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theorem 2
to find the surface area of a Regular Triangle multiply one of the sides triangle by itself and divide the answer by 2.3093
a theorem is a statement which can be demonstrated Mathematically
there are at least two types of theorems
Time theorems
eternal theorems
an example of an eternal theorem is...
the area of a regular triangle is found by multiplying any one of the sides of the triangle by itself and then divide the answer by 2.3093
10 centimetres times 10 centimetres equals 100 squared centimetres
(to square a number is to multiply it by itself )
100 squared centimetres divided by 2.3093 equals 43.3 square centimetres
the example above is for a two-Dimensional triangle
it can be applied to
infinite dimensions...
10 centimetres multiplied by 10 centimetres multiplied by 3 equals 300 squared centimetres
300 square centimetres divided by 2.3093 equals 129.9 square centimetres
so in a square box that is 10 centimetres high and 10 centimetres deep and 10 centimetres wide you can put 129 boxes that are 1 centimetre high 1 centimetre deep and 1 centimetre wide
this next example is for a
four-dimensional box
(to see what a four dimensional box looks like see the first two objects below this writing)
ten centimetres multiplied by ten centimetres equals one hundred square centimetres
one hundred square centimetres multiplied by four equals four hundred square centimetres
four hundred square centimetres divided by 2.3093 equals 173.2 square centimetres
which means you can put one hundred and seventy three boxes that measure one centimetre by one centimetre by one centimetre in it
using the same formula for five dimensions it comes to 216.5 square centimetres
two hundred and sixteen boxes
note that there is an increase in the volume of space for each new dimension and that the increase is exponential
(gets larger at a faster rate)
which means there would be enough space in the millionth-dimension to fit in a million universes like ours!
(see also Calculus)
thinking about this exponential characteristic will give you a mind-blowing insight into the expansive, endless nature of Space
the above theorem is an eternal truth
it existed before god existed
Bell's theorem of Interconnectedness
Poincares recurrence theorem
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Closings & Delays
FOX43 Finds Out: Cable Bill Confusion
Mary Baer of Shrewsbury says her cable bill has doubled since last year and now she says she feels stuck in a contract she didn't even know she signed.
FOX43 Finds Out what you need to know before signing or hitting accept.
Bear says her family only watches a handful of channels.
When she stopped getting some of those channels last year, she called Comcast.
At the time, she was told she needed to buy a new cable package.
"That went from $68 I think to $90," she said.
She paid the $90 for about a year.
Then her latest bill went up again, to $122.64.
She says she called Comcast and was told she's in a two-year contract.
Her bill will likely keep getting more expensive under her current cable package.
"They said it was going to go to $148 next year. At what point does it stop?"
Baer says she had no idea she was in a contract with Comcast.
Though she does remembering accepting something while on the phone with the company.
"They sent me something over my cell phone to push something with 'I agree to this.' But I asked them the amount of money it would go up and they couldn`t really tell me how much it would go up."
What Comcast spokesperson says what was sent to Baer's phone is essentially a contract.
It's something people need to read over and make sure is correct, before hitting accept.
FOX43 finds out did reach out to Comcast about Baer's situation.
We were sent a statement from Robert Grove, VP Communications, Comcast Keystone Region that reads:
“Comcast has worked to simplify our billing process and make it easier for customers to understand what they’re paying for. This includes simpler pricing, a statement with fewer line items and a consent process that all customers use, as did this customer, to verify they agree with the package structure. Comcast data customers do have the ability to use their own routers and can obtain information about compatible devices at”
Baer says she knows for next time that she won't be entering any contract.
FOX43 Finds Out gets a lot of emails from people complaining about the high cost of cable bills.
Here are a couple of things you can do to at least knock a few dollars off your next bill.
1. Buy your own internet router.
On your bill you may see a rental fee for the router.
Your cable company can 'rent' that to you for a fee.
If you buy your own, you can save about $10 a month.
2. if you buy a new cable package from you can sign up for those cash back websites like Ebates.
Some of those packages can give you more than $65 cash back.
3. You can always try calling the cable company and asking for a discount.
Send her a message on Facebook or email
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El Planeta Op-Ed Gets Today’s #NoMames for Calling Gómez a “Latino in Name Only” (LINO)
Jun 3, 2013
5:26 pm
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak a the Commonwealth Compact’s diversity breakfast at UMASS Boston. One of the questions I addressed was about a Boston Globe op-ed piece I wrote saying that Massachusetts Republican candidate for Senate Gabriel Gómez was being ignored by the national GOP even though he was an appealing Latino candidate. At the breakfast, I made the point that Gómez’s win as the first Latino to every triumph in a statewide primary was historic for Massachusetts politics. Given the ugly racial history Boston has had, people who believe in diversity needed to put aside their political difference aside for just a moment and celebrate the fact that Gómez’s primary win was a step forward in rebranding Massachusetts when it comes to presenting a state that values diversity and opportunity for all.
Personally, I don’t think I will support Gómez just because he is Latino, but I do believe that what he accomplished this year mattered, and that is was a positive sign for my adopted home state.
I guess Jerry Villacrés of Boston’s El Planeta newspaper still wants to live in the past. Today, Villacrés wrote an op-ed in Spanish calling Gómez a Latino in Name Only, a LINO. It was a silly column, one that does nothing to portray Latinos in a positive light, and Villacrés should be ashamed for questioning Gómez’s background and his identity.
Villacrés has every right to claim that Gómez is an outsider to the Latino community and question his politics, but he went too far in the “Latino enough” characterization that belittles the Republican candidate. Would Villacrés have the courage to say the same thing to Gómez’s face or to Gómez’s parents, Colombian immigrants who saw their son become a Navy Seal and a successful businessman? Or what of the fact that Gómez does not have to fit a Latino checklist that others get to determine? No one, and I mean no one, has the right to say that one person is “more Latino” than another. And you wonder why U.S. Latinos will never become a true force in this country: it’s because writers like Villacrés are still stuck in a past era.
What Villacrés writes only divides the community instead of unites us. Yes, Latinos can have different political beliefs, but let’s not forget that there are many things bind us culturally, and Gabriel Gómez is just another diverse voice. He is someone who has broken stereotypes, too. We can still be respectful of someone’s background and still be critical of one’s politics. For example, I don’t think Ted Cruz’s politics are on the mark one bit, but I would never question his family background and his self-identity. The same would go for Marco Rubio or Julián Castro.
I can’t fault Gómez for trying to go after the Latino vote in Massachusetts and if his Colombian roots make him appealing to some, then people should just deal with it instead of cutting him down. Does Villacrés ask the same question of Ed Markey, Gómez’s opponent? Why even create an atmosphere where one Latino goes after another’s Latinidad? Only Gómez can determine his identity, having a writer stoop to such a low level is sad and closed-minded.
Criticize a candidate for his politics, but leave unfounded generalizations about his identity for the amateurs. Villacrés has fallen into a trap that only he can try to defend, because his piece just failed. We can do better as a community. We can still respect people, even if we don’t agree with their politics.
If Villacrés is not careful, I might just vote for Gómez. Does that make me less Latino as well?
Julio (Julito) Ricardo Varela (@julito77 on Twitter) founded LatinoRebels.com (part of Latino Rebels, LLC) in May, 2011 and proceeded to open it up to about 20 like-minded Rebeldes. His personal blog, juliorvarela.com, has been active since 2008 and is widely read in Puerto Rico and beyond. He pens columns on LR regularly. This past year, Julito represented the Rebeldes on CBS’ Face the NationNPR, UnivisionForbesand The New York Times. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '57', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.957824409008026}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '106960', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:3Q2HGE6ZK2INVPTQDWQ6C442NPBB25GV', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:cbb42e74-bdcc-44d4-93f4-04adb44d6499>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 16, 22, 12, 26), 'WARC-IP-Address': '45.33.82.74', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:WPY2J6R3YBELGT52M6SV42RMZEHNHRV5', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:9127793b-a0db-4db0-a918-942b4168110f>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.latinorebels.com/2013/06/03/el-planeta-op-ed-gets-todays-nomames-for-calling-gomez-a-latino-in-name-only-lino/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:93b9f7d5-5c85-4e0b-bf6f-74da6fc9cabc>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '690', 'url': 'https://www.latinorebels.com/2013/06/03/el-planeta-op-ed-gets-todays-nomames-for-calling-gomez-a-latino-in-name-only-lino/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-09\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for February 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-101-220-24.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.061964213848114014', 'original_id': '8c31a51dc9e410a50ccda922ed0f8610faa6475c151649eb5776f37a38a88999'} |
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Milestones in Computer Algebra (MICA 2016)
Special Issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation for MICA 2016
Following the success of the Milestones in Computer Algebra (MICA 2016) workshop, as well as the discussions and developments afterwards, we are pleased to announce a special issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation. We are soliciting papers for a special issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation on the theme of the conference.
Extended Deadline for submission: July 1, 2018
Click here for more details.
Rooted in the boundary area between mathematics and computer science, computer algebra has evolved as a lively independent discipline and significantly influenced the research in many scientific fields.
This workshop surveys some major achievements of computer algebra and its connections to related scientific areas. Key focuses include both classical and emerging sub-disciplines of computer algebra, such as hybrid symbolic-numeric computation, exact linear algebra, algebraic complexity, polynomial factorization, and sparse interpolation. Besides presenting the latest results, the proposed workshop will assess these achievements and their impacts to other domains, in the hope of identifying promising future research directions.
We will take this occasion to acknowledge Erich Kaltofen's research accomplishments in computer algebra. Besides his many scientific contributions to computer algebra, number theory, and software systems, he has played a crucial role in the formation and development of many of the key emerging sub-disciplines represented here. Several of Kaltofen's key collaborators on these topics will present related results at this meeting.
We invite submissions of abstracts for contributed talks and posters for MICA 2016. We solicit talks on recent research or surveys of the historical development of sub-areas, with a preference to topics connected to Erich Kaltofen's life-long research interests. We also encourage submissions from all areas of computer algebra and related scientific fields.
Contributed talks are scheduled for 25 minute timeslots: 20 minutes are for each talk plus 5 minutes for questions. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'f9bee17395d6bcfb6e234d15748febd47503f51c7d57e6309781eeaee0f90ad5'} |
Dairy sounds
If you're trying to solve the Newsday crossword and you got stuck on the clue Dairy sounds then you're in the right place! We've been working hard on this Newsday crossword puzzle, and after gathering all of the other hints and relevant information concerning the clue Dairy sounds we've finally found the answer. The answer we found for the clue Dairy sounds is:
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The answer has 4 letters: MOOS
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Kensington area guide
The best restaurants, bars, shops and events in Kensington
Is Kensington the new North Melbourne? It’s a fair call, seeing as this little pocket of northside suburbia is gaining more restaurants, small-scale breweries and property-hunting 30-somethings by the second. Bordered by North Melbourne and the virtually indistinguishable suburb of Flemington, Kensington has northwest charm in spades: there are wide, tree-lined streets, plenty of public transport (the Craigieburn train line and the 57 tram run right through it) and green spaces aplenty. Whether you’re on the lookout for a cheerful breakfast joint, a new walking track or the best African food outside Footscray, Kenso’s the place.
Looking for more fun in the west? Check out our guides to Footscray and Yarraville while you're here.
The best restaurants in Kensington
Restaurants
The Abyssinian
While Footscray is known for its African food, if you head a little closer towards the city to the Abyssinian for your dose of injera bread, you won't be...
Restaurants
Crumbs Organic Bakehouse
Melbourne's organic community can rest easy at Crumbs, where anything from bread, doughnuts, muffins and pastries are made with care and precision by Crumbs'...
Restaurants
The Premises
This warm and bustling Kensington café is crammed inside and out most mornings with locals taking advantage of The Premises' consistently excellent coffee... | mini_pile | {'original_id': '65c36306b6e2652e93bdaacac981add3dc5080e6e7b5be239203ae56aba01afe'} |
Driving tests
• Counterbalance
• Reach truck
• Walkie and electric-powered hand truck
• Side loader
• Order picker and narrow aisle forklift
• Off-road forklift
These can further be broken down into the fuel type used (electric, diesel, LPG or hydrogen) and the types of tyres (solid or pneumatic).
You also have different attachments that can be used, too – for example, you might have an electric truck for inside the warehouse which uses a bale clamp, but a general purpose diesel counterbalance for the yard which uses forks and a gib lifter.
Each type of truck has its own configuration, controls layout, characteristics, load rating, steering method and sensitivity, pre-start check and shut down process. Each one will also be a different dimension to the others. Therefore, jumping out of one forklift and into another can take some adjustment time.
Documentation about the forklift will help and this is in the form of the O&M (Operation and Maintenance) manual. If you are privately buying a second-hand forklift then try to source the manual online if it’s not available.
How much do you need to train?
The theory behind how all forklifts work is the same, so the forklift operator’s certificate theory modules will cover everything that they need to know about safe operation. However, operators must be inducted and trained on the specific operating processes of each forklift as well as any requirements that your company has. For example, manual pallet jacks and electric-powered pallet jacks have some specific knowledge that is required before use.
If you have two slightly different models of the same brand, it may only be necessary to point out the differences, but if a newly acquired forklift is significantly different it pays to get the manufacturer in to train one or more of your team who can then induct and train other users. However, the difference between an off-road forklift and a reach truck is significant; you would be expected to provide more detailed training on this equipment and ensure that the operator is competent.
WorkSafe says:
You must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, those who carry out work of any kind, use plant of any kind, or deal with a substance of any kind that is capable of causing a risk in a workplace:
• either have adequate knowledge or experience of similar work so they are not likely to cause harm to themselves or other people or are supervised by someone who has the relevant knowledge and experience, and
• are adequately trained in the safe use of all plant, objects, substances, or equipment the workers are or may be required to handle, as well as all personal protective equipment (PPE) that the workers are or may be required to wear or use
You are not required by WorkSafe to keep training records but it is a good idea to document everything you do in case you need to prove that an operator has had induction and training on a specific piece of equipment.
driver training courses
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Thursday, March 06, 2008
Interview on The Economy
Got an interview request from U.S. News and World Report. The ping was that they needed some juicy quotes about how the recession is affecting us and our clients.
I said I can't talk about that. See We're not having a recession!
I said I could discuss recession-proofing strategies.
The reporter was interested.
So yesterday we did a half hour interview.
But try as I may, he wanted to find an angle of pain.
If he has already decided what the "story" is, he won't use my quotes. :-) But maybe he'll use me for a little balance.
I don't understand why the media want to talk us all into a recession. This morning I turned on CNBC. What's the story? Target same-store sales are up. Walmart same-store sales are way up!!! Walmart's dividend is 95 cents a share. That's huge.
And how is this presented? "Well, maybe Wal-mart isn't an indicator of how this sector is going."
I hereby declare that the recession is over.
Avoid putting your money in home-building and mortgage stocks.
Other than that, just get back to doing what you do for a living.
Do your job extremely well.
And turn off the news.
1. Anonymous7:42 AM
Hear hear!
2. Are saying a down quarter and a couple slow sectors doesn't mean I should liquidate all stocks and buy gold? Phew!
3. Well said.
"What you focus on, gets magnified."
If you focus on recession, you get recession. If you focus on growth, you get growth.
Simply highlights that mass media agendas need to be ruthlessly ignored.
4. Anonymous1:39 PM
"The National Bureau of Economic Research declares what most Americans already knew: the downturn has been going on for some time."
5. Ugh. Okay.
So, Anon: I hope you realize you just posted your comment on a posting from March (9 months ago).
The slowdown has been going on for some time. A slowdown is not a recession. A recession is two or more quarters of negative growth.
We're in the 12th month of a slowdown and the second quarter of a recession. We have officially been in a recession for two days!
6. Anonymous1:48 PM
Actually, the article says that we've been in a recession since December of 2007. It doesn't call it a 'slowdown', it calls it a 'recession'.
7. Well, that would be incorrect. I'm not responsible for what other people print, even if they have billion dollar corporations behind them.
I don't make the rules or definitions.
8. Anonymous2:12 PM
Don't worry:
Anything that went wrong after Bush's inauguration: Clinton's fault
Anything that goes wrong in the end days of the Bush administration: Obama's fault
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OMAHA, Neb. -- -
The Virginia Cavaliers open the final series against Vanderbilt on Monday night.
Some families have called Omaha home for nearly two weeks.
The journey from Charlottesville to Omaha is 1,186 miles. The Cavaliers have some accommodations at the four-star Hilton. But their parents, not so much. They are four miles away in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Thirteen RVs make up Hooville as pitcher Brandon Waddell's dad, Chuck, serves as Mayor of this makeshift village in the parking lot of the Horseshoe Casino.
“We've been together now for almost two years being that my son is a second year,” Chuck Waddell said. “These parents have all been together and we decided we wanted to stay together especially for this experience. So we were able to put together these RVs and have a great time out here. It's been an adventure every single day.”
Joe McCarthy said: “Our Kids are best friends and I think that's such a big part of why they're doing so well is we all get along.”
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Activists: Syrian Government Air Strike Kills 21 in Northern Town
• VOA News
A suicide attacker detonates a car bomb at a Syrian security compound in a remote, predominantly Kurdish area, killing at least four people, Sept. 30, 2012.
Syrian rights activists say government warplanes have bombed a northern town near the Turkish border, killing 21 people, as heavy fighting spread within the old city of Aleppo, Syria's commercial capital.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the death toll from Monday's air strike in Salqin included eight children. In a video released by activists from the town, a number of the victims are seen piled in the back of a pickup truck.
Another activist group, the Local Coordination Committees, said the government warplanes killed 30 people. There was no independent confirmation of the casualties because Syria restricts reporting by international journalists.
The Observatory said nationwide fighting between government and rebel forces Monday killed at least 100 people, including 18 security personnel caught in a rebel ambush in the central province of Homs.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon complained about the Syrian government's role in the conflict in a meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem on the sidelines of the General Assembly in New York.
A U.N. spokesman said Mr. Ban raised the issue of "continued killings, massive destruction, human rights abuses, and aerial and artillery attacks committed by the government." The spokesman said the U.N. chief appealed to Moualem for the Syrian government to "show compassion to its own people."
During a speech to the General Assembly, Moualem accused the United States, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey of supporting "terrorism" in Syria by providing arms and money. He also characterized calls for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down as "blatant interference" in Syrian domestic affairs.
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UNESCO designated Aleppo's Old City as a World Heritage Site in 1986. UNESCO Director-General Irinia Bokova said the Syrian conflict is "destroying cultural heritage that bears witness to the country's millinary history, valued and admired the world over."
Mokhtar Lamani, who represents special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi in the Syrian capital, also pointed to "huge fragmentation" within Syrian society, which he said contributes to a high level of mistrust. He said "many elements that have nothing to do with Syria" are taking advantage of the situation.
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i almost ran over a peacock today.
i was driving home from the coffee shop today (okay, starbucks {but doesn't it sound more glamorous if i say the coffee shop}) and there on one of the backstreets of my neighborhood was a gorgeous male peacock. feathers all ablaze and aglow.
i cursed myself for not having my camera in my purse just about the same time i slammed on the brakes (okay, okay, i didn't slam, i'm a pretty good {read: careful} driver so i saw it far enough in advance, but the story is better if slamming occurs).
i'd not ever seen a peacock in the neighborhood before.
yes, when i was in fourth grade there were those two that lived several neighborhoods over and we used to drive in search of them after school. and then there was that one school in dallas that seemed to have several that would mill about campus. but none before had been spotted in mine OWN neighborhood.
this must be a very good sign.
god it's good to be home.
{this post brought to you with much love by what now appears to be a brain made of something akin to mush.}
city girl said...
Ohhhh, when you said you went home yesterday I thought you meant back here to the city. Then I read this and knew it couldn't be, haha! Enjoy your time in your "real" home!
MandyJean said...
I didnn't even know you could legally own a peacock as a pet! Haha this is to funny!
wilybrunette said...
i don't think they are owned by anyone. i think they're wild.
denise said...
My dad still has a bunch of peacocks - even white ones. I grew up with them on our farm made up of random animals.
I am glad you're home and the peacocks didn't turn into road kill. ;)
J. said...
They've got peacocks running loose in the zoo here... got chased by an aggressive one a couple of years ago. XD
Nikki and Collin said...
that's really cute. I'm glad you didn't really run him over.
Becca said...
Oh my gosh how hilarious is your title!
I actually saw your blog on another blogroll and had to click over, with a title like that.
You made me laugh out loud, and look stupid IN A COFFEE SHOP!
Ha ha ha ha I just love you :)
Paige said...
oooooh that was MY school in Dallas! Greenhill! That was such a great addition to the campus.
But my, how fantastic you saw one wandering around on it's own...I've never seen one outside Greenhill (or the zoo)
wilybrunette said...
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How Not To Argue
No, Steve, the Unabomber Wasn’t “Right”
The Silence of the Krugman-ites
Of Mr Sanders “Blank Tweet”
Naked Bigotry is Instructive
Of Mr Matthews and the Wolf
Will the Liberal (anti-Trump) Bubble Ever Snap
Take that as point one.
How Not to Report News
• It’s a charity and international donors have contributed.
Reliability and the New York Times
Exploding Heads or Heads in Sand?
In the Past Week or So …
Which Is Worse?
Item 1. Judicial malpractice, some judge thinks Mr Trump can be “held liable” for incitement to violence. Not surprisingly the rhetoric cited is mild at best when compared to the former President and his cabinet. This post, same theme (bad judges) notes the “living Constitution crap-on-a-stick” and some likely consequences. Apparently as Mr Obama trampled on Constitutional protections as he was President (example not enforcing laws that didn’t suit him and his many questionable “executive orders”) those who thought his actions OK didn’t think that a President could be elected and use these same standards towards ends they didn’t actually agree with.
Item 2. This essay (missing the point slightly) … in which “aiming at the intelligence community” for allowing itself to be used to partisan ends “weakens the intelligence community”. Duh. And using the IRS for partisan ends does too, or should I say … the IRS allowing itself to be co-opted for partisan uses weakens it.
Item 3. This little snippet of a “reveal” by the left misses the point I think. And I’m not going to pretend this ass-hattery isn’t done on both sides of the aisle. Look. When you know something isn’t true or without basis and you are in position of influence then it is immoral and highly dishonest to push that lie for short term political gain. If you do that you lack integrity. If lacking integrity is common … then we’re screwed.
So. Which of these three items will do the most harm? The judiciary overstripping overstepping its bounds? Partisan corruption of essential government services and agencies? Or the loss of integrity being touted as a virtue?
Slightly related question. I searched but found no responses or hits on search terms. There are about a dozen to 20 (not including former Senators like Mr Obama and Ms Clinton) who voted unanimously for Mr Gorsuch for the federal bench. I have seen no answer to the question of why they all voted for him before but won’t now.
Opportunity is Knocking
Some young journalist who’s idealogy is less important to him/her than ambition could make a lot of money right now. There is a market opportunity in journalism for someone who will report unbiased news. Rignt now the mainstream journalists have sold themselves out for (mostly) the left slanting news, biasing news, distorting news for idealogical reasons. The few media outlets the right has are polarizing the same way, but for the other team.
What and who can one believe? Right now polsters, cricket race chasers, tell us that the nation is polarizing more and more. When we are reading two versions of the news, two narratives in which neither sides “storytellers” ever get off script.
So. Wanna make money in journalism? Print the truth without bias. Verify your story. If you can’t verify, don’t print. A trusted news source right now is what we hunger for but can’t find.
Parallel Lives: Allegedly Unfounded Investigations
The left felt that inquiries into “Benghazi” were unwarranted. As the investigation was done it was in fact unfounded. The actual “scandal” as far as I could tell with Benghazi were two scandals, neither of which got much press. The first part isn’t actually actionable, but should be scandalous. That was the part in which the administration and cabinet on the night the scandal happened, purely because it didn’t fit the foreign policy narrative they were trying to sell, decided to lie about the cause and what occurred. They knew clearly immediately that this was an organized attack, yet repeatedly told the public that these “riots” were a reaction to a year old video exposing and mocking abhorrent practices that Egyptian Muslims had done against Coptic Christians in Egypt. The actually actionable piece was another bold face lie by Ms Clinton who under oath at Congress claimed to know nothing and have no input or knowledge about the security measures at the Embassy. This was in fact against the law, as Congress had enacted a law that all embassy security needed sign-off by the Secretary of State after, I think, the Cole bombing. So. She had no knowledge (under oath) of security measures for which she was legally required to have personal responsibility. Seems to me that’s not strictly, or not-strictly, legal.
Now, in parallel, the Dems are pushing for investigations into Mr Trump and the current administration’s Russian connection. Nobody, if you ask them, thinks anything the Russians did affected the election outcome. What little evidence has been made public is very weak. Sometimes you see, “We see this person talked to a Russian ambassador”. Uhm, that’s not actually actionable and more importantly what is an ambassador’s job? An ambassador’s job is to make contact with officials in the government in the county he/she is posted within to address issues relevant to the relations between the two states. That an ambassador talked to people in or likely to be in a position of influence in the government isn’t surprising. It’s expected. Furthermore, on the face of it, it was probably more in Russia’s interest that Ms Clinton be elected over Mr Trump. It is likely that, like the press and the left, a Clinton landslide was what they expected and therefore what would their “tampering” motive be? What Russia might have wanted as well, was to weaken the position of whomever was elected. Oddly enough, just as in the cold war period, the left continues its role as useful idiots and acts apparently unknowingly to support the Russian regime (well, to be honest “unknowing” wasn’t really a factor in the 70s and 80s … idiots however still applied).
So. What is the goal of the Democrats here? Do they really believe collusion with Russia? On what basis and to what end? That part never reaches their statements on the matter and I suspect isn’t one they’ve considered.
Swim Log: 3-17-17
Main set: 2×50 on the 1:00 repeated three times with a 1 minute break. Trying to keep :44 on the swim part. I think I’ve figured out how to practice pacing. The start interval was consistently :43 and the 2nd :45 on the above set. I need to work towards being able to complete 4×50 on the 1:00 keeping the time steady through all four 50s on the :46 or :47, not too fast on the first, and managing to hold the speed on the last 50 still at :46/:47. I’ll work on that in the next three weeks. Did 9×100 kicking with a final tempo (1:35 100). All breaststroke except for warmup. 4 weeks to my next meet.
Total yardage: 2500
Nationalism and Common Sense
Our former sexual predator-in-chief, err, former President Clinton recently pontificated quoted here as saying, ““taking us to the edge of our destruction.” Mr Trump’s campaign slogan “make America Great Again” and the left reaction that this is tantamount to fascism stems from some pretty wobbly thinking on the left’s part. It is a common and not unrelated economic judgement/mistake by liberals to think that economic transactions are zero sum. Zero sum economic transactions are in fact very rare. Usually they are not zero sum, but both parties benefit from the exchange. I benefit from my customers from their paying me, they benefit from my work as a programmer for example. Both of us come out ahead in the transaction. America “being great” is also not a zero-sum exchange with other nations. Other nations don’t have to have their “greatness” diminished for America to be a healthier stronger nation. One would think that to be obvious. If America’s education system, roads and infrastructure, and pride of place was among the best in the world … this would not come at the expense of the infrastructure in China or France. But both China and France could benefit from medical and technological developments that came from here. And likewise, if China became “great” in those areas as well that would not mean our freeways would be in worse repair.
Liberal elite similarly tout that education should be equalized. They go to great efforts to reduce suburban parents ability to assist their local school district because there exist urban school districts who don’t have parents with the same interest or resources. At the same time, oddly enough, the liberal elite members pretty much universally send their own (actual) children to the best private schools available.
The instinct to get the best for your children is not far from the instinct to wish for the best for your own nation ahead of other nations. It isn’t wrong. Doing otherwise is what is unnatural (which is why those liberal elite fail so often to put their own children in public schools).
The actual Nationalism that liberals would be right in fearing is if Mr Trump desired or thought, like the Nazi Germany they allude to in their responses to Mr Trump, that our Nation should rightfully be conquering or ruling other countries. Alas, all lack of evidence of this motivation has not in any way hampered the liberal mindset in their allergy to National aspirations.
Of Bigotry and the Left/Right Divide
For three to five decades the left has been hammering the right on racism and sexism. And for the great majority it is clear that this programme of theirs have been successful. After all, if it wasn’t successful then we wouldn’t be seeing the goal posts shift so violently in the last decade adding numerous other “isms” as well as adding such thought crimes like “micro-aggression”. Clearly, if macro-aggression was a thing that was a big issue micro- wouldn’t be discussed. However, unnoticed certainly by the left, the left has become as bigoted as the right ever was. It’s just that the left isn’t bigoted and horrifically biased against a particular race or gender. Their target of hatred is the GOP and conservative Christianity. Don’t believe me. Take the following thought experiment.
1. Scan the headlines today, tomorrow, or over the past week. Look at a dozen articles (can’t find one? here’s a humdinger … note absolutely no evidence is given for the outrageous claim) making over the top claims against Trump or the right. (How about the person who claimed Mrs Trump was a prostitute? as another example)
2. Now .. replace Mr Trump with Mr Obama and modify the insult to match (with as much basis in fact) and pretend a conservative said that new statement.
3. Is your immediate reaction that the speaker must be racist?
4. Guess what. You’d be right.
5. And if you found yourself not being outraged by the original article or perhaps agreeing with it.
6. Then guess what? You are just big a bigot as the mythical conservative (who you might note, most of whom never ever said things that outrageous about Mr Obama)
Midnight terror raids have been replaced by beatings and violence at rallies, burning and rioting at speeches, and paid thugs disrupting political rallies (a side note, while the Dem right now have been quick to equate our President with Hitler … paid thugs to disrupt rallies, beatings at rallies, riots to disrupt and so on … where the tactics used by actual, not pretend Nazi party members). This is however just a symptom of the bigotry noted above.
Question then is, how best to show to liberals their own growing bigotry? Here’s one small suggestion. Many times you’ll hear statements made by liberals to the effect “Conservatives say/believe/think XYZ” and the XYZ statement is one that you as a conservative is ridiculous (for example, conservatives want the poor to have no access to healthcare). You might try pointing out that you’ve heard that if one would say,
I’ve heard that if one was to say ‘Black women just have babies without marrying their husbands for the welfare checks’ that the liberal response to this is that that this statement is both untrue and racist. Many have those children for a variety of reasons, they have numerous different ways of approaching the opposite sex in their communities and making derogatory generalizations like that is racist.
And you know what, you’d be right. Statements like that are evidence of bigotry. So … why do you think it OK to generalize about conservatives in the same manner? Why do you pretend that it isn’t just as an egregiously bigoted statement that you just made?
Academic Insanity
Noted. Seriously, how dumb can you be. Although perhaps he was just repeating a common left wing meme.
Now, in the last two terms Mr Obama was secure from the threat of impeachment largely for two reasons. The first being that the GOP learned after impeaching Mr Clinton if that tact fails, it strengthens the impeached and doesn’t weaken him. The second reason is … after impeachment Mr Biden would have been President … and nobody in their right mind would want that. However, apparently the left has forgotten exactly how impeachment works. While any House member may suggest proceedings, you need a majority in the House to start impeachment. Hello liberals? The GOP has a strong majority in the House … and then … if impeached he’d be tried in the Senate, which is also has a GOP majority.
The left is also blind to the notion that their strident and, frankly, horrible and unjustified reactions against Mr Trump are pushing people exactly in the opposite the direction that they desire. Worked for me. I was lukewarm at best over the notion of a Mr Trump presidency. The left is every day convincing me more and more to support him more and more. Go figger.
Mr Trump and the Wiretap
So, several things were proven by the latest round of “Obama wiretapped me”. One of the main takeaways is that left wing reporters can’t use google. See this “8 point” review. Point 2 quoted although I think “diving deep” is an exaggeration:
Diving deep into Roget’s Thesaurus, media outlets were quick to call the President’s charges “baseless,” “unfounded,” and “without evidence.” What they seem to mean is that he didn’t footnote his tweets. But any halfway decent reporter could have found the source of the President’s charge—a Breitbart article that built on earlier reports by the BBC and Heatstreet. These articles make quite specific claims that the Obama administration used the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to investigate alleged Russian ties to the Trump campaign.
“Any decent reported” aka one who’s heard of google … kinda a low bar, eh?
The final point is the real salient takeaway, btw.
Kentucky Cloaking, err, Clerking Devices
Sometimes You Can’t Complain
Regarding Inside/Out
Of Heresy and Marital Ontology
Of Sign, Symbol, and Culture
Baseball Silliness
Any more suggestions for improvements?
Manfred and the SSM Debate or Riddle Me This Mr Liberal
Money In A Mattress
Random Things I Don’t Get
Experts Believe
Not seeing it.
Confusing Tactics
“Islam is not the Problem” … Is that Right?
Off the Cuff
So, Dr Gruber, not a politician. Ya think? This gets much mileage in the press and the liberal politicians are going distance themselves from him as if he he were scalding acid. Abortion as eugenics, to be applied to minorities, hmm. That’s palatable, albeit Ms Sanger was in the camp too I think. Regarding Mr Gruber, the outrage is confusing. I mean, here is a guy who admits selling Obamacare on falsehoods. But I mean, why is the right acting all put out? Those lies were not believed by the right, but by the left. Why is the left not outraged that they were sold a bill of goods? Politics remains very confusing for me.
Some IQ specialist thinks he has evidence that intelligence is not nuture but nature, which will alas irk the (mostly racist) race theorists no end (see this too). So, if it comes out that intelligence (and therefore success in school) are due to nature not nurture, can we stop with the stupidly high inheritance taxes that the left thinks are necessary to stop the “rich” from having unfair advantages?
I wonder what this sort of graph but instead for the WWII Germany/Soviet Eastern front wars would look like. It would be appalling I think. Appropos of that and in the discussion which mention Napoleon’s final defeat at Waterloo. But like most of the Western canonical history forget that Russian led armies sacked Paris in 1814. The same poster (rightly) mocks those college students of today who are so so so ignorant of history it seems.
Regarding Ms Feinstein and her “release” of CIA investigations on torture. The left’s thesis (which is badly flawed) is (a suggested thesis of her report) is that torture doesn’t work, ergo we shouldn’t do it. Actually historically it seems very very likely that when done efficiently with an understanding of what you are up to, it works and works very well. See Mr Fernandez excellent book No Way In (or read about the Gestapo and well, anywhere they operated). Look. Every single time a resistance cell loses a member to the torture using establishment everyone has to find a new safe houses, move and so on. Why? This wouldn’t be so if torture was ineffective. But. It is. The argument against torture is not that it isn’t effective or cost effective but that is immoral. It is wrong. That is the only argument needed or which should be used against it.
A Few Remarks on the Comet/Shirt Kerfuffle
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The Great Pyramid at Giza; Perfection in Ancient Egypt, Part Four
by bria4123 on January 21, 2012
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The Great Pyramid at Giza is more than a pyramid. King Khufu added many other buildings to his burial site that added more meanings to Giza.
You can appreciate Giza much more by exploring the buildings around the Great Pyramid.
1. A stone causeway almost half a mile long led from the Nile to the pyramid’s east side. The 5th century BCE Greek historian, Herodotus said that its walls were carved with reliefs.
2. The causeway ended at a large stone mortuary temple with an open courtyard and storage rooms. This was the first large stone temple in Egypt.
3. A 26 foot high limestone wall surrounded the rest of the Great Pyramid–access to the pyramid was only through the temple.
4. Three queens’ pyramids were built along the east side. You can see one in the above photo.
5. Two boat pits flanked the mortuary temple. One pit was excavated and the remains of a 142 foot-long boat were found and reassembled. Scholars don’t agree whether it was buried for symbolic value (to transport Khufu across the sky with the sun or stars), or whether it was used to just transport his body to the pyramid.
6. Several rows of tombs in the form of mastabas (single-level rectangular blocks) line the Great Pyramid’s east and west sides. They were probably used for high-ranking officials and other members of the royal family. As the above picture shows, they were built in neat rows, like streets of a modern city.
So Khufu imagined Giza, not just as the Great Pyramid, but an entire society that included his family and high-level administrators. The order that unified the civilized world was thus given eternal life.
If you have a chance to go there, linger around these buildings for a while, and you can appreciate them as an integrated community.
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Why Europe Didn't Take The Last Step Toward Union
It has become fashionable to conclude that the European Monetary System collapsed of its own weight and that we are better off letting markets set exchange rates. I doubt it.
The EMS, founded in 1979, attempted to protect Europe's economic union from destabilizing currency-exchange fluctuations. Currencies could fluctuate only within very narrow margins; the Continent's central bankers and governments pledged to intervene collectively to maintain those parities. When economic fundamentals--rates of interest, inflation, and growth--sharply diverged, nations were allowed to revise their target exchange rates provided they were orderly and infrequent. Thus, the EMS blended monetary order and monetary flexibility in a region, much as the Bretton Woods system of fixed rates (that collapsed in 1973) had done globally.
The sponsors of the EMS had several goals. Chaotic currency fluctuation has a high price. Businesses have to spend real money hedging exchange-rate risks. Trade is deterred. There is a wider risk of periodic competitive devaluation. In the 1930s, nations sought to export their unemployment by cheapening their currencies, with the collective result of global deflation and financial chaos.
MARCHING IN STEP. The very process of monetary coordination was intended to produce greater convergence of economic fundamentals. A system of fixed exchange rates can work only when member nations' deficits, interest rates, and growth rates are reasonably close to one another. The discipline of managing the EMS forced the Europeans to bring their economic policies into closer alignment.
Currency coordination was seen as a precursor to greater political unity. By cooperating to manage their fiscal and monetary policies, the Europeans were breaking down old national enmities and creating political and financial alignments conducive to an eventual single currency and a European central bank. It was tacitly understood that the EMS depended on French-German cooperation and on the Bundesbank's interim role as Europe's de facto central banker.
Although the proximate cause of its collapse was speculative pressure against the French franc, the EMS failed mainly for political reasons--a collective retreat from the exigencies of European union. London left the exchange rate mechanism last fall, unwilling to align its fiscal and monetary policies with those of the Continent. Bonn rated absorption of the eastern Germans ahead of its loyalty to the European Monetary System, even though this imposed high interest rates and slow growth on the entire Continent. To keep the franc strong, the French were determined to match the high German interest rates.
In the end, no nation would subordinate its short-run interest to the greater cause of European union. In principle, the reversion to floating rates liberates the rest of Europe from the punishment of matching high German interest rates. Yet the risk of currency wars, which the EMS was designed to avoid, remains. At this writing the old parities are defunct, but several smaller nations continue to defend their currencies with preposterously high interest rates. Belgium, in a recession and suffering 13.5% unemployment, pushed up short-term rates to 25%. Others, perhaps even France, may take the opposite course and seek to boost exports with lower domestic rates and a cheaper currency.
SPLINTER EFFECT. Competitive currency manipulation exacts real economic costs--just as the architects of the EMS and the Bretton Woods system grasped. It is a form of economic nationalism ultimately incompatible with the logic of European union. The Bundesbank has now made it clear that it places Germany's national economic goals above those of Europe, and there is no supranational bank to take its place. By contrast, in 1979, when the EMS was founded, the government of German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, a committed European, overcame Bundesbank opposition to the whole idea. But during the week of July 24, the Bundesbank had the full support of Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Finance Minister Theo Waigel when it effectively killed the EMS by refusing to cut German interest rates.
Thus, the entire European union project is now in a dangerous stall. Ancient hostilities have been revived. There is talk of national fortress economies, and a catch-22 blocks further progress: Until there is a central European bank, there will be unstable currency markets. But the very instability in today's currency markets and the collapse of the EMS undermine the interim steps necessary to create such a central bank.
The faint silver lining is that eventual lower interest rates and cheaper currencies will stimulate higher growth in the weaker economies, and then Germany will finally lower its own rates. If such a convergence does occur, a rebasing of fixed parities and a restoration of a stable exchange rate mechanism at least becomes technically possible.
But the system still needs to be managed by statesmen with a pan-European vision. The EC has come a long way since its 1957 founding. But the home stretch will require the largest strides, and none among the EC's current leaders seems able to fill the shoes of its founders.ROBERT KUTTNER | mini_pile | {'original_id': '2f3e8d41cd7c5869449550aae9fc473677d4781fe62356f1bacfd61de34c4acf'} |
Singapore Short Film Awards - Swimming Lesson by Kat Goh
How often do we find local films shot as confidently as Swimming Lesson? The whole film is composed almost entirely out of breathless long takes—one take per scene—thus trapping us in the drama of a family sending a girl off to study overseas. We kick off at home, where grandpa watches a televised swimming match. Behind him, in a flurry of well-blocked activity, a mother fusses to her daughter over the travel adaptors she needs to pack, and to her husband over the time they must leave the house, while the targets of her fussing themselves shuffle around the living room with muffled exasperation. In this take alone, we get to know what everyone feels about the trip at hand (in descending order of worry: mother, father, daughter, grandpa). We can predict, then, that the mother's nagging will persist through the following scenes, pushing tensions to a threshold. We even bump into clichés like "we're wasting time" blame-shifting, and painstakingly prepared bottles of bird's nest soup.
For me, Swimming Lesson handily defeats these obstacles by offering a few striking moments of respite. First, the film scatters bouts of humour within its scenes. Script-wise: Mum explains how to sneak liquids aboard the plane, and dad gets in a punchline on her deftness. Direction-wise: Dad gets into a slapstick scenario in the background of a sustained shot at a coffeeshop (he needs to manoeuvre around a queue), while the rest of the family holds a separate conversation in the foreground. It even comes down to details like Mum re-ordering one less coffee because "girl needs to sleep on the plane"—until we note how the drinks are finally distributed.
Second, Kee Chiew Hiang's shrill characterisation of Mum turns out to be vital to a late-breaking decision by the character. The film even doles the mother a generous close-up as we watch her anxieties preying on her, playing out on her face, and she utters a line in dialect that made the audience gasp with disbelief, not because we didn't believe the character would say such a thing, but because we'd bought wholly into her motivations for such a choice.
Finally, the film takes its time to unfold why it chose its title. For a long time, we wonder if Grandpa's swimming match, lasting through home and car and coffeeshop, is the film's only tenuous link to a "swimming lesson", until it intersperses brief shots of an unidentified girl floating serenely in a swimming pool. The relationship between these meditative shots and the storyline remains a mystery, until a frightful action by Grandpa, a cutaway to the floating girl, and our memory of subtle hints sprinkled earlier in the story tie it all together. I still catch my breath when I think about that finale, and wonder how the filmmakers captured these authentic long-take driving scenes on the roads by the Esplanade. A masterclass.
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Archive for January, 2008
We have complied a real FAQ for Hong Kong company registration / incorporation. The compilation will be updated frequently. Please contact us if you cannot find an answer here.
I want to Incorporating In Hong Kong, Please tell me what is the procedures, Fee & Formalities .
1.) You can start by giving the name of the company to us and we will do a name check. You can also do a preliminary name check yourself by visiting the Companies Registry web site here: http://www.icris.cr.gov.hk/csci/ and we will do the final check afterwards.
2.) Do you have a Hong Kong address at the time of incorporation? If not, then you need to use our registered address service. For HKD $1,200 per year, we will scan all mails addressed to the company under 30g. Advertisements will not be scanned.
4b.) Alternatively, you can email the directors, shareholders, and witness‘ names, passport numbers, passport issuing countries, and residential addresses, and number of shares ownership to us and we will input the information for you.
Does it matter how I show the name in the application matter, i.e., upper case vs. lower case?
Legally they are the same. However, for artistic reason, you may want to use uppercase / lowercase for certain characters of the name.
Can we use an American LLC to act as a director or shareholder of a Hong Kong limited company?
Yes, you can. However, if you use an American LLC to form a Hong Kong company, you cannot open a bank account in Hong Kong with the new company.
We need to set up a new company in Hong Kong immediately. In order to do that,we need to know the names available from a shelf company that we can take over. Please send us the list/link of the companies/names available immediately.
Please go to our blog entry here: http://www.jinetic.com/blog/?p=3 After you sign the transfer documents, it usually takes about 3 working days to transfer the shelf company.
I downloaded and printed out everything but notice the pagination of these pages is wrong. I see the page of the witness signature pages - one is numbered -2- and the folllowing one is numbered -8-. What should I do?
The signed pages are only part of the Memorandum and Articles of Association (M&A). Once we receive the signed pages, we will assemble the pages into the M&A. The whole M&A has totally 8 pages.
I plan to buy them (A4 papers) at OfficeMax or Office Depot. Will this one work? Link to A4 papers
That should work.
Could you forward the link where we could download/see the company registration status.
XXXXXXXX LIMITED is a pre-formed shelf company. Therefore, the Certificate of Incorporation is already in the package. What you need to check is who are the directors and shareholders of the company. You can check the company by going to the Companies Registry website here: Companies Registry Electronic Search Service
1) Enter the system as an unregistered user
2) Type in the full name of the company, and then “Search”
3) Locate “Image Record”, click on “Go”
4) click the button “Proceed to Document Index”
5) select “Last 3 Years”, click “Go”
6) The documents of interest are FSC1 Return of Allotments and FD1
Notification of First Secretary and Director
7) Add the documents to the shopping cart
8) Have your credit card ready, follow the direction of the site to pay and download the documents.
This witness will have to be someone from where we are here to see and confirm that the director signs the documents right? Any legal implications if at all on the witness?
The witness is needed to satisfy the requirements of the Companies Ordinance. According to the government:
“Pursuant to section 6 of the Companies Ordinance, ‘The memorandum shall be signed by each subscriber in the presence of a witness who shall attest the signature by signing his name….’. Hence, the witness and subscribers should be at the same location in order that both of them could sign on the same document. In the circumstance, the witnessing cannot be performed by using webcam. ”
Instead of the 1 year mail forwarding service, can we have mail collection at the registered office? So I presume there will not be any service fee if we collect our own mails from your office?
The fee is the same :) The fee is more related to real estate cost than to postage.
Do you mean that you will be emailing me the documents to be signed. We print it out, sign it, and then mail it back to you, is this correct?
Yes, you can download the documents from your account, or we can email the documents to you separately.
Can you fax/email me the company registration number and Tax ID first, and then I will pick up the original documents in HK later?
We can email the Certificate of Incorporation number to you (CI number) and the Tax ID (BR number), however, we need to pick them up ourselves because we use our name to submit the application. Also it is easier for you since CI and Br are issued by two different governmental agencies. CI is issued by the Companies Registry while the BR is issued by the Inland Revenue Department.
What do you mean, when you said you use your name to submit the application? wouldn’t it be under my company’s name?
We submit the company registration application as the company secretary, so it is our job to pick up the certificate. You will be the director and shareholder / subscriber of the company.
I will need some sort of Tax ID to give to a US client that I am providing services to. Will I be getting a Tax ID from HK govt?
Yes. The Tax Id is the BR number (Business Registration number)
And once you receive our signed documents in the mail, you will be able to process the incorporation and get that settled within 10 days right?
Yes, usually within 10 days. We will submit the documents on the same day if they arrive by 3:00pm.
In HK, can I use my friend’s office address, if HK allows one address to be registered for multiple companies? And, what is the difference between Package A and Package B on your website? If I do it remotely, must I choose Package B?
You can use your friend’s address as the registered office address. One address can be used for several companies. If so, your friend would handle the mails.
You can also chose Package A. In Package A, we only incorporate the company, obtain the business registration, and provide a set of C.P.A. certified true copy of the documents. You will make the company rubber stamps and metal seal. The shipping is also cheaper. If you know where you can make the rubber stamps and seal locally, package A will be fine. You can see samples of stamps and seal here: How to use company stamps and seal
Is it possible to buy a shelf company and change its name to what we want? Will this process be faster than registering a new company with our company name?
It takes 5 working days to change the company name. Also you need to make a new company kit and inform the bank after you change the name. You can always change the name later, but definitely not for (something needed to be done in 7 days).
I probably need to sign the contract first before I leave (my country), but in (my country) they don’t recognize chops or seals, they only recognize signatures. Can I get it signed first so the contract is effective for my client in (my country), and then I can add the chop later to make it effective for the HK entity? Perhaps I can provide my client my TAX ID later as well, before they make the first service fee payment to me?
I think you do need the rubber stamp. You sign the contract *on-behalf* of your company, not yourself. Your company is a separate entity. If you sign only your name, you are contracting personally with the third party. What you can do is that *after* the company is formed, you type “For and on-behalf of Your Company Name“, “Authorized signature(s)“. Just mimic the text and layout of the rectangular rubber stamp: http://www.jinetic.com/blog/?p=16
Do I need to open a bank account before I can complete my company registration? Or it can come after?
You can open a bank account after the incorporation process.
Do I need to get the rubber stamp and metal seal before I complete the company registration? Where does it fit in the process.
You make the stamps and seal after the incorporation process. Both stamps and seal are needed for the operation of the company.
Can you get a Public Company incorporated in Hong Kong ? If yes, please let me know the extra expenditure to be incurred over the package fee indicated in your web site.
We cannot incorporate a public company in Hong Kong. You need to contact one of those big accounting / law firms in order to do so.
(Note that this article is for those who want a company and a bank account)
The longer you stay in Hong Kong, the more incorporation choices you can have. While you can stay in Hong Kong for just one day to have a company and open a bank account, there will be more planning before you come here if you want to do that. The basic issues are that:
It takes about 10 days to incorporate a new company and make a company kit, and 2 days to transfer a shelf company
Most banks require the account applicants to show up personally at the banks
We have summarized the incorporation options based on staying duration as follow:
There are several issues one should consider before incorporating a Hong Kong company and opening a business bank account with it:
Do you plan to visit Hong Kong? If not, then you cannot open a bank account here. Most banks, such as the HSBC and the Hang Seng Bank, require clients to personally show up at the bank in order to open a bank account.
How long will you stay? If you just stay in Hong Kong for one day, then HSBC will be your only choice. If you plan to stay here for a month, then the Hang Seng Bank will also be available. It is because HSBC is the only bank that will send the e-banking kit.
Tailor-made or pre-formed shelf company? For a tailor-made company, you can make up the company name, however, you need:
to use PayPal or T/T to make the payment, since the incorporation process takes about 4 working days to complete. Unless you plan to stay in Hong Kong during the incorporation process (which is not necessary), you should come after the company is incorporated.
a witness, so you need to find a friend or relative who is not a director or shareholder of the company, to sign the Memorandum and Articles of Association (M&A).
to mail the signed documents back to us. We will submit the signed documents to the government in one working day after we receive them. And the company will be incorporated in 4 working days after submission. You don’t need to pay us before we receive the documents. More about our self-serve incorporation service
Planning is easier if you buy a shelf company, but you cannot create the name of the company. Also the M&A booklets will not have your name on it. You can have a pre-formed company and open a bank account in 3 days:
On the first day, you pay us. If you pay us ahead, then you can save a trip to our office.
On the second day, you sign the documents.
On the third day, you meet with the bank representative.
That is. No witness is needed, and you can also pay us in cash. However we do recommend you to give yourself and us one or two days or margin in case anything goes wrong. Latest shelf companies list
Can you provide residential proof? You need to provide us a document (such as a phone bill) that has your name and residential address on it. If the name and address are not in English, you need to type in the name and address exactly as they appear on the document, and email them back to us and we will do translation on them. We will also need your name and address in English for comparison.
Will you provide business proof? While the bank will let you sign the account application form, your account will not be activated until you submit business proofs such as contracts, leases, invoices that have the name of the company. The HSBC allows their clients to submit the proof within two weeks after account application. More about business proof
So you want to have a Hong Kong company and a bank account. But you don’t live in Hong Kong and you don’t plan to visit here often. What should you do?
