something you really didn’t want to do, and it’s consequences.
I think both authors arrived at the same place, but from different points or origin.
I’ve known guys that wanted combat, truly wanted to go face to face in that life or death struggle, And once they got it, they just wanted more. I’ve never seen any of those guys have PTSD, and I’ve seen them become productive members of society.
I’ve also known guys that didn’t want to fight anyone, much less kill them. But once they were in that situation and prevailed, they became much more aggressive, without resorting to cruelty. Those folks adjusted to home life well themselves.
The guys that I saw have problems were the ones that didn’t want to fight, then recoiled from it once it happened, even if they did well at the time. They seemed to always keep on their heels from the violence after that, and struggled to return to peacetime life.
1. avatar Jon says:
Interesting observation. How did you fare? (no mal-intent)
While i was deployed, my platoon withstood intense combat on the outskirts of Badgad. No one in my platoon was spared from combat. My good friend was one of the men that greatly desired to see combat. He dreamed of, for lack of a better term, spilling the blood of the enemy. When we was given the opportunity, he indulged. After several fights, he withdrew and became increasingly unwilling and eventually unable to kill. Several weeks later, he had to pull the headless body of his friend out of a humvee after it was hit by an EFP. He suffered for years (and still does) from significant life disabling PTSD. The handful of men in my platoon that desired to kill were the ones that eventually were overcame by significant PTSD issues. The men that had no desire to kill but did so in order to protect their friends were the ones who had very few problems with PTSD.
I do not think that the desire to kill is the only link to PTSD. However, in my platoon, it appeared to be the strongest.
1. avatar jwtaylor says:
fascinating, what I saw was exactly the opposite. The guys that lived for the fight seem to just chug along, and did the same when they got home.
I was the happiest I’ve ever been in my life in combat. Nowhere else have I felt so complete and satisfied. I was exactly where I was supposed to be doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and I was good at it. Extremely fulfilling.
1. avatar uncommon_sense says:
Mr. Taylor,
I have an exceedingly simple and powerful explanation that some people will despise because it involves faith and our Creator. The Bible tells us plainly that God created different people with different gifts, skills, and talents for specific purposes. He created people to be teachers. He created people to be peacemakers (diplomats if you will). He created people to be leaders. He created people to be encouragers. He created people to minister to others, and …. It stands to reason that He also created some people to be warriors to fight for righteous causes. I would argue that fighting the evil that you encountered in the Middle East — and you know first hand the depth of the absolute depravity in some of the people over there — was a noble and righteous endeavor. So, it sounds to me like God made you to be a righteous warrior, along with many others.
And the corollary: many people over there were probably created to be teachers, ministers, peacemakers, etc. rather than warriors.
This explains in the simplest terms why you and others like you did well — and why others did not do well.
2. avatar Jon says:
I also thoroughly enjoyed the fight and i miss it tremendously! It was incredible. I didnt live for it but it certainly BRIGHTENED my day when i was able to open up that M2 on someone who deserved it. There was simply too much political BS (my 1SG was John Hatley). My platoon and I eventually lost the will to fight with brass looking over our shoulders and micromanaging every action we took. I would not have come home if it was not for Hatley.
3. avatar jwtaylor says:
Jon, Jesus, that sucks. I was very fortunate to be with a small group of men who very much wanted to be there. My command had great attitude, and the NCOIC for my first team remains of my greatest heroes.
2. avatar Cory C says:
JWTaylor, respectfully, I would suggest that Grossman at least partially addressed in On Killing what you observed during your time in the military. He explains in that book that approximately 2% of the population are sociopaths and that they have no aversion to killing at all. Just thought I’d add that. Not trying to be a jerk.
7. avatar Tom in Oregon says:
I went to a couple of Grossman’s seminars back in the day. Good stuff.
8. avatar Anonymous says:
It’s important people embrace the monster within them. This monster gives them teeth. The monster gives them dominance. The monster gives them confidence. It’s important that people embrace this monster within. The monster is capable of amazing acts of horror. Genocide. Destruction. Terrible things. And most importantly, parents must teach their children and educate them on life, tragedy, and a reason for existing. When children embrace a life of nihilism, they empower the monster. It’s critical parents and teachers show children the proper way and to teach them how to control themselves.
Now that Paulsen has Grossman’s side, I encourage him to watch some lectures by Dr. Jordan Peterson (Psychology).
Plenty of us played violent video games and DID NOT murder a bunch of people. Now I agree with Grossman that exposure to violence teaches violence. But It is my strong opinion, that is only part of the issue here.
1. avatar MKV says:
Before I got to your second paragraph I was just thinking “someone has been listening to a lot of JBP lately”
9. avatar Geoff PR says:
Another factor, I believe, is the near ubiquity of recorded video today.
Now, I’m speaking of premeditated homicide here. (AKA, “I’m gonna *kill* that sumbitch!”)
For example, it would be near impossible for me to get to the other side of town without showing up on a camera somewhere. Most every road here has DOT video cameras on intersections, and many businesses (and some homes) have viable and IR recorders running. Add to that the facts your phone records and internet use can be subpoenaed, and it’s getting tough nowadays to get away with literal murder without leaving tracks *somewhere* that can be found.
I’m convinced that is a substantial part of dropping murder rates…
1. avatar uncommon_sense says:
Goeff PR,
Ah, interesting idea. As I understand it, most people who murder someone will commit more murders until captured or dead. (I heard a saying something to the effect of, “The first is the hardest, the rest are free.” or something like that.) Since video recording is more ubiquitous, law enforcement is capturing and imprisoning more murderers and eliminating the additional murders that they would have committed if left on the streets.
That very well could be contributing to a lower murder rate.
1. avatar Geoff PR says:
“As I understand it, most people who murder someone will commit more murders until captured or dead.”
Eh, I *seriously* doubt that.
Serial killers I believe are a very small sub-set of murderers as a whole. The majority are the ‘heat of the moment’ thing, like that woman a month or so back who gut-shot ‘the other woman’ thinking it would “give her something to remember”, when instead that .410 shot killed her. Then there are the revenge “being a dish that tastes best cold” types. And whatever others there may be.
I guess I wasn’t clear – I was referring to those who may very well want someone dead, but *doesn’t* dare do it, out of fear of the cameras they don’t see, or the electronic records (phone, computer, etc.) that will lead a detective back to *them*.
*That* I believe is the real driver of lower murder rates.
And face it, I’m cool with that. Those who might want to whack somebody might not be as cool with that…
1. avatar uncommon_sense says:
Geoff PR,
I was not referring to serial killers and did not mean to give the impression that a run-of-the-mill scumbag who murdered one person would go on to kill dozens of people if not captured. Rather, I was thinking of the run-of-the-mill scumbag who murders one person: he/she will be inclined to kill one, two, or three more people if they are on the streets for another 30 years. Each time our criminal justice system imprisons one of them, they probably prevented at least one, if not two or three future murders.
As for ubiquitous video surveillance systems stopping would-be murderers, I doubt it. Someone who murders someone in the heat of the moment is operating on emotion, not reason. Whether or not a video system is recording them doesn’t register in their brains.
I suppose the existence of video surveillance systems could deter a handful of disgruntled people who half-heartedly want to “rub out” someone. If a disgruntled person is committed and not stupid, though, they will find a way to carry out their objective without providing video evidence.
Whatever the causation, I agree that our murder rate would be somewhat higher without ubiquitous video surveillance.
10. avatar Anymouse says:
I’m not buying it. Yes, the medical technology is better, but a higher survival rate would show as an increase in aggravated assaults or attempted murder in lieu of a homicide. However, all violent crimes are trending down (or were until recently).
If there is a specific victim, killers aren’t going to inflict one wound and run away unless they see that wound was fatal. They will keep firing/stabbing/hitting/choking until they think the job it done. Medical technology doesn’t matter because the victim is dead before anyone has a chance to render aid. Making sure a .22 or .25 hits the brain makes it fairly effective. Something like a drive-by would be different. When the hits per target are fewer and the locations random, communications and medical technology would be factors in improved survivability.
Spree killings seem too distinct to group together. In some, like Aurora theater, the killer is wildly spraying rounds, but in others, like 101 California or Port Arthur, head shots are delivered at close range to frozen victims. Medical technology didn’t help much at Pulse since there were 3 hours before the victims could be attended to.
1. avatar Dave says:
Not only that, but homicides are down 49% since 1993 – what major medical breakthroughs in the treatment of gunshot wounds have been made in the last 25 years? None that I can find. If anything, that decrease correlates with the widespread popularity of first person shooters (Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Duke Nukem, etc. all came out in the mid-nineties). I call bullshit on this “violent video games = violent people fear-mongering. It absolutely doesn’t hold up under scrutiny.
1. avatar David Molyneux says:
First, only 1 of those 10 things might have any impact on civilian casualties (specifically the gauze; one-handed tourniquets, etc. are specific to the field and wouldn’t be needed by EMTs with an ambulance full of medical equipment). Also, these techniques would not begin to appear outside of military contexts for at least a decade after the trend began in ’93.
2. avatar Johannes Paulsen says:
@Anymouse: In case it was unclear from my text, Grossman was speaking generically about survival rates, not specifically about mass murder survival rates (akin to Jonesboro or Columbine).
Would be interested to see the source re: violent crime rates. (Not disputing, just want to know what you had in mind.)
1. avatar uncommon_sense says:
Johannes Paulsen,
Here is a nice data source that shows all the classes of violent crime have been trending downward since the early 1990s or so:
Note the bottom half of the web page which shows crime rates per capita.
Aggravated assault (which is probably the crime if an attempted murder was unsuccessful due to medical advances) was 237.8 per 100,000 people in 2015. You have to go all the way back to 1976 to get a slightly lower rate.
Robbery was 101.9 per 100,000 people in 2015. You have to go all the way back to 1966 to get a lower robbery rate.
Forcible rape did trend up slightly since 2013’s rate of 25.9 per 100,000 people. Prior to 2013, you have to go all the way back to 1973 to get a lower rate.
I suspect, without communication and medical advances, the murder rate would be in similar territory with the lowest murder rates since the early to mid 1970s.
11. Why does the gun community keep putting Grossman on a pedestal? He’s an anti-free speech activist.
The rise of violent video games correlates directly with the decrease of violent crime across the spectrum. Video games are more graphic and more prevalent than ever yet Violent Crime rates are roughly half what they were prior to 1993 when DOOM first hit shelves. It’s the same kind of bogus argument as saying psych meds cause mass shootings. 20% of Adult Americans are on some kind of psychotropics. There should be a lot more mass shootings.
Correlation does not equal causation; mentally disturbed people are more likely to be on psych meds, and at this point saying they played violent video games is like saying they listened to rock-n-roll music, watched movies, or listened to the radio. These arguments are as bogus as saying guns cause crime and mass shootings, and we don’t do ourselves any favors using them.
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Kublai Khan: Khan of Mongol, Emperor of China
Publisher: in60Learning
Publication Date: February 2018
ISBN: 978-1977094971
Review by: Janice M. Ladendorf
Review Date: March 25, 2018
Kublia Khan: Khan of Mongol, Emperor of China is part of a new series of non-fiction historical books by in60Learning. The idea behind these books is to "...produce concise historical and biographical works that can be read or listened to in 60 minutes." This book, and its new format have definite pluses and minuses that overall, make it a book worth investing 60 minutes of your time.
This extremely short book is similar to the long entries found in some encyclopedias. It is only 37 pages long and many pages are only partially used. There is no author (or authors) listed, but a short bibliography of source material is included. The author(s) does do a creditable job of producing a summary of Kublai Khan's life and accomplishes.
The book describes the Mongolian empire at the time of the death of Genghis Khan, Kublai's grandfather. It covered most of eastern Asia, but did not include southern China. The Mongols did not have any method of determining inheritance and the many descendants of Genghis fought amongst themselves for power. During this time, Kublai was a boy and well protected by his devoted mother. She also saw to it that he was well educated. As a young man, he held various minor posts until his brother, Mongke, died and he became the supreme Khan over all the areas ruled by the Mongols.
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Music tagging
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Steps to create your Music Library
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1. Guide Main Page
2. Music Settings
3. Music File Tagging
4. Scanning Music Into Library
5. Artist information folder
6. Scraping Additional Music data
7. Update Music Library
8. NFO Files
8.1 Music NFO Files
9. Artwork
9.1 Music Artwork
10. Import-export library
10.1 Music Import-Export
11. Backup & Recover
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1 Introduction
This page provides the following information:
• How the Music section differs from the Video section of Kodi
• The recommended method to organise your music files
• The recommended method for tagging your music files
• Explanation of some commonly misunderstood Music File Tags
• The Audio Files and Tags that Kodi reads and uses
2 Understanding the Music Library
There is a fundamental differences between video library operation and the music library operation:
• The video library is based on using the filenames or folder names to obtain online data. If they are incorrectly named, then there are no scraper results and there will be no library entry.
• The music library is based on scanning tags embedded in the music files. It ignores the folder names and structure and file names. Proper tagging is essential to ensure the library is populated correctly. Having slight variations in the tags for artist and album names could mean duplicated and unwanted entries.
3 Folder and File Structure
Although Kodi ignores the folder structure and the names of the folders and files, the structure of your folders is important as it affects the operation of other functions such as Import/Export, nfo files and Artwork. For example, if you have all your music files in one folder (which is possible), then you lose the ability to use local nfo files, local artwork, and the import/export module will not function correctly.
The following is Kodi best practice. Remember use a layout that is nice for you, but tag accurately.
3.1 Files
Song files require suitable tagging for use in Kodi. While Kodi can scan minimal tags into the library, it can lead to errors in the library and subsequent scraping. We recommend music files are tagged with MusicBrainz as detailed below.
Remember that Kodi does not extract any information from the filename, so the filename is your choice.
3.2 Folders
Kodi is quite flexible with the folder structure. The diagram below is an example. You should group your albums in a manner that makes sense to you.
To ensure Kodi and other add-on processes can function efficently and correctly, the following is recommended.
• Songs from the same album should be in the one folder
• If there is more than one disk in the release, each disk should be in a sub-folder containing the songs from that disk
The following is a typical folder structure:
|__Artist Information ..................(Artist Information Folder)
|__Artist Music .......................(source folder)
| |__ Madonna ........................(artist folder)
| | |__ Beautiful Stranger (1999) ..(album folder)
| | | |__ Song 1
| | | |__ Song 2
| | | |__ Song 3 etc
| | |__ Bedtime Stories (1994) .....(album folder)
| | | |__ Song 1
| | | |__ Song 2
| | | |__ Song 3 etc
| | |__ Like A Prayer (1989) .......(album folder)
| | | |__ Song 1
| | | |__ Song 2
| | | |__ Song 3 etc
| |__ Simply Red .....................(artist folder)
| |__ Picture Book (1985) ........(album folder)
| |__ Song 1
| |__ Song 2
| |__ Song 3 etc
| |__ Essential Eighties .............(album folder)
| | |__ Song 1
| | |__ Song 2
| | |__ Song 3 etc
| |__ 100% Hits- Best of 2005 ........(album folder)
| |__ Song 1
| |__ Song 2
| |__ Song 3 etc
3.3 Sources
A source folder contains your media collection- in this case Music. This folder is then set as a Source in Kodi which enables Kodi to access your Music.
In the diagram from the previous section Artist Music, Compilations, Classical and Audiobooks are Sources.
Setting and Scanning of Sources is covered in detail in the next step of the guide.
4 Tagging
Most music files purchased or ripped by your favourite software have only minimal metadata embedded. Normally this is not a problem and works very well on simple music players.
Kodi, being an advanced and feature rich player, requires greater accuracy with the embedded tags. Any slight variance in, for example, the Album name between the tracks from the same album will see multiple entries in the library for that Album. It is not uncommon to have a single album split into three similarly named albums. Also true for Artists. It is for this reason that there is a separation of the Scanning and Scraping processes for Music. The initial scan allows you to find and correct errors in tagging, before scraping.
This table has examples of errors in tagging, which will cause duplicated entries in the library...
Similar Name 1 Similar Name 2 Note
György Ligeti Gyorgy Ligeti Accented and unaccented names will create duplicate entries
The Best of The Very Best Of Inconsistent naming between songs of the same album and/or artist will cause duplicated entries
Madonna Madonnna Spelling mistakes will cause duplicated entries for albums and/or artists
Sting Sting and The Police Seen as two separate and unrelated Artists
As Kodi scans your music collection, it copies the data contained in those tags into the Kodi music database. The benefits of this are:
• Once the scan is complete, the tags are not accessed again
• All information is now obtained from the database. This has the benefit of dramatically increasing efficency and speed when navigating the library.
• Now that a database entry exists, you are able to scrape additional information from online sources. This is covered later in the guide.
4.1 MusicBrainz
Kodi has strong support for MusicBrainz tagging. It is highly recommended that users tag their music files using MusicBrainz Picard.
MusicBrainz Picard is the music file tagger software that can access the MusicBrainz database to locate metadata to embed into your music files. MBIDs are useful because names are not unique. The bigger and more diverse your music collection is, the more likely you will encounter Artists with the same name.
The advantages of tagging with MusicBrainz are:
• They allow you to have different artists with the same name in your library e.g. "John Williams" the classical guitarist and "John Williams" the film music composer and conductor.
• They negate inconsistencies in artist naming e.g. having "Peter Tchaikovsky" on some albums and "Piotr Czajkowski" on others
• They allow you to have more than one release of an album in your library e.g. the normal and deluxe editions of an album
• They clearly identify the artist and album in ways that names alone can not. This can then be used to accurately scrape additional artist and album information and locate the correct artwork
• They allow the scraping process to be more efficient, otherwise an extra call is made to try and get an mbid first to use at the scraping sites, and each request from Musicbrainz must be throttled to 1 per sec which will slow the scraping process.
Below is a screenshot of the main screen of the Picard software. A brief description of the layout as follows.