The answer for you is: buy a pre-formed shelf company, and open the bank account at HSBC.
While it takes at least 4 days for the government to complete the incorporation process, it takes only one day to transfer a company. So on the first day of your visit, you can own a Hong Kong company.
So why should you open a bank account at HSBC? Suppose you don’t live in Hong Kong, the only way you can operate a Hong Kong bank account is over the Net. Most banks in Hong Kong offer ebanking services, but some of them require you to pick up the ebanking keys personally at the bank one week after account opening. So if you open a bank account at those banks, you need to plan to visit Hong Kong twice.
But HSBC is different. They are willing to give you the ebanking key on the first meeting so that you don’t have to come back one week afterward. That makes life much easier for those who don’t come here often. But there is a catch. Since HSBC is very busy, so you should make an appointment with them at least a week early. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'a6e1566cf74ab849d0f046ccfe349766ee001dbd057b62e8be6cb71c00628850'} |
Perfect Soft Boiled Eggs
Perfect Soft Boiled Egg
Recipe: Perfect Soft Boiled Eggs
• 6 eggs
1. Bring ½ inch water to boil.
2. Lower one to six eggs into the water.
3. Cover pan and cook for 6 ½ minutes.
4. Run cold water into the pan for 30 seconds.
Preparation time: 1 minute(s)
Cooking time: 7 minute(s)
Number of servings (yield): 3
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Hyperlink in Excel
How to Insert Hyperlinks in Excel
A hyperlink in Excel is just like one you see on a webpage or email. When you hyperlink text or graphics, they become clickable and will connect you to outside information or another location in the file.
Insert a Hyperlink
1. Select the text or graphic you want to hyperlink.
2. Click the Insert tab.
3. Click Hyperlink.
Insert a Hyperlink in excel
Press Ctrl + K.
4. Select a linking option at the left.
• Existing File or Web Page: Creates a link that takes you to another file, a file created in another program like a PowerPoint presentation, or to a web page. This is the most common type of hyperlink.
• Place in This Document: Jumps to a spot in the current spreadsheet.
• Create New Document: Creates a new Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and then inserts a hyperlink to the new file.
• E-mail Address: Creates a clickable email address.
5. Fill in the necessary informational fields.
6. Click OK.
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I've been wanting to ask the men of TA this question for a while, but couldn't come up with the right wording to make it sound right....
So.....fuck it. I'm just going to ask you straight out.
How do men see women?
(Example) If you meet a new female co-worker, do you automatically categorize the woman as being like your wife, girlfriend, mistress, daughter, or some other female in your life? Do you then treat her accordingly?
The reason I'm asking is because I'm about to do something totally crazy. I'm entering a field where I may be working with ALL men. Less than 1% of women in this field. Why? Because I'm a crazy girl.....so. I need to know from a guy's perspective how to relate with them. I'm used to the "corporate world," and I can play that game. I'm also familiar with law enforcement, where things are a little rougher, but there was still plenty of women that I worked with. But I've never been the ONLY woman, (or one of the only women.) Maybe I'm freaking out over nothing....very possible. But, for what it's worth I thought it would be fun to discuss how men see women. And, any advice you guys have would be welcome. I'm fearful of men right now, but I know it's an irrational fear. I know that. But the opportunity I have in front of me could put me in the 6 figure range income-wise. I'm willing to do what it takes to overcome this. Any help/advice is welcome.
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The physical demands of being an ironworker should not be underestimated. Whether carrying rebar, cutting beams with an actylene torch, or welding joints it's hard ass work and very demanding. You also cannot be afraid of heights. That being said the one thing all your co-workers in that particular profession will want to know and see is if you can "pull your own weight." If you can't hold your own then you'll soon fall out of favor. They'll give you a little slack during the apprenticeship phase but not much. I worked in the commercial construction industry for years as a technician/electrician and know by being around them that they won't tolerate a slacker. Good Luck.
I think I read somewhere that men decide if a woman is someone they find sexually attractive at first glance. Women give men more time than that.
So, men don't categorize women, as a rule, in the roles you outlined. It's more about "would I do her if I could?"
If you don't want sexual attention, that's easy. Don't be sexually attractive.
You can go to work without even basic makeup, wear extremely loose clothing, wear a sports bra instead of one that enhances your bustline, etc.
Come on, you know what I'm talking about.
While men make a snapshot decision on wether they "would do her if they could", most men don't become a stalker (to exaggerate the point) when they categorize a woman as such.
As far as I've seen, while we (men) do turn up the attention (pass by more often for small talk) we don't treat attractive women differently (as in turning up the sexual attention or treating her differently in the professional environment).
While men to make a snap decision "would I like to do her if I had the chance," it's not a forever decision. A female can grow on you once you get to know her.
I remember from my college days, a fellow reporter on the student newspaper who, when I met her, was categorized as a bit of a "butterball." She was carrying maybe 20 pounds she could have done without. Over time, she became a friend and she also became sexually attractive to me, though she had a boyfriend who also found her sexy, too. It sure would/ve been nice to wake up to her in the morning.
I think, consciously or subconsciously, most women view being strong (however they interpret that) as being hard to reconcile with femininity. This is a dilemma women face in the modern world.
The main fountain of strength women are left with is the power of sex (sex appeal, seductiveness, using sex to disempower the male, etc.), all of which are reconcilable with femininity.
Our TA women are invited to comment on that.
No need to chime in with a "not all women" comment. We already understand that generalities have exceptions.
Belle, I appreciate your acknowledging that reality. You increased my respect for you.
My guess is that if you, in an relevant scene with male ironworkers, can respond with that kind of honesty, and with a chuckle, you will win the respect of those with any emotional strength.
Would an added, "Men use money, don't they?" (also with a chuckle) preserve the distance that a work relationship requires?
A woman I know, a former US Marine now in her 80s and a political ally, would look me in my eyes and remind me that men use money similarly.
Fuck the peer pressure! This is where strong personalities matter the most. (Whoops, you didn't invite some of us to comment.)
I don't think I said anything about peer pressure. Rather females value being feminine, but femininity may not be helpful to the most effective career strategy.
I don't think I said anything about peer pressure.
True, I (possibly mistakenly) inferred it. But what other influence besides peer pressure can make women (or men) want to appear a certain way to other people? It's what people do before they dress up and go out into the public, right? And there's a huge industry behind selling appearance "enhancements" (but I don't want to steer this thread into that topic).
Take masculinity for example. If I want to be a manly man, can't it simply be that I'm a man and I want to look/behave in a masculine way because of that? Are we all devoid of gender identity until peer pressure takes over? I don't think so.
Why is it different for women? Women are only feminine because of peer pressure?
That doesn't pass the giggle test.
There is a very heavy cultural influence on gender behavior, including how one is expected to appear. Why won't you acknowledge this kind of peer pressure? Where do your ideas of "manly man" and "masculine" come from?
As for giggle tests, don't women pay a hell of a lot more for appearances than men?
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Pavel Filip about Institute of Zoology: Why repairs put back until now
Government has discussed the exceptional situation resulting from the April fire in the Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Sciences.
In the context, the Premier said that all money needed to repair the damaged roof of the building would be allocated. Additionally, the prime minister does not explain why the institution has not been repaired until now.
"I want to talk about the Institute of Zoology where the fire burnt the roof. I've seen the state of institution where its employees are collecting water on the floors, there are cracks in the ceiling.
I want to remind you that this institute is at the balance of the Academy of Sciences, after our discussion, the Academy of Sciences did nothing for this institute for 40 years.
Similarly, on May 24, we had a meeting of committee and approved the financial allocation to repair this roof.
We allocate money from the state budget, we do this repair, after which when the guilty one is identified, the expenses that the state has borne will be refunded.
I understand that we have bureaucratic procedures, which is why I would still ask the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Economy to take the measures as quickly as possible to repair the roof of this building.
At the same time, I want you to tell me why these works have been delayed so far, and if we have some bureaucratic barriers, we have to intervene and change that. I'm going to ask the Finance Ministry to get involved to see what the problem is.
Please postpone no more than tomorrow giving an answer when and who will start these works", said Premier Pavel Filip.
PUBLIKA.MD reminds that the fire left mold in the institute. The last rains flooded the third and fourth floor laboratories of the institution with the damaged roof.
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Definitions for dandie dinmont terrierˈdæn di ˈdɪn mɒnt
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
Dan′die Din′mont ter`rierˈdæn di ˈdɪn mɒnt(n.)
1. one of a breed of small terriers having short legs, a long body, pendulous ears, a wiry coat, and a topknot.
Category: Dogs, Cats, and Horses
Origin of Dandie Dinmont terrier:
1840–50; after a character in Scott's novel Guy Mannering who owned two such terriers
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1. Dandie Dinmont, Dandie Dinmont terrier(noun)
a breed of small terrier with long wiry coat and drooping ears
1. Dandie Dinmont Terrier
A Dandie Dinmont Terrier is a small Scottish breed of dog in the terrier family. The breed has a very long body, short legs, and a distinctive "top-knot" of hair on the head. A character in Sir Walter Scott's novel Guy Mannering has lent the name to the breed, with "Dandie Dinmont" thought to be based on James Davidson, who is credited as being the "father" of the modern breed. Davidson's dogs descended from earlier terrier owning families, including the Allans of Holystone, Northumberland. There are three breed clubs in the UK supporting the breed, although it is registered as a Vulnerable Native Breed by the Kennel Club due to its low number of puppy registrations on a yearly basis. The breed is friendly, but tough and is suitable for interaction with older children. There are no breed specific health concerns, but they can be affected by spinal issues due to their elongated body and the breed is affected by canine cancer at a higher than average rate.
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Effects of Negative Judgments on Health
emotional body Let's face it. We spend a lot of time defining and judging what is positive and negative. The brain is a very powerful tool and as we define what something is or should be, we begin to have that result play out in our world and in our body. Have you ever noticed, for example that someone driving can get cut off, get angry and suddenly they are feeling negative, down and in bad mood? Whereas someone else can get cut off while driving and simply apply the brake slightly and move on with their day as if nothing happened. In this case, the same experience yet one sees it as negative while the other doesn’t. So are things innately positive and negative? Or do we define things as positive and negative?
These are judgments. In reality there is no "negative" or "positive", only our conclusions and judgments about it. Therefore our very perception of an experience or situation has the ultimate power as to how we will feel when it’s happening and how our bodies will be affected. By allowing ALL experiences, without judgment of "good" or "bad", the effect on the body is greatly reduced. For those painful or uncomfortable physical conditions already in play, it is important, first, to address the emotional cause. "If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him." ~ Hippocrates
Davis Suzuki wrote in The Sacred Balance, "Condensed molecules from breath exhaled from verbal expressions of anger, hatred, and jealousy, contain toxins. Accumulated over only one hour, these toxins are enough to kill 80 guinea pigs!" Can you now imagine the harm you are doing to your body when you stay within negative emotions or unprocessed emotional experience throughout the body?
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Laughing Makes You Smarter
laughing Everybody knows that laughter is a great source of happiness and health but did you know that it can also boost you memory? A new research proved that it can decrease the chance of memory loss of elderly people.
The study was introduced at San Diego’s Experimental Biology meeting. 20 healthy people of the ages from 66 to 72 were the subjects of the research and they were divided into groups. One of the groups was asked to sit silently in a room. The other one involved healthy people and people with diabetes. In another room they had to watch a short funny video.
After that, the scientists checked the subjects' memory and saw that the ones who had watched the amusing short film had better results for their learning potential, memory recall and visual identification. Moreover, it was proven that the memory recall and learning potential were increased by around 40% for the people who were being entertained.
The group of the entertained people also had their cortisol levels tested. Cortisol is a stress hormone which has negative effects on the brain cells. The study showed that the cortisol levels had decreased as a result of the laughing experience of the test subjects, both the healthy ones and the people with diabetes. The other group, which wasn’t being entertained, were also tested and the result showed no change in their cortisol levels.
Laughter provides your body and brain with the hormones which boost not only your mood, but also- your memory- dopamine and endorphins. It also increases immune functions, blood flow and lowers the blood pressure.
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"[The Japanese research team has] numerically confirmed, perhaps for the first time, something we were fairly sure had to be true, but was still a conjecture," said Leonard Susskind, theoretical physicist.
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This sentiment was clearly understood by physicist Henry Stapp who said "There is no substantive physical world in the usual sense of this term. The conclusion here is not the weak conclusion that there may not be a substantive physical world, but rather that there definitely is not a substantive physical world." Einstein even described reality and an "optical delusion of consciousness," and stated that, "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
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This Quantum Life
Chasing Success... Why?
personal power A business colleague of mine posted this meme on Facebook the other day: "Dreams x Goals x Learning x Plans x Actions = Success". At first glance, it seemed logical, but something snarky was welling up inside of me. I couldn't resist. I commented: "Seems so complicated. Instead, how about Dreams X Action = Success?"
This "formula" my business partner posted is part of what I call the "worker bee" syndrome. You dream something up, make it a goal, then educate yourself about how to get there, make a bunch of plans, and only THEN take Action = God laughs. Why not just go from what you'd like to see happen (dreams) to taking action to get there (success).
In some cases, having a "dream" is all that's needed. How many times have you wanted something to happen, and it just did without you doing anything? But we seem to want to jump immediately to planning, learning, goalsetting and "success formulas". You know what? Most of that stuff is the Universe's job! When we take it over, we end up working our asses off and "success" seems to wander further and further out into the future.
Much of this is cultural memes we've made our own: You gotta WORK HARD for what you want; or, nothing valuable in life is ever EASY; or, no pain, no gain; or even, God helps those who help themselves, etc., etc. These memes nullify personal power, and ignore the proven fact that the Universe really does have your back, and it constantly is working on your behalf--even when you try to do its job! The harder you work at something, the more personal power you invalidate. You think there's something you're not doing somehow, or don't know how to do, so you bash your head against the wall repeatedly trying to "come up with answers", when all along, the Universe has had all the answers, and is ready to give them to you, as well as the dream you seek, if you'll just shut up and receive.
There's a word I love: pronoia (coined by Grateful Dead songwriter, Perry Barlow). It means the awareness that the universe is working on your behalf.
vision Conjure up a dream (or vision, I prefer). Now, ask, "What is it going to take for this vision to become physical reality?" You'll start getting some information as a result of that question. Ignore it. Now ask what action can I take for this vision to actualize in my life? Watch what pops into your head over the next half hour or so. These are the things the Universe would like you to do in order to receive your dream.
You see, because you asked, it's already there. It's just our beliefs or judgments or conclusions that it is not there that keeps us from receiving it. We get what I call "time pollution". That's when you ask for something to show up, and then time transpires (sometimes it seems like forever), and it pollutes your self-esteem and personal power. You think you have to start working really hard. No. You just need to welcome what you asked for into your life.
It's supposed to be easy. It's supposed to be fun. If it's not, then you're asking the wrong questions, or have gotten trapped in seeking for answers. Or, you have an agreement with and attachment to those cultural memes that are running you, telling you to work harder for what you desire.
Put what desires you have "out there", then open your arms and heart to welcome these new things you desire into your life. Observe how things begin to change in that direction. Follow that energy, ask what actions, if any, you can take in the meantime. And, lo and behold, what it is you desire will begin to show up. Yes, it's magic! You're welcome.
To your quantum health,
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OLM JUNO SpotlightJUNO Spotlight: The Dirty Nil
JUNO Spotlight: The Dirty Nil
JUNO Spotlight: The Dirty Nil
Nominated for:
2017 / Breakthrough Group Of The Year
The Dirty Nil have been rocking Dundas, Ontario since their days back in high school as a band singer Luke Bentham described as "A place to blow off steam." Since pursuing the band seriously they've put plenty of 7" singles, EPs and their record Higher Power. Along with Kyle Fisher and Dave Nardi, the group have played around the world, along with the Warped Tour, bringing their high energy performance and unwieldy feedback distorted sound.
Ottawa Life: How does it feel to have made it with your high school band?
Luke Bentham (Dirty Nil): Because things are so gradual and it's been such a long standing part of my life, it's hard to really take stock of any immediate accomplishments. As soon as something happens it's like "That's nice" but there's this thing I have to focus on and this. The last six months with opportunities, stages and recognition have certainly been a really nice thing, and it does warrant a pause for reflection. But at this stage of our career there's not much time to stop and smell the roses because we have to work on what follows, to keep working, cause working is what I like to do. It's amazing that when I really think about it though that a project we started to blow off steam in my basement has turned into my occupation, and continues to grow every single day. It also doesn't surprise me because it's been the longest, consistent thing in my life, so when people say kind things it's what gives me the snapshot moment of these last 11 years since it's such a gradual effort that that's usually my mindset.
How did your deal with Dine Alone come about?
They were sniffing around for a while and we were interested in them. We were fans of their roster, Alexisonfire and Attack In Black. We started talking in 2012, but it took time for us to fall in place. We wanted to do some things by ourselves and build our own momentum so we had more to bring to the table when it came time to talk hard tax. We toured for two years in America by ourselves before we signed a deal, we had a lot of internal momentum before we looked for outside help.
What cemented the band's switch from a place to get better at playing music to a real band you were pursuing full time?
This was my first opportunity to write music and I never wanted to write music alone, my romantic notions around rock and roll were always of a team effort. I was looking for someone to write with and Kyle was in the same boat. I was in a band writing "original" music, it was exciting but I didn't enjoy my position in the band. We didn't know what to do, we had vague goals but we were serious and we would play a lot, and then talk about we wanted to do. I don't remember to much about those discussions but I know I said I wanted an old yellowish Les Paul at some point and play big fuzz songs. It's funny because now those things are true, but it was exciting to plan a future with someone, which we still do today, just with a bigger team and more tangible goals.
Was it somewhere in there you not only wanted to try this out but realized you had something real that had momentum?
It was a things along the way, our first EP in high school, our second EP that we glued together, but our first music video getting national recognition was definitely a landmark.
How did you get your live show to where the energy is now?
It came about very organically. We sat around as teenagers watching videos of The Who and MC5 play. Even just from an enjoyment standpoint, I enjoy being much more physical with the instrument and risking looking like an idiot by falling than playing it safe and hitting all the notes. We're a three piece band, so if we have any hope of filling a space visually, we've got to support it with our movements and make a show of it. It was important for us to be engaging as a live band, and the live tricks have evolved. We love bands like KISS and The Flaming Lips so that's always a fun topic of conversation to keep it as a release for us and the crowd. We owe it to ourselves and our crowd to give a great show every night and make that a goal.
Are you a studio first band or does this live passion follow to the studio?
It varies but I'm obsessed with arrangement, a song could take a year of practicing before going on a record, cutting off the fat and keeping the exciting stuff there. We have a pretty good understanding as band on when things are done and when they need work. We have an economy of ideas on how to experiment to tighten up arrangements. We're certainly a live-first band, Higher Power was a mission to do us in a club with some studio magic dust. We had an emphasis on a live record, not playing to a click track. We learned a lot of lessons on the record, and want to apply what we learned to make a more engaging and dynamic record coming up.
What is it about feedback that you like to work with?
I've always viewed the electric guitar as a two-part instrument, that I think a lot of people neglect. There's the relationship between the guitar and the amplifier, specifically with proximity, so I insisted for the record the guitar in the same room as the amplifier to generate that organic feedback, even if it's not a screeching feedback, but the organic harmonics of the sound from the speakers hitting the strings. I've always been suspicious of tracking guitar in a separate room since I'm always interested in that interplay to make the most amount of textures and different kinds of harmonic content out of the electric guitar. It's just really fun for me, and when you hear recordings where I'm isolated you just lose something. My favourite thing in the world is to drink coffee and play loud guitar, it's meditative. I want to continue that when we go to lay down a recording, and it fills in the gaps in the sound. It can do things you didn't intend where you work with the instrument and unintentionally create something because they don't 100% bend to your will, sometimes you're fighting with it. That kind of x-factor between you and the instrument makes me really excited to be playing it.
Do you think this JUNO nom is a ray of hope to bands from smaller towns and what does it mean to you in a broader sense?
Our parents are certainly excited but it's really a nice nod. I never thought this would happen on this record. When I listen to the squalls of feedback on the record I thought "I'm really proud of this" but I never thought it would get played on radio, so to get a well respected institution like the Junos is great thing, we don't take it lightly. I think that any band from any town can do it, it's just determination and tenacity. You have to forego living a standard 9-to-5 life, you have to throw yourself at it and make sacrifices but if you love what you do, anything's possible. To anybody thinking about doing it, go for it, it's the most fun thing, go America, Europe, our awesome country with your friends, it doesn't get much better. You might have times of mild existential contemplation, but if you love what you do and have good company, and work hard you can do anything. It sounds hokey but it's got us this far.
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rob March 26, 2017 9:28 am
Saw these guys twice in the last year and they absolutely stole the show on both accounts. They were the opening band but they played such furious conviction that the headliners should have just conceded and gone home. They readily engage with their fans and are just a cool bunch of guys. I hope the junos realize this and grace them with the award that they so much deserve!! | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '12', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9837364554405212}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '66247', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:CNIOWYIS47HMF6OF4UCF6WTIYGHF2WXG', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:8792e094-df0b-4360-94c7-f741883812ac>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 12, 14, 6, 4, 28), 'WARC-IP-Address': '66.212.242.9', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:XHYUSQJMGGPQX3MEYF3OF6H3SL2LYE3W', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:bb8f84a2-581f-47e5-a43b-59292632d0eb>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.ottawalife.com/article/juno-spotlight-the-dirty-nil?c=62', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:d222d428-5811-4c47-866e-5eb1edfde7ec>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1445', 'url': 'https://www.ottawalife.com/article/juno-spotlight-the-dirty-nil?c=62', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-51\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for December 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-153.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.15971601009368896', 'original_id': '528bab65382cd0bbb01d2724bb404bbb94785a3f7aecd0406335dbed5c94bb18'} |
Organic Cheese Tortellini Soup
Cheese Tortellini Soup
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• package of organic frozen tortellini from Whole Foods 365
• 3 fresh carrots sliced
Serves 2
How to make this yummy dish:
1) I put the stock in a pot to boil.
Voila! Serve hot!
Green Eggs Breakfast Sandwhich
Green Eggs Breakfast Sandwich
2 Organic Eggs
1/2 cup Spinach
Sprouted Grain English Muffin
Slice of Cheese (I only added this because I’m pregnant and needed calcium)
Mustard or organic butter
1) Defrost and toast the english muffin. Erik likes Dijon mustard on his, I put a little bit of organic butter.
2) chop your spinach and parsley and Mix in a bowl with your two eggs
3. Pan fry. I cover and fry for about 5-10 minutes until fully cooked.
4. I added cheese to mine, for more flavor, but for a healthy alternative leave this off.
5. Spread green eggs on muffin and enjoy!
Panko Chicken Nuggets
Homemade Panko Chicken Nuggets
I was looking for a healthy recipe that felt like I was being bad. I starting making these a couple years ago, and my husband absolutely loves them! I threw them on a salad, but you could do whichever sides you want.
2 slices of chicken breast
2 large eggs
Almond Meal/Flour (You can use regular flour, but we use almond flour in our house for a healthy alternative)
Panko breadcrumbs
Salt/pepper/spices of choice (I use garlic powder, oregano and paprika)
Coconut Oil for pan frying
1. Prepare three shallow bowls: One with just eggs scrambled, One with Almond Flour along with spices, and the third with Panko breadcrumbs.
2. Take your chicken breast and slice into thin slices. You can also pound the chicken if the pieces are too thick.
3. Dip each piece in the flour first, then in egg mixture, and finish with coating in the breadcrumb mix. Repeat with all the chicken strips.
4. Heat pan with coconut oil, and cook chicken slices for about 5 minutes each side. You can also bake them for 12-15 minutes at 350.
Taco Salad
Taco Salad
This recipe is thanks to my friend Jenny Avon. It’s her recipe with my twist. I love this salad, as it’s easy to throw together, and is an actual full meal. Try it and let me know your thoughts!
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Ingredients (Serves 2):
1/2 lb of ground turkey
Homemade Taco Seasoning: (Garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, cumin, celery seed, oregeno, cayenne, and a bay leaf)
Red Kidney Beans
Organic Corn Tortilla Chips
Organic Shredded Cheddar Cheese
Veges of Choice, here is what I put in:
Onion, Tomatoes, Cabbage, Lettuce, Avocado
Coconut oil for frying
Organic Thousand Island Dressing
Palo Alto Firefighters Pepper Sauce
1. Cook Ground turkey with a little bit of coconut oil. I just throw all the seasonings in with this and cook thoroughly.
2. I cut up all the vegetables I’m throwing in the salad, and put in a big bowl. Throw in some shredded Cheese, and crumble a little bit of corn tortilla chips.
3. Rinse the red kidney beans, and toss in.
4. Add ground Turkey and mix.
5. to make the dressing, use half of the thousand island dressing, and a few splashes of the pepper sauce depending on how spicy you like it.
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Chicken Stir Fry
Chicken Stir Fry
3 Ingredients
Soba Noodles
2 Chicken Breast (sliced into bit size pieces, marinated in Chaka’s Sauce)
1 onion
Sweet bell peppers
minced garlic
Coconut oil for frying
soy sauce
1. Cook Soba noodles per instructions (Three come in this package, just cook one in boiling water for 4 mins). Set aside
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2. In a wok pan, put some coconut oil, and throw in marinated chicken for about 15 minutes or until done.
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3. While chicken is cooking, chop up your vege’s.
4. Remove the chicken set aside. Throw in vegetables, minced garlic and some soy sauce. cook for a couple minutes.
There is Erik’s beer, he’s having tonight. haha 🙂
5. Put chicken and Soba noodles back in wok pan and heat. Serve immediately.
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How to rank YouTube videos channel?
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Well, you could rank them by views, but that really doesn't say much. What you need is some sort of algorithm to rank videos based on a number of factors. You will want to rank based partially on views, but also on audience retention, likes, and comments. If you were designing a video sharing site or a program, you would write up some sort of algorithm and it would calculate the rankings of the videos. If you are just a person wanting to know how to rank your videos, you could make up a formula to come up with a number. A quick formula I can come up with might be ((views) + 2(likes) + 3(comments)) * audience retention %. This is just something I made up in a few seconds, so don't use it, but it basically means that likes count 2x as much as views, comments count 3x as much as views. Then everything is multiplied by the audience retention %, which will be a decimal. This formula implies that audience retention is the largest factor into the ranking. So if the avg retention is 1%, the rank will be REALLY low, but if the retention is ~50%, the rank will be higher. Of course, this does not account for video length. Shorter videos tend to have better audience retention than longer ones, so if you wanted to account for that somehow, you could. (This is why I say it is easier to write a program). Finally, if you are trying to rank another person's videos, you do not have access to that audience retention, but you do have access to the views, likes, and comments. Make a formula accordingly. Note: I did not take into account dislikes. This is because people dislike videos for no reason most of the time. If you really want to include dislikes into your calculation, feel free.
Muhammad Zeeshan
- Aug 06, 2019 01:37 PM
Rank YouTube Videos Channel
I have been working on YouTube channels and videos for about 5 years now. The YouTube algorithm keeps changing. If you try to game the YouTube system for long, it might detect it which might not be good for your videos. So, it is always preferred to use the following method:
1. Create awesome videos which are shareable
2. Use attractive and relevant titles and thumbnails. Also, make sure your titles have the important keywords. Before uploading your videos, rename them with a temporary but relevant title which best describe your video, as it includes keywords too.
3. Describe your video. First two lines should contain a short teasing summary of your video. Rest of the body can contain other fine details and your social media and website URLs. You can also add playlist and subscibe links to make users watching more from you.
4. Keywords: Search for the keywords that best describe your content and are also searchable.
NOTE: Searching for best keywords can be a difficult and tiring task but its also an art. You can take help from online tools too. (Let me know in case you need a reliable tool)
5. Create Playlists and write a meaningful description for it which includes best keywords too.
6. Annotations & Cards: Check the Audience Retention graph on YouTube analytics to find where users are closing or leaving your video. Insert annotation before that time. Cards appear on mobile devices too. Place an annotation of your latest video on your most popular videos to give it an extra exposure.
7. CC (Closed Captions) or Subtitles: Write subtitles or closed captions for your videos. This not only increases your viewing audience, it also completes one of the search preference parameters and also the words in the transcript act as additional keywords.
8. Sharing: If your video is shareable, just share it with everyone and everywhere. Facebook, Twitter, Google+, emails, WhatsApp, messages, Blogs, etc. Join communities and create posts. If your viewers like it, they will share it with everyone else too.
9. Call-to-action: It is really important that you tell your viewers to share the video with their friends. They will do it automatically if they like it, but most of the times they don’t do it till you don’t ask for it. So, ask them (towards the end of your video)! If you don’t have an anchor or a presenter in the video, use text and graphics to pass on the message. You can also use annotations for this.
These are just basic must to dos. There can be a lot more which can be done. Let me know if you’re interested to know more.
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Saturday, January 24, 2009
Eschaton Surfing with Neil Kramer
This week’s SW podcast is a two-hour, labyrinthine exploration of consciousness with Neil “the Cleaver” Kramer. Neil opted for the End Times Oracle and took questions at random, but wound up talking about a subject we were both quite at home with, psychedelics (or as Neil prefers, “ethneogens”). Although I was aware of Neil’s presence upon the Imaginal Landscape of the alternate perceptions community, our paths only crossed a week or two ago, when I emailed him an invite onto SW. And right glad I am that I did. NK has his own, highly idiosyncratic take on things but (on the basis of our first chat at least) it’s almost wholly in sync with my own, yet without being too similar to allow for that crucial element of creative friction. Unlike JK (with whom I also feel an affinity), NK has no qualms about allowing the darker undercurrents of consensus reality to inform the self-transformation process and give it the “bite” or “thrust” which (in my opinion) it so sorely needs. Despite his talent for marketing galactic consciousness (evidenced by his sister site), NK is the antithesis of “New Age,” and even though his perspectives are shaped by his no doubt many psychedelic excursions, they’re grounded in a firm awareness of psychology that, to my mind, is wholly indispensable in this field (that of alchemy and consciousness management). Yet, for all that, such psychological grounding is extremely rare. Listen in for yourself (the podcast is in two parts, next one up this coming Wednesday), and share your thoughts at this thread. I think you will be pleasantly surprised.
The new counterculture is rapidly taking form within this imaginal landscape which the Net has made possible; there can be little doubt that something wonderful—as well as terrible—is happening, right here, right now. A provisional new reality is emerging before our eyes, a new consensus a-forming.
Collin said...
Hey Aeolus and Neil, I really enjoyed the first part of this conversation about entheogens. After a scare with LSD-25 that left me jarred I have decided to discontinue my use of LSD.
I came to a realization however about a proccess that all of us are going through along the lines of obtaining a CREATOR MIND or as Terrence Mckenna may have said that we are in the process of being birthed into our own imaginations.
The experience to me reminded me of the peak of a few LSD experiences I had where all of the eyes looking in on the eyes became apparent or the realization that we are all super-conciousness in the realms of the non-duality.
Do you think its possible to reach that profound inner space without the use of LSD where I may even encounter that very specific state of being as a creator mind? and on that same note what in your minds do you see as the natural evolution of this ALL MIND, what is cosmos leading us toward?
Easy on the embittered nihilism please.
Black Light in the Attic Podcast said...
Alright! I'm downloading the interview now, but this is a pleasant surprise! I was talking with KMO, host of the C-Realm podcast, and he was saying that Kramer would be a perfect guest for this show after hearing your spot on BLITA, and here it is!
I admire Kramer's writing immensely, and every time he does an interview it's a grand slam. He does not seem to waste words!
Good stuff. . .
Collin said...
Intelligent Design
Collin said...
Just on the thought of psychedelics...
You know LSD has left such an imprint on my conciousness that even now I have moments of "stirring in my sleep" Like last night I had what I guess you could label a schizophrenic episode or a flashback where nothing meant something, it meant more then soemthing it meant I was having a dialogue with my radiator and that dialogue had to do with time stoppers, people who have reached a point in there conciousness where just by there presence we transform peoples chaotic active minds to a harmonious tone or "HIGHER OCTAVE" of conciousness are being seen as BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS and that we are seen as a threat to mass society, I dont know what all of it meant but it left me feeling very scared of my sanity and even having a little bit too much paranoia where I felt like I was going insane and I just have no idea what all of this non-sense means but I want it to STOP.
I wish I never took LSD.
but now I am stuck, I am stucking with FUCKING splinter in my mind and my daily experience is tarnished by this waking dream and I can live it but it just leaves me with a bitter taste in my mouth.
This is even more INSANE so fucking INSANE I dont even believe it myself but while I was having this completely illussory conversation I heard a high pitch noise go off in my left ear and I dont know what that means or maybe its just nothing at all but the words SCANNER IMPLANT comes to mind.
Now maybe somebody with a bit of information could calm me down because I'm basically a sanely insane person in an insane world feeling like I am the insane one and the last thing I want to do is to go stereotypically running through the streets pointing up to the god forsaken sky about flying saucesr and invisble intelligence agents attacking my dreams.
Fuck ACID.
Collin said...
On a side note:
I never wanted any of this shit you know? I am a regular dude who wanted to have a good time and now im PAYING THE PRICE for feeling NICE.
And you know what it? Fuck It.
Is this just a fucking Alien Conspiracy? what the fuck is this? I need an Identity my ego is REELING IN TERROR and I am just fucking happy I have a home to live in thats clean and I want a dog and a piece of cake on my birthday and a fucking HDTV set and a well paying job and to travel and fuck strippers and if scotty needs to beam me up, spell it out for me, what the fuck are we dealing with and why am I so fucking insane.
Dude, is this fucking STAR SHIP TROOPERS? fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!
I need a space shuttle if this shit hits the fan beacuse fuck it ALIENS SUCK.
aeolus kephas said...
thanks Collin, for sharing with us all a living example of the danger of PREMATURE UNPLUGGING through use of entheogens. Def. be curious to hear others' perceptions of this. Myself, tho I do not regret having used psychotropic substances to move my assemblage point to positions way beyond my power to fully assimilate, and altho I would probably even do it again given a chance to live my life over, i would now be very cautious about recommending it to others (or, as I did also, administering the red pill to others).
But i don't think we can blame the substances for causing the splinter, because it's the splinter that drives us to seek other perceptions of reality in the first place.
The danger is ever of ego-inflation and/or of using transcendental experiences as a means to escape mundane realities, such as flying dreams, which feel great, but often suggest a lack of grounding, an inability to be fully present in the body.
Flying for the sake of it is counter-productive. We need to figure out first of all where we need to get to before using this magikal potential. Same applies to entheogens. Otherwise what we do is access states of awareness that make it harder to live in this reality, because the contrast they create is too great.
kevin lewis said...
maybe your higher self is telling you that you want more than what you outlined in that last post, or that you don't actually want that at all, and possibly your ego is fighting it to the death(which you pretty much said), hence your obvious extreme anxiety.
find ways to actualize your SELF and enjoy your ego at the same time. this sounds like your "dark night of the soul". and mine was certainly of use in the end.
some ideas for harnessing a more healthy mindset might be:
1. change your diet. try to eat as much organic real whole foods as possible. having a diet comprised of just 50% raw vegetables can do wonders for one's psyche.
2. meditate, with practice you may be able to reach a bit outside of your ego, but with the control to end the "trip" thus making it much easier to understand what you're "downloading".
3. go outside.
4. follow your personal synchronicities and see that within you is at least as much joy as there is terror.
aeolus, thank you for your work. i have thoroughly enjoyed everything i have consumed from your blog since finding it. your lense is one much needed in this field. be well.
lancifer said...
Just last week I finished listening to each of Neil Kramer's appearances on Red Ice and the C-Realm show, and now he appears on Stormy Weather. I'm a big fan of NK so the more interviews he does then all the merrier.
I'm wondering what the significance of all the K's are in this social circle. AK, JK, NK, KMO from C-Realm, and even past guest Cary McCoy has the K-sound in his name. I'm sure you could weave this into JK's K2 material if you wanted.
Salvia is somewhat strange as no one is exactly sure how and where it originated. There are three popular theories as to it's origin, but they're only theories. Salvia is legal to obtain in the States, but I wouldn't recommend it at all to anyone unless they've already been previously introduced to other ethneogens and they have done some spiritual and mental preparation.
This reminded me of the Deeksha and oneness movement. Supposedly just by being in the same room as Indian guru (I forget his name) one can experience an influx of divine energy and enter a state of oneness. There seems to be a whole new religion being built on this idea and there are thousands of "oneness facilitators" here in the States that will administer a transfer of divine energy for you.
My girlfriend and I went to investigate a oneness session in our area to see if there was anything to it. We came away with the feeling that the group we participated in was lead by nothing but a charlatan.
If there was something to this then I could see everyone in the movement declared as biological weapons as Collin suggested. The war on terror would shift into a war on consciousness.
Black Light in the Attic Podcast said...
Collin. . .first off, just chill bro. You're experiencing some wild perceptions and I've been there. The first thing you need to do is breathe deeply, remember that you are in consensus reality, and laugh.
Being in consensus reality means that you can use those "normal" perceptions to stabilize yourself.
Get up in the morning. Go to work. Come home, jerk off, and sleep well. The universe will keep on turning, as they say.
Now, since you've calmed yourself, explore you insanity a bit. Where is it taking you? What messages could be gleaned from it?
If it's not too cold where you are, I recommend a nice walk outside, especially in a forest or something. Trees seem to have a calming, almost healing effect on my psyche and maybe that will help you, too!
Hang in there man, this is a crazy dream we're in and it can be difficult to keep your balance when you get knocked around a bit.
auroragirl said...
Hi Collin. It sounds like you might need to be around some mundane reality. When I am feeling particularly anxious, I like to go to the grocery store for awhile to get out of my own head. And if you want cake, then you should make yourself a cake and invite someone over to have a cake party, or maybe just some milk and cookies. Or try an Epsom Salts bath (2 or 3 cups of Epsom Salts in a tub of nice, hot water...soak for at least 15 min) and then take a nap, or wrap up in a blanket and watch some Marx Brothers or Laurel and Hardy (or anything lighthearted, silly and non-frightening). Or put on some Mozart (not Don Giovanni, though). But do something ordinary to sooth and ground yourself. When a person becomes a psychonaut (spontaneously or with assisted with pshycedelics), they have to learn to take very good care of themselves or their health will suffer. Please take care of yourself.
aeolus kephas said...
The safest and most natural avenue to inner space, as you rightly call it, is through dreaming. By allowing the mind to remain alert while the body enters a state of relaxation, thereby entering into dreamtime consciously, it's possible to observe the movements of the assemblage point and so begin to fine-tune one's awareness from local to non-local, mundane to cosmic. For consciousness to go deeper into the physical rather than exteriorizing and hurling itself into the cosmos is very much key here, which is why Kevin stresses diet. All the secrets of sorcery are found in the human body itself. Not only that, but the body itself is a natural sorcerer, as the animals are natural sorcerers, so all the mind has to do is allow that magik to unfold, and observe it as dispassionately as possible, without giving into the kind of ego-inflated euphoria or dismay which Collin has been giving us a demonstration of lately!
In the end, all we have to do as "sorcerers" is TAKE CARE OF THE PHYSICAL VEHICLE. The rest - the spirit, the sorcery - takes care of itself.
Collin said...
A CAKE Party is now in store for me !! and so is some raw foodism.
Alright so basically its simple, aliens exist, I probally have some kind of implant, we are all probally some kind of laser wielding jedis in higher dimensions and the new age movement is a biological weapon in the eyes of invisible secret agents that act through attractor fields of fear to lure in the tight rope walkers to there untimely and unjustly demise in our society under the guise of a schizophrenic episode and we are all basically just double thinking here and this bitch of reality is a dream that we are all just being awoken from and it stings like a bitch because who wants to see flying saucers when no one else can and who wants to be THAT GUY.
For Real.
And as for my ego its all relativley tamed except when I have a bad hair day like today and I just need to go get a hair cut because I look like that mushroom from SUPER MARIO and as for some assemblage point moving I think ill keep it to the realms of the linear and instead ill let you acid dropping, salvia divinorum smoke, peyote injesting intergalactic travelers take the hits and misses for me while I just sit back and soak in all the information you hommies are bringing in from outside the consensus beacuse I've basically recieved the STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN COSMIC SMACK DOWN.
And im just going to get seriously into meditation and dissolve my ego and "tend to my own garden so to speak" so when Im an entrepreneur ill just be fighting the cosmic battle from within the machine world and let my higher self just take care of the pussified alien conspiracy theory crack pot seemingly TRUTH of the matter and im just going to lock and load my fucking merkabah and hold down my apartment with nails and get laid because thats what this is all about some serious sorceress pussy and thats just the end of it and I can have my cake and eat it too thank you very much Aeolus Kephas and your inspirational ACID induced slow talking, its just a dream lucid interplantery global catastrophe reptilian booty shaking bad blood feuding grey alien conspiracy theory free loev hippes homosexual intercourse hyperbola because fuck REALITY IS A BITCH.
Later ladies and gentlemen!
Maybe ill get amazed down the line and be inspired to go upnorth driving my rolls royce up to the beautiful country side and shamanize it up with some mexican magic mushrooms.
Collin said...
But you know I really like this blog and I am moving more and more on the way to lucidity and I really am just not feeling like having my awareness devoured by attractor fields of some very fear based magnitude. I just want to live a beautiful harmonic existence and roam the world everywhere knowing that I will never find home because thats just the way it is and if anybody wants to talk more about what the nature of what is after the veil drops please go into detail because I am very fascinated by the double think implications and perhaps making double thinking concious is what I need and what others need to do to bring a new found level of clarity to everything we are discussing here.
I appreciate your writings Aeolus and I agree with many of the things you have to say however we will see how the cookie crumbles as far as the apocalypse goes, I think thats just giving into another evil sorcerers meme to enslave humanity and turn them into exploding fools more then usual and again your a very well spoken person and I like your slow talking but get a little bit more peppy and add some funky samples of star trek or something to make people laugh as a suggestion.
Quit your job and get on welfare, I am sure your book will sell like the movie hard candy.
Collin said...
Thoth_Pavel said...
Collin, LSD-25 has not been made by Sandoz in over 40 years. The 'brand' you took, is only as good as the underground chemist or the supplier. That is the play concept of altering 'reality'. Stick to green tea, beer, wine and cigarettes, if the 'drugs' hurt so much. I'd mention absinthe, but it has the ability to actually enhance dreaming and altered states, beneficial to creative functioning people that tend to listen to Stormy Weather.
Right now Collin i'm seeing an authoritarian attitude coming from you, if not deception. Excuse me if your post reads like a -just say no to drugs because you will lose your mind, or your soul?, puff piece. So what is the Agenda? The link to the video you left is for a cartoon, titan a.e., are those the 'aliens' you are seeing or is it outright mockery of those that actually have an open mind to other living realities? Hard Candy our Juno resonator ends in suicide. Who is the warning for? "I think thats just giving into another evil sorcerers meme to enslave humanity"
So slavery, evil drugs, suicide? Is it just me? or is there not some kind of 'group' think involved here? What do you want us to do Collin? Say no to drugs? say not to satan? give up sex and rock n roll?
Thoth_Pavel said...
Hi, Aeolus, Neil.
Fascinating as always, i noticed a link to the megaliths, stone circles of the U.K. and the 6 cavities of Aeolus. The dmt salvia trip, 'kundalini' current or 'serpent' energy as linking to 'bad teeth' was covered in the Serpent and the Disk, by Fw Holiday. So your theory of 'traveling' to another dimension Aeolus, and 'aging' teeth, maybe it's the 'other world' entities like 'eating' bone marrow, or teeth. I have the paperback lying somewhere, and it's been over a decade since i read it. But i remember that Fuller looked at local mythology of scotland, ireland, england as referencing winged disks, and serpents. That -bad teeth were linked to the phenomena of 'lock serpents'. The occult saying of you eat, i eat, the 'astral' world eats too. The psychic shaman view of 'ufo's, and serpents linking to lochs, dolmens, megaliths, of these creatures tied to 'sky gods'. The ethnogens 'meeting' of dragons that tell the seeker 'that they created reality, and mankind', only for the shaman to snort they always say that. Dragons hiding out in the dream mind of the earth, hiding from 'something' in deep space was one of Terence Mckenna's concepts in archaic revival.
Oracles, if one takes the '6' of the tooth symbolism and looks at the 212 pages of lucid view, in gematria, taught by 'godlike' beings from 'elsewhere'. The sum after division is 35.33333333333. Decimal system did not exist for 'gematria' so the number is 353, linking to Hermes. Hermes is the god of boundaries and the psychonauts that cross them. The Caduceus would point towards your future work, Homo Serpiens. The dna serpent spiral, lifting up mankind towards the heavens we fell from.
Jim said...
"The dna serpent spiral, lifting up mankind towards the heavens we fell from."
Ayahuasca - Yacumama - Sumiruna
Thoth_Pavel said...
Ayahuasca - Yacumama - Sumiruna
These are serious compounds, As Neil says, valid tools for knowledge.
That is the view i have as well, but what do you, we, psychonauts bring back? Terence Mckenna saw the UFO, star travel secret as being just short of waking up. The concept of travel to other stars, being revealed in dreams. The Ayahuasca shamans talk of knowledge even 'new plants' coming back from the visions of the plants, group mind, esp, singing, trees.
hmm, i'm thinking again to Aeolus the 6 cavities, and energy raised by psychedelics, perhaps the 'dentist' concept was to find the next trip, nitrous oxide. That is back as an anesthetic. Nitrous, laughing gas was, and is seen as the 'artistic liberator'. Lots written about the insights you get on it, but that disappear like the elf, fairy goblin gold, when the enchantment fades. I'm remembering a story years back, Canadian politician, ndp, -nice left-wing socialist atheists. Well this well respected politician went to a dentist, took a 'sleeping' pill. She had an out of body experience, saw the room and dentist at work. Evidently her body did not react well, emergency revival needed. But damn did the skeptics swing into full damage control. An intellectual atheist talking about 'survival' or astral travel, out of the body, cannot have that. This is the danger of this type of play. As long as the people involved are of the 'creative' type, then that is fine. When it spreads to recreational use, and the insights, start coming in linking towards the ancient occult knowledge. That is a threat.
Sorcery, witchcraft, new age black magick, are all criminal or signs of madness. James Roszko the Edmonton gun man that ambushed and killed 4 cops, over a grow operation of '20 plants'. Well the report lists as 'disturbing', "Books on magic and dream interpretation and tarot cards."
So who else follows these blogs? we are dealing with imaginal realms, abilities to see the future, manipulate it, to travel anywhere time or place. None of would be here if the esoteric, or the occult, or just the drugs did not work. Marilyn Mansons song, "i don't like the drugs but the drugs like me", may hold more truth than we realize. Certainly drugs can open doorways, quickly to the other 'worlds'. But even skeptics dream, hell i know atheists that ran into a few ghost episodes, chalking it up to 'marijuana' use, as if that made it any less real.
aeolus kephas said...
the "drugs" can accelerate a natural mutation process but this as likely causes physical breakdown (ala McKenna and Hicks) as it does actual transformation.
In the end i think they are needed to dislodge the assemblage point, i.e., shock the apprentice (and any entheogen user is that, even if s/he flies solo) out of his/her reality tunnel - "stop the world" - so that our fixed idea of reality - the hold of our identity - is softened/loosened. After that major, temporary shift from neuro-typical (NT), focused awareness to shaman/autist UNfocused awareness (out of mind, into body), it's up to us to DO THE WORK, without the entheogens - to make that AP move through natural techniques either outer-focused (STALKING) or inner directed (DREAMING).
Again, all we need (including DMT!) is in the body itself; externally administered jolts via entheogens - according to Castaneda and also my own experience - "do untold harm to the body."
It figures they would, because if we have these substances in ourselves, why take them externally save as a means to become accustomed to them, and thereby learn to harness our natural, inner supplies of "mind-altering soma"?
(Soma = body)
Accessing the energy body = waking the kundalini. In both cases, premature activation of the sleeping serpent of "junk" DNA = not enlightenment but death.
Sounder said...
I am the water boy shuffling buckets between the sideliners and the gas masters.
auroragirl said...
I noticed the "anti drug" rhetoric in Collin's rants, too. Is it possible that someone is trying to link an emerging counterculture to drug use and so criminalize a new way of being-in-the-world? Is someone again trying to link drug use with heightened awareness or imply that drugs are neccessary to do what shamans/autists do, or to link "counter culture" with antisocialism? It may be that what makes the emerging culture "counter" is its kind of conciousness (just like the former "counter culture" was originally about a different way of seeing and being in the world), but the general public does;t know this. It seems to me that the authorities actually destroyed the blossoming counterculture of the '60's by emphasizing its drug use aspects to turn the perceptions of the public in the direction that the controllers wanted it to go. First they cast suspicion on higher conciousness, then they commercialised the counterculture ideal, so that people could BUY it and didn't have to LIVE it. So it would be a shame if we let the controllers hijack this blossoming counterculture by accidentally identifying it (in the public mind) with drug use (by emphasising entheogens in our discussions). Look how the controllers managed to make the public fear free people and that they made it seem that if people were free i.e. not controlled by a system of tyrannical laws, they would automatically murder, rape, steal, etc. I think it is important to emphasize that what drugs do is simply give people a glimpse of what a free conciousness can be like and make sure that it is made very clear to the general public that heightened awareness makes people LESS likely to harm others. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think we must not let this emerging counterculture be identified, however wrongly, with drug use, but instead let it be known that we already have everything we need to attain higher states of conciousness. In other words, maybe we should be very circumspect about the discussion of entheogens so as not to induce a backlash from the dominant culture and emphasize the endogenous souces of higher conciousness instead.
p.s. This has nothing to do with the current discussion, but Feb 2 is the first day of Spring, not mid-winter day. Listen to the birds...on Feb 3, the spring/mating bird sounds will begin. If you are up at sunrise, the sound is unmistakeable. And if the sap is running, then its spring, no matter what anyone else would have us believe.
Collin said...
I hate to be the bringer of bad news but I definatly see the value in "entheogenic plants" or shit that grows and gets you high or moves your assemblage point and brings to a higher octave of conciousness.
I am definatly not a say no to drugs kind of person, I think that an exploration of your conciousness is called for at least a few times in your life but in my opinion anything other then a few times is an indulgence that comes from over identification with shamanism which is just a path you can take.
I think the real medecine people dont take synthetic chemicals they ingest plants often in rural settings and I personally hold the belief currently that taking them out of that context is just stupid because your living in an information explosion and jolting yourself out of the consensus on a technological cityscape grid is about as crazy as it gets because the chances for exploding your head into unrepairable realms are very possible and we all know how fancy you dingos area about chasing butterfly.
However, at this point in my own life, as my own personal choice and I am not saying your all a bunch of druggies, I have chosen to abstain from continuing my use of illegal narcotics for a few raesons. 1.) A "spiritual" person i know who used to sell acid is sitting in prison right now facing a long sentence and his asshole wont be very high in vibration after he spends sucking cock for cigarettes.
The second being.
I am just on a path of health and ill have you know I did a little shopping at the natural health food store today and went walking on the mountain not to far from my home and it cost me a few extra dollars to feel really good by eating half a box of raw food sprouts.
And thats how the cookie crumbles.
Thoth_Pavel said...
auroragirl, i agree with the 'counterculture' but this 'drug' magick and art culture is as old as mankind, and probably older. The controllers are everywhere, and they are not only aware of drugs but of the other worlds. The drugs or madness or simply making someone poor by mocking their 'beliefs' is one way of control. Builders, stonecutters, masonic magicians, they go by many names, if you experiment enough, you sooner or later run into them. Elitists always have access, to the forbidden, Egyptian mummy's with red and blonde hair, that had traces of cocaine when tested, kind of makes Columbus discovering the new world quaint. Drug use goes back a long time as do the mixing of races and cultures. South American carvings of all the races on the planet exist. But we deal with parapolitical and 'paranoid conspiracy' in this subject. Aeolus has covered this very well in The Lucid View. But people want the simple easy way. The red pill in the matrix, led to the betrayal of Cypher crying over his nice safe little existence. I only mentioned Marilyn Manson, in the above post not for his counter culture stance, but for his occult and esoteric beliefs. The drugs work, magick works, writing, art are forms linking to both the drugs and the 'astral realms'. Aeolus is right, we do have these chemicals within us, and they are strictly controlled because the forbidden is that much more interesting than, getting it at the mall. But these days you can get most drug ware, including herbal concoctions at most malls in North America. I mean sure there are religious areas, and heavy political or police control in some areas, but the stuff is there. With the web, most ancient occult knowledge is freely available. Maybe why controllers are heading towards web 2.0. Where you will not be able to log on without thumbprint or eyescan linked to a credit card. WE KNOW YOU are at all times and costs. I'm very open minded about all this. Skeptics like to think of creative 'types' as suckers that believe anything and everything. I've found that at least in the magickal view, this stuff changes, with the observer. Don't want the drugs? google meditation music, hemi sync, brain sync, binaural beats. Some of it is expensive some of it isn't all -work. Dream work is the easiest, we all sleep so just get used to 'controling' the dream, interacting with it. Tibetan magick used to be based on controling 'dreams'. Once that was learned, well -reality is just as plastic, as easy to change. Power is in us all, the question is what to do with it.
auroragirl said...
Hi, ThothPavel and Collin. All I'm saying is that I'd hate to see the new counterculture give the controllers or the dominant culture any excuse to murder it in its cradle, thats all. I personally think people should be able to do whatever they want to do, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else (and I mean real harm, not just metaphorical harm).
Collin said...
I think we all need to sit back behind our computer screens and laugh cosmically at the passion play of right and wrong and know that it matters about as much as fake tits on a giraffe wearing hot pants.
So... what kind of light side sorcery practices can we play with for fun and astral profit? completely on light side of the force of course.
I like to Om Namaha Shivaya It Up while I dance around my apartment with a hand made wooden hammer that I made thats just so harmonically bad ass that it just makes all the shadow elements pee their panties.
zane said...
Have really enjoyed listening to the last few shows (hey...the previous ones weren't pebbles in my running shoes either).
Salvia...I'm just hoping there's not too much overt talk about her so that the mind-police and culture-croppers figure it's time to throw up the barbed-wire around another plant...these elders deserve our love and respect...
Sooo...while I hear similarities of experience, I also hear quite a great diversity with ska Maria Pastora... A "close friend of mine" has been walking in the inner gardens with her for, uh...about eight or nine years I guess...sporadically. "He" tells me that even he has quite different types of experiences...some which have allowed a certain amount of intentional control (although "control" is prob. not the best word)...and at other times, things just happen. Like other plants though, at lower levels of consumption, she can help out with quite a few different issues "shamanically" if you will...
As for the question as to whether or not you can go to the same place/places "without" the consumption of entheogenic plantentities...I'd say "yeah." But plants, as wild as they can get sometimes still might be more dealwithable than the "aliens" or the torture...possibly you can bypass some stuff via meditation or even "simply" intense philosophical meditations (e.g. Sankara or Nagarjuna)... On another note, try some self-administered NLP or other magical techniques to recreate particular states...
"Re-Creation" - sounds good to me. Entheogens and recreation...while my puritanical cells kinda scrunch up their microscopic noses at the more fun-loving and wholistic selflets suggest "why not?" as long as there are some safety parameters put in place to preserve us and other(u)s from the more idiotic and dangerous potentialities...
The "stuck in the conspiracy" issue...glad you talked about this a's an issue I deal with at times...and tying yourself up in informational (or disinformational) knots can really make surfing samsara kind of a drag. Gnowing that in some way, "I"ve put up with complex control shit before and it may have even killed me a few times but like W. Coyote "I" manage to make "i"t back again for another round kinda lightens the load...and yes...good friends help...and a playful approach to life and a more-or-less awareness that even the scum-sucking-illuminati-control-freaks with low "Green-ray" emissions are applicable to "tatvam asi" or as Simon Magus put it (though not in English) "Thou and I are but One." When I get a little too "glass half fullish" I try to tell myself that the half that's there is some pretty good wine...
Ok...enough for now...looking forward to the next portion of this dialog... Peace.
zane said...
Oh yeah...and A.K., I bought your book a while ago and enjoyed it...and have been recommending it...maybe you should send a copy to Oprah and dust off your suit and tie for the big-time...(wink)
lancifer said...
I've found that I can reach the same "places" as I can with enthneogens if I use the techniques and methods that G. I. Gurdjieff, Peter D. Ouspensky, and Boris Mouravieff recommend. If anyone is interested in the slower down-to-earth pace instead of the rocket pack then their work might be worth looking into.
Collin said...
Thank you lancifer for the email.
I think I am coming to terms with my cosmic predicament and my ego is beginning to make way for the real me take the lead and I jsut cant wait to see who I become in the proccess of time and through no-mind meditation go deeper and deeper still into our endless mind.
Thoth_Pavel said...
you are using symbolism in your posts linking to 'masonic' elements. I'm seeing a 'soldier' at work here, whether the words of 'masonic magicians', or the fact, that people frequenting this blog are on to the illusion of reality of the so-called real world. Looking at your last series of posts, either you are using terms meant to show your 'colors', an upcoming brother, or fallen brother, or else you are trying to implicate the brotherhood.
Terms like 'Creator mind' as in Great Architect,or providence. Paying the price, -paying your dues. A skeptical inquiry into esoteric believers, maybe you are just a researcher, july 2,3 has a Masonic conference in Nice, an open call for papers. diffusion and Circulation of Masonic Practices in Europe and in the Mediterranean. I mean anyone using terms like biological weapons, and terrorism in their posts is -trying to get A.I. Echelon computers watching this blog. Your narrative of 'Scanners', as it 'relates' to the Canadian connection, the Synchromystics, Scanners, by David Cronenberg, "There are 4 billion people on earth. 237 are Scanners. They have the most terrifying powers ever created... and they are winning. 237 resonates to 12, in gematria. Cronenberg, kind of like the Canadian Stanley Kubrick has openly discussed the -government crackdown on his early work. That tax shelter investments, were later used as an 'incentive' by government agencies to investigate, the 'films', and philosophy of the artist. It did not hurt arts in Canada, but it did show the 'control' mechanism at work. Cronenberg was basically given an open -book, to make a movie, you have this much cash, this much time, -do it. The man investigates the imaginal realms, giving way to 'shockwaves' through out the same system that got him into the 'collective consciousness'. That there was outright surveillance and hostility to a rather tame, intellectual, artist. Naked Lunch, the impossible 'to film' William S. Burroughs, trip, is flawed but interesting, how do you show drug revelations in 'hollywood'.
Collin reference star trek shifts back to the old masonic Gene Roddenberry link, the 'egyptian' nine, and magick mushrooms of parapsychologist Andrija Puharich.
So what is the agenda here? I asked this before. That you are seeing aliens and 'getting' attacked by men in black(masons). You have referenced 'homosexual' or gay lifestyle as if that would shock or bait anyone here. This is a paranoid worldview blog, after all, paranoid in the sense we are 'aware'. So back to the question Collin what 'group' are you with? A giraffe wearing hotpants if it's not pointing at a predilicatio towards bestiality, well Giraffe's eat acacia leaves. Acacia being a major symbol for our masonic black magicians. Your hand made wooden hammer which is actually a funny 'new age' image. I don't know what is more amusing, a new age pagan watching the sun rise, while doing a sacred ritual with home made magical tools or you dancing around you apartment with the hammer. Tell us Collin are you wearing your pure lambskin apron while you do the dance?
The synchromystics view of hammers would point to Pink Floyd the wall, marching hammers in the film, or Clive Barker the 'gay' current you seem infatuated with. Hellraiser's use of Hammers and 'rubick's' cube access to other dimensions and the cenobites. A wooden hammer is every masons 'symbol' of tools towards spiritual perfection. So i ask again Collin, you are very well spoken for a burnt out 'former' drug abuser, being molested by 'greys' or giraffes, or fear of getting raped in prison. As for the new age -white light magicians, if you read Lucid View you would know that we are here because we are not all 'white light' and new age.
aeolus kephas said...
Here are a few of the standard tactics of Operatives and/or Agents of Disruption:
They never actually discuss issues head on or provide constructive input.
They tend to pick and choose their opponents carefully... Should a commentator become argumentative with any success, the focus will shift to include the commentator as well.
The net result for a disinfo artist is that emotions can seem artificial. ... no amount of criticism will deter them from doing their job, and they will generally continue their old disinfo patterns without any adjustments to criticisms of how obvious it is that they play that game --
(for full article:
Collin has been taking up a disproportionate amount of the board space considering how much of it has really been useful food for discussion. Is Collin seeking attention and performing handstands and cartwheels to get it, thereby being disruptive without actually meaning to be so? Or is there a conscious intent behind it? Either way, as the MC of the blog, I have to ask that he cease and desist. Hey Collin, back off a bit and let the rest of us discuss some stuff besides your own personal meltdowns (and suspiciously rapid recoveries); if you want to take part, try and match the tone and pace of the discussions already going on here. When in Rome... Otherwise you are sabotaging whether you actually mean to or not, and if you keep on doing it after having this pointed out to you, we can only assume it's deliberate...
Bottom line, it's my task to keep this blog in line with the intent set for it; this means keeping the discussions on track, and preventing too much noise from interfering with the signal. When this happens, as with this present thread, people will start to lose interest and become discouraged from posting, or even reading. So what I am really saying is: ease off on the noise some, dude! Sit tight, quieten down, and pay attention. You might even learn something.
auroragirl said...
Hi aeolus. I thought this second part of the interview with Neil was just wonderful. It is refreshing that, like you, he makes no bones about there being a black, Satanic element that controls our world.
And thankyou for addressing the subject of disinfo.
Thoth_Pavel said...
Aeolus, Neil, any chance these transcripts will be available in print form sometime? A lot of info to keep track of in a podcast, i end up listening to this stuff a couple of times. Castenada work rings true, i had an anthropologist tell me once, to not 'let' the skeptics turn my mind from the ideas in his work. This same rational 'academic' also told me, not to ignore Von Daniken's 'chariots of fire', in hindsight, Daniken's gold of the gods, was discredited over failing to 'find' ancient peru library. Now the story is coming out that he got the story right, George Lucas fictionalized the 'location' in Indiana Jones and the crystal skull. Part of the 'hidden truth' is ancient lost civilizations as Neil, discussed. Off the coast of cuba a canadian treasure hunting ship picked up miles of 'stone' city, and pyramids. That story vanished off the radar pretty fast. Another sonar vessel picked up a lost american fighter plane, and the 'disc' in the mud next to it. The famous story of the jet, and the disc becoming one on radar and vanishing. So we deal with a very complex universe. Archetypes and ghosts, myths that 'evidence' appears, but is then ignored, until it vanishes from people's overloaded minds. said...
I have to say Aeolus thats a very interesting post you just made and I dont feel like I have been very disruptive of all. Actually I feel like I have been doing exactly what I should be doing and thats playing Devils Advocate and challenging peoples ideas head on by contradicting them with some of my own experience as well as being unreactive in the face of over reactions that are just designed to create drama.
I think that we are losing the focus of this thread and that was to discuss entheogens in relationship to conciousness and how we percieve entheogens and the subjective experiences we have had with them I hope this is not to much of a mouthful and to the layreader
What I am saying is that:
We are all trying to filter as much useless information out as possible as explorers of conciousness we need to develop clear thinking and vision and really just becareful how and where we are stepping to if my dramatic queries and antics offend some readers I would urge them to think practically because I myself am somebody who is sharing knowledge like I do on my own blog...
I think we really need to keep it calm collected and to add value here to perhaps really open up a message board where we can start topics and really get into the topics we are interested in here like planetery mind shifts and cosmic conciousness as well as the unchartered aspects of our conciousness and to map the unseeable for people to follow I mean my intention on your blog here Aeolus is really a contributory one if you look at it from a higher perspective I am trying to propogate serious thinking so people dont go out and get Acid Burned and wind up in a looney hospital, lets just becareful here okay?
and you can get a free forum from or google free message boards and you can check my down to earth and practical blog out at maybe It will explain a bit more about myself.
Cease & Desist? Aeolus you are the farthest thing from a LAWYER.
Leon Basin said...
Beautiful website you have here:)
Sounder said...
Abraham Heschel says that one has free will only when ones will matches the will of God. This makes sense because if ‘what you want to do’ is correct then the Universe does not have to do its re-regulating routine.
Folk that have interest may improve their ‘creative field uplink’, yet the ‘artists’ that try (in our culture) spend most effort ‘filling the gap’, created by our acceptance that dualistic appearances represent reality itself. This results in an uplink that is tainted by a reactive relation to existing forms, rather than a constructive relationship that has a better chance of finding greater substance within the forms.
The depth of our discovery of (the nature of) Universe is moderated by the reactive or unclean connection between consciousness and external appearances. My personal solution is to attempt to balance order and liberty within consciousness. This then provides confidence and a shield from being taken in by unbalanced expressions of consciousness.
My old sig. line at RI reflects my attitude towards the PTMB. (And WE are the powers that make believe.)
“Here are occultic secrets hidden in plain view. Negative relations between order and liberty create problems (profits), while positive relation’s only produces happiness and contentment.”
Jim said...
I like what you say Sounder, especially about free will and divine will being aligned. Makes sense. Thanks.
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Know Nothing said...
Hi AK,
What a great interview. I liked that you chose kind of an unconventional format.
I think the word association gave the listeners an interesting and fresh perspective on Neil and his work.
Great work, I look forward to hearing and reading more.
Steve Savage "King of the Beasts" said...
You may want to check this out?
Steve Savage "King of the Beasts"
By V.S. Ramachandran
An Edge Original Essay
V.S. RAMACHANDRAN is a Neuroscientist, Director, Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego; Author, Phantoms in the Brain.
Consider the following disorders which illustrate different aspects of self.
• In another disorder the patient, with damage to the anterior cumulate, develops "kinetic muftis". He lies in bed fully awake and alert but cannot talk or walk—indeed doesn't interact in any way with people or things around him. Sometimes such patients wake up (when given certain drugs ) and will say "I knew what was going on around me but I simply had no desire to do anything ". It was if he had selective loss of one major attribute of the self— free will".
auroragirl said...
Hi Steve. Does't the "problem" of "qualia" come down to the way "science" tries to describe everything in the world into its own lanquage and fails? After all, it is impossible to translate some turns-of-phrase from one language (from French into English, for instance) without completely losing the nuances of the expression. Maybe its the same with qualia...maybe the language of science is simply inadequate or inappropriate to use when describing qualia. Maybe the language of qualia is the language of feeling...metaphor and poetry.
Steve Savage "King of the Beasts" said...
V.S. Ramachandran's essay seems to suggest that those who have experienced the Unitive Vision, Cosmic Consciousness, or whatever name one wishes to apply to the "Peek behind the Curtain," may, in fact, be brain damaged in some way.
Steve Savage "King of the Beasts"
auroragirl said...
Then I am happy to be damaged.
Sounder said...
Steve, I checked out your blog a bit. Your viewpoint seems both dualistic and orthodox. That is, you see sun/light/good, moon/dark/bad. So of course you see flights of imagination as nothing more than an expression of a damaged brain. I say, stick with the Edge mag. They will tell everything you need to know.
auroragirl said...
With the finer and finer parsing of "syndromes" one is left to wonder how anyone can tell who is "normal" or find anyone left who is "normal" at all! Who are the people who form the baseline for the comparisons between "normal" and "abnormal"? How were the "normals" chosen? How do we know that the ones deemed "normal" today won;t be deemed "abnormal" tomorrow? Isn't it funny how scientists mistake the read-outs of their instruments for reality? And don't they realize that what they are doing is just as much a flight of the imagination as what poets do? And if people are as fragmented as Mr. Savage says (which seems to be true), why in the world would he go on to pathologize the experience of unity as temporal lobe epilepsy (as if renaming something is the same as explaining it!!)???
Steve Savage "King of the Beasts" said...
You said: ["Steve, I checked out your blog a bit. Your viewpoint seems both dualistic and orthodox."]
Sounder, which of the Five Blind Men describing the elephant are you?
Steve Savage "King of the Beasts"
You said: [I] "pathologize[d] the experience of unity as temporal lobe epilepsy."
The last time I looked, the author of the article in question is V.S. Ramachandran.
Steve Savage "King of the Beasts"
auroragirl said...
But you use his article as support for your own arguments, and I notice that you did not reply to the points I brought up but are merely quibbling about who said what. Face it, Mr. Savage...the way of the scientist is on the wane and the way of the poet is on the rise. Yours is an inadequate and soon-to-be outmoded view of mankind and the world. Indeed, it is laughable.
p.s. It seems to me that you are one of the blind men describing the elephant, not Sounder.
Sounder said...
Steve, I tried to show respect by reading your blog and commenting on, what I take to be a substantive component of your worldview.
You then choose a pithy aphorism for your response. You found that in a book; typical behavior of an en-form addict. You seem estranged from your Imaginal side so you see it as evil. I on the other hand feel, like NK, that the universe is a system for discovery, and it has ways to use it’s expressions to achieve things that are still beyond our dreams.
If you like Steve, we can continue over at your blog.
Steve Savage "King of the Beasts" said...
Auroragirl and Sounder,
The comments which I posted were nothing more than these:
1. "Collin,You may want to check this out?" and,
You are not the ones for whom these posts were intended, so please spare yourselves the unnecessary futility of attempting to direct ad hominem attacks my way since it is of no concern to me how others see me. It only matters to me how I see them.
Steve Savage "King of the Beasts"
auroragirl said...
Mr. Savage, no one "attacked" you in any way, ad hominemly or otherwise. I simply gave you my thoughts on your work. And it seems the height of folly to tell someone to mind their own business when you post in a public format such as this one. You wrote that the way to understand qualia would be to transend our ant-like view, but then confessed that you didn't know how to go about doing that. Well, I gave you one way to go about it; by the use of feeling and the language of metaphor and poetry. Don't you think Shakespeare was better at describing "qualia" than you are? It seems to me that you are in the absurd position of trying to find out what makes something live by killing it and dissecting it, that you can understand life by studying death. You would flatten and deaden the world by "treating" everyone who didn't meet your subjective definition of "normal", and yet you can't even tell us how you went about deciding who met the criteria of "normal", but you must have used qualia, something you can't even describe properly, to do it! You purge what makes us human and alive from your world view and then lament that you can't understand qualia! If you want to understand the soul, then talk to the soul. Get out of your head and into your heart and come down off your scientific high horse.
Steve Savage "King of the Beasts" said...
Please read this carefully. I DID NOT WRITE THE ESSAY! The essay
By V.S. Ramachandran
An Edge Original Essay
was written by
V.S. RAMACHANDRAN who is a Neuroscientist, Director, Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego; Author, Phantoms in the Brain.
Steve Savage "King of the Beasts"
auroragirl said...
I know you didn't write it, but I am not refering to that essay. I am refering to your own words when you wrote your post about temporal lobe epilepsy: "Now imagine these same circuits become hyperactive...". And then you go on to assert that many of the great religeous leaders had temporal lobe epilepsy...and just how do you know that? Have you hooked them up to an electroencephalograph? And if so, which great religeous leaders did you test? And don't you think its just a bit absurd for Mr. Ramachandra to write a book called "Phantoms in the Brain"? Who is he to declare that someone's inner world contains "phantoms"? And you never answered my question: who qualifies as normal in your book? Just how dull and boring would someone have to be to earn that "honor"? How narrow would their range of conciousness have to be? Are they allowed any quirks at all, or would they automatically be "treated" if they exhibit any mental or emotional traits you or your colleagues find objectionable? Does't it really come down to your subjectivity sitting in judgement on someone else's subjectivity and finding them wanting, but because you presume to possess authority, you can impose your view of reality (i.e. "treatment") upon them, especially if they are in the hospital and therefor helpless, dehumanized and captive? Isn't it really just an elaborate, socially accepted form of bullying? It seems to me you didn't understand the implications of your own post.
Sancho Blacklight said...
AK + NK do a Castaneda episode? I think this is a great idea! I know AK and I kicked the idea around when I interviewed him, but I think Neil is a much more intelligent and eloquent person than myself and would love to hear this one!!!
Perhaps I could throw some questions for the two of you to dig into, AK? Although, I think that would limit me to about two questions because it seems you guys average somewhere around 1.5 questions per hour! ;-D
another great episode(s), keep 'em coming!
Indras Net said...
Hey Aeolous, ive been listening to your podcasts alot lately, and have greatly enjoyed all of it, Im looking forward to more explorations of your work, it is greatly appreciated my friend. Keep up the great work man and be well. I have a blog at Http:// i think you might find some of it interesting. Namaste and keep on rockin in the free world!- kev | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '3918', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9597439169883728}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '204618', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:UK6LZF6TU4MCXUGYA3VINZB5Q7HYS3CO', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:f1fd8281-992c-45d6-8bc6-e12e00583fc8>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 10, 31, 8, 59, 33), 'WARC-IP-Address': '173.194.121.11', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:L4UCGTWVCIA57UM6OO7CKUACKRAHO7LW', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:32b63af6-d8f9-4268-9b98-8d1ebc3ac8a3>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://aeoluskephas.blogspot.com/2009/01/eschaton-surfing-with-neil-kramer.html?showComment=1233025380000', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:2a6e64d8-9d87-4d55-85be-a094e00437a1>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '12990', 'url': 'http://aeoluskephas.blogspot.com/2009/01/eschaton-surfing-with-neil-kramer.html?showComment=1233025380000', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-42\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for October 2014\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.04710996150970459', 'original_id': '94fdf4f57d3ff7ff76541ecea864a5039e88032e0e01fff547433074df8401ca'} |
Moshe Silman, a 57-year-old Haifa resident, set himself on fire Saturday during a Tel Aviv demonstration marking the anniversary of last summer's social protests.
As thousands marched down Kaplan Street to mark a year since the start of social protests, Silman poured gasoline on his body and set himself on fire.
Silman was evacuated to Ichilov Hospital shortly afterward.
"The state of Israel stole from me and robbed me. It left me helpless," wrote Silman in a letter he left at the scene.
"Two Housing and Construction Ministry committees rejected me, even though I had a stroke," wrote Silman in the letter, adding that the facts could be checked with a public housing company in Haifa.
In the letter, Silman wrote that he blames the state of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, "for the humiliation that weakened citizens go through every day, taking from the poor and giving to the rich."
Yonatan Sahar, a protester who witnessed the incident, said that he was standing next to the man, when suddenly he set himself on fire.
"I saw him holding something burning," he said, Suddenly he poured gasoline on himself and immediately caught fire. "I didn't know what to do," the Sahar added.
According to medical officials, the man is currently in serious condition.
Dozens of protesters arrived at Ichilov Hospital after hearing about the incident. Police forces prevented their entry, while filming the protesters who held signs condemning the Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz and Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai. Protesters also remained at the site where the man lit himself on fire.
Ofer Barkan, a social protest activist from Haifa, said that the man was an activist in last year’s protests. “We met him last summer,” Barkan said, “he was a completely normative person who lived in Tel Aviv but then his business went under. He became a cab driver and suffered a stroke which left him unemployed. He moved from Tel Aviv to Haifa because he could not afford life in the city.” According to Barkan, he had threatened to light himself on fire multiple times. “We felt that he was close to doing it, but we didn’t know,” he added.
Activists are planning to march from Silman’s home to the Haifa municipality tomorrow.
Earlier on Saturday, thousands of Israelis gathered in several cities throughout the country to mark one year since the start of the social protests.
Thousands protested in Tel Aviv, while hundreds took to the streets in Haifa, Be'er Sheva, Jerusalem, and Afula.
Daphni Leef, the woman who launched the social protest, told Haaretz on Saturday that one year later, the activists' message hasn't changed.
"We want a fair society," she said. "Today we are also celebrating. Suddenly, when people take to the streets they understand that they have power and that they are right."
Read this article in Hebrew
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IGF 2018 - Day 2 - Salle VIII - WS426 Hybrid Business Models: A Connectivity & Approach
The following are the outputs of the real-time captioning taken during the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Paris, France, from 12 to 14 November 2018. Although it is largely accurate, in some cases it may be incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. It is posted as an aid to understanding the proceedings at the event, but should not be treated as an authoritative record.
>> CHRISTOPHER YOO: If everyone would please take their seats so that we can begin. Excuse me. We have to start our next session. Thank you. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the next session on hybrid business models. We have a busy schedule and only 40 minutes. So we need to get started as promptly as possible. So .... thank you.
You are doing very important work as well. I'm running the next session. Thank you for coming. Our goal is to create a interactive session where we take advantage of the knowledge of the speakers we have invited, but as well as the knowledge of the people in the room, to start to analyze the kinds of ways we can try to find new solutions to the challenges we all face, which is connecting more people, my name is Christopher Yoo, I teach at the University of Pennsylvania, where I lead the one world connected project. We are delighted to have four outstanding speakers with us today. One of whom I was going to ‑‑
(voice off microphone).
One of whom could not make it because of some visa issues and travel issues, but she has prepared a presentation to talk about a rural Indian projects they are doing under a organization called Gram Marg. Why don't we start with Sarbani's presentation. If we can play that now, that would be perfect.
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>> SARBANI BANERJEE BELUR: It is a working model currently. This model came about with our villages, 25 villages that we looked into, we wanted to experiment, the feasibility of 5.8 gigahertz for connectivity, and also in the same time, address the sustainability of connectivity by understanding the different stakeholders who can take connectivity to remote areas of India, or remote villages of India. How connectivity can be sustained and how the connectivity can ensure, along with user utilization by the people. We connected 24 villages, a area of approximately 350 square kilometers, and that is where we develop the model.
What is the model, we tried to identify who are the important players who can take connectivity to the villages of India. We found out that one is a private, it can be a funding agency also. The public is the Government who sometimes can have infrastructure in the form of buildings, powers that are already present in many villages, and policies. The Government has different policies like health policies, insurance policies, housing policies, school building policies, schooling policies, so different types of policies, already present with the Government. And the village administration, they are in dire need of connectivity.
These are sometimes villages that are, don't have any voice connectivity as well, so leave aside data, they don't even have voice connectivity.
What we wanted to do and what we did actually is that we brought these three entities, the public, private and Government in partnership mode but in any place, these three were together in a partnership, then the best out of each can come out, and the connectivity can be ensured in the remote villages of India. It can also be accessible connectivity.
We identified that when connectivity is between a private, public partnership, what happens is that the connectivity is usually a top‑down approach. But in order that for what happens is that the village administration is actually not villages whom we are connecting but actually not taken into account at all for the connectivity.
The Punjab of the village administration playing a role in the connectivity is important because that can ensure that the local, regional needs are given priority over the other needs, so it becomes a bottom up approach.
The main qualities or main features of this 4P model that we have developed is that it is a multistakeholder partnership model as I have told you earlier. There is a involvement of a local entrepreneur in the community. We found that with interaction from the interaction with the village administration and the villagers that in order to make it accessible in the villages, that there needs to be involvement of the local entrepreneur and the community. Otherwise it can never be sustained.
We have taken that into account in the model. We have also, because this was funding, this was a project that was funded to us, so we invested on the cap ex, we directed the towers, we provided devices, all infrastructure we provided. It is communities, a sharing community model, from Gram Marg, one is a private entity, but some operators, it can be a funding ...
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Until and unless we have a new generation sharing more than this model, it cannot be sustained. It is a localized model, in two regions. It is developed in these villages, but we can use it for different villages in India. We are working on that now currently. It can be used in various other locations in various parts of the world as well.
It is already modular and scalable model, because currently it takes into account 25 villages but it can take into account 50, a hundred and so on. That is modular and scalability of this model.
Validation, what we did is after the model has been developed, we have validated it on field in two different scenarios, one is 15 village scenario and the other is a ten village scenario. These 15 villages, it has a local ISP model that local ISP takes bandwidth to the villages, and village administration purchases that bandwidth per month, for roughly 13 U.S. dollars.
Then the local ISP makes it a renew not only by selling the bandwidth to the village office, but also selling it to the villagers inside the village. That is the model of this. These are current user scenario. The bandwidth required actually is increasing. It's a two year graph, it's 24 months graph that we have. The bandwidth you can see that how the bandwidth requirement increases. We have taken the village administration's office, only in March actually so we have not taken into account how many access points does the local ISP put into the village. So we have not done that.
We have just taken bandwidth and it's investment, so initially first two months, it is a negative. But then slowly it catches up. Then you can see by the end of one year, the local ISP starts making a profit, and then entering into the bandwidth and gets more bandwidth for the villages, and that is how the internal investment infuses.
We did a plan model to see how the bandwidth requirement will increase over time, and what will be bandwidth available and whether the local ISP will have a steady return on investment. We see that from year one, towards the end of year one, onwards, there is a steady return on investment for the local ISP, because if the local ISP does not get steady return on investment, it becomes futile for the local ISP to pay more bandwidth to the villagers and provide connectivity to villages over there.
The next set of the same model has been taken to ten villages, where we revalidated the different scenario, where we did it on a local or village entrepreneur. The entrepreneur, this is also ten villages where we have the community network, that is the community is owning the network in these villages. We have identified the village with a entrepreneur who invests an initial amount, and buys the bandwidth from the local ISP, and tries to get that delivered from the villages by selling bandwidth in the village. Often, he makes a profit, in the initial amount that he invested on. He invests much more, and then the model keeps growing in itself.
This is the validation in the ten villages of the community led effort that Gram Marg has set up in the ten village also. The current user scenario, we see that the bandwidth, the village with a entrepreneur makes a steady return on investment. This is a similar as the local ISP where he gets, he or she gets a steady return on investment, only of the cap ex, by selling bandwidth in the villages.
It actually stabilizes, it slowly infuses from year one towards end of year one and it keeps increasing year after year.
The five years predictive model for this, we see that the bandwidth requirement, required bandwidth and available bandwidth goes hand in hand with each other. The return on investment is actually negative, towards for the first two years, after which it makes a steady growth. This is our model and the model has been validated on ground as I have told you earlier. I will be happy to take questions and queries and discuss further on this. Thank you.
>> Good morning, everyone, this is Sarbani Banerjee Belur.
>> CHRISTOPHER YOO: That is a interesting deployment that uses innovative technologies, and not just connectivity but back hall as well. That is one fascinating example. I'll turn to Natalie, deploying networks in Namibia in a innovative way. Thanks for joining us.
>> Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Natalie. I don't have a presentation. I made some notes. I'll read from my notes. I work for a NGO, we use the Internet to send information to mothers in rural areas, expectant mothers and mothers of newborns, to create awareness and guidance for the mothers to prevent child mortality in Namibia. There are over 50 unemployed youth in my country and the rate of underemployed is even higher, the digital revolution in Namibia has not yet reached Namibia. Why I say Namibia is digitally excluded is first, the Internet is not accessible, and worst of all, it is not affordable. Secondly, the Internet is mainly afforded to the previously advantaged, so struggling mother cannot easily access Internet. Internet is a basic human right.
The majority of our youth did not have training in technical field, and Namibia deployed a project test phase, and still Namibians cannot have access to the Internet network. The digital economy would enable our youth participant in digital economy, and it would help as a game changer, and youth employment and empowerment. To engage in digital economy it is almost impossible to secure funding. It is easier for a farmer or cattle herder to obtain funding an average Namibian. There is high risk tech start‑ups and rarely funded projects. The digital infrastructure does not exist, forcing people to migrate to cities outside Namibia for Internet.
>> To add to what Natalie says, there is a lot of challenges in Africa, and we need the networks and we need the business models that enable those networks for SMEs to thrive. We have a massive migration from the rural areas to urban areas. The digital economy will enable the Namibian youth and the rural youth in particular to engage, and basically to become digital citizens.
>> CHRISTOPHER YOO: Thank you, Natalie and Paul. If I understand, engaging SMEs is a critical hybrid model for making the connectivity work in Namibia. Is that ‑‑
>> Yes, it is about creating the driver, so when you are moving, you want to get the last mile, you have to generate demand. Right now that demand is moving to urban areas because there isn't access in rural areas, which means if you are a SME and you want to engage, Africa has one of the largest young population in the world, and it is growing. If we don't create the opportunities and there is no opportunities in the formal business, it has to be the informal sector. The digital economy can help transform that informal sector and enable the youth to gain employment. But we don't want that at the cost of migration just to the urban centers.
So getting the SMEs engaged and giving them access to connectivity at the rural area and the digital skills, it is not just access, it is creating digital skills to enable SMEs to engage on that platform, will transform Africa. It will help on rural youth employment and will solve a lot of problems that we face right now.
>> CHRISTOPHER YOO: Have you found any strategies for getting the digital training, other engagement needed to get SMEs trained in place without having to move to the cities, or are there other challenges that you face that you can't overcome?
>> There is a growing understanding of digital literacy, and it's often driven by the NGO or the Civil Society sectors, ISOC in particular is part of the core. We are getting there. But in Namibia, it is a complex country, massive country, small population, large areas, and you have got a lot of cultural differences, language is a different challenge. The majority of the population, they don't speak English although English is the official language. Even having the right content and Internet that the SMEs can interact with in a language that they understand, and they are going to sell goods and services in their language. We have to take what is in the real world and put it into the digital world for it to succeed in the rural areas.
We are a long way off. There is a lot of problems and challenges that need to be resolved.
>> CHRISTOPHER YOO: Thank you, Paul. I'll turn the floor over to Allen Bailochan Tuladhar, Picosoft P Limited, doing deployments in Nepal to connect more people to the Internet.
>> ALLEN BAILOCHAN TULADHAR: In terms of connecting in one of the most difficult terrains in the world, where reaching the top of the world, difficult terrains, geography of people being sporadic and pretty widespread, I think for us fiber was not an option that could be affordable. We had to look at technologies other than fiber, and white space was better.
In terms of every time we talk to the policymakers, whenever we talked about TV white space they thought we were providing television and because of that, their minds in terms of taxing was difficult. Talking about taxes in Nepal we pay over 35 percent taxes on Internet, 13 percent Telecom server charge, 4 percent universal service fund, so when it gets aggregated, that is equal to some of the industries like gambling or alcohol or some of the heavily taxed industries, Internet is also in the same category in terms of being taxed.
So we looked at, and back home, majority of the infrastructure is also being funded with development funds. One possibility of investing into the infrastructure was being able to use development funds, but most of our deployments are much smaller in terms of requirements of funds that it really does not attract the World Banks and IMF or other development bank or other of the private sector funding wings of these larger funds that is available for deployment of heavy infrastructure, heavy cap ex involved projects.
On the other hand, is the possibilities of using, if I may, for lack of a better word, kind of grant money or free money, that does not need to be repaid back and it is not a investment or it's not a debt, and comes easier, is also with the NonGovernmental sector.
Again, lots of players in that area, so in terms of looking at hybrid models of investment, development sector, nonGovernment sector, the Government also is normally with a lot of fast changing in terms of the Government and also what is potentially issues with kickbacks and corruption, we tend to stay away from Government funding as much as possible, because it comes with a lot of other strings attached to it.
The other hybrid model definitely is trying to have the community pay for it. But the community that we are addressing is, has affordability and being able to, when they are looking at their budgets, they have to decide on what is their priority, and Internet is not in the highest of their priority.
So having, and I think one of the ways that was talked earlier was to see if the ways that how Facebook and Google and some of the other Internet players have been able to fund their business. To the consumer it's free of cost, but there is a cost to the whole effort, whole business. It has to be funded by other sources.
In this hybrid model, we are kind of still struggling to find which would be the best model for us to look at. We are looking at now, saying do we go on to aggressive pricing model, where we sell our services into the city, and subsidize onto the rural areas to be able to have a long term sustainability.
With a donor funding, the difficult part is that it's a spurt funding and then after that, it kind of, because Internet is not the spurt funding, because there is a major cost of the back hall Internet and the service and support cost, that needs to be sustained for a longer time. The spurt funding could become that sense of a project that NGOs run, where after the funding of the project, the whole project dies down. And it doesn't have a long term sustainable model. We want it to be a sustainable business so that it should be able to continue even if there is no external funding available.
We are still struggling with what will be the best model, and maybe from the room itself, learn a bit in terms of how do we look at financing, the growth and scale to a much larger extent, out of the 77 districts in Nepal. We are just active in 2. Less than150,000 population we have been able to affect and there is still 30 million people that we need to make sure that Internet is accessible within the country. The next big challenge is saying, we have started, we have extended, how do we scale to become a major player within the country.
I think the model of hybrid financing is still something that we are still struggling with.
>> CHRISTOPHER YOO: Thank you, Allen, very inspirational. I'll turn the floor over to Philip Zululeta, who is working on the wireless interactive network or WIN, in the Philippines. From what little I know about my friends who have worked in the Philippines, with the difficult island architecture and the uncertain property rights, getting access to rights of way can be a incredible challenge. I'm delighted to hear your story about your efforts in the Philippines.
>> PHILIP ZULULETA: Sure, thanks, Chris. I'm Philip from the Philippines, easy to remember, founder and CEO of wi‑fi interactive network. I have notes that I can read off and then we can maybe go into Q and A later.
In the three years that we have been tackling this issue, we have gone through three iterations of our business model. All three models have one thing in common. It's a recognition that the audience and the user base we are addressing have very limited spending capacity.
In the Philippines, 96 percent of the users are on a prepaid, pay as you go model. The average spent per month is roughly two U.S. dollars for phone services. So it tells you a lot. Right?
The first model that we launched back in 2015, was with what we called a sponsored wi‑fi model. The way we did that is asked consumer goods giants to fund the cost of providing Internet access at community mom and pop stores. In exchange, whatever the consumers purchased, their specific brand, the consumer gets 30 minutes of free Internet access for purchasing the sponsor's brand.
So we soon encountered issues with that model, because the community stores don't have POS systems to track if the brand was actually sold. Because we couldn't attribute the sale to the reward, the brand couldn't continue investing in the particular model.
So we moved on to the second model, which was a paid version. So the idea was to have the consumer pay 2 U.S. cents per hour, for paid access. So that is really affordable by many standards, right? The thing is, we learned that if people were going to pay as little as 2 U.S. cents per hour, they didn't want to hang around the store. They wanted the service to actually be delivered to their homes, and that is really a tough market to serve, right?
So, now we are in version 3.0 of our business model, and this is where it gets interesting. So, on the first two models, we were approaching the market with, if you build it, they will come approach. Right? We have completely reversed that, because of the operational issues. We are now building it where they actually congregate. We are now focused on a high traffic public areas like bus terminals, front line Government offices, train stations, where there is a lot of crowd users that we can easily address at any given time.
So, we are launching this in Q1 next year. What we are really doing is we are setting up the wi‑fi hot spots this time, not necessarily as points of connectivity, but really as a venue to provide value added services through our digital marketplace. What we did this time is we developed an Android app, so that when you connect to free wi‑fi, you are offered a digital marketplace complete with a digital wallet, so that people can transact new financial transactions. The value added services include as an example, number one, you can pop up your digital wallet and purchase prepaid air time load, which is very popular in the Philippines, and we can actually deliver this product at a discount versus bricks and mortars.
Second, right now we are partnering with e‑commerce based companies, that are actually dependent on Internet connectivity to sell their own products and services. So as an example of this, this would be online discounted shopping sites. We are also having microlending, so peer to peer lending online can be facilitated through our free wi‑fi hot spots.
The big one is actually online remittance, the ability to move funds, cashing in into our digital wallet with free connectivity, and then cashing out those funds with our partner sites from brick and mortar locations.
So there are many more value added services that we can include in this marketplace, games, travel, music, healing, these are value added services that can pay for the cost of Internet service.
In closing, I want to say that in the three years we have been working on this very challenging issue, we have come to the conclusion that this is not really a technology problem. The tech exists in different flavors, and there are many more to come. Our specific audience expects wi‑fi to be free. As a private enterprise, our continuing work is to develop a win/win economic model, where the consumers or the users get what they want, and at the same time our commercial partners are able to justify their continued participation and investment in this approach.
I think that is the key to sustainability, and we are hoping to report possible outcomes next year. Thank you.
>> CHRISTOPHER YOO: Thank you, to Philip and thank you to all the speakers. I had hoped this would be a interactive session, to get your input. But they only scheduled it for 30 minutes. I'm afraid at this point, unless there is a very pressing thing that someone would like to share or ask, I'm inclined to adjourn. Please.
>> Hi, everybody. My name is Aqua Walters, I'm from Jamaica, which shares a lot of the similar characteristics of a lot of markets that you guys operate. For instance, in your market, would Jamaica, Jamaica has a duopoly of telecommunication chance but for that last mile rural service, what end up happening was there is a company that basically pays homeowners to set up a wi‑fi hot spot at the back of their homes, and that really helped to solve the last mile issue for them, because there was already connectivity in those areas.
The issue was running the cables, or running the connection from the main roads or wherever those points of connectivity were, to the actual home. What they ended up doing was just basically broadcasting signals from those points into those communities, as a point.
Another one, another way to look at your problem is that of supply of services which you have already started down that road, looking at ways to support small SMEs, or digitizing those services. A lot of those popular services that already exist in the market, that a lot of the unbanked already use, you already have the wallet. What needs to, or one suggestion would be, one, look at a way to not train those business owners to code anything. Figure out how to connect them with digital service providers, people who can build those applications for them, and then basically have a per transaction, if you will, look at how they can, how you can monetize those networks. Because remember treat wi‑fi like a road, and just basically collect on the traffic, collect on the transactions that are done there.
For Namibia, what is interesting ‑‑
>> CHRISTOPHER YOO: We need to wrap this up. If you could keep it very short.
>> We can talk off line. Thank you.
>> CHRISTOPHER YOO: I don't mean to be rude but I don't want to keep them waiting as well.
>> Of course.
>> CHRISTOPHER YOO: That is interesting in Jamaica, fascinating. Share your thoughts with Natalie about what is going on in Namibia. We reached the end of our session. I hope this is the start of a conversation, we have a shared commitment to the same goals. I hope we will continue to meet today, tomorrow and in the future IGFs and other places in the future. Thank you very much for coming.