• Top Left Box- Folder listing of your music collection
• Top Centre Box- Albums are dragged and dropped here in preparation for matching and tagging. Pressing Lookup (greyed out) will commence the lookup process
• Top Right Box- Matching albums are displayed here and your songs are overlayed. In the screenshot, songs 01, 08 and 09 have been matched to the suggested album. If all songs match and you agree the correct album was located, simply pressing Save will tag the album with the tags displayed in the Bottom Tag Box.
• Bottom Tag Box - Selecting a song from the Top Right Box will display all available tag fields (left column), the current tags in the music file (Original Value column) and the MusicBrainz tags to be embedded in the music file (right column).
The example in the image below shows the following:
• Most tags are missing (original value column)
• The top three yellow entries are incorrect (original value column) and the corrections are in the right column
• The green entries in the right column indicate new tags to be embedded
• The black entries at the bottom of the list indicate no change to the existing tags as they are correct or not used by MusicBrainz.
Although Picard is very easy to use, you must avoid blindly accepting everything offered by the software. It is important that you confirm the correct album was located. Due to the global nature of the database, there are many releases for a single album. These releases differ between countries, usually due to copyright requirements. This may lead you to inadvertendly select the incorrect release for your album, even though it is named exactly the same. The differences between releases may be as simple as different song ordering or the inclusion of additional bonus tracks.
For the best tagging experience set the correct options in Picard, particularly the "Clear Existing Tags" option in settings. This option means that any old tags that may cause issues are wiped, preserving only the musicbrainz tagging. It will also be wise to tag using ID3v2.4 compatibility.
4.2 albumartists
Kodi requires the albumartists tag to correctly handle multiple album artists on the same album. This tag is not a default tag in MusicBrainz Picard and other tagging software. [1]
To include this tag add a new script under Options > Options > Scripting > Add new script and include the following code...
Once the music files are tagged, avoid modifying the MusicBrainz tags unless you clearly understand the relationship of the MBID's and the other related tags. For example, embedding MBID tags, but then editing the Artist tag or Album Artist tag will result in incorrect entries in the library.
For example:
• If you need to change the artist or album artist tag you also have to edit the matching artist mbid tag and album artist mbid tag.
• If Kodi finds a release mbid it will expect the artist mbid tags to also be present.
See: MusicBrainz Website
See: MusicBrainz Picard Software
The remainder of this page deals with special use cases or provides information for technical interest and reference only. It can be safely disregarded if these do not apply to you
Next step: Scanning Music into Library
5 Ripping CD's
Kodi has integrated Audio-CD (CDDA) ripping functionality. In order to use this feature, first configure the CD ripping settings (to set which encoder quality to use and where to store the files). To Rip the entire CD, highlight the Audio CD from the My Music root listing and choose Rip Audio CD from the context menu. To rip a single track, enter the Audio CD, highlight the desired track, and choose Rip Audio Track from the context menu.
There is no requirement to use the Kodi CD Ripper. If you are comfortable using other ripping software, then we recommend you continue using that software.
6 Cue Sheets
Cue Sheets are used to provide index and playlist information for a large audio file. They are generally used in conjunction with either extracting from, or burning to, Music AudioCD. Cue sheets have the file extension ".cue", and are simple plain text files.
Kodi does provide basic support for using cue sheets to define individual tracks when an entire CD has been ripped into a single music file. However the information provided by the cue sheet standard is much more limited than that of standard tagging, hence to enjoy the full music library features it is recommended that tracks are ripped into separate files and fully tagged.
If you do not use Cue Sheets you can safely move onto the next step.
7 Streams
8 Technical Explanation: File tags
For many categories, such as genres and artists, Kodi supports multiple values in the one field. By default it uses the character sequence " / " to divide the entry into multiple values. This divider may be changed via advancedsettings.xml.
8.1 Resolving Compilations and Multiple Artists
Applies to v17 and below. v18 introduced the Artist information folder which solved these problems. You are encouraged to update to v18
Kodi reads the Album Artist tag in ID3, Ogg, APE and MP4 tags and uses it if available to assign an artist to the album (independently of the track's artist information). This is the "Album Artist" tag (in ID3 this is represented by the "TPE2" tag; in vorbiscomment (ogg) files "ALBUMARTIST", "ALBUM ARTIST" and "ENSEMBLE" are all supported). Multiple artists for either a track or album artist can be specified in "Artist1 / Artist2 / Artist3" format.
If no Album Artist tag exists, Kodi will use the first (primary) artist from the tracks as the Album Artist. Essentially we do a string comparison of all the track artists, and assign the common artists as the Album artist. This is generally the TPE1 tag in ID3.
As many users don't yet use the Album Artist tag, Kodi has an additional filter system for identifying compilation albums, where each track normally has a different artist. As Kodi scans a folder, it does the following:
1. Identifies albums based on Album name alone in the folder and groups the songs that have the same Album name together as an album.
2. Runs through each album's assigned songs. If there is 2 or more tracks with the same Track number, the group of songs must come from 2 or more albums, so the Album name is ruled out as a possible compilation.
3. If any of the songs assigned to the Album name have an Album Artist tag, then Kodi assumes the user knows what they're doing, and this album is also ruled out from being a compilation.
4. If two or more songs assigned to the Album name then have different primary artists, then the Album name is considered to be a group of songs from a compilation, and the Various Artists" tag is assigned as the album artist.
5. Otherwise, if all the songs have the same primary artist but don't have the same full artist list (eg a song or two has an additional artist) then the album is assigned the primary artist as it's Album Artist, and we assume the additional artists are guest artists.
8.2 Ratings in ID3 tags
Ratings in ID3 tags are read via the POPM field, and (if this doesn't exist) in a custom (TXXX) field named "RATING". For the RATING field, we accept 1-5 as valid ratings. For the POPM field things are more complicated, as there is no established standard in place. We currently most closely respect what Mediamonkey does, and also have some support for what Windows Media Player 11 does. The POPM tag takes a value from 0..255, with 0 meaning no rating, 1 the worst, and 255 the best. We currently map these as follows:
POPM value Star rating
1 * This is a special case for Windows Media Player
9-49 *
50-113 **
114-167 ***
168-218 ****
219-255 *****
9 Audio Formats & Tags
9.1 Supported Audio Formats
Although the list of playable formats is quite comprehensive, it is not accurate to say that every Kodi installation will play every format. The ability to play some of the more obscure formats will depend upon the version of Kodi and the operating system in use. Some formats will require the installation of add-ons.
Default extensions for MUSIC:
.nsv .m4a .flac .aac .strm .pls .rm .rma .mpa .wav .wma .ogg .mp3 .mp2 .m3u .gdm .imf .m15 .sfx
.uni .ac3 .dts .cue .aif .aiff .wpl .xspf .ape .mac .mpc .mp+ .mpp .shn .zip .wv .dsp .xsp .xwav
.waa .wvs .wam .gcm .idsp .mpdsp .mss .spt .rsd .sap .cmc .cmr .dmc .mpt .mpd .rmt .tmc .tm8
.tm2 .oga .url .pxml .tta .rss .wtv .mka .tak .opus .dff .dsf .m4b .dtshd
It is possible to add or remove extensions for Music, using the following XML tags. Useful if you keep, say, FLAC and mp3 versions of music in the same folder. The <remove> tag can be used to remove mp3 from being listed in the library, leaving only the higher quality FLAC being displayed.
9.2 Supported Metadata Containers
The following metadata containers are supported by Kodi
Metadata Container Note
APEv2 tag
Generic Tag A generic tag for basic data from other odd file types
ID3 v1, v2.3 and v2.4
Xiph.org Vorbis Comments
9.3 Common File & Tag Combination
You will notice that not all the tags listed in the section Supported Audio Formats above are listed in the following table. Those formats that are ommitted do not have provision to support embedded tags. If your collection contains any of these unsupported formats, you will be unable to scan the music into the library. Your options are:
1. Convert your audio file to a supported format and tag using MusicBrainz Picard. (recommended)
2. Access your music via the File Manager or via File View
Kodi supports the following common Audio File and Tag Formats
Metadata container Additional Filename extensions
APEv2 tag ape, mp3, aac, wv, mpc
ASF asf, wmv, wma
Generic Tag it, mod, module, nst, wow, s3m, xm
ID3 v1 mp3, aac
ID3 v2 mp3, aac, tta, aif, aiff, wav, flac
iTunes MP4 .3g2 .m4a .m4b .m4p .m4r .m4v .mp4
Xiph.org flac, oga, ogg, opus
• FLAC files- xiph tags override id3v2 tags
• mp3 files can have either id3 or APE tags
• mka, dsf, dff - ID3v2 format read but are handled by ffmpeg tag reader and it does not support all tags from IDE standard)
9.4 Tags Kodi reads
Kodi will scan the following tags embedded in the music file. The column Kodi Version indicates the version of Kodi that the tag was introduced, and will work in subsequent versions.
Kodi Version Vorbis (.Flac) ID3v2 (.mp3) APE MP4 ASF
v16 ALBUM TALB ALBUM \251alb WM/AlbumTitle
v16 TITLE TIT2 TITLE \251nam
v16 YEAR TYER YEAR \251day WM/Year
v16 GENRE TCON GENRE \251gen WM/Genre
v16 MOOD TMOO OR TXXX:MOOD MOOD ----:com.apple.iTunes:MOOD WM/Mood
v16 REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN ----:com.apple.iTunes:replaygain_track_gain replaygain_track_gain
v16 REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN ----:com.apple.iTunes:replaygain_album_gain replaygain_album_gain
v16 REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK ----:com.apple.iTunes:replaygain_track_peak replaygain_track_peak
v16 REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_PEAK REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_PEAK REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_PEAK ----:com.apple.iTunes:replaygain_album_peak replaygain_album_peak
v16 REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_PEAK REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_PEAK REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_PEAK ----:com.apple.iTunes:replaygain_album_peak replaygain_album_peak
v16 MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID MUSICBRAINZ ARTIST ID MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID ----:com.apple.iTunes:MusicBrainz Artist Id MusicBrainz/Artist Id
v16 MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMID MUSICBRAINZ ALBUM ID MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMID ----:com.apple.iTunes:MusicBrainz Album Id MusicBrainz/Album Id
v16 MUSICBRAINZ_TRACKID UFID MUSICBRAINZ_TRACKID ----:com.apple.iTunes:MusicBrainz Track Id
v17 COMPOSER TCOM COMPOSER \251wrt WM/Composer
v17 CONDUCTOR TPE3 CONDUCTOR ----:com.apple.iTunes:CONDUCTOR WM/Conductor
v17 LYRICIST TEXT LYRICIST ----:com.apple.iTunes:LYRICIST WM/Writer
v17 REMIXER or MIXARTIST TPE4 REMIXER or MIXARTIST ----:com.apple.iTunes:REMIXER WM/ModifiedBy
v17 ENGINEER (TIPL) ENGINEER ----:com.apple.iTunes:ENGINEER WM/Engineer
v17 PRODUCER (TIPL) PRODUCER ----:com.apple.iTunes:PRODUCER WM/Producer
v17 DJMIXER (TIPL) DJMIXER ----:com.apple.iTunes:DJMIXER WM/DJMixer
v17 MIXER (TIPL) MIXER ----:com.apple.iTunes:MIXER WM/Mixer
v17 LABEL TPUB LABEL ----:com.apple.iTunes:LABEL WM/Publisher
v17 RELEASETYPE MUSICBRAINZ ALBUM TYPE MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMTYPE ---:com.apple.iTunes:MusicBrainz Album Type MusicBrainz/Album Type
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A Lay's statement attributed McBeth's inspiration for wasabi ginger to a sushi fixation sparked by her grandmother's handmade rolls.
Related: Lay's parent Pepsi competes with Coke over stevia sodas
Three other flavors — cappuccino, mango salsa, cheddar bacon mac & cheese — had been finalists in the contest, and each of the runners-up behind them will get $50,000. A spokeswoman for Lay's, a unit of PepsiCo (PEP), said about one million votes were cast but didn't break out how many votes each flavor had gotten.
The other flavors will remain on store shelves until they sell out. Ginger wasabi will be in stores until at least July, when Lay's will evaluate whether to keep it. Lay's is still selling the last winner of a flavor contest, cheesy garlic bread, which won in May 2013.
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Web technologies and their adoption are advancing at a frenetic pace. Content is a game that every type of team and agency plays, so we’re all competing for a piece of that pie. Meanwhile, technical SEO is more complicated and more important than ever before and much of the SEO discussion has shied away from its growing technical components in favor of content marketing.
As a result, SEO is going through a renaissance wherein the technical components are coming back to the forefront and we need to be prepared. At the same time, a number of thought leaders have made statements that modern SEO is not technical. These statements misrepresent the opportunities and problems that have sprouted on the backs of newer technologies. They also contribute to an ever-growing technical knowledge gap within SEO as a marketing field and make it difficult for many SEOs to solve our new problems.
That resulting knowledge gap that’s been growing for the past couple of years influenced me to, for the first time, “tour” a presentation. I’d been giving my Technical SEO Renaissance talk in one form or another since January because I thought it was important to stoke a conversation around the fact that things have shifted and many organizations and websites may be behind the curve if they don’t account for these shifts. A number of things have happened that prove I’ve been on the right track since I began giving this presentation, so I figured it’s worth bringing the discussion to continue the discussion. Shall we?
An abridged history of SEO (according to me)
It’s interesting to think that the technical SEO has become a dying breed in recent years. There was a time when it was a prerequisite.
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Personally, I started working on the web in 1995 as a high school intern at Microsoft. My title, like everyone else who worked on the web then, was "webmaster." This was well before the web profession splintered into myriad disciplines. There was no Front End vs. Backend. There was no DevOps or UX person. You were just a Webmaster.
Back then, before Yahoo, AltaVista, Lycos, Excite, and WebCrawler entered their heyday, we discovered the web by clicking linkrolls, using Gopher, Usenet, IRC, from magazines, and via email. Around the same time, IE and Netscape were engaged in the Browser Wars and you had more than one client-side scripting language to choose from. Frames were the rage.
Then the search engines showed up. Truthfully, at this time, I didn’t really think about how search engines worked. I just knew Lycos gave me what I believed to be the most trustworthy results to my queries. At that point, I had no idea that there was this underworld of people manipulating these portals into doing their bidding.
Enter SEO.
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SEO was born of a cross-section of these webmasters, the subset of computer scientists that understood the otherwise esoteric field of information retrieval and those “Get Rich Quick on the Internet” folks. These Internet puppeteers were essentially magicians who traded tips and tricks in the almost dark corners of the web. They were basically nerds wringing dollars out of search engines through keyword stuffing, content spinning, and cloaking.
Then Google showed up to the party.
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Early Google updates started the cat-and-mouse game that would shorten some perpetual vacations. To condense the last 15 years of search engine history into a short paragraph, Google changed the game from being about content pollution and link manipulation through a series of updates starting with Florida and more recently Panda and Penguin. After subsequent refinements of Panda and Penguin, the face of the SEO industry changed pretty dramatically. Many of the most arrogant “I can rank anything” SEOs turned white hat, started software companies, or cut their losses and did something else. That’s not to say that hacks and spam links don’t still work, because they certainly often do. Rather, Google’s sophistication finally discouraged a lot of people who no longer have the stomach for the roller coaster.
Simultaneously, people started to come into SEO from different disciplines. Well, people always came into SEO from very different professional histories, but it started to attract a lot more more actual “marketing” people. This makes a lot of sense because SEO as an industry has shifted heavily into a content marketing focus. After all, we’ve got to get those links somehow, right?
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Naturally, this begat a lot of marketers marketing to marketers about marketing who made statements like “Modern SEO Requires Almost No Technical Expertise.”
Or one of my favorites, that may have attracted even more ire: “SEO is Makeup.”
Image via Search Engine Land
While I, naturally, disagree with these statements, I understand why these folks would contribute these ideas in their thought leadership. Irrespective of the fact that I’ve worked with both gentlemen in the past in some capacity and know their predispositions towards content, the core point they're making is that many modern Content Management Systems do account for many of our time-honored SEO best practices. Google is pretty good at understanding what you’re talking about in your content. Ultimately, your organization’s focus needs to be on making something meaningful for your user base so you can deliver competitive marketing.
If you remember the last time I tried to make the case for a paradigm shift in the SEO space, you’d be right in thinking that I agree with that idea fundamentally. However, not at the cost of ignoring the fact that the technical landscape has changed. Technical SEO is the price of admission. Or, to quote Adam Audette, “SEO should be invisible,” not makeup.
Changes in web technology are causing a technical renaissance
In SEO, we often criticize developers for always wanting to deploy the new shiny thing. Moving forward, it's important that we understand the new shiny things so we can be more effective in optimizing them.
SEO has always had a healthy fear of JavaScript, and with good reason. Despite the fact that search engines have had the technology to crawl the web the same way we see it in a browser for at least 10 years, it has always been a crapshoot as to whether that content actually gets crawled and, more importantly, indexed.
When we’d initially examined the idea of headless browsing in 2011, the collective response was that the computational expense prohibited it at scale. But it seems that even if that is the case, Google believes enough of the web is rendered using JavaScript that it’s a worthy investment.
Over time more and more folks would examine this idea; ultimately, a comment from this ex-Googler on Hacker News would indicate that this has long been something Google understood needed conquering:
This was actually my primary role at Google from 2006 to 2010.
One of my first test cases was a certain date range of the Wall Street Journal's archives of their Chinese language pages, where all of the actual text was in a JavaScript string literal, and before my changes, Google thought all of these pages had identical content... just the navigation boilerplate. Since the WSJ didn't do this for its English language pages, my best guess is that they weren't trying to hide content from search engines, but rather trying to work around some old browser bug that incorrectly rendered (or made ugly) Chinese text, but somehow rendering text via JavaScript avoided the bug.
The really interesting parts were (1) trying to make sure that rendering was deterministic (so that identical pages always looked identical to Google for duplicate elimination purposes) (2) detecting when we deviated significantly from real browser behavior (so we didn't generate too many nonsense URLs for the crawler or too many bogus redirects), and (3) making the emulated browser look a bit like IE and Firefox (and later Chrome) at the some time, so we didn't get tons of pages that said "come back using IE" er "please download Firefox".