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Base for a computer, computer terminal or similar article
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Politics, Sociology, Voyages and Travels. 491 which the subject extends. In fact, each State has its own pnvate system of Private International Law. The extreme interest attaching to the subject in itself will be sufficiently manifested from a survey of the materials of Dr. Wharton’s work, which is very carefully ela- borated, as it is of considerable bulk, though the recent editions of Story’s “Conflict of Laws” have also reduced the predecessors to puny insignificance. Dr. Wharton discusses his topics in the following order : — Domicile, personal status, marriage and divorce, parental rela- tions, guardianship, immovables, movables, obligations, successions and wills, practice, and criminal law. This is very nearly the arrange- ment of “ J ustinian’s Institutes,” and if not logically scientific, is pro- bably about as convenient a one as could be suggested. It is not of much service to discuss over and over again the doctrine of “ consequential damages,” as lately presented in its extreme form during one stage of the discussion of the claims arising out of the escape of the Alabama. In this form they were not capable of a moment’s defence, .and were, no doubt, never intended to be defended. They were little more than a species of exaggerated rhetoric, taking unfortunately, a very concrete and personal form. Nevertheless it is still instructive to recur to the mode in which the question has been generally discussed in England, and of which a good specimen is afforded by “ Three Letters on the American Doctrine of Consequential Damages, by Saxe Brit.’”’’ Of course the first letter begins with a simple outrage on the method of analogous reasoning. “Jonathan Yank, of Yankstow, out yonder, had a quarrel not long since with his brother and co-heir, Jeff Yank, in the course of which Jeff killed some of the Yankstow deer. The brothers had hardly madq matters up wlien my bailiff here at Britworth received notice from Jonathan’s steward that as the hounds with which Jelf had coursed were bought on the sly (when whelps) from one of my servants, Jonathan required me to pay for the deer which his brother had killed.” The story is kept up to a great length, in which a fancied rcsL'uihlance to sonic of the facts attending the late controversy and the circumstances of the claim for “ consequential damages ” is endeavoured to he sustained. It is curious to think how differently a fairly patriotic Northerner would present the facts, if ho dabbled in. like imagery. Jell' Ya.ik would be transformed into the head of a desecrate and organizeil gang of poachers, who had just abandoned, on a .sivlden, their respectable employment of being Jonathan’s tru^tod keepers, and were now sub- sisting on the property of their late master. So far froTii the hounds being bought on the sly (when whelps) from one of Saxe Brit’s servants, according to the other report of the facts, it would appeal* that Saxe Brit and all the neighbouring landowners had general notice of the formation of the gang, and a general understanding was come to among all who were friendly to Jonathan (and they all pro- fes.sed themselves to be so) that all dogs and other materials for sport were to be carefully secured and watched, lest by any means they miglit fall into ^ the poachers’ bands and enable them to keep themselves a 10 ConsequMitial Damages : Three Letters on the American Doctiine.” By Saxe Brit. London : Smith, Elder, and Co. • 49J2 Contempora/ry Literature. sliort time lon^jer out of the hands of justice. Furthermore, Saxe Brit had special and personal notice, often repeated, that one or two of the gang were actually lurking about his premises, and doing their utmost to seduce his servants and procure from them some of their master’s (not whelps, hut) best trained hounds, wanting only to be taken to tlfe cover and properly fed to be the cleverest hunters on the gi'ounds. The rival story need not be pursued. It is sufficient to notice that this is the view of the whole transaction which the fact of the Geneva Arbitration establishes that both the English and the American nation have finally adopted. The last of the three letteis contains a quantity of argument on the irrationality of the alleged claims for consequential damages, which either misrepresents the facts or loses sight of the principles on which any claim lor damages can be sus- tained at all. Thus every one, including every American statesman, and even General Butler, confesses that there are some consequences too remote and indefinite or impalpable to be usefully made the subject of judicial investigation. Again, every statesman and lawyer in Great Britain and the States admits that a wrong-doer can* with advantage be made responsible for consequences which he could never have fore- seen and was only very indirectly concerned in bringing about. W here then the line is to be drawfl between the sort of resulting mischief which can, and the sort which cannot usefully become sub- ject matter of compensation, so far from being a question of noisy rhetoric, is one of the most perplexing ones in the whole field of judicial inquiry. It is remarkable that while the American Government has been prosecuting •the Alabama claims against England, it has been the defendant against very similar claims itself. We have received the opinion of the Mcxicap Commissioners in the Joint Claims Commis- sion, under the Convention of July 4, 1868, between Mexico and the United States u]}on the claims made by Mexican citizens against the United States Government, for Indian depredations.” The Commis- sioner, Seiior Palacio, refers frequently to the Alabama case, and ai'gues that the neglect of the United States to protect Mexico against the incursions of Indian tribes was much more culpable than anything that had ever been* alleged against England in the case of the Confederate cruisers. Mr. Charles Harcourt*Cliambers has published a second edition of his “ Phases of Party” — a curiously absurd attempt to revive the pre-revolutionary Whig feeling of the last century as the political panacea for all the troubles of the time. Mr. Chambers complains in ins ]>reface of the virulent attacks ” which his first edition suffered at the hands of “ the so-called Liberal papers.” The book, however, is so tame and harmless that a conscientious Badical critic may be content to let it pass on its way to the butterman unscathed. Dr. Birdwood has published a very able but passionate and preju- ** Claims of Mexican Citizens against the United States for Indian Depreda- tions.** Washington. 1871. IS ** Phases of Party.’* By Charles Harcourt Chambers, M.A. Second Edition. London; Longmans, GreeD,*and Co. 1872. 493 Politics, Sociology, Voyages and Travels. dicial attack on Competition as applied to the Indian Services.'®^ With much of the author’s criticism on the defects of mci'c examination as a test of fitness for public service, and on the dangerous tendency of “ cram,” we entirely agree : but the extravagant claims that he puts forward on behalf of the old officers of the Company, and the manner of their selection, is only a degree less ridiculous than hit> contention that Competitive Examination is breeding a class of abandoned intel- lectual reprobates” in this country. Such exaggerations only repel those who wish to form sound and sober conclusions on a subject of great political importance. If the system of selection for the Indian Service is to be improved, it will be in spite of, not by means of Dr. Birdwood’s intemperate advocac}^ An cssa}' on “The Culture of the Observing Powers in Children,”*^ originally formed an introduction to Miss Youman’s “ First Book of Botany.” It is edited separately by Mr. Joseph Payne, with some valuable notes, and a supplement extending the principle to the study of mechanics. Nearly two generations have passed away since a group of writers who made the minds of the young their especial study drew public attention to the neccssit}’' of training children to observe the more obvious natural phenomena which lay on every side of them. Some of us may remember “ JCyes and no Eyes,” in “ Evenings at Home,” and many can recall the pleasure they derived Irom Miss Edgeworth’s “ Frank,” and “ Harry and Lucy.” But these judicious exertions bore little fruit. Books of “ useful knowledge” for a time drove “ Jack the Giant Killer,” and “ Little Red Riding Hood” from the field, but the principle of employing the physical sciences for educational purposes was imperfectly understood. It v'ias, in reality, a system of ‘‘ cr.amming,” at an age when cramming is most injurious, and the fairy tale resumed its sway. Wo are now beginning to recognise the princijde that a good education must aim at the har- monious development of the mental faculties in their natural order, and as from the first dawn of intelligence the child notes the U/cenetm and the difference of objects, so the ob>erving jiowers should bo culti- vated from the earliest age. For this purpose Miss Ifouman proposes that we sliould demand the introduction into primary education, in addition to reading, writing, and arithmetic, of a fourth fund amvntal branch of ciudy, tvhich shall afford a systematic training of the oLserv- ing powersf' The study of Botaii>' is reeotnmcnded as the best fitted for this purpose. We fully agree in this recommendation. The olijcets of the study are found by every roadside, and the elementary facts are easily learnt. We would add, that it .should not only be taught in every school, but that every mother and every ‘‘ nur.sery governess” (for a nursery governess” should be an intelligent and seiisibh* woman) should acquire enough botanical knowledge to lead childruii step by step to a familiarity with the vegetable life around them. Jt “ Compctiiinn and the India Civil Service. A i^tper read hefoic the IJasi India Aiteociation.” By George C. M. liirdwood, M.G. London; Henry S. • Kiiig and Co. 1872. “The Culture of the Observing Powers in Cbihlren.” London * H. Kin;,' and Co. [Vol. XCYllI. No. CXCIV.]— New Seiues, Vol. XLII. No. II. . K K 404 ' Contemporary Literature. is the want of this early unfolding of the faculties which causes the results of school education to he so lamentably meagre. The child’s true education should begin long before he enters the school-room. We cordially recommend this treatise, as well as Mr, Payne’s sup- plement, to the notice of all who are interested in the training of the young. The history of education must necessarily be constructed, even more than other history, out of very varied materials — biographical, ethical, physical, and political. The impulse given by individual original minds has been here more especially productive of lasting re- sults, and of bourse religious and political revolutions have borne the most immediate and unmiatakeahlo fruit. Dr. E. Kellner’s^*'' work on the history of education, though treated from a Catholic standpoint, is a good specimen of a valuable sort of work in this department. His method is rather biographical than anything else, though the biogra- phical coui’se is guided by a strictly philosophical conception. The whole work, which is sufficiently concise and compressed, consists of three volumes. The first volume relates to the whole history of education from Confucius and Pythagoras to Locke and Eenelon. The second volume commences with Rousseau, and concludes with a retro- spective survey of all the j)rcvious history, and of the varied influences which in difTcrent countries and periods have directed the course of education. The last volume treats of the most modern materials, in- cluding a careful notice of Jean Paul Richter, Duitcr, and Diesterweg, together with a summary of eonclui-ions on what the writer takes to be the true relations of education to morality and religion. A good reading book is one of the highest desiderata in education. It mint not be too easy, or (as too I’rcquentl} happens) silly and frivolous, or the mind of the learner remains simply without stimulus, or, what is worse, tired and irritated. Jt mu>t not be too difficult, or the mind a.ssoeiates the accidental difficulty of the materials treated witli the essential difficulties of learning to read, and so a disgust for study is generated which it is hard to get rid of. Dr. Bach’s “ Stu- dies out of the Book of Nature,”'*’ “ for the more advanced young persons and their teachers,” seems to us a peculiarly good specimen of a useful and attractive reading-book. The matter is miscellaneous and discursive, but it is solid, interesting, and scientifically di.sposed. A notion of the variety 'of the matter may be obtained from glancing at the chapters on the cockchafer, the “ mammoth tree” of California — treated in all its descriptive, comparative, and botanical aspects ; and on bees, “ their natural history, their modes of life, and all that has to do with them.” This last chapter is worked out with gi'eat carc', and must alford an excellent scries of reading- lessons. One of those comprehensive and })ainstaking monographs for which Germany is so justly renowned — Herr Ignaz von Zingerle’s “ Manners, “ Eraiehungsgescbiclite in Ski/zen und IMldern niit besonderer Kiirksicht auf das Volkscbulwesen.” Von Dr. E, Kellner. Zweite A ullage. Essen. 1869. ' '^StudidD und Lesefriichte aus dem Buebe der Natur.*’ Von Dr. M. Bacb. Drittc Auflage. Koln. 1870. Politics, Sociology, Voyages and Travels. ' 495 Customs, and Opinions of the Tyrolese People”'^ — ^has reached a “ second and enlarged” edition. The author has been engaged for many years in the collection of legends, anecdotes, proverbs, and po- pular songs in the mountain region of his beautiful native land, the Tyrol. These he has published, arranged under different heads, ac* cording to their subject matter. The student of philosophy, of ethno- logy, of mythology, and of mere social life, will each find something of value in this interesting record of the simple, natural, and uncorruptod manners and faith of one of the few unsophisticated societies remaining in modem Europe. The value of the book is enhanced by the addition of an excellent index. The collection of nursery songs*(Kinderlioder) is particularly rich and interesting, and in many of them the dialectic variations are peculiar. When captive Greece subdued conquering Home and bound her In the chains of learning, she chose at least a more generous mode of literary aggression than the science of France has adopted since the German victories. M. de Quatrofages’ lierce attack upon “ the Prussian Kaee,”** in which he attempts to avenge Sedan by proving the victors to he, not Germans, not even slaves, but Fins, with all the ferocious cha- racteristics of their .savage ancestry, appeared first in the usually sober jiages of the Itevuc des Deux Mondes. A great part of M. de Quatre- iages’ brochure makes very entertaining reading, and his identilication of the Esthonian Finns, Letts, and Courlandcrs with the pre-historic inhabitants of Europe in the glacial period has some real historical and scientific interest. Hut the whole argument is so governed by a preconceived notion that the Pru.ssians are savages and should be de- nounced as such, that its argumentative value is diminislted, and even as a piece of able invective it loses much of its force. Yet it would be iinfair to ignore the strong points in the autliur^s reasoning. The fact seems to be that Ethnology has hitlierto in a great measure failed to recognise the blood-relationship of the masses in every country, and has taken account only of those of their masters. Language proves a de- lusive guide, lor the conquered generally adopt the tongue of the con- querors; but physiology detects differences or roseinblances where philology fails to see any. In this way doubtless the aflinity of the modern Prussians and the Finns may Ue. insisted upon, but when M. de Quatrefages proceeds to argue that because the Finns are trea- cherous, cowardly, and cruel, the Prussiatis^must exhibit the same qualities, we are compelled to regard his work as an exantple of misplaced ingenuity, perverted learning, and an irrational spirit of revenge. A very fine specimen of a valuable form of State paper is 8up[)lied by an authoritative abstract of the results of the Census of the Town “Sitten, Brauche, und Meinangen dee Tyroler Volkea.*’ Gesamiuelt und herausgegeben von Ignaz v. Zingerle. Innsbruck. 1871. 18 “The i^ruasian Bace, Ethnologicaliy Conaiderod ; to which ia Appended aome Account 4)f the Bombardment of the Museum of Natural History, &c., by ihe Prussians, in January, 1871.” By J. h. A, do Quatrefages, Member of the Institute (Academy of Sciencea). Translated by Isabella Innea. London : Virtu© and Coi, 1872. kk2. 498 Contemporary Literature. of Pesth” for tbe year 1870. The thoroughness and comprehensive- ness of the information conveyed must make the work of great service to the practical politician, and affords a useful example to English statesmen of an abbreviated catalogue of reliable facts which in this country could only be reached by poring over a number of scattered Blue- books. The whole population of Pesth at the time of the Census consisted of 210,349 persons, dwelling in 5259 houses, 36,594 of the population being householders. The number and names of the streets, and the number of inhabitants in each for the several years 1870 and 1857 are carefully recorded, and in another extremely interesting table the houses in' each street are classified according to the number of rooms they possess, varying from one room to more than eight. Spe- cial attention is given to the cases in which five or more persons occupy one room. There were 78,727, that is two-fifths of the whole population, living under these conditions, and of these 15,664 were living in cellars. As to education, half the female inhabitants could not write, and, excluding children under fourteen years of age, thirt}’’- eiglit per cent, of women and nineteen per cent, of men could not sign their name. The religious and industrial statistics are carefully elabo- rated and of considerable interest. Works upon our Indian Empire afld our relations to the Indian people have been of late particularly numerous, and if the ignorance prevailing in England with regard to the affairs of India could be dis- pelled by books, the complaint would soon cease to have a foundation in fact. We have before us at present two volumes, written with the aim of enlightening England as to the condition of India, and both have a certain merit. JMr. llobert H. Elliot, whose “Experiences of a Planter in tin* Jungles of Mysore” achieved a considerable success, has reprinted from Ft'user's Magazine^ with some additions, a number of discursive papers on our policy in India, which he entitles “ Concerning John’s Indian Affairs.”'® “John,” of course, is our national representative, John Bull, and the fiction of “ his Indian Estate ” is rather wearisomely sustained throughout the greater portion of the book. As it is impos- sible to discuss Indian policy in the serious vein which Mr. Elliot affects under the allegorioal form he chooses to assume, we find the allegory continually dropped and resumed, so that Mr. Elliot’s well- meant attempt at enlivefiing a “heavy” subject results neither in amusement nor in clearness. For all this, Mr. Elliot talks very good sense, though his criticisms and suggestions must be taken witli more than a grain of salt — for he belongs to the Positivist school, and believes in Mr. James Geddes, and in the incompetence of English rulers, especially those who govern from Downing-street, not from Calcutta. We are far from agreeing with Mr. Elliot’s pessimist opinions, but we think it is an ad^niiage that Englishmen who are interested in the affairs of our Eastern dependencies should not rely wholly upon the rose-coloured statements and predictions of officialism. 19 * < VorlUuiiger Bericht iiber die Kesultate der Fester Yolkazahlang von Jahro lb 70.” “Coucerning John's IjtiJian Affurs.” By Robert H. Elliot. London: Chapman and Hall. 1872. Politics, Sociology, Voyages and Travels. " '497 Mr. Elliot’s book, notwithstanding many defects of form and style, gives the non-official view very ably and boldly. Of a very different character are Mr. Braddon’s sketches of “ Life in India,*’*^ also reprinted from Fraser* a Magazine. Mr. Braddou avoids politics, or at most skims lightly over the surface of controversy ; but his book, which is written in a lively, if somewhat loose style, supplies a decided deficiency in our Anglo-Indian literature. Guide-books cMiough we have, and solemn volumes of travels, and copious political disquisitions and handbooks to Indian polity ; but except in Mr. Braddon’s pages we know not where to look for a light^ sketchy, and sufficiently accurate outline of the Anglo-Indian’s daily life, his plea- sures and Ids troubles, the people he meets and the people lie rules. The general reader will glean a better notion of wliat life in India means and of what the work of an Anglo-Indian official is from Mr. Braddon’s unpretentious sketches, than from many ponderous volumes of statistics and political controversy. Major Morrison Bell’s “ Other Countries”^ is one of those books of travel that alternately amuse and annoy the reader. Abounding in animal spirits and a familiar form of egotism, lavibh in his distri- tion of petty scraps of various knowledge, chattering slang, retailing the oldest of “Joe Millers” and* the most audacious of puns with the frankness of a schoolboy, Major Bell skips, through two portly volumes, across India and Australia, China and Japan, Pacific and Atlantic America. Jf he does not give us much useful information, his travel talk is generally readable, and sometimes gives a bettor notion of the superficial aspects of the countries of which it gossips than works more elaborate and philosophic. It is difficult, howofer, to have l)atience at times with Major Bell, so disagreeable is tlic jargon he writes in to eye and ear. It is not easy to tolerate an author who inter- jjolaies ill a really entertaining description of a Japanese fete, the following stuff: “ The gods were being lifed and drummed to, and — and it was awful jawlee. Don’t .sneer. Would you have snore — or whatever is the participle of the action whereby Darwin Joymatiscs on our earlj' origin — had you lived with your grandfather’s father’s father, and taken part in the junketings of the good old days?” — and so on for half a page. In another place wc4ind this kind of interest- ing and intelligent record of a day’s amusement : “ Home. Eat. Tiic Black man. Dcbain. Dance. Anotfier* pair.” But, at least, Major Bell spares us moral and political reflections — except of course when the enormities of American democracy have to be preached out in the official British tone. Dr Semper,*® in his sketches of human, animal, and vegetable life in the Philippine Islands, does not fail to exhibit the traditionary learning of German books of travel, while in some measure he distin- “Life in India.'* By Edward Braddon, London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1872. “Otller Countries.'' By Major William Morrison Bell. Two Vols. London : Chapman and Hall. 1672. “ Die Philippinen und ihre Bewohner.” Von Dr. C. Semper. Wurzburg, 1S69. 45)8 ' Contemporary Literatare. gui^lies himsolf by the liveliness of his observations and stylo. One instance of tin’s is his description of ceitain Holothuria or Trepangs, whicli inhabit the seas of the Philippines. The wonderful perfection and rnaniiold variety of their organs is equalled by the numerous and astonisliing peculiarities of their manners and customs. One will, in a few minutes, run away into formless slime, when exposed to the air; while another, getting angry with the hinder part of its body, throws it away and quietly lives without it, or makes another- Self-inflicted wounds in the skin it quickly heals, and makes new internal organs to supply the place of any that may be diseased ; or, having lungs that are no longer tit to breathe, it turns its attention to breathing water inst^^ad through its gills. The volcanoes, coral reefs, and various races of the inhahitanls are accurately and historically described, in relation both to each other and to the characteristic and violently opposed phenomena ol' the climate of the islands. In those regions it may seem to Englislimcn strange to hear of a large section of the popula- tion who can almost without exception read and write. Though it has been justly complained that Germany alone produced adequate works upon California, its attractions, resources, and brief *but swiftly -flowing liistory, Mr. Playcr-Prowd®^ gives us a most useful and agreeable ac'couiit of his personal experiences and the results of his inquiries into all that is si)ecial to that country. Avoiding the oft- • told tale ot the ])assage to the United States, a tour in Canada, and oven the fresher one of a journey across the continent of America, Mr. lMa>cr-Prowd opens his skeleh-hook to us at Lake Tahue, in the Sierras, “ a volume of water suspended 0000 feet iu the air, never varying in its height, never frozen over like neighbouring lakes, of such rarefied nature tliat wood sinks in it, and man cannot swim in it, the cratei’ of an extinct volcano, tire substituted by water, fed by the everlasting snows, and lull of great flsh, bred iieaven knows how.” The w ater of this lake is to be taken to San Prancisco, 200 miles otf, supplying thousands of miiiing-elaims and gardens on its way, and paying almost along every mile. The ** big trees ” have often been described, but Mr. J*layer-Frovvd’s vigorous pen adds something to the picture already familiar, as wall as to that of the Yosemite Valley, “the greatest of California’s attractions in point of grandeur of scenery.” It is seven miles long, scarcely to be called a valley, hut rather a rift in tlie earth ; it varies “ from one mile to ninety feet, with granite walls I’rom 1000 to 4000 feet — that is to say, from one- fifth to three-quarters of a mile high;” the masses of rock standing isolated like giant obelisk'^, or cleft from top to base, with a clear, ^ cold rivi.r at the bottom. “ Let the reader conceive the most luxuriant vegetation and the extreme of barrenness, tlie softest carpet of moss and grassy lawms and great ierns and wild roses, alternating with the .huge scathed rocks, where not even the lichen will cling, and then ho wull have a prosaic idea of the Valley of the Yosemite.” The descrip- tion of the Palls of the Yosemite, three times as high as Niagara at Six Mooths in California.** By J. G. Flayer-Frowd. London : Longmans. 1872. Politics, Sociology, Voyages and Travels. ^493 the first fall, and half a mile high at the last, is too long to extract, and could only suiier from abbreviation. The warm springs of Calistoga and the geysers, the petrified forest, the black basalt ridge which for seventy miles shows the course of some ancient river, the banks of which were first filled by the lava stream and then worn away from their uncongenial occupant, — all these and inliny other attractions are set forth to tempt visitors from the worked-out fields of European travel. Under the head of “ Mines and Mining ” is a painstaking account of the past, present, and presumable future value id the principal gold and silver districts of California, b^otlicr with a vivid picture of the chief modes adopted for getting gold out of the river-beds, mountain-sides, and rock, and for cleansing it from all impurities. Jn the earliest days the stream of a river was divoi ti‘d at a sharp turn, and tlie l)ed was washed in “ rockers ” and “ long Toms,” or even by the hand in a pan; then came washing of the dirt in sluices of perhaps a mile in length, with various contrivances for bringing both water and (juieksilver to bear upon the precious metal. “But the most powerful [dacer” (where the gold is mixed with dirt and not imprisoned in ijuartz) mining agent is the hydraulic power. A stream ot water is led to a small reservoir connecting with a hose ot from 4 to 10 inches in diameter. This hose is made of very heavy duck, sometimes strengthened with iron bands. The nozzle is like that of a fire or garden engine, narrowing to its end. Two men liold it, the water is laid on, the nozzle is turned towards the side of a hill, and immediately it begins to melt awa 3 \ Clroat care, however, must be taken not to bring too much of the overhanging clilf down at once.” “ It is incredible what this hj^draulic power \v^lJ perform. At Timbucloo miles of the mountain’s sides are washed away. Tlie Yuba, into which run all the tailings or waste earth, has its bed raised seventy feet by this alone.” It has been calculated that a cubic yard of gravel, containing on an average 27 cents of gold oj* more.*, maybe washed by ‘‘ hand for by rocker for-i.OO; by the Long Tom for 1.00 ; by the sluiee for .34 j by liydraulie washing foi* .OG.” One hydraulic mining compau^^ washed 224,000 cubic feet of dirt in six day.s, at a cost of $GoO, and cleared $3000. llich as are the prospects of Calilbrnia, due to her minea^ the intending emigrants from other countries are at least as mucli euncerned, and have as much to rely upon in the more valuable agricult uraf facts and possi])ilities that are developing themselves within her boundaries. Tiie first care bestowed by settlers ujion cultivation was richly rewarded : in 1850-51 one man made a comfortable fortune b}" cabbages alone, while another made $10,C»00 a yeai* by onions. But this abnormal state of things has givm [)lace to one in which dll home needs are supplied, and in IbTl, 3,583,124 ewt. of wheat and 3S9,52Gcwt. of Hour were exported. Other years have been more prosperous than this, the comparative poorness oi which is due to a drought, the recurrence of whieh^is provided ^against b^" improved methods of farming and irrigation. ** Ihe climate is peculiarly adapted for economical wheat culture. The farmer needs no barn, aud in many parts he has neither a fence nor a drain to make.” Next to the wheat trade ii^ importance comes that 500 ‘ Contemporary Literature. in wool. The native sheep produce only coarse wool ; but foreij^n sheep are bred, and in some parts crossed with the native sheep, with marked success. In the first half of 1871 the export of wool was worth $3,772,777. Californian blankets are unrivalled. After many dis- couraj^ing failures, owing to inexpert manufacture and unwise choice of soils, th€ native wines are now of good quality, some as good as good Uhone wines ; 1871 bade fair to produce 8,000,000 gallons. The cultivation of silkworms has, after many blunders, become a noticeable industiy, as has also that of sugar-beet, of the opium-poppy, and of the olive. California is not likely to enter the markets of the world as a ])urveyor of meat ; her dry seasons are fatal to a very large trade in beasts. As a sporting ground, too, it is growing less and less attractive with every fresh advance of mining activity. Elk, antelope, deer used to be common, and are now scarcely to be found. Bears of various species and many common wild-fowl still may be shot. Nor is the country more inviting to the botanist: with the exception of the monster 6[)cciineiis of the red-wood-tree, there is little special to be noticed, while the wild flowers are more remarkable for their abun- dance than ibr their variety, acres upon acres being covered with one variety. Mr. Shairp’s “ Up in the North,”*' is in many respects a model of what a hook of travels ought to be. This pleasant little volume steers a judicious course between the llippancy of Major Bell’s incondite gossip and the j)onderous pomposity of Mr. Furley’s political nioraliz- ings and trite scntimcntalit 3 ^ Captain Hutcheson lately taught us to “ Try Lapland,” so that Mr. Shairp’s book is not quite the revelation of an undisecKered field for the holiday-seeker of healthful pleasure that be seems to consider it. In his modest preface he disclaims any pretension cither “ to produce an elaborate disqui.sition on the moral, social, or political condition of the Swedes or Lajdanders,” or “ to dilate learnedly on the fauna, flora, geology, or natural features of Sweden or Lapland and, to say the truth, for neither of these tasks does Mr. Shairp appear to he very well fitted. But the work which he has chosen to do and for which his aptitude is undoubted, is quite important enough to be well and carefully done. The personal character of a people who are so near to ns, not by geographical position alone, but by kinsman- ship, as the Swedes, ought to be better known in England, and if the attractions of Sweden as' a field for travel avere popularized, many tourists would be glad to catch a glimpse now' and then of the daily life of our Scandinavian kinsfolk. It is true that the task which Mr. Shairp puts aside as unsuited to his powers needs very urgently to be undertaken by a competent person. The social and political condition of the Scandinavian countries should be treated as Mr. Laing treated them a generation ago, in works which, though now obsolete in their statistics and in a part of their conclusions, are models in their kind. With this serious labour Mr. Shairp, as we have said, does not busy himself. He gives us instead the surface impressions whicl\ a cul- “Up in the North; Notes of a Journey from London to Lulea, and into Lapland.” By Thomas bhairp. London : Chapman and Hall. 1872. Politics, Sociology, Voyages and Travels, • 501 tured and tasteful mind receives in passing through novel scenes, whether of social life or of natural beaut}'. To such a mind Sweden presents a strange aspect, yet in many ways not an unpleasing one. Though nearer than some other lands much frequented modem tourists, the Scandinavian kingdom lies even less in the beaten track than Russia. Probably the superior attractions of Norwjif for lovers of the picturesque prevent the sister country Irom getting its fair sliare of admiration. In Mr. Shairp at least Sweden does not find a cold- hearted jjilgrim. Stockholm he speaks of as the “ most glorious town of Northern Europe,” and his enthusiastic description of tlie city as he left it at sunset is well worth reading. The coast .'Ibenery pleased him equally, and throughout Mr. Shairp seems to have done his northward pilgrimage in a contented and joyful spirit. Perhaps this may be accounted for by the fact tluit the faro, both in tlie inns and on board the steamers, was at once cheap and excellent. TIuj wines were dear and bad, but the taste of a true Swcfie does not lead him to Avine-drinking. All day long spirits are tippled, and it is somewhat horrifying to learn that though we are not the most temperate people under tlie sun, the average Swede drinks just eight times as much spirits as the average Englishman. In Northern Sweden and in Lap- land tlie days without night, the purity of the air, and the simplicity of the people charmed our author. Put in the latter country he, like other travellers, diseovered that it was necessary to rough it. The substantial fare and coinlbrtable aecommodatiou of the Swedish inns gave j)laee to had food, and not always plenty even of that, with other disagreeables of which the loss said the better. Still, Mr. Shairp, telling the truth and the whole truth fearlessly, does uot despair of tempting others to do as he has done. It should be added that he appends to his book a table of cxpen.ses, which will be found useful by any bold enough to imitate him in hi.s journey " Uj) in the North.” Mr. G. W, Rusden, in an .ably written historical preface, which claims for l*itt the glory of being the true founder of the English Colonies in Australia, dedicates to Mr. Anthony Trollo})e a pamphlet on" The Discovery, Survey, and Settlement of Port Phillip,” telling a story of perseverance and daring of which Englishmen and Colonists may alike be proud. The pressure of each day’s busines.s and fresh excitement may well be in danger of hiding from us the importance and interest of the visit paid to this country by an embassy consisting of the foremost states- men and politicians of Japan, and heralding one to be paid by the Emperor himself to this and other countries. Foreign guests are so little rare and so little thought about among us, that Mr. Lamnan” >28 Discovery, Survey, and Settlement of Port Phillip.” By G. W. ^ Busden. London ; Williams and Norgate. 1872. •27 «Xbe Japanese in America.** By Charles Lamnati, American Secretary Japanese Legation in Washington. London : Longmans. 1672. 502 Contemporai'y Literature* clous ifs, as Avull as the Japanese, good service by the publication of the voluino before us. The first part of it consists of an account of the visit of the same embassy to America, and, in the verbatim reports of the s{)eeLhe6 made on various occasions, contains sketches of the recent lii.story of Japan, which are of the liighest interest. A few years ago tlio ])rt‘sent >jmi)eror, aided by men who are now working under him, ovei’threw tlie usurping Tycoon, and inaugurated a new system of politics and of social and international relations. The chief ambassador s;«ys, in retrospect of tliesc years: “Although our improvement has been rapid in material civilization, the mental improvement of our ptople has been for greater.” The people knew no ireedom or liberty of thought, but they learned their rightful privileges, and, though for a .^hort lime civil war ensued, the Daimios burrendered all their privileges, and ‘‘ within a year a feudal system, firmly established many centuries ago, has been completeh' al)i>lished without firing a gun or sljedding a drop of blood.” One of the first steps towards improvement was to l)egiii to educate Ja])Miiesc women, both by improved methods at home and by sending some to America. Kail- ways, telegra))hs, street-railways, docks, lightLouses, and the recon- struction of the army and navy, all speak for the efforts Japan is making to equal the nations which have had so great a start in the race rd' civilization, “ liundreds of the young nobility of Japan are being educated in their own country ami in liluropc.” “ Private schools are numerous throughout the ciiipire, condueted by foreigners.” “ The (iuveniineiit scliools at Y(‘ddo contain about 1(500 pupils, sl.ud}ing foreign language^.” “ Diiriug the last lour years nearly one tbousaiul young men of intelligence ami ability have been sent abroad to study 11 le languages, laws, liabits, manulacturos, methods of govern- ment, and all other matters appertaining to western civilization, the greater j)art of which is to be inti’oduceil into Japan.” Marriages are now legal between class and class, and all the specific privileges of the nobles have been abrogated. Tlie historian of the future will have no reason to coin]»lain of seaut}^ materials wlieii he comes to deal with the war of 1870 ; for the crop of memoircs pour nervir^ ‘‘ reminiscences, ” “ experii*noes,” and ^o ibrth, has been ineonvonientl^' exuberant, and is still growing. | common_corpus | {'identifier': 'in.ernet.dli.2015.100127_33', 'collection': 'English-PD', 'open_type': 'Open Culture', 'license': 'Public Domain', 'date': '', 'title': 'None', 'creator': 'None', 'language': 'English', 'language_type': 'Spoken', 'word_count': '6930', 'token_count': '9746', '__index_level_0__': '1895', 'original_id': 'd8fc2a7a8821f3488ceac245ecbc76a6495cc7a4c606edbcc74defd112d15965'} |
The Django request URL becomes strange
I have a django project running on my localhost and it is working very well, however when I uploaded it to real server, some problem started happening with the url. it happens every time HttpResponseRedirect or any redirect gets called
a page on my local host
while on the server it becomes,
in firebug i see
GET signin,
I belive this happens because the has ^signin/$^ and APPEND_SLASH = True in because when I visit /signin/ it works!
404 page on my local host
Request URL:
on the server
Request URL:,
for some reason it is adding [comma][space] to url and redirects it.
home page is working without issues
The issue is tracked in the following ticket:
It has to do with how Django handles proxy redirection. The following middleware will help you out.
class MultipleProxyMiddleware(object):
def process_request(self, request):
Rewrites the proxy headers so that only the most
recent proxy is used.
for field in self.FORWARDED_FOR_FIELDS:
if field in request.META:
if ',' in request.META[field]:
If, for example, your Django site is sitting behind a proxy which includes proxy information in the X-Forwarded-For header, and then your web server also does proxying, the header will contain a list (comma separated) of the proxied addresses. By using this middleware, it will strip all but one of the proxied addresses in the headers. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '3', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.83842533826828}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '20074', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:A524V45KXLZQ5APZFEYKDVOKT45DOPLI', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:2748ad76-b4d3-4ade-8d28-ec5f377122a3>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 16, 18, 37, 40), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.31.69.110', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:4KDA2AE2RUTZQ2ZHEFH5YUV6OY3CPXDM', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:d9aebd4d-b53e-4c92-b213-46614e6d124c>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.codesd.com/item/the-django-request-url-becomes-strange.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:b86853e4-e4ff-4939-8e4b-d2a510193f62>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '231', 'url': 'https://www.codesd.com/item/the-django-request-url-becomes-strange.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-09\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for February 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-69-73-156.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.16354769468307495', 'original_id': 'fbb65ce73e391646b97efc3d7c0bbcc44b1c1c2ffe37f957f77789ef709bb98e'} |
this week i
listened to lukas sommer with marcie at millenium stage, she stirred tomato stew while i roast coffee beans.
met scott and nicole at bindaas then a formal something or other at the french embassy. unlimited wine and macarons means one full day recovery.
read being mortal..
if our genes explain less than we imagined, the classical wear-and-tear model may explain more than we knew. leonid gavrilov, a researcher at the university of chicago, argues that human beings fail the way all complex systems fail: randomly and gradually. as engineers have long recognized, simple devices typically do not age. they function reliably until a critical component fails, and the whole thing dies in an instant. a windup toy, for example, works smoothly until a gear rusts or a spring breaks, and then it doesn't work at all. but complex systems - power plants, say - have to survive and function despite having thousands of critical, potentially fragile components. engineers therefore design these machines with multiple layers of redundancy: with backup systems, and backup systems for the backup systems. the backups may not be as efficient as the first-line components, but they may allow the machine to keep going on even as damage accumulates. garilov argues that, within the parameters established by our genes, that's exactly how human beings appear to work. we have an extra kidney, an extra lung, an extra gonad, extra teeth. the dna in our cells is frequently damaged under routine conditions, but our cells have a number of dna repair systems. if a key gene is permanently damaged, there are usually extra copies of the gene nearby. and, if the entire cell dies, other cells can fill in
in general, the younger the subjects were, the less they valued time with people they were emotionally close to and the more they valued time with people who were potential sources of information or new friendship. however, among the ill, the age differences disappeared. the preferences of a young person with aids were the same as those of an old person..when they were asked how they would like to spend half an hour of time, the age differences in their preferences were again clear. but when asked simply to imagine they were about to move far away, the age differences again disappeared. the young chose as the old did. next, the researchers asked them to imagine a medical breakthrough had been made that would add twenty years to their life. again, the age differences disappeared - but this time the old chose as the young did
to help people in the state of dependence sustain the value of existence
arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality and a clear understanding of the limits and the possibilities of medicine is a process, not an epiphany
this week i
listened to two lectures on western artists retreating to bali for ideas. we discovered the garden of eden and did not want to be the serpents
attended the 2,401st psw meeting to watch leroy cronin discuss advances in laser-printing medicines
we need to invent the microphone to record and reproduce the field of chemistry
we can suddenly bring back off-patent drugs or orphaned drugs in small doses without a factory. like abandoned books with the advent of e-readers
read the god of small things..
she was eighty-three. her eyes spread like butter behind her thick glasses
even chacko had no really complete explanation for why the communist party was so much more successful in kerala than it had been almost anywhere else in india, except perhaps in bengal
they were forbidden from visiting his house, but they did. they would sit with him for hours, on their haunches - hunched punctuation marks in a pool of wood shavings - and wonder how he always seemed to know what smooth shapes waited inside the wood for him. they loved the way wood, in velutha's hands, seemed to soften and become as pliable as plasticine. he was teaching them to use a planer. his house (on a good day) smelled of fresh wood shavings and the sun. of red fish curry with black tamarind. the best fish curry, according to estha, in the whole world
the high delight of the airborne young
in the arrivals lounge, there were four life-sized cement kangaroos with cement pouches that said use me. in their pouches, instead of cement joeys, they had cigarette stubs, used matchsticks, bottle-caps, peanut shells, crumpled paper cups and cockroaches.
red betel spit stains spattered their kangaroo stomachs like fresh wounds.
red-mouthed smiles the airport kangaroos had.
they looked as though if you pressed them they might say 'ma-ma' in empty battery voices
what esthappen and rahel witnessed that morning, though they didn't know it then, was a clinical demonstration in controlled conditions (this was not war after all, or genocide) of human nature's pursuit of ascendancy. structure. order. complete monopoly. it was human history, masquerading as god's purpose, revealing herself to an under-age audience
this week i
resolve when traveling both near and far, need a reason for being.
retrieved my father, aunt rosemarie made cheesesteaks. his one sibling - and being only child myself - exclusively monikered aunt rosemarie to me.
discovered parglm, faster regression processing.
see useless warnings everywhere.
wondered if dixie originated from mason-dixon. possibly, but might instead be the french word for ten.
read beowulf, achilles of the north. the narrative does not begin with beowulf, or even in his homeland of the geats, but rather with a genealogy of danish kings..the prologue might seem to be rather lengthy to a modern reader, but in the world of beowulf people are always concerned about origins, and even the principal characters are often referred to by their father's names. such origins would appear to define a person's nature and quality, and thus to dispense with them would be unthinkable
the sea-weary men set down their broad shields,
with the powerful bosses, by the side of the hall.
as the men sat on a bench, the mail rang out,
the battle-shirts of heroes. their spears stood tall,
the weapons of warriors all gathered together
then from the moors that were thick with mist,
grendel emerged, wrapped in the anger of god.
the hellish ravager sought to surprise
one of the men at rest in the high hall.
he crept under clouds toward the wine-hall,
till he could see clearly the glorious building,
glowing with gold plates. nor was this
the first time he sought hrothgar's home,
yet never before or after, in all his days,
did he find a worse fortune among the hall-thanes.
the sword sweat blood, while the warrior rejoiced.
the light was gleaming, glowing from within
this week i
this week i
am fantastically tired. christmas dinner room service under handmaid's tale hotel lamps
walked the hutongs. well, that was the last place that that wasn't.
ate hot pot again. the servers weren't happy i chose garlic sauce from the buffet line, brought me peanut sauce. stomach ache. hot pot bad. if i want to cook my own food, i'll eat at home.
am going to go with "wine snob"
note cinderella comes in many shapes and sizes
changed hotels again and again.
read pablo neruda: twenty love poems and a song of despair
my kisses fell, happy as embers
este poema es una parafrasis del poema 30 de el jardinero de rabindranath tagore
love is so short, forgetting is so long
this week i
untangled my mind. plenty to do, i wanted none of it. one month of frigid cold without snow.
ate japanese too. fitting they're goldfish shaped, i am red bean surprised every time
watched making a murderer. the amateur innocence project genre strikes me as ambulance chasing journalism rather than earnest exoneration.
read sum: forty tales from the afterlives by david eagleman. often written in the second person
there are three deaths. the first is when the body ceases to function. the second is when the body is consigned to the grave. the third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last wait in this lobby until the third death. there are long tables with coffee, tea, and cookies..many people leave just as their loved ones arrived, since the loved ones were the only ones doing the remembering. we all wag our heads at that typical timing
on their last day, howling because it is the end of their lives, babies climb back into the wombs of their monthers, who eventually shrink and climb back into the wombs of their mothers, and so on like concentric russian dolls
this week i
(1) earth's maximal evolutionary distance of consciousness
(2) london's death index
(3) how to remove a brain tumor
(4) the process of dispossession
(5) the party gathers
(6) gps technology
(7) unspoken medicine
(8) quantification
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: A cylindrical light diffuser has been developed mainly for medical applications, including photodynamic therapy (PDT), in particular interstitial PDT, PDT of the bronchi, or intravascular PDT. STUDY DESIGN/MATERIALS AND METHODS: The diffuser is based on a polymer optical fiber. The coupling of the light out of the core is controlled by the roughness mechanically induced on the surface of the core. The light is then isotropically diffused by a thin layer of a scattering medium. The active length can be 100 mm or more, whereas the outer diameter is 1 mm or less. The diffuser is flexible and can be introduced in tissue though a hypodermic needle. RESULTS: The main property of this light diffuser is the homogeneity of the light intensity emitted along its whole active length and around its circumference (360 degrees). Various intensity profiles can be made, including M-shape profiles for a homogeneous irradiance (+/- 10%) at a certain depth in the tissue. Furthermore, the diffuser is essentially isotropic and its optical properties are hardly dependent on wavelength. CONCLUSIONS: A diffuser for interstitial and intraluminal PDT has been developed. It is flexible, homogeneous, independent on wavelength, and can be made with a very high length-to-diameter ratio. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9288913607597352}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '36067', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:UQPRVPNTQKIZUQE57UQQVPHSAJPXIQEO', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:7dbe3ead-cdc0-45b4-8daa-5b0e6e19fe4c>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 4, 20, 21, 1, 13), 'WARC-IP-Address': '34.250.186.131', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:BW5XZWWXIZSEVVTQ6RRFFQ2H2A7R2MRX', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:06da5a05-2863-4a70-ad72-a2e055d97b93>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/109542', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:e12310b0-0302-4696-b985-67c044d371dd>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '202', 'url': 'https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/109542', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-17\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-28.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.06405329704284668', 'original_id': '7fd0ef75c5570f062fc51833da09c4a7964fd9dbccd16dca9d71396c50c2135e'} |
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The Western intervention in Libya has enabled an abundance of criminal financial streams unique to the Sahel to profit local terrorist organizations.
The vast, ungoverned spaces of the Sahel have long been utilized as a land of commercial enterprise, where economic exchange and survival are transposable. The trade routes and networks governed by the nomadic and pastoral communities of the region date back the halcyon days of the 15th century when cities such as Timbuktu were important transport hubs.
Nowadays the historic trade routes across Algeria, Libya, Mali, Mauritania and Chad have become infiltrated with criminal and terrorist groups, inordinately fueled by the current regional instability.
The Sahel’s permeability has made it an ideal place to traffic contraband including drugs and people alike, posing a significant problem to those attempting to combat the threat these organizations pose in the region, trafficking contraband from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea is contributing to the weakening of states and exacerbating political and social instability.
Salafi-Jihadist groups such as Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and Al-Mourabitoun (The Sentinels) have taken significant advantage of this situation, the symbiotic and economic links it has developed with the indigenous Tuareg and Bérabiche tribes, predominantly through marriage, has enabled it to become intimately involved in their trafficking and smuggling operations—most often cocaine, cannabis and tobacco, the group has also used the trade routes to facilitate its ‘kidnap economy’ allowing it to traffic people freely through the region, and it has been suggested that even when they are not directly involved in smuggling operations they frequently ‘tax’ those that are. The accumulative amount of money coming into AQIM is considerable with ransom payments alone projected between 60–175 million dollars.
Kidnap for ransom remains the staple tactic of Sahelien terror groups; the income generated is incomparable to other illicit sources of income and the willingness of European states to facilitate the payment of these ransoms further encourages these groups to seek out new targets. Vicki Huddleston, a former US state department official, told the New York Times “The danger of this is not just that it grows the terrorist movement but that it makes all our citizens more vulnerable.”
Yet whilst the kidnap industry is one of the most lucrative criminal enterprises in the Sahel, it is also the most unreliable. The opportunities to kidnap foreign national’s operating in the Sahel are marginal and by contrast day-to-day trafficking of contraband and illicit narcotics provides a much more stable income source.
AQIM’s reported links with South American narcotraficantes has enabled them to professionalize their operations and improved their capabilities in contraband transport. There is substantial evidence which highlights the trafficking problems in the Sahel, the most infamous of which is the case of ‘Air Cocaine’ which involved the crash of a Boeing 727 loaded with approximately ten tons of cocaine in Mali in November 2009 this, though the most famous case of drug trafficking, it is only a sample of the actual amounts which pass through the Sahel a 2011 United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report calculated that the volume of cocaine trade in the Sahelian region was sixty times the amount it was 2002, albeit it also noted that trafficking had been declining since 2007, although the report notes that “There is debate as to whether the flow of cocaine decreased commensurably or whether the traffickers have simply found less detectable ways of moving the drug”.
In 2012 alone it was estimated that 18 tons of cocaine amounting to $1.25 billion transited through West Africa and the Sahel, highlighting the scale of the problem. Indeed a recent report states that the “Colombian drug trade via Guinea-Bissau….creates local incomes of at most US$10-20 million for operatives in the Sahel, Algeria, and Libya”
The problems associated with this activity are not just the explicit issues commonly attributable to drug trafficking. The association between terrorism and drug trafficking in the region have previously been documented; the members of the terror cell, which had tenuous link to the Moroccan Islamic Fighting Group that committed the Madrid Train Bombings in 2004, were purportedly hashish traffickers before they became radicalized, and used revenue acquired through the sale of narcotics to fund the operation, reportedly acquiring the explosives via an exchange for drugs. Whilst this example is fraught with uncorroborated claims and circumstantial evidence it offers an outlook of how future jihadi operations could be intimately tied to drug trafficking, and more appropriate evidence can be seen in how Afghan and Pakistani insurgency is funded by the opium trade.
The scope of illicit trade in the Sahel, though, specifically in relation to the narcotics trade, is widely disputed. The crux of the problem in attributing any perceptible affiliation between narcotics trafficking and terrorism in the Sahel is that the majority of information regarding the subject is often anecdotal and unverifiable. For instance, one example that is often cited by those espousing the relationship between narcotraficantes and terrorist groups in the Sahel is the 2010 operation by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), in which undercover agents posed as members of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) seeking to move cocaine through the Sahel region, met with men claiming to represent AQIM, and offered to protect their shipment for $2,000 per kilo. The operation led to the first indictment of Al Qaeda affiliates on narco-terrorism charges and ostensibly also confirmed the suspicions that Islamic terrorists were involved in the movement of narcotics throughout the Sahel. However, further analysis indicates that the claim made by the defendants was not anything other than false representation of their credentials. As noted by Wolfram Lacher, whilst the “three Malians were handed prison sentences, the narco-terrorism conspiracy charges were eventually dropped”.
Moreover, many experts agree that French-led military intervention in Mali in January 2013 has disrupted existing drugs trafficking networks in the Sahel, although a report by The Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime argued that current trafficking levels have continued largely unabated in spite the French-led military intervention. Malian Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop affirmed these concerns during a UN meeting on October 1, 2015, stating drug trafficking remains a major source of funding for non-state armed actors.
Another potential problem arising from the crime-terror nexus, and one which has been dominating current headlines, is the potential trafficking of terrorists into European cities.
There is an undeniably vibrant economy in the trafficking of undocumented workers through West Africa and the Sahel, with Libya often the final destination of choice—with an estimation of the number of undocumented workers there between 750,000-2.5 million.
AQIM and Tuareg caravans have been monitored moving undocumented workers from Nigeria and Burkina Faso through Mali onto Mediterranean cities such as Tripoli and Algiers, where entry into Europe is relatively straightforward, the majority those being trafficked is usually for the benign purpose of economic opportunity, indeed, Hiroute Guebre Sellassie the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Sahel states that 60 per cent of the human trafficking victims detected in the region were children.
Nonetheless there is considerable worry about the prospect of jihadist cells following the same route into Europe. The most recent justification for such concern followed the discovery of a Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) cell operating in Spain, although it must be pointed out, this seems to be anomalous and the current threat is likely vastly overblown.
Lesser criminal operations are also prevalent in the region, fuel and tobacco smuggling is a highly lucrative business and in the jihadi sphere, monopolized by al-Mourabitoun, which was formed through a merger between MUJAO and the Signed in Blood Battalion and is commanded by one of the most infamous smugglers in the region, a former commander of AQIM: Mohktar Belmohktar, also known as ‘Laaouar’ and more tellingly as ‘Mr. Marlboro’ due to his extensive cigarette smuggling dating back to the 1990’s. The merger of his group with MUJAO also indicates the latter group’s ascendancy into more traditional contraband smuggling, with the group having long been purported to have connections with cocaine traffickers; further evidence which supports this is their association with Tilemsi Arab smugglers who have entrenched smuggling networks throughout the region.
The fall of Muammar Qaddafi in Libya and the resulting chaos, which has essentially rendered Libya a failed state, has only exacerbated the crime-terror nexus. Since ousting him from power “the traditional tribal trans-Sahara trade, in drugs, counterfeit products and migrants and arms to grow to around US$43-80m” according to a 2015 report by the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, moreover it has intensified the migrant trade with “coastal migrant trade, valued now at US$ 255 – 323 million per year in Libya alone” and that migrants traversing from Libya , the majority of which are now Syrians “make up roughly 60% of all illegal migrants to Europe.”
These increasing illicit revenue streams are proving highly beneficial to terror groups in the region. The lack of governance in Libya since Qaddafi’s fall and the French intervention in Mali precipitated several groups to relocate their operational centers to Libya, including both AQIM and Al-Mourabitoun. The presence of the Islamic State in Libya is another cause for concern; however, the Global Initiative report indicated that the group has made no incursions into the potentially lucrative smuggling routes of the Sahel, which may be due in part to tensions it has with rival Jihadi groups. But with Libya now seen as the hub of illegal activity across the Sahel and the Maghreb, expanding southward is not a necessity for the currently preeminent terror organization.
The current situation though is disquieting, the inadequacy and dearth of local governance and security infrastructure, particularly in Libya, has enabled abundance of criminal financial streams unique to the Sahel to profit local terrorist organizations. These financial opportunities, unless more effort is done by the local and international community to disrupt, will continue to fund insurgency throughout an already unstable region. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '6', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9584944248199464}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '66177', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:PPK3PFFIRT6WS357VFI556Z6N7NTDMFO', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:21764b30-e683-49af-ad5b-c8570d820b6e>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 3, 26, 15, 27, 35), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.18.43.218', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:UTDYCVRDS67PORSBFAPSKH2TT4SUU4JP', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:fea2c7d5-e411-4eb0-8738-c4694f83c3b3>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2015/10/30/the-sahel-libya-and-the-crime-terror-nexus/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:bd87efdd-7afe-415a-991b-fa654c44cf29>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1629', 'url': 'https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2015/10/30/the-sahel-libya-and-the-crime-terror-nexus/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-13\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-143-92-167.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.02833777666091919', 'original_id': '3bf47a6708d4f2bb99e77bbefce7c6280acbe51c1f4537c24d30b50272ec3b32'} |
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Boat on fire just off Shoreham Nr Brighton
A £400,000 yacht caught fire off the coast yesterday and could be seen for miles as the coast guard and other boats went out to rescue the stricken vessel. Apparently there were 6 people on board and all were unhurt. This photo was taken from the coast in Hove.More pictures and the full story can be found here.
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1. oh my! at least they're safe... so impressionant your photo!
2. When I saw your photo, I was thinking at first, oh, a tornado in UK!
But it was still a bad thing.
Fortunately people are safe.
Nice week to you and your family!
3. i thought of tornado too.
it's lucky they escaped on time.
4. Fires on board ships seem to be happening more frequently these days.
5. can't imagine what the people on board were feeling......
6. I know it's unbelievable - there was a tornado here last year - pics on this blog.
There are some pretty spectacular pics of the boat on the argus website (link).
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Noyau - advice on roasting apricot kernels, please
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I'm trying to make noyau parfait, loosely following the Chez Panisse Desserts instructions. I've bought a little bag of apricot kernels from a health food store (refrigerated but otherwise unprocessed, I believe), and I know I'm supposed to toast them in a medium oven for 5-10 minutes to denature the cyanide components, which might make a consumer ill. But here's the problem - even two minutes at 350F/180C is over-toasting them. They don't taste like bitter almonds - which they most certainly do when raw - but rather like too-toasted hazelnuts. Has anyone had this problem, and does anyone actually know the temperature they need to reach to denature the cyanide?
My oven temperature is accurate. While poisoning due to apricot kernels is very rare, I'd feel better if anyone could shed some light on this!
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1. I've made Shere's Noyau Ice Cream without toasting. I've never seen instructions to do that but if you want to go ahead, I would lower the temp to 300 - 325 to slow down the roasting. You don't want to change the delicate flavor.
The ice cream is incredibly delicious, by the way.
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1. re: meta
I've eaten it before, just never made it - it is amazing, isn't it? One of those flavours that no amount of 'extracts' can imitate perfectly.
I've done some more reading about it online - apparently up until one isolated incident of cyanide poisoning, Cancer groups were reccommending a daily dose of TEN kernels per person, to boost the immune system. Which makes me feel a bit better - if thousands of people have been taking ten a day, then using a couple tablespoons to make a big batch of parfait is unlikely to hurt anyone!
1. re: Gooseberry
Well, it's important to feel comfortable about enjoying the product. But I honestly never heard of anyone suffering any consequences. Good luck!
2. I believe the roasting is when you are starting with the apricot pit, before the kernel is removed.
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1. re: wally
The recipe says to roast the whole pit for ten minutes, crack open and roast foranother five.
1. re: Gooseberry
In the original recipe for the noyau ice cream in the first edition of the book, there is no roasting at all of the either cherry pits or apricot pits. You simply get the kernel out and steep it. The Chez Panisse Fruit book has a variation on the procedure you have just listed. I would imagine that litigation is the impetus for the deactivation of whatever it is that makes prussic acid (hydrogen cyanide) in the pit.
2. I've made a ton of stuff with the Noyaux from Apricot pits and never gotten sick, nor have I caused others to do so.
I do indeed roast the pits briefly to burn off any fruit sticking to them before freezing them for a later use, but when it comes time to put them into jam, ice cream, cookies or panna cotta, just grind up the kernel as is.
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PhpMyAdmin table gives empty column
I am working on a project to send sensor data to phpmyadmin table using GET request.
I am not able to see sensor data in the table when I consider my Arduino to be the client, but when I use this URL on my Google chrome browser it shows the result (ex. 40).
It seems the problem is with the Arduino code.
Serial.println("\nStarting connection to server...");
// if you get a connection, report back via serial:
if (client.connect(server, 80)) {
Serial.println("connected to server");
// Make a HTTP request:
client.println("GET /add.php?");
client.print("Steinhart=");
client.print(Steinhart);
}
// if there are incoming bytes available
// from the server, read them and print them:
while (client.available()) {
char c = client.read();
Serial.write(c);
}
}
// attempt to connect to Wifi network:
while (status != WL_CONNECTED) {
Serial.print("Attempting to connect to SSID: ");
Serial.println(ssid);
// Connect to WPA/WPA2 network. Change this line if using open or WEP network:
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Should I Refinance into a 15-Year Fixed Rate Mortgage?
With the Federal Reserve tongue-tied and twisted and an easy trade war time-tripping into the future, we find ourselves the beneficiaries of another very appealing low interest rate environment here in the second half of 2019. This stands to benefit many who have mortgages at higher rates and even some who may not fit that exact bill, but who are focused primarily on reducing the term of their loan and perhaps paying their entire balance off at a faster rate. We are seeing a number of homeowners who are seeking to determine if they should abandon their 30-year amortized loans and refinance into a 15-year fixed. What are the key concepts these individuals need to know before they make this leap?
1. For the vast majority, the mortgage payment will go up. A while back I did the research on this and came up with my “10 and 2” rule. Namely, if you are in a 30-year loan now and have been paying it down for 10 years, then you refinance into a 15-year fixed rate loan with at least a 2% rate reduction over your present loan, only then would you have a new payment that is the same or lower than your current payment. And that’s a reach. So for most, refinancing into a 15-year fixed means a higher monthly payment, safe in the knowledge that the additional amount is going to reduce your principal balance and not to additional interest.
2. You save big long-term. The total finance charge (aka, interest) on a 15-year loan versus a 30-year loan is dramatic. For example, on a $400K loan at 4%, you will pay a total of $287,478 in interest over 30 years. On a 15-year fixed at 4%, you will pay $132,575. But there’s a silver lining for the 15. Often the rate on a 15-year fixed will be lower than for a 30, so not only do you save on interest because of the term, but you save on interest additionally because of the lower rate. The rich get richer.
3. Be mindful of your credit capacity. If you refinance into a 15, you’ll have a higher payment reporting on your credit report. Other creditors who may examine your debt-to-income (DTI) as a function of your creditworthiness could limit your access to credit due to the higher payment. This may or may not be a factor for your financial future, but do take it into consideration before you take the 15-year plunge.
4. It’s possible to be debt free but wealth poor. I realize this sounds funny, and paying off a home is a commendable financial goal, but realize that while you are doing it, most of us also need to meet concurrent objectives when it comes to our money. Having a “rainy day” fund, paying off any tax-disadvantaged higher-rate consumer debt, saving for college and retirement and investing outside of real estate are important and worthy objectives and if all of your discretionary income goes into a higher mortgage payment, you could find yourself debt-free but savings poor down the road. That would almost certainly force you to look into refinancing the home again and accessing the equity, likely with a 30-year loan or a HELOC. Don’t laugh, we’ve seen this movie before…
With rates lower, it might indeed be worth looking into a 15-year fixed rate mortgage. But keep the above points in mind as you do. Like in physics, all actions have opposite reactions and finance is no different. Getting a lower rate, paying less interest over term and paying off your home quicker are all enticing objectives. There is a price to entry, however, and any true loan professional can help you assess that cost. Let me know if you need my help at any point in your journey.
Free and clear,
Robert J. Spinosa
Vice President of Mortgage Lending
Guaranteed Rate
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Q:
What does "method process in class ForeachWriter of type (value: org.apache.spark.sql.Row)Unit is not defined" mean with ForeachWriter?
I am trying to use the foreach sink while writing my dataframe to a hive table:
// dp is my dataframe (aggregated streaming data)
dp.writeStream.foreach(
new ForeachWriter[Row] {
def open(partitionId: Long, version: Long): Boolean = true
def process(record: String): Unit = {
//dp.createOrReplaceTempView("tableA")
// i need to do insert into tablename (select * from tableA)
}
def close(errorOrNull: Throwable): Unit = {}
}
).start()
I am getting following error
error: object creation impossible, since method process in class ForeachWriter of type (value: org.apache.spark.sql.Row)Unit is not defined
What could be the issue?
A:
You should be more careful with the types, i.e. compare the type in ForeachWriter[Row] and def process(record: String): Unit. They are incompatible and hence the error.
From the scaladoc of org.apache.spark.sql.ForeachWriter:
abstract class ForeachWriter[T]
and
abstract def process(value: T): Unit
The T type is the key here. Use def process(record: Row): Unit and that should fix the compilation error.
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INTRODUCTION
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Luteolin (3\',4\',5,7-hydroxyl-flavone) is a naturally occurring flavone in plants. Interest in the possible health benefits of flavones has increased due to their reported potent antiinflammatory and antioxidative activities *in vitro* and *in vivo* \[[@B1][@B2]\]. Flavones in plants are usually present in the form of glucosides (sugar attached), although occasionally they are found as aglycones. It is known that glucosides are hydrolyzed by the β-glucosidase enzyme produced by gut bacteria and are subsequently absorbed as aglycones \[[@B3]\]. Aglycones are absorbed faster and in greater quantities than their glucoside counterparts *in vivo* \[[@B4][@B5]\], whereas glucosides can be partially absorbed (and remain biologically active) without β-glucosidase hydrolysis \[[@B6]\].
After absorption, aglycones mostly undergo intestinal conjugation to mono-glucuronide or hepatic sulfation/methylation and, thus, are metabolized as various forms of glucuronides, sulfates, or methylates \[[@B7]\] or remain as unmetabolized aglycones and glucosides at low levels \[[@B8]\]. There are several pieces of evidence that indicate the bioavailability of flavones may differ when consumed as either aglycones or glucosides \[[@B4][@B9]\], and there is also contradictory evidence that the bioavailability of flavones does not differ when consumed as either aglycones or glycosides \[[@B10][@B11]\]. However, recent research has shown that the type of metabolites transformed after absorption may determine the bioactivity of flavones \[[@B8]\]. That is, depending on the bioavailability of flavones and the transformation pattern to certain metabolites, biological activities of aglycone and glucoside forms of flavones could be different *in vivo*.
Galactosamine/lipopolysaccharide (GalN/LPS) is a well-known model for acute liver injury that closely resembles human clinical hepatitis \[[@B12]\]. GalN is a hexosamine derived from galactose and has a molecular formula of C~6~H~13~NO~5~. This amino sugar is hepatotoxic; the toxic effect of GalN is connected with insufficiency of UDP-glucose and UDP-galactose and the loss of intracellular calcium homeostasis. These changes affect cell membranes and organelles, as well as the synthesis of proteins and nucleic acids \[[@B13]\]. LPS is a major component of the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria and triggers excessive secretion of various inflammatory mediators such as nitric oxide (NO) and prostaglandin E~2~ (PGE~2~), which are regulated by transcription factors such as nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) and activator protein-1 (AP-1) \[[@B14]\]. Such factors reside ubiquitously in the cytoplasm as heterodimers with p50 and p65 as well as with c-jun and fos. In response to an inflammatory stimulus, transcription factors are activated and translocated into the nucleus resulting in the upregulation of inducible NO synthase (iNOS) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), which are the corresponding enzymes of NO and PGE~2~ \[[@B14][@B15]\]. Moreover, LPS generates reactive oxygen species and thus increases oxidative stress. The buildup of oxidative stress is ameliorated through the modulation of an antioxidative transcription factor, nuclear factor-erythroid 2 p45-related factor-2 (Nrf-2), mediating phase 2 enzyme expressions \[[@B16]\]. Nrf2 is known as a major determinant for the induction of phase 2 enzymes, such as heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1), NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1), and superoxide dismutase (SOD). This transcription factor is also ubiquitously present in cytoplasm that is anchored by the negative regulator Kelch-like ECH associated protein 1 (Keap1). Under inflammatory circumstances, Nrf2 dissociates from Keap1 and accumulates in the nucleus, binding with antioxidant response elements in the promoter region of various phase 2 enzymes. \[[@B17]\]. Therefore, GalN/LPS challenge is a good approach to inducing inflammation and oxidative stress in a hepatic failure animal model and is useful in the study of the anti-inflammatory and antioxidative activities of phytochemicals *in vivo* \[[@B18]\].
Numerous previous studies have shown that luteolin aglycone is an anti-inflammatory and antioxidative agent *in vitro* and *in vivo*, whereas the bioavailability of luteolin and its glycosidic form has not not yet been fully described. \[[@B1][@B19][@B20][@B21][@B22][@B23]\]. This study was designed to compare the anti-inflammatory and antioxidative activities of luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside (a major glucoside present in plants) as well as their underlying molecular mechanisms in GalN/LPS-induced hepatotoxic ICR mice.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
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Reagents
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Luteolin, GalN, LPS, and SDS were purchased from the Sigma Chemical Co. (St. Louis, MO, USA). Luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside was obtained from the INDOFINE chemical company (Hillsborough, NJ, USA). Antibodies against COX-2, phospho-p65, phospho-c-jun, HO-1, NQO1, SOD-1, SOD-2, catalase, Nrf-2, and actin, as well as horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-conjugated anti-rabbit IgG, were purchased from Cell Signaling Technology (Danvers, MA, USA) and Santa Cruz Biotechnology (Santa Cruz, CA, USA). Polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) membrane was supplied by Bio-Rad Laboratories (Hercules, CA, USA). All other chemicals were of the highest commercial grade available.
Animals
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Six-week-old male ICR mice were purchased from an experimental animal breeder, Samtako Bio Korea (Osan, Korea), and acclimated to laboratory conditions for one week. The animals were housed individually in suspended plastic cages and maintained in conditions of 22--25℃, 50--60% relative humidity, and a 12 h light/dark cycle with free access to food (AIN-93G diet) and water. In order to compare the protective effects of luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside against LPS/GalN-induced acute liver injury, the animals were divided into 4 groups of 8 mice each: normal control group, GalN/LPS group, luteolin, and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside groups. The animals in the latter two groups were orally administered with luteolin or luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside (50 mg/kg BW dissolved in 0.5% CMC-Na solution) daily for 3 weeks before hepatitis induction, while the normal control and GalN/LPS groups received equal volumes of distilled water or 0.5% CMC-Na solution, respectively, by gavage for the same duration. On the last day, GalN and LPS (1 g/kg BW and 10 µg/kg BW, respectively) were intraperitoneally administered to all groups except the normal control group \[[@B24]\]. After 24 h, the ICR mice were anesthetized by carbon dioxide and sacrificed. Their blood and livers were collected and preserved at −70℃ until biological assays were performed. All animal experiments were approved by the Committee of Laboratory Animals in accordance with the Institutional Guidelines of Dong-Eui University, Republic of Korea (IACUC-R2017-013).
Hepatic enzymes activities
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Mouse blood samples were held at room temperature for 1 h, after which serum was obtained by centrifugation at 1,000 × g for 10 min. Activity levels of aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) were measured by using a Mindray BS-120 chemical analyzer (Shenzen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics, Shenzen, China).
Serum TNF-α concentration
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A mouse tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α ELISA kit was employed to determine the serum TNF-α concentration according to the manufacturer\'s instructions (R&D Systems, Minneapolis, MN, USA).
Western blot analysis
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Protein from liver tissue was obtained by using a protein extraction solution (Intron Biotechnology, Seongnam, Korea). Briefly, 20 mg of fresh liver tissue was homogenized into 0.4 mL of ice-cold protein extraction solution and lysed for 10 min at −20℃. After 10 min, the disrupted tissue was centrifuged at 13,000 × g for 10 min at −4℃. Protein concentration was determined by performing a Bradford assay. One hundred micrograms of protein sample were separated on 10% SDS-polyacrylamide gel and electrotransferred to a PVDF membrane (Bio-Rad Laboratories). Membranes were blocked for 1 h at room temperature with 5% nonfat dry milk in a TBST solution. The reactions were then incubated at 4℃ overnight with 1:1,000 dilution of individual primary antibodies. After overnight incubation, the membranes were washed and then incubated with a 1:1,000 dilution of HRP-conjugated anti-rabbit IgG for 2 h at room temperature. Blots were developed by using an ECL developing solution (Santa Cruz Biotechnology), and the data were quantified using the Gel Doc EQ System (Bio-Rad Laboratories). All signals were normalized to protein levels of the housekeeping gene actin and are expressed as ratios.
Histopathological observation
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The livers were immediately fixed in 10% formalin and embedded in paraffin wax. Sections were cut at a 5 µm thickness and stained with hematoxylin and eosin. Histopathological changes were examined under a light microscope.
Statistical analysis
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All data are expressed as mean ± standard deviation (SD) values. The statistical analyses were performed using SPSS version 10.0 (SPSS Institute, Chicago, IL, USA). One-way ANOVA with Duncan\'s multiple-range test was used to examine the differences between groups. *P* values of \< 0.05 were considered significant, if not stated otherwise.
RESULTS
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Luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside ameliorated serum AST and ALT activities in GalN/LPS-intoxicated mice.
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Serum AST and ALT activities were analyzed in order to identify and compare the protective effects of luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside against GalN/LPS-induced hepatic injury. As shown in [Fig. 1](#F1){ref-type="fig"}, both hepatic enzymes activity levels were sharply increased as a result of GalN/LPS exposure, and those increases were significantly ameliorated in the luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside administrated groups. In a comparison of the two flavones, luteolin exhibited more potent protective activity than that of luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside in GalN/LPS-intoxicated ICR mice.
Luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside reduced inflammatory features in GalN/LPS-induced hepatitis mice.
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Histopathological changes in the livers of each of the four groups can be seen in [Fig. 2](#F2){ref-type="fig"}. GalN/LPS injection produced inflammatory cell infiltration and necrosis compared to that in the normal control group. However, these changes were attenuated by the 3-week administration of luteolin or luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside.
Luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside attenuated inflammatory mediators and their transcription factors, NF-κB and AP-1, in GalN/LPS-intoxicated mice.
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NF-κB and AP-1 have a critical role in the regulation of inflammatory mediators such as TNF-α and COX-2. In order to measure their levels, ELISA assay and western blot analysis were employed. As shown in [Fig. 3](#F3){ref-type="fig"}, serum TNF-α concentration and hepatic COX-2 expression were markedly elevated with GalN/ LPS exposure. However, luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside administration significantly ameliorated the increased TNF-α production and COX-2 expression. To identify whether these alterations might occur through NF-κB and AP-1 regulation, the phosphorylated status of both transcription factors were measured by western blot analysis. As shown in [Fig. 4](#F4){ref-type="fig"}, the GalN/LPS-induced activations of p65 and c-jun, subunits of NF-κB and AP-1, respectively, were attenuated by luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside administration. The levels of the inflammatory mediators and their transcription factors were more potently ameliorated in the luteolin-treated group than in the luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside-administered group.
Luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside restored activities of phase II enzymes and their transcription factor, Nrf-2, in GalN/LPS-intoxicated mice.
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Expression of phase II enzymes was measured by performing western blot analysis due to their anti-inflammatory activity. As shown in [Fig. 5](#F5){ref-type="fig"}, GalN/LPS administration produced a sharp reduction in the activities of phase II enzymes activities such as HO-1, NQO1, SOD-1, SOD-2, and catalase in accordance with the inhibition of their transcription factor, Nrf-2. Administration of luteolin or luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside for 3 weeks significantly enhanced the phase II enzymes and Nrf-2 activities. Compared to luteolin, luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside more potently induced phase II enzymes activities in GalN/LPS-intoxicated mice. These results indicate that both luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside protect against acute liver injury through attenuation of inflammatory mediators and enhancement of phase II enzymes in GalN/LPS-induced hepatitic mice.
DISCUSSION
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The anti-inflammatory and antioxidative activities of luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside were compared in GalN/LPS-induced hepatotoxic mice. Hepatic injury upon GalN/LPS exposure was confirmed by the elevated AST and ALT levels ([Fig. 1](#F1){ref-type="fig"}) as well as the presence of infiltrated inflammatory cells ([Fig. 2](#F2){ref-type="fig"}). Moreover, the concentration of plasma TNF-α and the level of hepatic COX-2 expression, major inflammatory mediators by GalN/LPS, were also elevated in the GalN/LPS group. These data support the suggestion that GalN/LPS exposure to mice is a good method to develop an acute liver injury. Experimental models of oxidative stress and inflammation-mediated acute liver injury have been induced via the administration of LPS \[[@B23]\], GalN \[[@B25]\], and acetaminophen \[[@B26]\]. LPS triggers an excessive secretion of inflammatory mediators through the regulation of inflammatory transcription factors, TLR-mediated NF-κB and AP-1 \[[@B18][@B21][@B27]\]. In addition, GalN exerts hepatotoxicity by inhibiting the biosynthesis of RNA and proteins \[[@B25]\]. In an attempt to cope with the relative insensitivity of rodents to LPS, GalN markedly sensitizes mice to LPS \[[@B28]\], and thus, GalNsensitized mice exhibit increased sensitivities to the toxic effects of TLR ligands by LPS \[[@B29]\]. On that basis, GalN/LPS challenge seems to an effective model of hepatotoxicity that closely resembles acute liver failure by successfully triggering inflammation and oxidative stress. However, there is a report that there is a difference between LPS-induced systemic inflammation and the hepatic injury induced by GalN/LPS administration \[[@B30]\]. They observed that TNF-α was a key mediator in the GalN/LPS system, causing hepatic apoptosis and subsequent necrosis \[[@B4]\], which were also observed in this study ([Fig. 1](#F1){ref-type="fig"} and [Fig. 2](#F2){ref-type="fig"}).
The administration of luteolin or luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside protected against hepatic injury by GalN/LPS as was evidenced by the lowered AST and AST activity levels. Liver microstructural observations of a reduced incidence of inflammatory cell infiltration and the presence of apoptosis and necrosis supported the presence of hepatoprotective effects of luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside in GalN/LPS-injected mice. Anti-inflammatory effects of luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside were confirmed by the amelioration of the levels of serum TNF-α concentration and hepatic COX-2 expression. Moreover, activations of p65 and c-jun by GalN/LPS, subunits of NF-κB and AP-1, were attenuated by both luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside administration. Activation of NF-κB and AP-1 is highly associated with the induction of inflammatory enzymes, including COX-2 \[[@B14][@B31]\]. Thus, suppression of TNF-α and COX-2 levels might be mediated through the inhibition of NF-κB and AP-1 transactivation by both luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside. These mechanisms of anti-inflammatory activities of luteolin have been studied *in vitro* \[[@B21]\]. Luteolin protects against acute lung injury by LPS through the inhibition of the MEK/ERK and PI3K/Akt pathways in neutrophils \[[@B32]\] and inhibition of iNOS expression by inactivating NF-κB and AP-1 by TNF-α *via* the JNK pathway in HepG2 cells \[[@B33]\]. These findings indicate that the upstream signaling pathways that modulate transcription factors might differ depending on the inducer or cell line used. Our previous study in RAW 264.7 cells showed that luteolin attenuated the activation of both NF-κB and AP-1, while luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside impeded only NF-κB activation, which might be attributed to differential activation of the NF-κB/AP-1/PI3K-Akt pathway *in vitro* \[[@B34]\]. However, this *in vivo* study showed that both luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside inhibited the activation of NF-κB and AP-1. The discrepancy between the *in vitro* and *in vivo* mechanisms may be related to the metabolic fates of luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside. Luteolin glucoside is hydrolyzed to free luteolin in the gastrointestinal tract by microorganisms and then converted to luteolin glucuronides or other metabolites \[[@B35]\]. Unmetabolized luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside are present at a very low level \[[@B8]\], and the predominant metabolite in blood and tissues is luteolin-3\'-*O*-glucuronide, which was shown to have an anti-inflammatory effect in RAW 264.7 cells \[[@B8]\]. Therefore, the mechanism involved in the anti-inflammatory effects of luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside *in vitro* or by luteolin-3\'-*O*-glucuronide *in vivo* seems to be somewhat different.
In the comparison of the anti-inflammatory effects of luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside, luteolin exhibited a more potent anti-inflammatory activity than luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside in GalN/LPS-intoxicated ICR mice. Suppression of NF-κB and AP-1 by luteolin was stronger than that induced by luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside. These findings might partly explain why luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside weakly mitigated LPS-induced TNF-α concentration and COX-2 expression when compared to the strong suppression obtained with luteolin administration. This might be due to variation in the cellular uptakes of luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside \[[@B22]\]. Murota et al. \[[@B35]\] found that the aglycone form of flavone was taken up into Caco-2 cells more efficiently than the glycoside form because of its more moderate lipophilicity. Several researchers also have confirmed that flavonoid glycosides are not easily absorbed because they are bound to sugars such as β-glucosides \[[@B4][@B8][@B34][@B35]\]. Contrarily, there are suggestions that flavonoid glycosides have shown similar or greater uptake efficacy than that of their corresponding aglycones in human studies \[[@B11][@B36][@B37]\]. However, a recent study on the metabolic fate of luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside in rats confirmed that the bioavailability of luteolin is higher than that of luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside in rats \[[@B8]\]. They also found that luteolin is absorbed faster than luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside and the area under the curve of plasma luteolin-3-*O*-glucuronide (their major metabolite) for 24 h after oral administration was bigger in the luteolin group than in the luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside group, implying a higher absorption rate for luteolin than that for luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside. These results support our data and suggest why luteolin more potently ameliorated the levels of inflammatory mediators and transcription factors than that by luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside.
Antioxidative effects of luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside were confirmed by the upregulation of phase II enzymes expressions ([Fig. 5](#F5){ref-type="fig"}). GalN/LPS administration produced a sharp reduction in phase II enzymes expressions, such as HO-1, NQO1, SOD-1, SOD-2, and catalase, in accord with inhibition of their transcription factor, Nrf2. Nrf-2 is a transcription factor and induces expression of antioxidant response element-dependent genes such as HO-1, NQO1, SOD-1, SOD-2, and catalase \[[@B16]\]. Administration of luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside significantly enhanced the phase II enzymes and Nrf-2 expressions, whereas luteolin enhanced only SOD-2 and Nrf-2 expressions. Thus, both luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside ameliorate oxidative stress from GalN/LPS treatment through modification of phase II enzymes and their transcription factor, Nrf-2. Comparison of the two flavones showed that luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside more potently induced phase II enzymes expressions than those of luteolin in GalN/LPS-intoxicated mice, which means that luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside has stronger antioxidative activity than that of luteolin. Our previous *in vitro* study showed that luteolin had greater antioxidant potential than luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside *via* the modulation of the Nrf-2 mediated HO-1 signaling cascade in RAW 264.7 cells \[[@B22]\]. In a comparison of the reactive oxygen species scavenging activities of luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside against t-butyl hydroperoxide-induced oxidative damage, both luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside had strong antioxidant potential \[[@B22]\].
In this study, we assayed phase II enzymes and Nrf-2 expressions in the liver. The data from Kure et al. \[[@B8]\] may help explain our results. They reported that the predominant metabolite in blood and tissues, including kidney and small intestine, is luteolin-3\'-*O*-glucuronide and its concentration was higher in their luteolin group than in their luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside group. However, hepatic luteolin-3\'-*O*-glucuronide and total glucuronide concentrations, including luteolin-3\'-*O*-glucuronide, luteolin-4\'-*O*-glucuronide and luteolin-7\'-*O*-glucuronide, was higher in their luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside group (0.55 µg/g and 1.30 µg/g, respectively, in liver) than in their luteolin group (0.37 µg/g and 0.87 µg/g, respectively, in liver) \[[@B8]\]. It is unclear what type of luteolin-glucuronide has a strong antioxidant potential against oxidative stress. Nonetheless, luteolin glucuronides, not luteolin or luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside, are presumed to be responsible for antioxidative activity *in vivo*.
Taken together, our results strongly suggest that luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside protect against acute liver injury through the regulation of inflammatory mediators and phase II enzymes in GalN/LPS-induced hepatotoxic mice. However, luteolin and luteolin-7-*O*-glucoside had slightly different efficacy against inflammation and oxidative stress. Our results suggest that either luteolin aglycone or its glucosides might be potential candidate therapeutics in the treatment of inflammation and oxidative stress. Further research to compare the efficacy of luteolin and its glucosides in various animal models is required to fully elucidate the bioavailability and metabolism of flavones.
This research was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology (NRF-2017R1D1A3B03031997).
**CONFLICT OF INTEREST:** The authors declare no potential conflicts of interest.
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Folkspraak (FS) is an International Auxiliary Language that is currently in development. It is intended to serve as a lingua-franca for communication with speakers of Germanic languages and it is based on features common to the major modern Germanic languages.
The project is intended to be a co-operative and democratic effort by a group of people who currently meet on a Yahoo group. The project to develop Folkspraak has yet to be completed and it is beset with disagreements over such features as phonology, orthography, vocabulary, grammar and syntax. The failure to reach agreement means that there is currently no "official" form of Folkspraak and there are a number of "dialects", which are individual group members´ versions of how they think the language should be.
The primary source languages used for the development of Folkspraak are English, Dutch, German, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish - though some members refer to further languages, such as Frisian, Low German and Norwegian Nynorsk. The divergence of the source languages means it has frequently proven harder than first anticipated to find elements sufficient to operate the language that are truly common to a majority of the source languages.
The Folkspraak described below is the "dialect" of Folkspraak Yahoo member David Parke. The method of deriving phonology, vocabulary and grammar for his dialect is inspired by the method used in the creation of Interlingua, but the sample of source languages are different. The primary sample languages for Parke's Folkspraak are English, Dutch, German and Danish, Norwegian and Swedish (the three Scandinavian languages are treated as one entity in a way analogous to how the creators of Interlingua treated Spanish and Portuguese). There are also two secondary sample languages, Interlingua and Slovio (both of them constructed IAL themselves).
A lexical feature is present in Parke's Folkspraak if a cognate feature is present in three or more of the primary source languages. If a cognate feature is present in only two of the primary source languages, it can still be present in FS if it is present also in one or more of the secondary source languages.
The grammar includes features that are common to all of the primary source languages. Controversially for an IAL, the implication of this is that Parke's FS has a number of irregular and strong verbs and also retains grammatical cases and gender for personal pronouns. Parke intends his version of FS to be used not just as a lingua-franca between speakers of Germanic languages, but also to help native speakers of non-Germanic languages communicate with the Germanic-speaking world. It is also intended as "primer" language leading on to further study of real Germanic languages. The complex features such as strong verbs help introduce students to features they will encounter in real Germanic languages.
The phonology of Parke's FS is based upon the most typical and predominant evolution of phonemes from proto-Germanic into the phonemes of the modern Germanic languages. For example proto-Germanic *î has regularly evolved into [aɪ] in English and German and into very similar [ɛɪ] in Dutch, and into [i:] in Scandinavian. Therefore the most common evolution of *î is considered to be [aɪ] and Parke's FS has this sound in such words as wît (white) and mîn (my/mine).
The orthography is a compromise between total regularity and recognition for as great a number of Germanic language speakers as possible. The orthography is intended to provide clues to cognate words possibly form in the speaker's native Germanic language. As such, it has uni-directional regularity; where a reader can know how to pronounce a word based on how it is spelt, but will not necessarily know exactly how to spell a word on the basis of how it sounds.
Folkspraak pronunciation
Folkspraak pronunciation
A recording of the Folkspraak diphthongs by Jan Jurčík
A recording of the Folkspraak consonants by Jan Jurčík
Sample text in Folkspraak
All mensklik wesings âre boren frî on' gelîk in werđigheid on' rejte. Đê âre begifted mid ferstand on' gewitt on' skulde behandele êlkên in en gêst av brôđerhêd.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
Longer sample text (Tower of Babel)
Folkspraak Yahoo Group
Information about Folkspraak
Folkspraak blog
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Holbeton Primary School
Holbeton Primary School
Holbeton Primary School
World Books Day 2018!
Following what was a long week of learning, you could have forgiven some for not getting up early and applying that last minute makeup or getting their hair just right to fit their character but that wasn't the case for the children at Holbeton!
Spirits were high and enthusiasm aplenty in what was an energetic day full of learning inspired by our favourite books and authors.
The day started with a whole school mixup involving everyone being put in to groups and asked to create a story that incorporated their characters. Needless to say, the groups featured combinations that even Hollywood's greatest directors would have been flummoxed by. Despite this, each group acted out stories full of ups and downs, trials and tribulations and twist and turns.
Following this, we enjoyed a variety of activities inspired by our books and characters before finishing the day with PE.
It was not just any PE lesson though. This was Holbeton's first game of quidditch. Due to the rain (and therefore the use of the village hall), flying broomstick were not permitted and therefore it was ground training for our teams. The interplay between Little Red Riding Hood, The Boy in a Dress and The Cat in the Hat deserves a special mention. Man of the match was Where's Wolly.
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Bioinformatics tools for the functional interpretation of quantitative proteomics results.
Proteins are the principal mediators of the functions in the cell; therefore, any abnormal variations on their abundance levels may reflect the presence of pathological processes. In this sense, many researchers rely on the functional interpretation of protein lists generated by quantitative proteomics experiments to analyze, for instance, these variations in the context of diseases' molecular basis and drug discovery. Since no analytical strategy or bioinformatics tool by itself is capable of extract all the information covered by a single experiment; herein we seek to provide the biologists with four groups of different but complementary bioinformatics tools for the functional interpretation of quantitative proteomics results. To this end we will review the basic concepts of a set of different bioinformatics approaches and we will give examples of freely available tools for each one of these approaches. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'de7be028c4d3314804e942c06e4cd1e0180e0925374b84e70ea55f4a2134a53b'} |
Because parenting a teenager during a pandemic has its own set of challenges.
Back when this whole mess started in March, I remember looking at Pat with a sense of panic - OMG he's not going back to school? Wait, til the FALL? Who said that? When are they announcing that?? WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DOOOOOOOO??!!
Our son goes to a technology-focused middle school and, to state the obvious, his radio-DJ parents weren't exactly geniuses in the math/science fields. At first we were terrified that we would have to literally homeschool him during this time. Luckily, he's 13 and has been able to complete the work on his own.
Then we thought, "What else could we do with him during this time that would be a good life experience?" One of his teachers suggested that we do some domestic lessons - cleaning, cooking, finances, etc.
We'd already gotten him a Greenlight card in February - it's a debit card that we control with his allowance from our bank account.
That's been working great, but it's time to try something new - cooking. After all, we've got nothing but time.
He fought us on the cooking tooth-and-nail and, as two exhausted parents working from home, we caved and let it go. Just last week, though, he said, "I want to learn how to make a frozen pizza from beginning to end...and I want to do a YouTube video of it."
We jumped at the chance. We have our own channel and so does he (which we monitor), and we decided that he could post this on his channel.
It worked like a charm. He was enthusiastic, excited, and even edited it himself. So, if you're struggling with your teen during the stay-at-home order, maybe making a video will tempt them a bit?
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scottie pippen
The first NBA game I ever saw in person was the one I played in.
Respect is what you get when you take the ball away from somebody.
Being the youngest of twelve kids and having your underwear handed down teaches you how to share.
When I was four or five, I had an older brother who got paralyzed from the neck down in junior high school. Some kid did a wrestling fall on him and hit his spine. We had to take care of him. I went from being the baby to not really being the baby anymore.
I was way behind physically in high school. They had weight bars that were about forty-five pounds. I couldn't handle them. Couldn't even put the weights on. It was embarrassing. So I always figured out ways to avoid lifting when I was young.
To some degree, I was always fighting my way out of a corner.
It's really Scotty. But for some reason, when people see it with a y, they shorten it to Scott.
That's how they announced me at the NBA draft. Scott Pippen. What was I going to do, argue with the commissioner?
There was never a buddy-buddy day where we took it easy on each other in practice. Guarding Michael Jordan meant trying to keep from getting embarrassed. Especially when we practiced at our own facility — which was pretty much open early on. There were cameras and film crews every day. I could've guarded Kareem in the playoffs and it would've been less intimidating.
Most of basketball is in the mind. But it helps to have big hands. Michael had the ability to hold a basketball as if it were a tennis ball.
Michael wasn't the easiest guy to play with early on. He was always looked at as a great scorer that would never win. So he tried to meet the challenge all by himself. It just doesn't work that way. When Phil took the job, his main goal was to change Michael's mentality. Phil felt Michael needed to do other things in order to make us successful.
You learn how to protect one another.
People are going to like the Cubs even if they never win because if you live in Chicago, all huddled up during the wintertime, the opportunity to go out in the summertime and enjoy baseball makes it very easy to like the Cubs.
Phil got us into yoga. It was tough in the beginning. We hadn't even heard of yoga. But it was something that allowed us to calm down after practice, to relax and stop thinking about going to the mall to buy this or that. It's seldom that you go into a gym and not hear a basketball bouncing or weights dropping. But the lights would dim after practice, and over time it became a sacred place.
Winning three championships back to back doesn't give you a chance to evaluate one from the other.
I didn't enjoy the championships as much as I should have. It's a long season and we couldn't wait for it to be over. The celebration would last for a day, and then we'd want to get away.
Winning separates you from losers.
What I've learned from being successful is to be thankful.
If I had left, Michael would have probably tried to shoot more and score more. I didn't try to become a thirty-point-per-game scorer when Michael left. My mentality was to do other things better rather than to try to change who I was. I eased up maybe one or two points from my normal average, but I probably averaged more assists, had more rebounds, and was more of a verbal leader. If you watched the film, you wouldn't be able to tell any difference in my play.
Your wife becomes a teammate. You've got to do what you've got to do to win. Sometimes you don't win. But there's another day.
Film don't lie.
There probably is courage in fashion. For Dennis Rodman, yes.
My six rings are in storage. I don't have to wear them. The rings are more like a tattoo on me that everybody can see.
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A Hacker Could Steal All Of Your Text Messages for a Few Bucks
We always picture hackers as these foreboding, black-clad criminals, smirking through the shadows cast in their dark room by their computer monitor. Hardened, uncaring individuals who don’t go outside very often, staring at code as if they were able to decipher the Matrix.
It’s time we give up this persona and stop mystifying cybercriminals. Why?
It only takes a few bucks and some spare time to truly hold an individual’s data hostage.
Cybercrime doesn’t require the skill of a computer programmer, any more than mugging somebody on the street requires the skill of a James Bond villain. It just takes a level of dedication and a huge lack of compassion.
It’s So Easy to Have Everything Taken Away From You
Let’s keep the comparison of cybercriminals with street muggers in mind. That’s really what these people are. When my friend (we’ll call him Bob for the sake of this blog post) watched his online accounts systematically get broken into, he wasn’t dealing with a highly-skilled, Hollywood-portrayed hacker. He was likely dealing with a kid who found an easy way to take advantage of others.
Here’s the story:
Bob received a weird message from a stranger. That message had screenshots of a few of his online accounts—his Amazon account, Netflix, and a few others. This stranger was proving that he had access to Bob’s accounts.
A few minutes later, the stranger started to show text messages that were intended for Bob. He logged into Bob’s Facebook account and started messaging Bob’s friends and family.
Bob’s phone wasn’t acting strangely. There was no evidence that it had been hijacked. His computer at home wasn’t showing any signs of malicious activity. Everything worked as normal.
This stranger was going through all of Bob’s online accounts and changing passwords, taking over, and locking Bob out. It wasn’t long before he found his way into Bob’s Paypal account.
How could this happen? There are actually several possible ways:
If you use the same passwords on multiple accounts, it’s easy for a cybercriminal to sift through sites and businesses that were breached and try your username and password on other services. Stolen information is often displayed and sold on the Dark Web, and for a few dollars, anyone can grab loads of personal, sensitive information like this.
Another way could be SIM Swapping, which is a term for when a criminal tricks a cell phone carrier to forward your calls and text messages to their own device. It only takes a confident criminal and a misguided support person at your carrier.
In this case, however, the criminal didn’t even go that far.
They used a legitimate service called Sakari, which is a text messaging marketing service that lets businesses perform mass communication to their customers or subscribers via text.
Anyone can create an account with Sakari, and for a few dollars, seize another person’s phone number.
The victim doesn’t lose access to their smartphone. They still get calls and texts. The criminal, however, gets to see everything going on. Since many online accounts will text you if you try to get in without a password, the so-called hacker could intercept these messages and take the steps to gain control over your identity. Once they are in your text messages, they can quickly escalate into your email, and then control everything.
We’re likely going to see companies like Sakari increase their security to prevent this from becoming a widespread problem, but it just goes to show you that hackers can be resourceful without actually needing a lot of skill—just dedication to do wrong.
To protect yourself from this type of attack, be sure to use strong passwords and never use the same password on multiple accounts. Utilize 2FA that goes beyond SMS messaging, such as the Google Authenticator, Duo, Lastpass Authenticator, or a similar tool. Most importantly, never hesitate to ask your trusted IT experts what you can do to further protect yourself, your identity, and your business.
Want to discuss your cybersecurity? Give NetWorthy Systems a call at 877-760-7310.
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Oval's Densely Beautiful 1998-2001 Output Is Now Free
In certain circles in the 1990s, Markus Popp of Oval was discussed as an electronic music visionary, someone with a deep understanding of how digital tools were going to change how music was produced and consumed. His early musical signiture was the sound of the skipping CD, and he had a knack for finding poetic gestures in the purely absract world of digital malfunction. The German producer's album 94 Diskont is now an established classic of ambient music, and for a lot of people, that record is all the Oval they need. But people with an ear for more adventurous sounds should check out the records he made in the late 1990s and early 00s, which found him lighting out for harsher and more abstract terrain. This run of records, which I think of as his "noise music" period, is now freely available for download on Oval's BandCamp. I'd suggest starting with 1999's Szenario, which finds the CD skips intermingled with unstable gossamer drones, and then moving 0n to 2001's Ovalcommers (we reviewed it here) an impossibly dense and blaring tapestry of sound that still has moments of deep beauty. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9714162349700928}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '184870', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:7JSMYNOQ4Y6FPSIACUC7XYUM6FUHJSDF', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:2d8653fd-60c6-495a-ba87-67406527ea4f>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 8, 25, 22, 22, 58), 'WARC-IP-Address': '151.101.20.239', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:WHMECYKIO4JJFHRCO6BREKTGQYFKW3KA', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:d746c5f2-b0f5-4fa2-8075-3fb6528e5c18>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/10-free-oval-markus-popps-dense-and-beautiful-turn-of-the-millenium-period/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:c95ba269-0476-4019-89d0-9209841211c0>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '193', 'url': 'https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/10-free-oval-markus-popps-dense-and-beautiful-turn-of-the-millenium-period/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-35\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for August 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-159.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.04190641641616821', 'original_id': '240b04ccf12c13511989241bc89163b919549997576e6eb9203a5e77423cf476'} |
Migratory Birds,
Ticks, and Crimean-
Congo Hemorrhagic
Fever Virus stricto (s.s.), i.e., the principal vectors
of CCHFV (2). Of 10 morphologically
representative ticks, 9 were identifi ed
by molecular methods as H. rufi pes
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80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-0691. 2008.02201.x Ticks
belonging
to
the
H. marginatum complex are common
in large parts of the African and
Eurasian continents. The immature
ticks feed mainly on birds and, to
a lesser extent, on small mammals,
whereas the adults actively seek larger
mammals, including hares, wild and
domesticated ungulates, or humans
(4). In accordance with this pattern,
99% of the collected ticks in our study
were larvae and nymphs. 3. Masuzawa T, Uchishima Y, Fukui T, Oka-
moto Y, Muto M, Koizumi N, et al. Detec-
tion of Anaplasma phagocytophilum from
wild boars and deer in Japan. Jpn J Infect
Dis. 2011;64:333–6. To the Editor: In a recently
published study, Estrada-Peña et al. reported the fi nding of Crimean-Congo
hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV)
in adult Hyalomma lusitanicum ticks
from red deer (Cervus elaphus) in
Spain during 2010 (1). Phylogenetic
analysis showed that the virus was
most likely of African origin. Here,
we present a model for the transfer of
CCHFV-infected ticks by migratory
birds from Africa to Europe. 4. Portillo A, Pérez-Martínez L, Santibáñez
S, Santibáñez P, Palomar AM, Oteo JA. Anaplasma spp. in wild mammals and Ixo-
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AS. Tick-borne disease agents in various
wildlife from Mississippi. Vector Borne
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dx.doi.org/10.1089/vbz.2009.0221 On April 23, 2009, a woodchat
shrike
(Lanius
senator
senator)
was caught at the Antikythira Bird
Observatory in the Greek archipelago. The bird was a female in her second
calendar year and harbored 19 H. marginatum complex ticks (3 larvae
and 16 nymphs, most likely H. rufi pes). Three of the nymphs, 1 half-fed and 2
fully engorged, were found positive
by real-time PCR for the CCHFV
small (S) segment by using methods
previously described (7), amplifying
a 127-bp product. The 3 positive
samples were sequenced and found to
be identical. Previous studies, based
on the S segments, have identifi ed 7
phylogenetically distinct genotypes:
Africa 1–3, Asia 1–2, and Europe 1–2
(8). LETTERS LETTERS Migratory Birds,
Ticks, and Crimean-
Congo Hemorrhagic
Fever Virus Europe 1 has been reported from
Russia, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria,
and the Balkans, and Europe 2 is the
nonpathogenic strain AP92 found in
Greece. Alignment of the Antikythira
strain with CCHFV S segment
sequences deposited in GenBank
showed that it had the greatest
similarity with strains belonging to
the genotype Africa 3 (8). In addition,
a phylogenetic tree clearly places
the Antikythira sequence within the
Africa 3 clade (Figure). CCHFV
is
an
RNA
virus
in the genus Nairovirus, family
Bunyaviridae. It is transmitted to
humans through tick bites or by
contact with blood or tissues from
infected ticks, livestock, or humans. Manifestations of severe cases are
internal and external hemorrhages and
multiorgan failure; the case-fatality
rate is ≈30% (2,3). CCHFV has the
widest geographic distribution of
any tick-borne virus, encompassing
≈30 countries from eastern China
through Asia, the Middle East, and
southeastern Europe to Africa (3,4). During the past decade, the virus
has emerged in new areas of Europe,
Africa, the Middle East, and Asia
and has increased in disease-endemic
areas (5) (online Technical Appendix,
wwwnc.cdc.gov/EID/pdfs/12-0718-
Techapp.pdf). 6. Galindo RC, de la Fuente J. Transcrip-
tomics data integration reveals Jak-STAT
as a common pathway affected by patho-
genic intracellular bacteria in natural
reservoir hosts. J Proteomics Bioinform. 2012;5:108–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/
jpb.1000221 7. Galindo RC, Ayllón N, Strašek Smrdel K,
Boadella M, Beltrán-Beck B, Mazariegos
M, et al. Gene expression profi le suggests
that pigs (Sus scrofa) are susceptible to
Anaplasma phagocytophilum but control
infection. Parasit Vectors. 2012;5:181. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-5-
181 Address for correspondence: Jose de la Fuente,
Department
of
Veterinary
Pathobiology,
College of Veterinary Medicine, 250 McElroy
Hall, Oklahoma State Univers ity, Stillwater,
OK 74078, USA; email: jose.de_la_fuente@
okstate.edu Address for correspondence: Jose de la Fuente,
Department
of
Veterinary
Pathobiology,
College of Veterinary Medicine, 250 McElroy
Hall, Oklahoma State Univers ity, Stillwater,
OK 74078, USA; email: jose.de_la_fuente@
okstate.edu Address for correspondence: Jose de la Fuente,
Department
of
Veterinary
Pathobiology,
College of Veterinary Medicine, 250 McElroy
Hall, Oklahoma State Univers ity, Stillwater,
OK 74078, USA; email: jose.de_la_fuente@
okstate.edu Address for correspondence: Jose de la Fuente,
Department
of
Veterinary
Pathobiology,
College of Veterinary Medicine, 250 McElroy
Hall, Oklahoma State Univers ity, Stillwater,
OK 74078, USA; email: jose.de_la_fuente@
okstate.edu In response to the emergence of
CCHFV in Europe, during spring 2009
and 2010, we screened migratory birds
for ticks as they traveled from Africa
to Europe. At 2 bird observatories on
the Mediterranean Sea (Capri, Italy,
and Antikythira, Greece), 14,824 birds
of 78 different species were caught
and examined for ticks. Most (88%) of
the 747 collected ticks were identifi ed
as
members
of
the
Hyalomma
marginatum complex, most probably
H. rufi pes and H. marginatum sensu The woodchat shrike winters
in a belt from Senegal to Somalia
and breeds in southern Europe and
northern Africa (9). The Antikythira 2095 Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 18, No. 12, December 2012 LETTERS LETTERS bird was caught during its rapid
northward migration on a small island
where birds normally stop over briefl y
just after crossing the Sahara Desert
and the Mediterranean Sea. Also, the
infected ticks were either half fed
or fully engorged nymphs that, in
the case of H. marginatum complex
ticks, normally attach to the bird as
larvae; this fi nding indicates that these
ticks had attached before the bird
began migration. Furthermore, 9/10
morphologically representative ticks
were identifi ed by molecular methods
as H. rufi pes, a species within the H. marginatum complex most common on the African continent (4,6). On the
basis of these fi ndings, we propose
that this bird was infested somewhere
in sub-Saharan Africa. viremic or nonviremic (cofeeding)
mechanisms involving, for example,
transstadially infected adult H. rufi pes
ticks and susceptible H. lusitanicum
ticks that are feeding on the same
mammalian host. Migratory
birds
acting
as
long-distance transporters of ticks
containing various human pathogens
have been reported (10). Pre-adult
ticks can stay attached to avian hosts
during migration, thereafter detaching
at breeding or stopover sites, where
mammalian hosts can potentially
establish new foci (4). Regarding
the fi nding in Spain (1), one could
speculate that new cycles of CCHFV
transmission could be initiated through Further research is needed on the
interaction between birds and ticks in
relation to the geographic distribution
of CCHFV. Monitoring the infl ux of
migratory birds carrying CCHFV-
infected ticks might give disease-
prevention authorities a useful tool for
predicting the potential emergence of
new disease foci in Europe. Figure. Neighbor-joining tree of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus small segment
sequences retrieved from GenBank and the novel 127-bp sequence isolated in this study
(boxed). The tree is drawn to scale, with branch lengths in the same units as those of the
evolutionary distances used to infer the phylogenetic tree. A total of 127 positions were
in the fi nal dataset. Trees generated with maximum-likelihood and maximum-parsimony
methods (not shown) exhibited nearly identical topology to this tree. The corresponding
part of the Nairobi sheep disease virus small segment was used as an outgroup. The
analyses were conducted in MEGA5 software (www.megasoftware.net) using a ClustalW
alignment. Accession numbers and geographic origins of the sequences are shown. Scale
bar indicates number of base differences per sequence. S. Africa, South Africa. Acknowledgments We thank the staff at Villa San
Michele, Capri, for support and the
personnel at Capri and Antikythira bird
observatories for collecting the ticks. This study was funded by Carl
Trygger’s
Stiftelse,
Längmanska
Kulturfonden,
Magnus
Bergvall’s
Stiftelse, The Research Council of South
Eastern Sweden, and the A.G. Leventis
Foundation. Mats Lindeborg,
Christos Barboutis,
Christian Ehrenborg,
Thord Fransson,
Thomas G.T. Jaenson,
Per-Eric Lindgren,
Åke Lundkvist,
Fredrik Nyström, Erik Salaneck,
Jonas Waldenström,
and Björn Olsen
Author affi liations: Uppsala University,
Uppsala,
Sweden
(M. Lindeborg,
C. Ehrenborg, T.G.T. Jaenson, E. Salaneck, B. Olsen); Hellenic Ornithological Society and
Natural History Museum of Crete, Crete,
Greece (C. Barboutis); Swedish Museum
of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden (T. Fransson); Linköping University, Linköping,
Sweden (P.-E. Lindgren, F. Nyström);
Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease
Control, Solna, Sweden (A. Lundkvist); and
Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden (J. Waldenström) Figure. Neighbor-joining tree of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus small segment
sequences retrieved from GenBank and the novel 127-bp sequence isolated in this study
(boxed). The tree is drawn to scale, with branch lengths in the same units as those of the
evolutionary distances used to infer the phylogenetic tree. A total of 127 positions were
in the fi nal dataset. Trees generated with maximum-likelihood and maximum-parsimony
methods (not shown) exhibited nearly identical topology to this tree. The corresponding
part of the Nairobi sheep disease virus small segment was used as an outgroup. The
analyses were conducted in MEGA5 software (www.megasoftware.net) using a ClustalW
alignment. Accession numbers and geographic origins of the sequences are shown. Scale
bar indicates number of base differences per sequence. S. Africa, South Africa. Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 18, No. 12, December 2012 2096 LETTERS Address for correspondence: Erik Salaneck,
Department of Medical Sciences, Section
of Infectious Diseases, Uppsala University,
Ing 33 75185, Uppsala, Sweden; email: erik.
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3099(06)70435-2 Address for correspondence: Erik Salaneck,
Department of Medical Sciences, Section
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Ing 33 75185, Uppsala, Sweden; email: erik. salaneck@medsci.uu.se Address for correspondence: Erik Salaneck,
Department of Medical Sciences, Section
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Ing 33 75185, Uppsala, Sweden; email: erik. salaneck@medsci.uu.se 4. Hoogstraal H. The epidemiology of
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Recording Studio Design Package
Local Council – Building Control
So you are slow moving down the list of recording studio design. You know you need to install soundproofing which usually requires you to create an air tight room. This is where your local councils building control come in. If your going to operate commercially, usually your local council will want to check fire safety and air supply safety and emergency lighting. If you are simply building the studio for your own use, building control are usually not interested, however you should still following these guild lines to keep you safe from fire and from suffocating from lack of oxygen and be able to see where they are going in the event of a power cut.
Fire regulations for commercial properties when considering recording studio design are the same as for any commercial properties. You need half hour fire doors on all rooms and a save way of existing the building. You are best to speak to your local council as some councils have different views than others. In general, fire doors need to be incorporated into your recording studio design and intermittent strips with smoke seals along with door closers and fire door hinges need to be used.
Active ventilation regulations for commercial properties when considering recording studio design are also the same as for any commercial properties. You need to allow for at least 5 cubic litres of air per second person. So if you have an average of 3 people in your control room, you need to allow for 15 cubic litres of air per second. There are some situations where if you have either a very large space or there is reason for the doors to be opened and closed lots throughout the day, some councils may remove the requirement for ventilation. However given the average use of a recording studio even a large complex, as this type of use is rare, when it comes to preserving life, its always best to have active ventilation to ensure no one dies!
As most recording studios cannot afford the luxury of external windows and most studios cannot guarantee the window is right next to a street light, you will need to provide emergency lighting with considering your recording studio design. This is one aspect of your visual design that needs to be considered carefully as most emergency lights are ugly and stand out like a saw thumb with with their green charging light. But don’t panic, if you really don’t think you can cope with a standard emergency light, there are alternatives out there, you can easily integrate emergency lighting into most down lights, the cost is more considerable, however this will bring peace to most producers out there. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9602193236351012}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '47191', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:QEZLMWQ7QOVNHY2SE5XOUAI6MY6BH74P', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:31255e0d-e6c4-47f1-b126-6d3ae98127f7>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 3, 30, 6, 14, 57), 'WARC-IP-Address': '217.160.0.203', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:MO6DPQZYI5ZONYRKMBKWXKQJXKYAGBRW', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:6275367e-e878-4cd5-95b0-a17e0d86d342>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.recordingstudiodesign.co.uk/local-council-building-control/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:e3a0c04b-a588-49dd-98f1-c2a7be488a7b>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '458', 'url': 'https://www.recordingstudiodesign.co.uk/local-council-building-control/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-16\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March/April 2020\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-235.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.05422085523605347', 'original_id': 'b39c72e8d5a9c9aa79f87d9e348f3d4402279aa91bfbb0069ff81e651df462ee'} |
Cat Stevens Deported I Know That It Is
Cat Stevens Deported
I know that it is faintly ridiculous that Cat Stevens a.k.a. Yusuf Islam was deported on Wednesday from the US after the airplane he was on was diverted to Maine, on the grounds that he is a dire security threat to the country. David Letterman in his monologue allowed darkly as how the Feds were no doubt gunning for Gordon Lightfoot next. He also wickedly observed that despite Osama Bin Laden being at large, what with Cat Stevens deported and Martha Stewart in jail, he felt a lot safer.
But I have a hard time rushing to Yusuf Islam’s defense because I never forgave him for advocating the execution of Salman Rushdie in 1989. He endorsed Khomeini’s “fatwa” or death edict against Rushdie for the novel, Satanic Verses. He later explained this position away by saying that he did not endorse vigilante action against Rushdie, but would rather want the verdict to be carried out by a proper court. These are weasel words, since he was saying that if Khomeini had been able to field some Revolutionary Guards in London to kidnap Rushdie and take him to Tehran, it would have been just dandy if he were then taken out and shot for having written his novel. In my view, that entire episode of the Khomeini fatwa showed how sick some forms of Muslim activism had become, and served as a foretaste of al-Qaeda’s own death warrant served on a lot of other innocent people.
And, the disavowal wasn’t even consistent. AP reported on March 8, 1989, that “Cat Stevens Endorses Rushdie Death Sentence Again,” writing:
‘ Former pop singer Cat Stevens reiterated his support for the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s death sentence against Salman Rushdie, saying the author’s treatment of Islam was “as good as stabbing Moslems in the heart.” . . . “It’s got to be seen as a deterrent, so that other people should not commit the same mistake again,” Stevens said in an interview with the television show “World Monitor,” produced by The Christian Science Monitor . . Stevens, who said the novel’s treatment of Islam was “as good as stabbing Moslems in the heart,” suggested that Rushdie should repent writing the book. “If he manages to escape (the death sentence) he still has to face God on the day of judgment,” he said. “So I would recommend to him to sincerely change his ways right now.” ‘
At the time, Rushdie’s life was in imminent danger, and Cat Stevens was skating pretty close to inciting to murder. (What else is the “deterrent” he is talking about?)
So, to steal from Bill Maher:
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Mortgage Marketing Plan and Setting Smart Goals is crucial for business
Mar 21, 2018
Many loan officers fail in achieving their mortgage marketing goals, even when they take the time to think about their goals and write it down. There are many reason why you may not be able to achieve your goals. Your goals may be too big to achieve, especially when personal issues sidetrack you, or maybe you’re just switching mortgage companies.
Set Achievable Goals
Challenging yourself to grow on a daily basis requires setting goals that are meaningful to you . When setting up your mortgage goals you need to think of how defined, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-specific they are. Rather than maintaining the bird’s eye view of what you want to accomplish, break it down into the smallest, most manageable steps you can.
Setting and achieving goals isn’t about knowing how you’ll get to the end-result, but rather understanding the incremental steps needed to edge you closer to it. Having goals that are too big and hard to...
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Daily Questions Megathread (January 10, 2021)
I've reached Adv Rank 35 and am starting to reach the point (which I knew was coming) where I feel my resources are stretched too thinly.
I have a main core team that I quite like (Keqing, Mona, Albedo, and Benny), which I'm focusing most of my effort on, but I wonder - how common is it for people in my shoes to develop others outside that team for niche situations?
For instance, I wanted to developing Ningguang for situations where Keqing was difficult due to electro immunities, or Sucrose for times Mona would be ineffective, or Noelle and Fischl for when I need their respective weapons for whatever reasons (e.g. Geo Hypostasis). But I feel I'm already struggling with my main four.
Is this something most people wait to approach for later?