I ended up modifying SpiderMonkey's bytecode dispatch to help detect when the simulated browser had gone off into the weeds and was likely generating nonsense.
I went through a lot of trouble figuring out the order that different JavaScript events were fired off in IE, FireFox, and Chrome. It turns out that some pages actually fire off events in different orders between a freshly loaded page and a page if you hit the refresh button. (This is when I learned about holding down shift while hitting the browser's reload button to make it act like it was a fresh page fetch.)
At some point, some SEO figured out that random() was always returning 0.5. I'm not sure if anyone figured out that JavaScript always saw the date as sometime in the Summer of 2006, but I presume that has changed. I hope they now set the random seed and the date using a keyed cryptographic hash of all of the loaded javascript and page text, so it's deterministic but very difficult to game. (You can make the date determistic for a month and dates of different pages jump forward at different times by adding an HMAC of page content (mod number of seconds in a month) to the current time, rounding down that time to a month boundary, and then subtracting back the value you added earlier. This prevents excessive index churn from switching all dates at once, and yet gives each page a unique date.)
Now, consider these JavaScript usage statistics across the web from BuiltWith:
JavaScript is obviously here to stay. Most of the web is using it to render content in some form or another. This means there’s potential for search quality to plummet over time if Google couldn't make sense of what content is on pages rendered with JavaScript.
Additionally, Google’s own JavaScript MVW framework, AngularJS, has seen pretty strong adoption as of late. When I attended Google’s I/O conference a few months ago, the recent advancements of Progressive Web Apps and Firebase were being harped upon due to the speed and flexibility they bring to the web. You can only expect that developers will make a stronger push.
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Sadly, despite BuiltVisible’s fantastic contributions to the subject, there hasn’t been enough discussion around Progressive Web Apps, Single-Page Applications, and JavaScript frameworks in the SEO space. Instead, there are arguments about 301s vs 302s. Perhaps the latest spike in adoption and the proliferation of PWAs, SPAs, and JS frameworks across different verticals will change that. At iPullRank, we’ve worked with a number of companies who have made the switch to Angular; there's a lot worth discussing on this specific topic.
Additionally, Facebook’s contribution to the JavaScript MVW frameworks, React, is being adopted for the very similar speed and benefits of flexibility in the development process.
However, regarding SEO, the key difference between Angular and React is that, from the beginning, React had a renderToString function built in which allows the content to render properly from the server side. This makes the question of indexation of React pages rather trivial.
AngularJS 1.x, on the other hand, has birthed an SEO best practice wherein you pre-render pages using headless browser-driven snapshot appliance such as Prerender.io, Brombone, etc. This is somewhat ironic, as it's Google’s own product. More on that later.
View Source is dead
As a result of the adoption of these JavaScript frameworks, using View Source to examine the code of a website is an obsolete practice. What you’re seeing in View Source is not the computed Document Object Model (DOM). Rather, you’re seeing the code before it's processed by the browser. The lack of understanding around why you might need to view a page’s code differently is another instance where having a more detailed understanding of the technical components of how the web works is more effective.
Depending on how the page is coded, you may see variables in the place of actual content, or you may not see the completed DOM tree that's there once the page has loaded completely. This is the fundamental reason why, as soon as an SEO hears that there’s JavaScript on the page, the recommendation is to make sure all content is visible without JavaScript.
To illustrate the point further, consider this View Source view of Seamless.com. If you look for the meta description or the rel-canonical on this page, you’ll find variables in the place of the actual copy:
If instead you look at the code in the Elements section of Chrome DevTools or Inspect Element in other browsers, you’ll find the fully executed DOM. You’ll see the variables are now filled in with copy. The URL for the rel-canonical is on the page, as is the meta description:
Since search engines are crawling this way, you may be missing out on the complete story of what's going on if you default to just using View Source to examine the code of the site.
HTTP/2 is on the way
One of Google’s largest points of emphasis is page speed. An understanding of how networking impacts page speed is definitely a must-have to be an effective SEO.
Before HTTP/2 was announced, the HyperText Transfer Protocol specification had not been updated in a very long time. In fact, we’ve been using HTTP/1.1 since 1999. HTTP/2 is a large departure from HTTP/1.1, and I encourage you to read up on it, as it will make a dramatic contribution to the speed of the web.
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Quickly though, one of the biggest differences is that HTTP/2 will make use of one TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) connection per origin and “multiplex” the stream. If you’ve ever taken a look at the issues that Google PageSpeed Insights highlights, you’ll notice that one of the primary things that always comes up is limiting the number of HTTP requests/ This is what multiplexing helps eliminate; HTTP/2 opens up one connection to each server, pushing assets across it at the same time, often making determinations of required resources based on the initial resource. With browsers requiring Transport Layer Security (TLS) to leverage HTTP/2, it’s very likely that Google will make some sort of push in the near future to get websites to adopt it. After all, speed and security have been common threads throughout everything in the past five years.
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As of late, more hosting providers have been highlighting the fact that they are making HTTP/2 available, which is probably why there’s been a significant jump in its usage this year. The beauty of HTTP/2 is that most browsers already support it and you don’t have to do much to enable it unless your site is not secure.
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Definitely keep HTTP/2 on your radar, as it may be the culmination of what Google has been pushing for.
SEO tools are lagging behind search engines
When I think critically about this, SEO tools have always lagged behind the capabilities of search engines. That’s to be expected, though, because SEO tools are built by smaller teams and the most important things must be prioritized. A lack of technical understanding may lead to you believe the information from the tools you use when they are inaccurate.
When you review some of Google’s own documentation, you’ll find that some of my favorite tools are not in line with Google’s specifications. For instance, Google allows you to specify hreflang, rel-canonical, and x-robots in HTTP headers. There's a huge lack of consistency in SEO tools’ ability to check for those directives.
It's possible that you've performed an audit of a site and found it difficult to determine why a page has fallen out of the index. It very well could be because a developer was following Google’s documentation and specifying a directive in an HTTP header, but your SEO tool did not surface it. In fact, it’s generally better to set these at the HTTP header level than to add bytes to your download time by filling up every page’s <head> with them.
Google is crawling headless, despite the computational expense, because they recognize that so much of the web is being transformed by JavaScript. Recently, Screaming Frog made the shift to render the entire page using JS:
To my knowledge, none of the other crawling tools are doing this yet. I do recognize the fact that it would be considerably more expensive for all SEO tools to make this shift because cloud server usage is time-based and it takes significantly more time to render a page in a browser than to just download the main HTML file. How much time?
A ton more time, actually. I just wrote a simple script that just loads the HTML using both cURL and HorsemanJS. cURL took an average of 5.25 milliseconds to download the HTML of the Yahoo homepage. HorsemanJS, on the other hand, took an average of 25,839.25 milliseconds or roughly 26 seconds to render the page. It’s the difference between crawling 686,000 URLs an hour and 138.
Ideally, SEO tools would extract the technologies in use on the site or perform some sort of DIFF operation on a few pages and then offer the option to crawl headless if it’s deemed worthwhile.
Finally, Google’s specs on mobile also say that you can use client-side redirects. I’m not aware of a tool that tracks this. Now, I’m not saying leveraging JavaScript redirects for mobile is the way you should do it. Rather that Google allows it, so we should be able to inspect it easily.
Luckily, until SEO tools catch up, Chrome DevTools does handle a lot of these things. For instance, the HTTP Request and Response headers section will show you x-robots, hreflang, and rel-canonical HTTP headers.
You can also use DevTools’ GeoLocation Emulator to get view the web as though you are in a different location. For those of you who have fond memories of the nearEquals query parameter, this is another way you can get a sense of where you rank in precise locations.
Chrome DevTools also allows you to plug in your Android device and control it from your browser. There’s any number of use cases for this from an SEO perspective, but Simo Ahava wrote a great instructional post on how you can use it to debug your mobile analytics setup. You can do the same on iOS devices in Safari if you have a Mac.
What truly are rankings in 2016?
Rankings are a funny thing and, truthfully, have been for some time now. I, myself, was resistant to the idea of averaged rankings when Google rolled them out in Webmaster Tools/Search Console, but average rankings actually make a lot more sense than what we look at in standard ranking tools. Let me explain.
SEO tools pull rankings based on a situation that doesn't actually exist in the real world. The machines that scrape Google are meant to be clean and otherwise agnostic unless you explicitly specify a location. Effectively, these tools look to understand how rankings would look to users searching for the first time with no context or history with Google. Ranking software emulates a user who is logging onto the web for the first time ever and the first thing they think to do is search for “4ft fishing rod.” Then they continually search for a series of other related and/or unrelated queries without ever actually clicking on a result. Granted. some software may do other things to try and emulate that user, but either way they collect data that is not necessarily reflective of what real users see. And finally, with so many people tracking many of the same keywords so frequently, you have to wonder how much these tools inflate search volume.
The bottom line is that we are ignoring true user context, especially in the mobile arena.
Rankings tools that allow you to track mobile rankings usually let you define one context or they will simply specify “mobile phone” as an option. Cindy Krum’s research indicates that SERP features and rankings will be different based on the combination of user agent, phone make and model, browser, and even the content on their phone.
Rankings tools also ignore the user’s reality of choice. We’re in an era where there are simply so many elements that comprise the SERP, that #1 is simply NOT #1. In some cases, #1 is the 8th choice on the page and far below the fold.
With AdWords having a 4th ad slot, organic being pushed far below the fold, and users not being sure of the difference between organic and paid, being #1 in organic doesn’t mean what it used to. So when we look at rankings reports that tell us we’re number one, we're often deluding ourselves as to what outcome that will drive. When we report that to clients, we're not focusing on actionability or user context. Rather, we are focusing entirely on vanity.
Of course, rankings are not a business goal; they're a measure of potential or opportunity. No matter how much we talk about how they shouldn’t be the main KPI, rankings are still something that SEOs point at to show they’re moving the needle. Therefore we should consider thinking of organic rankings as being relative to the SERP features that surround them.
In other words, I’d like to see rankings include both the standard organic 1–10 ranking as well as the absolute position with regard to Paid, local packs, and featured snippets. Anything else is ignoring the impact of the choices that are overwhelmingly available to the user.
Recently, we’ve seen some upgrades to this effect with Moz making a big change to how they are surfacing features of rankings and I know a number of other tools have highlighted the organic features as well. Who will be the first to highlight the Integrated Search context? After all, many users don’t know the difference.
What is cloaking in 2016?
Cloaking is officially defined as showing search engines something different from the user. What does that mean when Google allows adaptive and responsive sites and crawls both headless and text-based? What does that mean when Googlebot respects 304 response codes?
Under adaptive and responsive models, it's often the case that more or less content is shown for different contexts. This is rare for responsive, as it's meant to reposition and size content by definition, but some implementations may instead reduce content components to make the viewing context work.
In the case when a site responds to screen resolution by changing what content is shown and more content is shown beyond the resolution that Googlebot renders, how do they distinguish that from cloaking?
Similarly, the 304 response code is way to indicate to the client that the content has not been modified since the last time it visited; therefore, there's no reason to download it again.
Googlebot adheres to this response code to keep from being a bandwidth hog. So what’s to stop a webmaster from getting one version of the page indexed, changing it, and then returning a 304?
I don’t know that there are definitive answers to those questions at this point. However, based on what I’m seeing in the wild, these have proven to be opportunities for technical SEOs that are still dedicated to testing and learning.
Accessibility of content as a fundamental component that SEOs must examine has not changed. What has changed is the type of analytical effort that needs to go into it. It’s been established that Google’s crawling capabilities have improved dramatically and people like Eric Wu have done a great job of surfacing the granular detail of those capabilities with experiments like JSCrawlability.com
Similarly, I wanted to try an experiment to see how Googlebot behaves once it loads a page. Using LuckyOrange, I attempted to capture a video of Googlebot once it gets to the page:
I installed the LuckyOrange script on a page that hadn’t been indexed yet and set it up so that it only only fires if the user agent contains “googlebot.” Once I was set up, I then invoked Fetch and Render from Search Console. I’d hoped to see mouse scrolling or an attempt at a form fill. Instead, the cursor never moved and Googlebot was only on the page for a few seconds. Later on, I saw another hit from Googlebot to that URL and then the page appeared in the index shortly thereafter. There was no record of the second visit in LuckyOrange.
While I’d like to do more extensive testing on a bigger site to validate this finding, my hypothesis from this anecdotal experience is that Googlebot will come to the site and make a determination of whether a page/site needs to be crawled using the headless crawler. Based on that, they’ll come back to the site using the right crawler for the job.
I encourage you to give it a try as well. You don’t have to use LuckyOrange — you could use HotJar or anything else like it — but here’s my code for LuckyOrange:
jQuery(function() {
Window.__lo_site_id = XXXX;
if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf(‘googlebot’) >)
var wa = document.createElement(‘script’);
wa.type = ‘text/javascript’;
wa.async = true;
wa.src = (‘https’ == document.location.protocol ? ‘<a href="https://ssl">https://ssl</a>’ : ’<a href="http://cdn">http://cdn</a>’) + ‘.luckyorange.com/w.js’;
var s = document.getElementByTagName(‘script’)[0];
// Tag it with Googlebot
window._loq = window._low || [];
window._loq .push([“tag”, “Googlebot”]);
The moral of the story, however, is that what Google sees, how often they see it, and so on are still primary questions that we need to answer as SEOs. While it’s not sexy, log file analysis is an absolutely necessary exercise, especially for large-site SEO projects — perhaps now more than ever, due to the complexities of sites. I’d encourage you to listen to everything Marshall Simmonds says in general, but especially on this subject.
To that end, Google’s Crawl Stats in Search Console are utterly useless. These charts tell me what, exactly? Great, thanks Google, you crawled a bunch of pages at some point in February. Cool!
There are any number of log file analysis tools out there, from Kibana in the ELK stack to other tools such as Logz.io. However, the Screaming Frog team has made leaps and bounds in this arena with the recent release of their Log File Analyzer.
Of note with this tool is how easily it handles millions of records, which I hope is an indication of things to come with their Spider tool as well. Irrespective of who makes the tool, the insights that it helps you unlock are incredibly valuable in terms of what’s actually happening.
We had a client last year that was adamant that their losses in organic were not the result of the Penguin update. They believed that it might be due to turning off other traditional and digital campaigns that may have contributed to search volume, or perhaps seasonality or some other factor. Pulling the log files, I was able to layer all of the data from when all of their campaigns were running and show that it was none of those things; rather, Googlebot activity dropped tremendously right after the Penguin update and at the same time as their organic search traffic. The log files made it definitively obvious.
It follows conventionally held SEO wisdom that Googlebot crawls based on the pages that have the highest quality and/or quantity of links pointing to them. In layering the the number of social shares, links, and Googlebot visits for our latest clients, we’re finding that there's more correlation between social shares and crawl activity than links. In the data below, the section of the site with the most links actually gets crawled the least!
These are important insights that you may just be guessing at without taking the time to dig into your log files.
How log files help you understand AngularJS
Like any other web page or application, every request results in a record in the logs. But depending on how the server is setup, there are a ton of lessons that can come out of it with regard to AngularJS setups, especially if you’re pre-rendering using one of the snapshot technologies.
For one of our clients, we found that oftentimes when the snapshot system needed to refresh its cache, it took too long and timed out. Googlebot understands these as 5XX errors.
This behavior leads to those pages falling out of the index, and over time we saw pages jump back and forth between ranking very highly and disappearing altogether, or another page on the site taking its place.
Additionally, we found that there were many instances wherein Googlebot was being misidentified as a human user. In turn, Googlebot was served the AngularJS live page rather than the HTML snapshot. However, despite the fact that Googlebot was not seeing the HTML snapshots for these pages, these pages were still making it into the index and ranking just fine. So we ended up working with the client on a test to remove the snapshot system on sections of the site, and organic search traffic actually improved.
This is directly in line with what Google is saying in their deprecation announcement of the AJAX Crawling scheme. They are able to access content that is rendered using JavaScript and will index anything that is shown at load.
That's not to say that HTML snapshot systems are not worth using. The Googlebot behavior for pre-rendered pages is that they tend to be crawled more quickly and more frequently. My best guess is that this is due to the crawl being less computationally expensive for them to execute. All in all, I’d say using HTML snapshots is still the best practice, but definitely not the only way for Google see these types of sites.
According to Google, you shouldn’t serve snapshots just for them, but for the speed enhancements that the user gets as well.
In general, websites shouldn't pre-render pages only for Google — we expect that you might pre-render pages for performance benefits for users and that you would follow progressive enhancement guidelines. If you pre-render pages, make sure that the content served to Googlebot matches the user's experience, both how it looks and how it interacts. Serving Googlebot different content than a normal user would see is considered cloaking, and would be against our Webmaster Guidelines.
These are highly technical decisions that have a direct influence on organic search visibility. From my experience in interviewing SEOs to join our team at iPullRank over the last year, very few of them understand these concepts or are capable of diagnosing issues with HTML snapshots. These issues are now commonplace and will only continue to grow as these technologies continue to be adopted.
However, if we’re to serve snapshots to the user too, it begs the question: Why would we use the framework in the first place? Naturally, tech stack decisions are ones that are beyond the scope of just SEO, but you might consider a framework that doesn’t require such an appliance, like MeteorJS.
Alternatively, if you definitely want to stick with Angular, consider Angular 2, which supports the new Angular Universal. Angular Universal serves “isomorphic” JavaScript, which is another way to say that it pre-renders its content on the server side.
Angular 2 has a whole host of improvements over Angular 1.x, but I’ll let these Googlers tell you about them.
Before all of the crazy frameworks reared their confusing heads, Google has had one line of thought about emerging technologies — and that is “progressive enhancement.” With many new IoT devices on the horizon, we should be building websites to serve content for the lowest common denominator of functionality and save the bells and whistles for the devices that can render them.