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FAC-SIMILE DU MUSÉE D'ANATOMIE DE PARIS DIRECTEUR LEO GROSS LIVRET RAISONNÉ & DESCRIPTIF donnant LES DÉTAILS LES PLUS INTÉRESSANTS ET LES PLUS INSTRUCTIFS A LA FOIS SUR TOUS LES SUJETS SCIENTIFIQUES, ARTISTIQUES ET CURIOSITÉS COMPOSANT CETTE INCOMPARABLE GALERIE LYON IMPRIMERIE A. WALTENER ET Cie 14, rue Belle-Cordière, 14 1887 CHERS VISITEURS, Permettez-moi de vous guider tout en vous expliquant les nombreux sujets qui composent ce Musée Anatomique, Musée dont je suis fier à juste titre, car il est presque exclusivement l'œuvre signée de Jules Talrich, l'artiste le plus éminent en ce genre, le modèle d'anatomie en cire de la Faculté de médecine et de la Morgue de Paris ; artiste dont les travaux scientifiques sont appréciés et recherchés par les Ecoles de Médecine les plus célèbres du monde entier ; vous pouvez donc être certains, Chers Visiteurs, de ne voir dans cette galerie que du réalisme vrai, scientifique, artistique et intéressant au plus haut degré. Je dois aussi vous prévenir que je dévoilerai d'abord à vos yeux les merveilleux mystères de la structure intérieure et du fonctionnement des organes du corps humain chez l'homme, la femme et l'enfant, à l'état normal, c'est-à-dire en santé parfaite et suivant la règle. Par contre : j'offrirai également à vos regards ces mêmes êtres humains, atteints et ravagés par la maladie, les accidents, les grandes opérations, les vices et les crimes, puis enfin les monstruosités naturelles et curiosités scientifiques. Mais je m'arrête là, convaincu de la vérité du précepte d'Horace, que : Pour bien comprendre, Il vaut souvent mieux voir qu'entendre. Commençons donc si vous le voulez bien par le Squelette de l'homme. ANATOMIE HUMAINE NORMALE PREMIÈRE PARTIE OSTÉOLOGIE 1. — Squelette d'homme bien conformé (adulte). Le squelette humain ou charpente humaine se compose de 251 et quelquefois de 253 os. Pour la tête 54 ou 55 os ; le cou 8 ; la poitrine 38 ou 39 ; les lombes 5 ; le bassin 7 ; Pour les membres supérieurs 74 ; inférieurs 66 » Total 252 » Le squelette d'homme de moyenne taille pèse, sec, de 4 kilos 70 à 5 kilos 50. 2. — Le Squelette de la femme bien conformée pèse, sec, de 3 kilos 125 à 4 kilos 50. Le squelette de la femme est en général facile à reconnaître en ce qu'il est plus petit, plus grêle; les saillies osseuses sont moins prononcées, la tête est moins volumineuse et plus allongée d'avant en arrière, mais c'est surtout par la configuration du bassin que le squelette de la femme se reconnaît, les os iliaques sont plus renversés en dehors, ce qui donne de la largeur aux hanches, et les ouvertures en sont plus larges que chez l'homme. 3. — Squelette d'enfant à terme, neuvième mois de la vie intra utérine. DEUXIÈME PARMIÉ MYOLOGIE ou ÉTUDE DES MUSCLES DU CORPS HUMAIN AU NOMBRE DE 350 ENVIRON Les muscles, vulgairement nommés chair ou viande, sont rongés et formés de faisceaux, composés eux-mêmes d'un nombre infini de fibres, à la manière d'une corde ou d'un câble composé de brins de chanvre ; chacun des muscles du corps humain est isolé des autres muscles qui l'entourent par une enveloppe nacrée, nommée aponévrose, qui augmente sa force et en facilite le glissement ; les muscles s'attachent par leurs extrémités qui sont d'une autre nature, d'un moindre volume, d'un blanc jaunâtre nacré, plus solides, nommées tendons, au squelette auquel ils impriment tous les mouvements imaginables, par leur raccourcissement et leur entrecroisement combinés ; cela sous l'influence de la volonté du cerveau de l'homme transmise télégraphiquement aux muscles par les nerfs. 4, 5, 6 et 7. — Cette étude complète des muscles est représentée sur quatre sujets en staff peint. Le premier sujet, ou écorché, représente un homme de vingt-cinq ans, bien conformé, étendu sur le dos; la peau de tout le côté gauche a été conservée, afin de faire mieux comprendre l'anatomie des formes, puisqu'elle se trouve partout en regard avec les muscles de la couche superficielle des régions antérieures et latérales du corps humain. Le deuxième sujet, ou écorché, est préparé de la même manière que le premier, mais étendu sur la poitrine et le ventre, il montre, outre l'anatomie des formes d'un côté, tous les muscles superficiels des régions postérieures et latérales du corps humain. Les troisième et quatrième sujets montrent tous les muscles des couches moyenne et profonde, avec leurs attaches sur le squelette visible en grande partie. Cette œuvre a été conçue de telle sorte que le professeur puisse, sans dérangement aucun et sans enlever ni démonter aucune partie, montrer aux élèves la forme, les attaches et la superposition de tous les muscles jusqu'à la charpente osseuse. NOTA. — Cette étude des muscles est la plus complète, qui ait été faite jusqu'à ce jour en relief peint; 8. — Régiomontanus, Savant astronome allemand. Né en 1436, mort en 1476. Cet homme, désireux de répandre la science, exigea que son neveu Max Grégorius, médecin à Dresde, disséquât son corps et en fit l'objet d'études publiques, ce qui eut lieu en plusieurs villes d'Allemagne ; la descendance de Régiomontanus s'éteignit enfin, et son corps desséché ainsi qu'on le voit, devint par la suite d'un échange scientifique la propriété d'un savant Italien, qui afin d'égayer, comme il le disait plaisamment, cette ruine humaine, lui mit des yeux de verre. Voilà l'Histoire abracadabrante, écrite sur un vieux papier presque illisible que nous avons trouvé dans sa caisse et que nous ne reproduisons ici, en entendu, que sous toutes réserves et seulement à titre de curiosité, malgré que Jérémie Bentham, le célèbre jurisconsulte anglais en ait fait à peu près autant, en donnant au collège des chirurgiens, son corps à disséquer et sa peau à tanner pour relier ses œuvres manuscrites qu'il léguait aussi à l'école des avocats de Londres. Quoiqu'il en soit, et dans tous les cas, ce sujet est une curiosité scientifique du plus haut mérite, surtout si l'on considère sa grande ancienneté, car cet homme entier a été disséqué et préparé dans tous les détails les plus intimes de son être, avec une habileté et une clarté merveilleuse que l'on ne supposait pas aux praticiens de son époque. CURIOSITÉ UNIQUE AU MONDE 9. — Un Européen complètement tatoué en Europe et empaillé par des sauvages anthropophages. Cet homme, présumé âgé de 45 ans, ancien soldat de la Légion étrangère, puis marin déserteur, enfin forçat évadé de Nouméa (Nouvelle-Calédonie), fut pris et assommé à coups de tomahawk, par des sauvages anthropophages de la Nouvelle-Guinée, lesquels, après l'avoir dépecé, l'empaillèrent pour conserver sa peau comme trophée de guerre, persuadés qu'ils étaient, sans doute, que les innombrables tatouages dont il était couvert étaient comme chez eux, autant de signes distinctifs portés par les grands chefs en souvenir de leurs victoires. Trouvé plus tard par une expédition anglaise, il fut vendu à un naturaliste de Sydney (Australie), puis enfin acheté par un savant Yankee, de qui nous le tenons. Singulière destinée de ce malheureux juif!!! Nouveau Juif Errant qui continue après sa mort à voyager sans trêve ni merci. 10. — Macules, connues sous les noms vulgaires d'envies, de taches devin, etc. Un préjugé enraciné fait attribuer ces taches à une envie survenue à la mère pendant sa grossesse, tandis qu'elles ne sont en réalité occasionnées que par un excès local de la matière colorante de la peau ou par la présence d'une quantité excessive de petites veines et artères capillaires. 11. -Acné indurata. L'acné indurée de la face, connue sous les noms vulgaires de couperose ou goutte-rose, provient souvent d'intempérance et surtout d'ivrognerie. Le septuagénaire ici représenté était devenu en outre complètement aliéné et gâteux par alcoolisme et enfermé dans l'hospice de Bicêtre. 12. — Acné rosacea. Variété du No 11. 13. Acné sebacea du nez et de la joue. Inflammation chronique des glandes sébacées (ou graisseuses et pileuses de la peau). 14. — Ictère ou jaunisse. Provient généralement d'une affection des conduits excréteurs de la bile, ou à la suite d'une vive affection morale, chagrin, colère, peur, etc. 15. — Teigne tondante ou herpès tonsurant. Teigne. On appelle ainsi tout un groupe de maladies qui sous forme pustuleuse ou vésiculeuse attaque le cuir chevelu. — Quelques-unes sont contagieuses, notamment la teigne faveuse, caractérisée par des croûtes sèches, jaunâtres, d'une fétidité particulièrement repoussante. Certaines de ces affections sont plus spéciales à l'enfance, d'autres s'attaquent aussi bien à l'âge mûr. PLAIES PAR ARME À FEU 46. — Orifice d'entrée d'une balle chassepot, tirée à huit mètres de distance sur un malheureux fusilier marin, par le maître d'une maison de tolérance de Lille. Cette balle, entrée par l'omoplate gauche, traversa le poumon et coupa l'artère aorte, puis sortit sous le sein gauche (mort foudroyante), autopsie faite en 1870, par M. le Prof. Houzé de L'Aulnois, médecin légiste. 47. — Orifice de sortie de cette balle, forme triangulaire étoilée. AMPUTATIONS 18. — Coupe d'une amputation de cuisse sur un adulte, avec conservation d'une lamelle de périoste (par la méthode à deux lambeaux). 19. — Moignon d'une amputation de cuisse (par la méthode ovalaire). 20. — Moignon d'une amputation de la jambe (à la partie supérieure du mollet). 21. — Moignon d'amputation d'une partie du pied avec conservation du talon. 22. — Désarticulation du coude. 23. — Buste d'homme avec étude des Artères, veines et nerfs de la tête et du cou, régions sus et sous hyoïdienne et sous-clavière. 24. — Rougeole sur la face d'un enfant. Maladie générale caractérisée par une phlegmasie ou gonflement accompagné de petites taches rouges un peu proéminentes, semblables à des morsures de puces, accompagné aussi de rhume, mal de gorge, toux, larmoiement. NOTA. — Diète sévère en attendant la visite du médecin. 25. — Gale sur la main et l'avant-bras. (Musée Dupuytren.) Cette maladie consiste en une éruption de petites pustules pleines d'une sérosité limpide, qui se montrent d'abord entre les doigts, sur les mains, les poignets, les cuisses, l'estomac, et enfin peuvent s'étendre au reste du corps, causant des démangeaisons très vives, qu'augmente la chaleur du lit. — Ces pustules sont réunies les unes aux autres par de petits sillons, tracés par le parasite qu'on y trouve, l'acaré de la Gale (acarus scabiei), de sorte que détruire ce parasite résume tout le traitement. Cette maladie de peau, repoussante et intolérable peut malheureusement atteindre tout le monde accidentellement, mais la malpropreté l'engendre et la développe comme du reste une grande partie des maladies. 26. — Ecchymoses. Le vainqueur de la boxe, Patrick O'shaw, de Randalstown (Irlande), représenté huit jours après sa victoire, et encore porteur de la marque du mémorable coup de poing de son adversaire. Cette ecchymose est nommée vulgairement œil poché, œil au beurre noir, et en anglais familier « black-eye. » PROTHÈSE DE LA FACE. 27. — Portrait en cire de M. G., ingénieur mécanicien, avant la restauration complète de ses blessures, causées par l'explosion d'une chaudière à vapeur : 1° Perte de la partie antérieure du maxillaire inférieur, rendant la mastication impossible ; 2° Écoulement salivaire ; 3° Perte de l'œil. 28. — Portrait en cire de M. G., ingénieur mécanicien, après la restauration faciale faite au moyen d'un appareil buccal en vulcanite, avec dents artificielles, permettant la mastication et supprimant la perte salivaire, un menton en métal peint et articulé avec des élastiques en caoutchouc complète cet appareil utile et dissimule cette horrible mutilation ; un œil en émail complète cette restauration. 29. — Jambe, face interne, montrant les vaisseaux superficiels ainsi que diverses ligatures de l'artère tibiale postérieure. MALADIE DES OS 30. — Rachitisme, affection provenant d'une perturbation de la nutrition de tous les tissus, survenant dans l'enfance et produisant à la longue toute espèce de difformités. Jambe d'un sujet rachitique. 31. — Brûlure grave par le pétrole. Le célèbre Dupuytren admettait six degrés de cette lésion suivant sa profondeur. Dans les brûlures légères (-26 degré) le traitement par le froid produit constamment de bons effets. Quant aux brûlures plus graves, de même que pour toutes les affections en général, nous ne pouvons donner un meilleur conseil à nos visiteurs que d'avoir recours sans perdre de temps aux lumières d'un docteur. Voici du reste comment s'exprime à cet égard un des ouvrages scientifiques les plus estimés de notre époque et qui fait autorité pour le monde savant même ; c'est le Dictionnaire de médecine, de Chirurgie et de Pharmacie de MM. E. LITTRÉ et CH. ROBIN, ouvrage dans lequel j'ai recueilli de très nombreux et précieux documents : « MÉDECINE DES GENS DU MONDE, « MÉDECINE DOMESTIQUE. « Pratique de la médecine par ceux qui ne savent rien en médecine, « pratique dangereuse pour eux et ceux qui les entourent. « Le péril est double : d'abord l'emploi de moyens qui ne conviennent pas, puis la perte d'un temps précieux dans les affections « graves et marchant rigidement. » 32. — Lichen simple (main). Inflammation de la peau caractérisée par l'éruption simultanée ou successive de papules rougeâtres ou de la couleur même de la peau, le plus souvent disposées en groupes donnant lieu à de vives démangeaisons ou prurit. 33. — Naevus vasculaire mélanique (pied). 34. Purpura hémorrhagique. On comprend sous cette dénomination plusieurs maladies qui ont pour caractère commun et générique de se manifester intérieurement par des ecchymoses (comme les taches ou coups, rouges, bleuâtres, violacés), indépendantes de violences extérieures. 35. — Prurigo, synonyme de démangeaison. Éruption cutanée caractérisée par des papules peu saillantes. 36. — L'homme à la Fourchette. L'homme au Couteau, fatal résultat de l'introduction dans l'estomac de corps étrangers volumineux. Le nommé Tarare, cantinier (ambulancier), à l'armée de Catalogne en 1812, était atteint d'une faim-valle et nonfringalle (besoin insatiable de manger), et prétendait pouvoir, à l'instar de l'autruche, disait-il, tout digérer ; aussi faisait-il constamment des pariis qu'il gagna jusqu'au jour où, ayant avalé un couteau, sa santé s'altéra rapidement, et moins heureux que l'homme à la fourchette, il succomba après d'horribles souffrances, car la science n'était pas aussi avancée que de nos jours; chacun connaît du reste l'heureuse issue de l'opération de la gastrotomie, pratiquée avec autant de talent que de bonheur sur l'homme à la fourchette par un habile chirurgien des hôpitaux de Paris. Section du cou d'une femme guillotinée pour infanticide. Section faite entre les quatrième et cinquième vertèbres cervicales et montrant, outre la coupe des muscles de cette région, celles des artères carotides primitives et vertébrales, des veines jugulaires internes, du larynx, les cordes vocales, l'ouverture de la glotte, la trachée-artère, la glande thyroïde, l'œsophage et la moelle épinière. 37. — Côté de la tête. 38. — Côté du tronc. 39. — Lupus hypertrophique de la face. 40. — Lèpre avec divers développements de ses anneaux sur la poitrine et les seins chez une vieille femme. (Musée Dupuytren). Maladie écailleuse de la peau du genre de la ladrerie, de Ladre, qui est le nom vulgaire de Lazare. Le nom de Ladre fut attribué aux lépreux à cause que Lazare était supposé avoir été atteint de la Lèpre, qui ravagea au moyen âge et ravage encore quelques contrées de l'Orient, mais a à peu près disparu de nos jours de l'Europe. Cancer du Sein (Buste). Cancer, mot qui en latin comme en Grec signifie crabe, écrevisse; soit que l'on ait comparé aux pattes d'un crabe les veines dilatées et tous les vaisseaux engorgés qui s'écartent en rayonnant autour d'une tumeur visible sous la peau, soit comme on l'a cru anciennement qu'un animal rongeait les parties malades. Dans le modèle présent, le sein droit est en grande partie détruit, on aperçoit dans la cavité produite par l'ulcère à bords renversés ou taillés à pic des parties lardacées parmi la bouillie mélanique. Le sein gauche est atteint d'une tumeur cancéreuse non ulcérée. Dégénérescence cancéreuse gélatiniforme de l'estomac, du foie et des intestins. (Musée Dupuytren.) Fissures ou crevasses du mamelon chez une jeune femme primipare atteinte d'un adénome, tumeur formée par le tissu des glandes. Les fissures du mamelon sont en général bien plus fréquentes chez les jeunes femmes à leur premier enfant. Abcès d'une glande axillaire ou ganglion lymphatique. L'abcès est toujours un amas de pus dans une cavité accidentelle dont la formation est due à la production de ce liquide au milieu des tissus. LES PHASES DE LA GROSSESSE JUSQU'A LA PARTURITION (ACCOUCHEMENT NATUREL COMPRIS) Bassin d'une jeune femme bien conformée, qui n'a pas été mère et n'est pas enceinte. NOTA. — Ce premier modèle est destiné à servir comme type de comparaison avec les neuf mois de la grossesse. Le côté droit de l'utérus (ou matrice) a été enlevé afin de montrer la cavité du corps de l'utérus et celle du col, dans laquelle on voit la moitié de l'arbre de vie, puis l'ouverture nommée museau de tanche. Un petit stylet de métal indique l'ouverture de la trompe gauche dans l'utérus, ainsi que le trajet parcouru par l'ovule lorsqu'il est expulsé de l'ovaire à l'époque de la menstruation ou après sa fécondation. La vessie et le rectum sont entiers, mais la moitié gauche du vagin reste, afin de montrer dans leurs rapports respectifs la grande et la petite lèvre gauche, le clitoris, l'urètre et le méat urinaire, les caroncules myrtiformes (débris de la membrane hymen), ainsi que les colonnes antérieure et postérieure du vagin. Pendant sa grossesse, la femme doit être traitée avec encore plus d'égards et de douceur que d'habitude, en raison des souffrances qu'elle endure pendant ce travail immense de création qui lui donne une grande surexcitation nerveuse, des appétits dépravés ou envies de l'estomac, des dégoûts, des nausées et vomissements, et quelquefois même un trouble dans les facultés morales et intellectuelles. On doit donc lui éviter les émotions trop vives, les chagrins et les fatigues, qui pourraient avoir une influence funeste sur la santé de la mère ou celle de l'enfant. GESTATION Premier mois de grossesse chez une femme bien conformée et qui a déjà été mère (multipare). L'utérus contient un embryon de cinq semaines dont la vésicule ombilicale est complètement développée et s'aperçoit à travers la membrane amnios et le liquide amniotique. La cavité du col de l'utérus commence à se dilater, mais c'est surtout pendant les derniers mois de la grossesse que cette ouverture se dilate le plus rapidement. Chez les femmes primipares (qui sont à leur premier enfant) ce travail n'a lieu qu'au moment de la parturition. Deuxième mois. — L'embryon grossit; sa tête forme plus du tiers de la grandeur totale du corps. Les avant-bras et les mains sont déjà visibles (mais les doigts non séparés) et les bras manquent encore. La vésicule ombilicale commence à se flétrir et à s'atrophier. Troisième mois. — Les doigts et les orteils de l'embryon sont déjà distincts et le cordon ombilical commence à se tourner en spirale. La vésicule ombilicale continue à s'atrophier. Dans cette pièce et dans les suivantes, les membranes cadavreuses et amnios ont été arrachées en grande partie pour laisser voir le développement du fœtus. Quatrième mois. — L'embryon prend le nom de foetus; son sexe devient apparent, les ongles visibles, les fontanelles sont très grandes et quelques cheveux argentins commencent à paraître. Cinquième mois. — Le fœtus continue à se développer; ses mouvements qui ont commencé à se faire sentir le quatrième mois et demi, deviennent plus vigoureux. Sixième mois. — L'utérus qui était pyriforme (en forme de poire) les deux premiers mois, puis sphéroïde (rond) les troisième, quatrième et cinquième, devient de plus en plus ovoïde (forme d'œuf) jusqu'à la fin de la grossesse. 51. — Septième mois. — Aux termes du Code civil, article 312 et suivants, tout enfant né après le cent quatre-vingt-huitième jour de gestation est réputé viable. Le fœtus se développe de plus en plus rapidement à mesure qu'approche le terme de la grossesse, et les cheveux deviennent généralement plus foncés. 52. — Huitième mois. — Le ramollissement du col de l'utérus est complet, et la dilatation de la cavité du col est très avancée. L'enfant est plus viable qu'à 7 mois malgré le préjugé contraire. 53. — Neuvième mois. — Au moment de la parturition (accouchement naturel), le foetus a atteint tout son développement : la dilatation du col est complète et laisse voir la membrane caduque déchirée et l'amnios qui forment la poche des eaux. Lorsque ces membranes se déchirent plus haut, le fœtus, en naissant, entraîne sur sa tête une partie de la caduque ; de là l'expression des matrones, qui disent que l'enfant est né coiffé. 54. — Accouchement naturel ou parturition. La présentation du sommet est la plus naturelle, et plus fréquente à elle seule que toutes les autres réunies; représenté au moment où la tête du fœtus, après avoir franchi les parties génitales, l'occiput en avant décrit un cinquième mouvement par lequel son occiput se trouve placé contre la face interne de la cuisse gauche et sa face contre la partie interne de la cuisse droite. RENVERSEMENT D'UTÉRUS OU MATRICE 55.— Rétroversion à trois mois de grossesse, l'utérus écrase la base de la vessie contre le pubis et empêche la miction de l'urine, le rectum est fortement refoulé. La version fut pratiquée avec succès chez cette femme en danger de mort par le professeur Ellerslie Wallace du Jefferson médical collège de Philadelphie (Etats-Unis d'Amérique). 56. — Fœtus, âgé d'environ quatre mois (conservé dans l'esprit de vin). 57. — Hémorrhoides externes considérables formant grappe autour de l'anus. Les hémorrhoides ne sont que des varices des vaisseaux sanguins du pourtour de l'anus. 58. — Fistule complète (2 orifices, l'un dans le rectum, l'autre à la marge de l'anus. Un abcès froid ou la présence d'un corps étranger détermine le plus souvent cette affection. 59. — Hernies. On nomme hernie toute tumeur formée par le déplacement d'un viscère qui, échappé de sa cavité naturelle par une ouverture quelconque, fait saillie extérieurement; mais on donne ce nom aux déplacements de portions d'intestins, tels que la hernie ombilicale ou exomphale, qui sort par l'ombilic (plus fréquente chez les femmes à cause des efforts pendant la parturition); hernie inguinale ou scrotale, qui sort de l'anneau inguinal et peut, faute de soins appropriés, tomber dans le scrotum ou les bourses; la hernie crurale ou mérocèle celle qui sort avec les vaisseaux par l'arcade crurale. Les hernies en général proviennent de la faiblesse des tissus qui peuvent se déchirer sans causes appréciables ou le plus souvent à la suite d'efforts violents, pour enlever des fardeaux trop lourds, de faux mouvements de lutte, etc. Ces affections doivent toujours être soignées aussitôt que l'on s'en aperçoit par l'homme de l'art qui seul peut les faire rentrer sans danger et y faire adapter les bandages convenables; faute de cette précaution on s'expose aux hernies étranglées, à la gangrène avec terminaison prompte et fatale. 60. — Hernie triple chez la femme (Voir pour les explications à l'article ci-dessus). ESSAIS DE SYPHILISATION OU VACCINATION SYPHILITIQUE D'APRÈS LES PROFESSEURS BÖCK ET SPÄRING En Suède et en Norvège cette méthode est pratiquée comme conservatrice de la syphilis. 61. — Premier jour de l'inoculation 62. — Deuxième jour. 63. — Troisième jour. 64. — Quatrième jour. 65. — Pustules desséchées. 66. — Bulle syphilitique. 67. — Ulcération syphilitique simple. 68. — id. id. à bords frangés. 69. — id. id. phagocytique avec bords taillés à pic. 70. — id. id. serpiginée, bords dentelés saillants. 71. — id. syphilitique phagocytique gangréneuse. 72. — Ulcération fongique consécutive à l'inoculation. 73. — id. syphilitique, à bords calleux. 74. — id. id. avec tendance à la cicatrisation. 75. — id. id. en pleine cicatrisation. 76. — Cicatrice d'une ulcération syphilitique. 77. — Manustupration ou onanisme. Agorre d'un jeune adolescent adonné à ce vice honteux dont les suites les plus ordinaires sont : L'abrutissement, le marasme et parfois même la mort. 78. — Période tertiaire. — Gomme syphilitique. Un gommeux, surnommé le Fanfaron du vice (dans les hôpitaux spéciaux à ces affections, les malades ont l'habitude de se donner des surnoms ou des sobriquets pornographiques ou vulgaires), le sujet dont il s'agit, à peine sorti guéri, après de longs et douloureux traitements et régimes, revenait infecté de nouveau et faisait encore parade de sa corruption morale et physique. 79. — Hystéroptose ou Chute d'utérus, vulgairement : Descente de matrice. Prolapsus et renversement de l'utérus. — Le plus souvent c'est le relâchement des parties environnantes et des ligaments de l'utérus qui favorisent ces déplacements. Lorsque toutes ces parties, fatiguées par un travail prématuré après l'accouchement restent molles et allongées, ou qu'elles sont dans un état de relâchement causé par des écoulements muqueux, la matrice s'abaisse quelquefois en totalité et descend plus ou moins bas, précédée d'un bourrelet formé par un repli du vagin. — On donne à ce genre d'Hystéroptose le nom de prolapsus vaginal. Cet accident peut aller jusqu'à la chute complète de l'utérus en dehors de la vulve, entraînant avec lui toute la muqueuse vaginale et la vessie. TROISIÈME PARTIE SPLANCHNOLOGIE PARTIE DE L'ANATOMIE QUI TRATE DES ORGANES VISCÉRAUX UNE AUTOPSIE 80. — Avant de vous parler de chaque organe et viscère en particulier, permettez-moi de vous les montrer dans leur ensemble comme lorsque dans une autopsie le chirurgien n'a encore enlevé que la partie antérieure de la poitrine et de l'abdomen, et l'on peut voir alors dans ces cavités, de chaque côté de la poitrine, les poumons, le cœur au milieu et sa pointe dirigée à gauche, au-dessous. Le diaphragme, muscle mince qui sépare les organes de la poitrine de ceux du ventre, puis l'estomac recouvert en partie par le foie. La rate, le gros intestin ou colon transverse, enfin les intestins grêles, recouverts en partie par le péritoine et les épiploons. Le sujet que nous venons d'examiner est la première partie de l'Autopsie d'un homme de trente ans trouvé mort sur la voie publique avec de nombreuses ecchymoses et blessures profondes à la tête. Après procès-verbal fait, constatant la levée du cadavre, c'est-à-dire son état extérieur et toutes les circonstances accessoires, le médecin légiste ayant été autorisé, procède à l'autopsie ou ouverture et examen minutieux des parties internes du cadavre afin de reconnaître les traces médicales que le crime a pu y laisser. Il examine les viscères afin de s'assurer si la victime était à jeun ou non au moment de l'assassinat, si elle était en état d'ébriété (ivresse) ou si on ne lui avait pas fait prendre quelque narcotique, etc., toutes recherches qui contribuent puissamment à la découverte et au futiment du criminel. Suite de l'autopsie EXAMEN DE L'APPAREIL DIGESTIF 81. — Tous les viscères qui composent cet appareil ayant été détachés et retirés du sujet précédent puis développés sur une table, nous allons procéder à leur examen en commençant par la cavité buccale ou bouche avec ses trente-deux dents autour desquelles s'ouvrent les conduits des glandes salivaires dont le liquide imprègne les substances alimentaires pendant le travail de la mastication et les prépare pour la digestion; puis les amygdales qui lubrifient le pharynx (arrière-bouche) pour faciliter le passage au bol alimentaire, lequel descend le long de l'œsophage et se rend dans l'estomac, où, après une heure et demie d'ingestion, liquides et solides commencent à se convertir en chyme, travail qui dure environ cinq heures et pendant lequel le chyme est peu à peu chassé au travers du pylore dans le duodénum, première partie des intestins grêles, où il est imprégné par deux nouveaux liquides : la bile ou fiel, secrétée par le foie, et le suc de la glande pancréatique. La masse chymateuse devient alors apte à fournir le chyle, et, pendant qu'elle parcourt les intestins grêles, elle est dépouillée, par les vaisseaux chylifères et les veines, du suc réparateur, le chyle, qui se mêle ensuite au sang. Il ne reste plus que des matières excrémentielles, inutiles à la nutrition, et qui sont rejetées au dehors après être passées de l'intestin grêle dans le gros intestin à l'endroit nommé valvule iléo-cœcale, ou vulgairement barrière des apothicaires, parce qu'elle permet bien le passage des matières solides et liquides, allant du petit dans le gros intestin, mais s'oppose au passage même des liquides d'un clystère venant en sens inverse. Quant à la rate, qui tient à l'estomac par de nombreux vaisseaux, ses usages spéciaux sont encore à peu près inconnus. Ainsi qu'on le voit, l'appareil digestif constitue à lui seul un merveilleux laboratoire de chimie. Suite de l'autopsie EXAMEN DE L'APPAREIL DE LA RESPIRATION Et des organes de la voix chez l'homme 82 et 83. — L'appareil de la respiration a pour but la révivification du sang par l'air atmosphérique attiré dans les poumons. Les poumons sont mis en mouvement par la dilatation et le resserrement alternatif des côtes mues par les muscles et formant comme la carcasse d'un sous-méte. Les conduits aériens nommés bronches naissent à l'intérieur des poumons, vont en se réunissant et grossissant à la manière des branches d'arbres pour se réunir en un tronc nommé trachée-artère, laquelle est surmontée par le larynx, sur lequel on a pratiqué une coupe médiane afin de faire voir les cordes vocales, organes de la voix, puis le pharynx ou arrière-bouche, les fosses nasales. Enfin la cavité buccale, qui est commune aux organes de la respiration, de la voix et de la digestion (voir aussi le n° 81). LA NUTRITION DE L'ENFANT DANS LE SEIN DE SA MÈRE OU LA NATURE DÉVOILÉE DANS SES MERVEILLEUX MYSTÈRES DE REPRODUCTION 84. — En créant ce groupe splendide, l'artiste célèbre qui l'a signé a eu pour but de dévoiler, au public avide de s'initier à la physiologie, un des mystères les plus admirables du grand œuvre de la nature. À cet effet, l'auteur, par une heureuse hypothèse, a représenté une mère, jeune et adorable femme, qui vient de mettre au monde un garçon bien portant, parfaitement conformé et de grosseur moyenne (le cordon qui les unit n'a pas encore été coupé). La physionomie de la mère représente, par conséquent, cette expression de douce langueur qui suit l'Enfance, et cela malgré que l'abdomen soit largement ouvert et une partie des viscères retirée, car il s'agissait de démontrer quels seraient, si l'on pouvait voir à travers une personne vivante, la situation et les rapports des organes, entre la mère et l'enfant pendant la grossesse. Le placenta ou délivre est représenté en entier et encore adhérent à la moitié restante de l'utérus par sa face spongieuse bosselée et comme imprégnée de sang, dont une partie est renversée pour montrer les orifices de cette infinité de veines dans lesquelles le sang passe des pores de l'utérus de la mère dans le placenta qu'elles traversent en grossissant et le recouvrant d'un réseau bleuâtre; puis elles se réunissent en un seul tronc pour former la veine ombilicale (bleue) dont on peut suivre ici le trajet le long de l'utérus, pour passer par l'ouverture du col et les organes sexuels, puis ensuite se rendre et pénétrer par l'ombilic de l'enfant, pour de là aboutir au foie et au cœur du fœtus et se ramifier ensuite dans tout son organisme, en portant la vie et le développement avec le plus pur du sang maternel ; car la partie du sang sinon impure, mais du moins inutile à l'enfant, est chassée par les contractions de son cœur dans les deux artères ombilicales (rouges) qui contournent en spirales la veine ombilicale, centre du cordon ombilical, et reportent en sens inverse ce sang devenu inutile, dans la circulation de la mère où il est de nouveau vivifié par la respiration, etc. Tel est cet admirable fonctionnement depuis la formation du cordon ombilical, car dans les premiers mois, l'embryon ne tire sa nutrition que de la vésicule ombilicale et du liquide amniotique qui l'entoure et le pénètre. Sur ce même modèle anatomique, l'appareil urinaire, dont les fonctions ont tant de rapports avec l'appareil génital et la circulation du sang, a été représenté également. On voit l'artère rénale qui porte le sang au rein droit, organe dans lequel le sang est décomposé en partie en urine, laquelle se rend ensuite par les urètères dans la vessie. La vessie, on le comprend, est d'autant plus comprimée que la grossesse avance ; ce qui oblige les femmes à des mictions bien plus fréquentes. NÉVROLOGIE PARTIE DE L'ANATOMIE QUI TRAITE DES NERFS 85. — Le nerf grand sympathique de l'homme, dans tous ses rapports et communications avec les nerfs provenant du cerveau et de la moelle épinière. Les savants les plus illustres, anatomistes et physiologistes français et étrangers ont tous été captivés pendant des années et restent toujours au courant des recherches et expérimentations sur le cerveau et les nerfs qui président à toutes nos fonctions et sont les organes de toutes nos jouissances comme de toutes nos douleurs. Aussi cette étude anatomique des nerfs est-elle la plus intéressante, la plus instructive et la plus considérable à la fois qu'il soit donné à un anatomiste de préparer sur le cadavre. De même, elle est aussi la plus difficile à reproduire par le modelage en cire, à la main, à cause de ses détails innombrables, de leur finesse et de la variété jointe à la richesse du coloris ; ainsi que l'on peut en juger sur ce modèle, véritable chef-d'œuvre de l'U. Jules Talrich représentant : Un homme de 35 ans sur lequel on a enlevé une partie des organes et un segment de chaque vertèbre de la colonne vertébrale tout en laissant les artères et les nerfs à leurs places respectives, de manière à montrer clairement les points de réunion ou de communications des deux grands centres nerveux de l'homme ; qui sont : LE CENTRE NERVEUX ENCÉPHALO-MÉDULLAIRE, ou du cerveau et de la moelle épinière, nerfs de la vie animale qui sont sous l'influence de la volonté de l'homme, se distribuent aux organes des sens, la vue, l'odorat, le goût, l'ouïe et le toucher, ainsi qu'aux muscles et à la peau, leur donnant le mouvement et la sensibilité ; LE NEVRAXE SPINAL, ou grand sympathetic, système nerveux de la vie organique, lequel au contraire n'est pas sous l'influence de la volonté de l'homme, mais préside aux fonctions des organes; ses filets nerveux commencent à la racine sympathique du ganglion ophthalmique en arrière de l'œil et contre le nerf optique, et sur la carotide interne, puis se forment en cordon blanc le long du cou avec trois gros renflements grisâtres ou ganglions et se continue le long de la poitrine et des lombes, puis du sacrum, pour se terminer en se réunissant sur le coccyx avec son congénère du côté gauche. Tout le long de son parcours, ce nerf a d'autres renflements grisâtres (ganglions), plus petits que ceux du cou et situés près des têtes de côtes et vertèbres, qui ont été sciées pour mieux laisser voir les filets de communication du grand sympathique, lesquels sortent de ces ganglions pour se réunir avec les nerfs dorsaux lombaires et sacrés venant de la moelle épinière. LÉGENDE. — Sur ce modèle, comme en général sur tous les autres ; sont représentés : Les nerfs en blanc, les artères en rouge, et les veines en bleu. ANGIOLOGIE PARTIE DE L'ANATOMIE QUI TRAITE DES VAISSEAUX SANGUINS ET LYMPHATIQUES. 86. — Anatomie du cœur d'un adulte, principal agent de la circulation du sang. Le cœur est séparé en deux, intérieurement comme extérieurement. Ces deux moitiés adossées s'emboîtent en quelque sorte ; la moitié du côté droit, ou cœur droit, reçoit par les veines le sang noir ou plutôt rouge foncé et la lymphe de tout le corps, lequel est ensuite chassé par une contraction du ventricule dans les poumons, où il est vivifié (hématosé) par l'air et devient rouge vermillon, puis revient au cœur gauche, d'où il est chassé à son tour par une pulsation, contraction ou systole ventriculaire, et distribue dans tous les organes les principes vivifiants absorbés durant la digestion et l'inspiration de l'air, et se chargeant en même temps des principes qui, devenus impropres à la nutrition, sont rejetés pendant l'expiration et dans l'urination. La réunion de l'appareil de la respiration joint à celui de la circulation du sang constitue bien une machine à vapeur à laquelle l'appareil digestif fournit le combustible. (Voir également le cœur et ses gros vaisseaux au n° 85.) 87. — Anatomie de l'œil humain, grossi cinq fois le diamètre naturel. Coupe médiane de l'œil gauche (partie interne), montrant la cornée, l'iris avec la pupille, les capsules avec le cristallin, l'humeur vitrée ou hyaloïde, le canal de Fontana, les procès ciliaires, la rétine membrane interne rougeâtre, avec ses vaisseaux ; la macula, la choroïde noirâtre, et la sclérotique enveloppe blanche de l'œil, le nerf optique avec son artère centrale. VAISSEAUX LYMPHATIQUES Principaux réservoirs chylifères. Partie du tronc d'un homme de trente ans, représentant : 1° le commencement du canal thoracique (réservoir du chyle ou de Pecquet), centre commun des vaisseaux chylifères s'ouvrant dans le canal thoracique, lequel s'ouvre lui-même et se termine dans la veine sous-clavière gauche, où le chyle ou lymphe se mêle au sang ; 2° grande veine lymphatique s'ouvrant dans la veine sous-clavière droite, où le chyle se mêle, comme il est dit pour la veine gauche, veine azygos (Voir la Circulation du sang, no 86). MÉDECINE OPÉRATOIRE LA TRANSFUSION DU SANG Le sujet sur lequel est représentée la pratique d'un des nombreux procédés de transfusion du sang est une jeune femme de dix-huit ans, rendue exsangue par une hémorrhagie considérable, survenue à la suite d'un premier accouchement laborieux, et rappelée à la vie grâce au dévouement d'un interne qui donna son sang pour sauver la malade, et à l'habileté du chirurgien de l'Hôtel-Dieu. Cette opération consiste à faire passer le sang des veines d'un individu bien portant dans les veines d'un autre individu en danger de mort, afin de remplacer le sang que ce dernier a perdu par une hémorrhagie excessive ou tout autre cause qui l'a rendu exsangue. La transfusion avait été pratiquée et préconisée il y a plus de deux siècles, puis proscrite par arrêt du Parlement de Paris, en 1668, à cause de ses funestes résultats (dus sans doute à l'ignorance où l'on était à cette époque sur la composition du sang). Elle fut reprise et abandonnée de nouveau à diverses époques. Enfin, de nos jours, d'habiles praticiens s'appuyant sur les découvertes de la science moderne, tentèrent de nouveau cette opération, qui eut d'heureux résultats : 1° En injectant le sang d'homme à homme et non, comme on le faisait jadis, d'animal à homme, car la composition immédiate, ainsi que la forme et le volume des globules du sang, ne sont pas les mêmes dans l'espèce humaine et chez les animaux ; 2° En tenant le sang à la température du corps au moyen d'un bain-marie ; 3° En injectant avec toutes les précautions possibles, pour ne pas pousser d'air dans les veines en même temps que le sang, etc. Varices. — Bras variqueux. — (Musée Dupuytren.) Les varices sont produites par la dilatation permanente d'une ou plusieurs veines, par suite de l'accumulation du sang dans leurs cavités. Les causes de ce désordre varient à l'infini. Elephantiasis des Arabes (de Elephant), appelé aussi mal des Barbades, cette maladie profonde paraît atteindre outre la peau, les tissus lamineux et graisseux, les vaisseaux sanguins et ganglions lymphatiques. Fœtus double autositaire n'ayant qu'un foie, un anus, et les parties génitales internes incomplètes. Les deux extrémités abdominales d'un côté sont réunies dans une seule enveloppe cutanée, mais sont terminées par dix orteils libres. Un des fœtus est bec-de-lièvre et a le doigt auriculaire de la main droite à l'état rudimentaire. Ce modèle et l'original ont été présentés à l'Académie de Médecine, par M. le professeur Houlle. Hypertrophie considérable des seins, chez une jeune fille de seize ans, sans altération de texture (Musée Dupuytren). Hypertrophie, en grec excès de nutrition, accroissement excessif d'un organe ou d'une portion d'organe caractérisé par l'augmentation de son poids et de son volume. Elephantiasis des Grecs, ou lèpre tuberculeuse, jambe gauche. (Musée Dupuytren.) — Noms de deux maladies essentiellement différentes. Celle ci-dessus, maladie moins grave que celle du numéro 91. Goitre ou Goître. Hypertrophie de la glande thyroïde ayant atteint le volume considérable de 0,35 sur 45 centimètres de diamètre, et faisant littéralement le tour de la tête. Cette affection est endémique et souvent héréditaire dans les contrées humides et froides, dans les vallées des Alpes, le bas Valais, etc. (Musée Dupuytren.) Ophthalmie Blennorrhagique, chemosis intense de l'œil gauche, avec staphylôme de la cornée droite résultant d'un premier chemosis envoie de guérison, affection communiquée par le contact des doigts souillés de pus uréthral. Ulcérations du col de l'utérus (examinées à l'aide du spéculum). Les causes des ulcérations sont multiples et très diverses ; le plus souvent elles résultent des suites de couches, Lorsqu'elles réclament l'emploi de la cautérisation au nitrate d'argent (pierre infernale) ou au fer rouge, les femmes, craignant une douleur horrible, se refusent longtemps à cette opération qui, en réalité et chose extraordinaire, ne fait aucun mal. Jeune fille tétramamellaire (quatre mamelles). La nommée Adèle M., âgée de 18 ans, porte quatre mamelles, dont deux normales et deux plus petites, mais bien conformées, indépendantes des premières, et pourvues des glandes mammaires qui sècrètent le lait; devenue mère, cette personne aurait pu allaiter alternativement son enfant avec ses quatre seins, fait extrêmement remarquable, d'autant plus que, jusqu'à ce jour, on citait bien quelques exemples de femmes ayant quatre et même six mamelons, mais incomplets, sans glandes et par conséquent stériles. MALADIE DES OS Nous allons maintenant offrir à vos regards toutes les maladies qui peuvent affliger l'espèce humaine, à commencer par les os, c'est la pathologie. Exostose éburnée du tibia. Stalactites osseuses du tibia. Stalactites osseuses du péroné. Ankylose de l'articulation tibio-tarsienne. Carie ou nécrose du tibia. Exostose considérable de la cheville externe ou malléole. (Modèle en plâtre.) PIEDS BOTS Infirmité résultant de la contraction de certains muscles dont les tendons se rendent aux pieds. Cette affection devient de plus en plus rare par suite de la découverte de la ténotomie (opération sur les tendons) et des progrès de l'orthopédie. Pied varus. Pied valgus. Pied équin-valgus. Pieds fourchus. Au Moyen Âge un préjugé superstitionnel attribuait ce vice de conformation aux démoniaques, et plus d'un malheureux atteint de cette infirmité fut sans doute accusé d'obscurité et peut-être même brûlé vif à cause de cette infirmité. FRACTURE DES OS Fracture de l'humérus vicieusement consolidée Fracture comminutive du fémur. Fracture du fémur, vicieusement consolidée. Fracture du col du fémur, assez bien consolidée. Fracture en bec de flûte du tibia, vicieusement consolidée. Fracture bien consolidée avec son cal osseux (ou cicatrice des os après une fracture). Fracture du tibia, vicieusement consolidée et exostoses. La fille P., aliénée. La fille D., idiote. Tête de microcéphale, idiot. Le crâne est ouvert pour laisser voir la petitesse extrême du cerveau; sur la joue droite est une fistule de la glande parotide. Tête du criminel supplicié, Troppmann. FATALES CONSEQUENCES DE LA DEBAUCHE (GROUPE) 120 et 121. — Une jeune fille séduite et atteinte de syphilis, puis abandonnée, donne avec découragement les derniers soins à son jeune enfant succombant sous les ravages de ce fléau héréditaire. Il serait bien à désirer, et l'on ne saurait trop conseiller aux jeunes gens qui en ont été victimes d'avoir assez de conscience, de loyauté, et de raison pour ne se marier qu'après tout le temps voulu pour une guérison radicale, suite d'un traitement approprié, dirigé par un homme de l'art, sans quoi ils s'exposent à des remords cruels et de poignants regrets non seulement pour eux-mêmes, mais pour celle à qui ils se sont unis et à leurs enfants, condamnés avant de naître à une vie de souffrance, si ce n'est à une mort lente et douloureuse. OPÉRATION DU TRÉPAN PAR LA MÉTHODE CLASSIQUE La trépanation du crâne est toujours une opération des plus graves puisqu'elle ne se pratique que sur des sujets déjà dangereusement malades, par suite de chutes, de coups violents, ou de projectiles ayant fêlé, brisé ou perforé le crâne, et déterminé un dépôt ou épanchement auquel il s'agit de donner issue ; ou bien si ce sont des esquilles d'os ou une partie d'os fracturé et enfoncé déterminant une compression cérébrale, il faut dans le premier cas, les extraire; et dans le second, remettre en place la partie déplacée. 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//! Module for tokenizing JMESPath expressions.
//!
//! The lexer returns a VecDeque of tuples where each tuple contains the
//! character position in the original string from which the lexeme originates
//! followed by the token itself. The VecDeque is then consumed by the parser.
//! A VecDeque is utilized in order to pop owned tokens and provide arbitrary
//! token lookahead in the parser.
use std::collections::VecDeque;
use std::iter::Peekable;
use std::str::CharIndices;
use self::Token::*;
use crate::variable::Variable;
use crate::{ErrorReason, JmespathError, Rcvar};
/// Represents a lexical token of a JMESPath expression.
#[derive(Clone, PartialEq, Debug)]
pub enum Token {
Identifier(String),
QuotedIdentifier(String),
Number(i32),
Literal(Rcvar),
Dot,
Star,
Flatten,
And,
Or,
Pipe,
Filter,
Lbracket,
Rbracket,
Comma,
Colon,
Not,
Ne,
Eq,
Gt,
Gte,
Lt,
Lte,
At,
Ampersand,
Lparen,
Rparen,
Lbrace,
Rbrace,
Eof,
}
impl Token {
/// Provides the left binding power of the token.
///
/// This is used in the parser to determine whether or not
/// the currently parsing expression should continue parsing
/// by consuming a token.
#[inline]
pub fn lbp(&self) -> usize {
match *self {
Pipe => 1,
Or => 2,
And => 3,
Eq => 5,
Gt => 5,
Lt => 5,
Gte => 5,
Lte => 5,
Ne => 5,
Flatten => 9,
Star => 20,
Filter => 21,
Dot => 40,
Not => 45,
Lbrace => 50,
Lbracket => 55,
Lparen => 60,
_ => 0,
}
}
}
/// A tuple of the token position and the token.
pub type TokenTuple = (usize, Token);
/// Tokenizes a JMESPath expression.
pub fn tokenize(expr: &str) -> Result<VecDeque<TokenTuple>, JmespathError> {
Lexer::new(expr).tokenize()
}
struct Lexer<'a> {
iter: Peekable<CharIndices<'a>>,
expr: &'a str,
}
impl<'a> Lexer<'a> {
fn new(expr: &'a str) -> Lexer<'a> {
Lexer {
iter: expr.char_indices().peekable(),
expr,
}
}
fn tokenize(&mut self) -> Result<VecDeque<TokenTuple>, JmespathError> {
let mut tokens = VecDeque::new();
let last_position = self.expr.len();
loop {
match self.iter.next() {
Some((pos, ch)) => {
match ch {
'a'..='z' | 'A'..='Z' | '_' => {
tokens.push_back((pos, self.consume_identifier(ch)))
}
'.' => tokens.push_back((pos, Dot)),
'[' => tokens.push_back((pos, self.consume_lbracket())),
'*' => tokens.push_back((pos, Star)),
'|' => tokens.push_back((pos, self.alt('|', Or, Pipe))),
'@' => tokens.push_back((pos, At)),
']' => tokens.push_back((pos, Rbracket)),
'{' => tokens.push_back((pos, Lbrace)),
'}' => tokens.push_back((pos, Rbrace)),
'&' => tokens.push_back((pos, self.alt('&', And, Ampersand))),
'(' => tokens.push_back((pos, Lparen)),
')' => tokens.push_back((pos, Rparen)),
',' => tokens.push_back((pos, Comma)),
':' => tokens.push_back((pos, Colon)),
'"' => tokens.push_back((pos, self.consume_quoted_identifier(pos)?)),
'\'' => tokens.push_back((pos, self.consume_raw_string(pos)?)),
'`' => tokens.push_back((pos, self.consume_literal(pos)?)),
'=' => match self.iter.next() {
Some((_, c)) if c == '=' => tokens.push_back((pos, Eq)),
_ => {
let message = "'=' is not valid. Did you mean '=='?";
let reason = ErrorReason::Parse(message.to_owned());
return Err(JmespathError::new(self.expr, pos, reason));
}
},
'>' => tokens.push_back((pos, self.alt('=', Gte, Gt))),
'<' => tokens.push_back((pos, self.alt('=', Lte, Lt))),
'!' => tokens.push_back((pos, self.alt('=', Ne, Not))),
'0'..='9' => tokens.push_back((pos, self.consume_number(ch, false))),
'-' => tokens.push_back((pos, self.consume_negative_number(pos)?)),
// Skip whitespace tokens
' ' | '\n' | '\t' | '\r' => {}
c => {
let reason = ErrorReason::Parse(format!("Invalid character: {}", c));
return Err(JmespathError::new(self.expr, pos, reason));
}
}
}
None => {
tokens.push_back((last_position, Eof));
return Ok(tokens);
}
}
}
}
// Consumes characters while the predicate function returns true.
#[inline]
fn consume_while<F>(&mut self, mut buffer: String, predicate: F) -> String
where
F: Fn(char) -> bool,
{
loop {
match self.iter.peek() {
None => break,
Some(&(_, c)) if !predicate(c) => break,
Some(&(_, c)) => {
buffer.push(c);
self.iter.next();
}
}
}
buffer
}
// Consumes "[", "[]", "[?