In other words, make sure your content is accessible to everyone. Shoutout to Fili Weise for reminding me of that.
Scraping is the fundamental flawed core of SEO analysis
Scraping is fundamental to everything that our SEO tools do. cURL is a library for making and handling HTTP requests. Most popular programming languages have bindings for the library and, as such, most SEO tools leverage the library or something similar to download web pages.
Think of cURL as working similar to downloading a single file from an FTP; in terms of web pages, it doesn’t mean that the page can be viewed in its entirety, because you’re not downloading all of the required files.
This is a fundamental flaw of most SEO software for the very same reason View Source is not a valuable way to view a page’s code anymore. Because there are a number of JavaScript and/or CSS transformations that happen at load, and Google is crawling with headless browsers, you need to look at the Inspect (element) view of the code to get a sense of what Google can actually see.
This is where headless browsing comes into play.
One of the more popular headless browsing libraries is PhantomJS. Many tools outside of the SEO world are written using this library for browser automation. Netflix even has one for scraping and taking screenshots called Sketchy. PhantomJS is built from a rendering engine called QtWebkit, which is to say it’s forked from the same code that Safari (and Chrome before Google forked it into Blink) is based on. While PhantomJS is missing the features of the latest browsers, it has enough features to support most things we need for SEO analysis.
As you can see from the GitHub repository, HTML snapshot software such as Prerender.io is written using this library as well.
PhantomJS has a series of wrapper libraries that make it quite easy to use in a variety of different languages. For those of you interested in using it with NodeJS, check out HorsemanJS.
For those of you that are more familiar with PHP, check out PHP PhantomJS.
A more recent and better qualified addition to the headless browser party is Headless Chromium. As you might have guessed, this is a headless version of the Chrome browser. If I were a betting man, I’d say what we’re looking at here is a some sort of toned-down fork of Googlebot.
To that end, this is probably something that SEO companies should consider when rethinking their own crawling infrastructure in the future, if only for a premium tier of users. If you want to know more about Headless Chrome, check out what Sami Kyostila and Alex Clarke (both Googlers) had to say at BlinkOn 6:
Using in-browser scraping to do what your tools can’t
Although many SEO tools cannot examine the fully rendered DOM, that doesn’t mean that you, as an an individual SEO, have to miss out. Even without leveraging a headless browser, Chrome can be turned into a scraping machine with just a little bit of JavaScript. I’ve talked about this at length in my “How to Scrape Every Single Page on the Web” post. Using a little bit of jQuery, you can effectively select and print anything from a page to the JavaScript Console and then export it to a file in whatever structure you prefer.
Scraping this way allows you to skip a lot of the coding that's required to make sites believe you’re a real user, like authentication and cookie management that has to happen on the server side. Of course, this way of scraping is good for one-offs rather than building software around.
ArtooJS is a bookmarklet made to support in-browser scraping and automating scraping across a series of pages and saving the results to a file as JSON.
A more fully featured solution for this is the Chrome Extension, WebScraper.io. It requires no code and makes the whole process point-and-click.
How to approach content and linking from the technical context
Much of what SEO has been doing for the past few years has devolved into the creation of more content for more links. I don’t know that adding anything to the discussion around how to scale content or build more links is of value at this point, but I suspect there are some opportunities for existing links and content that are not top-of-mind for many people.
Google Looks at Entities First
Googlers announced recently that they look at entities first when reviewing a query. An entity is Google’s representation of proper nouns in their system to distinguish persons, places, and things, and inform their understanding of natural language. At this point in the talk, I ask people to put their hands up if they have an entity strategy. I’ve given the talk a dozen times at this point and there have only been two people to raise their hands.
Bill Slawski is the foremost thought leader on this topic, so I’m going to defer to his wisdom and encourage you to read:
I would also encourage you to use a natural language processing tool like AlchemyAPI or MonkeyLearn. Better still, use Google’s own Natural Language Processing API to extract entities. The difference between your standard keyword research and entity strategies is that your entity strategy needs to be built from your existing content. So in identifying entities, you’ll want to do your keyword research first and then run those landing pages through an entity extraction tool to see how they line up. You’ll also want to run your competitor landing pages through those same entity extraction APIs to identify what entities are being targeted for those keywords.
Similarly, Term Frequency/Inverse Document Frequency or TF*IDF is a natural language processing technique that doesn’t get much discussion on this side of the pond. In fact, topic modeling algorithms have been the subject of much-heated debates in the SEO community in the past. The issue of concern is that topic modeling tools have the tendency to push us back towards the Dark Ages of keyword density, rather than considering the idea of creating content that has utility for users. However, in many European countries they swear by TF*IDF (or WDF*IDF — Within Document Frequency/Inverse Document Frequency) as a key technique that drives up organic visibility even without links.
After hanging out in Germany a bit last year, some folks were able to convince me that taking another look at TF*IDF was worth it. So, we did and then we started working it into our content optimization process.
In Searchmetrics’ 2014 study of ranking factors they found that while TF*IDF specifically actually had a negative correlation with visibility, relevant and proof terms have strong positive correlations.
Image via Searchmetrics
Based on their examination of these factors, Searchmetrics made the call to drop TF*IDF from their analysis altogether in 2015 in favor of the proof terms and relevant terms. Year over year the positive correlation holds for those types of terms, albeit not as high.
Images via Searchmetrics
In Moz’s own 2015 ranking factors, we find that LDA and TF*IDF related items remain in the highest on-page content factors.
In effect, no matter what model you look at, the general idea is to use related keywords in your copy in order to rank better for your primary target keyword, because it works.
Now, I can’t say we’ve examined the tactic in isolation, but I can say that the pages that we’ve optimized using TF*IDF have seen bigger jumps in rankings than those without it. While we leverage OnPage.org’s TF*IDF tool, we don’t follow it using hard and fast numerical rules. Instead, we allow the related keywords to influence ideation and then use them as they make sense.
At the very least, this order of technical optimization of content needs to revisited. While you’re at it, you should consider the other tactics that Cyrus Shepard called out as well in order to get more mileage out of your content marketing efforts.
302s vs 301s — seriously?
As of late, a reexamination of the 301 vs. 302 redirect has come back up in the SEO echo chamber. I get the sense that Webmaster Trends Analysts in the public eye either like attention or are just bored, so they’ll issue vague tweets just to see what happens.
For those of you who prefer to do work rather than wait for Gary Illyes to tweet, all I’ve got is some data to share.
Once upon a time, we worked with a large media organization. As is par for the course with these types of organizations, their tech team was resistant to implementing much of our recommendations. Yet they had millions of links both internally and externally pointing to URLs that returned 302 response codes.
After many meetings, and a more compelling business case, the one substantial thing that we were able to convince them to do was switch those 302s into 301s. Nearly overnight there was an increase in rankings in the 1–3 rank zone.
Despite seasonality, there was a jump in organic Search traffic as well.
To reiterate, the only substantial change at this point was the 302 to 301 switch. It resulted in a few million more organic search visits month over month. Granted, this was a year ago, but until someone can show me the same happening or no traffic loss when you switch from 301s to 302s, there’s no discussion for us to have.
Internal linking, the technical approach
Under the PageRank model, it’s an axiom that the flow of link equity through the site is an incredibly important component to examine. Unfortunately, so much of the discussion with clients is only on the external links and not about how to better maximize the link equity that a site already has.
There are a number of tools out there that bring this concept to the forefront. For instance, Searchmetrics calculates and visualizes the flow of link equity throughout the site. This gives you a sense of where you can build internal links to make other pages stronger.
Additionally, Paul Shapiro put together a compelling post on how you can calculate a version of internal PageRank for free using the statistical computing software R.
Either of these approaches is incredibly valuable to offering more visibility to content and very much fall in the bucket of what technical SEO can offer.
Structured data is the future of organic search
The popular one-liner is that Google is looking to become the presentation layer of the web. I say, help them do it!
There has been much discussion about how Google is taking our content and attempting to cut our own websites out of the picture. With the traffic boon that the industry has seen from sites making it into the featured snippet, it’s pretty obvious that, in many cases, there's more value for you in Google taking your content than in them not.
With Vocal Search appliances on mobile devices and the forthcoming Google Home, there's only one answer that the user receives. That is to say that the Star Trek computer Google is building is not going to read every result — just one. These answers are fueled by rich cards and featured snippets, which are in turn fueled by structured data.
Google has actually done us a huge favor regarding structured data in updating the specifications that allow JSON-LD. Before this, Schema.org was a matter of making very tedious and specific changes to code with little ROI. Now structured data powers a number of components of the SERP and can simply be placed at the <HEAD> of a document quite easily. Now is the time to revisit implementing the extra markup. Builtvisible’s guide to Structured Data remains the gold standard.
Page speed is still Google’s obsession
Google has very aggressive expectations around page speed, especially for the mobile context. They want the above-the-fold content to load within one second. However, 800 milliseconds of that time is pretty much out of your control.
Image via Google
Based on what you can directly affect, as an SEO, you have 200 milliseconds to make content appear on the screen. A lot of what can be done on-page to influence the speed at which things load is optimizing the page for critical rendering path.
Image via Nianpeng Li
To understand this concept, first we have to take a bit of a step back to get a sense of how browsers construct a web page.
1. The browser takes the uniform resource locator (URL) that you specify in your address bar and performs a DNS lookup on the domain name.
2. Once a socket is open and a connection is negotiated, it then asks the server for the HTML of the page you’ve requested.
3. The browser begins to parse the HTML into the Document Object Model until it encounters CSS, then it starts to parse the CSS into the CSS Object Model.
4. If at any point it runs into JavaScript, it will pause the DOM and/or CSSOM construction until the JavaScript completes execution, unless it is asynchronous.
5. Once all of this is complete, the browser constructs the Render Tree, which then builds the layout of the page and finally the elements of the page are painted.
In the Timeline section of Chrome DevTools, you can see the individual operations as they happen and how they contribute to load time. In the timeline at the top, you’ll always see the visualization as mostly yellow because JavaScript execution takes the most time out of any part of page construction. JavaScript causes page construction to halt until the the script execution is complete. This is called “render-blocking” JavaScript.
That term may sound familiar to you because you’ve poked around in PageSpeed Insights looking for answers on how to make improvements and “Eliminate Render-blocking JavaScript” is a common one. The tool is primarily built to support optimization for the Critical Rendering Path. A lot of the recommendations involve issues like sizing resources statically, using asynchronous scripts, and specifying image dimensions.
Additionally, external resources contribute significantly to page load time. For instance, I always see Chartbeat’s library taking 3 or more seconds just to resolve the DNS. These are all things that need to be reviewed when considering how to make a page load faster.
If you know much about the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) specification, a lot of what I just highlighted might sound very familiar to you.
Essentially, AMP exists because Google believes the general public is bad at coding. So they made a subset of HTML and threw a global CDN behind it to make your pages hit the 1 second mark. Personally, I have a strong aversion to AMP, but as many of us predicted at the top of the year, Google has rolled AMP out beyond just the media vertical and into all types of pages in the SERP. The roadmap indicates that there is a lot more coming, so it’s definitely something we should dig into and look to capitalize on.
Using pre-browsing directives to speed things up
To support site speed improvements, most browsers have pre-browsing resource hints. These hints allow you to indicate to the browser that a file will be needed later in the page, so while the components of the browser are idle, it can download or connect to those resources now. Chrome specifically looks to do these things automatically when it can, and may ignore your specification altogether. However, these directives operate much like the rel-canonical tag — you're more likely to get value out of them than not.
Image via Google
• Rel-preconnect – This directive allows you to resolve the DNS, initiate the TCP handshake, and negotiate the TLS tunnel between the client and server before you need to. When you don’t do this, these things happen one after another for each resource rather than simultaneously. As the diagram below indicates, in some cases you can shave nearly half a second off just by doing this. Alternatively, if you just want to resolve the DNS in advance, you could use rel-dns-prefetch.
If you see a lot of idle time in your Timeline in Chrome DevTools, rel-preconnect can help you shave some of that off.
You can specify rel-preconnect with
<link rel=”preconnect” href=”https://domain.com”>
or rel-dns-prefetch with
<link rel=”dns-prefetch” href=”domain.com”>
• Rel-prefetch – This directive allows you to download a resource for a page that will be needed in the future. For instance, if you want to pull the stylesheet of the next page or download the HTML for the next page, you can do so by specifying it as
<link rel=”prefetch” href=”nextpage.html”>
• Rel-prerender – Not to be confused with the aforementioned Prerender.io, rel-prerender is a directive that allows you to load an entire page and all of its resources in an invisible tab. Once the user clicks a link to go to that URL, the page appears instantly. If the user instead clicks on a link that you did not specify as the rel-prerender, the prerendered page is deleted from memory. You specify the rel-prerender as follows:
<link rel=”prerender” href=”nextpage.html”>
I’ve talked about rel-prerender in the past in my post about how I improved our site’s speed 68.35% with one line of code.
There are a number of caveats that come with rel-prerender, but the most important one is that you can only specify one page at a time and only one rel-prerender can be specified across all Chrome threads. In my post I talk about how to leverage the Google Analytics API to make the best guess at the URL the user is likely going to visit next.
If you’re using an analytics package that isn’t Google Analytics, or if you have ads on your pages, it will falsely count prerender hits as actual views to the page. What you’ll want to do is wrap any JavaScript that you don’t want to fire until the page is actually in view in the Page Visibility API. Effectively, you’ll only fire analytics or show ads when the page is actually visible.
Finally, keep in mind that rel-prerender does not work with Firefox, iOS Safari, Opera Mini, or Android’s browser. Not sure why they didn’t get invited to the pre-party, but I wouldn’t recommend using it on a mobile device anyway.
• Rel-preload and rel-subresource – Following the same pattern as above, rel-preload and rel-subresource allow you to load things within the same page before they are needed. Rel-subresource is Chrome-specific, while rel-preload works for Chrome, Android, and Opera.
Finally, keep in mind that Chrome is sophisticated enough to make attempts at all of these things. Your resource hints help them develop the 100% confidence level to act on them. Chrome is making a series of predictions based on everything you type into the address bar and it keeps track of whether or not it’s making the right predictions to determine what to preconnect and prerender for you. Check out chrome://predictors to see what Chrome has been predicting based on your behavior.
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Where does SEO go from here?
Being a strong SEO requires a series of skills that's difficult for a single person to be great at. For instance, an SEO with strong technical skills may find it difficult to perform effective outreach or vice-versa. Naturally, SEO is already stratified between on- and off-page in that way. However, the technical skill requirement has continued to grow dramatically in the past few years.
There are a number of skills that have always given technical SEOs an unfair advantage, such as web and software development skills or even statistical modeling skills. Perhaps it's time to officially further stratify technical SEO from traditional content-driven on-page optimizations, since much of the skillset required is more that of a web developer and network administrator than that of what is typically thought of as SEO (at least at this stage in the game). As an industry, we should consider a role of an SEO Engineer, as some organizations already have.
At the very least, the SEO Engineer will need to have a grasp of all of the following to truly capitalize on these technical opportunities:
• Document Object Model – An understanding of the building blocks of web browsers is fundamental to the understanding how how we front-end developers manipulate the web as they build it.
• Critical Rendering Path – An understanding of how a browser constructs a page and what goes into the rendering of the page will help with the speed enhancements that Google is more aggressively requiring.
• Structured Data and Markup – An understanding of how metadata can be specified to influence how Google understands the information being presented.
• Page Speed – An understanding of the rest of the coding and networking components that impact page load times is the natural next step to getting page speed up. Of course, this is a much bigger deal than SEO, as it impacts the general user experience.
• Log File Analysis – An understanding of how search engines traverse websites and what they deem as important and accessible is a requirement, especially with the advent of new front-end technologies.
• SEO for JavaScript Frameworks – An understanding of the implications of leveraging one of the popular frameworks for front-end development, as well as a detailed understanding of how, why, and when an HTML snapshot appliance may be required and what it takes to implement them is critical. Just the other day, Justin Briggs collected most of the knowledge on this topic in one place and broke it down to its components. I encourage you to check it out.
• Chrome DevTools – An understanding of one of the most the powerful tools in the SEO toolkit, the Chrome web browser itself. Chrome DevTools’ features coupled with a few third-party plugins close the gaps for many things that SEO tools cannot currently analyze. The SEO Engineer needs to be able to build something quick to get the answers to questions that were previously unasked by our industry.
• Acclerated Mobile Pages & Facebook Instant Pages – If the AMP Roadmap is any indication, Facebook Instant Pages is a similar specification and I suspect it will be difficult for them to continue to exist exclusively.
• HTTP/2 – An understanding of how this protocol will dramatically change the speed of the web and the SEO implications of migrating from HTTP/1.1.
Let’s Make SEO Great Again
One of the things that always made SEO interesting and its thought leaders so compelling was that we tested, learned, and shared that knowledge so heavily. It seems that that culture of testing and learning was drowned in the content deluge. Perhaps many of those types of folks disappeared as the tactics they knew and loved were swallowed by Google’s zoo animals. Perhaps our continually eroding data makes it more and more difficult to draw strong conclusions.
Whatever the case, right now, there are far fewer people publicly testing and discovering opportunities. We need to demand more from our industry, our tools, our clients, our agencies, and ourselves.
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“$0 down solar” is a very generic term that contains a variety of options. Will you get the solar system without paying anything? The true answer is: Not really! But what are you getting for free? If you are one of the lucky home owners that qualifies for a $0 down solar program, then you will get the solar installation without the initial cost. What does that really mean? Well, it really depends on the program you choose or you qualify for. Back in 2007-2012, this term would have definitely meant a $0 down solar lease or a $0 down PPA; but now with more ownership programs available in the market it can also mean a financed $0 down solar ownership.
The $0 down solar lease is the oldest form of the $0 down solar. The $0 down solar lease was launched in early 2007 as I remember. The $0 down solar lease started slow but by the end of 2011 was selling vigorously. Home owners loved the fact that it is a $0 down solar lease and that the $0 down solar lease is transferable to the new home owners if they decide to go solar. The $0 down solar lease also came with system warranty, monitoring, and insurance; which was a bumper to bumper coverage. The $0 down solar lease was the product that customers chose for a long period of time, and still today a lot of customers love the $0 down solar lease. Some consultants compare leasing a car to the solar lease but it’s totally different. The solar lease comes with full monitoring, warranty, and insurance; but you have to pay for your own insurance for a car lease. The solar lease is a $0 down lease but the car lease usually entails registration fees or these fees are being bundled in the lease and increase your payment. Also, the term is longer in solar installation than in a car.
The $0 down Solar PPA, also known as the $0 down solar Power Purchase Agreement, emerged as a hybrid of owning and leasing. People liked the idea of $0 down solar but didn’t like the word lease that much. They liked the bumper to bumper coverage but didn’t like the fact that they couldn’t own the system. The $0 down solar PPA offered what they wanted. The PPA is a Power Purchase Agreement where the home owner agrees to buy power from the solar installed equipment at a cost per kwh (Unit of measuring electricity). The home owner buys from the solar financing company for the duration of the term agreement, which is usually cheaper than the current utility. The $0 down solar PPA usually has the option of buying the solar equipment installed after a number of years. Some people call it “rent to own” which is not that accurate in our opinion. The $0 down solar PPA is one of the best options since the home owner is doing the same thing they are already doing. Buying power but at a cheaper price and from a cleaner source!
The $0 down solar ownership financing is very popular for smaller contractors because of the different financing companies providing $0 down solar financing companies from the PACE programs to the credit based loans.
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Mission statement
Understanding the brain in health and disease is one of today’s biggest scientific challenges with important societal implications. In particular, computational neuroscience seeks to understand how the brain transmits, processes and stores the information that ultimately guides our behavior. The recent progress in machine learning algorithms and brain recordings have made the fields of artificial and biological neural networks mature to a state in which each can inform the other. Our lab of computational neuroscience focuses in exploiting these advances to study how information is represented in the human brain and improve artificial intelligent systems.
To this end we pursue 3 interconnected lines of research: advanced analysis of brain recordings, cognitive artificial intelligence, and complex systems.
The questions we tackle and the methods we use are influenced by an interdisciplinary perspective. Our team consist of neuroscientists, computer scientists, mathematicians, physicists and bioinformaticians. Therefore, we borrow from any method and perspective from these fields that we find interesting and useful.
Michael Wibral Brain Imaging Center, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Wolf Singer Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany
Claudio Mirasso University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain
Ingo Fischer Instituto de Fisica Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos (IFISC), Palma, Spain
Dirk Oliver Theis Institute of Computer Science, Tartu, Estonia
Ajmal Zemmar Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, Canada
Joakim Dillner Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Caswell Barry University College London, London, UK
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Every child’s day is filled with fun activities with a beginning and end and several events in between. Kids learn by remembering and describing events in sequence, using predicting, problem solving, analyzing, re-telling and reasoning skills, all essential for language growth. SPARK Jr. taps right into the interests of kids 4 years old and up, providing 8 sets of beautifully illustrated stories based on children’s experiences–raking leaves, ordering ice cream, building a doghouse, cutting a fruit salad, preparing a fish tank, setting up a campfire, nighttime routine and making a birthday sign. Developed by a speech language pathologist, each sequenced set has wh-question prompts from easier to more difficult. “Who are the characters in the picture?” and “Why are they raking?” to “How do they feel?” When children are putting the pictures in the proper order, they need to notice details to help them analyze what comes next and recognize changes in emotion and picture details. Finally when they connect the story to their life experience they are using higher level language skills to bridge the story to the details they’ve experienced, finding similarities and differences between the two. As kids sequence stories, they become familiar with the essential parts to a good story–characters, setting, problem and solution so they can become proficient story tellers too! I have to mention that this sturdy carrying case of thick cards was obviously designed by a therapist who knows the heavy use an essential tool like this will see as kids manipulate the cards and can even draw on them with dry erase pens for emphasis in their story. SPARK Jr. is ready for creative learning in the hands of kids!
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Top 5 Best Water Distillers Of 2020 (Guide & Reviews)
Everybody is now focused on being healthy. Good health depends on what you eat, what you drink, and how you maintain hygiene around you. Water is readily available in most areas across the globe. It is quite essential but everybody does not get clean drinking water. Millions of people suffer from a variety of diseases because of drinking contaminated water. It can cause some severe health concerns if you do not find a way to turn contaminated water into cleaner water. That’s what distillers do. Just like other water filtration systems, a water distiller produces clean water for drinking and other chores.
Distillation process is quite popular because it effectively removes salts, heavy metals, and other water impurities. Raw water is heated to its boiling point and then water steam is collected in a container. That steam is later turned into distilled water. That’s how you get pure water and all the water contaminants are left behind.
People know how effective is this water filtration system and that’s why thousands of people are using them to produce pure drinking water. A distiller can be available in various sizes and you can easily find one which fits on the countertop in your kitchen. The experts believe that a distiller can easily remove most of the contaminants found in raw water. You get soft and cleaner water to drink. One time investment in a distiller can prevent you from spending a lot of money on bottled water. That’s why you must get one if you are not using any kind of water filtration systems to produce pure water.
Megahome countertop water distiller
Megahome Countertop Water Distiller
• Price: $$
• Diemension: 9 x 9 x 13
• Weight: 11 pounds
• Distilling Capacity: 1 gallon every 5.5 hours
Pure Water Mini counter top distiller
Pure Water Mini-Classic CT 120v Counter Top Distiller
• Price: $$$
• Diemension: 13.5 x 9.9 x 15.7
• Weight: 31.4 pounds
• Distilling Capacity: 8 gallons every 3.5 hours
H2O Stainless steel water distiller
H2O Lab Best in Class Stainless Steel Water Distiller
• Price: $$
• Diemension: 16.5 x 12 x 11.3
• Weight: 13.18 pounds
• Distilling Capacity: 4 gallons per day
CO-Z 110v water distiller
CO-Z 110V 4 Liter Water Distiller
• Price: $
• Diemension: 11 x 10 x 18
• Weight: 9.6 pounds
• Distilling Capacity: 6 gallons per day
VEVOR Countertop water distiller
VEVOR Countertop Water Distiller
• Price: $
• Diemension: 12 x 15 x 8
• Weight: 12 pounds
• Distilling Capacity: 6 gallons per day
Reviews Of Best Water Distillers
1. Megahome Countertop Water Distiller
Water distillation is a time consuming process, but Megahome MH943TWS is designed to produce cleaner water faster. It can produce 1 gallon distilled water within 5.5 hours. It is perfect for household use, especially for a small family.
This water filtration system is equipped with a top grade 304 stainless steel condensing coils hidden under the upper cover. A one gallon glass collection bottle is used to collect purified water. It also has a removable lid which allows you to pour the distilled water out in another clean container. It does not require any installation or technical knowledge about the distillation process. Just heat the water and let it cool. That’s how clean drinking water is produced.
Megahome water distiller
You just need to fill boil chamber with water and then press the reset button. This water filtration system will heat raw water, turn it into steam, and then turn off automatically. You do not need to check it time-and-again. The glass container will quickly get filled with pure water, which you can use for drinking. It is offering you one of the cheapest ways of producing clean drinking water. That’s why many people are using it and that’s why you should also try it.
♥ You can produce a gallon of purified water for just 0.25 cents.
♥ Durable construction and the internal unit along with heating coils work flawlessly.
♥ Capable of removing up to 99.9% water contaminants.
♥ There will be no toxic compounds in your drinking water.
Χ Some users have complained that water does not taste great.
2. Pure Water Mini-Classic CT 120v Counter Top Distiller
It would be quite easier for you to produce 99.99% pure water at your home if you use this water filtration system. It is made of stainless steel and there is no plastic component inside this distiller. This appliance is designed to deliver freshly distilled water which is not only free of contaminant but also tastes great. Its robust construction ensures a long-lasting service and almost zero maintenance.
It is quick and easy to set up on the kitchen counter top. There is no water line hookup needed because this appliance works quite similar to a coffeemaker. Fill the water boiling chamber and let this appliance treat contaminated water. It can produce up to 3 liters of pure water within 3.5 hours. This is a great result for this type of water filtration system.
Pure Water CT 120v counter top distiller
Yes it works faster than many other water distillers. Being equipped Pure Water’s patented dual purity vents, it produces water that tastes great. Activated Carbon beds are used to ensure the water will taste better every time you drink it. Harmful organic compounds, chemicals, heavy metals, and other water contaminants are removed during distillation process and clean water is stored in a clean glass container.
♥ This distiller can treat up to .8 Gallons of water within just 3.5 hours.
♥ It is capable of removing up to 99.99% waterborne impurities.
♥ Robust construction ensures a long-lasting service and Pure Water is offering a 15-year warranty on this distiller.
♥ Double-clad ensures better safety.
Χ Distilled water might not taste good and some have complained that its water distillation capacity is way lower than endorsed by the manufacturer.
3. H2O Lab Best in Class Stainless Steel Water Distiller
This countertop home water distiller is certainly one of the best water filtration system in class. It is made of stainless steel and comes with a high-quality one gallon glass carafe. Get your water distilled and then pour it in this glass carafe to drink whenever you want. It is also equipped with two activated carbon pods which further filter the distilled water to improve its taste and eliminate waterborne microbes. These carbon pods feature three-times the filtering media and that’s how this appliance generates purest water for drinking. Its VOC removal is more effective than any other countertop distiller.
The internal chambers are made of stainless steel, including those condensing coils. It is also quite easy to use. Just push that one button located outside it will start the distillation process. It operates automatically. You do not need to turn it off when distillation process is completed.
H2O class stainless steel water distiller
Cleaning it would not be a tough task because it has a large opening which allows you to clean the interior chamber by your hands. Robust stainless steel exterior ensures this appliance will work flawlessly for many years, even if fallen on the ground. This distiller will never let you fall sick because of waterborne contaminants. That’s why it is a great appliance to filter water for the whole family.
♥ The manufacturer has rigorously tested this appliance to ensure its dependability and maintenance-free performance.
♥ Equipped with two activated carbon pods to further purify distilled water.
♥ Featuring optimal size 565 Watt heating element to boil raw water quickly.
♥ Easy to set up, lift, and use.
Χ It fails to improve the taste of distilled water and that’s what troubles many buyers.
4. CO-Z 110V 4 Liter Water Distiller
Designed to operate automatically when powered on, the CO-Z 110V distiller provides sufficient water for drinking and other purposes. This appliance functions properly until there is enough water. It stops working when the water is low. That’s an indication that you have to refill it in order to produce more distilled water. Press that reset button again after refilling water and just forget about turning it off. It will automatically filter contaminated water and turn off when the distillation process is completed.
This 50Hz 750W distiller is capable of killing waterborne bacteria and removing dissolved solids, chemicals, and other contaminants. It can produce up to 6 gallons of distilled water in a day. It shows how this water filtration system is efficient compared to other devices of this type
CO-Z 110V 4 liter water distiller
The manufacturer has used 100% 304-grade stainless steel to build the whole steam chamber and condensing coils. Only food-grade and BPA-free plastic is used to prepare the outer body of this appliance. It looks quite attractive from outside and quite robust from inside. You do not need to monitor it while distilling water. It is a thermostatically controlled device, which turns off when water temperature goes beyond 300°F. Therefore, it is a perfect water filtration system to keep in your kitchen.
♥ It is an FDA approved water distiller.
♥ Removes all the water contaminants and produces up to 6 gallons of purified water in a day.
♥ Easy to set up, clean, and maintain for a long time.
♥ The manufacturer is offering a 1-year limited warranty with a promise of free exchange in case you get a defective model.
Χ Some buyers have reported that the manufacturer has exaggerated about actual capacity of this water distiller.
5. VEVOR Countertop Water Distiller
Tap water contains many contaminants and the Vevor Countertop Distiller can easily distill those impurities. It is made of 304 Stainless Steel and it can produce up to 1L of distilled water.
You can also use this appliance to distil whisky, alcohol, vodka, brandy, and other liquors at home. You can keep it at your home, office, and also at dental clinics. It will provide pure water every time you need distilled water to drink or for other chores.
This water filtration system is the perfect choice for someone who wants to enjoy clean water for a relatively low price.
VEVOR countertop water distiller
♥ Can be used to produce distilled water, liquor, and alcohol.
♥ Automatic temperature control mechanism makes it a safer appliance than ordinary distillers.
Equipped with a digital panel so that you can monitor the temperature.
♥ It is lightweight and perfect for household use.
Χ Poor water taste can be an issue and the manufacturer has not shared how long it takes to produce distilled water.
What is water distiller?
A water distiller is a kind of water filtration system which purifies raw water. Consider it as a device that removes a variety of water contaminants including organic and inorganic chemicals, microbes, heavy metals, and other waterborne contaminants. This appliance comprises condensing coils which heat up water to its boiling temperature. Water turns into steam and then collected in a stainless steel container. The steam is later turned into water and that’s how distilled water is produced. Distilled water contains almost zero water contaminants and that’s why it is considered safe for drinking and other uses.
Distillation process existed for many centuries. Some even believe that it is as old as our planet. It is a naturally occurring process and known as ”Hydrologic Cycle”. Water fond in the rivers, lakes, and oceans is heated by the sun. It turns into steam and that steam contains no contaminants at all. That’s how clouds are formed and those clouds turn into water as the temperature drops. This process continues throughout the year and water distillers work on the same principles. It is not easy to collect rain water, but you can produce gallons of pure water by using an advanced filtration system.
Distilled water is not only used for drinking, but also in chemical and biological laboratories. It is also used in industries. Some industries use deionised water, but it is not considered as pure as distilled water. That’s why this water filtration systems are widely used across the globe.
3 water distillers
How water distillers work?
how water distiller works
Unlike ordinary filters, a distiller turns water into steam and then again converts that steam into water to produce uncontaminated pure water. The distillation process completes in many steps.
Every distiller comprises a boiling chamber in which you feed the tap water to boil it. That water in the boiling chamber is heated by using heating elements. It is heated to water’s boiling temperature and then water starts turning into steam. Every distiller features inbuilt vents through which water vapor rises and then gases are discharged.
Contaminants such as hard deposits or scales do not turn into vapor because their boiling temperature is way higher than water. Therefore, these impurities remain inside the boiling chamber. The water vapor then enters in a condenser where temperature is reduced by using cool water or a fan. This condenser appears like a coiled tube.
As the condensing process begins, water vapor starts turning into water drops. There are some advanced distillers which feature activated carbon filter to remove other impurities and improve the taste of distilled water. A separate container is used to collect distilled water and that’s how a distiller works. This process takes time but you get pure and healthy water to drink and for other tasks.
There is a lot of water across the globe but a large portion of that water is not suitable for regular usage. Governments across the globe are responsible for providing residents with clean water. They fail to remove a majority of water contaminants. That’s why people fall sick after drinking supply water. The water distillation process is one of the most reliable ways of producing pure water. You can get a distiller and place it inside your home to produce pure water for your family. It will take more time than other water filtration systems, but eventually you will get uncontaminated water to for drinking and regular use.
How will buying a water distiller affect my life?
A lot of people use only strainer to get rid of impurities from their drinking water. Is that enough to produce clean water? Sadly, the answer is not because clean water also contains many other contaminants such as traces of pesticides, chemicals, chlorine, fluoride, germs, and other contaminants. You need an advanced solution to get rid of all of these contaminants.
Although many water filtration techniques are invented, none of those techniques is as effective as water distillation. Distillers can remove up to 99% water contaminants. Some advanced models feature beds of activated carbon to ensure the distilled water is rich in minerals and tastes great.
grandmother and her granddaughter drinking water
Thus, you will get pure water for drinking and cooking. It is a flawless way of getting rid of polluted water. You must keep a distiller at your home if there are kids in your family. Pure water will prevent them against all sorts of health issues and water will never be a reason behind poor health of your family members.
People spend a lot of money on curing health conditions caused by polluted water. A distiller helps you in saving that money. You will never need bottled water if you use this water filtration system to produce clean drinking water. Thus, a one-time investment in a highly efficient distiller can save you a lot of money on the long run.
Benefits of water distiller
The following benefits prove water distillers are quite essential for every home
• Removes all the bacteria and viruses:
A water distiller boils raw water, turns it into steam, and then converts that steam into pure water. All the germs are killed as the water reaches boiling temperature. The water turns into steam and those dead germs and bacteria are left behind.
• Produces carcinogenic chemical-free water:
The filtration process is considered the best way of removing waterborne chemicals. Additional filters work to remove some volatile organic compounds which have lower boiling temperature than water. Thus, filtered water contains almost no chemicals at all and you get pure water for drinking.
• No contaminants in distilled water:
It is true that all the contaminants including essential minerals are removed during the distillation process. It requires you to drink almost 1900 glasses of water in order to meet your body’s magnesium demands. Thus, a distiller is not as bad as some people claim it is. You can use an advanced distiller which adds essential minerals in distilled water to improve its taste and mineral counts.
• Produces purest water:
Everyone knows that tap water contains a lot of dirt and contaminants which can make you fall sick within a few days. Water distillers are renowned for producing purest water. Therefore, you should use this filtration system if you want to drink pure water.
• Distilled water is good for your health:
Extraneous minerals can cause a significant damage to your body cells and joints. These contaminants can cause major health issues on the long run. You can avoid that problem by drinking pure water produced by a water filtration system. Distilled water does not contain unnecessary minerals and that’s why it is quite essential for maintaining a good health.
glass of fresh water
Installation and maintenance
A countertop water distiller is the best for household use. You do not need to install it anywhere. Just set it on your kitchen countertop and you are ready to use it. Your water filtration system will continue producing clean water until it is clean. Scale buildup can occur inside the boiling tank because hard water contains a lot of minerals which are left inside the boiling chamber as the water turns into steam. Those minerals get stuck around the interior walls of the boiling chamber. This scale buildup affects the performance of the distiller. That’s why it is important to clean it as soon as possible.