#[inline]
fn consume_lbracket(&mut self) -> Token {
match self.iter.peek() {
Some(&(_, ']')) => {
self.iter.next();
Flatten
}
Some(&(_, '?')) => {
self.iter.next();
Filter
}
_ => Lbracket,
}
}
// Consume identifiers: ( ALPHA / "_" ) *( DIGIT / ALPHA / "_" )
#[inline]
fn consume_identifier(&mut self, first_char: char) -> Token {
Identifier(self.consume_while(
first_char.to_string(),
|c| matches!(c, 'a'..='z' | '_' | 'A'..='Z' | '0'..='9'),
))
}
// Consumes numbers: *"-" "0" / ( %x31-39 *DIGIT )
#[inline]
fn consume_number(&mut self, first_char: char, is_negative: bool) -> Token {
let lexeme = self.consume_while(first_char.to_string(), |c| c.is_digit(10));
let numeric_value: i32 = lexeme.parse().expect("Expected valid number");
if is_negative {
Number(-numeric_value)
} else {
Number(numeric_value)
}
}
// Consumes a negative number
#[inline]
fn consume_negative_number(&mut self, pos: usize) -> Result<Token, JmespathError> {
// Ensure that the next value is a number > 0
match self.iter.next() {
Some((_, c)) if c.is_numeric() && c != '0' => Ok(self.consume_number(c, true)),
_ => {
let reason = ErrorReason::Parse("'-' must be followed by numbers 1-9".to_owned());
Err(JmespathError::new(self.expr, pos, reason))
}
}
}
// Consumes tokens inside of a closing character. The closing character
// can be escaped using a "\" character.
#[inline]
fn consume_inside<F>(
&mut self,
pos: usize,
wrapper: char,
invoke: F,
) -> Result<Token, JmespathError>
where
F: Fn(String) -> Result<Token, String>,
{
let mut buffer = String::new();
while let Some((_, c)) = self.iter.next() {
if c == wrapper {
return invoke(buffer)
.map_err(|e| JmespathError::new(self.expr, pos, ErrorReason::Parse(e)));
} else if c == '\\' {
buffer.push(c);
if let Some((_, c)) = self.iter.next() {
buffer.push(c);
}
} else {
buffer.push(c)
}
}
// The token was not closed, so error with the string, including the
// wrapper (e.g., '"foo').
let message = format!("Unclosed {} delimiter: {}{}", wrapper, wrapper, buffer);
Err(JmespathError::new(
self.expr,
pos,
ErrorReason::Parse(message),
))
}
// Consume and parse a quoted identifier token.
#[inline]
fn consume_quoted_identifier(&mut self, pos: usize) -> Result<Token, JmespathError> {
self.consume_inside(pos, '"', |s| {
// JSON decode the string to expand escapes
match Variable::from_json(format!(r##""{}""##, s).as_ref()) {
// Convert the JSON value into a string literal.
Ok(j) => Ok(QuotedIdentifier(j.as_string().cloned().ok_or_else(
|| "consume_quoted_identifier expected a string".to_owned(),
)?)),
Err(e) => Err(format!("Unable to parse quoted identifier {}: {}", s, e)),
}
})
}
#[inline]
fn consume_raw_string(&mut self, pos: usize) -> Result<Token, JmespathError> {
// Note: we need to unescape here because the backslashes are passed through.
self.consume_inside(pos, '\'', |s| {
Ok(Literal(Rcvar::new(Variable::String(s.replace("\\'", "'")))))
})
}
// Consume and parse a literal JSON token.
#[inline]
fn consume_literal(&mut self, pos: usize) -> Result<Token, JmespathError> {
self.consume_inside(pos, '`', |s| {
let unescaped = s.replace("\\`", "`");
match Variable::from_json(unescaped.as_ref()) {
Ok(j) => Ok(Literal(Rcvar::new(j))),
Err(err) => Err(format!("Unable to parse literal JSON {}: {}", s, err)),
}
})
}
#[inline]
fn alt(&mut self, expected: char, match_type: Token, else_type: Token) -> Token {
match self.iter.peek() {
Some(&(_, c)) if c == expected => {
self.iter.next();
match_type
}
_ => else_type,
}
}
}
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
use crate::variable::Variable;
use crate::Rcvar;
fn tokenize_queue(expr: &str) -> Vec<TokenTuple> {
let mut result = tokenize(expr).unwrap();
let mut v = Vec::new();
while let Some(node) = result.pop_front() {
v.push(node);
}
v
}
#[test]
fn tokenize_basic_test() {
assert_eq!(tokenize_queue("."), vec![(0, Dot), (1, Eof)]);
assert_eq!(tokenize_queue("*"), vec![(0, Star), (1, Eof)]);
assert_eq!(tokenize_queue("@"), vec![(0, At), (1, Eof)]);
assert_eq!(tokenize_queue("]"), vec![(0, Rbracket), (1, Eof)]);
assert_eq!(tokenize_queue("{"), vec![(0, Lbrace), (1, Eof)]);
assert_eq!(tokenize_queue("}"), vec![(0, Rbrace), (1, Eof)]);
assert_eq!(tokenize_queue("("), vec![(0, Lparen), (1, Eof)]);
assert_eq!(tokenize_queue(")"), vec![(0, Rparen), (1, Eof)]);
assert_eq!(tokenize_queue(","), vec![(0, Comma), (1, Eof)]);
}
#[test]
fn tokenize_lbracket_test() {
assert_eq!(tokenize_queue("["), vec![(0, Lbracket), (1, Eof)]);
assert_eq!(tokenize_queue("[]"), vec![(0, Flatten), (2, Eof)]);
assert_eq!(tokenize_queue("[?"), vec![(0, Filter), (2, Eof)]);
}
#[test]
fn tokenize_pipe_test() {
assert_eq!(tokenize_queue("|"), vec![(0, Pipe), (1, Eof)]);
assert_eq!(tokenize_queue("||"), vec![(0, Or), (2, Eof)]);
}
#[test]
fn tokenize_and_ampersand_test() {
assert_eq!(tokenize_queue("&"), vec![(0, Ampersand), (1, Eof)]);
assert_eq!(tokenize_queue("&&"), vec![(0, And), (2, Eof)]);
}
#[test]
fn tokenize_lt_gt_test() {
assert_eq!(tokenize_queue("<"), vec![(0, Lt), (1, Eof)]);
assert_eq!(tokenize_queue("<="), vec![(0, Lte), (2, Eof)]);
assert_eq!(tokenize_queue(">"), vec![(0, Gt), (1, Eof)]);
assert_eq!(tokenize_queue(">="), vec![(0, Gte), (2, Eof)]);
}
#[test]
fn tokenize_eq_ne_test() {
assert_eq!(tokenize_queue("=="), vec![(0, Eq), (2, Eof)]);
assert_eq!(tokenize_queue("!"), vec![(0, Not), (1, Eof)]);
assert_eq!(tokenize_queue("!="), vec![(0, Ne), (2, Eof)]);
}
#[test]
fn ensures_eq_valid() {
assert!(tokenize("=").is_err());
}
#[test]
fn skips_whitespace() {
let tokens = tokenize_queue(" \t\n\r\t. (");
assert_eq!(tokens, vec![(5, Dot), (7, Lparen), (8, Eof)]);
}
#[test]
fn tokenize_single_error_test() {
assert!(tokenize("~")
.unwrap_err()
.to_string()
.contains("Invalid character: ~"));
}
#[test]
fn tokenize_unclosed_errors_test() {
assert!(tokenize("\"foo")
.unwrap_err()
.to_string()
.contains("Unclosed \" delimiter: \"foo"));
assert!(tokenize("`foo")
.unwrap_err()
.to_string()
.contains("Unclosed ` delimiter: `foo"));
}
#[test]
fn tokenize_identifier_test() {
assert_eq!(
tokenize_queue("foo_bar"),
vec![(0, Identifier("foo_bar".to_string())), (7, Eof)]
);
assert_eq!(
tokenize_queue("a"),
vec![(0, Identifier("a".to_string())), (1, Eof)]
);
assert_eq!(
tokenize_queue("_a"),
vec![(0, Identifier("_a".to_string())), (2, Eof)]
);
}
#[test]
fn tokenize_quoted_identifier_test() {
assert_eq!(
tokenize_queue("\"foo\""),
vec![(0, QuotedIdentifier("foo".to_string())), (5, Eof)]
);
assert_eq!(
tokenize_queue("\"\""),
vec![(0, QuotedIdentifier("".to_string())), (2, Eof)]
);
assert_eq!(
tokenize_queue("\"a_b\""),
vec![(0, QuotedIdentifier("a_b".to_string())), (5, Eof)]
);
assert_eq!(
tokenize_queue("\"a\\nb\""),
vec![(0, QuotedIdentifier("a\nb".to_string())), (6, Eof)]
);
assert_eq!(
tokenize_queue("\"a\\\\nb\""),
vec![(0, QuotedIdentifier("a\\nb".to_string())), (7, Eof)]
);
}
#[test]
fn tokenize_raw_string_test() {
assert_eq!(
tokenize_queue("'foo'"),
vec![
(0, Literal(Rcvar::new(Variable::String("foo".to_string())))),
(5, Eof)
]
);
assert_eq!(
tokenize_queue("''"),
vec![
(0, Literal(Rcvar::new(Variable::String("".to_string())))),
(2, Eof)
]
);
assert_eq!(
tokenize_queue("'a\\nb'"),
vec![
(
0,
Literal(Rcvar::new(Variable::String("a\\nb".to_string())))
),
(6, Eof)
]
);
}
#[test]
fn tokenize_literal_test() {
// Must enclose in quotes. See JEP 12.
assert!(tokenize("`a`")
.unwrap_err()
.to_string()
.contains("Unable to parse"));
assert_eq!(
tokenize_queue("`\"a\"`"),
vec![
(0, Literal(Rcvar::new(Variable::String("a".to_string())))),
(5, Eof)
]
);
assert_eq!(
tokenize_queue("`\"a b\"`"),
vec![
(0, Literal(Rcvar::new(Variable::String("a b".to_string())))),
(7, Eof)
]
);
}
#[test]
fn tokenize_number_test() {
assert_eq!(tokenize_queue("0"), vec![(0, Number(0)), (1, Eof)]);
assert_eq!(tokenize_queue("1"), vec![(0, Number(1)), (1, Eof)]);
assert_eq!(tokenize_queue("123"), vec![(0, Number(123)), (3, Eof)]);
}
#[test]
fn tokenize_negative_number_test() {
assert_eq!(tokenize_queue("-10"), vec![(0, Number(-10)), (3, Eof)]);
}
#[test]
fn tokenize_negative_number_test_failure() {
assert!(tokenize("-01").unwrap_err().to_string().contains("'-'"));
}
#[test]
fn tokenize_successive_test() {
let expr = "foo.bar || `\"a\"` | 10";
let tokens = tokenize_queue(expr);
assert_eq!(tokens[0], (0, Identifier("foo".to_string())));
assert_eq!(tokens[1], (3, Dot));
assert_eq!(tokens[2], (4, Identifier("bar".to_string())));
assert_eq!(tokens[3], (8, Or));
assert_eq!(
tokens[4],
(11, Literal(Rcvar::new(Variable::String("a".to_string()))))
);
assert_eq!(tokens[5], (17, Pipe));
assert_eq!(tokens[6], (19, Number(10)));
assert_eq!(tokens[7], (21, Eof));
}
#[test]
fn tokenizes_slices() {
let tokens = tokenize_queue("foo[0::-1]");
assert_eq!(
"[(0, Identifier(\"foo\")), (3, Lbracket), (4, Number(0)), (5, Colon), \
(6, Colon), (7, Number(-1)), (9, Rbracket), (10, Eof)]",
format!("{:?}", tokens)
);
}
}
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1. Why doesn’t Altifarm come with seeds and soil?
Altifarm simplifies gardening and makes it easy for anyone to grow fresh produce at home. Not subscribing to a subscription model, we believe in empowering you to choose the plants as you may like. Besides shipping soil is expensive 🙂
2. I've seen several table top gadgets to grow plants, how's this different?
We’ve seen and tested them too. While these counter-top devices are great to bring new users into the fold of home growing, their shortcomings are too obvious. 3-6 plants (mostly herbs and less of veggies) are just not enough to start a conversation on self-reliance. Also, almost all of them rely on seed pod or grow medium subscription, which is expensive. Also what’s the fun in gardening, if you can’t get your hands dirty?
Altifarm on the other hand, empowers you to grow meaningful amount of fresh produce at home, without any bounds on what/how/when.
3. What is the recommended location for installing the Altifarm ?
Turn any unused corner in your home into a green space using Grow Light Expansion pack. Else install on a balcony or porch with adequate sunlight. Use Mobility pack to move Altifarm around your home.
4. What growing medium can we use with Altifarm?
Use good ole garden soil, if that’s what you’d like. You may sterilize it and enrich it with home-made compost or manure. You may also use packaged vegetable growing medium available in markets online & offine. Or go completely soil-less with coco peat medium, along with added nutrients.
5. How safe is the product to grow edibles?
The grow tiers and inner trays are made of food-grade BPA-free HDPE/ABS material, making it completely safe for growing edibles. They are also completely recyclable. The metal frame is tested free from lead, cadmium, chromium, heavy metals etc.
6. What can I grow with Altifarm?
You can grow most vegetables and herbs with Altifarm – from microgreens to plants like oregano, basil, chives, mint; to leafy vegetables like spinach, kale, lettuce, coriander, parsley; fruit vegetables like strawberry, zucchini, cherry tomatoes, and even root vegetables like radish, turnip, beetroot, ginger, garlic, onions, and more.
7. Is there a recommended mix of plants to be grown in the different tiers of Altifarm?
Most plants with shallow/ fibrous roots can be easily grown in all tiers of your Altifarm. If you desire to grow a mix of herbs and vegetables, you may grow the herbs, leafy vegetables, and microgreens for the top tiers, and save the lowest tier for root vegetables.
8. How much quantity can I grow with Altifarm?
Produce cannot be quantified as it is subjected to the type, care, weather conditions, etc. However, with a grow area of over 1m2, Altifarm has space to grow dozens of plants at once. We usually have more than 50 plants on ours.
9. Can the same soil be re-used after the first harvest?
Yes, you may reuse the same soil after harvest, but remember to fortify it with a nutrient mix or fertilizers to that soil before planting new seeds.
10. How much weight can the frame withstand? What happens if the frame is exposed to moisture and water?
Altifarm’s sturdy steel frame powder-coated and corrosion treated with automotive standards for long life and durability . We have tested it for up to twice the maximum loaded weight of soil and water.
11. I’m going to use it outdoors, will the colors fade?
All the tiers are made in durable HDPE thermoplastic and UV-treated for sunlight protection. However, we have learned that after extensive use over the years, they tend to gradually fade in color without any loss in strength. We recommend choosing white color if you have excessive sunlight in your region and if color fading is a concern.
12. How often do I have to water the plants?
The watering spout has a level indicator, which lets you know when reservoir is low. This varies from plant to plant, also depends on weather, humidity, growing medium and other variables. While testing outdoors in good sunlight near 35 °C, we typically get a 7-10 day watering cycle and get 10-12 days cycle while testing indoors. It is advisable to have a dry spell of 1-2 days between watering.
13. What if I pour more water than required or use it in the rain?
All tiers have built in overflow spout through which the excess water is drained to the next lower one. The lower most tier is elevated from the floor by a few inches making it easy to mop or vacuum, in case of excess water drip.
14. Does Altifarm provide gardening assistance ?
Yes, we provide tips and advice via our blog and through our influencer friends.
15. Can I keep the grow lights on 24/7?
Like us, plants too need sleep. It is advisable to follow the pattern of natural light and keep it on for 12-16 hours everyday of the week. You may use an inexpensive mechanical timer to automate this.
16. Why no apps?
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Twenty-two years after the events in Breaking Dawn, Bella's halfsister Marina Dwyer is forced to come to Forks to live with Esme and Carlisle, due to their mothers illness resulting in her indefinite hospitalization. Jasper, after several years abroad with Alice, has also recently returned home to mourn the death of Alice, who died under mysterious circumstances in France. And that is the beginning of an enduring fascination.
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banner by bestlies@TDC Photobucket Jaclyn Uley is afraid of nothing. How can you be when you've been surrounded by overprotective werewolves your whole life? The same is true when confronted with a red-eyed vampire. Reynard is intrigued. Intrigued and persistent. Why shouldn't he be? He has all the time in the world. Literally. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9597110152244568}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '14371', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:EP2PM5XTH6JYIOT662UDMUQZ77UL2VC3', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:02326a2e-f4e8-4d9a-ac66-91090bf9bfc6>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 13, 10, 1, 28), 'WARC-IP-Address': '72.251.218.88', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:2BTGHWQV5KRPBS26T7DHOCB3RLUIUVHG', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:bb6b9d2f-0439-4ed8-bbf2-6151a1149e49>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.twilightarchives.com/browse/authors/15158', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:b5495b7d-bacb-4488-9982-d9a2f566fdde>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '212', 'url': 'http://www.twilightarchives.com/browse/authors/15158', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2013-48\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for Winter 2013\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.05192244052886963', 'original_id': '6e1e7c9a9f02fc5c372cc80a23901e877a1efbf2156ad2617dd9aed65da10ea7'} |
15 Kinds Of Apple Cider Vinegar Magic!
Apple cider vinegar is totally miraculous! While I have heard claims that apple cider vinegar can do everything from help manage diabetes to help cure cancer, I thought I would focus this list of the basics that I have tried and can stand behind personally and that you can use today! Here are some great cider vinegar ideas for your body, beauty, pets and plants!
15 Uses For Apple Cider Vinegar
1. detox bath: a cup or two of vinegar in a warm to hot bath is a fabulous detox.
2. allergy relief: 2 tablespoons of honey and 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar in a cup of water can help with allergies.
3. diuretic: drinking a spoonfull of apple cider vinegar in a cup of water can help with bloating, as it is a natural, gentle diuretic.
4. acne treatment: 1 part apple cider vingear and 4 parts water in a solution dabbed on acne can help to treat your skin.
5. dandruff treatment: straight apple cider vinegar (or a 1/2 vinegar/ 1/2 water solution) poured on your scalp and massaged in for a few minutes can help with dandruf and other irritated scalp conditions.
6. hair shine treatment: get rid of product buildup on hair with a 1 part cider vinegar and 10 part water solution mixed and poured onto hair after your shampoo. rince well and condition your ends!
7. doggie hotspots and itching: you can soak red paws in a vinegar water bath and let the vinegar dry on them to reduce itching, vungus and inflammation. you can also mix up a half-half cider vinegar water solution in a spray bottle to treat hotspots. cut the cair carefully on and around the hotspot and then spray it on and re-apply often. (you should have a cone to keep your dog from re-opening these spots)
8. pet water supplement: a spoon of cider vinegar in your dog or cat’s water or food can create a healthier digestive system and acts as a natural anti-fungal. experiment to see if they like it in their water or food better!
9. weed killer: straight cider vinegar on weeds in the garden can help keep them at bay.
10. flowers last longer: fresh flowers can last longer with two teaspoons of cider vinegar and 2 teaspoons of sugar in the vase of water.
11. fruit fly trap: a bit of cider vinegar poured in a cup filled with vegetable oil can dramatically reduce fruit flier in your kitchen if you have an eruption of them in the summer. it acts like a natural magnet and the flies get trapped in the oil.
12. salad dressing: a tablespoon of cider vinegar, about 1/4 cup olive oil and some fresh garlic and herbs crushed is just about the healthiest salad dressing you can use!
13. heartburn treatment: drinking a spoonful of apple cider vinegar in water can help with heartburn.
14. bug bite help: a little straight or partially water-diluted vinegar can take the itch out of bug bites.
15. weight loss: both the above salad dressing and a spoon of vinegar in a cup of water before meals can help with weight loss and help your body start craving healthier foods
Pretty awesome, no?! If you have more to add to the list, please, please, plesase add them below! xoxo Dana
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#!/bin/bash
# Script examples
# https://github.com/Murodese/pynab/blob/master/monitor.sh
# http://www.leehodgkinson.com/blog/quickly-setup-multiple-pane-and-multiple-window-sessions-in-your-terminal/
SESSION=$USER
# -2: forces 256 colors,
byobu-tmux -2 new-session -d -s $SESSION
# dev window
byobu-tmux rename-window -t $SESSION:0 'Dev'
byobu-tmux splitw -v
byobu-tmux splitw -v
# byobu-tmux splitw -v
# Select 1st pane cd and venv
byobu-tmux select-pane -t 0
byobu-tmux send-keys "cd ." C-m
byobu-tmux send-keys "npm run start" C-m
#byobu-tmux send-keys "clear" C-m
#
# # Same with 2nd pane
# byobu-tmux select-pane -t 1
# byobu-tmux rename-window -t 0 gulp
# byobu-tmux send-keys "cd ." C-m
# byobu-tmux send-keys "gulp watch" C-m
# Same with 4nd pane
byobu-tmux select-pane -t 2
byobu-tmux send-keys "npm run test:watch" C-m
byobu-tmux select-pane -t 3
byobu-tmux send-keys "cd database/" C-m
byobu-tmux send-keys "sudo ./RUN.sh" C-m
# Set default window as the dev split plane
byobu-tmux select-window -t $SESSION:0
# Attach to the session you just created
# (flip between windows with alt -left and right)
byobu-tmux -2 attach-session -t $SESSION
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Android.App;
using Android.Content;
using Android.OS;
using Android.Runtime;
using Android.Views;
using Android.Widget;
using Xamarin.Forms;
using Xamarin.Forms.ControlGallery.Android;
using Xamarin.Forms.Controls.Issues;
using Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android;
using AView = Android.Views.View;
[assembly: ExportRenderer(typeof(Bugzilla38989._38989CustomViewCell), typeof(_38989CustomViewCellRenderer))]
namespace Xamarin.Forms.ControlGallery.Android
{
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{
protected override AView GetCellCore(Cell item, AView convertView, ViewGroup parent, Context context)
{
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Friday, October 31, 2008
Emotional Structure: the lecture handouts.
What? You didn't think I'd share? Ta-dah! (warning, some of this is stuff you've seen, as I worked through the ideas.)
5/26/2015 Update: Over the years I've noticed a lot of page views for this post, and while most of it didn't change, some did. I first wrote this post back in '08 and that's a long time ago. If you're interested in ES, check out some of the more recent posts and if you're interested in the whole "too much plot" thing, I did a series on it. Thanks for stopping by.
A Place on the Keeper Shelf
Structuring your Novel for Emotional Resonance
What separates regular books from books that stay on the keeper shelf?
Keeper books are based on strong, simple story lines that have well developed characters and plots that grow out of who the character is at the time the story starts, and who the character is when the story ends. The characters feel real, with emotional lives, and the action has meaning.
What is emotional structure?
Emotional structure is the creation of a transformational character arc in which the writer knows where the high and low points are, and through the use of pov depth, subtext and cinematic storytelling, puts emphasis on the emotional journey.
Barriers to Emotional Structure
Overly complicated, convoluted plot.
Characters feel interchangeable and race from event to event without reason. Gratuitous scenes and gimmicks.
Following trends.
Writing in the latest “hot” field without an emotional connection on your part. Writing a type of hero or heroine you can’t identify with.
Too much backstory.
If it’s not important, take it out. If you spend more time describing a food item than the time it takes your character to eat it, or create a nail by nail description of his house, it creates an emotional black hole. Words go in, nothing comes out.
Lack of a proper skill-set.
If you are serious about publication, you must be serious about craft. Basic grammar, writing techniques, and the conventions of your chosen genre are important. When was the last time you read and understood a craft of writing book? Mistaking writing-inspiration books for craft of writing books. When you walk away with a "I can do it" attitude, it's an inspirational book. When you walk away with a "I know how" attitude, it's a craft book.
Not reading in your field. Read. It’s important.
Failure to know yourself.
A writer writes from his truth. We all have “hot” buttons and secrets, things about ourselves we wish didn’t exist. Writing is public vivisection. You lay it on the line. You can’t connect with your reader if they can’t connect with you.
How do we start?
First, define your major characters. We are all products of our environment. Where you grew up, what your socio-economic status was, how your parents treated you, if you had brothers or sisters. A character lives in context. All characters have an ethnic, religious, social and educational background which influences how they dress, talk, think and react.
You don’t have to fill out a character sheet, but you do have to think them through. A character with one set of characteristics will logically have another set that ties into the first. Caring about the character is not the same as liking them. Characters don’t have to be likeable. We can dislike a character and yet still be drawn into their emotional world, what they’re doing and why.
Plot—what plot?
Goal is everything. What happens to your person? Do they go from being angry and shut off to open and caring? Do they start off full of angst and find themselves? Writers should create a plot tailored to who their character is on the external level, that challenges who they are on the internal level.
The under layer, the emotional structure is the deeper elements of the story. In a correctly structured story with two layers, external motivation/plot/visible goals and emotional understructure/transformational character arc each external plot point must happen at the right time for the corresponding emotions to be revealed.
Ie. The heroine gets captured by the bad guys so the hero can reveal, not just in words and internal dialogue, but in actions and visuals, how knowing and loving her has transformed him from a guy who can’t connect, into a man who cares—at least for this one woman. When a character responds to dramatic events intensely, even if he represses or sublimates his response in misplaced anger or visually shutting down even more, the reader can see what’s at stake for him.
Emotion intensifies the drama, raises the stakes and confirms psychological growth. The characters emotional response to conflict tells us who the character is more than “who” they are and how they act. Conflict pulls out who the character is becoming and also reveals the emotional connection of the characters to their actions.
Things they do in a story have to be powered by emotional logic, or it feels forced (this is where I make my character do this) rather than something not only would that person choose to do, but that person has to do. When you’re creating a story, you need to know why your characters are doing what they do. It doesn’t need to be spelled out for the reader, but you, the writer, need to know. Emotion progresses through the plot in relation to external goals and conflict and it gets more intense as the climax approaches. By the end, the character has changed enough to be the person he has to be in order to have an emotionally satisfying ending.
Disappearing words (subtext)
Subtext are disappearing words that for all practical purposes are still there. Subtext is sometimes called showing, not telling. When you show a character doing something, or dressed a certain way, or interacting with others in context, you create expectations.
A man dressed in a business suit, on a commuter train is probably a businessman. As in character building, that implies a whole set of skills, traits and knowledge, you “show” by simply letting us see a businessman on a train. By going deeper into subtext and setting expectations, you create the beginning of a thought string--maybe the man is wearing a brown suit, and his hair is stuck a few decades behind, he’s got a brown bag lunch, you think, well, maybe he’s not well off, lower level at whatever he does, can’t change. Add a beaten down attitude, and you’ve got the guy in Falling Down, or the company doormat. An expensive new suit, in a fancy color with a loud tie and expensive cologne shows a man with confidence—maybe too much confidence, maybe he’s a college grad with a brand new job making lots of money. From his grin, you know he’ll talk fast, swing his shoulders and hang out with friends after work while the other guy goes home. Subtext. Cinematic storytelling.
Subtext is also used for emotional reactions when you don’t want to go into internal dialogue. If the first man loses his job and stands there while the color drains out of his face, you don’t have to tell your reader he’s in shock and has no idea what to do next. If the second man is in the same office and grins at the news, you don’t have to tell your reader something is going on and there’s bad blood between these two men.
You’ve shown it. Through subtext.
POV depth
POV is Point of view. The camera through which you view your scene to put proper emphasis on an emotional plot point. The actual tool for fictionally showing the emotional journey would be blocks of deep pov showing plot points, broken by transitions that move the story forward and connect the emotional highs and low.
Let’s put it all together
The top layer in an emotionally structured story would be plot. The actual--what drives this story? Maybe John goes to college to improve himself, falls for a woman and drops out of school. The emotional structure would be--John feels inadequate despite his good job, people tell him he's wasted his life and college is the way to earn respect, he has some internal issues, so he goes to school. He meets a woman who accepts him for himself.
He realizes the problem has always been in himself and once he starts respecting himself it doesn't matter "what" he does. He drops out of school, marries the woman and they live happily ever after.
John walked up the stairs to the student center.
...the stairs went up. The door at the top was closed. Maybe it was locked. With any luck it'd be locked, and he could just walk himself back to the car and away from here.
By going into John's emotional state from a "behind the eyes" viewpoint, it's the "experience" of going up the stairs. John's experience. Everything is closer. More immediate.
John walking up the stairs is perfectly adequate. It tells you what John is doing. But, it gives no clue to how John feels, what his emotional state is, or why we should care.
The trick is knowing when to use a more immediate, deep pov for structure. Some things don't have to be shown because they aren't important. John getting out of the car, walking up the hill to the student center. That's just extra information. What's important is John going through those doors. It's the first step on his journey. It's a major part of A) plot and B) the emotional structure. So beneath A and B at that point in the double structure, there would be a block of "deep pov" to slow the story down, and place the emphasis where it belongs--on what John feels as he walks through those doors. As the plot progresses, and the emotional story grows--say, John feels inadequate compared to all these kids and it's hurting his self-esteem. Outwardly in the plot, he's cold and distant and not the kind of person you'd "want" to know, because in the second layer--in his EJ, he's hurting and confused. He thought this would be the right thing to do. Transitions are needed because time has to pass--things have to happen to propel the plot to the next point.
They can be as short as a sentence, or as long as a paragraph, or a short series of little incidents--a collage. A series of snapshots. John walking into a class of eighteen year olds, and they all turn to look at him. John fumbling at the mouse. Getting something to eat, and the person in front of him thinks he's the parent of the girl behind him. Stuff like that. A quick collage which ends in deep pov where he's sitting on a bench--by himself, wondering why the hell he's putting himself through this, and feeling like a total failure.
In the plot, this is where he meets Anne. The minute she starts talking to him--the pov gets deeper, because to place a proper emphasis on the event, which is big in John's emotional journey, you have to almost stop.
John sat and talked to Anne.
Her mouth curved, just the tiniest bit at the side. She dropped her bag and sat, right there next to him on the bench. Her thigh pressed up against his. It was a small bench.
"I'm crowding you," she said.
He almost didn't answer, his mouth refused to move. "It's a small bench." God, had he just said that? Way to sound like an idiot.
The elapsed time goes from a sentence to...probably about ten pages or so. And as they part, goes to a slightly less deep pov so the emphasis remains on the event.
She stood and walked away. "Bye," she said, over her shoulder.
The backpack fell over. John grabbed it and stood, holding it out for her to grab.
"Thanks," she said. She hesitated. "I have to go."
He released the strap. She slung the bag over her shoulder and started away. Her head tipped like she was listening to something, and she glanced back at him, over her shoulder.
"Bye," she said.
And kept going.
...yeah, it was a little more on-top, not as deep. Not quite a transition from point A to B. It relied more on subtext which spring-boarded off the earlier in the scene, deeper pov--where you get to see Anne and John talk.
Subtext is what we use to ease out of the deeper pov structure.
POV-DEEPER POV-POV>>>transition
It's like a thought string. A thought string is thought that in turn retrieves other thoughts. Like a reader who just has to look at an author's name to know every plot and character in an eighteen book arc.
When Anne first sits on that bench, and I drop John into deeper pov, a lot of info comes out. He's interested. She touched him, she's interested. They talk and discover they have common interests. It's not just a hello-good-bye type talk. They actually connect. So when I pull back into a slightly more shallow pov and she turns with a smile, but doesn't say anything except "bye"--your reader knows--even though it's not written, they will see each other again.
Unhinged said...
I read this last night and when I got to the part about Barriers to Emotional Structure, my forehead kissed the keyboard. This was me all over last year. And the year before that, too.
This year, I have no emotional structures and barriers. I'm totally throwing myself out there with no plans or structure. This is how I did it when I was young and dumb.
Um, dumbER.
Of course, I'll be back to pour over the points shared here when it's time to try and make sense out of what I've (hopefully) written. Til then? I'm screaming and flying like Tarzan Boy.
Unhinged said...
Kaige said...
Hope you knock their socks off!
Thanks for sharing, will digest this later, today's family day and we're dropping the kids off for a much deserved Parent's Night Out!
jodi said...
go and fly, Andi and have lots of fun. I promise not to puncture anyone's balloon your honor.
lol, Kaige, thanks for the thread over on Divas.
Thanks for the luck--gotta run and put makeup on. It takes awhile, I normally don't do it.
Kaige said...
Anytime. *tips imaginary hat*
aliceaudrey said...
I'm going to have to come back and read this when I'm not trying to do a dozen other things.
Hailey Edwards said...
You know, I still struggle with this. I think being whacked hard enough with the "show don't tell" stick led to my current style, which is deep POV and possibly too descriptive at times.
I read stream line, clean writing and want to do that. At the same time, the descriptions in my writing are the things I'm most complimented on.
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What’s A Snacks Online? Definition, Kinds, and Examples
What’s A Snacks Online? Definition, Kinds, and Examples
a dinners web is a detailed interconnecting diagram that displays all round meals affairs between organisms in a certain ecosystem. It could be called a “whom consumes who” drawing that displays the intricate eating interactions for some ecosystem.
The study of edibles webs is important, therefore webs can display just how energy streams through an environment. It can also help us know how toxins and toxins being targeted within a specific ecosystem. For example mercury bioaccumulation inside the Florida Everglades and mercury build-up within the San Francisco Bay. Edibles webs will also help all of us learn and clarify how assortment of species is related to the way they fit in the total edibles active. They might also unveil important information about the connections between intrusive varieties and those indigenous to some ecosystem.
Key Takeaways: Understanding A Dinners Web?
• a products online can be described as a “who takes who” drawing that presents the intricate giving relationships in an ecosystem.
• The idea of a dinners internet is actually paid to Charles Elton, exactly who launched they in the 1927 guide, pet Ecology.
• The interconnectedness of exactly how bacteria are involved in strength move within an environment is paramount to knowledge ingredients webs and exactly how they apply to real-world technology.
• The rise in toxic drugs, like man-made chronic organic toxins (POPs), may have a serious influence on kinds within an environment.
• By evaluating meals webs, researchers can learn and forecast just how compounds move through the environment to aid prevent the bioaccumulation and biomagnification of harmful chemicals.
Meals Online Classification
The thought of an ingredients internet, earlier named an items routine, is typically credited to Charles Elton, which initial released they in the guide Animal environment, printed in 1927. He could be thought about one of the founders of modern environment and his book was a seminal work. He also introduced additional crucial ecological principles like niche and succession within this book.
In a meals online, bacteria include organized according to her trophic level. The trophic degree for a system refers to how it fits around the overall foods internet and it is depending on how an organism feeds. Generally speaking, there are two major designations: autotrophs and heterotrophs. Autotrophs make own ingredients while heterotrophs don’t. From this wide designation, discover five major trophic levels: major producers, main consumers, second customers, tertiary people, and top predators. www.datingmentor.org/escort/boulder/ A food internet reveals all of us how these different trophic level within various dinners stores interconnect with one another as well as the stream of stamina through trophic amount within an ecosystem.
Trophic Degrees in A Foods Online
Biggest manufacturers make own ingredients via photosynthesis. Photosynthesis utilizes the sun’s energy which will make edibles by changing the light strength into chemical energy. Priples are flowers and alga. These organisms will also be named autotrophs.
Main individuals are those creatures that take in the primary producers. These are typically known as main since they are the very first organisms for eating the main manufacturers exactly who make very own foods. These creatures are also referred to as herbivores. Examples of animals in this designation were rabbits, beavers, elephants, and moose.
Second consumers contain organisms that eat major buyers. Simply because they take in the creatures that eat the vegetation, these pets tend to be carnivorous or omnivorous. Carnivores take in pets while omnivores digest both other creatures along with plants. Bears include a good example of a secondary buyers.
Much like secondary consumers, tertiary customers can be carnivorous or omnivorous. The difference becoming that supplementary buyers devour different carnivores. An illustration is actually an eagle.
Finally, the last stage comprises apex predators. Apex predators have reached the most notable as they do not bring organic predators. Lions tend to be a good example.
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A new indication for buccal mucosal graft: isolated congenital fistula of the penile urethra.
Isolated congenital urethrocutaneous fistula is uncommon, and its repair has been associated with high incidence of recurrence. However, the use of buccal mucosal graft offers a satisfactory closure after previous failures. We report a new case in whom we adopted the buccal mucosal urethral replacement to treat the recurrence. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '59f96dacfdcefb3180163f91a84894fab393d2b5b76afd37a77a646030b5e81d'} |
ABA Therapy
What Does an Applied Behavior Analyst Do?
• Your behavior analyst will observe your child's behavior in a variety of environments, to develop an accurate picture of his current learning strengths and needs.
• Your behavior analyst will select procedures to address your child's various learning goals, and then design experiments to determine the effects of these procedures on your child's behaviors.
What is an Applied Behavior Analysis Program?
The people include: a behavior analyst, tutors, you and other significant family members, and usually your school staff. The behavior anlalyst will also periodically evaluate results and adjust the program as your child learns.
Applied Behavior Analysis practice applies equally well to the school environment. This is where a trained aide, who is part of the home program, is an essential part of the program. This is also the part that often confuses parents and distresses schools - unfortunate; because if done right, the benefits to all are tremendous (a good aide makes the teacher's job much easier).
One of the most common mistakes parents and schools make is to place a child in school without coordinated support from an Applied Behavior Analysis trained aide, on the theory that "he needs to be around kids to learn social skills." Again, if your child could learn like that, he wouldn't have Autism.
What Kind of Progress Can Be Expected with ABA?
How much a child can learn is something no one can really predict. Recent experience suggests that the child's progress in the first few months - a measure of his ability to learn - is related to long-term success. Progress also depends on how many hours the program is being done.
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Pick 6: DB Mike Stevens
Welcome to Pick 6, a half-dozen questions with a member of the Los Angeles Wildcats.
Mike Stevens
• Position: Cornerback
• Height/Weight: 5-foot-11, 185 pounds
• Age: 24
• School: NC State
• Hometown: Charlotte
• Social Media: Instagram
1. 2020 will bring me ...
Opportunity. Taking advantage of opportunity.
2. What does "The Wildcat Way" mean to you?
Man, (The) Wildcat Way means aggressive, hitting, flying to the ball. Swagger. That's all I know, that's how I play.
3. Who's your favorite football player(s) ever?
It's between Darrelle Revis and Devin Hester. I like Revis because he was a lock-down corner but Devin Hester was just a playmaker.
4. What is your favorite food ever?
I'm going to the crib. I'm getting my momma's cooking, every time. First day, when I get home, I'm going to have to get those pork chops. Macaroni. Collard greens. Mashed potatoes. Yams.
5. Word Association: California
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Just Didn't Get It
Here's a story about one of the Super Bowl XXV heroes who now has to spend extended time in jail because he skipped out to watch his Heisman Trophy-winning son play in person.
It's sad, not because Mark Ingram, Sr., is being made to pay for his crimes, but because he just never quite got that being a former NFL star doesn't excuse one from the law. Now, he may well never see his son play pro ball, save for a few glimpses on the cellblock TV.
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1. After the Tyree catch, his is one of the most memorable for me. It's a shame what he did to himself. :( | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9909107089042664}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '69548', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:2LS5U6XZWZ5XUKOUG5PIU6RGEWUUIRSZ', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:ad32cedc-b94b-4c16-9b7c-95e7d813e30b>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 8, 22, 23, 34, 16), 'WARC-IP-Address': '74.125.228.203', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ETZNJRS6MLRS3LSZFSVBMHNBVOZBQZLU', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:ef93ddf7-dd7a-4ffb-8eba-2992bdd02ddb>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://erniepalladinosgiantsbeat.blogspot.com/2010/03/just-didnt-get-it.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:de3f26ee-bf08-41f9-bc08-68a9f6db8153>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '121', 'url': 'http://erniepalladinosgiantsbeat.blogspot.com/2010/03/just-didnt-get-it.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-35\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for August 2014\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.040686964988708496', 'original_id': '8df125900ef32eef8b67dbdfa590026d43b1cf0f5a5b1811f01e4e5f1bec2ef1'} |
553 F.2d 92
Palezv.Bernes Mortgage Bankers, Inc.
No. 76-1008
United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit
2/8/77
1
D.P.R.
AFFIRMED.
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Tag Archives: Stupid Stunts
Saxophonist Falls To His Death
From the Local:
A Swedish musician fell 20 metres to his death during a performance at a Leipzig street festival over the weekend.
The man, Finn Martin, was supposed to use a rope to help him vertically slide down the façade of a building while playing a saxophone before dozens of cheering fans late Friday evening.
But during the attempt, the harness apparently broke and Martin plunged to his death before the shocked audience.
“He was a world-class artists, one of the top-ten saxophone players in the world, but almost unknown in Sweden,” Martin’s cousin Peter Martin, told the Aftonbladet newspaper.
That totally sucks. Never, ever do anything like this people. Ever. And Peter Martin……never heard of your cousin. He is not in the top-ten list….except maybe for a Darwin Award. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9645148515701294}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '43488', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:REJMXPV3ZYW74WC4TB2R34MBGYW4CT3F', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:28d112c0-d278-46e3-a59a-cb5e3711010c>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 3, 4, 21, 34, 28), 'WARC-IP-Address': '99.65.78.105', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:QX3RUCBFDUEMHHQETZKK3PI2ZOO2NBU2', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:68005ace-fefc-4ff5-b2dc-fff3cce66614>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.jazz-sax.com/tag/stupid-stunts/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:da3f9578-c027-41a1-b2fc-4d3851865fa3>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '139', 'url': 'https://www.jazz-sax.com/tag/stupid-stunts/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-10\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for February/March 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-119.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.025647759437561035', 'original_id': 'c252c66944d92499287dc97b3467a92d8fc2ed22927b56a0d9afd746ed48cf0b'} |
The present invention relates to an X-ray CT (Computed Tomography) apparatus and an X-ray tube, and particularly to an X-ray CT apparatus which uses multiple X-rays of different energy levels and to an X-ray tube which is suitable for this X-ray CT apparatus.
An X-ray CT apparatus performs the qualitative tomographic imaging of particular substances by using multiple X-rays of different energy levels. Separation of X-ray energy is based on the use of a multi-layer X-ray detector having inter-layer filters, and X-ray detection signals of different energy levels are obtained from individual layers (refer to patent publication 1 for example).
[Patent publication 1] Japanese Patent Unexamined Publication No. Hei 6(1994)-277208 (FIGS. 1 and 2 on pages 3 and 4)
The above-mentioned X-ray CT apparatus needs a special detector having filters, i.e., multi-layer X-ray detector, and the filters which are interposed between layers need to be large in area enough to cover the whole sensing surface of the X-ray detector. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'bed629a1b89def02b895c76c014d6cf97a3f7d2e9847585c5308b8373d342c2b'} |
Q:
tfs 2010 database bug location
I am looking at a sql server database for a tfs 2010 install and I am trying to find bugs/files logged by date.
Is this information contained in the database?
I see other information such as a view named WorkItemChanges which shows all the stories that have been changed by date.
A:
* Directly querying the collection database is unsupported *
The Tfs{YourProjectCollection} database contains all work items for a specific project collection. They live in the different Work Item tables, since a bug is a specific type of work item.
If your TFS environment is configured for reporting using Report Server, then you can use the Analysis cube or the TFSWarehouse databases to query this kind of information. For work items, a limited set of fields is stored and the same goes for files in source control. You should at least be able to find out which have changed. The following doc describes the warehouse structure: Creating, Customizing and Managing reports for Visual Studio ALM. A quick way to get started is from the Excel Powerpivot reports which are installed to your team project by default if your TFS instance is connected to a Sharepoint server with teh appropriate features enabled.
* You have a number of alternatives *
I suppose that your Visual Studio is currently working, if that's the case then there is no need to use a SQL query to get to the information you're after.
To query all bugs (or other work item types) that have changed between two dates, create a work item query (in Visual Studio) that looks like this:
You can import these into Excel for easy manipulation or further aggregation. And you can even quickly create a Report from that. More information can be found in the Bulk Add or Modify work items in Excel.
To query all files changed between a specific date range, is a little harder. You can quickly get all changesets between two dates using the commandline using tf history $/Project /collection:yourprojectcollectionUri /recursive /version"D2012-10-10~D2013-10-10" this will popup window with all changesets between these dates. You can specify /noprompt /format:detailed to dump all details to the command prompt window.
Alternatively, you can do a folder diff between two dates. This can be done from the UI in the Source Control Explorer. Or from the commandline using tf diff or tf folderdiff
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I'm having some trouble solving this thing.
You're given an unlimited number of "black boxes" which will return the maximum or the minimum between 2 inputs.
The goal is to compare/sort 4 numbers using those boxes. It is pretty easy to find the smallest and the largest, but I can't seem to figure out how to identify the 2 middle numbers. Any tips?
• $\begingroup$ What does it mean that the "black boxes" can get you the maximum or the minimum? Do you put two inputs into a box, and the box decides whether it gives you max or min? And does the box tell you whether it is giving you max, or the min? $\endgroup$ – Gamow Apr 9 '16 at 17:23
• $\begingroup$ These are 2 types of boxes to use, both of them are "fed" with 2 inputs (numbers), one of them outputs the minimum between the 2 inputs and the other gets you the maximum between the 2 inputs. you may use as many "black boxes" as you need $\endgroup$ – user3921 Apr 9 '16 at 17:25
• 2
$\begingroup$ You aren't trying to optimize the number of boxes, so any sorting network will work (each switch is just composed of one min box and one max box). $\endgroup$ – Erick Wong Apr 9 '16 at 17:29
• $\begingroup$ This sounds a lot like an algorithms homework assignment. $\endgroup$ – Ian MacDonald Apr 11 '16 at 16:06
E = MAX(A, B)
F = MAX(C, D)
G = MIN(E, F)
H = MIN(A, B)
I = MIN(C, D)
J = MAX(H, I)
Now G and J are the middle ones.
K = MAX(G, J)
L = MIN(G, J)
K is second, L is third.
Use three boxes to find the minimum element of the four.
Use two boxes to find the minimum element of the remaining three.
Use one box to find the minimum element of the remaining two.
• $\begingroup$ I think there's no operation available to define "the remaining n". The results of the boxes are only ever values, not "which value". $\endgroup$ – KeyboardWielder Apr 10 '16 at 15:27
Algorithms, which limit themselves by this are called Sorting networks. You can read the wiki to learn more. Solution to your problem would be to compare and find max&min in the following pairs:
1-2, 3-4, 1-3, 2-4, 2-3
Your Answer
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import os
import sys
import pytest
import asyncio
sys.path.insert(0,os.getcwd())
# from LSparser.command import CommandCore,OPT,Option,CommandHelper,OptType
from LSparser import Events,Command,CommandCore,CommandParser,OPT,ParseResult
def teardown_function():
#每个测试函数后执行
CommandCore.cores.pop("main")
CommandCore.last=None
async def parse_main():
with CommandCore("main") as core:
cp=CommandParser()
c=Command("single")
c.opt("-s1",OPT.Try).opt("-s2",OPT.Must).opt("--s3",OPT.Must)
@Events.onCmd("single")
async def _(pr:ParseResult):
assert not pr.dataArgs
assert pr.dataKW["X"]==5 and pr.dataKW["Y"]==3
await cp.asyncTryParse(".single only one -s1 + -s2 + --s3 - - + ",X=5,Y=3)
inOrder=[]
outOrder=[]
@Events.onCmd("task1")
@Events.onCmd("task2")
@Events.onCmd("task3")
async def _(pr:ParseResult):
inOrder.append(pr.command)
await asyncio.sleep(int(pr.command[-1])/100)
outOrder.append(pr.command)
Command("task1")
Command("task2")
Command("task3")
await asyncio.gather(
cp.asyncTryParse(".task2"),
cp.asyncTryParse(".task1"),
cp.asyncTryParse(".task3")
)
assert inOrder==["task2","task1","task3"]
assert outOrder==["task1","task2","task3"]
sleepTick=0
@Events.onCmd("taskM")
@Events.onCmd("taskM")
@Events.onCmd("taskM")
@Events.onCmd("taskM")
@Events.onCmd("taskM")
@Events.onCmd("taskM")
async def _(pr:ParseResult):
nonlocal sleepTick
local=sleepTick
sleepTick+=1
await asyncio.sleep(sleepTick/20)
assert len(pr.output)==local
return len(pr.output)
Command("taskM")
pr=await cp.asyncTryParse(".taskM")
assert len(pr.output)==sleepTick==6
assert pr.output==[0,1,2,3,4,5]
actual=[]
Command("mix")
@Events.onCmd("mix")
async def ac(pr:ParseResult):
actual.append("a")
return "a"
@Events.onCmd("mix")
def sc(pr:ParseResult):
actual.append("s")
return "s"
Events.onCmd("mix")(ac)
Events.onCmd("mix")(ac)
Events.onCmd("mix")(sc)
pr=await cp.asyncTryParse(".mix")
assert actual==["a","a","a","s","s"]
assert pr.output==["a","s","a","a","s"]
Command("error")
@Events.onCmd("error")
async def _(pr:ParseResult):
pr.notAttribute
@Events.onCmd.error("error")
async def aErr(pr:ParseResult, err:Exception):
assert isinstance(err,AttributeError)
assert not pr.output
return "solved"
@Events.onCmd.error("error")
def sErr(pr:ParseResult, err:Exception):
assert isinstance(err,AttributeError)
assert len(pr.output)==1
return "solved"
Events.onCmd.error("error")(aErr) #异步先执行，结果开始传入outpu时已执行结束，故output长都是0
@Events.onExecuteError
async def _(pr:ParseResult, cp:CommandParser, err:Exception):
assert not pr.output
while not pr.output:
await asyncio.sleep(0)
assert pr.output
await cp.asyncTryParse("!error")
def test_parse():
asyncio.run(parse_main())
def test_sync():
with CommandCore("main") as core:
cp=CommandParser()
actual=[]
Command("mix")
@Events.onCmd("mix")
async def ac(pr:ParseResult):
actual.append("a")
return "a"
@Events.onCmd("mix")
def sc(pr:ParseResult):
actual.append("s")
return "s"
Events.onCmd("mix")(ac)
Events.onCmd("mix")(ac)
Events.onCmd("mix")(sc)
pr=cp.tryParse(".mix")
assert actual==["a","a","a","s","s"]
assert pr.output==["a","s","a","a","s"]
async def execute_main():
with CommandCore("main"):
cp=CommandParser()
Command("cmd").opt("-s",OPT.M).opt("-t",OPT.T).opt("-f",OPT.N)
@Events.onCmd("cmd")
async def cmdExecute(pr:ParseResult):
assert pr["s"]
assert pr["t"]
if pr.data.get("exe"):
return "from execute"
return "from parse"
pr=await cp.asyncTryParse(".cmd -s mile -t ea QwQ QwQ")
assert pr["t"]=="ea"
assert pr.paramStr=="QwQ QwQ"
assert pr.output==["from parse"]
assert not pr["f"]
assert isinstance(pr.raw,str)
pr=ParseResult.fromCmd(cp,"cmd",params=["QAQ","QAQ"],args={"s":"our","t":True,"f":True},
type="!",raw=None)
pr.data["exe"]=True
pr=await pr.asyncExecute()
assert pr["t"]==True
assert pr.paramStr=="QAQ QAQ"
assert pr.output==["from execute"]
assert pr["f"]
def test_execute():
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Sermon 17. Of the Kingly Office of Christ, as it is providentially executed in the World, for the Redeemed.
Eph. 1: 22.
And has put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head, over all things to the church.
The foregoing verses are spent in a thankful and humble adoration of the grace of God, in bringing the Ephesians to believe in Christ. This effect of that power that raised their hearts to believe in Christ, is here compared with that other glorious effect of it, even the raising of Christ himself from the dead: both these owe themselves to the same efficient cause. It raised Christ from a low estate, even from the dead, to a high, a very high and glorious state; to be the head both of the world, and of the church; the head of the world by way of dominion, the head of the church by way of union, and special influence, ruling the world for the good of his people in it. “He gave him is be the head over all things to the church.”
In this scripture let these four things be seriously regarded.
1. The dignity and authority committed to Christ; “He has put all things under his feet;” which implies, full, ample and absolute dominion in him, and subjection in them over whom he reigns. This power is delegated to him by the Father: for besides the essential, native, ingenite power and dominion over all, which he has as God, and is common to every person in the Godhead, Psal. 22: 28. there is a mediatory dispensed authority, which is proper to him as Mediator, which he receives as the reward or fruit of his suffering, Phil. 2: 8.