You should clean the distillation chamber every day after collecting distilled water. Thus, no scale buildup will occur and your distiller will maintain its performance for a long time. It might not be possible for some people to clean the distiller every day. Therefore, experts recommend cleaning water filter system after producing ten gallons of distilled water. It would be quite difficult to get rid of scale if you do not clean it.
The de-scaling process is quite simple. Unplug your distiller and drain the boiling tank. Now shut off the drain valve. Now fill another container with hot water and use two or three spoon descaler. Mix both ingredients effectively and then pour that mixture into the boiling chamber. Leave it for 24 hours and then use a scrubber to remove scale. Tough scale buildup will be removed and your distiller will look clean like a new one. That’s how you can maintain your distiller. There will be no scale buildup if you clean the distiller on a daily basis.
Final thoughts
Many contaminants enter in our body along with the water we drink. Those contaminants cause skin issues, hair loss, and a variety of waterborne disease. A water distiller is capable of removing all of those impurities and producing purest drinking water.
Choose one of the best water filtration system that offers additional filters to further remove VOCs and improves water’s taste. It will never let you or your family members fall sick because of water contamination. Water distillers are not as costly as some other water purifiers. That’s why anyone can buy and use this amazing appliance to stay fit and healthy.
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OTTAWA -- The potential sale of social-media platform TikTok to Microsoft is leaving Canada with a sense of deja vu.
Experts say the country is once again being pressured to take sides in a debate about digital technology that seems driven more by politics than by policy.
U.S. President Donald Trump is effectively forcing the sale of the Chinese-owned TikTok, citing national-security concerns over the user data and device access potentially available to China's government.
Microsoft has emerged as a potential buyer for the popular video-sharing app, seeking to acquire its presence in the United States, New Zealand, Australia and Canada.
Michael Geist, an expert in internet law at the University of Ottawa, says the issue feels like a replay of the debate over whether to allow Huawei technology into Canada's 5G wireless data networks.
The federal government still hasn't ended that debate with a decision, while Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou awaits possible extradition to the United States after being arrested in Vancouver and two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, have been detained in China for more than 600 days.
Geist says Canada is once again uncomfortably pressured to take sides in an emerging global digital tech battle and may try to not get too involved in the TikTok talks.
"At this stage, I'm not convinced that the Canadian government has clear policy on the area," Geist said, "meaning our likely response is to stay on the sidelines and let the issue unfold without much input or engagement."
TikTok launched three years ago and now boasts 100 million users worldwide who upload short, catchy videos.
A report earlier this year from We Are Social, a global agency that tracks social-media use, found that TikTok was the sixth most-downloaded app in Canada in 2019, but used by only nine per cent of Canadian internet users aged 16 to 64.
Trump has framed his concerns around a Chinese company having access to Americans' personal data, echoing concerns that earlier this year led a Chinese gaming company to sell Grindr, a gay dating app, to an American company for over US$600 million.
Trump's push comes amid escalating rhetoric towards Beijing over trade and the novel coronavirus pandemic.
"The recent TikTok developments in the U.S. appear to be driven far more by politics than policy," Geist said. "There is little difference in the data collection practices of TikTok and the large U.S. social-media companies."
A decision late last month from the Court of Justice of the European Union highlighted what it saw as the inadequacy of U.S. privacy laws, saying the U.S. government could have unchecked access to user information through its own surveillance laws.
So while bringing TikTok's user data to U.S. servers might alleviate concerns about Chinese spying, it doesn't eliminate concerns of U.S. agencies doing the same to an American-owned platform.
"When Europe passed the strongest privacy regulation in the world, Microsoft decided to offer those protections and rights to everyone -- even though they weren't required to by law," said Lauren Reid, president of privacy consultancy The Privacy Pro.
"At the end of the day, Microsoft is a U.S. company and is subject to the U.S. government surveillance programs, which allow unchecked access to the personal information held by private companies."
On Monday, Trump told reporters he would ban TikTok in the U.S. unless Microsoft or another American company bought the app by Sept. 15, with a portion of the sale going to the U.S. treasury.
Christopher Parsons, a senior research associate at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, said Trump's actions to force a sale would be a fairly substantive break with the way governments ordinarily treat internet companies.
In effect, the president's actions suggest that each country should have its own branches of social media companies, Parsons said.
A question for Canadian policy-makers is what they would do if a country demanded part of a domestic tech darling -- Parsons used Ottawa-based Shopify as an example -- be hived off for similar reasons Trump has for TikTok.
"If Canada were to be involved, I think that it may be less around concerns about there being two TikToks ... and more around are these the kinds of norms we want to be propagated," he said.
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Canada’s ‘Random’ Immigration Lottery Uses Microsoft Excel, Which Isn’t Actually Random
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Last year, Canada introduced a new lottery system used to extend permanent-resident status to the parents and grandparents of Canadian citizens. The process was designed to randomly select applicants in order to make the process fairer than the old first-come, first-served system. There’s just one problem: the software used to run the lottery isn’t actually random.
The Globe and Mail reported the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) uses Microsoft Excel to run the immigration lottery to select 10,000 people for permanent resident status from a field of about 100,000 applications received each year. Experts warned that the random number generating function in Excel isn’t actually random and may put some applicants at a disadvantage.
First, it’s best to understand just how the lottery system works. An Access to Information request filed by The Globe and Mail shows that IRCC inputs the application number for every person entering the lottery into Excel, then assigns them a random number to each using a variation of the program’s RAND command. They then sort the list from smallest to largest based on the random number assigned and take the first 10,000 applications with the lowest numbers.
The system puts a lot of faith in Excel’s random function, which it might not deserve. According to Université de Montréal computer science professor Pierre L’Ecuyer, Excel is “very bad” at generating random numbers because it relies on an old generator that is out of date. He also warned that Excel doesn’t pass statistical tests and is less random than it appears, which means some people in the lottery may actually have a lower chance of being selected than others.
Here’s how the issue manifests, per The Globe and Mail:
Excel uses pseudo-random number generators, a class of algorithms that rely on formulas to generate numbers. These generators have a key flaw — they rely on a “seed” number to kick off the mathematical process. In the case of Excel, this seed is generated automatically by the application. “If you know one number at one step,” Prof. L’Ecuyer explained, “you can compute all the numbers that will follow.”
Because most random number generators use algorithms that produce longer values determined by initial shorter values, most computer processes are considered to be pseudorandom rather than truly random. But Excel has often failed to even produce good pseudorandom results and at times has been so bad that programmers could reverse engineer the results. A team of cryptographers at the University of Haifa in Israel were able to predict the numbers the software would generate by determining the initial values that it is working with.
B.D. McCullough, a professor at the LeBow College of Business at Drexel University, examined Microsoft’s revamped number generator implemented in Excel 2007 and found it lacking as well. “Users of Excel’s ‘rand’ function have been using random numbers from an unknown and undocumented RNG of unknown period that is not known to pass any standard tests of randomness,” he said of the process.
Excel’s random function has improved over time but it’s still considered to be inadequate, especially for a purpose as sensitive as determining a person’s eligibility for permanent resident status. L’Ecuyer told The Globe and Mail the government could use free cryptographic generators that are available online and it would produce fairer outcomes than Excel. “Anything would be better,” he said.
It would take some knowledge of the program and effort to manipulate Excel in order to favour certain applicants, but the possibility exists. That should be enough to convince the government to pursue other options, but IRCC seems satisfied with its current Excel-based system.
“We stand by this randomised selection process as a sufficient means of equal opportunity for all who look to express an interest in sponsoring their parents and grandparents,” a spokesperson for IRCC said in a statement to The Globe and Mail. The agency also said there is no indication the system has been manipulated and, just like Excel’s random number generator, that will have to be good enough.
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How to keep you brain sharp?
How to keep you brain sharp?
Having a sharp mind means the quickness of a person to interpret, understand, analyse or pick up an idea effectively. Brain functions start to decline in your mid 20s, although you may notice it decades later. Just like other parts of your body, the brain also becomes more powerful by exercising it. One's mental capacity and thinking power can be improved by doing some brain exercises. Brain exercises can sharpen one's mind and strengthen neural connections in the brain.
There are several activities that involve brain work that help flourish the power of the brain:
• Playing games like scrabble, chess and many others
• Solving puzzles and quizzes
• Making a few difficult charts and tables daily
• Trying to solve tricky situations given in newspapers and magazines
• Writing essays on different topics
Keep in mind that brain sharpening is not possible in one day, it needs daily brain exercise and within a few days you will notice the change.
It's important that when you hear or read something or when you're working on something, make it a point that your thinking approach towards it should be adequate and precise, which involves:
• Thinking and analyzing the idea from every angle
• Get into the depth of the idea
• Alertness
Additionally, it's also imperative that one eats healthy, gets ample amount of sleep and exercises daily.
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Sundance 2020
There’s a Blank Space at the Center of Taylor Swift’s Miss Americana
The superstar’s Netflix documentary is occasionally thrilling—but its intimacy is calculated and conditional.
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Miss Americana is a tricky movie. The film, which was one of the opening-night selections at this year’s Sundance Film Festival ahead of its Netflix release on January 31, is an often compelling look at the psychological mechanics governing one Taylor Swift—mega-famous singer-songwriter and frequent lightning rod for all kinds of disparate controversy. In trying to explicate the unique surreality of her situation, Swift makes for a fascinating documentary subject, both generous and withholding, frank and elusive. Lana Wilson’s film chases closely behind Swift as she leads the audience toward various laments and realizations; it’s as much a visual diary as anything else.
A diary, of course, is comprised of the chosen, curated truths of its author. Technically, Taylor Swift did not make Miss Americana. But her stamp is all over it, in its selective elisions and its careful structuring of a new celebrity identity. In that way, Miss Americana often plays as an intimately articulated press release, a bit of star-burnishing propaganda that is totally self-serving, if never malevolent.
Swift has probably earned the prerogative to manage her image in this long format. Hers is the heart, mind, and body that has been offered up to the masses for adulation and relentless scrutiny for many years now. Why shouldn’t she then get to assert some further agency and tell her story the way she thinks is most fair? We have given her our attention, and now she is asking us to hear, really hear, what she has to say—and, in the process, maybe learn who she really is.
I like the idea of that project, just as I quite like Swift’s music, the way it mixes confession with broader, more accessible sentiment. I have not followed the ins and outs of Swift’s much-covered personal life the way some people have, but I’ve always enjoyed the musical fruit born of that tumult. It’s been an interesting ride, watching (and listening to) Swift as she’s navigated her bumpy, glorious adolescence all the way to 30, where she’s just found herself.
Only, something cynical crept into my head while watching Miss Americana. It was an apprehension about just how managed this whole thing is, how precise it is in its mythology. Given the buzzy context of Sundance, with a lauded young documentarian bringing us the gospel of Swift on the first night of the festival, I’m left wondering if we should expect something more from the film—if its truths mean all that much when they’ve been so thoroughly vetted, arranged just so to bend a narrative in directions favorable to its subject.
Miss Americana sometimes feels like a snow job, like we are being hoodwinked into buying an idea with nothing to balance it against. The film captures some private moments that actually aren’t all that private, considering there was a camera there; it’s hard not to feel a growing suspicion that this is all for show. Not that the film is insincere, exactly, but it is at the very least shrewdly timed, its gradual epiphanies meted out to help shape Swift’s latest consumable iteration of self.
In the movie, Swift persuasively ruminates on the impossibly constant demand that female stars be ever evolving lest they risk obsolescence. I take her point. And I don’t begrudge Swift wanting to change, nor her wanting us to know that she has. But when this film’s arc is predicated so specifically on a dawning political conscience—we watch as, in 2018, Swift endorses candidates and alludes to a broader political ethos for the first time in her nearly two-decade career—one has to interrogate just what those politics are, and what their now public function really is. What were Swift’s ethics before the cameras descended (at her beckoning) to detail her coming out? How did they manifest in her unilluminated life, before the light showed up?
Miss Americana does not encourage us to seek out those answers. Instead, it asks that we trust in the journey as it’s told by its hero; it wants veneration without all the unseemly effort, the backlog evidence, the enduring receipts.
It was another calculation that the movie should premiere at a major festival a week before its release. There, in the biggest venue in Park City, was a room of supporters and critics—the former giving the latter loud, ardent cues for when to be moved, when to be impressed, when to cheer. I don’t think Swift, in the realest glimpses we get of her in the film, needs that boostering. She’s a genuine wit, a bogglingly adept musician, a savvy businessperson whose eagerness to be liked speaks to a strict upbringing we’re given no insight into.
The experience of watching Miss Americana will of course be quite different for those watching at home next Friday, or beyond. But here in the mountains of Utah, I felt almost held captive by the movie’s insistence, its deceptive tilts toward hagiography.
These are just some things to think about when watching the movie; they’re not reasons to avoid it. Wilson’s film is discursively engaging, jumping from one big Taylor era to another, from Kanye to the ill-timed cri de coeur of her Reputation album. The most arresting stretches of the film are when we see Swift simply doing her work, conjuring up perfectly vague but succinct lyrics as some producer prods at a synth next to her. (Or, frequently, as she tinkers away on the piano herself.) It’s a thrill watching her create, because she is so good at that. That’s when the whole thing feels truly organic, unvarnished, not compromised by any attempts at smoothing reality.
The film looks away from that pure artistry too often, turning instead to its limited, and far less satisfying, view of Swift’s complicated star profile. Swift has weathered a lot, a particularly lonely kind of social battering that cannot, it seems, be entirely soothed by millions of dollars and heaps of adulation. Sometimes the movie has an instructive value, in the considered way Swift talks about her eating disorder and about the pressures she has faced as a young woman in an industry famously inhospitable to and exploitative of young women. It’s admirable that Swift has reached a place of clarity about what all that struggle has done to her, what it has meant for her psyche and self-worth. I wish only that she had let Wilson do even more searching with difficult questions, that there wasn’t such a guarded control clenching the film’s conclusions.
I’ve no interest in litigating when Taylor Swift was or wasn’t unfairly maligned, when she was in the right or in the wrong about some feud or overshare. But she never existed alone; there was always a broader world, a bigger reality, surrounding her. Miss Americana pays frustratingly short shrift to all that lies beyond Swift’s immediate self-conception. The film is an interesting statement of intent from a newly active and aware famous person, but it ultimately serves one master.
I like a lot of what that master does as an artist, and if Miss Americana is just an introduction to a longer Swift treatise, some kind of preamble to a new design for living? I’m all for that. But as a standalone illustration, Miss Americana has too much blank space, voids in its portraiture that are all too quickly filled in with doubt.
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You may have seen articles online explaining why hiring a website designer is a thing of the past. Well as a web designer, for over 20 years now, I find this hard to believe, at least not yet. Here are some of the reasons why I think you should hire a website designer to build your website, rather than using a page builder or AI.
Web Design or Graphic Design Skills
A good website designer has a design background. Yes, you can build your own website with a page builder, but will you design it exactly the way you want or need it to be? Do you know how to create a website that looks good, loads fast and converts visitors into customers?
Conversion Optimization Skills
A good website designer knows how to build your website, but they also know about conversion optimization. For this reason, I recommend hiring a well-established, well rounded website designer that knows web design, SEO and website conversion optimization.
There is no way a website builder can do all that. Sure, you can create search engine friendly websites with a page builder, but only if you know how to optimize the website in the first place. You will need to know how to setup all the tracking scripts and optimize your pages, add site maps, Google Analytics, conversion tracking? Also, you will need to know how to make sure all your images load fast; your site loads fast and they are all correctly tagged and optimized? Not to mention thousands of other things.
Many Skills Involved
To build your own website correctly with a page builder you need to be a website designer in the first place. Then you need to learn SEO and some online marketing. Then you need to learn how to convert your traffic into sales and leads, so that when you have built your website it makes you some money. I mean that is the point, right?
When it comes right down to it, you can build almost anything yourself and you can get a machine to build things for you also. However, when it comes to your business it’s important that your website can convert your traffic, ranks well and looks great.
Self Hosted
Most page builders are hosted for you, meaning your website is stored on their server and you pay a monthly fee. Now some might say this is a bad thing, but it really depends on what you want. Having them host your website might be exactly what you want and in this case you are golden. The hosting company usually hosts your email and domain too. So it’s a one-stop-shop for all your website needs.
However, if you are like me and enjoy actually owning your website then I recommend building it without a page builder with something like WordPress or Joomla! A page builder cannot design your website for you, it will give you options to choose from, usually starting with a template and then you modify this template to fit your needs. However, unless you are a designer it’s very likely your website will not look anywhere near as good as what a professional website designer would be able to build.
Have you tried giving your kid a haircut lately? How did that turn out? Has the trauma warn off yet? Have the kids stopped bullying him/her yet? Most website designers have a degree in design and know about using color, fonts, space and other design elements to make sure your design looks great on many types of devices. Sure, many page builders have come a long way, but they can’t select your colors and images or modify them to make them look their best.
Do you like traffic? Then you might want to make sure your website is optimized for search engines. Search engine optimization is the process of optimizing each page of your website as well as your entire site’s structure to give it a good chance of ranking in search engines. A WordPress website or almost any of the leading content management systems, are easier to optimize and have a better website structure than any page builder. They simply are not the same breed. If you have buckets of gold nuggets, then you can build your own custom designed content management system from scratch with all the bells and whistles you can dream of. You can use advanced programming to build anything.
But if you are looking at page builders then your budget it a little more down to earth, so I’m going to focus on the best low-budget options that will allow you to fully compete with the big guys.
Yes, I know you new I was going to mention WordPress right? But that’s because it’s the best CMS on the planet and it’s free. You can build almost any website you can dream of with WordPress. Also, the advanced themes with page builders built in will allow you to build your own websites quickly. I highly recommend WordPress and the Divi Theme along with Divi page builder. Combine this with Yoast for your seo, some speed optimization plugins and you are all set.
Yes you may have to hire a designer to build the initial website and setup your SEO, but you will own the website afterwards and have just as much control, if not much more than you would have with a hosted page builder.
For example, you can easily add ecommerce to your website if you want to turn it into a fully functional online store by using a plugin called woocommerce. Woocommerce only takes a few hours to install and configure and it has everything you need. If you need more then there are tons of great plugins and more being built constantly.
Another great system is Joomla!, which is also a CMS. Joomla! May have a slightly higher learning curve than WordPress but some say it’s a bit more powerful. I have used both for over a decade and we have developed plugins for both and I would say WordPress is a bit better in many respects. There are more plugins, it’s easier to work with and easier to optimize for search engines.
If you are serious about your business, then you should be thinking long term, if you use a page builder to build your website you don’t own the website. You can’t move your site to another hosting company if the company that owns your page builder goes out of business or is taken over by a company with bad support. If you sell your site then you can simply move it somewhere else. If you sell your business one day you have the chance to sell the site to the new owner without requiring them to stay with the page builder host.
After 20 years in the web design industry I have studied many systems and methods for building websites. The only page builder I would recommend, and it’s not really a page builder, is Shopify. Shopify is mainly for ecommerce websites, but it’s also used for regular websites. Shopify will allow you to build a very good online store very quickly and there are various plugins to make it SEO friendly. However, it must be hosted on the Shopify servers and you will need specially trained developers to work on a Shopify store if you require custom development.
In closing, if you want a real website, then hire a real website design company. Don’t hire one website designer, hire a team. One person cannot build, host and provide online marketing to the level you need to grow your business. An automated website builder can only build your website, it cannot design, optimize, maintain and promote it like a web design company can.
It’s sort of like building your own house. You can build your own house, but will it be up to code? Will it be safe? Will you do it correctly and how will you know if you did? Would you want a robot to build your house or a craftsman?
Websites should be an extension of your business and not just a thing you pop up online, so you can say you have a website now. Most businesses make most of their money from their website and this is increasing every year.
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Wednesday, 11 December 2019
Internet streaming, due to the packet switching technology used in internet communication, inevitably means the streamed content is transiently reproduced by recipients at the end of the communication chain. Also, the practicalities of internet delivery of content mean there is transient and temporary reproduction by intermediaries in the chain, but the focus of this blog is end user copyright issues.
Unlike the situation where recipients download content, transient reproductions involved with streaming are beyond the control, or even knowledge, of the recipients. They should not constitute infringements of creators’ or communicators’ reproduction rights. As was recognised, but unfortunately not codified, in the international negotiations which led to the 1996 WIPO Internet treaties, there should be statutory exceptions to copyright infringement which expressly cover these types of transient reproduction. A model provision in the treaties would have meant that not only would all jurisdictions ratifying the WIPO treaties now actually have an exception in their copyright legislation, but they might also have less ambiguous provisions for their courts to apply.
Streaming is different to browsing pages on a website where the reproduction on a screen might better be categorised as ‘temporary’ (a limited period of time) rather than ‘transient’ (a momentary, fleeting or short-lived period of time). It may be easier to achieve clarity and certainty by having a separate statutory exception for ‘temporary reproductions’ such as browsing, if indeed it is considered to be an infringing reproduction in the first place.
Transient Reproduction prior to and outside the Digital World
Watching ‘analogue’ television programmes required transient reproduction of the individual picture frames making up such works on the user’s TV screen. Despite a technical reproduction occurring this was treated like reading a book and was never considered infringement of copyright in the programme, let alone the TV broadcast. Nor, going way back in time was watching a movie being transiently reproduced frame after frame on a screen using a home projector. This was the case even in the rare situation where the programme or its transmission breached a third party’s copyright.
Reproduction of Content on the Internet
The first hot internet issue for the music industry was peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing where millions of consumers shared content files via a central database (eg Napster) and later decentralised databases such as Grokster and Kazaa.
Here the users/consumers were active infringers and not simply recipients of content. So-called file sharing involved copies being made and stored by uploading and downloading. Somewhat different from streaming! Although, as mentioned below, in the US receiving a stream has been equated with a download rather than with a broadcast.
Transient Reproduction in Streaming Technology
Although the copyright issue being dealt with here is transient copying in consumers’ equipment any overview of the streaming process must start with the communicator of the content. First, analogue content is digitised by periodically sampling it (at 40,000 times per second for music) and representing the magnitude of each sample using binary numbers. The numbers, in the form of groups of bits (0s and 1s), are chained together to form a digital file. Next the digitised content file is split into data packets (10,000 bits per packet) to be able to be transmitted over the internet which uses packet switched data technology.
For video content the consumer will usually have a ‘set top box’ connected between their internet router and TV set. All this can be done on a suitably programmed computer, but lack of user friendliness and the small screen are negatives for family groups of drama and sports lovers. Perhaps using a smart phone to receive and play audio content is more directly analogous to using a computer.
The STB, among other components, contains a buffer memory for transiently storing received packets of content until enough packets are accumulated to constitute one picture frame to be displayed on the TV screen – 50 packets. After each frame is displayed the frame packets stored in the buffer memory are deleted to make way for packets making up the next frame. Maximum packet storage time in theory would be 0.04 seconds – very obviously ‘transient’. In practice because optimum bandwidth might not be available continuously for many viewers the buffer memory will be set up to store more than one picture frame’s worth of data packets so storage time might be 0.2 seconds – still rather transient.
So, this is how the domestic consumer is carrying out transient reproduction – simply an essential part of the technological process executed by his STB to enable private watching or listening to content. Without a legislative exception many jurisdictions consider this to be infringement of the copyright in the content.
But is the Subject Matter that is being Transiently Reproduced actually a Copyright Work or a Substantial Part of a Work?
The answer may be different for audio streaming as opposed to video streaming, but why has little, if any, consideration given to the quantity or quality of the fragment of the work which is actually transiently reproduced by storage in memory? If we look at the groups of binary digits which are transiently stored when receiving an audio stream they may only represent half a musical chord – a mere fragment of a musical work.
Infringement by reproduction in many jurisdictions requires the whole or a substantial part of the work to be reproduced. Is half a chord a substantial part of the whole musical work? Although the ‘substantial part’ approach to infringement is not part of US law, copyright there has traditionally not even subsisted in short insubstantial things like, say, a short phrase. However, it does need to be mentioned that this has recently been thrown into turmoil by the Ninth Circuit in a case brought against Taylor Swift where a phrase in a song was considered possible copyright subject matter.
The EU is a bit more liberal – any expression which is an author’s intellectual creation will be protected (even 13 words according to the CJEU in the Infopaq case) – but in the EU half a chord should not constitute an intellectual creation by a composer. Nor even would any whole chords since they will have been used by many composers over the centuries.
For video the issue of substantiality of the part transiently reproduced (even a single picture frame) was essentially decided in the days of film long before the internet – reproduction of a single frame being considered to constitute infringement of film copyright.
Nevertheless, for audio streaming, transient reproduction in the streamer device’s buffer memory should never have constituted infringement of the copyright in the piece of music being streamed. Debate over a statutory exception for these transient reproductions should have been superfluous.
Home recipients versus transmission initiators and intermediaries.
Why should domestic consumption of content ever be a potential infringement? Reading books is not. As already mentioned above, watching movie films on a screen using a home projector system was not and watching television was not and even with those countries which have TV licences the licence is not a copyright licence. Listening to a radio broadcast is not. These acts were only infringements where the playing or showing was in public.
There is a clear difference between passive watching and active recording of received content. Why should the mode of communication, that is digital transmission, have a different legal outcome? Why have some courts thought viewing or listening to streamed content could constitute infringement of copyright? This appears to be contrary to copyright philosophy.
Taking a cynical viewpoint, maybe there was a ‘commercial’ motive for promoting the concept that transient reproduction of streams by recipients should be considered an infringement which could only be exempted by detailed statutory exceptions (or by case law developments of a fair use doctrine). This would facilitate additional or alternative claims against communicators further up the distribution chain such as infringement by ‘authorising’ or ‘promoting’ the recipients’ infringement and/or by making them contributory infringers unless they obtained licences and paid royalties.
Consider, for example, the countless legal actions against Spotify in the US based on Spotify not always having obtained and paid for ‘mechanical rights’ licences from music publishers. Although, as Spotify has claimed in one case, streaming does not fall within the mechanical rights scenario of delivery of a reproduction for repeated playing by the recipient’s equipment.
A Statutory Exception to Infringement for Recipients of Streamed Content
What are the necessary elements for an effective copyright exception for recipients of video and audio streams? The position of private recipients is different from intermediaries and the statutory exceptions should also be different and not merged together in a generic provision as is common in many of those jurisdictions which have incorporated exceptions for transient and/or temporary reproduction. The latter (‘temporary’) should be at the heart of a separate exception for browsing web pages and the like.
Obviously, the duration of the reproduction must be limited to being transient and it must be an essential part of the technology for receiving and enabling the viewing and/or listening of the streamed content. The reception must be for private viewing/listening only and not the public at large.
Exceptions for private end of chain recipients need not have these further qualifications: a ‘lawful use’ or lawful dealing (EU, NZ); no independent economic significance (UK, NZ); a use that is not an infringement of copyright (CA); or communications which are not infringements (AU).
On the other hand some jurisdictions have omitted elements that would seem to be required for clarity. For example, UK section 28A when listing the sole purposes for which transient reproduction is permitted does not expressly mention ‘for the enabling of the receipt of a work’.
Law Reform
Although it has not introduced a statutory exception for the transient reproduction involved in streaming, the US has signed into law the Music Modernization Act 2018. This requires audio streaming service companies, such as Spotify, to obtain and pay for mechanical rights licences from the composers/publishers. Even though what they deliver vaporises on receipt – unlike a CD or LP. The fundamental technological and legal distinction is between streams and downloads. Streams of musical pieces, whether on demand or not, do not result in the recipient obtaining possession of a copy of the music any more than is the case with analogue radio broadcasts.
New Zealand is currently in the process of conducting a comprehensive review of its Copyright Act 1994, which was last substantively updated by amendments in 2008. The Ministry responsible has identified many issues where it seeks submissions and one of them concerns the 2008 exceptions for all transient copying which takes place in technological communications.
The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) was tasked with a review of copyright in the light of the ‘digital economy’ back in 2013. The ALRC, when considering the arguments for and against specific statutory exceptions for transient reproduction recommended that these should be put aside in favour of amending Australia’s Act to incorporate an American style fair use doctrine which would, among other things, apply to technologically inevitable transient reproduction. This recommendation has yet to be implemented.
This blogger would not like to see New Zealand adopt such a fair use approach. As we have seen in the US, the fair use doctrine must be fleshed out by the courts over some years. The introduction of a fair use doctrine even for less complex non-digital scenarios will only lead to a magnification of legal uncertainties and as a result increased copyright litigation. And it will be even worse for digital scenarios. It would be better to stay with statutory exceptions, albeit somewhat better targeted and separately applying to each of the participants in an internet communication chain.
The increasing popularity of streaming services over recent years has had the incidental effect of reducing content piracy and in particular music piracy. An international exception to infringement for recipients of streamed content which is crystal clear for courts and easy for users to understand is likely to further diminish content piracy.
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Your Insurance Company may try and dissuade you from hiring a Public Adjuster. They will claim that it is unnecessary, and that you will not get more money by hiring them. This is misleading and not true.
The Insurance Company's adjuster works for the Insurance Company. He is their representative. He has their best interests at heart, not yours.
Remember it is YOUR obligation to prove your claim. Often times coverage is available for things like Additional Living Expenses but the Insured is not aware of that, and the adjuster does not volunteer that information.
Adjusters aren't bad people but Insurance is a business and it's a numbers game. Insurance companies make billions of dollars each year. When you have an insurance loss the insurance company is likely losing money on you because it is paying you more money than you originally paid it for insurance.
Often times insurance companies will recommend a contractor or restoration company to do the necessary repairs. Typically, the recommended contractor will have an ongoing relationship with an insurance company going back several years and would like future referrals from the insurance company. They will also be looking out for the insurance company's pocket book not as well.
It is important for individual insureds to understand who is making the determinations on their claims. While the average insurance consumer understands that the insurance companies are making decisions concerning what needs to be repaired, they incorrectly assume that the prices included in the estimate are set by the market and not the insurance companies.
Some of the software programs that Insurance Companies use to estimate the amount of an insurance loss are owned by the insurance companies. The pricing in these programs is going down while national building material prices are going up. The prices of common building materials have increased as much as 30% in one year! That means insurance companies may be underpaying homeowners by at least 30%.
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Urinary Tract Infections
Urinary tract infections
What are UTIs?
Urinary tract infections are more commonly known as UTIs. Infections of the urinary tract are extremely common in Ireland and account for a large proportion of doctor visits per year.
UTIs are particularly common among women, and it is estimated that as many as one in every five women will develop some form of UTI during her lifetime. UTIs are less common in men and this is believed to be due to the longer urethra (the tube draining the bladder) in men.
What is the urinary tract?
The four key elements of the urinary system are the kidneys, ureters (tubes connecting the kidneys and bladder), bladder and urethra (tube draining the bladder).
Purplish-brown in colour, the kidneys are located just below the ribs in the flanks and perform a number of vital functions. They remove liquid waste from the blood in the form of urine; keep a stable balance of salts and other substances in the blood and produce a hormone that aids the formation of red blood cells (erythropoetin).
The narrow tubes which connect the kidneys to the bladder are called ureters. Their function is to carry the urine from the kidneys to the bladder where it is stored before being emptied through the urethra. The bladder is a muscular organ, shaped like a triangle that is located in the lower abdomen.
While varying amounts of urine are passed by adults each day, depending on their intake of fluids, the average adults passes about a quart and a half of urine each day. The production of urine slows down at night to about half of the daytime figure.
What causes infection?
Normal urine contains fluids, salts and waste products, and it is always sterile (contains no bacteria). An infection commonly occurs when micro-organisms enter through the external opening (the urethra) and begin to multiply. The majority of UTIs are caused by one type of bacteria, Escherichia coli (E. coli), which normally reside in the colon. Infections can also be carried to the urinary tract through the bloodstream, although this is much less common.
An infection which is limited to the urethra is called urethritis. If the infection moves up to through the urethra to the bladder it causes a bladder infection, which is known as cystitis. If the infection is not treated promptly and is allowed to travel along the urethers and into the kidneys it causes a potentially serious condition known as pyelonephritis.
There are other micro-organisms which can causes UTIs in both men and women, some of whom which are sexually transmitted. Sexually transmitted infections are usually caused by chlamydia or mycoplasma. If a person becomes infected with a sexually transmitted infection, all sexual partners should also be treated to prevent the spread of the infection.
Among the other risk factors for the development of UTIs are:
• Obstruction of the urinary tract: a kidney stone, for example, will obstruct the natural flow of urine from the urinary tract and may be the focus for an infection. Similarly, an enlarged prostate gland in men will also increase the likelihood of infection.
• Catheters: a catheter is a tube which is placed in the bladder to drain urine when the patient is unable to perform this vital function themselves. It is used in cases where a patient may be unconscious, after surgery, and especially among the elderly who have lost natural bladder control. Prolonged use of catheters is one of the most common causes of UTIs and the highest levels of hygiene must be observed by medical staff at all times in the handling of catheters.
• The use of diaphragms: several studies have concluded that women who use a diaphragm are much more likely to develop UTIís than those who use other forms of contraception.
UTIs are relatively uncommon in boys and men and are frequently associated with an identifiable underlying cause, such as an enlarged prostate gland. UTIs are much commoner in females of every age, often without any identifiable underlying cause. One of the reasons for this is that the female urethra urethra is short, allowing bacteria to gain access to the bladder very easily. In addition, the female urethra is located very close to other potential sources of bacterial infection from the vagina and the anus.
What are the symptoms?
Symptoms of UTIs are wide ranging and include:
• An intense urge to urinate all the time, even though very little urine may be passed.
• Pain, discomfort and a ‘burning’ sensation on urination.
• Urine that looks cloudy, may have traces of blood in it, or has an unusually strong and offensive smell.
• In severe cases of UTI, there may be bedwetting at night, even among adults,
• Fever, and a general feeling of being unwell. There may also be nausea and vomiting, particularly in children.
• Pain in the side or lower back.
How are UTIs diagnosed?
Your GP will make a diagnosis on the basis of your symptoms and will also examine a mid-stream sample of urine which must be collected in a sterile container. This sample may be sent for laboratory analysis to identify the type of bacteria of the urinary tract.
UTIs tend to be more common among pregnant women, and they must be treated promptly to avoid the development of an infection in the kidneys (pyelonephritis) which may have serious consequences.
How are they treated?
Cystitis (inflammation of the bladder) may cause the same symptoms as an infection in the bladder. Inflammation may be treated by increasing the amount of fluid taken and taking medication to reduce the acidity of the urine.
If a definite infection is present or symptoms persist for more than 72 hours, antibiotics may be prescribed. Short courses of antibiotics (three or five days) are usually sufficient to clear an infection from the bladder. It is important to finish the course of antibiotics as prescribed to prevent the development of resistant bacteria.
If the infection has travelled into the kidneys, a longer course of antibiotics will be required and hospitalisation may be required in more severe cases, especially if there is nausea, vomiting and high fever.
Can UTIs be prevented?
Some forms of urinary tract infection can not be prevented, but there are some simple steps which everyone, and particularly women, can take to reduce their risk of contracting this uncomfortable condition. These include:
Drink plenty of fluids each day: Fluids prevent the growth of bacteria because they keep the urinary tract flushed out. All fluids are good, but cranberry juice and other drinks which are very high in Vitamin C have been claimed to be particularly effective in keeping the urine sterile.
Toilet hygiene: after using the toilet, always wipe from front to back to prevent the spread of bacteria (especially E. coli) from the anus to the vaginal area where it can gain quick access to the external opening (the urethra).