2. The subject recipient of this authority, which is Christ, and Christ primarily, and only: he is the ”proton dektikon”, first receptacle of all authority and power. Whatever authority any creature is clothed with, is but ministerial and derivative, whether it be political, or ecclesiastical. Christ is the only Lord, Jude, ver. 4. The fountain of all power.
3. The object of this authority, the whole creation; all things are put under his feet: he rules from sea to sea, even to the utmost bounds of God’s creation, “Thou hast given him power over all flesh,” John 17: 2. all creatures, rational, and irrational animate, and inanimate, angels, devils, men, winds, seas, all obey him.
4. And especially, take notice of the finis cui, the end for which he governs and rules the universal empire; it is for the church, i. e. for the advantage, comfort, and salvation of that chosen remnant he died for. He purchased the church; and that he might have the highest security that his blood should not be lost, God the Father has put all things into his hand, to order and dispose all as he pleaseth. For the furtherance of that his design and end, as he bought the persons of some, so the services of all the rest; and that they might effectually serve the end they are designed to, Christ will order them all in a blessed subordination and subserviency thereunto. Hence the point is,
Doct. That all the affairs of the kingdom of providence are
ordered and determined by Jesus Christ, for the special
advantage, and everlasting good of his redeemed people.
John 17: 2. “As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.” Hence it comes to pass, that “all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are called according to his purpose,” Rom. 8: 28.
That Jesus Christ has a providential influence upon all the affairs of this world is evident, both from scripture assertions, and rational observations, made upon the acting of things here below
The first chapter of Ezekiel contains an admirable scheme or draught of providence. There you see how all the wheels, i. e. the motions and revolutions here on earth, are guided by the spirit that is in them. And, ver. 26. it is all run up into the supreme cause; there you find one like the Son of man, which is Jesus Christ, sitting upon the throne, and giving forth orders from thence for the government of all: and if it were not so, how is it that there are such strong combinations, and predispositions of persons and things to such ends and issues, without any communications of councils, or holding of intelligence with one another? As in Israel’s deliverance out of Egypt, and innumerable more instances have appeared. Certainly, if ten men, from several places, should all meet at one place, and about one business, without any fore-appointment among themselves, it would argue their motions were secretly over-ruled by some invisible agent. How is it that such marvellous effects are produced in the world by causes that carry no proportion to them? Amos 5: 9 and 1 Cor. 1: 27 and as often, the most apt and likely means are rendered wholly ineffectual? Psal. 33: 16. In a word, if Christ has no such providential influx, how are his people in all ages preserved in the midst of so many millions of potent and malicious enemies, amongst whom they live as sheep in the midst of wolves? Luke 10: 3. How is it that the bush burns, and yet is not consumed Exod. 3: 2.
But my business, in this discourse, is not to prove that there is a Providence, which none but Atheists deny. I shall chose rather to show by what acts Jesus Christ administers this kingdom, and in what manner; and what use may be made thereof.
First, He rules and orders the kingdom of Providence, by supporting, permitting, restraining, limiting, protecting, punishing, and rewarding those over whom he reigns providentially.
1. He supports the world, and all creatures in it, by his power. “My Father works hitherto, and I work,” John 5: 17. “And in him (that is, in Christ) all things consist,” Col. 1: 17. It is a considerable part of Christ’s glory to have a whole world of creatures owing their being and hourly conservation to him. The parts of the world are not coupled and fastened together as the parts of the house, whose beams are pinned and nailed to each other; but rather as several rings of iron, which hang together by the virtue of a loadstone. This goodly fabric was razed to the foundation when sin entered, and had tumbled into everlasting confusion, had not Christ stept in to shore up the reeling world. For the sake of his redeemed that inhabits it, he does and will prop it by his omnipotent power. And when he has gathered all his elect out of it into the kingdom above, then will he set fire to the four quarters of it, and it shall lie in ashes. Meanwhile, he is “given for a covenant to the people, to establish the earth,” Isa. 49: 8.
2. He permits and suffers the worst of creatures in his dominion, to be and act as they do. “The deceived, and the deceiver, are his,” Job 12: 16. Even those that fight against Christ and his people, receive both power and permission from him. Say not, that it is unbecoming the most Holy to permit such evils, which he could prevent if he pleased. For as he permits no more than he will overrule to his praise, so that very permission of his, is holy and just. Christ’s working is not confounded with the creature’s. Pure sun beams are not tainted by the noisome vapours of the dung hill on which they shine. His holiness has no fellowship with their iniquities; nor are their transgressions at all excused by his permissions of them. “He is a rock, his work is perfect, but they have corrupted themselves,” Deut. 32: 4, 5. This holy permission is but the withholding of those restraints from their lusts, and denying those common assistances which he is no way bound to give them. Acts 14: 16. “He suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.” And yet should he permit sinful creatures to act out all the wickedness that is in their hearts, there would neither remain peace nor order in the world. And therefore,
3. He powerfully restrains creatures by the bridle of providence, from the commission of those things, to which their hearts are propense enough, Psal. 76: 10. “The remainder of wrath thou wilt restrain,” or gird up; letting forth just so much as shall serve his holy ends, and no more. And truly this is one of the glorious mysteries of Providence, which amazes the serious and considerate soul; to see the spirit of a creature fully set to do mischief; power enough, as one would think, in his hand to do it, and a door of opportunity standing open for it; and yet the effect strangely hindered. The strong propensions of the will are inwardly checked, as in the case of Laban, Gen. 31: 24. or a diversion, and rub is strangely cast in their way; as in the case of Sennacherib, 2 Kings 19: 7, 8. so that their hands cannot perform their enterprises. Julia had two great designs before him, one was to conquer the Persian, the other to root out the Galileans, as he, by way of contempt, called the Christians: but he will begin with the Persian first, and then make a sacrifice of all the Christians to his idols. He does so, and perishes in the first attempt. O the wisdom of Providence!
4. Jesus Christ limits the creatures in their acting, assigning them their boundaries and lines of liberty; to which they may, but beyond it cannot, go. Rev. 2: 10. “Fear none at these things that ye shall suffer; behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, and ye shall have tribulation ten days.” They would have cast them into their graves, but it shall only be into prisons: They would have stretched out their hands, upon them all; no, but only some of them shall be exposed: They would have kept them there perpetually; no, it must be but for ten days, Ezek. 22: 6. “Behold, the princes of Israel were in thee, every one to their power to shed blood.” They went as far as they had power to go, not as far as they had will to go. Four hundred and thirty years were determined upon the people of God in Egypt; and then, even in that very night, God brought them forth; for then “the time of the promise was come,” Acts 7: 17.
5. The Lord Jesus providentially protects his people amidst a world of enemies and dangers. It was Christ that appeared unto Moses in the flaming bush, and preserved it from being consumed. The bush signified the people of God in Egypt; the fire flaming on it, the exquisite sufferings they there endured: the safety of the bush, amidst the flames, the Lord’s admirable care and protection of his poor suffering ones. None so tenderly careful as Christ. “as birds flying, so he defends Jerusalem,” Isa. 31: 5; i. e. as they fly swiftly towards their nests, crying when their young are in danger, so will the Lord preserve his. They are “preserved in Christ Jesus”, Jude 1, as Noah and his family were in the ark. Hear how a Worthy of our own expresses himself on this point.
“That we are at peace in our houses, at rest in our beds; that we have any quiet in our enjoyments, is from hence alone. Whose person would not be defiled, or destroyed? whose habitation would not be ruined? whose blood almost would not be shed, if wicked men had power to perpetrate all their conceived sin? It may be, the ruin of some of us has been conceived a thousand times. We are beholden to this Providence, of obstructing sin, for our lives, our families, our estates, our liberties, and whatsoever is or may be dear to us. For may we not say sometimes with the Psalmist, Psal. 57: 4. My soul is among lions, and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears, and their tongue a sharp sword? And how is the deliverance of men contrived from such persons? Psal. 8: 6. God breaks their teeth in their mouths, even the great teeth at the young lions. He keeps this fire from burning, - some he cuts off and destroys: some he cuts short in their power: some he deprives of the instruments whereby alone they can work: some he prevents in their desired opportunities, or diverts by other objects for their lust; and oftentimes causeth them to spend them among themselves, one upon another. We may say, therefore, with the Psalmist, Psal. 104: 24. O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made then all; the earth is full of thy riches.”
6. He punishes the evil doers, and repays, by providence into their own lap, the mischief they do, or but intend to do, unto them that fear him. Pharaoh, Sennacherib, both the Julians, and innumerable more, are the lasting monuments of his righteous retribution. It is true, a sinner may do evil a hundred times, and his days be prolonged; but oft-times God hangs up some eminent sinners in chains, as spectacles and warnings to others. Many a heavy blow has Providence given to the enemies of God, which they were never able to recover. Christ rules, and that with a rod of iron, in the midst of his enemies, Psal. 110: 2.
7. And lastly, He rewards by Providence the services done to him and his people. Out of this treasure of Providence God repays oftentimes those that serve him, and that with a hundredfold reward now in this life, Matth. 19: 29. This active, vigilant Providence has its eye upon all the wants, straits, and troubles of the creatures: but especially upon such as religion brings us unto. What huge volumes of experiences might the people of God write upon this subject? and what a pleasant history would it be, to read the strange, constant, wonderful, and unexpected acting of Providence, for them that have left themselves to its care?
Secondly, We shall next enquire how Jesus Christ administers this providential kingdom.
And here I must take notice of the means by which, and the manner in which he does it. The means, or instruments, he uses in the governing the providential kingdom, (for he is not personally present with its himself), are either angels or men, “the angels are ministering creatures, sent forth by him for the good of them that shall be heirs of salvation,” Heb. 1: 14. Luther tells us, they have two offices, superius canere, et inferius vigilare, “to sing above and watch beneath.” These do us many invisible offices of love. They have dear and tender respects and love for the saints. To them, God, as it were, puts forth his children to nurse, and they are tenderly careful of them whilst they live, and bring them home in their arms to their Father when they die. And as angels, so men are the servants of Providence; yea, bad men as well as good. Cyrus, on that account, is called God’s servant: they fulfil his will, whilst they are prosecuting their own lusts. “The earth shall help the woman,” Rev. 12: 16. But good men delight to serve Providence; they and the angels are fellow servants in one house, and to one master, Rev. 19: 10. Yea, there is not a creature in heaven, earth, or hell, but Jesus Christ can providentially use it and serve his ends, and promote his designs by it. But whatever the instrument be Christ uses, of this we may be certain, that his providential working is holy, judicious, sovereign, profound, irresistible, harmonious, and to the saints peculiar.
1. It is holy. Though he permits, limits, orders and overrules many unholy persons and actions, yet he still works like himself, most holily and purely throughout. “The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works, Psal. 145: 17. it is easier to separate light from a sunbeam, than holiness from the works of God. The best of men cannot escape sin in their most holy actions; they cannot touch, but are defiled. But no sin cleaves to God, whatever he has to do about it.
2. Christ’s providential working is not only most pure and ho]y, but also most wise and judicious. Ezek. 1: 20. “The wheels are full of eyes:” They are not moved by a blind impetus, but in deep counsel and wisdom. And, indeed, the wisdom of Providence manifests itself principally in the choice of such states for the people of God, as shall most effectually promote their eternal happiness. And herein it goes quite beyond our understandings and comprehensions. It makes that medicinal and salutiferous, which we judge as destructive to our comfort and good, as poison. I remember, it is a note of Suarez, speaking of the felicity of the other world: “Then (saith he) the blessed shall see in God all things and circumstances pertaining to them, excellently accommodated and attempered;” then shall they see that the crossing of their desires was the saving of their souls; and that otherwise they had perished. The most wise Providence looks beyond us. It eyes the end, and suits all things thereto, and not to our fond desires.
3. The providence of Christ is most supreme and sovereign. “Whatsoever he pleaseth, that he does in heaven and in earth, and in all places,” Psal. 135: 6. “He is Lord of lords, and King of kings,” Rev. 19: 16. The greatest monarchs on earth are but as little bits of clay, as the worms of the earth to him: they all depend on him, Prov. 8: 15, 16. “By me kings reign, and princes decree justice; by me princes rule, nobles, even all the judges of the earth.”
4. Providence is profound and inscrutable. The judgements of Christ are “a great deep, and his footsteps are not known,” Psal. 36: 6. There are hard texts in the works as well as in the words of Christ. The wisest heads have been at a loss in interpreting some Providence, Jer. 12: 1, 2. Job 21: 7. The angels had the hands of a man under their wings, Ezek. 1: 8. i. e. they wrought secretly and mysteriously.
5. Providence is irresistible in its designs and motions; for all providences are but fulfilling and accomplishments of Gods immutable decrees. Eph. 1: 11. “He works all things according to the counsel of his own will.” Hence Zech. 6: 1. the instruments by which God executed his wrath, are called “chariots coming from betwixt two mountains of brass,” i.e. “the firm and immutable decrees of God.” When the Jews put Christ to death, they did but do what “the hand and counsel of God had before determined to be done,” Acts 4: 28. so that none can oppose or resist providence. “I will work, and who shall let it?” Isa 43: 13.
6. The providence of Christ are harmonious. There are secret chains, and invisible connections betwixt the works of Christ. We know not how to reconcile promises and providence together, nor yet providence one with another; but certainly they all work together, Rom. 8: 28. as adjutant causes, or con-causes standing under, and working by the influence of the first cause. He does not do, and undo; destroy by one providence, what he built by another. But, look, as also seasons of the year, the nipping frosts, as well as the halcyon days of summer, do all conspire and conduce to the harvest; so it is in providence.
7. And lastly, The providence of Christ work in a special and peculiar way for the good of the saints. His providential is subordinated to his spiritual kingdom. “He is the Saviour of all men, especially of them that believe,” 1 Tim. 4: 1. These only have the blessings of providence. Things are so laid and ordered, as that their eternal good shall be promoted and secured by all that Christ does.
Inference 1. If so, See then, in the first place, to whom you are beholden for your lives, liberties, comforts, and all that you enjoy in this world. Is it not Christ that orders all for you? He is, indeed in heaven, out of your sight; but though you see him not, he sees you, and takes care of all your concerns. When one told Silentiarius of a plot laid to take away his life, he answered, Si Deus mei curam non habet, quid vivo? “If God take no care of me, how do I live?” how have I escaped hitherto? “In all thy ways acknowledge him,” Prov. 3: 6. It is he that has espied out that state thou art in, as most proper for thee. It is Christ that does all for you that is done. He looks down from heaven upon all that fear him; he sees when you are in danger by temptation, and casts in a providence, you know not how, to hinder it. He sees when you are sad, and orders reviving providence, to refresh you. He sees when corruptions prevail, and orders humbling providence to purge them. Whatever mercies you have received, all along the way you have gone hitherto, are the orderings of Christ for you. And you should carefully observe how the promises and providence have kept equal pace with one another, and both gone by step with you until now.
Inf. 2. Has God left the government of the whole world in the hands of Christ, and trusted him over all? Then do you also leave your particular concerns in the hands of Christ too, and know that the infinite wisdom and love, which rules the world, manages every thing that relates to you. It is in a good hand, and infinitely better than if it were in your own. I remember when Melanchton was under some despondencies of spirit about the estate of God’s people in Germany, Luther chides him thus for it, “Let Philip cease to rule the world.” It is none of our work to steer the course of providence, or direct its motions, but to submit quietly to him that does. There is an itch in men, yea, in the best of men, to be disputing with God: “Let me talk with thee of thy judgement,” saith Jeremiah, chap. 12: 1, 2. Yea, how apt are we to regret at providence, as if they had no conducency at all to the glory of God, or to our good, Exod. 5: 22. yea, to limit providence to our way and time? Thus, the “Israelites tempted God, and limited the holy One,” Psal. 78: 18, 41. How often also do we, unbelievingly, distrust providence as though it could never accomplish what we profess to expect and believe? Ezek. 37: 11. “Our bones are dry, our hope is lost; we are cut off for our part.” So Gen. 18: 13, 14. Isa. 40: 17. There are but few Abrahams, among believers, who “against hope, believed in hope, giving glory to God,” Rom. 4: 20. And it is but too common for good men to repine and fret at providence, when their wills, lusts, or humours are crossed by it: this was the great sin of Jonah. Brethren, these things ought not to be so; did you but seriously consider, either the design of providence, which is to bring about the gracious designs and purposes of God upon you, which were laid before this world was, Eph. 1: 11. or that it is a lifting up of thy wisdom against his, as if thou couldst better order thine affairs, if thou hadst but the conduct and management of them; or that you have to do herein faith a great and dreadful God, in whose hands you are as the clay in the potter’s hands, that he may do what he will with you, and all that is yours, without giving you an account of any of his matters, Job 33: 13. or whether providence has cast others, as good, by nature, as yourselves, tumbled them down from the top of health, wealthy honours and pleasures, to the bottom of hell; or, lastly, did you but consider how often it has formerly baffled and befouled yourselves; you would retract, with shame, your rash, headlong censures of it, and enforce you, by the sight of its births and issues, to confess your folly and ignorance, as Asaph did, Psal. 73: 22. I say, if such considerations as these could but have place with you in your troubles and temptations, they would quickly mould your hearts into a better and more quiet frame.
O that I could but persuade you to resign all to Christ. He is a cunning workman, as he is called, Prov. 8: 30. and can effect what he pleaseth. It is a good rule, De operibus Dei non est judicandum, ante quintum actum. “Let God work out all that he intends, but have patience till he has put the last hand to his works and then find fault with it, if you can.” You have heard of the patience of Job, “and have seen the end of the Lord,” James 5: 11.
Inf. 3. If Christ be Lord and king over the providential kingdom, and that, for the good of his people, let none that are Christ’s henceforth stand in a slavish fear of creatures. It is a good note that Grotius has upon my text; “It is a marvellous consolation (saith he) that Christ has so great an empire, and that he governs it for the good of his people, as a head consulting the good of the body.” Our head and husband, is Lord-general of all the hosts of heaven and earth; no creature can move hand or tongue without his leave or order: the power they have is given them from above, John 19: 11, 12. The serious consideration of this truth will make the feeblest spirit cease trembling, and set it a singing; Psal. 47: 7. “The Lord is king of all the earth, sing ye praises with understanding,:” that is, (as some well paraphrase it) every one that has understanding of this comfortable truth. Has he not given you abundant security in many express promises, that all shall issue well for you that fear him? Rom. 8: 28. “All things shall work together for good, to them that love God,” And Eccl. 8: 12. verily “it shall be well with them that fear God,: even with them that fear before him. And suppose he had not, yet the very understanding of our relation to such a king, should, in itself, be sufficient security: for, he is the universal, supreme, absolute, meek, merciful, victorious, and immortal king.
He sits in glory, at the Father’s right hand; and, to make his seat the easier, his enemies are a footstool for him. His love to his people is unspeakably tender and fervent, he that touches them, “touches the apple of his eye,” Zech. 2. And, it is hardly imaginable, that Jesus Christ will sit still, and suffer his enemies to thrust out his eyes. Till this be forgotten, the wrath of man is not feared; Isa. 2: 12, 13. “He that fears a man that shall die, forgets the Lord his Maker.” He loves you too well to sign any order to your prejudice, and without his order, none can touch you.
Inf. 4. If the government of the world be in the hands of Christ, Then our engaging and entitling of Christ to all our affairs and business, is the true and ready way to their success and prosperity. If all depend upon his pleasure, then sure it is your wisdom to take him along with you to every action and business; it is no lost time that is spent in prayer, wherein we ask his leave, and beg his presence with us: and, take it for a clear truth, that which is not prefaced with prayer, will be followed with trouble. How easily can Jesus Christ dash all your designs, when they are at the very birth and article of execution, and break off, in a moment, all the purposes of your hearts? It is a proverb among the Papists, that Mass and meat hinder no man. The Turks will pray five times a day, how urgent soever their business be. Blush you that enterprise your affairs without God: I reckon that business as good as done, to which we have got Christ’s leave, and engaged his presence to accompany us.
Inf. 5. Lastly, Eye Christ in all the events of providence; see his hand in all that befall you, whether it be evil or good. “The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein,” Psal. 111: 2.
How much good might we get, by observation of the good or evil that befall us throughout our course!
1. In all the evils of trouble and afflictions that befall you, eye Jesus Christ: and set your hearts to the study of these four things in affliction.
(1.) Study his sovereignty and dominion; for he creates and forms them: they rise not out of the dust, nor do they befall you casually; but he raises them up, and gives them their commission, Jer. 18: 11. “Behold, I create evil, and devise a device against you.” He elects the instrument of your trouble; he makes the rod as afflictive as he pleaseth; he orders the continuance and end of your troubles; and they will not cease to be afflictive to you, till Christ say, Leave off, it is enough. The Centurion wisely considered this, when he told him, Luke 7: 8. “I have soldiers under me, and I say to one, Go, and he goes; to another, Come, and he comes:” meaning, that as his soldiers were at his beck and command, so diseases were at Christ’s beck, to come and go as he ordered them.
(2.) Study the wisdom of Christ in the contrivance of your troubles. And his wisdom shines out many ways in them, it is evident in chasing such kinds of trouble for you: this, and not that, because this is more apt to work upon, and purge out the corruption that most predominates in you: In the degrees of your troubles, suffering them to work to such a height, else not reach their end; but no higher, lest they overwhelm you.
(3.) Study the tenderness and compassions of Christ over his afflicted. O think if the devil had but the mixing of my cup, how much more bitter would he make it! There would not be one drop of mercy, no, not of sparing mercy in it, which is the lowest of all sorts of mercy: but here is much mercy mixed with my troubles; there is mercy in this, that it is no worse. Am I afflicted? “It is of the Lord’s mercy I am not consumed,” Lam. 3: 2. It might have been hell as well as this; there is mercy in his supports under it. Others have, and I might have been left to sink and perish under my burdens. Mercy, in deliverance out of it; this might have been everlasting darkness, that should never have had a morning. O the tenderness of Christ over his afflicted!
(4.) Study the love of Christ to thy soul, in affection. Did he not love thee, he would not sanctify a rod to humble or reduce thee, but let thee alone to perish in thy sin. Rev. 3: 19. “Whom I love, I rebuke and chasten.” This is the device of love, to recover thee to thy God, and prevent thy ruin. O what an advantage would it be thus to study Christ, in all your evils that befall you!
2. Eye and study Christ in all the good you receive from the hand of providence. Turn both sides of your mercies, and view them in all their lovely circumstances.
Eye them in their suitableness: how conveniently providence has ordered all things for thee. Thou hast a narrow heart, and a small estate suitable to it: Hadst thou more of the world, it would be like a large sail to a little boat, which would quickly pull thee under water: thou hast that which is most suitable to thee of all conditions.
(2.) Eye the seasonableness of thy mercies, how they are timed to an hour. Providence brings forth all its fruits in due season.
(3.) Eye the peculiar nature of thy mercies. Others have common, thou special ones; others have but a single, thou a double sweetness in thy enjoyments, one natural from the matter at it, another spiritual from the way in which, and end for which it comes.
(4.) Observe the order in which providence sends your mercies. See how one is linked strangely to another, and is a door to let in many. Sometimes one mercy is introductive to a thousand.
(5.) And lastly, Observe the constancy of them, “they are new every morning,” Lam. 3: 23. How assiduously does God visit thy soul and body! Think with thyself, if there be but a suspension of the care of Christ for one hour, that hour would be thy ruin. Thousands of evils stand round about thee, watching when Christ will but remove his eye from thee, that they may rush in and devour thee.
Could we thus study the providence of Christ in all the good and evil that befall us in the world, then in every state we should be content, Phil 4: 11. Then we should never be stopt, but furthered in our way by all that falls out; then would our experience swell to great volumes, which we might carry to heaven with us; and then should we answer all Christ’s ends in every state he brings us into. Do this, and say,
Thanks be to God for Jesus Christ.
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Asking a company good questions is an important part of your interview. It will enable you to really show that you know what you're talking about. It also allows you to find out if the company is a good match for you. An interview should be about evaluating both the to be employee and the to be employer, not one sided.
Here's a list of questions you can start with, and as you discuss their answers there will probably be other topics that come up that you can discuss. You can also make suggestions to the company if you find that their process can be improved.
In addition to the Joel Test questions...
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• Are there any perks about working there?
• How many vacation days?
• Which holidays?
• Can I work from home periodically?
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+1 Very thorough answer! But I'm curious, Brian, how long do you schedule for your interviews? ;-) – Paddyslacker Sep 8 '10 at 15:55
+1 Great answer; one word of caution: I wouldn't ask about vacation days/holidays until you have a good foot in the door. Many interviewers/recruiters are turned off by someone who immediately asks when it's OK for them to be gone. I wouldn't mind this question if I was performing interviews, but others certainly will. – bedwyr Sep 24 '10 at 16:19
On the other hand, if a place is that uptight when you ask about vacation, maybe that in itself is a sign you shouldn't work there. There's nothing offensive about taking a vacation now and then. But there is something offensive about a job that thinks people shouldn't want to take vacations. – Kyralessa Sep 29 '10 at 3:40
I would go further and add things like: Do I have admin rights to my computer? Do any of your projects use OSS? Who chooses what technologies get used to build software? – KevDog Dec 15 '10 at 16:20
+1. And regardless of all other answers, if the answer to "which source control system do you use" is "none"... RUN FORREST, RUN!! – Konamiman Dec 4 '12 at 12:12
I have seen this somewhere. "What would you expect me to have accomplished in 6 months?", just to set expectations right.
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"Can I take a look at your coding standards document?"
If there's something really silly in there, I will steer clear.
Recent example: "Every private field must have a public getter and setter method" (Java)
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Yikes. That example would make me steer clear too. – Tim Goodman Sep 8 '10 at 17:16
• Does the company offer any support for outside training e.g. financially for free or time off for exams?
• What kinda of environment do the developers work in, is it quiet?
• What kinda of hardware do you developers uses, how often do they upgrade?
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This isn't exactly something you can ask, but something to be aware of:
Having gone through quite a few interviews and jobs, one thing that I think is crucial is to identify the potential personality clashes as much as possible among your potential co-workers. Over the years I've found that there are a couple of personality types common in our industry that can make things miserable and/or downright impossible. Team cohesion is extremely important in this line of work, and I've found that it's best to avoid getting involved with toxic personalities if at all possible.
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+1 Good point. Maybe a good question to ask would be, "Who will I be working with on a day-to-day basis?" It's probably not always possible, but if you can meet those people somewhere in the interview process it may help give you an idea. – keithjgrant Sep 8 '10 at 22:35
so far, whenever there's been a 'trouble person' in an organisation i've gone to work for, they were always absent when I've been on the walk around. my current position being the most notable with the toxic personality – geocoin Oct 26 '10 at 9:13
I have very often found big egos and downright rude people in programming. Especially at interview time I have seen several times hard to believe levels of rudeness. – Jubbat Dec 4 '12 at 1:31
@Brian R. Bondy coverned a lot of what I ask.
I like to get a walk through the spaces. You can tell alot about a company from seeing how people interact with each other as you walk through.
I ask about the corporate culture - I want a feel for how bureaucratic and structured the place is. I have found through the years that too unstructured is worse than too bureaucratic. Too often they aren't really serious about producing a product to make money with and will go down the tubes. I want to work with people who want to work, not play. I want to know if I will be working with people as part of a team or if I will mostly be working on projects by myself. I want to see how the position fits into the org structure and if there is room for growth. I want to know what interesting challenges the position will bring, I am not interested in doing rote work. If I can't learn something new and interesting in a job, it's not for me.
Having been burned once, I ask about expected overtime, making it clear that I don't object to working overtime for a deadline, but I am not interested in working overtime as a way of life. Better to know up front.
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Describe fully the complete build and release cycle including who is involved and how long it takes to get things moved from dev to test to ... to prod.
It is surprising how many 'top' companies don't have this nailed, and how much pain a badly implemented process ultimately causes.
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• What do people hate the most about working for your company?
• What are you doing to grow and what are the projections?
• How are you perceived in your industry?
• Is the company involved in any charity work?
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+1 for "What do people hate the most about working for your company?" Good revenge question for the interviewer asking you to list your bad qualities. :-) – RationalGeek Sep 24 '10 at 17:08
I ask sales people the same question about their products all the time. – JeffO Sep 24 '10 at 18:37
I prefer Sverir's Version of your first question. It's much less hostile. – Brian Dec 4 '12 at 0:33
Of note with this question is that if you get some kind of "Everything is great, we're the leader in making widgets, we have X awards and our owner donates millions to Y charity" answer it COULD just be marketing/PR rubbish. Usually the only reason companies donate to charities is for good PR, and every mom-and-pop shop considers itself a "leader" in their industry. Exercise caution and use your own discretion with these questions as it's far too easy to hear the "company line". – Wayne M May 20 '13 at 15:14
What I've found very interesting to ask is:
"If you were allowed absolute power to change one thing about your technical/programming environment, what would that be?"
This has yielded a lot of very good insights into what people really think about their environments and how comfortable they feel speaking up about them. Usually starts a very good dialog and sometimes gives a glimpse into contended issues within the team.
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What I would want is to get a sense of the top management, because their attitude will trickle down to the entire company.
Is everything just a "business decision", or do they take an interest in and care about people?
It shows up in how they treat employees, vendors, contractors, and customers. Do they pay bills on time, or do they "age" them? Do their customers like working with them? Do they have a good reputation in the business community?
You can't ask them these things directly, but you can do your homework and find out.
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If the answer involves a vending machine - run.
If the senior devs start to talk about the benefits of a Moka pot vs an espresso machine - you know they have their priorities straight.
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I didn't see these mentioned. Apologies if I overlooked.
• What was your most recent project like?
• What is your process for estimation and planning?
• How do you structure your SLDC process?
• Will I be expected to be on call?
• How many developers have joined the team recently? How many have left? Why?
• What is the process if I wanted to request specific hardware or software to do my job?
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I notice : "How much does it pay?" didn't make it on the list .. :P and I wonder why not! It's a key factor!
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• Is your database schema normalized?
• Do you have coding standards?
• Is the code well-covered by unit and integration tests?
• Do developers write tests first?
If the answer to any of these is "no", it is a big red flag.
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-1 Testing first is not always a good thing – sixtyfootersdude Sep 12 '10 at 2:03
And a normalized database schema is not always a good thing, but a de-nomalized one, can be. – Jonas Sep 24 '10 at 15:11
@Jonas: Absolutely. Specifically, I worked on a project for a large web publishing company that got millions of hits per day. Lots of these hits were read-only and denormalized tables let you squeeze a little bit more performance out of database reads. Even though caching helps a lot with this, there are times when you want that first hit to be fast to buy time for something third-party to be slow. – Ryan Hayes Sep 24 '10 at 17:36
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Won Halmoni Someori Gukbab in Front of Suwon Station
In a traditional market, there is lots of food. In the center of a city, a traditional market is always located. If you visit Seoul, you can see some markets in Jongno as well as some traditional markets in Dongdaemun and Namdaemun. Except some special cases, the food court is located in the center of a traditional market. Especially, in any markets, you can see Gukbab that is a kind of traditional food. There are many kinds of tradional food in the market of Suwon Station.
Among many restaurants, I found the restaurant specialized for Pyeonyuk(slices of boiled meat).
Pyeonyuk is the food used for various family occasions. Pyeonyuk is the food made by boiling and solidifying all the parts of pork / beef, and enough amounts of pork / beef could be gotten at a wedding or a funeral. Anyway, Pyeonyuk was not common food in people’s daily life. I remember I ate Pyeonyuk when there was a banquet or a big event. It was lucky to find Pyeonyuk in the market in front of Suwon Station. When I saw Pyeonyuk in the menu hanging on Someori Gukbab(Ox Head Soup with Rice) restaurant named as ‘Won Halmoni’, it reminded me of my past days and headed for the restaurant without hesitation. 'The chewy texture of the lean meat made me feel rich in my mouth.
One dish of Pyeonyuk is 8,000 won and Pyeonyuk accompanied by Someori Gukbab was the best choice. Eating Pyeonyuk with salted shrimps would help your digestion. The fat cut thin in Someori Gukbab made me feel its tenderness. It would be better for you to add salt to Someori Gukbab. When I opened the container of salt, I found rock salt in there. I tasted the deep taste of the food when adding the sea salt to it rather than just adding table salt. To taste it, it would be better for you to put 1/3 teaspoon of salt. The owner takes great pride in the ingredients. Jokbal served in this restaurant is Korean-made pork foot. It means the owner feels confident of the quality compared to some restaurants which serve imported pork foot. The owner said Kimchi, Kkakdugi(Cubed Radish Kimchi), Young Radish Kimchi are made by herself. For that reason, the Kimchi is so tasty. Kkakdugi and Young Radish Kimchi harmonized with Someori Gukbab. When we eat Gukbab, we usually put rice into the soup. However, you can taste unusual flavor of Gukbab unless adding rice to it. The fat in Someori Gukbab was so tender as if it melted in my mouth. Also, the meat cut thin was plain. After adding rock salt to it, you can add some more chili powder if you want the spicy flavor. .However, you can savor the rich flavor of the meat broth when you do not add chili powder to your Someori Gukbab. When we ate Pyeonyuk, one middle-aged man and two old ladies came into the restaurant. As soon as they saw Pyeonyuk, they ordered the food. The owner explained that Pyeonyuk is not made by herself, unlike Jokbal. Pyeonyuk can easily turn sour, so the owner orders the amount to sell per day and sell it..I thought the customers would not know the fact, if the owner told a lie that she made Pyeonyuk by herself. I was strongly inclined to believe the restaurant’s food by the owner’s action. How to Get There:Take exit 1 of Suwon Station on Seoul Subway Line 1. (picture 1)Go down stairs and cross the pedestrian overpass on the right. (picture 2,3) After that, get into the first alley on the right. (picture 4) When you encounter the three-way intersection in the market, you can turn left and reach a dead end. (picture 5) At the dead end, turn right. (picture 6)And then, go about 10 meters more. You can find the sign of Won Halmoni on the left. (picture 7) | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'c8ffc01a658d855500b352371520f481e67e4584c4d41db1b6b0fc4704c87fe3'} |
Dariusz Popiela
Dariusz Bogusław "Darek" Popiela (born 27 July 1985) is a Polish slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 1999. He represented Austria until 2002.
He won four medals in the K1 team event at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with two silvers (2013, 2018) and two bronzes (2006, 2019). He also won two golds, five silvers and three bronzes at the European Championships.
Popiela finished 8th in the K1 event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
His father Bogusław and his uncle Henryk both represented Poland in canoe slalom.
Aside from sports, Popiela is also involved in leading projects dedicated to restoring Jewish heritage sites in the Nowy Sącz region, most recently the Jewish cemetery in Grybów.
World Cup individual podiums
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Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Another Keplers story
From the New York Times:
Bookstore Writes 'The End' to an Era
After 50 years, Kepler's Bookstore closed its doors permanently on Wednesday, and loyal customers now come in groups of two and three to scrawl their farewells on big pieces of paper taped over its shuttered doors and windows.
For five decades, Kepler's, which began as a paperback shop on El Camino Real, the road that runs through the heart of Silicon Valley, has served as not only a bookshop but also a hub for a vibrant counterculture that peaked in the 1960's and 70's.
In "Searching for the Sound: My Life With the Grateful Dead" (Little, Brown, 2005), the bass guitarist Phil Lesh writes about how the original bookstore, which in the early 60's also had a small seating area for selling coffee and baklava, was a meeting place and rehearsal hall for the musicians before they became a band.Kepler's, which moved several times before 1989, was at the heart of the bohemian community that thrived around Stanford in the 60's: Stewart Brand opened the Whole Earth Truck Store several blocks to the north, from which he published the influential Whole Earth Catalog; the Midpeninsula Free University, a center of the counterculture, had a storefront nearby; and the People's Computer Company, a gathering place for the hobbyists who helped create the personal computer industry in the mid-70's, was also just blocks away.
Opened in May 1955 by Roy Kepler, a pacifist, the bookstore, just a short bike ride from the Stanford University campus, was abruptly closed on Wednesday by Mr. Kepler's son, Clark.
The business had been unable to rebound from Silicon Valley's dot-com bust, he told the employees during a brief meeting before shutting the doors.
The irony of Kepler's demise amid the wealth and splendor of Silicon Valley was not lost among a number of those who have worked at the store in the past. They placed the blame not just on the giant book chains that have been steadily displacing the nation's independent bookstores, but also on the rise of Amazon, the giant online bookseller.
"They have been hurt more than anyone by the Internet," said Neal Sofman, who owns the San Francisco bookstore A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books. "There is no one on the Peninsula who isn't computer literate."
Mr. Sofman, who opened his own first store in Cupertino, Calif., while he was working at Kepler's, said his experience was typical of Roy Kepler's style, which did so much to foster the alternative community on the Peninsula.
"It was a place where you went to exchange ideas," he said.
A number of other Kepler's employees started bookstores in the San Francisco Bay Area, including Fred Cody, who founded Cody's, a popular independent bookseller in Berkeley.
The store had a tremendous influence on many of its customers, who would go there for hard-to-find magazines and books.
"I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate," said Stewart Brand, who began frequenting the bookstore while studying biology at Stanford. "It was a pillar of local civilization."
Kepler's best sellers often were not on any other lists, said Craig McCroskey, a publisher's representative and another former Kepler's employee, who met his wife while working at the store.
"We would sell everything from bodice-rippers to books like 'The Existential Pleasures of Engineering,' which were purchased by people wearing pocket protectors," he said.
Even in the 80's and 90's, when the store became less of a counterculture fixture and more of a mainstream business, it retained its function as the village well, where neighbors came to gossip and chat.
Kepler's was long distinguished by its unusually knowledgeable employees, who could give customers detailed literary advice. Ira Sandperl, a Ghandian scholar who would become the folk singer Joan Baez's mentor in the late 50's, was a fixture behind the cash register until he retired in 1988.
"People would confuse me with Roy," Mr. Sandperl said on Friday while eating breakfast next door to the shuttered bookstore. "But I would be holding forth at the counter while Roy would be sweeping up or cleaning the toilet in the back."
Mr. Sandperl recalled being driven to distraction by the Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia and his friends, who would practice the same song endlessly many nights at the bookstore. He recalled phoning Mr. Kepler to ask if he could throw them out of the store because he disliked their music so much, but he was told they were harmless.
Mr. Kepler, who remained a peace activist throughout his life, had gone to prison as a conscientious objector during World War II. He would later become executive director of the War Resisters League and in the 60's helped Mr. Sandperl and Ms. Baez create the Institute for the Study of Non-Violence. Mr. Sandperl said he had been jailed for civil disobedience with Mr. Kepler a number of times during the Vietnam War.
In the 60's the store became a target and its windows were broken numerous times, once by a bomb. The police ultimately found that the attackers had been members of a local Bible study group who were angry at the ideas Mr. Kepler supported.
The community does not seem to be ready to let go of its bookstore. A movement to resurrect Kepler's has already emerged, complete with a Web site (
The reaction of Steven Fields, a longtime customer, was typical on Wednesday. After having lunch at Cafe Borrone next door, he told his 11-year-old daughter, Hanna, that Kepler's was closed. She immediately burst into tears.
"What am I going to do?" she said. "Where am I going to go? It was the best place."
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<pre class="prettyprint source linenums"><code>import {Dsl} from '../config/Dsl.js';
import {Logger} from '../util/Logger.js';
import {DomHelper} from '../util/DomHelper.js';
import xmldom from '@xmldom/xmldom';
import vkbeautify from 'vkbeautify';
import {DiffConfig} from '../config/DiffConfig.js';
import {HashExtractor} from '../extract/HashExtractor.js';
/**
* A node inside a CPEE process tree parsed from an XML document.
* A node is considered a(n)
* - leaf node if it corresponds to a activity DSL-Element.
* - inner node if it corresponds to a control flow DSL-Element.
* - property node otherwise.
*
* In the case that a node is the root node, i.e. does not have a parent,
* it is labelled as a tree in code.
*
* @implements {XmlSerializable<Node>}
*/
export class Node {
/**
* The label of this node.
* @type {String}
* @const
*/
label;
/**
* The attributes of this node.
* @type {Map<String, String>}
* @const
*/
attributes;
/**
* The text content of this node.
* @type {String}
*/
text;
/**
* The parent of this node, if it exists.
* @type {?Node}
* @protected
*/
_parent;
/**
* The index of this node within the parent's ordered child list.
* @type {?Number}
* @protected
*/
_index;
/**
* The ordered child list of this node.
* @type {Array<Node>}
* @protected
*/
_children;
/**
* Create a new Node instance.
* @param {String} label The label of the node.
* @param {?String} text The text content of the node.
*/
constructor(label, text = null) {
this.label = label;
this.text = text;
this.attributes = new Map();
this._children = [];
this._parent = null;
this._index = null;
}
/**
* Get the parent of this node, if it exists.
* @return {?Node}
*/
get parent() {
return this._parent;
}
/**
* Get the index of this node within the parent's ordered child list.
* @return {?Number}
*/
get index() {
return this._index;
}
/** @return {Array<Node>} */
get children() {
return this._children;
}
/**
* Create a new Node instance from an existing node.
* @param {Node} node
* @param {Boolean} includeChildren
* @return {Node}
*/
static fromNode(node, includeChildren = true) {
const copy = new Node(node.label, node.text);
for (const [key, value] of node.attributes) {
copy.attributes.set(key, value);
}
if (includeChildren) {
for (const child of node) {
copy.appendChild(this.fromNode(child, includeChildren));
}
}
return copy;
}
/**
* @param {String} xmlElement The XML DOM object.
* @param {Boolean} includeChildren Whether to include children.
* @return {Node}
*/
static fromXmlDom(xmlElement, includeChildren = true) {
const node = new Node(xmlElement.localName);
// parse attributes
for (let i = 0; i < xmlElement.attributes.length; i++) {
const attrNode = xmlElement.attributes.item(i);
node.attributes.set(attrNode.name, attrNode.value);
}
for (let i = 0; i < xmlElement.childNodes.length; i++) {
const childElement = xmlElement.childNodes.item(i);
if (childElement.nodeType === DomHelper.XML_NODE_TYPES.TEXT) {
// check if text node contains a non-empty payload
if (childElement.data.match(/^\s*$/) == null) {
if (node.text == null) {
node.text = '';
}
node.text += childElement.data;
}
} else if (childElement.nodeType === DomHelper.XML_NODE_TYPES.ELEMENT &&
includeChildren) {
node.appendChild(this.fromXmlDom(childElement, includeChildren));
}
}
return node;
}
/**
* @param {String} xml The XML document.
* @param {Boolean} includeChildren Whether to include children.
* @return {Node}
*/
static fromXmlString(xml, includeChildren = true) {
return this.fromXmlDom(DomHelper.firstChildElement(
new xmldom
.DOMParser()
.parseFromString(xml, 'text/xml')), includeChildren);
}
/**
* @return {IterableIterator<Node>} An iterator for this node's children
*/
[Symbol.iterator]() {
return this._children[Symbol.iterator]();
}
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In Game Dev Story, you are able to change where your employees sit. Does this have any affect on how well they perform (for example, a seat closer to the boss will result in more points added to a game), or are these changes purely cosmetic?
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You can get a very slight advantage by putting the employees with the smallest power bars at desks closest to the door. They will have to go home and rest more often, and it will shave off a few seconds of walk time with each trip. However, using a lot of Dead Bulls allows you to almost completely avoid this problem anyway.
I've also wondered if certain employees tend to go talk to each other more (giving + research) or propose trying to increase the ____ of the game. If that's true, then it would make sense to seat them close to each other, or next to the boss, again decreasing walk time. This is just speculation though.
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Not much. The accepted wisdom is, "Put the employees with the lowest energy bars closest to the doors" so their transit time to and from their seats is low.
It seems logical that you'd also put them near the people they talk to most, but I've never been able to figure out if there is any way to predict that.
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Both great points on how to position your employees. Another thing to note is if you have one employee constantly coming to your desk for boost attempts it might make sense to move them closer to you. Less time walking between their desk and your desk = more time working. – Crag Feb 18 '11 at 18:10
Good answers, and possibly true and helpful, but I believe that the true use of "Move Seats" is to give a fine-grained delay to launch your game at "Christmas Break". Move Seats will take about 3 days in the game, during which period of time, they will be unproductive.
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Ten Tips for Going Zero Waste
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A linear economy’s model is “take, make, waste.” A circular economy connects the two ends of the cycle, using waste as a feedstock for production.
Pushing toward a circular economy would generate real benefits for workers and the environment. Doubling our diversion rate from 34% to 75% by 2030 could create 1.1 million jobs and reduce 276 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, which is equal to shutting down 72 coal power plants or removing 50 million cars from the road.
Zero waste, or using waste from one process as a resource for others, and separating material consumption from economic growth will preserve resources, create jobs, add economic value, minimize waste and curb greenhouse emissions.
Examining our waste and recycling systems is an easy way to jumpstart local circular economies – and this, in turn, can help streamline municipal waste management systems to maximize waste diversion and use waste as a resource instead of a burden.
Get to Know Your Waste
Waste characterization or composition studies identify what kinds of materials end up in the landfill. They can also be used to determine the material composition of other streams, such as single-stream recycling. Knowing the most common materials in the waste stream helps to focus first on the low-hanging fruit and prioritize specific programs and services. For example, if a large percentage of materials currently landfilled could be diverted to other streams, such as recycling or composting, consider launching new services, expanding existing programs or enhancing education efforts for established streams.
Educate Key Stakeholders
A move towards zero waste and a circular economy will require a significant cultural shift in how we think about consumption and the end life of the products, materials and resources we use. Education efforts should involve stakeholder engagement, public outreach and marketing campaigns, and they should also include praise for correct waste diversion at the individual level and recognition for innovative practices at the organizational level. Manufacturers and product designers can use the packaging itself to educate consumers on what to do with the items after use.
Incentivize the Waste Hierarchy
Circular economy principles should prioritize the highest and best use of materials and resources, establishing a waste hierarchy to guide actions. Use the hierarchy as a stepladder to improve strategically.
Landfills should only serve as a last result. Your city might begin diverting waste by incinerating trash to generate energy, if it is safe to do so. Recycling and composting materials at the end of their life can be improved through education or mandatory curbside programs. Specific waste streams such as construction debris or textiles offer excellent opportunities to reuse, refurbish or remanufacture products.
graphic on waste hierarchy
Streamline Regulations and Standards
Creating clear and consistent expectations is vital to success. Examine your local system holistically and seek to simplify and create consistent and equitable standards. Consider instituting a universal ordinance that guarantees access to the same recycling and composting programs for single-family, multi-family and commercial sectors. Pay particular attention to the relationship of tenants to their landlords or property owners in all sectors to protect against possible policy loopholes. Standardize waste diversion options in public spaces, so that waste diversion are the same wherever residents go in their daily lives.
Be a Sustainable Purchasing Champion
Increasing the supply of recyclable materials is only half the battle. Cities also have the procurement power to boost demand for sustainable products. Strive to purchase items with a minimum recycled material content and that are fully recyclable in the current local system. Natural products should be tested and certified as fully compostable in municipal systems through third-party certifications such as BPI Certification from the Biodegradable Products Institute. Minimize single-use products and embrace single-material products that are most easily recyclable and compostable. Many cleaning products such as soaps and detergents are available in natural and biodegradable formulas that have minimal impact on municipal drinking water quality and treatment.
Pursue New Partnerships
No single stakeholder will be able to change the system and culture of waste alone. Governments should strive to build partnerships between departments and leverage outside resources. Economic development, public works, environmental services and others should develop shared goals. Businesses that generate waste and manufacturers who need materials should be convened to identify opportunities. Businesses that generate waste and manufacturers who need materials should convene to identify opportunities.
Build Regional Support
Partnerships among local governments are particularly important to achieve economy and viability of scale for systems and infrastructure, as well as to better coordinate and streamline the current patchwork of systems and regulations. Local pilot programs are important, but many of the same haulers and processors your community relies on are shared by neighboring governments. Together, your region can build leverage to change the current system or attract new partners who share your mission.
Find Innovative Funding Models and Grants
Some cities have established separate funds that are reserved expressly for sustainable waste management and resource recovery initiatives: This may be an option as a fee that is assessed monthly or annually in conjunction with the regular fee for waste hauling services. Other cities have also made moves toward extended producer responsibility by adding fees to items that are difficult to manage within the waste and recycling system, such as plastic shopping bags.
Build Infrastructure and Improve technology
New infrastructure and technology may be necessary for sustainable materials management. The partnerships mentioned previously are key to securing the scale and funds required for high cost, but high value, infrastructure upgrades and construction, and tax incentives for capital improvement expenditures can help the process along. Investing in transfer stations, materials recovery facilities, compost facilities and eco-industrial parks will help immensely in creating a more sustainable and affordable recycling system. Any changes or additions to infrastructure and technology in the local system should align with the process and methods that will be used to collect the waste.
Pilot Programs
Does your community have the next great idea to promote the circular economy? Pilot programs allow cities and organizations to test new concepts, services or facilities in small and controlled areas with limited cost. Successful pilots will help get buy-in from government officials, potential investors and partners, members of the community and other stakeholders. Pilot programs allow for unforeseen issues to be identified and resolved before a full-scale program is launched, and they can inform the planning and preparation process for scaling up, including the specifics of costs and financing. Even unsuccessful pilots can provide valuable data concerning the economic and environmental benefits or effectiveness of a new program.
Read the full guide here at nlc.org.
Cooper-Martin-SCI-Pic-1067697050-1537968994506-2 About the Authors: Cooper Martin is the program director of the Sustainable Cities Institute at the National League of Cities.
Corinne-Rico-Headshot-3994100956-1537906898502Corinne Rico is a Senior Consultant with GBB, an award-winning international solid waste management consulting firm that helps communities do better things with waste. At GBB, Corinne advances sustainable waste management and resource recovery through alternative streams including recycling, composting, and circular economy initiatives. Corinne is a former fellow with the Sustainable Cities Institute at the National League of Cities. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '37', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9209302067756652}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '49027', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:X4KGWAVGAMHBDKE2MQBRKFJTAW3Z6SD5', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:3205bf2a-7f49-4185-b516-2e5cba84b694>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 20, 12, 24, 57), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.0.78.200', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ULLGBQ6A4PFCH74ICIMYAQSY5HCBZLKT', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:8066b1c1-3140-4fb9-bba6-5eeb40f8b4fc>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://citiesspeak.org/2018/11/15/ten-tips-for-going-zero-waste/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:ae365904-b67a-42d7-a127-1c16d788e03e>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1231', 'url': 'https://citiesspeak.org/2018/11/15/ten-tips-for-going-zero-waste/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-18\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-141-45-27.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.052981793880462646', 'original_id': 'd97315314b3ec253918e62e3a0bb97753ad70a9414c679fb4b82df8130c59066'} |
Grape Brandy Montenegro
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Grape Brandy Montenegro
1 l, 47% alc.
Hard grape brandy, very potable, balanced with mildly developed aroma, made of the grape varieties Kratosija and Vranac. Genuine Montenegrin brandy.
It is made by the distillation of the whole crushed grapes. By combination and selection of the distillates and aging in the inox tanks at low temperatures, these distillates become balanced, expressing the aromas, particular for the autochtonous Montenegrin variety of Vranac
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about brandy recommended 4 / 5
Excellent. Hard taste and mild aroma, balanced very well. How did they do it?!
Plantaze 13. jul Montenegro Distillery
bar code 38990031234011 Grape Brandy Montenegro
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