Sexual hygiene: Women who are prone to UTIs should always urinate after sexual intercourse to flush out bacteria which may have entered the urethra or bladder. It is also a very good policy to wash the entire area around the genitals and anus before intercourse, and this advice applies to both men and women.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015
the beauty of different
This post is dedicated to Greyson...
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And Parker... everything that matters is.
Below is the talk I would have with my boys when they were old enough to understand, if they didn't have autism... but if they didn't have autism- I never would have know how important it was to have this talk in the first place. Thank you my loves for teaching me what matters.
Have you ever noticed how God made each person so different and unique? He made Daddy really tall, and me really short. And he gave you hair the color of coffee with cream and gave Parker hair that looks like the glowing sun. Jack the dog has a really short nubbin tail and Belle has a long curly one. Each one of us is God's own personal work of art and we are made perfectly, exactly the way we are.
Sometimes people are also the same. Like you and Parker both love cars, swinging and riding in our big red wagon. You both have bright beautiful eyes in a color so pure blue it makes the ocean jealous. The older I get the more I realize that all people are some mixture of the same and different, and we are all God's art.
I want to talk to you about the little boy down the street, Matthew. Matthew is the same as you because he loves swimming, playing outside and watching the movie CARS. What ways have you noticed that Matthew is the same as you?
Matthew is also different from you because he has something called autism. His parents found out when he was two years old because he wasn't yet talking and most kids have learned to talk by the time they turn two. God made Matthew's brain different from yours and mine. He learns differently, plays differently and he isn't able to really speak with his mouth. Matthew goes to a special Teacher called a "Speech Therapist" and he works so hard to hopefully learn to talk one day. Every time you talk to him it helps him understand language better. Even if he doesn't answer, show him things and talk to him. Ask him to play with you. Help protect him from those who are unkind to him. Just like I hope your friends do for you- we all need people to love and help us.
Even though Matthew can't talk with his mouth, he can talk with his eyes and his whole body. When he is happy his eyes shine, he flaps his hands and he jumps up and down over and over again. When he is sad or frustrated he cries or screams or falls onto the ground. Could you imagine how hard it would be to not be able to tell me what you want or need? How would you communicate if you couldn't use any words?
One of the most important things I want you to learn is that different isn't bad or weird. We all have things that we are good at and things that we need help with. We all have things that we are supposed to teach others, and things that we are supposed to learn from them too. Some people are good at math and some people struggle with it. Some people are good at sports while others may be good at art. No one is good or bad at all the things.
Some people get around with a wheel chair and some people use their legs to walk. Some people look big and some people look small. Anytime you have any questions about people that look different from you, you can ask me. Ask me anything. All our life we will be meeting new people- some that are the same as us, and some that are different. Once we really get to know another person we often realize that we are all more the same than different. One thing you always need to understand, is that even though Matthew is a little different than you and can't talk, he still has feelings and has a heart and wants to be loved and cared about just like you do. In that ways we are ALL the same.
1. Love this and I can't wait to share it with my boys to answer all of their questions!! Love you!!
2. I totally love this. I will be using this for my daughter who is help her understand her brother who is going to be 4. She is picking up more and more that her brother is different, and asking more questions so I know that time will be soon.
Thank you.
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What is meta?
When referring to tricks, what do people mean when they say meta?
I believe it is in the sense like meta-physical. It is there without being there.
So in this trick you see there is slack but it’s not like loose slack from a jade whip. It is a controlled slack. making it meta
Please somebody correct me cuz I’ve been curious myself and this is the best I got.
Nope, it means meta as in “metagame”, meta tricks are tricks that score well that many people use in competition
So I don’t think this is correct but I think it captures the meaning quite well.
While I don’t believe that Meta is an acronym, people explain M.E.T.A. as Most Effective Tactic Available (think it’s a video gaming term).
It’s basically what works best in the situation regardless of what people wish would work.
So in a yoyo contest context, given the primary objective is to win, and to win you need to score well, Meta tricks in this regard is a set of tricks that scores highly in the most effective way, high scoring tricks in less moves that takes up little time are meta tricks and you usually see common meta tricks across competitors to tally up some points quickly.
At least this is my understanding of “What is meta”
You’ll see very common motifs among competition tricks. You will see “meta” tricks such as the common rail speed combo, laceration/hook combo, the default front-style combo that you can see almost everywhere are all some examples of what I would think of as Meta tricks.
In regards to a trick that is not meta, you can look at Paul Kerbel’s fingerspin hop trick in this video. Without a doubt an extremely cool trick, but it gets almost no points in competition due to the current set of rules that determines what gets you clicks.
Think of it as “most effective tactic available”
There are the rules (the game) and the meta game (how you best use the rules to win)
Example: The emergence of the reliance on 3-point shot in basketball. If your 3-point accuracy is at least 66.6% of what your 2-point shot accuracy is, your expected return will be higher with 3s
In yoyo competition, that’s balancing tricks that score the most points with tricks that may score less, but can be performed more quickly, to optimize points per minute. (Or risk of failure) Since there’s that technical component there, the path to winning can be argued to be being the best at the rules (technicality) as opposed to being the best in spirit / artistic.
I’m so glad OP asked cuz I just learned a lot!
yeah! wow, that was an extremely diversified group of answers. thank you for clarifying, it seems
I wasn’t the only person who was confused.
yeah Min’s answer was spot on, it means Most Effective Tactic Available (mostly used in gaming) and it is all the tricks that score the best (depending on the rules) watch any Bergy freestyle and you will know what tricks it refers to lol
By the way that was Jake Waugh, the current reigning Scales International Amateur champion.
@JWaugh also is very familiar with yoyo contest judging from the other side of the table.
So there we go, that is about as definitive as it gets :grin:
Interesting to read this. In my past CCG life, meta referred to the “metagame,” which was basically the mainstream deck landscape. So, I always took meta to mean the “mainstream” in this community as well (“meta” tricks/elements being those that everyone is doing). Fascinating to read the different takes on it.
I’ve witnessed it’s multi meanings actually applying well within the same conversation or even statements.
Sometimes I know it’s a sign of my getting older that I’m not with the terms. I heard POG said so many times this weekend that I had to have my nephews explain it to me.Yarr! It’s driving me nuts. :wink:
Interesting enough, that description still sort of works because meta tricks score really well, hence the m.e.t.a acronym tossed around above, so many people do them because they help their routines, therefore becoming fairly mainstream tricks or combos. This connection fails at spots where you have top level professionals making their own unique tricks that are also super dense on clicks, but in general I think your description makes sense! | <urn:uuid:790209a1-f51b-4d81-a118-b2e28003339c> | https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-meta/327125 | en | 0.959881 | 0.73202 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Strikes: TV and radio disruption
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Strike action by the Icelandic Association of Electrical Industry Workers (RSÍ) will disrupt and cut back news and programming on both television and radio.
According the Icelandic national broadcaster, RÚV, the disruption will affect the whole country for a period of six days, 10-16 June.
RÚV, who is not directly able to negotiate with RSÍ members, applied initially for exemptions from strike action in order to discharge its public-service responsibilities.
Exemptions were sought to safeguard the broadcaster’s public-safety announcements, news service and minimum programming. RÚV also applied to RSÍ to protect transmission of various important sports events, awards ceremonies, concerts and religious ceremonies.
Most of these requests have been rejected. RÚV has asked RSÍ to reconsider.
“RÚV will make every effort to function as best it can as far as circumstances allow,” reads the broadcaster’s statement.
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Deciphering Knitting Charts
Are you a text or chart person? I’m more of a text person when it comes to reading pattern instructions, but charts are a convenient way to follow colourwork, lace, cable, and other complex stitch patterns. Charts take up less space on the page than row after row of text. Because a chart resembles the actual look of a pattern, it aids in visualizing unfamiliar stitches, and helps to keep track of a complicated pattern.
Chart Language
Knitting instructions are represented by symbols in charts. Symbols replace text and abbreviations and chart the pattern stitch visually. Although symbols are universal, they are not standardized. Some reference books list common symbols, but I find that these vary greatly between sources. The following symbols seem to be the most consistent among references.
common chart symbols
Charts are used for colour knitting, for textured patterns including combinations of knit and purl stitches, lace, and cables. The following are characteristics common to all charts. Charts used in pattern instructions contain a key for the symbols. All charts are read in a similar manner. Each row of symbols in a chart represents the appearance of the stitch pattern on the right side of the fabric. Each square represents a stitch or coloured stitch, and each line of squares represents a row. A chart is read from bottom to top, starting at the lower right hand corner. When knitting back and forth, the right side or odd numbered rows are read from right to left, and the wrong side or even numbered rows, from left to right. Rows are numbered to either side of a chart, and the odd numbers are usually written on the right side of chart. The even numbered rows are usually on the left side of chart. There are rare exceptions; if the odd numbers are on the left side of chart they represent wrong side rows.
The multiple or pattern repeat is enclosed by heavy parallel lines; the equivalent of the asterisk (*) in written instructions. Sizes are also indicated with solid lines. This ensures that the motifs, colours, and stitch patterns are centered for each size. You want to start and end as indicated by these lines.
No adjustment to charts is needed for circular knitting, because a chart represents each stitch as viewed from the right side, so read charts from right to left on every round. To make knitting easier, some circular knitting charts write all the row numbers on the right side of the chart.
Colourwork Charts
Colourwork charts are easy to read and provide a visual guide as to the placement of motifs. Colourwork patterns are charted on square graph paper or knitters graph paper. The advantage of using knitters graph paper is the grid is proportionate to the gauge, so the finished pattern looks the same in the knitted piece. The motifs look slightly elongated on regular graph paper.
The colours are coded as symbols or shaded colours in a chart, with a key as to what each represents. Unless otherwise indicated, colour charts are worked in stockinette stitch. A blank square usually represents the main colour. Repeat lines are used to show the stitch count for a “motif”. You can think of repeat lines the same as in written instructions; “rep from * or rep between *’s or [ ]”. Knit each colour as indicated in the chart, or work large areas of colour, then go back and work small areas of colour in duplicate stitch. This is a good method to use with argyle patterns. The long narrow lines dividing the diamonds are easily worked in duplicate stitch, rather than adding small bits of colour that need to be woven in.
example of colour chart in knitting
Cable Charts
Cable charts are trickier to read, but the basics remain the same as described above. Cable symbols cover the total number of squares (stitches) in the chart that are required to make the cable. The lines slant in the direction of the cable (right or left). The simple chart below contains a 4-stitch cable that slants to the left, and is made as follows: slip next 2 stitches to cable needle and hold to front of work, knit 2, knit 2 from cable needle. Most cable charts describe how to make each type of cable.
example of cable knitting chart
When circular knitting cable patterns, every round of a cable chart is read from right to left. Remember that most stitch patterns in a round will consist of a full repeat; there are no extra stitches outside of the repeat or multiple.
Lace Charts
I find lace charts the most difficult to read, and the instructions for them may only contain charts, particularly projects using fine yarns. Lace charts are read the same, and utilize repeat lines as for the other types of charts. In addition, lace charts may use a no-stitch symbol to keep the pattern aligned, and makes it easier to read. No-stitch symbols are not worked, you just skip them and work the other symbols as indicated. They show that one row of a lace pattern has fewer stitches than another.
For large lace projects like shawls, placing markers between repeats (this works for cables as well) will allow you to follow the chart for the number of stitches within each block between the markers. This also prevents you from losing your place.
example of lace knitting chart
More Tips
Sometimes you may want to enlarge charts with a photocopier for easier reading. You may also find it easier to mark your chart rows with a highlighter as you finish each row, or simply use a ruler with a magnetic board. Some pattern instructions consist of multiple charts. I often write the chart row numbers on a separate piece of paper, checking off each completed row, and at the same time use a row counter to count total rows. Organize this according to what works best for you. It is also important to work the stitches of all charts in the correct order across a row. Markers are useful, marking each group of stitches or repeats. Ideally you should finish a chart row or round before putting your project away.
Charts can be intimidating to read, but they are a practical and convenient way to follow complex stitch patterns. Regardless of the pattern stitch and symbols used, the majority of charts are read in a similar fashion. Carefully read the symbol key and make notes as needed. Go ahead and try a chart!
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1. ReginaMary says:
For colorwork and cables, I’m a chart gal, for lace, I am inclined to be more successful with a written pattern. Go figure!
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Reminder: Airbnb lets hosts put cameras inside your rental
Reminder: Airbnb lets hosts put cameras inside your rental
Yes, Airbnb is totally cool with hosts placing video cameras inside their rentals. And yes, it's creepy as hell.
The issue of hidden cameras in Airbnbs is once again back in the news this week, after a family traveling through Ireland discovered a camera disguised as some sort of smoke detector in their rental. And while, according to CNN, Airbnb eventually sided with the family, the latest privacy-violating incident forces us to confront a larger structural issue sure to turn off many a renter: Airbnb policy permits hosts to put recording devices inside of their units.
You read that correctly. There is no explicit Airbnb ban on hosts recording guests inside of the rented house or apartment in question. Airbnb does have rules governing the practice, but they shouldn't necessarily put you at ease.
For starters, Airbnb's policy on cameras states that a host must "disclose all surveillance devices in their listings," and that hosts are required to "disclose if an active recording is taking place."
A good start, right? Well, maybe. When reached for comment, an Airbnb spokesperson provided the below screenshot of a real listing that the company says properly discloses surveillance devices.
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The disclosure, buried at the bottom of the listing, is troublingly vague.
"Surveillance or recording devices on property," it warns. "For added peace of mind, we have security cameras by gate entrance and common areas."
Just what, exactly, is a common area? An outside back patio? The front hallway? A living room? It's not clear. It would be all too easy for a renter to either overlook the disclosure, or misread it and think it applied to something like a back deck.
We followed up with Airbnb for clarification, and a spokesperson replied that the above disclosure applies to the "property in general." In other words, yeah, that's all the warning you're going to get if there's a camera inside the rental.
There is another important restriction that Airbnb puts on cameras inside of rentals, but this, too, shouldn't completely assuage your concerns. The aforementioned policy states that the company "[prohibits] any surveillance devices that are in or that observe the interior of certain private spaces (such as bedrooms and bathrooms) regardless of whether they’ve been disclosed."
However, that implicitly allows for hosts to put cameras in places — like living rooms or kitchens, perhaps — that Airbnb doesn't consider to be "certain private spaces."
Essentially, you stumbling to the bathroom at 2 a.m. in a state of undress could be fair game for recording, as long as you have to pass through the living room to get there. You would be forgiven for finding that unsettling.
It's worth emphasizing again that, yes, Airbnb does ban hidden cameras, undisclosed recording devices of any kind, and cameras inside of bedrooms or bathrooms. But that really isn't enough. As demonstrated by the Airbnb-provided example of a listing abiding by the rules, guests are still forced to navigate some serious gray areas when it comes to their privacy. And that's not OK.
Making disclosures more prominent, and requiring hosts to specify the exact location and type of recording devices inside of a home, would go part of the way toward addressing the issue. But only part of the way. Banning interior recording devices completely is the only true policy that would assure guests that a host isn't watching their almost every move — all with Airbnb's tacit approval. | <urn:uuid:0767bce7-ce07-4081-859f-1f63fb5ce3cf> | https://me.mashable.com/tech/3811/reminder-airbnb-lets-hosts-put-cameras-inside-your-rental | en | 0.953295 | 0.026912 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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New MRI study assesses myelin and iron as biomarkers in the brain
A new computational tissue model from Dr. Alex Rauscher and his team has enabled the researchers to quantify brain myelin and iron from MRI scans, offering new clues as to the role of myelin and iron in tissue damage and disease progression in multiple sclerosis (MS). Published recently in the journal NMR Biomedicine, their paper reveals a difference in brain iron between people with MS, their healthy siblings, and unrelated controls.
MS is an autoimmune disease that occurs when the body’s immune system attacks myelin, the fatty material that insulates neurons and enables rapid transmission of electrical signals. When myelin is damaged, communication between the brain and other parts of the body is disrupted, leading to vision problems, muscle weakness, difficulty with balance and coordination, and cognitive changes.
“Iron is necessary for the production of myelin,” Dr. Rauscher explains. “Myelin-producing cells—known as oligodendrocytes—contain the highest concentration of iron in the brain.”
When these cells die, both myelin and iron in the brain are lost, making these two substances potential imaging markers for MS progression. However, in MRI, myelin and iron produce a very similar effect on the imaging signal, making it very difficult to quantify the two substances.
Knowing that the effects of myelin on the MRI signal depend on the angle between the tissue and the MRI scanner’s magnetic field—a phenomenon known as “orientation effect”—Dr. Rauscher and his team, including graduate students Jon Doucette and Daniel Kor, developed a computational model of the signal that takes iron, myelin and tissue orientation into account. As a result, they are now able to quantify myelin and iron with MRI. Applying the technique to patients with MS, healthy siblings of patients, and unrelated controls, they found loss in myelin and iron in the MS group (as expected). In the healthy siblings, who have an increased risk of MS, they found that iron is increased compared to the unrelated healthy controls.
“The orientation effect is essential for determining iron and myelin content,” explained Dr. Rauscher. “Without the orientation effect, we wouldn't be able to separate the influence of the two substances on the MRI signal. Our ability to measure both could be an avenue to a new marker for disease progression in MS. Such marker would be extremely valuable for treatment trials in progressive MS.”
Dr. Rauscher’s work has wider implications: myelination occurs rapidly during early brain development, and quantifying early myelination may allow the prediction of developmental milestones in babies born preterm.
“We hope that in understanding how myelin changes across the lifespan, we can understand how it changes in the context of diseases such as MS,” said Dr. Rauscher. “The more we can predict changes in the brain based on imaging data, the more we can simplify and reduce the cost of clinical trials and intervene sooner in the disease course.”
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Bone Grafting and Dental Implants
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Orthognathic Surgery: Meet KP. He had a dental malocclusion that could not be treated with braces alone. Orthognathic surgery involves our doctors to perform surgery at the skeletal level to help align the jaws and teeth. We are grateful that KP is sharing his story with you.
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